SUNDAY DIGEST: According to The Atlantic Nuclear War 'Would Hurt the Climate'
According to The Atlantic Nuclear War 'Would Hurt the Climate'
The Atlantic, a far-left magazine owned by Apple founder Steve Jobs's billionaire widow Laurene Powell Jobs, published an article by Robinson Meyer warning that if the Russian invasion of Ukraine were to spiral into a nuclear war, it “would be worse for the climate than any energy policy that Donald Trump ever proposed...If you are worried about rapid, catastrophic changes to the planet’s climate, then you must be worried about nuclear war," wrote Meyer.
This is a perfect example of just how out of whack the priorities are for the eco-zealots of the Green Movement. Those on the farthest Left of this radical Left group believe in eugenics and extreme population control, with most despising the human existence in a form of hyper self-loathing. The alarming thing here is that The Atlantic is a popular magazine for the total of the Left side of the aisle; they consume this vomit and hold its propaganda as truth. The Atlantic is an exercise in the most dangerous kind of propaganda: lies cloaked as “for the common good” fact.
Putin to Bring Thousands of Arab Mercenary Fighters to Ukraine
The AP reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched an effort to bring thousands of Arab mercenary ‘volunteer’ fighters from the Middle East and elsewhere to join Russia’s Ukraine offensive. Putin plans to recruit around 16,000 foreign fighters to boost the ranks of the existing Russian invasion force of 190,000. Thousands of Chechen Muslim fighters are already accompanying the Russian grounds force.
Interesting in this development is that the Arab world – the Muslim world, which fought the Russians in Afghanistan and who claim that the Quran mandates that they always side with fellow Muslims – would agree to fight under the leadership of Putin who had a significant role in the Russian Army’s campaign in Afghanistan. Apparently, the “brotherhood” of the Muslim world is a thing right up until it’s about money.
Russia's Use of Banned Cluster Munitions in Civilian Areas Verified; Tracked by Investigative Group
In the early days of the conflict, the use of cluster munitions appears to have impacted sites around schools and hospitals. In recent days, social media images and videos have allowed conflict monitors and open-source researchers to geolocate the impact sites of several cluster munitions to civilian areas within Ukraine. In some instances, the number of casualties appears to have been significant.
I reported on the use of cluster munitions and Putin’s deployment of thermobaric bombing apparatus early on to the great protestation of some on the Right side of the aisle who panicked at the allegation of WMD use. Now there is definitive proof and the global community is left to contemplate just how egregious Putin’s use of this banned weaponry actually is. Those on the Right must guard themselves against both reacting because of episodes from the past (and if you listened to Iraqi General George Sada back in the day you wouldn’t be squeamish about WMD) and repeal the notion of groupthink. Do your research. Know the facts. Hold to them.
Russians Use Cruise Missiles to Attack Base Training Foreign Volunteers Near Polish Border, 35 Dead
More than 30 Russian cruise missiles pounded a military training base less than 25 kilometers (15 miles) from Ukraine’s western border with NATO member Poland, killing 35 people. The strike followed Russian threats to target foreign weapon shipments that are helping Ukrainian fighters defend their country against Russia’s invasion. Poland is a key location for routing Western military aid to Ukraine.
The fighting in Ukraine will get bloodier before it subsides and the idea that Putin will abide by the ethics of war – if in fact there can ever be such a thing – is a crackpipe dream. There will be no quarter for civilians and there will absolutely be no quarter for those coming to Ukraine to join in the battle. The death of Brent Renaud and the fact his soldiers are opening fire on evacuee trains carrying children should evidence how unconcerned with life Putin is.
As Putin Targets Civilians with Banned Weapons, He Accuses Ukraine of Using Civilians as Shields
Vladimir Putin says he “informed” the leaders of France and Germany of the “real situation” in Ukraine, alleging various “gross violations of the international humanitarian law” by the Ukrainian Army and police including “extrajudicial killings of dissenters, hostage-taking and the use of civilians as human shields, deployment of heavy weaponry in residential areas, in proximity to hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and so on...”
It would appear that Mr. Putin is executing the lessons that the Soviets learned from the Wilson administration and, later, Saul Alinsky where propaganda is concerned: Telegraph your evils and nefarious deeds onto your opponents. Interesting to note in Putin’s line of propaganda is the reference to the same strategies used by Hamas in Israel’s Gaza Strip and West Bank. The Islamofascist terrorists of Hamas – often aided by the Iranian-back Hezbollah and the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – routinely hide military weaponry, weapons arsenals, rockets and missiles, and operative among the civilian population. Coincidence?
EU Leaders Fail to Set Deadline On Phasing Out Russian Energy; Say Maybe by 2027
European Union leaders ended a two-day summit in Versailles, France, without reaching a consensus on when to end the bloc’s outsize energy dependence on Russia. EU leaders condemned Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and vowed to phase out their dependency on Russian gas, oil, and coal imports “as soon as possible.” Earlier in the week, the EU released a proposal to phase out two-thirds of its Russian gas imports by the end of this year and end all imports of Russian energy supplies “well before” 2030. But members slow-walked the decision even further, asking Brussels to put forward a proposal in May.
These sanctions are a joke. They do nothing to shut off the war revenue spigot that are Russian energy exports. In fact, the United States will still be receiving Russian oil for approximately a month. It is for this reason that the sanctimonious rhetoric coming from the Biden administration is nothing more than lip-service when the President blames the Russia-Ukraine conflict on higher gas prices at the pump. It’s bullshit to an extreme. The people of the world are at a crossroads. We either allow the global elites to lie, cheat, steal and stick us with the tab, or we start a true movement to expunge elites and activists from government and guard against these reprobates from ever being allowed to screw us again!
