Christmas, Intuitions, new vocabulary.

Yo-Yo Ma, Alison Krauss - The Wexford Carol (Video)

This post is dedicated to RantMom. Family Christmas plans kept not coming together and not coming together and not coming together. This problem was making several people ANXIOUS. RantWoman had to put her foot down and say "We HAVE to give Christmas (celebration) to God.

RantWoman never quite knows what to make of such intuitions. 

RantWoman will play the video for RantMom tomorrow at the next visit to the rehab where RantMom and some IV antibiotics are spending as much of a spell as can be proven helpful. RantWoman has another electronic daily blessing to play. RantWoman is embarrassed that she cannot remember enough of the Lord's prayer, no matter how meaningful it would be to RantMom. RantWoman is profoundly grateful for other visitors who do remember.

In the event, RantWoman, Little Sister, and Irrepressible Nephewand his woman friend but not Brother-in-law and the undervaccinated hound gathered on Christmas eve. Laptop audio does not do justice to a pipe organ. RantMom wanted exactly two bites each of the roast yam and cranberry relish RantWoman brought but it all seemed to matter to RantMom.

Now the family is grappling with terms like "assisted living," occupational therapy, long-term care.

RantMom would not not not want all the piquant details of her situation all over the internet; RantWoman will be most grateful to all readers who pray, hold in the Light,,for RantMom, Little Sister, Irrepressible Nephew who is DARNED lucky to have a wonderful relationship with RantMom, aka :Grams."

Merry (?) Christmas from Stephen Miller, thank you FRANK SINATRA

#Immigration #FrankSinatra

Immigration is what makes us great!

SLOW meditation on hymn, organ, church

RantWoman is posting this walk into history as much as anything as an effort to self-soothe.

May it bring others a path to reflection as well

The OLDEST CHRISTMAS HYMN ever written

When conversation might be too much, try Mr. GOOGLE. Further memorial.

 Remember RantWoman and the RSOF: Memorial with a side of fisheries management.

RantWoman has decided to acknowledge that she is both P***ed offand horrified.

RantWoman finally just used Mr. Google and Mr. YouTube. Anyone who already knows the name of the deceased can do the same. One reason to do so would be to recognize MANY reasons to hold Mrs. D in the Light without expecting one way or another about whether key details need to be spilled in conversation. For now, RantWoman will try to make her points while respecting privacy and not forcing D's wife to relive horrible moments.

RantWoman has a sort of electronic scrapbook of media items in her drafts folder. RantWoman is unclear whether to post the whole list. The media items include reasons particularly to hold D's wife in the Light. The media items also include graphic details from the suspect's initial court appearance.

Everything RantWoman knows about D and his wife and their rental property management points to very responsible up-front local landlords, not some far off management company that had to fly lawyers up from FL because of a tenant speaking truth to power about a bus stop. Sorry, RantWoman had to get that digression off her chest 

Many of the media accounts talk about D helping tenants in many ways and giving people second chances and renting to people that other landlords might not touch because of criminal records and / or court supervision. One tenant spoke of D renting to him while he was trying to get a massage (?) practice off the ground and offering him side work helping with what sound like many repair projects associated with rental properties.

The suspect, now in jail on $2million bond has a serious criminal record. Media accounts say he did not work but lived with his mother. The suspect's mother reported that household items matching what D's body waws wrapped in were missing from their household.

RantWoman is not a lawyer and certainly not a prosecutor, but some details make RantWoman wonder whether premeditation was involved.

The next court date is sometime in January. Hold D's wife and loved ones and community in the Light.

And anyone who can manage it, hold the suspect in the Light as well. It sounds like he deserves the full weight of the criminal justice system even if that of God within him many be hard to imagine right now.

US arrests Venezuelan tanker

 This YouTube channel reports regularly about many matters related to global shipping.

YouTube first sent a video to RantWoman in connection with West Coast protests of a ship supposedly delivering arms to Israel. Evidence fell in line with RantWoman who had wondered why a boat on the west coast would be shipping arms to Israel.

In the case of the US ARREST of the Venezuelan tanker, this piece provides LOTS of background about sanctioned vessels, shipping patterns for oil and the actual legal basis behind involvement of different US government entities in the arrest. And yes, "arrest" is the proper term.

Nothing about the video changes RantWoman's view that the US is more interested in VeneZuelan oil than anything else. RantWoman will fulminate about that another time.

Ukraine Strikes a 3rd Shadow Fleet Tanker in the Black Sea | MT Dashan Struck Multiple Times

OIL, OIL, OIL
See, See, the US CAN at least make an effort to follow the law

Just let Jon Stewart assemble the clips. Iraq? Venezuela????

FIFA Gives Trump a Gold Pacifier & Looming War on Venezuela Gives Jon Ir...

Leaks Plan BARGAINING positions

#Russia #Ukraine

The Kremlin’s Leaked Peace Plan Proves That Russia Is Weaker Than It Seems

RantWoman considers this video important and insightful.

In particular, attention to details others miss, willingness to game out motivations, and cutting through social media clamor and pressure, of which there is PLENTY

Enough said for now.

The US war in Afghanistan: continuing to bite the US in the butt.

RantWoman herewith extracts opinions from the carefully curated mishmash of YouTube items about the shooting of two WV national guard members in Washington DC the day before Thanksgiving. MAYBE RantWoman will be able to weave her observations into more carefully edited commentary. But for now, let 'em rip.

An update item

Trump Just Freaked Out As Kristi Noem's CRIMINAL PAST LEAKED🚨

1. Short version: these shootings are most definitely the US war on Afghanistan coming back to bite us.

2. The WV National Guard troops would not be in WV to get shot at were it not for the President having time to appeal a judge's ruling that said deployment is illegal and unnecessary.

