‘Everyone needs to calm down’: experts assess Russian nuclear space threat | Russia | The Guardian
Rumours that Russia is planning to deploy nuclear weapons in space have been dampened down by experts who say that while such technology is possible, there is no need to push the panic button.
The furore kicked off on Wednesday when the head of the US House of Representatives’ intelligence committee, Mike Turner, called for the Biden administration to declassify information on what he called a “serious national security threat”.
While Turner gave no further details, it was later reported by news outlets, citing unnamed sources, to involve Russia’s potential deployment of a nuclear anti-satellite weapon in space. The Kremlin dismissed the claim as a “malicious fabrication”.
Dr Bleddyn Bowen, an associate professor at the University of Leicester who specialises in outer space international relations and warfare, said the the lack of detail was no reason to panic. “It’s so vague and cryptic, it could be a number of different things. [But] no matter what they are, none of them are a big deal, to be honest. Everyone needs to calm down about this.”
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‘tooning in on other points of view
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Attribution: Trump Russian Threat by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com
continuing with the rest of that Guardian article:
okay, so worry or not to worry???
on the sunnier side of the guardian’s news yesterday for pogo, bink and our other axemen and plank spankers on the trail
Long-lost bass guitar returned to Paul McCartney after more than 50 years | Paul McCartney | The Guardian
Stephen Colbert urges Americans not to become numb to Donald Trump’s crimes, and offers a reminder that no other presidential candidate has ever had to pause his campaign to defend himself in multiple trials, for example, his election fraud case in Georgia where the district attorney is being scrutinized for a potentially inappropriate relationship that has no bearing on the facts of the case against the former president. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
Russia’s prison agency says that imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died. He was 47. The Federal Prison Service said in a statement that Navalny felt unwell after a walk on Friday and lost consciousness.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-navalny-dead-opposition-leader-2d11644f7ae5332587b39150f1fd1738?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=share
Well that’s way cool. Good for Sir Paul and good on the guy who returned it without apparently demanding a king’s ransom for it.
Well, consensus among the MSNBC legal minds seems to be that the Fani Willis challenge looks like a nothing burger. There’s Dumbass’ next trial I’m guessing.
“You’re confused, you think I’m on trial. These people are on trial for trying to steal an election.”
-Fani Willis
for more on navalny
Russian activist and Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison | Alexei Navalny | The Guardian
Pay no attention to the dead, political prisoner. Look at the train station in Moscow. It’s so clean and pretty! -Comrade Carlson
RIP – Navalny
Now is the time for all pissed off Russians to rise up against Putin.
ps – This is the kind of thing tRUMPsky would do, were he to be given a chance.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tucker-carlson-trains-on-time-russia-putin/
“Tucker Carlson cites famous excuse used to defend Italian dictator while praising Putin’s Russia”
Tucker, the idiot traitor.
I hope the CIA is all up in his grill.
February polls so far: Five statistical ties. That’s actually a slight improvement for Biden over January.
After cheering on Fani Willis yesterday, I woke this morning to the news of Navalny’s death. Up one day way, way down the next. Now to discover if the GOP just might come to its collective senses and provide the necessary funds for Ukraine.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/15/nikki-haley-republican-presidential-primary/
“Haley stopped in Dallas as a part of a two-day fundraising swing through Texas with additional stops in Houston and San Antonio — hosted by some of the state’s most prominent and deep-pocketed GOP donors including Harlan Crow and Ross Perot Jr.”
Nikki definitely has a chance in Dallas county, where there is a huge, multi-generational population of Indian decent. They all seem to run as Republicans for local races, so I’m assuming not many out there would vote Dem.
Tuckyo Rose.
(From Twitter)
Nikki will be driving by my house tomorrow and talking down at the grocery store. Do I care? hahahaha
But seriously yes—like I’d care if I found an alligator in my pond.
They killed Navalny?!
