Big Stick Physics

German prosecutors accuse Kyiv of ordering 2022 Nord Stream sabotage

Kuznietsov allegedly entered Germany via Poland on 4 September 2022 using a forged Ukrainian passport, the prosecutors said.

Shortly afterwards, he is alleged to have boarded an ocean-going sailing yacht with the other members of the group. The vessel had previously been chartered from a German company in Rostock using fake IDs, according to the prosecutors’ case.

Kuznietsov and his accomplices allegedly transported large quantities of weapons-grade explosives to a site near the Danish island of Bornholm and the group “affixed explosive devices fitted with timers to the gas pipelines running along the seabed”.

Authorities have specific information about how the mission was conducted, so it sounds legit.  I’m glad the US had nothing to do with it.

The Nord Stream pipeline supplied half of the natural gas that Germany needed, so blowing it up was a devastating attack on German infrastructure.  If Germany had not abandoned it’s nuclear power plants after the Fukushima disaster, their energy supply would not be so vulnerable.

Supreme Court to Hear Case of Orthodox Jew Ordered to Get Permit to Host Prayers at Home

The petitioner, Daniel Grand, is an observant Jew who lives with his family in University Heights, Ohio…

In January 2021, Grand emailed a dozen friends, inviting them to pray at his house on the upcoming Sabbath. Shortly after, one of the neighbors informed the mayor, asking him to “put a stop to this.” Within a day, the city demanded he “cease-and-desist” from using his home as a place of religious assembly without first obtaining a permit.

This is surprising.  University Heights was always liberal, but that may have evolved to being Progressive, and that leans to being intolerant and antisemitic.

Maybe there is more to the story, but so far, the mayor looks like a dick.

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Breaking down the birthright-citizenship decision

The Supreme Court has affirmed birthright citizenship.  At least the issue is decided.  It’s strange that birthright citizenship is almost entirely a policy in the Americas. 

Pick an enemy.  Russia, China, Hamas, it doesn’t matter.  Send a million pregnant women to the US to give birth to American citizens, then bring the babies back home to be raised as operatives or fanatics.  These indoctrinated and trained American citizens return to the US to implement the nefarious plot.

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Chinese strategic oil reserves are missing.

China’s strategic oil reserve, to the surprise of the government officials who went to verify the reserves in May, was instead composed of water, sludge, various debris and overflow from nearby sewer lines.

That’s awkward.

China used to circumvent sanctions to buy oil from Iran and Venezuela, but the US has instituted management disruptions in those countries.  The Strait of Hormuz is also critical.  China might want to help out the US in keeping that open.

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