In December 2021, Russia demanded that the West respect the MINSK AGREEMENTS... These agreements, SIGNED BY RUSSIA, UKRAINE, FRANCE AND GERMANY, allowed the Breakaway provinces of Ukraine to stay as UKRAINIAN AUTONOMOUS REGIONS... THE WEST refused. AS WELL, the west refused to acknowledge security guarantees for RUSSIA TO EXIST — and the West pushed for NATO EXPANSION into Ukraine. These Agreements had been broken by the KIEV regime since the date they were signed....

We also need to know that the AMERICAN EMPIRE has wished to destroy RUSSIA since 1917. 

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has branded incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz a Nazi after he allegedly suggested that Kiev should destroy the Crimean Bridge.

In an interview with state broadcaster ARD, Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the likely future leader of Germany, stated that Berlin could supply long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, but only if it is done in coordination with other EU nations.

Kiev should in the future use Western-supplied missiles to go on the offensive and destroy, for example, “the most important land connection between Russia and Crimea,” Merz said.

Vladimir Zelensky’s office announced on Tuesday that it has fired the head of Ukraine’s Sumy Regional Military Administration, Vladimir Artyukh. The move follows accusations that Artyukh organized a military awards ceremony that was targeted in a Russian missile strike.

On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that it carried out a precision strike the previous day on a gathering of Ukrainian command staff in the border city of Sumy. Two Iskander-M missiles were used in the attack on Sunday, it said, adding that over 60 senior Ukrainian servicemen were killed in the strike.

The local Ukrainian authorities have claimed that the attack targeted a military awards ceremony for the 117th Territorial Defense Brigade. Officials reported that the strike resulted in 35 civilian deaths and 129 others injured. 

Holy freakin' crap... Bill Maher is FLIPPING after meeting Trump....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0182h4Q3YJQ

Celebrities did not respond kindly to comedian Bill Maher visiting the White House for dinner with President Trump and were even more incensed over his retelling of the dinner.

As Breitbart News reported, Maher finally divulged the details about his dinner with Trump weeks after teasing it, describing the president as gracious and completely different from the man he knew on television.

CNN: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration’s decision on Friday to exempt electronic devices — like smartphones, iPhones and laptops — from tariffs was only a temporary reprieve but those products will face separate levies, adding more confusion to an already chaotic rollout of tariffs on Chinese goods.

Whoever is an aspiring Marian Christian like the writer obviously has in his heart a deep devotion to Saint Pio of Pietrelcina who in his diary made a bitter prophetic statement about the “Christian Homeland” which unfortunately turned out to be spot on…

• Fabio G.C. Carisio

Gas is the talk of the town, while nuclear is not, but a massive increase in solar power generation capacity has already put Australia on the fast track to a 100% renewable energy future. Solar cell engineer Andrew Blakers explains.

An academic living in cold Canberra retired his gas heaters a few years ago and installed electric heat pumps for space and water heating. His gas bill went to zero. He also bought an electric vehicle, so his petrol bill went to zero.

    by Andrew Blakers

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky should never have started a war with Russia, US President Donald Trump has said.

In a press conference alongside El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump commented on Zelensky’s recent offer to finance $15 billion worth of Patriot air defense batteries with the aid of Kiev’s European backers.

“He’s always looking to purchase missiles,” the US presided noted.

Zelensky started the war then begged for missiles – Trump
The Ukrainian leader has recently renewed his call for Washington to supply air defense systems

“When you start a war, you got to know that you can win the war,” he said of Zelensky. “You don’t start a war against somebody that’s 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.”

The American Empire is still fighting to be top dog — especially under Trump, who has inherited a declining empire from the Democrats… Some “democrat”-inclined people are still saying that the economy under Biden was solid, but in fact “Bidenomics” were on the skids, due to the increasingly unmanageable HUGE deficit being used to “finance the cushions”… 

Joining too many dots, mainly Jewish….

BY GUS LEONISKY

Palantir Technologies — its name derived from the “seeing-stones” of deception (Palantir) that allow their holder to see across great distances to track friends and foes, in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings — has been called the “most evil company on the planet” by critics[1] — on both the traditional Left and Right.

Mark Rutte has expressed concern regarding Russia’s space capabilities and warned that Russia might be trying to send nuclear weapons in space. Also, Bundeswehr Inspector General Carsten Breuer has stated that Russia might be ready to attack NATO by 2029 and he urged the Bundeswehr to prepare.

Mr. Steve Witkoff has had a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin where they have discussed the war in Ukraine. After the meeting, Mr. Witkoff stated that the fastest way to secure a ceasefire is for the West to make territorial concessions to Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Er3f2tshxU

MOSCOW (Sputnik) On April 2, Trump signed an executive order introducing "reciprocal" tariffs on imports from other countries. The baseline rate was set at 10%, while dozens of countries were hit with higher rates. The duties on most countries were reversed to 10% days later to allow for trade negotiations, while those on China were hiked to 145%.

The United States and China have started "soft" communications on tariffs and other trade issues through intermediaries, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday.

"I think we have had soft — the way I would say this is soft entrees, you know, through intermediaries," Lutnick told ABC News when asked about whether Washington and China had recently had any contacts regarding their trade relations.

Meeting privately with King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Pope Francis congratulated the pair for their 20 years together. Despite having canceled their official state visit to the Holy See citing Pope Francis’ ill health and need for recovery, the king and queen nevertheless met privately with the Pontiff Wednesday afternoon.

According to a statement from Buckingham Palace, Francis issued an invitation to the pair which was confirmed Wednesday morning after his assistants were happy with his medical state. No details emerged about the contents of the 20-minute meeting apart from the fact that Francis and King Charles exchanged reciprocal good wishes for each other’s recovery.

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in November.

The state government touts the highway's "sustainable" credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact.

The Amazon plays a vital role in absorbing carbon for the world and providing biodiversity, and many say this deforestation contradicts the very purpose of a climate summit.

There were very few cicadas around this year... No Greengocers, but some of these highly decorated types, strangely quieter — unless the pitch of their call was too high to be heard.... 

Floury Baker Cicada
Scientific name: Abricta curvicosta

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