>hypersonic missiles
not Chinese are they?
The term “Slava Ukraine”, which translates to “Glory to Ukraine” and has become a slogan for the fight against Russia, was beamed onto the Georgian parliamentary building this evening, images on social media have shown.
The country, which shares a border with southwestern Russia, has been rocked by fierce protests in the last few days over the ruling party Georgian Dream’s attempt to push through a draft legislation that the US described as “Kremlin inspired”.
The bill looked to scrutinise foreign investment into local media and non-governmental organisations, both of which are predominantly anti-Georgian Dream. The legislation was seen as an attempt to curb freedoms of expression and crack down on public dissent.
Two days of protests, in which citizens have fought with riot police while the streets have been awash with tear gas and the spray from water hoses, have brought together pro-Western and pro-Ukrianian groups.
On Wednesday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed solidarity with the Georgian protesters.
>The bill looked to scrutinise foreign investment into local media and non-governmental organisations, both of which are predominantly anti-Georgian Dream.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Dream
Like many parties of power, Georgian Dream lacks a clear ideology. The reasons that were given for this range from the party's history as an all-encompassing front of people opposed to the UNM government to the standard opportunism associated with such parties. Levan Lortkipanidze, a political science student at Tbilisi State University, described it as "a party of nomenclature, public servants, 'intelligentsia', medium and large businessmen, and technocrats – a party, which is held together through loyalty to its charismatic leader and the opposition to the government of the 'Rose Revolution.'"
The party self-identifies as social democratic and names the creation of a welfare state as an objective. According to the Georgian Institute of Politics, Georgian Dream's economic policy comprises a combination of the pre-existing free market model, created by their predecessors, with a comprehensive centre-left safety net. The introduction of universal healthcare and insurance systems are often cited as the most successful policies implemented by the Georgian Dream. Nevertheless, it has been reported that a number of left-wing activists view the party as "ideologically amorphous". The Georgian Dream is registered as an observer with the Party of European Socialists.
>Rose Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Revolution
The Rose Revolution or Revolution of Roses was a nonviolent change of power that occurred in Georgia in November 2003. The event was brought about by widespread protests over the disputed parliamentary elections and culminated in the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze, which marked the end of the Soviet era leadership in the country. The revolution derives its name from the climactic moment, when demonstrators led by Mikheil Saakashvili stormed the Parliament session with red roses in hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Adjara
The Genoese established one of their Black Sea trading "factories" at the fortified town of Gonio
>Genoese Black Sea trading "factories"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe
Genoa, along with Venice, dominated the trade in the Eastern Mediterranean beginning in the 12th century, and in the Black Sea beginning in the 13th century. They sold both Baltic and Slavic slaves, as well as Armenians, Circassians, Georgians, Turks and other ethnic groups of the Black Sea and Caucasus, to the Muslim nations of the Middle East.[18] Genoa primarily managed the slave trade from Crimea to Mamluk Egypt, until the 13th century, when increasing Venetian control over the Eastern Mediterranean allowed Venice to dominate that market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoese_colonies
The Genoese colonies were a series of economic and trade posts in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Some of them had been established directly under the patronage of the republican authorities to support the economy of the local merchants (especially after privileges obtained during the Crusades), while others originated as feudal possessions of Genoese nobles, or had been founded by powerful private institutions, such as the Bank of Saint George.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saqaliba
Saqaliba is a term used in medieval Arabic sources to refer to Slavs and other peoples of Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe, or in a broad sense to European slaves.
>Genoa primarily managed the slave trade from Crimea
>Bank of Saint George
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Saint_George
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodosia
The city was founded as Theodosia by Greek colonists from Miletos in the 6th century BC. Noted for its rich agricultural lands, on which its trade depended, the city was destroyed by the Huns in the 4th century AD.
Theodosia remained a minor village for much of the next nine hundred years. It was at times part of the sphere of influence of the Khazars and of the Byzantine Empire.
Like the rest of Crimea, this place (village) fell under the domination of the Kipchaks and was conquered by the Mongols in the 1230s.
In the late 13th century, traders from the Republic of Genoa arrived and purchased the city from the ruling Golden Horde. They established a flourishing trading settlement called Kaffa, which virtually monopolized trade in the Black Sea region and served as a major port and administrative center for the Genoese settlements around the Sea. It came to house one of Europe's biggest slave markets.
I was worried I would end up in a body bag, or a ‘car accident’
I realized the spirit of fear is not from the Lord
We all need to learn to not be fearful
>Kevin McCarthy said that he intends to make the nearly 50,000 hours of Capitol riot footage gathered by security cameras on January 6 available to the public.
“There has been no evidence to date that this illness, whatever it’s caused by, is spread easily from person to person,” said Dr. Tam, who added that no health care workers caring for the patients have become ill – a positive sign.
You cannot have a state-sponsored system targeting ‘disinformation’ without striking at the essence of the right to free speech.
what the hell did I just smoke
Reefer Sutherland
How many years has this been now?
Kathy Griffin took to Instagram to slam MAGA and Qanan supporters over the burgeoning Jeffrey Epstein rumors against her.
Due to Earth's rotation it has the shape of an ellipsoid, bulging at its Equator, reaching 43 kilometers (27 mi) further out from its center of mass than at its poles.
https://www.instagram.com/thatdaneshguy/
https://www.tiktok.com/@thatdaneshguy
classic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybele
she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest neolithic at Çatalhöyük, where statues of plump women, sometimes sitting, accompanied by lionesses, have been found in excavations
The Valesians were a Christian sect that advocated self-castration. The sect was founded by Valens of Bacetha Metrocomia, an Arabian philosopher who established the sect sometime in the second century AD. They were notorious for forcibly castrating travelers whom they encountered and guests who visited them.
By the words of Anthony the Great: "Here comes the time, when people will behave like madmen, and if they see anybody who does not behave like that, they will rebel against him and say: 'You are mad', — because he is not like them."[5]
Blessed are those who endure in peace.
Woe to those who die in mortal sin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custody_of_the_Holy_Land
'The Custody of the Holy Land' is a custodian priory of the Order of Friars Minor in Jerusalem, founded as the Province of the Holy Land in 1217 by Saint Francis of Assisi, who had also founded the Franciscan Order. The Franciscans were declared by two papal bulls as the official custodians of the Holy Places in the name of the Catholic Church.
hyper unconscious
To be made to blush and to be tortured are not the same thing.
If we entreat for lesser sins we are granted pardon, but for greater sins, it is difficult to obtain our request.