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Month: June 2024
Sub-65 IQ Yemeni pirates force US Navy carrier to retreat from Red Sea
The End of Carrier Diplomacy
(VoxDay) It is widely believed that the Yemenis damaged the USS Eisenhower sufficiently to force it to retreat from the Red Sea before it was sunk:
According to satellite images published by navigation trackers, the Eisenhower was seen sailing north off the coast of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, heading to the far north of the Red Sea, more than 1,100 kilometers from Yemen. The Eisenhower had noticeably repositioned over the past two days, moving from off the coast of Qunfudhah in southern Saudi Arabia to off the coast of Jeddah before moving further north.
This retreat coincided with two ballistic and cruise missile attacks and drone strikes launched by Yemeni Armed Forces on the aircraft carrier since Friday, in response to recent American and British assaults that resulted in the deaths and injuries of 58 civilians. This escalation prompted Sana’a to vow a “firm and deterrent” response, according to the Supreme Political Council.
The blatant retreat of Eisenhower has put the United States in an extremely embarrassing position after attempting to cover up the Yemeni attacks on the carrier through silence. Many activists have sparked a wide debate regarding Eisenhower’s status following the attacks, leading Captain Chaudhary Hill to release a video to calm public opinion. However, the video showing a fighter jet taking off from the carrier turned out to be an old clip from March, reinforcing suspicions that Eisenhower might have sustained significant damage from the Yemeni attacks.
I, and many other observers, have long predicted that it would be the sinking of a US aircraft carrier that would definitively mark the end of US global military supremacy. However, I’d always assumed it would probably be a Chinese hypersonic missile, or possibly a Russian hypersonic missile, that would provide the historical coup de grace.
But the fact that it might be a lowly desert people taking down the mighty symbol of one of the most powerful empires to ever dominate the planet would be both fitting and ironic. There is too much disinformation and misinformation to confirm the rumors yet, but the longer the USS Eisenhower stays dark, the more it looks as if the USA has passed its Syracuse Moment.
Biden finally sending weapons to Ukrainian Nazis
By Jeff Childers
Welcome to the new bizarro world, where left is right, right is wrong, and everything is upside down and topsy-turvy. To set the dining table, recall that last week, without a shred of public discussion and without consulting anyone except his traditional neocon toadies, in secret, Biden armed the Ukrainian army with missiles to shoot into Russian cities. Apparently unsatisfied with having dared the Russians to object to U.S. missiles flying across their breakfast tables, completely spoiling Russians’ morning blini, Biden is still sprinting the wrong way up the nuclear war escalator.
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The alleged President of the United States, the free world’s bastion of freedom and democracy, the shining light upon the hill, the country that saved the world from the German Chancellor with the funny mustache, is now officially and literally arming nazis.
In a story describing Ukraine’s infamous Azov Battalion only as “a one-time militia with a checkered past,” the Washington Post ran this understated headline: “U.S. lifts weapons ban on Ukrainian military unit.”
A military unit! Not even a “controversial” military unit!
The article competed for being WaPo’s shortest story, offering only a few terse paragraphs. There’s so much that could have been said about Azov, including easily obtained, eye-popping visuals like the one I included above, all fussily ignored by WaPo’s editors…
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/meeting-the-enemy-tuesday-june-11
Who the hell is going to take this jab?
By Annika Kim Constantino@ANNIKAKIMC
Moderna on Monday said its combination vaccine that targets both Covid-19 and the flu was more effective than existing standalone shots for those viruses in a late-stage trial.
The biotech company is the first to release positive phase three data on a Covid and flu combination shot, giving it a potential lead over rival vaccine makers Pfizer and Novavax.
Moderna plans to file for regulatory approval for its combination jab this summer in the U.S. and hopes it can enter the market in 2025, the company’s CEO Stephane Bancel said in an interview.
Moderna, Pfizer and Novavax have said that combination shots will simplify how people can protect themselves against respiratory viruses that typically surge around the same time of the year. The added convenience is critical as fewer Americans roll up their sleeves to get vaccinated against Covid.
