james | May 8 2023 6:50 utc | 195
I sent b an email. Nothing happened. I guess the bar is just getting a bit rougher. What b has grown here will disappear if b cannot stand behind the bar with baseball bat in hand and shotgun under the bar.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 8 2023 7:12 utc | 204

⚡️Mogilization in Ukrainian in the city of Dnipro😁
#APU #Mobilization #Mogilization #ZSU #Ukraine
https://t.me/llordofwar/135384
🔥Neo-Nazis are scheduled to retreat to Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka. Planning is evident
https://t.me/llordofwar/135349

Posted by: unimperator | May 8 2023 7:21 utc | 206

Posted by: John Kennard | May 8 2023 7:01 utc | 203
The matter of fact that this is the best strategy to keep oneself somewhat sane is epitome to the sad states of affairs.
When stating facts challenging perceived reality of a majority of the people around you leads to emotional outbursts making you go silent – then the times are indeed as dire as can be.

Posted by: kspr | May 8 2023 7:39 utc | 208

Obvious answer: they’re not afraid of the consequences which will properly be very limited in scope. Why that would be is up for discussion.
Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 8 2023 7:09 utc | 205

If Russia uses nukes in Ukraine, it will give NATO carte blanche to use nukes wherever they want, which has been a taboo until now.
Iran, Syria, etc.
Russia will never use nukes in Ukraine (it has been stated many times), for the simple reason that it would be nuking itself as Ukraine is core historic Russian territory.
But even if the first ring of neighboring countries — Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Finland, etc. — or even places further west in Europe do get glassed, that is still OK for the US. Those were lined up as pawns to be sacrificed (and thus written off) a long time ago, and the sellout local elites went with it.

Posted by: shadowbanned | May 8 2023 7:52 utc | 210

zelensky rewrites history changing may 9th to “Europe Day”
we defeated facism and will defeat ruscism.
insanity on steroids

Posted by: hankster | May 8 2023 7:58 utc | 212

Our source in the OP said that Zelensky will not freeze the front line and negotiate under the mediation of the UN (Korean scenario).
Bankova is aware that this will be a verdict on the policy of the President, who refused to sign Istanbul-1 and preferred a military scenario a year ago, rather than recognizing Crimea and Donetsk and Luhansk for Russia.
Preparations for the counteroffensive continue, and the Office of the President takes into account possible negative scenarios in the implementation of the Azov operation.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/17665

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 8:18 utc | 214

Serious question:
Could it be that a lot of the Wagner contracts (6 month as far as I know) are running out now?
Could it be that the replacement by other RF was planned all along and Prigozhin really tried to “take the city” before?
If yes it would explain the whole drama.. to fight for symbolic goals is never a good idea anyway. Ukraine wasted a lot of men to hold on – and I’m afraid also Wagner by trying to counter that.
Russia does not need to please any money donors to keep the show running – Ukraine MUST – and that is their dilemma.

https://t.me/geromanat/6131

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 8:22 utc | 216

The SMO has more dimensions and they are enlarging.
“Prigozhin Releases Yet Another Explosive Expose of MoD Treachery
Read it and weep.”

Before this whole showdown between Shoigu and Prigozhin got resolved, Prigozhin released yet more damning information on the treachery of the Russian MoD in the form of a Q and A. There is some shocking stuff revealed in this document and it totally corroborates the main claims of this blog and the numerous summaries of the Not-War that I have provided. I was going to include it in my big paywall article, but I figured the public’s need to know outweighed my desire to secure my $1000 of UBI, so I decided to cut this except out of the larger, amazing, top-notch article and make it public, with the hopes that you will use it as a weapon of truth with which to continue the attack on the 5D grifters who have been lying about this war and the state of affairs within Russia for more than a year now.

From: The Slavland Chronicles

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 8 2023 8:29 utc | 218

” Then look at the video’s of Wagner soldiers crossing themselves before icons in a partially destroyed church:
Posted by: Anthony | May 8 2023 8:21 utc | 217 ”
There are no atheists in a trench.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 8 2023 8:35 utc | 220

” Nazi @ 204 I know your real name,
and I know you know I know your real name.
Posted by: Mark2 | May 8 2023 7:13 utc | 207 ”
Thanks for proving my point moron. A Nazi here, a Nazi there, a Nazi everywhere. Please go play in traffic now.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 8 2023 8:40 utc | 222

