Pimm’s Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 ounces Pimm’s No. 1
- 4 1/2 ounces sparkling lemonade
- Cucumber slice or peel, for garnish
- Fresh mint sprig, and/or orange slices or strawberries, for garnish
Steps to Make It
- Gather the ingredients.
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- In a tall glass filled with ice cubes, pour the Pimm’s.
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- Add the lemonade.
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- Garnish with the cucumber and any combination of mint, orange, and strawberries that you like. Serve and enjoy.
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Badlands News Brief – July 7, 2023
State Department Cancels Facebook Meetings After Trump Judge Blocks Biden Regime From Censoring Conservatives Online
I’ll bet they did.
Donald Trump: Ron DeSantis ‘Hurting Himself Very Badly for 2028’
Billionaire backing and a pretty wife will only get you so far. Some personality would help.
IRS quietly changes rule on how your children’s inheritance is taxed – here’s what you need to know to avoid a shock bill
Elimination of inheritance is one of the planks in Communist Manifesto.
Hunter Biden’s Cocaine Is a Manufactured Distraction From Consequential Crimes
Given the way the story keeps changing, I tend to agree.
The Price of Admissions
One Equal Temper
Democrats eyeing suburban women to launch new gun control effort
Same move over and over. This is how we ended up with Prohibition that gave us gaslighting and multiple complexes regarding alcohol.
Politico Says What We’re All Thinking: What If Biden ‘Just Dies One Evening?’
The “Joe Biden has to go” narrative beats on. Prepping the masses for the inevitable.
Leftist Agenda Can Only Advance by Force and Deceit
10 Million-Year-Old Tree Fossil Explains Natural Climate Change
No, The Supreme Court Did Not Carve Out A Military Exception In Race-Based Admissions
Purpose in Malaise
Communism has deserted the banlieues
The corruption of French feminism
Facebook’s Twitter Alternative Is Already Censoring
Army exempts trans service members from physical fitness standards
What?
DeSantis Hauls in Whopping $150 Million in Fundraising, Bests Trump’s $35 Million
Yeah, but WHO is funding him. Not the little people who vote.
The People’s President – Trump Campaign Raises $35 Million, With Average Contribution $34.20
Tweety Tweets:
Not sure how to snark that one.
Or DeSantis t-shirts or bumper stickers, for that matter.
MEME STASH:
And in the good news department. Eagle 126 is the eaglet Murphy was fostering when he was REALLY little. He gets released at 10 am today.
And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:
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Fellow tree dweller the late Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
And Auntie DePat’s requests:
If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.
The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.
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PSALMS 106:1-5
1Praise the LORD! O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever! 2Who can utter the mighty doings of the LORD, or show forth all his praise? 3Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times! 4Remember me, O LORD, when thou showest favor to thy people; help me when thou deliverest them; 5that I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thy heritage.
MATTHEW 9:9-13
9As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. 10And as he sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. 11And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13Go and learn what this means, `I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
SATIRE!
Have a good weekend!
Sorry. Had the wrong publishing time scheduled.
NEVER APOLOGIZE!!!
The proper time for a DePat post is when it arrives — not a minute earlier and not a minute later.
But it’s a labor of love so it doesn’t matter.
A little musical appetizer —
Regarding this headline from the open…
Politico Says What We’re All Thinking: What If Biden ‘Just Dies One Evening?’
…here’s what would happen. People would immediately assume it was not a natural death. They would speculate about who decided on this timing and why, and how Newsom or Michelle or Pelosi or someone can get past Kamala to be POTUS. Some would say that it was predicted according to numerology/gematria. Those who think that an imposter was filling in for JB would say the ruse had finally outlasted its usefulness and had been halted, and reasons would be put forth. Every conservative influencer/podcaster/blogosphere-er would have his/her own theory. Some would say, “I told you so.” Others would declare the death and state funeral to be faked for the express purpose of distracting us from other issues. Along those lines, one theory would be that JB didn’t really die; he was just unable to fulfill his duties and this saved Kamala and other executive officers from having to use the 25th Amendment. Only .00001% would believe the death to be natural. The Left would blame Trump for being mean. 😅
All of the above, quite likely true.
And, I would yawn. Glance at the timing.
Wondering, how long Hoe would be the “lead puppet”.
Wondering if the republicans would say NO , to any of the of the shitheads foisted for approval for VP.
Yea, I’m ambivalent on the headline.
I hope that Kernighan and Ritchie are proud of themselves…..
They just lit up a $2.3B LED sphere in Vegas, and one of the first things displayed on it is “hello world”. (About 0:15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uzm2VpLqp0
Another undying legacy of theirs:
Look up “recursion” in the index of K&R.
Every time I think of the white book, I think of Obi-wan’s words:
“The K&R Programming language. This is the language of a Kernel Developer. Not as clumsy or random as Python; an elegant language for a more civilized age.”
And, of course, a language eminently suited to harming oneself and others at the tiniest lapse of control.
Freedom Caucus members voted to oust Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. It’s unclear if it worked.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/freedom-caucus-members-voted-oust-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-unclear-w-rcna92960
I’m sorry, but I call them like I see them, and Lauren Boebert IS a little bitch. She’s a prissy, passive-aggressive backstabber, too.
MTG is a warrior male in a woman’s body, which freaks people out. Most don’t know how to handle that kind of energy and personality emanating from a female.
From the cheap seats.
MTG and other republican schmucks voting for the deficit, IS a bridge too far.
Since MTG fell in with Kevin, something is off, with MTG. IMO.
Well, Kevin does have a history with female congresscritter … attention.
More attention should be spent on “relationships” within the halls of Congress. Many people have a distorted view of what actually happens there. If they knew they would understand why they vote the way they do at times.
Can’t 100% disagree. But I don’t like Boebert.
Senator Tom Cotton Demands Secret Service Release ALL Info Related to Cocaine Found in White House
From the article:
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas is demanding that the Secret Service turn over all information regarding the cocaine recently discovered in the White House.
The story about where the drugs were found keeps changing and Tom Cotton rightly calls this a national security issue. If someone can sneak illegal drugs into the White House, what is to stop someone from sneaking a much more dangerous substance into the building?
The media is preparing to drop the story and move on because they want to protect Biden. Cotton is not letting it go away.
The Daily Mail reports:
“desantis-hauls-in-whopping-150-million-in-fundraising-bests-trumps-35-million/”
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Why is anyone raising money?
It costs practically nothing to manufacture paper ballots.
It costs actually nothing to manufacture electronic ballots.
And since it’s not the people who vote that count, but the people counting the votes, they decide who wins, not the voters.
So it doesn’t matter how many votes are cast for Trump, they’ll just add 100K votes for their candidate over whatever amount Trump gets, and claim victory.
None of this costs any money.
Certainly nothing even close to $150 million, or even $35 million.
These are obscene amounts of money for the task ahead of them.
TRUMP has published his PLATFORM – and is running on POLICIES.
DeSantis is running on dollar$$$ and propaganda ads.
Businessman (Trump) Vs Politician (Rob DeSwampis)
In case anyone skipped reading the story…
Moar can be said of these monies but it’s in the story.
