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Reports indicate the ship was "swarmed" before the fatal strike. How do we respond to this new enemy ?
Studies required. New detection systems needed. DARPA, BAE, LM, GD....forget the Havana Syndrome. Forget the Russians. Bids please, immediately! Funding to follow.
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Aliens have been intercepting our transmissions. They thought the Navy was going to be in charge of Earth space...
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as their accounts CONTRADICT Navy chief's effort to dismiss them as drones
"You see, being a trans-dimensional being, it can affect 100 different pronouns simultaneously, and according to the updated Identification Friend and Foe, each pronoun must be respected as a living entity."
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Numerous videos show that the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchug caught fire from the consequences of an explosion nearby at the plant, and was not hit by a missile attack.
The cause of the fire at the shopping center was its close location to the facility where military equipment was being repaired. The fence of the plant is generally only 20 meters from Amstor.
The structure of the shopping center is intact, the roof is in place, the walls are in place, the cars are intact nearby. In the event of a direct missile strike, nothing would have been left of the mall; in the middle of the Amstor mall, there would have been a gaping crater with a diameter of 10 meters or more. And not alone.
And there would be no pavilions at all - their design consists of light metal structures that are easily broken through and folded (remember, the Retroville Shopping Center in Kyiv, which is much larger and was used as an ammunition depot and hangars for MLRS "which was destroyed to zero ).
It’s still strange, it’s broad daylight, and there are no missiles removed. If this is a shopping center and not a stall in the market, then there are surveillance cameras inside it - not a single frame. Are there any CCTV cameras in the town? When the rockets arrive, they take recordings from the cameras, but here all the videos were filmed 10 minutes after the explosion.
Yet. I understand that war is not always a logical thing, but I don’t understand, before that, shopping centers or factories were mostly hit either at night or in the early morning? Why this was done during the day, even when the G7 are meeting and the NATO summit begins, is not clear.
Amstor" is located a few tens of meters from the workshops of the Kremenchug defense plant of road vehicles "Kredmash", which has been repairing equipment for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2014. So, in one of the videos published on the Web, it seems to people that the missile hit the plant (the phrase " Dormash, Dormash").
At the same time, according to some information, the shopping center has not been working for a long time and, apparently, was used as a warehouse of equipment or a base for the defense. The shopping center itself was not working.
External organizations that were in this building worked, they were located on the front side In confirmation of the fact that the shopping center did not work, it also says that there are no photos of visitors in social networks by geotag since March, as well as reviews on sites and maps .
According to Zelensky, at the time of the shelling, there were allegedly about a thousand civilians in the shopping center, but the parking lot in front of the center building was practically empty, and on the territory you can see many military men in "pixel" uniforms (regular T-shirts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, camouflage bags) with machine guns and for some reason many with backpacks on their backs.
In addition, there are practically no women in the footage published on social networks and Zeleboba.
The Kyiv regime is interested in "keeping the focus on Ukraine" in the run-up to the NATO summit in Madrid. And now it will inflate the story, hushing up that the blow was inflicted primarily on a military facility and partially hooked on a non-working shopping center.
They talk about 18 dead, but if there was a direct missile strike and the shopping center worked, their number would be many hundreds. What is remarkable: no one has yet shown a single wounded or dead person. I will assume that even if there are dead people, they are from the factory.
Kyiv wants to convene the UN Security Council on this issue. It is strange that the Security Council was not convened when the Kyiv regime hit "Tochka-U" on Donetsk and 20 people died. It is strange that, at the initiative of Russia, they were not allowed to hold a separate meeting on the strike of the Kiev regime "Tochka-U" on Kramatorsk with the mass death of civilians - the UK presiding at that time, contrary to all the established mandatory norms and rules of the UN Security Council, Russia TWICE refused to hold this meeting.
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Well, with Roe rescinded, we can look ahead to getting rid of the Department of Education now too.
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^ Yes, another wrong thread comment by myself. Jeebus...
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The photos published by Daily Mail make everything this clown says a lie.
in the middle of the Amstor mall, there would have been a gaping crater with a diameter of 10 meters or more
Which there is.
It’s still strange, it’s broad daylight, and there are no missiles removed
Missiles explode.
Are there any CCTV cameras in the town? When the rockets arrive, they take recordings from the cameras, but here all the videos were filmed 10 minutes after the explosion.
There's CCTV footage of the explosion.
