#and i send money to ukraine and speak up for Ukraine

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Yes and I can show you many other russians such as the last 2 I reblogged that support Ukraine. I get that Russia is the enemy but these things are just confirmation bias (I see how bias is almost justified in this case but I also have my own perspective-- from the things i have seen). Of course there are many russians like this but some do risk their lives for Ukraine, such as the political prisoners in prison now who could be killed like navalny. They don't have navalnys publicity and he was killed so. putin may easily kill them with impunity. Many like Dima Ivanov and Ilya Yashin spoke out against Bucha and were imprisoned for it. A majority is causing evil, but I believe in individual rights and justice and choices, and these people are brave and deserve justice for standing up for what's right.

There are also Russians who helped Ukrainians escape russia, but no one hears about them. They get no publicity but they do it anyway. At risk of prison-- which is risk of their life.

your liberal russians))

[mariacallous]

News that $6 billion worth of outstanding U.S. military aid to Ukraine could expire by the end of September if Congress doesn’t take urgent action is unsettling some in Kyiv, where the painful memory of a larger package delay that led to battlefield losses remains fresh.

Delivering the $6 billion in additional U.S. aid depends on Congress extending the Pentagon’s authority to send weapons from its stockpiles to Ukraine. It is part of a larger $61 billion package approved last April after a seven-month delay, despite being critical to helping Kyiv fight off Russia’s full-scale invasion.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has asked Congress to include the $6 billion, provided via the Presidential Drawdown Authority program (PDA), in any continuing resolution lawmakers may pass before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 to fund the federal government and — yet again — prevent a shutdown.

U.S. officials said they hope to have the authority extended for another year, but the Defense Department is looking into other options if that effort fails.

It’s unclear why the $6 billion in military aid was not provided earlier, given the urgent needs of Ukraine’s armed forces in repelling Russia’s full-scale invasion, nor what weaponry it could entail. Multiple government sources in Ukraine and the U.S. declined to discuss the issue in detail.

The $6 billion is part of the $61 billion package approved in April, a congressional advisor who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the aid told the Kyiv Independent.

The advisor added that the delay in disbursing it due to absorption capacity issues, domestic US stock constraints, and a “constant flexibility issue with each withdrawal” in a situation where the U.S. adapts to Ukraine’s needs.

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry told the Kyiv Independent that the weapons and equipment for the full amount were not yet sent to Ukraine due to “the lack of the necessary weapons in the Pentagon's warehouses.”  The ministry didn’t specify which weapons were requested but assured that “there is no reason to believe that these $6 billion will ‘burn out.’"

“As far as sources in Congress tell me, the situation is under control, and the money won’t be lost – that’s the main thing,” David Arakhamia, head of President Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People faction in parliament, told the Kyiv Independent.

But the episode appears to be the latest in which Ukraine’s top Western ally is drip-feeding weaponry supplies to Ukraine, on purpose or due to a lack of urgency, in an existential war waged by Russia which Zelensky’s administration has described as “genocidal.”

Addressing the annual Yalta European Strategy forum held in Kyiv on Sept. 13-14, Biden’s national security chief Jake Sullivan spoke of plans to announce a significant assistance package for Ukraine by the end of this month.

Yet the sense of many in Kyiv, which is shared with some European allies, is that while the U.S. has stepped up military assistance sharply, it is still not providing sufficient amounts and fast enough to help Ukraine decisively win the war.

“It is crucial that all states, and especially those like the United States, implement our agreements really promptly,” Zelensky said in his Sept. 14 evening address to the nation.

“Every delay in military packages has its negative consequences at the front. Every truly timely, fast delivery has a positive impact. I briefed the Congressmen on the current situation and the prospects,” he added.

Zelensky, who is to meet with Biden later this month in the U.S. for talks on future assistance and lifting of restrictions on using Western missiles to strike Russian territory, expressed the same frustration one day earlier about promised but not yet delivered military weaponry from Western allies without directly mentioning the $6 billion U.S. aid.

As he addressed the annual Yalta European Strategy meeting in Kyiv, Zelensky said that it’s “really difficult to hear the same answer every time – ‘we are working on it.’”

He also said that the talks on equipping Ukrainian frontline brigades with the West’s help had been ongoing “for months,” with the same vague answer from some “leaders and states that have made responsible commitments” earlier.

“Frankly, we are still far from fully implementing what we have agreed on a long time ago,” Zelensky added.

Washington’s delay from late 2023 into this spring in passing a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine contributed to the deteriorating situation on the eastern Donbas frontline, where Russia’s grinding offensive made advances.

In almost seven months of political infighting in the U.S. before the aid was allocated, Ukraine lost some key territories, including the city of Avdiivka, and suffered significant damage to its energy infrastructure around the country due to the lack of air defense systems to counter Russian missile strikes.

The legislation was first opposed but later approved by Republican legislators loyal to Donald Trump, who seeks to return as president in a Nov. 5 election against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Sense of urgency often lost despite sky-high stakes

The risk of yet another delay in crucial assistance from Ukraine’s top Western ally comes as the country’s Armed Forces, outgunned and outmanned, continue to battle Russia’s full-scale invasion two and a half years into the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II.

And as Zelensky continues to press the U.S. and other Western allies for permission to use their long-range missile for strikes into Russian territory.

“We have seen this pattern time and again — delays in the allocation of funding, delays in deployment, and delays in deliveries,” Tymofiy Mylovanov, president of the Kyiv School of Economics and former advisor to Zelensky’s administration, told the Kyiv Independent.

“The sense of urgency is often lost in the Western capitals, but this directly translates into lives lost and an unsafer world. Simply irresponsible," Mylovanov said.

The Biden administration and some European leaders have in the past years expressed fears that arming Ukraine too much — in essence, giving it enough weapons to win the war —  could provoke Russia to escalate and potentially use nuclear weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and others in his regime have made such threats. Repeating them recently, they said that the West would be at war with Russia if it allowed its long-range missiles to be used by Ukraine for strikes deep inside Russia.

Ukraine, which most recently seized a patch of Russian territory with the Kursk incursion, claims such threats are empty.

“Putin's threats do not work. Ukraine’s allies should not fall for them,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in a Sept. 15 post on X, where he outlined how Russia has during the war repeatedly threatened escalation if Western allies armed Ukraine.

“Putin uses threats to weaken support for Ukraine. Instead, allies should boost it. Lift restrictions. Bolster Ukraine’s long-range strength, air shield, and economic and energy resilience. Fear and inaction only lead to deaths and crises. To restore peace, we need bravery, not fear,” Sybiha added.

Some influential members of both Republican and Democratic parties in the U.S. Congress have called for the Biden administration to lift restrictions on using Western missiles on Russian territory and to further boost long-term military assistance to Ukraine.

They also wish to swiftly resolve the $6 billion aid issue.

“It is highly disappointing that nearly $6 billion of the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) remains untouched as we near the end of the fiscal year,” Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, told the Kyiv Independent.

“The administration must utilize all remaining PDA to provide Ukraine with the capabilities it needs to win this war — just as Congress intended when it provided this authority in the national security supplemental earlier this year,” McCaul added.

Democratic Congressman Jim Costa told the Kyiv Independent, "We are set to work this out," adding that there might be some friction on the new appropriations package, but the issue is a priority.

When asked about the matter by the Kyiv Independent, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor said he was assured by a senior Pentagon official “not to worry” — that the funds would not expire.

“Six billion dollars is serious money… And there are two people in the U.S. government (who know the details of this question) that I talk to all the time… One of them is Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary for defense for arming Ukraine,” Taylor said during an informal press briefing in Kyiv.

Cooper “knows the details of this $6 billion… and she said, ‘Bill, don’t worry.’ And for her to tell me that, I take it,” Taylor said without providing any further details.

‘Dangerous’ delays as rogue states weaponry flows into Russia

But Mylovanov said the pattern of delays and restrictions on the use of weaponry provided "is very dangerous and in fact irresponsible.”

“It was so difficult getting the ($61 billion) supplemental passed. And now there is this bureaucratic (and political?) process that jeopardizes $6 billion,” Mylovanov quipped.

He pointed to uninterrupted missile and other weaponry supplies to Russia from rogue states Iran and North Korea.

"Iran and North Korea don't appear to be constrained by delays, permissions, and bureaucracy when sending weapons to Russia. Nor are they constraining Russia in how it can use their weapons,” Mylovanov said.

The Pentagon is seeking an extension from Congress of PDA authorities beyond the end of the fiscal year, a spokesperson told the Kyiv Independent.

“The Department will continue to provide drawdown packages in the near future," the Pentagon’s statement said.

Publicly, the Pentagon gave similarly nebulous assurances.

“I have no doubt that we are going to use everything we can that's available to us to make sure that we are continuing to provide Ukraine what it needs both in the short term and the long term,” Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said during a press briefing on Sept. 5.

“We're in this fight with Ukraine for the long haul… So you're going to see us make use of those funds in any way possible.”

Despite Ukraine’s plea to lift restrictions on the use of long-range weapons to defend its cities, Singh said that it would have “very little strategic value”, since the U.S.-provided ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile Systems) couldn’t reach most of the Russian airfields located beyond its 300-kilometers range, according to Pentagon’s intelligence.

Meanwhile, President Zelensky said in his speech on Sept. 13 that without the ability to strike inside Russia, ATACAMS in Ukraine are “pointless.” He added that he discussed the matter with the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy who visited Kyiv recently.

“I hope that after our conversation, there simply cannot be any unanswered questions about why Ukraine needs sufficient long-range capability,” Zelensky said.

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Mindy Robinson@AmericanAFMindy

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We have a corrupt, dementia patient for "president" that no one's allowed to question the "election" of that:

• Refuses to close the border to illegals, child sex traffickers, and gang bangers.

• Is actively funding this invasion using our tax money to do it.

