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  • in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40288
    Mr P
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    Sonar21 explains, massive bot attack. https://sonar21.com/bot-attack/

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40287
    Mr P
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    Preparata in Chapter 2 Conjuring writes of this in the context of his discussion of the German Revolution of 1919. It’s is in his discussion of course not his focus, but incidental. Specifically that the destruction of as many Russians as possible was part of the reason for the “west” to first support the White forces and then leave them to their fate. It’s complicated. 😉 Zone west played both sides, all sides.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40276
    Mr P
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    And, (gasp!) yet another astonishing random coincidence! At first I thought this was a joke.

    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

    “Ukrainian Resistance to Russian Disinformation: Lessons for Future Conflict | RAND”

    96 page full report>”Ukrainian Resistance to Russian Disinformation: Lessons for Future Conflict”

    https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA2700/RRA2771-1/RAND_RRA2771-1.pdf

    Short article> https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2771-1.html?project=

    “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?” 

    “Russia has disseminated large volumes of false content targeted at Ukrainians, those living in Russia, and global audiences, including those in the United States and Europe. Both Russia’s attempts to sow false narratives and the Ukrainian response during the war provide a unique laboratory for considering how nations can counter disinformation and propaganda during conflict. In this report, the authors seek to distill some of those lessons. They offer a broad case study of Ukraine’s information and counterdisinformation war and highlight key lessons that can help the U.S. national security establishment prepare for and counter disinformation during U.S. contingency operations.”

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40272
    Mr P
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    About declaring war. There’s a legal reason too. Without UNSC approval war is prohibited in Law. Any declaration then without that permission would subject the waring state to all manner of troubles. She’d become, arguably, a pariah state. That said, Japan and Russia remain at war, there being no peace treaty. There may be other un-ended wars, ah dunno, maybe Korea too. Anyway it’d be stupid. Mr Bear is a not-stupid.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40265
    Mr P
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    “Democrats like Biden have accused Russia of interfering in the last two presidential elections. During the 2016 and 2020 campaigns, US intelligence agencies repeatedly claimed that Moscow was deploying hackers and using “information warfare” to swing the vote in favor of Donald Trump.”

    Ok, how come Biden “won” in 2020?

    If seems the suppression of speech and press, which the US Government is prohibited from doing, is being done, so who’s breaking the law anyway? Oh! Wait! I know, it’s on the quiz!

    https://www.rt.com/news/603521-biden-rt-election-disinformation/

    The administration of US President Joe Biden is planning to accuse Russia of meddling in this year’s presidential election, and will announce “law enforcement action” against those supposedly responsible, CNN reported on Wednesday. RT will be the prime target of this action, the network stated.

    The White House will accuse Russia on Wednesday of “a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US elections” by using “Kremlin-run media” to spread so-called “disinformation,” CNN reported, citing US government sources.

    How very shocking! Another coincidence, along with Johnson and Smoothie and all.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40249
    Mr P
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    Garland, a hour. I bear in mind less the substance, what interests me is that he address an audience of the working class and lower portions of the bourgeoise, a class liable precarious lives these days and likely receptive to his approach and language. > https://www.rokfin.com/stream/52168/THE-CRIMINAL-RULING-ELITE–DIABOLICAL–MALICIOUS–AND-CORRUPT

    Subtle title, eh? (I like Garland, he has a boat and likes to go fishin’)

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40246
    Mr P
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    The old guy is out of breath. Short of breath. I wonder what AHH might say about his heart? Not to imply that he has heart. Or rhythm.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40245
    Mr P
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    Монголия опять объединит Китай и Россию – РИА Новости, 03.09.2024

    Mongolia will unite China and Russia again

    https://ria.ru/20240903/mongoliya-1970064986.html

    bear and panda and mongolia unite

    Almost all of Vladimir Putin’s visits to Mongolia have one thing in common — they take place on the anniversary of the battle of Khalkhin Gol: the battles of two armies against Japanese troops in a situation that has not yet formally begun a world war. And now the 85th anniversary of the victory at Khalkhin Gol is being celebrated — and the same number of years since the beginning of World War II: and for the first time, the anniversary falls in wartime. In the 30s, the fire of World War II began in the east — and now what happened in China (at least since 1937) can be considered not just a harbinger, but also the real beginning of World War II. And if you look from this angle, then the victory of Zhukov and Choibalsan over the Japanese in 1939 was our first victory on the way to the Great Victory of 1945. And the Mongols, whose country we defended together, were our first ally.
    In general, our countries are very much connected — and not only in the last hundred years. Eight centuries ago, Russia succumbed to the onslaught of Mongol cavalry and, like much of Eurasia, became part of the Mongol Empire. Then, in the XIII century, the Mongols thus “united” the Russians with the Chinese — but even after the collapse of the unified empire, fate did not separate the Mongols and Russians. We were destined to be neighbors — and a few centuries later we were neighbors again. Now the Russians were moving east, and a number of Mongol peoples (for example, the Buryats) became part of Russia, and Mongolia, which lived under the auspices of the Middle Kingdom, gained independence thanks to Russia. Together with us, it built socialism, was almost the closest ally of all the socialist countries — but even after the change of system, it did not forget about its Russian neighbors. And not only because “geography obliges” (only two neighbors, while China has its own Inner Mongolia) – but also because there is a memory (historical and human) and there are national interests.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40243
    Mr P
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    Biden is not allowed in the Oval Office? Why make a video in a cardboard Studio? One of the best entertainments the world has seen in a long time! Seriously, could they find a smaller IKEA table? Classic, next level absurdity. Think Jim Carey.😂

