Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Here's Your 'Red Pill' Moment About the Russia-Ukraine War

The 'story' just doesn't add up.

Wed Mar 9, 2022

It's time for your red pill. Something smells rotten in Ukraine. The story is rotten, rancid, hinky; the story just doesn't add up.

President Joe Biden and the media desperately want you to believe Russia is the bad guy and Ukraine is a little angel. They want you to fall in love with underdog Ukraine. They want you to support America getting involved on behalf of Ukraine.

To get your support, they need the media to sell you a bill of goods. But it just doesn't add up. First, Biden is the one who funded Russia's invasion. Biden killed our pipelines, killed coal and banned drilling, which made us dependent on Russian oil — which made Russia filthy rich and arrogant. Biden paid for this war.

Second, if Russian President Vladimir Putin is the "bad guy," if Russia is evil, why is Biden continuing to buy billions of dollars of oil from Russia every day? Does this make sense?

Unless it's pure "commie theatre."

Connect the dots. Biden is a feeble, feckless old puppet with dementia. George Soros pulls Biden's strings. Soros is on the side of Ukraine. Soros recently said the whole world must support Ukraine. It's been reported Soros funded Volodymyr Zelenskyy and then installed him as president of Ukraine — one of the most corrupt nations on the earth.

Keep in mind, evil billionaire Soros is obsessed with hatred for America. He desperately wants to destroy our country. Soros has funded the invasion of our borders. He helps pay for illegal aliens (many of them criminals, MS-13 gang members and murderers) to enter America.

Soros also funded and elected all the horrible, communist district attorneys across America. Soros' DAs are hellbent on destroying America. They have turned our big cities into killing zones where murderers run free without even posting bail while law-abiding citizens are stripped of guns and persecuted for defending themselves.

Soros has paid for the destruction of America. Soros is one of the most evil enemies in our history. If Soros funded the leaders of Ukraine and put them in power, this has to be a trap. Ukraine must be a "bad guy."

Now we come to the mainstream fake news media.

Has the media ever told the truth in the seven years since former President Donald Trump came down that escalator? It's been nonstop lies, fraud and propaganda. The media tells you any lie that advances the cause of Democrats, Soros and the destruction of America.

Now after seven years of lies and propaganda, suddenly you trust the media? You believe this one time they're telling the truth? This one time they have America's best interests at heart? Even though (pure coincidence) Soros is on the same side as the media. They're all one big happy family on the side of Ukraine.

I'll tell what I think.

No. 1: I think this war is a WMD: a weapon of mass distraction to get your mind off the disasters Biden has created at home, including open borders, massive inflation, vaccine mandates crippling the economy, the worst crime wave in history, the worst retreat in U.S. military history from Afghanistan and $6-per-gallon gas.

No. 2: This is pure "wag-the-dog" theater to save Biden from the worst polls in modern history. Instead of hating Biden, they want you to hate Putin.

No. 3: This is all part of Soros and Klaus Schwab's "Great Reset." They want to make us all obedient serfs and slaves. They need World War III as a distraction while they destroy America and capitalism and take your freedoms away.

Here's my conclusion. I'm not "for" Russia. I'll never be a fan of Putin. He's out for only himself and a new dominant Russian empire. I'm not telling you to take Russia's side. They are "bad guys."

But I know if Soros is behind Ukraine, then Ukraine is also a "bad guy." If Soros wants us involved, I know this war is not in America's best interest. I know the media is feeding us a load of lies and propaganda — under Soros' direction.

Like Trump, I have only one dog in this hunt. I'm ONLY for "America First." This war is nonsense. It doesn't involve us. We should not be sending billions of dollars in aid or sending billions in military weapons to Ukraine. I don't want this to turn into WWIII. I don't want my kids or your kids dying over Ukraine. We need to stay a million miles away from this conflict.

This isn't war, it's commie theater. It's a WMD: weapon of mass distraction. Don't believe a thing you read or see coming from the fake news media.

Take your red pill and just say "NO" to this wag-the-dog moment.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/03/heres-your-red-pill-moment-about-russia-ukraine-wayne-allyn-root/

Tuesday, 8 March 2022

Tech News: Apple sneak peak

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-in-tech-apple-sneak-peek-2022-3

Hi again. Apple will be unveiling new products this afternoon, and Sony is bringing back its iconic Walkman — but with a hefty price tag.