3. See videos about West Virgina, both the ones about how the current administration is very specifically undoing efforts by the past administration to address WV issues and the HUGE impact of cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, but also the governor's press conference about how "everyone" is supporting each other. (RantWoman is not sure she included the video of Spc. Backstrom's boyfriend summarizing mixed feelings about her willingness to go and the mission or "rules of engagement."

4. The US refuses to be a party to the convention banning child soldiers. One reason of course is to facilitate enlistment in US armed forces before volunteers turn 18. Another reason rarely spoken about: the CIA recruits idealistic / fanatical young people for death squads. Or at least that has been the practice in Afghanistan. And then the US quite appropriately admits as refugees people who have risked their lives to assist the US. Please note: RantWoman approves of this practice even when RantWoman vehemently disapproves of the war in question. Also, admitting families to the US is never all that is needed, especially if people who have assisted the US in Afghanistan have at least as much reason to have severe PTSD as the US troops.

6. RantWoman will be curious to learn more about whatever set the shooter off on his drive across the country armed only with a pistol journey. 

7. RantWoman does not believe that one person's or even more than one person's  severe PTSD is a reason to round up everyone from Afghanistan who has come to the US. Add that point to all the other reasons RantWoman is disgusted by the current mass deportation fashion.

8. RantWoman will be holding in the Light both the guard member who survived the shooting and the  shooter's wife and 5 kids

Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan

Afghan National Guard Assassin Was CHILD MERCENARY for CIA

EXPOSED: National Guard K*ller Was In CIA D*ath Squad | The Kyle Kulinski Show

From Secretary Puppy Killer

Noem: National Guard shooting suspect 'radicalized' in the US

DC Guard Shooting: What We Know So Far

West Virginia's governor gives update on the shooting of 2 National Guard soldiers

WV Governor lowers flags to half-staff

Still 170 members of the WV National Guard VOLUNTEERING in DC, believe in the mission.

Note previous comments from Spc. Backstrom's boyfriend that she wonders what they were doing there.

People of WV "rightfully angry."

Applauds administration proposal for increased vetting.

NO MENTION of killer's role as child soldier

[WV went 85% for the current President; #GOP economic policies will screw the state in many ways.]

Parts of Appalachia went 85% for Tr*mp. He's ruining their lives. (Part 1 of a series)

West Virginia voted overwhelmingly for Tr*mp. Why do many remain loyal as he hurts them? (Part 2)

Report on Guardian article, Presideet #StableGenius cutting Biden era programs. 50% on SNAP, Medicaid. Appalachian fatalism. Elon Musk, bring back big coal... Both parties have failed.

Why migrant admissions stemmed from the deadly National Guard shooting in DC

And from the Hill

Disgusting: Liberal Media BLAMES Trump for National Guard Shooting in DC! Robby Soave | RISING

What kind of wimpy ass God folds in the face of empirical psychology research?

RantWoman is posting this item for illustration purposes. Enough said.

Turning Point USA Targets Instructor After Student Receives F 

I agree with you: the student had a number of options for both doing the assignment as instructed and presenting Biblical views. I am not sure what is Biblical about endorsing bullying but If she referenced both points from the article and some understanding of Biblical teaching as she understands them, I think she could have earned a decent grade for doing the assignment as instructed, even though she is missing the point of the empirical research. People are SUPPOSED to have their views challenged, maybe refined, maybe even reaffirmed in college and on of my beefs with Charlie Kirk is that he trivializes and glosses over the reality of these challenges.

Competence? Would Sarah Beckstrom still be here if...?

Interesting YouTube Channel. Read the description.

RantWoman is not trying to troubleshoot difficulty posting the video as usual but here is the link.

National Guard shooting: could Sarah Beckstrom still be here if we had more competent leadership?

THANK YOU for making important points no one else is making. Let's assume the guard members who were shot are idealistic young adults. To me their personal views don't matter beyond willingness to sign up for the national Guard. Yeah, they're from WV and yeah, it might be reasonable to make assumptions. Other points outweigh that. The guard is still in DC after a judge ruled the deployment is illegal and unnecessary because the administration is appealing, ie using every court thread they can pull to avoid complying with the court order. The guard is still in DC because President #StableGenius IGNORED strong recommendations from his own advisors that deploying them the way they have been deployed would expose them to exactly the kind of individual grievance the shooter brought to the picture. The other focus is on the shooter, his role working with the US in Afghanistan, and how well he was vetted when granted asylum. The shooter is one of 70,000 Afghans who came to the US. He is probably not the only one with really bad PTSD though who knows what made him snap and drive all the way across the US armed only with a .357 magnum. I don't know much about guns, but I don't think that would be the best option if he intended mass murder. To me in a very real way the DC shooting is all the atrocities associated with US role in Afghanistan and the subsequent Taliban takeover coming right to our shores. I am VERY sorry for the young woman who was killed and everyone close to her, but the way the current administration is handling the whole picture stinks to high heaven.

Straight up murder and planning to do to Venezuela what Russia is doing to Ukraine

RantWoman is again collecting a bunch of YouTube items that cover several angles of the US air strikes on boats ALLEGED to be connected with drug trafficking.

Scorching opinions available.

Pete Hegseth's "Kill Them All" Order Constitutes a War Crime!

Let's talk about Trump, Hegseth, Boats, and choices....

ILLEGAL WAR CRIMES: Pete Hegseth Ordered Kill All Survivors in Venezuela Boat Attacks

Are the U.S. ‘Drug Boat’ Strikes in the Caribbean a War Crime?

