Wednesday, February 21, 2024
The Reaper..
The Houthi rebels shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone off the coast of Yemen on Monday, two US officials confirmed to Business Insider.
A Pentagon spokesperson said the rebels used a surface-to-air missile to take down the drone, which has not yet been recovered by the US.
The incident comes less than three months after the Houthis shot down an American Reaper drone [a 30 million dollar cost] off the coast of Yemen. The rebels also successfully downed an MQ-9 with a surface-to-air missile in June 2019
t's been a rough year for the Reaper. Over the past 12 months, Russian fighter jets have harassed and clipped the drones in Europe and the Middle East, breaking some of them and even causing others to crash — drawing frustration from the Pentagon.
Do we have a reason to bomb this poorest country in the world?
Gov..
Call Hamas for what it is, and it is a terrorist organization that must be stopped. No one should live with that threat, that specter, over them," Hochul said. "Those who don’t understand this dynamic here in our own state in our own country.
Hochul went on to say “If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I’m sorry, my friends, there would be no Canada the next day,” Hochul said.
Hochul missed to indicate that Israel is occupying Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Hights for 70 years. Israel treat the Palestinians as third-class citizens with no prospect future for their kids... Just a thought.
Hur..
Hur’s report, released earlier this month, found that Biden, over the course of two-day interview with the special counsel, “did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’).”
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died [May 2015]. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him,” the report states. “Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving [2009] memo to President Obama.
White House spokesman Ian Sams argued that journalists were misrepresenting the report’s conclusions but didn’t address on Hur’s assessment of Biden’s perceived cognitive decline. Just a thought.
Friday, February 16, 2024
Amadea..
The US government asked a judge for permission to sell a $300 million Russian superyacht seized in 2022 — citing the fact that it’s been costing taxpayers $600,000 a month to maintain.
The hefty monthly tab includes $360,000 in payments to the 348-foot vessel’s crew, plus $75,000 for fuel and $165,000 in other maintenance, like waste removal and food, according to court papers filed by the US in Manhattan on Friday obtained by Bloomberg.
The superyacht, called Amadea, reportedly belongs to Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, an alleged money launderer sanctioned by the US in 2018 as one of several oligarchs who profited from the Kremlin “through corruption and its malign activities around the globe, including the occupation of Crimea,” according to the Justice Department.
Kerimov, 57, is worth $9.1 billion, according to Bloomberg’s calculations, which he built making hefty bets on Russian companies across a variety of industries after the fall of the Soviet Union, the outlet reported.
Hate is really costly.
Thugs..
U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for Alexei Navalny's death and warned there could be consequences, saying he was "not surprised" but "outraged" by the opposition leader's passing.