Russian State TV have released a report from Gostomel Airport … An-225 “Mriya”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x6oE2bSLlE

Posted by: too scents | Mar 4 2022 8:55 utc | 504

Since it’s clear that Graham actively wants WWIII, his public lusting for Putin to be assassinated is the expression of his deep hope (probably subconscious, since he’s also so stupid and superficial at a conscious level) to replace the objectively moderate, arguably timid and half-hearted, Putin with someone more likely to wage war in the Ukraine more aggressively and be far more aggressive with counter-sanctions like cutting off the gas, confiscating western assets, pulling the plug on western social media, kicking out all western organizations, dealing with the pro-western traitors within etc.
Both the rabid neocons as well as the committed anti-imperialists who see the moment as the now-or-never time to bring down the empire must deplore Putin’s ongoing yearning to find a solution which he wrongly thinks can preserve the globalist system while satisfying Russian security needs and self-respect.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 4 2022 9:04 utc | 506

Graham actively wants
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 4 2022 9:04 utc | 508
—

I took a great deal of pleasure in mischief, which came as naturally to me as verbosity did. But I
think I was conscious, too, that I was giving a performance, that I was expected to entertain folks.
And I knew the more audacious I was the more entertaining I would be. I spent a lot of time just
playing pinball, standing on an overturned Coca Cola crate. When I wasn’t playing pinball, I liked
to sit at the bar with my dad or help mom stock the cooler with beer. But when the place started
to fill in and liven up, I would get my act going. I would strut around the place, sometimes dressed
as a cowboy — hat, vest and plastic six shooters. I might get up on the bar and walk up and down
it while talking to folks. When customers went to the restroom, I might steal their beer and chug
it. I might smoke their cigarette, too, if they left it burning in the ashtray. Those were antics that
earned me the nickname, “Stinkball,” which everyone in the bar except my parents called me.

https://www.lindseygraham.com/ebook/mystory_lindseygraham.pdf

Posted by: too scents | Mar 4 2022 9:12 utc | 508

re the insane crescendo and uniformity of propaganda: I remember thinking at some point in the vaccine mandate insanity, that this must be how Hitler did it.
As many are noticing the veil is suddenly and simultaneously off in many of the liberal democratic countries and the population has no idea that they went from reasonable and mostly tolerant human beings to mindless followers of rabid fascists in less than a few years. That’s cognitive dissonance for you, an utter incapacity to believe what is in front of all our eyes because it’s being done by the same old familiar people that we vote for all the time on both sides of that oh so trustable political divide.

Posted by: K | Mar 4 2022 9:15 utc | 510

Posted by: Olivier | Mar 4 2022 7:58 utc | 490
Yup. And how to find them and track them down. That’s what the Chechens are for.
Posted by: Menz | Mar 4 2022 8:09 utc | 492
That may be what the US expects – but they’re gonna be, “Son – I am disappoint” (if you remember that joke.)
All:
I just watched this video by Nate, the “Canadian Prepper”, who runs a store selling survival gear to preppers. He’s not a wild-eyed nut, although once in a while he gets hyperbolic on his channel. But, hey, gotta sell that merchandise, right? I’ve been more or less following the guy over the last year, 18 months or more. Over the last few weeks he’s been talking about Ukraine. I sent him an email a couple weeks ago laying out the facts because he was getting it wrong, i.e.. figuring it was just a Putin power play, etc. The usual misinformation. I’ve sent him a lot of links and info over the last couple weeks.
Today he posted a video saying he got a letter or email from a guy he knows at a company that sells personal protective equipment, gas masks and stuff. That guy said his company received an order from the government for 10,000 sets of this stuff – destination: Europe – to be delivered within the next 48 hours. Guy figures other companies are being asked to supply this stuff as well – maybe enough for millions of people. I’m inclined to doubt that last, but maybe scores of thousands would make sense – especially if you were outfitting a group of mercenaries for Ukraine.
Nate also says in the video that he got a letter from someone in the Austrian military who says the Austrian government has reactivated – and newly stocked – a secret underground bunker in the mountains, to which the senior members of the government were whisked away to for an “exercise”. Now, I don’t particularly give that one too much credence since Nate doesn’t know the guy, unlike the first guy. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it were true. It seems the governments are accelerating their plans to survive WWIII.
Anyway, check out Nate’s video and see what you think. He seems to be slowly waking up to the idea that the MSM is not telling the truth on this stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9vTlBtA_-0

