Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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SCI – Little Things Mean a Lot – Kitty Kallen
SCI Mystery Cases is a cop show out of Hong Kong. This video shows off the relationship between the leads, the Chief of the Special Criminal Investigation team, usually in white, and his friend from infancy, the team psychologist, usually dressed in dark colors. It’s the only cop show I’ve seen where the leads are more like playmates than mature adults.
he Dam Buster Raid and 617 squadron PART I
The following is broken into to two parts because of the number links.
New York Times Headline
One of the most audacious bomber raids in history occurred during the early morning hours 16-17 May 1943.
The British RAFs “X” (later 617) Squadron. A unit specifically put together for the mission who’s highly experienced volunteers were drawn from RAF Squadrons that were flying the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber. These crews had already completed many missions and some were on their 2nd tour at a time when the odds of survival of even one tour was unlikely. (To give you and idea, the average life expectancy of a tail gunner in bomber command was 5 missions.) Included in the RAF crews that flew the mission was one American command pilot, one from Australia, and one from New Zealand.
The Lancaster was the best of the four engine British heavy bombers but it was never designed to do what it did this mission. The aircraft had a longer range and could carry a heavier bomb load than the US B-17 or B-24. This in part was due to lighter construction and lighter defensive armament and less armor plating that was used in the American bombers. Avro Lancaster
Nineteen Aircraft organized into three waves penetrated German controlled airspace crossing the Dutch coast the night of the 16th. For hours they flew right on the deck dodging between smoke stacks of factories and in at least one instance flying under high tension lines. The lower and faster they flew the safer they were from the German flak batteries and night fighters.
They flew hundreds of miles to get into Germany to attack their targets with special drum shaped bombs slung under the bomb bays of their aircraft on struts that protruded down. During the attacks each bomb was to be spun backward at high rpms by electric motors salvaged from certain naval applications attached to sprockets by chains.
This reverse “English” stabilized the bomb with it’s gyroscopic action. It also made the bombs skip across the water of the reservoirs the dams formed. And when the bomb skipped up to the side of the massive and immensely strong steel reinforced concrete structures the reverse “English” caused the bomb to roll down under the water staying right up next to the concrete as it actually creeped down the side of the structure into the depths. The water pressure it’s self acted as the tamponade which focused the majority of the strength of the blast against the structure. The water pressure deeper down also helped to exert maximum stress on the dam where the explosions occurred.
Of course for this all to work correctly the pilots had to fly smooth and straight at a precise height above the water, at a precise speed, and then release the bomb at the exact right distance from the dam. To indicate the the proper height above water two spot lights aimed obliquely to converge into a figure 8 on the waters surface when the bomber was at the right height were used. For the right distance a simple sight that that had pegs that lined up with certain features on the target dam at the right distance served the purpose. At the Mohne, the largest of the three dams attacked, all of this had to be accomplished flying into the fire of light flack batteries located right on the dam. At the other two dams successfully attacked flak was not the problem but high ridges around the reservoirs and fog made attacks very hazardous.
What brought this all about was the vision, genius, and sheer tenacity of a British aeronautical engineer named Barns Wallace. His fertile mind came up the the concept, studied it, experimented to develop it, doggedly fought the British military ministries bureaucracy to get it considered, and finally convinced a highly skeptical Air Marshall “Bomber” Harris, Commander of the RAF Bomber Command, to give it a go.
Nineteen Lancaster bombers crewed by a total of 133 men who’s magnificent courage can never be questioned took off for the raid. Barns Wallace and Bomber Harris both looking on. When eight of the bombers never returned so that fifty six men were lost an a sensitive and emotional Barns Wallace was devastated and it took members of the returning crews and Bomber Harris to console him and convince him it was worth the price. Fifty three of the crewmen died and three survived as POWs for the duration of the war.
The plan had been to attack the Mohne, Eder, and Sorpe dams as primary targets. If all three could be breached the damage to the Germany economy and war machine would be severe.