BREAKING: Republicans Open MULTIPLE Investigations Into Hegseth for MURDER and War Crimes

Hegseth SCREWED as BOMBSHELL REPORT Exposes CRIMINAL ORDERS?!?

Let's talk about Trump, Hegseth, Boats, and choices....

Pete Hegseth in legal jeopardy amid murderous strikes

US Double-Taps Survivors

🚨TOP Military Lawyers ISSUE STATEMENT on Trump WAR CRIMES

Hegseth SELF DESTRUCTS as walls close in

"You must refuse illegal orders"

Videos with arc of the story. Skip to the bottom for most recent

Sen  Mark Kelly Targeted? Breaking Down the Pentagon’s Move

Trump Hegseth MELTDOWN after getting terrible news

Trump RAGES as UNCONSTITUTIONAL MILITARY ORDERS GIVEN?!?

referencing the Nuremburg principles

Trump & Hegseth FORCING MARK KELLY BACK TO ACTIVE DUTY for Military Prosecution!!!

Pete Hegseth Just THREATENED A Navy Hero With Ultimate Punishment🚨

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth TAKES IT TOO FAR...

Lawful vs. Unlawful Military Orders; Trump's Threats to Members of Congress; & Help for our Troops

And from Hawk, in, um, interesting vernacular.

Stephen Miller IS A COWARD and Has No Right to Tell Enlisted Military What to Do

Pentagon Threatens Court Martial of Senator Mark Kelly Over Constitutional Oath Video

WOW: Senator Gets GOP to TURN on Trump in MILITARY HEARINGS

about use of military in cities

Pete Hegseth INSTANTLY REGRETS Picking FIGHT With Decorated Veteran

Trump’s CRUSADE Against War Hero CRASHES HARD

Trump Press Secretary LOSES IT As Unbelievable Military Declaration Backfires On Fox

Pete Hegseth POSTS GIBBERISH… Internet DESTROYS HIM INSTANTLY

Why yes. Venezuela DOES need naphtha FROM RUSSIA

#Russia #Ukraine #Venezuela

Russian Shadow Tanker Blocked from Sailing to Venezuela from Cuba | USS ...

Russia's shadow fleet: underinsured, less than optimally maintained, sailing under various flags to evade sanctions

Interesting commentary on global hot spots and world shipping. What would shipping patterns look like if the world moved away from fossil fuels?

Also interesting commentary on various strands of US activity around Venezuela, drug interdiction and ....

Protecting Tribal communities? MINING

#IndigenousHistoryMonth

Posted without further comment

Rep. Stansbury: The GOP is trying to strip Tribal communities of their r...

Agenda Setting???

#Ukraine #Russia

Something Much Bigger Is Going On With The Ukraine Peace Plan

Why Europe's New Peace Deal Showcases the Power of Agenda Setting

"There is a range of settlements that are preferable to fighting a war."

5 Things No One Says About the Ukraine Peace Plan

Also, as to Russia

From a few days ago

Putin's troops riddled with tuberculosis as military discipline collapses | John Lough

As an aside, Russia is selling off its gold bars and cannot sell weapons.

Russia’s Arms Empire COLLAPSES In Humiliation

Oh Dear. It's the Secretary of WAR????

#Russia #Ukraine (#Venezuela ?)

This item is in reference to the proposed peace plan for Ukraine that was or wasn't just stenography of Russian priorities, was or wasn't a clearly addled President being led around by the nose, was or wasn't the US final offer, was or wasn't some kind of level setting intended to rattle loose better offers. RantWoman will separately post vids of the day.

(Digression for language nerds: using Google translate to render sensitive diplomatic documents, even by some part of the press, ranks right up with threatening nuclear war via social media as anxiety evoking activities people generally can DO WITHOUT)

And now for the snark, on the other side of the video

Trump ABANDONS Hegseth As LEAK SCANDAL Goes PUBLIC!

Welp, ya know. Maybe it would be normal to have a Secretary of DEFENSE in high level Cabinet meetings about a PEACE plan, but if dud insists on being the Secretary of WAR, I can't imagine why anyone WOULDN'T keep him out of meetings about a peace plan.

Memorial with a side of fisheries management.

The trouble with going to one memorial is that sometimes one learns of others on the horizon, or even worse a memorial involving a violent crime.  RantWoman is of course morbidly curious about the violent crime circumstances. RantWoman has not even tried to pursue details , and an actual memorial is some ways off.

The deceased gets to be simply D and RantWoman has been exchanging condolences with Mrs D. Mr. and Mrs. D net in worship several years ago. The y quietly got married and faithfully worshipped together for a long time. 

D was a professional fisherman who worked in the Bering Sea. In RantWoman's world, this means both conversations about catch limits, what kind of seafood could even be harvested, as well as a few words of courtesy Russian. Along with critical care for the environment and the politics of catch limits, for RantWoman anything involving the Bering Sea and international fisheries issues also evokes images of danger lurking around every corner.

Anyway, RantWoman will remember and silently say a prayer for D every time the subjects of fishing and fisheries management in the North Pacific come up in conversation.

Today's Russa Ukraine selections

#Russia #Ukraine

RantWoman has no idea whether this superficial curation of what Youtube delivers is useful for anyone but RantWoman posts anyway.

First, Russian voice hates on critic: 

Alexander Dugin Called Me a Coward – Here’s My Answer

And why might Dugin be mad: facts and "Russia is demising."

