A beluga whale that was suspected of spying for Russia after being discovered in Norwegian waters five years ago has been found dead, according to the non-profit organization that had been monitoring the whale.
The body of Hvaldimir – a combination of the Norwegian word for whale and the first name of Russian President Vladimir Putin – was spotted floating in the sea by a father and son fishing in southern Norway over the weekend, Norwegian public broadcaster NRK reported.
“Hvaldimir was not just a beluga whale; he was a beacon of hope, a symbol of connection, and a reminder of the deep bond between humans and the natural world,” the Marine Mind NGO said on social media.
Hvaldimir was wearing a harness with what appeared to be a mount for a small camera when he was first found in 2019 near the island of Ingoya in Norway’s north, around 300km (190 miles)from the Russian maritime border. The harness was stamped with “Equipment St Petersburg” in English.
The whale was very interested in people and responded to hand signals, leading Norway’s domestic intelligence agency to presume he had been held in captivity in Russia as part of a research program before crossing into Norwegian waters.
Moscow has never responded to the allegations about Hvaldimir. . . . No major external injuries were visible on the animal and it was not immediately clear what caused the death, he added.
Maybe he figured out he had been outed, and took his cyanide pill.
At Hat Hair, Victor Joecks, How Democrats Undermined Democracy, Dave Strom,
Suddenly the Constitution is 'Dangerous', and The Third Reich (Robert). Walter Kirn@walterkirn, "The last few days have seen an almost symphonic surge of attacks on
our most fundamental rights, by officials, newspapers, politicians,
celebrities, & academics. It's not rhetoric anymore, it's an organized
massing of institutional forces prior to big moves which seem
imminent.." Quotes Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley "Robert Reich,
Clinton's labor secretary, is calling for the arrest of Elon Musk for his
refusal to censor speech.
https://foxnews.com/media/ex-labor-secretary-robert-reich-claims-elon-musk-out-control-says-regulators-should-threaten-arrest…
Reich has long been a staunch ally of the anti-free speech movement..." The Populist notes Brazilian President Calls Elon “Far Right” because supporting free speech is now "far right." Chris
Bray at Tell Me How This Ends calls them
Jackbooted Paste Eaters
"it's illegal for you to notice that i pick my nose, you fascist, so you have
to go to prison." Insty, WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY WANT, BELIEVE THEM: and a bunch of videos including:
“They are directly speaking to millions & millions of people without
oversight.”
Exactly. That’s free speech. No oversight by
government bureaucrats.
@jaketapper
looks genuinely dumbfounded that this could possibly be her actual position.
pic.twitter.com/yOSMq0rMfx
But will they hit the vulnerable spot? The world continued to turn while I was out fishing yesterday. The Democrat's
attempts to evict Biden from the nomination appear to be reaching a breaking
point, while Joe Biden, vaxxed and boosted, catches the WuFlu, and has to stop
campaigning. Meanwhile the story of the attempted assassination of Donald
Trump doesn't smell any better as time goes on. The coronation of Donald Trump
as the Republican nominee continues to irritate most of the media and
Democrats, but I redund.
Kamala Harris claims “JD Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.” @JDVance1 enlisted in the Marine Corps after 9/11 and deployed to Iraq in 2005, the same year I was there during the height of the war. He put his life on the line in service to our country.
Donald Trump has been indicted for something old and trivial. Manhattan
District Attorney Lavrentiy Alvin Bragg has acceded to the left’s demand
that Trump be arrested for the unforgiveable act of winning the 2016
presidential election. Bragg was shown the man, and he obediently found “the
crime.”
We can register our disgust about hypocrisy, or a
two-tier justice system, or criminalizing politics, etc. Or we can respond
in kind. The last option is the only one that will make this stop.
What high profile Democrat should a Republican District Attorney indict? How
about Alejandro Mayorkas?
As Secretary of Homeland Security, Mayorkas has thrown our border open to
narco-terrorists, human traffickers, and anyone else who wants to cross the
border.
What crime should he be charged with? Mayorkas is an
accessory to every crime committed by someone who crossed the border
illegally during the Biden administration. He is an accessory to every death
from fentanyl that was transported across the border. He is an accessory to
sex trafficking. He is an accessory to child abandonment. I could go on.
Who
can indict him? There are 254 counties in Texas alone, most of them deep
red, and there are a couple thousand more deep red counties throughout the
country. The District Attorney in any county touched by the Biden
administration’s open border/catch-and-release policy could summon a grand
jury and indict Mayorkas.
