It’s all silent on the American mainsteam “news” about the dangers of 5G. have you noticed? Yeah. No one is talking about how 5G radiates your brain and causes cancer any longer. Maybe it’s because the USA is now marketing their own 5G. Sure it doesn’t perform at REAL 5G performance curves, but it sounds good, and it is really 4G marketed as 5G, and who’s gonna know the difference, right?

Not Americans. That’s for sure.

The freedom not to wear masks is now embedded in the American culture. Ah, yes. The great covid “hoax”, right? Now the entire West goes about their daily lives without wearing masks. Great huh?

I wonder what will happen when China and Russia give some “tit for tat” back, eh? Do you all think that the united West can fight against a full-scale bioweapon carpet bombing like China had to endure?

It’s a strange world we are now experiencing. And most of us have no clue as to how it is going about, and what the outcomes will be. yah. And now, the focus is on the evil dangerous Russia fighting the heroic Nazi innocents. And that any day now, with American money, and American weapons, and American training, Russia will collapse from the overwhelming superiority of the united West; that “bright and shining house on the hill.”

Soon, there will be a “pivot to Asia”, and China and Taiwan will be the focus.

Are you ready for the spewing of bullshit?

I am.

You don’t fight it, don’t you know. You adapt, and you tune out, and you allow the stupid to die. And stop trying to help them. You stick with what you know, and hang out with the winning side. Yah. It’s that simple.

Yvonne Elliman – If I Can’t Have You

We start out with some music from the United States in the totally cool 1970s.

British SAS special forces in Ukraine fighting Russia

Russia announced the investigation of at least two British SAS special ops groups in Lvov:

• Russian Article
• British Article

Russia warns Britain for provoking Ukraine

April 26 (Reuters) - Russia warned Britain on Tuesday that if it continued to provoke Ukraine to strike targets in Russia then there would be an immediate "proportional response".

Russia's defence ministry cited statements from Britain's armed forces minister James Heappey who told BBC radio that it was entirely legitimate for Ukraine to hunt targets in the depths of Russia to disrupt logistics and supply lines. . .here

Chinese girl in her living room

This is VERY TYPICAL. Video 5MB

Artifact Hunting Tips – Finding Arrowheads Left by Native Americans

From HERE

Hunting for ancient artifacts is something that you can do just about anywhere. In the United States there were Native American tribes in every part of the country, and they left behind stone tools and other artifacts that you can find.

The most popular thing for most people to find are arrowheads. Some can actually be quite valuable, although most artifact hunters are looking to add pieces to their collection, not to get rich.

To find valuable artifacts there is some luck involved, but more importantly you need to follow a few basic guidelines. Some places are much better than others when it comes to artifact hunting.

To help you get the best from your artifact hunting here are important tips:

Know the Laws on Arrowhead Artifact Hunting

First and foremost, we need to talk about laws regarding picking up arrowheads.

Many people start their artifact hunting on the wrong footing by ignoring the local laws and regulations that govern hunting for arrowheads and other artifacts. If you are careless regarding local laws when hunting for artifacts you are likely to risk your finds being confiscated by the authorities and even being fined or even jailed.

Now don’t let this scare you. All I am saying is that you need to understand the laws so you can avoid any issues. There are plenty of ways that you can legally hunt for artifacts.

French involvement in Ukraine

In the Ukraine fighting against Russia…

“French sources report that servicemen of the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment, which is part of the Special Operations Forces, were deployed to Ukraine. The group includes instructors on the use of MILAN anti-tank systems and AT-4 grenade launchers”

Chinese Girl in 1970s style bell-bottom jeans

Ah. It takes me back to 1974 and “elephant bells”. video 2MB

Using Private Lands to find arrowheads

You will have no legal concerns if you are hunting on private lands with landowner permission. Just make sure you actually do get permission!

In the United States, trespassing is an offense all the 50 states. If there is a vacant piece of land that you want to hunt artifacts on the make sure you find out who the owner is and then you ask for permission. Picking up arrowheads on private property would constitute not just trespassing, but also theft.

Transnistria

Now Ukraine is stirring something up in Transnistria. Multiple sabotage attacks have occurred, including one on a military installation, destroying two radio towers and damaging others.

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Transnistria now erecting barricades:

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There is a lot of talk and rumor now, like the following:

“Now Transnistrian telegram accounts are claiming Ukrainian military massed on their border: “According to subscribers. On the border with Transnistria, a large concentration of Ukrainian troops was noticed, in particular tanks and other armored vehicles”

And much of this rumor could be dismissed if it weren’t for the suspicious attacks that now suddenly occur on Transnistrian land, and the following statements from a prominent Ukrainian journalist and as of last year ex-advisor to the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, who reportedly said today:

“Ukraine has the legal right to demilitarize the military facilities of the Russian troops that threaten us,” the editor-in-chief of the odious publication Censor wrote on social networks. no, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Yuriy Butusov. 

He said that this would make it possible to capture Russian prisoners for exchange, “eliminate the threat of a breakthrough by Russian troops”, seize large arsenals of ammunition. Release two Ukrainian brigades that are stationed on the Ukrainian-Moldovan border 

There is only one chance left to save Mariupol – a strike on Transnistria” – Advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine.”

From HERE (autotranslate this article)

(Russia, by the way, has over 4000 AFU prisoners, 300 of them officers. More POWs were taken in Illych Steel Plant alone than all of RF and LPR/DPR prisoners in Ukrainian hands combined.)

When Irish Legends and History Combine: The Tomb of the Fairy Queen Maeve

Legends suggest that the green hills of Ireland have always been a place for fairy games. According to local beliefs, the forests were full of hidden settlements inhabited by supernatural creatures. Most of them have been forgotten over time, but the fairy queen Maeve received a special place in the history of the Knocknarea area and she even has a tomb that is visited by thousands of people every year. Those who visit her final resting place are searching for evidence in the mystical secrets of ancient Irish tales.

The Irish town of Sligo is famous for its stunning green hill that smells like fresh grass in the morning and covers itself with shimmering mystery at night. The name Knocknarea usually makes people think about knocking into or on something, but the truth is that ”knock” means nothing more than hill in Irish. However, the etymology of the site’s full name isn’t clear. There are at least three possible explanations behind this name. Firstly, researchers suggest that it came from Cnoc na Ré , meaning “hill of the moon”. However, some others say that it was Cnoc na Riogha , which means ”hill of the kings”. This interpretation also suggests that if the hill contains burials, they may belong to the ancient rulers of these lands. Finally, a very simple explanation for the name: Cnoc na Riabh , means simply ”hill of the stripes”.

No matter the name’s origins, it is known as the hill of the fairies and is said to be the place where their queen is buried.

The Enchanting Tomb

The greatest treasure of the smooth green hill is a grave that is located in the heart of the site. It has never been excavated, but there are at least two suspicions about what hides inside. First, it is believed that it contains a passage tomb dated to the Neolithic period. Secondly, many believe that the famous Fairy Queen is buried in a tomb inside this 327-meter (1,073 ft.) limestone hill.

The most important part of the site is called Medb’s Varin, which is about 55 meters (180 ft.) wide and 10 meters (33ft) high. It is one of the most intriguing of the unexplored archaeological sites in Ireland and is known as the tomb of Medb or Maeve. Researchers suggest that it is about 5000 years old and, due to its long history, it became a place entwined with legend and myth. As long as the site remains unexcavated, it is impossible to conclude what it may hold. Researchers suggest that it is possible that the mysterious tomb belongs to a known Neolithic religious center in this area. However, tourists from around the world come to enjoy the hill with the burial of an ancient fairy queen.

Who was this mysterious fairy queen whose remains may be hidden under the green grass of the Knocknarea?

The Fairy Queen of Irish Wuthering Hills

In English literature, she is known as Maeve, Maev, or Maive. However, in Old Irish, she was called Meḋḃ, Meaḋḃ and Medb. In old Irish mythology, she appears as a fairy queen and an independent female deity. There are a bunch of rich legends related to her, many of them describing her cruel behavior. She also seems to be one of the strongest warriors among the fairy-related deities. She was a wife of Ailill and had seven sons. She was murdered by Furbaide who wanted to avenge the death of his mother, who Maeve had killed.

The modern followers of paganism have created a beautiful vision of the goddess based on the old mythology. According to Patricia Telesco:

Maeve’s themes are fairies, magic, protection, leadership, and justice (law). Her symbols are birds and gold. As the Fairy Queen, Maeve oversees today’s merrymaking among the citizens of fey during their Fairy Gatherings. She also attends to human affairs by providing protection, wise leadership and prudent conventions. Works of art depict Maeve with golden birds on Her shoulders, whispering magical knowledge into Her ear. Near the beginning of May, the wee folk of Ireland come out of hiding for a grand celebration of spring. If you don’t want Maeve and the citizens of fey to pull pranks on you today, take precautions, as the Europeans do: avoid traveling, put a piece of clothing on inside-out, wear something red, and leave the fairy folk an offering of sweet bread, honey or ale. In some cases, this will please the fairies so much that they will offer to perform a service or leave you a gift in return!'

This description proves that the old religion is still alive and has become a part of life in the area around the tomb, but also across Ireland. The interest in the old Irish goddess has even spread around the world, so she became an inspiration for many artists. She is also related to another famous site in Tara, Ireland.

Fairyland for Hiking Tourists

News in local magazines suggests that the popularity of Knocknarea has brought the site to the edge of destruction. The devastation of the hill has become immense, so officials want to protect it by limiting the possible number of tourists who visit the fairy queen’s tomb.

Finally, if you would like to see the work of the deceased fairy queen for yourself, Patricia Telesco suggests you use a spell to call Maeve:

Take a piece of white bread and toast it until it’s golden brown. Scratch into the bread a word or phrase representing your goal (for example, if raises at work haven’t been given fairly, write the words ‘work’ and ‘raises’). Distribute the crumbs from this to the birds so they can convey your need directly to Maeve’s ears.

It is unknown if someone has really met her spirit, but many people claim that the site where she is said to be buried is perfumed with the fragrance of magic.

Chinese girl picking out noodles

Obviously showing off her odd taste in shoes. video 3MB

“Poland is secretly preparing a “liberation campaign” against Ukraine. 

For this purpose, a set of measures is being carried out – the supply of weapons, equipment and mercenaries across the Polish-Ukrainian border. Several formations of the Polish Army – the 18th motorized rifle division and the 6th airborne brigade – are preparing for a “peacekeeping mission”

The Polish Army stepped up measures to the maximum extent possible to complete the units to wartime states. The recruitment of “volunteers” is carried out through the websites of the Ministry of Defense of Poland.”

An anthem for all us old country boys (and girls ). 

As much a state of mind as a place, this song gets a lot of people right in their soul. City dwellers too can and do have a love for nature, and all the things a "country" lifestyle represent. Things like the wind in live oaks, the smell of jasmine, the security of "family", the laid back lifestyle missing today. 

Don didn't write this song (though he did write a lot of them), But DANG did he deliver it. Takes us back to a place we knew, or just wish we had. 

I can't say unequivocally this is my favorite song of all time. But sure as night follows day it's in the top three. Thanks Don. We miss you gentle giant. RIP. 

- Tom Swinburn

I am not sure if the media reports in the west claiming that Vladimir Putin is crazy is caused by gross ignorance or part of a desperate propaganda campaign. Just take a gander at Putin’s speech today to a gathering of the General Prosecutor’s Office (to put this in U.S. terms, it was a conference of senior Department of Justice officials and the U.S. prosecutors). Read this snippet and tell me if that sounds like a crazy paranoid:

I would like to specifically discuss the tasks facing the prosecution agencies and the entire law enforcement sphere in connection with the special military operation in Donbass and Ukraine.

The special operation has exposed multiple violations of international law by Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups as well as foreign mercenaries. We are referring to extreme atrocities such as killing civilians, using people, including children, as human shields, and other crimes. Flagrant provocations against our Armed Forces, also with the use of resources such as foreign media and social networks, also require a thorough investigation.

At the same time, it is also necessary to suppress any crimes on the territory of the Russian Federation in the most decisive manner. This morning, the Federal Security Service thwarted a terrorist group that planned to attack and assassinate a well-known Russian television journalist. They will definitely deny this now, but the facts and evidence are irrefutable.

In this regard, I would like to say the following. To our surprise, high-ranking diplomats in Europe and the United States are urging their Ukrainian satellites to use their resources to win on the battlefield. Our partners in the United States are using such strange diplomacy – diplomats are even calling for this. But as they realise that this is impossible, they try to achieve a different objective instead – to split Russian society, to destroy Russia from within. But here, too, there is a hitch; this hasn’t worked either. Our society has shown maturity and solidarity; it supports our Armed Forces and supports our efforts to ensure Russia’s ultimate security and help the people living of Donbass. This actually means support for our people living in Donbass. So when they failed to achieve their information goals – they continued to fool their citizens of course, using their monopoly position in their countries’ information space and in some other countries, but they failed here, on the territory of Russia – they switched to terror, to arranging the murder of our journalists.

In this regard, it should be noted of course that we know the names of all the Western handlers, of all members of Western services, primarily the CIA, who are working with Ukrainian security agencies. Apparently, they are giving them such advice. This is their attitude towards the rights of journalists, towards the dissemination of information; this is their attitude towards human rights in general. All they care about is their own rights, some cherishing imperial ambitions, others holding on to their colonial past in the old-fashioned way. But this will not work in Russia.

I am asking the Investigative Committee of Russia, and all investigative bodies to record such crimes in detail, to identify their masterminds and perpetrators, to initiate criminal cases and bring them to trial, as they should. Prosecutors and investigators should carefully study these and all other facts, collect the necessary evidence to make a case, which should be used in court proceedings, including at the international level. Let me emphasise that such evidence should be accumulated for all the crimes committed by neo-Nazis and their accomplices, starting with the coup d’état in Kiev in 2014, which paved the way for civil war, bloodshed and violence in Ukraine.

Next point. We should pay special attention to people arriving to Russia from Ukraine, from the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics. As of today, they number nearly one million, including over 100,000 children. People who had to leave their homes are not always in possession of the documents needed to get material aid, medical support, and to enrol children in schools or kindergartens. I urge the Prosecutor General’s Office to render these people legal assistance and protect their rights, including by reviewing their applications within the shortest possible timeframes. It is hard for these people, help them.

Joe Biden is incapable of giving a speech like this even with the help of a teleprompter. One thing that captured my interest immediately was the measured tone of the speech (it was broadcast live on RT this morning). Vladimir Putin neither ranted nor raved. He was direct, concise and clear.

I found his comments regarding the CIA particularly interesting:

In this regard, it should be noted of course that we know the names of all the Western handlers, of all members of Western services, primarily the CIA, who are working with Ukrainian security agencies. 

Apparently, they are giving them such advice. 

This is their attitude towards the rights of journalists, towards the dissemination of information; this is their attitude towards human rights in general. 

All they care about is their own rights, some cherishing imperial ambitions, others holding on to their colonial past in the old-fashioned way. 

But this will not work in Russia.

I take Putin at his word.

The Russian intelligence service has compiled a list of key CIA officers working in Ukraine and will hold them accountable. Unlike the Soviet era when the United States genuinely offered disgruntled KGB and GRU officers a clear alternative to the lies that shored up the rotten Communist system, the west today has become a caricature of the old Soviet Union. We now imprison political prisoners in the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania for daring to support Donald Trump and trespassing on the U.S. Capitol. In fact, there are more political prisoners incarcerated by United States than are jailed in Russia.

How about a free press?

America is now a global joke.

The corporate media has turned into Helen Keller when it comes to investigating or even questioning the fraudulent votes that gave the 2020 Presidential election to Dementia Joe Biden. With the exception of Tucker Carlson, the mainstream media refuse to give air time to analysts like Doug MacGregor and Scott Ritter who can authoritatively challenge the Ukraine narrative that Russia is evil and Ukraine is an innocent victim. Anyone who goes on social media and tries to provide an alternative view is cancelled. The American media is now behaving as the Soviet Pravda on steroids.

The CIA, which has the mission of recruiting and managing spies in Russia that will provide crucial intelligence about the true intentions and plans of Putin and his Generals, now are fully castrated. If you were a Russian officer dissatisfied with Russia’s current course of action would you trust the CIA to protect you? I believe that answer is a firm no. Especially because the U.S. has now thrown its full support behind a Ukraine that is rife with NAZI ideology and adherents.

We know from the history of the Cold War that the CIA targeted Russian diplomats and military attaches working in foreign countries as a means to get spies into the Kremlin’s inner circle. With the United States pressing all countries in the world to punish all things Russian, not just the government, but the people, the opportunity for U.S. intelligence officers to befriend and recruit a Russian is more difficult than at any time since 1947. This means the United States will be blind in terms of being able to generate its own intelligence and will become more reliant on foreign intelligence services to provide us with their nuggets.

I pity those U.S. intelligence officers who still have some measure of integrity and have a comprehensive understanding of Russia. Any who try to offer alternative explanations for why Putin and the Russian people are engaged in Ukraine will face strong headwinds and possible accusations of being a “Russian sympathizer.”

If you believe in the maxim, “knowledge is power”, then the United States is now entering a phase of being powerless. Ignorance and ideological fanaticism in the intelligence community is a recipe for disaster.

EU and UK to Meet Russia’s Demand to Pay for Gas in Rubles

Curious. I guess this will ease up pressure on individual EU nation-states. Eh?

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Using Public Lands to find “arrowheads”

This is where things get a little bit trickier.

There are a wide array of different types of public land ranging from county parks all the way to federally owned land. Even federal lands have different designations such as BLM land, National Parks, Wilderness Areas, etc. You need to know the land status of the land that you are collecting artifacts, or you might find yourself in major troubles with the law.

Artifacts and antiquities are protected by the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979. I suggest you read it in detail if you plan on venturing onto public lands to hunt.