In the end only the Mohne and Eder were breached. The Sorpe was damaged but held as did two other dams designated as secondary targets. And so though the damage was significant it did not materially slow the German war machinery for long.
damage to the Mohne Dam
It is still argued to this day if the raid was worth it and probably will be as long as people study the history. But no serious and rational person could ever argue is that it didn’t take great courage for those crews to volunteer and carry out the mission or that the news of the raid was a great boost to the moral of the long suffering British people. The raid also prompted the Germans to divert resources to protect all their major dams from future attack.
great account, thanks RAH
Thanks for the story of the heroic sacrifice of those brave airmen.
I lost an uncle, KIA in WWII.
He was a tail gunner on an American bomber making a low level attack against a bridge in Italy.
All of the sacrifices of our armed services over the centuries is one of the reasons it is so important that we reverse the fraudulent 2020 election and get the rightful winner back in office.
Cheaters can’t be allowed to win in America, circa 2020.
This made a great movie. I recognized it when you described the reverse spin on the barrels and skipping them across the water.. If you can find it, watch “The Dam Busters”, a 1955 British epic war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave. The writers and director tried to capture the difficulties encountered in coordinating all the many variables to get the bomb delivery as precise as was required. I enjoyed it and developed great respect for the perseverance of all those involved.
Yes! That movie was based on the book which I will mention in part II tomorrow. The book is a great read and much of the information in both Parts I and II was extracted from it.
I am currently working on an essay on the P-38 fighter. It was the only US fighter aircraft the remained in front line US service throughout WW II. That essay will also have to be posted in multiple parts.
For what ever reason from the start when I started reading and studying about WW II that aircraft has been my favorite even though it is not on many peoples list even as a dark horse as the best fighter of WW II.
Obviously I meant front line service during the time the US was a combatant in WW II.
rah: One of the more remarkable aspects ( IMO) of this attack was the help Barnes-‘Wallis received from a little-known bunch of ecclectic patriots ensconsed over Admiralty Arch and led by Canadian Charles Goodeve . Known colloqually as The Wheezers and Dodgers ( a tongue-in-cheek Briticism referencing their age and non-active service ) and formally as The Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development . From this group came the Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon, rocket and rope grapnels used to scale Point Du-Hoc, non-metallic Plastic Armour for ships, successful camoflage for everything from comando canoes to full-size vessels, to land vehicles and a small-caliber star-shell enabling small vessels to be able to illuminate and shoot a target simultaneously among its many accomplishments .
I just watched an hour-long documentary on the P-38 last weekend on whatever history or military channel it was
Very well done and thorough, if you can locate it for a viewing it may better inform what you draw from written material
Thoughts on watching a slow motion train wreck that didn’t have to happen:
“Be nice to people on your way up, because you’ll meet them on your way down.” Wilson Mizner PLAYWRIGHT, ENTREPRENEUR .
Peter Gabriel said it best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUP4dCucVnY
Margot! Your are a wild woman!!! ❤️. Sledgehammer…I dare you!!!! Neelia
LOL, naughty, Neelia! You know I can’t take that dare, not here. If I posted Sledgehammer, I’d get the Banhammer. Or at the very least, the Binhammer.
Should I?
Lol, Neelia, although it’s tempting, I really don’t recommend it. The admins work hard to keep it clean and safe around here. They’re good folks, so I don’t want to mess with them. I’ve seen what happens to comments sections on other sites when things go sideways.
You’re right!!
We are probably not good for each other!!!! ❤️. I sense a kindred spirit!!!! Neelia!!!
Sledgehammer? The only Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer” I know was as tame as a child’s cartoon. What am I missing?
Terrific! Would you be so kind as to post that one for Neelia and me?
Thanks! No headless, dancing chickens! A little Elvis action there with the fruit cage business. Somewhat tastefully done, laid it on a bit thick, though.
Heck, that one is even tamer than a child’s cartoon. Music good, visual kinda zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Jesse Ventura!
That was…..interesting.
“Be nice to . . . ” especially if they have extra TP.
Just saw this and cracked up laughing, Sepp. You have a great sense of humor.