At the same time, according to some information, the shopping center has not been working for a long time and, apparently, was used as a warehouse of equipment or a base for the defense. The shopping center itself was not working.
There were people working and shopping at the mall. And who told him it was being used as a warehouse?
They talk about 18 dead, but if there was a direct missile strike and the shopping center worked, their number would be many hundreds. What is remarkable: no one has yet shown a single wounded or dead person.
They're still recovering bodies, there are photos of the wounded, and plenty of women are among the missing and dead.
This clown is clearly publishing what he's told to publish.
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^ But if you don't swallow it whole, you aren't "getting educated."
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Kremenchug defense plant is/was about 85 meters (~280 ft) from the Amstor center at their closest actual building points. I'm not counting the factory's outdoor storage lean-tos.
Based on Google Earth, the factory's fence line is just over 30 meters (~100 ft) from the shopping center building.
'Close' as in horseshoes and hand grenades, but not precision.
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^ Is there a similar arrangement anywhere in the US? I doubt it.
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[Modern War Institute] The battalion commander shrugged helplessly when we advised him that five days was a completely inadequate amount of time in which to train his soldiers. "This is all we have—they are needed on the front," he replied with grim finality. A few days later, on a separate course that we were running for his medics, half of our class disappeared on the second day. "We have had casualties," was the only explanation we received. Even in units that fall within the Ukrainian special operations command, most soldiers are sent to the front line with very little training. In one such unit, we estimated that just 20 percent had even fired a weapon before heading to combat.
On May 3, the Ukrainian parliament passed a law that allows territorial defense units—the country’s home guard—to be deployed to combat outside their home regions. These units are manned by local volunteers who typically have received very little preparation. We were soon swamped by requests for training courses. In the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, a town hall meeting to explain the new policy to local territorial defense volunteers was disrupted by wives alarmed at the prospect of their part-time soldier husbands deploying to the front.
Each anecdote by itself a data point, but together they tell a story that belies the relentless optimism that has pervaded Ukrainian representation of the war from the outset. After four months of grinding attrition, the Ukrainian army is facing a manpower shortage.
Every day in the current fighting, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this month, around sixty to one hundred Ukrainian soldiers are killed and another five hundred wounded in combat. A more recent New York Times article puts that figure much higher—at one hundred to two hundred deaths a day. To put that in context, during the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam, one of the bloodiest periods of the war, US deaths were roughly two hundred a week—and among a force almost twice the size of the Ukrainian army.
Aside from Zelenskyy’s admission, the Ukrainian government has been largely reticent about releasing casualty figures and Western governments have offered few of their own assessments, but grim reports from the front line indicate that Ukrainian casualties are high—and perhaps in the long term unsustainable. "My friend’s son is in a company with just thirty soldiers left," down from the 120 personnel typically in a company, one senior Ukrainian officer told me.
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"My friend’s son is in a company with just thirty soldiers left," down from the 120 personnel typically in a company, one senior Ukrainian officer told me
The Ukrainians have been shamelessly lying for months. It's long Bee n obvious that their bestctroops are no match for the Russians and are being ripped to shreds. They're being replaced with cannon fodder drawn from the Territorial Defense Force-- those poor pathetic oldsters and kids who've been pressganged into action, handed a rifle and sent against their will into the buzzsaw on the Donbas front.
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Strange they were suppose to fall with attempted coup de main in February. Then they were suppose to fall in March to the blitz on Kyiv. Then it was just a matter of weeks when the traditional Russian grind of troops and artillery was implemented in May. Yeah, really poor soldiers, but who actually believe in something called the Ukraine.
The general rule is that you need a 3 to 1 ratio to achieve goals on the battlefield. When you throw away maneuver and finesse, that is what the grind will cost. So even if the Ukrainians are hurting, that seems to imply the attacker is suffering around 2 or more casualties to their one. Things aren't garlands and cheering crowds on the Russian side either.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
Most of the civilians held hostage were taken out of the territory of the Azot plant. The plant itself will continue to operate after restoration.
Combing of the industrial zone and forest plantations near Borovsky and Sirotino continues. Filtration measures are activated.
A direct assault on Lisichansk from Severodonetsk is not expected - the bridges have been destroyed + Lisichansk itself is on a hill. The intensity of the shelling of Severodonetsk fell - the main efforts of the enemy artillery are applied to hold the front near Lisichansk.
2. Lisichansk.
Fights for Verkhnekamenka, Lisichansk refinery and factories on the southern outskirts of the city.
Fights for the White Mountain.
The neck of the Lisichansk cauldron - up to 8 km. The real route to Seversk is now only through Belogorovka, but this road is already under fire from Russian artillery. Ukrainian propaganda is already preparing society for the surrender of Lisichansk. The LPR says the city will be liberated by the end of the week.
3. Artemovsk.
Fighting in Klinovoye and in the Pokrovsky area. The enemy strengthened the defense of the city by rotating the battered brigades defending the city. The pressure of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on Artemovsk will intensify in the near future, but without the capture of Pokrovsky, a direct assault on the city is unlikely to begin.
In the area of Svetlodarsk, there are no significant changes so far.
4. Soledar.
Fighting at Berestovo, Belogorovka and near the Lisichansk-Artemovsk highway in the Nikolaevka area.
After the loss of Lisichansk, Soledar will become an element of the Soledar-Seversk defensive line, on which the Armed Forces of Ukraine will try to hold the front north of Artemovsk. After the capture of Lisichansk, it is worth waiting for an offensive in the direction of Seversk and Soledar from the north.
5. Kharkov.
Positional battles in the area of Tsupovka, Uda, Dementyevka, Upper Passages and Upper Saltovka. The enemy is almost completely on the defensive. The fire destruction of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkov and Chuguev is intensifying. They are also probing the Zolochev area.
6. Slavyansk.
Fights at the Valley, Krasnopolye, Bogorodichny, Prishib and Sidorovo. The enemy notes some advance of the RF Armed Forces towards Slavyansk. The fire destruction of enemy forces in the Seversk area is also intensifying.
On the Izyum direction without significant changes.
7. Avdievka.
At the front without significant changes. As before, fights in the industrial complex, on the Avdiivka-Konstantinovka highway and on the outskirts of New York.
Counterbattery work is intensifying, which, however, has not yet stopped the shelling of the cities of Donbass. Today there were civilians killed and wounded again.
8. Zmeinny Island.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine claim that as a result of the shelling of Zmeinny Island, they were able to hit the Pantsir air defense missile system. No other successes are reported. It is stated that Zelensky gave the order to try to recapture Serpentine from the RF Armed Forces in two weeks. Apparently in other areas the chances of a "counteroffensive" are even less.
9. Nikolaev.
Positional battles in the Nikopol, Krivoy Rog and Nikolaev directions. The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remains purely virtual here. The Ukrainian command is already openly calling to stop writing about the "successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," as the picture of the "offensive" is becoming more and more ridiculous against the background of numerous shots of the destruction of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by rocket and artillery strikes.
10. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka without significant changes.
Fighting in the area of Ugledar and Pavlovka. In Novomikhailovka and Marinka no changes. The activity of the enemy with the attack on Pavlovka and Yegorovka did not last long.
[US11] Beijing announced yesterday that it was extending its Zero COVID policy until 2027. This is a direct result of the Chinese government's failure to develop an effective domestic vaccine, and its steadfast refusal to rely on the safe, effective mRNA vaccines already in use in much of the world. Given the lack of functional vaccine policy, the age of the Chinese population and the timeline for Beijing to develop anything approaching a useful mRNA vaccine domestically, this timeline makes sense. But it lays bare the absolute desperation of the Chinese Communist Party.
As absolutely detrimental these policies will be for the average Chinese citizen--and if past is prologue, there will be terrible costs to pay economically, socially, and individually--they also underscore the precarious place China plays in the global economy. Which is bad. China rose to prominence in the post-Cold War era as the country and the government most willing to leverage its low labor costs and at times near-nonexistent regulatory environment to convince the worlds' manufacturers to relocate much of their supply chains onto Chinese soil. What does the future hold? For manufacturers, at least, the constant specter of shut downs as Beijing bungles outbreak after outbreak. COVID isn't going away, and barring a massive shift in the CCP's policy's toward foreign vaccines, the Chinese factory worker, and transportation worker, and dock worker, etc remain at the mercy of a virus that shows no signs of stopping, and a government that shows no sign of stepping up.
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Can’t be about Covid as we know it: do they know something we don’t or is it about something else?
Fauci told them he'd come up with a way the virus would have a way larger R value for Americans than for Chinese because of differences in the receptors for Angiotensin the virus attacks and they'd be able to achieve a lopsided casualty ratio and use that to propagandize their tyrrany with and the virus would never mutate.
Then sometime in the last two years of televised press conferences they realized the son of a bitch lies with no affect other than the smirk on his face that was there when he told them that.
