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Interesting...we just got a small taste of Ukraine out here.
Gunfire attack on two substations against "heavy equipment"...out for two days already, state of emergency, probably not back up until Thursday. Fortunately, it only affects where I work, but also about 40,000 customers.
Unless you have a backup generator, there is zilch...no traffic lights, no sewage pumps either.
Fortunately the temperature only gets down to the 40s.
FBI says they will investigate, but so far, no Right Wing or Islamic or other extremist faction has spoken.
No ability to re-route either.
That was two simultaneous attacks, including at least one gate removal. Happened about 8.30 Saturday night in the middle of business; of course, we figured it would be back in a few hours because they are usually pretty good with normal events such as downed lines. This may be a first.
I shudder to think what this is like at minus ten degrees with no relief in sight...
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Posted by Kryztian
Orthodox hymns are designed on modal music, i. e. Dorian, Ionic, Phrygian, etc., which obviously antedate "keys" by centuries, and have, to our ear, an "oriental" flavor. That is one sign it is the religion of Jerusalem.
The iconography is compatible, it is living and illuminated, not a dead guy on a stick.
That is why I personally love the service, which lasts about three hours, with numerous loud, enthusiastic rounds of:
Priest "Christ is with us!"
Congregation "He is and ever shall be!"
Utterly unlike any western services, which to me were grim, hideous, and repellent.
I do not quite agree with their theology, but, I have a healthy degree of respect and no issue thinking of them as spiritual brethren. That is why any truly Orthodox country or civilization is "at the table" where different kinds of societies make peaceful agreements without supremacists trying to whitewash it all.
It was to be expected. That there was a whole strategy behind it that included not only Germany and France buy also the United Kingdom (with different parts to play at different moments) casts an interesting light on the moderation the EU showed when confronting the Brexit masquerade – but of course that was also helped by lots of CobraVirus snake oil.Quote:
Posted by Ravenlocke
Insightful text.
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Posted by Michel Leclerc
Rofl. Did you make that up?
The snake oil. Always a relevant term since before petroleum-based medicine, it means an impostor of traditional herbal remedies, which, for the most part, are effective. However, herbalism has this really fun masquerade in and of itself. For example, when Shakespeare's witches talk about "eye of newt", it means a mustard seed. So it is like alchemy. Runs in a code meant to confuse if not discourage outside enquiries.
To rephrase what I posted earlier, this was "my Monday":
I started to go out, and the goat had demolished the porch railing and tore into the trash. So, I re-packed the trash, loaded it up, tried to dump it, couldn't, wasn't able to get any gas, and so I could tell what was going on and just wanted to be sure it was the same in the other neighborhood, got waved off by the police, looped around for a few extra miles just to get the extended view that nothing was happening, came back with my trash, and had to go ten miles in the opposite direction for the gas.
Then I posted something that suggested there could be a possible Islamic vandalism or potential terror message to come through, and, that is not right, because if so, you need to call it Takfiri.
The political angle mentioned above is completely correct and true for the entire history of unified Germany. The monkey wrench that I can't figure out is that it was at least supposed to be of benefit to the United Kingdom, or, at least to someone who is in it, and this does not seem to be happening. However the American strategy is to let the UK take the first hit in any situation. So perhaps they have simply been expended by their allies in this manner.
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Mashika can read her original post by clicking the "last edited by Bill Ryan" link (underlined in small font) at the lower left.
From the guy that thinks the USSR invaded Ukraine... :p
I don't believe he has the mental capability to understand the giant amount of irony his words have lol
"We won't allow any other country to take what is ours to take, we are the land of God, we have the right to own these countries and seas! So let me be blunt, we will use or authoritarian means to prevent anyone else from taking what was given by God to us, by any means necessary"
- Things that he thinks and feels but doesn't say openly
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Posted by Mashika
Dig this:
“People haven’t seen [a large-scale conflict] in a while, so I think we’ve forgotten that with true industrial mobilization, there’s always a time aspect to it and it is never instantaneous,” Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics, and technology, said. “I think we’re closer to a wartime mode, which has been something I’ve been working on to build,” he added.