I shouldn’t be surprised, —— tucker, what a little ——
guarantee tucker’s parents sent him to private school so he wouldn’t get his ass kicked, that’s the kind of supplicant little ——- you get from that
at least they gave him the kind of name to warn us
i wonder what musk makes him do monthly to prove his fealty, something sexual i’ll bet 🤔
i’m “just asking questions “! 🤷♂️
Sorry. Navalny was a hero of mine, more so now, i suppose.
Slava Ukraine, RIP Navalny, ——these bootlicking unAmerican weasels ✌️
I look for a Desantis divorce soon now that the he and she must know each other so well after their brief foray into national politics.
I’m sorry about Navalny as well. He went back into Russia KNOWING what the outcome would be. That’s some pretty strong shit. I hope something comes of it Putinwise.
Yulia Navalny: “If it’s the truth, I would like Putin, all his staff, everyone around him, his government, his friends, I want them to know that they will be punished for what they have done with our country, with my family, and with my husband. They will be brought to justice.”
BREAKING: Matt Gaetz
Woman was paid to have sex with Gaetz at druggy orgies — and she has text messages and RECEIPTS All shared with House Ethics Committee investigators Committee likely to drop bombshell report on Gaetz — and then expect a move to expel him from House
The only “not terrible” news is the knowledge that never again will Tucker Carlson get a job on television. As has been pointed out before, so far he’s been fired by everyone but Putin.
You gotta be a real dickhead to pull that off.
It’s so pleasing to see Nikki and Slump trying to slit each other’s throats and knowing that they are both going to lose.
Navalny video message to Russians if he is killed (closed caption)..
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3uaswc/
Biden will address Navalny’s death at 12 pm. Perhaps not a surprise Trump hasnt said anything yet
Mike Johnson campaign donor was Maria Butina’s handler. Who Is Konstantin Nikolaev? Putin Ally Behind Mike Johnson Campaign Donation
Pull that thread to oust the Russians in Congress. There are also some who are no longer there but probably still involved, like Devin Nuñez.
https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600
“In 2018, a group of Russians were able to donate to Johnson’s bid for the Louisiana seat he eventually won as the money was funneled through the Texas-based American Ethane company.”
“…at the time it was 88 percent owned by three Russian nationals—Konstantin Nikolaev, Mikhail Yuriev, and Andrey Kunatbaev. Nikolaev is known to be a top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
“Nikolaev and his two partners currently own a third of Globaltrans, Russia’s biggest private rail transport operator, and he previously worked in railroad freight and port businesses.”
“He is also a part owner of Tula Cartridge Works, which has been supplying ammunition for Russian forces during its invasion of Ukraine.”
What percentage of MAGAt Mike Johnson is owned by Vladimir Putin? What percentage of Congress?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/politics/former-fbi-informant-charged-biden-burisma/index.html
“Special counsel David Weiss charged a former FBI informant with lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s involvement in business dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, undercutting a major aspect of Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president.”
Who is Alexander Smirnov?
“Alexey Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, last saw her son in prison on Monday and he was “healthy and cheerful,” she is quoted as telling Russian independent news outlet Novaya Gazeta.”
“Navalny was pretty much as far out of the way as you could put him,” he told CNN’s This Morning on Friday. “He was out, it seems, of the political arena. He never really got a foothold in the electoral process … yet still, Vladimir Putin felt a degree of threat.”
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/alexey-navalny-dead-russia-prison-02-16-24/index.html
May there be a huge push from Russians to get rid of Putin and his regime in honor of Navalny.
https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-mocked-praising-russian-grocery-stores-1870396
“Carlson was filmed gleefully picking out a cart full of groceries, which included wine from Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2014.”
“I went from amused to legitimately angry,” Carlson said in the video. The weeks’ worth of groceries that Carlson bought cost $103.82.”
“Carlson continued: “If you take people’s standard of living and you tank it through filth and crime and inflation. And they literally can’t buy the groceries they want. At that point, maybe it matters less what you say or whether you are a good person or a bad person.”
Tanking it through “filth.” Hmmm, I wonder who means?
