#1
HMMMM. Did the court just redefine the 2nd amendment to self defense??
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
06/23/2022 11:43 Comments ||
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^ They did say the rights laid out in the Constitution are not subject to bureaucrapic whim. It's a far-reaching decision that won't be properly understood for a while.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/23/2022 11:49 Comments ||
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In the majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas writes . . .
The test that the Court set forth in Heller and applies today requires courts to assess whether modern firearms regulations are consistent with the Second Amendment’s text and historical understanding. Of course, the regulatory challenges posed by firearms today are not always the same as those that preoccupied the Founders in 1791 or the Reconstruction generation in 1868. But the Constitution can, and must, apply to circumstances beyond those the Founders specifically anticipated, even though its meaning is fixed according to the understandings of those who ratified it. See, e.g., United States v. Jones, 565 U. S. 400, 404–405. Indeed, the Court recognized in Heller at least one way in which the Second Amendment’s historically fixed meaning applies to new circumstances: Its reference to “arms” does not apply “only [to] those arms in existence in the 18th century.” 554 U. S., at 582.
And then there’s this . . .
It is undisputed that petitioners Koch and Nash—two ordinary, law-abiding, adult citizens—are part of “the people” whom the Second Amendment protects. See Heller, 554 U. S., at 580. And no party disputes that handguns are weapons “in common use” today for self-defense. See id., at 627. The Court has little difficulty concluding also that the plain text of the Second Amendment protects Koch’s and Nash’s proposed course of conduct—carrying handguns publicly for self-defense. Nothing in the Second Amendment’s text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms, and the definition of “bear” naturally encompasses public carry. Moreover, the Second Amendment guarantees an “individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation,” id., at 592, and confrontation can surely take place outside the home.
And Justice Thomas made a particular point to include this gem . . .
The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not “a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 780 (plurality opinion). The exercise of other constitutional rights does not require individuals to demonstrate to government officers some special need. The Second Amendment right to carry arms in public for self defense is no different. New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/23/2022 11:52 Comments ||
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#4
The decision tacitly backs the notion that there is a Constitutional right to self-defense. That's gonna be a problem for the "nobody needs an AR-15 for deer hunting."
Not that it will slow down such straw-man burners for a moment.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/23/2022 12:09 Comments ||
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#5
Dear gun grabbers - if you provided a society that could believe in and trust enforcement of laws (not selectively) and real punishment for crimes (equitably), maybe you'd have an easier time of selling your product. Strangely enough, the Venn diagram of those who push gun grabbing and those who undermine those concepts of crime and punishment appear to be very tight.
#6
It's not even an issue up for trade. It's acknowledged law that the police have no duty to protect you. That leaves it up to you.
Even in a truly ideal world, an honest policeman a few minutes away will be no help at all when you only have seconds to act to save yourself. And the most honest court on Earth cannot bring you back from the dead.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/23/2022 12:32 Comments ||
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#7
All too believable. Hochul comes out and as soon as she opens her mouth, she demonstrates she has not read the ruling. She's talking about muskets, even though Thomas eviscerated that straw man explicitly in his opinion.
These politicians actually are this stupid.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/23/2022 14:23 Comments ||
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#10
Wasn't long ago I saw a meme that said if guys got a time machine they'd go back and tell the Founders, "Write the second one like you are explaining it to a five year old." Basically, Thomas skewered each of the wishful, imaginative anti-gun misinterpretations that have been floating around for years.
I don't think he missed anything or opened any new holes in the process.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/23/2022 15:59 Comments ||
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Even in a truly ideal world, an honest policeman a few minutes away will be no help at all when you only have seconds to act to save yourself. And the most honest court on Earth cannot bring you back from the dead.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-23 12:32|| 2022-06-23 12:32|| Front Page || Comments Top
Ref: Uvalde Elementary School Grades 1-3
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 ||
06/23/2022 16:53 Comments ||
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#12
"Don't need a gun because Police will protect you" looks pretty fucking stupid right now.
And the most honest court on Earth cannot bring you back from the dead.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Oleg Airapetov
[Regnum] In September, the troops of General Miller went on the offensive. They expanded the territory they occupied and in November achieved the creation of a united front with the Kolchakites about 200 km long in the Pechora region.
Commentary by Russian military bogger Andrey Chervonets
Interesting details from the VSUshnik taken prisoner in Mirnaya Dolina. Kiev throws into the semi-cauldron all the unprepared, just a week as mobilized, soldiers.
If you listen to the prisoner, watch this report and look at your map, then what we have: Video referred to is in Russian
- it seems that the RF Armed Forces brought a fresh unit into the battle, presumably BTGr 90 TD, and broke through the enemy's defenses;
- after the final cleaning of the company stronghold on the mountain east of Toshkovka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Toshkovka, Mirnaya Dolina did not have any prepared defense lines left. In addition, the Ukrainians has no artillery left that can "block" the direction of the offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation / NAF;
- after units of the Ukrainian 54th ORB (separate reconnaissance battalion) were unwound on the oporniks northwest of Vrubovka a few days ago, it became clear that there were no significant reserves in this direction. The defense is held by armored groups (a couple of tanks plus a platoon of infantry with anti-tank weapons on vehicles), which direct artillery and demonstrate their presence.
- the operational environment of the Gorsko-Zolotoye group (up to 2,500 soldiers and officers) is rapidly turning into a cauldron.
- after the liberation of Mirnaya Dolina and Podlesnoye, if there are forces and means, it may make sense not to try to go to Lisichansk, but to go northwest, to Volcheyarovka, there is a little more than five km and there are no rivers and take a bridge across the Berestovaya river.
