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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Joni Ernst: ‘We Need to Know and Understand' Why Hunter Biden Flew 23 Times Through Joint Base Andrews
[Breitbart] Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily that the reasons for Hunter Biden’s flights through Joint Base Andrews should be investigated, remarking on revelations in Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow’s Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption.

Breitbart News reported on Sunday, "According to Secret Service travel records obtained by Judicial Watch, then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter took 411 trips across 29 countries between 2009 and the middle of 2014. That includes 23 flights into or out of Joint Base Andrews—home to Air Force One and Air Force Two."

Marlow asked, "I broke a story over the weekend that Hunter Biden had flown out of Joint Base Andrews 23 times while Joe Biden was vice president. He’d taken 411 trips, according to Secret Service travel records, including to 29 foreign countries. How do you fly out of Joint Base Andrews? Can I do that, or do I have to know someone if I want to fly?"

Ernst jokingly replied, "Sounds like, ’Sure, why not?’ Sounds like just anybody can."

She continued, "That is very concerning, Alex, and thank you for bringing that to light, and this is why I do think we need to look into the activities that have gone on with Hunter Biden."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/25/2021 03:42 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Somebody had an business enterprise in progress. Did the "Big Guy" get his 10% cut ?

This story is very difficult to find via Google or the MSM. Yes, it's headed for the memory hole.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/25/2021 3:47 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 05/25/2021 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  This story is very difficult to find via Google or the MSM.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Thanks Skid.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/25/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Um... we do know and understand.

These sh!theads who claimed -- nonstop for four years -- that Trump's family was corrupt and that OrangeMan was acting on behalf of a hostile foreign power were lying. It was Biden's son who was ensnared by his Chinese business partners, in league with a CCP / PLA front company, selling access to his father.

We are living through a dystopian nightmare in which literally everything our elites say is the direct opposite of the truth.
Posted by: Unuting Uneack6185 || 05/25/2021 9:25 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Appears you have nailed it. Now let's see if anything comes of it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/25/2021 9:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Why?...

Biden looks abroad for electric vehicle metals, in blow to US miners
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2021 9:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Confusion over the word "Joint" in the base's name?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/25/2021 10:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Hunter moved on from 'joints'; it's a gateway drug thing!
Posted by: Raj || 05/25/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Maybe Humper Biden got promoted into Jeffery Epstein’s post death open position.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/25/2021 11:50 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ There will always be a demand for such things.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/25/2021 12:21 Comments || Top||

#12  Hunter = Ghislaine
Big Guy = Jeffrey
Posted by: Skunky Prince of the Swedes9228 || 05/25/2021 13:17 Comments || Top||


Got him! 'Extremely dangerous' fugitive, 26, is seen moments after being arrested after six days on the run following four random killings in two states as part of 'modern-day Bonnie and Clyde' duo
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Tyler Donnet Terry,
    ...yet another of the usual sort of carefully groomed, vicious feral yoot, even if he is technically a grown up...
    26, had been on the run since fleeing officers last Monday

  • Escaped from a wreck where companion, Adrienne Simpson,
    ...bottle blond, blue-eyed, not whatcha might call beautiful...
    34, was arrested

  • Described by Chester County, South Carolina Sheriff as 'the most violent man I've ever heard of'
    The couple killed at least two in South Carolina and two outside St. Louis, Missouri, and shot two more since the beginning of the month.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Animal.
Another black lying murderer
Posted by: Bill Slomomble2938 || 05/25/2021 2:36 Comments || Top||


Never stop for a car jacker
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What about car swarmers?
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 05/25/2021 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2 

I'd the driver a Gallon of Gas.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/25/2021 5:52 Comments || Top||

#3  GOOOAAAAAALLLLLLL
Posted by: Retard Strength || 05/25/2021 7:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Other potentially useful motoring tips:

SITUATION 1

While a rural end of the roadway on Thursday morning, I saw an infant car seat on the side of the road with a blanket draped over it.

For whatever reason, I did not stop, even though I had all kinds of thoughts running through my head. But when I got to my destination, I called the Canton PD and they were going to check it out. But, this is what the Police advised even before they went out there to check.

