Daily Shaarli
February 22, 2023
Summary
I’m not sure we learned anything new from this speech. The big news, as far as I’m concerned, is the hyping of the speech as “historic” and the disappointed reaction of the pro-Russian vatniks on social media, particularly on the pro-war Russian Telegram channels. The suspension of participation in the New START Treaty isn’t particularly significant beyond the symbolism. As far as I’m concerned, the more arms control treaties ****canned, the safe we are. His critique of contemporary Western culture may be correct, but that is no reason to sympathize with him or his actions.
On the anniversary of a brutal and unprovoked invasion of a non-threatening neighbor, we deserved better.
In the past year, we’ve been treated to many speeches by Putin concerning the Ukraine war.
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They started out bellicose and warning about the use of nuclear weapons. Over time, they’ve become more whiny and pleading. Instead of being Master of the Universe, we now have Holy Russia beset by the overwhelming forces of the West.
This change in tone and the fact that Putin is obviously afraid to attack NATO supply depots in Poland or the main rail lines moving military supplies from Poland into Ukraine leads me to believe that Putin knows something that his fan club on Twitter and Facebook don’t. That is, he is much more worried about tripping “red lines” with NATO than NATO is with him.
Financial Times @FinancialTimes
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Vladimir Putin and Wang Yi, China’s top foreign policy official, vowed to ‘strengthen’ ties between Moscow and Beijing at a meeting in the Kremlin ahead of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine https://on.ft.com/3YRShq3
8:30 AM · Feb 22, 2023 //
As we reported, Russia also announced they were pulling out of START.
As my colleague Streiff observed,
The biggest solid news item was Putin’s announcement that Russia would suspend its participation in the “New START” treaty signed in Prague in 2010. That treaty places a cap on the number of nuclear warheads held by the US and Russia and the delivery systems for those warheads.
I am forced to announce today that Russia is suspending its participation in the strategic offensive arms treaty.
Putin’s decision to “suspend” the treaty means he gets to keep the treaty in force but deny the US the ability under that treaty to carry out inspections. It’s good work if you can get it and something he would never have tried to pull on President Trump. I’m sure Biden and Blinken will go along with this bullsh**. //
Mr. President, any reaction to Putin pulling out of New START [nuclear treaty]?"
BIDEN: "I don't have time" pic.twitter.com/um4YEE3zsd
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 22, 2023
This would be the point where you’re supposed to make a statement criticizing Russia, Joe. You shouldn’t have to be told that. But he’s having to work too hard just figuring out where to stand.
That’s part of the problem — he never has time — or the ability or inclination to respond appropriately — to balloons, to Afghanistan, to the border, to much of anything that is in the best interests of the United States. Our antagonists look at who we have in “charge” and it has emboldened them all.
She calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Even after NASA began using electronic computers, John Glenn requested that she personally recheck the calculations made by the new electronic computers before his flight aboard Friendship 7 – the mission on which he became the first American to orbit the Earth. She continued to work at NASA until 1986, combining her math talent with electronic computer skills. Her calculations proved critical to the success of the Apollo Moon landing program and the start of the Space Shuttle program. //
https://youtu.be/E4j_LpKzcZQ //
A wonderful interview with Johnson where she gets to tell you her story. The interview is 22 minutes and well worth the time.
When Sheriff’s deputies in San Joaquin County, CA began investigating Samir Khan regarding an illegal internet gambling operation, they had no idea that they’d ultimately stumble into an election fraud scheme with major implications throughout California and possibly nationwide. A search warrant executed at Khan’s home in the fall of 2020 revealed a stash of 41 completed mail ballots that were not Khan’s, and over the next two years Khan registered approximately 70 people to vote at his address, with his contact information, some of whom are not US citizens and do not live in the US, and cast ballots for them.
In addition, Khan re-registered California voters through the state’s online voter registration process who did not live in his district to his address (so they could vote for him), and listed his own phone number, and email address as the contact. That way any verification emails or calls would come to him. Through loopholes in the system, those registrations were validated and those ballots were mailed to Khan’s home and either he filled them out and returned them, or pressured the voters he’d re-registered to fill it out as he instructed them to, “one for me and one for Biden.” Khan also allegedly forged signatures on his candidate nomination papers to even get on the ballot. //
Some of the anomalies the concerned citizen pointed out to the Sheriff’s Department were shared at the press conference, and they are extremely concerning. This is just one county in California, and we know that there are other countries that are probably in much worse shape. And, how many other states have similar flaws in their voter registration system?
They noticed that there were about 93 people that were registered to vote…with a birth date of 1850. There were 232 people registered to vote with the address to our local prisons. There were 4,144 people that were 90 years old and older. There were 125 people on the voter rolls that were registered to – their address comes back to nonprofit NGO’s and different businesses.
There were approximately 300 people with no first name, just a last name….
There were 110 people that were possible double voters, basically the same name, date of birth, and address, but different voter ID numbers. //
Wabash08
8 minutes ago
Investigators provide a succinct summation of the fundamental problem with 2020 election “reforms”: Voter registration is an “honor system” and “once you’re on the voter rolls, anytime an election comes around, guess what? You get mailed a ballot…”
This is true of any state dumb enough to send automatic mail in ballots to all registered voters and can easily decide presidential, statewide, congressional, state assembly, and local elections.