I have heard a lot of people come up with various interpretations of the law and what it actually allow, and doesn’t allow you to do on public land. I have even spoken with BLM Archaeologists who say that “incidental” collecting of arrowheads is alright (meaning that you can pick up surface arrowheads while doing other activities while recreating on public lands).

Most will tell you that under no circumstance are you allowed to collect artifacts from public lands.

The “Jimmy Carter Loophole” is often referenced by artifact hunters as the reason that surface collecting is alright. However, most people who understand the writing of the law say that despite the text regarding surface collecting, you are still breaking the law if you pick up an arrowhead on public land.

I am NOT telling you what you can or can’t do on public lands regarding to arrowhead hunting. If you want to be absolutely certain, then by all means avoid public lands and only hunt on private property with permission.

I will say that there are thousands of hunters, ranchers, hikers, rockhounds and other public land users who pick up an arrowhead from time to time and the black helicopters haven’t swooped in on them yet. However, these are surface finds. Digging and sifting are taken seriously as should never be done on public lands.

My personal belief is that surface collecting of arrowheads is about as bad as jaywalking. Nonetheless, my opinion doesn’t really matter. The law is what matters.

Again, I suggest that you read the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 yourself and decide what you want to do.

First Class on Chinese High Speed Rail

Yes. This is what it is like. Not bad for 60 RMB (roughly $10 dollars US). Video 4MB

Clear messages on Gas

Message One

The Energy Ministry of Bulgaria reported that Gazprom informed Bulgargaz about the suspension of gas supplies from April 27 - Reuters

Message Two

The Polish oil and gas company PGNIG received a notification from Gazprom that from the morning of April 27, the supply of Russian natural gas will be completely stopped

Message Three

"Russian energy giant Gazprom will cease delivering gas to Bulgaria on Wednesday, the country’s energy ministry announced on Tuesday. The news comes after the Saint Petersburg firm confirmed it will also halt supplies to Poland, with both countries refusing to pay for energy supplies in rubles."

Where to Hunt for Artifacts

You don’t just wake up and start searching your backyard in the hopes of finding “arrowhhead” artifacts (although it has happened!). There are places where you can find artifacts and there are other places where there are none.

You need to know the best places to make your artifact hunt successful.

Always remember the 3 things that all people need: Food, shelter and water.

The single most important (and easiest to find) is water. Native Americans set up their camps near creeks, rivers, and lakes. The camp wasn’t necessarily right next to the water, but it was often on a nearby bluff that was still close enough that the water was easily accessible.

Other places to search are old trading centers. These are rendezvous points where tribes would meet to trade with each other, and during the past few centuries they would trade with European settlers and fur trappers. These are also good sites to metal detect because Europeans would bring metal items to trade.

It is important you study your local history to know the settlement in the area. This will help you make the right decisions in regards to areas to hunt for artifacts. Also, remember to listen to local prospecting news and news from the local construction site. You may get some important insights on where to look for.

Surface arrowheads are easier to spot in the desert where there is less ground cover. Forest can hold a lot of artifacts too, but the dirt and ground cover can make artifact hunting almost impossible. In forested areas I recommend checking river beds and dried up creeks.

Filming a Chinese movie

This is what it is like. video 4MB

NATO is shipping heavy weapons into Ukraine

And most are now destoyed and the cargo is trapped on rail cars with no where to go. Russia launched massive attacks on infrastructure last night as well, destroying many key rail lines and bridges.

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A map showing all the strategic rail crossings that were hit:

Western weapons will now have a much harder time getting to the frontline, particularly heavy weapons like tanks/artillery which are now said to be provided soon to Ukraine. These require railways to get to the frontline.

And on that topic of heavy arms to Ukraine, something important to note: many countries are now cobbling together a Frankenstein list of “high end” heavy arms to contribute. T-72’s and M-84’s from Poland and Slovenia, Marders, Leopards, and PzH2000’s from Germany, Cesar Howitzers from France, Mastiffs, Wolfhound, and Husky vehicles from UK, Archer artillery systems from Sweden, Humvees, M113 APC’s from U.S., and M777’s from Canada, and on and on and on.

For anyone versed in military matters, this is absolutely ridiculous.

There is no way in hell the Ukraine will be able to utilize any of this stuff in any productive capacity for long. Firstly, the vast majority of it will never reach the frontlines and will be destroyed in transit. But just to play devil’s advocate, even if it were to actually reach the frontlines, any military analyst worth their salt knows that it’s a huge detriment to operate many non-interoperable systems on the frontlines due to the complete nightmare it creates in lack of parts and ability to properly maintain or repair this equipment.

In fact at the start of the SMO, Russia was heavily criticized by some military blogs because Russia uses so many different variants of each system concurrently, and this creates problems for maintenance and logistics – for instance T-72, T-72a, T-72b, T-72b3, T-72b3m, etc, etc. But of course Russia has the military infrastructure to deal with this, Ukraine doesn’t.

China reports first human case of H3N8 bird flu

From HERE.

BEIJING (REUTERS) - China has recorded the first human infection with the H3N8 strain of bird flu, the country's health authority said on Tuesday (April 26), but said the risk of it spreading among people was low.

A four-year-old boy from central Henan province was found to have been infected with the variant after developing a fever and other symptoms on April 5.

No close contacts were infected with the virus, the National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement.

The child had been in contact with chickens and crows raised at his home, it added.

The H3N8 variant has previously been detected elsewhere in the world in horses, dogs, birds and seals, but no human cases of H3N8 have been reported, said the NHC.

The commission said an initial assessment determined the variant did not yet have the ability to effectively infect humans, and the risk of a large-scale epidemic was low.

Hum. It’s a good thing that throughout China, there are mandatory “full spectrum” testing of all sorts of viruses. Depending on where you live, you need to be tested either daily or every other day.

I wonder why China is being so agressive about testing for viruses … ?

Surface Hunting Artifacts

Spotting “arrowhead” artifacts can quite difficult, especially to the untrained eye. Scan every inch of the ground in the area that you are hunting for them. Keep your eyes alert especially to items with sharp edges, flaked surfaces or shapes different from the rocks. This will help you find artifacts that most other people may fail to notice.

Take note of the type of material that the Indians used to make their arrowheads. In some areas it was black obsidian that can be easily spotted once you know what to look for. Cherts and hard jaspers can be harder to spot but you will get better as you train your eyes.

Arrowheads aren’t the only thing that you can find. Other artifacts include earrings, pottery, necklaces, stone tools and hammerheads. If you find an ancient campsite, take your time and search the area carefully for anything you can find.

If you are a beginner it is important that you are patient because it may take you time to develop your skills and get some luck.

“China calls out US ‘war crimes’”.

China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman went off at a presser today:

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has lashed out at the EU and US for criticizing its domestic and foreign policies. Wang singled out the US, accusing Washington of war crimes in the Middle East, economic coercion, betraying its allies and spreading disinformation.

“The US purports to maintain the centrality of the UN Charter, but it is clear to anyone that the US is doing quite the opposite,” Wang told reporters at a press conference on Monday. Citing the US’ military interventions in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, Wang stated that Washington “brushed the UN aside and waged wars on sovereign states in wanton interference.”

“The US claims to respect human rights, but the wars of aggression launched by the US and its allies … killed over 300,000 civilians and made over 26 million people refugees,” he continued. “Yet, no one is held accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The US even announced sanctions on the International Criminal Court who would investigate the war crimes of the US military.”

And he didn’t end there.

Again, we know his words will be censored by the West, so his tirade was made for the benefit of the Global South, which includes China’s domestic audience.

Digging and Sifting for Arrowheads

Most people who hunt for artifacts simply search along the surface and don’t need to do any digging. Digging will often be fruitless because there will only be one piece in any particular area.

Sifting is only productive when you have located an actual site with a high concentration of artifacts.

Make sure that you manage the site of your hunting well. Often you will have to dig up the artifacts you find from deep in the ground. It is important to fill up any hole you dig up and to dispose of any trash you have in the proper manner.

Digging should ONLY be done on private lands with permission from a landowner. Digging on public land will land you in big trouble and is much more serious than casual surface collecting.

Some interesting news…

An abandoned archive was found at the OSCE headquarters in Mariupol. It contains OSCE field reports from 2014, documenting thousands of Ukrainian war crimes, which the OSCE then concealed in the official reports of the mission in Ukraine.

In addition, a warehouse of Italian-made mortar mines was found in the garage of the OSCE building. The markings on the boxes indicate that the mines were packed for shipping by sea on 2022-3-11.

Finding That First Arrowhead…

If you’ve never found an arrowhead before, it can seem like there just aren’t any to be found. For years all I ever found was chipping, and maybe an occasional broken piece. It took me years to find my first intact arrowhead.

After that, they came a bit easier. They are still hard to find though, which is why they are such a treasure!

If I can give you 3 main tips that have helped me over the years they would be:

• • 1. Water – I always find the highest concentrations arrowheads around water sources
  • 2. Remoteness – This may not have mattered 50 years ago, but nowadays I have way more success when hunt way back in, far from where everyone else goes.
  • 3. Keep Moving – too often I see beginners stuck on a spot. They spend hours in once area because it looks good. I like to move quick and scan as much ground as possible. Only when I find an artifact will I slow down and start hunting the area carefully.

Hunting for artifacts is a wonderful pastime and a great way to get out and enjoy nature. Get out of the house for a while and see what you can find in your area!

A Recap Of The War In Ukraine – by Gonzalo Lira

Gonzalo Lira just delivered a decent recap of the war in Ukraine.

Gonzalo Lira @GonzaloLira1968 - 10:28 UTC · Apr 26, 2022

Quick recap for those who haven't followed what's been going on in Ukraine but want to understand: 02/24: The Russians invaded from the south, south-east, east and north, in a lightning campaign. The Russians invaded with 190K troops—against 250K combat troops from Ukraine.

The RF put 30K troops near Kiev—nowhere near enough to capture the city—but enough to pin down some 100K AFU defenders. The RF also launched several axes of attack, with reinforcements on standby (including a famed 40km long tank column), to see where they might be needed.

Crucially—the Russian's blitz on several axes pre-empted an imminent UKRAINIAN blitzkrieg. The AFU had been about to invade the Donbas. This was the immediate motivation for Russia's invasion: To beat them to the punch and scuttle Ukraine's imminent invasion—which they did.

Also, by attacking from the north and south, the Russians disrupted weapons supply chain from NATO. Had the RF only attacked in the east to prevent the AFU invasion of Donbas, there would have been an open corridor for resupply from the West. Threatening Kiev stopped that.

So the main AFU army was left stranded in east Ukraine, with the rest of the Ukr. forces isolated and pinned down—with no easy resupply from the West. The RF then went about hitting AFU command/control and resupply links, further isolating and immobilizing Ukrainian forces.

The Russians soon nominally controlled land the size of the UK in Ukraine—but it was a tenuous control. The south of Ukraine was more fully in Russia's grip. The AFU around Kherson simply scattered. Mariupol became a clear battleground, as did the Donbas proper.

What the Russians initially wanted was to:

• Short-circuit the imminent Donbas invasion - which they did.

• Scare the Zelensky regime into negotiating a political settlement - which they failed to do.

Kiev had no intention of negotiating a ceasefire because of orders given to them from Washington: “Fight Russia to the last Ukrainian!” Also, the Neo-Nazi goons around Zelensky threatened him if he negotiated and surrendered because they are terrified of the Russians.

So Zelensky launched a massive PR and propaganda campaign, primarily to motivate AFU forces to fight to the death. Myths were created (Ghost of Kiev), false flags were carried out (Bucha, Kramatorsk) and relentless media stories were flogged relentlessly.

The Russians kept negotiating and trying to NOT destroy Ukraine infrastructure. In fact at first they were even trying to minimize AFU casualties. The evidence for this is overwhelming: The RF did not hit civilian infrastructure - water, electric, phone, transportation. They did not hit AFU barracks, command centers, government buildings, etc.

The Russians' initial priority was for a *negotiated settlement*. But by late March, they realized this was impossible.

This is why the RF withdrew from Kiev. There was no sense putting men near the city when they were not doing what they were supposed to do - putting political pressure on the Zelensky regime to negotiate. This withdrawal was claimed as a “victory” in the “Battle of Kiev”! lmao

Starting in late March, the Russians pulled back and solidified their control over the area they had captured, ceding to the AFU areas that were either pointless to or potentially too costly to control. The Ukraine propaganda machine called all these pull- backs “victories”.

There was still a glimmer that the war might end in a negotiated settlement but that ended in early April. After the Istanbul talks of 3/30, the Ukraine side gingerly agreed to some compromises but within a week publicly disavowed those concessions.

That's when the Russians realized the Zelensky regime was agreement-incapable: Their Washington masters, Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken in particular, wouldn't allow a peace. They want this war to sap Russia dry. It is a classic proxy war and Ukraine will pay the price.

Something else the Russians realized: Sanctions. They hurt but Russia bounced back with remarkable speed. They didn't really hurt that bad. But the theft of Russia's $300 billion in foreign reserves by the West DID hurt - badly. The Russians realized they were in a total war with the West and since their foreign reserves were lost forever (likely to be pilfered by corrupt Western politicos), the Russians now have nothing left to lose. By stealing their reserves, the West lost all power over Russia.

This has sealed Ukraine's fate: The Russians now have no incentive to give up what they have conquered. It has cost them too much in terms of men and treasure. And they know that they can't negotiate a ceasefire. The Zelensky regime will simply break it later.

Which means:

The Russians intend to conquer and permanently annex all the south and east of Ukraine. This is why their strategy on the battlefield has dramatically shifted: Now they are carrying out a slow, methodical grinding down and destruction of the AFU.

The war in the first 30 days was speed, feints, nominally capturing vast swathes of Ukraine territory, with the aim of pressuring the Zelensky regime into a negotiated settlement. But the West's total financial and political break with Russia means they have nothing to lose. And they have a lot to gain: The Donbas is mineral rich, the really productive farmlands of Ukraine are in the east and south, Kharkov is a major industrial city, the Sea of Azov has untold natural gas reserves.

And besides - the people love them. Why would the Russians now give up this hard-won prize?

And they *have* won - make no mistake. Ask any military man who is not a system pig, he'll tell you: There is no way for the AFU to retake their country. They have no armor, no air defense, no fuel, no comms - it's over.

The great tragedy is that so many THOUSANDS of young men will die, and die NEEDLESSLY!!,  in order to postpone the inevitable. These brave boys will have fought so valiantly - and died so young, so cruelly -because of the evil of the Zelensky regime.

That's the hard truth.

And in the end, this will be the map that will remain—a bitter image of Ukraine's future. Russia will pour billions into their newly acquired territory. It will prosper and flourish. But the rump-state of Ukraine will be left poor, destroyed, forgotten.

A tragedy.

Mr b at MoA comments…

I concur with the above except for two minor detail. The move on Kiev was not intended to hinder resupply to Ukrainian troops in Donbas but to ‘fix’ potential reinforcement around the capital. That enabled Russian troops to open the corridor from Crimea to the Russian boarder as well as to cross the Dnieper in the south and to take Kherson. Those were the most important moves for the further development of the war.

I also do not believe that Russia will ‘annex’ the areas it is liberating from fascist control. Once librated the people in those areas will vote on becoming independent from Ukraine and the various regions, Donbas, Luhansk, Kherson, Odessa, will form states that will become part of the Federal Republic of Novorossia.

That country will be recognized and supported by Russia and its allies.

Posted by b on April 26, 2022 at 11:23 UTC | Permalink

"If anything today unites people living in Ukraine it is only the fear of the atrocities of the nationalist battalions. Therefore, the result of the policy of the West and the Kiev regime under its control can only be the disintegration of Ukraine into several states,"

"Almost 5 million Ukrainian migrants have already arrived in Europe. In the near future, their number will grow to 10 million,"

"Most Ukrainians who came to the West believe that Europeans should support and endow them, and when they are forced to work, they begin to rebel,"

"Europe is facing a deep economic and political crisis for their countries. Rising inflation and declining living standards are already affecting the wallets and moods of Europeans,"

"Representatives of the criminal community who have escaped from Ukraine will try to occupy niches that are profitable for them, to put local criminal groups under control, which will undoubtedly be accompanied by a complication of the criminal situation in Europe," Patrushev said. 

"The West has already seen a revival of the shadow market for the purchase of human organs from socially vulnerable segments of the population of Ukraine for black market transplantation operations for European patients...Such a widespread business as trade in orphans taken out of Ukraine for subsequent illegal adoption in Europe will also get a new breath,"

When someone hears the term ancient artifacts, images of Indiana Jones embarking on a dangerous adventure in search of some lost relic are usually dancing in the forefront of that person’s mind. That said, the “Indiana Jones” movie franchise is credited with having a lasting impact on at least one columnist in the antiques and collectibles trade, as I have always lamented that without having been exposed to the original “Raiders of the Lost Ark” movie at a very young age by my father, my entry into the antiques and collectibles world would have occurred much later. In fact, I place the entire “Indiana Jones” movie franchise well above the “Star Wars” movie franchise as having the most profound effect on both my youth and my upbringing.

Sadly, the field of collecting ancient artifacts is not nearly as exciting as most of the adventures of Indiana Jones. Simply stated, the field of ancient artifacts covers the gamut of rare and coveted antiquities to prehistoric fossils and even Native American artifacts. It is the last category that I will be focusing on here, more specifically Native American arrowheads, but first, a brief history lesson is in order.

Some of the first known Native American arrowheads were created thousands of years ago and were carved out of various materials such as flint, agate, jasper, and quartzite. They represent some of the earliest known remnants as to how our prehistoric ancestors lived. That said, collecting arrowheads is a somewhat esoteric hobby within the greater antiques and collectibles field. Over the years, the hobby has grown considerably, and the most sought-after artifacts are unlike most of the arrowheads that casual enthusiasts may have come into contact with through museum souvenir shops or through the possessions of a close relative who owned some specimens. Much like digging up antique bottles, arrowhead collecting was quite popular back when you could still discover less-than-stellar specimens on plots of undeveloped land.

