Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:The Texas Gulf Coast does not have basements to flood. We have hurricanes flooding the whole house. Without a basement, most water pipes are run in the vented attic, which freezes in winter. Kind of unfortunate when the attic pipe to your toilets has frozen. Even if the water is left dripping in the bathroom sink, that won't keep the toilet's water supply from freezing. What is the solution, assuming you plan for winter, not just summer? An un-vented attic that stays about the same temperature as the living areas. The water pipes won't freeze, but you have to insulate the roof to keep the attic from getting hot in summer and cold in winter.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Thanks for the video. We should do that for our house so it's nice to get some info. I hope to see this in the RAIN thread.
SIGNYM
Russia hit by largest civil protest since its Ukraine invasion began
Russia has been hit by its biggest civil protest since Putin invaded Ukraine - with 10,000 taking to the streets and violent clashes breaking out over the jailing of an anti-war activist. Riot police and demonstrators were involved in battles and a number of 'wounded' were reported at the protest in the small town of Baymak, Bashkortostan, a rural region of Russia near the Ural mountains. The protest was sparked following the jailing of a prominent anti-war activist, who was sentenced to four years in prison for 'inciting hatred.'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-hit-by-largest-civil-prote
st-since-its-ukraine-invasion-began/ss-AA1n7SMe?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=af751efc48a14127b5b5ddc4aa593af8&ei=90
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Given America's goldfish-sized memory (6 seconds) and general disinterest in foreign affairs, nobody noticed the sudden shift in narrative?
In 2022 it was "Ukraine in winning! Always winning!" and last year it was "The Greatest Counteroffensive" and analyses thereof.
This year, it's "Russia is going to take over the world!!!"
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Now, AFAIK Russia has no interest in invading France, Canada, the UK, or whichever nation plans on signing a "bilateral" security agreement with Ukraine. Russia also has no interest in "destroying NATO" altho they said they want to roll NATO back to its 1991 borders.
Since TBTB NEVER gin up a "crisis" without an ulterior plan (eg. "climate crisis" to reduce standard of living for non-elites, "Covid crisis" to take medical control of people's lives, 9-11 to shred the Constitution with the so-called "Patriot Act") what could THIS "crisis" be aimed at?
Well, a couple of possibilities:
KEEP THE MONEY FLOWING TO THE ELITES. If hope of victory isn't enuf the empty people's pockets, fear of attack should do the trick. I saw that at Davos. Plans were being made for Ukraine to issue "reparations bonds" using RUSSIAN Central Bank reserves as collateral, and would only pay off if Ukraine wins. First of all, that's as legal as me taking out a loan using my neighbor's house as collateral. Secondly, there's a huge risk those bonds won't pay off, so financial institutions won't touch them. That leaves governments as buyers, using ... what else? ... taxpayer money. Yermak, Zelenskiy's probable boss, has already been negotiatin with Black Rock and Chase. Chase, we have been told, has agreed to handle the money.
KEEP UKRAINE AND RUSSIA FIGHTING. Those bonds are real incentive for neither party to negotiate. A fight to the death.
CONTROL THE PEOPLE. As Europe goes "all in" on the war, dissent will be punished, lawfare will be waged against dissenting candidates, more will be censored, parties may be outlawed. There is even the possibility of martial law.
It's a win-win for the elites. I'm sure there will be other ways for TPTB to take advantage.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 17, 2024
The Russian military command continues to convict Russian officers in cases associated with Ukrainian strikes as part of a likely effort to improve discipline across the Russian military.
1) Moscow’s Second Western District Military Court sentenced the former head of Rosgvardia’s maritime department, Colonel Sergei Volkov, to six years in prison on January 16 for allegedly supplying low-quality radar systems to protect the Kerch Strait Bridge in occupied Crimea and a gas pipeline from Krasnodar Krai to occupied Crimea from Ukrainian drone strikes.[51] The court found Volkov guilty of “abuse of office with grave consequences” for his participation in a 400 million ruble ($4.5 million) corruption scheme involving the acquisition of two radar systems that Volkov reportedly knew could not properly defend against Ukrainian drones.[52]
2) The Second Western District Military Court convicted two Russian air defense officers on December 6, 2023, for negligence in failing to prevent a Ukrainian strike on Russian territory.[53]
3) Russian authorities also previously detained the commander of the 1st Special Purpose Air and Missile Defense Army on corruption and bribery charges, likely for failing to prevent drone strikes against Moscow City in July and August 2023.[54]
4) The Russian military command likely intends to set a precedent across the Russian military concerning possible punishment for failures to defend against Ukrainian strikes — particularly strikes against high-value targets — regardless of whether the cases explicitly allege that these officers violated Russian rules of combat duty or tangentially associate the officers’ dereliction of duties with corruption schemes.[55]
The Russian command likely hopes that these precedents will improve discipline writ large among Russian forces in Ukraine, although ISW has not observed such an effect.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-january-17-2024
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Thanks for the video. We should do that for our house so it's nice to get some info. I hope to see this in the RAIN thread.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Yeah. If you've got the time and the money and you and/or your husband aren't afraid of electricity, a Transfer Switch is actually an even better way to go. But without paying somebody else to install it for you, the price is going to be baseline around $500 and could get quite a bit more expensive than that.
