Author Archive: Stephen Green
February 21, 2023
FALLOUT: Putin Halts Nuke Pact With US, Vows to Push War in Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin said Russia will suspend its observation of the New START treaty with the US, dealing a blow to the last accord limiting their nuclear arsenals, as he vowed to press on with his faltering invasion of Ukraine.
Russia is fighting for its “historic lands” in Ukraine and “will fulfill the tasks set step-by-step, carefully and consistently,” Putin told the Russian parliament and top officials in Moscow on Tuesday. Russia won’t be the first to resume testing of nuclear weapons as a result of its suspension of New START, though it will do so in response to any US test, he said.
US President Joe Biden extended the nuclear treaty by five years to 2026 as one of his first acts upon taking office in 2021 shortly before it was due to expire, after Putin had pressed his predecessor Donald Trump without success to agree to a deal. The US and its NATO allies “want to inflict a strategic defeat on us and crawl into our nuclear facilities” by demanding inspections under the treaty, Putin said, describing the requests as absurd.
Trust is broken, verification is out, China is engaged in a strategic breakout — there isn’t anything left of nuclear arms control except for the testing ban.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: ‘The Last of Us’ Zombie Apocalypse Could Be Real Says WHO Expert and You’ll Never Believe the Cause.
Plus:
- Loudon County, Virginia is “hiding something big.”
- Princeton lecture delved into the”erotic relations between Blackness, soil, and Dead (matter)” because of course it did.
- The most excited dog in the world.
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
China has successfully tested a ‘phantom space strike’ – a new tactic to overwhelm and sabotage missile defences by emitting fake target signals from space.
Military engineers announced earlier this month they had completed a computer simulation and achieved positive results.
The tactic is designed to overwhelm the enemy on the basis that there is only so much a missile defence system would be able to cope with.
Previously: STRATCOM Chief Warns Of Chinese ‘Strategic Breakout.’ “It really doesn’t matter why China is and continues to grow and modernize. What matters is they are building the capability to execute any plausible nuclear employment strategy — the last brick in the wall of a military capable of coercion.”
GRAMMARLY IS SLOW, OFTEN WRONG, AND INCREASINGLY WOKE: Grammarly Will Ruin the World Before Bing Destroys It. “This is how the world will end. Not with hordes of shiny, red-eyed monstrosities with rail guns blowing us to smithereens. No, it will end with AI slowly driving us insane. One person at a time.”
HMM: China beats Tesla to Nigeria’s lithium riches.
Kaduna, a state in northwestern Nigeria, has selected China’s Ming Xin Mineral Separation Nig Ltd. (MXMS) to build the country’s first lithium-processing plant, with a plan to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles (EVs).
On January 13, the Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency tweeted pictures of its leadership team reviewing the plant’s construction. According to Kaduna State’s mining company, the plant is being built on 9.3 hectares of land. Khalil Nur Khalil, the executive secretary of the state’s investment promotion agency, told Rest of World that the plant is a “game changer,” which he believes will lay the foundation for Nigeria’s ambitions to build “battery factories” and produce “EVs in Kaduna.”
This comes more than five months after the Nigerian government claimed it had rejected Tesla’s proposal to purchase raw lithium from the country.
The only reason we’re becoming dependent on foreign resources like lithium is Washington and various state government like California forcing us.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Are Oozing Flop Sweat Over Release of J6 Surveillance Video.“Schiff and the other J6 false narrative pimps are likely sweating the fact that there is nothing in the tens of thousands of hours of footage that’s been kept from the public that will back up the Democrats’ claims of an insurrection. Because there wasn’t one. The public has been told for over two years now that the United States government was in danger of being overthrown by a handful of people led by drunk dude wearing a novelty hat with horns on it.”
#RESIST: Former NFL star speaks up for his daughters and against biological males competing in women’s sports. “You all can try to Dave Chappelle me all you want. I am very clear on this. You can be a transgender. You can be the homie, but I’ll be damned if a male at birth turns into a female and tries to compete against my daughters. She ain’t out there. We out.”
THEY CAN HAVE MY RIBEYE WHEN THEY PRY IT FROM MY GRILLING TONGS: NutritionFacts.org Resurrects Absurd Century-Old Anti-Meat Propaganda Study.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: South Korea joins space race in tech drive as Russia’s isolation deepens over war in Ukraine.
South Korea is preparing a domestic rocket development program as part of an ambitious drive to carve out a larger slice of the global space economy following the implosion of its partnership with Russia.
Seoul last month revoked a contract with Moscow in favor of a European operator to launch a satellite into space. Having relied on Russia for years to send its probes into orbit, the move is a tangible impact of sanctions on the Kremlin over its invasion of Ukraine.