I fondly remember my father sharing stories of his youth spent growing up around Hazleton, Pa., and him stumbling upon multiple broken arrowheads on the outskirts of undeveloped forest land.

Today, thanks to the rise of better authentication techniques and well-versed experts within the trade, the history, certification, and grading of these treasures has advanced in ways never before thought possible. Now, respected auction houses deal in these fascinating treasures. In the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, a plethora of fake Native American arrowheads engulfed the secondary market. Some of these fakes and forgeries were so well made that they continue to baffle some experts in the trade to this day.

Others were so badly made that even casual enthusiasts with no formal training can easily identify them. The field of Native American arrowhead collecting is an advanced area of study that no novice should undertake without enlisting the skills of multiple well-respected experts in the trade.

Beginning collectors and novices who wish to spend significant amounts of money purchasing authentic artifacts should begin by reading and learning about the subject of not just Native American arrowheads, but also the entire market for Native American artifacts in general. Most auction houses that cater to authentic Native American arrowheads tend to also specialize in the greater Native American artifact marketplace as well.

One book that is a must-have to any up and coming arrowhead collector is the most recent edition of “The Official Overstreet Indian Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide.” The guide gives an unprecedented listing as to what makes certain arrowheads valuable and lists tips for identifying certain artifacts from different time periods.

Another recent development that has greatly affected the marketplace for Native American artifacts is the advent of third-party certification and grading. Companies like IAGA, which is short for Indian Artifact Grading Authority, can help you not only identify and authenticate your treasures, but also grade them by condition of the overall specimen.

This can help determine a fair value on the secondary market, as prices for even the most sought-after artifacts have been volatile over the years, while also breaking new records at high-profile auctions. There seems to be a lot of wealthy collectors chasing after the most coveted specimens on the market today, but would-be speculators should take note that the middle range and lower end of the market have not been affected by this same frenzy.

Occasionally, well-vetted auction houses like Morphy Auctions will hold exclusive auctions that cater to Native American artifacts. It should be stated that even though these auctions are run by experts in the industry, collectors are still encouraged to do their own research on the items they may be interested in obtaining. Unlike the field of antique bottle collecting or modern-day collecting mainstays like vintage “Star Wars” figures and toys, the hobby of collecting ancient artifacts is much more complex.

A novice collector can easily spend decades studying some of the most stellar and valuable finds without even scratching the surface of what the overall market has to offer. Contrary to popular belief, most Native American arrowheads are not all that valuable, as some can be had for $1 to $40 each. Condition, age, and rarity are what separates a $40 arrowhead from a $500 arrowhead and a $10,000 arrowhead from a $500 one. The high-end markets of this trade are not for the casual enthusiast.

In conclusion, I own several Native American arrowheads and find the pieces to be quite impressive. I should also state that I do not trust my own judgment when identifying and buying these kinds of pieces and always enlist the help of professionals to guide me in any purchases I choose to make. Should any readers decide to dabble in this exciting field of study, I strongly urge you to do the same.

The spirit of China

This is what it is like. video 4MB

Pepe Escobar explains how it is all so simple…

Pepe Escobar, [4/26/22 9:36 AM]
WHAT’S GOIN’ ON - IN 5 MINUTES

In 1933 the Anglo-American axis backed Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg's selection of Adolf Hitler as the new Chancellor of Germany.

The plan was to rebuild Germany to balance against the growing power of Russia under Stalin.

England lent two billion gold dollars to Germany; the US lent one billion gold dollars - which was worth about 100 times what the dollar is worth now. England also opened its markets to Germany to strengthen it.

This parallels EXACTLY what the Empire of Lies and rotten Britannia are doing now supporting Ukro Neo-Nazis against Russia.

Nord Stream 2 was the last straw.

The Empire of Lies feared a Germany/Russia/China alliance - where the US would be relegated to the status of an isolated island, losing what was left of its fading control of the planet.

So the CIA ordered the Ukro neo-Nazis to prepare to launch a massive attack on the Donbass - and kill hundreds of thousands of its Russophone population by massive artillery bombardment.

Russian intel picked this up. And Operation Z became inevitable.

The immediate goal of the Empire of Lies was to force Germany to end all its natural resource imports from Russia - thus forcing Germany to remain a permanent US vassal.

The plan worked. Germany is cutting all relations with Russia and is slowly but surely preparing, alongside the Empire, for what might become a HOT - nuclear - war against Russia. Lavrov just had to issue another VERY serious warning.

The Empire of Lies easily gained control of the EU via the German poodle - and now is totally focused on bringing down Russia (“weaken”, in the language of Pentagon weapons peddler Austin and Ziocon Blinkie).

The sanction tsunami will of course backfire - already happening.

And so will the Empire of Lies supreme wet dream: to “weaken” Russia so that it may take back control - as in the Yeltsin years - via corrupt oligarchs, of ALL Russia's wealth of natural resources. That will ultimately mean control of China - because by land and sea the Americans will control all of China's natural resource inputs.

The planet was slipping out of the Empire of Lies' grip. Yet in one fell swoop they are back in the game.

Not so fast though. The only losers, so far, are poodles Germany and the EU.

The Russia-China strategic partnership excels in shadowplay.

The Story of MM’s DIY work-bench

When I moved out of Boston, I started to haul my unused items to the curb for community pickup. I quickly discovered that others decided to do the same, and within a short period of time, all sorts of old and disused furnishings were found discarded on the side.

One item was this massive heavy metal table. It was all steel, and had the gray color so often associated and common in the 1930s and 1940s. Its top was ruined. But aside for that, it was a very heavy, and super sturdy table.

So I took it home. I cleaned it up, but you know, the top was a real mess.

So what I did was, I went and got a one-inch thick plywood board. I put it over ON-TOP of the table and cut it to size so that it fit. I did not replace the top, I just simply put the plywood over it.

I then drilled four holes. One near each corner, oh about, a good hands-length from the two edges. The holes were big enough to slip the bolts through (duh!).

I then placed “carriage bolts”  from the top down, and tightened the board in place with a wrench underneath.

That made the top of the table nice and flat, with the metal rounded part visible on the work surface.

Man, that table was huge, and super heavy, but wow! Did it ever work as a fine work bench. It was just perfect.

Later, when I was bored, I used a router to gouge out some 1/2″ deep valleys along one of the edges. You know to catch loose pencils, pens, paperclips, screws, and all the rest.

And well, that’s my story. Not as exciting as all the rest, but perfect, you know, in its simplicity. Perfect, you all, too, can one day make such a garbage discovery and turn it into something of great utility.

Ah. That’s my story. Don’t you know.

Pepe Escobar, [4/26/22 8:17 AM]
WAR IS PEACE UPDATE

Isn't it soooooo rich that the Empire of Lies is leading a "summit" of 40 or so vassals/straps/minions at one of the icons of the Empire of Bases - Ramstein - to "bolster Ukraine's defenses" (translation: keep the war going forever).

The soooo rich becomes soooooo absurd when the propaganda avalanche includes claiming NATO is not among the donors. Well, most of those at the summit are NATO minions.

The Ramstein summit follows weapons peddler Lloyd "Raytheon" Austin and Little Blinkie visiting the mediocre comedian in Kiev over the weekend and stating they want to "weaken" Russia.

It's really impossible to report about this serial tsunami of imperial excrement as if it was serious news.

Pepe Escobar, [4/26/22 8:30 AM]
AND IT GETS WORSE

You think my previous post was nasty? Baaaaah. It gets much worse.

Sitting beside weapons peddler Lloyd "Raytheon" Austin and General Woke Milley, the German Defense Minister - one Christine Lambrecht, of the von der Lugen school of mediocrity - said that Germany and the Empire of Lies are now teaching Ukrainian troops how to employ new artillery systems.

The teaching takes place in German soil.

Do these people even listen to Lavrov?

Or perhaps they want Mr. Sarmat to visit the Reichstag?

Chicken Biscuit Potpie

This hearty chicken potpie recipe with biscuits takes just 10 minutes to assemble before you can pop it in the oven. —Dorothy Smith, El Dorado, Arkansas

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°. In a large bowl, combine the vegetables, chicken, soup and thyme. Pour into an ungreased deep-dish 9-in. pie plate. Combine the biscuit mix, milk and egg; spoon over chicken mixture.
2. Bake until topping is golden brown and toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 25-30 minutes.

Polish Media: Russia Has Halted Gas Supplies To The Country


Poland announced on Tuesday that it was preparing to impose sanctions on 50 Russian oligarchs and companies, as Polish media report that Russia has stopped gas deliveries to the country, causing European gas prices to get hit with a double-digit surge. 

Poland’s One.pl online news channel reported that Russia had suspended gas supplies to Poland under the Yamal contract, citing off-the-record sources claiming that the Ministry of Climate has now gathered its crisis team to deal with the situation. . . .here

“Give your feathered friends a pretty little place to land with this quick and easy diy teacup bird feeder. It’s so simple to make in about 5 minutes!”

Supplies:

• teacup and saucer
• painter’s tape
• epoxy
• paper plate + wooden craft stick (for epoxy)
• jute twine
• bird seed

Directions:

Step 1: Make sure the teacup and saucer are clean. Put the cup on its side, then use painter’s tape to hold it in place.

Step 2: Mix up a small amount of epoxy on a paper plate using a wooden craft stick, about a teaspoon (just do it by eye.) 

Step 3: Tilt up the cup where it meets the plate and apply the epoxy, then carefully put the cup back in place to secure it. Hold for about 30 seconds. Let dry for 2 hours (or according to directions.)

Step 4: Using jute twine, hang the bird feeder by the handle of the teacup.

Step 5: Fill cup and saucer with bird feed.

Step 6: Enjoy watching the birds!

*First Time Hearing* Blackfoot | Left Turn On A Red Light | REACTION VIDEO

This was sort of my “theme song” when I was discharged from the Navy and making my life up until I was picked up by MAJestic at China Lake NWC. This is a reaction video and a rather good one, don’t you know.

Mint Lamb Stew

The lamb here isn’t just tender—it melts in your mouth! This recipe is an adaptation of a stew my mother used to make while I was growing up in England. Now I round it out with local root vegetables. 

—Maureen Evans, Rancho Cucamonga, California

Push your inner girl

Practice, practice, practice. video 8MB

Sailboat life

Living fine and well inside of China. Video 54MB

Locations In The U.S. That You Should Avoid At All Costs If A Nuclear War With Russia Erupts

April 27, 2022 by Michael

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Vladimir Putin is threatening to use nukes again.  If Russia ultimately decides to conduct a surprise first strike, are you living near a location that is likely to get nuked?  Many people assume that the vast majority of the U.S. population would immediately die if a nuclear war erupts, but that isn’t true.  It has been estimated that only about 20 percent of the U.S. population would be wiped out right away, more would die later on from radiation exposure, but the vast majority of the population would actually die from starvation during the subsequent weeks and months due to the “nuclear winter” that would stretch on for at least a couple of years.  So if a nuclear war does happen, you will need enough food for yourself, your family and everyone that will be depending upon you for as long as you plan to stay alive.

In recent weeks, our politicians and the “experts” on the cable news channels have been assuring us over and over again that the risk of nuclear war is very low and that Vladimir Putin is bluffing when he threatens to use nuclear weapons.

Of course Putin wasn’t exactly bluffing about invading Ukraine, was he?

Considering his track record, I believe that we should take Putin’s threats deadly seriously, and he just publicly threatened to use nuclear weapons against anyone that interferes in the war in Ukraine…

‘If someone intends to interfere in what is going on from the outside they must know that constitutes an unacceptable strategic threat to Russia. They must know that our response to counter strikes will be lightning fast. Fast,’ he said.

‘We have all the weapons we need for this. No one else can brag about these weapons, and we won’t brag about them. But we will use them.’

Though Putin did not mention nuclear weapons directly, he was almost certainly referring to Russia’s new Sarmat 2 nuclear missile which was tested for the first time just days ago and that he boasted is unlike any other weapon in the world.

Obviously, that threat was directed at the United States, because we are intervening in the war in Ukraine more than anyone else.

As I have stated before, there are no winners in a nuclear war, but whichever side decides to strike first will have the best chance of surviving a nuclear war.

If the Russians ultimately determine that a direct military conflict with the United States is inevitable, they may decide that it is best to hit us before we can hit them.

When that day arrives, you will want to be as far away from prime strategic targets as you possibly can.

At the top of that list would be all of the military facilities where our nuclear weapons are located…

• Naval Base Kitsap (Washington)
• Malstrom Air Force Base (Montana)
• Nellis Air Force Base (Nevada)
• Warren Air Force Base (Colorado and Wyoming)
• Minot Air Force Base (North Dakota)
• Pantex plant (Texas)
• Whiteman Air Force Base (Missouri)
• Barksdale Air Force Base (Louisiana)
• Naval Submarine Base (Georgia)

In addition, there are approximately 400 active nuclear missile silos that are spread across five states.  The following comes from the Washington Post…

About 400 of those missiles remain active and ready to launch at a few seconds notice in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, Colorado and Nebraska. They are located on bison preserves and Indian reservations. They sit across from a national forest, behind a rodeo grandstand, down the road from a one-room schoolhouse, and on dozens of private farms like the one belonging to the Butchers, who have lived for 60 years with a nuclear missile as their closest neighbor.

Secondly, you will want to be far away from any U.S. military bases, because they will be prime targets as well.

The following public domain map of major U.S. Air Force bases comes from Wikimedia Commons…

And this map of major U.S. Navy bases that was originally created by a user named “Orionist” also comes from Wikimedia Commons…

The list of U.S. Army bases in the United States is exceedingly long, but you can find the major ones right here.

In addition to military targets, the Russians would also likely strike major population centers, particularly those that have political or financial significance such as Washington D.C. and New York City.

Sadly, many of those that are not killed by the initial strike will wish that they were dead.

Because the nuclear winter that would follow would be absolutely horrifying.

One study that was conducted in 2019 determined that temperatures in Iowa would stay below zero degrees Celsius for 730 days in a row…

A subsequent study, published in 2019, looked at a comparable but slightly lower 150 Tg atmospheric soot injection following an equivalent scale nuclear war. The devastation causes so much smoke that only 30-40 percent of sunlight reaches the Earth’s surface for the subsequent six months.

A massive drop in temperature follows, with the weather staying below freezing throughout the subsequent Northern Hemisphere summer. In Iowa, for example, the model shows temperatures staying below 0°C for 730 days straight. There is no growing season. This is a true nuclear winter.

Because very little could be grown during this time, the vast majority of the population would soon be dead as a result of famine…

By this time, most of Earth’s human population will be long dead. The world’s food production would crash by more than 90 percent, causing global famine that would kill billions by starvation. In most countries less than a quarter of the population survives by the end of year two in this scenario. Global fish stocks are decimated and the ozone layer collapses.

So can you understand why I am so passionate about avoiding a nuclear war?

In like Flint – 1967 (Sub Esp)

We end this installment with a 1967 James Bond spoof. This is a sequel to the first movie. If you have time on your hands, and want to go “deep” on a vacation to another time, this movie is for you.

The storyline in the second entry has to do with an offer to Flint's three female assistants to visit an Island run by an outfit's leaders calling their operation "Fabulous Face". 

As if the girls needed improving. Of course, the corporation's heads turn out to be furious women's liberation advocates bent on world domination, planning to rid themselves of male frustrations, advice and competition forever. 

Forget the plot. 

Derek Flint's girls are in danger and that leads his organization, Z.O.W.I.E., his boss Lloyd Cramden and Flint into the exotic blackmail-the-world plot involving female astronauts and nuclear Macgoffins. 

But first there are the lethal tricks the ladies have thought up; Cramden loses ninety seconds on a golf course; Flint discovers hair driers are being used for brainwashing sessions; and the island resort Fabulous Face runs in the US Virgins turns out to be replete with pretty girls and pretty dangerous ideas. 

This is a comedy, let us remembers, with an underlying satire targeting both excessive women's lib and male chauvinism thrown in. 

And in a comedy, actions speak louder than ideas. 

The film is subtle in unexpected ways unlike its satirical predecessor which was less funny and more a direct comment on gimmick-heavy spy movies. Here we have mostly guided missiles, the world's most lethal cigarette lighter and Flint. 

His comment to the board of the ladies who are trying to take over the world is exactly right--"But you can't...you're--women/ladies/females" refers to their idea that they ought to do so merely because they're female, and to the methods they are employing in the name of "liberation". Lloyd Cramden in a dress is hard to take, but this production if colorful, only occasionally cartoonish in its look and very-well constructed.

Do you want more?

You can find more articles related to this in my latest index; A New Beginning. And in it are elements of the old, some elements regarding the transition, and some elements that look towards the future.

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My DouXing and other Chinese video, text, and chat feeds are all full of pro-Russan, pro-Putin videos and texts. Obviously there is an effort to counter the massive anti-Russia Propaganda campaign originating out of the West, and most especially the United States.

Yah. For a solid month, my English-speaking alternative media outlets have been complaining about the failure of Russia to produce pro-Russian narratives. This is apparently their response.

What is interesting is that they have completely ignored providing these messages and content to the West and to the United States. Instead they are concentrating on the East, Asia, and the world outside of the West. Here, we see videos of how the Russians fought the Nazi’s in World War two, as well as a selection of videos on Russia and Chinese relations.

Unlike the media onslaught out of the West, however, it is not full of fear-mongering, and hate, and terror. Instead, the videos are heartwarming, displays of helping others, photo ops, and other “softer” techniques.

