[Sunny's Journal] Russian Military catches Ukraine faking war footage for western propaganda.
"It has been confirmed that Ukrainian security forces shot videos that purportedly showed damage caused by Russian armed forces to private households, as well as homeless civilians. The video production used more than 40 actors who were paid USD 25 each," Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev said.
Yet another example as to why we cannot believe a single piece of western media coverage about the ongoings in Ukraine. Ghost of Kyiv, Snake Island, Maternity Ward, fake guns, green screens, media using recycled photos from other war zones in the past, using recycled footage from video games. ALL OF THEM WERE FAKE. If Russia is so evil, and committing endless war crimes, why do they have to keep faking all this stuff?
With this many lies from the Western media, how can we trust any of what they have said? HOW MUCH of what they reported was fake?
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
An attempt to strike the island was made on the morning of June 20
The Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed more than 15 attack and reconnaissance drones, including two Bayraktar TB-2, attempts were made to strike the island with Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles, Uragan multiple launch rocket systems and 155mm M-777 howitzers .
None of the Ukrainian shells hit the target, 13 Ukrainian drones, four Tochka-U missiles and 21 Uragan MLRS shells were shot down.
In response, Onyx cruise missiles fired at the Shkolny military airfield near Odessa destroyed hangars with Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 UAVs identified by Russian reconnaissance equipment.
On Kubansky Island near Odessa, two artillery platoons of 155mm M777 howitzers were found in positions, then highlighted by drones and sent to scrap.
Russian aviation also destroyed two launchers of the S-300 air defense system in the Ochakov and Tuzla regions of the Odessa region.
Ru.M.O.D statement on #SnakeIsland attack: Ukrainians planned to land troops after bombardments. At least 15 UAV's were used and also M777 , Uragan and Tochka-U ballistic missiles. According to russians, an Global Hawk RQ-4 was detected. Ru Pantsir and Tor SAM eliminated threats. pic.twitter.com/eNmLTtrEy9
This continues the saga of Ukrainian medic Yulia Paevskaya formerly of the Azov Regiment and Adam Gritsenko. You can read about it here.
And as a further update, the exchange definitely wasn't sanctioned by Moscow. By now they (Moscow) probably are aware of it.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
I’ll note right away that there are no official comments regarding the strangest story of the exchange of Yulia Paevskaya from the Azov unit from the Russian Defense Ministry and, most likely, there will not be any more.
The main conclusion is that in order to avoid similar situations in the future, it is necessary to draw conclusions and work on the mistakes from this story. Let what happened act as an extra incentive to mobilize society. My emphasis
Well, now it's interesting. First Anatoly Shariy. He tells, he claims, the nuances of the exchange that have become known to him.
"The agreement was simple: the Russians let the Taira go to Ukraine, but the Ukrainian security forces don't touch Adam. The decision not to go to Russia was made by Saidov's son, and it's basically impossible to 'deport' a citizen of Ukraine anywhere," surfaced in the domestic press.
That is, he did not go to the Russian Federation and she was simply released. My God, well, sometimes it's unpleasant to be right.
Opinion of military correspondent Anna Dolgareva
Many people ask to speak out on the story of Taira.
First. I know the story of how the "Azovites" shot their parents to leave the city under the cover of their children. Whether it was about Taira, I don’t know, since this information appeared much later.
Second. I have great respect for Nadana Friedrichson, she is beautiful, I visited her a couple of years ago on Open Air. But her unpleasant, completely womanish attack on Kuksenkova, who made public information about the exchange of Tyra for Adam Gritsenko, made me very disappointed. By publishing such information, Kuksenkova risked not only her career, and it is unlikely that she did it for the sake of hype. Nadana Friedrichson is a television host on Russian TV channel Zvezda. Kuksenovka refers to the Russian military field correspondent Irina Kuksenovka, who first broke the story of Yulia Paevskaya's release in Russian language press.
Third. The silence of the lambs that the officials have arranged for the Taira is very bad. Gentlemen, you may not have noticed, but for eight years a civil society has grown in Russia, which is interested not only in "Bush's legs" (God, how old I am), but also in the fate of the country. And this enigmatic silence is a spit in the face of this civil society. I beg you to hear me.