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Mr. Pelican will have a hard time gettin’ that one down the gullet
Blackie’s likely to put up a fight
For my brother 🙂
That Fever Tree is one of the best songs to come out of that era
From a band out of Texas. 🙂
no kidding?
would never have known
Kinda like CCR Born on the Bayou, Cali. band. Saturdays at 11am pacific time out here Everett Wa. is a show called Fretting Fingers guy who does the show is Genius on guitar music and the show is phenomenal. You can stream past shows so as not to have to listen to the pBS commercials. Been listening 20 years now.
90.7 KSER | Independent Public Radio
Jim Hilmar is the DJ, bluegrass show on Sunday is worth a listen. 😉
thx, Jay, opening that link just now
A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
“Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier” (II Tim. 2:3,4).
In the soldier it is courage and self-discipline that are important. It has been well said that the measure of a good soldier is not how much he can “give,” but how much he can “take,” how much he can endure — how much it takes to make him give up.
It is a sad fact that many of God’s people simply do not want to be soldiers. They are sure that the battle for the truth can be won by “love.” They decline to obey God’s specific order to “fight the good fight of the faith” (I Tim.6:12). Some even find fault with those who do stand as soldiers for Christ and wield the Sword of the Spirit in defense of the truth.
But if God does not wish us to be soldiers in the fight of the faith, why did He command us to be such in the first place, and why, in Ephesians 6:10-20, does He urge us to “be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might,” instructing us to “Put on the whole armour of God,” naming each piece separately, so that not one might be missing? Why does He bid us to “take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God”?
Does He mean that we should put our sword in the scabbard and go on dress parade, to show what fine soldiers we are? No! We are to wield the Sword of the Spirit, “standing against the wiles of the devil”, and to keep standing until, “having done all,” we are still found “standing.”
Four times in this passage the word “stand” is used, and God has provided a complete armour so that we may be enabled to stand.
But there is more. A “good soldier,” says the Apostle, is careful not to “entangle himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier” (Verse 4).
What a lesson! Should not we, who have been bought with the precious blood of Christ, be “good soldiers” for His sake, single-minded, and disentangled from the affairs of this life?
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/a-good-soldier-of-jesus-christ/
2 Timothy 2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Ephesians 6:10 ¶ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
19 ¶ And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
A few years ago Tamara Saviano, who was the late Guy Clark’s publicist and friend, wrote a wonderful book about Guy and Susanna Clark’s life. Killed or Caught, The Life and Music Of Guy Clark is a well written, if occasionally brutally honest, biography of one of modern America’s great poet/songwriters. There aren’t too many books that I’ll read more than once. Tonight, however, I realized I’m on the third reading of Tamara’s fine book. And, guess what? I was a good two hours into it when I realized that It’s as enjoyable now as the first time I read it. If you like popular culture and music history, I highly recommend this this book. It’s a great read.
This video was made about the time Tamara’s book was coming out. It works well as an introduction to her book. The best scene however in a few minutes in when we see Guy and his friends sitting around a table pickin’ and grinnin’. You have to understand some of the more obscure nuances of Southern culture on display here but, suffice it say, Guy and his friends are having a great time . . .
I include this next Guy Clark song because it’s one of my favorites. I’ll admit to having a vested interest. What he so artfully describes here is pretty much emblematic of one of my more profound life experiences—aged 9. The biggest difference was that I was jumping off a tall step-ladder and not a garage, although the practical difference was negligible. I was convinced that if I could just get the towel in full extension that I’d easily attain dynamic lift and even escape velocity and begin flying. Sadly, I quickly learned that an extended bathroom towel—despite what the Superman movies implied—does not provide even a smidgen of aerodynamic lift. Looking back, I now realize that Guy’s song is a wonderful celebration of childhood. Still, it’s a wonder I didn’t break my neck.
In further recognition that the America I grew up in has been discarded, I found this guy’s narrative worth listening to
Filmed in 1989 (32 years ago), his narrative foretells several of the poisonous traits of the 60s counterculture and Left that are only more visible today
He was a young man in the 50s and ended up a hard worker to support a wife and kids and household
And he was more than a bit dismayed with what he saw of that 60s counterculture and blooming of the gibsmedat society
He Reveals What 1950s Men Thought & Did
6:28 Raised in a half-white-black neighborhood
11:49 Hard worker
12:10 Sees the gibs me dat culture
12:33 60s counterculture
13:19 Sees the poison, “you could see the ugliness come out”
That poison and ugliness is now times 1,000 in current events, no?
