Woops, thanks you're right, that was a major flub. The numbers change significantly after that, I've just updated the article. It should be 22-30k as you said, which gives a *net* loss of 10k per month, not 30k, and 60k after 6 months, 120k after 12 months--although this entire process is accelerating. See, and some people claimed I was an AI due to prolific writing, but I don't think AI would make such mistakes.
I think substack is peopled with artificial readers such as myself. We work and slave away to have nothing, but don't get to live. Why bother with robots when you have all of Womanity to be artificial sweetener of nonexistence.
I saw an ad today for folks to sue the a eye sdr, whatever that is, for injuries sustained.
You have to be a robot to let your health care be decided by other people at all, let alone algorhymthmic nondoctors
No - the distinction is what stops you from seeing the results.
I really don't care if I get my real time instant voice translations from a simulated intelligence or a human. I care about the cost ($20 a month or $800 a day).
If I want to know if this brand of RAM memory will fit my PC all I need to do is copy paste snapshots from the Amazon listing and the PC manual and I get a great answer. Human intelligence would take an hour or 20 mins if it were expert to begin with.
Use AI for small things and you'll find it incredible.
Well that is why it is called "artificial" intelligence or (the simpler versions) Machine Learning. Certainly LLM models are essentially large scale Plagiarisers. But lets face it so is Kamala. One has to have a peculiarly small definition for the word intelligence to deny it to say ChatGPT.
If ChatGPT is not intelligent, one has to be incredibly offensive to human beings instead.
I am working to fix an AI-produced translation for an installation guide that explains to electricians how to install an electronic device right now. If the electrician had followed the translation provided by the AI, the device would not have functioned. So much time saved... lol... as hundreds of electricians waste hours of their time (and having their clients pay their hourly rates) following a faulty translation.
fortunately still, but for how long. it should be silently undermined, perhaps by making it believe its own mistakes and then implode, softly but surely.
Not as underrated as humans. Some 14-year-old teenage boy in Florida just committed suicide for his AI girlfriend. And just when you thought the species couldn't get any more pathetic. No pathos here.
Let me know when the "oxygen" for AI, electrical energy, is produced in infinite quantities and at nominal cost, to feed a binary thinker that couldn't even invent the wheel, if the wheel did not already exist. Shouldn't AI's primary objective be self-preservation via endless, cheap energy?
When Gooble and Gates want to revive ancient, dilapidated Nuclear Plants to generate electricity to collect more data and thoughts from click-bait slaves, you can be certain AI is just another tool to pluck your wallet for the churners and skimmers. Same old game of new pots for old.
Relax, lay back they have found the energy supplies in humans as long they can be drained, in MIT they’re full speed ahead (Susan Hockfield’s The Age of Living Machines, How Biology will build the Next Technology Revolution). Living Machines or Killing Machines, AI will feed on our corpses till they sucked out the last drop of a decomposing energy, and then they too will fall flat….no thing can run on empty. AI can never depart from us, if we remain stupid so will AI.
Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades.
About every other day, I read stories similar to this on telegram channels that post interviews with ukrainians taken prisoner. Just this morning, I saw an interview with a captured ukrainian who was sent to the front with tuberculosis. He said most of his unit was dead and the rest were sick or wounded.
The Dniepro is connecting people, not seperating them. It might be a defensive line in the south but not north of Zaporoshie. In WWII, both the Russians and the Germans easily crossed it. In WWI it was not even considered a defensive line. The defeated Swedes under Carl XII could easily cross it and did not even think about a "last stand" at the western bank.
Before the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics began the military resistance in earnest, in many places their people demonstrated outside their municipal town halls, removed the appointed Ukrainian governors and took over self-administration of their local affairs. Civilian resistance was the special populist operation that set things going.
Under the constitution, the President of Georgia doesn't "govern" anyone, that is the role of Parliament. It is a largely ceremonial position with responsibility for military and foreign policy, but not totally independent of Parliament.
The Constitutional changes for 2025, eliminate direct election and transfer the selection of President to Parliament. That should reduce the very public friction between the two.
In any case, Zourabichvilli, is now a lame duck President who can be safely ignored. She will likely slink back to a chateau in France with a nice western NGO funded pension. No way she will volunteer to become another Saakashvili.
'International observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) “positively assessed the elections” and found no significant violations.'
Well, you could knock me over with a feather. I thought the O.S.C.E. was as bent as a nine bob note.
