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Newsweek has a rather extraordinary story, if it's true. It seems Putin was determined on starting a war, any war... "Russia was preparing to attack Japan in the summer of 2021, months before President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an email featuring a letter from a whistleblower at Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), shared with Newsweek, reveals." The pretext for such an invasion is right from the same little book of lies that they wheeled out for the Ukraine one, including claims that Japan has secret biological warfare centres, along with... "The whistleblower detailed movements of electronic warfare helicopters targeting Japan, while Russia's propaganda machine was also initiated, with a huge push to label Japanese as "Nazis" and "fascists."" Russia Planned To Attack Japan in 2021: Leaked FSB Letters (newsweek.com)

Take a look at the list of the (widely considered to be) smartest people in the world through time, and take a look at a list of the richest people in the world over the ages. I guarantee you won't find many, if any, names appearing on both.

One Christmas, a little boy wrote to Santa Claus saying, “Please send me a sister.” Santa Claus wrote him back, “Okay, please send me your mother.”

A guy decides to buy his new girlfriend a pair of gloves for Christmas. After all, they’ve only been dating for three weeks so it seems like the ideal gift – romantic, yet not too personal. He asks the girlfriend’s younger sister to accompany him to buy them then she can point out a pair she’d like. They go to the mall and the sister points out a pair of white gloves which the guy then buys. The sister then picks up a pair of panties for herself and buys them. But during the wrapping, the clerk mixes up the parcels without anyone realising. As a result, the sister gets the gloves and the guy takes home a gift box containing the panties. Without checking, the guy rushes the gift to his sweetheart, but only after drafting this loving and helpful note to accompany it: “I chose these because I notice you are not in the habit of wearing any when we go out in the evening. If it had not been for your sister, I would have chosen the long ones with the buttons, but she wears the short ones that are easier to remove. These are a delicate shade, but the lady I bought them from showed me a pair she’d been wearing for the last three weeks and they were hardly soiled. I had her try yours on for me and she looked really smart. I wish I was there to put them on for you the first time. There’s no doubt other hands will come in contact with them before I have a chance to see you again. When you take them off remember to blow in them before putting them away, as they will naturally be a little damp from wearing. Just think how many times I will kiss them during the coming year. I hope you will wear them for the coming Christmas Eve. P.S. The latest style is to wear them folded down with a little fur showing.”