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 9:27 utc | 512

Roger | Mar 4 2022 9:11 utc | 509
Novoaidar I believe.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Mar 4 2022 9:31 utc | 514

Been watching “war porn” lately so as to get an idea of the Russian hardware currently in use. This sort of stuff in this videos is impressive:
Massive Fire On target! TOS1-A, BM-30 Smerch 9K58, Tornado-G, BM-27 Uragan in Action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzcQ-hDX3V4
Massive Fire !!!! Why Russia’s TOS-1 MLRS ‘Buratino’ Is No Joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGYLgQk5xDo
insane Fire of BM-27 Uragan “Ураган”- Russian 220 mm Multiple Rocket Launcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeJf93-yzEY
Just How Powerful Russia’s Terrifying TOS 1A Thermobaric Rocket Launchers Now In Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGXnb0uFMGM

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 9:38 utc | 516

too scents | Mar 4 2022 9:12 utc | 510
He’s like a synthetically produced tool, with zero human quality or agency, purely there to be used by a higher force, whether that force be secret wire-pullers, or the force of history, the wrath of God etc.
In this he’s typical of all officials of all western institutions.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 4 2022 9:56 utc | 518

Germans discussing the idiocy of the sanctions.
Use your page translate.

Putin has just baited the west into unleashing a whole flock of black swans.
By inducing the West to impose severe economic sanctions and deflate banks, America has fallen for Putin’s tactical genius, triggering a series of events that will inevitably mean the demise of the dollar and the collapse of America. The reasons for this are as follows:

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 4 2022 10:02 utc | 520

Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 9:27 utc | 514
Swiss have ready made bunkers leftover from WWII. As I understood, every home built in Switzerland had to have a bunker for survival, fully stocked.
Das geheime Militärbunker-Netzwerk der Schweizer Alpen
https://www.nationalgeographic.de/geschichte-und-kultur/2021/02/reduit-das-geheime-militaerbunker-netzwerk-der-schweizer-alpen

Posted by: Oui | Mar 4 2022 10:28 utc | 522

Oui | Mar 4 2022 10:28 utc | 524
“Swiss have ready made bunkers leftover from WWII. As I understood, every home built in Switzerland had to have a bunker for survival, fully stocked.”
Since the Swiss chose now of all times to disavow their neutrality and buy in to the empire’s side at the highest price, therefore rendering nuclear war more likely (each government, each individual that sides with the US makes this outcome more likely), I suppose it’s good that they’re so prepared.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 4 2022 10:37 utc | 524

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 4 2022 10:37 utc | 526
It is already a long time since Switzerland submitted to the beast.

Posted by: Olivier | Mar 4 2022 10:53 utc | 526

Andrei Martyanov’s assessment as of Thursday…
Ukraine March 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQkmrZQIl3s
He explicitly says that because of the range of the Zircon hypersonic missile, 1500km or 850 nautical miles, it can hit US carrier groups from outside their air defenses, including the aircraft sensor net spread out to 250 miles usually from the CG itself, which basically shuts down US fleets operating in the oceans anywhere within range of the Zircon.
Re Ukraine, he says Russia will be taking the entire coastline up to Transnistria. The cauldron around the eastern Ukraine forces is about closed and that operation may begin at any time. As for Kiev, he points out “how do you lose a war when you encircle the capital city?”
Re the bigger picture, he says this is just the start of an overall operation to essentially cut the West off from the rest of the world (in concert with China.) The world will be a multipolarity with the US on the weaker side. Russia is in conflict with the US in several places such as Syria, which might be next up on the agenda.
Worth a listen.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 11:03 utc | 528

@reante #423
You are really stupid.
Energy consumption is seasonal.
That’s why people who understand it, use annual averages.