Let's get to it.

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Apple

1. Apple is announcing new products today. The company's first product event of the year, titled "Peek Performance," starts at 1 p.m. ET. Here's how to watch it, and what you can expect:

As always, Apple won't say what it'll reveal, but we'll likely see a new version of its low-cost iPhone SE and an upgraded iPad Air.
CNBC reported Apple may announce an update to iOS 15, which would include upgrades to certain features like facial recognition. Apple may also unveil Mac computers with newer M-series processors, per Bloomberg.
For those planning to buy a new phone after the event, taking the time to move important data can be tedious — so we broke down how to painlessly switch from one iPhone to another.

Off Sides

20:58 GMT 02.03.2022 (Updated: 21:00 GMT 02.03.2022)

On Monday, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and its European counterpart, UEFA, made the unprecedented move to indefinitely suspend Russian teams from the league, in response to the Russian special military operation in Ukraine that began on Thursday.

“Football is fully united here and in full solidarity with all the people affected in Ukraine. Both Presidents hope that the situation in Ukraine will improve significantly and rapidly so that football can again be a vector for unity and peace amongst people,” said the joint FIFA-UEFA statement.

FIFA often suspends teams, but typically for corruption or government meddling in club affairs. Only twice has it acted politically: in 1961, when South Africa was suspended because its Apartheid government insisted on only fielding all-white teams; and in 1992, when Yugoslavia was suspended amid the Yugoslav Wars following United Nations sanctioning.

The suspension of Russia for its military intervention in Ukraine stands out due to FIFA’s deafening silence during many other military operations, including the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, which was followed by an eight-year-long occupation war that killed up to 400,000, according to estimates. In addition, the November games are hosted by Qatar, an absolute monarchy with a brutal human rights record and where the construction of facilities for the games has been marred by accusations of slave labor and the deaths of over 6,500 migrant workers.

FIFA doesn’t “stand with” people in the Middle East?

https://sputniknews.com/20220302/off-sides-1093533085.html

Why Russia Can't Win at This Point: Ukrainian Attitudes Towards the Invaders

Hate for Putin's Russia Consumes Ukraine

Maria Varenikova

Mon, March 7, 2022, 10:55 AM·5 min read

In this article:

A funeral near Lviv, Ukraine, on Sunday, March 6, 2022, for a member of the Ukrainian Army who died while fighting Russian forces. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)

LVIV, Ukraine — Trapped in his apartment on the outskirts of Kyiv during fierce battles over the weekend, the well-known Ukrainian poet Oleksandr Irvanets composed a few lines that encapsulated the national mood.

“I shout out to the whole world,” he wrote in a short poem published online by his fans, who have since lost touch with the writer and were worried that he may have fallen behind Russian lines. “I won’t forgive anyone!”

If there is one overriding emotion gripping Ukraine right now, it is hate.

It is a deep, seething bitterness for President Vladimir Putin, his military and his government. But Ukrainians are not giving a pass to ordinary Russians, either, calling them complicit through years of political passivity. The hatred is vented by mothers in bomb shelters, by volunteers preparing to fight on the front lines, by intellectuals and by artists.

The emotion is so powerful it could not be assuaged even by an Orthodox religious holiday on Sunday intended to foster forgiveness before Lent. Called Forgiveness Sunday, the holiday is recognized in both the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox churches.

And this hatred has overwhelmed the close personal ties between two Slavic nations, where many people have family living in both countries.

Billboards have gone up along roadsides in gigantic block letters, telling Russians in profanity-laced language to get out. Social media posts in spaces often shared by Russians and Ukrainians have been awash in furious comments.

Some Ukrainians have posted pictures of people killed in the military assault in Russian chat rooms on the Telegram app. They have vented by writing on the reviews pages for websites of Moscow restaurants.

And they have been mocking Russians in scathing terms for complaining about hardships with banking transactions or the collapsing ruble currency because of international sanctions.