Inside Russia's New Budget Exposing Putin's War Plans

What is Really Happening Inside Russia's Economy

William Spaniel summarizes some of the leaked peace plan fiascoes

Inside the Leaked Ukraine Deal: The Kremlin's Games, Europe’s Failure, and Trump's Indifference

And 24 points from Europe

Europe’s New Peace Plan Is Way Smarter Than Expected

About the negotiations

Major shift in Geneva: Peace plan no longer touches NATO or Europe | Morning Report

And the current Ukrainian corruption scandal

Major shift in Geneva: Peace plan no longer touches NATO or Europe | Morning Report

Moscow Power Plant Burns After Strike

Ukraine Destroyed a Moscow Power Plant!

#MeToo doesn't even begin to name this.

RantWoman needs to have a good long rant separately about insurance and SEX OFFENDERS.

Here though, RantWoman is collecting videos about President #Gropesaurus. Most of the videos are so infuriating that readers are going to have to decide for their own selves whether to watch and THEN click on links.

Short version: Behaviorwise the President fully qualifies, at least to RantWoman as a level III sex offender.

RantWoman fully supports whatever paths to document release and public discussion will bring as much justice as possible to women who have survived the President and Mr. Epstein.

RantWoman is not commenting about straining at gnats and swallowing a camel with respect to culture war horror about drag queens and transwomen while all the evidence of Trump and epstein crimes keeps trying to break out into the open.

RantWoman will refrain for now from rants about global mafias, the status of women in Iran or Afghanistan. RantWoman will simply repeat a quote from Robin Morgan: "to be female and conscious anywhere on this planet is to be in a constant stage of rage."

It is not ALL rage which is probably one reason women keep forging on.

SHOCK VIDEO of Trump’s Teen Victim RESURFACES at WORST MOMENT

Teen Victim RETURNS With SHOCKING Allegation That Could END Trump

Trump Lawyer Makes WORST Underage Admission Yet As Trump COLLAPSES!

Trump PANICS As FIRED ADVISOR Leaks WORST Trump Epstein TEXTS YET!

Trump In Complete Crisis Over Epstein Email: Wolff | Inside Trump's Head

 I’ve Seen Epstein Pics of Trump With Topless Girls: Michael Wolff | Inside Trump's Head

Megyn Kelly is a Deeply Broken Person

Epstein onslaught: Damning Trump emails stoke push to release ALL THE FILES (Ari x Weissmann)

Trump's White House In SHAMBLES As His New Lawyer Just BACKFIRED🚨

JD Vance MISSING… PREPARING for HOSTILE TAKEOVER?!

Trump PANICS and EXPOSES His WORST FEAR

The UK is not down with extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean. Imagine that!

Posted in full on protest of certain US military activities "down south"

Let's talk about Trump giving US Intel a black eye (out of five)....

Russia? Venezuela? BIZARRE strategic decisions?

#Russia #Ukraine

RantWoman has a backlog of videos about internal resistance, Russian soldiers defecting to Ukraine, effects of secondary sanctions, drones, cruise missiles, blackouts in Moscow, ground stops at Russian airports and division among the oligarchs. Life is not good in Russia. 

RantWoman would not be displeased to see Russia forced to move away from fossil fuels. However, freezing in the winter dark is not something to wish on anyone and the do not appear to be good paths out of the bloodshed.

In any case, a digression (?) involving Venezuela

Russian politicians, like their US peers, are prone to saying outrageous things. But is this outrageous?

Russia Just Did Something Utterly Bizarre in Venezuela

Why U.S.-Venezuelan Negotiations Are Failing

another video from William Spaniel

and on top of relentless Ukrainian success attacking Russia's oil production facilities

Russia has not yet managed to take over Pokrovsk

⚡CATASTROPHE FOR RUSSIA! CHINA BREAKS WITH KREMLIN — DRONES READY FOR MASSIVE STRIKES! | HELL POINT

And speaking of trazing on YouTube, The Freedom or Russia legion and railroad sabortage

Putin BETRAYED from Within… Russians Just Crippled Kremlin's War Machine

And morbid science about unnecessary use of tourniquets

Ukraine’s new battlefield challenge: the cult of the tourniquet

Clear Hearts Quaker Fellowship invitation to weekly worship on Zoom, 11:45 Pacific

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#Russia #Ukraine #Belarus

⚡️ARMED UPRISING IN MOSCOW! BLOODY CLASHES IN CAPITAL! POLICE JOIN REBEL...

Commentator Vladimir Solovyov bluntly criticized

crackdown against music and internet

discussion of Tomahawks and British missiles.

And in Belrus

🔥 Belarus Collapse: Police Join Protest — Who Controls the Country Now?

Belarus in Revolt: Army Defection Sparks Nationwide Uprising – Is Lukashenko Losing Control? |G C N

Belarus in Revolt: Army Defection Sparks Nationwide Uprising – Is Lukashenko Losing Control? |G C N

Nothing like an armed attack induced flash flood.

#Russia  #Ukraine

Ukraine cuts MAJOR transportation link in western Russian / NE Ukraine

FLOOD RUN! Hundreds Russian Tanks Stuck Near River as Surprise Attacks S...

Civil Resistance in Chicago and news from Portland

You need to hear what Chicago is doing to fight back against ICE. 

Yes THIS. Resist! 

Concerning updates from ICE Protests in Portland, Oregon

Inconsistency in application of the law by Portland Police Bureau

Creating disinformation for the regime. Right wing influencers can visit ICE facilities but elected representatives cannot.

