It’s an awful strange time that we are living though. Indeed, the entire world seems to be upside down. The United States is arming Nazis with nuclear delivery systems for freedom, and is willing to risk global world war 3 over transgender queer rights while at the same time President Biden plans on allowing the second amendment to be enforced but not allowing anyone to buy or sell anything related to a firearm. I calls it the Canadian influence. Perhaps it’s time to play with the kitties and turn off the “news” for a change. Eh? What do you think?
The tanker fallout from impending Russian insurance ban
US-China relations: East Timor isn’t ‘taking sides’ but it wants Beijing’s help, says president
Note: anyone aware that Australia bullied and looted East Timor 18 years of oil in their joint venture in the East Timor part of the seas, until East Timor successfully make the case to UN in recent years. During that period, East Timor entered failed state listing.
...that the aim was to maintain an equal distance from all major powers, while still keeping the door open to trade and investment. “What we want is the best for our own national interests. In my case, I will make decisions that are in the best interests of the people of Timor Leste,” Ramos-Horta said, using the country’s official name. “We welcome strong ties with all, the US, China, Australia, Indonesia and … [other] Asean countries, we are not going to say we are taking anyone’s side.”
This Fuffy Cat Has A Better Life Than Most Of Us
Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. Very hot photo series by the Vietnamese photographer Lữ Phúc Anh Dũng. Purr-lease…
Ukraine war: FOUR UK squaddies go AWOL to fight Putin’s forces including 19-year-old Queen’s Guard
VW defends Xinjiang operations amid alleged rights abuses
Ignored all the agenda based language, the reality of this report is, western companies voted for China:
The German car giant has claimed its presence in Xinjiang has a positive impact despite reports of ongoing human rights abuses. VW is also facing accusations of using slave labor in Brazil under the former dictatorship. The CEO of German car manufacturer Volkswagenhas defended the presence of a Volkwagen factory in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where Beijing has been accused of carrying out human rights abuses, during an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt. While several major corporations ended their operations in Xinjiang following US claims that China is committing "genocide" against the Muslim Uyghur minority, VW boss Herbert Diess said that the joint-venture partner SAIC Volkswagen would not close its factory there. In comments published Monday, he said the company had been active in Xinjiang for years, but that the "small factory" there was economically "insignificant." Asked whether VW would end operations in protest, Diess told Handelsblatt: "We could do that. But we won't, because we believe that our presence has a positive impact."
The United States continues to poke and taunt Russia
People! This is NOT how you diffuse a dangerous situation.
Hong-Kong Based Company Makes Cat ‘LEGOS’ For People Who Love All Things Cat
If Lego and cats are among your favorite things in this world, now you can order a playful statue made of ‘Legos’ to liven up even the dullest office space or a living room. Hong-Kong-based company Jekca offers mini Lego sculptures for ‘kidults’ that come around 1.6 ft each – and their variety will surprise even the pickiest of customers.
Available in a variety of colours and patterns the 1.6 ft high cats aren’t available in different breeds however they do come in various positions, whether that’s perched on a table top or playfully stretching on the sofa. The good news is that the LEGO sculptures won’t fall part either –
“These cats are like real sculptures and will not collapse or break apart,” the company writes over on its Facebook page. So there you have it – purrfect if you love all things ‘cat’.”
Creamy Ground Beef Noodle Casserole
“Comfort” is the key word for this creamy ground beef and noodle casserole that makes a memorable meal out of simple ingredients.
Ingredients
- 8 oz uncooked farfalle pasta (about 2 1/2 cups)
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 can (15 oz) Muir Glen™ organic tomato sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 3/4 cup sliced green onions
- 1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese (12 oz)
‘Shooting themselves in the foot’: Western sanctions on Russia
New UK Gov. report confirms COVID Vaccination significantly increases the risk of Death and kills hundreds of thousands after five months
I don’t normally post about the mRNA stuff, but jeeze!
This is not a conspiracy theory. Even the UK government admits that mRNA injections are deadly.