From yesterday, a comment by Ukrainian GRU officer Igor Bezler, from his wife's VK page:
I looked at the reaction of various kinds of propagandists from the Russian Federation to the exchange of a Nazi woman from Azov. The reaction from "don't rock the boat - our rats are rocking" to "I don't know anything, I'm not in the know"
But in reality, the exchange of a creature from Azov for a major, the son of Murad Saidov, is the height of cynicism and spitting in the face of our prisoners. Officially, this Marad Saidov (criminal chaser Sutu) is presented either as a deputy representative of the head of the Chechen Republic in the Republic of Kazakhstan and Sevastopol, or as a representative of the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation. For Murad Saidov, Melitopol was actually his hometown. Until 2012, he lived in it and was considered a prominent representative of the criminal world of Zaporozhye, looking. In 2012, after a series of showdowns, Saidov was detained by local security forces and deported from Ukraine. Bezler says Saidov is involved with Ukrainian organized crime. If anyone would know about this, it would be Bezler. In 2014, he trafficked in Ukrainian weapons sold to the separatists by Ukrainian government officials, including former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. That hints that this whole exchange was about Ukrainian and Russian organized crime, and that the return of the Azov medic was simple window dressing.
It also should be noted that most of the smuggling routes for excise goods (stolen bonded products subjected to Ukrainian excise tax (which I understand is sky high), as well as drugs and humans in and out of Ukraine and, thus the breakaway republics, go through the mountains of Galicia.
This exchange really showed that the son of a major, a criminal authority that rubs near Isa Khachukaev, who has not fought a single day, is more important than any Russian pilot, artilleryman, tanker or motorized rifleman who is in captivity ... Judging by the pale sluggish bleating of all military men from TG, (TG=Telegram, the instant messaging service)
that they squeal as if stung for any reason, everyone understands that the sacred children of the mountains are much more important than a simple Vanka from the Urals. "sacred children of the mountains" is a reference to the Chechens He was saying the quiet part aloud, just like Bezler.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets. The British diplomats decide to show off
"As for these two young people who are mercenaries who fought against Donetsk as part of the Ukrainian army, I can say that there was an appeal from the British to us, they sent a note, but composed exclusively in arrogant and instructive terms. It is not causes a desire to cooperate on these issues," said Russian Ambassador to London Andrey Kelin
This only proves our recently finally voiced S.V. Lavrov (Russian foreign minister)
the thesis about the extremely low professional level of diplomatic workers in Western countries. The note has no right to be emotionally loaded, neither a shade nor a hint of emotions, only a briefly expressed curtsy of respect in the introductory and final parts is allowed.
Let's go further. Turned to Russia? And why is she here? The mercenaries were detained in the DPR, not in Russia. The UK does not recognize the DPR and LPR, but considers them part of Ukraine. So let them make claims against Ukraine and write letters to Zelensky.
If the British are trying to ask Russia to influence the republics... When they want to return their citizen, they usually ask politely. And when they are drawn, they ask in an ultimatum form, So they do not need their citizen.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The Gorsko-Zolotnoye caudron is almost ready.
Our troops have taken Mirnaya Dolina. The information has already been confirmed by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Between the troops advancing from Vrubovka and Mirnaya Dolina, only Pai-Aleksandrovka remained, through which the last road leading to Gorskoye passes. But this road is already under full fire control of the RF Armed Forces.
Accordingly, the operational environment of the Gorsko-Zoloto group (up to 2,500 soldiers and officers) is rapidly turning into a cauldron.
The enemy also admitted that the RF Armed Forces had already entrenched themselves in Ustinovka and achieved success at Belaya Gora, advancing towards Lisichansk.
1. From Ustinovka, our troops advanced 2 kilometers to Belaya Gora.
2. Also, our troops entrenched in the Mirnaya Dolina.
3. In addition, the troops advanced near the railway and entered Podlesnoye.
4. Enemy resistance was minimal. Part of the enemy forces retreated to Lisichansk, part to Artemovsk, where they are preparing for defense.
5. The advanced positions of PMC "Wagner" on the evening of June 21 were already five km from Artemovsk.
[Bus Insider] Billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday that a recession is "inevitable" and would likely take place sooner than later.
The Tesla CEO gave his comments at the Qatar Economic Forum, where he was quizzed on his "super bad feeling" about the economy and what he thought of the claims made by Biden administration officials that a US recession is "not inevitable."
"Well, I think a recession is inevitable at some point," Musk replied. "As to whether there is a recession in the near term, I think that it's more likely than not."
"Certainly it's not a certainty," he added.
Musk's assessment comes as Wall Street has forecast higher odds of an incoming recession, with Goldman Sachs saying on Tuesday that the US faces a 30% chance of hitting such a slump over the next year, up from its previous forecast of 15%.
The company highlighted a cumulative 48% probability that a US recession would happen over the next two years.
[Gladstone] The leaders of France, Germany and Italy have jointly visited Ukraine in an attempt to present a unified European front regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. The one-day visit was long on rhetoric but short on substance: European unity remains elusive.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the European Union responded the following day with a package of unprecedented economic sanctions aimed at isolating Russia.