Mark2 | May 8 2023 6:55 utc | 201
An email I sent to my sister a few hours ago.
I often think about what we have previous talked about and your understanding of the world. Something you asked me one time was how to understand what is the truth.
Sometimes that is complex and takes a lot of research but sometimes it is very easy , though from years of researching and watching various events,
modus operandi of the various players can be seen which helps to know where too look.
Take Taiwan – Media like Reuters use terminology like “Russia claims as its own”. Various terms are used throughout the propaganda media that make people think Taiwan is not part of China.
For that it is a matter of simply looking US government sites.
https://history.state.gov/countries/china
Establishment of Diplomatic Relations with PRC/Termination of Diplomatic Relations with the Republic of China, 1979.
On January 1, 1979, the United States recognized the PRC and established diplomatic relations with it as the sole legitimate government of China. On the same day, the United States withdrew its recognition of, and terminated diplomatic relations with, the Republic of China as the government of China.
Closing of U.S. Embassy at Taipei, 1979.
The U.S. embassy in Taipei was closed on February 28, 1979.
Opening of U.S. Embassy at Beijing, 1979.
The U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing was converted to an Embassy on March 1, 1979, and Leonard F. Woodcock, who had been head of the Liaison Office, was appointed.
…………….
I have found the official US document before in online in US Gov archives but does not come up in a quick search. The great Uyghur genocide. More US propaganda. China had a Islamic terrorist problem that was sponsored by US, UK and most likely Turkey.
https://thediplomat.com/2017/12/is-chinas-uyghur-challenge-changing-its-calculus-on-syria/
“ETIM had established a marginal presence in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan but was dealt a major blow when its leader, Hasan Mahsum, was killed by the Pakistani military in Waziristan in October 2003. TIP emerged as a successor organization in 2005 closely aligned with al-Qaeda and based in the Pakistani tribal areas.”That is a terrorist organization no different to and fought with AQ and ISIS in Syria
In 2014, Abbott told they had to bat for the home team. I think it was around that time or perhaps a year before that the Guardian had its computers destroyed over the Snowden information.
There has been no mainstream free media in the west since that time. The Alina Lipp interview that I sent the link to in the last Email., she spoke a bit on how much here friends, Germany had changed in the last eight or ten years. She was hesitant to say it but then said she felt the people were all brainwashed.
Ukraine – a weasel word term is used. “Russian speakers”. Ukraine has basically three parts. Ethnic Russian east, Russian speaking center, Galicia with its derivative of a Kievan Russ dialect that is now called the Ukraine language.
Since 2014, seven million ethnic Russian or Russian speaking Ukrainians have gone to Russia as refugees.
We watch the rise of fascism in Europe and the full support of Nazism in Ukraine by the west.
US elite is divided. The democrats want to destroy Russia first then China, the republicans lean more to pulling out of the war on Russia to attack China.
UK elite are fanatical about destroying Russia and work with the American democrats.
The only thing that will prevent Australia going into a war of aggression against China is the US getting bogged down in its war against Russia.
Hong Kong only gained democracy when it handed back to China. Prior to that it was ruled by British installed governors.
Beijing, The American organized riots that occurred there when Gorbachev went to Beijing to sign a friendship treaty at the time China was opening up to the world.
That other video I sent you in the last email. “The changing world order” Those intersecting ballistic arcs. We are now at the inflection point of collapsing anglo dominance of the world and the rise of the multi-polar world.
I mentioned something the other day that I had realized I was wrong to try and pick every gust of wind in a storm. That point at which the rising and falling arcs meet is the storm, and that is the point in history we are at.
Saudi Arabia now selling oil to China for yuan. That ended the US petro dollar. The number of countries dealing now in national currencies rather than the US dollar. US still printing money like the good life will never end.
Russia and China diplomacy is bringing peace to the middle east. Iran and Saudi Arabia establishing diplomatic relations ended the US war on Yemen. Syria has been formally invited back into the Arab League, and now formal documents signed. Russia is the main mediator between Syria and Turkey and initial meetings of foreign ministers have occurred.
Europe has destroyed itself because it is within five-eyes sphere of influence. Australia will most likely go the same way as being part of five eyes, we are within US sphere of influence.
But what I am seeing in the emerging multi-polar world are spheres of interest rather than spheres of influence.
Sudan, that is in the news a bit. Apparently the military government signed an agreement with Russia to host a naval base there. Cookies “fuck the EU” Nuland along with a few other US warmongers go there to meet with the so called opposition so now there is civil war. So many countries with anglo/european borders from the time of sailing ships and empire. The world of empires pretty much ended with WWII. It is only the anglo world that is still trying to dominate the world. All of it smoothed over by the very empty word of democracy.
I am getting tired now, But as I think wrote or said some time ago. It is very dangerous to be brainwashed in this period of time.
So called fact checkers, Bellingcrap, white helmets. Perhaps I will try and write something on them another time. Psychological operations or psyops. Very much studied in the west and perfected.
So much of it is aimed at emotional thought overcoming critical think/rational thought.
So many thoughts xxxx but I will leave it at that. Far longer than I intended.
A copy and past of what I wrote to my sister.
………….
She went through so called education, went through professional life, yet she questions what she sees in the media.
My sister and myself have led very different lives. For me I basically left school at year eight and went through higher ed in the school of hard knocks. Those early years when I left left home.There was an incredible video of a south american Gaucho I posted on my VK. I worked in a stock camp for awhile when I was young. Very much down to earth sort of stuff. The earth seemed to come up routher fast when I was on a rough horse or before I learned to ride.
The head stockman there taught me how to ride. I was somewhat hesitant with a rough horse,. He would say step on.. Getting speered through the rails in the round yard is not good. But whatever, Brownie had my respect so I would step on. I was never a good rider but one day Brownie gave me his horse to ride because mine was worn out. Brownie was smaller than me even but he could ride. That grey mare he rode, always something to watch in the mornings. I was a little hesitant and he tells me to step on. A different life.
From a little after that time I started reading a lot. Coming to understand history. Coming to understand the world as it is today.
Old Jerry is someone I will always remebner. A very hash character in some ways. The last to walk a mob across the tanami,. He knew the bloke that run the mail to Birdsville.
There are many different points thast changed my life, that changed the way I viem the world.. But that time in Kimberly’s.
I am once again rambling to much. Will leave it at that

Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 8 2023 8:47 utc | 224

🇮🇹🇺🇦 How military aid to Ukraine undermined the defense capability of Italy
According to the Italian Ministry of Defense, the Italian armed forces are suffering from a shortage of artillery ammunition. Military officials believe the problem could become a threat to national security.
The officers of the General Staff of the Italian Armed Forces are trying to convey to politicians the seriousness of the circumstances: if the country is hypothetically attacked, it will be able to “resist the enemy only for 48-72 hours “.
🔻 Why did this happen?
Over the past two decades, the countries of Europe have focused on developing their capabilities to conduct asymmetric warfare, and financing the defense item of European state budgets has ceased to be a priority. In the context of a sharp drop in demand in Italy , two-thirds of the enterprises of the military-industrial complex were closed.
Now the European defense production system, for the most part, works to provide the Kyiv regime with equipment and ammunition. At the moment, this process is regulated by the EU project approved in March for the transfer of 1 million ammunition to the AFU with a total value of 2 billion euros.
– In the first phase of this project, EU Member States must provide additional ammunition from their stocks.
– At the second stage, the EU countries are required to allocate funds for the purchase of ammunition from European manufacturers. The European Peace Fund (EPF) will join these efforts and will allocate 1 billion euros.
🔻 Will the ASAP act help Italy return to the previous level of defense capability?
Unlikely. And the matter is not only in the lack of capacities, but also in the absence of the necessary amount of raw materials – gunpowder and explosives.
In addition, both military equipment and ammunition require regular updating and replacement. Part of the ammunition stocks available to the Italian Armed Forces may already be unusable, and the tanks are gradually failing due to lack of proper maintenance and lack of spare parts.
🔻 If things are so bad, why not ask Italy to soften the terms of supply?
The Italian authorities approached the Biden administration in the hope of negotiating a pause in the supply of the AFU. This would make it possible to improve the situation with the state defense capability and even, possibly, to strengthen the military-industrial complex. However, it turned out that there was a “long line” of those who wanted to take a break.
Our colleague from Italy @RossellaFidanza does not rule out that in the current situation, many European countries may seriously think about increasing defense investments to 2% of their GDP (this is a mandatory requirement for all NATO countries, but only 8 members of the alliance actually fulfill it). While maintaining the current supply volumes of the AFU, they will have to, in fact, switch to a wartime economy and sacrifice the development of other areas of public life.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/61341

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 8:54 utc | 226

There are no atheists in a trench.
Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 8 2023 8:35 utc | 222
.
Might be ?
In the troupe where I served there were some….
According to the motto: Shit in your pants doesn’t help…
Help yourself otherwise you are abandoned…

Posted by: mo3 | May 8 2023 8:57 utc | 228

” In the troupe where I served there were some….
According to the motto: Shit in your pants doesn’t help…
Help yourself otherwise you are abandoned…
Posted by: mo3 | May 8 2023 8:57 utc | 230 ”
Was this during active combat ?

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 8 2023 9:09 utc | 230

MI6 passed on intelligence to the Office of the President and the General Staff that Russia continues to transfer heavy equipment to non-government-controlled territories of Ukraine.
According to British intelligence estimates, there are 700 tanks and 400 MLRS systems in the South, another 900 tanks on the eastern front, while about 3,000 different heavy equipment are in reserve in the Rostov and Belgorod regions.
According to the latest data, Russia has deployed more than 100 T-90 tanks to Ukraine, and has concentrated more than 700 aircraft/helicopters at military airfields, in anticipation of a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/17667

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 9:10 utc | 232

” And I’m sure many Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War and WWII and PLA troops in the Chinese Civil War would’ve disagreed–of course, their views don’t count, right?
Posted by: John Kennard | May 8 2023 8:57 utc | 229 ”
Did I hit a raw nerve?
The Bolsheviks are a relic of history now, ground into dust, and the foundations of Chinese society and civilization are Taoism and Confucianism.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 8 2023 9:13 utc | 234

