Random News and Notes 8 October

James Comey made his first court appearance after being indicted on perjury charges back on 25 September. He plead not guilty.

The plea should not be a surprise. It’s not like anyone ever pleads guilty at the first appearance. It is a step in the right direction though.

In a related note, Kash Patel shitcanned an entire squad at the FBI. The GS-15 squad was spying on sitting Senators, Representatives and their respective staff. The spying was obstensibly part of Jack Smith’s ‘Arctic Frost’ operation.

. . . abolished the weaponized CR-15 squad, and we initiated an ongoing investigation with more accountability measures ahead.

I really, really hope Jack Smith gets his perp walk soon. The surveillance done by that squad was straight up illegal and Smith ordered it.

Today is day 9 of the Schumer Shutdown. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has some things to say about the shutdown and the Dem leadership.

. . . and the funding that we should have gotten done by the end of September. We just need a stopgap measure to give us a little more time to get the job of Congress done. They refuse to do it because they’re playing politics.”
Johnson claims Schumer is under pressure from far-left factions, blocking necessary funding and stopgap measures while playing politics.

I truly think Johnson nailed it here. I know Chuck is afraid of losing a primary to Alexandria Occasional Cortex. He was loosing to her in – badly – the last poll that was released. That was back in May and things have not improved for Chuckie.

Now for a bit of international news. I would guess that about half of you know what the word Transdniestria means. Maybe a third know where it is. That is not a slam or an insult, and is just an observation. This editor knows, but he studies that part of the world.

Transdniestria is a Russian-backed breakaway region of Moldova. The landlocked region got its name because it is the part of Moldova on the opposite bank of the Dniester river. You can think of it as the Moldovan version of Abkazhia or South Osettia in Georgia or the Donbas in Ukraine.

Anyway, the region is about to collapse. European banks have refused to process payments for natural gas deliveries. There has not been heat nor hot water (most post Soviet states still use the centralized thermal plant system to deliver hot water and steam for heating) for about a week.

. . . routed through alleged money-laundering companies in the UAE, representing a financial lifeline for the Russian-backed regime in the region.
Cuciurgan power plant operates on billions of cubic meters of free Russian natural gas annually, creating a debt for Moldova that now exceeds $10 billion. By converting this free gas into electricity and selling it back to Moldova, the plant generates hundreds of millions of dollars each year, which serves as the primary source of hard currency for the Transnistrian regime.
Finally EU, Ukraine and Moldova are taking an action to get rid of this ugly abomination and set it’s people free.

If you had trouble following what was written in that post, do not fret you were not alone. The power plant, which is in Transdniestria, operates using ‘free’ Russian gas. The commies – the ruling party is a direct decendant of the old Communist party – that run the enclave then sell that electricity to Moldova.