Further develop success on Topolevka (there is another five km to the north-west of Volcheyarovka), and the Seversk-Lysichansk highway will be under tight fire control. That is, the grouping in Lysichansk is also in the operational environment, where the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be 8,000 people. Hand drawn graphics showing the situation are at the link
#1
Just saw video from The Sun taken during the past 24-48 hours of Ukrainian troops in Severodonetsk successfully engaging Russian troops that completely contradicts this Russian article.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 ||
06/23/2022 3:47 Comments ||
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#2
I'm not going to rely on just the Ukrainian version of events.
#3
The situation for Ukraine and NATO is far worse than is being reported. It's not just Ukraine that is "outgunned"; as Alexander Vershinin of the Royal United Service few Institute makes clear, the Russians have an extraordinary military-industrial advantage over NATO in production of ammunition, artillery shells and missiles.
"The war in Ukraine demonstrates that war between peer or near-peer adversaries demands the existence of a technically advanced, mass scale, industrial-age production capability. The Russian onslaught consumes ammunition at rates that massively exceed US forecasts and ammunition production."
Vershinin points out that the Russian military-industrial base outproduces that of the US by an order of magnitude -- and this lead is increasing -- in those basic categories that will determine the outcome of this or any conventional conflict with Russia in Europe:
"The Capacity of the West’s Industrial Base
The winner in a prolonged war between two near-peer powers is still based on which side has the strongest industrial base. A country must either have the manufacturing capacity to build massive quantities of ammunition or have other manufacturing industries that can be rapidly converted to ammunition production. Unfortunately, the West no longer seems to have either.
Presently, the US is decreasing its artillery ammunition stockpiles. In 2020, artillery ammunition purchases decreased by 36% to $425 million. In 2022, the plan is to reduce expenditure on 155mm artillery rounds to $174 million. This is equivalent to 75,357 M795 basic ‘dumb’ rounds for regular artillery, 1,400 XM1113 rounds for the M777, and 1,046 XM1113 rounds for Extended Round Artillery Cannons. Finally, there are $75 million dedicated for Excalibur precision-guided munitions that costs $176K per round, thus totaling 426 rounds.
In short, US annual artillery production would at best only last for 10 days to two weeks of combat in Ukraine. If the initial estimate of Russian shells fired is over by 50%, it would only extend the artillery supplied for three weeks.
The US is not the only country facing this challenge. In a recent war game involving US, UK and French forces, UK forces exhausted national stockpiles of critical ammunition after eight days.
#4
The deficit goes far beyond ammunition to include Javelins, Stingers and longer-range missiles.
A crucial "flawed assumption," in Vershinin's telling, was the notion that precision-guided munitions would render large stockpiles of missiles unnecessary. The Ukraine war has belied this.
Flawed Assumptions
"The first key assumption about future of combat is that precision-guided weapons will reduce overall ammunition consumption by requiring only one round to destroy the target. The war in Ukraine is challenging this assumption. Many ‘dumb’ indirect fire systems are achieving a great deal of precision without precision guidance, and still the overall ammunition consumption is massive. Part of the issue is that the digitisation of global maps, combined with a massive proliferation of drones, allows geolocation and targeting with increased precision, with video evidence demonstrating the ability to score first strike hits by indirect fires....
"Unfortunately, this is not only the case with artillery. Anti-tank Javelins and air-defence Stingers are in the same boat. The US shipped 7,000 Javelin missiles to Ukraine – roughly one-third of its stockpile – with more shipments to come. Lockheed Martin produces about 2,100 missiles a year, though this number might ramp up to 4,000 in a few years. Ukraine claims to use 500 Javelin missiles every day.
The expenditure of cruise missiles and theatre ballistic missiles is just as massive. The Russians have fired between 1,100 and 2,100 missiles. The US currently purchases 110 PRISM, 500 JASSM and 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles annually, meaning that in three months of combat, Russia has burned through four times the US annual missile production.
The Russian rate of production can only be estimated. Russia started missile production in 2015 in limited initial runs, and even in 2016 the production runs were estimated at 47 missiles. This means that it had only five to six years of full-scale production. If competition between autocracies and democracies has really entered a military phase, then the arsenal of democracy must radically improve its approach to the production of materiel in wartime
The initial stockpile in February 2022 is unknown, but considering expenditures and the requirement to hold substantial stockpiles back in case of war with NATO, it is unlikely that the Russians are worried. In fact, they seem to have enough to expend operational-level cruise missiles on tactical targets. The assumption that there are 4,000 cruise and ballistic missiles in the Russian inventory is not unreasonable. This production will probably increase despite Western sanctions. In April, ODK Saturn, which makes Kalibr missile motors, announced an additional 500 job openings. This suggests that even in this field, the West only has parity with Russia..."
#5
Late day, Comrade. However - your manager will not be pleased your propaganda didn't hit prime reading time. Sad.
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/23/2022 19:38 Comments ||
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The above analysis comports with what another commenter was saying here the other day about the extraordinary decline in US military-industrial spending.
It is clear that the US and UK are rapidly depleting their supplies and are in no position to fight a war with China or Russia (or both).
"Finally, there is an assumption about overall ammunition consumption rates. The US government has always lowballed this number. From the Vietnam era to today, small arms plants have shrunk from five to just one.
This was glaring at the height of the Iraq war, when the US started to run low on small arms ammunition, causing the US government to buy British and Israeli ammunition during the initial stage of the war. At one point, the US had to dip into Vietnam and even Second World War-era ammo stockpiles of .50 calibre ammunition to feed the war effort.