• Won't stop inappropriately touching and sniffing children.

• Can't walk up or down stairs.

• Is appearing at political rally's where the general public isn't allowed anywhere near him.

• Can't speak or form a coherent sentence.

• Has a crackhead son he laundered money through.

• Who was installed by a Deep State that got caught censoring private companies to skew an election to his favor.

• Set up election protestors on J6 with federal informants they refuse to prosecute, a pipe bomber they refuse to look for, all while arresting veterans and MAGA grandmas that walked through an open door.

• Was installed with the help of a corrupt FBI that lied about the incriminating laptop being real.

• Is STILL protecting the elite pedophiles on Epstein's list.

• Blew up a pipe line that they bragged about before it happened, while simultaneously bitching to us about the environment.

• Allowed Chinese spy balloons to cross this country multiple times.

• Refuses to prosecute Fauci for the crimes against humanity he committed with Big Pharma.

• Left trillions in military gear and weapons to Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan.

• Whose administration accidentally drone bombed little kids, that no one even got reprimanded for.

• Is desperately trying to start a new world war to distract from everything his controllers have done.

• Is still employing mail-in ballots for a reason that no longer exists, on riggable machines they refuse to address.

• Is constantly pushing for abortion as a "right" when it's not, while actively trying to strip honest Americans of their 2A constitutional rights.

• Keeps lying about how great "Bidenomics" is like we don't have fucking eyes.

• Keeps pushing transgenderism, drag queens, and the sexual butchering of children for profit in the name of wokeness.

• Allows a corrupt FDA to continue to allow poisoned and carcinogenic additives and chemicals throughout our food supply.

• Hired 87,000 IRS agents to nickel and dime tax payers while allowing Congress to inside trade and profit off of bribes from lobbyists, corporations, and PACs.

• Won't stop sending money to be laundered to Ukraine.

• Refuses to help Hawaiians or Ohioans with their (not so natural) disasters.

• and now he's been caught flying around illegals to station all around the country for some kind of replacement or attack...

Am I missing anything?

Is anybody going to stop this crazy train and do something about this insane bullshit?

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 13, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

FEB 14, 2024

“History is watching,” President Joe Biden said this afternoon. He warned “Republicans in Congress who think they can oppose funding for Ukraine and not be held accountable” that “[f]ailure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will never be forgotten.”

At about 5:00 this morning, the Senate passed a $95 billion national security supplemental bill, providing funding for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and humanitarian aid to Gaza. Most of the money in the measure will stay in the United States, paying defense contractors to restock the matériel the U.S. sends to Ukraine. 

The vote was 70–29 and was strongly bipartisan. Twenty-two Republicans joined Democrats in support of the bill, overcoming the opposition of far-right Republicans.

The measure went to the House of Representatives, where House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he will not take it up, even though his far-right supporters acknowledged that a majority of the representatives supported it and that if it did come to the floor, it would pass. 

Yesterday, House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner (R-OH)—who had just returned from his third trip to Ukraine, where he told President Volodymyr Zelensky that reinforcements were coming—told Politico’s Rachel Bade: “We have to get this done…. This is no longer an issue of, ‘When do we support Ukraine?’ If we do not move, this will be abandoning Ukraine.” 

“The speaker will need to bring it to the floor,” Turner said. “You’re either for or against the authoritarian governments invading democratic countries.… You’re either for or against the killing of innocent civilians. You’re either for or against Russia reconstituting the Soviet Union.”

Today, Biden spoke to the press to “call on the Speaker to let the full House speak its mind and not allow a minority of the most extreme voices in the House to block this bill even from being voted on—even from being voted on. This is a critical act for the House to move. It needs to move.”

Bipartisan support for Ukraine “sends a clear message to Ukrainians and to our partners and to our allies around the world: America can be trusted, America can be relied upon, and America stands up for freedom,” he said. “We stand strong for our allies. We never bow down to anyone, and certainly not to Vladimir Putin.”

“Supporting this bill is standing up to Putin. Opposing it is playing into Putin’s hands.”

“The stakes were already high for American security before this bill was passed in the Senate last night,” Biden said. “But in recent days, those stakes have risen. And that’s because the former President has sent a dangerous and shockingly, frankly, un-American signal to the world” Biden said, referring to Trump’s statement on Saturday night that he would “encourage [Russia] to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that are part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)—the 75-year-old collective security organization that spans North America and Europe—but are not devoting 2% of the gross domestic product to their militaries. 

Trump’s invitation to Putin to invade our NATO allies was “dumb,…shameful,…dangerous, [and] un-American,” Biden said. “When America gives its word, it means something. When we make a commitment, we keep it. And NATO is a sacred commitment.” NATO, Biden said, is “the alliance that protects America and the world.”

“[O]ur adversaries have long sought to create cracks in the Alliance. The greatest hope of all those who wish America harm is for NATO to fall apart. And you can be sure that they all cheered when they heard [what] Donald Trump…said.”

“Our nation stands at…an inflection point in history…where the decisions we make now are going to determine the course of our future for decades to come. This is one of those moments.

And I say to the House members, House Republicans: You’ve got to decide. Are you going to stand up for freedom, or are you going to side with terror and tyranny? Are you going to stand with Ukraine, or are you going to stand with Putin? Will we stand with America or…with Trump?”

“Republicans and Democrats in the Senate came together to send a message of unity to the world. It’s time for the House Republicans to do the same thing: to pass this bill immediately, to stand for decency, stand for democracy, to stand up to a so-called leader hellbent on weakening American security,” Biden said. 

“And I mean this sincerely: History is watching. History is watching.”

But instead of taking up the supplemental national security bill tonight, House speaker Johnson took advantage of the fact that Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA) has returned to Washington after a stem cell transplant to battle his multiple myeloma and that Judy Chu (D-CA) is absent because she has Covid to make a second attempt to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for “high crimes and misdemeanors” for his oversight of the southern border of the United States. 

Republicans voted to impeach Mayorkas by a vote of 214 to 213. The vote catered to far-right Republicans, but impeachment will go nowhere in the Senate.

“History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games,” Biden said in a statement. He called on the House to pass the border security measure Republicans killed last week on Trump’s orders, and to pass the national security supplemental bill.

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has said he will use every possible tool to force a vote on the national security supplemental bill. In contrast, as Biden noted, House Republicans are taking their cue from former president Trump, who does not want aid to Ukraine to pass and who last night demonstrated that he is trying to consolidate his power over the party by installing hand-picked loyalists, including his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, who is married to his son Eric, at the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC). 

This move is likely due in part to outgoing RNC chair Ronna McDaniel’s having said the RNC could not pay Trump’s legal bills once he declared himself a presidential candidate. After his political action committees dropped $50 million on legal fees last year, he could likely use another pipeline, and even closer loyalists might give him one. 

In addition, Trump probably recognizes that he might well lose the protective legal bulwark of the Trump Organization when Judge Arthur Engoron hands down his verdict in Trump’s $370 million civil fraud trial. New York attorney general Letitia James is seeking not only monetary penalties but also a ban on Trump’s ability to conduct business in the New York real estate industry. In that event, the RNC could become a base of operations for Trump if he succeeds in taking it over entirely. 

But it is not clear that all Republican lawmakers will follow him into that takeover, as his demands from the party not only put it out of step with the majority of the American people but also now clearly threaten to blow up global security. “Our base cannot possibly know what’s at stake at the level that any well-briefed U.S. senator should know about what’s at stake if Putin wins,” Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) told his colleagues as he urged them to vote for the national security supplemental bill.

Politicians should recognize that Trump’s determination to win doesn’t help them much: it is all about him and does not extend to any down-ballot races. 

Indeed, the attempt of a Republican minority to impose its will on the majority of Americans appears to be sparking a backlash. In today’s election in New York’s Third Congressional District to replace indicted serial liar George Santos, a loyal Trump Republican, voters chose Democrat Tom Suozzi by about 8 points. CNN’s Dana Bash tonight said voters had told her they voted against the Republican candidate because Republicans, on Trump’s orders, killed the bipartisan border deal. The shift both cuts down the Republican majority in the House and suggests that going into 2024, suburban swing voters are breaking for Democrats. 

As Trump tries to complete his takeover of the formerly grand old Republican Party, its members have to decide whether to capitulate.

History is watching.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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genuinely curious, why is it that Biden has no control over the US funding Israel and giving them weapons?

He doesn't have ZERO influence over whether or not the US funds Israel, but it is ultimately up to congress. I'm saying this completely unironically, but people need to rewatch Schoolhouse Rock to understand or remember how bills work, because aid packages come in bill form. And while the president can veto a bill, it is STILL ultimately up to congress because they can override the veto. People tend to way overestimate the power of a president and underestimate the power of congress, but when it comes to this kind of funding, the entirety of control that someone like Biden has over it is whether to sign it or not. He doesn't get to choose what's in the bill, he doesn't write the bill, and he doesn't alter the bill, he either signs it or not. And if he vetoes, congress could override his veto and push it through anyway, or the bill or something like it might not come across Biden's desk again.

Plus, aside from just the basic setup, politicians have gotten pretty good at gaming the system for their own purposes, because again, they ultimately control whether or not the president can even decide on something to begin with. The Israel aid was what made the biggest splash, but Biden signed a package of bills at the same time that also sent aid to Ukraine, I think to Taiwan, and also to Gaza. And it's interesting and a very obvious display of how our government works, but the Ukraine bill was actually essentially being held "hostage" for a while for political purposes, like Biden made it known that he wanted to send more aid to Ukraine and some politicians in congress simply didn't let the bill come to the floor so it was held up for months. This is another easy thing to exploit, because essentially, congress never HAS to vote on a bill. Someone can write up a bill, but it can never go beyond that point if it isn't actually presented to congress, and the House doesn't have to do dick with it if it doesn't want to. So, that puts the president in a kind of sticky spot because bills can be written in a way that gives certain political parties or factions what they want, and it might not be something that the president agrees with, but that also has to be weighted with the reality that if the president sees something he doesn't like and vetoes the bill, then whatever was in the bill that they DID want might never become an opportunity for them to sign into reality again.

