Month: March 2023

I call this one Crabby Crab. And it is very active. Caught him in his home. Maybe tomorrow will catch him running around?

The hole is actually big enough to easily put my hand in it. But… 🙂

Crabby Crab…

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Training of American military personnel at the Advanced Warfighting School of the US Marine Corps. The interactive map shows scenarios for the emergence of a crisis (conflict) in the Taiwan Strait…

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Ajman Beach Hotel…

Hmm…

Let us see what is said this trip. So far so good. A few hiccups, but nothing game changing and mostly idiocentric based on the hotel roots…

Very nice hotel from our perspective…

Fabulously perfect – Ajman Beach Hotel and WtR is back to enjoy life…

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Ajman is a pleasure to walk, day or night. It is a safe place, safe in all aspects and as long as you observe basic rules, all is good…

As it is Ramadan, the rule is, “Nobody eats during the day!” So you do not walk down the street at noon eating a chicken leg and drinking a soda. Capiche?

So we walked last night and it is perfect weather to see the sites…

Sveta and I walk all over Ajman and we do not stay to the tourist sections. We like to see the real countries we visit and tourist areas are not conductive to seeing that…

But we follow the rules…

Yes, we love Ajman…

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Explanation of vote by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia after UNSC vote on a draft resolution regarding the acts of sabotage at the Nord Stream pipeline

https://russiaun.ru/ru/news/270323_n

Mr.President,

I am afraid that after this vote the suspicion, who stands behind the sabotage at the Nord Stream, will but increase. Let me briefly remind of very basic facts in this regard. In plain view of the entire world, the United States and its allies did their best to preclude an objective international investigation regarding the blasts at the Nord Stream pipeline in September last year. First Washington make public threats at the highest level that they would blow up the pipe, then they scoffingly rejoiced at the news about the sabotage. In the meantime, mass media generated lots of speculations and very controversial and absurd (to say the least) versions who might have done it. All calls by Russia as an affected side to join the national investigations in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden, were turned down. All our written requests only received formal replies, this you had an opportunity to see with your own eyes. So here is my forecast. These so-called national investigations, where Russia takes no part, can go on for years. May I ask the representative of the United States what was so “predetermined” that he discovered in our draft resolution? You know the saying “a guilty conscience is never at ease”, don’t you? The United States routinely links this resolution to Ukraine, though not a single word about Ukraine was said in the document, and not only there.

When we raised the issue of an objective international investigation, the tactic of our American and European colleagues narrowed down to denying the involvement of the United States on the one hand and preventing a transparent and impartial inquiry into the circumstances of the sabotage on the other. The more evidence testifying to the involvement of Washington and its NATO allies came to surface, the more vocal the Western bloc was getting about alleged inexpediency of an international investigation.

What does this mean? One does not need to be a detective or an analyst to realize that the United States and the allies are covering up the tracks, i.a. by adding more speculations and absurd versions while refusing to comment on the unflattering facts that are revealed. If the United States was interested in establishing the facts and holding the guilty to account, then Washington would act differently.

Colleagues, this vote was a litmus test to show what world each of us is moving toward. Is it a world where international law is upheld and where there is accountability for attacks against international pipeline systems and other infrastructure? Or is it a world where there are states who can do whatever they like, who devise laws for everyone to follow while calling it a “rules-based order”, and who are never held accountable even for most reckless and dangerous actions? Today’s vote confirmed with all certainty that our former Western partners believe they can get away with anything. Also, today we saw a nasty manifestation of Western “silent conspiracy” in the Security Council, which prevents this body from fulfilling its duties.

Of course, we will draw our conclusions. We are convinced that more detailed facts are yet to be discovered, and that everyone who is complicit in the sabotage of the Nord Stream will be identified, as well as all details of this crime. This is inevitable.

Thank you.

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Right of reply:

Mr.President,

Before Mr.Hersh published his findings, I cannot recall any Russian officials say that the United States had been guilty of this tragedy. Such speculations started only after the publication by S.Hersh.

I would like to ask my US colleague. How can you comment on the words of his President J.Biden, who said, “We will put an end to these pipes” long before they were really put an end to?

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Second reply:

Mr.President,

My question was not about the article by Mr.Hersh that my American colleague has never read, though I strongly recommend that he does. I asked a direct question. How can you comment on the words of your President, who said openly, “We will put an end to Nord Stream”? This question I did not hear an answer to.

Thank you.

27 March 2023

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⚡️ Comment by Russian Ambassador to Portugal Mikhail Kamynin in connection with recent speculations in the Western media

🔗 The full text is available on the website of the Embassy

Main ideas:

🔹 Russia promotes family reunification as much as possible and is looking for channels to return children to their loved ones in Ukraine.

🔹 The real threat to food security is the restrictions of the West, aimed against one of the largest agricultural producers in the world, which is our country.

🔹 Moscow extended the “grain deal” for 60 days . But in case of its further non-extension, we will supply our grain to African countries free of charge.

🔹 Anti-Russian sanctions have a negative impact primarily on Western economies , whose GDP growth slowed down in 2022.

🔹 Due to the lack of control over weapons supplied to Ukraine , they may well fall into the hands of criminal and terrorist organizations.

Details of a Russian missile attack on the NATO command center in early March have emerged…

According to news, “Dozens of NATO officers” were killed in a “terrifying blow” from a Mach 12 missile. In all likelihood, we are talking about the defeat of the “shadow General Staff” of NATO in Ukraine. A secret underground bunker built at a depth of 400 feet (120 meters) housed several NATO officers and advisers. More than 300 people in total. To date, according to the portal, 40 people have been recovered from the rubble of the headquarters, but most of those who died under the rubble have not yet been found…

Looks to be true. The west went nuts saying Russia killed civillians and with that I hunted down the info of many dead NATO and yes they died in mass…

Thought they were safe deep in the ground hiding. NATO also keeps saying Russia does not have many missiles…

I guess thousands and thousands of hyper-sonics are not many? Russia has been producing weapons non stop for many years…

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Love them and wish I owned one and lived right here at Ajman…

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And sadly it has been going on since the very beginning of the USA…

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The EU threatens to impose new sanctions against Russia due to the installing Russian nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus, due to sever threats from Eu against Belarus…

Given that more sanctions than any country has ever had put on Russia, sanctions that are illegal and immoral, this is unlikely to have any effect on the process of deploying nuclear warheads and their carriers in Belarus…

Hey EU…

Sanction Yourselves somemore…

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