This was largely the result of incorrect assumptions about how effective US troops would be. Indeed, the Government Accountability Office estimated that it took 250,000 rounds to kill one insurgent. Luckily for the US, its gun culture ensured that small arms ammunition industry has a civilian component in the US. This is not the case with other types of ammunition, as shown earlier with Javelin and Stinger missiles.
Lt Col (Retd) Alex Vershinin has 10 years of frontline experience in Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. For the last decade before his retirement, he worked as a modelling and simulations officer in concept development and experimentation for NATO and the US Army.
#9
I'm sorry, your AgitProp is too late to qualify for today's billing. Please don't add these to any billings for tomorrow or future date, Respectfully.
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/23/2022 21:17 Comments ||
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#10
Now I recall the commenter's name: "ZhangFei." He made excellent points, which Lt. Col. Vershinin underscores, about the paucity of funding for the contemporary US military-industrial base.
Vershinin of the Royal United Service Institute also notes the enormous problems created by other aspects of the cure t military-industrial system, such as America's heavy reliance upon just in time manufacturing as well as dependence upon its greatest rival,China, for certain rare earth metals and other crucial inputs.
Vershinin has done an outstanding job. It's a fascinating article, one that serious and intelligent people such as "ZhangFei" would dual to read and ponder.
#12
Thank you for this. Yes it's fascinating and appalling.
Can someone verify whether this is this really true?
...at the height of the Iraq war, when the US started to run low on small arms ammunition, causing the US government to buy British and Israeli ammunition during the initial stage of the war. At one point, the US had to dip into Vietnam and even Second World War-era ammo stockpiles of .50 calibre ammunition to feed the war effort.
This was largely the result of incorrect assumptions about how effective US troops would be. Indeed, the Government Accountability Office estimated that it took 250,000 rounds to kill one insurgent.
Oil Derek has assured us that he doesn't care who wins in Ukraine, as long as we recognize our stupidity in sanctioning Russia. So imagine my surprise to see him here. It's a real discontinuity.
Posted by: Matt ||
06/23/2022 22:37 Comments ||
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#19
Their problem is with complexity. They don't understand the concept of unintended consequences. A persistent failing of American foreign policy for over half a century.
#21
Oil Derek has assured us that he doesn't care who wins in Ukraine, as long as we recognize our stupidity in sanctioning Russia.
If Ukraine could win without destroying our economy, sure Is be glad to support that. But that ain't what's happening. Biden's war is a package deal. The sanctions are a bad joke. Wyle E Coyote and his Acme rocket stuff.
#22
And Putin fully understood the consequences of invading Ukraine, Jean Paul?
Posted by: Matt ||
06/23/2022 22:58 Comments ||
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Biden's war is a package deal. The sanctions are a bad joke. Wyle E Coyote and his Acme rocket stuff.
LOL. Biden is incapable of thinking even one step ahead. Whatever one thinks of Putin, he and his finance team obviously anticipated (even more) sanctions and were well prepared for them. They've been managing the sanctions fallout for 8 years.
Even Trump increased the sanctions pressure on Russia. It is impossible for anyone sentient to argue that US sanctions were not anticipated by Putin.
#24
In fact one could argue that Putin and his finance ministers probably saw a big opportunity to screw the West and blunt any sanctions last summer, when the new American administration signaled it wanted to strangle the US oil industry.
Remember that one of the damaging blows suffered by the USSR in the mid-1980s was the collapse in the oil price.
Oil prices higher than $90/barrel give Russian leaders many more foreign policy options than they have when the oil price is below $50.
#28
Not exactly. The Saudis are the world's major swing producer. A price maker rather than a price taker. They can move prices up or down as it suits them. Russia is developing into a price maker as well.
#30
#26 It's the kind of question that you can't answer without getting in trouble. I can say anything I want to about Biden, good or bad. Go ahead, say one bad thing about Putin. Maybe you didn't like the tie he wore to the May Day Parade?
Posted by: Matt ||
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#31
"Putin like most of the world's leaders lies and steals and is unkind to his rivals."
Now that's enough. Either respond to the substance of the discussion or find another thread.
Back on topic, it's well known that we're badly depleting our weapons stocks. We are extremely vulnerable now. More so than any time I can remember. The Brits are in an even worse position
This is a chronicle of the Battle of Gostumel in February. Nearly all the text below is from the Russian paratrooper, identified as Alexey. Text in italics is an interviewer's.
[KikOnline] On the evening of February 23, Alexey, as usual, wished his wife Tatyana good night. SMS flew to Moscow from the Mozyr airfield (Belarus). Aleksey had been here with his fellow paratroopers for almost two weeks, and planned to return home one of these days - his wife was about to give birth. But it turned out differently. Tatyana received the first news from her husband only on March 29. "Good morning, darling" - shone on the phone screen. There was nothing more precious than these words for her then.
On March 29, after a month of fierce fighting, Russian troops were withdrawn from the Antonov airfield in Gostomel (Ukraine).
Storm
Under the Mozyr airfield, part of the forces of the Russian army was concentrated, participating in a special military operation in the Kiev direction.
“We were told there would be exercises. Four or five days and back. Exercises are exercises, this is not the first time we have been working with Belarusians. We were getting ready. They received arms and ammunition. Trained. Washed in a field bath. Nothing special happened,” says Alexei.