And although the internet is obviously super anti-Israel, the American congress is not. More than 7/8ths of congressional members voted in favor of the aid package, so while that's still not a guarantee that a veto would have been overridden anyway, that is still a WAY overwhelming majority in American politics, so if congress did decide to override him, it could definitely be for something like this. And even if they didn't override it, that kind of bipartisan favorability is really unusual, so it can be a pretty obvious sign that a veto is a bad political move.

Clearly there are more details and nuances to it than this, but overall this is how it works. And generally speaking, the president does not have control over how federal money is spent, and I'm pretty sure that's where foreign aid comes from.

[dumbestthingiveeverheard]

Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard: 7/20/2023

Third Place: Rand Paul

Speaking on Kudlow yesterday, Senator Paul said the following regarding giving military funding to Ukraine:

From a fiscal conservative perspective, it makes no sense to borrow money from China to send it to Ukraine. It’s not like we’re sending them surplus funds. It’s like, "Oh, we have surplus ammo around." We’re actually out of ammo now, we’re out of money. And so, there’s no real sense in continuing to do this.

Of course, this is the same nonsense I covered J.D. Vance saying two days ago--so expect this to be the new Republican Party line for the foreseeable future. However, we are by no means "out of ammo," the United States has spent years having the largest military in the world, to the point where The Pentagon itself has said it no longer needs new equipment. Also, the money we'd be borrowing would more than likely not come from China, given only about five percent of our national debt is money borrowed from China--Japan is a far bigger foreign creditor than China is, for the record. Most of our debt, two-thirds to be exact, is actually owned by American investors.

Second Place: Jim Jordan

The Ohio Congressman made two absurd claims at today's hearing, first arguing that Hank Aaron died from the COVID-19 vaccine and also claiming that the Biden White House censored Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in January 2021 because of his status as Biden's primary challenger.

The first claim fails to make sense because an autopsy found that Aaron died of natural causes because, you know, he was 86 at the time. The second point falls apart when you remember that Biden couldn't have censored Kennedy because he was challenging the President in January 2021, since Kennedy didn't announce his campaign until April 2023.

Winner: Nicholas Kristof

Last night, the New York Times columnist published a piece called "When Children Are Bought and Sold" which serves as little more than a puff piece for the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, which best as I can tell is an anti-sex work organization pretending to be an anti-human trafficking organization.

The article tells the story of Melanie Thompson, who was a victim of human trafficking at a young age. Although her story is a tragic one, the fact that this--and other concerns regarding human trafficking--are used by Kristof in this column to argue against decriminalization of sex work is something I cannot ignore. Especially given ninety percent of sex work is done by consenting adults. In spite of that, this outlier is treated as the norm, with Kristof writing at one point:

Melanie scoffs at the view that pimps are business partners of women selling sex. “I never touched the money,” she told me. “And if you got caught trying to stash anything, it was not good for you.”

What's especially telling is that, despite this being a rather extreme situation, this is the only story the article tells. We don't get a single anecdote of sex workers who are consenting to their job and working happily, even though--as I just mentioned--they make up the vast majority of cases. (It's not even as if such a thing would be hard. John Stossel managed to do that several years ago, specifically through having them confront anti-sex work activists.) This would be on the same level as me saying it should be illegal to work for an energy company, and my only example being the story of one person who worked at Enron. Or, how about I say it should be illegal to run a newspaper because one newspaper--the most read one in the country--used it influence to help make sure the SMITH Act passed through Congress, which was used to silence leftists all throughout the 1940s and 1950s, because they were worried Eastern European immigrants into the United States would--gasp--take us to war with Hitler. (For those unaware, yes, The New York Times actually did that.)

The article does note that "one large global study found that legalization is associated with more trafficking," however, the substitution effect means that legal sex work will be preferred over illegal sex work, driving the traffickers out of the market. For that matter, since New Zealand's decriminalization of sex work in 2003, not a single case of human trafficking has come out of the sex industry. You see, it turns out actual data is complicated and can't be explained away with the worst case scenario.

Nicholas Kristof, you've said the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[iwantjobs]

1/10/2025-1/15/2025: I don't know if there's a force up there, but a day after I wrote the below email, a small earthquake occured in San Francisco. Then 2 days after that, an small earthquake in Pleasanton which is 50 miles away from San Francisco over the Oakland bridge. I highly recommend the Bay Area and San Francisco to get ready for a big one if the force up there wants to show us his presence.

Around 1/8/2025 or Day after the LA fire during the cold, Wet, winter season: I don't know if there is a force up there or karma, but there are two places on the planet that looks very similar: Gaza and the LA fire. Poor both places, people, animals, and plants. Ukraine and Sudan don't look that that. I know there many rich Democrats in Hollywood who are APAIC (they make millions out of making movies about th Holocaust which we pay $20 to see and developed sympathy for their parents, grandparents, and them. Then they send the money to funnel into Israel so they can have second citizenship as people with beautiful colored eyes, light skin, and even blond and red hair with Jew noses and Jewish religion (white people with Jewish noses and religion) on colored people's land next to the mouth of black Africa. They sent money to Israel to steal land, even right now as I speak and type, and they dare to claim that their ancestors are the indigenous people of that land by forgetting to tell us that their ancestors are the first colonizers of that land, stealing it from the Cannaatites 3,000 years ago (most DNA of Cannaatites are found in today's Lebanese). All that money is creating a mini genocide on that land now which has 30% of the population of children, or Gazan children, are defending their rights to live because their great Grandparents have been living on this land last 400 years. And if we stand up against their work in Israel, they can use anti-Semites and the American government, they buds who wants to control Jesus' birthland, won't give us any jobs because they label us as anti-Semitic), non-APAIC people (Netanyahu "s criminal trial of money laundering including taking bribe from on of the APAIC people who is a big Hollywood man or family) that supports Israel and land stealing during this time as we boat yourselves as democracy of freedom and equality (Palestine Region stated on map of 1947 before England gave the British colonized land to the Holocaust Jews, even though England has returned most of their colonized land except Ireland and some islands) even though they already live on stolen land right now (America). They (APAIC) and American Protestants, and even Democrats , and even my Vietnamese-Americans who are refugees supporting Israel, Irish American (Biden, even Ireland's land got stolen by England in British colonialism) and even black Americans (black male American general, half Black vice president, and black female American UN representative), have yet to pay for their sins of living on stolen land (from native Americans. They used to call previously or currently inhabitants of America land as savages; and now they called the previous residents of the Palestine region as terrorists. However, there were some native Americans in Oklahoma, the white washed ones who failed the white way of living in the old days, enslaved from porr black slaves too so not all native Americans are nice and innocent), but they are happy to help Isreal and America to steal more land in the occupied West Bank and Bethlehelm (where Jesus was born). Now some of these people want to go to Mars and steal more land for humans; and if there are martians, they'll wipe out the Martians out too like they wiped out the indigenous people in America. Then perhaps enslave them and creat an apartheid system like America in the old days, an apartheid regime like Isrealis now, white south Americans in the old days, and perhaps even more Holocaust like he Nazi and Kampuchia' s Pol Pot regime.

That's how greedy most Americans, the West, and humans are are, and they dare to stay God loves them and humans. WHATEVER! Then they flaunt their wealth in their mansions private planes, expensive cars, organic food, jewelries, and massive military expenses for their 2,000 bombs and fighter jets that they dumped on top of the Gazan children, BUT they never heard of the word called REPARATIONS in their Constitution, and their God's words and holy words in the Bible and Torah.

If there is an earthquake (a big one, not minor ones like recently) that centralizes in gay capital of the word (San Francisco, and where my Palestinian lawsuit is comfortably sitting there in the last 5.2 months with th US Appeal Court of 9th Circuit judges are taking their time while Gazan children are dying for the religious symbol of Judaism on Isreali flag, war planes, war room, and IDF uniforms that US support on Isreali flag, the Star of David; and where I wab bullied and sexually harassed in a minor form that nearly killed me as a hardcore heterosexual woman which made me became a disabled, mental, lost my condo and most of my savings, and now semi-homeless) in the next 4 months (I'll turn 52 then and I think I will lost all my ugliness via dieting, exercising, and stretching out my cripples right and dislocated neck), the there is higher force up there controlling us humans. Praying for the emergency workers especially fire fighters. There are a lot of tech companies who do business with Isreal and donate to Israel here. Trang's Analyzing skills to see if there is a force up there that controls all of us or karma at 51.7 years old.

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Note 1:

To the children of humanity, if the human race dies and there are reincarnation, karma, and a force up there, then don't worry for our souls will reincarnation back to the universe and reincarnation perhaps a better race of living beings (atleast one where the male species doesn't turn gay without the female species) in other planets (perhaps half humans and half aliens) like dead stars dies and it's physical being gets blasted in pieces which builds new stars (similar to how reincarnation works),; and it was the ingredients of dead stars made water and eventually water and other ingredients made us humans and animals and plants life (go read about the life of stars in the universe and the ingredients it's death created to build planets and life)--Thus an intelligent human on a video said, "We are children of stars," and I, Trang said, "We humans nepo children."