The EU, which was praised for displaying "determination, unity and speed" in its response to Putin, was said to be facing a "transformative moment" that would allow the bloc to become a "geostrategic actor" on the global stage. An observer claimed that the EU had become "a top geopolitical protagonist" and that Europe "discovered that it's a superpower."
On March 21, less than a month after Russia invaded Ukraine, European officials announced an ambitious plan for the EU to achieve "strategic autonomy" aimed at placing the 27-member bloc on equal footing with China and the United States. The implicit objective was to enable a "sovereign" EU to act independently of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in matters of defense and security. That plan is now in shambles.
As the war has dragged on, European unity has collapsed and efforts to transform the European Union into a European superstate — a United States of Europe — have been exposed for what they are: delusions of grandeur.
The EU's largest member states — France and Germany — have sought to appease Putin at the expense of Ukrainian sovereignty. French President Emmanuel Macron, the strongest backer of European strategic autonomy, insists that Putin should not be "humiliated" and has even called on Ukraine to make territorial concessions to help the Russian dictator save face.
#1
European Union "Superpower" ... Sure, now pull the other one.
I have a theory that what we currently have is the Neo-Carolingian Empire (France /Belgium /Germany) and it's 'satellites' (the rest) -- without the strong central army to enforce policy on the satellite states.
TL/DR: It isn't a Superpower and we can see how far Soft Power™ gets you...
BLUF:
[ZERO] Within less than two years of FDR’s death on 12 April 1945, such a permanent-war U.S. Government became officially created. FDR’s plan for a U.N. that would internationally outlaw all empires became replaced by Truman’s plan for an America that would itself become what Hitler, himself, had only aspired to create: the world’s very first all-encompassing global empire. Truman’s dream is today’s American dream, in today’s Washington DC; and here was how the Nobel Peace-Prize-winning U.S. President, Barack Obama (the other of history’s slickest liars), stated it to graduating West Point cadets, on 28 May 2014:
The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come. ... Russia’s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China’s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us, and governments seek a greater say in global forums. ... It will be your generation’s task to respond to this new world.
It’s endlessly onward and upward, for the U.S. All other nations are "dispensable." And that objective is backed-up now, by half of the world’s military expenditures.
This is how it happened. It happened by deceit, at every step of the way.
#3
People - go back and read Eisenhower speech. Everyone forgets what follows the MIC comment.
"Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite".
#12
He spent 10% of the economy on defense every year he was in office. We are at around 4%. He emphasized the need to never be caught off guard ever again as happened at Pearl Harbor, to have a military industrial complex ready to meet any challenge immediately.
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
Oddly enough, the cuts in defense spending from 10% of the economy in Eisenhower’s time to about 4% in ours are reflected in Pentagon dollars vs corporate profits. Just the Fortune 500 makes more money than the Pentagon spends today - $1.8T in profits vs $800b for the Pentagon. If the US spent as much on defense today as a % of the economy as it did in Eisenhower’s time, that dollar number would be $2.2T.
#13
The military-industrial complex, while a bogeyman to conservatives looking for tax cuts, liberals looking for new welfare programs and foreign adversaries looking to expand their territory, is probably the only interest group that has seen its share of the economy shrink 60% since Eisenhower's time. No other part of government has gotten a smaller share - not education, not the welfare state, et al.
Blade Runner posited off-planet colonies and flying cars by 2019. Surely the huge increase in the % of the economy devoted to education should have provided the impetus on the discoveries necessary for intergalactic travel, terraforming and other gleaming glimpses of the future providing by science fiction novels. And yet, here we remain, earth-bound.
#14
Anyway, welfare state liberals, tax cut-happy conservatives and foreign adversaries, as usual, scrubbed the most important part of Eisenhower's speech, the need to remain ready for war through significant expenditures and the fact that 10% of the economy was devoted to defense during Eisenhower's reign. Instead, they contended that defense expenditures even well short of that 10% number were excessive. They scrubbed the main thrust and highlighted the footnote.
[IFA] When the Covid crisis began, supply chain problems popped up around the globe, leading to outbreaks of fear-based irrational behavior. Who can forget the Great Toilet Paper Crisis where desperate people were seen wrestling each other over a pack of Charmin two-ply?
The supply chain issues have intensified since the war in Ukraine. Your own eyes tell the tale when you walk into a supermarket, only to find your favorite cereal is missing. You also start to notice that the loaf of bread, or bag of chips you bought in 2021 is now costing you almost a dollar more. Many of us notice 30% (or more) increases in our favorite food items, well above the published inflation rates of 8 or even 9%.