229 etc. – Yes, the horrors of WW1, for example, produced a great deal of literary atheism,

Posted by: Waldorf | May 8 2023 9:13 utc | 236

” Yes, the horrors of WW1, for example, produced a great deal of literary atheism,
Posted by: Waldorf | May 8 2023 9:13 utc | 238 ”
Yet, Russia is supposedly revving its greatness by returning to its roots and faith, while the atheist West is collapsing in its self absorbed, wiser then thou, nihilistic dung pile.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 8 2023 9:19 utc | 238

“The document has some very interesting observations from a tactical standpoint as Prigozhin goes into battle details. He confirms, for instance, that there are 30k Wagnerians against 35k AFU directly in Bakhmut and 80k+ total in general area near Bakhmut. He also states that Wagner consumes on average 6000 shells per day.
Using these numbers, he makes some interesting accounts by way of Soviet artillery theory, such as the following:
– Second: according to the norms defined by the Rules of Shooting and Fire Control, the consumption of ammunition for suppressing the enemy’s platoon strongpoint is 180 shells per 1 hectare. The average length of the front of the Wagner PMC, taking into account different periods, is 80 km. This is about 400 enemy strongholds. Their suppression requires 180 x 400, that is, 72 thousand shells per day. And so on every day.
He also states the following:
31. To maintain combat capability during a full-scale war, losses (“200th” and “300th”) of 10-12% in 25 days (the duration of a conditional military operation) are considered acceptable.
The arithmetic is very simple:
— If you give 18 thousand shells a day, the loss is 10%;
— If they give 6 thousand shells a day, the loss is 24%;
— If you give 2 thousand shells a day, the loss is 35% or higher.
No one counts 10% of ammunition from the norm. In this case, the unit is doomed to death. Now we get 10%.
Lastly and most interestingly, Prigozhin states something which appears to answer a question I had last time, in that he believes that Russia currently produces enough shells to fully arm everyone as needed, and as such the ‘shell hunger’ induced is ‘artificial’:
38. The Russian military industry has reached the level of projectile production sufficient to fully support about 5 such combat-ready formations as the Wagner PMC, with a front length of 120-150 km and a simultaneous offensive along all sectors of the front.
39. The volume of weapons and ammunition stocks allows us to provide for everyone, including in standard quantities.
This is an interesting admission, seeing as how he states that Wagner fires 6000 shells per day. So if he’s saying that Russia’s current production is already at a level of being able to support five such Wagner groups simultaneously, this appears to imply that, in his opinion, Russia is currently manufacturing upwards of 6k x 5 = 30,000 shells per day, which would be 900,000 per month, and 10.8 million per year. This is a little hard to believe, although my previous estimates given in a past report were that Russia currently produces maybe in the 300-400k per month range at the most, with long term ramp ups ongoing and that they would eventually be able to possibly hit 7+ million per year, which is ~600k per month, and 20k per day.”

Posted by: unimperator | May 8 2023 9:26 utc | 240

@unimperator ’86,
I dig the little 💥 (KABOOM) logos to show how the Russians are still kicking ass in this conflict fifteen months in. Who’d’ve thought they could hold out for so long against such overwhelming odds?

Posted by: Noam A. Larkey | May 8 2023 9:32 utc | 242

OMFG its Kissinger.
I am sure he is missing an important element of the circumstance… can’t put my finger on it, but just something missing 😉
At least he is smarter that Biden and Blinken put together.

Kissinger on the timing of the end of the conflict in Ukraine
– If the president came to you and said, would you fly to Moscow and talk to Putin?
– I would be inclined to do this, but I would be an adviser, not an active participant. Now that China has entered into negotiations, everything will fall into place. I think by the end of the year we will be talking about negotiation processes and even real negotiations.
On May 27, 2022, Kissinger turned 99 years old.
What do you think?

Source: https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/2385

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 8 2023 9:33 utc | 244

240 – Not my impression. The West is somewhat nihilistic, sure, but the religiosity of Russia is
exaggerated.

Posted by: Waldorf | May 8 2023 9:38 utc | 246

The German nazi regime surrendered twice:
From https://t.me/StopHating_Russia/8523

The German Instrument of Surrender, which ended WWII in Europe, was signed at 22:43 Central European Time on 8 May 1945 / 0:43 Moscow Time on May 9, 1945.
The surrender document with Nazi Germany was signed twice.
The day before that, Nazi Germany had signed another surrender document in Reims, France, but the Soviet Union did not recognize it for enforcement and insisted on signing another, amended document. The final instrument of unconditional surrender was signed at the seat of the Soviet Military Administration in Karlshorst, Berlin.