"There are several things to be aware of ... Gangs and thieves are now plotting different ways to get a person (mostly women) to stop their vehicle and get out of the car.

"There is a gang initiation reported by the local Police Department where gangs are placing a car seat by the road...with a fake baby in it....waiting for a woman, of course, to stop and check on the abandoned baby.

Note that the location of this car seat is usually beside a wooded or grassy (field) area and the person -- woman -- will be dragged into the woods, beaten and raped, and usually left for dead. If it's a man, they're usually beaten and robbed and maybe left for dead, too."

DO NOT STOP FOR ANY REASON!!! DIAL 9-1-1 AND REPORT WHAT YOU SAW, BUT

DON'T EVEN SLOW DOWN.

SITUATION 2

"IF YOU ARE DRIVING AT NIGHT AND EGGS ARE THROWN AT YOUR WINDSHIELD,

DO NOT STOP TO CHECK YOUR CAR, DO NOT OPERATE THE WIPERS AND DO NOT

SPRAY ANY WATER BECAUSE EGGS MIXED WITH WATER BECOME MILKY, AND BLOCK

YOUR VISION UP TO 92.5%, AND YOU ARE THEN FORCED TO STOP BESIDE THE

ROAD AND BECOME A VICTIM OF THESE CRIMINALS.

THIS IS A NEW TECHNIQUE USED BY GANGS, SO PLEASE INFORM YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.

THESE ARE DESPERATE TIMES AND THESE ARE UNSAVORY INDIVIDUALS WHO WILL

TAKE DESPERATE MEASURES TO GET WHAT THEY WANT."

Please talk to your loved ones about this. This is a new tactic being used. Please be safe.

SITUATION 3

Some knew about the red light on cars, but not Dialing 112.

It was about 1:00 p.m. In the afternoon, and Lauren was driving to visit a friend. An UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put his lights on. Lauren's parents have always told her to never pull over for an unmarked car, but rather to wait until they get to a gasstation, etc.

Lauren had actually listened to her parents advice, and promptly called, 112 on her cell phone to tell the police dispatcher that she would not pull over right away. She proceeded to tell the dispatcher that there was an unmarked police car with a flashing red light on hisrooftop behind her. The dispatcher checked to see if there were police cars where she was and there weren't, and he told her to keep driving, remain calm and that he had back up already on the way.

Ten minutes later 4 cop cars surrounded her and the unmarked car behind her. One policeman went to her side and the others surrounded the car behind. They pulled the guy from the car and tackled him to the ground. The man was a convicted rapist and wanted for othercrimes.

I never knew about the 112 Cell Phone feature. I tried it on my AT&T phone & it said, "Dialing Emergency Number."

Especially for a woman alone in a car, you should not pull over for an unmarked car. Apparently, police have to respect your right to keep going on to a safe place.

*Speaking to a service representative at Bell Mobility confirmed that 112 was a direct link to State trooper info. So, now it's your turn to let your friends know about "Dialing, 112"

You may want to send this to every Man, Woman & Youngster you know; it may well save a life.

This applies to ALL 50 states!
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/25/2021 7:41 Comments || Top||

#5  The driver loses points because the carjacker didn't phones off the tree.
Posted by: Woozle Theamble4130 || 05/25/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 05/25/2021 8:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Post #2 sounds like Facebook forwards from Grandma. No sources are cited.
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 05/25/2021 11:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Sorry #4
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 05/25/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Looks like he was coordinating with Red Team.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/25/2021 19:05 Comments || Top||


Brave Good Samaritan throws himself at knifeman to save woman he was stabbing in random NYC Subway attack then blasts Mayor Bill de Blasio over soaring crime
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • The stabbing happened at Union Square station in Manhattan on Wednesday night

  • Kelli Daley, 54, was jumped by a man identified as 22-year-old Joshua Nazario
    ...a feral yoot who clearly spends inordinate time and money on his facial grooming...
  • Nazario allegedly slashed Daley several times with a knife before Sean Conaboy, 52, intervened

  • Conaboy, a freelance videographer for the Canadian Broadcast Company, tackled Nazario and restrained him