While the supply chain issues are multi-faceted, there are some specific reasons for the problems at hand. The fact that Ukraine and Russia are both major exporters of wheat, corn, and sunflower products is just the tip of the harvest sickle.
Back in mid-May, economist James Rickards posted an article where he laid out the reasons for why we could see more food supply issues in the near future. He wrote, "[I]n the Northern Hemisphere, the planting season for 2022 is well underway. Crops were planted (or not) in March and April. Based on that, you can already form estimates of output for next September and October during the harvest season...plantings have been far below normal in 2022, either due to lack of fertilizer, or to much higher costs for fertilizer where farmers simply chose to plant less. This predictable shortage is in addition to the much greater shortages due to the fact that Russian output is sanctioned, and Ukrainian output is nonexistent because it’s at war."
Rickards explains that Russia and Ukraine account for 29% of the global wheat exports (19% of corn). But he stresses that this doesn’t mean they grow 29% of the wheat in the world—they grow 29% of the exports.
There are some countries, such as Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, and other African and Middle Eastern nations, that receive a large percentage of their grain supply from Ukraine, Russia or both. Rickards says the situation could become dire because many of the Ukrainian exports have shut down. To make matters worse, the planting season is almost over. Rickards concludes, "And you’re not going to get any grain in October if you didn’t plant it in April or May."
Just because there are:
Empty food shelves in Wally World,
Food costs are up,
Package sizes are smaller to hide increases,
7 Poultry plants go in flames,
10,000 cattle mysteriously die,
Food Fertilizers sky rockets,
Farm Fuels in short supply,
Animal feed in short supply, because we increased the amount of corn being used for the gas tanks, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Why would anyone get the idea Food supplies are being manipulated and used as a weapon.
OR
It could be as simple as;
We have a bunch of mentally Ill dumbasses who stole an election, can't define what a man or Woman is, can't balance a checkbook, but know how to use a Credit Card.
#4
The STB (Surface Transportation Board) just ordered Union Pacific to prioritize trains and crews to service Foster chicken feed operations. Foster was complaining grain was not being shipped and their processing plants were suffering. They had data to back it up. Also UP was to ensure this expedited handling was not at the expense of other customers. Recently UP and others told owners of private cars to park them as they didn’t have enough staff to run trains.
And on the labor side, the NMB sided with unions and terminated mediation talks and that started a 90 day clock that may (probably will) result in a nation wide freight rail strike. Just before mid terms. But Congress and President can comprl them back to work, and also order RR mgmt to raise pay.
Stay tuned
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Always has been?
Someone I know who watches trains says transport is about fuggged. S'okay though, buttgig is wanting erected silos in Ukraine.
I do have a question about the McDonald's/Russia deal - is that an entirely different business entity which just does the same as McD's, or is this McD's with slightly different names and designs? From the articles I read I couldn't make out that distinction.
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I do have a question about the McDonald's/Russia deal - is that an entirely different business entity which just does the same as McD's, or is this McD's with slightly different names and designs? From the articles I read I couldn't make out that distinction.
Changed: ownership, capital structure, logo
Exact same:
- menu*
- employees & managent team, structure
- store/restaurant experience & layout
- brand image: reliably consistent quality, speed, freshness at a price ordinary families can easily afford
- suppliers (100% local before & currently, has been since the recession & shift to import substitution in 1999)
*except for disappearance of Big Mac: no "secret sauce" aka dash of paprika + loads of MSG + HFCS
#13
To comment about transport being fuggdd: yep: the top 4 Class 1 RRs got called on the carpet by the STB and have to submit bi-weekly reports concerning service improvements as customers are screaming, especially those smaller single car customers
If no improvement, look for process called Reciprocal Switching to be mandated. Just reading it or watching a youtube tells you it will be a goatphuque of the highest degree.
Probably Putins fault. Or Trumps.
In 2016, the rulemaking still pending, the STB proposed a case-by-case approach, with shippers still required to demonstrate railroad anticompetitive conduct. In a dissent, STB member and later Chairperson Ann D. Begeman asked, “How can the Board provide fair and consistent switching judgments on a case-by-case basis without creating complexity and cost impacts on the one hand, and not introducing more unpredictability to the rail network on the other?”
No further progress on changing the Reciprocal Switching remedy standards was made until July 2021 when President Joe Biden issued Executive Order No. 14036 encouraging the STB to complete this open rulemaking. It was one of 72 recommended pro-competitive actions affecting more than a dozen industries.
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[Sunny's Journal] Russian Military catches Ukraine faking war footage for western propaganda.
[Bus Insider] Billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday that a recession is "inevitable" and would likely take place sooner than later.
Please remain calm. I have everything under control. The Foster-Fowlers problem has a backside. I am working it. 