Kristi Noem's Scheme RUINED After ICE Agents Busted By Alarming Protest Video

And ICE is the one initiating violence

Stephen Miller MELTS DOWN After Pritzker Posts Disturbing ICE Photos

And Great Legal mind Stephen Miller calls out "seditious conspiracy"

Competition in the weapons Biz! Sweden has a word

Canada SHOCKED as Sweden’s Gripen OUTPERFORMS the F-35!

President #StableGenius is alienating allies just as US pressure for countries to up their defense "investment" to 2% of GDP, countries are striving for greater independence and freedom from entanglement with the US.

If one is going to build weapons, this seems like a good idea, and competition is good for all sides. Oh Well. The US will need to get into a different line of business. Oh Well.

Dear MAGA, Happy (?) Diwali

Vivek Ramaswamy Never Told Kash About MAGA

RantWoman has gotten a little lazy and is appreciating other voices that say what needs to be said far more bluntly.

General Winter at Russia's doorstep and the war continues to bo badly

#Russia #Ukraine

This Winter Will Be Russia’s Biggest Nightmare

SYSTEM COLLAPSE: Generals Steal, Factories Explode

Russia Just LOST the War - USA Sanctions Oil Giants

Jake, Jake, Jake. Please Pretty please ask someone to help you pronounce Russian place names correctly.

Interesting comment about change in restrictions on use of long range missiles. 

Putin faces severe sanctions damage as Russia's Pokrovsk pockets begin to collapse

Putin RUNS AWAY from Kremlin as Storm Shadow Missiles KILL Russian Military

Russians calling on Ukraine to just aim at the Kremlin (?!?)

Something Bigger Is Hiding Behind Trump’s Latest Ukraine Fail

The summit that was and now isn't

Crimea under siege: Putin’s fortress will fall soon – Warning from UK

And the latest in internet...

IT'S BEGUN: Russia Plunges Into DARK AGES. Putin Orders to SHUT DOWN the Internet on Demand

President Stable Genius poops on the populace

#NoKingsDay according to the President

Nicolle Wallace reacts to Donald Trump’s vile social media post over No ...

President #StableGenius is not even competent to vet a propaganda video much less operate so much as a golf cart never mind a nuclear arsenal. I read the video as a dementia patient with overflowing diapers who doesn't even have the sense to put his oxygen mask on correctly. It's like he is begging, pleading for help from the 25th Amendment

Wounded Knee: the difference between "battle" and "massacre"

Tribal Leaders Push Back Pete Hegseth Decision on Wounded Knee Medals

Mehdi Hasan on the current "cease fire"

#Palestine #Gaza

‘You Will Not Silence Me’: Watch Mehdi’s Defiant Speech on Gaza

and at #NoKingsDayOctober18th

Mehdi Hasan’s Fiery Speech Against Trump at ‘No Kings’ Rally, “We Will Outvote Them!” | AC1G

Massive Street protests in St. Petersburg. Meat grinder continues. Ukraine keeps hitting Russian Oil refinery.

RantWoman apologizes.

RantWoman has been busy with Projects and with trying to have a  reasonable sleep pattern.

There is also the upcoming #NoKingsDay as well as the doings of the local dementia patient with severe authoritarian tendencies. So, although RantWoman has a whole queue of mean to post items about #Russia, #Ukraine, Belarus....

This post is an attempt to catch up. 

Additional videos in abundance on YouTube

FSB Announces Coup Plot in Russia: Putin is About to Be BETRAYED!

A bold protest against Putin's Russia in St. Petersburg: Young people demand change in streets

Protests in Russia: Young Russians are Threatening Putin's Rule

"Let the swans dance"

Something STRANGE Is Brewing Inside Russia

Paranoid Putin TERRIFIED of Coup as St. Petersburg ERUPTS in Protest

Putin's Home town

"Swan Lake."

The Russian antiwar committee

Russia EXECUTES Soldiers as Army COLLAPSES

Z-Propaganda Just Dropped a HUGE BOMBSHELL! Kremlin Promises 'a Bullet for Every Russian'

Putin's Favorite Puppet State is About to Collapse

Belarus

IT FINALLY HAPPENED! Putin's Favorite Minister of Economy DELIVERED BAD NEWS. Upcoming Debt Storm

Who else's economy is cratering?

Russia's Oil Industry is Collapsing

DUTCH DISEASE Is Killing Russia… Putin Is POWERLESS to Stop It

explanation of the "Dutch disease," see also Paul Warburg.

Random things in titles that RantWoman has not even looked at:

Ukraine strikes the Kerch bridge

US arms shipments, UK stepping up to arm #Ukraine...

18-year-olds in the latest mobilization despite Putin's promise not to do that.

A department of DEFENSE protects everyone. A department of WAR on the other hand....

Let's talk about the GOP taking a holiday instead of paying troops....

I am steamed that our witless #SecDef has proclaimed the department he heads the Department of WAR. He is also cancelling important programs such as the cyber security command. Do not forget firing leaders left and right for being the wrong color or gender. So anyone who wants to contain the defense budget might be forgiven for saying well, as long as the administration is weakening national security in myriad ways, let's not pay the troops either.

If we still had a department of DEFENSE that applied to all of the US, ordinary working people and military families should BOTH get affordable health care. The #GOP leadership needs to grow spines, STOP lying and STOP SENDING THEIR HOUSES ON VACATION and sit down. Get back to work and work across the aisle

TIMELY Opportunity to apply to Quaker Voice legislative fellowship

The Quaker Voice Legislative Fellowship Program encourages the active engagement of fellowship holders in the state legislative process through mentorship, skill development, and partnering with legislative advocates in their work. Participants do not need to be Quakers. The program provides a $500 stipend. The application deadline is October 20.