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 4 2022 11:15 utc | 530

Fallout shelters reflect Swiss fear of extinction (2009)
Switzerland is unique in many ways: for example every citizen has a right to a fallout shelter place, even 20 years after the end of the Cold War and the nuclear threat. The bunker isnt just a fixture in private homes. Underneath public spaces a science-fiction underworld has been built over the past decades.
What’s Inside a Swiss Bomb Shelter that is in every home in Switzerland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rP_KLKJH7c

Posted by: Oui | Mar 4 2022 11:19 utc | 532

Fun video from Richard Medhurst analyzing the stupid calls for a no-fly-zone in Ukraine. I like Medhurst, he takes no prisoners with regard to the morons in the US government. He’s happy to call any of them “simpletons.” He shows a number of videos illustrating the idiots. Worth a look, although it might not be anything particularly new for some of us.
The West Pushes for No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine _ Risk of Nuclear Conflict
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YQ604AaXD4

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 11:25 utc | 534

Posted by: c1ue & @ Karlof1
I know you you would appreciate this information, from the AFR:
I”…It’s the stock that so many global “value” fund managers hate to love. The world’s largest gas company that has become a foreign policy tool for Vladimir Putin is in the bargain bin of some Aussie fund managers and in the too hard basket for others.
By any valuation metric, the shares of Russian energy giant Gazprom which are listed on the Moscow Stock Exchange and in London via authorised depository receipts, are a steal. Among its owners are the Future Fund, Lazard, and top performing Perth fund Packer & Co, all long term holders.
But steal is the operative word for investors that claim Gazprom, which is half owned by the Russian government, could leave investors empty handed. With sanctions targeting Russian companies imposed by the US and the West, the faith of investors in this energy giant which controls 17 per cent of the world’s oil reserves is being tested….”

Posted by: Paul | Mar 4 2022 11:40 utc | 536

@Paul #538
I wrote a post in OP about the risk of the depository receipts.
The operative word is: “if”
In real life, the depository receipt is actually a completely different company that does nothing but promise that every one of its shares is matched by an actual share in the Moscow/St. Petersburg stock exchanges on which Gazprom is actually listed.
If the Russian, American and/or British governments don’t break the link between the depository receipts and the actual stock, then Gazprom is a great deal on American and British stock exchanges.
In the current environment – I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. It is a multi-bagger if relations normalize but a zero-out if a force majeur situation comes into play – meaning it is unquestionably not worth putting significant investment into, IMO.
For those who are Russian and can buy Gazprom directly, it is a different story. Marc Faber just noted that of all the stocks and stock markets around right now, only the Russian ones are anywhere remotely “a bargain” but that he wouldn’t touch it unless he were a huge multinational like Glencore or a Russian citizen, so it isn’t just me.

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 4 2022 11:50 utc | 538

we need a good view of what NATO/US has been up to in Ukraine. The threshold for war in international is very high. It was a surprise that Russia decided to go for war and regime change because while accepting that their policy is grounded in realpolitik the threshold would still be high, and they would need an urgent reason. If the whole design is more long term then the threshold becomes lower, the aggression more open and the actions become more indefensible.
After all however aggressive Ukraine gets, they are still small and Russia should be able to stick to the reactive strategy: we don’t start. So on the face of it their threshold was lowered, as happens with ‘running out of patience’ or ‘going offensive’.
NATO involvement can be in the form of presence, infrastructure, exhortation, offensive plans. Some Ukrainians clearly intended to go to war with Russia. What was the progress in nuclear armament of Ukraine and in the ascension to NATO? Was there an intention to finally retake Donbass and Crimea? To what extent are the actual deliveries of Javelins (more an example than a core issue)simply a smokescreen for what is already there?

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Mar 4 2022 12:03 utc | 540

And while we are o so worried that a tiny item of Russian propaganda might seep through, Ukraine gets full freedom and the full awareness that they can abuse this anyway they want. The scare around the nuclear powerstations should be seen in that light. I don’t think Russia bothers much about propaganda in the west. Authoritarian regimes don’t rely on it much. Democratic regimes may rely on it very strongly. I see no mention of it in the domestic flemish press that Azov troops are in Mariupol and that they are very well capable of any al qaeda trick in the book, including human shields and false flag attacks.