What is "something I've been working on"?
The context is they haven't figured out how to do any significant production. The guy wants to have a wartime industrial system. It may be attractive to companies from Europe.
Italy currently produces several kinds of gear Ukrainians like and:
In November, the right wing coalition government elected in September's snap elections temporarily halted arms aid to Ukraine to do an accounting of domestic stocks. However, Rome issued a decree last week extending “the transfer of military means, materials and equipment to the government authorities of Ukraine” through December 31, 2023.
Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets repeatedly in recent weeks, demanding a halt to aid to Ukraine, and that the money instead be devoted to addressing the skyrocketing cost of living and the energy crises pummeling the nation.
Italy and other European countries are experiencing a major spike in inflation, food and energy costs, with nine in 10 Italians recently telling a pollster that they've been forced to cut spending to pay for necessities.
They appear to have a pretty simple discussion about backfiring sanctions, and the pact of the neo-fascist PM following EU and NATO orders.
Here is a bit of insight criticising the Yellow Vests for reverting to:
...a true piece of French revolutionary history transported from 1848-71 – the struggle today is the same as it was back then.
It’s a struggle against always-elitist liberalism and its attendants: oligarchical and anti-democratic parliamentarianism, free-market chaos, the anti-government ideology encapsulated by austerity cuts to social services, and the encouragement of a rat race to “become bourgeois”. The Yellow Vests took France and Europe back to 1848, when the “2nd Republic” re-ended the French monarchy and claimed the mantle of the French Revolutionary “1st Republic”. Liberalism was installed for the first time and… immediately proved that it was plagued by all the problems described above.
Liberalism has failed since 1848, and the liberalist principles (“neoliberal” is more commonly used today, in order to differentiate itself from the discredited, original “liberalism”) which underpin the pan-European project have failed today. They always fail.
...the history of Western liberalism has proven over and over that the average person’s right to live decently will never be guaranteed.
Sounds comparable. From a response to it:
...modern reactionary France was created by the invasion of the armies of the “City of London” in 1815, wherein the redcoats turned France slowly but surely into a French version of the Anglo Zionist empire. The banking oligarchy in the city of London then slowly and secretly took over the United States. So if we say the American version of the British empire created the EU in line with its capitalist agenda, that is really saying that the City of London, via its hidden domination of a no longer autonomous USA, created the EU.
So the City of London created its own preferred version of the USA, which then eventually created the EU.
Now the Tory party in London wants out of the EU so that it can protect its secret web of off shore criminal banking enterprises from any threat of EU regulation. That being the real essence of English power now. So the Tory’s had to evacuate from what was really London’s own original creation.
Ukraine is a big nexus on that web, also kind of becoming a part of Black Rock.
Maybe the British system just benefits...the system, and hasn't any personal beneficiaries.
Something like this. In the past few months alone, USAID has pumped almost a quarter of a billion dollars for the purposes of subversive democracy to the following:
CIS, comprising of former Soviet states Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is a bloc of countries that the US has long struggled to expand its influence and soft power into. For this reason, USAID has significantly increased its investments in the region, with Armenia, Georgia and Moldova, periphery states of CIS, being the biggest beneficiaries of the new grants, especially NGO’s and media.
This does not appear "related" to an international thread, yet, but get out your crystal ball.
This is still affecting almost 34,000 "customers", which means a meter whether attached to a home or business. Some of that is a family of five people, some of them are duplicated in the businesses, others like me who at least do not live on the Plantation, more than twenty miles away.
The power company first reported outages shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday...
Condition of "no trespassing" sign:
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I was told the Sheriff had a prayer vigil with the suspects.
On Monday afternoon, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas addressed the situation, saying the attack "appears to have been deliberate."
Low wartime industry x threat to power grid = DHS goons?
I would not be surprised to see an investigation with no motive or any leads, maybe with some political spin, most likely leading to the opportunism of some kind of build up of "national security".