On the 17th May, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its latest dataset on deaths by vaccination status in England, and it has revealed a whole host of shocking findings. For example we now know that according to the ONS, 70,000 people have died within 28 days of Covid-19 vaccination in England, and 179,000 people have died within 60 days. We also now know that Covid-19 vaccination increases children’s risk of death between 8,100% and 30,200%. But it turns out that once you dig a little deeper into data, you find that Covid-19 vaccination actually increases the mortality rate of everyone within approximately 5 months.
Capable Of Striking Any Part Of US, Russia Conducts ‘Massive Drills’ With Nuclear-Capable Yars 24 Missile
Russia’s forces are conducting nuclear drills in the Ivanovo province, northeast of Moscow, involving some 1,000 servicemen and over 100 vehicles, including Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, the Russian defense ministry has said.
“In the Ivanovo region, autonomous launchers of the Yars mobile ground-based missile system of the Strategic Missile Forces (Teikovsky formation) are performing intensive maneuvering actions on combat patrol routes as part of the exercises,” the Russian Defense Ministry was cited as saying by the Interfax news agency.
The Strategic Missile Forces are the main component of Russia’s nuclear forces, whose purpose is nuclear deterrence.
The equipment used by Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) included the ‘RS-24 Yars’ an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a range of up to 11,000 km (6,500 miles), equipped with multiple warheads having individual guidance units.
Such a range can enable Russia to strike any target in the US.
In addition, the drill also involves the use of new Typhoon-M Combat anti-sabotage vehicles to detect, block and destroy threats to Yars.
It is said to be equipped with the latest reconnaissance technology as well as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and is supposed to destroy subversion and reconnaissance groups of the enemy.
During the maneuvers, the MDR Listva remote demining vehicle was used to escort the Yars mobile ground-based missile system on combat patrol routes. The MDR neutralized the remotely controlled explosive devices planted along the route of the column by conditional saboteurs.
Reports suggest that one of the top priorities of this exercise was to simulate a wide array of scenarios relating to searching and destroying conditional sabotage and reconnaissance formations of the enemy in the daytime and at night.
“The exercise makes it possible to improve the level of training of personnel, the coherence of formations and military units of the Strategic Missile Forces,” the Russian Ministry of Defense said.
Japanese Company Releases Line Of ‘Crotch Charms’ For Women To Dangle From Their Swimsuits Between Their Legs
A Japanese company is selling what might be one of the most uncomfortable and impracticable pieces of jewelry ever dreamed up.
BoDivas, based in Tokyo, is offering the strange item, which they call the ‘Beachtail’ and describe as ‘sexy charms for bikini crotch’. The metallic charms are meant to be worn through the crotch of bikini bottoms, so the decorations dangle between a woman’s legs.
Russia’s Nuclear Threat To NATO Countries
Russian nuclear forces have been on a high alert since the onset of the Ukraine war and some of the top Kremlin officials and state-owned media have repeatedly threatened nuclear strikes on NATO countries.
In late May, the head of Russia’s space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, warned that Russia would have about 50 Sarmat missiles by autumn 2022, capable of reducing all enemies to a “nuclear crater.”
Earlier, a Russian state-backed television channel had simulated a terrifying nuclear attack on Europe and issued a warning that there would be “no survivors”.
“One Sarmat missile and the British Isles will be no more,” nationalist politician Aleksey Zhuravlyov told Channel One’s ’60 Minutes, a show hosted by Evgeny Popov and Olga Skabeyeva, also known as the ‘Iron Doll of Putin TV’.
The show presented a diagram of how the missiles could be launched from Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave sandwiched between Poland, Lithuania, and the Baltic Sea. It stated that a nuclear strike could destroy Berlin in 106 seconds, Paris in 200 seconds, and London in 202 seconds.
Mystery Orbs and Wobbulating Beams
The following is an excerpt from Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius
On one occasion, Bill Moore and Paul Bennewitz were on the deck of Bennewitz’s condo when he instructed Moore to set the shutter speed of his camera to 1000 and snap some random photos of the general landscape which encompassed Kirtland AFB and Manzano Mountain. When Moore later developed these photos, several shots revealed a curious tube of light that was only visible at this 1000th of a second setting. By using this shutter setting, Bennewitz had presumably employed a method of photographing images otherwise unseen by the naked eye.