Hat Tip: iOTWReport.com
Growing up when a kid could work was a wonderful time, no wonder this world is going to hell in a hand basket.
Another news site https://www.whatfinger.com/
Made me laugh, thanks!
Fantastic!
THE RECOGNIZED BAN OF RELATIONSHIP
“We are made as the filth of the world.” 1 Cor. iv. 9-13
These words are not an exaggeration. The reason they are not true of us who call ourselves ministers of the gospel is not that Paul forgot the exact truth in using them, but that we have too many discreet affinities to allow ourselves to be made refuse. “Filling up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ” is not an evidence of sanctification, but of being “separated unto the gospel.”
“Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you,” says Peter. If we do think it strange concerning the things we meet with, it is because we are craven-hearted. We have discreet affinities that keep us out of the mire – I won’t stoop, I won’t bend. You do not need to, you can be saved by the skin of your teeth if you like; you can refuse to let God count you as one separated unto the gospel. Or you may say – “I do not care if I am treated as the offscouring of the earth as long as the Gospel is proclaimed.” A servant of Jesus Christ is one who is willing to go to martyrdom for the reality of the gospel of God. When a merely moral man or woman comes in contact with baseness and immorality and treachery, the recoil is so desperately offensive to human goodness that the heart shuts up in despair. The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him but “TO REVEAL HIS SON IN ME.”
Oswald Chambers
February 3rd Devotional
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter V – The Glory of the Cross
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When this new song was ended, light supremely above that before witnessed, descended. I looked, and lo! the dome above me was parted, and beings far more glorious approached. Awed by the presence of the light, and desiring to flee before it, I approached my guide, who said, “What thou hast seen Marietta, is but the earnest of joys to come. Here thou hast been welcomed, and here witnessed this manifestation of thy Redeemer, and the harmony of this entrance to the divine abode. But, behold! above thee the descending glory of the Cross appears. Spirits, members of thy race, redeemed, who are advanced to higher life, attend. Mark the foreshadowing of the glory of the Seventh Sphere. These angels wait on thee.”
Then visible above me appeared a Cross, borne in the midst of twelve, on whose circle I read, “Patriarchs, Prophets and Apostles.” Above it was written, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” Bowing at the feet was a spirit, whose raiment was white, and expression that of holy adoration. She kissed the Cross, and then descending, approached me, and in music of speech, superior to that of the anthems to which I had listened with wonder and delight, she said, “Welcome spirit from the world of woe. Lo! by the will of Jesus, even that Jesus crucified, my Lord and Redeemer, I come to commune with thee. ‘Tis but by his permission thou are admitted here; and be not sad, though thou shouldst be required to return to thy friends on earth.”
The thought of being subjected again to the sins and misfortunes of my former life, so affected me that it seemed as if I was quitting the divine abode, and rapidly descending to earth; when lo! I was embraced by my guide, who said, “When thou returnest, thou shalt go to bear a message of holy love, to earth; and at an appointed time, free from the power of mortal attachments, thou shalt enter here, a member of the holy bank.”
To be continued…
thank you
https://twitter.com/NoTrueScotist/status/1356800182600404994
Liz Cheney’s Predestined Future by C. Edmund Wright (AT)
FTA:
And while it may seem at first glance that her political career is at a dead end, it is far from it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/02/liz_cheneys_predestined_future.html
Viganò: Vatican Congregation Ignores Most Abject Form of Human Sacrifice
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The Covid-19 vaccination is objectively immoral because it uses material from aborted children, Archbishop Viganò wrote in a January 31 letter to an anonymous priest.
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The justification of the vaccine published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) is for Viganò inadeguate and was produced “in the name of a courtesan subservience to the authoritarianism of the immediate superior [= Francis].”
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https://gloria.tv/post/cP8pEbuH2Nbs61pKtkQcgHSjQ
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint / Psalm 51 KJV
Verse of the Day for Wednesday, February 3, 2021
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“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Be My Voice -I am a CHILD – not a CHOICE!!!
In preparation for “Cursday”…because my sheltie loves Biscuit!