Very wise of the Russian liberators… the need for exact legalities when it comes to the ‘rules based west’.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 8 2023 9:43 utc | 248

” Posted by: Lev Davidovich | May 8 2023 9:33 utc | 245 ”
Shalom, my friend.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 8 2023 9:46 utc | 250

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | May 8 2023 9:33 utc | 245 ”
Shalom, my friend.
Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 8 2023 9:46 utc | 252
Incorrect yet again Deplorable, but delivered with a patronising certainty which frequentlly exposes your biases and dogma.
If I highlight your nom de plume and click ‘look up’ an interesting thing happens.
Someone’s been a busy troll and sloppy at that with the same username.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | May 8 2023 9:54 utc | 252

Something else needs to be said.
There’s been speculation regarding ‘b’
Running this blog provides a massive service to all right thinking people who vist it. A huge responsibility on his shoulders alone, we live in very troubling times, increasingly so.
I’m over 6’tall but b is taller by far than me.
. I can’t understand his stance on allowing the parasitic wasps distroy his site. The turd on the door step trodden all over the carpet.
But then that’s my failing,
We are not in his shoes.
So total respect goes to him and his blog. What ever the future holds.

Posted by: Mark2 | May 8 2023 9:57 utc | 254

There’s no changing anyone’s mind on such topics. Countless deathbed confessions of those being on-site at of the filming at Cannon air force base, the single example in all of human history in which technology went backwards, computers reduce in size and increase in power exponentially, IA has been advancing even faster than the normal Moore’s Law constant, but somehow the us government lost the ability to place astronauts on the moon despite advances in every other area of science. Surely the highschool drama club level prop we call the Eagle Lander would now have wifi and coffee makers and you know, some sort of radiation protection beyond tinfoil and duct tape. But alas, no major power has challenged the US.gov version of events, until now that is! Building 7 next I hope.
Posted by: NJH | May 8 2023 9:43 utc | 249

The US also lost the ability to send stuff in space altogether for a decade, and there is no doubt it had it before.
Is it surprising that the lunar landings have not been repeated?
It is not that hard to send people to the moon, it is a matter of investing a huge amount of resources. Really huge. The Apollo project was the US running a command economy before it hit Peak Oil in 1973, before neoliberalism took over and made “small government” mandatory and thus large projects impossible, and before the Pentagon started eating a trillion a year on overseas bases and F-35s.
The USSR didn’t send people to the moon because the Americans got there first, and after that there was no point, plus in the 1970s Soviet society started to run out of steam as a whole. Not because it was technically impossible. And the Americans got there first because organizational issues plagued the Soviet effort.
Take a look at this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_yachts_by_length
Then think about everything else the people who own these things have — numerous private jets, huge mansions, etc.
Also think about all the skyscrapers and other fancy, completely unsustainable buildings that have been built around the world since the 1960s, and how much goes into their maintenance.
Then look at a map of the US from the 1960s, compare it with one of today, and notice how much suburbs and exurbs have expanded, then think about how much fuel goes into supporting that kind of lifestyle.
And there is your answer regarding why there have been no crewed moon landings since then — that is where the resources that could have made that (and many other things) possible were dissipated.

Posted by: shadowbanned | May 8 2023 10:08 utc | 256

There are decent people in Germany as everywhere.
From: https://t.me/AussieCossack/7038

Berlin has raised the Soviet Banner of Victory over the Reichstag in honour of 9th May Victory Day❗️
😂Ukrainian Nazis must be frothing at the mouth in outrage..

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 8 2023 10:14 utc | 258

I am even a fan of the Free Market; not the laissez-faire free-for-all that is propagated by big business, but a system that favors both producers and consumers, employers and employees, lenders and borrowers.
The Market is not some ideal to which we strive (like “perfect communism”) but rather a mechanism for balancing supply and demand and directing capital flows to where they can do the most benefit.
That can only happen with a sound Market infrastructure (both physical and legislative /regulatory) that cannot be entrusted to the hands of private enterprise but must represent the interests of all, even those who don’t own much of anything.

Posted by: Noam A. Larkey | May 8 2023 10:23 utc | 260

Our source at the OP said that The Armed Forces of Ukraine have purchased 5,000 diving tugs to be used in amphibious operations on the Dnieper.
At the moment, the preparations for the assault on the ZNPP are in full swing, the units were trained in Britain and must land at night in the area of the nuclear power plant and the dachas of the dispensary.
For this, it is necessary that the Dnieper warms up and it is possible to use different types of equipment for the landing operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine / GUR / SBU.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/17668

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 10:26 utc | 262

@Charlotte Ruse | May 7 2023 21:43 utc | 121
If you need to smear The Duran, show some courage and do it at their site https://theduran.locals.com/