    This is a ritual of Biden humiliation, we are watching in real time as the curtain rises on the Democratic Party and the Deep State elites.

    And the main slogan of this event is “Invest in America” ​​seriously?
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    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40242
    Mr P
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    Going to sonar21 (Larry Johnson) I get “Error establishing a database connection”

    Yup! Skulduggery afoot.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40241
    Mr P
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    DD Geopolitics
    ℹ️Why doesn’t Putin Declare War?: Domestic Balances and historical trauma

    ➡️One thing often asked online commenting in the chat and on other channels is why Putin doesn’t mobilize Russia fully and throw a million more men at the problem? This also would not work and we will set out why from a domestic point of view. We have set it out from a foreign policy standpoint.

    ➡️For a start, for good and for ill Russia is not the Soviet Union. The Soviet economy was effectively a war economy geared to social objectives through a comprehensive, but often adapted and never fully implemented, Five Year Plan and One Year Plan operational set of documents, decrees and laws. The Russian economy is a market economy with heavy state involvement but it also means that the administrative and political means to go to a war footing simply are not there to the extent they were in the Soviet Union. Furthermore such demands do not take into account Russian realities and yes Russian weaknesses, as well as the costs at all levels demands for further mobilization would entail.

    ➡️Since 1989 Russia’s birth rate has been very low and it’s death rate has been higher than its birth rate. This is due to the collapse of the Soviet socialist economy and system which tore apart the social fabric and institutions. This fabric has been mostly but by no means completely reconstituted under Putin. Income inequality has remained high and wages low. Despite various welfare measures people feel and are less secure than they were in Soviet times meaning they are more reluctant to have children – and this despite tighter restrictions on abortion, and greater religiousity so insisting on more of both will not necessarily lead to higher births. It also means every man killed is a man who cannot father a child and imposes great costs – even from this highly ‘bird’s eye’, strategic and ‘people as numbers’ calculation to say nothing of the incredible emotional pain their loss brings loved ones, friends and comrades.

    ➡️The SMO has dictated that Russia rely a lot less on external imports produce more of everything within its own borders and a triumphant return of the highly skills and technology intensive defense-industrial complex, much of which has been retained from Soviet times. This means wages at long last are beginning to rise and throughout Russia there is a construction boom of housing and industrial refurbishment that is putting money in people’s pockets. But with a war going on, this is not a likely time for people to want to have children due to anxieties, they will wait and see. But the economic resilience in the face of sanctions has created support for the war as it shows rather than suffering the government had prepared the country well for this eventuality and unlike almost any other war in Russian history this time Russia is so far fighting a rich man’s war like the Americans or British have, where war imposes sacrifices, higher taxes, but need not lead to economic destruction, dislocation or even reduced consumption and living standards.

    ➡️The Russian memory of war, especially in the 20th Century is of suffering and starvation on the home front, combined with incredible losses at the front. WWII is a source of great pride, but great trauma. No one is happy about how WWII especially from 1941-1943 was fought, not the army, not the Communist Party, not United Russia and certainly not the broader society. It is made even worse by the fact that two of the most recent major wars, the Afghanistan War and the First Chechen War are associated of times of decline, state abandonment, and in the case of the first Chechen War of being led by an elite completely indifferent to human life, suffering and who seemed to think they owed Russian people nothing and were happy to throw underresourced and untrained men at a problem. Putin does not want to do that as such practices are from Russia’s darkest days.
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    DD Geopolitics
    ℹ️ Why doesn’t Putin Declare War?: International Law and External considerations

    ➡️Throughout the SMO in online commenting in the chat and of course on other channels there is a hope that Putin will ‘upgrade the Special Military Operation’ to a war by declaring…
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    DD Geopolitics
    ➡️These things: demographics, economic potential and historical trauma mean only so much is possible. With the economy at full employment, it means taking men and women out of the civilian workforce producing civilian goods to produce more war goods and more soldiers will lead to a fall in civilian output and with more money chasing fewer goods, higher inflation. Inflation is already running at a moderate level but if it increases the rise in living standards will be lost. Importing more immigrants, as the Crocus City Hall mass terror outrage demonstrates, is also highly problematic. This is not to denigrate immigrants – but it is a reality that earlier rounds of immigration were of either ethnic Russians or non-Russian people raised in the Soviet Union who did not really see Russia or Russians as foreign or their way of doing things as strange. After 33 years this is no longer the case and such sources have been exhausted.