“Senator Tom Cotton Demands…”
“Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas is demanding…”
“He demanded that…”
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“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”
What Tom Cotton actually said: “Congress and the American people deserve to know…”
What Tom Cotton actually said: “I urge you to release that information quickly…”
What Tom Cotton actually said: “Congress needs…”
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“deserve”, “urge”, “needs” ≠ “demand”
It would not make a bit of difference if Cotton had used the word “demand.” People would still criticize his efforts.
That’s not the point.
The point is that the reader is being misled by the use of the word ‘demand’. Tom Cotton didn’t use the word ‘demand’, the Gateway Pundit did.
Either the Gateway Pundit doesn’t understand what the word ‘demand’ means, or they do know what it means, and they are intentionally misleading their readers.
Words matter.
They shape what people think. If they didn’t, people wouldn’t use them.
To ‘demand’ something is to have the authority and power to compel performance.
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1 a : an act of demanding or asking especially with authority: a demand for obedience
Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th Edition
DEMAND, n. A peremptory claim to thing of right, differing from claim, in that it presupposes that there is no defense or doubt upon question of right, Golden V. Golden, 155 Okl. 10, 8 P.2d 42, 45; Anderson V. Commercial Credit Co., 110 Mont. 333, 101 P.2d 367, 369; National Life & Accident Ins. Co. v. Dove, 141 Tex. 464, 174 S.W.2d 245, 247.
The assertion of a legal right; a legal obligation asserted in the courts; a word of art of an extent greater in its signification than any other word except “claim.” Nunn V. Titche-Goettinger Co., Tex.Civ.App., 196 S.W. 890, 892. Demand for payment. Peterson v. Rodgers, 51 Ariz. 502, 78 P.2d 480, 482; assessment upon corporate stock of deceased. Smith v. Fechheimer, 124 Fla. 757, 169 So. 395, 398; presentment of statement, Davison v. Klaess, 280 N.Y. 252, 20 N.E.2d 744, 746.
An imperative request preferred by one person to another, under a claim of right, requiring the latter to do or yield something or to abstain from some act. Zimmerman V. Hicks, C.C.A., 7 F.2d . 443, 445; Norwood Nat. Bank v. Piedmont Pub. Co., 106 S.C. 472, 91 S.E. 866, 867; school district’s request that depositary honor checks for salaries. School District of City of Lansing V. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York, 266 Mich. 189, 253 N.W. 263; demand for extradition, Ex parte King, 139 Me. 203, 28 A.2d 562, 564.
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Cotton doesn’t have that authority, or if he does, he made a conscious choice not to use it here.
If he did, we wouldn’t be having this discussion, because the FIB would have turned over the information immediately, or suffer the consequences someone in a position of power and authority to make a ‘demand’ can impose.
What Cotton is doing is roughly equivalent to begging.
That’s why the FIB can and will ignore him with impunity.
So the article makes it sound like Cotton is a tough guy who is going to force the FIB to comply with his ‘demand’.
The truth is nothing of the sort.
The truth is the opposite.
The truth is the FIB will laugh at Tom Cotton and tell him to go pound sand.
Tom certainly and obviously knows this.
So there is a reason Tom did not use the word ‘demand’, and that reason is because he has neither the power nor the authority to ‘demand’ it, or else he certainly would have, instead of wasting his (and everyone else’s) time begging for something which he will not get.
Since Tom knows he will compel no such performance from the FIB with his ‘deserve’, ‘urge’ and ‘needs’ begging, the obvious conclusion is that, as usual, his comments are all hat and no cattle, classic meaningless political blither, intended to play to his base, with zero effect in the real world.
You are correct that the article used words that Cotton didn’t. I have no argument with that point.
This goes beyond your stated point (that the article assigned a different word than Cotton used), and informs my point:
As I said, it wouldn’t matter what words he used, he would still be criticized. No matter what efforts are made, even if they are all that can be done at a particular time in the context in which a person must work, the efforts will be criticized.
“As I said, it wouldn’t matter what words he used, he would still be criticized.”
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Will words solve the problem?
If words could solve the problem(s), would there be any more problems left to solve?
Do our problems exist due to an insufficient number of words to address them?
For certain, there is no shortage of words.
Is it not action which is needed, rather than (more) words?
He could very easily have said “I am as angry about this as the American People are, but as a Senator, I don’t have the power or authority to compel the FIB to turn over those documents.
To compel the FIB to turn over those documents would require ___[fill in the blank, whatever ‘action’ it is]__. That process begins today, and I will provide a progress update in seven days.”
Action, followed by accountability.
If that ‘action’ is something which Tom Cotton can do personally or with the assistance of fellow senators, then he should say so and provide a time estimate to achieve that action, and a date when he will update the public regarding his progress on the matter.
However, if there is no way for Tom Cotton to ever compel the FIB to turn the documents over, then he should say that, in order for the American People to realize and know that Congress is POWERLESS to reign in the rogue, degenerate, renegade and criminal FIB.
But Tom chose “none of the above”. Tom chose self-serving bluster, to make only a show of words.
Which is what we always get, and the only thing we ever get, from the political-class.
Is such not deserving of criticism?
Recall that this is not the 1960s, or the 1980s, or even the 2000s.
It is going on three years since the Republic ended with the unconstitutional transfer of power from a legitimately elected President to an unelected criminal puppet of a former president who is Constitutionally barred from serving a third term, but doing so anyway.
Are we not like Wile E. Coyote, having run a hundred yards past the edge of the cliff, pretending like we don’t know it?
If ever there was a time for criticism of the people who presume to lead this nation, is that time not now?
I stopped reading after that sentence, since it is a straw man argument. Words, of course, are the vehicles by which anything is reported.
“No matter what efforts are made, even if they are all that can be done at a particular time in the context in which a person must work, the efforts will be criticized.”
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Is such criticism not valid and deserved?
How might we judge?
Is past performance not a legitimate measure?
When was the last time any posturing member of Congress actually caused truth to be revealed or compelled government agency to provide satisfaction or relief to the People, as opposed to continually pimping us with promises of action which never materialize?
So much so that it is difficult not to conclude that inaction is their primary function?
Are they not the Poster Children of inaction, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing?
Or are they indeed signifying something, just something other than what it appears to be?
Saying one thing for public consumption, to ingratiate themselves with their constituents, while secretly serving some other purpose or master?
Could such be anything other than willful and intentionally deceitful and malicious?
How might we know?
Could we not apply the same test as I used for the Hussein?
Even a blind squirrel sometimes gets a nut. Even the incompetent sometimes get lucky. Even blind luck results in occasional success.
But with Hussein, every action, every policy, every decision led inexorably in one direction, to the manifest detriment of America, always and continuously.
If “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action“, then what is 8 straight years in office, and all the years since?
Can we not apply the same measure to Mr. Cotton, and most (if not all) of the other ninety and nine criminals in the U.S. Senate?
Every case should be evaluated on its own merits.
If FIB actually did tell him to pound sand, it would be a compliment in that its normal behavior is to ignore. Responding at all gives value.
Like a hound with a bone.
The old national security trope. It is becoming as trite as racism. Unfortunately even if the Secret Service sends a detailed report which is widely published the question remains- would a reasoning adult believe it? The trust is gone and NO ONE in Washington is believable. The federal government has demonstrated, at least to my satisfaction, that they have no inclination or intention of fulfilling their core responsibility to the country and its citizens.