Posted by: Norwegian | May 8 2023 10:31 utc | 264

Posted by: gT | May 8 2023 6:41 utc | 192
>While the SloMO continues at a snail’s pace, drama queens Prigozhin and Lira provide some entertainment on the sidelines.
Oldhippie posted the other day that Gonzalo Lira has powerful connections in Chile (scion of a leading family there) and the CIA. (Hunter Biden is a similar black sheep scion of prominent USA family, with powerful connections in both USA and Ukraine). However, Lira apparently pissed off a group of people more powerful than his powerful connections. Namely, the tranny lobby. I got confused when the pronoun used for the particular offended individual switched from he to she and back again and so lost the thread of the story (though i did catch that the offended individual is now serving as a woman in the Ukrainian military), but probably this is related to Lira’s previous career as a manosphere attention whore. That is, Lira probably said something negative long ago about trannies, especially transwomen (i.e. men who transform into women), but the internet never forgets and now it’s payback time. If this story is true, then Lira is doomed, because Lira’s powerful USA connections will drop him like a hot potato to avoid risking the wrath of the vengeful trannies. This loss of protection due to tranny influence may be why Lira was recently arrested.

Posted by: Revelo | May 8 2023 10:40 utc | 266

Next time I visit a RAMSAR site for bird watching I might take a biohazard mask:
From Russian MOD via anti-spiegel.ru Machine interpreter for those non german speakers.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation continues its analysis of the bioweapons activities of the United States and its allies in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world.
In the last statement, we drew your attention to the role of the U.S. Department of Energy in the Pentagon’s biological weapons programs. Today I would like to dwell on the documents confirming the involvement of this ministry in dual-use projects in Ukraine.
For example, one of the department’s 17 laboratories, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington state, worked directly in Ukraine as part of a project called the “Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation Prevention Initiative”.
Note the official statement of John Stephen Binkley, Director of the Office of Scientific Research at the US Department of Energy, dated April 4, 2022. The document emphasizes that the Directorate will assist the Ukrainian side in restoring the curtailed dual-use research programs after the possible return of specialists.
The submitted document confirms that one of the activities of the Ministry of Energy is the recruitment of specialists who previously worked in Ukraine and have experience and knowledge in the field of weapons of mass destruction.

Lots more on this at the site plus quite a few top reports to digest.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 8 2023 10:44 utc | 268

Mark2 #265
Thank you, I am on a bit of a trawl right now as the orchard has kept me busy with my love for trees. But I try to find time to feed the barflies and titillate their taste for intrigue.
The troll density and wierd OT stuff is thick these days ;/
I notice that the Russian tempo has radically increased over the last few days and may all its shots find their mark.
Happy Victory Day to you and all barflies for the next sunrise. I have a big victory moon to keep me company right now.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 8 2023 10:52 utc | 270

From Victor telegram channel…
https://t.me/vicktop55/15111
War correspondent Oleksandr Sladkov: “WHAT ARE THE INCREDIBLE STRIKES IN UKRAINE TALKING ABOUT:
1. We have something to hit with, we never shoot remnants.
2. We have established a new intelligence network, which, admittedly, by the beginning of the SMO was defeated by the SBU. Hence the long list of targets with coordinates.
3. We own the initiative. We know when to strike and, most importantly, where.
4. We are losing hope of luring the Armed Forces of Ukraine into attacking us. Perhaps the time has come for our offensive initiatives.” “>https://t.me/Sladkov_plus/7633
Hence the recent spate of deep rear attacks???
Meanwhile, Wagner and Akhmat and The Russian Army raze what remains of Bakhmut to the ground ..
Burying within those Ukies who failed to heed the message….
AND LEAVE!!
INDY

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | May 8 2023 10:55 utc | 272

Posted by: shadowbanned | May 8 2023 10:38 utc | 267
>The only viable future is merciless but enlightened and well meaning dictatorship combined with enormous investment into education from an early age so that everyone has a basic understanding of these issues and agrees on the need to suppress intra-species competition so that the species as a whole can survive. It will still be barely stable because this is a never ending fight with fundamental biological instincts, but there is no other path forward, the alternative is extinction.
A few things correct here, but false conclusion. Correct is mention of biology, sustainabity, survival. False is the impled notion a benign elite. Much more realistic is for the elite to exterminate the bottom 99% and thereby ensure their personal survival as well as that is the species, since 1% remaining is still 80 million, which is plenty of genetic diversity. But why should the elite of the USA preserve the elite of Russia or vice-versa? No reason. The elites can mutually agree to exterminate the lower useless eaters under their control, and thus reduce pressures on the environment, but they keep the valuable workers/soldiers to defend against the other elites. Distinction between useless eater and valuable worker/soldier depends on technology, of course. Long ago, most people were of some use to the elite. With robotics, only a few will be if use.
Pyramid social structures and constant ruthless warfare is the only truly sustainable organization of humanity, precisely because we are biological creatures. Attempts to create a better organization, and especially egalitarian organizations, are all attempts to escape biology, and this doomed to fail in the long run. USSR a fine example of this.