Tanking it through crime. Hmmm, I wonder who he thinks commits all crimes?
Tanking it through inflation. Hmmm, does he realize corporate greed is the core driver?
https://www.newsweek.com/how-average-salary-russia-compares-us-1870740
“…Carlson did not seem to consider U.S. wages and American purchasing power.”
“According to the latest figures available from Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service, the average monthly wage in Russia was about $787 in November.”
“By comparison, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the last quarter of 2023, the median weekly earnings of Americans was $1,142.”
Tucker, the idiot traitor.
Supreme Court’s website now notes that next Wednesday (February 21) *could* be an opinion day. Good bet it’s one or both of the Trump cases.
NYTimes: Trump Privately Expresses Support for a 16-Week National Abortion Ban
One thing Mr. Trump likes about a 16-week federal ban on abortions is that it’s a round number. “Know what I like about 16? It’s even. It’s four months.”
Listening to testimony in the Fani Willis disqualification hearing. God I hope what I do in questioning witnesses is not as terribly boring as what I’m hearing in that Georgia Court. Judge McAfee is doing a very good job I have to say.
Ruling: $354 million fines for Trump
Prohibited from running businesses in New York for three years
Niece Mary Trump: “Today is an emotional day. The end of my grandfather’s legacy. It has taken over half a century but Donald’s ability to commit fraud with impunity has come to an end—at least in New York—and trust me, that matters to him.”
Hehehehehe – that fat old bag of horse apples must be absolutely red right now. So now he must come up with almost five hundred million dollars for three penalites, two for raping and 85 for bad talking and a whole lot more for defrauding everybody he went near. Maybe he can blow a gasket and avoid trial on the next few cases. Yeah, my Friday is very nice now.
Justice Engeron: The Trump family’s “complete lack of contrition and remorse” for their extensive fraud and egregious financial misconduct “borders on pathological.”
And – the court appointed money master stays in place. The number crunchers are going to have a blast totaling all the interest and whatevers to make the final number even bigger. The orange blob and hell spawn cannot play hide and seek with any financials. Oh this has to hurt. I wonder if fatsos legal team is going to stay in place for the upcoming joy ride?
edit: current NY Times estimates the number to be over four hundred million with the base number plus interest and other things. This keeps growing.
Conspiracy theory from the mind of Sturgeone
A. Navalney’s death was a complete surprise to Vlad, who is now sweating bullets. [and windows].
B. The death was arranged either by a gang of underlings, or whoever might be anywhere close to 2nd in command.
They couldn’t get to Poot so they just settl for upsetting the apple cart.
you apparently missed the Russia edition of “Lockdown” on msnbc 😬
Nothing happens in Russia that Dracula doesn’t get word of
The upshot is……the magats are OVER.
Stick a pitchfork in ‘em. Lots to do yet, but I believe the fever has broken.
Vlad hasn’t been A-1 1oo% lately. I think he’s been slipping and they shanked him by murdering Navalny.
Remember the way he cut and run when that army guy moved on Moskva?
Why would Vlad do it now? What has precipitated the necessity of now?
I COULD be wrong………
lol
Can’t wait for Dumbass’ comments on “Truth” Social and his supporters’ comments on X.
I’m opening a good bottle of wine tonight in celebration!
I think that’s a good idea, RR. I believe Mrs. P and I will follow your lead.
Yesterday, the world was talking about Russian space nukes.
Today, we’re talking about a dead, political prisoner who was fine on Monday, according to his mother.
Deflection? Too extreme for that. Vlad getting more paranoid? Конечно да!