“Washington Post: US will give Ukraine M864 cluster shells, created in 1987”
https://t.me/intelslava/49746
via Andrei’s blog:
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“France supplied them and US supplied cluster bomb canisters for HIMARS to kill civilians in Donbass.”
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America just approved the sending of cluster munitions in their most recent aid package.
Does this mean Russia can use cluster munitions now?
👉Not that Ukraine doesn’t already use cluster munitions, but with the most recent aid package, their ability to use cluster munitions will be increased. Ukraine has been shelling both military and (primarily) residential areas since 2014 with such munitions.
❓But, the USA seemingly forgets that Russia has the largest arsenal of cluster, thermobaric, and phosphorus munitions in the world; something which Russia has mercifully used, only on specific targets throughout the SMO. If Russia decides to utilise such arsenals; there will be more significant more death on the Ukrainian side.
https://t.me/NabrezhnyeInte…
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“”Legally, there is nothing stopping Russia from using this on military targets…”
Except that the Ukrainians habitually put all their military targets in densely populated civilian areas, schools, hospitals, shopping malls, etc.”
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“Even if they were prepared to flout international law (which they aren’t), the Russians would have little to gain from using cluster bombs. The Kiev mob find them useful for murdering civilians.”
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“Disgraceful and a new low by Biden.
Western FakeNews is saying that Russia is using cluster bombs in Ukraine. Maybe I am wrong but I doubt it – also I have seen zero evidence of this. Does anyone have any proof?
Anyway, the difference between Russia and the US is that the US would be openly flouting statutory restrictions that Congress has put on the ability of the US
to transfer cluster munitions. See
https://www.reuters.com/wor….
There is no bridge too far for Briben and Soetoro. You have to care about humanity to stop the madness. They clearly do not along with all of the GOP who sit on their hands and say nothing to out them.
A Canadian band’s breakthrough single — MTV version….
Very funny moment comes at 2:38 — “my heart would break” — but nobody in the band is singing, so band members look around, seemingly confused.
That’s Bryan Adams, doing a vocal cameo on the album version of the song, breaking the “fourth wall” that this was a spontaneous performance.
RF prepositions countermove to any globo attempt at strangling its trade with the East…
About the new corridor from Central Asia to Russia
The Governor of the Astrakhan region, Igor Babushkin, said that now Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan will be able to use the new multimodal transport corridor to Russia and back, bypassing Kazakhstan through the Caspian Sea.
From the point of view of logistics, the overland route through the Kazakh territories is faster and cheaper compared to the new corridor through Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and the Caspian Sea — after all, the distance is longer plus transshipment to merchant ships.
However, its appearance is a very reasonable step taken by the authorities of Russia and the post—Soviet countries. Yes, it is more resource-intensive and less profitable than land-based, but it provides an alternative.
The dependence of Russia’s trade relations with Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan on the mood of the Kazakh leadership is dangerous in the perspective of Western influence on the domestic political situation in Kazakhstan and attempts to destroy interstate relations with the Kremlin.
Diversification of logistics routes reduces this dependence on Kazakhstan, and also demonstrates to a very careless neighbor that in the case of an anti-Russian policy, Kazakhs may be left without a significant share of the profits from transit to and from the Russian Federation.
Map in high resolution
https://t.me/rybar/49425
Back in the day…..
Some asshat in a Mercedes couldn’t drive 55 today…they drove 48 MPH on a two lane highway with a speed limit of 65.
A disgrace to their car’s badge, which I got to study for six miles.
Happens here too… I put it down to Karen practicing ‘social distancing’
(drivers like yours should not be allowed to drive a Mercedes … they should ride bicycles …)
LOL!!!
If the driver wanted to socially distance, they’re doing it stupid.
Having a line of ten cars on your ass is not what anyone with more than about four brain cells would call social distancing.
An absolute disgrace to the car she/he was driving.
My morning commute is on this two lane highway…and usually I get to drive it “unconstrained” (i.e., where my only constraints are actual safety and cops) until a certain point…where there will ALWAYS be someone leading a parade at 10 MPH under the speed limit (and it’s never the same person either).
This clown was a couple of miles earlier than that, and much slower.
I used to have to drive a winding, hilly, two lane highway when I would come home from (or go back to) college.
145 miles each way. It was always a race, my record was 97 minutes.
The worst was getting stuck behind a line of cars who were all too afraid to pass the semi in front of them.
I knew the road well, so when we crested a hill and I could see far enough to know whether I could probably beat the oncoming traffic, I would pull out and begin the long march.
In a 5-speed, 4-cylinder 1980 Celica. Downshifted to 4th gear and red-lined, that little squirrel under the hood was going as fast as he could go.
More than a few times I had to pass 7 or more cars, PLUS the semi they were all too afraid to pull out and pass, which is why there was such a long line of traffic backed up behind the semi in the first place.
And every time, as I sailed clear of the pack, hitting max speed of 110mph in 5th gear, and checked my rearview mirror, sure enough… after seeing me pass everybody, from the BACK of the pack, the other drivers got brave, and started passing the semi too 😂
In 1979, I drove my little Sunbeam Alpine from South Jersey to Santa Clarita CA in 67 hours.
It was a Dexys Midnight Runners event.
When you got to Santa Clarita, did you explain to people there that they should leave your passenger alone, because “he’s just dead”?
“Some asshat in a Mercedes couldn’t drive 55 today…they drove 48 MPH on a two lane highway with a speed limit of 65.”
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My great grandfather used to use the chrome horn, to gently bump people like that, with his big old Cadillac.
Gave ’em a little jolt of adrenaline.
They always sped up after that 😂
Ah, that is such a great video! Sammy Hagar had such an amazing career. Been a fan since his “Montrose” days!
“SITREP 7/6/23: Zelensky Builds One Last Suicidal Thrust to Appease Masters”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-7623-zelensky-builds-one-last
Has an interesting theory about twitter, claims the info scraping stopped natø attacking the ZNPP.
Hi RAC,
Thanks for the link … my between the lines take is that USG Intel Agencies have increased their ‘data mining’ or as Elon terms it, ‘info scraping’ to the extent that they (Intel) learned the US public views the activities of US/NATO/Ukr gaslighting wrt Russian plans to strike the ZNPP as that … gaslighting/FALSE FLAG ..
The Thinker believes US/NATO will con’t to gaslight in this regard as a cover when needed for Ukr’s “offensive” failures …
The Thinker’s article linked affirms Elon’s disclosure of ‘info scraping’ and ought to concern Americans as to the depth of spying the USG engages in … instead, they complain about not being able to view tweets…
Absolutely 👍
“Missing Biden Corruption Whistleblower Dr. Gal Luft Resurfaces – Releases 14 Minute Video Detailing Criminal Allegations Against Biden Crime Family”(with video)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/missing-biden-corruption-whistleblower-dr-gal-luft-goes/
not sure what wp is doing this morning, but at my site and Marica’s I see the gravatar picture but not my screen name just a bracketed 1 [1]
but here all looks normal. my site is the free. no frills one so maybe that’s the reason…
anyway just a post to see if i post normally here
Looks normal. 
