The Diesel discussion: Putin trolling the West

 #Iran #Putin #StraitOfHormuz #Russia #Diesel #Midterms #Ukraine #PerformativePolitics #NATO #LowInformationVoters #DaysOfOurTransatlanticism #Europe

Senators say no.

Iran mediating between Saudi and the Houthis???

 #Iran #SaudiArabia #Houthis

No bull prize and a very own US version of a beheading video

Please bear with RantWoman's spell of VERY BAD FRIEND commentary

The Nobel Prize

Once again, the Nobel committee has bypassed President #StableGenius, this year recognizing an indefatigable judge on the International Criminal Court. A WOMAN. No country to invade but unfortunately for the rule of law another justice-related organization for the US government to harass.

Further Quaker specific snark: President #StableGenius still has a long way to go to top Quaker luminary Floyd Schmoe's decades-long campaign of entitlement based on his work rebuilding houses in Hiroshima after the US dropped the atomic bomb on the city. If President #StableGenius started practicing Quaker worship, would his odds improve? How much repentance and Quaker worship would it take???

The Execution of Major Hasan

Redundant but RantWoman is going to say it anyway: The world is justifiably outraged that the Secretary of #WarCrimes wants to livestream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the arguably severely mentally ill army psychiatrist responsible for a mass shooting at Fort Hood. (tagging #NDEAM)

RantWoman cannot imagine what it must have been like to be in his shoes trying to treat people responsible for terrible violence against his co-religionists and we are not even going near the wisdom of any war in the first place.

RantWoman is also moved by social media posts by trauma responders who patched him up in the middle of a mass casualty event when no one knew who was who. RantWoman admires the standard of "that's what we do."

Most of all, Mr. Hasan cannot be allowed to become a martyr. The US already has more than enough enemies in the Muslim world and only really SICK people want our very own US version of beheading videos!

Oh No. No Russian bots for the midterms and other forms of Cyberwar

 #Yandex #Russia #Ukraine #Cyberwar #HybridWarfare

Will the Russian bots be back online in time for the US midterms? Who else has bots cranking out disinformation?

And who is behind the attack on French refrigerators?

Large question: who needs nukes to cause havoc when we have hybrid warfare?

Strike On Russian Data Center Leads To Massive Drop In ‘Bot’ Traffic

is it really bots or general Yandex performance issues after Ukraine hits?

More #SCsen debates please?

 #SCsen #China #AI #DataCenters #Wind #Solar #DrillBabyDrill #GasPrices #Nuclear #Regulation

Random snarky comments before attempting to digest nuance:

Libertarians are always good for keeping a conversation out of some possible ruts.

Shout out to Sen. Graham for celebrating the fact that all three people on the stage including the Libertarian are women.

RantWoman promises to find some male candidates whose hair merits opining but does want to observe that all the candidates looked professional. RantWoman especially appreciates that Sen. Graham seems to have gotten a bit of a makeover about both hair and glasses. As an aside, RantWoman will be happy to narrate an exhaustive description of her own visual experience and how with 3X magnification and a 27" monitor she is in a position to comment on people's hair.

RantWoman was not fully tracking the context when Sen. Graham exclaimed "My husband imports toy guns from China." REALLY? Get 'em started early with gun violence training." MAYBE RantWoman will revisit the context.

South Carolina Senate Debate on Iran

Concise Clip about the war on Iran. Senator Graham appears to have drunk the Koolaid being poured out by President #StableGenius and the Secretary of #WarCrimes. Iran was abiding by the #JCPOA until #DonSnoreleone tore up the agreement.

God knows: there is probably no point in trying to insert comments about nuclear deterrence or a global nonproliferation regime into debate time limits. Plus, there are plenty of active wars just now, none of which, THANK HEAVEN, have involved actual nuclear weapons.

This is an interesting presentation of additional commentary intercut with the other candidates' questions. RantWoman did not have a great experience with the audio but is linking it here just as an artifact.

SC U.S Senate Debate - The 4th Candidate

Pyotr Kurzin conversation with historian Tina Fordham

 #Russia #Ukraine #DieselDeal #GreatPower #SpheresOfInfluence

What the Ship--vessel hits and disinfo

 #StraitOfHormuz #Iran #BabAlMandab

Always Check multiple sources and don't automatically trust #AI