Note: President Roosevelt signed the original Lend-Lease Act [Click] on March 11th, 1941. Looking at the notes on actions taken, it seems that they gutted a bill that had already passed committee and inserted the Ukrainian Lend-Lease Act, then passed it by "Unanimous" Consent (so no need for a roll-call vote).
"Valeriy Simyonov, the chief safety engineer at Chernobyl, told The New York Times that Russian troops who took over the plant "came and did whatever they wanted" in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. He said the Russian military brought its own nuclear experts to the plant but their advice was not always taken.
For instance, Russian troops dug into toxic soil and camped out for weeks in the radioactive forest, The Times reported, adding there have not been confirmed cases of radiation sickness but that some health impacts of nuclear exposures can take years to appear.
In another instance, a Russian soldier picked up cobalt-60, a radioactive isotope, with his bare hands, The Times reported."
Just like Republicans. If they can't SEE it, it's not a threat.
Cobalt-60 shouldn't just be sitting around on a shelf or desk, even in tiny amounts. It should be encased in lead. And there were reports of acute radiation sickness among those who dug trenches in the Red Forest. Fog of war and all that; I am generally at least a little skeptical of New York Times reportage; more so of their opinion pieces.
HALLO!!! I have been trying for several hours to get into the blog. We got new iPhones yesterday and *BAM* I was somehow dropped from holding the keys and couldn't even get in to post and let you all know as much...!
It's nuts! I couldn't get in through phone or even my computer! Dang that guy at the phone store who thought he was helping me and synced my phone to my computer (which I did NOT want and haven't yet figured out how to undo).
Anyway, after multiple attempts, I finally got in through Chrome on my computer. Still not in through my phone, though, so unless I am home and on Chrome, I can't post and I can't fix anything.
The insane part is that even when I couldn't come here to post or delete, I was still allowed to get into the page where we post new threads and do anything I wanted. 🤷🏻♀️
US Senate approves Ukraine Lend-Lease Act [Click] Now in the House.
ReplyDeleteNote: President Roosevelt signed the original Lend-Lease Act [Click] on March 11th, 1941. Looking at the notes on actions taken, it seems that they gutted a bill that had already passed committee and inserted the Ukrainian Lend-Lease Act, then passed it by "Unanimous" Consent (so no need for a roll-call vote).
DeleteOh, and it looks like the bill that was gutted was introduced by John Cornyn (R-TX), so it looks like he introduced the lend-lease bill.
Deletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-soldiers-chernobyl-spent-month-060523418.html
ReplyDelete"Valeriy Simyonov, the chief safety engineer at Chernobyl, told The New York Times that Russian troops who took over the plant "came and did whatever they wanted" in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. He said the Russian military brought its own nuclear experts to the plant but their advice was not always taken.
For instance, Russian troops dug into toxic soil and camped out for weeks in the radioactive forest, The Times reported, adding there have not been confirmed cases of radiation sickness but that some health impacts of nuclear exposures can take years to appear.
In another instance, a Russian soldier picked up cobalt-60, a radioactive isotope, with his bare hands, The Times reported."
Just like Republicans. If they can't SEE it, it's not a threat.
Cobalt-60 shouldn't just be sitting around on a shelf or desk, even in tiny amounts. It should be encased in lead. And there were reports of acute radiation sickness among those who dug trenches in the Red Forest. Fog of war and all that; I am generally at least a little skeptical of New York Times reportage; more so of their opinion pieces.
DeleteBBC: Inside Chernobyl: We stole Russian fuel to prevent catastrophe [Click]
Delete‘Putin is killing civilians’: the train station where Russians are greeted with images of war [Click] “In Lithuania, Russians commuting to Kaliningrad come face-to-face with photographs of bombed Ukrainian cities and bloodied bodies”
ReplyDelete‘The Russians are trying to obliterate us. You think that we’d agree to half-measures now? [Click] “Ivan Fedorov, the exiled mayor of occupied Melitopol, says the battle for Donbas is also a fight for global security”
'Putin will be gone soon': Exiled Russian dissident Ilya Ponomarev • FRANCE 24 English [Click] Former member of the Douma, now in self-imposed exile.
ReplyDeleteHALLO!!! I have been trying for several hours to get into the blog. We got new iPhones yesterday and *BAM* I was somehow dropped from holding the keys and couldn't even get in to post and let you all know as much...!
ReplyDeleteIt's nuts! I couldn't get in through phone or even my computer! Dang that guy at the phone store who thought he was helping me and synced my phone to my computer (which I did NOT want and haven't yet figured out how to undo).
Anyway, after multiple attempts, I finally got in through Chrome on my computer. Still not in through my phone, though, so unless I am home and on Chrome, I can't post and I can't fix anything.
The insane part is that even when I couldn't come here to post or delete, I was still allowed to get into the page where we post new threads and do anything I wanted. 🤷🏻♀️