Another oddity Bennewitz observed were orange orbs that frequently materialized in his home. Bill Moore later confirmed seeing one of these softball-sized orbs, which he described as three dimensional and self-illuminating, hovering near the ceiling. According to film maker Mark Pilkington:
“Others had noticed the orbs too. On one of his many trips out to the Bennewitz home to check up on things when the family was out (i.e., break-ins) Doty and two NSA operatives had disconnected the alarm system and were just about to start snooping around when they noticed one of the balls floating underneath a central stairway in the large entry room. “It was orange and had sparkles in it,” said Doty. “I asked the other guys: ‘Is it one of yours?’” But the NSA men were mystified as well, and the trio tried to see if the phenomenon was projected from outside of the house somewhere. No dice. ‘We never did figure out what that was,’ said Doty. Perhaps the NSA was in fact responsible, but if so, they never admitted this to anyone outside their circle.” 1
Orbs weren’t the only weird things buzzing about Bennewitz. National Security Agency (NSA) operatives had moved into a vacant building across the street from Bennewitz’s home in an attempt to monitor his activities. Although Bennewitz didn’t know if the strangers across the street were actually government agents, or aliens in disguise, he somehow determined that they were scanning him with high tech equipment. Bennewitz said he could “sense their sweep” and that it caused a stinging sensation on his body. Over time, Bennewitz grew to suspect that this “sweep” had been performed by an ET beam. On one occasion, Bill Moore was visiting Bennewitz and also experienced this sensation, describing it as a beam that scanned his body.
To combat this perceived ET beam, Bennewitz constructed his very own spacegun. “The speed of my weapon exceeds that of their weapons and in its most sophisticated form can be readily computer controlled to allow extremely rapid tracking and lock-on regardless of speed along with electronic wobbulation of the beam.” 2 Bennewitz further claimed that: “Two small prototypes have been funded and constructed by my Company. Tests conducted to date indicate they do work and work rather well considering their small size…” 3
The beam or “scan” that Bennewitz and Moore experienced could have conceivably been a form of directed-energy weapon that was first reported in development during the late 1990s by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Kirtland Air Force Base. According to researcher Christian Lambright:
“In 2001, the AFRL publicly revealed the existence of Active Denial Technology (ADT), which was referred to, behind closed doors, as the ‘pain beam,’ a science fiction sounding “microwave beam that heats the water in the surface layer of the skin where the pain-sensing nerves are, and can do so from a considerable distance…By all accounts, the sudden and intense pain is enough to cause virtual panic as people desperately try to get away from the beam. Research into such ‘non-lethal’ weapons has reportedly been going on since the mid-1980s, though it is an outgrowth of research into radar and electromagnetic pulse technology.” 4
During the ADT’s 2001 public roll-out, a contraption called the Active Denial System (ADS) was demonstrated, which consisted of a large antenna mounted atop a military transport. In 2003, Eric Adams—an associate editor with Popular Science Magazine—volunteered himself, guinea pig style, to test the effects of this technology. According to Lambright:
“[Adams] had the system fired at him from a half mile away with the directed-energy beam controlled to hit him only in the middle of his back. In less than two seconds, he experienced a warm sensation that quickly grew to feel like an ‘electric burner.’ Though in this demonstration the purpose was to show that the ADS could generate only enough pain to motivate someone to leave the area, in a 2007 accident at Moody AFB, Georgia, an exposure of four seconds at 100% power injured one person seriously enough to require being flown to a local burn center. However, at lower power levels the beam can produce only a mild feeling of warmth and, as the above demonstration showed, it can be focused on a relatively small area even over a substantial distance…” 5
Lambright notes the existence of “man-portable” ADS-like systems in development as far back as the early 1970s. A 1972 Time Magazine article entitled “The Death Ray” described “a portable chemically-powered laser” that could “silently burn a fatal, quarter-inch-wide hole in the body of an enemy soldier up to five miles away…Much of the Pentagon’s laser weaponry research is being conducted in great secrecy at Kirtland Air Force Base, outside Albuquerque.” Lambright goes on to say:
“The above Time Magazine article was written forty years ago, and we are left to wonder how the research may have developed since then. Perhaps it melded into the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate and a little-known research group located at Kirtland Air Force Base…Even more interesting, is word of the Portable Efficient Laser Testbed (PELT), which was described in the above New Scientist article…as the ‘first man-portable heat compliance weapon of its kind.’ Cursory information on this weapon appeared in a Department of Defense (DoD) document titled Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Exercise Reference Book published in 2003, which listed the PELT laser rifle as a classified program. Included in the document is an illustration of this decidedly futuristic looking weapon and, if you look closely, it sports the unique logo of the ScorpWorks…
“What about the choice of the unusual name ‘ScorpWorks’? It was one of the questions I addressed to the AFRL Public Relations Office and, as expected, they acknowledged that the name is a play on the infamous Skunkworks, the secretive advanced aircraft division of Lockheed. The reference to a scorpion is supposed to reflect the Southwest flavor of their New Mexico location. But a scorpion being selected to symbolize the types of weapons the ScorpWorks develops, directed energy beam weapons with painful effects, also brought to mind what Paul Bennewitz complained about. It is what scorpions do. When a scorpion strikes… it stings… “ 6
ADS was subsequently deployed to Afghanistan during the 2010 Iraq War, but never used due to “ethical and safety concerns” and was “deemed too unpredictable to use in war zones.” 7 However, as recently as the Summer of 2020, the Trump administration was toying with the idea of using ADS on its own citizenry. According to a National Public Radio (NPR) article dated September 16, 2020:
“… Joint Forces Headquarters Command in Washington, D.C., confirmed to NPR that hours before federal police officers cleared a crowded park near the White House with smoke and tear gas on June 1, a military police staff officer asked if the D.C. National Guard had a kind of ‘heat ray’ weapon that might be deployed against demonstrators in the nation’s capital.” The command “inquired informally about capabilities across the full-spectrum of non-lethal systems, to include the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) and Active Denial System (ADS)…” 8
Soon after, The Washington Post matched NPR’s reporting citing the congressional testimony of Major Adam D. DeMarco, the senior-most D.C. National Guard officer on the ground when the hammer went down in Lafayette Square. Not only did DeMarco contradict White House denials that they hadn’t used tear gas on protestors, but DeMarco also provided an email from June 1, 2020 that stated:
“…the Defense Department’s top military police officer in the Washington region… asked whether the unit had a Long Range Acoustic Device, also known as an LRAD, or a microwave-like weapon called the Active Denial System, which was designed by the military to make people feel as if their skin is burning when in range of its invisible rays…”
The email went on to describe ADS in glowing terms:
“ …the ability to reach out and engage potential adversaries at distances well beyond small arms range, and in a safe, effective, and nonlethal manner…The ADS can immediately compel an individual to cease threatening behavior or depart through application of a directed energy beam that provides a sensation of intense heat on the surface of the skin. The effect is overwhelming, causing an immediate repel response by the targeted individual.”
Ultimately, federal officials were unable to get their hands on an ADS device and instead opted for tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd from Lafayette Square so that President Trump could stage a photo op of himself holding a bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church.
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Apparently, this wasn’t the first such instance in which the Trump admin contemplated using ADS on civilians. According to reporter Michael D. Shear in the August 26, 2020 edition of The New York Times:
“Fifteen days before the 2018 midterm elections, as President Trump sought to motivate Republicans with dark warnings about caravans heading to the U.S. border, he gathered his homeland security secretary and White House staff to deliver a message: “extreme action” was needed to stop the migrants….That afternoon, at a separate meeting with top leaders of the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection officials suggested deploying a microwave weapon — a “heat ray” designed by the military to make people’s skin feel as if it is burning when they get within range of its invisible beams… Two former officials who attended the afternoon meeting at the Department of Homeland Security on Oct. 22, 2018, said the suggestion that the device be installed at the border shocked attendees, even if it would have satisfied the president…”
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New Milestone For China – World’s ‘Largest’ Amphibious Aircraft AG600 Conducts Its First Flight With New Configuration
On May 31, a new-configuration variant of China’s AG600 large amphibious aircraft flew for the first time over Zhuhai, South China’s Guangdong Province, reported state-run media, CGTN.
The AG600, codenamed “Kunlong,” took off from Zhuhai Jinwan Airport at 10:55 am and conducted a series of test flight missions. It flew for 20 minutes before landing safely, with its entire control system functioning normally.