In the early morning of February 24, Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special military operation to protect Donbass. Alexey and his landing group watched his appeal to the nation from the phone in an army tent. And just a few hours after this speech, the Russian troops landed at the Antonov military airfield, 25 kilometers from Kyiv, having fully established control over the strategic facility.
— The assault team left at dawn. We said goodbye to the guys ... Well, how did we say goodbye? We wished each other a speedy meeting. And sat down on KamAZ trucks. The guys flew in helicopters (more than 200 Russian helicopters were involved in the operation, approx.) to capture the airfield. We advanced to them for reinforcements,” says Aleksey.
The reinforcement group was supposed to arrive at the airfield on the evening of the 24th. But it didn't go according to plan. There was only one way to the airport. Two-strip. And a huge amount of military equipment has accumulated on it: KamAZ trucks, armored personnel carriers, armored vehicles "Tigers" ... somewhere there were already lined Ukrainian tanks.
“Due to constant shelling from the Ukrainian army and traffic jams, we got to our four days. The guys were waiting for us. They flew there with small backpacks - with dry rations for a day, and B/C (ammunition) of 600 rounds for each. Grenade launchers, grenades, yes a bottle of water. They reported that they were constantly under fire. What went on the offensive.
They held the airfield. Although the forces were unequal - the enemy was several times superior in number. From seven in the morning until midnight, everything flew to the airfield from the enemy - Grads, self-propelled guns, mortars worked. Our guys were already tired, but charged. They needed our support, and we could not help them in any way. And that made it hard,” says Alexei.
When the reinforcement group arrived in Gostomel, the picture was gloomy. There was a lot of destroyed Ukrainian equipment. It stood charred and crumpled. With staff inside...
— The Ukrainians did not take their dead. They lay there for four days. Then our guys went out, dug a hole - a mass grave, and removed the bodies.
- Did they have the opportunity to take their dead and wounded?
- Of course. If they had contacted us, they would have been given such an opportunity. This is the rule of war.
Under fire
We have arrived at the airfield. They left for positions. I went to get things for the group - grenade launchers, batteries for radio stations, something else. Walk 150 meters from one building to another. There is an asphalt path made of aircraft plates, and along the roadsides - undergrowth. I was already halfway there. Relaxed.
And suddenly I hear ... the whistling sound of flying mines! The shelling began. He's there at six in the evening, always on schedule. But I didn't know that yet. A shell exploded nearby. I am to the tree. Embraced him like a baby. I turn my head, and fifteen meters from me there is another gap. I was covered in earth. Fortunately, he was in a bulletproof vest, in a helmet - he was not injured. But then for the first time I realized that I could stay near this tree. Then I thought about the children, whom I did not have time to see, - Alexey continues.
The shelling went on for about five minutes, maybe ten, but they seemed like an eternity. When everything stopped, Alexei rushed back in quick dashes. He ran: there is ringing in the ears, and emptiness in the eyes. The guys began to calm down, gave a smoke. He says that he lit a cigarette for the first time, and before that - never.
Mortars, artillery, Grads were fired at the airfield. And they also shot with phosphorus. White phosphorus is a very dangerous thing. It's almost impossible to extinguish it. Burning white powder literally burns the air, making it toxic.
Aleksey says that over time, you begin to determine by the sound of a shot whether it is Grad or a mortar, and depending on this, you already count how many seconds it will arrive.
- The worst thing is the Grads. All in all, it's scary. But when they bombard them day after day for a month, you get used to it. The main thing is not to stick out and quickly run across.
They fired constantly, like clockwork. But we fired more. And our aviation is just gods. When they arrived, you could safely go out for a smoke. Relax for a moment, he smiles.
— Did you manage to sleep well? And how do you deal with fatigue?
- Slept well. When you know that your little brother is sitting on the “chip” (at the post), why not? Sometimes they slept in armor and a helmet. No other way. A stray fragment can fly in, and the building is a brick in two layers and a concrete slab overhead ... And the team helped fight fatigue. The comrade will pat, hug, say that everything will be fine - and already calmer, and strength has increased.
For being there
“Being there, we really defended the country from this Nazi horror. Somehow they went "on a mission." I'm going through the forest.
A platoon of artillerymen, sixteen people, is coming towards us. They resisted. But after our first accurate shots, they dropped their weapons and raised their hands. Of these sixteen people, ten are ordinary young guys, conscripts, they are 18-19 years old. And those who are older are all covered in Nazi tattoos, shaved baldly, with hatred in their eyes.
They have a swastika on their bulletproof vests, and on large-caliber weapons too. Swine attitude even to their own. Real neo-nazis. We delivered them to our group. They talked to the young guys, examined them, and let them go home. They gave them civilian clothes and said, "Go away from here and don't come back." Others were sent to Russia.
How did they behave?
- They had a fear that the Russian "occupiers" would cut and kill them, as they do. But we are military people. And according to the charter, the attitude towards the military enemy is not to cripple, not to beat, only interrogation.
- Any military action is pain and grief. What are you hurting for?
For fallen comrades. I didn't have six. Often I dream. Sometimes, we talk with them in a dream, we remember different moments. With one of them, we went in for sports together all winter, with the other in 2018 we spent the entire business trip in Syria side by side. The boy was loaded. They are missing a lot.
- What gives you support in life?
- Family and real, strong friendship. This is the main support in life.
He wants to instill these principles in his children. He has three of them: the elder Ivan and twins Arseny and Matvey. “Everything is in me,” the head of the family laughs.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
The enemy is blocked at the Azot plant. There is no assault on "Azot", some civilians leave the territory of the enterprise.