  • It marked the second stabbing at Union Square in two days and the 17th subway attack in NYC in two weeks
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Continuing tremors have shaken the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s city of Goma, unnerving families still reeling from a volcano eruption
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "My hovel is shaking!"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/25/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I feel the earth move under my feet.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/25/2021 16:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Do families in Congo still possess the ability to be unnerved?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/25/2021 16:59 Comments || Top||


Wuhan roundup: Things previously settled science are unsettled again
US learned several Wuhan lab researchers sickened before COVID-19 outbreak: former State Department official

White House insists COVID-19 origins requires 'transparent' international investigation

Pompeo says it's 'outrageous' US officials, including Fauci, dismissed lab leak theory

As reporting on coronavirus lab leak theory grows, critics accuse media of suffering 'amnesia' on topic

Courtesy of Phaick Pherong4521:
Nobel Prize Winner Reveals - Covid Vaccine is Creating Variants
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:




'Medical system collapse' hits Japan as hospitals buckle under new wave of Covid-19 blamed on the British variant and doctors say Olympics MUST be cancelled
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Covid cases in Japan's second-largest city jumped five-fold in three months

  • Osaka prefecture had 1/3rd of Japan’s deaths in May despite only 7% of the country’s population, with 3,849 new positive tests in the week to Thursday and 13,770 total COVID-19 patients

  • Doctors in Osaka have warned the healthcare system is now collapsing
    ...or at least 96% of the dedicated hospital beds for virus patients are in use, and they’re thinking of pulling staff from other wings...
  • Beds and ventilators are running short, while medical staff are exhausted

  • Doctors have now joined growing calls to abandon the Tokyo Olympics

  • Only about half of Japan's medical staff have been vaccinated.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  2nd time Tokyo cxl - if that is indeed the case. First time was in 1940...
Posted by: borgboy || 05/25/2021 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Instead of keeping track of each country's medal count, we should track how many events the men dominate in the mixed gender events.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/25/2021 15:58 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
STARRS Newsletter
Welcome From Our President

Thank you for your interest in Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS). We are a newly formed corporation (our application for 501(c)3 tax-exempt status has been filed and is pending approval). We are dedicated to maintaining an apolitical military, preventing the introduction of Critical Race Theory (CRT) into the US Armed Forces and educating the American people of the dangers of neo-Marxist ideology.

CRT is simply Marxism repackaged in new terms and is ultimately an ideological tool used to divide people and society. We believe unity, not diversity, is our strength.

Knowledge, facts and education are fundamental tools necessary to prevent further intrusion of neo-Marxism ideological subversion into all facets of American life. We encourage all STARRS supporters to study CRT, share their knowledge and publicly call attention to it whenever it surfaces.

We will update you as we move forward, implement our strategic plans and achieve new milestones. We hope you will support STARRS and consider joining our efforts to block the elements of CRT and other neo-Marxist ideology from invading the US armed services and American society.

Finally, we have experienced rapid growth and are in need of not just supporters, but active supporters. If you think you would like to join our efforts or have any questions or comments, please contact us at contactstarrs@protonmail.com or visit our website at www.starrs.us
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/25/2021 14:16 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Florida fights back against big tech: Sunshine state makes it ILLEGAL for social media giants to censor conservative posts with Gov DeSantis blasting that firms are 'suppressing free speech'
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Awesome. Love this guv
Posted by: Spats Jomort1806 || 05/25/2021 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Way to go.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/25/2021 3:57 Comments || Top||

#3 

Sounds great....
But as stated likely UNENFORCEABLE.

Reads like a Campaign Protection act for political candidates.

I predict at most maybe some COURT or MEDIA OPERA.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/25/2021 5:38 Comments || Top||

#4  A creative approach would be to treat any censoring of political candidates as contribution in kind to the opposition candidates. The state can require formal filing to immediately follow and can set the amount that the 'in kind' contribution is counted. The failure to file would become the criminal act with fines and penalties.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/25/2021 8:05 Comments || Top||


''Go back to Africa''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not surprising. Classic economic theory predicts that when demand for a good exceeds supply, sellers with an inferior product with be drawn into the market. Think about it - when was the last time we had an honest-to-gosh real hate crime?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/25/2021 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  when was the last time we had an honest-to-gosh real hate crime?

