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Over the last two years Vladimir Putin has presented the Biden administration and NATO with diplomatic but direct warnings. He has patiently pleaded with the West to cease escalating war with Russia by using Ukraine as a proxy. Too many attacks on his national security affairs will yield a moral military response, say the warnings. The red lines seem very clear to most observers, but President Biden continues to provoke Russia to retaliate defensively, as though Putin could not possibly be serious.
But what if he is serious? What if he is a responsible president protecting the national security interests of his nation? What if he is a reliable protector of his people? What if he takes border issues seriously? Might Putin launch nukes at the US?
He has made it clear that there would be nuclear retaliation if America fired first. But according to Colonel Doug MacGregor, who believes America to be the ongoing irrational aggressor in this war, Putin would not need to use nukes in a military retaliation against America. Russia's tactical weapons are now so precise in their targeting abilities, strategic destruction can be achieved without ever having to resort to widespread nuclear explosions. If Russia wanted to get our attention with an horrendous wake-up call, even one small, accurately placed bomb could do much damage to many American states.
How? Consider rural Hanford, Washington as one strategic target.
Joshua Frank has been looking at this old, shut-down remnant of the Manhattan Project. There’s no town there. Folks moved away in 1942. But Hanford has 177 underground tanks loaded with 56 million gallons of steaming radioactive glop. Two of those tanks are currently leaking, their waste making its way toward groundwater supplies that could eventually reach the Columbia River.
High-level whistleblowers told Frank they feared that a hydrogen buildup in one of those tanks, if ignited, could lead to a Chernobyl-like event here in the United States, resulting in a tragedy unlike anything this country has ever experienced. One small bomb on the facility could cause a major release of radioactive material from coast to coast. Says Frank, “the economy would crash. Major cities would become unlivable.”
“And,” he adds, “there’s precedent for this: in 1957, a massive explosion occurred at Mayak, Hanford’s Cold War sister facility in the then-Soviet Union that manufactured plutonium for nukes. Largely unknown, it was the second biggest peacetime radioactive disaster ever, only “bested” by the Chernobyl accident. In Mayak’s case, a faulty cooling system gave out and the waste in one of the facility’s tanks overheated, causing a radioactive blast equivalent to the force of 70 tons of TNT, contaminating 20,000 square miles. Countless people died and whole villages were forever vacated.”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/03/no_author/nuclear-armageddon-games-in-ukraine/
--James 2:12
GK Chesterton on adultery:
"The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical vow of marriage. It is most amusing to listen to the opponents of marriage on this subject. They appear to imagine that the ideal of constancy was a yoke mysteriously imposed on mankind by the devil, instead of being, as it is, a yoke consistently imposed by all lovers on themselves. They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - ‘free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.
"It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word. Modern sages offer to the lover, with an ill-favored grin, the largest liberties and the fullest irresponsibility; but they do not respect him as the old Church respected him; they do not write his oath upon the heavens, as the record of his highest moment. ...
Opinion by Lau Vegys:
America's problems aren't fixable with patriotic sentiment. They're mathematical realities that don't care about your flag-waving.
The national debt recently hit $37 trillion. By 2033—the same year Social Security's trust fund runs dry—we're looking at debt exceeding $50 trillion. Interest payments alone will consume nearly half of all tax revenue.
At that point, the Federal Reserve will have no choice but to print tens of trillions of dollars to bail out the Treasury. The resulting inflation will make the early 1980s look like a picnic.
And of course, as I mentioned in a recent piece, whether it's $37 trillion now or $50 trillion in about eight years, the headline number is just the tip of the iceberg.
Add it all up—Medicare, Social Security, federal pensions, and other off-the-books promises—and the real financial hole the U.S. government faces is closer to $150 trillion. That’s nearly $1 million per taxpayer.
The Guardian reports that 15,000 Afghans were relocated to the UK in a secret scheme, while Breitbart reported that nearly 24,000 Afghans were brought in, with the British government earmarking £7 billion to secretly house and import them.
The UK taxpayer has no choice but to pay up, while government transparency was lacking.
Whether all these Afghans were vetted remains unknown. Given the reputation of the UK along with many Western countries, the vetting process for migrants is nearly nonexistent, and highly questionable in this case in particular.
Also, in the spring of 2023, while Rishi Sunak was prime minister and many UK military families had no heat or hot water, the government continued to host illegal migrants in plush hotels, at the cost to taxpayers of $8.5 million USD a day and rising. And while homelessness was up over 27% in Britain, illegal, mostly Muslim migrants from the Middle East and Africa, were royally served in those plush hotels. Now it comes to light that in...