Good Morning Pat, you look great …
The WP [1] moniker attack is now also at Sylvia’s blog.
If this happens here, everyone make sure to start your posts with your moniker!
It’s like some kind of futuristic prison, where we are assigned a number, but they’re all the same!
On my screen, yours is missing on at least a couple posts.
Hmmm.
I refreshed the page and everything is normal.
But, that happens to me a lot, that the avatars disappear when my computer goes to sleep and I haven’t refreshed the page.
Chiefio’s has the same problem. Names appear OK in the sidebar, but only as brackets ones in the heading…
Once more, Sausage Squisher (wurst press) does an update without testing it properly first… probably has a shortage of over-50 white guys…..
Or Bye,Done’s displaced miners (minors?) are working for them 🙂 or 🙁
The trained monkeys are on strike. They’ve been temporarily replaced by undergrads majoring in queer theory.
Yes, this site is not managed by WordPress Dot Com. This is an open source WordPress site managed by our hosting company.
We didn’t have the plugin that had the problem. You all have whatever plugins WP.com decides to give you.
I just noticed, I’m not seeing any gravatar pictures here today.
Larry’s latest:
REGARDING THE UPCOMING NATO SUMMIT, I COULDN’T WRITE IT BETTER
6 July 2023 by Larry Johnson 56 Comments
“I have cited articles by my new friend, Stephen Bryen, in previous posts. Steve and I do not always agree. But I know him to be a man of integrity. You don’t always have to agree with someone in order to like and respect them. Unlike the disgraceful Bill Burns, Steve does not put a finger to the wind to figure out what he should say. He looks at the current situation based on his life experience and gives you an unvarnished account. I encourage you to read his latest on Substack — What to Expect from the Vilnius NATO Summit.
I was planning a similar piece but, in light of what he has posted, I decided not to plow the same ground twice. Steve carves some very straight, powerful furrows.
Con’t https://sonar21.com/regarding-the-upcoming-nato-summit-i-couldnt-write-it-better/
If you wanted to undermine America’s security and standing in the world, how might you go about it as a strong enemy?
You might try to fight a proxy war cage match that your citizens strongly support for all of the honest, objective professionals to observe and record the results. Which is then reported to the leaders of nations as they make choices to align or not with the winning side (you). The cost/benefit analysis of alignment with one or the other would be at stake. You don’t need to win all over to your side. You need to win some strategically located over and put others on notice they better stay neutral in the future or be destroyed.
Check. Russia’s full onslaught of Ukraine along with BRICS and its worldwide expanding alliance.
Meanwhile you continue the infiltration and disruption of society in America such that it crumbles from within using perverts, cartels, traitors and seditionists. Some of these are brainwashed into believing they are the good guys. They take over key federal and willing state functions along with society’s institutions such as schools, media, money supply, etc.
Check. Mission is well on its way to accomplishment. All that stands between mission accomplished in the rear view mirror is MAGA. Us.
We see you, Satan. 🔥 is your final destination.
Heads-up:
Yesterday afternoon, over at Marica’s blog, WP replaced ALL monikers with [1]. Avatar images are still there, but no monikers. Now it’s spread to Pat’s blog and to Sylvia’s blog. Still going on at all three places. Marica has reached out to WP, and the reply was, “They’re looking into it.”
Feds scraping monikers.
/s
kalbo
AND the WP (or ** whoever ** is behind it) moniker attack on all three places is “retroactive” — all monikers were replaced with [1] on all comments / replies as far back at each blog that Yours Truly can determine so far.
On my screen, today’s daily.
At least one of mine is missing. One of yours also. No number. Just an empty square.
Edit.
Now, several of yours. couple of mine. Recent stuff.
Going to hard shutdown. Start and see what happens.
kalbo
Are you referring to this blog?
Yes. Including your post I am replying to.
Going to do the hard shutdown now.
EDIT. After hard shutdown, fresh open, avatars ARE back.
Hard shutdown… are you doing “percussive maintenance”?
(If I had a hammer…. 🙂 or the old ‘metele’ PC “game”…)….
He didn’t send it to Hildabeast’s Puter Fix shop …
Maybe something like this:
https://www.miniplay.com/game/metele-al-ordenata
(if you want to wear out your mouse button, in Spanish)… 🙂
It’s also at Chiefio’s and some other blogs.
Another Wurst Press update gone wrong… pre-deployment testing seems to be unplowed ground for them…
Chiefio’s says it’s the Gutenberg block editor plug in, which apparently can only be replaced by other plugin(s) ONLY available to those with a BUSINESS SUBSCRIPTION… so neither easy nor free to replace.
Looks like more sudden censorship to me… 😡 😡 😡 😡
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/07/07/the-1f-up-by-wordpress-non-fix-of-block-editor-crap
Looks like it’s just been fixed…. all the comments over at Chiefio’s have the correct handles now, instead of the number of footnotes or whatever (which produced the 1s). Looks like Jim2 figured it out, or at least pointed at the bad code…
Wondering if the TLAs are doing MITM (man in the middle) siphoning of data… maybe there are some wide-left blogs that are unaffected?????
As of now, monikers are back at Marica’s blog.
Leave Monica Lewinsky out of this. I’d be very surprised if she ever read Marica’s, and thus I doubt she could be “back” there.
😀
Verse of the Day for Friday, July 7, 2023
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“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”
Luke 2:14 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
BE MY VOICE
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Thank you for these. Prayers ongoing for you here and at Marica’s blog.
Trump rally today in Council Bluffs 😁
Thanks for the reminder.
Heavily armed suspect busted near Obama’s house got the address from Trump social media post: feds
Suspect busted near Obama’s home got address from Trump post (nypost.com)
Narrative engineering.
J6 wackos. Promote censorship. Trump supporters dangerous…
An article, which was re-shared…
kalbo
This situation smells “tailor-made” in order to “facilitate” the Ron DeepState campaign, IMO.
Absolutely plausible.
Whatever they can do to promote Rob, in the short term.
Gotta stop Trump.
Ron de Satan…
So … why didn’t he succeed in harming Zero? How did LE find out about him?
Probably a cohort of Paulie P’s hammertacker ! Zero and his family are still cruising the Mediterranean I guess
Mad jack just wet himself with excitement.
Hmmm. Maybe Captain Jack’s been hanging around in the White House? (or white powder)… Seems Billy Joel might have the answer 😀
*** SOMEONE *** DOESN’T WANT THE TRUTH COMING OUT ABOUT HOW THE COVID-19 “VACCINES” KILL PEOPLE —
RED ALERT 🛑
The Lancet published a pre-print paper ON JULY 5, co-authored by Dr. Peter McCullough, proving that effects from the COVID-19 “vaccines” were responsible for 74% of the deaths that were autopsied in 325 patients.
The Lancet paper was viewed at least 30,000 times within 24 hours.
THE LANCET TOOK THE PAPER DOWN LAST NIGHT. Only the Abstract is now available to view, and it can’t be downloaded.
HOW IN H3LL can the Lancet make a determination that a pre-print paper “doesn’t meet guidelines” WITHIN 24 HOURS AFTER PUBLISHING IT?
