After the Pro-Europe government resigned, the protests continue, being led, allegedly, by Russian operatives. The Pro-Russian Shor party appears to be leading the protests. They currently only hold 6 seats in Moldova’s legislature. The current President, , is being called a dictator in the protests that allege they want government subsidies for their energy bills and an avoidance of war.
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Just a few months after an earthquake struck Turkey, leaving tens of thousands dead and critical infrastructure in tatters, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced plans to hold national elections in May, presumably because among the chaos of the moment he can more easily “win,” by hook or by crook.
The Biden administration could tell them a thing or two about exploiting upheaval to “win” elections.
Erdogan said of his decision “This nation will do what is necessary on May 14, God willing. We will build better buildings in place of those which collapsed. We will win hearts and we will unroll a new future in front of our people.”
Researchers at UK’s University of Cambridge believe they can create a class of Covid-19 killer drugs using a gene-cutting technology that could use artificial enzymes to surgically cut the virus’ RNA genome.
From Scientific American:
Popular CRISPR gene-editing tools can also target RNA, but the human immune system sometimes reacts poorly to the bacterial enzymes used. XNAzymes are not found in nature, making them less likely to trigger an immune system attack. They also don’t rely on co-opting extra components from within the cell; this might reduce side effects. “All contemporary RNA treatments make use of cellular machinery,” says biomedical engineer Roy van der Meel of Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, who was not involved in the new research. “This is a pair of stand-alone scissors.”
The breakthrough promises to threaten the use of Covid-19 as another round of lockdowns and vaccine mandates, so critics are skeptical of any effective follow-up to these initial findings.
A team of scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign published a paper in Cell Reports Physical Science that claims they have figured out a way to create micro-scaled batteries without losing energy and power that is typical of current micro-batteries and designs. The team developed a new packaging design that eliminates much of the loss of power and energy of other designs, and they improved the overall performance of the battery by using much more dense electrodes than in previous designs.
A passenger train collided with a freight train about 80 miles outside of Thessaloniki. The collision has left at least 85 injured and 32 dead, figures that are expected to go up as the work continues to find survivors. The crash occurred February 28, 203.
After the U.S. Energy Department declared the Covid-19 virus came from a Wuhan Lab leak, now the FBI Director, Christopher Wray is ready to join in that assertion. This follows years of blacklisting of Americans who shared the same belief, and censorship of this assumption on DNC-CCP-run social media platforms and in DNC-CCP allied newsrooms.
As thoughtful Americans investigated the Covid-19 virus, they discovered evidence the virus was a man-made virus leaked from China’s Wuhan Lab. Corporate America decided to use its culture-making power to destroy the lives of those who made such a claim, cancelling them from their jobs, cancelling them from social media, and assuring the corporate-owned DNC-CCP media continued to demonize dissent from the party narrative. Now, as China rises in power and the DNC-CCP contemplates its relationship with the CCP, Team Biden is ready to embrace the truth that the virus WAS a man-made virus released from China’s Wuhan Lab.
It is the nature of a frenemy relationship in which both sides depend on the other for some of their tyrant-making powers at home against their own people, that each gives the other assistance even as it seeks to undermine what power could be used to tip the advantage in their frenemy’s favor. Even as Team Biden continues to support China’s spy apps like TikTok to permeate our homes and influence our children, they are also hoping leaning into convenient truth could check some of China’s credibility overseas, especially in Africa, where the U.S. and the West is falling behind China’s grifting of her new African colonies.
Near the end of World War 2, the Soviet Union was searching for a new rifle. While the country was very happy with the venerable 7.62x54mmR (Rimmed) cartridge (dating from the 1880’s), its primary service rifle – the Mosin-Nagant – was long past its due date. The Mosin was, and is, a terrible rifle. Its one major positive, was that the Soviet state arms factories had been producing it for so long, they could (figuratively) make the rifles in their sleep. The 7.62x54R was, and remains, a fantastic cartridge for machine guns, as well as for sniper weapons, but as a general-issue cartridge for infantry weapons, there are serious issues that run against the cartridge, as the Soviets discovered to their regret.
