6 Followers
28 Following
67 Posts
Cat lover, proud father, engineer. #cats

Nature that gives us beauty. Colors and shades of the July day. Kyiv

#photography #nature #travel #steemit #blockchain #landscape #ukraine

Published in 2016, this brilliant comic by artist Joe Dator somehow feels even more timely in 2023. #art

US to designate #WagnerGroup as a transnational criminal organisation – #terror #ukraine #northkorea

The US will designate Russia’s Wagner group, which is believed to have thousands of mercenaries in Ukraine, a “transnational criminal organisation”. It will also impose fresh sanctions on the group and its support network next week, the White House said. According to Mr Kirby, approximately 80% of the Wagner troops deployed to Ukraine were drawn from prisons.

https://www.dokmz.com/2023/01/21/us-to-designate-wagnergroup-as-a-transnational-criminal-organisation-terror-ukraine-northkorea/

US to designate #WagnerGroup as a transnational criminal organisation - #terror #ukraine #northkorea

The US will designate Russia's Wagner group, which is believed to have thousands of mercenaries in Ukraine, a "transnational criminal organisation". It will als

dokmz
Happy Friday the 13th!
Here's a reminder that black cats are amazing and not unlucky. As Welsh folklore tells us:
"It is very fortunate to have a thoroughly black cat on the premises."
(Folklore of Wales, 1909)
#FridayThe13th #Caturday #FridayFeeling
GRETA, NOW DO ELON.
Birds of a feather?

Some of you who follow me on Twitter may have noticed that I post images of Jizo. Jizo Bosatsu is the kind and patient guardian deity of children and travellers.

Jizo is also a Buddha that has reached enlightenment but doesn’t go to Nirvana, choosing to stay on earth to help the suffering. In the colder months local people will take care of  by dressing them with red bibs and hats, as helping a Buddhist monk is a virtuous gesture and, again, earns more of that credit for getting into the

The Biden administration sought the release of BOTH Griner and Whelan. It was unlikely that Whelan be released as he is charged by Russia as being a spy.

Whether he is actually a spy or not, that was why he was jailed.

There are no tools of getting Whelan released. It would require an exchange of a Russian spy being held in America. There is no such person.

When I hear about the coup attempt in Germany & the desire of these violent extremists to insert Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss as the leader after a planned execution of the German chancellor, it sounds ludicrous, laughable. But that's the thing: These people are deadly serious.

Because the plots of these anti-democratic extremists often seem so ludicrous, they can succeed because the public--& too many leaders--don't take them seriously enough. This tendency is how Trump got as far as he did.