8 p. m. is not any kind of "surprise attack", this required bursts of multiple, probably high powered rounds, I am guessing .30-06 or so. I don't think a .223 would do it. The sites are not exactly isolated.
The U.S. has roughly 55,000 substations. Earlier this year "60 Minutes" reported on how vulnerable they often are.
"There's a very few number of substations you need to take out in the entire United States to knock out the entire grid," Jon Wellinghoff, former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, told "60 Minutes" correspondent BIll Whitaker.
I'm pretty sure that what actually happened is already buried.
This 19 minute interview includes hilarious comments on Zelensky's corruption.
Ukraine Drone Hits Russia base 150 Miles From Moscow
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n1y1rr-tEaE
Where did you get that from? Any evidence? Mr Google doesn’t come up with anything...;)Quote:
Posted by Mashika
So therefore Ukraine must want to ban all Russian music.Quote:
Posted by Mashika
But that clearly isn’t the case: the music of Tchaikovsky, for example, seems to be still being enjoyed freely by Ukrainians.
The United Ukrainian Ballet is currently in the middle of a tour performing Swan Lake, written by Tchaikovsky.
There are recent videos of musicians playing music written by Tchaikovsky from bombed-out basements in Kharkiv.
Putin denies the right of the country of Ukraine to exist. That invoked outrage and resulted in a swell of national pride and solidarity.
As part of that need to assert their cultural identity, the government of Ukraine has voted in favour of banning some Russian music
in media and public spaces.
Just music created or performed by those who are or were Russian citizens after 1991.
That’s it. Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich etc are safe.
And it seems that the beloved and sublime “Hymn of the Cherubim” is safe too.
Absolute madness. These "leaders" in the west are simply evil.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/th...-across-border
spider sense
We "know" from people like Scott Ritter, coronel Mac Gregor, etc. that ukros "intelligent" is run by USA first and NATO second...
today nothing "escape" from satellites watch, ukros don't do anything without permission their masters.
Every attempt in Russia territory will be result on ukros bravery/foolish/whatever...according to west prestitutes...
therefore I smell a BIG rat... "the empire of lies" just want test Russia defenses and there were weak in this case...
of all things an airfield with non less full with bombers with nuclear capabilities...do the math...
We know from the beginning that ukros are dispensable, therefor this late attempt Serves wayyyy... another purpose...
Sincerely I hope I'm wrong or just paranoid (our "normal" state this days...)
YouTube censors RT Balkans
The account of RT’s newest outlet was blocked less than three weeks after it launched
YouTube, the Google-owned video platform has blocked the channel of Belgrade-based RT Balkans. No explanation was given for Monday's move, which came about three weeks after the launch of the Serbian-language outlet in a region saturated by Western media coverage.
RT Balkans reported the ban on Monday evening, pointing out that the most recent video posted on the channel was their interview with the Russian ambassador to Serbia, Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko.
“Why are owners of the Western media space so afraid of RT’s Serbian-language reporting?” the outlet asked. “Their move mainly speaks about the lack of media freedom in the West, especially since the posts on your YouTube channel in no way violated the company’s rules of conduct.”
The Serbian-language news site was launched on November 15, with plans to begin TV broadcasts by 2024. It was able to open a YouTube account and post content even though the Google-owned platform had previously banned all “Russian” media
Enacted in March, the ban followed demands by the EU to block RT and Sputnik channels in the bloc’s territory. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in May, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki explained the platform had created a new policy regarding “verified violent events,” which puts “denial or trivialization” of the conflict in Ukraine in the same category as denying the Holocaust.
Meanwhile, YouTube continued to operate in Russia so that its citizens could have access to “independent news,” she said, adding that one of the lessons of the conflict in Ukraine is that “information can be weaponized.”
RT sued YouTube in May. In October, an arbitration court in Moscow ruled that video platform must unblock RT's accounts or face a daily fine of 100,000 rubles ($1,694), doubling every week. The same court had frozen Google’s assets in Russia, valued at 500 million rubles ($8.4 million), to ensure the verdict could be enforced.
https://www.rt.com/news/567727-rt-ba...utube-blocked/