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Mar 4 2022 12:09 utc | 542

“All that we CAN objectively say about the universal CONTINUUM is that the past and the future both absolutely exist, and that the present does not.”
by: reante | Mar 3 2022 16:54 utc | 133
I strongly disagree. The present is merely an infinitely small slice. How small?
1-0.999… Okay. Approximately zero.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Mar 4 2022 12:16 utc | 544

If one is in a city probably need to get out before any launch. Once the missiles are in the air I’d guess chaos will ensue and the roads out will be unnavigable.
Posted by: Haassaan | Mar 4 2022 8:47 utc | 505

This sounds more like an act of desperation than anything else — even if you’re not in my part of the USA, where there’s no shortage of targets but relatively few population centers of consequence. One would be much better advised to head toward Ground Zero, as instant vaporization is infinitely preferable to protracted agony.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 4 2022 12:26 utc | 546

Rufus Arrr | Mar 4 2022 3:11 utc | 416
well done! as many others here have already experienced, when one tries to explain this to other US Americans, the typical response is glazed over eyes followed by accusations of hating Murka. Much like the movie “don’t look up” we will probably all just have to watch the whole thing unfold knowing exactly how it will happen and be powerless to do anything about it.
and gobble those yummy steaks while we can still afford them.

Posted by: dan of steele | Mar 4 2022 12:33 utc | 548

@oldhippie #533
The reality is that the US’ oil consumption vs. production patterns have changed since the advent of shale fracking.
If you look at the period before shale fracking, 5-6 mbd imports would be accurate – although even those raw import numbers are misleading because the US exports a very large amount of “petroleum products”. As I noted in an earlier post – petroleum products are actually what matters since it is the processed output of crude which is actually used: plastics, gasoline, heating oil, jet fuel, industrial inputs, asphalt, diesel, motor oil etc etc.
A lot of the peak oil people’s quibbles have to do with shale producing “NGLs” and that NGLs aren’t oil. Yes, that’s literally true but again nobody uses unprocessed crude oil – they use the outputs of refined crude oil and NGLs are also processed into the various final petroleum products which are actually used.
But we are post-shale fracking. So long as oil prices are over $70 – the shale oil producers remaining will have no problem keeping up for at least a decade, and NGLs in turn process into the various usable petroleum products.
The “peak oil” people have been literally correct but objectively wrong, every single time, since the advent of Hubbert due to the advent of new technologies ranging from new exploration regimes and methods, new refining methods, new drilling methods etc etc.
Besides shale, for example, another major change was due to improved cracking. Cracking is the breakup of more of the large complex hydrocarbons in crude oil into the more valuable, smaller hydrocarbons; cat cracking is the use of a catalytic converter to do this in a much more controlled and efficient manner.
Here is an overview of what a refiner does.

Refining
Crude oil will boil at approximately 150 degrees Fahrenheit, 450 degrees, 750 degrees, and 900 degrees. Each fraction vaporizes at these approximate temperatures, while others are left behind. When a container of crude is heated to a boil and held at one of the boiling temperatures, some of the crude will vaporize. This first boil is the lightest fraction (which may be butane or other light fractions.) The second boil will remove the gasoline, the third will remove naphtha and so on. This process of boiling and reboiling a batch of crude oil is the simplest form of refining, or distillation; it is commonly called batch distillation.
However, this process of boiling off fractions of crude oil is not the most efficient way to produce petroleum products. In the 1920s, fractional distillation was developed. In this method, petroleum is heated then piped into a distillation column or fractionation tower. Inside the tower or column are perforated trays, which catch liquid petroleum products at various levels and drain the separated components off to storage or further processing. The benefits to distilling in the towers include increased efficiency, less labor, and simpler facility construction. In fact, distilling crude oil is most efficient and least expensive when done in two steps: first, fractioning at atmospheric pressure, then feeding the residuum from the first column into a vacuum tower and distilling again.
…
Fluid Catalytic Cracking
If the refinery is equipped for it, longer hydrocarbons can be broken into shorter ones with fluid catalytic cracking, or “cat cracking.” This is done at high temperatures and pressures, with the assistance of a catalyst, a chemical which helps a reaction along without being used up in the reaction itself. US Oil and Refining Co. contracts with another facility to perform these operations.
First, the fractions may need to be treated to remove impurities. Then flasher tops and bottoms are mixed with a catalyst in the cat cracker to create smaller and more valuable molecules. This is done at 650 – 1100 degrees Fahrenheit. Cat cracking breaks molecules, but will form the full range of hydrocarbons as well as coke, or pure carbon. These can then be distilled as in regular operations, to create a wider range of hydrocarbons from the heavies coming from straight run distillation.