While, I don’t like any manipulative campaigns on my social media feeds, I find this one to be pure entertainment and heartwarming. It’s therefore not so bad. I suppose it’s intention is to counter the onslaught of bullshit out of Washington DC, and London, but really it’s not all that bad. I see cute Russian chicks singing and dancing. I watch how cities, roads and bridges are being constructed in Russia by China. I watch Russian food prep, and other “soft” subjects.

Instead of Ukranain children being bayonetted by evil Russian Communists, I am watching videos of delicious steaks cooked to perfection in Moscow, Russians going into saunas and then jumping into icy pools of water, chubby baker ladies running up to Putin for photo opportunities, and Burly Russian men playing with huge Russian bears. Not all together disturbing.

Today, we will continue on our exploration into the “news” and changes during this unusual period of time.

Elite US-UK forces in Ukraine since beginning of conflict with Russia, says French daily

Obviously, the Russians have been fighting these forces from “day one”.

Quoting a French intelligence source, a reporter from leading French daily Le Figaro has revealed that the highly-trained special forces from the United Kingdom and the United States have been stationed in Ukraine since Russia launched its 'special military operation' in the region on February 24.

As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Saturday and pledged to stand by the people of the country, Georges Malbrunot, a senior reporter for Le Figaro, highlighted the presence of elite military units in the eastern European nation.

"Boris Johnson's visit to Kyiv confirms London's place as Ukraine's first ally. “Elite SAS special forces units have been present in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, as have the American Deltas,” confides a French intelligence source," tweeted Malbrunot.

"The Russians don't ignore it, they know what the secret war is," he added in another tweet quoting his unnamed source as the newspaper included their reporter's input in their updates on the ongoing conflict.

From HERE

A beautiful tree-house

The best tree-houses are ones that you make as a boy, and where you and your friends can “hang out” at.

The “indian punchline today” is worth a read…

From HERE

And, here is a partial quote…

"But Israel didn’t want to stick out its neck for Ukraine due to fears of jeopardizing its tacit deconfliction measures with Moscow during its operations against Iranian targets in Syria.

However, things changed dramatically in the past fortnight or so, as Israel gave up its neutrality toward Russia’s special operation and accused Moscow of committing war crimes. 

Biden’s conversation with Bennett took place as Russia-Israel relations began plummeting. Interestingly, the White House readout flagged a pointed reference by Biden to Israel’s Iron Dome system."

Ukraine – comprehensive exposé

NATO expert blows apart the mainstream narrative.

From HERE.

French special forces are supposedly trapped in the Azov steel mill.

From HERE

According to reports from Aydinlik, a Turkish media outlet the re-elected French President abandoned French soldiers to die, unacknowledged, in Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine because he did not want their existence and possible deaths to jeopardise his election campaign.

According to Aydinlik:

Russia regained control of Mariupol, Ukraine. It was learned that 50 high-ranking French officers were trapped at the Azovstal Metallurgical Plant. It was learned that Putin opened a safe corridor, and Macron sent an order to 'do not surrender' in the election rush.

As part of his victory address to a rally at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Macron vowed to “unite France” after acknowledging the drift right by a disenfranchised population.

“I know that a number of French people have voted for me today, not to support my ideas but to stop the ideas of the far right,” he said and called on supporters to be “kind and respectful” to others, because the country was riven by “so much doubt, so much division”.

He added:

“I’m not the candidate of one camp any more, but the president of all of us.”

If reports of Macron’s abandonment of French troops in Mariupol is confirmed then it is clear that “all of us” does not include those who might tarnish his election campaign. French soldiers who are to be sacrificed without the knowledge of the French public.

Han style Chinese girl

Here, she is in traditional Han clothing. Quite nice, and very popular throughout China. video 3MB

Doctorow has a new post today

"..As I have noted previously, there is a firewall between what Western major media are reporting daily about the situation in the Russia-Ukraine War and more generally about Russia versus what one sees on Russian state television and reads in the Russian news agencies. 

On the advice of a colleague in Washington, I will now as occasion requires post news developments from Russia that Western audiences otherwise are not receiving despite their importance as indicators of where East-West relations are headed and whether we are all likely to survive the coming weeks.

"The top such news item in Russia today is the successful capture by the Russian state intelligence agency FSB of a gang of would-be assassins based in Moscow and acting under orders from Kiev to kill the leading Russian talk show host Vladimir Solovyov, about whom I have written these past few weeks. 

And their ‘kill list’ went on to take in other leading personalities on Russian state television: Dmitry Kiselyov (director of all Russian television news programming), Yevgeny Popov, Olga Skabeyeva and Margarita Simonian (editor-in-chief of RT).

"The gang, which appears to consist of White Power and other neo-Nazi elements, was interrogated before video cameras and the videos have been posted on the Russian internet by TASS and other state news agencies...

From HERE

Another nice tree-house

There are some awfully nice tree-houses that are out there in the world.

Alternative News Sources

Orinoco Tribune carries an excellent and comprehensive article by Deborah L Armstrong: “If You Only Follow Mainstream McNews, You Have No Clue About Ukraine.”

The article includes a long list of useful, alternative websites, many of which have been disappeared by the CIA/Google

The ARTICLE

EU Agrees Online Censorship Laws

“With the DSA we help create a safe and accountable online environment,”

“Platforms should be transparent about their content moderation decisions, prevent dangerous disinformation from going viral and avoid unsafe products being offered on market places,”

“The DSA will upgrade the ground-rules for all online services in the EU,” the Commission president said. “It will ensure that the online environment remains a safe space, safeguarding freedom of expression and opportunities for digital businesses.”

“It gives practical effect to the principle that what is illegal offline, should be illegal online,”

Breaded Pork Tenderloin

A nice tree-house

This might be a nice place to “hang out” and get away “from it all”.

Nice Quote…

In all of this, I'm merely an historian and observer whose choice is morality and the rule of law, which aligns me with Russia, China and the Multipolar World.

The frogs have been in the pot for decades while the water slowly heats. Yes, I'd say it's getting hot but most frogs don't feel the heat.

- karlof1

Is the United States eyeing Sri Lanka as another “color revolution” target?

From HERE

Sri Lankan President declares public emergency after unrest

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday issued an extraordinary gazette declaring a public emergency in the island nation with effect, local media reported.

The Gazette has been issued considering the prevailing situation in the country and in the interests of public security, the protection of public order and the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community, Daily Mirror reported. It further reported that Sri Lankan President has issued the gazette under the powers vested in him by Section 2 of the Public Security Ordinance (Chapter 40), as amended by Act. No. 8 of 1959. Law No. 6 of 1978 and Act, No.28 of 1988.

Moreover, Sri Lanka has also imposed a police curfew in Western Province for six hours.

"Police curfew will be in effect within the Western Province from midnight until 6.00 a.m. April 2 (tomorrow)," Police Spokesperson said, according to Daily Mirror.

Several protestors gathered outside the residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday as the island nation faces an unprecedented economic crisis.

The protest was staged over the government's failure to address the existing issues in the island nation. The protesters clashed with the police outside the residence of President Rajapaksa in Mirihana.

After the protest, at least ten people were injured including journalists.

Sri Lanka's economy has been in a free fall since the COVID-19 pandemic due to the crash of the tourism sector.

Sri Lanka is presently facing a foreign exchange shortage which has led to a food, fuel, power and gas shortage and has sought the assistance of friendly countries for economic assistance.

Sri Lanka is witnessing at least 10-hour daily power cuts. Sri Lanka's currency has been also devalued by almost SLR 90 against the US dollar since March 8.

King Crimson – Starless (OFFICIAL)

This was one of the top albums that I listened to in the evenings when I was a Senior in High School.

US to Deliver More Punch to Ukraine

Lloyd Austin:

“In terms of our … ehh their ability to win, is … and so they believe we could win … “.

“The first step in winning is believing that you can win.”

The US Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin says that Ukraine can triumph against the Russian invasion provided it gets …

“the right equipment and the right support”

Pentagon likely to follow through on proposals made by extremist war hawk, former NATO Commander General Breedlove …

Threatening Nuclear war is the solution to stopping Putin…

Former NATO Commander Says Western Fears Of Nuclear War Are Preventing A Proper Response To Putin | RFERL – Apr 7, 2022 |

Read the ARTICLE

Expansion to neighboring nations?

Is the conflict expanding into Transistria/Moldavia?

Looks like the crazies in Ukraine (or possibly the crazies in NATO) are trying to spread the conflict into Transnistria, the ministry of state building in Transnistria was just attacked with RPGs. Luckily no injuries, but pushing the conflict into Transistria/Moldavia is a dangerous escalation.

Chinese pretty girl

A smile is everything.

video 3MB

A nice Tree-House

Here’s another nice tree-house. This one seems suitable for a developed McMansion community.

Chinese wet market

With a cute girl, don’t you know. video 3MB

Slow-Cooker Stuffed Shells

There's no need to precook the shells in this simple pasta dish. It's almost like magic when you open the lid and find the deliciousness waiting in the slow cooker. Add garlic bread and you're golden! 

—Sherry Day, Pinckney, Michigan

Directions

1. Mix first 8 ingredients (mixture will be stiff). In a greased 6-qt. slow cooker, mix 1 jar pasta sauce with water. Fill shells with ricotta mixture; layer in slow cooker. Top with remaining jar of pasta sauce.
2. Cook, covered, on low until pasta is tender, 4-5 hours. If desired, serve with additional cheese and fresh basil.

Ukraine as mirror.

There are numerous readers that are related to, aor giving care to loved ones with mental illnesses. I, MM, did so for my wife with bipolar disorder for twenty years and it was hell. It really was. 

Here is some help and assistance for others who may still be in this situation. -MM

“able to reach the target along a programmed route thanks to the GPS-adjusted INS, independently find the target by flying up to it at an altitude of 3-5 meters. When reaching the target, the NSM maneuvers and deploys electronic interference. A highly sensitive thermal imager is used as a homing system, which independently determines the most vulnerable places of the target ship.”

“no longer seems to have a ship equipped with a long-range anti-aircraft missile system”.

 “Per NSM (if we accept this version), even with its Low Observability and GPS guidance under normal (that is sea up to state 5-6) and normal radio-permeability, even the Moskva’s old frigate radar would have seen those missiles in distances of tens of kilometers, somewhere between 15-20 for sure. 

NSM, as any NATO anti-shipping missile, are subsonic, with their velocity roughly 300 meters per second. 

That leaves, even in a 15 kilometer range, 45 seconds to detect track and develop a firing solution for whatever ‘on duty’ AD complex. More than enough reaction time.”

“it is impossible to hide the external impact of the anti-shipping missile – one will immediately know what hit the ship. Moreover, to hit and sink such a target as the Moskva one has to launch a salvo and not only two missiles, likely 3-4 at least. 

In this case, Russia would know who attacked Moskva. 

Does NATO know? 

I am positive this event has NATO written all over it, if it is not an internal sabotage which absolutely cannot be excluded at this stage. I am sure if Nebo was operational it would have seen the salvo.”

“If NATO was involved, I am sure we will see some retaliation, after all, as I am on record all the time, US bases in Middle East and elsewhere are nothing more than fat prestigious targets.”

.

Today, we continue on our “news” during the great decoupling / establishment of a new geopolitical order. In this installment, we include a host of subjects that vary from Ukraine, to delicious food, Chinese girls, and fine family meals out of America in the 1960s.

Apparently plans are already being laid to remove Zelensky once the hot war comes to a close.

From HERE

Commentry from others…

Like other FA articles by neocon/neoliberal Melinda Haring, the article begins with the same nonsensical rhetoric, war propaganda and nonsense – written to prove her neocon loyalty and to urge Congress so to keep the arms flowing because Ukraine is winning based on Ukraine’s propaganda. 

So confident in this outcome, Haring urges that planning begin now for post-war reconstruction using neoliberalism as a model. 

To promote this, she unabashedly states the "invasion may well provide an opportunity for the democratic and economic leap forward that Ukraine has never been able to realize" – just like those invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya created such opportunities. 

And apparently this post-war planning includes getting rid of Zelensky and installing Western puppets to direct their economy and Ukrainian courts. 

Sounds like 2004 Bagdad to me. 

To set the stage for installing these puppets, she begins by criticizing Zelensky without naming him: "Before the war, the country was hampered by terrible governance" then goes on to acknowledge Zelensky for “his physical courage and bravery but also for his defiant and soaring rhetoric” that his CIA handlers feed him. 

But she quickly follows this faint praise of Zelensky with: "Kyiv must avoid putting heroic but inexperienced war heroes in charge of the reconstruction process." 

Clearly she is setting up the justification for removal of Zelensky after the war. 

Furthermore, she declares that a non-Ukrainian is needed to manage the Ukraine economy, along with a private (corporate controlled) court system run by foreign judges. 

She closes her fantasy government by invoking Mikheil Saakashvili as a model politician, the gangster and corrupt con-artist who fled from Georgia and then from Ukraine followed by corruption charges.

Articles on Ukraine out of the West has entered science fiction

"Now, the situation has changed dramatically. Major Russian maneuver units have been all but destroyed, The Russians are reduced to employing second or third-rate troops and leaders as well as foreign auxiliaries acquired in earlier campaigns and outright mercenaries who are presumably the household troops of some warlord.

The objective and psychological situations cry out for a decisive assumption of the offensive by Ukraine."

From HERE.

Cute Chinese Girl

I wish that my clothes fit on me, like they do on this chick.

Video 2MB

Door Porn 1

I have this thing; this “fetish” about well-made and well-constructed doors. Doors as art…

Agreement between the USA and the Ukraine

It’s all in “black and white”…

Scott Morrison says Chinese military base in Solomon Islands would be ‘red line’ for Australia

Scott Morrison says Chinese military base in Solomon Islands would be ‘red line’ for Australia, US – ABC News
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Scott Morrison says China building a military base on Solomon Islands would be the “red line” for Australia and the United States, but did not say how Australia would respond if it happened.

Article here.

Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine [5K] 1967 (Stereo)

Here’s a trip back to the groovy 1960s…

Door Porn 2

Come on! Aren’t they beautiful? This is a craftsman style front door. (Poor resolution photo. Sorry.)

Top American officials meeting in Honiara to discuss China pact with Solomon Islands

The United States is NOT happy.

From HERE

Top United States officials are meeting with the Solomon Islands government on Friday as Honiara's security pact with China continues to simmer.

The White House officials, who are led by Kurt Campbell, US President Joe Biden's Indo-Pacific coordinator, are on a tour of three Pacific Island countries.

 The controversial China-Solomon Islands security pact was signed this week with Australia, New Zealand, and the US all raising concerns that it will open doors for Chinese military into the Pacific.

The draft text of the deal, which was leaked online last month, says Chinese warships could stop in Honiara and China could send police and armed forces there "to assist in maintaining social order".

...

The US embassy in Port Moresby has said the US delegation has discussed the China-Solomon Islands agreement with Fiji and Papua New Guinea over the past two days.

The embassy's statement also said Campbell's delegation will also discuss "plans to open a US embassy in Honiara".

Readers should understand that Solomon’s decision to sign the security agreement with China has some historical background and practical reasons. There was a riot in 2021 in Solomon specifically targeting the Chinese and Chinese businesses. Rioters were gathering in Chinatown, destroying and setting up fire on Chinese shops and houses.

Solomon decided to switch diplomatic relationship from Taiwan to China in 2019. Usually, a foreign policy change of this type does NOT even generate much news in any country, let alone large scale protests or riots like 2021 Solomon. What happened was the works and sponsorship of foreign agents (Taiwan, US, Australia) to pressure Solomon.

US has been very unhappy that many of the dozen of countries having relationship with Taiwan want to switch side to China. Recent switches includes Nicaragua, Kiribati, etc. US put a lot of pressures on these nations – using both diplomatic/security threats as well as foreign aids as weapons.

Unsurprisingly, US is extremely furious about Solomon’s defection in 2019.

Australia, acting like a deputy henchman of a gangster, regards Solomon as the “backyard” of its own. They both sent high level teams to Solomon to warn against signing the security agreement with China.

Australia has been so ridiculously paranoid and edgy about China that even a Chinese fish processing factory in Papua New Guinea is causing “serious” security concerns in the country. Likewise, when China was helping Tonga with humanity aids after the recently volcano eruption, Australia and US expressed concerns. (FYI: Distance from Australia to Tonga: 5000 km/3000 miles, distance from Australia to Solomon 3000 km/2000 miles).

On the other hand, Australia has no problem sending navy warships to South China Sea and East China Sea, conducting jointed and live military exercises with US and Japan, patrolling spy planes and submarines in areas that were hundreds or even tens of miles from China.

Article

Aberdeen Beef Pie

When set in the middle of the table, this hearty beef pie is the center of attention. With chunks of tender beef and tasty vegetables under a flaky pastry crust, this pure comfort food will welcome your family home. 

—Peggy Goodrich, Enid, Oklahoma

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°. In a Dutch oven, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Remove to paper towels to drain. Brown the beef in drippings in batches; drain and set beef aside. Add onion to the pan; saute until crisp-tender. Add carrots, bacon and beef.
2. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the flour, broth and Worcestershire sauce until smooth; add to beef mixture. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until meat is tender, 1 to 1-1/2 hours. Stir in peas, salt and pepper. Transfer to an ungreased 11×7-in. baking dish.
3. On a lightly floured surface, roll out crust into a 12×8-in. rectangle. Cut slits in crust. Place over filling; trim and seal edges. If desired, brush with beaten egg. Bake until crust is golden and filling is bubbly, 35-40 minutes. Let stand for 15 minutes before serving. Refrigerate leftovers.

Door Porn 3

Oh my. Sigh!

Russian Capture

Russia captures an insane blockbuster stash of Ukrainian weapons left in a factory. An estimated 100,000 tons!!

Video Here

The Consequence of a NATO “false flag” using WMD in Ukraine…

Thank you for your concern over looming nuclear apocalypse -- a more imminent threat to me now than at any time in my several decades on this freaking planet. 