There are isolated cases of surrender. The enemy cannot withdraw from Azot. Armed Forces of Ukraine have no opportunity to fully release Azot.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the army of the LPR are waiting for the group advancing from Vrubovka and Toshkovka to come to Lisichansk. The roads to Lisichansk are under constant fire.
2. Zolotoye.
Today, the operational encirclement of the enemy grouping in Gorskoye and Zolote took shape. Our troops took Mirnaya Dolina, entered Podlesnoye, and also advanced from Ustinovka to Belaya Gora. Enemy resistance sharply weakened, part of the forces retreated to Lisichansk, part to Artemovsk.
The only road to Gorskoye through Lich-Alexandrovka is under full fire control of the RF Armed Forces. The operational environment turns into a cauldron.
3. Artemovsk.
The enemy is putting up serious resistance in the area of Pokrovsky and Klinovoe. Today, our troops have already been fighting street battles in Klinovoe. The forward positions of our troops are located 5 km from Artemovsk. But it won't be easy to take it.
4. Soledar.
Heavy fighting for Berestovoye and Belogorovka. Our troops have clung to the villages, but it is still far from complete mopping up, since the enemy has transferred reserves here and is actively working with artillery. In turn, the enemy's attempts to regain control over the Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway were unsuccessful. Moreover, the potential loss of Nikolaevka will further complicate the situation of the Severodonetsk grouping.
5. Avdievka.
Intense counter-battery struggle continued. The enemy continued to shell Donetsk and other settlements. The battles near Novobakhmutovka and New York did not bring any major changes.
6. Ugledar.
The enemy, after several days of fighting, again tried to attack Pavlovka and started fighting in the area of the village and on its outskirts.
There are no significant changes in Marinka and Velikaya Novoselovka, as, indeed, on the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoseloveka line, where positional battles continue.
7. Slavyansk.
Fighting in the area of Prishib, Dolyna, Krasnopolye and Bogorodichny. It is expected that the fighting will soon move to Sidorovo and further to Mayaky.
8. Izyum.
Battles at Velikaya Kamyshevakha and Kurulka. The enemy shells Balakleya and conducts reconnaissance in force, probing the possibility of straining the flanks of the Izyum grouping.
9. Kharkov.
The enemy went on the defensive in most areas, abandoning intensive attempts to regain lost positions near Rubezhnoye, Ternovoye and Verkhny Saltov.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are conducting an artillery offensive and have sharply intensified attacks on Kharkov and Chuguev, as well as on the area of Uda and Zolochev.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are strengthening the defense in the villages on the outskirts of Kharkov in anticipation of the advance of Russian troops.
10. Nikolaev.
The enemy continued to attempt to attack in the Snegirevka area, and also claims to be moving towards Kiselevka in the direction of Kherson and tactical successes in this direction. From our side, this is denied. On the Nikopol direction without changes.
11. Odessa.
The enemy again attempted strikes against Zmeiny Island today. Satellite images show at least 1 hit on some object on the island.
The results of the retaliatory actions of the RF Armed Forces are still unknown.
The attempt on June 20 cost the Armed Forces dearly, but the enemy continues to probe for the possibility of attacking Serpentine Island despite the losses.
[ColonelCassad] Today our troops took Rai-Aleksandrovka and Loskutovka. All settlements around Gorsky and Zolotoe are controlled by our troops.
Fighting is underway in the direction of Volcheyarovka and Nikolaevka. The remaining enemy forces in Gorsky and Zolotoy went over to all-round defense.
The next boiler for the Ukrainian army is completely ready.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[VPOAnalytics] On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine. The two strongest armies in Europe - the Ukrainian one, supported intellectually and technically by the North Atlantic Alliance, and the Russian one, based on the developments of the domestic military-industrial complex and rich military-historical experience, oppose each other in four theaters of military operations: land, sea, air and information.
Three months of the conflict showed that in today's digitalized world, the informational aspect of the conflict is of critical importance. With a competent combination of actions in four theaters, a defeat can be turned into a great success and, conversely, the unconditional superiority of the enemy can be passed off as his complete defeat.
UKRAINE: PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
The armed forces of Ukraine outnumber the Russian group involved in the special operation in terms of the number of personnel, but lag behind in terms of equipment and the number of heavy weapons. During the SVO, the Ukrainian army suffered significant damage. The arsenals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for certain items were reduced by 60-70%. Especially great are the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in terms of tanks - up to 75%. Aviation and fleet are completely destroyed. The new fighters are either part of hidden reserves or supplied from abroad.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine manage to restrain the onslaught of the Russian army due to a reliable system of fortifications in the Donbass and the “human shield” tactics proposed by the Pentagon. The Armed Forces of Ukraine turn cities with civilians into fortified forts, which leads to serious destruction - as during the Battle of Mariupol. The military assistance of the West helps Ukraine to keep the front, especially for anti-tank systems and MANPADS. But the “Javelin effect” turned out to be short-lived. Following Mariupol, several strategic points in the Donbas fell. The front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine literally crackled. Therefore, Kyiv became even more insistent in demanding an increase in the supply of heavy weapons.
With such a negative situation on the battlefield, the main tool of the Kyiv authorities was and remains a powerful information impact. Kyiv used all the experience of information manipulations accumulated since the Maidan of 2014 and directed information flows in two main directions: western and eastern.
Western information flow presents Ukraine as a victim of Russia's unjustified and excessive "aggression". Such a media image is intended to help rally Europe and the United States around Ukraine and provide it with financial and military-political support (cases of the Buchinsk and Kramatorsk provocations). Ukrainian officials are actively resorting to Western cancel culture techniques to influence Western companies hesitant about anti-Russian sanctions. This tactic has had some success.