Bancel added that combination shots could reduce the burden of respiratory viruses on pharmacists and the broader U.S. health-care system, which has been grappling with a labor shortage that has many workers stretched thin.
Moderna’s messenger RNA combination shot, called mRNA-1083, is made up of both the company’s vaccine candidate for seasonal influenza and a newer, “next-generation” version of its Covid shot. Both of those experimental vaccines – mRNA-1010 and mRNA-1283 – have shown positive results in separate phase three trials.
More Ugly Math from Clown World
The median price of a new car is now $47,400. Since nobody can afford groceries, let alone a shiny new car, dealer lots are swelling. Way back in 2022, my humble little Mazda dealer had zero cars on the lot when I bought my current vehicle (two years ago this month). They were selling cars off the trailers as they arrived from Long Beach each week.
Fast forward after two years of inflationary hell: They currently have 474 new vehicles on the lot. In fact they must have an overflow lot somewhere, because there are not 474 spaces at this place. They are now pushing 96 month car loans, so people can have a shot at making payments. When the populace can’t even afford a Mazda, I guess Kia and the used market will do better.
I got a helpful email from Carvana the other day. Below is a car (I guess they think I still have it) that I sold three years ago, which is now 15 years old. Apparently the price of a 15 year old used car has APPRECIATED by 20% over the last three years. Now I realize that overall inflation is up that much, but that only means a NEW car should cost 20% more than a NEW version of the same model in 2021. A used car that is now three years more used should not cost 20% more, unless demand has spiked because there are suddenly way more people who can only afford a $3500 vehicle. Fun times.
“Devotion to the Sacred Heart is a last effort of His love towards Christians of these latter times… to persuade them to love Him…”
“I understood that devotion to the Sacred Heart is a last effort of His love towards Christians of these latter times, by proposing to them an object and means so calculated to persuade them to love Him… This devotion was the last effort of His love that He would grant to men in these latter ages, in order to withdraw them from the empire of Satan which Jesus desired to destroy, and thus to introduce them to the sweet liberty of the rule of His love, which He wished to restore in the hearts of all those who should embrace this devotion.” -St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, vision of the Sacred Heart, 1673
Blessed Feast of the Sacred Heart, an object and means so calculated to persuade you to love Him, if even in a fraction of the way He loves you.
20 minutes of fake news “experts” (liars) calling Hunter Biden’s laptop ‘Russian disinformation’
This is some very ugly math
Median household income $74,580 = $55,935 after taxes = $4661/month.
-2894 mortgage -$500 car loan -$500 insurance -$400 utilities -$200 gas
=$167 per month for food/clothing.
It gets worse. We are about to have a flood of foreclosures, because everyone who stupidly took a 5/1ARM in 2019/2020 is about to eat a payment they can’t make; IF they can even requalify. Then when the housing market crashes due to all the foreclosures, everyone who bought into this insane market the past two years will be trapped in a property that can’t appraise, and how many of THEM took ARMs because rates went up? Fun times.
WSJ says even Dems admit Sleepy Joe is losing his mind
“This article is based on interviews with more than 45 people over several months. The interviews were with Republicans and Democrats who either participated in meetings with Biden or were briefed on them contemporaneously, including administration officials and other Democrats who found no fault in the president’s handling of the meetings. Most of those who said Biden performed poorly were Republicans, but some Democrats said that he showed his age in several of the exchanges.”
Red Flag Warning from Nurse Claire
A warning about Dr. Joe Mercola
I am sure that many of my readers have followed Dr. Joseph Mercola over the years; I know I have so it only stands to reason that anyone who is interested in natural remedies to heal ailments would be interested in what he has to say. Over the years, Dr. Mercola has been a powerhouse of information and products pertaining to nutrition, supplements, and natural health remedies. He could get a little New Age-y at times, but I told myself I could ignore & look past those things.
Well, it looks like his New Age practices have finally caught up with him…
Details: https://nurseclairesays.com/2024/06/04/a-warning-about-dr-joe-mercola/