The solution presented itself in the form of the M43 cartridge. The M43 – developed in 1943 – was formally adopted in 1945, for use in the SKS rifle. But the SKS, although a perfectly fine weapon, was on the tail end of technical developments, much like the Western FN-49 rifle. The Soviets had found that as war had changed, so too did tactics need to evolve as well. We touched on these tactical concerns recently, but a short review is warranted.
In their fight-back against Nazi Germany, the Soviets had learned that massed, fully automatic firepower from the infantry, assaulting alongside tanks, was one of the main keys to victory. This was especially true in assaulting into urban areas, where suppressive fire, delivered in close concert with the infantry, was vital to success. In these tight, fast-moving combat environments, long, cumbersome and slow-firing weapons like the Mosin (even in its shorter cavalry carbine version) were simply incapable of getting the tasks done.
The Soviet solution was deploying massive numbers (YouTube link) of submachine guns. This, however, was only a stopgap solution, as almost all SMG’s fire pistol caliber only. Even when using a longer barrel than a handgun, this significantly restricted the range of the weapons, forcing Soviet infantry to not fire until almost at point-blank range. And after that, if ranges suddenly opened back up, SMG-armed troops were immediately thrust back into a severe range disadvantage.
The solution to this problem was not a smaller weapon, but a carbine-class cartridge – and hence, the M43 was born. Fired from a 14- to 16-inch barrel, the M43 is accurate to 300-400 meters.
As noted above, although the SKS was – and is – an excellent carbine, it is severely limited by its fixed, 10-round magazine. A different weapon was required, a weapon that could feed its ammunition through a detachable magazine, similarly to an SMG, and with a similar ammunition capacity, of preferably in the range of thirty rounds. It needed to be selective-fire (capable of firing either single shots, for accurate fire, or emptying its contents in bursts, in the assault), and it needed to be compact, to fit in tight confines in vehicles, and when maneuvering through trenches and urban areas.
The Soviets had faced the German StG-44 – the first true “assault rifle” – on the Eastern Front, and it fit the requirements for their new weapon. Although certain quarters still try to insist that what became the AK47 is a copy of the StG-44, nothing could be further from the truth. Aside from a superficial resemblance on the outside, the AK47 and the StG-44 are completely different weapons under the skin.
Which brings us to Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Although the story has almost certainly been embellished over the decades, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (1919-2013) had grown up tinkering, as so many inventors do, with anything mechanical. But his “grease monkey” side was balanced with his love of poetry; he would go on to publish six books of poems over the years. In 1938, Kalashnikov was conscripted into the Red Army, where his engineering skills had him first assigned as a tank mechanic, and then a tank commander. When Nazi Germany turned on Stalinist Russia, Kalashnikov commanded his T-34 tank in several battles, before being seriously wounded at the Battle of Bryansk in October of 1941.
While recuperating in the hospital, Kalashnikov began designing small arms in earnest. His design for a submachine gun was rejected in 1942, but was seen as good enough to warrant assigning him to the Central Scientific-developmental Firing Range for Rifle Firearms of the Chief Artillery Directorate of the Red Army.
Over time, his design would evolve, eventually being adopted as the AK-47 (Avtomat Kalashnikova, model 1947).
Comparatively light in weight and relatively cheap (especially after a stamping process was developed for the receivers), the AK47 was also more reliable than most of its Western competitors, and was a very easy weapon to learn. If the stock version of the AK47 has a major fault, it is the rifle’s “iron” (or, “manual”) sights, which – while usable – need real improvement. In this regard, however, it is no worse than most of the rifles and carbines that preceded it.
Once the design was perfected, the Soviet Union began producing them on a gargantuan scale. Factoring in licensing to non-Soviet manufacturers, a 2007 study (pdf link) estimated that, of the c.500million firearms in circulation in the world, approximately 100million are AK-variant weapons, with some ~75million being AK47’s.
AK47s are, quite literally, everywhere: in every conflict zone in the world – actual or potential – a person is guaranteed to run across an AK-variant rifle. The weapon is so ubiquitous, it is a central feature on national flags and emblems from Mozambique and Zimbabwe, to East Timor, in the Pacific Ocean.