There absolutely will be a point in the future when absolute oil production *and* absolute petroleum product production peaks.
But we are not there yet and won’t be for the foreseeable future (decade plus).

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 4 2022 12:49 utc | 550

Posted by: Arioch | Mar 4 2022 11:55 utc | 541
https://en.topwar.ru/193063-v-komandovanii-nm-dnr-zajavili-chto-raketnyj-udar-po-baze-nacbata-azov-nanesli-ukrainskie-voennye.html

Posted by: Olivier | Mar 4 2022 12:57 utc | 552

@Tuyzentfloot #542
Unless something magical has happened, I don’t see any form of non-nuclear direct NATO military intervention in Ukraine in the next 3 months.
This is based on the following:
I have yet to see a credible dispute to Scott Ritter’s assertion that US and EU militaries are completely unable to match up to equivalent Russian military formations, much less than the literal multiples that exist in reality.
For example: Germany’s entire military is roughly the size of the 1st Tank Army by itself. If it can’t match up, one on one, then it needs to have more numbers or some other reinforcing factor like air superiority.
And note that while the US’ military is large – it is also scattered all over the world. Scott Ritter specifically noted that the US is not able to field more than a single brigade in Europe, in addition to what is already there, without extensive and long duration preparation.
There is other objective evidence for this: German, UK and Ukrainian forces in Afghanistan were literally stranded when the US pulled out – and the US pulled out while leaving behind seemingly their entire logistics tail and a lot of their equipment.
Thus the shipments of Javelins or whatever need to be taken in context of whether the US/EU can even literally be able to mount credible military operations vs. the Russian military force presently deployed in Ukraine: the answer seems to be no at this time.
And so these shipments are literally like the Afghanistan/mujahideen policies of the 1980s, except that Ukraine is a pancake while Afghanistan is a rocky maze. If the Ukraine army had the Javelins and were prepared ahead of time – maybe it would have mattered but it is far from clear it makes any difference now that the Russian military has already broken through borders and front lines, unless Putin really has decided to occupy Ukraine permanently.
The same can be said for the Stingers – it is one thing to shoot a Stinger while playing hide and seek in a mountain/hill maze, it is another thing to do it while on a grassy steppe.
Note the above isn’t my analysis – it is what a number of ex-military people have said.
As for “no fly” zone over Ukraine – that would require enforcement, which in turn would require neutralizing Russian air defenses all along the Russian, Belarussian borders as well as in Ukraine. Might as well declare open war and be done with it.

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 4 2022 13:15 utc | 554

Might as well declare open war and be done with it.
Posted by: c1ue | Mar 4 2022 13:15 utc | 556
—
That would only increase the humiliation.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 4 2022 13:21 utc | 556

imo 493; what you’re describing has little to do with Nixon, (though it started there) but the real difference was the ending of the progressive tax code. That kept the financial excess in check. From WW2 till Reagan we had zero systemic bank failures, once Reagan destroyed the progressive tax code; speculation was encouraged, and it wasn’t long till we had the SnL crisis, then the Dotcom bubble, then O8, and the bubble looming now. Financiers, execs, and lobbyists were capped out and couldn’t take any more money out of the system without the Gov’t getting 70%, so anything more was “vanity” Before, execs were limited, so extra profits were put back into the firm, or employees; the higher the nominal tax rate, the greater the incentive; that’s why we weren’t socialist under Ike’s 91% top tax rate; it was VERY good for capital reinvestment; under low taxes firms strip their firms, off-shoring production to bonus the execs.