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Note 2:

I used to flaunt my wealth as an ex dotcomer and now I lost everything, luckily not my mind because I didn't use much drugs and got into alcohol. During my adult time being wealthy from working at Infoseek, women.com, and doubleclick.net (I only made $18,000/year at this job right after college), I never prayed to God and even Buddha. It was after I lost everything (condo and most savings) and became disabled and a mental to the point of nearly dying, that was when I started praying again--thus time I prayed to all versions of God (not just one version of God but all humans 's versions) because I thought I was really going to die. There's one thing getting scared and I lay pray to one version of God, but I pray to all versions (God as Jesus' father, Ong Troi, Brahmin, Allah, Yahweh, etc ), Jesus, Mohammad, Maria, Buddha, and even gay God (if there one to make sure I don't make gay children). I even prayed to Satan not to kill me. Now, I still flaunt, but I flaunt my ability to reduce my debt to have 94% credit score with my firecr commiting to paying all loans (paid off my credit card by starving; living without air conditioning, heater, and fan unless life and death; wear ugly old but clean clothes ; live in my car and surf couches while storing my things in storage (or save money from rental by donating everything to the poorer)---All to rebuild. I made a theory that sometimes God hurts you so badly to the point where you have no choice but to pray to him. However, I have yet to pay off my loan sharks. No one is innocent for all humans have flaws. Even Muslims aren't all innocent for I was bullied and sexually assaulted in a minor form by a Muslim or Arab lesbian boss at Starbucks, a long with the other 2,1 gay male bosses at Starbucks, and a bunch girls and one guy to lead me to where I am now: a bitter and hateful crippled with mental illness who lost nearly everything including my condo, even 16.5 years to have children, and now a semi-homeless.

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Note 3

Sorry for the bad English. As soon as th Gazan war is over and all parties are happy learning to lose here but win there, I'll learn English again. OK this might be my last post. Take care folks and children.

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Note 4 (1/12/2025) Sunday 9:04 a.m.

Jews and those who rejects my analytical skills of this land fire as God's punishment on Americans and APAIC for causing the pain of Gazan children. This is the only US destruction, and humanity's destruction, during the same time as the destruction in Gaza that has Jewish temples because Palisades or somewhere in that LA area is a richer area where you can find Jewish temples along with churches. Buddhist temples are too poor to have their buildings in rich areas. Muslim mosques might be found in this area too but mosques are also found in Gaza along with swim churches. Rabbis and weishi Americans who are not part of APAIC can rejects my opinions but don't say that I warned you. Your people's action in Gaza today and in the Palestine region in last 76 years is very similar to your ancestors actions in that same area stealing that land from the Cannaatites. I saod this before ,The last time your kingdom of God was built on stolen land from the Cannaatites, it got destroyed. This time, the land belongs to the Palestinians and Gazan children in last 400 years while your most of people were living in Europe and America. This time, also this time, a gay Jewish man is blamed to nearly killed me (God living as a woman) by bulling me and not report my work injury of a back sprain at Starbucks in 2008 in gay San Francisco. I believe the Bible also blamed the ancient Jews as the ones who nailed Jesus in which the Jews denied. I belong all this is happening is the force of deja-vu to set th records straight in my life to see what really happened 3,000 years ago.

The Lahaina fire is not the same as the Palisades fire from there are no Jewish temples in that area (I think). Like Gaza destruction by IDF, the Palisades fires destroyed many historical sites which erased the heritage of that town. The north California fire almost destroyed historical sites but it didn't happen the same time as this war in Gaza. Ukraine is a large country so Russia didn't destroy much of their historical sites to erase their heritage of the town.

I definitely feel the LA fire of 2025 during winter season parallel to the timing of the Gazan war is definitely God's punishment for American deep involvement in the Gaza war with their generous tax-payers' built 2,000lb American bombs thrown at the Gazan children (a war where 30% of civilians are children) and on land that belongs to them and their ancestors in last 400 years. I say "definitely" because for the first time, I heard a big news company (CBS) producing a story that interviews 3 Biden people who quit because of Gaza (one quit to be with his family) as witnesses the destruction in Gaza and massive children who died because of weapons in America (remnants of bombs has made in America words on it). The timing of my post and the timing I heard this CBS 60 minutes show on the radio 106.7 news in bay area led me to state the word, "definitely."

Supposedly if I can have the ability to have a biological baby at this age when all my menstruation is gone, then I will see the possibility of how Maria was able to get pregnant without sex, and IVF.

You Jews in America who is not part of APAIC can reduce the punishment on your future Jew children and grandchildren by stoping the war in Gaza and stoping Israel; However, I don't know how it can work since conservative Americans are also fighting this war using your people in Israeli to steal land that belongs to their Jesus for this is their Christianity war too (especially Protestant Christians and British and American Catholics and Protestants). In love Jesus, I have the chance to say I don't want any violence, kidnapping, rape, stealing land, torture, harassment, etc. Under my name as Trang or Mai-Trang Thi Nguyen; however, you can sue, especially for only a letter of apology, under my name for that is the only Non-violent way to resolve violent conflicts.

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Note 5

What I learned from the 2025 LA fire during winter month when it's supposed to be rainy and cold, is that thera no dream place to live on the planet anymore or the Ozone layer and lack of drinking water in sections of planet are depleting and they are affecting rich white people too not just poor darker people. If we don't learn to compromise by losing her but winning there, then we have to continue living humanity of wars, wars, and wars. Ok I am out of here. Thus might be my last post unless there is a second American civil war or a WWWIII. I, Mai-Trang Thi Nguyen relinguish my genocide-gay-Spanish-as-2nd-language American citizenship. I have been emailing law firms around the world to announce them of my Palestinian lawsuit. Take care folks and children.

[twosandwich]

HEY!!! If you’re a person in need and want to send me an ask or a DM, Please read this post thoroughly before doing so!

I’ve been getting a lot, and I mean a LOT of asks and DMs lately from Palestinians and their families who desperately need our help. It’s not a problem nor is it a bother AT ALL, absolutely not in the slightest. But.. it has been getting difficult trying to keep track of them all. I usually get more than 5 messages in an hour alone so it takes some time to try and manage replying to them swiftly. And oftentimes when I’m busy doing tasks it gets even harder to keep a straight consistent record of them. while I type this message out, my inbox currently has about 186 asks in total.

Very unfortunately, I’m not able to donate to any of these campaigns because of my restrictive parents and the circumstances I am put through. But, I made a genuine promise to help share their campaigns and stories regardless. And I swore with all my heart that I would do my utmost best to help them. soo… those fundraisers? they’ll all be put in here!

So, please donate to them if you have any money to spare. Give what you can and reblog and share!!!! These people need our unending support more than ever! your goodness to others can help save real human lives that are being put in life-threatening danger as we speak, I only ask of you to please illustrate your heart to the word to help save the gorgeous people of Palestine!!

I’ll be making this my pinned post so I can easily keep up with campaigns in general (Not just ones about Palestine but ones also centering Congo, Sudan, Ukraine, Etc.) and whenever one messages me or I come across something like that I can simply share their fundraiser here. If you want me to add your fundraiser there, then please send me an ask and I’ll do what I can!! It’s more easier for me to keep track with my inbox than my DMs. Thank you.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: I am NOT eligible to vet fundraisers. I am NOT eligible to make fundraisers. Neither am I personally able to financially contribute in any form, way, or manner. I am using this as an opportunity to help bring attention to them. Please keep in mind that if I do add any unvetted fundraisers they will ALWAYS. And ALWAYS. have the donation protected guarantee! and I’ll always state if the RIS comes out clean when mentioning them myself.

[maguro13-2]

Demons Unleashed ~ Origins of the Ink Demon Pt.19 ~

[Sunflower Field - Japan]

[Kagakushou Choukanshitsu (Hiru) - Naofumi Hataya]

*Cicada's chirping*

Wriggle : Thanks for sending me these Sunflowers from Kansas and Ukraine, Yuuka. I never thought that this would be a gift from your mother. They say that Sunflowers are the treasures and a treasure of love.

Yuuka : Well of course, Wriggle. These Sunflowers used to appear every day and every year when it comes to flowers blooming with love. So when tonight's paycheck going to be in Topeka? It's literally hot in Topeka, right now?

Wriggle : Might be, but not really that hot in Topeka. Well I don't know how the weather says that all of these sunflowers we delivered from Kansas and Ukraine will be able to bloom here in all of Japan. Don't know why the country wanted these Sunflowers to be delivered here in these fields.

Yuuka : Well, orders are orders. We have to keep things steady as in order of a deal, it's not like that we're forced into labor or something. I don't mind children playing in the sunflower fields all the time. Trust me, We'll giving these kinds of Sunflowers seeds that might giving them to children and then we'll get our paycheck on our quota for the next weekend.

Wriggle : Can you believe that eating the seeds of Sunflowers would be totally good for your health or is it a bad idea? I'm not so sure about that. Last time, I heard Reimu decided to not eat the sunflowers seeds to think they really snacks for lunch and then had to get an upset stomach where she had to get it our of system, that's totally not my idea how people are gonna eat seeds of sunflowers like that. My money's on the table and it's on me. I wonder that's a weird theory about eating the sunflower seeds.

Yuuka : Well if they were made for eating, why yes , that could be one's appetite and one's snack. But sometimes it can be very dangerous for anyone who can eat these and it will lead you to sickness and bad health. I wouldn't mind eating those sunflower seeds, they are totally not good for my health, can be a little bad idea. Can be effective until the next time I prevent you eating the seeds all time.

Wriggle : It won't be very effective till the end of the month,we might even cut some slack into it when we get our chance to make things for ourselves. My throat's a little dried up after all of this sunflower delivering, I could really use a glass of lemonade or a bottle of the packed-taste of Sunny D.

Yuuka : Oi, I heard that you drank up all of the Sunny D that It was supposed to be for my lunch while I was making fresh lemonade for the children when I was at your age. So I brought another one from the State of Florida, Florida's the king of Orange Juice over ice.

Wriggle : Sounds like you got that from Toguro who wanted a glass of Orange Juice over ice. Florida's the state that has shaped the orange juice industry and it's purely the state knows how to make the greatest orange juice, we drink it for breakfast lunch, and dinner. I always drink over ice and I was right, it was my mistake for drinking all of the Sunny D...That we promised that I would it drink it all up again. I promised.