I think if NATO stages a nuclear false flag in Ukraine, Russia might decide the time has come to massively retaliate, directly against Western capitals.

Martynov's latest rap focuses on the same subject: what are the odds of things going nuclear? The West can only conduct narrative, not modern warfare -- so what ensues when their fragile narrative inevitably implodes? 

Some analysts (not just Martyanov) think the nuclear false flag could be fairly likely, fairly soon, depending on the whims of people like Victoria Nuland -- the lunatics running Western policy.

Martyanov presents archetypal DoD lunatic Douglas Feith -- the one who cooked up the "weapons of mass destruction" lie about Iraq -- as a template of the personality-type charged with making decisions such as this one: whether to go ahead with a nuclear false-flag. 

It was US General Tommy Franks who offered the opinion that Feith is "the fucking stupidest person on the face of the earth".

-Aleph_Null

Nazi’s will be Nazi’s

Azov battalion soldier calling for the cutting-off of the heads of the children in the Donbas, this comes on top of a Ukrainian doctor calling for the castration of Russian troops, and then there’s this, Ukrainian TV host Fahrudin Sharafman quoted Adolf Eichmann, one of the organizers of the Holocaust, and called on air for the killing of Russian civilians, including children.

From HERE

Door Porn 4

Aren’t these doors beautiful? This is in a Craftsman style home.

War as a distraction

Maybe so, maybe not. Anyways, something to think about.

Dear friends and fellow comentators: You are being deceived. Please stop over-analyzing the little war in Ukraine and commence fighting the really big, real war that it has been exploited to ignite. Thank you.

I have become convinced that the agencies of the Western ruling eleets have been cultivating the Ukrainian NAZIs since long before the 'Maidan Revolution' took place in Ukraine in February 2014 to exterminate the de facto Russians largely in the Eastern side of that territory. The NAZI's massive attack upon the de facto Russians, in conjunction with the attempt to enrole Ukraine in NATO, forced Russia to intervene militarily. All of this was done primarily to construct a war theater in which the Russians could be accused of perpetrating atrocities and war crimes in order to poison the minds of the U.S and E.U. citizens so as to direct hatred toward Russia and President Putin.

This is necessary because the USian and EUian population must be distracted from the fortcoming Great Depression-II that is about to engulf the West. It will probably not occure in the East, so this distraction and hatred is absolutely necessary. The real war is not in the Ukraine: The real war is occurring within the minds of the subjects of the Western totalitarian dictatorship. You my friends are the real soldiers.

-blues

What Russia thinks and says…

All in variance with what is reported in the MSM “news”.

About two weeks ago, Putin said the following:

“Today, the system of the unipolar world that developed after the collapse of the Soviet Union is being destroyed, that’s what is most important. The main thing is not even the tragic events taking place in the Donbas and Ukraine, because this is not the main thing. Much is said that the United States is ‘ready to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.’ And they say, and we say, in fact, this is how it is. That is the quintessence of the events taking place.” [My Emphasis]

Lavrov about the same time said the aim of the SMO is to end the Outlaw US Empire’s hegemony.

Those facts ought to have enormous influence on any analysis of the current situation. Furthermore, two other facts must be added to the scales–China/Russia’s 4 February Joint Declaration and Xi Jinping’s Boao Forum Speech–of the overall Geopolitical equation wherein our Hybrid Third World War’s centered. And all that has bearing on Guterres talks with Lavrov tomorrow:

On April 26, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold talks with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who will arrive in Moscow on a working visit.

The focus will be on issues related to the crisis situation in Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR, which has developed as a result of the eight-year conflict unleashed by Kiev against the population of Donbass. The interlocutor will be informed about the progress of the special military operation carried out by Russia in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. It is also planned to touch upon a number of acute issues on the international agenda, including Syria, Libya and the Middle East settlement.

Particular emphasis will be placed on our unwavering support for the work of the UN and the provisions of its Charter, as well as the central coordinating role of the world Organization in world affairs. In addition, the parties will discuss the possibility of developing productive cooperation between Russia and the UN Secretariat. [My Emphasis]

Somehow a global view of the Big Picture needs to be adopted instead of the Westerncentric POV to which most of us are subjected. However, this Western saying is very apt: Pride goeth before the storm.

American CIA & Military running Ukraine

What we're seeing is conclusive evidence that Ukraine isn't being run by Ukrainians but by CIA and State Dept flunkies who've actually been in control since 2014. 

Putin has already confirmed Outlaw US Empire/NATO policy is to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. 

Russia's clearly doing what it can to negate that policy but overcoming almost four generations of OUN genocidal Russophobia nurtured by the CIA is making that task difficult. 

There's too much evidence of intensive indoctrination of that dogma throughout Ukraine's military, not just the Nazi units, that's making it very hard for Ukrainian soldiers to save themselves.

-karlof1

We can well expect this to be the case in Taiwan.

Interesting updates in the Ukrainian conflict

As the Russians advance and seize control, many NATO troops, American, Canadian, and British leaders are killed and captured. It appears that the entire Ukraine was / is festering with Western military, forces and equipment. One can well expect that to be the case in Taiwan as well.

On the southern front of the Ukraine, no real advances but some interesting updates. Firstly there’s been a lot of troop captures, including some near Malinovka just east of Hulipole. 17 were captured, pictured here:

Reportedly 2 of them were Azovs, 1 a foreign instructor, and one Croat. What’s interesting is that more and more we’re seeing foreign fighters among the AFU troop compositions. There’s been 3 different new videos showing fighters with British flags, this being one of them:

Videos

I posted last time a British flag on a liquidated fighter. Now also in the north Russians recovered a chevron that is said to be of a Sergeant in the French Foreign Legion:

From HERE

Everywhere you look now on the battlefield there are foreign flags. Here’s an earlier video of the storming of Rubizhnoe, with American flags visible for some reason:

Video

Now there’s reports that a Canadian General may be one of the high value targets trapped in Azovstal:

From HERE

There is no real details about him being in Azovstal, and this appears speculation partly stemming from reports he hasn’t been “heard from” in Ukraine. However his departure to Ukraine is a 100% confirmed fact reported in Canada’s own press:

Article

In fact the general was under fire for sex crimes and appeared to have “retired” and quickly fled to Ukraine to dodge repercussions. He’d make a good bedfellow to the Azovites in Azovstal. Some have even speculated that, since the alleged ‘American general’ who was purported to be trapped in Azovstal also has a similar last name that starts with a ‘C’ (Cloutier), that perhaps a mistake was made and all this talk of a trapped general is in fact this Canadian named Cadieu.

Now, a Turkish newspaper is claiming Macron abandoned over 50 French officers who are trapped in Azovstal:

From HERE

“According to the source, these are high-rank French officers. They’re on the ground to ensure that Ukrainian military & neo-Nazis are able to use the weapons handed over by the Western countries. They are entrapped now and only way out to go through the corridor by Russian side.”

You can translate the article here:

Article

On the topic of Azovstal, some interesting updates:

Firstly, more light is being shone on the insides of it, leaked pictures showing wounded Azov fighters and some of their milieu.

View HERE

A video has also emerged showing the rotting Azov wounded festering in their subterranean dwellings:

View HERE

Some Azov fighters manage to sneak out and are caught by the allied cordon around the plant. Here’s one who points out his own dead commander to the Chechens who caught him:

See HERE

Here’s an Azov fighter captured by Chechens who begins showing them the maps of where the Azov group is hidden in the factory:

From HERE

And a video of an ex-employee of the Azovstal who was once a shift supervisor there, who has volunteered his expertise to show the likely place where the main Azov group is hiding in the complex:

Article

“An underground pedestrian tunnel passes under the plate shop, right under it the exit goes inside the shop, two exits – in the TLC itself. If the workshop is hot, then there is a powerful water supply system for cooling equipment and metal, and then there are necessarily powerful reinforced concrete sedimentation tanks there,” Chuprin said.”

As you can see, the operation to root the Azovites out still continues despite Putin’s decree to not ‘storm’ the complex. They are abiding by the decree but are simply going about it the smart way, figuring out exactly where Azov is in the complex and then finding a solution to root them out.

Door Porn 5

I just cannot help myself.

Never Ending Song Of Love- Delaney And Bonnie-1971

Here’s a trip back to the earth shoes and bell bottom 1970s…

Chinese big girl

This is what a more robust, big girl looks like in China. I like the look, but that’s just me. video 4MB

Why Are So Many Mysterious Fires Happening At Food Processing Facilities All Across The United States?

An early morning fire at General Mills led first responders to the roof of the company to attack the flames from above. The call came in around 3:45am on Saturday at the plant located at 4800 Edgewood Road SW. First responders discovered hot spots where a vent stack makes contact with the roof.

Steam and smoke were already visible. Crews reached the roof and confirmed the location of the fire below them with the help of thermal imaging. Firefighters removed roofing material and found the flames working their way through the ceiling and traveling with the vent stack.

Investigators spent Friday at the General Mills plant in Covington combing through the wreckage of a deadly plane crash that happened the previous evening.

A twin-engine Cessna crashed into several semi trailers at remote part of the cereal plant on Thursday evening killing two people, the Covington Police Department said.

He also added, “For our customers, three primary product groups are affected due to the destroyed automated liquid pour facility, fruit packing facilities and carob products facilities.” He continued, “Because of this, we will experience out-of-stock status for Azure Market oils, honey and vinegars – basically any Azure Market liquid product – as well as our carob products for the short term. We are not yet at fruit harvest, so no immediate impact will be experienced from the loss of our fruit packing facility. None of the products we distribute for our vendors will be affected,” he concluded.

Authorities Thursday lifted all evacuation and shelter-in-place orders in an area of Salinas where a four-alarm fire sparked a day earlier at a food processing plant, prompting fears of a possible explosion and hazardous plume of ammonia, city officials said.

The fire was initially reported at about 7:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Taylor Farms processing facility on Abbott Street and prompted an order early Thursday for evacuations affecting an estimated 2,700 people and a shelter-in-place order affecting an estimated 35,000 people.

This is absolutely not coincidental. pic.twitter.com/6pJsOEGIjd
— Kween JosieNN+ (@KweenJosie) April 23, 2022

A new warning right now for local farmers.

The FBI says you need to be on alert for ransomware attacks. As KDKA money editor Jon Delano explains, those attacks on farmers could impact the rest of us at the grocery store.

Whether it’s a dairy or poultry farm, a cattle farm, or a farm that grows grain, farming is a key part of Pennsylvania’s economy.

Sunday was far from a day of rest for firefighters across much of the state, as they continued to mop up nearly a dozen wildfires and remained alert for more.

By Sunday morning, the Road 702 Fire in the Cambridge area covered 50,000 acres — a much larger area than the 33,000 acres burned in the April 7-9 fire in Gosper and Furnas counties. A management team from the Rocky Mountain area took command of the battle at 7 a.m. Sunday morning.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed emergency declarations as 20 wildfires continued to burn Sunday in nearly half of the state’s drought-stricken 33 counties.

Door Porn 6

Another beauty.

Ten EU countries sold kit to Russia despite sanctions

From HERE

2 x news: double head snake? India stiffens its criticism of Russia’s attack on Ukraine

Girl in Han clothing

Han style clothing is popular within China. Nice. video 4MB

Swiss block German request to deliver ammo to Ukraine

Peppercorn Beef Top Loin Roast

A red wine sauce complements the brown sugar rub on the roast in this inviting entree. You can’t go wrong with this down-home dish!—Taste of Home Test Kitchen

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325° Trim fat from roast. If desired, tie roast with kitchen twine every 1-1/2 to 2 inches to help beef maintain shape while cooking. In a small bowl, combine brown sugar, peppercorns, garlic and salt. Rub over meat. Place in a shallow roasting pan.
2. Bake until meat reaches desired doneness (for medium-rare, a thermometer should read 135°; medium, 140°; medium-well, 145°), 1 to 1-1/2 hours. Remove from oven, tent with foil and let stand for 15 minutes before slicing.
3. Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, saute onion in oil until tender. Stir in tomato paste and Worcestershire sauce until blended. Add wines. Bring to a boil; cook until liquid is reduced to about 1-1/2 cups. Serve with roast.

Door Porn 7

I suppose that that is the theme here. Eh?

Links on reports of CIA / Nazi cross training in Ukraine

The Mighty Wurlitzer Does an About-Face on Ukrainian Nazis
Posted by: Will 198 3-22-22

MoA

It’s like all the media forgot that they themselves were reporting on the neo-Nazi’s in Ukraine as far back as eight years ago. In fact, it’s like all the MSM (*) outlets were told what to say back then, and what precisely opposite things to say now.

EUROPEAN “JUSTICE”

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ignored ALL 689 COMPLAINTS filed against Kiev for its slow motion killing of more than 14,000 civilians in the Luhansk People’s Republic in the past 8 years. 

-Luhansk ombudswoman Victoria Serdyukova

Article – https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/14/us-house-admits-nazi-role-ukraine
Article – https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-neo-nazi-question-in_b_4938747
Article – https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-heartbreaking-irony-of-winter-on-fire/tnamp/
Article – https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/06/opinion/speedie-ukraine-far-right/index.html
Article- https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/03/18/yes-there-are-bad-guys-in-the-ukrainian-government/
Article – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis
Article – https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/analysis-u-s-cozies-kiev-government-including-far-right-n66061
Article – https://www.rferl.org/a/azov-ukraine-s-most-prominent-ultranationalist-group-sets-its-sights-on-u-s-europe/29600564.html
Article – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27173857
Article – https://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/
Article – https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cohen-ukraine-commentary-idUSKBN1GV2TY
Article – https://fair.org/home/denying-the-far-right-role-in-the-ukrainian-revolution/
Article – https://www.channel4.com/news/svoboda-ministers-ukraine-new-government-far-right
Article – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV16BQfbrQ
Article – https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/americas-collusion-with-neo-nazis/
Article – https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cohen-ukraine-commentary-idUSKBN1GV2TY
Article – https://thehill.com/opinion/international/359609-the-reality-of-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-is-far-from-kremlin-propaganda
Article – https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment
Article – https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/
Article – https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-america-training-neonazis-in-ukraine
Article – https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/10/ukraine-azov-brigade-nazis-abuses-separatists/24664937/
Article – https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/

And then there’s this list (some duplications)

Article – https://askeptic.substack.com/p/the-msms-ukraine-amnesia?s=r

The Hill – The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
Time – How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members
USA Today – 15,000 Ukraine nationalists march for divisive Bandera
New Republic – Fascism returns to the continent it once destroyed
NBC – German TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers
Foreign Policy – Yes, There Are Bad Guys in the Ukrainian Government
CNN – Rein in Ukraine’s neo-fascists
NBC – U.S. Cozies Up to Kiev Government Including Far Right
Salon – Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?
Reuters – Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
BBC – Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Right Sector
BBC – Ukraine conflict: ‘White power’ warrior from Sweden
Foreign Policy – Preparing for War With Ukraine’s Fascist Defenders of Freedom
The Guardian – Ultranationalism in Ukraine – a photo essay
Huffington Post – The Neo-Nazi Question in Ukraine
The Nation – The Heartbreaking Irony of ‘Winter on Fire’
The Guardian – Azov fighters are Ukraine’s greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat
The Nation – America’s Collusion With Neo-Nazis
The Nation – Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
USA Today – Volunteer Ukrainian unit includes Nazis
Foreign Policy – There’s One Far-Right Movement That Hates the Kremlin
Aljazeera – Who are Ukraine’s far-right Azov regiment?
Daily Beast – Is America Training Neonazis in Ukraine?
Radio Free Europe – In Ukraine, Ultranationalist Militia Strikes Fear In Some Quarters
Channel 4 – How the far-right took top posts in Ukraine’s power vacuum
Radio Free Europe – Azov, Ukraine’s Most Prominent Ultranationalist Group, Sets Its Sights On U.S., Europe
NBC – Ukraine’s Hyper-Nationalist Military Summer Camp for Kids

Chinese Take Out

Good video. Video. 4MB

1788. China to Make Electric Tumbrils

13894 Views April 23, 2022 From HERE

By Fred Reed for the Saker Blog

We—I, and my spousal unit, Violeta—pulled into DC after a conventionally miserable flight from Guadalajara in seats apparently designed for dwarves with our feet almost in our pockets and Delta trying to sell us beer at seven dollars a can. I didn’t get it. If you can sell watery brew at seven balloonishly inflating greenbacks a can, why do you need an airline?

The occasion was a visit to a woman with whom I immediately became involved, though with Violeta’s permission. She weighs seven and a half pounds and has a smile that would make a dead man weep. This may have little geopolitical importance, though.

Anyway, the proud father celebrated having produced, or coproduced, a baby who probably deserves a world run by psychiatrically less fascinating adults, by taking about a dozen of us to Fogo da Something, a Brazilian restaurant on Pennsylvania across from the Trump Hotel. This costs $64 a head for all the meat and salad bar you could eat, desserts and drinks extra, so with tip you can crawl out, stuffed and economically depleted, for about $90. Salad bar good, desserts swell, meat tasteless. You can do better for a sixth the price at La Carreta, down the lake from us in Mexico.

The meal was a pre-guillotine experience, especially the restaurant. Or I hope so. The waiter says, “Hi! I’m Bruce and I am going to be your waitperson and do everything I can to make sure you have a wonderful, wonderful dining experience. We are orgasmically delighted to see you and….” When a waiter oozes like that, sure, he’s looking for tips, but I wonder, tips of what?

In Mexico waiters are courteous but you can tell they don’t want to sit in your lap or have a long-term relationship. In New York a waiter says, “What’ll it be?” and you say, “Eggs over medium, bacon on the side, cuppa mud,” and he says, “You got it.” Human. It gets the job done. You couldn’t write a Proust novel about it.