Posted by: ScottinDallas | Mar 4 2022 13:29 utc | 558

as to the timing, there are reports Russia waited till the Olympics were over, in consideration of the Chinese; Winter is just breaking, meaning it’s the maximal time till next Winter; Soldiers and hunters like to get out before dawn, leaves the entire day for “activities”

Posted by: ScottinDallas | Mar 4 2022 14:09 utc | 560

On Ukraine’s Zaporozhskaya nuclear power plant and the attack it came under.
“The mayor of the nearby town of Energodar had originally reported that the fire had been caused by Russian shelling, and that the blaze had engulfed the power plant itself, but the emergency services dismissed the latter claim.”
And.
“According to the spokesman, the Ukrainian forces had attacked Russian soldiers at about 2am local time, opening heavy fire from the training facility next to the power station in order to “provoke a retaliatory strike on the building.”
The Russian patrol had neutralized the group’s firing points, but the saboteurs had then set fire to the training facility as they retreated”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 4 2022 14:20 utc | 562

i bet the Guardian still hasn’t removed that infamous Luke Harding story about Assange meeting Manafort at the Ecuadoran embassy.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Mar 4 2022 14:34 utc | 564

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 3 2022 23:14 utc | 318

The Empire’s deception of its own people and the world is an evil marvel surpassing anything attempted/accomplished by either the USSR or Nazi Germany.
Agree. In the words of Harold Pinter from 2005

The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.
Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.
It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.

Thanks for all your comments and links, karlof1

Posted by: cirsium | Mar 4 2022 14:40 utc | 566

@ pretzelattack | Mar 4 2022 14:34 utc | 566
In fact it’s right here:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-held-secret-talks-with-assange-in-ecuadorian-embassy
Note the lack of retraction, clarification, whatever at the end.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 4 2022 14:47 utc | 568

@ pretzelattack | Mar 4 2022 14:58 utc | 571
True. I remember when comments would be opened up on articles about serious news. I guess I shouldn’t miss it; that’s where/how Eliot Higgins got his start (as “Brown Moses,” spewing garbage about the Syria war).
Now comments are open only on sports, entertainment, and “why won’t my guy give me better orgasms” articles, as well as — sometimes — the weekly attempts of Robert Reich to invoke the Tinkerbell Effect.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 4 2022 15:04 utc | 570

From https://www.rt.com/news/551236-no-nato-warplanes-ukraine/
Stoltenberg in Poland:

NATO is a defense alliance. Our core task is to keep our 30 nations safe. We are not part of this conflict. And we have a responsibility to ensure it does not escalate and spread beyond Ukraine,” he said. “NATO is not seeking a war with Russia.”

NATO is US and US *is* at war with Russia (maybe not fully kinetic yet) so Stoltenberg is lying as usual.

Stoltenberg claimed credit for training and arming tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops over the years, saying this allowed them to fend off the Russian attack now.

Posted by: Idiocrates | Mar 4 2022 15:21 utc | 572

Greg Galloway 497,
Ok thanks Greg. Understood.
It’s clear to me, based on simple, pure Reason that since we know that energy is the only component of reality that is measurable with instrumentation, and that our living experience makes it indubitably obvious that that which we refer to as consciousness is applying itself to energy in order for the energy to become animated, we must conclude that reality is what we can loosely refer to as holographic.
Watching life become born, and grow, and become weathered — phenomena that take place outside of our head — is also simple indubitable evidence of the passage of time. The indubitable evidence itself is the memory of the passage of time, and that mirroring process in our head, of which you speak, are but metaconscious echoes of the living memory recordings on the universal fabric.

Posted by: reante | Mar 4 2022 15:24 utc | 574

Greg Galloway 503,
copy that. 🙂

Posted by: reante | Mar 4 2022 15:32 utc | 576

Posted by: Kadath | Mar 4 2022 4:29 utc | 440
I would call that a war crime, Kadath.

