Be the person your dog thinks you are.
That’s my advice for people, and for countries. This is America’s 250th anniversary. Everybody else is saying something about it, so I thought I should. I’ve got nothing profound, just a bunch of little thoughts.
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.
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.
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.
DeWine tells CNN Trump should reconsider action on Haitian immigrants
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can remove the Temporary Protected Status designation for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians, opening the door for those immigrants’ deportation.
It’s right there in the name, “Temporary”. Governor DeWine is not happy that it’s time for the Haitians to leave America.
MPs vote against Tory call for new grooming gangs inquiry
This is dark, dark, dark. Worse than the Catholic priest scandal or whatever went on at Epstein’s island. I don’t usually get too serious, but in the UK, law enforcement, the BBC and government officials are comfortable with Pakistani men raping White girls. Our corporate media doesn’t have an incentive to spend time on this depravity, so people may not know about it.
At the start of last year, the UK Parliament voted against investigating the widespread rape of White girls, so Rupert Lowe, a member of Parliament, independently conducted the investigation.
The report looks comprehensive and legit. The events are horrible.
Oh Good Lord.
It’s customary, I get that. It’s fitting that Obama’s Presidential Center has a basketball court, but no presidential library. Why did they put these people on display for the party?
The High Schooler Who Designed the 50-Star American Flag
It was 1958, and Robert G. Heft was a junior at Lancaster High School in Ohio. His history teacher, Stanley Pratt, gave the class an open-ended assignment: make something, anything, and bring it in. Most students chose something safe. Heft decided to redesign the flag of the United States.
Heft took the challenge seriously. He sent his flag to his congressman and began a steady campaign of letters and calls. Then history caught up with his design. Alaska became a state in January 1959, and Hawaii followed that August. Suddenly the country needed a 50-star flag, and submissions poured in by the thousands.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower selected a design identical to the one Heft had sewn in his grandparents’ kitchen. On July 4, 1960, the 50-star flag became official. It has flown ever since, the longest-serving version of the American Flag in the nation’s history.
And the grade? Pratt kept his word. The B minus became an A.
Now you know the rest of the story.
That looks awesome.
While foreigners are spreading out around North America for the Soccer World Cup, Americans can watch a fight on the White House front lawn.
Some of the people online who are butt-hurt because they say this is below the dignity of the presidency, wouldn’t be too shook up if President Trump was assassinated.
I don’t care about UFC or Soccer, but it’s good to see people having fun.
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