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In response to Russia's threat to destroy civilian vessels carrying grain from Odessa and other parts of Ukraine, Ukraine has issued it's own Black Sea warning.
Any vessel entering the Black Sea intending trade with Russia may find itself at risk of being sunk, either by Russian mines or Ukrainian drones.

Yesterday, a Russian owed oil tanker attempting to pass under the Kerch Bridge received a (filmed) drone strike in the engine compartment area. The tanker was empty and en route to pick up a shipment of oil which will now not be sold. Further strikes on other shipping is probable.

Watch the Russian oil tanker take a hit.

I dislike deleting comments to my blogs. It's usually only the off-topic or batshit crazy bloggers who get the honors. In this case, it's someone who doesn't listen to me and continues posting mindless irrelevant comments, ignoring my requests to refrain.
In the rare chance he actually says something relevant, I'll leave the comment.
I decided to move his unrelated comments here.

Yes, I'm a nice guy!

"In former president Donald Trump's third criminal indictment - the one recently issued by a District of Columbia grand jury for Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election - he's charged with a conspiracy to deprive the American voters of their voting rights. Accordingly, the American people are the victims of that particular crime.

The federal law - specifically, the Crime Victims' Rights Act, 18 US Code section 3771 - provides that crime victims have a right "not to be excluded" from the trial. If the trial is not televised, the victims of Trump's crimes WILL BE EXCLUDED FREOM THE TRIAL in violation of federal law."

I think there will be consequences of the trial being televised, or not being televised.

Mike Lindell's Election Summit 2023 takes place over today and tomorrow. It can be watched here now:

A serious drunk walked into a bar and, after staring for some time at the only woman seated at the bar, walked over to her and kissed her. She jumped up and slapped him silly. He immediately apologized and explained, "I'm sorry. I thought you were my wife. You look exactly like her." "Why you worthless, insufferable, wretched, no good drunk!" she screamed. "Funny," he muttered, "you even sound exactly like her."



It's Black Friday and mall is packed with shoppers and Steve can't find his wife. Steve goes up to a very attractive woman and says 'Excuse me, can you help me? I cannot see my wife, and I know that she is here in the shopping mall somewhere. Can you just talk to me for a couple of minutes?" The attrative woman replies "Why?" Steve replies "Because every time I talk to a beautiful woman, my wife materialises out of thin air."



A husband comes home from work, grabs a beer from the fridge, and sits down to watch the ball game. His wife sneaks up from behind, with a tightly rolled up magazine and hits him over the head with it. "Ouch!!! he yells. What the hell was that for?" The angry wife says...."That's because I found this in your pants pocket!!" She shows him a crumpled up piece of paper. "What is that?" he asks. She opens the piece of paper, which clearly has the name "Laura Lou" written on it. "Who is she?" the wife asks. The husband rolls his eyes and says to her, "Jesus, what's the matter with you huh? I've been married to you for 25 years, and not once have I ever cheated on you, nor have I given you any reason to be jealous.....yet you continue to pull this crap on me. When will you ever trust me?" The wife screams back at him, "Well who is she!" The husband replies, "Laura Lou, is the name of a racehorse. I got my haircut yesterday, and the guy next to me gave me this hot tip. Laura Lou in the 4th race, a sure winner. I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget the name. So there, ya feel better now huh?" The wife apologizes. The next day, the husband comes home from work, sits down and watches the game. His wife sneaks up from behind, but this time holding an iron skillet. She whacks him in the back of the head, knocking him out cold. When he finally comes to, he looks at her and says, "What the hell is wrong with you.......now what?" The wife smiles, and says, "Your horse just called."

As of this morning the Russian ruble has fallen in value to it's lowest point in the past 25 years (exclusive of the dip immediately after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine). As of 10 minutes ago the exchange rate of the Ruble on the world market is 1 penny US per Ruble. Further depreciation in value is probable as the war continues.

Carlos De Oliveira is the property manager at Mar-a-Lago. He's being charged in the documents probe and was indicted last month. It took this long for him to find an attorney and he appeared in court today, pleading not guilty.
Sadly Carlos is in a no-win situation having aided Trump. By doing so, he was charged with four criminal counts, including making false statements, conspiring to obstruct justice, and altering, destroying, mutilating or concealing an object from an official proceeding.

All this for obeying his boss and carrying out his orders.

What choice did he have and did the thought cross his mind what his future would be for doing what he did? Doubtful. I believe he had no clue what this would lead to.

My thoughts... if he goes through the process, it would certainly mean several years of prison time. I haven't checked, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's 5 to 10 years.
Do I think Trump (like the Mafia) would silently support Oliveria's family in exchange for Carlos' silence? Without question. I would go as far as to wager mysteriously a friend-of-a-friend already has that arranged.

There is always the 'What if factor' and what if he's offered a significantly lower sentence, possibly a few months in jail and parole for 10 years for turning on Trump.
My opinion is special counsel Jack Smith already has what he needs... we can only follow the news to see what happens next.

Flip or not... what are the chances, when the dust settles, will he still be working as property manager at Mar-a-Lago?

The rumor is Ukraine has crossed the Dniepre River in force, and pierced the first Russian line in the vicinity of Kozachi Laheri and is already about 800 meters past that. A public satellite fly by of the area is still several hours away. There is concern Ukraine may also have gotten some vehicles across the river (somehow). The location of the incursion will provide opportunity for Ukraine to sever the E58 route. Previously Russian VDV (airborne (what remains of them) troops) had manned the line, but they were pulled out earlier this week and sent to fighting to the North and were supposedly replaced by regular infantry. As stated, this is still a not confirmed rumor on Russian Social Media not yet publicly confirmed by Ukraine.

For a week now, there's been a YouTube short video at the top of the list claiming a robot beat a human at ping-pong. I've seen a few robot videos over the years and thought it was a fake. Checking the shadows as they weren't 100% and I thought the movements were too fluid... like a Hollywood movie.

Computer Generated Imagery CGI was my first guess, but I didn't have any proof.

Here's the YouTube short:


A little research and I came up with this:

We have all seen those videos on YT and Telegram insisting life in Russia is great after the sanctions and the sanctions and de-valuation of the Ruble have changed nothing.Videos of actors walking through shopping malls that seem to mostly be full of shoppers and only a few people carrying goods they have brought. We are told there are very few unemployed people in Russia and we are shown videos of well stocked supermarkets in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, and if you point out in the comments that while the videos do show stocked shelves the shoppers at the check out have very few items (not meat or fish) in their carts immediately some Russian (troll) will write that is because the market is surrounded by high rise buildings and Russians see no need to buy lots of food for their refrigerators and cabinets with the stores being so close and any impression that those shoppers have no money for the expensive food items is totally false. We should believe Russians love having to go to the supermarket every day to buy 2 or 3 potatoes and a carrot, rather than just by a 2 kilo bag of potatoes and a bunch of carrots so they don't have to come back every day.

Yes, in Moscow and Saint Petersburg there are lots of jobs. But that is just two cities of many cities and towns. What about the towns where the factory closed for lack of supplies and the town has been abandoned by governement? There are hundreds of such towns in Russia. Here is a video a brave person made about what it like for residents in one of those towns this week.