Allie Beth Stuckey@conservmillen

Here is a thread of my bestimpressions of the Sophisticated Online Evangelicals who pretend they’re nuanced but are actually just embarrassed that conservative Christians aren’t more worldly.. Let me know how I do.

1:11 PM · Apr 9, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

“Yes, Ketanji Brown Jackson has a history of going easy on men who distribute images of child rape and will make decisions that will lead to more baby murder & less religious liberty, but here’s why Christians should be celebrating —imbetterthanyou.substack”

“How Biden’s support of child genital mutilation, open borders, & late term abortion are holistically pro-life. A thread. 1/72687”

“Teachers are having secret conversations with kindergarteners about sex and gender switching, which then leads to lifelong distress & genital mutilation, but calling those teachers “groomers” is a bridge too far.”

“Many on the Christian Right point out that progressivism is our biggest threat, since every institution - government, tech, academia, corporations - are dominated by this anti-God ideology. But here’s what a pastor of a small church in Gatlinburg, Tennessee said this weekend—>”

“I reject CRT, and I’m not a Marxist. I just accept that systemic racism is a fact and that the only solution to it is the forced redistribution of property and power. Atlantic. com/thechristiancaseforpunishingwhitepeopleforslavery”

“Latest from me: the Biblical case for rioting, arson, and murder in the name of racial justice. In other news, I covet your prayers as I prepare for my 35th podcast episode about why January 6th was the worst day in world history.”

“White evangelicals talk a lot about big bad abortion. But besides donating their time, money, and energy to crisis pregnancy centers and advocating for pro-life legislation, they’re not doing much to fix the problem. My latest: newyorktimes .com/voteforabortiontoendabortion”

There are so many more. But I’m tired. This was a lot of emotional labor

https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1512840658322657289?s=20&t=zwyBtnvRRhD6g96K8af_Mg

>>16055319 Defense firms should hire Ukrainian, Afghan refugees, Navy’s top admiral urges

While were looking elsewhere, it seems the military has been infiltrated and comped for at least 20-30 years, for a top admiral to even whisper or think this, sounds like just treason to me by asking defense contractors to hire to hire refugees from terrorist ridden countries, this is just asking for more spies in our country getting military secrets.

Something is miserably wrong with the upper management of the military, and Austin guaranteed doesn't know anything about it. He pretty much admitted to Gaetz he wasn't aware of the perverse things they are teaching in military schools last week.

Russia's Ukraine Invasion Has Escalated a Brewing Battle over Space

WASHINGTON — A 57-second video posted by the Russian government last month caught the attention of scientists and diplomats, but not in a way that inspired optimism about the future of global cooperation in outer space.

In it, Russian cosmonauts floated about the International Space Station, hugging and waving goodbye to an American astronaut. Then they entered their portion of the complex and sealed airlock doors behind them. With the video blasting a Russian song, "Farewell," CGI took over and depicted the cosmonaut's segment detaching from the station and drifting away (to the applause of Russian ground controllers).

The dark yet jaunty satirical video, depicting what would be the certain demise of the station, presaged more serious threats to an endeavor that has come to symbolize post-Cold War cooperation in space.

It is also a further sign that friction with the Kremlin, most recently aggravated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has seeped into space, exacerbating tensions over the rules of behavior there and halting negotiations over space weapons at a time when the battlegrounds of war are moving to the edges of Earth's atmosphere.

"The whole world is sort of readjusting to this whole notion of not just competition, but possible and even unintentional confrontation with other big powers" over how they use space, said Jessica West, a senior researcher with Project Ploughshares, a peace research group based in Canada.

Space has long been a barometer of the U.S.-Russia relationship. Cold War competition pushed Moscow and Washington toward new human feats in the 1960s, including the U.S. moon landing in 1969. Anxiety over President Reagan's "Star Wars" defensive weapons program drove arms negotiations in the 1980s that presaged the end of the Soviet Union.

