It’s A Virgin Birth!

Fatherless mice have been created in the lab using only unfertilised mouse eggs, in a move that could one day pave the way for creating one parent babies.

Virgin births, also known as parthenogenesis, have previously been seen naturally in birds, lizards, snakes, sharks, rays and other fish, but now scientists in China say they’ve achieved parthenogenesis in mice without any male genetic DNA.

Earlier endeavours in mammals have mostly been unsuccessful because of genomic imprinting, a process in which the parent of origin determines which copy of a gene is active.

Yanchang Wei and colleagues at Shanghai Jiao Tong University revealed that parthenogenesis is possible in mammals through a targeted technique that edits DNA methylation marks, which are chemical modifications that can change gene activity without altering the underlying DNA sequence.

The authors used the epigenetic rewriting approach to seven imprinting control regions in mouse oocytes, successfully altering DNA methylation in one copy of the gene but not the other.

The researchers said that the transfer of modified embryos into foster female mice then resulted in the generation of viable full-term offspring.

They wrote in their paper that following parthenogenetic activation, those edited regions displayed maintenance of methylation as inherently established regions during early preimplantation development, and it was said that the transfer of altered parthenogenetic embryos into foster mothers resulted in significantly extended development and finally into the generation of viable full-term offspring and that the data showed that parthenogenesis could be accomplished by targeted epigenetic rewriting of multiple critical imprinting control regions.

However, only one live offspring survived to adulthood, accentuating the necessity for further investigation and improvement of the technique used in an endeavour to enhance its success rate.

However, the outcomes indicate that parthenogenesis could be achieved in mammals through the chemical DNA modifications used by scientists.

According to the authors, the feasibility of parthenogenesis in mammals opens up possible avenues to agriculture, research and medicine.

Parthenogenesis is a technique that effectively forms clones of the parent since the embryo acquires genetic material from only one individual, and one of the most typical methods for this form of reproduction is for the egg to be fertilised by a still immature egg cell that acts almost like a sperm.

Usually, parthenogenesis occurs in lower plants and invertebrate animals like ants, wasps, or bees. However, it’s been noticed in some species like reptiles, fish and even birds who would typically reproduce sexually.

Some people will probably find this horrifying because this is meddling with nature, and it appears to be wrong on every level, and why would they want to do this? And I hate to spoil the narrative but most women actually do like men and children do need fathers.

Although some women’s experiences of men have sometimes proved otherwise. Some women are going their separate ways and feel that it’s easier to go it alone, and is it really what we really need now, more fatherless children?

And just because scientists can do this, doesn’t mean that they should do it, but of course, feminists will love this.

They should be leaving those mice alone and they should be leaving humankind alone, the world doesn’t need any more kinky fuckery with our DNA, and then madness should stop right now before these mad scientists create havoc.

Two parent-children must have evolved for a reason, but things are evolving all the time, some with good consequences, others with bad consequences, and will this be the extinction of men?

This is almost like Jurassic Park, the movie. Scientists were so obsessed with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Britain’s Energy Watchdog Urges Families To Turn Down The Heating By One Degree

Director of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol

The world’s energy watchdog has stated that families in Britain should turn down their heating by a degree to cut down Western reliance on Russian gas.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) said its ten-point plan would cut gas imports from Russia to the European Union by more than a third in the coming year.

On the Yamal peninsula in the Arctic Circle is the Bovanenkovo gas field, the source of liquid natural gas that Britain pays billions for

It said that the average thermostat in European buildings is set at 22C. By adjusting thermostats by 1C, the West would save about 10 billion cubic metres of gas within a year, if implemented alongside other measures including a windfall tax on fossil fuel companies.

Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, said that nobody was under any illusions anymore and that Russia’s use of its natural gas resources as an economic and political spear showed that Europe needed to act quickly to be ready to face considerable uncertainty over Russian gas supplies next winter.

The watchdog has also advised the West not to sign any new gas agreements with Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom, or to renew expiring contracts.