Posted by: Revelo | May 8 2023 10:58 utc | 274

Here is another pithy extract from anti-spiegel.ru on that bio-lab report.

That begs a legitimate question: “What does the U.S. Department of Energy have to do with combating bio-threats and conducting dual-use projects?
The non-transparent nature of the activities of the US Department of Energy is emphasized by the fact that it enjoys the exclusive right not to return unused funds of the fiscal year to the US Treasury and to use them for unbudgeted future expenses. This fact is confirmed in a report by the US Treasury Department dated July 25, 2022.
This approach does not require additional applications to the U.S. Congress and allows for unrestricted funding of U.S. military-biological programs.
As evidence of this, I would like to quote the American politician and likely presidential candidate Robert Kennedy: “Since the early 2000s, Washington has spent more than two billion dollars annually on programs to develop biological weapons. The Pentagon did not want to do that, as it violates the Geneva Convention and it “means the death penalty to violate it.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense has repeatedly pointed out the risks of the Pentagon’s military-biological projects to study the spread of economically significant infections by vectors, including migratory birds.
These concerns are associated with the unique geographical position of Ukraine, through the territory of which the migration routes of more than 270 species of migratory birds pass, which are a natural reservoir for such dangerous diseases as highly pathogenic influenza and other infectious diseases.
Project P-444 was carried out directly for the Pentagon through the Ukrainian Science and Technology Center and was primarily used to monitor avian influenza in wild birds in the Azov and Black Sea regions.
The project assessed the conditions under which the transmission of the virus becomes uncontrollable, causes economic damage and could jeopardise food safety.
It must be noted that over the past three years, bird flu in the Russian Federation has caused damage of more than 4.5 billion rubles (about 55 million euros), and more than ten million head of poultry have been destroyed. In European countries, the losses caused by the disease in the agricultural industry amounted to about three billion euros.
Experts say that avian influenza used to be a seasonal disease in Europe, but today outbreaks are recorded throughout the year.
In addition, WHO has regularly documented cases of cross-species transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza, in which an infectious process develops and whose mortality rate in humans is up to 50 percent. This year alone, four such cases have been reported in Chile, Cambodia and China.

The hegemon must be destroyed IMO.
Perhaps RFKjr can speak out persistently on his concerns quoted above.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 8 2023 11:06 utc | 276

John Kennard #275
Thank you and with any luck we will soon see a Russian commander repeating the celebration address in Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev or perhaps Rynok Square, Lvov.
If Odessa is liberated earlier then that spectacle of a victory speech in Hretska Ploshcha will be legendary.
Happy victory day all.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 8 2023 11:15 utc | 278

There are elements in the global elite that would prefer a third alternative, which is to reduce the human population to be more in line with the Earth’s carrying capacity. So less than 1.5B but likely more in the 100-500m range.
Posted by: Pudding | May 8 2023 11:00 utc | 277

Yes, such a reduction has to happen, and the elites exterminating everyone else except for whatever the carrying capacity is happens to be, if you are to analyze the situation objectively and with emotions, the preferable option compared to the alternative of total extinction.
But that will not be a long term solution, because then carrying capacity will be exceeded again without fundamental changes in the system, and if the pattern has been established that this is how you solve the problem (i.e. the Rwanda solution), nothing good awaits the species in the long-term future.
The proper solution is to impose a moratorium on births except for a small number annually (5-10 million globally) to be distributed by lottery combined with serious restrictions on consumption. The global footprint will be reduced to sustainable levels in about a century without having to exterminate anyone.
There is absolutely no chance of that happening though, we are driving full speed towards the cliff.

Posted by: shadowbanned | May 8 2023 11:21 utc | 280

Simplicius cites Ukraine military to dismiss Sirovikin and Pregozhin arms settlement.
This report commences with an exhaustive reliance on Ukraine sources as some reliable basis for rebuttal but I urge barflies to press on past all that shite and get to a tight analysis of Prigozhin’s detailed statement of artillery need and allocation methodology in battle.
It is a worthwhile read.

Lastly and most interestingly, Prigozhin states something which appears to answer a question I had last time, in that he believes that Russia currently produces enough shells to fully arm everyone as needed, and as such the ‘shell hunger’ induced is ‘artificial’:
38. The Russian military industry has reached the level of projectile production sufficient to fully support about 5 such combat-ready formations as the Wagner PMC, with a front length of 120-150 km and a simultaneous offensive along all sectors of the front.
39. The volume of weapons and ammunition stocks allows us to provide for everyone, including in standard quantities.
This is an interesting admission, seeing as how he states that Wagner fires 6000 shells per day. So if he’s saying that Russia’s current production is already at a level of being able to support five such Wagner groups simultaneously, this appears to imply that, in his opinion, Russia is currently manufacturing upwards of 6k x 5 = 30,000 shells per day, which would be 900,000 per month, and 10.8 million per year. This is a little hard to believe, although my previous estimates given in a past report were that Russia currently produces maybe in the 300-400k per month range at the most, with long term ramp ups ongoing and that they would eventually be able to possibly hit 7+ million per year, which is ~600k per month, and 20k per day.
Prigozhin appears to believe they’re way ahead of schedule with that, at least insofar as I understand his implications.
Anyway, onto the next…