Posted by: juliania | Mar 4 2022 15:36 utc | 578

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 9:38 utc | 518
I don’t know if anyone else already mentioned it, but Russia is not using thermobaric (fuel-air, vacuum or what ever they also call it) ammo in Ukraine. NATO said few days ago they have no proof for that.
Reasons are multiple (humanitarian mostly), as that kind of weapons make gruesome wounds and is extremely effective against dug in infantry/bunkers/soft targets.

Posted by: Abe | Mar 4 2022 15:40 utc | 580

@Richard Steven Hack | 514
Yeah sure, a guy who sells his ‘outdoor preparedness’ stuff and has some old Russian stock to clear knows stuff because an Austrian friend of his told him? Shit, must be true. And even if it is, think about it: if nukes start flying there will be no need for masks. It will be species game over. I wish those ‘leaders’ in 300m underground bunkers good luck.
Lets not lose our heads just yet.

Posted by: Idiocrates | Mar 4 2022 15:41 utc | 582

“Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?” Sen. Lindsay Graham Tweeted on Thursday night.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 4 2022 14:06 utc | 561
Still trying to fight by proxy. Mr. Graham should just have come and do it.

Posted by: Arioch | Mar 4 2022 15:46 utc | 584

Rumors that Zelensky is now in Poland
https://t.me/intelslava/21484

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 4 2022 15:47 utc | 586

@Norwegian | 588

Rumors that Zelensky is now in Poland

I guess that means the negotiations are over. Brave stuff all round.

Posted by: Idiocrates | Mar 4 2022 15:51 utc | 588

“The ICC (International Criminal Court) is in the process of accepting the Ukraine’s complaint of war crimes or crimes against humanity against Russia and Belarus in the Ukraine. (Israel and Palestine comes to mind and also the Yemen). The complainer has to have membership of course, but the ICC has awarded a quasi membership to Ukraine from nowhere.”
This conflict has expose the shady underbelly of so called Western authorative bodies for what they really are biased and corrupt.
Coca Cola will remain in Russia, I suppose US/UK spooks need somewhere to hide.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 4 2022 15:52 utc | 590

Sputnik on Zelenskys whereabouts:
https://sputniknews.com/20220304/zelensky-left-ukraine-for-poland-russian-state-duma-speaker-says-1093588232.html

Posted by: Jörgen Hassler | Mar 4 2022 15:55 utc | 592

@Jörgen Hassler | 594
Re: Zelensky in Poland
There is so much BS coming from the West, it could be the Russian’s turn to spread some. Let’s see what happens next…

Posted by: Idiocrates | Mar 4 2022 16:08 utc | 594

@Republicofscotland | 597

[…] how long before the pogroms begin in Europe, and Russians are killed I wonder.

I don’t consider that is likely. Who would be doing those pogroms?
The West is stealing all things Russian because they have realized they’ve gone too far already and are panicking because they are scared of what is coming next.

Posted by: Idiocrates | Mar 4 2022 16:20 utc | 596

“THE BBC will “temporarily suspend” the work of all its BBC News journalists and support staff in Russia after authorities passed legislation.”
“The Russian parliament approved a law on Friday that would make it a criminal offence to spread “fake” or “false” news about the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.”
A wise move by Russia as the BBC is nothing but one big state propaganda machine.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 4 2022 16:39 utc | 598