“Our plans to launch a multipurpose satellite with Russia have entirely gone awry,” Korean Vice Science Minister Oh Tae-Seog said in an interview. “From the perspective of not only space industries but also national security, owning the ability to lift a satellite we want into space when we want is important.”
Indeed.
STATE OF DISUNION: MTG Wants a National Divorce. “If you live in a red state that has seen an influx of blue-staters, you know exactly what I’m talking about. One minute, you’re in your backyard enjoying a cold one and smoking a brisket. The next minute, your new neighborhood Karen is at your door or the city council meeting with a petition about gender, handguns, or xeriscaping.”
February 20, 2023
BIDEN HOT MIC: Asks Aides If Anyone ‘Bought Any of That Bulls**t.’
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The video turns out to be bogus. The story has been retracted.
OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT, I’VE GOT THE RECEIPTS: Biden’s Inflation Is Crushing the Middle Class, No Matter What Stupid Lies He Tells. “That’s Joe Biden’s inflation tax making us all poorer, just trying to buy the same food, cars, and houses we could buy before his spending orgy began.”
WHOSE STUFF IS IT, ANYWAY? The Cameras Worked Fine. Their Maker Said They Had Reached Their End of Life.
In January, Arlo Technologies Inc. sent an email to customers of its internet-connected security cameras about a new “end-of-life policy.” Starting April 1, the company would no longer support models that included no-fee seven-day rolling storage of video clips—a well-advertised selling point.
End-of-life policies for tech products are becoming more common. Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. have similar ones. But Arlo’s abrupt announcement aggravated some customers. Forty days later, the company recanted, keeping the free video storage and extending software support.
Arlo highlights the trade-off that connected devices pose.
Back when we had CD players and VCRs, we could use them until they broke down, but our relationship with the company effectively ended on the day of the sale. Now that devices require an internet connection and software services, you are shackled to their makers, whether or not you pay for a monthly subscription.
Especially if they offer something free to entice customers before deciding it isn’t worth the expense.
SOLID ADVICE: Top 9/11 Lawyer: Don’t Trust the EPA.
“Your strategic imperative is defending the United States,” Twitter CEO Elon Musk responded.
“Your entire mission is to deter an attack on the US homeland, and if there is a war, to effectively and efficiently destroy the enemies of the United States. That’s it,” Jeremy Redfern, deputy press secretary to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and retired explosive ordnance disposal technician in the U.S. Air Force, agreed.
“China will lay down their arms immediately when they see how inclusive the US military is,” a user known by the handle The Redheaded libertarian joked.
Blair Brandt, a political adviser and entrepreneur tweeted, “Absolutely ridiculous and totally unrelated to the quite significant national security threats we face. China and Russia are laughing at you/us and when we encounter big ticket problems, people will look at this moment and posts like this to see where our priorities went wrong.”
They’re doing a lot worse than just laughing at us. Deterrence- and credibility-destroying nonsense like this is part of the “window” China sees to take Taiwan.
CORN, POPPED: Speaker gives Tucker access to 41,000 hours of 1/6 tape. “Carlson TV producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove, which includes multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds. Excerpts will begin airing in the coming weeks.”
THAT CRISIS WASN’T GOING TO DESIGN ITSELF, YOU KNOW: Now We Know Why Mayorkas Won’t Secure the Border.
SKYNET SMILES: Humans Might Not Survive the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Global Leader Says.
Since this is Klaus Schwab’s prediction, my guess is he’s working very hard to make it come true, at least for the undesirables.
HMM [VIP]: What Is China Quietly Doing in Moscow While Biden Was Making a Splash in Kyiv? “While Biden and Zelenskyy were doing everything but hold hands, China’s top diplomat was on his way for a quiet visit to Moscow, according to CNN.”
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THE NEW HIERARCHY: Kamala Harris poses maskless for photo op with masked-up little girl.
A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: Texas professor instructs elementary school teachers on how to ‘interrogate whiteness.’
As an assistant professor of literacy studies in the College of Education at UT Arlington, Daly teaches the state’s future elementary school educators how to manage their classrooms.
In her article, she writes elementary school teachers “need to be talking about race.”
In particular, such conversations should take place “while reading and discussing literature to empower students of color and white students with knowledge and tools for under-standing, analyzing, and disrupting racism.”
Such race talk “must be ongoing in order for students to develop the knowledge and skills needed to interrogate how racism and whiteness are perpetuated through texts, language, and social norms,” Daly’s article added.
However “Classroom race talk is often difficult to sustain, especially for white teachers whose racial identities influence how they resist or comply with dominant social and political discourses that silence conversations about race.”
Teaching that white people are bad because of whiteness is racism, straight up.