The Eastern information flow was directed to Russia. According to RT , the Center for Information and Psychological Operations (TsIPSO) located in Brovary received an order to initiate a large-scale information impact on the citizens of the Russian Federation. It involves the dissemination of demoralizing data about the Russian army, the economy, the political elite, as well as materials showing the superiority of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. SMM professionals specializing in Internet traffic management were involved in this campaign. The ultimate goal of the CIPSO operation is to reach 60-70 million people in Russia, disrupt public order and politically destabilize the country.
TWO-FACED JAN AS THE MAIN SYMBOL OF UKRAINIAN PROPAGANDA
Inside Ukraine, the information policy is built on the basis of a combination of these approaches: on the one hand, the citizens are shown the aggressiveness and inhumanity of the Russian army, and on the other, its complete incompetence. When the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreat, the Ukrainians are informed about the “regrouping”, the letters Z and V are put on the padded Ukrainian equipment, which makes it possible to pass it off as Russian, the loss by the Ukrainian army of entire military bases and warehouses or mass surrender is issued as “minor losses” or “adjustment front."
Based on the situation on the ground, the tactics chosen by the Ukrainian side can be considered reasonable and effective. This fact is noted even by the NATO high command, which promises to study the “Ukrainian experience” in detail. But with all this, one should not overestimate the successes of the psychological war unleashed by Kiev either. Most of the information coming from Ukraine is absurd and has not been confirmed by anything. The situation on the battlefield is not in favor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The tragedy that occurred in early May on Zmeiny Island finally buried Kiev's plans to break through the naval blockade of Odessa. The myth about the heroic Mariupol garrison, which had been maintained for two months, was dispelled in a week, when about 2,500 military men (including the Azov regiment banned in the Russian Federation) surrendered with weapons, equipment and full ammunition.
The surrender of Azov, banned in Russia, dealt a strong blow to Kyiv. A psychological breakdown occurred in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Dozens of appeals from the Ukrainian military to the high command with a request to stop sending them "to slaughter" appeared on the network. A conflict has begun between the Office of the President and the General Staff: the military considers the creative team of Zelensky guilty of shedding the Donbass front. Zelensky himself made an attempt to shift the blame to ex-president Poroshenko, for which the “Medvedchuk card” was played. As a result, Peter Alekseevich left Ukraine.
Therefore, it can be stated that the Ukrainian tactics of psychological warfare has a limited range of action, which narrows in the absence of real victories and as military operations stretch over time. In addition, Russia has countered its own information strategy, which, despite its more restrained nature, is proving to be effective.
RUSSIA: INFORMATION FOG
In the context of the total superiority of Ukraine and its Western patrons in terms of the number of available media resources and the total blocking of Russian media on Western platforms (YouTube, Twitter, recognized as extremist Facebook), any attempt to interrupt the anti-Russian information flow with one's own is doomed to failure. Therefore, Russia countered the tactics of information fog to the Ukrainian tactics of psychological warfare .
Instead of increasing the amount of data coming from the conflict zone, Russia has reduced it by several times. Information about the course of the JMD is provided by the Russian side in a dosed manner and based on irrefutable facts. In addition, the Russian Ministry of Defense began to deliver preventive information strikes, warning of Ukraine's upcoming provocations like Bucha and Kramatorsk, which forced the Kyiv authorities to abandon such actions (especially given the rude execution and low interest of the target audience).
The information field was "clouded" by conflicting data coming from Russian politicians, representatives of the establishment and opinion leaders. The theses voiced by them demonstrated that the Kremlin had lost control over the situation and was preparing for an early termination of the NWO. Thus, the Istanbul talks, arranged in such a way that Moscow is ready to accept the humiliating conditions of Kyiv, caused the widest resonance in the world and in Russia.
In reality, nothing like this happened. On the contrary, the second stage of the NMD is recognized by Western experts as more dangerous for Ukraine and successful for the Russian Federation, because, having bled the Armed Forces of Ukraine and completely destroyed the Ukrainian military-industrial complex at the first stage, the Russian army proceeded to the complete destruction of the Donbass grouping, which includes the most combat-ready units. Threats to Kharkov, Nikolaev and Odessa have increased many times over. Dnipro, the economic heart of Ukraine, was also under attack.
HYPNOS AND THANATOS - ONE GIVES PEACE, THE OTHER REPOSE
The West realized that the February-March estimates, which were overly optimistic for it, were premature. The major Western media have increasingly begun to wonder about the ultimate goals of US and EU policy in Ukraine , and will they not lead to an open clash with Russia? Despite the point of view that has taken root in the United States and Europe about the low level of training of the Russian army, The Veterans Today admitted that in three months Russia destroyed 2/3 of all military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (including imported ones) and is capable of defeating the NATO bloc even in a conventional war.
Interest in Ukraine in the American media as a whole has declined to the level of the beginning of the NWO (an average of 11% of the peak). Western observers have adopted a more moderate position, on the one hand, not to spread false information, and on the other hand, not to play along with the Kremlin. Gradually, Western society is preparing for possible peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, as a result of which the latter may lose part of the territories. Even the titan of American diplomacy, Henry Kissinger, joined this problem and recognized this version of the treaty as the only guarantee for maintaining peace in Europe.