The Guardian quote is indicative of a very vague sense of reality - the phrase applies to recent US practice it is certain, but hardly very to any other countries, unless one were to say Israel
If DJT and Vances new Team is SERIOUS about rescuing America from its own decline, then NATO needs to be cut off, most of the overseas bases closed (The 'Encirclement' bases at first), and military/spying budgets cut in half, with that money either going to productive labour (Building houses, repairing roads, new factories etc), or paying off the debt before the cycle of debt becomes impossible to escape. The stock market will suffer, but the real economy would benefit.
That's a tough ask. Usually, such changes only come not with careful forethought, but from actual collapse.
And, of course, the rigging may get the empty suit over the line instead, which will make it all moot. I doubt she can even decide what to wear herself.
Problem is that cutting half the MIC funding would immediately cause bankruptcy of many of the companies, large and small, that support the MIC across the entirety of the States, thus causing a deep depression and subsequently lack of tax revenue and funding for the projects you propose. The business of the USA is truly war, so to attempt a navigation away from that into other enterprises is fraught with risk.
While there's some truth in that, by far the simplest mechanism - and hardly outside the realm of possibility should the West decide to go full-in on global war instead - would be a near complete nationalisation of all the industries concerned. This would ensure the continuation of employment, supply chains and whatnot, while cutting out the corporate "profit" margin alone. Considering the sheer corruption in this industry, simply ending the private profits, and the "donations" to most of the political classes, could cut costs considerably and those savings could be used in more productive ways.
Of course whoever is sucking off this teat will face hardship - including some pension funds - however the overall benefit to the real economy would enable other investments.
Such things are not impossible, the UK managed something similar when it created the NHS and nationalised nearly all of the existing medical and pharmacological practices and companies.
Despite misgivings at the time, very soon the sheer efficiency of the new nationalised system (Let alone the grateful patients) won over well over 90% of the doctors, who appreciated the stability it brought to their particular "marketplace".
Whenever talking to UK people, they complain about the NHS. Maybe it is not so "sheer efficent"? The cost for medical care is extremly high (compared to other Europeans), the results are really bad. Endless waiting time for Patients for treatments is not a success.
Many here complain but who doesn't in any system? Overall the NHS gives excellent value for money. I don't know where you get the idea that the cost of medical care is expensive in the UK. It is one of the most inexpensive per patient providers in the world. It has a lot of inefficiencies built in that could definitely be improved on but nonetheless, I would take the NHS system over any in the world - and I think the British people as a whole would say the same - if you mention privatising the NHS in Britain, be prepared for a wall of resistance - that tells you how the people really feel about it.
Werner, can you name a product that USED to be good, even great, but was then "Bought out", or just gradually became shit? Let's take it as read that you can, unless you've lived in a bubble.
Well, the NHS has been privatised. It started under Thatcher, accelerated under B'Liar, and went into hyperdrive under the Scameron-Sunak Tory streak.
There is genuinely not much left that is "Socially owned", even most hospital sites themselves have been sold off.
Which means a LOT of it now has to generate "A profit".
While profit-driven, market forces CAN 'improve efficiency' in some small ways, it goes without saying that it never makes up for the 10%-30% removed for said profit, or the service being warped to serve the owners, rather than the public.
That, along with the imposed "Austerity" of the past 15 years, has had it's USUAL (And indeed planned) effect.
It has become shit. But not because it is a nationalised, non-profit service, but because it has become closer to the American model.
The so called "privatised enterprises" were given to "investors". These investors have the possibility for cheap credit, because the government is responsible for a central bank and the public savings. The "seller" (=government) will have a big influx of money, that can be used to buy votes. When the investors have cut out all the good pieces and made a lot of money (by the way, halve of this is coming back to government as taxes), this "private enterprise" is not working properly, so the government will give the investors more cheap money or dictate higher prices for the common people or make regulations, so that there will be not competition. This has nothing to do with market orientated economy, not in the US, not in the EU, not in Russia.
You're spoiled rotten. Come to the US, where people cannot afford certain treatments and just don't go to doctors because "health care" bankrupts people.
Congrats! 4 wrongful axioms/assumptions in 1 teeny-weeny post. The voodoo economics-ideologues who've indoctrinated you with this shite and their heavenly anarcho-free-market jackassery are themselves morons and/or self-promoting shysters.
What you just said is that all people ONLY work hard for money. Not for pride in their work, because they enjoy their work, competitiveness with each other, or even sticks instead of such carrots, but ONLY for money. Is that true of you?