(Answer: The Lancet did what they were “ordered” to do by ***someone *** who doesn’t want the truth to be known about how the COVID-19 “vaccines” kill people, and took the paper down.)
The Steve Kirsch article about this situation:
https://kirsch.substack.com/p/the-most-damaging-paper-of-the-pandemic
The Daily Sceptic article about the situation:
https://dailysceptic.org/2-023/07/06/lancet-study-on-covid-vaccines-autopsies-finds-74-were-caused-by-vaccine-journal-removes-study-within-24-hours/
The pre-print paper itself, in PDF version:
https://dailysceptic.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SSRN-id4496137.pdf
(Yours Truly recommends downloading this paper before WP gets a **hint** from **someone** to remove it.)
The take-away graphic from the paper:
Note that the majority of the “vaccine” effects that caused death were CARDIOVASCULAR.
Good job. ThanQ.
^^^ This.
Part of their depop plan, IMO.
If you were weaponizing a bioweapon against a large swath of world population, what would you do?
Use COVID 19 or equivalent respiratory oriented disease. Create fake vaccines and fake therapeutic meds and procedures to do the dirty work after enough fear porn is disseminated by media and controlled medical community sources. Said vaccines, which are actually experimental gene therapies, would need to lower immunity to allow natural health weaknesses within the targeted population to activate. Cardiac, cancer, blood disorders, infertility, etc. all strongly on the upswing with excess mortality.
What does being one of the most obese, least personal health conscious nations on earth add to this?
Yup.
If you were weaponizing a bioweapon against a large swath of world population, what would you do?
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Open a MacDonald’s? Give your toddler sugary soft drinks?
Well, they started with ‘coke’ sold in a pharmacy in 1886 in Atlanta for 5 cents … and realized that was peanuts when they could ‘expand pharmaceutical products’ … Big Pharma was born.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cocacola+first+sold+in+a+pharmacy&atb=v310-1&ia=web
I’m getting “Not Found” for both the Kirsch article and the Daily Sceptic one. Has censorship reached that level, where they wipe out all dialogue about a particular topic?
I got the PDF still working the other link page not found
Both opened; thank you!
Try this link, I bookmarked it yesterday and it worked again just now….
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/07/06/lancet-study-on-covid-vaccine-autopsies-finds-74-were-caused-by-vaccine-journal-removes-study-within-24-hours/
Observations from afar. Philippines.
Nearly two months. Zero tranny crap. Boondocks all but five days at Subic Bay and Manila.
Light in the loafers numbskulls here and there. Normal for Philippines over the years.
Tonight. Manila airport first jerk wad wench, with pink hair. Pale face, likely American. Slob to boot. Absolute eye sore.
Masks. Boondocks, prolly 1 in 20. Manila 1 in 10.
See ya’ll on the other side. 🙂
safe trip K and Mrs K
Yours Truly: If that isn’t the video version of “Photo-shop”, then it appears that Hunter Biden took a “snort” on the White House balcony on July 4 in front of small children. Interesting that “Dr. Jill” appears to see this out of the corner of her eye, since it appears he took the “snort” while walking behind her.
People generally don’t react very much to actions they are accustomed to seeing.
On a balcony at the WH a relatively sane person might
Key word — sane.
Nuff sed.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane,
It’s a man insane.
It’s our resident, FJB…
(just as bad as LBJ, but in a different way)…
Jill definitely glanced at him.
IF he’s taking a hit right out in the open like that he’s way off the wagon and all the PR in the world won’t be able to hide it for long
I hope you’re right. Not that I want anyone to be so addicted, but if he is, he needs to be stopped and helped, and the country needs to be saved from him and his father!
If he did sneeze, the noise could have drawn her attention.
I can’t say one way or another what it is we are seeing, to be honest. It seems too quick to be a “hit” to me, but I am not a part of that culture; maybe they’ve gotten faster at it.
I think she heard him snort the coke, which triggered her reaction.
I’d be the last person to defend the jerk, but to me that looked more like he was sneezing into his hands.
Head goes quite violently forward, as does when one sneezes.
If he was snuffing something up his nose it’s more natural for the head to go backwards.
Yep. I was thinking his nose is probably about all worn out… sleazin’, sneezin’ and wheezin’ … and it’s snowing in summer…
I don’t see the head movement like a sneeze but I also didn’t see any hand movement reaching for a item with coke in it to snort like a vial with a spoon.
It does seem odd that he walked on off but they’re odd people so..Jill also looked a little strained . The clip is too short but my vote is that he didn’t have time to take a hit.
just my 2 cents
LOL, any thought I have on this subject by now is antiquated old school. Back then it was a fairly elaborate affair..chopping, lining it up, finding a straw or bill…now there’s probably individual hit aids that any well heeled crackhead would know about and who needs to chop up the finest blow around ?! Put a couple in your natty sportcoat pocket for these tedious First Family outings !
LOL.
The voice of experience 😆
She did. She’s having to navigate trying to make Joe look competent, keeping Hunter from being caught red-handed, etc. She enabled the entire fiasco and is paying a price for it. If justice is to be done, there will be much bigger prices to pay.
Jill is strategically positioned between Potatus and children … not by accident.
hahah you’re right ! And he’s looking straight at them wanting to bad touch
Are they gonna dig up Glenn Frey? Who would pay to see a ripoff of the real deal?
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/eagles-announce-final-tour-dates-1235662369/
via zeroHedge
DoD Invokes Defense Production Act To Boost Metals Mining After China Export Controls
FTA
“As a refresher to our early reporting, gallium is most common in semiconductors, transistors, and small electronic devices. It’s also used to make LEDs. As for military-grade Gallium Nitride, it’s found in cutting-edge weapon technology that US defense companies produce. Three of the most common uses for germanium are rectifiers, transistors, and weapons-sighting systems.
What’s most alarming is China controls the world’s processing and refining of rare earth metals.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dod-invokes-defense-production-act-boost-metals-mining-after-china-export-controls
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I thought invoking the DPA was an Executive Branch decision. Apparently, the DoD is now exposed as to who is running the show? So we’ll start to see more production 5-10 years later after mining is able to ramp up? They will be running those mining operations with all battery powered equipment correct? Go green…
Lots of nations have the raw materials. The trick is the industrial magic after the raw materials get delivered… the production of the actual product from that raw material. China is one of the few nations to do that step.
But no one is concerned about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve because the Biden Team/Neocons think we can wait on Electric Tanks and Electric Planes if this country is attacked?
This situation looks very similar to the cheap NatGas problem in Europe. Lets blowup the NS1&2 first, then look for expensive NatGas to power the European industry. Similar, with rare earths. Lets piss-off China first, which has a near worldwide monopoly on rare earths, then look for alternative for our (defense) industry. And I assume we are dealing with the same ‘planners’ in both cases. Selling off Uranium One was a bad idea after all?
Since we invented most of those processing techniques and the equipment that goes with them, it shouldn’t be much trouble to bring them back. The fact that the DOD is invoking DPA to get things running again is only a disappointment with regard to the fact that they waited so long.
ZeroHedge is hyperventilating here. They should take a look at some of the mining industry journals and sites to see what actually IS out there. Steve McIntyre probably has something up on it by now…
How does that work exactly?