Stuck pigs do squeal…
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
A Crooked New York State Judge, working with a totally Corrupt Attorney General who ran on the basis of “I will get Trump,” before knowing anything about me or my company, has just fined me $355 Million based on nothing other than having built a GREAT COMPANY. ELECTION INTERFERENCE. WITCH HUNT. This “decision” is a Complete and Total SHAM. There were No Victims, No Damages, No Complaints. Only satisfied Banks and Insurance Companies (which made a ton of money), GREAT Financial Statements, that didn’t even include the most valuable Asset – The TRUMP Brand, IRONCLAD Disclaimers (Buyer Beware, and Do your Own Due Diligence), and amazing Properties all over the World. All the other side had was a ridiculous $18 million valuation of magnificent Mar-a-Lago, an unConstitutional Gag Order, a Consumer Fraud Statute never before used for this purpose, No Jury allowed, and a refusal to send this disgusting charade to the Commercial Division, where it would have been put to a deserving end. The Justice System in New York State, and America as a whole, is under assault by partisan, deluded, biased Judges and Prosecutors. Racist, Corrupt A.G. Tish James has been obsessed with “Getting Trump” for years, and used Crooked New York State Judge Engoron to get an illegal, unAmerican judgment against me, my family, and my tremendous business. I helped New York City during its worst of times, and now, while it is overrun with Violent Biden Migrant Crime, the Radicals are doing all they can to kick me out.
Feb 16, 2024, 4:35 PM
Why is Fani Willis’ dad on the stand defending her? My, god. This is insane!
https://www.businessinsider.com/fulton-county-district-attorney-fani-willis-nathan-wade-2024-2
“Willis’ dad, retired lawyer John Floyd III, said in his testimony that Willis was dating a DJ nicknamed “Deuce” in 2019 — which is the same year that an ex-pal of Willis’ testified a day earlier that she started dating Nathan Wade, the attorney Willis appointed in 2021 as special prosecutor in the high-profile criminal case.”
“The motion alleged Willis had an “improper” romantic relationship with Wade that began while he was married and before she appointed him as special prosecutor. Defense attorneys for Trump and other co-defendants have joined in on the motion.”
Would this nonsense be happening if she were a man? If she weren’t a POC?
I hope to the heavens that this pivot stunt doesn’t work. RICO!
Ha! The “Trump brand,” isn’t worth sh/t to anyone but his MAGAt followers, and he’s already grifted them for all they are worth.
This might be the night SFB strokes out.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/16/georgias-ex-governor-roy-barnes-says-fani-willis-t/
Former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes testified Friday that he was District Attorney Fani Willis’ first choice to work on the investigation against former President Donald Trump, but he turned it down.
“Mr. Barnes said he had “mouths to feed” at his law office and didn’t like the high-profile nature of prosecuting the former president.”
“I’d lived with bodyguards for four years and I didn’t like it,” Mr. Barnes said, referring to his term as governor. “I wasn’t going to live with bodyguards for the rest of my life.”
New detail: Judge awarded interest going all the way back to 2019, so that brings the actual award to more than $450 million.
AG Letitia James statement: “Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and his former executives must pay over $450 million in disgorgement and interest.”
Craig – it gets better by the minute. I have learned that the jerk is not popular in NYC. Hmm, might be a wild night in the bars.
Judge Engoron knocks Ivanka Trump: “She consistently denied recalling the contents of documentary evidence that confirmed that she actively participated in events, even after she was confronted with the evidence.”
“The Court found her inconsistent recall, depending on whether she was questioned by OAG or the defense, suspect. In any event, what Ms. Trump cannot recall is memorialized in contemporaneous emails and documents; in the absence of her memory, the documents speak for themselves.”
Biden campaign twixt: “Folks, I like Presidents who weren’t fined $364,000,000 for business fraud.”
Next hurdle will be to convince maga base their darling Plumpty isn’t being railroaded, he did this to himself.
Really sad that the local ABC affiliate characterized today’s out come as surprising, stating bank executives saw no harm and everyone made money. No, they did no say Trump said that, they said it. It seems like they are reporting based on the pending appeal?
https://www.reuters.com/legal/trumps-civil-fraud-verdict-appeal-may-hinge-no-victims-defense-2024-02-16/
“Trump’s civil fraud verdict appeal may hinge on ‘no victims’ defense”
“Here, we’re dealing with very sophisticated lenders who are fully capable of protecting themselves and haven’t asked the attorney general for help.”