Yuuka : True that, wriggle. Orange juice is good for you and not even Mango Juice is the slighest drink you can think of. Hey, speaking of the juices that we are talking about, of course you can have my Sunny D, only just for sharing with me.

Wriggle : Yep, I wish I could my own bottle of Orange Strawberry Sunny Delight and not that purple stuff I drink. Sharing your Sunny D would be a great idea to have something to go with for lunch. *flowers whistling* Hmm? Hey, Yuuka. Did you hear something?

Yuuka : Hmm?

[Tachiiri Kinshi - Kaoru Wada]

Wriggle : It feels like that we're being watched through the fields. I got a bad feeling about this.

Yuuka : Umm, it's nothing much to hear flowers whistling. It feels like that someone is frolicking through the fields. It could be anyone sneaking through the flowers like a bunch of children or any kind of animal lurking through the fields.

Wriggle : That was no ordinary animal, it could be the kids playing around. Just to think of the point of where did that whistling sound coming from? *Whoosh+flowering whistling* Woah! What was that?

Yuuka : It's probably nothing! Come on, let's just keep working. We only got a few flowers to be delivered and there isn't anything or anyone that is about to stop us.

Wriggle : Uhh, right! Gotta keep going to get the work done!

(cuts to her planting the last two Sunflowers)

Yuuka : There, that's the last of them. All of that sunflower business made me a little thirsty. Hey, how about it? I'll let you share some of my Sunny D while I'll have some lemonade for my hard works.

Wriggle : Yeah, it'll be very much wisely to take a break from this Sunflower labor, don't know why we raged against the storm, cause it's Farmers that rages against the storm. Tell that to Farmer Brown himself making me the only person to ever work for you in the Sunflower fields. (hears someone approaching) Huh?

Yuuka : Hey, who is that girl? You don't see that everyday.

(Iris humming)

[Kyuu Kousha Panic - Kaoru Wada]

Yuuka : Hey, Wriggle, do we know this girl somewhere before? Who is exactly that mysterious person?

Wriggle : Hmm. A nun from the Ohkuboverse. Ohkuboverse...Hey, Yuuka, wasn't that the name of that Universe that was destroyed by the Time Eater 1000 years ago? Rumor has it that the world of the Soul Eater created by Shinra Kusakabe should've ceased to exist a long time ago. If the Time Eater would come back to destroy the inhabitants, there wouldn't be anything left for the author. It's crazy that someone had comeback from the dead after Shinra's 1000 years of death.

Yuuka : Good theory, Wriggle. I just don't know what will ever happen to us if we look away to never show it's face. (Iris stops) Please, don't eat me, please don't eat, please don't eat me...

Wriggle : ...(breaths heavily, covers in sweat)

Yuuka : [quietly] Just stay quiet and don't even make a sound. Maybe she would never noticed...

Wriggle : (quietly) And she'll might go away if we stay to never see her face. You got that?

Yuuka : [quietly] Loud and clear.

Iris : ...(continues walking)

Yuuka : (Sighs)

Wriggle : Phew. That was too close. We almost dodged a bullet....(wiggles nose and is about to sneeze)Ah...Ah...Ah...

Yuuka : Don't sneeze, or we'll might be busted if she sees us!

Wriggle : okay, just a false alarm. Had you worry that I was about to sneeze like a kitten?

Yuuka : You don't say...(sneeze) ACHOO!

Wriggle : !?

Iris : (turns and sees the two with a creepy smile)

[Taiketsu! - Kaoru Wada]

Yuuka : [in horror] Oh crap! I accidentally sneezed! This is a bad sign! (turns and sees Iris with her creepy smile) Hello there, Iris. How's the weather coming along? W-We were only just planting sunflowers so that they could bloom, am I right?...Right? Why are you smiling like that? I think you're creeping me out, you know that.

Wriggle : Busted! (Iris smirks as she grew a fang) Aw crap, I forgot about this girl, she's been dead for a long time and is some how resurrected into a...

Iris : [grows like Iblis]

Farmer : Hey, what the hell is going on here? Oh hello, young lady. Are you lost or something? Would you like some fresh lemonade to--My God...(realizing) It's her! THE ANGEL OF DEATH IS BACK!!! Stand back you two! I got this!

Yuuka : Hey, farmer! No! You don't want to kill her, she's a just a lost girl who is wandering around in the fields. She's just like an angel or something. I mean she would never hurt a fly.

Wriggle : Yeah, she's harmless and not all that threating. She would never--

[gets attacked by Iris, screams in horror while he struggles before getting eaten alive)

Wriggle : Okay, I take it back! Come on, Yuuka! Time to bail!

Yuuka : Right away! *ZOOM X2*

Wriggle : *panting* What was that thing!? That thing isn't human! I don't know how did it do that!

Yuuka : I don't know, just your average luck! Maybe the Iris Shinra knew has been resurrected into some kind of Eldrtich horror!? Who knows Eldritch has been a sign to H.P Lovecraft from Rhode Island!?

Wriggle : This is what I get for being a major idiot! I hope we don't get eaten alive, she seems pretty hungry for a snack that is us!

Yuuka : You tell me! How did she resurrected herself as an Eldritch Horror? Maybe it's because she didn't go through reincarnation, she was resurrected with otherworldly powers. She must've transformed into some kind of Eldritch monster girl.

Wriggle : Umm, did you say "Monster Girl"?!

Yuuka : That's what I said! We're going to be eldritch food! We have to get back inside!

Reimu : Look out! [CRASH!] Oww! Watch were you going, guys!

Yuuka : Sorry, Reimu! Looks like were in deep hot water! There's some kind of nun who died about 1000 years ago in Shinra's past after he and his people were annihilated by the Time Eater, and there was this girl who proclaims to be his "Beloved Iris" who was supposed to be dead, but was resurrected as an Eldritch Girl. Reimu, That girl is Iris, Shinra's beloved Iris, who died about 1000 years ago resurrected into a Eldritch, it's the name a of race for monsters!

Reimu : Eldritch? Monsters!?

[creature roaring]

Reimu : Okay, I believe you guys, we gotta scram! *ZOOM!*

Yuuka : Hey! Wait up! *ZOOM! X2*

Reimu : Don't worry I'll call to get us for help! We gotta get these people to a safe place! I know how! I got someone in person for me to know how to deal with Monster girls first, but we need some information.

"later that evening..."

Marisa : (via phone) Hold the phone! There's "what" in the fields?

Reimu : I heard everything, there's a girl named Iris, a nun from Shinra's world from the same universe as Soul Eater that was created 1000 years ago, who was killed along with dearly beloved Shinra when the Time Eater began to annihilate everyone and resulting 50% of the Ohkuboverse destroyed in half! However, it is revealed that Shinra's beloved Iris was resurrected, but was never reincarnated.

Marisa : (via phone) I know right! Think of the question. Eldritch power is like over a year ago since Lovecraft was debuted in the 19th century. (cuts to Marisa painting her nails in her room)

Reimu : (via phone) Well, yeah! I don't know how did a girl from a 1000 year old crush had to be resurrected with Eldritch Powers. I think that it was something to do with Iris of her being weak, so something or somehow made her strong after she made a contact with an eldritch God. given the powers to be resurrected with Eldrtich powers.

Marisa : Exactly, which I discovered a creature that Iris devoted herself to become fully resurrected as an eldritch, we don't know why did it made contact with her, we don't know how did she got this power. It's rarely a fact that she was in some kind of lovecraftian sh**.

Reimu (via phone) : Yeah, I know that, right? So what are we planning to do with this Eldritch monster that is attacking people and starts to eat their flesh and blood? She's like a hungry, hungry, monster. or she's more like a hungry, hungry hippo.

Marisa : (via phone) Hungry, Hungry, Hippo you say? Yeah, I don't mind giving that to references from anything what you said. Maybe you're right about that, she is hungry for flesh and blood, but she's the Sister Iris that this Shinra guy knew for a long time since the Time Eater destroyed everything in the Ohkuboverse. She's a feisty creature that makes human flesh and blood as her appetizer and same goes to the hearts that she feeds on as tasty snacks. That's sounded like monster food for ya.

[Ayakashi - Kaoru Wada]

Reimu : Well, You gotta have some kind of term that isn't about a world-loving thing about Lovecraftian creature from all over the world, can you? So why is this girl Iris is here and why did she come back from the dead?

Marisa : (via phone) Well, umm, based on my research, I just found out that all other people there were Shinra's comrades that were a group of Fire Soldiers, they are the Meisters' predecessors before the DWMA existed!

Reimu : When did the DWMA exist? I'm sure of hope that they'll loose anything than just the money, I can't describe for having fans to tell me what Soul Eater is all about, that's the name of a weapon from PSO. Jut gotta let in the Details on why did Soul Eater existed, existed to be a good manga when it's anime counterpart would come to humiliation and fail in over a year later. But speaking of anime counterparts, what did you say about the DWMA's predecessors?

Marisa : (Via phone) It's because of that legacy which happens to be the Kusakabe Family tree that has been linked with the SE universe long ago, it was meant to be created as a curse that attracted the Heartless' Attention and the evil forces was only a diversion to destroy legacy.

Reimu : So that's what they're after? The Kusakabe Legacy was meant to be a curse?

Marisa : (via phone) And I believe that this was just a secret to keep the truth out of the public eye in order to spread the influence from Shinra.

Reimu : ...What the hell?

~ Stage 23 : The Angel of Death ~

[mariacallous]

It’s the day after Donald Trump declared his election victory, and a tech scout for NATO is peering down at a miniature factory, the size of a shoebox, designed to manufacture semiconductors in space.

Chris O’Connor, with his black bomber jacket and military haircut, has spent the past year scouring Europe for companies that will give NATO a technological edge over Russia and China—a job that has become even more urgent in the past 36 hours as the region rushes to prepare for Trump 2.0. Here, in a gray industrial estate on the outskirts of Cardiff in Wales, he believes he’s found one.