Its ten-point plan, published on Thursday, also proposes setting a minimum obligation on energy companies to store gas, speeding up the replacement of gas boilers with heat pumps, and seeking alternative gas supplies from elsewhere in the world.

Gas prices have skyrocketed to record levels in recent months after Vladimir Putin dramatically reduced supplies to Europe ahead of the invasion of Ukraine.

Barbara Pompili, minister for ecological transition for France, holder of the EU’s revolving presidency, said that more than ever, getting rid of Russian fossil fuels and of fossil fuels, in general, was essential and that what was at stake was both the need to accelerate the fight against climate change, and as they could now see, the short term energy security of the European continent.

The European Commission will use the IEA’s proposal to inform its own plan of action on energy in response to the war, to be published next week.

Kadri Simson, the EU’s energy commissioner, called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a watershed moment in the shift away from gas.

According to Unison, UK imports of Russian gas have doubled since 2018 and despite an embargo on Russian owned ships anchoring in British ports, two carrying it are expected to arrive at the Isle of Grain in Kent this weekend.

The most foolish thing that Britain did was to stop producing our own energy to use other country’s energy, now we’re paying the price for being stupid.

But let’s get to really where the blame lies. Our short-sighted government virtue signalling, telling the world how good we are at reducing our energy input, but of course, Boris Johnson and his eco wife won’t be affected by the cost as they get everything for almost nothing, and it’s extremely easy making decisions for other people when it doesn’t actually affect them.

And don’t they realise that numerous people already have their heating down as low as possible because of the price growth, and there are many people who can’t afford to turn their heating on at all. It’s amusing how people that have no money troubles can always find a way to make you sacrifice and suffer.

People are giving, while the government take, take, take, while MP’s give themself a pay rise and claim their energy bills on expenses while telling OAPs that the triple lock and a five pounds a week pay rise was unaffordable on a state pension of £9,000. What is it that George Orwell said? “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

Four Hours After A Man Stole A Car, A Baby Boy Is Found

An 11-month-old baby boy who was missing for almost four hours in Melbourne’s south after a man robbed an automobile with the infant sitting inside has been found safe and well.

The baby had been inside the rear of a white 2013 Toyota Rav 4 before it was stolen from Putt Grove in Keysborough at 2.10 pm on Tuesday.

Police say the child’s mother had briefly left the car while leaving the engine running before an unidentified man hopped into the driver’s seat and took off with the baby still on board.

The baby and the Toyota were subsequently discovered in Cranbourne at approximately 5.40 pm and a man was arrested.

Inspector Fiona Halford told reporters that she could safely say that they had located the child safe and well and that he was in the process of being returned to mum and dad, and that she just couldn’t thank the public enough, as it was a member of the general public who had identified police of the location and subsequently police attended that location and found the child safe and well.

Police earlier released pictures of a man they wanted to speak to and a car similar to the one stolen.

Investigations are ongoing and a 46-year-old man is helping police with their inquiries.

The man in question must have realised his blunder at some stage, but the mother and her son have now been miraculously reunited after the opportunistic robber took off with the woman’s car and her 11-month-old baby who was inside.

The baby was returned to his mother and father after a member of the public spotted the allegedly stolen white 2013 Toyota RAV 4 on a suburban street.

Harrowing CCTV footage of the moment the unidentified man takes off in the 4WD shows the baby’s distraught mother running after the automobile as it speeds away, but now the man allegedly driving the car has been arrested.

Commuters Are Furious As 24Hr Tube Strikes Cripple The Capital

London’s Tube strike sparked outrage across the capital, with commuters fighting at busy bus stops and accusing cab-hailing services like Uber of scamming the public by adding an extra £40 to the price of fares.

The Underground will be crippled all day because of a walkout by thousands of employees, suspending services on all lines except the Overground, DLR and TfL Rail.

About 10,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have walked out for 24 hours, and will do so again on Thursday, in a row over jobs, pensions and conditions.

The RMT said its members were solidly backing the industrial action, which was causing travel disorder across the metropolis.