According to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the successful flight heralds a new milestone for the AG600 project and a substantial breakthrough in improving the large amphibious aircraft’s firefighting functional model.
With a maximum take-off weight of 60 tones and a maximum water-storage capacity of up to 12 tones, this new configuration AG600 aircraft is specifically designed for firefighting missions. It meets China’s need for a large firefighting plane.
The aircraft is equipped with a pressure cabin, fly-by-wire flight control system, integrated avionics system, and systems for its future firefighting missions.
Key Part Of China’s Emergency-Rescue System
The AG600, along with the Y-20 heavy transporter and the C919 single-aisle passenger plane, is part of China’s major initiative to build a “large aircraft family” independently.
The aircraft is a critical piece of aviation equipment in China’s emergency-rescue system. According to the AVIC, it is also the first Chinese-made large specialized aircraft built under civil-aircraft airworthiness requirements.
This new-configuration AG600 amphibious aircraft conducted a successful maiden flight on Tuesday, according to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). Due to the sophisticated nature of the aircraft’s future operations, it will require a variety of testing and must meet stringent standards.
It can operate in complex weather and environmental circumstances and rescue up to 50 people in a single mission.
The plane is expected to perform firefighting duties and enter service in 2023. The firefighting and rescue variants of the AG600 will be certified by the Civil Aviation Administration of China and delivered in 2024 and 2025, respectively.
AVIC said that it would aid in the development of the Chinese domestic air-emergency-rescue-product system, with the AG600 project serving as the driving force.
Capable of supporting China’s Ambitions
China’s most recent five-year plan, spanning the years 2021 to 2025, recognized the AG600 as a vital program due to the country’s pressing need for an emergency rescue aircraft, as well as the strategic necessity for equipment that can support its bases in the South China Sea.
The aircraft, if stationed in the southern island province of Hainan, will be likely to reach anywhere in the South China Sea in four hours. It might potentially operate as a cargo or passenger carrier between the region’s Chinese-controlled islands.
The propeller-driven plane, once finished, will be the world’s largest amphibious aircraft, surpassing Japan’s US-2 and Russia’s BE-200.
Another movie personality runs for office..
In a backwards run nation under mob-rule, only the television personalities stand a chance at “joining the club” of wealthy power elite. Like the head of Ukraine, and Donald Trump, these actors play roles that they script out and pretend to occupy. It’s the future of the West manifesting here and now.
Pennsylvania Republicans have rallied behind a celebrity former TV host and political neophyte, choosing a charismatic convert to conservatism over a rival who espoused a purer form of the party’s modern doctrine. The above sentence could have been written in 2016, when Donald Trump defeated Senator Ted Cruz in Pennsylvania’s presidential primary on his way to receiving the GOP nomination. But tonight it’s a description of Mehmet Oz, America’s favorite living-room M.D., who has finally won the Keystone State’s Republican nomination for Senate with help from the former president. Oz narrowly topped the financier David McCormick after McCormick unexpectedly conceded in the middle of a statewide recount.
From HERE
Four B-1B Bone Bombers Have Arrived At Andersen AFB In Guam
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A quartet of B-1B Bone bombers just arrived at Andersen Air Force Base on the island of Guam today. It isn’t clear if the bombers will be staying as part of the now sporadic bomber presence deployments to the Indo-Pacific region or if they are there to take part in a major exercise, or both. Valiant Shield, a series of large multi-domain wargames is getting underway in the region. There have also been some rumors that a B-1 deployment was imminent as a deterrent and hedge against North Korean actions, including a potential nuclear test.
In 2020, it was announced that after 16 years of fulfilling the Continous Bomber Presence mission to Guam, the Pentagon would opt for a far less predictable deployment plan to the region for its bombers.
What came after was a flurry of extremely long-range bomber patrols, many from the continental United States, to Russia’s eastern borders and the tumultuous South China Sea, as well as shorter deployments to Guam or Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean by the USAF’s B-1, B-52, and B-2 bomber force.
More pictures from the past…
You know…
The “news” has become silly.