In general, we can conclude that in the long run, the Russian tactics of information fog turned out to be much more effective than the Kyiv tactics of psychological warfare. The real military and economic losses of Ukraine have a much greater impact on Ukrainian society, since this information is directly correlated with reality. The West, preoccupied only with its own interests, is already close to accepting the new political reality in Europe.
EURO-ATLANTIC PEACE: COGNITIVE WARFARE
For Europe and the US, NWO in Ukraine is a time of great opportunity. In fact, they have achieved a long-standing goal - to involve the two largest Slavic states in the conflict. The Russian NMD serves as the main justification for the continued existence and expansion of the NATO bloc . At the Ukrainian training ground, the members of the North Atlantic Alliance are getting rid of obsolete arsenals so that the American military-industrial complex will receive new contracts. Finally, by declaring Russian energy resources toxic, Washington can more actively redraw the energy map of Europe, which will lead to the final enslavement of the Old World from the New.
EUROPE SOWED DISCORD BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE, BUT NOW IT IS REAPING ITS FRUITS
None of this, of course, gets into the public space. From the first hours of the NWO, the information campaign in the countries of Europe and the USA has been structured in such a way as to make Russia the main culprit not only in the situation in Ukraine, but also in all the internal problems of the Euro-Atlantic world. Inflation and high gas prices in the US have been proudly named after the Russian president for several months now.
Western societies, as if on command, switched to a regime of hatred for Russia and everything Russian. A wave of harassment swept through social networks, bans and restrictions were imposed on obtaining visas and the movement of Russians in Europe, the property of Russian immigrants and Russian monuments were subjected to vandalism. Russian culture and sports were cancelled.
Someone will say that it has always been like this, and will be only partly right. “Bad Russians” is indeed a rather old concept, the origins of which date back to the Middle Ages, when Polish travelers described in sophisticated detail the “horrors” of the Moscow kingdom and its mad tsar Ivan IV. But today the methods of launching this discourse have radically changed. Before our eyes, the tactics of cognitive warfare , which has been developed by Western military specialists for the past 10 years , were used against Russia .
Cognitive warfare is an intense impact on a person's consciousness without the use of physical actions in order to change his behavior pattern. In order for the external signal to be perceived, it is necessary to place the subject in a state of constant anxiety. The impact is most effective if the base is destroyed. called "Maslow's pyramid", i.e. a person is deprived of the opportunity to satisfy part of the physiological and security needs. More precisely, he thinks that he is losing.
After deformation of the base, the stability of the entire structure is violated
For the first time, cognitive warfare technologies were applied on a global scale during the COVID19 pandemic. The Western media and social networks that dominate the information field constantly reported on the threats of illness, hunger, job loss and death, which made the population of Europe and the USA more susceptible to information impact. When the Russian NWO began, the toggle switch was switched to the threat of a world war, and public discourse changed instantly. The pandemic was forgotten, all attention was focused on Ukraine.
With the beginning of the sowing season, the global threat has gone down one more step - from existential needs to physiological ones. Western outlets are consistently spreading the idea of world hunger due to the disruption of agricultural activities in Ukraine and the blockade of its ports. The most dire consequences are expected in Africa and South Asia, whose food security is highly dependent on the conjuncture of agricultural markets.
Such gloomy pictures are certainly an exaggeration. The world economy is indeed being rebuilt: supply chains are changing, Asian manufacturing centers are rising, new markets are being formed. But all this is a natural process. The West deliberately uses "apocalyptic" rhetoric to increase the responsibility of the Russian Federation in the eyes of the world community. However, Moscow successfully fends off accusations against itself both in the matter of food (offering alternative supply channels) and everything else.
Although total censorship was introduced against Russia in the West, it was not possible to stop the flow of information from Russia. At the same time, Russia itself protected itself more reliably from the flow of information from the West. By blocking the resources of the recognized extremist company Meta and Twitter, the Russian Federation withdrew some of its citizens from cognitive influence. Domestic media projects VK, Rutube, Yandex services have been developed, and the Russian media corporation RT has become one of the main sources of alternative opinions for political dissidents around the world.
It turned out to be impossible today to lower the "iron curtain" on Russia for the reason that the world has ceased to be unipolar. There is no longer an American-European core dictating its will to the periphery. Today, the voices of Asia, Africa and Latin America are growing louder. The mere fact that the Indian and Chinese media have taken a neutral position in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and are covering the events, presenting the positions of both sides, destroys the entire information strategy of the West.
The concept of cognitive warfare looks attractive in some aspects and even proves effective, but only under the condition of the total domination of a single mainstream point of view. This is actually an "Orwellian" scenario, unrealizable without a powerful force impact. The human psyche is arranged in such a way that he cannot keep focusing on one problem for a long time. Over time, he gets tired of the information imposed on him and looks for alternative sources, which in the conditions of the information society is not a problem.
[Gateway] Last week, Elon Musk, the Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink CEO gave an interview where he called out the unions’ "stranglehold" on the Democrat party, calling it "next-level insanity."
During the hour-long interview, Musk criticized the Democratic Party, their relationship with labor unions, and Tesla’s exclusion from a White House electric vehicles event because the company is not unionized.
Musk took particular issue with the Democratic Party’s strong relationship with union leadership.
"The general public is not aware of the degree to which unions control the Democratic Party. One does not need to speculate on this point," Musk started.
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[Epoch Times] Media outlets around the world have started highlighting a medical phenomenon called ’sudden adult death syndrome’ — people dying with no sign of illness or underlying health condition. They simply collapse during the day or don’t wake up in the morning. While SADS has been known to occur before, what’s alarming is the sudden surge of this previously rare event
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
In recent weeks, media outlets around the world have started highlighting a medical phenomenon called "sudden adult death syndrome," or SADS, in what appears to be a clear effort to obscure the reality of COVID jab deaths. Sad on steroids indeed.