Quaker Voice Legislative Fellows are young adults ages 16-35 who live or study in the state of Washington (or outside Washington if recommended by a Quaker Meeting), Each Fellow joins a group working to support action in the Washington state legislature on issues in environment, police and prisons, healthcare, affordable housing, immigrant and LGBTQ+ rights, and other justice concerns. The Fellow develops background materials and tracks legislation, in partnership with a mentor who is already a Quaker Voice citizen advocate. Each fellow has an opportunity to see in depth how a lobbyist works by shadowing Paul Benz, our Senior Legislative Advocate, for a day. Travel costs to Olympia for Quaker Lobby Day and the shadow day are covered by the program.

See this page for full information: 2025-26 Legislative Fellowship Program — Quaker Voice

New faces and Conscientious Objection

RantWoman posts this info FYI for anyone facing considerations about possible unlawful orders.

Anyone considering decisions should consult legal counsel 

UPDATE on US troops DISOBEYING Trump’s ILLEGAL orders

Illinois National Guard begins to push back against illegal Trump deployment

Some Chicago moments

Neighbors push back as Trump's ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs

"Zip-Tying Children": Outrage Grows in Chicago over Trump Immigration Crackdown

"There's no emergency. There is no justification..."

ACLU Director reacts to 'out of control' ICE agents in Chicago

How Chicago is resisting Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown | Anywhere but Washington

And in other news

How ICE Spies On American Citizens | Incognito Mode | WIRED

How ICE Spies On American Citizens | Incognito Mode | WIRED - YouTube

How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED

About Face Vets

Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is just New Jersey, but You go then I'll go.

Two Lawrence O'Donell vids to keep us somewhere near sanity at least as far as elegantly summarizing outrage and excoriating the current administration.

Lawrence: How many flashes of insanity from a president should we tolerate?

Lawrence: We are clearly seeing madness pouring from the darkness of Donald Trump's mind

Epstein AND the Budget????

Trump DESTROYED as 70 Republicans QUIT to BLOCK His Budget Bill!!

IHIP News: Mike Johnson VISIBLY PANICKING Over Shutdown NIGHTMARE as It All BACKFIRES!!

🚨Johnson RUNS AWAY As Jeffries Issues BRUTAL CHALLENGE

As an aside, RantWoman thinks the best way for the Epstein survivors to get somewhere near justice would be civil lawsuits against everyone even vaguely connected with DISGUSTING Epstein world. RantWoman has ZERO expectation that justice will come from Congress. But RantWoman is not a lawyer and is perhaps missing something.

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad

#Russia #Kaliningrad #Chernobyl #AssymetricWarfare

"Russia is ABOUT TO LOSE Kaliningrad": The Kremlin is VERY CONCERNED Abo...

includes GIANT ad for an AI notetaker

Aside from questions of strategery, ASK THE PEOPLE of Kaliningrad what they want.

Rockets with love from Kazakhstan?

And actual, probably low, accounting of casualties

Putin FLEES to his Bunker as Ukraine Attacks Putin's Secret Meeting in Sochi

Ken Harbaugh on a visit to CHERNOBYL

Meidas Releases EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE from FRONTLINES of UKRAINE WAR ZONE

Fascinating economic turn. Along with serious SPIN from Putin.

Putin Seizes $55 Billion From Oligarchs as Russia's Economy Bankrupt

And another war criminal done in by a Ukrainian drone.

Putin Fears DEATH Is Coming After Ukraine Kills Putin's Executioner & Russian Colonel - YouTube

While we're at it, 312 days of protests in Georgia, not MTG's Georgia; the other one.

Putin's WORST FEAR is Here as MASS PROTESTS Erupt

"Kaliningrad is NEXT TO FALL": The Baltic Trap Putin Pretends Doesn't Exist

Friendly reminders from the state of Georgia and also VA

Why this historical overview now?

And is this partly AI?

Hidden Plot EXPOSED Against Trump – Georgia Bombshell Unveiled! 🇺🇸''|| R...

And about getting around to Letitia James and a brave VA Prosecutor who said no to political prosecution

Letitia James Just Got The FINAL LAUGH On Trump. IT’S OVER🚨

Fish got away with a little help....

Warning: a generous helping of unQuakerly language, but FAR more digestible content than the military raid on the apartment building.

Note with particular scorn the reference to dollar signs for every detention. DISGUSTING that COngress cannot come up with tax credits so ordinary working people can afford health insurance, but it has for YEARS been funding, excuse me over-funding the vast detention apparatus

The Feds Are OUT OF CONTROL in Chicago… People Have HAD ENOUGH

Send in the feds--for a FROG?

Laugh! Breathe. Drink Water Touch Grass. Laugh

Trump Sent Feds to Stop a FROG in Portland... and LOST BADLY

PORTLAND MOCKS Trump’s "Living in Hell" BS

ANd from a few weeks ago

White House TikTok gets OBLITERATED by users INSTANTLY

Portland DESTROYS Trump’s Guard Fantasy

Good news: Things are getting much worse

#Russia #Ukraine

Will posting all the ways that Russia is getting clobbered do amnything for humanitarian relief? Will it create psychic conditions for steps toward PEACE? 

Putin's Industrial Collapse: WORSE than you think

Ukraine Strikes 3 Russian Refineries in 3 Days!

Ukraine BURNS Russia's Fuel and Ammo Supply

Ukraine RAINS HELL on Russia AND Crimea in Biggest REVENGE Strike of the WAR!

Ukraine’s Drone Blitz Shreds Russia’s Defenses in Crimea

And speaking of battleships, Russia? 