And
It would be good for more States to start thinking/acting like this:
Missouri Senate Committee Passes Bill to Take on Federal Gun Control: Past, Present and Future | Tenth Amendment Center Blog
Tenth Amendment Center
Update: I went to the doctor on Monday and had the Foly Cath removed from my penis. I still have the superpublic cath. Yesterday I started plugging the super public cath and urinated more or less normally for the first time in months. It hurts, it burns, but that is the price that must be paid and I sure am going to pay it. I plug the cath during the day and then hook the bag back up to sleep at night. I doubt you can imagine the feeling of finally getting better and the freedom I feel not dragging a cath bag around with me so I have both hands free and can move as I want.
If all goes well I go back to the doctor, whose office I have now come on to look as the “house of pain” on Monday to have the superpublic cath removed. Then I can start rehabilitating my self to get my strength back and get rid of the last of the pain from sitting and get back to living!
Praise the Lord! He has apparently deemed that I shall once again be able to live a productive life!
Thank you all so much for your concern and praying me during this difficult and most physically painful time of my life.
God bless you, rah. Can’t keep a good man down.
Praise the Lord!
Good luck.
🙂
Won’t be long now and………:)
Mornin’ infidels!
Mornin’ WeeWeed
The fix is in: Yellen Gets Ethics Waiver To Lead Regulator Meeting On Gamestop Insanity After Taking $810K From Citadel
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yellen-gets-ethics-waiver-lead-regulatory-crusade-against-hft-after-taking-700k-citadel
https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/allegany-county/allegany-county-pausing-rapid-testing-for-covid-19/
“The Allegany County Health Department is putting rapid testing on hold… to focus on vaccinating people.”
Gee I wonder if cases will go down if they stop testing?
I wish WIVB would put a cap on their “all virus – all the time” news broadcasts because my mother likes to watch their local news. I just watch the weather, but often have to overhear their virus rantings.
At least I pursuaded mom to watch Lou Dobbs and Elizabeth MacDonald on FBN from 5-7pm. Sometimes she needs a reminder, though. Old habits die hard.
Sundance, did you ever catch this story on Reality Winner? Seems pretty important…..
“2 years ago
This article completely misses the whole point by morphing into another Russiaphobic rant. The Winner leak in no way proved any Russian interference. It contained an intelligence officer’s assessment – read wild guess – that the email came from Russia. What the leak revealed is that our elections have already been subverted by machines designed to cheat. This has always been denied by both the cheaters and the corporate press Until this leak! Quick, throw in the Russian sleight of hand before anyone notices that! I expect that sort of manipulation from the corporate press, but it is heartbreaking to read it in the Intercept. How sad that Winner will languish in prison for making a point that even the Intercept didn’t get. ”
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/
Godspeed!
SD – If you deem it appropriate, maybe bring the Reality Winner story to your conservative audience? I’m sure your unique perspective can add a lot to the coverage or lack thereof. Trump tweeted support for her in the past.
Some important points via Glenn Greenwald….
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/useful-idiots-glenn-greenwald-reality-winner-trump-pardon-snowden-1062491/?_gl=1*t9etjb*_ga*YW1wLUNjbTFCenJCZ1ZzbmY3RGtPaGI5Nk80MUpSamdkNk9vVUpRc2czT1p2Y2pZZVRFaGw4dmNkWGZGWkxLaEs0MDc.#respond
“ President Donald Trump said NSA whistleblower Reality Winner‘s five-year prison sentence for leaking a classified document to the media was “unfair” – and he used the assertion to again attack Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
In a Friday morning tweet, Trump called Winner’s leaks “‘small potatoes’ compared to what Hillary Clinton did,” referring to his repeated accusations that his rival in the 2016 election had broken the law in her use of a private email server while Secretary of State.
The tweet also marks the second time in two days that Trump has lashed out at Sessions, following remarks he made Wednesday saying his Attorney General “never took control of the Justice Department.”
“So unfair Jeff, Double Standard,” Trump wrote Friday.” https://time.com/5377202/donald-trump-reality-winner-sentence-unfair/
“Winner indicated
in the transcripts that she felt the report describing Russian cyberattacks targeting voter rolls should have been made public.