The only significant version to see widespread service to date is the AK74. Entering service in 1974, the AK74 is chambered for the 5.45x39mm cartridge. This caliber was chosen as a result of studies of infantry combat during the Vietnam War (1946-1975), where the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong guerillas battled with French and US forces, the latter of whom deployed the M-16, in 5.56x54mm. While sharing the simplicity and reliability of its older sibling, the –74 is merely different – “good different,” to be sure, but only that. The later Kalashnikov variants have never surpassed the older rifle in popularity, reinforcing the rubric, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”
For good or for ill, Kalashnikov rifles have battled across the globe for over 75 years, and are not likely to disappear within the lifetimes of the readers of this article. Anyone who thinks that they may encounter a Kalashnikov model at some point, would do well to find a manual – if not an actual weapon – and learn how to employ it.
One never knows when that kind of information might come in handy.
In the intelligence world, one of the key disciplines is communicating information securely. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is, albeit for different reasons. Since the invention of radio communication – or “wireless telegraphy,” if you prefer – has been the Numbers Station.
To understand what a numbers station (One-Way Voice Link, or OWVL), is the technical term) is, we briefly have to discuss cryptography.
In its simplest form, cryptography is the art of making and breaking codes. Over the course of human history, many states and leaders have come up with various, often ingenious, codes and ciphers, as well as the means to both break them and manipulate them. Sir Francis Walsingham, official spymaster for the first Queen Elizabeth, was responsible (among many other things) for the interception and breaking of the ciphers used by Mary, Queen of Scots – an intelligence operation that resulted in that monarch’s execution. Likewise, the “polyalphabetic substitution cipher”, invented by an Italian cryptographer named Giovan Battista Bellaso in 1553 (better known as the Vigenère cipher), was so strong, it remained unbroken until 1863. There are many other systems – ancient, new and unique – but all share the same fundamental flaw: Key Distribution.
In cryptography, encipherment and decipherment are relatively easy, but only if both sender and receiver share the code – and written codes, as proved by Walsingham – can be intercepted, opening messages’ secrets that could and did lead to war, death and betrayal.
Heavy stuff.
The goal of key distribution was only solved – for a time, at least – by the invention of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) in the 1990’s…but that’s for another time.
But the problem, ‘back in the day’, seemed insurmountable: in order to decipher a message, the receiver required a copy of the code, a serious problem if a considerable distance separated sender and receiver. The Vigenère cipher, however, significantly reduced that problem through what we would now call “keywords”. Still, as was proven in 1854 by English mathematician and scientist Charles Babbage, Prussian army Major Friedrich Wilhelm Kasiski in 1863, and by American engineer William F. Friedman in the 1920’s, the Vigenère cipher model could, and was, breakable, via frequency analysis.
As early as World War 1, strange radio transmissions in the short-wave band began to be heard over the public airwaves. These stations transmitted signals in Morse Code, but the transmissions were not encoded. Instead, they were just strings of letters, numbers, and occasionally both. It quickly became apparent that these signals were almost certainly in a code of some kind, but no one – in public, at least – was able to decode the signals. They were resistant to frequency attacks, and seemed to be immune to proven forms of cryptanalytic attack.
This was the births of the One-Time Pad (OTP) and the Numbers Station.
First outlined in 1882 by the American banker Frank Miller, the OTP was reinvented in 1917, patented in the United States by Gilbert Vernam and Joseph Mauborgne (pdf link). In this coding system, random strings of letters or numbers (and sometimes both) were added or subtracted against a list of random numbers, to produce an enciphered message. The receiver – who would have a copy of the list of numbers – would, using their copy of the list – work in reverse, to reveal the message. Once received and decrypted, both sender and receiver would cross out the section of the numbers list they had used…and never use those exact sequences again.
And, up to this day, as long as the strict requirements of the system are followed, the messages are indecipherable, unless a decrypter has access to the key. (For a full discussion of the practical use of OTP’s, visit this PDF file).