Do high tech machines just drop from sky?
Does it magically create skilled workers?
Does it shield from environmental wackos?
Does it protect from insane unions?
Fom what my 10 minute research finds, US has ONE mine operating … MP Materials, current owner of Mountain Pass mine.
source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rare-earth-mining-renewable-energy-future#:~:text=Mountain%20Pass%20(shown)%2C%20in,wind%20turbines%20and%20electric%20vehicles.
Above link found here: https://knpr.org/news-88-9-knpr/2023-05-31/massive-rare-earth-discoveries-could-mean-a-new-mining-rush-in-the-mountain-west
Still firing on all 12. 😆
Thank you … (bowing) Some days I forget to eat! Grateful when I can spew more than word salad… 😀
You are a V-12 engine firing on all cylinders. 😍
The article either is written on the misunderstanding that gallium is a rare earth metal, or it just seems that way because of an abrupt subject change between the two paragraphs quoted.
There are plenty of elements that have limited sources, but that doesn’t make them one of the rare earth metals. The ones that actually are rare earth metals are the ones in the top of the two rows that look like a footnote in most presentations of the periodic table (lanthanum through lutetium). The elements in the footnote are called the “lanthanides”, these are usally combined with yttrium and scandium (the two elements above the “hole” left in the periodic table by pulling the “footnote” out) to create the category of rare earth metals/rare earth elements. (Lithium is also often misidentified as a rare earth metal in one article that keeps returning (and getting posted) like a bad penny.)
Gallium is nowhere near this place on the periodic table, it’s over under aluminum. Lithium is way up in the upper left corner directly under hydrogen (it’s one of the alkali metals). They’re very different, chemically from the lanthanides (and the rare earth elements). The only similarity is that their commercially viable ores are rare enough you have to go to certain parts of the world to get them. (They’re not actually all that rare in the cosmic sense; cerium for instance is at least as common, atom for atom, as copper, and you probably have some in the lining of your self-cleaning oven.)
Of course “rare earth” is a misnomer … one coined by usual suspect…
“gold” is probably the only “rare earth” /s
Well…It’s complicated, and my response would depend on how I interpret your comment. In one way it’s actually dead on, though you did mean it sarcastically. But it would take a long time to untangle.
You may have just caused me to change tomorrow’s science topic.
I meant it when expressed (gold) … then added /s because I’m not a rocket scientist and wasn’t sure of my comment …
I’m a political junkie … see the manipulations involved … ignore the minerals (except those trace ones needed for my health, so drink gator ade when I work in the yard)
You and several others are rocket scientists and zero in on that … no offense meant, just trying to explain in my back-to-normal word salad way at this point in my life …
(sigh) yardman cometh … will now go dig in the dirt which I enjoy and know more about.
Yeah, it comes down to how things are classified.
Gold is what it is. It’s rare, it’s a metal, it comes out of the earth.
But it’s not a “rare earth element” or a “rare earth metal” even though all three of those words apply. There’s a lot of history involved.
Even though none of the rare earths are actually as rare as gold, the difficulty of finding a halfway decent ore, then extracting them and separating them from each other (we really didn’t know how until the 1950s, and it’s still tough) means that functionally they are rare, as in hard-to-obtain. And that turns them into a political football, though they aren’t the only ones which are political footballs for the same reason. You’ve seen gold, I’m sure; you’ve probably never seen the rare earth metals (I have, but I had to take special efforts to do so).
Now there are elements (but not “rare earth elements”) that are, in actual fact, at least as rare as gold…but (leaving aside radioactive special cases) they’re generally in the platinum group, almost centrally located in the periodic table.
The ‘rare earths/elements’ are not called ‘rare’ because they are found only in few places on earth. They are everywhere but in small quantities, thus called ‘rare’.
Because they are in small quantities/concentration, you need to go through a large amount of common earth, sometimes full mountains to extract whatever you need. This destruction looks very ugly to the naked eye, and uses large amount of energy (oil and gas). So, Greta here she comes to save the planet.
LOL!
Is she ready to give up her portable electronics? This of course would mean she has no audience any more.
Come ON Greta, take one for the team! Give up all your rare-earth-element using devices!!!
She speaketh with a forked tongue, and a pinhead of neurons synapsing … portable electronics for her, none for us…
She’s a Satanist child of Satanist parents… what else could be expected…
Same as old Adolf and his inner circle, worshipping the beast and the “nature gods”…..
The Green movement is a LOT darker than what most people realize, know, or care to see….. and paedophilia is just a part of it, along with bestiality, polyamory, and human sacrifices…
Whatever happened to good old swinging?
Is germanium much used now except for perhaps low voltage diodes, I thought most semi conductor devices used silicon.
It’s just China f’ing with US supply chains in retaliation for the US f’ing with their supply chains for semiconductor equipment. Just raises costs and maybe slows things, no change to the outcomes.
USG can just print some rare-earth metals. Problem solved.
Print?????
… I thought most semi conductor devices used silicon.
Not certain RAC, but I think you’re correct about that …
(everytime I see the word ‘germanium’ my brain starts looking for red flowers, skips right over the ‘m’ as in ‘germ’)
I sometimes have the opposite difficulty. “Are those flowers germaniums?”
I think germanium was used for the first semiconductors, but silicon turned out to be cheaper to use once we learned how. There are probably other reasons for the change as well. (I wouldn’t be surprised to hear some applications still use germanium.) There are also other elements, and even combinations of elements, that can be used this way…when I was in school aluminum-gallium-arsenide was thought to be the wave of the future. (It wasn’t.)
An alloy combining silicon and germanium (SiGe), used for certain types of transistors make very low noise devices, useful for receiver first stages, where some weak signal should be amplified and not degraded by noise. Apparently the compound of the two Group IV -materials* is good for this.
Detector diodes may still be germanium, or they might be made of silicon; the Schottky type where one side is aluminium is quite popular at high frequencies.
The (very) old PNP versus NPN issue rears its head after many years…..
I would take a rougher definition of rare earth metals as being any metal we are not ourself mining in abondance enough to meet our needs.
Unfortunately the REE term has a very specific chemical meaning.
Not that the concept you are putting forward isn’t a legitimate one, but it needs a different name…I’ve often seen “strategic metals” used in a similar context (or when talking about the ores, “strategic minerals”).
Under the class of materials known as unobtanium 🙂
“Blast rocks Russian explosives plant”https://www.rt.com/russia/579334-blast-russian-explosives-plant/
Welding work indeed.
Someone call that suspicious cat in.
The explosion did not result in the plant getting shut down. So maybe it wasn’t much of an explosion beyond its blast radius.
More well-done than welding…
Seems a lot of repair work anymore goes up in flames (cf. Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris)…
via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/13310
Stoltenberg – on the eve of the NATO summit in Lithuania:
✔️Zelensky will take part in the first meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council at the summit in Vilnius.
✔️NATO as an alliance does not have a position on the convention on cluster munitions, because a number of our members have signed the convention, a number of others have not signed the convention. The decision on the supply of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine is up to individual members, this should be decided by governments, and not by NATO as an alliance.