Russia’s “Superweapon” Warship Is a Floating Chernobyl Wreck

Shaman, Shaman?

#Russia #Ukraine 

Will culture help Russia end it's STUPID war?

Is all this just the latest in historical Russian mysticism?

Is it just an indication that RantWoman is HOPELESSLY out of touch with the youth of more than one culture???

He Was Trolling All Along

Cultural icons of Russian youth, autotranslated, with layers of irony and mystical symbolism

RantWoman WILL go look up the YouTuber mentioned toward the end.

RantWoman, WHY are you posting this link to a rather different video about Charlie Kirk?

The theme in common: quest for Truth and belief, while also bursting bubbles.

SAXX - Maxx Crosby Limited Edition Prints

OMG. Pope Leo calls out ....

WATCH: Pope Leo CALLS OUT MAGA Christians In VIRAL MOMENT

Has RantWoman mentioned that she is a GIANT fan of Pope Leo.

It was an Act of GOD that he got elected pope. 

He has so many messages that anyone with a soul should relate to.

There are also plenty of moments that remind RantWoman why she is cannot pull off appropriate veneration of the Divine in Catholic terms.

Russia has already lost?

#Russia #Ukraine

While President #StableGenius and the #DUIhire #Secdef are assembling hundreds of military brass for lectures about hair, #DEI, fat generals, as well as the President's generic word salad, THINGS ARE HAPPENING in Russia's war on Ukraine.

Crimea's Countdown to Collapse

Russian Army Collapses as Crimea Rises Up Against Putin

The great escape from Crimea: Chaos is growing on the peninsula

🔥 URGENT! RUSSIA’S MAIN ALLY BETRAYS IT! STRIKE FROM KAZAKHSTAN! CHAOS ERUPTS IN THE STREETS!

Kazakhstan suspends oil shipments to Russia

Russia’s Oil Crisis is Just the Start of Something MUCH Worse

Ukraine BROKE Russia... They Won’t Survive What’s Coming

Russia Struck Kyiv… Ukraine’s REVENGE Was SAVAGE and RUTHLESS

Ukraine Waited for 200,000-ton Ship to Be Filled with Oil – Then 1,200kg of Bombs Hit the Port

Ukraine Drones Cripple Russia's Fronts and Refineries

Addresses Russian drones flying over Europe and French boarding of a ranker from the Russian shadow fleet: drones shot off the Pushba.

Poorly qualified crew, lack of insurance, 

Kremlin Propaganda BACKSTABS Putin... DECLARES Russia Has Already LOST the War

Pro Kremlin voices saying Russia is losing far too many troops.

26% of Russian oil refining capacity has been disabled.

Christopher Hitchens gets us started with opinions about #Quantico

Dear Readers

Pick any one of the links below. 

If one is going to sneer verbally, RantWoman aspires to do so with at least as much panache as Christopher Hitchens even if the accent won't work.

Other reviews

Let's talk about Hegseth's Pep Rally Policies....

🚨General QUITS🚨 After SecWar Hegseth’s EPIC Speech 💣😱

Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey discusses Trump, Hegseth meeting at Quantico

It was one of the strangest and most incoherent addresses ever.

Woke Military Stunt Backfires on Trump & Hegseth

"It's a whole lot of 'n's that (the President) can't say.

FURIOUS Navy Commander SPEAKS OUT After Trump Military Stunt

Trump is Prepping for War! Malcolm Nance GOES OFF!

It was a monumental wall of idiocy

The Parts of Hegseth’s Speech Nobody’s Discussing

Some of this nonsense will not work.

Bringing back hazing?

Ending the zero-defect mindset / risk averse command culture

currently less yelling, more teambuilding.

Trump & Hegseth ABSOLUTELY BOMB In Front Of PISSED OFF Generals | The Kyle Kulinski Show

Climate change is literally a safety issue

Reaction to Hegseth & Trump’s Strange Speech to Generals

Trump Goes FULL “Fat Elvis”! Generals HUMILIATED at Quantico! Hegseth's MANIC Tuesday! | Next Level The Bulwark for over an hour

FURIOUS Retired General DESTROYS Trump’s Military STUNT

Early in the vid: really disgusting claim about pacifism

Trump Hid Sinister Message in Speech to Generals | The Daily Beast Podcast

More General Hertling

scathing comparison of Hegseth proposed training practices to the horrors of the Russian army.

Hegseth worldview limited to only his own experience, no sense of all the different forces.

The President is oblivious about drones and wants to talk about battleships.

Former Generals React to Trump-Hegseth Quantico Speeches

Undermining current composition of armed forces

Undermining "disagreement is not disrespect"

What Trump & Hegseth's Lecture to Generals Really Means

Friendly reminder that President #StableGenius is way too happy to claim credit to a whole bunch of war, some of which, such as Afghanistan vs Azerbaijan, do not even exist.

Hegseth ROCKED By Crushing Fox News Surprise After Military Disaster

The WORST white privilege

GENERALS TURN ON TRUMP AFTER DISASTER SPEECH

Hegseth plans widespread use of polygraphs, NDAs to stop leaks

There is NO WAY RantWoman can stomach the whole video.

BOO sectarian references.

Happy Orange Shirt Day

 Twitter / X advised RantWoman that today is Orange Shirt Day, in remembrance of all the horrors of Indian schools.

September 30 is also International Translators and Interpreters Day.

RantWoman is wearing an orange shirt and honoring both occasions as follows.

Special shout out to all interpreters everywhere who have risked their lives for the US.

Triple Shout-out when the US government was simultaneously suppressing indigenous languages in Indian schools and relying on Native American interpreters.