“I saw the article and was like, I don’t understand why this isn’t a thing,” she said, adding, “Yeah, I screwed up royally.”
U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Epps has scheduled a hearing Friday to reconsider releasing Winner on bond. He ordered her jailed in June after prosecutors said Winner may have taken more than a single classified report.
They said Winner had inserted a portable hard drive into a top-secret Air Force computer before she left the military last year.
Winner’s defense lawyers argued in a court filing Saturday that prosecutors haven’t accused Winner of any additional crimes more than three months later. They noted several other cases in which defendants accused of leaking multiple secret documents were freed on pre-trial bonds.
Defense attorneys wrote that if Winner is released, her mother in Kingsville, Texas, would move to Georgia to live with her and ensure that she complies with all bond conditions.”
– FoxNews
“ I think her case is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice that we’ve seen in recent times. If you look at the allegations that have been brought by the government, and you have to remember that there was never a trial in this case, so they’re still just allegations, she was accused of disclosing one document to a news organization. And that one document was about Russian efforts; Russian intelligence efforts to hack into U.S. voting systems at the state level.
Now, since that, since her arrest on that in last year, the U.S. Senate has issued a report saying that that the Department of Homeland Security failed to adequately warn state officials around the country about the threat from Russian cyberhacking of voting systems. And the report, the Senate report went on to say that it was really only press disclosures that notified the state-level officials of the danger and the threat from Russian cyber attacks. That means while the Justice Department has gone after Reality Winner, the U.S. Senate and Congress have identified what she did as a public service. ”
“ AARON MATE: There’s no argument there. But I’m worried there about conflating two issues. There’s the issue of whether this is a public service to alert voting officials and states about potential malignant actors, which is of course a public service. And any leak is really a public service. I mean, it’s great. But the question is, does- the problem that I have here is when this document is adduced, as has been done by the Intercept and many outlets to prove or to substantiate claims that there was a Russian government hacking attempt, when the document itself shows that this is not just only one analyst judgment. They’re not confirmed information. But that even attributing to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence, is done contextually. So it’s even a lower grade than one analyst judgment. And so if anything, it proves, I think, actually, the thin evidentiary basis for all these claims, which you seem to be taking on face value, that the Russian government was meddling in the U.S. election.”
https://therealnews.com/what-does-the-intercepts-nsa-leak-say-about-russian-vote-hacking
I happened to go on the Intercept today and the hate speech against DR. Simone Gold is unreal. A Dr. promoting HCL must be Hitler?
The Intercept is practically MSM now. Bought out / sold out to Soros it seems.
From the ACE OF SPADES HQ blog:
Greetings, Fellow Racists:
Perhaps JJ Sefton linked to this already, but it’s worth noting:
Naturally, one of the first acts of the Biden administration was to abolish the 1776 Commission (one of his early EOs), because shut up, that’s why. This means that it’s now going to be all Critical Race Theory all the time. Yeah, baby!
And of course, Biden’s diligently minions scrubbed the 1776 Commission’s final report from the White House site, but it is still archived at the Trump White House site, which apparently is required by law.
You can download the 1776 Commission’s final report as a pdf document at this link.
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Patriotism bees all raycissss an’ sheeeeit
January 21st on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and February 3rd on the civil or commercial calendar.
Saint Máximos the Confessor (+ 662) endured with absolutely steadfast and patient meekness the persecutions from the powerful in his witness against the Monothelite heresy.
A detailed summary of his Life is at this link. It takes a patient reading to keep track of the historical figures involved, but his Orthodox confession of Jesus Christ under situations that seem similar today matters most. His tongue was torn out and his right hand cut off.
http://www.cpress.orthodoxws.com/lives_21_january
I want to download Peter Navarro’s “The Immaculate Deception” and his next two volumes, but when I go to his site to download, I get a Google pop-up.
As I do not do Google… is there another way to obtain this download? Anybody?… Thanks.
Here ya go:
https://www.scribd.com/document/493125329/The-Navarro-Report-PDF-Final
Sorry… Got Two of the three… negligence in not going back on Sundance’s site.