“@reante | 208
Maybe that’s you in polite-mode, I don’t know, but I’m inclined to think that group analysis is better off if we all just mean what we say.
“Sure, but equally, I suggest we should endeavour to avoid making categorical statements.”
yeah I know I’m a hyperconfident bore. Sorry about that.
“(You said that you believe duality has since been confirmed. What is your evidence?)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4926
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s_interference_experiment“
I’m not following you here. Again, it would have helped if had explained yourself rather than plonk down a link without comment. The wave-particle duality that you promoted in your previous comment, that I then refuted and requested evidence for, is not supported by this link. On the contrary, the experiment featured in the link supports wave-only nonduality.
Energy, by definition, is a continuum. A dynamic continuum.
“That is definitely and obviously wrong. First of all, not by definition, but by experiments supporting the Standard Model of Quantum Mechanics. This is what Max Planck discovered and got his Nobel Prize for in 1918 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck). Until such time as he realized energy was quantized, his calculations kept coming up wrong. Infinity is not a real physical concept. It is just a mathematical model of something.”
The link didn’t yield anything. Quantized energy is a sample of energy that has been closely examined by powerful machinery. The quanta ARE NOT individualized phenomena. A single quantum measurement is either a measurement of a location of outstanding angular momentum along a continuous (continuum) wavefunction, or a measurement of the detectable radiation given off by that angular momentum. Quantum science is a measurable proof of my simple statement that energy (a wavefunction) is indeed a continuum.
You’re correct that infinity does not exist just like paradoxes do not exist. They are indeed totally pointless mental constructs. That said, infinity itself is totally irrelevant to this conversation. Continuums and infinity are unrelated; one exists and the other doesn’t, for starters.
Again, energy is a dynamic continuum, and continuums have no parts, and therefore no stopping and starting points. THIS is why the human mental construct of ‘time’ does not objectively exist.
“Again, wrong – especially the formulation. Although it could be said that time does not exist, it is not because ‘energy is a continuum’ but simply because we do not know what it is. I mentioned before the ideas of Lee Smolin. I really think you should look into them if you ‘worry’ about time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Reborn. His earlier book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_the_Cosmos is one of the more interesting books on cosmology I’ve encountered.”
I did not say that time does not exist. It absolutely does exist. What I said was that the human metacognition of time doesn’t objectively exist; as in, seconds, minutes, and hours. This is why I put ‘time’ in quotes. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
Just because you don’t know what time is doesn’t mean that it isn’t able to be practically conceptualized; Greg’s boiling time down to (the) cause-and-effect (continuum) is a sublime example of doing so.
FWIW, I have ‘my own’ cosmology called the Home Cosmology. It’s analogous to Dmitry Orlov’s language learning system. Simple and Reason-based, for purposes of practicality.
We can KNOW that the Past exists because the evidence that applied consciousness — Life — leaves an imprint on the universe, that Life constitutes a universal memory is everywhere: dinosaur fossils are still taking up space in the universe are they not?
“Wrong again. All we can say about the ‘past’ is that in the ’cause-effect relationship’ it is the cause of an effect: you see some bones in the ground, you use your dating techniques, you decide/measure they happened before you saw them and now you deduce that it was a dinosaur’s death that caused them to be in the ground for you to find. The best you can say about time is that it is an ordering of cause and effect.
As far as I know all laws of physics work the same way if you turn time in the opposite direction. I think the only ‘exception’ (and it isn’t really) to this is the II Law of Thermodynamics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics).”
You don’t say WHY I’m wrong, and you’re just saying the same thing as me and your just putting it another way. 🙂
As for reversing time, that idea has no place in any reason-based conversation. It may have a place in esoteric realms such as with the spiritual quote Juliana posted, but the buck stops there.
The universe doesn’t do time reversal because effect can’t become cause and cause can’t become effect.
“Albert Einstein once wrote: People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Time, in other words, he said, is an illusion. Many physicists since have shared this view, that true reality is timeless.
I think this is enough. I need to turn to other things. Take care and peace.
Posted by: Idiocrates | Mar 4 2022 9:56 utc | 519”
well I hope that wasn’t an appeal to authority because Einstein was wrong. He got lucky in saying the Present doesn’t exist,which it doesn’t because time is a seamless ‘record’ of the universal energetic continuum, but he was still wrong. Presumably because he spent far too much of his life in offices and laboratories and his own headspace and not enough time outside in nature. He was isolated from nature. Lost, in other words, hyperintelligent as he was. All we have to do is look at his actions to see what an utter fool he was capable of being.
We’re all talking about his bomb right now aren’t we. The stupid motherfucker.
I know you got your fill of this, brother. No need to reply.
Thank you.

Posted by: reante | Mar 4 2022 17:08 utc | 600