Every day - by Wakandans & Muslims
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/25/2021 2:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Not every day but definitely every month there's a major hoax. In the past 8 years there have been documented a total of close to a hundred of these black-perpetrated hoaxes at schools and colleges across the US
Posted by: Spanky Henbane2436 || 05/25/2021 2:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Actually, "Back to Africa" would be good for them and good for us. Win-win.
Posted by: Maggie Snomoger5457 || 05/25/2021 2:24 Comments || Top||

#5  "I dinna mean dat! I meaned let's go back to Africa!"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/25/2021 3:55 Comments || Top||

#6  initial report: Page A1 above the fold
update with details: Page D12 after the Obits
Posted by: Retard Strength || 05/25/2021 6:56 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
'Jammeh Should Face The Full Force of The Law' in Gambia
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Caribbean-Latin America
Ecuador's Lasso takes office on vows to address the economic crisis
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
HN Thread: YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/25/2021 17:31 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All the various establishments who spent the last four years bitching about Russia...

They not only wouldn't say shit if they had a mouthful...

They swallowed.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/25/2021 17:44 Comments || Top||


Lavrov reiterates a way out of the impasse in Donbass
Direct translation
[Korrespondent] To return the uncontrolled Donbass to the control of the Ukrainian government, it is necessary to implement the Minsk package of measures, Lavrov said.

The only possible way out of the impasse that has developed with the settlement of the conflict in Donbass is the implementation of the Minsk agreements. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with Arguments and Facts.

According to him, Ukraine is trying to change the sequence of implementing the provisions of the Package of Measures, putting in the first place gaining control over the entire Russian-Ukrainian border with the subsequent holding of local elections in Donbass.

"To find a way out of the impasse, the authorities in Kiev must decide whether they want the return of Donbass to the Ukrainian state. If so, then there is only one way to this goal - a clear and consistent implementation of the Package of Measures," Lavrov said.

He also said that Ukraine "refuses" to grant Donbass a special status, as provided for in the Minsk agreements.

"Instead, Kiev is" shifting the arrows "to Russia, trying to make it a party to the conflict, demanding stronger anti-Russian sanctions," Lavrov said.

As you know, in the Normandy format, they continue to discuss the peace plan for the Donbass, proposed by Germany and France. Recently, the media learned about new proposals on it from Ukraine .

Oleksiy Arestovich, speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group, believes that the decision on a peace plan for Donbass will be made after October 1.
Posted by: badanov || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


US President Joe Biden and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will meet in Switzerland for their first summit
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Does Barb still have the concession on popcorn?

We're going to need it when Biden squares off against Putin.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/25/2021 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Squares off? That would require a memory of how right angles work, to begin with.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/25/2021 0:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Ba-Zing! Tw brings the heat.

Personally, my money is on Putin. He is small, but he's wiry. Also not senile.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/25/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||

#4  So we got Mr. rode to popularity on horseback vs Mr. rode to popularity on a whore's back. I know where I'll be placing my bets.
Posted by: Classer || 05/25/2021 1:15 Comments || Top||

#5  No teleprompterz allowed, Plugz
к стати, "Plugz" по-русский = затычки из волос
Posted by: Vinegar Theating6093 || 05/25/2021 2:15 Comments || Top||

#6  I say Pay Per View except for the KO in the 1st.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/25/2021 13:41 Comments || Top||

#7  You really think it'll make it to the 1st? My bet is Plugs get tangled up in in the ropes beforehand...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/25/2021 14:38 Comments || Top||

#8  No doubt. Beer Summit was awkward and that was on a good day.

Without a date, all we have here is an acceptance of Putin's idea from what 6?8? weeks ago, though strong odds favor not-live and something coming up beforehand.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/25/2021 17:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Have someone hold "Slow Joe's" lunch money so Putin doesn't send Joe home empty handed.
Posted by: magpie || 05/25/2021 22:02 Comments || Top||

#10  It's a crime in most states to beat up a senile, frail old man.
Posted by: Omotle Sholuns7857 || 05/25/2021 22:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Maybe Biden will send 'heels up!' Kamala to seal the deal - and start a war...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/25/2021 23:50 Comments || Top||


According to his mother, Roman Protasevich is in hospital in critical condition - heart disease
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] When you come right down to it, we all end up dying of heart failure, don't we?