What someone had realized was that an encoded signal did not have to go via telephone, telegraph or mail, all of which were open to interception. Instead, all a secret agent in the field needed, was a radio capable of picking up the Morse signals on the proper frequency, to receive a message. And, with the OTP, the agent’s “codebook” was shrunken to the size of a roll of postage stamps.
As time went on, wireless radio moved from Morse to verbal speech, helping to eliminate errors in transmission. National intelligence services constructed powerful shortwave transmission towers in areas they controlled around the world, and – in addition to the normal propaganda broadcasts and music they would play – would periodically pause, and transmit strings of letters and/or numbers at specific times of the day.
Counterintelligence officers found this highly frustrating, because there was no way to monitor who had a simple radio receiver. Capturing agents was usually through those agent’s mistakes, not through any kind of cunning technology.
And that is where things stand, to this day. Numbers stations transmit messages “in the clear,” and unless someone makes a mistake, there is no way to decipher the messages. No nation, incidentally, will openly admit to operating a numbers station, and will only rarely acknowledge their existence, as happened in the “Atención spy case”, where the bumbling of a group of agents from Fidel Castro’s Cuba rolled up a network of some twenty-seven agents, among many other operations.
There are civilian monitoring groups out on the internet for the interested sleuth, such as the Numbers Stations Research & Information Center, and PRIYOM.
…Just…please don’t get caught doing dumb things. If certain parties in government think you are up to no good, you won’t be able to catch our articles on time.
Priorities, you know.
There are growing cases mounting against the Chinese Communist Party Owned Social Media TikTok accusing the company of illegally spying on its users and giving private user date to third parties. Currently there are multiple cases across five states, with over twenty (and counting) states banning TikTok on government-owned devices.
The Biden administration continues to allow the dissemination of Chinese Communist Party software into the homes of millions of American children and adults, with little to no accountability and consideration of the basic duties of the Federal government, to defend the people from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
GOD IS ABSOLUTELY AGAINST THE PERVERSION OF SEX AND GENDER AND THE CELEBRATION OF THE SAME AS EQUALITY WHEN IN TRUTH IT IS JUST DISGUSTING- but President Biden stands for this and violently opposes God’s laws.
President Biden despises God’s laws. He raises his voice against and abuses his power in ways that oppress the righteous and celebrate evildoers whose sins are legion. Therefore, God despises Biden et al for the reprobate enemies of the Kingdom they all are.
Biden’s preachments and the pursuits of his policies stand behind the father of lies and will destroy this country unless the righteous are elevated and wicked people like Biden are removed from all power and influence in this country and within its institutions. His Sodomite agenda of alt-gendered perversion is an abomination that will destroy this country as surely as what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Sexual sin is deep spiritual transgression and rebellion against God, against nature, and yourself. Women wanting to have sex with women, men with men, and denial of the differences between men and women, which are part of God’s design for Creation, are equal to murder and other abominations in God’s eyes. Whether it is a man calling himself a woman, which God despises, or a married man cheating on his wife with another woman, sexual sin always means one has become an enemy of God.
We who follow Christ know that God’s law is supreme and no country whose laws offend the Lord and rebel against God’s standards of righteousness and justice will prosper and its people will suffer curses and wrath. Sex outside a man and woman married for life is a sin and laws must always tend toward punishing evildoers and protecting the innocent and righteous from harm.
When I argue against outlawing deviations from God’s laws in matters of sex and marriage, it is not because I don’t think those things matter, it is because I feel that righteousness without a choice is not accounted to that person, only righteousness by choice and in honor of Christ is accounted to anyone. Given a realpolitik choice between laws that punish the righteous for not having any concourse with sin (e.g. “bake the cake!”) or laws that punish evildoers in sexual matters, even though I prefer choice, I would choose rather outlaw the sin than to outlaw the righteous, which is the choice we seem to be confronting.
It’s not popular to say, but this remains true, for God rules over the nations of people, over every person, and every country and government on this planet, all will be judged based on whether they pursue righteousness or not.