With a transfer switch, you're essentially hooking up a 2nd, smaller breaker box, and tying the electricity in through that.
The interlock switch that I'm going to install is just to make sure that you can't have the connection to the main open while you open up the connection for your generator to power the home, which could kill somebody working on power lines if they think they're working on a dead line but it's energized by your generator.
The same principal is used in the Transfer Switch, but because you throw a 2nd breaker box in the mix it's a better solution for people who don't own a very expensive generator that would be capable of keeping the entire house running. You basically pick which circuits you want to be run on the generator during a power outage ahead of time and you're all set when the power goes out.
What I'll have to do with that interlock kit is remember to turn off all of my breakers in my house manually except for the ones that I've deemed essential along with shutting off the main. I don't mind the extra step, and I have plans to paint the tips of the breakers that are essential when I get to that point so it's easy to do in the heat of the moment.
Now, living in California, you're probably going to want to have the A/C on during the power outage too. That's great and all, but A/C units have HARD starts that could damage your equipment if you're running it on a generator.
In that case, you should also look into installing an AC Soft Start box as well...
EDIT: It appears that the video won't play through fff.net, but it plays directly on YT. So you can quote this post and get the link and watch it at your leisure.
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Quote:So now you are a climate change denier? You know somebody who is like that:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Since TBTB NEVER gin up a "crisis" without an ulterior plan (eg. "climate crisis" to reduce standard of living for non-elites . . .
09/14/2020 - Climate clash hits 2020 race as California burns
Joe Biden linked the blazes to climate change, while President Donald Trump dismissed the science that shows rising global temperatures make natural disasters worse.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/14/biden-trump-california-fires-
climate-change-414753
01/16/2024 - No more going wobbly in the climate fight
For all his bombast, the former president’s agencies hesitated to rewrite federal climate reports or install loyalists atop key science agencies. Some of his allies expect that to change.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/12/trump-second-term-climate-sci
ence-2024-00132289
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Since TBTB NEVER gin up a "crisis" without an ulterior plan (eg. "climate crisis" to reduce standard of living for non-elites . . .
SECOND: So now you are a climate change denier? You know somebody who is like that: blah ... blah ... blah...
Off topic much?
Yanno, you misrepresent me like you misrepresent Russia.
Climate change is real.
GFC of 2008 was real.
Covid is real.
9-11 was real.
Saddam WMD and 9-11? Not so much!
Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan? Not so much either!
Gaddafi "massacring his own people"? Assad and "chemical weapons"? Pfffft!
Russia taking over Europe???? A fiction.
What I'm saying, and have been saying over many posts: TPTB will use ANY "crisis" - REAL, imagined, or exaggerated - to further THEIR OWN GOALS, NOT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
Who was it that said "Never let a good crisis go to waste?"
I hope I have been pellucidly clear.
Please don't misrepresent me again.
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Quote:Russians have killed around 100,000,000 people and then stole their land. It so many dead that even the Russians cannot wrap their minds around the slaughter. They do NOT want to think about how they got to this point where they are murdering Ukrainians, and stealing their land, but claiming it is the West's fault. Even the highest levels of the Russian government are avoiding thinking about that 100,000,000 number. They mentally reset the number to zero just before making speeches because otherwise they could not go on the way they do:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Off topic much?
Yanno, you misrepresent me like you misrepresent Russia.
Russia taking over Europe???? A fiction.
What I'm saying, and have been saying over many posts: TPTB will use ANY "crisis" - REAL, imagined, or exaggerated - to further THEIR OWN GOALS, NOT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
Who was it that said "Never let a good crisis go to waste?"
I hope I have been pellucidly clear.