Images showed enormous crowds waiting at bus stops at stations like London Victoria and London Bridge, while tube trains at Stanmore lay inactive.

Tensions boiled over as passengers attempted to push their way to the front of queues and pile onto buses, with fights breaking out in the carnage against a background of heavy rain.

More cars on the road saw traffic grind to a standstill, which only added to the woes of commuters desperately trying to get to work on time.

Uber appeared to increase its prices substantially as a result, while there were reports of cab drivers pitting customers against each other by cancelling some trips in order to pocket higher fares elsewhere.

Meanwhile, there was added anger after the private hire colossus Uber was accused of scamming the public by charging some £40 more than the price of a usual fare.

Commuters were earlier being alerted of excessively busy services during rush hour amid the widespread Tube Strike which has led to disruption on all Underground lines.

The announcement was delivered over speakers to passengers waiting in the rain at Finsbury Park Station in north London for a Thameslink service at about 8.30 am.

Despite clearly higher than usual numbers of customers on the platform at Finsbury Park, relatively few were on the platform at St Pancras International for Thameslink trains. The Thameslink service was encountering delays of several minutes for most trains.

South London commuters blasted the walkout, which comes as many return to the office after the COVID pandemic.

Accountant Tim Hallan, 32, from Dulwich fumed that it was extremely frustrating and that it couldn’t have happened at a worse time. He said that he’d only just started commuting back into central London after the office opened back up following the coronavirus.

A bunch of people said that we should have driverless trains, but on some lines, we’ve already got them but that doesn’t mean that they would still run, and when the whole world is automated, who’s going to be paying their pensions?

Meanwhile, people are dying in Ukraine and the best that British workers can do is go on strike. Of course, we don’t live in Ukraine and we’re not getting bombed, well, at least, not yet, and they whine about everything and don’t realise that it’s the union bosses that come out on top with their big bonuses and subscriptions that the workers contribute to.

Can you imagine if our nurses, doctors and cancer nurses and doctors decided to strike? Even when they were given a 1 per cent pay rise they still got up and went to work and endangered their lives throughout the pandemic.

And just when the country’s trying to get back on its feet, you can always count on the train drivers to put a spanner in the works. Everyone’s suffering right now, not just the train drivers!

A Tank Convoy Near Kyiv Sparks Fears Of An Imminent Attack On The Capital

A 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on the sixth day of the conflict as its president accused Russia of war crimes.

Vladimir Putin’s forces launched what Ukraine’s ambassador to the US has said were vacuum bomb attacks as Russia intensified bombing of the city of Kharkiv.

Vladimir Putin launched an indiscriminate bombing campaign on Kharkiv just 24 hours after local resistance had sent his troops packing from its streets.

The bombs, shells and rockets which began falling yesterday left at least 11 dead, including three children, with homes and even a school reduced to rubble.

Regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy said that Russian artillery also struck a military base in the city of Okhtyrka and more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed.

After a first, five-hour session of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia yielded no stop in the fighting, both sides agreed to another meeting in the coming days, but Ukraine’s embattled president Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed the stepped up shelling was designed to force him into concessions.

The Kremlin has found itself increasingly isolated by economic embargoes that have sent its currency plummeting and seen it booted out of the World Cup.

Meanwhile, Britain’s UN Ambassador warned at an emergency meeting of the Security Council that Ukraine is on the verge of a humanitarian tragedy.

The United Nations has expressed serious concern of another Chernobyl catastrophe after Russian troops started operating near Ukraine’s largest nuclear power station.

Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he was following the events in Ukraine extremely closely and with serious concern.

Formula One’s governing body will stage an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Ukraine. It’s understood that the fate of F1’s sole Russian driver Nikita Mazepin is set to top the agenda.

Russia pledges that it will strike back against the EU following its support of Ukraine and warned the West against supplying weapons to the country, and a second round of talks aimed at ending Russia’s attack on Ukraine was set to take place after the first meeting concluded without resolution.

Ukraine’s MoD says Russia has lost 5,300 soldiers, 29 planes, 29 helicopters and 151 tanks.

Russia’s MoD has admitted suffering losses but declined to say how many.

Ukraine documented 352 civilian casualties since the beginning of the attack, including 14 children. The UN puts the civilian toll at 102, including seven children.

But it seems that Vladimir Putin is only in talks to buy himself more time for a military solution. He desperately needs to win with military strength to show the rest of the world how good his army is, and he needs a victory to help threaten other countries he wants to control. He has no interest in talks.

It gives him time to get that long tank convoy to where he wants it, and there’s no way Vladimir Putin will negotiate because he wants them to surrender and roll over, but they’re not going to do that, and what’s the point in peace talks if Vladimir Putin can’t be trusted to abide by the outcome?

This man has far too much power and he appears to have the ability and freedom to do what he wants. He’s just one man and this war will end up being World War III if he’s allowed to continue. He wants to ruin countries and have control over them as Hitler did.

Vladimir Putin has no intention of agreeing to peace and he’s just keeping Zelensky occupied while he continues to destroy Ukraine because he’s a deranged dictator intent on taking what he wants and eradicating what he can’t.

Anonymous Declares Cyber War On Vladimir Putin’s Government

Hacking group Anonymous had declared cyber war against Vladimir Putin’s government after he mounted a full-scale attack on Ukraine.

The elusive computer experts issued the stark announcement on their Twitter account on Thursday evening.

They said shortly before 10 pm: ‘The Anonymous collective was officially in cyberwar against the Russian government.’

About 30 minutes later, they announced that they had taken down the website of the Kremlin-backed TV channel RT, which broadcasts in Britain and has been heavily criticised for its coverage.

When a newspaper outlet tried to access the website, it was still unavailable and only displayed an error message that said that the site couldn’t be reached.

The cyberwar declaration raises the possibility that Russia could be subjected to systematic hacking attempts in the coming days.

Prior to the attack on Ukraine on Thursday, the country’s government and banks were targeted by a huge cyberattack that was thought to have been carried out by Russia.

People on social media reacted positively to Anonymous’s cyberwar declaration against Vladimir Putin.

One person wrote: ‘THANK YOU! Now, work on draining their finances.’

Another said: ‘You are awesome, thanks.’

A third wrote: ‘THANK YOU! I love you! The most beautiful thing EVER…’

Anonymous said in their tweet about RT: ‘The #Anonymous collective has taken down the website of the #Russian propaganda station RT News.’

Anonymous has previously targeted groups including the Ku Klux Klan and Islamic revolutionaries.

Members are known as ‘Anons’ and are distinguished by their Guy Fawkes masks.

In July last year, the collective warned Tesla founder Elon Musk that they intended to target him after saying he exerts too much control over the cryptocurrency markets.

It appears that Anonymous has not taken down the site, and it seems to be working okay. Perhaps another ploy to lure more people to connect to their news website?

Anonymous is a decentralised international activist and hacktivist collective and movement mostly known for its various cyberattacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations and the Church of Scientology.

The thing is you can block any website you want, but you can’t block people’s minds. Once it’s in the media and people have read it, it’s in their minds permanently.

And if Anonymous is hacking websites so that they can screw up Russia’s communication grid, then they’re not doing it very well if we can still get on their website.

The thing is the website might be there because it’s taken down and then put back online again, but it has to keep being taken down because cyberwar is as ruthless as a physical war.

It’s like a game of bashing squirrels. You hit them on their heads and then they pop up again, so you have to keep on doing it, this is why it’s called a cyberwar.

However, if Anonymous were that good, they would have hacked into the computers of nuclear weapons and deactivated them for good, or even hacked the security codes to Vladimir Putin’s residence, but it seems that Anonymous have a lot of work to do, that’s if they do it at all!

But there are a bunch of people who are all for Anonymous and support their cause, including some saying that they should break into their data centres and eradicate their assets, and who would have believed that hackers could end up being heroes of a sort? But let’s see how good Anonymous really are.

After all, Vladimir Putin believes he’s entitled to have everything his own way because he’s a bloodthirsty mad man, and I doubt that Putin will be scared of a few people wearing Halloween masks and random threats over the internet.

Over 150 Russian Officials Sign Open Letter Condemning Vladimir Putin’s Invasion Of Ukraine

More than 150 senior Russian officials have signed an open letter criticising Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine as an unprecedented atrocity and warning of disastrous consequences.

The deputies said they were convinced Russian citizens didn’t back the conflict and blamed Vladimir Putin personally for ordering troops into Ukraine in an attack for which can’t be justified.

Vladimir Putin gave the order to attack, delivering an impressive speech to the Russian nation in which he declared a special military operation to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine in what amounted to an outright declaration of war.

Missiles and bombs showered from the sky, tanks moved across the border, troops parachuted down on eastern parts and explosions were witnessed across the nation in the early hours and into the morning.

The letters advised Russians not to partake in the attack and called on citizens to speak out against the attack because only massive popular condemnation could stop the war.

Among the letter’s signatories were Moscow deputies Elena Rusakova, Maxim Gongalsky, Andrey Morev, Elena Kotenochkina and Elena Filina as well as St Petersburg officials David Kuvaev and Polina Sizova and Veliky Novgorod deputy Anna Cherepanova.

It was a surprising step for Russian officials to speak out against Vladimir Putin who usually holds an iron grip on dissent and last week televised a meeting with Moscow’s top security chiefs in which they seemed to be railroaded into backing his plans to invade Ukraine.

The letter, which described the signatories as those elected by the people, said they unreservedly condemn the invasion of the Russian army on Ukraine.

The decision to strike was made personally by Russian President Vladimir Putin and it’s almost certain that the citizens of Russia didn’t give him such a mandate.

The letter warned of catastrophic consequences and that thousands of people would be wounded, mutilated and would die, and that numerous cities would be destroyed and it said that Russia would face the condemnation of the world community resulting in seclusion, increasing prices and poverty.

The letter added that hopes for a good life in Russia are crumbling before their eyes, and they advised not to participate in the aggression and not to support it.

It comes after heartbreaking pictures emerged from Ukraine showing bloodied civilians staggering through the streets of towns in the east of the country following Russian shelling in the early hours of the morning.

The citizens of Russia can and probably will protest but they will be captured and put into prison. Russia isn’t the problem, Vladimir Putin is the problem. He has set himself up to be a Tsar, and it will be a bloodbath if he isn’t relieved of his duties, but at present, he has a tremendous grab for power.

Well, we know what happened to the last Tsar. Nicholas II and his family were murdered by Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin.

And the majority of Russians, particularly the young ones, feel nothing but humiliation and shame that they’re being dragged through this horror by a gangster and his cronies, but how can ordinary Russian people stand up to this man when the whole world is watching in stalemate?

Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about an open letter, the man is a lunatic.

There’s also been speculation that Vladimir Putin is sick, and according to some sources that the President has cancer and Parkinson’s Disease, whether this is true or not, the man might feel he’s already finished and that he’s going to take the rest of the world with him.

Ovo Energy Boss Tells Customers To Cuddle Your Cat

The founder of the energy company who told customers to do star jumps and cuddle their pet for warmth has had a polluting wood burner fitted in his £3.2 million mansion.

Ovo Energy boss Stephen Fitzpatrick, 45, had to get permission for the posh £1,199 Anevay Tana Stove at his Gloucestershire home.

Cotswold District Council passed the request from Stephen Fitzpatrick, worth an estimated £675 million, two months ago.

It seems at odds with his own company’s ambitions to become the UK’s zero-carbon living partner in the home.

Ovo’s self-described visionary strategy is called Plan Zero and says that it means lowering carbon emissions and removing carbon from the air and that they’ve set tough targets to enable them to achieve both of those goals.

Woodburning stoves contribute to particle pollution and last year were labelled a health risk.

University of Sheffield researchers said they should be sold with a health warning because of the pollution they emit into homes.

Mr Fitzpatrick was in hot water last month after Ovo’s sister company SSE Energy gave embarrassing and insulting advice to customers trying to save money on fuel bills.

The blog said it was giving ten simple and cost-effective tips to keeping warm in the winter without turning up the heating, but they included the pets and star jumps advice, as well as challenging the kids to hula-hoop contest and leaving the oven door open after cooking food.

The uproar saw the webpage deleted and Mr Fitzpatrick acknowledged it was a bad day, and that they’d made a mistake.

After learning about the wood burner the Green Party’s Amelia Womack told a newspaper outlet that it was evident that he’d found a cosy alternative to cuddling his cat and doing star jumps to keep warm. Meanwhile, his customers are left shivering and unable to pay their bills.

She said that we can’t all live in mansions but we do all have the right to a warm home and that requires system change.

Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay added that it seems another example of do what I say but not as I do.

Ovo refused to comment.

Last month it announced at least 1,700 jobs were set to be cut by the energy company, and staff were given details of plans in January, which include reducing the number of offices from 10 to three.

It’s not the fact that Mr Fitzpatrick has a wood-burning stove, he’s entitled to have what he damn well likes, as long as he’s not spouting with his big mouth that other people that are vulnerable, elderly and disabled should be doing star jumps and cuddling their cat to keep warm.

The bigger picture is that this man doesn’t have to worry about money, he’s worth millions whilst his company hike energy rate to unaffordable levels for consumers.

Meanwhile, China burns millions of tons of coal to produce our offshore manufacturing – goods that were once made in Britain, which is then shipped to us, thousands of miles, in ships burning bunker fuel which is the dirtiest fuel in the world.

The British working class used to produce our manufacturing, but instead, they now drive around Chinese goods in vans, formerly skilled workers who are now reduced to being delivery boys for Chinese tat, and then there’s a mountain of woke guff that’s produced by UK politicians about Britain being carbon neutral. No, it’s not! We’ve simply exported our pollution to China.

Not forgetting that China is bankrolling the extraction of Lithium, using slave and child labour in the Congo. Is there any Li-on battery that’s not made in China?

The supply of non-renewable precious metals is probably about 100 years, after which it will likely be necessary to deep trawl the oceans for nodules, and EV vehicles produce twice the amount of ozone which causes respiratory illness and EV vehicles are today’s environmental disaster and it’s happening on a street near you!

Kyle Rittenhouse Says He Plans To Sue Whoopi Goldberg And Others, Including Celebrities, Politicians, And Athletes

Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse plans to take aim at the people and organisations who called him a murderer, a white supremacist among other things in the run-up to his trial and subsequent acquittal.

Kyle Rittenhouse killed two men and injured a third during confrontations amid anti-police demonstrations in Kenosha in August 2020. He swore that he acted in self-defence.

Last November, the 18-year-old was found not guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and other charges and stepped out of the court a free man.

Talking on Tucker Carlson on Fox News on Monday night, Kyle Rittenhouse said he wanted to hold major media and entertainment figures accountable, noting that he had talk show host Whoopi Goldberg in his sights.

Kyle Rittenhouse said that they stood looking at quite a few politicians, celebs, athletes, and Whoopi Goldberg were on the list. He said that she called him a murderer after he was acquitted by a jury of his peers. He said that she went on still saying that, and that there were others.

He also revealed that Cenk Uygur the founder of the Young Turks show is on his scope adding that he continues to call him a murderer.

The Young Turks show is a liberal and left-wing news commentary show on YouTube that also appears on selected television channels.

Carlson said: ‘What about the people who called you a white supremacist? It makes it pretty hard to get a job for the rest of your life if you are a white supremacist. Will you be responding to them?’

‘Absolutely. We’re going to hold everybody who lied about me accountable, such as everybody who lied called me a White supremacist,’ Rittenhouse said in response. ‘They’re all going to be held accountable. And we’re going to handle them in a courtroom.’

Rittenhouse refused to be drawn on who else may come under fire from him but there may end up being quite a list including the President of the United States, Joe Biden.

Two months before Joe Biden was elected president, he criticised then President Trump for refusing to condemn people who are against the Black Lives Matter riots as white supremacists.

The tweet from the then-candidate included a picture from a video clip of Kyle Rittenhouse, who was 17 years old at the time of the shooting.

Self-defence isn’t murder, and a gun owner should know that. Murder by definition means the killing of another person without justification or reason, especially when it comes to malice aforethought, or reckless manifesting radical disregard to the value of human life.

If a person is being attacked and protects their own life or someone else’s life and the evidence proved that in a court of law and they’re found not guilty, and then they’re allowed to go free, that doesn’t mean that people should be allowed to still condemn that person for something they were found not guilty of. However, sometimes people that are found not guilty are actually guilty of the crime that they committed, but the jury determined otherwise.

Kyle Rittenhouse might have taken his rifle to the scene of rioting but that was because he wanted to defend small business owners, and of course, Rittenhouse was supposed to be innocent until proven guilty and deserved a fair trial, but instead, he was condemned by a certain narrative.

Of course, he did point a loaded gun at people, and there are numerous people who still believe that he’s guilty, however, a court of law and a jury said that he was innocent and that’s where it should end.

Invasion Of Ukraine Has Begun

Russia has invaded Ukraine, UK health secretary Sajid Javid said this morning, after Russian tanks, armoured vehicles and trucks were seen moving into eastern regions overnight following Vladimir Putin’s orders to deploy on what he described as peacekeeping missions.

A queue of armoured vehicles was spotted in Donetsk, the main city of one of the two so-called republics, in the early hours of this morning. No insignia were visible on the vehicles, but there’s little doubt they’re Russian forces deployed on Vladimir Putin’s orders.

At the same time, Ukraine said heavy shelling broke out along nearly all 250 miles of its frontline with the breakaway provinces, leaving two of its soldiers dead and 12 wounded in a major escalation in violence.

Sajid Javid said early Tuesday that they’re waking up to an extremely dark day in Europe and that they’ve seen that he has recognised breakaway eastern regions in Ukraine and from the reports they can already tell that he’s sent in tanks and troops and that from that they can conclude that the attack of Ukraine has started.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaking moments later, said the first barrage of UK economic sanctions against Russia would be announced today, though stopped short of calling last night’s move an attack, saying instead that Vladimir Putin is bent on a full-scale invasion.

Before Vladimir Putin’s order, world leaders including Joe Biden and Boris Johnson had made it clear that any Russian attack, no matter how limited, into Ukrainian territory would be deemed a fresh invasion and spark a remarkable flurry of embargoes.

But the word invasion was hardly mentioned overnight and action was limited. Joe Biden prohibited all new US trade with the breakaway regions but stopped far short of the swift and decisive response that had been threatened. White House spokesman Jen Psaki promised more sanctions will follow later today.

Joseph Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, dodged the word as he promised embargoes against Russia Tuesday morning, acknowledging that Russian troops were on Ukrainian soil but added that he wouldn’t say that’s a fully-fledged attack.

Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, also avoided it in a 2 am address to the nation in which he spoke instead of a breach of sovereignty, saying that they weren’t afraid of anyone or anything and they didn’t owe anyone anything and that they won’t give anything to anyone.

Of course, if there is a full-blown attack on Ukraine then the US and the United Kingdom will get involved, but we should just keep out of it and let them sort out their own differences, it’s not our fight, although I’m sure we wouldn’t have said this when we had World War I and II.

Still, this should not be happening because innocent men, women and children will be killed and it’s heartbreaking, and this will not end well for anyone, but unfortunately, you can’t negotiate with an obsessive pathological liar because Vladimir Putin is an absolute nutjob, and I hope that Boris Johnson has an outburst of common sense and keeps UK troops out of this mess. Although I’m guessing that he won’t because all leaders seem to need a war under their belt.

If politicians want a war, then perhaps those politicians should go first along with their kids.

Sajid Javid is the Health Secretary and he should stick to sorting out our failing NHS instead of commenting on matters that have nothing to do within his remit in a feeble attempt to enhance his leadership credentials.

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