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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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SECOND

Monday, August 8, 2022 11:43 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.

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The Biden administration announced another $1 billion in new military aid for Ukraine on Monday, pledging what will be the biggest yet delivery of rockets, ammunition and other arms straight from Department of Defense stocks for Ukrainian forces.

Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/
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Aug 8 (Reuters) - The United States will provide an additional $4.5 billion to Ukraine's government, bringing its total budgetary support since Russia's February invasion to $8.5 billion, the U.S. Agency for International Development said on Monday.

The funding, coordinated with the U.S. Treasury Department through the World Bank, will go to the Ukraine government in tranches, beginning with a $3 billion disbursement in August, USAID, the Agency for International Development, said.

It follows previous transfers of $1.7 billion in July and $1.3 billion in June, USAID said. Washington has also provided billions of dollars in military support, and plans a new $1 billion weapons package shortly. read more

The U.S. funds are to help the Ukrainian government maintain essential functions, including social and financial assistance for the growing poor population, children with disabilities, and millions of internally displaced persons, as the war drags on.

Ukrainian officials estimate the country faces a $5 billion-a-month fiscal shortfall - or 2.5% of pre-war gross domestic product - due to the cost of the war and declining tax revenues. Economists say that will swell Ukraine's annual deficit to 25% of GDP, compared with 3.5% before the conflict.

The World Bank estimates that 55% of Ukrainians will be living in poverty by the end of 2023 as a result of the war and the large numbers of displaced persons, compared with 2.5% before the start of the war.

USAID said U.S. budget support has enabled the Ukrainian government to keep gas and electricity flowing to hospitals, schools and other critical infrastructure and deliver urgently needed humanitarian supplies to citizens.

The funds have also paid for healthcare workers, teachers and other civil servants.

USAID said robust safeguards had been put in place by the World Bank, along with USAID-funded, third-party watchdogs embedded within the Ukrainian government to make sure the funds are directed where they are meant to go.

"The United States remains committed to supporting Ukraine and its people in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war," USAID said in a statement.

The injection of fresh cash for Ukraine comes as the war, which Russia calls "a special military operation," stretches into a sixth month, with millions of Ukrainians displaced and authorities warning of likely gas shortages in winter.

USAID is an independent federal agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-us-send-45-billion-more
-ukraine-budget-needs-2022-08-08/

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, August 9, 2022 4:20 AM

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I can go right ahead and spend that money I made not paying for wage slave bullshit, because I'm not a wage slave and I have plenty of money that isn't being spent on wage slave bullshit. Interest and high monthly bills for consumables I don't need for sure, but yeah... including the expenses that come with a wife and kids since you mention it.

What a dummy. You couldn't afford those things in the first place, so no, you don't have that money to spend now. "I saved a bundle not buying that Rolex with money I don't have." fck Math

I've got plenty of money in the bank. I could easily buy a brand new coal burning car with cash and have enough leftover for another one.

Or I could just not worry about cost of living expenses for another 15 years with it.

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"I just bought me a years worth of cereal on sale for $56, shipped free to my home, so I didn't even have to use any of the gas in the tank. 480oz of it, to be exact."

Wow! You saved a bundle on cereal. GOALS!

Yeah. Now do that with everything else that I need to live, all of my DIY tools and materials, and add the fact that I pay zero interest on anything, have zero credit card debt, have a paid for house with no mortgage, have a paid for car with an extremely small 6 month car insurance premium, I live in an area with extremely low property tax rates as well as a zero food sales tax and low sales tax otherwise, $20/mo for internet and all my entertainment needs, a VOIP phone that's paid for another 6 years, and no pricey per-month cell phone contract for that phone that does 90% of your thinking for you, and it all adds up to something. Something pretty big.

I get deals like this all the time on nearly everything I buy. It's because I have money to buy bulk sales when they occur, I have the free time in a day to seek the best deals out, I have plenty of space to warehouse it if the purchase needs to be large, and I'm a forward thinker that puts future needs ahead of immediate and pricey impulse buys. And that even includes working on my house. I've still got 12 unopened gallons of paint that I bought at a criminally low price last fall, a few door knobs and hinges for doors that I still haven't gotten around to painting, and about $1,000 more worth of pine baseboard and trim from a batch worth over $2,250 that I got for less than $200 when the line went on clearance in November of 2019. Which, incidentally, I paid for with a new credit card I'd opened that gave me $200 on my next statement as soon as I spent $1,500 in the first 90 days.... so not only was it free but I made money off of it.