Please don't misrepresent me again.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated that Russia’s maximalist objectives in Ukraine remain unchanged and that Russia is not interested in negotiations with Ukraine or the West. Lavrov stated at a press conference on January 18 that Russia “will achieve the goals of its ‘special military operation’ consistently and persistently.”[1] The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ (MFA) readout of this speech included a link to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 24, 2022 speech in which Putin outlined Russia’s goals of “demilitarizing” and “denazifying” Ukraine and his demand that NATO commit not to admit new members – goals which are tantamount to full Ukrainian and Western surrender.[2] Lavrov reiterated that these goals are unchanged, claiming that “serious” talks about the “realistic” conditions for ending the war “presuppose [Ukraine’s] renunciation of Nazi ideology, Nazi rhetoric, racism towards everything Russian, and entry into NATO.”[3] Lavrov attempted to justify these conditions as necessary for preserving the Ukrainian people’s independence and identity, despite the fact that ISW has routinely documented how Russian forces and occupation officials have been engaging in large-scale and deliberate ethnic cleansing campaigns and efforts to eliminate the Ukrainian language, culture, history, and ethnicity in areas that Russian forces occupy.[4] Lavrov also denied Ukraine’s agency as a sovereign state, claiming that “it is not Ukraine that will decide when to stop and start talking [with Russia] seriously” about the end of the conflict, but that it is the West that will make this decision. Lavrov dismissed a question about recent media publications about the possibility of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, stating that “rumors are just that - rumors.” Lavrov claimed that the West – not Russia – is to blame for the absence of negotiations and threateningly stated that “those [in the West] who refuse [to negotiate] must understand that the longer they wait, the harder it will be to negotiate” and that “there is no hope that Russia will be ’defeated.’” Lavrov made similar statements on December 15, 2023, suggesting that the Kremlin believes that the longer the war continues, the more territory Russia will be able to occupy, and that the course of the war will increasingly weaken Ukraine’s negotiating position.[5]
Lavrov also claimed that support of the war has unified the Russian people and strengthened Russian identity. Lavrov claimed that the war contributed to the “cleansing of people who do not feel involved in” ethnic Russian history and culture and the history and culture of the Russian state.[6] Lavrov claimed that some of these people left Russia at the beginning of the war, but that an “overwhelming part of [Russian] society came together in an unprecedented way.” Lavrov's statements are meant to frame Russian society as unified around the war, despite heavy Kremlin efforts to crack down on any dissent and disproportionately a
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The War in Ukraine Now Has Its First Draft
By Elliot Ackerman | January 18, 2024, 7:48 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/01/war-ukraine-now-has-
its-first-draft/677163/
The One Element Keeping Ukraine From Total Defeat
A new book recounts the first year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the ground up.
The tired truism that journalism is history’s first draft does not quite apply to covering war—or not usually, in any case. In those battles that I’ve fought in and those that I’ve reported on, as soon as the gunfire ebbs and soldiers start passing out the post-firefight cigarette or candy bar—or whatever corporeal ritual they’re engaging in to remind themselves that they’re still alive—invariably, they begin to tell stories. They huddle in small groups urgently talking about what just happened, trying to bring order to the violence and chaos they’ve experienced. One guy will talk about entering a house on the left. The other guy will remind him that they entered on the right. They’ll argue about where another friend was shot. The story will begin to congeal when everyone agrees that this is what happened—a first draft, which then, in the hands of a journalist, becomes a second one.
Ever since Homer decided to sort the heroes from the villains at the gates of Troy, the stakes in a war story are always exceptionally high. The seeds of the next war tend to be sown by the stories we tell about the most recent one—whether that’s the German “stab in the back” theory at the end of the First World War, or, more recently, Russian claims that Ukraine is a “fake nation” that exists only because of the lost Cold War.
If history becomes the final battlefield on which a war is waged, Yaroslav Trofimov’s Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence might be the opening salvo in the struggle to define what has happened in Ukraine over the past two years, even as the war continues. Trofimov, who is Ukrainian-born and the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, crisscrossed the country in the first year after Russia’s invasion, gathering the stories of those who experienced the brunt of Vladimir Putin’s army and who are enduring the war of attrition that has followed. The anecdotes in this book—the civilian massacre in Bucha, the meat grinder of Bakhmut—possess the type of frenetic intensity that reminded me of those post-firefight stories.
Except Trofimov isn’t in these stories, though he easily could’ve been, as many war correspondents with far less personal investment in the conflicts they’ve covered readily introduce the personal pronoun into their writing. Instead, he allows the events to unfold under his watchful eye. The result is a kind of cinema verité on the page, an account of the war that’s as close as one can get to that first draft of history as it’s spoken by those who experienced the events. The reader gets a crystal-clear vision of the war’s first year that also reveals the secret weapon that allowed the Ukrainian people and their army to surprise the world—a weapon that tragically has lost much of its power in a war that has more recently descended into a deadly and relentless slog.
Trofimov’s story starts before the invasion. He recounts how much of the outside world had decided that Ukraine was lost before the fighting had even begun. Conventional wisdom among Ukraine’s allies was that the country stood little chance against Putin’s military juggernaut. But in the second week of February 2022, days before the invasion, Trofimov found that many of Ukraine’s military commanders hadn’t bought into this defeatist narrative.
On a visit Trofimov took to Chernihiv, on Ukraine’s northern border with Russia, Serhiy Kryvonos, a retired major general and a veteran of the war in the Donbas, was telling a different story. He scoffed at the idea of Russian military primacy. “We beat them before, and we will beat them now. Look at Afghanistan: the Taliban had nothing to fight with, but they ended up forcing the United Stat
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Off topic much?
Yanno, you misrepresent me like you misrepresent Russia.
Russia taking over Europe???? A fiction.
What I'm saying, and have been saying over many posts: TPTB will use ANY "crisis" - REAL, imagined, or exaggerated - to further THEIR OWN GOALS, NOT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
Who was it that said "Never let a good crisis go to waste?"
I hope I have been pellucidly clear.
Please don't misrepresent me again.
SECOND: Russians have killed around 100,000,000 people and then stole their land.
Man, this number just goes up every time you post, doesn't it?
Care to know how Russians wound up in the far East (according to Chinese history?)
As fur trappers and traders.
Fur was a luxury item in Imperial China. There was an active trade between what is now Siberia and northern China.
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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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