“Damn, what’s wrong with Apple Pay?” Stanislav Bobrytsky, a Ukrainian computer programmer also trapped in the fighting around the capital, Kyiv, wrote sarcastically about how Russians are responding to the war. “I cannot pay for a latte in my favorite coffee shop.”

Putin is the target of much of the Ukrainians’ unbridled resentment.

The authoritarian leader is to blame, almost all Ukrainians agree. But the frustration is also directed more broadly at Russian society.

Many Ukrainians chastise Russians for increasingly accepting middle-class comforts afforded by the country’s oil wealth in exchange for declining to resist limits on their freedoms. They blame millions of Russians, who Ukrainians say gave up on the post-Soviet dreams of freedom and openness to the West, for enabling the war.

“Are your iPhones all right?” another Ukrainian writer, Andriy Bondar, asked Russians on his Facebook page, after a thinly attended anti-war rally in Moscow that was broken up by the riot police. “We are very worried about you. It’s so cruel they use rubber sticks, those terrible riot police.”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine also appealed to Russians on Sunday to protest for their own sakes as much as for the Ukrainians.

“Don’t miss this opportunity,” he said in comments directed at Russians.

“Citizens of Russia, for you this is a struggle not only for peace in Ukraine, it is a struggle for your country, for the best that was in it, for the freedom that you saw, for the prosperity that you felt,” he added. “If you keep silent now, then only your poverty will speak for you later, and only repression will answer. Do not be silent!”

Zelenskyy did not hold back on how he felt about the Russian military.

“We will not forgive the shooting of unarmed people,” he said.

There were virtually no anti-war protests in Russia before the conflict began, though small demonstrations have been staged in recent days. Most participants were arrested.

Yuri Makarov, the chief editor of the Ukrainian national broadcasting company and the head of a national literature and arts award committee, said the war had driven a deep wedge between the Ukrainian and Russian societies that will be hard to heal. Russians, he said, have become Ukrainians’ “collective enemies.”

Some modicum of popular support is enabling the fighting, he said.

“The orders to shell the residential areas of Mariupol, Kharkiv and Zhytomyr were given by specific colonels, captains and junior lieutenants, not by Putin or Shoigu,” he said, referring to the Russian president and his minister of defense, Sergei K. Shoigu. “It is their choice and their responsibility,” he added.

“As for the Russians, I am not interested in their motivation now. They, with the exception of a few, were quite comfortable being in a full dictatorship,” he added.

Olha Koba, a psychologist in Kyiv, said that “anger and hate in this situation is a normal reaction and important to validate.” But it is important to channel it into something useful, she said, such as making incendiary bombs out of empty bottles.

“When people are happy about the death of Russian soldiers, it is explicable” she said. “There is a subconscious understanding that this soldier will no longer be able to kill their loved ones.”

Irvanets, the poet who sent his bitter composition to friends over the weekend, wrote that he had composed the lines in “a city shattered by missiles,” and he referenced the upcoming holiday on Sunday.

But by Forgiveness Sunday, his fans were writing on social media that he had not been in contact and they were concerned that something had happened to him.

“I will never forgive Russia,” the poet wrote.

Snippets from the Daily Mail:

The US accused Russia of starving Ukrainian cities.

Russia is starving out cities like Mariupol.

Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped without food or water in the encircled southern port city, where Russian forces have kept up a steady bombardment.

Moscow is now trying to recruit foreign fighters for its stalled advance.

Spirited resistance by Ukrainian troops - and an influx of weapons from NATO nations, including tank-buster grenades - are credited with stalling Russia's main advance north of the capital Kyiv, where an armored convoy has been stalled for days.

Kyiv's men claimed to have taken out dozens of helicopters and recaptured a city in the morning - sparking hopes that the unlikeliest of victories may be on the cards.

Ukrainian armed forces claimed to have destroyed up to 30 Russian helicopters that had been moved to Chornobaivka airport, near Kherson, overnight and to have retaken the city of Chuhuiv, near Kharkiv, killing two Russian commanders - Lt. Col. Dmitry Safronov, and Lt Col. Denis Glebov - in the process.

Later in the day, Ukraine said it had also recaptured the airport at Mykolaiv.

Ukraine's military now estimates that 11,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in fighting along with the loss of 1,000 armoured vehicles, 290 tanks, 68 helicopters, 46 planes and dozens of other piece of hardware.