Mmm, “very sophisticated lenders” were given falsified documents. They extended credit and terms of credit based on those figures. They lost money.
I’m curious about the disparity in property values. What, if anything, gets reported on property taxes? He probably avoids them somehow, but does he undervalue the appraisal for tax purposes?
https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-election-opposition-navalny-d46962589bef449b8bbf498132f97047
“Allies of Russian opposition leader Navalny post billboards asking citizens to vote against Putin”
“Opposition activists in Russia came up with a way to get around Kremlin censorship while urging citizens to vote against President Vladimir Putin in an election next year: billboards disguised as a New Year’s greeting.”
“…billboards in Moscow, St Petersburg and other Russian cities which said “Russia” and “Happy New Year.” But a website address and QR code printed on the signs led to a site titled “Russia without Putin.”
“There, voters were encouraged to oppose the longtime Russian leader on March 17, the day that Russian lawmakers set Thursday for the presidential election. The website says the election is important for Putin as a referendum on whether Russians approve of his war in Ukraine, rather than a real contest for the presidency.”
A Navalny write-in campaign.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-biden-trump-fb2fece0be7685624a3e3e379a8a3bd3
“Putin said that Russia would prefer to see U.S. President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more experienced and predictable than Donald Trump — even though Moscow strongly disagrees with the current administration’s policies.” <—-
Literally the oldest trick in the book. MAGAts, of course, will gladly swallow it.
It’s so obvious that it reeks of desperation. I’m thinking sweaty palms
All while Schmucker is in Russia?
Special agent Gibbs always says that there’s no such thing as coincidence.
lol Putz is gonna outsmart himself underestimating the depths of American stupidity
Old Berman on Russia, Navalny, and Republican whores
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-countdown-with-keith-olbe-99705496/episode/bulletin-putin-murders-navalny-21624-150990773/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporate-profits
“greedflation: a rise in prices, rents, or the like, that is not due to market pressure or any other factor organic to the economy, but is caused by corporate executives or boards of directors, property owners, etc., solely to increase profits that are already healthy or excessive.”
“…corporate profits were what drove 53% of price increases in the second and third quarters of 2023. Business costs rose just 1% in 2023—and went down in some sectors due to drops in transportation, warehousing, and fuel costs—but consumers saw the price of goods go up by 3.4% in the same time period.”
And there’s shrinkflation. Prices went up while at the same time, there was less in the package.
End stage capitalism. Ain’t it grand?
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/02/us/georgia-guidestones-mystery-cec-cnnphotos/
“Mr. Lake, an act of God took those cursed Guidestones down, and if you cared more about actual journalism rather than harassing me, you would be out there investigating the maniac who erected that genocidal monument overnight in the first place.”
“It was obviously unpleasant to imagine that the Granite Capital’s most famous granite monument was commissioned by someone who bragged about his friend the eugenicist and wrote favorably about a Klansman and neo-Nazi.”
https://people.com/kansas-city-chiefs-nfl-united-way-fund-for-shooting-victims-8584401
“Kansas City Chiefs Pair with NFL to Donate $200,000 to New United Way Emergency Fund for Shooting Victims”
If someone is shot, they are responsible for their medical bills. Now, they not only have to deal with physical and mental trauma, but medical debt.
It’s often left to crowdfunding to help out victims of gun violence. This is absolute BS and you’ll never see the NRA and gun manufacturers and gun sellers pony up the way others will yo help out.
They, the NRA and manufacturers and sellers of guns, should be forced to cover medical and funeral expenses for victims of gun violence, as well as lost wages and and remodeling or rehousing that needs to be done for them to get around. Also, gun owners should be required to take a class.
we need to do something about copilots
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/cars/headlights-tech-adaptable-high-beams-cars/index.html
“Headlights are blinding us. Here’s why it’s mostly an American problem”
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