Whats going on in the World

[wader]

talk about balls...................

Putin calls for international recognition of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine

Contrasts Russian territorial takeover in southern Ukraine with world's reaction to Kosovo's independence drive.

www.yahoo.com

 

[pequa1]

almost nice to see a national leader who has them.

 

[wader]

Please elaborate.

use your imagination Mr, B. - things spiral out of control & someone accidentally or intentionally takes a shot at a Russian or NATO Member & it leads to a shooting war directly between NATO & Russia & ends with a mushroom cloud or two

you don't want this to become the match that ignites the tinderbox

 

[Rick67]

What a trade off. You got rid of the guy with balls that did what he promised and you were fearful of him. So now you got bureaucrat’s back and your scared of other countries again.

Meanwhile it’s beer thirty on a Polish satellite base right now.

 

[wader]

"This is genius," Trump said of Putin's decision on Monday to officially recognize the breakaway provinces and authorize the use of Russian military personnel to assist them. "So Putin is now saying it’s independent — a large section of Ukraine. I said, how smart is that? And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna keep peace, all right."



What an asshole..........................!

 

[jpd]

 

[CELLFISH]

L. G. B…

 

[Roccus7]

Having a good laugh. I guess SCOTU figured that legitimate political discourse means that only legitimate Presidential business was occurring...

Supreme Court shuts down Trump’s bid to shield records from Jan. 6 investigation​

pressherald.com/2022/02/22/supreme-court-shuts-down-trumps-bid-to-shield-records-from-jan-6-investigation/

By Sarah D. Wire February 22, 2022

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has formally rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to block release of documents from his administration to the House Jan. 6 Select Committee, bringing a formal end to his executive privilege claims in connection with the records.

The decision follows the court’s Jan. 19 order that led the National Archives, which legally holds presidential records, to hand them over to the House of Representatives as the court weighed whether to accept Trump’s appeal.

The House committee has said it needs visitor logs, phone records, speech drafts and other written records to understand what role Trump may have played in instigating the violence that unfolded when his supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent Congress from formally certifying Biden’s 2020 presidential election. The insurrection left lawmakers scrambling for safety and delayed for several hours the largely ceremonial, but constitutionally required, process.

In August, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House committee, asked the National Archives for “all documents and communications related to efforts, plans or proposals to contest the 2020 presidential elections results” as well as “videos, photographs and other media” from the White House that related to the Jan. 6 rally, “the march to the Capitol … and the activities of President Trump and other high-level executive branch officials that day.”

Trump sued to prevent the dissemination of the records after President Biden determined last year that they could be released.

Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Trump had “provided no basis” for the courts to override Biden’s judgment that executive privilege should not be asserted on those documents. Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision ends Trump’s bid to have the Supreme Court hear his case.

Several former Trump officials have refused to speak to the committee citing Trump’s executive privilege claims.

 

[CELLFISH]

Hope they find something, it may be at the southern border or the Ukraine phone call… C22…

 

[CELLFISH]

WoW, on television is the underwater oil pipeline, if those things ever erupt , they gonna be in a lot of trouble… overland was not a first choice… C22…

 

[pequa1]

as in a limpet mine or torpedo ?

 

[wader]

Ukrainian parents brace their children for a Russian invasion, sending them to school with stickers identifying their blood type

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into the eastern Ukraine territories for "peacekeeping," prompting fears of a wider conflict.

www.yahoo.com

As tensions between Ukraine and Russia increase and a Russian "invasion" looms, Ukrainian parents are grappling with the dangers by sending their children to school with stickers showing their blood types, according to TODAY.

• Ukrainian parents are taking measures to keep their children safe amid fears of a Russian invasion.
• This includes sending them to school with their blood types visible on stickers.
• The move comes after Russia said it would deploy troops in eastern Ukraine.

 

[wader]

and we're all up in arms about our children having to wear masks..........

Ukrainian school kids get lessons on surviving a military invasion

Bulletproof vests, explosives and first aid: Kids in eastern Ukraine get lessons on how to survive a potential Russian military assault.

www.yahoo.com

Fear of a full-scale Russian military invasion is looming large in the city of Kharkiv, just 25 miles from Ukraine's eastern border with Russia. Children are still going to school as residents try to get on with their daily lives, but as the Reuters news agency reports, some kids are now learning how to survive a military attack, along with math and spelling.

Reuters visited a school in Kharkiv where students were getting lessons on how to identify various explosives and the importance of bulletproof vests and helmets. They were also practicing evacuation drills and learning first aid.

 

[wader]

Now: Massive Cyber Attacks Rolling Across all of Ukraine

 

[jpd]

How a battery shortage could threaten US national security

Bob Galyen has spent his career building electric car batteries. And he thinks the United States has a problem.

www.cnn.com

 

[pequa1]

Now: Massive Cyber Attacks Rolling Across all of Ukraine

Not here yet.
Note to self: get a couple of cans of gas for the generator ( a little one, just for the frig and freezer.)
Bad time of year for you guys with victory gardens... when the geese spoiling all the local parks start to gradually disappear...and canned goods are gone from all the shelves...

 

[jpd]

That didn't take long huh?

 

[pequa1]

the trucker protests sure had great timing too...

 

[Aquarius]

...... when the geese spoiling all the local parks start to gradually disappear...and canned goods are gone from all the shelves...

So how do those geese taste anyway? Cook them like a chicken or turkey I would guess. You can usually get pretty close to them. If it comes down to it, I could take one out while still on the ground with my .22 rather than breaking out the shotgun.

 

[wader]

Yup!

and so it goes.............

China state media editor says Beijing must back Russia over Ukraine so it gets support when it fights for Taiwan

Ming Jinwei's comments came as a Chinese outlet appeared to accidentally publish its own instructions to cover Russia favorably in Ukraine reports.

www.yahoo.com

China's foreign ministry, however, said Wednesday that it opposes the use of the measures.


Writing on his WeChat blog Tuesday, Ming Jinwei, a senior editor at the state-run Xinhua news agency, said it is in China's interests to support Russia from afar, as Beijing will need Moscow's support when it wants to force its hand on Taiwan independence.