The 1998 space station agreement — which also includes the European Union, Japan and Canada — signaled a new era of shared advancement in the post-Cold War period. For more than two decades, the jointly operated station has been spinning around Earth.

That space détente was waning long before Russia invaded Ukraine in February, and the U.S. and its allies targeted Moscow's space industry in a raft of economic sanctions. For two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pushed for an aggressive expansion of his country's space weapons program.

American officials have alleged, starting in 2009, that the Kremlin was developing anti-satellite missiles and more recently an anti-satellite mobile laser.

Russia launched what it described as an inspector satellite in 2017, prompting deep skepticism from American officials over what they labeled the craft's "abnormal behavior," suggesting it may also have a military use. Two years later, Russia placed a satellite within close range of a U.S. spy satellite, prompting concerns of an unintentional confrontation between the two military powers.

In November, Russia tested a missile that struck a satellite and blasted it into more than 1,500 large pieces of debris, any chunk of which could doom manned and unmanned commercial and military spacecraft, including the crew of the space station, which was forced to take shelter.

The new military branch is one of his few legacies that Biden has embraced, with the White House submitting a recent budget request of $24.5 billion for the Space Force, a bump of about 40% over the prior year. That's almost as much as the $26 billion Biden requested for NASA, which predates Space Force by more than 60 years.

Those lingering tensions have complicated attempts to rewrite international rules on space debris, and the invasion of Ukraine has led U.S. officials to put on ice any direct talks between Washington and Moscow over space-related issues…..

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/11/russias-ukraine-invasion-has-escalated-brewing-battle-over-space.html

Coast Guard Sends Back to Haiti Nearly 90 Migrants — Including Children — Rescued at Sea

11 Apr 2022

Miami Herald | By Omar Rodríguez Ortiz

A U.S. Coast Guard video shows Key West crews returning nearly 90 migrants to Haiti on Sunday, according to the military branch.

At least four children wearing orange life jackets — including an infant in a baby car seat — are seen on video being escorted from the Coast Guard Cutter Thetis to a Haitian boat.

The youths are part of a group of 88 migrants that were repatriated after being detained Tuesday approximately 18 miles north of Sagua La Grande, Cuba, the Coast Guard announced in a news release. They were all found in good health, the military branch reported.

A Coast Guard airplane crew alerted Key West staff of a "grossly overloaded vessel," according to the agency. When the crew arrived on scene, they reported the boat also was taking on water.

According to the Coast Guard, there were 62 male and 26 female migrants on the vessel. The military branch did not say how many of them were minors.

"We ask families in the U.S. not to encourage their loved ones in Haiti to make this dangerous journey," said Lt. Connor Ives, Coast Guard District Seven enforcement officer. "The risk for loss of life is great on these unsafe vessels."

The Coast Guard tallies the number of migrants detained by fiscal year, which begins in October and ends in September of the next year. Since Oct. 1 of last year, the military branch has detained 3,060 Haitian migrants, a nearly 51% increase compared to the last fiscal year when 1,527 were detained.

Here are the number of Haitian migrants detained by the Coast Guard in recent fiscal years:

•1,527 Haitian migrants in Fiscal Year 2021

•418 Haitian migrants in Fiscal Year 2020

•932 Haitian migrants in Fiscal Year 2019

•609 Haitian migrants in Fiscal Year 2018

•419 Haitian migrants in Fiscal Year 2017

On March 11, nearly 200 migrants were returned to Haiti by the Coast Guard after their overloaded sailboat ran aground behind a wealthy North Key Largo resort in the Upper Florida Key.

__https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/11/coast-guard-sends-back-haiti-nearly-90-migrants-including-children-rescued-sea.html____

Air Force Ramps Up Spending on Next-Generation Stealth Bomber

8 Apr 2022

Military.com | By Jonathan Lehrfeld

The Air Force awarded a $108 million deal Wednesday to a defense contractor to start acquiring parts for the B-21 Raider program – the upcoming fleet of long-range strike bombers that will soon consume a major portion of the service's budget.