... what happens when the infamous "bullwhip" effect strikes and what was formerly a scarcity of inventory becomes a glut, with inventory to sales ratios exploding higher (and in some cases reaching two-decade highs)...
... assuring inventory liquidations across the retail sector, resulting in a "deflationary tsunami" and "prices falling off a cliff", forcing the Fed to eventually pivot on its hiking plans and even restart easing.
Of course, not everything is set for a deflationary crash: don't expect luxury items to see price cuts, and if anything, luxury prices for things like handbags and shoes are poised to keep climbing.
But while inflation is likely to persist in the ultra high, the implication for broader inflation is clear: as we said two weeks ago, "most prices that make up the core CPI basket are about to fall off a cliff in weeks if not days, with upcoming core CPI prints set to plunge, which means that the only thing that will remain red hot is headline inflation, i.e., food and energy prices, the same prices which the Fed has traditionally ignored. It remains to be seen if it will do so this time around, or if - realizing that the US is entering a recession - it will resume easing even in the face of $5 gas prices..."
Today, none other than the "Big Short" Michael Burry, founder of Scion Asset Management, picked up on this and tweeted that the "Bullwhip Effect" happening in the retail sector will lead to the Federal Reserve reversing rate increases and its Quantitative Tightening policy.
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...luxury prices for things like handbags and shoes are poised to keep climbing.
It's what somethings is referred to as snob appeal or neener-neener economics. The value of the item is determined by its unavailability to the (unwashed) masses.
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I do expect beef prices to fall, as drought makes it impossible for ranchers to feed cattle and sell their herds. Of course that’ll mean a shortage (and high prices) later.
#8
Swedes believe ketchup on spaghetti is a thing.
It’s red and a sauce. ;-) I had a Czech au pair who made that for the trailing daughters regularly. The nice thing about using ketchup is that she always made a smiley face with it on the noodles.
The Italian ice cream shops in Germany make an ice cream sundae that looks like spaghetti with red sauce — very popular with children. So they have no business complaining what others do in the privacy of their own homes.
Also, I’ve read that catsup was invented in India. I have no idea how they use it, but I’m sure it isn’t on hamburgers.
#9
According to the internet I am wrong: ke-tsiap was invented in Vietnam as a pickled fish sauce, got that name in southeastern China, then made its way to Indonesia (ketjap) and Malaysia (kechap). Brought to England by sailors, the English version involved mushrooms and resembled Worcestershire sauce — only after reaching America were tomatoes added to the thing.
#21
I'm proud of where I come from. I am also glad I don't live there anymore.
Did you know: The Appalachians are some of the oldest mountains on earth. If you were born there you have Strontium 90 in your bones.
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Was sad to read of Tony Siragusa's death yesterday. I sat at old Pitt stadium (my dad was Pitt, Chemistry, 1954, Pitt Med School 1958) and watched Siragusa, Dorsett, Marino et al play. Pitt still has more National Championships than Penn State. Dial that up if you want to start a fight.
Used to go to Golden Panther brunch and have Golden Girls sit on my horny teenage lap.
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I’m at their foothills grew up in N GA
She loves the ‘Burg and is also glad she’s not there anymore.
I do love a fried fish sandwich and someone saying, “I thought yens were gonna stay bullshit longer”.
My dad took a clean shirt to work to change into after lunch. When I was a kid we talked about the "rotten egg" smell in the air. I toured the coke plant at Clairton and several melt shops in the Mon Valley in high school honors chemistry. Heavy metal in the air, and we aren't talking music.
The Chem E's at Neville Chemical all used chew or dip because the air was so foul.
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#25
Yinz all are jagoffs. I luv ya anyway...
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#26
Git aht...
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#27
Go visit again just to get a "Super Battleship" at the Triangle Bar in Swissvale.
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#39
Drink first sip of a Hurricane. Realize you can't taste alcohol in it after the second sip. Wake up handcuffed to a cot in the Jefferson Parish temporary jail on a high school bassetbaw court.
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#40
Tune in tomorrow for my Crack The Sky post...
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#41
^ Tomorrow is a long way off, but wait I will if I must.
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#42
"only after reaching America were tomatoes added to the thing."
Without tomatoes I don't think it's actually a relative of Ketchup. Just a condiment with a similar name/function.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Reports indicate the ship was "swarmed" before the fatal strike. How do we respond to this new enemy ?
[ZERO] In the past month we showed readers on at least two occasions...