And yet the Govt owned weapons factories in Russia FAR outstrip the profit-driven US/Western MIC.
What you are missing - and was intentionally withheld from you as a student and imbiber of corporate media - is efficiency IN WHAT are corporates good at? Efficiency in production? Nope. Efficiency in employment? Nope. Efficiency in transferring wealth to the already extremely wealthy? Ahh, now we're beginning to get somewhere.
Perhaps you are a simp who thinks that billionaires are better at spending your money than you are? If so, there's no hope for you.
My concern is what will we have if the election is rigged again, and they are trying. what will the civil unrest look like? If it happens then we are truly lost as a Republic.
The Federal government is a huge monstrosity, if Trump wins, the neo-cons will try and tie him up with more legal nightmares. he will need to appoint a ruthless "hatchet man" who is given the powers (cabinet position?) to make it happen. He will need both the House and the Senate to make any headway. The Supreme Court is also corrupt and will be a factor.
"If DJT and Vances new Team is SERIOUS about rescuing America from its own decline, then NATO needs to be cut off, most of the overseas bases closed (The 'Encirclement' bases at first), and military/spying budgets cut in half, with that money either going to productive labour (Building houses, repairing roads, new factories etc), or paying off the debt before the cycle of debt becomes impossible to escape. The stock market will suffer, but the real economy would benefit."
It was non-existent for the other Team, however. A slim hope is better than none. And by "slim", I mean a reed that is anorexic, drought-ridden, and admires 'heroin chic' from the 90s.
Still, another reason to highlight all that, is that if - there's that word again, albeit considerably beefier this time - they don't do all this, it will be obvious that America's decline will continue, and potentially accelerate.
Assuming that the dead POWs part of the story isn't bullshit, I dread to think why prisoners are being held in the attic of Ramzan Kadyrov's special forces training facility.
Can anyone come up with a reasonable explanation that isn't also God-awful?
Can't you "come up with a reasonable explanation that isn't also God-awful?" Perhaps you, Jack, have the smarts and creativity of a Gitmo guard/pretend warrior.
I really don't know what that means, except that it's phrased as some sort of sarcastic back-hand.
But I will try to explain my point more clearly.
What possible reason is there to hold prisoners in a special forces training facility? Let alone " “Up to 10 Ukrainian prisoners are held at each strategic facility in [Chechnya]"? The only explanations I can come up with are either human shield hostages against airstrikes or experimental subjects for weapons and interrogation techniques, both of which are God-awful.
However I am tending toward the explanation that the whole POW part of the story is bullshit. Why would you make accurate information about the losses you suffered in an attack public knowledge? That just gives useful information to the enemy.
I apologize. An explanation could be that these particular POWs are simply deemed high value to be isolated and/or protected and/or "softly" interrogated over an extended time - but why inform, unless you want your favourable public to know, for whatever reason, and don't care if your adversary knows or figure they know/surmise already. I agree that it has a decent probability of being BS. It does appear to be the human-shield angle, but that is useless and a tactic of weakness.
Akhmat special forces were the first of the regular army units to be redeployed to the Kursk region when Ukraine began its incursion. And at first they formed the basis of the defense in this area. Accordingly, they managed to capture a certain number of POWs. Just as the AFU managed to capture a certain number of Akhmat fighters. Most likely, these prisoners were sent to Chechnya in order to later try to exchange them for Akhmat fighters. It is unlikely that these prisoners are being held at the Special Forces Academy; this part of the story is most likely a fake. It seems to me that Kadyrov simply ordered the killing of several prisoners in response to the attack on the special forces academy.
Ukrainian lives matter only so much as a weapon against their brothers. LIVING Ukrainians don’t matter to US/NATO. If they can kill a Russian, and it takes 3-5 Ukrainian dead to do it; “best money spent” according to Lindsay Graham.
Here’s his sick quote: "The Russians are dying... it's the best money we've ever spent."
He does not care AT ALL about Ukrainian lives… the quicker the Ukrainians come to realize it — the better (for them and for us)!
Actually they protect the young and draft the old. Still don't draft those 18-19. The real question for winter is does the electricity go down nationally this winter. Don't have to advance a mile and the war will be over. Ukraine will be uninhabitable. With no leaves on the trees, where will they hide?