Think about it. How many hours per year do you have to work for all of those things plus the crap you buy that you don't need after you've paid SS/Medicare, FED and State/Local Taxes, and you subtract how much you had to spend on gasoline for the trips back and forth after deducting all of those same taxes first?

How many hours per year do you work just to pay off interest payments and your mortgage? Have you ever even looked? Do you even want to know?

Probably not.

Sure... I'm not adding physical money to my stack by doing any of this, but it's all about implied value. All of those hours you just calculated to pay for all of that stuff above are hours every year that I just simply don't need to be working for somebody else. I'm already FAR ahead of you, and I haven't had to report to a boss in over 3 years now.

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And these next 2 lines together are some of the funniest sht I don't think you meant to post:

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"Time is money, and I've turned making money work for you into an art form."

Me? It's going to be really hot again tomorrow. I'

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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Tuesday, August 9, 2022 5:38 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My daily cost of living expenses are about $12.25 right now. Don't lie. You spent more that that on lunch today, didn't you...

Fuck yeah I did. I'm not a broke, lazy ass troll like you are.
Money in the bank? Making what, 1/4 of a percent interest? And you're bragging about that? Lying or stupid - or both.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, August 9, 2022 5:47 AM

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CAPON: Fuck yeah I did. I'm not a broke,

SIX has savings. Do you? Or are you living on credit?

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CAPON: ...lazy ass

SIX accomplishes more in one week that you do in a year. I don't see the things YOU'VE built or repaired. The neighbors and relatives you've helped. The neighborhood you've improved.
All you do is twiddle a keyboard.
How lazy is THAT?

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CAPON:... troll

And here you are, being a troll. How droll.

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CAPON: like you are.

Three lies, in one short phrase.
I think you've set a new record!

But aT least you've stopped lying and calling him a drunk dope-smoker. I suppose there's that.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, August 9, 2022 5:53 AM

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
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My daily cost of living expenses are about $12.25 right now. Don't lie. You spent more that that on lunch today, didn't you...

Fuck yeah I did. I'm not a broke, lazy ass troll like you are.

That one meal is healthy food for at least 5 days for me.

I'm looking forward to all them full bellies with the rest of my $12.50. Is your stomach growling yet?

What's for dinner?

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Money in the bank? Making what, 1/4 of a percent interest? And you're bragging about that? Lying or stupid - or both.

You're still not getting it, dummy.

Add up all of your interest payments all year, including your mortgage interest if you're not also doubly stupid and renting your place, in which case you can just go right ahead and include all 12 of your monthly rent payments instead of just mortgage interest.

Now divide that by 365.

How much is it? Can you even come close with a guess before adding it all up? Do you even really want to know the answer?

I could be making zero interest on my money in coffee cans buried out in the forest and my money is still making more than whatever piddly ass little amount you're filling in on your 1099-INT form every April is, after you've subtracted all the money you pissed away on interest for things that you don't actually own yet.

I'm quite certain that I can live an entire year for less than half of what you give rich people in interest payments each year to buy shit for you and own it for you until you pay it off because you couldn't afford to buy it with cash.

And since it's all money that I've already got anyway, I'm not constantly paying SS/Medicare, Federal and State/Local taxes on the money I'm using to snag great deals like you are on every single dime you're slaving away to make during what's left of the best years of your life because you NEED it to live.

Have fun at work tomorrow, wage-slave bitch.

If I'm not working on a project, I'll be napping.

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SIGNYM

Tuesday, August 9, 2022 6:05 AM

Oooh. The truth is finally being leaked out about Ukraine...

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CBS Censors Own Documentary After Ukraine Outraged
Monday, Aug 08, 2022 - 08:25 PM

CBS has censored its own documentary investigative reporting after an avalanche of pushback from supporters of Ukraine and its military. The segment highlighted that tons of weaponry shipped from the United States to the country's military has gone missing, and sounded the alarm as billions in dollars more have been pledged by the Biden administration.