✔️We have shipped an unprecedented amount of different types of ammunition and continue to announce deliveries. This is properly coordinated. Ukraine needs to use thousands of shells every day. Therefore, you need to send them again. This is exactly what the allies are doing: they are supplying Ukraine with more and more ammunition and spare parts for various artillery systems, armored vehicles, tanks and air defense systems.
✔️NATO is preparing an additional 500 million euro assistance package to Ukraine, including fuel and medicines.
✔️After the summit, we will take further steps to strengthen our deterrence policy with three new defense plans to combat our main threats, Russia and terrorism. One plan is for the North and the Atlantic, another for Central Europe, and a third for the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions.
✔️The Alliance will adopt a plan to deploy over 300,000 troops backed by significant air and sea forces.
✔️NATO countries will set 2% of GDP as the minimum amount of military spending. Defense spending by NATO countries in 2023 will be increased by 8.3% – a record increase in decades.
Hmmm … who started that ‘meet-your-duties’ 2% thingy? Could NATO be afraid that DJT is going to win in 2024 and beat up on it some more?
That’s the Minimum now … Stoltenberg is upping it to 8.3% … a record increase .
(I agree DJT lit a fire under their butts)
Does that mean the Ukraine arms trough is going to dry up? I can’t believe that increase would be tolerated if it all had to go to the same shithole.
Time to quit it, hope the 4X rise will help make up minds.
via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/13301
“A real turmoil began in Congress against the backdrop of the White House’s proposal to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions . This was simultaneously opposed by both Trump supporters, calling for a truce, and left-wing Democrats – who have long kept quiet on the topic of Ukraine.
But now they were too impatient. Somali Congresswoman Ilhan Omar immediately sent amendments to the upcoming military budget for a complete ban on the export of cluster bombs from the United States. And hawks in both parties have become worried – this decision could finally undermine the already shaky consensus in Washington about further support for Ukraine .
The Biden team appeals to the fact that the stocks of conventional ammunition are already heavily depleted – and Kyiv still cannot advance with a counteroffensive. Opponents also point out that cluster weapons have not been produced for years . Very old ammunition will be sent to Ukraine – in which the share of unexploded shells can reach 15-30% .
In other words, cluster munitions will then continue to kill civilians for years after the end of the conflict . This also met with strong concern from international human rights activists – they already recorded the use of cluster bombs by Ukrainians in Izyum in the summer of 2022, which led to the death of eight civilians.
The United States actively used cluster munitions in Iraq and Afghanistan – the consequences of their use are still felt by the local population. Now it may be the turn of the Ukrainians – if the divided Congress still approves it. If cluster bombs are eventually delivered, but the counteroffensive continues to slip, then agreeing on the next military budget for Ukraine in August-September risks becoming a very difficult task for Biden’s apparatchiks.”
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via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/13312 click link for vidclip of Psaki speaking
If Russia uses cluster munitions, it would be a “war crime ,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on March 1, 2022. Nearly a year and a half later, the Biden administration is about to deliver cluster munitions to Kyiv.
Ol’ brain forgot to mention, to remind:
Lavrov has stated and lovely Maria has reiterated … “U.S. sending cluster bombs to Ukr is … a red line.
via Bloomberg
Janet Yellen has arrived in Beijing Thursday afternoon to seek common ground and open channels of communication amid increasingly turbulent relations …
▪️This will be the first major test of the policy she outlined in April to protect and secure US national security without trying to contain China economically.
Janet Yellen has arrived in Beijing Thursday afternoon to seek new marching orders from Winnie Xi…
Looks like Janet’s not Yellen loud enough.
“without trying to contain China economically”. Oddly enough, VSGPDJT’s tariffs contained RED China economically, and brought them to heel.
Once more the DEMONRAT Bidenistas bow down to the Dragon of Satan…
My observation is Yellen is a Neocon … they don’t bow down to anyone…
Except Chy-nee.
They’re hoping to ‘move house’ to China, after they finish sucking US/UK
dry…
But first, they have to use us to build up china, so that china is worth sucking dry.
PDJT is speaking now.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/watch-live-president-trump-speaking-right-now-in-iowa/
He’s so funny. He says the tow truck industry is going to flourish because “after driving an EV for 49 minutes and you’re stranded in the middle of nowhere, who are you gonna call?”
An electric tow truck? 😆
(see Pierre Gosselin’s NoTricksZone for some horror stories about that… and the greens WANT that…)…..
Electric emergency vehicles, in the dead of winter, at night, needing extra power, heating, light, radio communications, and medical gear. What EVER could possibly go wrong?????
So THAT’S why they call it the DEAD of Winter…..
It’s all in the timing:
Over the Fourth of July weekend Ben & Jerry came out in defense of turning the stolen land back to the American Indians in their vocal support of closing down Mount Rushmore.…In several days time, Ben & Jerry’s lost $2.6 Billion in Market capital.
Today’s “Squirrel!”
American activist, co-founder of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company, one of the most popular in the USA, Ben Cohen was arrested in Washington DC at a protest in support of Julian Assange near the Supreme Court building.
“While Julian Assange is under investigation and imprisoned, freedom of the press remains just a handful of meaningless words,” Cohen said.
Probably going for teacher of the year.
These days, if voted on by fellow “educators” s/he would likely get the award.
Important to read to the end of the original story.
This woman seems to have had a “co-groomer” guy who was encouraging her – and that guy got off (no pun intended) as “not guilty”!!!
https://steadfastnation.com/elementary-school-teacher-arrested-after-filming-sex-act-in-front-of-class/?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated
A Kita (basically, daycare) over here was planning to have “body-discovery room” where young (down to three years of age) could explore their and other children’s bodies. The children would decide what was appropriate or not. And, of course, said exploration would be done unclothed.
Fortunately, parents got wind of this, and got the authorities and school and health hierarchy involved. So far the parties involved are not talking about it at all, except for some limited finger pointing (hopefully they washed them first)…..
This “exploration” is being pushed by an institute founded by a paedophile contemporary of Kinsey, who persist in sexualizing the schools and curricula here.
Here’s the source article; (looking for an English version at the moment, everything seems to be behind paywalls now…)
https://reitschuster.de/post/perverse-plaene-kita-raum-fuer-sexuelle-spiele-fuer-kinder
and
https://demofueralle.de/2023/07/06/kita-raum-fuer-sexuelle-spiele-fuer-kinder-ab-drei-jahren-geplant
and another, more detailed and scary
https://www.nius.de/News/skandal-kita-verteilt-anfass-tabelle-fuer-kinder/a4ffcba9-0935-4006-9891-6ecd795b5af3
This sounds a lot like Adam Schiff’s “Liddle Kids” program – except that one was designed to have adults massaging kids!
http://www.demofueralle.de has a wealth of information about what the DEMONIC left are trying to do with the schools and society in general. It’s not helped by the fact that many of these organizations can just plow through and spew their perversions despite what the parents want or not, often because homeschooling is illegal, “thanks” to old Adolf…
There’s another site, https://en.ordoiuris.pl that has a lot of great information about what the Derp State are trying to do to pervert everyone and everything…
The Dutch Gov’t has collapsed
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dutch+Gov%27t+has+collapsed&atb=v310-1&ia=web
I haven’t been keeping up, and all I know is that the farmers were protesting globalist policies. Do you have any idea if this is a result of conservative pressure, or if this will turn out to be a bad thing?