Blessings all.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb at the UN General Assembly

#Finland #UnitedNations #Prepraredness

Finland’s President Delivers Most Inspiring, Powerful UN Speech Yet on M...

Finland's President on Trump, Resilience and Putin's Threat | Leaders with Francine Lacqua

And in the spirit of "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors."

Inside the Most Prepared Country on Earth

Repentance on TikTok?

MAGA Christians are turning on Tr*mp for 2 reasons. 

RIP Charlie Kirk; American CUT THE BULL.

Pastor FLIPS the Script on MAGA's False Narrative

The Venom They Want Sanitized: Kirk's Own Shocking Rhetoric Unmasked

RantWoman will NOT be watching the #CharlieKirk memorial. 

RantWoman again expresses condolences to Charlie Kirk's grieving widow and laments that both her kids and all the kids affected by the oh so fashionable deport-a-rama will grow up fatherless.

The Charlie Kirk cult? Who might be behind his assassination?

An assortment of #CharlieKirk vids without too much analysis

Tyler Robinson DENIES Shooting Charlie Kirk

Youtube abounds with theories at this point about why the current Tyler Robinson narrative DOES NOT HOLD WATER.

This post is mostly a sampling of commentary suggesting that Israel is behind the Charlie Kirk Assassination.  It adds up to a sense of much crap and danger to be digested but also to the importance of people having space to examine information and principles they are being fed.

Charlie Kirk was starting to speak out against Israel

A bunch of things don't add up.

OMG! YouTube is full of theories.

THE CHARLIE KIRK STORY ISN’T ADDING UP | The Kyle Kulinski Show

Candace Owens CONFIRMS Kirk SHAKEDOWN In The Hamptons

Reese Waters: Check out his channel

Candace Owens & Maga Media DESTROY Charlie Kirk Investigation

Netanyahu’s desperate clarification video on Charlie Kirk backfires spectacularly |Janta Ka Reporter

Tabitha Speaks: Check out her channel

I've Got Nothing For Candace Owens... - YouTube

Chris Hedges: check out his channel

Israel's Pressure Campaign Against Charlie Kirk (w/ Max Blumenthal)

From Roland Martin Another good channel to check out. CW here: many of Charlie Kirk's most disgusting comments all in a super concentrated video

The Venom They Want Sanitized: Kirk's Own Shocking Rhetoric Unmasked

Digression regarding Charlie Kirk's famous line about highly accomplished Black Women not having the brain power to be at places like Princeton and Harvard without "stealing a place from a white man."

1. One of the women referenced by Kirk has in fact said she would not be where she is without Affirmative Action. 

     RantWoman's interpretation: The Skull and Bones secret society at Yale decided to admit women decades after Yale first went co-ed. At the time someone from Skull and Bones was quoted saying that Skull and Bones was about the smartest people at Yale. (um, George W. Bush?)  If they did not admit women, they would not be reaching the smartest people at Yale. SAME THING APPLIES about affirmative action. Never mind some people's sense of entitlement, if an organization does not specifically go looking for the smartest people...     Many of the students of color RantWoman met at Princeton had to deal with both the external harassment and sometimes doubts within themselves. Having to do that is BS.

And speaking out referencing several points

🚨The Netherlands Drops BOMB On Trump Over Kimmel

Why? Tyler, Why? And then there is the FBI

WORLD CLASS Ranting. Abundant un-quakerly language and yet nuggets.

Who is Tyler Robinson, Really? Charlie Kirk Shooter Truth EXPOSED

Interesting speculation about lonely kid and family pictures

The Charlie Kirk Shooting FBI Narrative is Total Bullsh*t

Fallout ...and "No evidence of Foul play."

As Pesident #StableGenius attempts to ban mention of slavery at National Parks.

FALLOUT Continues from Kirk Assassination as New DETAILS Rise

from the Legal Diva

about an episode in FL:

The first amendment guarantees you a right to speak but does not guarantee you an audience."

A history moment about Bob Marley and Jamaican politics

RantWoman first saw this on TabithaSpeaks

Horrific Mississippi Hangings Raise Questions as Mainstream Media Goes Quiet

"No evidence of foul play."

Ukrainian Pacifist Yuri Sheliazhenko: his story.

#Ukraine #Pacifism

RantWoman until now has neglected voices of peace activists in Ukraine. Here is one modest effort to remedy that. RantWoman's main content curation here: links served up by Google. Presented in chronological order

Yuri worships online with Kyiv Friends when he can.

Not surprising that Mr. Sheliazhenko's views are controversial. Here are current requests and then some background

World Beyond War:
"Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution
of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko"
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-ukrainian-government-to-drop-prosecution-of-peace-activist-yurii-sheliazhenko
OR
https://tinyurl.com/YuriiSept

War Resistors' International: 
"Ukraine: Stop the proceedings against Yurii Sheliazhenko"
https://wri-irg.org/en/programmes/rrtk/co-action-alert/2023/ukraine-stop-proceedings-against-yurii-sheliazhenko
OR 
https://tinyurl.com/Yurii-Sept

Yurii Sheliazhenko - Keynote Speech at the Peace Conference 2022 - Local...

Statement of Solidarity With Ukrainian Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko | Stop the War

REfreshing to see several other items on the Stop the War website including reference to Russian activist Boris Kagarlitsky.

Ukrainian Authorities Charge Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko, Raid His Home | Democracy Now!

Justice for Yurii Sheliazhenko – IPB – International Peace Bureau

Yurii Sheliazhenko - Three years after the start of the war in Ukraine - YouTube