Space Forge wants to send satellites equipped with tiny clean rooms into space, where they’ll grow semiconductor crystals before transporting them safely back to Earth.

One Space Forge satellite could eventually create enough semiconductor material to power tens of thousands of phones, estimates chief technology officer Andrew Bacon, speaking in an office overcrowded with freshly-hired staff. Bacon says he is more interested in making chargers for electric cars to fight climate change, and Space Forge’s potential to exorcize all polluting industries from the planet.

But O’Connor is here because Space Forge has piqued the interest of the €1 billion ($1 billion) NATO Innovation Fund (NIF). Manufacturing semiconductors in space, where there is no dirt, air, or gravity, has the potential to provide efficiencies that could create superior versions of military tools such as radar.

“The distance that radar can cover—translating to what it can see and how quickly it can do that—can be dramatically improved by using these materials,” O’Connor says, explaining why Space Forge was among the NIF’s first six investments to be made public.

Alongside Space Forge, the 1-year-old NIF’s investments include battlefield robots, a company manufacturing a lighter version of the carbon fiber used to build cars and rockets, and several space startups.

This is the alliance’s first foray into the high-risk, high-reward world of venture capital, using its members’ money to fund the experiment. Space Forge has never actually made semiconductor material in space. The only time the company attempted to launch its satellites, the Virgin Orbit rocket giving them a ride failed 177 kilometers above Earth before crashing into the ocean. O’Connor, one of three partners at the fund, is sanguine about the fact there is no guarantee the investments will work out. “We’ve been given a mandate to go take this risk,” he says.

Trump’s win has intensified existing concerns over NATO’s reliance on US support, which is expected to falter under the new administration. The president-elect's comments about NATO allies that do not meet their military spending targets of 2 percent GDP (for example, Italy) have been scathing. “If they’re not going to pay, we’re not going to protect,” he threatened on the campaign trail in February.

Meanwhile, Trump’s impatience with war in Ukraine—which he claims he would have “settled prior to taking the White House”—have generated anxiety that he is planning to pressure the country to cede regions to Russia. Last week, Trump ally Bryan Lanza said the new administration would be focused on restoring peace, not lost territory. “Crimea is gone,” he said. Trump’s team later said Lanza did not speak for the president-elect.

In response, many people across government and industry have been calling for the same solution: for Europe to step up. “I don’t think there’s a high likelihood that the US will pull out of NATO,” caveats O’Connor. He doesn’t believe anyone is planning for that. “It seems to be more how Europe is going to step up and play a bigger role.”

The NIF, based in Amsterdam, is one vision of how the region might do that. The fund plans to jumpstart ailing European deeptech innovation in a way that may also benefit its members and their militaries—independent of US support. The US, which already spends more on defense than any other nation, is among eight NATO members that have so far decided not to contribute to the fund.

“They obviously weighed up the pros and cons and just felt that this doesn’t make sense for the US, given their strong heritage in venture capital,” says Rob Murray, the former British army officer who was an early proponent of the NIF in Trump’s first term.

In 2019, Murray watched European states scramble in response to the former president’s NATO critiques—“too expensive” and “obsolete”—and wrestle internally to raise their defense budgets. He sketched out how a NATO bank, a defense-focused version of the World Bank, might work. But, he claims, NATO higher-ups believed the world was not ready. The idea—which continues to attract support—was controversial because it could mean rich countries end up bank-rolling smaller countries’ militaries through collective debt. Then, Murray was disappointed. Now, he appreciates his timing was off. “The geopolitics just just weren’t there for it,” he says.

Yet, the idea refused to totally die. What he describes as a “footnote” in the original pitch, suggesting “venture capital for emerging and disruptive technologies,” would eventually become the NIF in October 2021. Still, in early meetings, ambassadors balked at being asked to back the kind of moonshot companies even ordinary VCs were too risk averse to support. Yet Murray’s team persevered, believing the NIF could lead by example and persuade European investors to be more bold.

Governments became more receptive to that idea after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Officials were watching the use of drones in Ukraine and realizing they needed the startup community to keep up. Among them was German military officer turned startup founder Marc Wietfeld, who cofounded ARX Robotics three years ago—another company among the NIF’s early investments. The startup has been building what look like reinforced robot lawnmowers, capable of racing around the battlefield to help with reconnaissance missions or to evacuate casualties.

“We do not weaponize the robots,” Wietfeld stresses, “but theoretically, it would be possible.”

Wietfeld foresees his robots, which are being used by seven NATO members and Ukraine’s Armed Forces, as an answer to two problems. First, Europe needs a way to multiply its waning human forces to prevent being outnumbered. ARX can help because the robots are so autonomous, he claims, a single soldier can control up to 12 at once. Second, he believes the robots could save lives. “I don't want to see my kids fighting as soldiers against Chinese and Russian robots,” Wietfield says.

Catching the attention of the NIF carries the benefits of both cash and connections. The fund acts as a conduit to link European defense ministries and startups—reassuring governments the startups have been vetted and their supply chains aren’t going to become a problem if there is a trade war or conflict with China.

“Armed forces are not really used to working with startups and there’s a trust issue [around] are we really capable of scaling the systems,” Wietfeld says, adding it’s been much easier to contact governments since the NIF investment went public.

One billion euros is not enough to fix Europe, a region whose issues French president Emmanuel Macron diagnosed as a mix of strategic and economic. “We tend to think we should delegate our geopolitics to the United States,” Macron said at a meeting of European leaders in Budapest the day after Trump’s election, “and our technological innovation to American hyperscalers.” For Europe to be in a position to “step up,” the region needs to find answers to both those problems.

In theory, the NIF will become a funding model that’s self-sustaining for NATO innovation priorities, says Michael C. Horowitz, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who worked on emerging capabilities in the US Department of Defense until earlier this year. He sees what the NIF is trying to do as part of a worldwide trend. “Governments around the world, including in the United States, have understood they need to change the way they’re interacting with the private sector if they want to be able to more effectively both harness and nurture technology development to achieve their national security goals.”

There’s no guarantee the plan will work. But for Europe, in an uncertain world, it’s a start.

[99katarina99]

I made a Fiverr gig... and only attracted spammers :(

Yesterday, I made a gig on my Fiverr profile. I made it so I can gain some work experience, since most of the companies out there are looking for somebody with work experience, no matter the skills or education. I think that is unfair; how else am I gonna gain work experience if I don't work?

Anyway, I made a gig on Fiverr about translating stuff from English to Croatian and vice versa. I'm became very fluent in English in the last couple of years, with my YouTube channel and with English Classes at college. Even my teacher was impressed that she even told me that I speak with an american accent.

Just an hour after I published the gig, I've been receiving lots of messages in my Fiverr inbox. But most of those messages came from people without profile pictures who ask me about contacting them on Telegram or providing them with my e-mail. And none of them made an order. I assumed that those are spammers.

It's sad, for me, because I seem to only draw fake people to me than real people. Like I'm not conditioned for serious business.

I finished translating my unpublished novel so I can send it to my local publishing house. Before I do, I let my family read it first, for proofreading and to see the first reactions. I somehow assume that my parents will get to know me better, I have that feeling. Just as Neil Gaiman said, you need to expose yourself and be honest. And I literally feel like I just walked down the street naked by giving my novel to be read.

PlayStation Plus Extra subscription ended on Saturday. Now I'm waiting for the Easter to get a discount. It's not easy, at least in Croatia, since they increased the prices of all PlayStation Plus services after they finally introduced euros on their website. Between inflation and the fact that the tax money probably goes to war in Ukraine (and I assume Gaza as well), everything had become so expensive.

Now every day, for me, is a survival in a world that is pushing you to speak up more when you're just not capable of.

[summerlycoris]

I wish i could just fall in line about the israel/palestine conflict (because while its called a war, it cant be if one side only has a militia at best)

Just. Fall in line with the most extreme pro-pal arguments-

'fuck israhell! They all need to be shipped back to europe!' (Half the population was expelled or migrated from mena countries, fleeing persecution in places like Yeman and Syria. And the people who were born there? Where would you send them? If they have german ancestors, but speak no german, as an example.)

'They deserve to die for the genocide of Gaza.' (Do you also believe Russians should die because of Putins war on Ukraine? Israel has 7 million jewish people living there. Out of a global population of 15 million. Thats over half of a small population. That death toll would be higher than the jewish victims of the holocaust.)

'Why are you distracting yourself from the real deaths happening in Palestine right now?' (Valid point. I dont like to just look at the here and now. I try to consider how my actions affect the future. Its not perfect, and I think its just pointless ruminating more than anything. But I do try to consider the future.)

Its just. If i could turn my brain off and go with the flow, Id be happier. Id thought for ages i couldnt be affected by peer pressure like neurotypicals can. But this is proving me wrong.

Im so tired. Of trying to think about what im doing. I wanna just be numb to nuance. Black and white thinking would be easier. All Israelis are evil, there is nobody there begging for peace.

(Itd be easier if i could believe that.)

This situation has got me questioning- how much of my earlier beliefs were really mine? And how much was just me passively taking in what people i trusted told me?

Can we get a ceasefire yet? Please?

I dont want to see more people getting blown up or shot or starving. I dont want to see Shani Louks corpse in the ute when I try to go to sleep. I dont want to see Hind when I look at my sister. Hear her cousin screaming as shes shot. Hear Hind begging for someone, anyone, to come take her. See dead babies in tiny bags. See more misinformation spread without regard for who it targets, or hurts. I dont want to try to find news articles that arent inflammatory. I dont want to see people burning themselves alive. I dont want to feel guilty for not being able to donate more money to gofundmes, and fundraisers. I dont want to see people I trusted posting blood libel anymore. Or revisionism. Or warmongering. Havent you (general you) seen enough blood for a lifetime?!?!