The situation is 'slowly becoming unsustainable for Russia'.

US intelligence reported that Russia had now committed all of the invasion force it had assembled on Ukraine's border to the fight, analysts said it would be difficult for any more reinforcements to be deployed without running into the same logistical problems that plagued the early assault.

Moscow was seeking to recruit foreign fighters - including Syrians expert in urban combat.

Syrian volunteers were being offered up to $300 to operate as 'guards' for six months at a time in Ukraine.

The Russians are trying to recruit Syrians in particular to sign up and fight in Ukraine.

A Russian T-72 tank is seen destroyed somewhere near the city of Mariupol

There are rumours of discontent within the FSB, Russian's feared spy agency and successor to the infamous KGB.

A report by an FSB analyst that was leaked at the weekend described the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a 'total failure', concluding: 'Russia has no way out. There are no options for a possible victory, only defeat.'

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken dismissed the idea that Russia could ever successfully occupy Ukraine and install a puppet regime: 'Forty five million Ukrainians are going to reject that one way or the other.'

Ukraine's soldiers are well-trained and highly motivated to defend their country under the leadership of their charismatic president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Many have combat experience gained from battles against Russian troops in Donetsk and Lugansk in 2014 and they are backed by 100,000 reservists, and territorial defence forces that include at least 100,000 veterans and an ever-increasing number of civilian volunteers.

By contrast, 40 per cent of Russian soldiers are conscripts, many of whom have had little training.

Monday, 7 March 2022

Farm attack, farmer ambushed, attackers firearm jams, Paulpietersburg

South Africa: Farm attack, farmer ambushed, attackers firearm jams, Paulpietersburg

Oorgrens veiligheid

March 6, 2022

Farm attack, farmer ambushed, attackers firearm jams, Paulpietersburg

A farm attack took place on 5 March 2022, at 20:15, on a farm in Paulpietersburg in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. A farmer André Claassen and his wife Wilana had just retuned home and were pulling into their garage when an attacker came running up to his vehicle.

The attacker pointed the firearm at the farmer and pulled the trigger, fortunately the firearm did not go off.

The farmer reversed out of the garage and sped to safety.

It is unclear how many attackers were on the property.

The farmer called for help and all role players responded. The were tracks found and an operation was launched.

There were however no arrests. No one was injured during the attack.

There is no other information available at this stage.

Read about more farm attacks here

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South Africa Today – South Africa News

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/kwazulu-natal/farm-attack-farmer-ambushed-attackers-firearm-jams-paulpietersburg/

Sunday, 6 March 2022

The Coconuts Recipe Corner: APPLE AND WINE PIE

Pascale’s Kitchen: apple and wine pie recipe.

By PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN, Jerusalem Post, JANUARY 27, 2022

https://www.jpost.com/food-recipes/article-694785

Apple and wine pie (credit: PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN)

APPLE AND WINE PIE

Use a 24 cm. x 32 cm. pan.

Ingredients

Filling:
6 granny smith apples, peeled, pitted and thinly sliced
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup maple syrup
50 g. raisins
2 tsp. cinnamon, ground
2 Tbsp. candied pecans
2 cups sweet red wine

Dough:
1 ½ cups semolina
1 cup flour, sifted
1 cup sugar
150 g. cold butter or margarine, cut into thin slices

Directions

Place the apple slices in a large bowl. Add the sugar, maple syrup, raisins, cinnamon, nuts and wine. Mix well and let the mixture sit for 15 min. to soak up all the flavors. Mix every so often.

In a separate bowl, mix all the dough ingredients together, except for the butter. Spread one-third of the dough mixture on the bottom of the pan and flatten.

Add the apple mixture, including the liquid, to the pan and flatten. Add the rest of the dough mixture and flatten gently. Place the butter pieces on top.

Bake in an oven that has been preheated to 150°C for 1 hour or until the pie browns.

Please note that even if the pie seems like it’s not finished baking, do not bake more than 1 hour. Remove the pie from the oven and place on a counter to cool down. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Level of difficulty: Easy-medium.
Time: 80 min.
Status: Dairy or Parve ( vegetarian ).

Enjoy

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