Anyway, the place was big, I’d guess between seventy-five and a hundred people doing the squat-and-gobble, likely disgorging on average a C-note per. This is DC, with the five richest counties in America, Montgomery, Loudoun, Fairfax, that kind of place, a city where the graft never stops, recession proof, where bribes run in freshets. Out there in Flyover Land, in Appalachia and the Rust Belt and the rural Deep South, families think going to Mickey D’s is a treat. And the swarming derelicts in the warm states increase in their medieval Ly diseased hordes.

Guillotine stocks. It’s the way to invest.

Washington is a rerun. In Paris in 1788 , creeping toward the Terror, the aristocracy was, like Washington’s upper crust, wealthy and schooled and cultured and cared not a withered farthing about the peasantry, as neither does Washington. Marie Antoinette didn’t really say, “Let them eat cake,” but they all thought it, and Hillary Antoinette, with her contempt for the Basket of Deplorables, expresses the same sentiment. There will be a price. Maybe anyway.

I spent two weeks in this diseased city wondering, “What are they thinking? The country is disintegrating internally, inflation growing like kudzu on a Georgia roadcut, living standards falling, the schools going to hell, and Washington is worried about…the Ukraine? Things crumble, resources are desperately needed domestically, and Washington buys the B-21, which Aviation Week prices at $640 million a copy of which, by design, you have probably never heard.”

It’s nuts. The racial situation is an intensifying disaster with continent-wide rioting, burning cities, ghetto kids graduating illiterate, desperate white people offing themselves with opioids, the rabble storming the Bastille—wait, this time I think it was the Capitol–but we need to raise prices by tariffs on China and Russia.

One night we went to eat with old friends from an earlier life. Like so many in DC, they were ninety-ninth percentile in intelligence, well educated, and decent people. We pondered, “Thai? Chinese? There’s a new Turkish place that’s supposed to be good.” Again, good people, though living in million-dollar houses, but…but…for much of the country Turkish, in some spiffy joint on Cap Hill or upper Connecticut Ave, would be the adventure of a lifetime. Washington has an ampleness of evil people, the Bidens, Blinkens, Victoria Newlands, Trump at one remove, but so many are just out of touch. There’s a new Turkish place in the city, and when was the last time they dined in Flint?

The media, a salt mine in which I once labored, are an embarrassment, utterly partisan, ranting and howling about Russia. OK, in war it is usual to cut the public off from information and to keep them stirred up with accounts of rape, human shield, “genocide,” chemical war, massacres, torture, a rule of television being to get a woman to cry and fill the frame. In Vietnam the media ran all over the country and actually reported what was happening, which eventually ended the war. This error is not being repeated.

{what bothers me is the apparent lack of curiosity, of doubt of official sources. Contrary to belief in some quarters, reporters are not given orders to adopt a particular point of view, though they know better than to contradict the publication’s line. No scribbler at the Washington Post will discuss racial differences in intelligence. But they are herd animals.}

Violeta, whose cynicism toward government—anybody’s government—would peel paint from a wall, watched a video clip purportedly of a Russian tank crushing a car occupied by Ukrainians. She noticed after research that the Russian tank was black without markings, like Ukrainian tanks, instead of green with markings, like all other Russian tanks. OK, maybe it was an undercover Russian tank. She also noticed in some of the Russian-destruction video, street signs are blurred out. Uh…, why dat? Anyone want to guess?

Why do reporters not pay attention? First, again, they are creatures of the pack. They live in the Beltway Terrarium, talk to each other, read each other, and so know they are right. Don’t their colleagues all say so? Second, they are painfully ignorant of matters military, knowing chiefly the bureaucracies involved in policy, contracting, and so on. This includes those for the WaPo, whom I knew—Gerge Wilson, Molly Moore, etc. As a comparison with the coverage of the Washington media, here is a piece by Scott Ritter, a former American intelligence officer stationed in, among other places, Moscow. It is long but contains the kind of knowledge that not one of the Beltways reporters, squalling, screeching, preening and yodeling has an earthworm’s grasp.

Why did Russia attack? Anyone who can read a map can see that since 1991 the US has been trying, with considerable success, to encircle Russia militarily. Russia has said over and over that it was not going to have American missiles on its border in the Ukraine any more than America would allow Chinese missiles in Tijuana. I encountered no one in DC who had even heard of this, though it has been going on for years. This is journalism?

Yes.

All things end, except those that don’t. On a cold rainy predawn morning we caught an Uber to Reagan National, returning to a country that has just left the Third World to one energetically returning to it. A stewardess aboard read the boilerplate about have a wonderful flight. She didn’t explain just how that laudable goal might be achieved. Remember, cometh the guillotine. Kachunk. Kachunk. Kachun.

Austin was in Poland, answering questions from reporters after a brief trip Sunday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Kyiv, where the pair met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials.

The defense secretary was asked how he defined “America’s goals for success” in Ukraine. He first said Washington wants to see “Ukraine remain a sovereign country, a democratic country, able to protect its sovereign territory.”

Then, he said, the United States hopes Russia will be “weakened” by the war. “It has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly, and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability,” Austin said. 
...
Speaking in a hangar in Poland filled with crates of humanitarian aid, including diapers, destined for Ukraine, the top Biden administration officials announced more than $700 million in new military aid to Ukraine and other countries, and said the United States intends to resume diplomatic operations in Ukraine this week.

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We continue our lives while the world spins towards a very odd, and strange point in time. It’s rather bizarre, and many, many things are in play. But yet, we all sit here, all within our various homes, with hope for a brief and a clear passage to the other side. Oh, no! We don’t want that. We want a slow train wreck. We want to side step the insanity, and carefully protect ourselves. And thus, here on MM we continue our reporting during this crazed period of time.

Crazy time?

Yeah, but that’s not your problem. You can control your reality. You have the tools. Make it happen.

Washington thinks and acts like it is the Manifest Destiny of the us to rule the world in perpetuity.

-pretzelattack

Gonzalo Lira is alive

Lira had been arrested on April 15 by the SBU, the Ukrainian Gestapo, but is now at some private place in Kharkov under a kind of house arrest. He is not allowed to leave the city. It seems that the public attention the case had caught has helped to hold back the nastier side of the Ukrainian authorities. Last night Alex Christoforou of The Duran published a short video talk with Gonzalo Lira (vid).

Russian MFA Statement on Gonzalo Lira

Russian Mission – Geneva

International concern forced the Ukrainian Security Service to show that 🇨🇱/🇺🇸 reporter Gonzalo Lira, whom the nationalists detained on April 15, is alive!

However, he doesn’t have access to his cellphone and social media accounts, gagged on what he can say publicly, and not allowed to leave Kharkov.

In a way, he got “lucky”. A number of his fellow journalists, who received “the Ukrainian treatment of the free press”, will never be seen again.

Concerning the Women who heads the EU and NATO…

"Like the sanctions from hell these woke women will be taking their countries into a self imposed nightmare that may well end in a bright flash..."

-Peter AU1

Ex-NATO analyst paints a completely different picture of Ukraine war

From HERE.

The retired Swiss Colonel Jacques Baud has written a lengthy article in which he paints a completely different picture of the war in Ukraine than portrayed in the Western media. The former NATO analyst helped Ukraine build its army for years.

Baud noted that the so-called Russian-backed separatists in Donbass were never supported in any way by Russia for the past eight years. After the Maidan coup in 2014, the Russian-speaking part of the population – civilians – were attacked by Ukrainian soldiers. In cities like Odessa, Mariupol, Luhansk and Donetsk massacres were carried out by them. Since then, a civil war has raged in the country.

Baud was working as an army analyst for NATO in 2014, when his team discovered that the rebels’ weapons were not supplied by Russia, but by Russian-speaking defectors from the Ukrainian armed forces.

How did he know this?

There was a massive exodus, after which Baud had to help to rebuild the image of the Ukrainian army. This turned out to be a long and arduous process. In the process, extremist paramilitary militias, including the Azov Battalion, sprung up.

In 2020, 40 percent of the Ukrainian army consisted of these militias, Baud said. He describes the members as cruel fanatics. They were funded, trained and armed by the United States, Great Britain, Canada and France.

Baud further pointed out that President Zelensky announced last year that he intended to take Crimea and he sent his troops south to complete the task. In February, the Ukrainian army began bombing Donbass on a large scale.

The former colonel added that US President Biden announced on February 17 that Russia would attack Ukraine within days. How did he know this? Since February 16, the civilian population of Donbass has been massively bombed by the Ukrainian army. The European Union, media, NATO and Western governments nonetheless kept mum as this was happening.

Three reasons

It seems the European Union and Western countries deliberately did not say anything about the massacre in Donbass because they knew it would provoke a Russian response, the ex-NATO analyst said.

He also pointed out that in January saboteurs with Western equipment were caught in Donbass who spoke Polish. They had wanted to cause incidents with chemical substances in Gorlovka. Baud said Joe Biden knew the mass bombing and acts of sabotage would lead to a Russian invasion.

According to him, there are three reasons for this war: the expansion of NATO, refusal of the West to implement the Minsk agreements and the large-scale attacks on the civilian population of Donbass over the past eight years.

Western weapons for Ukraine find their way back to the EU

Large amounts of weapons are currently being shipped into Ukraine by the West, but these may find their way back to their countries of origin.

A huge amount of small arms and small ammunition, anti-tank weapons and handheld anti-air systems now constitute a serious, long term danger to the EU and the world at large since these fit into a car trunk and can easily be smuggled across borders.

Gangs in Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany also probably already know this much.

In the same way as former US president Barack Obama empowered terrorist networks in Syria, by describing ISIS fighters there as “moderate rebels” and arming them, religious fanatics in the EU could benefit from these arms. Ukraine has a reputation of being one the world’s most active suppliers of illegal small arms.

According to military analyst Larry Johnson, French Gendarmes have reported that small arms and surface-air missiles had already made their way via black-markets from Ukraine to France. France is also an ethnic powder keg waiting to ignite.

The CIA is in essence setting up a new al-Qaeda in Europe. “I couldn’t tell you where they are in Ukraine and whether the Ukrainians are using them at this point,” a senior defense official told reporters last week. “They’re not telling us every round of ammunition they’re firing and at who and when. We may never know exactly to what degree they’ve using the Switchblades.”

In fact, the US Defense Department has no idea who receives the weapons, according to Pentagon press secretary John Kirby.

The Cost of German made products…

London (CNN Business) The price of goods leaving German factories has passed an eye-watering milestone. German annual producer price inflation topped 30% in March, the country's Federal Statistics Office said on Wednesday. That's its highest level since the agency began collecting data 73 years ago...

Best Cream Of Broccoli Soup

This broccoli soup recipe is thick and flavorful. It is simple, delicious, and quick to make. Enjoy (I know you will).

• Simple ingredients.
• Easy and quick to make.

"Delicious and buttery," raves LoriT. "I used skim milk and it was great. Like some of the other reviews, I scooped out about a ladle of the cooked broccoli and did not puree it. Adding it back to the pureed mixture gave the soup a more hearty texture."

"This is the ultimate comfort food," according to misscarolb. "It's so simple to throw together and takes almost no time at all. I feel so great eating things that aren't full of processed ingredients, and I definitely can't wait to harvest my own vegetables this summer and make this again. This one is going straight in the recipe book."

"I make this soup a couple times a month, with the intention of freezing it for later use," says Julia Courtney. "The problem is ... we always eat it all! I drizzle mine with olive oil and sprinkle with fresh grated Parmesan cheese! SO good!"

How to Make Cream of Broccoli Soup

Cook the Vegetables

Blend the Ingredients

Thicken the Soup

How to Store Cream of Broccoli Soup

Can You Freeze Cream of Broccoli Soup?

Thrift store find

Canada is shipping it’s military equipment to Ukraine

Meanwhile Canada has revealed it sent 4 new howitzers to Ukraine along with ammo from it’s own military stocks. This is just crazy. Canada is sending it’s own military equipment to Ukraine.

From HERE

Virtually all the NATO states are sending their weapon & ammo stocks to Ukraine.

Once there, Russia either destroys them, or blows them up.

Meanwhile, one of the largest Ukrainian armouries, 65th arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Balakliya, containing hundreds of tons of ammo was abandoned by the Ukies, and left to the Russians to use.

Nuclear Family

February 1942. Woodville, Calif. “FSA farm workers’ community. Agricultural worker and his family in their garden house.” Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Admin. View full size.

Scott Ritter Interviews

I’ve watched a few Scott Ritter interviews and he is very good because he always seems to introduce a different aspect. In this one, if you go forward to about 23 minutes in he is asked why western media is telling everyone that Ukraine is winning when he has just explained that the opposite is true …

Go HERE

I’ve watched it three times now and it seems to me he avoids the question, presumably because an honest answer would be too damning.

Pretty Chinese girl

video 10MB

United States engaging Russia

Should the US engage itself with Russia, even if it should prevail, it will not survive in a condition to take on China.

Once the realisation kicks in that it has lost superpower status it will only have two choices: Submit to the new Global Superpower, or attempt to destroy it using the only remaining force it has left: Nuclear weapons

... and we all know where that leads.


-Arch Bungle

Operation Z – The Death Throes of an Imperial Delusion - RUSI, April 22, 2022

Image caption: "A Russian soldier walks amid the rubble
in Mariupol’s eastern side, 15 April 2022.
Courtesy of SOPA Images / Alamy"

Thrift store find

Interesting language map of Ukraine

The many different types of bread

If you have restricted yourself to one or two breads, you are really, really missing out in some of the best things in life.

What the heck is going on?

This might be regarded as off-topic perhaps but it is lurking in the background of everything these days, namely the seeming determination of some in the United States to bring the country to the point of collapse. Dunno who, dunno why but it seems incontrovertible that's it's happening. Last year one of only two HCQ factories was burned down (in Taiwan). Then they changed the trucker permit rules in California so that only a fraction of previous trucks were allowed to pick up cargo in L.A. airport (this important factoid being rarely reported). Now we have a President trotting out with a readout about upcoming food shortages at the same time that food processing plants are suddenly burning down. In other words, we are witnessed a period of controlled economic and societal demolition.

This is part of what is happening in the asymmetrically waged world war. I believe that the Eurasian campaign right now is principally directed at collapsing the US-EU alliance along with breaking the back of the already enfeebled Republic In Name Only (Dis)United States. That being the case, I cannot help but wonder if first Obama and now Biden (who is on record already for being on the take in Ukraine and China with Obama's FBI chief Mueller having been involved in Russia-uranium shenanigans) are part of a coordinated world wide conspiracy of which the Ukraine war is merely a small, if dramatically kinetic, part.

From HERE
"Well, something odd and concerning has been happening ever since the Biden Administration made their ominous prediction. Over the past month, there has been a mysterious wave of destruction hitting the US food processing infrastructure that has seen “over a dozen” food production facilities destroyed completely or rendered inoperable.

This week alone there were TWO – yes two – separate incidents where a plane crashed into food processing plants, one in Idaho on April 13th, and the other in Georgia on the 21st at the General Mills Processing Facility.

In addition to the plane crashes, there have been numerous other incidents this month, including several fires and a sudden boiler explosion. The timing of this string of disastrous events has many people wondering what in the heck is going on?"

-Scorpion

India has chosen sides

"Since the beginning of the second phase of the special operation, it has already begun, literally two days ago, one of the tasks of the Russian army is to establish full control over the Donbass and southern Ukraine," he said. ..."

This (control over the Donbass - TASS note) will provide a land corridor to the Crimea, as well as influence the vital facilities of the Ukrainian [military forces], Black Sea ports through which agricultural and metallurgical products are delivered to [other] countries," - said the deputy commander.

"Control over the South of Ukraine is another way out to [Transnistria], where there are also facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population. 

Apparently, we are now at war with the whole world, as it was in the Great Patriotic War, all of Europe, the whole world was against us. And now the same thing, they never liked Russia," he added.

Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine is aimed at [1] demilitarization and [2] denazification of the country, and Moscow will ensure that the country has [3] a non-nuclear and neutral status, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said on Thursday.

Pretty Chinese girl

video 3MB

Song of Serbia 塞爾維亞中國之歌 — 18 H-20 transports delivered HQ-22 ABM systems to Serbia

In the eyes of the Serbs, China is extremely powerful, and they want to be as powerful as China! They wrote a song for this purpose; the name of the song is: If Serbia were as strong as China.

中國有巴鉄, 還有塞鉄.

The lyrics are as follows:

If Serbia were as strong as China, no one would dare to mess with us.

If Serbia is as strong as China, Serbia will not be ignored.

If Serbia is as strong as China,

If we had the same system and discipline,

If we also have the atomic bomb,

If weapons could be as common as dirt,

Are we not going to lose that war?”

如果塞爾維亞和中國一樣强大, 沒有人敢欺負我.

如果塞爾維亞和中國一樣强大, 沒有人會不理我.

如果我們强大有像中國的核武器, 紐約變廣島.

Serbia’s predecessor is Yugoslavia. Neither the Chinese nor the Serbs should forget 1999. One night in May 1999, five precision-guided bombs flew over Belgrade from different directions, all targeting the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia. To this end, we sacrificed three reporters: Xu Xinghu, Zhu Ying, Shao Yunhuan! Yugoslavia was also divided into five countries: FRY ( Serbia and Montenegro ), Slovenia , Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Macedonia.

A very special thrift store find.

I’d buy it and most certainly place it on my wall.

From Colonel Cassad Telegram channel…

USA encrypted radios have been captured in Ukraine.

Good toy. By the way, Harris' Falcon 3 radios are already able to connect to satellite relay and control networks. So it would be very interesting to see the firmware of this unit 

https://t.me/anna_news/29417?single

ANNA-NEWS|News|Syria|Donbass|Nagorno-Karabakh
The American encrypted radio from the Falcon III family, supplied to Ukraine, became a trophy.