Stacy McCain,
Brain-Damaged John Fetterman Gets ‘Democrat Helper’ Served by CBS News "There is never any segment during the interview where Fetterman is
shown speaking in a single shot for more than five or 10 seconds
consecutively. And if you watch carefully, these interview excerpts constitute
a fairly small share of the 10-minute piece, much of which is filled with
Paulie narrating a tale of Fetterman’s “struggle,” intended to frame this as
the saga of a hero courageously overcoming misfortune."
Twitchy, Rural mom says you don’t hunt with an AR-15 because ‘it destroys the
meat’. AR-15s are generally considered too light for hunting deer, even my .243
"Deer slayer," a much more powerful cartridge, is often frowned on in favor of
30.06s etc. An AR is too big for small game, rabbits squirrels and so on; as
rural mom notes, it makes too much mess. They are, however, perfect for
varmint and wild hog hunting. Like boats and golf clubs, different tools for
different jobs.
When last we checked in on “Jessica,” he/“she” had been
arrested in January 2020 on charges of assaulting a Canadian journalist
outside a courthouse. In case you’d forgotten — who could ever forget? — Yaniv
became notorious for going to salons and seeking genital waxing (depilation) on his/“her” genitalia, then filing complaints of discrimination when the
requested treatment was denied, hence giving rise to the
#waxmyballs hashtag
in reference to the case.
The good news is, there will be no
further such cases filed by Yaniv because he/“she” finally underwent “gender
confirmation” surgery in January 2021. The bad news is, there were
post-operative complications that led Yaniv to file a lawsuit against a
Vancouver clinic, and also, whatever you do,
DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK
if you don’t want to know what botched sex-change surgery looks like. The
folks at KiwiFarms employ the phrase “gaping axe wound” to describe the result
of Yaniv’s surgery, and anyone willing to risk irreversible mental trauma can
click the link to discover how accurate that phrase is. DON’T DO IT!
Paula Bolyard at PJ Media says DOJ Finally Finds a Church Attack It Doesn't Like "On Saturday, March 25, 2023, the Community Church of Chesterland
(“CCC”), located at 11984 Caves Road, Chesterland, Ohio, reported to Chester
Township Police that the church had been damaged by what appeared to be
Molotov cocktails during the night. During the same time, a sign on CCC’s
property was damaged. CCC believes the acts were perpetrated in response to
the church’s planned hosting of two drag show events on April 1, 2023. Open
source searches revealed that individuals plan to be present and armed en
masse at the events to protest. Representatives of CCC reported that they
received hate mail and messages containing non-specific threats of protest and
violence against the drag events. Images of the damage are shown below."
At Althouse. "Only now — as a student about to graduate — do I realize how few
classmates agree with the loudest ones." ""Most of us fall somewhere between or are still forming our opinions.
A friend recently told me that 'coming out as a moderate was more difficult
than coming out as gay at Stanford Law School.' He eventually moved to San
Francisco so he could 'just ignore the madness.' These dynamics are hardly
unique to Stanford. My friends in law school at Yale and Harvard, among
others, have shared similar experiences...."
Insty comments,
"It helps the bullies that the law school administration encourages and
empowers them. Plus: “The quietness of people in the middle makes extremism
work. They’re so busy being invisible that they don’t notice — or acknowledge
— the role they play.”" JG Martin Institute sees
Wage Discrimination at App State
"In the name of “diversity,” the UNC-System institution may have violated
federal law." Joel Kotkin at Quillette, on Race and State "The emerging racial state promises no real progress for most
minorities while deepening ethnic divides and undermining the basis for
democratic self-rule"At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.03.23, Behind The Black sees Pushback: University will hire no one who supports “critical race
theory”.
Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Did Twitter's algorithm have a back door for gov't censors? Plus:
Shadow-ban code revealed? "Tey revealed his research on the mechanism for intervention, saying,
“When needed, the government can intervene with the Twitter algorithm. In
fact, @TwitterEng (Twitter Engineering) even has a class for it –
‘GovernmentRequested.’” Tey also provided a direct link to the code on GitHub
for public review."
A growing body of evidence shows U.S. govt officials, agencies, & contractors demanding Facebook & Twitter censor ordinary Americans. Now, an influential censorship advocate has admitted that she worked for the CIA. Who is she? Why is she so influential?https://t.co/XP9NAljN4G
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) April 3, 2023
At Althouse, The feeling that the blue checks were honoring a reputation that had been curated for 10 years. "It's like the cry "I thought you loved me!" when a marriage comes to an end. No, this was not love. It was not honor. It was just the 2 of us, responding to incentives, in an awkward dance that was only ever commercial, and now, an exchange of money is needed, and you owe me."
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