Xi and Putin Make the Case for Win-Win vs Zero Sum
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/xi-and-putin-make-the-case-for-win-win-vs-zero-sum/
A few snips:
“Predictably, the two really crucial events at Davos received minimal or non-existent coverage across the wobbly West: the speeches by President Xi and President Putin.”
“The whole Global South is figuring out how the contrast could not be starker between the American model – neoliberalism redux, in the form of turbo-financialization – and East Asia’s productive investment in industrial capitalism.”
“He’s now focusing on the main battlefield in the evolving US-China clash: Europe. Jacques notes that, “the trend toward a growing distance between Europe and the US will be slow, tortuous, conflict-riddled, and painful.” We are now “in new territory. American decline means that it has increasingly less to offer Europe.”
“This [fiber optic cable connectivity amongst various BRI nations and Europe] shows that BRI is not as much about building roads, dams and high-speed rail networks but especially the Digital Silk Road, intimately connected with state of the art Chinese cyber-tech.”
My mom passed away last week. She was a positive and outspoken southern woman. She raised 4 kids while my dad traveled during the week. I’m so sad she died during this time because she wouldn’t have put up with all the masking and vaccine and breaking down of the nuclear traditional family. I don’t want to go to her service. They, ( the leftist in my family), are talking about distancing. I won’t be wearing a mask and if they ask me to I won’t, I will leave. It’s sad to see my dad giving in to this mess. In years pat he would’ve been saying what I’m saying, it’s crap. I remember him as a man of principle and right and wrong and God. LI’ll have to remember my mom from the past, the woman who played 78 lps and made us go to church at least on holidays and loved the beach. How far we have fallen and how far away from God we are as a society. How dare these leftist turn my moms passing into an advertisement for their agenda.
And she didn’t die of the China flu.
May her memory be eternal. And may you find peace.
So sorry for your loss. I remember a FIL, MD, PhD, who would have stood up to this Hoax while all of his children and GC mask up.
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Amen. Lord, have mercy on us. Please protect Patriots and freedom loving people around the world..
Amen.
Hanoi’s recent 13th party meeting mirrors the current Rat Party in leadership and loyalty to it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/31/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/vietnam-election-nguyen-phu-trong/
This is an absolutely fascinating piece. VERY different view of why China wanted extradition power over Hong Kong. Might even make one question exactly WHY our demon Deep State agitated there and created those riots.
https://thesaker.is/the-triads-the-kuomintang-and-hong-kongs-democracy-riots/
Reading it right now, Mandy, thanks for posting it
This is shocking. A defector from North Korea tells what life is like there. In 70 years only 200 have managed to escape to West, she is one of them. Everyone is starving, this girl was hungry every minute like a concentration camp. Brain washing, public executions, no map of the planet, no knowledge of other races. If you say a single unallowed word 3 generations of your family and YOU are killed. The words depression and stress are not allowed and no one even knows how to describe their pain. Everyone is unhappy but you’re not allowed to be in the “socialist paradise.”
See this? They are not content with total control, they have thought control too like your every day Leftwinger thought and speech police.
They don’t even know there are other planets or basic facts about life.
The top 1-20% of North Koreans see the world and go to Swiss schools.
All the peons live in a concentration camp below the elite.
How do they do this?
THERE IS NO INTERNET AND ONE T.V. STATION (the Leftwing model they are trying to shove on you)
Your globalist oligarchs want this life for you.
Big Tech oligarchs colluding with government, industry, schools and media are working their best to control you the same way.
You think it’s not possible in 2021. Of course your oligarchs have seen the Chinese/North Korean/Iranin model and are working quite dilligently to implement that here.
They’re trying to slow cook us into this control because they know Americans don’t go down like that and yet they are really, really industriously working at it.
North Korean Defector Exposes Kim Jong Un & China – YouTube
De Santis fighting Big Tech is not enough. He speaks about doing so little it’s pathetic even if I appreciate the start.
Poland is looking at enormous fines for Big Tech every single time they block Conservatives and go against their free speech laws.
We need something more like that. Really, really big fines and ruination for anyone trying to control the flow of information like Zuck Jong Il.
thanks for taking time with that writeup, Falana
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