Russian Elite Liquidate Crypto in Dubai
Some Russian oligarchs are buying up property in the United Arab Emirates, while others want to draw cash to invest it elsewhere. One crypto firm has been inundated with requests from Swiss brokers to liquidate holdings worth $2 billion and above. One request from a Swiss broker sought to sell 125,000 bitcoin ($6 billion USD) for a client. Switzerland’s economic affairs secretariat acknowledged that crypto assets are subject to the same sanctions and restrictions placed on the other assets owned by sanctioned individuals.
Another indication that the governments and the elites of the world are simply engaged in an exercise of deception to placate the people over the slaughter of people in Ukraine. There are no effective sanctions meant to exact a real pain against Putin and his oligarchic inner-circle. It is time we all start looking at what the elites of the world have in common.
UN Nixes Russian Claims of Ukraine Bioweapons Program; Proof of Biological Cooperative Remain
Russia called a meeting of the UN Security Council to reassert, without providing evidence, that Ukraine ran biological weapons laboratories with US Defense Department support. Member countries called the claim “a lie” and “utter nonsense” and used the session to accuse Russia of deliberately targeting and killing hundreds of civilians in Ukraine. The UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, told the council the United Nations is “not aware” of any biological weapons program in Ukraine.
Ah, the rhetorical dance of “you didn’t ask the right question.” The US DoD does, in fact, have a cooperative with the Ukrainians where biolaboratories are concerned. They are just not bioweapon “development” laboratories. The US has enjoined with the Ukrainians in developing antitoxins to many of the bioweapons the Russians and the Communist Chinese have developed in violation of their signatory status to the non-proliferation treaties. So, while there are no “bioweapons” labs in Ukraine in cooperation with the US, there are biolabs. Tomato, tomato.
Beijing Increases Military Spending, Requests Military to Help ‘Maintain Stability’
Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently issued a directive to China’s military and the armed police, asking the entire army to prepare for war and at the same time, assist local governments to “maintain stability” by handling emergencies in a timely manner. Moreover, China’s projected defense budget this year is 1.45 trillion yuan (about $230 billion), an increase of 7.1 percent year on year – the highest in three years.
The US just approved a 5.6 percent increase in defense spending to total $728.3 billion. But while it looks as though the US military budget dwarfs China’s, it does not and for two main reasons. First, there is no gratuitous waste in Chinese defense spending. Nothing has a padded cost and they can and do return items ordered in error or that are defective. The US has no process for returning items for refunds. Second, the Communist Chinese have no problem using slave labor and underpaid employees at their defense firms, which do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party. In a time when the US is far behind China in the development of quantum technology and transhumanism, maybe we can knock it off with the “get rich off the taxpayer” scheme so there can actually be a US to defend?
Record $1,806,838,000,000 Collected in Federal Taxes Through February; Federal Government Spends $2,282,422,000,000
The federal government collected a record $1,806,838,000,000 in total taxes through the first five months of fiscal 2022 (October through February), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today. The record $1,806,838,000,000 in federal tax collections included $973,913,000,000 in individual income taxes; $577,666,000,000 in social insurance and retirement taxes; $117,072,000,000 in corporation income taxes; $40,408,000,000 in customs duties; $31,286,000,000 in excise taxes; $10,661,000,000 in estate and gift taxes; and $55,832,000,000 in what the Treasury statement calls “miscellaneous receipts.” While it was collecting its record $1,806,838,000,000 in total taxes in the first five months of fiscal 2022, the federal government was spending $2,282,422,000,000. That resulted in a deficit of $475,584,000,000.
Can anyone say “tax reform” and “fiscal restraint”? Also, see the item above about a dysfunctional government procurement system that finds it quite alright to purchase $600 hammers...
Former White House Physician to Obama Calls for Biden's Immediate Resignation Over Cognitive State
Former White House Physician Ronny Jackson, who served in both the Obama and Trump administrations, said that President Biden is not mentally fit to serve as president and ought to immediately resign. “Biden doesn’t know what’s going on with...ANYTHING! He’s not cognitively capable of leading. He needs to RESIGN before our country suffers anymore.” Jackson, a Republican, currently represents Texas’s 13th congressional district in the US House of Representatives and has raised questions about Biden’s cognitive ability in the past.
Of course, the Left and Jackson’s detractors will say his comments are politically motivated. But anyone with any awareness at all saw the dramatic downturn in Biden cognizance in the waning days of the 2020 General Election cycle and his increased decline ever since. The argument for the abuse of the elderly should be made. The problem with removing Biden from office is that then we have President Harris, a woman who betrayed the women’s movement by sleeping her way to the top, and who has no true leadership abilities. The fascist Left really screwed the American people with these two and they should be called out on it in the most brutal of ways.
White House Briefed TikTok Social Media Influencers on Ukraine invasion
The White House directly engaged with social media influencers who use the Communist Chinese platform TikTok to deliver a briefing on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Psaki told the influencers, "Thank you all for everything you're doing. I mean, use of your platforms to educate, to inform, to debunk, to demystify, during what is a very tumultuous, heartbreaking time in the world is remarkable, and we recognize and value all of your platforms." The platform has been scrutinized for potentially having security risks.
The disregard for national security by the Biden administration where Communist China is concerned comes very close to the definition of treason. Our own intelligence community cautions about the use of Tik-Tik because of Communist China's ability to glean information through the app. So, we have to believe that anywhere any of these influencers went in the White House was a place where the Communist Chinese had eyes and ears. Stupid is as stupid does and the Biden administration is either inept on purpose or a cache of the biggest idiots on the face of the planet.
