In 1980 during the presidential campaign between President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, my then wife Maria A. Chiaverini and I were invited into a meeting with then President Jimmy Carter in Houston. The invitation came as a surprise. I had my Canon camera with a long lens and a metal case full of other Canon camera lenses with me. Before we could meet with the president, Secret Service agents pulled me off to the side. Politely they told me that they had to examine my camera and lenses. As you can imagine, I could not say no. After the inspection, we got to meet the president. He was warm and cordial with a real Southern accent. He spoke to us briefly. It is a memory that I will treasure as long as I live.
Yesterday a large bomb went off in a Saint Petersburg, Russia cafe. A
very pro-Russian participation in the Ukraine war blogger was killed. His legal
name was Maxim Fomin. His pen name was Vladen Tartasky. It appears that a 26
year old Ukrainian woman named Darya Trepova presented him with a large statue
that was seen as a gift from a loving fan. A bomb went off rapidly after the
presentation. The Russian blogger was killed instantly. Ten other people were
wounded including Darya with two people in serious condition. Our reader Denys
Davydov has done an excellent podcast on this event that I will share with you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Rest assured that a movie will be made about this event. Russia is a
police state. It would be quite difficult to obtain the explosives used in this
assassination. There is an indication that Ukraine intelligence agencies were
behind this attack. When Darya gets out of the hospital, she will be tortured
to get information. Her life expectancy will be short. She was willing to
sacrifice her life to accomplish her mission.
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