Monitoring the bear and WTF CIA

 #Russia #BalticRepublics #CIA #Europe #NATO #Article5 #HybridWarfare #StateTerror

#SabotageOperations #Intelligence #ClickbaitMediaBullshit #StoogesForRussia #Ukraine

RantWoman wondered about this entire news cycle when it first broke.

Adam smith on the proposal to sell weapons to China

 #AdamSmith #China #diplomacy #Iran #StraitOf Hormuz

Posted without comment.

Tanker War 2026

 #Iran #StraitOfHormuz #FreedomOf Navigation #BabElMandab #RedSea #piracy

Lots of technical numeric details: Oil is flowing but nowhere near prewar levels.

US escorts but attacks taking their toll. Prices of transit astronomical

impact of ban on US diesel exports. 

The administration had no idea how starting the war would affect vessel traffic

The #SecDef is not the only idiot in the picture. See Secretary Bessent blithe comment at the beginning of the video.

It's the whole system, not just any one thing.

And some points about VA as a STATE being a focus for troops right on the scene of the war.

More commentary about the USS Abrham Lincoln

 #Logistics #MEntal Health #NuclearEngineer

This pretty much speaks RantWoman's mind.

Sadako: statue due back in 2027

Something genuine, troll- and ad-free flows across RantWoman's screen often enough to persuade her to stay. Today via the Korematsu Institute, information about the preparation of the Sadako statue in a city park across a street from University Friends Meeting.

Enjoy!

Community to build new Sadako statue in Seattle by 2027 | Nichi Bei News

Also, please consider sending money

The Campaign | Sadako Renewal Proje

GOP candidates' lip service to getting out of the Iran war

 #Iran #ICE #GOP

quite the laundry list of tepid comments not even backed up by feeble tgestures

Family and Community in the 21st Century: how we care for each other: ONE interest group

 RantWoman is working at as much "homework" before Pacific NW quarterly meeting as can be managed.

The only interest group that has made it onto the online listing is one by two Friends with a leading to address Christian nationalism. Here is the declaration they want to seed group discernment.

Statement of Faith Toward a Shared Declaration

RantWoman is getting very good at trying to witness movement of God in ways that are not always obvious.

Case in point: The Secretary of War Crimes whose job is to protect Freedom of Religion not cram his religion down others' throats.

Enough said?