Underlying factors for SADS include undiagnosed myocarditis, inflammatory conditions and other conditions that cause irregularities in the electrical system of the heart, thereby triggering cardiac arrest.
While SADS has been known to occur previously, what’s new is the prevalence of this previously rare event. In Australia, the Melbourne Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute is setting up a new SADS registry "to gain more information" about the phenomenon.
Data compiled by the International Olympic Committee show 1,101 sudden deaths in athletes under age 35 between 1966 and 2004, giving us an average annual rate of 29, across all sports. Meanwhile, between March 2021 and March 2022 alone—a single year—at least 769 athletes have suffered cardiac arrest, collapse, and/or have died on the field, worldwide.
Among EU FIFA (football/soccer ball) athletes, sudden death increased by 420 percent in 2021. Historically, about five soccer players have died while playing the game each year. Between January and mid-November 2021, 21 FIFA players died from sudden death.
SADS is also short for "sudden arrhythmic death syndrome,"1 which was first identified in 1977. Underlying factors for SADS (both the sudden adult death and sudden arrhythmic versions) include undiagnosed myocarditis, inflammatory conditions and other conditions that cause irregularities in the electrical system of the heart, thereby triggering cardiac arrest.2,
Those bras are health monitors, pulse and so forth, tracked in real time. Should be able to summon those stats from players with 4 years of records and compare to when a jab was taken.
There's money to be lost too. Billions, if premier athletes can't fulfill their expected playing lifetime, or worse start toppling over. Say you get Next Ronaldo, build your team around this player, tens of millions, maybe even a brand new stadium like what KC Chiefs are considering with Mahomes, and boom your marquee player - you only get three years out of because he has a heart attack right there in prime time. Watch the value of every player, and really every keystone employee, drop.
Imagine a large chunk of under 30s suddenly finding out they have nothing to gain, and nothing to lose.
*I, at this point, still consider the jab a voluntary medical procedure, and do not recommend nor decline. Make the choice for you and yours based on your person circumstances.
**Interestingly, Kansas has become a wealth of information to those curious enough, as decisions were left up to the counties, and ranges from very urban to very rural. Locally, we had two people, to use the parlance of the greatest orator to run for office, drop dead in the prime of their life. Health industry, so most likely had the jab. Very strange.
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True enough, but one in early Spring one last Autumn, late 30s early 40s, no underlying conditions or illnesses. One was heart failure, until it was The Covid. Other just dropped with no official word given.
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AFAIK, drug overdoses and suicide are causes that don't have to be disclosed to the public even if an autopsy is conducted. Foul play obviously can't be kept quiet, but drugs and self-harm are typically not disclosed for the usual shame/blame-related reasons that family members have to deal with.
[Gateway] A study of COVID vaccines shows that sperm counts in males are reduced as a result of taking the vaccine.
Alex Berenson reported on a peer-reviewed paper published at the journal Andrology showing large decreases in sperm counts among men after the second dose of Pfizer’s mRNA Covid jab.
Based on counts from men who donated sperm to three fertility clinics in Israel, this finding is devastating — medically and politically.
It cuts to the heart of the hottest button question of all about the mRNA shots, whether they have hidden fertility risks. That issue has simmered since early 2021, following my reporting that data showed the shots had caused excess miscarriages in rats — and other reports showing that measurable amounts of vaccine reached the ovaries and testes in tests in rats.
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/\ Meds for the prevention of ovulation have been in use for decades. Meds for the reduction of sperm counts can now partner to assist with the reduction of carbon emitting target populations.
"I am of the opinion that out of approx. 10 million European Jews at least 2–3 million men and women will be fit for work and should be kept alive. . . Of course this can only be done if they are at the same time rendered incapable of reproduction . . . "
I have also heard third-hand accounts of sperm banks turning away males who have been vaccinated...heard that last year, so this report does not surprise me.
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On a more serious note, I remember reading Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague(1994). IIRC, a sobering discovery (then) was that bacteria could exchange 'bundles of immunity responses' cross species and that "...they discovered antibiotic resistant bacteria on algae rafts in the center of Chesapeake Bay". (!)
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When "a third" is redefined as "half". And when "the world" is used to describe the Third World.
And, finally, when dumping untreated sewage into rivers is ignored to create a panic over prescription medicines (which likely aren't available solely by prescription outside the developed nations).
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If we were serious about cleaning up this planet the UN would put fines and other things on third world polluters. Since we've never done that I can only assume the Un and the environmental movement are full of dung.
The sites with the highest levels were situated in Africa – with a river in Nairobi having the highest levels of all the sites, according to the researchers.
'The locations with the highest mixture HQs were situated in Africa and were primarily associated with three sampling campaigns (Lagos in Nigeria, Nairobi in Kenya, and Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) where garbage disposal, sewage discharge points, dumping of raw sewage by exhauster trucks, and pharmaceutical manufacturing activities were observed,' the researchers wrote.
In Asia, the highest levels were in Lahore, in South America they were in La Paz, and in Europe they were in Tubingen.
There’s a cute little map at the link. All the American samples are marked as being in the lowest measurement categories. But I wasn’t going to swim in the Nairobi river, nor drink unbottled water there anyway.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Gateway] Last week, Elon Musk, the Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink CEO gave an interview where he called out the unions’ "stranglehold" on the Democrat party, calling it "next-level insanity."