Scientists accidentally create super-vicious HAMSTERS in a lab after gene editing experiment goes wrong and makes aggressive rodents chase, bite and pin each other down
- Gene editing lab test inadvertently makes horde of rage-fuelled hamsters
- Scientists removed key hormone in the hope it would boost animals’ cooperation
- But it turned them wild, prompting chasing, biting and pinning among hamsters
- ‘We [thought] it would reduce aggression. But the opposite happened’: test chief
- ‘We don’t understand this system as well as we thought we did’, Professor added
Scientists inadvertently bred a horde of unusually aggressive hamsters after a gene editing experiment to ‘reduce aggression’ went wrong.
Researchers at Georgia State University produced new rodents without hormone vasopressin in an effort to raise ‘social communication’ between the rodents.
Yet the chemical change turned the Syrian hamsters wild, prompting fights inside cages.
The ultra-vicious hamsters were pictured pinning, biting and chasing each other.
Lead researcher Professor Elliott Albers said: ‘We anticipated […] we would reduce both aggression and social communication — but the opposite happened.’
They key hormone Avpr1a was thought to regulate friendship and bonding, with its removal expected to increase harmony between the animals.
Instead, the lab experiment recorded ‘high levels of aggression towards other same-sex individuals’.
Professor Albers said: ‘We were really surprised at the results.’
It was thought that vasopressin affects the social behaviours of hamsters including aggression and communication.
To investigate further, scientists deactivated Avpr1a, removing a receptor that interacts with vasopressin in key regions of the brain.
Now immune to the hormone, it was thought the rodents would become friendlier.
The results were anything but, with a heightened frequency of fighting, biting, chasing and pinning down among the hamsters in their cages.
The study’s striking conclusions challenge scientists’ understanding of the relationship between biology and behaviour.
The professor added: We don’t understand this system as well as we thought we did.
‘The counterintuitive findings tell us we need to start thinking about the actions of these receptors across entire circuits of the brain, not just in specific brain regions.
‘Developing gene-edited hamsters was not easy. But it is important to understand that the neurocircuitry involved in human social behaviour and our model has […] relevance for human health.’
Professor Albers said the gene editing tests are intended to help find solutions to neuropsychiatric disorders including autism and depression.
The West’s Big Lie Propaganda Machine never rests.
Unfortunately, brainwashed citizens in Eurangloland accept it as fact…
- Secret cover-up plan to kill Putin, security expert suggests
- Why Vladimir Putin’s future looks increasingly uncertain
- After Moskva, Now Ukraine Missile Hits Russia’s Makarov Warship l Can Putin Break Snake Island Jinx–
- Putin braces for more humiliating mutinies as Ukraine blows up Russian comms base – VIDEO
- Putin’s days now numbered as coup deemed ‘impossible to stop’
- ‘Old school Russians outsmarted’ Putin warned as Ukraine prepares major counteroffensive
- US intelligence agencies claim Vladimir Putin is dying of cancer
Russia Will Strike Decision-Making Centers – Not in Kiev — if U.S. Arms to Ukraine hit Russia
The Deputy Chairman of Russia’s National Security Council (Their equivalent of a Senate) has warned that the Kremlin could target western cities if Ukraine uses rockets supplied by the US to carry out strikes on Russia.
President Joe Biden announced this week that his administration was sending long-range missiles to Ukraine, backtracking on an earlier statement that the US would not be giving the war-torn country advanced weaponry.
Dmitry Medvedev, a former President of Russia and current chairman of the national security council, warned there would be consequences if these were used against Russian soil.
He told Al Jazeera: ‘If, God forbid, these weapons are used against Russian territory then our armed forces will have no other choice but to strike decision-making centers. ‘Of course, it needs to be understood that the final decision-making centers in this case, unfortunately, are not located on the territory of Kyiv.’
The rocket systems being sent over to Ukraine will be able to strike enemy targets about 50 miles away.
Biden said it would help Ukraine on the battlefield as fighting intensifies in the east of the country.
The White House said it had agreed to provide Ukraine with the new missiles after receiving assurances from President Zelensky that they would not be used to hit targets inside Russia.
However, the Kremlin said it did not believe Zelensky.
‘The United States is directly and intentionally adding fuel to the fire,’ Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, said.