Bandit’s Roost

New York, 1888. “Bandits’ roost, 59½ Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend).” Gelatin silver print from a glass negative by the social reformer Jacob Riis (1849-1914). View full size.

The EU has paid Russia $38 billion for energy since the Ukraine war began. Now it’s considering escrow accounts to freeze the Kremlin’s revenue

Nations have a right to sovereignty and territorial integrity.

They have the freedom to set their own course and choose with whom they will associate.

The 1993 Apology Resolution by the U.S. Congress concedes that "the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States and [...] the Native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands, either through the Kingdom of Hawaii or through a plebiscite or referendum".

At the very end of the nineteenth century, Cuba became a virtual colony of the United States as a result of the latter winning the so-called Spanish-American war. Initially the US gained Cuban support by promising (through the ‘Teller Amendment’) that its role was temporary and it would then ‘leave the government and control of the island to its people’.

But what should have been the final stages in Cuba’s war of independence became instead (according to Richard Gott) a four-year US military dictatorship that lasted until 1902.

When Cubans showed renewed signs of wanting the independence they thought they’d already won, it was permitted only after they were humiliated into accepting the ‘Platt Amendment’.

This effectively reneged on the earlier promises, established a permanent right for the US to intervene whenever it felt the need, and specifically required Cuba to lease land for ‘coaling or naval stations’.

On the face of it, Platt both legitimised a series of military interventions over the period until 1923 and paved the way for the Guantánamo lease.

Although it was repealed in 1934, the amendment was replaced with a new treaty that allowed the naval base to be kept indefinitely.

The US hold on Guantánamo was further tightened by the Helms-Burton Act in 1996: this effectively made the return of the base conditional on regime change in Cuba.

However, this did not make the holding of the base legitimate under international law. As Cuba has pointed out, the ‘lease’ was effectively imposed under the threat of force and would now be illegal under the Vienna Conventions. As a measure forced on the then Cuban government, it was hardly a mutually beneficial arrangement. The fact that the US only pays just over $4,000 annually for the lease (with cheques that are never cashed) is a further indicator of the scale of the injustice. It is an anomaly that cannot be sustained if normal diplomatic relations between the two countries are to be restored, 

A most interesting development.

Here we are in round two of'Cold War 2.0'.......

The Russians, have neatly evaded all western economic sanctions.
This has literally pushed all western economies into super stagflation , ouch , ouch!

The aged baby boomers are retiring. 

The key component of all western economic spending power is rapidly declining. Even the ethically driven world's largest fund in Norway. Took a big hit. So, did all the baby boomers future retirement cash investment funds too. 

Plus the bad news! 

All major western currencies have been reduced to the value of free air. The Western major corporate banks are on the verge of imploding, yet again! 

These , very unpopular Western leaders , are unable to handle reality of the new real world. Lack even the basic knowledge to control stagflation.... 

Oh well, duck and cover! I suspect all Neocons, will now go ballistic!

-Bad Deal Motors On

WMD next?

US Has Moved on to WMD Provocations After Economic Pressure Against Russia Failed, Zakharova Says – 23.04.2022, Sputnik International

From HERE.

A thrift store find

I’m very curious as to what other uses it could be put towards.

An article and video on the UN meeting about US bio warfare

From HERE.

A mind-boggling “discovery” that Russian forces in Ukraine stumbled upon is the use of numbered birds by the Pentagon-funded labs. This almost falls out of science fiction and Sir Alfred Hitchcock could have made an epic movie out of it where deception mixes with innocence and man’s cruelty to nature becomes unbearably grotesque. The project works like this:

To begin with, the Pentagon accesses the scientific data available with environmental specialists and zoologists after studying the migration of birds and observing them throughout the seasons, relating to the path these birds take each year on their seasonal journey from one country to another and even from one continent to others.

On the basis of this data, groups of migratory birds are caught, digitised and capsules of germs are attached to them that carry a chip to be controlled through computers. 

The birds are then released to the flock of the migratory birds in those target countries toward which the US intelligence has malevolent intentions...

... During the long flight of the birds that have been digitised in the Pentagon bio-labs, their movement is monitored step by step by means of satellites and the exact locations are determined. The idea is that if the Biden Administration (or the CIA) has a requirement to inflict harm on, say, Russia or China (or India for that matter), the chip is destroyed when the bird is in their skies.

A message from the 1980s

Current Russian operations in Ukraine

Since the launch of phase two of its operation, the Russia military has not started any larger offensive but has increased its artillery fire on the frontline. Here is a part of the ‘clobber list’ from this morning’s Russian Defense Ministry briefing:

Kalibr high-precision long-range missiles destroyed up to a battalion of enemy personnel with weapons and military equipment near Miliorativnoe railway station.

High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 3 military assets of Ukraine. 
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Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 58 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 4 command posts, 3 fuel depots, and 51 areas of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration.

Missile troops and artillery carried out 1,285 firing missions during the night. Destroyed: 9 fuel depots, 37 command posts. 1,221 strong points, areas of enemy's manpower and military equipment were hit.

One artillery firing missions usually includes multiple guns (often 6) and multiple shells (3 to 10) fired per gun. This constant incoming artillery fire will be extremely demoralizing (and deadly) for the Ukrainian troops on the frontline.

(I have experienced only one artillery onslaught, during officer training and in a safe bunker. It was still extremely violent. Some of us literally wet their pants.)

The Ukrainian soldiers can only dig in, keep their heads down, and hope to not receive a direct hit. Their artillery is gone. They have no way left to respond to the fire. After a few days of this, the Russian troops will be able to roll them up with little difficulties.

Nuclear war is on the horizon

From HERE

Some readers have asked why Russia regards Finland’s membership in NATO as a provocation. For the same reason that Ukraine’s membership is a provocation: US missile bases on Russia’s border.

The US does not currently have hypersonic missiles, but will sooner or later. Such missiles on Russia’s borders could reach Moscow in 3 or 4 minutes, clearly an existential threat. Along with Finland, Washington wants the bases in Sweden and the Baltic states, and already has missile bases in Poland and Romania.

Whereas Washington intends Finland’s NATO membership as a new provocation, we must not forget two other existing provocations that the Kremlin has declared to be unacceptable: the existing missile bases in Poland and Romania.

It makes no sense for Russia to preemptively prevent missile bases in Ukraine and Finland while permitting existing bases to remain in Poland and Romania. Russian intervention against these two bases are likely the next self-defensive actions the Russians will take.

The West’s whore media has done its best to create worldwide indignation against Russia. People worked up into indignation do not perceive the irresponsibility of Western governments in gratuitously threatening Russia with missile bases on her borders. Instead of properly perceiving the placement of the bases as aggression against Russia, the indoctrinated people see Russia’s response to existential threats as aggression.

I have emphasized for years that these provocations of Russia will eventually cross a red line and result in nuclear war.

I have long been critical of the Kremlin for not having stopped these provocations by putting down a strong foot. Russia had that opportunity in Ukraine, but the Kremlin chose a course that failed to make the necessary impression that countries that accommodate US aggression against Russia will experience devastation.

It is less risky to make this demonstration in a non-NATO country than in a NATO one. Additionally, the Kremlin waited far too long before intervening in Ukraine, thereby giving the US 8 years to arm and train Ukrainian forces.

By pussy-footing around in Ukraine, Russia will again be confronted with the same problem in Finland or elsewhere in addition to the two existing bases in two NATO members on Russia’s border. There is no doubt whatsoever that US/NATO have set a path that leads straight to nuclear war. As nothing that is outside the narrative can be published or discussed in the Western world, nothing can be done to stop this insane drive into nuclear war. It is not even possible to discuss this threat in Western foreign policy circles. Again the world is sleepwalking into war, but this war will be nuclear and the final war.

All that the Kremlin has achieved with its restraint and reliance on negotiation with the West is to intensify the pace and level of provocations. NATO’s Stoltenberg is courting both Finland and Sweden for NATO membership promising their membership would be fast-tracked, and likely other benefits including bagfuls of money. This report should wake people up to the real situation, which is expanding conflict. At some point existential considerations will force Russia to take the initiative and cease responding to Washington’s agenda.

Russia sends Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian diplomats packing.

"The Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the “unfriendly actions” of the three Baltic states on Thursday, by closing their consulates and declaring their staff ‘personae non grata’. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania had previously announced their decision to close their Russian consulates.

The ministry summoned top representatives of the diplomatic missions of these countries to express a “strong protest” over such measures. 

During the meeting, Russia announced it would forbid the operations of all three countries’ Consulates General in Saint Petersburg, as well as of Latvia’s consulate and Estonia’s consulate in Pskov. 

The foreign ministry specified that the decision was made “on the basis of the principle of reciprocity,” as well as taking into account the military assistance that was being provided by these countries to Kiev, and “the covering up of the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists against the civilian population of the Donbass and Ukraine.”"

US Army battle manuals were used by neo-nazi “Azov” Ukrainian police unit.

It appears that all military structuring, weapons, equipment, and systems are all to US standard. In fact, there is little evidence that Ukraine has ANY unique home-grown military systems. It is a full American military operation, only using local Ukraine forces.

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    • And HERE as well.

USA officials used to condemn “Azov” and deny cooperation

Chinese online selling on DouXing

There are a host of people on the Chinese internet platforms trying to sell their goods, their services, and their products. In China, you don’t need to be a million-dollar company to put up advertisements, and you don’t need to register with the government, nor are you told to obey specific laws regarding diversity and climate change. You just make a video and post it.

Here are some women setting the clothing that they designed themselves, and which are made in their factories, or in the factories that they work with…

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Australian prices must be paid…

Dumb Aussies put themselves in China's crosshairs when they agreed to the idiotic AUKUS nuclear sub deal.

China's agreement with the Solomon likely came as a direct response to it. It also came as a result of Australian Defence Force's short sightedness and lack of strategic thinking (racism?) when Chinese business owners in Solomon Islands were not adequately protected and attacked in the recent unrest, prompting China with a pretext to step in.

Solomon Islands was also a planned staging ground for future deployments by the US Navy and missile launching systems, as an alternative to Guam in the second Island chain network of bases in its pivot to Asia. Not any more it seems...

-Et Tu

Americans believe that they are invincible

I have made the same exact point in conversation with many of my fellow Americans. It falls on deaf ears. They cannot begin to imagine that there is a location on the planet where US power does not utterly eclipse any possible rival or alternative. They cannot imagine that Russia has any power, or any say. America rules the waves. America rules the skies. America rules the land. End of story.

Understand that America knows no geography. It is not taught in schools. It is a point of honor for Americans to be ignorant of geography. In these latter days most cannot read a map at all. They use GPS to know where they are and how to get where they are going.

In previous post Bernhard notes that European and US leaders begin the stages of grief. At retail level consumers of news universally believe Ukraine is winning and Russia is being smashed. Which is the only possible outcome. There is no universe where Russia might win.

-oldhippie

A Swede who survived the Russian attack on a NATO training camp speaks out

From HERE

NATO denies that any of their instructors were present at the time of the Russian attack, and even the Pentagon said the last of their people had left the Yavoriv military base a few weeks ago. Swedish reporter Dan Malmquist spoke to a survivor of the bombed International Center for Peacekeeping and Security near the Polish border.

However, the attack from Russia so close to the border with NATO country Poland was called a “significant escalation” by the British government and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan warned that any shelling of a neighboring NATO member – even if it happens by mistake – will lead to a “full-scale response” from the military alliance.

Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that 30 rockets hit the base, citing the casualties of 35 dead and 134 wounded. The Ministry of Defense claimed that no foreigners were confirmed among the dead. British daily The Mirror reported that the number of dead probably exceeds 100 and that at least three British ex-soldiers were feared to have been killed.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that it had eliminated “up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large number of foreign weapons” and that Russia would continue to attack foreign troops in Ukraine. They are considered illegal combatants and are not covered by the laws of war on how, among other things, prisoners are to be treated.

The attack came shortly after the Kremlin pointed out that arms deliveries from the West are legitimate targets for military attacks.

President Vladimir Zelensky reiterated his call for NATO to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

“If you do not close the sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian rockets fall on your territory, on NATO territory,” Zelensky said in a video on the same day as the attack.

The Swedish Foreign Ministry on Thursday 17 March, still had no information about Swedes injured or killed in the attack.

Swedish mercenary survived to recount what had happened

In an interview with 26-year-old Sundsvall resident Joel Karlsson who was at the base when it was attacked, said: “That night the air siren went off at three in the morning. When we ran out to take defensive positions, we saw that there was a Russian drone above the tree line. It felt weird that they had to go around there with drones – an officer had confirmed that it was a drone – but they told us to go to bed again, and since I was so damn tired, I did not question it.

“At six o’clock in the morning it just erupted, the whole house vibrated, people screamed. I immediately realized that ‘now it’s serious’, so I put on a jacket and ran out towards the forest. When I opened the door, I saw a cruise missile coming with the naked eye. Then more came. They had damn good accuracy. In the beginning, eight missiles arrived.”

Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a press release that the military base was attacked with “long-range precision weapons”. Our sources have not been able to independently confirm if the base was attacked by fighter jets or if it was cruise missiles. Both aircraft and cruise missiles use jet engines, so only the sound can be difficult to distinguish. The “cruise missile” that Karlsson saw may have been a missile fired from an airplane.

Ukrainian colonel Anton Mironovich, spokesman for the National Army Academy in Lviv, told Buzzfeed that “the attack was carried out by fighter jets taking off from Saratov air base in western Russia but approaching from the south, from the Black Sea and the Sea of ​​Azov”. At the same time, he stated that “All legionnaires survived. No killed, no injured,” a statement which Joel Karlsson immediately contradicted.

“We heard jets and when we ran out into the woods we heard artillery fire in the distance. I asked a sergeant or officer if it was artillery and he said it was. It was pitch black out in the woods, people started screaming and raving. Everything was on fire at the base and people were starting to shout for us to come back and help the wounded, help put out the fires and so on. Some then said outright that we can not go back to a base where it was bombed ten minutes earlier, because it will be bombed again.”

The Ukrainians led the foreign recruits into the open

“They asked us to regroup and put ourselves in large groups to wait for new orders. We did that and stood and discussed what was happening. Some had obtained weapons but most were completely unarmed. Then the Ukrainian officers started talking some propaganda shit about the Russians not daring to send in any jets over our land.”

Dan Malmquist (DM): “Just after you were bombed by jets, did they say that the Russian would not dare to send any jets?”

Joel Karlsson (JK): “Yes, they claimed that it was an ‘uncoordinated attack’ in sheer desperation. That is absolutely not true, it was a coordinated attack. Almost every missile hit where it was supposed to, they took out exactly the stuff they knew they were going to aim at. So there was someone in there who had leaked information.”

DM: Where did the missiles hit?

“The first was an ammunition depot that was located in a discreet building, an old barn or similar. Another hit a small building where there was a gym, but there were a lot of people camping and sleeping, which they apparently knew. They [the recruits] probably did not even have time to wake up before they were killed.”

DM: So they are setting you up unarmed on open ground immediately after a hostile air strike?

“Yes, exactly, on open ground… Even I understand that these are shitty decisions that were made. They asked us to walk towards some helicopter landing sites on completely open and level ground. Then there are reports that someone has seen helicopters and there is talk that there are Russian paratroopers at the entrance. Then they line up people and say that we should consolidate the positions and defend the base against the paratroopers without weapons.

“Myself and a few others immediately said that we did not intend to do that. Others started protesting and said they had no weapons. A British officer told my group that ‘those who want to go can go, those who want to stay can stay’. Then I said that I did not come there to fight without weapons, it would be suicide. Myself and about thirty others left the other way, away from where the attack was expected. A small evacuation bus arrived and we hopped on board. Later we learned that about 45 minutes after we left, 20 more missiles came and leveled everything to the ground.”

DM: Did ground troops come in too? [No Russian ground troops have been confirmed to have been used in the attack. ed.]

“I do not know. But the Ukrainians were very quick to abandon the base. It was the volunteer legionaries from other countries who were allowed to fortify the positions without weapons, while most of the Ukrainian officers and soldiers just ran away. There was a whole bunch of Ukrainians who was supposed to help us, but they jumped in cars and just ran from there.”

DM: Who then led the command in that situation?

“It was very unclear. I never even had time to grasp who were the top officers at the base after being there for several days. There were new people who came and talked all the time, some held training sessions or gave out information, often without even knowing English so they had to have interpreters with them. It was a fucking circus, everything felt frivolous from the beginning.”

DM: Who came in with the evacuation bus?

“I do not know. It was just an ordinary school bus type, with a driver who did not speak English either. He came in, we jumped on board, he drove into the base while we shout that he can not go there and must turn around. He was escorted by a small car with a military guy in it, but he was in civilian clothes.”

DM: You wrote on a group on Telegram that you thought it was a PR coup from the Ukrainians, that they wanted volunteers to be struck. But that would not make it easier for them to recruit volunteers.

“I do not really know, it can also just have been a lot of infiltrators among the officers and pure incompetence. But it was at least quite obvious that they completely ignored the fact of volunteers had died. Some of us had managed to get hold of weapons and then came Ukrainian soldiers who tore the weapons out of our hands to take them for themselves. Then they ordered us to move towards where the paratroopers would arrive while they were sitting further back with weapons, so that we would attract fire. That was just before they ran away.”

DM: You were used as cannon fodder in short?

“Yes absolutely. There was a guy who had a weapon left and they shouted that they would give him ammunition. Then they claimed that the ammunition depot was locked. So there was only one guy in our group who had a weapon but not a single cartridge, and they started shouting that we had to stay and were not be allowed to leave the base.”

“I’m probably a bit conspiratorial, but I think it may have been deliberate. I’m not saying that it is so, but it was something damn clever in any case, everything was handled so strangely from beginning to end.”

DM: How big are the losses?