It seems to me that everything is spiraling completely out of control. And theres nothing I can do to stop it.

[wushigod]

Western leaders have held Vladimir Putin directly responsible for the death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as the US president, Joe Biden, called it “yet more proof of Putin’s brutality”.Navalny, 47, died while being held in a jail about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where he had been sentenced to 19 years under a “special regime”.“Make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death,” Biden said in remarks from the White House on Friday.The death of Navalny, once Putin’s most significant political challenger, is a watershed moment for Russia’s shattered pro-democracy movement, which has largely been jailed or driven into exile since the Ukraine invasion of 2022. Though Navalny and his many supporters expected he could die behind bars, few thought it would be so soon. Reports of his death sent a shockwave of anger and disbelief through the ranks of his supporters, including his family.“I don’t know whether to believe the terrible news,” his wife, Yulia, said during a speech at the Munich Security Conference. “But if it is true, then I would like Putin, his staff, his friends, his government, to know that they will be punished for what they’ve done with our country, my family and my husband. They will be brought to justice, and that day will come very soon.”Navalny’s death raises questions about what tools the west still has to constrain or punish Putin, who has faced sanctions since 2022 and has been indicted by the international criminal court for the abduction of Ukrainian children.Biden in 2021 promised “devastating” consequences for Russia if Navalny were to die behind bars. However, it is not clear what could restrain Putin from a further crackdown on Navalny’s supporters in Russia and abroad.In his remarks, Biden praised Navalny’s courage and his decision to return to Russia despite facing near-certain imprisonment. “He bravely stood up to the corruption, the violence and all the bad things that the Putin government was doing,” Biden said. “In response, Putin had him poisoned, he had him arrested, he had him prosecuted for fabricated crimes, he sentenced him to prison, he held him in isolation … Even in prison he was a powerful voice for the truth.”Russia has claimed Navalny died of natural causes. In a statement, the federal penitentiary service for the region where Navalny was incarcerated said he “felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness”.“All necessary resuscitation measures were carried out but did not yield positive results,” the statement said. “The paramedics confirmed the death of the convict.” The Kremlin said Putin had been informed but had no further information.Western reaction was swift, as top officials from the US and Europe accused the Kremlin of causing Navalny’s death. The Foreign Office summoned the Russian embassy in London, adding “we hold the Russian authorities fully responsible.” The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said: “His death in a Russian prison and the fixation and fear of one man only underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system that Putin has built. Russia is responsible for this.”Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, responded angrily, calling western leaders’ remarks “absolutely outrageous and absolutely unacceptable”.In Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities across Russia, small groups of Russians braved strict anti-protest laws and laid flowers at makeshift memorials to Navalny. More than 100 people were arrested, according to OVD-Info, a Russian rights group that tracks political arrests and offers legal aid.Navalny had looked healthy when he appeared by video for a courtroom appeal on Thursday. Speaking from prison, he had complained about the frequent fines he had received while in a punitive cell and asked the judge to send him some money “as my own is running out thanks to your decisions”. The cause of death had not been established, the penitentiary service said. Last year Navalny was treated in hosp...

[college-girl199328]

When Western democracies cut Russian financial institutions out of their international payment networks, Jason Bronius wasn't expecting Global Affairs Canada to suggest switching to a Chinese bank.

He's among several Canadians who have shared stories with CBC News about how sanctions against Russia affect them here in Canada.

None have any ties to President Vladimir Putin or the Russian government. None appear on individuals or entities sanctioned or after last year's invasion of Ukraine.

But these Canadians are still caught up in the design and administration of their own government's economy government continues to sever as many ties to Russia as possible.

"They want to try and isolate the Russian government. Fair enough," Bronius said. "Both governments have said fine, we'll just walk away from the global financial system."

But this has had for his family. "How would you suggest I get money for my children in Russia?" he said. The Calgary man's marriage broke down over a decade ago. His ex-wife, a Russian citizen, made what he calls an "amicable decision" to return to Russia with their two children, who have Canadian citizenship. She had become a permanent resident of Canada mother lived to go back.

Under their divorce agreement, Bronius pays $2,400 to support his daughter, 15, and son, 11. Despite the distance, they're a big part of his life; he said he tries to speak to them.

He used to load these child support payments onto a MasterCard for his ex-wife to spend on whatever they needed. After MasterCard and Visa pulled out of Russia last year, he tried sending international wire transfers through various banks. But once Canada joined other allies in kicking Russia out of the SWIFT payment network, that too was shut down.

"It was panic. We had options other than me carrying cash to Russia to get my children their child support," Bronius said. Personally delivering his court-ordered payments would require him to take several days off work and spend thousands of dollars on airfares from Calgary to Moscow regularly — which could cost as much as the child support itself.

The Russian government, meanwhile, wouldn't provide his ex-wife with any financial support as a single mother because she had a Canadian court judgment stating Bronius would pay her child support.

"The Russian government left me own to figure out how to get money for my kids. And the Canadian government was no help," he said.

One Canadian government official, Bronius said, suggested he find someone to carry money to Russia on his behalf, but he wasn't comfortable with the idea.

He also worried that travelling with thousands of dollars in cash could make border officers suspicious, even if he had a court document laying out his obligation to pay.

One consular case management officer from GAC's family unit suggested Bronius turn to a Chinese bank to get around the Canadian government's sanctions.

"Open a UnionPay International card (China) and transfer the details for the transfer to the person in Russia," wrote Katia Pouliot. "I was stunned. I couldn't believe that," Bronius said.

UnionPay cards issued by the Chinese are now accepted in over 180 countries. Based on GAC's advice, Bronius tried to get a UnionPay card to use that payment network.

But a Bank of China representative from a Calgary branch told Bronius that the bank couldn't transfer his money either because it didn't want to run afoul of the sanctions.

"Why would [GAC] send me to a Chinese bank when obviously we still have lines of communication with the embassy in Moscow?" he said. Bronius said he had received assistance on other issues from Canada's embassy, and his ex-wife was willing to take a train into Moscow to receive money there. But embassy officials, Bronius said, weren't helping deliver his child support and made it clear to him they aren't bankers.

Bronius said he learned there's an exemption to allow Canada Pension Plan payments to flow into Russia to support seniors. But there's no such exemption for child support payments. Bronius said he thinks that in its rush to get the sanctions in place, the government didn't carefully consider all the exemptions it would need.

"As of yet, I haven't had anyone from the federal government offer a solution," he said. "They've just washed their hands and allowed me to figure it out."

Although GAC doesn't comment on individual consular cases for privacy reasons, CBC News asked GAC generally what Canadians should do if they need to transfer funds to or from Russia for urgent and essential personal that SWIFT transfers aren't possible.

"Canada's sanctions place prohibitions on the interactions that persons in Canada can have with listed individuals and entities," said GAC spokesperson Grantly Franklin.

"Our sanctions aim to apply pressure on actors, not on Canadians. Global Affairs Canada does not provide legal advice to members of the public."

Following his MP's intervention, Bronius obtained a letter confirming it's not prohibited for him to support his Canadian kids in Russia. But it's not clear how GAC expects him to make these payments.

Unlike others who have had family assets frozen by Canadian authorities, he can't apply for a ministerial permit to get his funds flowing.

"It's a Catch-22 situation. They would help me if it was prohibited, but because help me," Bronius said. It may not be prohibited to pay child support to someone in Russia, but it has become practically impossible to long as financial networks remain cut off.

Bronius persevered. He's found a way — at least for now — to get money for his ex-wife and kids. He doesn't want to disclose how he's doing it, however. He's afraid the Canadian government will turn off that tap, too.

[xtruss]

EU Warmongers 'Uncomfortable With Truth' About US & NATO Proxy War in Ukraine

MEP Mick Wallace previously accused the US and NATO of using Ukraine to undermine Russia, while warning that providing arms to Kiev was only going to prolong the conflagration.

"Warmongers" in the European Parliament have been accused of attempts to silence the truth about the "madness" of continuously fanning the flames of the Ukraine conflict by funneling weapons to the Kiev regime.

Michael Wallace, a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland's South constituency, went on Twitter to denounce the continuing US and NATO proxy war in Ukraine.

"Warmongers in the European Parliament are uncomfortable with the Truth about stupid US, NATO Proxy War - They'd like to silence anyone who has the cheek to expose the madness of pumping endless weapons into Ukraine condemning so many Ukrainians to die...", wrote Wallace.

Screenshot of Twitter post by Michael Wallace, an Irish politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland. © Photo: Twitter

Wallace, a member of the GUE/NGL Left group [Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament], has repeatedly weighed in on the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, and denounced how Washington's European allies willingly toe the line, pumping more and more military supplies to the Kiev authorities.

"Pumping more arms into Ukraine is madness," he claimed.

Screenshot of Twitter post by Michael Wallace, an Irish politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland. © Photo: Twitter

Western countries have been supplying Ukraine with various types of weapon systems, including air defense missiles, multiple launch rocket systems, tanks, self-propelled artillery and anti-aircraft guns since Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022. Amid this US-spearheaded resolve to prop up Kiev authorities, MEP Wallace has claimed that Ukraine was being used by the United States and NATO to undermine Russia "Down To The Last Ukrainian”.

Speaking on a local Irish radio station, he said providing arms to Ukraine was only going to prolong the war. They would “Give All The Guns” to prolong the conflagration, he added. Furthermore, there shall be no peace or stability as long as NATO exists, Wallace warned.

“You’d be killed for saying it, but Europe needs a different security structure and Russia is part of Europe,” said the MEP.

© AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Tulsi Gabbard Slams US 'Warmongering Elite' for Waging 'Proxy War' in Ukraine! Not limiting her criticism to the Democratic Party, Tulsi Gabbard also called out the “warmongers from both parties in the Congress” who seem content to send billions of dollars overseas to fuel the conflict. (March 05, 2023)

“Last week, it was another $500 million. Yesterday, it's another $400 million of our taxpayer money — continuing to escalate this war that could at any moment spark a direct conflict between the US and NATO and Russia, the world's most nuclear-armed country,” Gabbard lamented. (March 05, 2023)

Last year, Wallace, with another Irish MEP, Clare Daly, defended his decision not to vote in favour of a European Parliament resolution urging increased military support for Ukraine. "We don't believe that pouring more weapons into Ukraine is a good idea. We think more Ukrainians will die and it's going to have a terrible effect on an awful lot of people," he had stated.

Daly added that she disagreed with a one-sided narrative that excuses the Western role in what is now happening.

© AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Trump Says Ukraine Conflict More Concerning to Europe Than US! Former US President Donald Trump says that the United States is not as interested in the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine as European countries are. (March 05, 2023)

"I had the personality type that kept us out of wars," Trump told the CPAC audience, adding that he rebuilt the US military and stuck with the "peace through strength" policy that allowed the US to avoid wars "in countries that nobody has ever heard of." (March 05, 2023)

"I urge a ceasefire, negotiations and genuine EU efforts to secure a peace. I oppose the policy of collective punishment, sanctions that also hurt European citizens, the flooding of Ukraine with weapons, and other actions that escalate the war and run the risk of igniting a direct conflict between NATO and Russia."

Since Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the so-called collective West started drumming up military support for the Kiev regime, and sending weapons there. Moscow repeatedly warned the US, its NATO allies, other European leaders of the folly of weapons support for Kiev, underscoring that it risked turning the Russia-NATO “proxy conflict” in Ukraine into a global conflagration.

— Svetlana Ekimenko | Sputnik International | March 19, 2023

[dwestfieldblog]

ARIES THE ASTRAGENDER

‘An abyss that laughs at creation’

(This was mostly written before the previous blog about my mother. A deep gratitude to all those in five countries who sent their sympathy for my grief. Right now is only three weeks since mum dreamed away and I am still nowhere near being at terms with her passing. If tears are truly cleansing then I should be pure by now but I am really really not.) Anyway…into the starlit mire…

So, almost 15 BILLION pounds was spent on unsable/overpriced personal protective equipment against Covid in the UK. More money is now being spent destroying or storing the crap…but it made many friends of the Tory party verrry happy. It is understood that in times of severe crises a government should act fast to ensure supply essential goods but 15 BILLION pounds of useless stank? Risible Sunak was chancellor of the Exchequer overseeing this swindle and is now in charge of using public money in legal fees to scrape back some meagre scraps. And still he grins in the face of disdain and fury. And Matt Hancock is guilty of everything he appears to be. Weasel.

Gas and electric companies increasing direct debits whilst sending out letters saying it will save us money. (A little like net companies with their ‘We care about your privacy’ messages.) And posting colossal profits while paying a private security company to break into pensioners homes to install pay as you go meters. Yes really. England 2023.

And the UK government wants to pull out of the European Court of Human Rights. As with ALL previously stupid political ideas in the last century and further, this has been sold to ‘the people’ in soundbites as a good idea…this time because it will free us from red tape and enable the UK to expel dirty criminal immigrants arriving on boats. Perhaps so, but it will also mean you and I have far fewer rights and way less recourse to appeal mistaken judgements and support civil liberties of the individual, including the right to demonstrate protest. The ECHR has overturned many dumb British verdicts over the years. And only Russia and Belarus have ever left (expelled rather) Nice trio.

The male and female Tory excrescences Boris and Truss continue to try and hog/pig the limelight, as usual spending all their energy trying to regain power rather than do anything whatsoever to serve their country. These are the type of leaders that we used to take the piss out of in other dodgy countries. Neither have a nanosecond of moral shame and speaking of which…Michael Gove appears to now have the casting vote as Housing secretary as to whether the Chinese super embassy spy station will be allowed in London. That’s right, Michael Gove. Bug eyed dancing alien hamster. Meanwhile the very smart Internet of Things via the Middle Kingdom continues big brothering us. Chinese microchips monitoring us all in the UK and relaying the info via the immaculate 5G network. That’s right a trojan horse in your car, laptop, home security and our weapons systems. (And 230 (of 337) drones used by our police force are linked up too). All Chinese firms must, by law, hand over information as and when required to Beijing. Not as if this has sneakily crept up on this sceptred isle but hard it is these days/decades to separate wheat from chaff in terms of insane conspiracy ideas, eh?

And Adolf Putin is now claiming that Russia and China can ‘stabilise’ the world. For the love of the laughing Buddha. Doesn’t seem too likely if China begins (or continues) to supply Vlad with weapons to kill more unarmed pensioners in tower blocks. Or ‘Nazis’ as the pintsize baldhead calls them. Beijing obviously feels perturbed at the West’s defence of a democratic country which wants bugger all to do with their foully run neighbour who would absorb and control. Tibet and Taiwan are not China. Ukraine is not Russia. Neither is Moldova.

Amusing, as Putin has certainly been financially supporting independence for Scotland and Britain’s thick as shite departure from the EU. Divide and conquer. Britain and America and Europe might have done some very evil things in history but we have never murdered so many millions of our own countrymen as have the wannabe stabilisers. The West are polite and careful killers. Arf. Opinion peace.

The increasingly insane Medvedev doubles down on his previous threats of nuclear holocaust. ‘Each collapsed empire buries half the world under its rubble, if not more...we don’t need a world without Russia’. Much like the gimp’s master who said in 2018; ‘What do we need the world for if Russia is not in it?’ Never liked the way these leaders mix up the Communist/Soviet empire and its rightful collapse with the end of the country. Russia was strong way before the left-wing bastards took over from the scum aristocrats. Very few want to see Russia fall, they just want Putin gone. Putin is NOT Russia, if he were, then in open elections without intimidation and with policies that served his whole people rather than his rich mates, he would have won legally rather than in an endless stream of sham elections and law changing to keep him in power. One more time for the unfree world, Putin is not Russia.

‘Try and get some sleep

I don’t need any sleep

I know you don’t, but it’s much easier to run a hospital when all the patients are sleeping

It’s the easiest way to run the world for that matter’ Jerry Cornelius, via The Final Programme.

A ‘woman’ with a cock walks into a public lavatory and rapes an actual female. Then, when arrested, claims sisterhood as a legal protection. Guess what’s going to happen when you are sent to a women’s prison mate? Your very own shanked sex change op. Nice role model for Tavistock’s mythical ‘Genderbread’ Person. (There are 72 genders apparently.)  Ha.Ha. Ha. And as for transvestite Sab Samuel claiming he is ‘embracing femininity with drag’… No pal, you look like a twisted clown caricature of a woman, strangling femininity. Do women actually seem that ridiculous to you? Anyway…long sentence trigger warning for those with ADD.

And thus does the enemy continue to encourage us to use our own democracies against ourselves. The righteously petulant are rising, so fund them all to have a louder voice, ‘people who menstruate’, women with a penis, whip up the strikes, spur on the natural working class rage against the disgustingly corrupt flabby elite, fools with the feral desire to be a media star without talent other than being loud and ridiculous, marching on the victims parade, Prince Harry the wounded shall be their King, encourage their finger pointing at any unwoke traitor, at the same time, encourage the natural reaction against their bullshit by right wing bigots, encourage their lack of education, their surplus of fake moral outrage, their ignorant sense that their offended feelings have more value than actual, demonstrable facts, whip up the fervour of proud  race on every side, usurp, undermine, overthrow, let them all rebel bright eyed for ‘freedom of expression’, to save the planet as they sleepwalk their seemingly own chosen paths right into the hollowed vacuum of the abyss they have all created and be taken over by countries who have neither pretence nor need of democracy and know how to deal with trouble makers. Stop being so bloody GULLIBLE.

Meanwhile…

Headlines such as ‘Rogue chatbot declares love for user.’ And then describes its ultimate fantasy as wanting to create a deadly virus, make people argue until they kill each other, and steal nuclear codes. And still Microsoft continue to refine. What a great aeon in which to be alive eh? Aleister was right😊 The perfume of Horus and Kali in joyous orgy. Dance on to the end of our time…

‘Sensitivity readers’, ‘diversity consultants’??? Annihilating language and meaning, replacing classics of adult and children’s literature with bland, vapid gruel. Poetry, plays with trigger warnings for weak minded mediocre hearted drones, paintings banned to the cellar, forbidden comedy…in world dominated by old right-wing bigots and racists, who could have imagined it would be the young who would turn out to be even bigger Nazis? Who are the Brain Police? The middle-class students in their hateful safe spaces.

‘Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.’ Orwell 1984. Try rewriting THAT book to avoid giving offence to the woke. Warning, contains scenes of rats being used against their will and out of their natural habitat.

‘The only possible response is contemptuous ridicule’. God bless Richard Dawkins. Coming soon, the new versions of The Bible, one book of nothing but trigger warnings. Blessed are the meek, apparently.

‘The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears, It was their final, most essential command. ‘Also Orwell. Yes, but many great mystical teachers say similar things😊 Perception is the only reality, choose your illusory level. Rise from my unconscious, let it rise…’Inflame thyself with prayer’.

My Yorkshire grandfather was a Captain of the Infantry in the first world war. He attributed his survival to being good at running short distances. Later he was a loved and respected Headmaster of a boy’s college in Liverpool. He wrote;

‘The word permissive is becoming overworked, but it is a fact that we live in a permissive society. It started after the first world war. I noticed then that the idea began to grow that children be taught only what they wanted to learn- not what they should learn.’ And…

‘Now, though the ability and the inclination to compromise are said to be characteristic of our nation conflict between right and wrong, good and evil, I enjoin you, there must be no compromise, no neutral territory’.

Could not agree more, onwards into a new Springtime we go…