The B-21 Raider project is projected to cost the Air Force $5 billion next year, including $3.25 billion for research and development. That's the largest aircraft research project the Air Force has in the works, and a significant portion of its roughly $169.5 billion proposed budget for fiscal 2023.

Most details about the program are shielded by a thick layer of classification as the Pentagon works to ensure the bombers and their advanced stealth capabilities can surprise potential foes, with only general details about production and cost publicly revealed as part of the budgeting process.

In total, at least 100 of the B-21 aircraft are scheduled to be produced. They are expected to be operational by the mid-2020s and will be capable of carrying conventional and nuclear munitions.

The first six B-21s are being manufactured now at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks visited the production line April 7, the day after the procurement deal was announced.

With funding secured to purchase advanced equipment and materials, defense contractor Northrop Grumman may accelerate production of the newest class of stealth bombers.

"The B-21 Raider program is foundational to the Air Force's operational imperative for an effective, long-range strike family of systems to guarantee our ability to strike any target, anytime, anywhere, even in the most contested environment," said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown in a statement released to coincide with the announcement of the new contract.

Once completed, the aircraft will likely be stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, the Raiders' first main operating base. Both Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, and Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, are also expected to become main operating bases.

The B-21 Raider is named after the Doolittle Raiders, the airmen known for conducting the first air raid against the Japanese during World War II. The aircraft will eventually replace older generations of long-range bombers including the B-1B Lancer, the B-2 Spirit and potentially the B-52 Stratofortress.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/08/air-force-ramps-spending-next-generation-stealth-bomber.html

Navy Offers $25,000 to All Recruits to Ship Out Quickly

The Navy announced Thursday that it is offering a $25,000 signing bonus to recruits for any rate as long as they are willing to ship off to boot camp before summer.

The sea service, in a press release, said the bonus applies to "anyone who enlists Active Duty" and is willing to start boot camp between April and June of this year.

"The Navy is the only U.S. military branch currently offering this high of an enlistment bonus for any new enlistee," the service boasted.

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The press release adds that the bonus will stack with other recruitment incentives that target specific specialties. As a result, "the enlistment bonus could be as high as $50,000," the service said.

Navy recruits who have recently signed up but aren't shipping out until the July to September time frame can opt to move up their departure and cash in as well.

A recent Rand Corp. study showed that, while the pandemic (really it was the vaccine requirement and the woke BS in the military) made it harder for the military services to recruit new personnel, the Army, Navy and Air Force all managed to increase the number of troops in their ranks in 2020 compared to the year before.

In 2021, the Air Force said it hit its recruiting targets for the first time in five years.

Despite that data, the Navy is joining the Army in offering eye-widening sums of money to get new recruits. Its offer comes just days after the Navy said in its latest budget request to Congress that it expects to see a decrease in active-duty personnel over the next five years.

According to documents released at the end of March, the Navy, which currently has just under 347,000 sailors, anticipates having 340,900 by fiscal 2026. In last year's budget, the service told Congress it expected to have 345,700 sailors by that time.

Those same documents also predicted a significant dip in reserve numbers over the next several years. The Navy told lawmakers it expects to have about 10,000 fewer sailors in the reserves over the next three years, compared with last year's estimates.

In the Army's case, it started offering up to $50,000 in January, though its website notes that a recruit would need to combine several bonuses on offer for "shipping out quickly, having in-demand skills or following certain career paths" to hit that top figure.

Still, that is more than double what was allotted at the peak of the post-9/11 wars.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/08/navy-offers-25000-all-recruits-ship-out-quickly.html

Martyr, there is no limit to the insanity and stupidity of the these people, they can go much lower….

https://twitter.com/martyrmade/status/1513319523612516359?s=20&t=zwyBtnvRRhD6g96K8af_Mg

New Hunter Biden revelations raise counterintelligence questionsReally long article, this is only a portion. Why is Isikoff (a main Russiagate accuser) and Yahoo printing this now, not because of journalism, there is a motive behind this==?