It certainly illustrates that if Ukraine chickens out from its offensive then it may well be because they realise there will be endless shelling up to the northern hemisphere summer equinox. And beyond.
Barflies with an interest in Ukraine’s liberation might find it interesting after they have stepped through all the troll turds on the floor.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 8 2023 11:38 utc | 282

@ uncle tungsten, §260:
e.g. Sara Wagenknecht and Christine Anderson.

Posted by: John Marks | May 8 2023 12:03 utc | 284

Posted by: shadowbanned | May 8 2023 11:15 utc | 281
>Did you miss the part about suppressing intra-species competition?
I said there were false conclusions. This is one of those.
>There will be no elite that reproduces itself.
All long-lived societies are oligarchies and the reproduce fine provided there is mechanism to purge worthless sons and replace with quality young men from the lower tiers (daughters of the elite are seldom truly worthless, other than in genetic sense, if kept under sexual control). Think mixed military/merchant oligarchies of Venice and Britain, both of which lasted far longer than your precious USSR.
Reason USSR degenerated starting around 1960 was the precisely because it was running against biology. Mixed military/merchant oligarchies (one son goes into government, another into business) satisfy natural tendencies of the elite to want to preserve position in social hierarchy, while still forcing competition. Yes, rich son that goes into government may be incompetent, but the merchant son must compete and he knows that an incompetent military/government is a threat to him, so he will step in to prevent the incompetent brother from screwing things up.
USA, modern Russia and modern China (as well ad Britain) all have this mixed military/merchant structure. In the USA, smartest son of the elite traditionally goes into business (Wall Street), less competent son into CIA/Foreign Service or non-profit “charitable” organizations, black sheep sons go wherever (trust fund babies). Daughters of the elite often married to rising sons of the non-elite. This is a very stable semi-meritocratic oligarchy. Occasionally corruption sets in but the competent sons and sons-in-law are there to set things right eventually.

Posted by: Revelo | May 8 2023 12:13 utc | 286

Posted by: Revelo | May 8 2023 12:13 utc | 288
why is the us in free fall then. “meritocratic” my ass.

Posted by: pretzelattack | May 8 2023 12:32 utc | 288

Revelo @ 287
A flaw in that system—-
Psyopaths rise to the top and worse still breed ever more powerfull psychopaths.
Present day western unipolar degenerates, a classic example of.
Flaw, being an understatement of the century.

Posted by: Mark2 | May 8 2023 12:40 utc | 290

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | May 8 2023 12:35 utc | 292
A reply should include the time, if just the number is used and some posts are deleted (often happens) then your reply will no longer point to the right person.
Use of the time shows a deletion.

Posted by: SwissArmyMan | May 8 2023 12:50 utc | 292

Posted by: bullsh | May 8 2023 12:46 utc | 294
uh, why would what you could prove to yourself be the standard. that way lies idiocy. do you believe Antarctica exists? do you believe people have climbed Mt Everest? both could be hoaxes by that standard.

Posted by: pretzelattack | May 8 2023 13:11 utc | 294

I wonder if Russia/China might have an open dialog on what a diplomatic solution might look like – in Ukraine’s absence. This might help might help the general public to understand what is in dispute. I suspect that at this point, Russia is not going to use Ukraine to settle all the issues with NATO or will they.

Posted by: jared | May 8 2023 13:35 utc | 296

@ bullsh | May 8 2023 12:46 utc | 294
@ pretzelattack | May 8 2023 13:11 utc | 297
I’ve brooded over this a bit.
The primitive fallacy here seems to be the consideration of fact out of context, producing false ambiguity.
See the flat-earthers.
I don’t know what formal fallacy this might fall under; perhaps slothful induction?
It can be used to produce such apparent epistemic lacunae to be filled with cherry-picked facts likewise isolated to support a desired conclusion.

Posted by: John Kennard | May 8 2023 14:24 utc | 298

Does the war in Ukraine suggest a wonderful possibility towards peace? It seems to me that non aggression treaties or neutrality pacts have never been more practical than now. To the extent that this war has stalemated, Blitzkreig might be obsolete. There are satellites, drones, remote sensing, and the internet to expose what everyone is doing – and that didn’t exist back in the Ribbentrop-Molotov days. Of course, Neo Cons will hate this…..

Posted by: Eighthman | May 8 2023 14:39 utc | 300