    ➡️Mobilizing more men then raises the question: equip them and provision them how and with what? Any increase in the force must be met with an increase in output to provide the means for such soldiers to fight with proper resources. If that cannot be provided, there is no point, and Russia has neither the societal nor demographic space to tolerate grotesque casualties the way Ukraine does.

    🐻 The means of war – human and material – come from somewhere and they don’t come when you snap your fingers.

    🔴@DDGeopolitics

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40227
    Mr P
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    Some time ago, as the fellers throttled the straits over their objections to  the colonial crime and murder spree in Palestine, we discussed the likely consequences of re-routed traffic ’round the cape…very rough weather, ship stability concerns in bulk carriers (cargo can shift at 20+ roll, and that’s bad) etc etc. Thus here’s Cargo Losses Surge Off South African Coast Amid Red Sea Rerouting

    (Gee whiz, whadda ‘sprise!) 

    Cargo Losses Surge Off South African Coast Amid Red Sea Rerouting

    My opinion takes it a bit deeper, no pun intended, honest! Big ships are flexible. In storms standing on deck the eye can see the ship flex, they roll and twist and yaw. This means that the structure is subject to fatigue and corrosion cracking, deterioration generally. That translates to a fatigue life, or just life-span, taking everything together. When that’s used up the cost of repairs increases, dry docking, patching, all sorts of spendy stuff. There’s a calculus to, approximately anyway, forecast the profitability of building and operating a ship, and the routes intended are a factor. Losing containers at the Cape implies out of design application, which means the ships are wearing out faster than the original calculus forecast. Thus far the process is in the beginning phase, but it will have an expensive effect as time goes by. Multi-year effects. We may also expect some actual disasters at an increased frequency, roll-overs, break ups, maybe spills, depending on how lucky they are and how carefully they’re operated. Of course it may also happen that a global atomic war will stop all traffic, and the ships will simply rust away as ghosts… time will tell.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread #40226
    Mr P
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    Helmer> I have some general misgivings about Brother Helmer. Ah dunno. I’ve bought a few of his books, Skirpal stuff, and so forth. Just general misgivings.

    Anyway, to-day he says stuff about telegram and the hostage feller whatizname.

    PAVEL DUROV, PAUL DU ROVE – FREEDOM OF SPEECH TO PLAY FOOL, STOCK SPECULATOR, FRAUDSTER

    Innarrestin history we witness. (FWIW I personally find the term “ponzi” offensive, Ponzi was not the inventor of the scheme called ponzi…which in modern times was invented in Philadelphia…and therein lies a story best left untold, except over beers on a long social evening.)

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 01 Sep 2024 #40215
    Mr P
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    Hal the fink also says that those Ruskies “Russia has now issued a DIRECT warning to the United States and to NATO “If Western weapons are used to strike deep inside Russia, the consequences will affect both sides of the Atlantic.” The direct warning was HAND DELIVERED by Diplomatic Courier, to the White House.”

    Sorta like when the December “ultimatums” were sent.

    ………..

    And… It’s speculated that there’s funny business in zone DC> https://stonezone.com/whats-going-on-in-the-airspace-above-the-white-house/

    “…theory put out is that the no-fly zone over Washington DC was extended due to the potential start of a hot war between Iran and Israel which could be the kickoff to World War 3. Extending the diameter of the TFR will give the military more time to intercept and potential shoot down an unauthorized aircraft.

    This is why many are speculating the worst could be potentially happening in a short order. The lack of any reasoning behind the diameter increase just adds fuel to the fire of that speculation. There has been no time since 9/11 has the DC TFR been extended, whether it was during the 2020 lockdowns, January 2021, nor was there any extension during the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal in August of 2021. There has to be some National Security risk that is so serious that not only was the diameter extended but essentially made permanent according to the charts.”

    Oh Golly…how surprising. FAFO fellas

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 01 Sep 2024 #40214
    Mr P
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    “Intel Slava Z
    Intel Slava Z
    🇷🇺 🇺🇦Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine deputy Maryana Bezuglaya claims that the attack on the military communications institute in Poltava occurred during the formation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
    🇷🇺 🇺🇦Ten days before the strike on the communications school in Poltava, the local Gauleiter’s entourage was actively advertising the upcoming graduation from this school, pointing out that they were focusing on communications and UAV specialists.

    So to speak, they helped with the tip.”

    Smooth move there fellas…

    ………………..

    Now this is interesting.. https://theduran.locals.com/member/OldManWinters

    The autotranslation is a bit off…

    This medic is livid that, apparently, school kids are pretty much forced to donate blood for Swedish instructors wounded in Poltava. She brings up the fact that people under 18 years old are not eligible to donate and asks uncomfortable questions, such as what are medics supposed to do with fainting children – treat them instead of the wounded military?…

    Wow.

    The Third Reich did something akin, bled ’em dry, only the nutslossen though, oh! wait!

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