“I think that the Russians’ figure of 180 dead may very well be correct. Almost my entire shooting company went to where they were told that the paratroopers would come and that was where lots of bombs fell later. If there were 300 people on the base in total and 180 had died, I do not doubt it, I rather think that there may be more. In retrospect, we have had some contact with some guys who went back to look for survivors, and from them I heard that they found two who survived the post-bombing. There are certainly more than the two who survived, but there can not be many. It was such a sick devastation.

“When we ran out into the forest, we also did not know that it was mined with our own landmines. Of course, the officers knew about it, but we recruits had not received any information at all, so it was one of our own guys who died that way when we ran into the forest.”

DM: If this had been done deliberately by the Ukrainians, who do you think ordered it in that case?

“I do not know. At first I really thought it was a PR trick considering how incredibly badly everything was handled. You would run into a forest with mines in it, stand against paratroopers unarmed, and the warning air siren had been switched off. In fact, it felt like they wanted the worst slaughter of people. There may be other explanations – a guy from some intelligence service said that it had been confirmed that there was espionage and sabotage at the base. But at the very least they used us as pure cannon fodder.”

DM: So there was no air siren warning during the attack?

“Nothing. I woke up to the first bomb that fell. And they had no bunkers, no trenches, nothing. They had not told us where we would take shelter if an attack came. It was all just weird. Afterwards, I spoke to an American soldier from the special forces who pointed out how insane it was that we were ordered to stand on open ground by the helicopter pads. He refused to obey orders and remained in the woods instead. Among our group that withdrew from there, there were several elite soldiers who said that ‘this was the sickest thing I have been through in my whole life’. They had served in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Falkland Islands, all kinds of wars, and say they have never been in such a vulnerable situation. ‘Suicide mission’, several of them said bluntly.”

DM: How were you treated before the Russian attack?

“All right, but everything was so badly controlled. Bad equipment, bad organization, bad discipline. Poor hygiene and poor food made people sick all the time. They did not seem to know anything at all. Soldiers with experience said they had never experienced anything like it. I asked for a pair of gloves that I could wear in combat and they came with a pair of blue-red Helly Hansen gloves that practically shouted ‘here I am’ if you tried to camouflage yourself. Many also did not have the right equipment, the right uniforms and so on. There were no helmets, no vests, nothing.”

DM: So what happens now, are you going home to Sweden again?

“I’ll go home to fix certain things, then I’ll go again, but now to conduct humanitarian work. I was never particularly keen on fighting to begin with and was assured that they needed all sorts of people, not just soldiers, so I had really intended to work as a welder or mechanic behind the front. But when we were there, it was ‘welcome here, you get ten days of training and then you are sent to the front’. A few days later we still did not have a weapon and it was reduced to ‘five days of training, you get a weapon on the way to Kiev and then you will go into battle’.”

DM: Were people were sent straight to their deaths?

“To say the least. There were also so many leaks on this base that the Russians always knew what was happening. There had been a bus ride to Kiev with about thirty ‘fully trained’ volunteers. It ended up in a fire attack, a single one survived and was captured by Russians. In another bus with 80 people, four survived and managed to get back to base, the other 76 were killed. So the Russians knew everything that came in or out of that base, but they just kept sending people straight to their deaths.”

DM: Where did you hear this?

“It was a guy at the base who told me. There were confirmed fire attacks on the road to Kiev.”

DM: How did you react to that?

“I got nervous. Really nervous. But I went there for a reason. I had expected this. I knew I could die. It is war. I did not go there for nothing.”

DM: Do you think there were spies and saboteurs at the base?

“Yes, there are many who claim it. That they knew exactly where to fire their missiles to cause maximum damage, that the warning air siren was turned off just when the real attack came after it had been working quite well until then.

DM: Did your friend you came with survive?

“I have a very hard time believing it. He was one of those who lined up to go to the helicopter pads, and I have not heard anything from him since. It’s possible that he’s alive somewhere on Ukrainian territory, but I do not think so.”

DM: Who was he?

“A 32-year-old guy I met in Sundsvall where we both live. We exercised together and stuff like that. Nice guy.”

DM: I’m sorry. Did you know more people at the base, and were there more Swedes there?

“I personally met at least ten Swedes and you heard Swedish a little here and there. The day after the attack, when we managed to get to Poland, we sat there in a pub and had a beer and came across several Swedes who had been on their way to the base. Otherwise, it was people from all sorts of countries and political orientations. I know two Swedes who survived besides myself, the rest I have no idea.”

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Finance Ministers From Western Countries Walk Out Of G20 Meeting As Russian Delegates Speak

Note: 2022 G20 summit: only 3 country (UK, France, Canada) followed US walkout of G20 meeting when Russian speak. That mean 16 countries including a Germany etc, stay for Russia. The crusaders have no friends in G20.

Finance Ministers From Western Countries Walk Out Of G20 Meeting As Russian Delegates Speak

From HERE

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Canadian and European counterparts on April 20 led a walkout of a meeting of Group of 20 finance officials in protest against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

British, French, and Canadian officials joined the walkout of the virtual meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington.

Yellen told attendees she strongly disapproved of a senior Russian official’s presence at the meeting, according to two sources quoted by Reuters. The U.S. treasury secretary said earlier this week she would not take part in meetings with her global counterparts if Russian officials were included.

Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko also walked out, according to AFP, quoting a source familiar with the event.

British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak said that he, Yellen, and Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland walked out as Russian delegates spoke.

“We are united in our condemnation of Russia’s war against Ukraine and will push for stronger international coordination to punish Russia,” Sunak said on Twitter.

Freeland tweeted a picture of all the officials who left the meeting.

“The world’s democracies will not stand idly by in the face of continued Russian aggression and war crimes,” she said. “Today Canada and a number of our democratic partners walked out of the G20 plenary when Russia sought to intervene.”

Indonesia Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who chaired the meeting, said the walkout was “not a total surprise” and was not disruptive to the group’s wider discussion.

“I am confident this will not erode cooperation or the importance of the G20 forum,” Indrawati said at a press conference following the meeting.

It was the first meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion in late February.

The G20, chaired by Indonesia this year, includes major economies like the United States, China, India, Brazil, Japan, several European countries, and Russia.

Despite the friction, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said global cooperation “must and will continue,” pointing to a long list of issues that “no country can solve on its own.”

Message from the 1980s

Think tank: Soros is pulling the strings in Ukraine

From HERE.

In a recent article, the Russian think tank “RUSSTRAT – Institute for Political and Economic Strategies” commented on the machinations of US speculator George Soros in Ukraine. It is believed that Soros is part of the US secret service, driving coups and the “Great Reset”. Ukraine is serving as a “torpedo against Moscow,” according to Soros himself, because Moscow is standing in the way of the New World Order clique.

In Ukraine, Soros is expected to be the main beneficiary of the selloff of Russian assets, RUSSTRAT reported. Soros, through his “viceroy” oligarch Tomasz Fiala, CEO and founder of Dragon Capital, acquired 350 000 square meters of commercial real estate in Ukraine through joint funds in 2016-2018 alone. With investments of up to $400 million, Dragon Capital has become the largest buyer of real estate and media assets on the Ukrainian market. Soros will take control of the communications system if Russia loses the war.

Putin is blocking the Great Reset

“We need Ukraine as a torpedo in the war with Russia. We don’t give a damn about the fate of the citizens of this country,” Soros once said, according to the portal. Soros told the British Guardian in 2019, when President Vladimir Zelensky was elected president, Ukraine was bound to become his best project. Ukraine had seen a number of revolutions, and none had been successful, but the last election had been “free and fair”.

“Take a country like Ukraine: it had a number of revolutions, and they each failed, and now you had a free and fair election,” the billionaire opined. Not surprisingly, Soros has become one of the biggest donors to Democrat causes and candidates in the US.

According to RUSSTRAT, the conclusion of the Russian special operation will not only be a victory over the Kiev regime, but a Russian victory would also be a blow to Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset plan.

This will wreak havoc with the globalists and Soros, because for decades he has turned the former Soviet republic into a springboard for a fight with his main enemy who does not fit into the “New World Order”.

George Soros has never concealed that “his main enemy is in Moscow“. He had already made corresponding statements in 2014.

The commentary also referenced statements by Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to the 39th US President Jimmy Carter, who highlighted Ukraine as a linchpin for both US and Russian interests. “Without Ukraine, Russia is not a great power,” Brzezinski believed.

In his book, Brzezinski noted the following: “Without Ukraine, Russia is no longer a Eurasian empire […] From this perspective, Ukraine’s secession represented a key loss, drastically curtailing Russia’s geostrategic options.” Brzezinski, who died in 2017, was a strong proponent of NATO’s eastward expansion to challenge Russia’s dominant position on the Black Sea.

Playground for speculators

According to the view of RUSSTRAT, the Russian special operation in Ukraine now also thwarted the plans of the speculator and the founder of the Agency for the Modernization of Ukraine (AMU) Bernard-Henri Levy and his British co-investors, the owners of the transnational corporation producing gene-products of the Monsanto Company and many other “businessmen” whom Soros and Levy promised the grand prize – “a new Russia without Putin” in exchange for cash injections in “saving democracy in Ukraine”. Levy described the cash injections as “the Marshall plan for Ukraine” at the time, but his organization stands to lose a great deal if Russia wins the war.

According to the report, Soros also invested a lot of money in various funds operating in Ukraine – using the same tactics as in Russia in the 1990s.

Falsification of history and new curricula

In 2015, Russian scientists received $500 grants (two years’ salary) to rewrite history books and school curricula. At the time, Soros stated that it would take about 25 years, i.e. a generation, to create a project as successful as Ukraine. In addition to distorting the history of Russian-Ukrainian relations and denigrating the past and present of the Russian state, the foundation has successfully promoted “European values ​​and democracy” among young people.

AMU described their project as showing “that Ukraine and Europe are united. It is commonly discussed: Either Ukraine is in Europe or not. Ukraine was and will be in Europe. And we see at what price Ukraine reaffirms its position”.

RUSSTRAT summarized their position: “The result: the Maidan and the unleashing of the genocide in Donbass.”

The bloodthirsty investor

Soros is described as a “bloodthirsty investor” who sponsored the Yugoslav opposition that later persecuted Slobodan Milosevic (President of Yugoslavia 1987-2000). He did the same with the “Orange Revolution” and the “Euromaidan” in Ukraine and the “Rose Revolution” in Georgia.

In 2018, British politician Nigel Farage described Soros as the “primary threat to the entire western world”. According to Farage, Soros wants to fundamentally reduce Europe’s white population and end the continent’s Christian culture. In the same vein, Turkish President Erdogan accused the billionaire of wanting to destroy and divide nations. Soros is also blamed for the 2013 protests in Gezi Park in Istanbul. The Soros Foundation has since withdrawn from Turkey.

Europe must not succumb to the Soros network, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned in an English-language post on his official website in 2020. The prime minister called Soros an “economic criminal” because his financial speculation had ruined the lives of millions of people, while the financier had held national economies to ransom.

In Italy, Matteo Salvini warned that Soros wanted the country “to become a giant refugee camp because he likes slaves”.

Philanthropic mockery

The US political scientist Sergei Sudakov, corresponding member of the Academy of Military Sciences of the Russian Federation, is quoted in the RUSSTRAT article. Sudakov maintains that Soros is an integral part of the American secret services. He spoke of the “Soros Collective”, an axis between the speculator, the US State Department and US intelligence agencies, which provide information for the development of his plans and actions. There is not a single conflict in which the Soros Foundation has not participated. For that reason, it has been banned in Russia.

In Belarus, the activities of Soros foundations have been banned since 1997, in Russia since 2015. But in Ukraine, after the Euromaidan, Soros structures experienced a real renaissance.

According to an article published in 2020 by the Russian internet platform inoSMI, regarding the allegations that he was provoking financial crises in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and Russia, Soros said: “You are not fooling me. I only earn money there. I cannot and do not want to look at the social consequences of my actions. I try to do the right thing, but sometimes my actions lead to negative consequences, like in Russia. As a market player, I have to compete to win.”

Azerbaijani political scientist Zaur Rasulzade wrote in 2020: “Wherever his people turned up, the riots began, coups were attempted, and often succeeded”. Soros’ capital grows immeasurably as everything is geared towards controlling the highly profitable sectors of the conquered countries’ economies.

How Australia became a proxy nation under the United States and lost it’s independence.

"It would be nice if you provided an example of a coup orchestrated by the US in a country where half the population is English speaking, with not only language but cultural and ethnic links to the same United States."

Consider Australia and the events of 1975…

The Gough Whitlam coup
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis

Australia speaks out against China

Defence Minister Peter Dutton says the “bond” between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin is “disturbing”.

Mr Duttton said the language of a speech recently given by the Chinese President is very similar to President Putin.

“It’s not our country that has changed, we still stand for the same values,” he told Sky News Australia.

“We need to open, call out bad behaviour, call out the bullying tactics and normalise the relationship and keep peace and stability in our region.”

The Sarmat as the wake-up call to American neoconservative warmongers.

I see nothing “unfortunate” about either the launch or the timing of the new Sarmat ICBM by Russia unless, of course, one might be on the “receiving end” of its final trajectory. 

As a matter of fact, it might possibly contribute to a dampening of the enthusiasm of the war mongers inhabiting both U.S. political parties with regard to the survivability of a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the Russian Federation. 

In my view, any reduction of that ill-advised enthusiasm can only be seen as a plus.

It is a decidedly good idea for the crazies in Washington to understand that this test launch only carried the equivalent of a payload of 12 hypersonic missiles. The final version will carry twice that many, presumably Zircons. 

The R-28 is, after all, described as a ”superheavy”. Which means that only one Russian ICBM will be able to hypersonically take out every major city in a state the size of Texas, without any defense against what’s incoming.

These are realities that those aggressive folks in Washington, who are foaming at the mouth, might want to consider. 

They might be happy to use Europe as their “sanctions front” but should also comprehend that their home states and constituencies remain the ultimate target, if they miscalculate even slightly. 

The Russians are going to hit Houston, not Paris.

No. Without a doubt, the Sarmat launch has seriously puckered some anuses at the White House and at the Pentagon. 

The U.S. has absolutely no defenses against hypersonic weapons, and this is probably one of the reasons the war in Ukraine has broken out now. The U.S. is running out of time and knows it.

-GreyRaven

There is no doubt in my mind the absolute seriousness of what Russia is now embarked upon, and perhaps it was also necessary to the US political collective, running around in their DC pack sniffing each others’ asses…

Russia will increase the production of Kalibr missiles.

“This conclusion is made by the analyst “InformNapalm” Anton Pavlushko on the basis of data discoveries. He cites information that the UEC-Saturn plant in the Russian city of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, is recruiting up to 500 new employees due to “increase in production volumes.” It is at this plant that engines for Caliber missiles are produced.

And then our Western friends got excited, because according to their version, Russia has long since run out of missiles, and there is nothing to produce new ones from.”

With that said there appears to be sabotage strikes aimed at stopping these efforts. As of yesterday, 22APR22,  an important military research facility in Russia suddenly burned down with 7 dead and 20-30 injured. It happened in the same day that a large chemical plant also caught fire under suspicious circumstances.

From HERE

Puzzle Pals: 1942

January 1942. Woodville, California. “FSA farm workers’ community. Games are played in the recreation room in the community building.” Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

In the Donbass a member of the OSCE was arrested for espionage.

OSCE employee detained. It seems that he was providing targeting coordinates to NATO.

From HERE

More and more reports recently have come to light showing how deviously the OSCE has been operating. One report said that OSCE officials even provided artillery fire correction for the AFU forces by leaving cameras on their cars in the vicinity which transmitted feeds to the AFU.

The organization has most certainly been exposed as a clandestine operation for the West akin to the “White Helmets” operation.

China Sells U.S. LNG to Europe at a Hefty Profit

Thank you Donald Trump for forcing China to buy US gas with fix price for 20 years and a severe penalty if the contract is not fulfilled. Now China directly ships US gas from US to Europe with super high profit:

A Big Man

2021 05 U.S. dollar share of global central bank reserves drops to 25-year low

The value of the USD plummets.  IMF – Xinhua | English.news.cn

From HERE

2022 03 Brazil Central Bank Quadruples Exposure to Chinese Yuan

Brazil massively increases the percentages of Chinese yuan in it’s holdings. Investing News | US News

From HERE

The ‘Rules Based Order’ Knows No Distance

From MoA.

Remarks by President Biden Providing an Update on Russia and Ukraine, Feb 15 2022

Nations have a right to sovereignty and territorial integrity. They have the freedom to set their own course and choose with whom they will associate.

The distance between the U.S. (New York) and the Ukraine (Lviv) is 7,194 kilometer (4,470 miles). The distance between Russia and Ukraine is zero kilometer (zero miles). They are neighboring countries.

—Readout of Senior Administration Travel to Hawaii, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands, Apr 22, 2022

The two sides engaged in substantial discussion around the recently signed security agreement between Solomon Islands and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Solomon Islands representatives indicated that the agreement had solely domestic applications, but the U.S. delegation noted there are potential regional security implications of the accord, including for the United States and its allies and partners. The U.S. delegation outlined clear areas of concern with respect to the purpose, scope, and transparency of the agreement.

If steps are taken to establish a de facto permanent military presence, power-projection capabilities, or a military installation, the delegation noted that the United States would then have significant concerns and respond accordingly.

The distance between the continental U.S. (Los Angeles) and the Solomon Islands is 9,845 kilometer (6,118 miles). The distance between the continental China (Shanghai) and the Solomon Islands is 5,901 kilometer (3,667 miles).

2022 04 Israel adds China’s RMB to Central Bank reserves, cuts USD holdings

The Jerusalem Post. Israel, a long-time United States partner has broke with the United States and adds Chinese RMB to it’s central bank reserves.

From HERE

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