"CBS partially retracted a documentary in which it said that shipments of weapons to Ukraine from the US had been going missing," Insider reports Monday. "CBS tweeted on Monday that it had removed a video promoting the documentary that included a months-old quote saying most aid was not making it to Ukraine's front lines."

Terrifying how swiftly and obediently the corporate media walks back facts that are undesirable for the regime. https://t.co/SqafRmOnr0
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) August 8, 2022

The segment, titled "Arming Ukraine" was published days ago, and follows on the heels of Pentagon and US intelligence officials issuing similar warnings that there are few mechanisms in place to legitimately track the arms flowing into the country. One admin official even described in April that, "we have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero. It [military aid] drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time."

The fresh CBS reporting added to these concerns, quoting the the head of a Lithuania-based organization supplying the Ukrainian military, Jonas Ohman. Below is the deleted tweet, with the offending line of "30% of it [US-supplied arms and munitions] reaches its final destination."

"All of this stuff goes across the border, and then something happens, kind of like 30% of it reaches its final destination."

Ohman stressed that actually getting the weapons to the designated Ukrainian army units involves having to navigate an array of "power lords, oligarchs [and] political players." This also as there have been persistent reports that some weapons end up on the black market, or might possibly be moved outside Ukraine.

Don’t worry, @CBSNews, I saved it. pic.twitter.com/jiJorgw18F
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) August 8, 2022

A senior crisis adviser with Amnesty International also told CBS in the documentary, "What is really worrying is that some countries that are sending weapons do not seem to think that it is their responsibility to put in place a very robust oversight mechanism."

Officials with the Ukrainian government promptly accused the mainstream US network of playing into "Russian propaganda".

OF COURSE!

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Along with a widespread social media backlash from Kiev's supporters and pundits, this was apparently enough for CBS to announce it is "updating" the segment, with some of the offending lines now dropped...

CBS claims this documentary is now "being updated" after it received a giant tsunami of trolling from those who were upset at the information being reported. The original link was taken down: pic.twitter.com/b04P5KlRC7
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) August 8, 2022

The Ukrainian government further put out a dubious claim that "all received equipment is accounted for" - this despite months of Pentagon officials warning that this isn't the case.

Unsurprisingly, Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, has demanded that CBS News conduct an internal investigation to get to the bottom of things.

SO, let's get this straight: Ukraine is telling US what we can and can't report?

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, demands from CBS News to conduct an internal investigation due to the publication of disinformation

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, August 9, 2022 6:13 AM

Yeah. The NYT even dared to report on this... at least a little bit.

But by all means, give Ukraine $750 Billion for reparations, Joe* and Nancy. Then explain to all the black people who aren't voting for you anymore why they still haven't gotten the reparations you always promise them but never have any intention of paying them.

Oh, and please... Do make sure to have your Legacy Media lapdogs continue to call it "Reparations" to Ukraine too, yanno... just to rub the salt in the wounds from the 1000-cuts your broken promises have inflicted on every poor black person out there since the 60s.

You rich white Democrats are the least self-aware people that planet Earth has ever hosted.

You're Parasites.

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SECOND

Tuesday, August 9, 2022 5:25 PM

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Oooh. Pity

In partnership with Reuters, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) released a report on Monday detailing inspections of 27 Russian weapons systems and pieces of military equipment expended or lost since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the group said the majority of the apparent Western components were manufactured by U.S. companies.

“The preponderance of foreign-made components inside these systems reveals that Russia’s war machine is heavily reliant on imports of sophisticated microelectronics to operate effectively,” the group said in its report.

“This is despite persistent efforts by the Russian government to replace imports – in all aspects of its economy, including the military sector – with domestically produced materials in order to withstand international sanctions,” it continued.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3593133-hundreds-of-western-c
omponents-found-in-russian-weapons-in-ukraine-think-tank/

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THG

Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:32 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, August 10, 2022 6:57 AM

Nobody cares. Certainly not after the stunt you pulled last night.

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