Failure to plot a path forward on migration. So essentially populist pressure because of the riots has had a negative effect. People are rightfully upset. Currently news is new election in Mar. No other heady issues to be dealt with until then by the care taker govt being set up now. I wonder if this has an effect on the Ukraine NATO membership thing?
Good news!!!Very deserving bunch!edit:
Apparently the PM was conservative? Considering all the uproar over farms being stolen, I figured the government was full-blown WEF.
What a mess.
I’m sure more words will solve the problem(s).
There just haven’t been enough words expressed by all parties yet 😂
Don’t think their gov can be very stable, was scrolling down the hits below your link and apparently it also collapsed in 2021, 2010 and 2002.
Think they use the “proportional representation” system, which could mean a number of smaller parties forming alliances to get a majority then falling out with each other.
And there my interest in them ends.
Very common in europe, sad to say…
At one point, Italy had 14 parties in their ruling coalition, and their finance ministerin was the porn star Ciccolina….
Ironically, she was probably better than most of the rest of them, as, due to her “trade” she had to be very careful about her finances, and she was a real prostitute, careful about her clientele, as opposed to politicians, who sell themselves to anyone, any time…..
ROTFLMAO. 😂
The Left is working on multiple fronts at once. It seems that various sectors of society need to be watching their particular areas of interest and expertise to stave off and fight the infiltration and destruction. I’m glad Moms for Liberty is on it. We need this in many other areas too, like health care.
I got a tip on a group that is doing some amazing work like MFL in exactly what you are saying – healthcare – but they are VERY low-key. They are bringing EXTREME HEAT to all the Faucist bad guys and their associates.
I will post later about them, because people can donate DIRECTLY to this group, and the money goes STRAIGHT into the fight. They are non-partisan, but exceptional fighters for medical freedom.
Great news!
Excellent!
Tucker’s clearly in with PDT
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/tucker-carlson-latest-interview-i-love-trump-were/
He acts like he doesn’t know, not on a side and not really into politics, etc. Yet, his words serious influence and he knows it. You can be adament and loud, or, you can gently persuade.
The first link leads to a CNN article. The second one leads to this tweet by Patrick Byrne:
I had to look up “eidetic,” which means photograhic, or able to remember many details.
There was a video of Byrne reciting all the cards in an entire deck, but it seems to be unavailable now.
Again, the purpose of this is to do the maximum damage to Trump’s political career, while delaying as much as possible any review by SCOTUS.
They’re just evil.
Evil, yes. I’m taking this as Byrne taunting them and challenging them to interview him.
If that really is their purpose, they might try something that has a chance of actually achieving it.
Top tier snark. LMAO.
Global Climate Police Thwarted: US Republican States win against Net Zero Insurance Cartel « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
Excellent – I would even say “must read”. We really dodged a bullet there.
Great news! Fighting back is making a difference.
Fossil and Non-Fossil Fuels • Watts Up With That?
Nothing like abiotic oil to ruin the Climastroligist’s day…
Absolutely EXCELLENT article!
I love it!
BBC living up to it’s sordid reputation…
“BBC breaks silence as top star taken off-air for allegedly ‘paying teen for explicit pics'”
“BBC breaks silence as top star taken off-air for allegedly ‘paying teen for explicit pics’The publicly-funded broadcaster issued a statement in the wake of allegations raised against one of its presenters. The BBC has issued a statement in response to serious allegations made against one of its presenters.
A mother has accused a top star at the corporation, not named in the report, of making several payments over the past three years to her child since they were 17 in return for “sexually explicit photographs”.
The distraught woman said to “blame” the man for “destroying my child’s life”, as she claimed the money handed to the alleged recipient was used by the youngster to fuel their crack cocaine addiction…………..”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1788813/bbc-presenter-explicit-pics-investigation
Fancy that… they’ve disabled comments…
From Auntie Beeb to panty thief…
Somebody flunked high school English and is now working for a newspaper.
The Daily Chart: College Bloat After the Loan Decision | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
From that, a great quote:
“Harvey Mansfield once quipped that the Democratic Party is a coalition of college professors and morons, which prompted “Lucretia” to remark on a podcast that it is impossible to tell the difference. “
“Men can be women!”
Mmm… no.
But men can be less manly.
In fact, that’s a perfect name for male trannys.
Les Manly 👍😁
Looks Macronese!
And then there are the trannys who identify as lesbian (no kidding!)… in that case it would be Lez Manly… aka Butch Casualty….
Interesting pair of comments:
and, reply to that
Øbløwhøle strikes again…..
From DEMONRAT’S diversity and perversity, we get OUR adversity (via their university)…
Excellent comments!
Stuck on stupid, Ms Lindsey gets raked over the coals here after his serious booing event but as you can see his allegiance is to the Globalists.
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Holy Crap!
WH says they have to give cluster bombs to UKR
Because
We already gave them all our normal artillery shells
Awful on every level
SAY NO to #WWIII
Vid of cluster bombs in use.
https://t.me/ukraine_watch/5319
A visual demonstration of the use of cluster warheads for 155mm shells — Turkish armed forces
Related. Victoria Nuland reported to say WWIII starts on 11 July 2023.
https://yournews.com/2023/06/11/2583592/victoria-nuland-states-that-wwiii-will-effectively-begin-on-july/
11.7.2023 … 11 77
She’s a numbers gal, too, so it seems.
Time for “New Land” to go back to her old land, HELL…..
Eine kleine klassik Kraftwerk….
They’ve evolved a bit.
This is pretty wild.
Elephant Rifle Annihilates Ballistic Gel at 82,000 FPS – The Slow Mo Guys
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Very impressive — especially the view from the back as it performed deep tissue massage.
That was quite awesome.
That gun would take down a T. rex.
Perhaps even a brachiosaur, which was much larger.
Yes – even with a body shot, with that incredible wound channel! Brachiosaurs and the like would have been very vulnerable to head shots of sufficient accuracy and penetration to nail the brain. They probably would have been hunted a lot like ‘gators and crocs. Gotta get that head shot on the pea brain with a proper round, but if you get it, they’re goners!
Might take ’em a while to realize it…..IIRC, they had a hindbrain in addition to the one in the head.
Sort of like modern Mercedes SUVs… cf. Chiefio’s long tale of “tow woe” with his Mercedes and its hind brain… water and other problems galore…
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2022/07/07/mercedes-from-hell-last-ill-ever-buy
This Ben and Jerry thing is getting to be fun.
You likely know Ben and Jerry’s has recently made a thing about giving back Mt Rushmore to the Indians. Big flap.
Don Bongino said careful there, your Hq’s is on old Indian land.
Now this.
Tribal Chief Is ‘Interested In Reclaiming’ Ancestral Land Where Ben & Jerry’s HQ Now Stands
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2023/07/07/tribal-chief-is-interested-in-reclaiming-ancestral-land-where-ben-jerrys-hq-now-stands/
Ha!
Bend over – your ass is about to get bitten.
Pass the popcorn, please. 😂