Silly, as the USA makes all the decisions for Ukraine. It's a puppet. When the USA sends missile systems that are nuclear capable, and range capable, and it's puppet promises not to use them... how fucking stupid do you think we are? -MM
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Are You Upset About Inflation? If So, You Aren’t Alone.
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All of a sudden, just about everyone is upset about inflation. It would have been nice if everyone would have been this upset back when our leaders were making the exceedingly foolish decisions that resulted in this crisis. In May 2012, the federal government was 15 trillion dollars in debt. Now we are 30 trillion dollars in debt, but our politicians continue to spend money as if tomorrow will never come. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve has pumped trillions of dollars that they created out of thin air into the financial system in recent years. For a very long time, I passionately denounced what our leaders were doing, because I knew what would happen. Now a day of reckoning has arrived, and millions upon millions of Americans are absolutely desperate for things to return to normal. Unfortunately, that simply is not going to happen.
In May 2020, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States was less than two dollars.
Today, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States reached a brand new record high of $4.62, and we are being warned that it could soon go to “$5 a gallon or more”…
The national average for unleaded gas hit another new high of $4.62 per gallon Tuesday, according to AAA data. Prices are up more than 50% compared with last year. Analysts say gasoline prices usually peak by mid-May, but this year prices at the pump could continue to rise into July and reach about $5 a gallon or more.
Most of the time, the vast majority of the population doesn’t pay much attention to economics.
But this is where the rubber meets the road, and two recent polls show very clearly that Americans are becoming increasingly frustrated…
An NBC News poll released earlier this month found that 33 percent of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of the economy, while 23 percent approve of his handling of the cost of living. A Washington Post-ABC News poll in early May found that more than 9 in 10 Americans are concerned, at a minimum, about the rate of inflation, which has been at a 40-year high for months. That included 44 percent who say they are “upset” about the problem.
In addition, Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index has now fallen to the lowest reading that we have seen since the end of the Great Recession…
Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index measured -45 in May, down from -39 in each of the previous two months. It is the lowest reading in Gallup’s trend during the coronavirus pandemic, and likely the lowest confidence has been since the tail end of the Great Recession in early 2009.
When things go bad, who are people going to blame?
More than anyone else, people are going to blame the guy in the White House.
And right now the Biden administration is absolutely desperate “to contain the political damage caused by inflation”…
The White House launched a new push Tuesday to contain the political damage caused by inflation after President Biden complained for weeks to aides that his administration was not doing enough to publicly explain the fastest price increases in roughly four decades. Aiming to demonstrate to the public that it is responding to its concerns, Biden met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell in the Oval Office, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about inflation and sent top aides across major networks to push the administration’s economic message.
What is Biden’s “economic message” exactly?
I have been sitting here pondering that question, and I honestly cannot answer it.
Every day, the story seems to change. A while back, Biden promised to do all that he could to lower gasoline prices, and he foolishly released a million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
That didn’t work.
So what now?
One insider told Politico that high gasoline prices are “a really difficult issue to message around”, because “you can’t deny the reality”…
The White House’s focus on gas prices is bred from two sobering political conclusions top officials have made. The first is that they have little control over the problem. The second is that as prices rise at the pump, so do Democrats’ odds of a midterm wipeout — especially as the average U.S. gallon of gas hits fresh record highs. “There really isn’t one silver bullet,” said one person familiar with the discussions. “It’s a really difficult issue to message around when you can’t deny the reality.”
If Joe Biden asked me what he should do in order to reduce gasoline prices, the first thing I would say would be to stop doing things that are counterproductive. The following comes from a recent editorial by Marc A. Thiessen…
If the Biden administration cared about high gas prices, they would be doing everything in their power to increase domestic production. After a federal judge invalidated an offshore oil and gas lease sale in January, the administration chose not to appeal and has since canceled three transactions in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Alaska — taking millions of acres off the auction block. The Post called the move “a victory for climate activists intent on curbing U.S. fossil fuel leasing,” which “effectively ends the possibility of the federal government holding a lease sale in coastal waters this year.” Worse, the administration is about to let the nationwide offshore drilling program expire next month without a new plan in place.
Moving forward, we need to remove mountains of regulations that have made it extremely difficult to build and operate new refineries in the United States.