Michael Isikoff and Zach Dorfman Mon, April 11, 2022, 5:00 AM·11 min read

………………………What emerged in his indictment and later trial and conviction in federal court was a revealing portrait of Chinese influence peddling that included allegations that Ho arranged to broker arms deals — including the sale of rocket and grenade launchers — to countries in war zones in Africa and the Middle East.

There was one noteworthy detail, however, about Ho’s global wheeling and dealing. During the same period that he was being pursued by the FBI for his role in the global bribery scheme, Ho and his boss, Ye Jianming, a billionaire oil tycoon with past ties to a front for the People’s Liberation Army, had entered into a business relationship with two members of the Biden family — President Biden’s son Hunter Biden and the president’s brother, James Biden.

As Yahoo News first reported, when Ho was arrested by agents at JFK, the first call he made was to James Biden. (The president’s brother later told the New York Times that he believed the call was intended for his nephew Hunter.) At the time, Ho’s connection to the Bidens was unclear.

The documents show that over a 14-month period in 2017 and 2018, a Chinese firm, CEFC China Energy, which was founded by Ye and whose nonprofit wing was run by Ho, paid $4.8 million to an investment vehicle controlled by Hunter Biden. During that same time frame, Hunter Biden’s firm transferred $1.4 million to James Biden’s consulting firm, according to bank records and a report released by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking minority member on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Moreover, in September 2017, just two months before the Chinese businessman’s arrest, Hunter Biden (who is a lawyer) signed a retainer agreement to represent Ho, according to emails found on his laptop and since authenticated by the Washington Post. Grassley separately obtained bank records showing $1 million was paid to Biden in March 2018 for the representation, although it is not clear what work, if any, he did for Ho. Court records of Ho’s criminal case show no indication that Biden or his law firm at the time, Boies Schiller Flexner, participated in Ho’s legal defense. (Among the questions that Yahoo News submitted to Mesires, the Bidens’ lawyer, were what work Hunter Biden did for the $1 million retainer and what work James Biden did for the $1.4 million paid to his consulting firm. He did not respond.)…

In the same conversation, Biden also talked about phone calls he had gotten from his father about media inquiries into his business affairs. And he complains that Ye, who he refers to as “my partner” and “the richest man in the world” had recently gone missing in China and he was unable to get in touch with him.

KekNone of the details about Hunter and James Biden’s business dealings with Chinese interests implicate President Biden in any wrongdoing. But the depth and breadth of the Bidens’ financial ties with Ho and Ye raise new questions as to whether they were targets of a Chinese influence operation that, separate and apart from an ongoing criminal probe into Hunter Biden for alleged tax fraud and potentially foreign lobbying violations, represents a counterintelligence threat.

“There’s no question that Chinese intelligence services look for every possible opportunity to get close to family members of high-ranking officials,” said Frank Figliuzzi, former chief of the FBI’s counterintelligence division. In the past, Figliuzzi had expressed skepticism about stories in conservative media about Hunter Biden.(we have seriously stupid FBI)

and of course they drag Trump into this

There’s “no doubt Hunter presents CI [counterintelligence] vulnerabilities,” says another former senior FBI official, who asked not to be identified by name discussing sensitive matters relating to the Bidens. But those issues received less scrutiny during the Trump years because Trump and his own family had multiple business interests with foreign governments, which he used his power as president to bolster.

“Trump and all the hangers-on were so bad that I think some legitimate questions about Hunter have been covered less rigorously than they should have been,” said the former official. Still, if Trump’s children such as Donald Trump Jr. or Eric Trump were doing the same things, “many more people would be howling.”….

https://news.yahoo.com/new-hunter-biden-revelations-raise-counter-intelligence-questions-090046438.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr