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Let’s talk about grain, Ukraine, and messaging….

Please notice the framing, a coalition of the willing. Where have we heard that before? Iraq when the US gathered nations to help attack / invade Iraq. This video is about a group of nations that have decided to go into the black sea and take on the Russian fleet to clear out the blockade so that the ships can get to Odesa and allow shipping of the grain that is needed to feed Europe and other areas. The issue is that Russian ships have been steal the grain and taking it back to Russia. A lot of it is already gone. So for those that say NATO nations cannot get involved they are already done the prep work and it is going to happen, this is simply letting the world know they are going to do it. One name not on the list is the US, but I bet they are in there somewhere. If the US doesn’t have a nuclear sub sitting in the Black Sea I would be veery surprised. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at the start of the war that it would only be a matter of time before the other nations came in, so why wait and let more die as the nations hesitated. I said the other nations would have to go in and assist Ukraine. Now that Europe is looking at their people going hungry and the problems with nations that depend on the food for Ukraine not getting that food, they are willing to act militarily. The US will not stay out of this for long. What will be interesting to see is what Russia does when combined fleets of a coalition of nations shows up to open that port for the Ukrainians. Even if you don’t like Beau, this is worth a listen. Hugs

Supreme Court Strips Legal Challenge Rights From Wrongfully Convicted Inmates

A new Supreme Court decision will strip American citizens of more rights as the conservative majority ruled in the Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez convicts on death row could still face execution and indefinite imprisonment even if they were given inadequate legal representation during their state court trials. The liberal dissenting justices slammed the decision as it will leave little options available to convicts who did not receive proper legal counsel at the state level, disproportionately affecting the poor and people of color.

“Legal experts responded with alarm Monday to a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court’s right-wing majority that could lead to the indefinite imprisonment and even execution of people who argue their lawyers didn’t provide adequate representation after convictions in state court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor—joined by the other two liberals on the court—also blasted the majority opinion in Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez, writing in her scathing dissent that the decision is both “perverse” and “illogical.” The case involved two men, David Martinez Ramirez and Barry Lee Jones, who are on death row in Arizona. The majority determined that inmates can’t present new evidence in federal court to support a claim that their post-conviction attorney in state court was ineffective, in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which affirms the right to “the assistance of counsel” in all criminal prosecutions.”

Disgusting Pastor EXPOSED As Sexual Abuser In Front Of His Entire Congregation

Pastor John Lowe of Indiana openly admitted to his congregation that he cheated on his wife, and things went awry very quickly as his wife got up and confronted her husband for his lies and set the record straight on how deplorable the pastor really is. She also hinted at her surviving sexual assault by Locke when she was 16, only adding to the multitude of stories of sexual assault survivors from evangelical Christian churches and religious sects.

“Carissa Beard was helping her daughter pack up her dorm room on Sunday night when she got the text from her husband, the lead pastor of First Baptist Church of Thurmont in Maryland. The nearly 300-page report on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention had dropped online. “It is every bit as bad as I expected it to be,” she said. When Philip Meade, pastor at Graefenburg Baptist Church in Kentucky, read the details, he began reworking his plans for the church’s worship service next Sunday. He will now devote a portion of the service to “a lament for the mishandling of sexual abuse claims and for the survivors who have suffered so much,” he said. Michael Howard, the head pastor of Seaford Baptist Church on the coast of Virginia, paused a family vacation to spend hours reading the report on Sunday afternoon. “It makes you ill,” Mr. Howard said. “I know as the word gets out, the people in our church will be asking: What is our response?”“