And we need far more exploration and far more drilling as soon as possible.
Of course the truth is that this isn’t just a U.S. problem.
Energy prices are out of control all over the world, and they are actually much higher in Europe than they are here.
In fact, soaring energy prices are a big reason why inflation in the European Union just hit a brand new record high…
Following Germany’s post-Weimar record high inflation print, the European Union’s consumer price inflation data this morning surged to a record high at +8.1% YoY (notably hotter than the +7.8% YoY expected).
Most Americans don’t realize this, but Europe is actually much closer to a full-blown economic meltdown than we are.
I expect the euro to fall below parity with the dollar in the not too distant future.
And I expect a nightmarish energy crunch in Europe as supplies from Russia are restricted or cut off completely. Unless something changes, next winter is going to be a really challenging time for many European nations.
We have entered the worst energy crisis in modern history, but what we have experienced so far is just the beginning.
Much worse is ahead, and the American people will become increasingly frustrated as prices just keep going higher and higher.
BBC offers a classic case of “smooth propaganda”. Can you spot the lies and layers of deception?
Elegant and devious, punctuated with half-truths, their brand of insidious “journalism” is a textbook of effective disinformation.
The BBC (like the New York Times) excels at disinformation with an authoritative touch. These media engines do not shout. Who wants to use a vulgar ax when innuendo, used as a stiletto, can accomplish so much more? Not surprising, then, that their "facts" and "arguments" —calibrated for a refined audience, and slyly embedded in many layers of deception not liable to be spotted by the untrained eye—are couched in what appears to be established truths and impeccable reasoning. Yet, as this piece so efficiently illustrates, almost every paragraph is tainted with a lie. Can you identify the lies? We'll give you a hint: the article uses one major stratagem to inject its poison—reality inversion. Almost everything in it is upside down. The people attacked are actually the truthtellers; the lonely few pushing against the vileness of tyrannical plutocratic elites masquerading as zealous champions of peace, freedom, and democracy. The people defended—like the notorious White Helmets, long exposed as a creation of British intelligence to facilitate regime change ops—are vectors for the lies upholding the Western imperialist order. For good measure, the pain of the "victims" is also exaggerated. And it doesn't help any that, by design, the discourse is also conducted in a contextual miasma in which some witnesses—like Dr Schlosberg—is seen loftily casting a curse on both warring houses. (Progressives of this type, who always end up carrying water for the Empire, are a regular fixture in Western political debates). It's also ironic but to be expected for these avatars of priggish "journalistic integrity", that while they are quick to mention in ominous tones that Dr Schlosberg (in connection with the largely debunked Bucha story) has been using some "Russian state media", they conveniently forget that the BBC itself is a huge media and propaganda instrument of the British state, an aggressive participant in many of the topics and events discussed in this story. So give it a try. We'd like to hear what you have to say.
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Three-Cheese Beef Pasta Shells
These Three-Cheese Beef Pasta Shells can be ready to impress in no time at all. Perfect for company and cozy nights at home, this hearty dish only looks like you spent all day in the kitchen. In fact, you can pull stuffed pasta shells with ground beef together with just 25 minutes of prep time, then get the rest of the meal ready while it bakes. These stuffed shells with cream cheese, ground beef, melty cheese and pasta sauce bring a whole new meaning to the term “comfort food.” No matter the occasion, nothing satisfies quite like a warm dish of Three-Cheese Beef Pasta Shells.
Ingredients
- 24 uncooked jumbo pasta shells
- 1 lb ground beef (at least 80% lean)
- 1 jar (25.5 oz) Muir Glen™ organic chunky tomato & herb pasta sauce
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 container (8 oz) chive and onion cream cheese spread
- 1 1/2 cups shredded Italian cheese blend (6 oz)
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 to 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, if desired
Killdozer
Out of the dust-bin, one of my long forgotten articles has gotten legs; The Tale of the Killdozer. My guess is that this is because it is approaching the anniversary of the event. In any event, I have got more than a random flood of visitors to the article.
Perhaps you all might want to mozy on over and check out this post; indeed, it is one of my better posts. It’s probably associated with the domestic insanity of the Biden Administration. Maybe that’s why so many people are visiting that article.
The Tale of the Killdozer.
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