Belarus claims it forced Ryanair plane to land because of Hamas threat
[IsraelTimes] A senior Belarus transportation official says that the country had received a bomb threat claiming to be from Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, ahead of the diversion of a Ryanair passenger flight carrying a dissident, a diversion that drew widespread excoriation from Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and the United States.

Artem Sikorsky, the head of the aviation department at the transportation and communications ministry, reads out a letter to journalists that says: "We, the soldiers of Hamas, demand that Israel ceasefire in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip. We demand that the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
renounces its support for Israel in this war... A bomb is planted on this flight. If you do not fulfill our demands, the bomb will explode over Vilnius on May 23."

Critics have charged that the forced landing of the Ryanair flight to arrest a dissident on board amounted to "piracy," and US and European Union officials are reportedly mulling steps to punish Belarus’s authoritarian regime for the incident.
Subsequently, another Times of Israel article reports:
German leader Chancellor Angela Merkel
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists...
on Monday dismisses Belarus’s explanation for why it forced an airliner to land in Minsk and arrested a dissident on board.

"We have seen a forced landing that led to the arrest," Merkel says on arrival at an EU summit where sanctions will be discussed. "All other explanations for the landing of this Ryanair flight are completely implausible."
Really, one doesn’t know who to disbelieve first.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Go ahead, Big Mother, fight Putin by throwing more money at him.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/25/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||


European Union leaders agree on new sanctions against Belarus, including ban on use of EU airspace, airports
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Just really who did they nip to get the EU all pissed up?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/25/2021 14:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Could be a case of Jupiter being upset with a bull.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/25/2021 15:08 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China, having weakened the West with COVID, threatens Australia
[AMERICANTHINKER] For anyone doubting whether China has Taiwan in its sights, a warning that the Global Times, a Chinese communist party media outlet, issued to Australia should set those doubts to rest. Having concluded that Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
is not a threat, China is busy letting other regional powers know that they had better not cross China. In response to Australia's participation in joint military exercises in the East China Sea, China's propaganda outlet threatened it with intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

Taiwan is a prosperous and free island located off the southeastern coast of China. The two countries are separated from each other only by the Taiwan Straits. Taiwan maintains that it is the legitimate government of China, while the Chinese Communist Party claims that it is a pretender nation. The CCP has long made known its desire to conquer Taiwan and bring it into the mainland fold.

For just as long, the United States has made it known that if China attacks Taiwan, the United States — and, indeed, much of the free world — will respond vigorously. Recent events, though, show that China no longer believes that America's anger — or anger from any other nations — is a hindrance to its imperialist goals.

In America, those holding political and economic power have already sold themselves to China. They are governing America as a Chinese colony, with China calling the shots on domestic policy. Biden sits at the top of this heap, having sold out to China for massive sums of money via his corrupt, moronic, drug-addicted, and debauched son.

Around the world, other nations, especially nations in China's geographic region, have fallen into China's debt thanks to its Belt and Road Initiative. And as is true in America, myriad Western nations have shifted their manufacturing sectors to China. A country like Australia makes practically nothing on its own anymore. It has a thriving housing industry but is dependent on China for everything manufactured.

And speaking of Australia, it recently joined with the U.S., La Belle France, and Japan to be part of a training drill — the Exercise Jeanne d'Arc 21 — in the East China Sea. China was incensed that one of the nations it now views as a vassal had the temerity to pretend it could be part of any military activity hostile to China. According to the Daily Mail, the party's mouthpiece, The Global Times, struck back with crude ferocity:

'The People's Liberation Army doesn't even need to make pointed responses to the joint drill since it's insignificant militarily,' the article said.

'Australia's military is too weak to be a worthy opponent of China, and if it dares to interfere in a military conflict for example in the Taiwan Straits, its forces will be among the first to be hit.

'Australia must not think it can hide from China if it provokes.

'Australia is within range of China's conventional warhead-equipped DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missile.'

Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies


International-UN-NGOs
UN chief backs 'independent investigation' into Belarus forced landing, as EU's von der Leyen vows 'severe consequences' for Belarus
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  *Shrug* Their airspace their rules.
Posted by: magpie || 05/25/2021 17:29 Comments || Top||


WHO criticizes rich countries for vaccinating children against COVID19 while health workers in poorer countries wait
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] They've actually got a point there.
In Japan only half of health workers are vaccinated, despite Japan being a rich country. Germany only recently geared up to deliver vaccines to the population, despite being a rich country. And let us remember that if it were not for the very large investments by rich governments and rich private investors, there would be no vaccines for the WHO to complain about the shortage of for poor nations.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yea, well, too bad.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/25/2021 2:03 Comments || Top||

#2 

With the USA #1 of the top 3 contributors for WHO's 2020-2021 budget.

Go Point the finger someplace else.

WHO Budget contributors
United States (22%),
China (12%),
and Japan (8.5%).
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/25/2021 5:47 Comments || Top||

#3  just run across the southern border. everyone else is.
Posted by: Retard Strength || 05/25/2021 7:05 Comments || Top||

#4  I really am at a loss here. The vax does not prevent you catching or spreading COVID. It only protects you against hospitalization / death. But if you're under 40 and in reasonably good health, your chances or dying from COVID are essentially zero. So why are we vaccinating children?
Posted by: Grailet Speang1824 || 05/25/2021 9:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Pad numbers and see what they can get away with.

Probably a month and a half ago, the people who wanted one had got one.

Now they can't even give it away, they have to bribe people into taking it - beer, fries, admission to the game/better seats, ice cream, tik tok fame.

Now there are mobile jab vans who will troll outdoor dining districts and offer shots. Imagine trying to enjoy your dinner and some jackhole in a hazmat getup comes up to you like offering pepper on your salad, "Can I interest you in a shot? Ha ha, little dinnertime humor. (In louder, clear voice) Have you been vaccinated yet? Oh you have, can I see your card to if it is time for your booster?" All the time being recorded. Flushes nicely with being a crime to have a false shot record, which in itself is not an official document.

Yeah, not creepy at all.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/25/2021 16:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Canada: Hey kids, come get your shot and some free ice cream! Don't even need your parent's permission!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/25/2021 16:55 Comments || Top||

#7  WHO wants $100 billion trillion and control of this, yes?
Posted by: magpie || 05/25/2021 17:24 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
FBI hunts pilot of 'heavily-modified' drone that flew into the path of a Customs and Border Protection helicopter and sparked a high-speed chase 14,000 feet over Arizona
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • A 'high-powered' drone 'orbited' a US Customs and Border Protection helicopter in February, and law enforcement continue to track down the pilot

  • The drone was modified to reach 14,000 feet and speeds over 100mph with a range of 70 miles

  • The FBI said the drone made 'erratic maneuvers' and flew into military airspace

  • The 'unsafe operation of unmanned aircraft' became a federal offense in 2018 with the passage of the The Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act

  • Andrew Rene Hernandez, a 22-year-old Hollywood man, became the first person charged under this law and was sentenced to probation a a $500 fine
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2021 00:06 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If/when something like this appears over DC while Congress is in session, heads will explode.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 05/25/2021 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  A secret military aircraft under development and testing is not going to be disclosed to ANYONE. I am sure the operator is being disciplined for that stunt.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 05/25/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||


US Air Force discovers how to convert its 522 cargo planes into bombers by deploying cruise missiles attached to parachutes, rapidly increasing strike power should war break out with China
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, you mean someone finally read one of Pournelle's books where he had cargo planes doing the exact same thing? Nearly 20 years ago?:p
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/25/2021 2:03 Comments || Top||

#2  3 million for the parachutes and 678 billion for the logistics software
That is how our technologically advanced military works isn’t it?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 05/25/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  SPOD long time.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 05/25/2021 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  They were thinking of turning USAF heavy transports into "bomb trucks" for palletized Tomahawk Air Cruise Missiles back in the early 80's as an alternative to the B-2 Program... So hardly new.
Posted by: magpie || 05/25/2021 21:59 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Maybe "Hi-Tech Flying Katyushas" would be a better term.
Posted by: magpie || 05/25/2021 22:01 Comments || Top||



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