All of God’s law is truth and must inform every person, relationship, association, and even government on this planet, for one day, by God’s hand, this will be a reality. Ultimately, men and women of the ilk of Biden et al, who despise God’s laws and who look upon sinful evildoers treating them as saints, namely those who rebel against God’s laws in sexuality and marriage, will be damned forever.
It is my conviction that unless wicked vipers like Biden repent, they are damned, and the more they revel in iniquity the less likely they will be to have a chance to repent. As for making laws to “protect” and “include” people whose sexual behavior is an abomination before God, and who despise God’s admonition against trying to deny your gender, for a man being effeminate is a sin before God, this is a sign of judgment against this land which the righteous had better take heed of.
As far as I’m concerned, whoever says sexual sins are OK and that gender is a social construct is an enemy of God, and therefore I count them enemies of God’s People, enemies of myself. I love my enemies, as Christ commands, but I do understand they are my enemies. I do understand that such people deserve zero respect for their abominable beliefs and actions which are not equal to the range of beliefs that fall within God’s standards.
If you think being anything but a person whose sexuality is with the opposite sex only, contained within marriage for life, and/or that you or anyone can change their God-given gender and demand others recognize and applaud that, then you are an enemy of God unless and until you repent.
Biden applauds that and would probably consider me a domestic terrorist or seek to curtail my rights just for telling you the truth. But sex is sacred and marriage is a spiritual union that can only occur between a man and woman, who are married for life.
I’m not sure what Biden et al think God’s design and purpose of government is, they love talking about democracy and equality, but they don’t understand what it really is. God’s purpose and design for government primarily is to punish evildoers. It is to keep the land pure and clean of all wickedness. It is to protect the innocent and the righteous from all hazards and harm to their well-being, to their spiritual sovereignty as beings created in the image of God. We can argue it is also to secure the boundaries of habitation for all nations of people within their jurisdiction.
The government under our present leaders, most of whom are wicked and ungodly fools who pander to evildoers, especially sexual deviants and the alt-gendered, has become a vile abomination before God. It is an enemy of the Kingdom and wages war against the righteous in the name of the alleged “rights” of the wicked!
People have sinned and God offers redemption. If you were married before and remarried and now understand this, then let this be a marriage for life. If you have committed adultery or fornication or you have engaged in sex with someone of your sex and realize kow the sacredness of marriage and the marriage bed, then repent and let your future be ruled by Christ and not sin.
If you are angry and offended that I say swapping gender, sex between two people of the same sex, or sex at all outside a lifelong commitment to marriage, is sinful and God hates it, then so be it. Your side says awful things of people like me who hold similar views as I am sharing, so it’s not as if you abominable reprobates who hate righteousness and life evil are any better at tolerating others. You despise dignities and make war against the righteous, who you hate just as surely as you hate God.
The difference between me and these wicked abusers of power is that I don’t seek to deny your rights to find God’s truth and follow His laws in a strictly voluntary and non-coercive manner! I would not outlaw you or take away your choice or right to speak. I am secure and at peace with my beliefs and choices. You who would silence me and become so enraged as to either become violent or use the violence of the state to punish me are behaving in a predictably reprehensible manner, which further alienates you from God and His People.
Like St. Stephen, I will preach the truth even if it makes you want to literally gnash your teeth on me in a fit of demonic rage.
They say the alt-gendered and Sodomites are suicidal because people like me will never accept them and their ways and because we call these something a sin and an abomination. The question is always, “what is right and true?” Righteousness, not “inclusiveness” for reprobates, exalts a nation. I accept people as people, knowing all without Christ are sinners and that, without Christ, I too would be an enemy of God, so I am no better.
Biden’s “lgbtq+ etcetera” agenda is a false rainbow perversion like unto Ahab and Jezebel and as long as Americans either support or refuse to defy this “agenda of Sodom”, then this country is in danger of destruction.
Our leaders, Biden et al, follow an ideology that is based on the doctrines of demons and has no place in a decent society. President Biden is an abomination and he is damned for his abuse of power. Biden et al are against God’s laws and God’s People, therefore God is against them.