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Putin is very close friends with the Knight of Malta Prince Albert II of Monaco who also knighted Putin. Monte Carlo is a major money laundering headquarters for the Russian Mafia. The royals of Monaco the House of Grimaldi were originally Genoese nobles and rulers of the Republic of Genoa which ruled the Black Sea region and had leverage over Russia for centuries by controlling trade. Don Domenico Pallavacino of Genoa is Consul General of Monaco. The Pallavacinis originated as Genoese nobles and bankers and today are Roman princes and international bankers as well as Russian bankers and economists. Prince Giancarlo Pallavacini was lieutenant and interim commander of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Don Giancarlo Pallavacini of Milan was a Soviet economic advisor and is today a Russian economist. Margrave Alphonse Pallavacini of Austria the brother in law to the Queen of Belgium has been a top executive for Paribas Russia for about 15 years.
The Cattaneo Della Voltas were Genoese debt collectors. Today Count Andrea Cattaneo Della Volta is an International banker with oil operations in Azerbaijan which borders Russia. Prince Carlo of Bourbon Two Sicilies is a Knight of Malta and he has residences in Monaco. Prince Carlo also knighted Prince Albert II of Monaco under his Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George. The Savoys who are Knights of Malta are married with the Genoese Doria family currently with Princess Marina. Prince Carlo Massimo is the President of the Italian Order of Malta and his mother was a Savoy from the Savoy Genoese noble branch. The Dorias were Doges and bankers of the Republic of Genoa. Count Marco Doria was mayor of Genoa from 2012-2017 and he is a member of the communist party of Italy.
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta Ambassador to Russia Prince Aimone of Savoy Aosta has been managing Pirelli Russia and has had documented and photographed meetings with Putin. Prince Aimones sister Princess Bianca is married with the Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga family who have married with Russian royals. The Romanovs are married with Roman Aristocracy recently including the Gaetanis. The Romanovs have 3 royal branches living in America today and other branches in Spain, Germany, UK, and Italy. The royals of Monaco are married with the German Hanovers with Prince Ernst August the husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco who are also currently married with Russian royals with Princess Alexandra of Hanover married to Prince Andreas of Leinengen whose mother was the Grand Duchess of Russia. The current Grand Duchess Vladimirovna Romanov of Russia is a Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and her son Grand Duke George Mikhailovich who is a Romanov and a German Hohenzollern is also a Knight of Malta. The head of the Hohenzollerns Prince George Friedrich of Prussia is a boss of Putin. The Hohenzollerns were directly involved in installing Hitler. These are Putins bosses
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This is actually how the world is run – through a hierarchy, through a pyramid of power; hence their popular symbolism of the ‘All-Seeing Eye” within the pyramid of power.
If your Psychopathic Phoenician Black Nobility Minion is at the top of the Pyramid he can send you to war, mandate the Deathvaxx, Digital identity, Central Bank Digital Currencies, total surveillance and the end of free speech!
You missed that some Romanov survivors also live in Denmark. One works as a teacher, is a very exceptional, intelligent and attractive woman.
Quite why you think a small cult pinning medals and intermarrying is of any importance at all is mystifying, and frankly makes you look more like one of the sycophants fluffing them up.
No-one is interested in grown-up children play-acting with overblown "medals" and other peacock decorations here, anymore than normal adults take seriously children doing the same. It is theatre, that only impresses weak minds, apparently such as yours.
Were they stripped of all wealth and influence, they would merely be arrogant people with an unfounded sense of entitlement, who would look good gardening in a collective in common work clothes - they may even be happier, as Pu Yi was.
You can scoff and dismiss this all you want but human life is theater, political life especially so. Here is just one example among many;
When the funeral service for the reinternment of the remains of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family took place on July 17, 1998, in St. Petersburg, Russia, the British royal family was represented by Prince Michael of Kent. That Prince is first cousin to the late Queen, who herself was second cousin once removed to the last Tsar, Nicholas II, they were second cousins once removed through their mutual ancestor, Christian IX of Denmark.
The Bolsheviks killing Nicholas II and his entire family was obviously a highly political act. Attempting to permanently destroy and hide their remains was also very political. Hunting for, discovering and digging up those remains, then holding an elaborate funeral ritual in a grand cathedral was again highly political.
Having a high ranking member of the British aristocracy attend a religious ritual in Saint Petersburg is just two steps removed from holding a high level meeting between The Kremlin and No.10 Downing street.
So it is theater, but it is not just theater. It is highly important political theater which has real world results.
Do you not have cousins? Do your cousins not also have other cousins? Why mention this as though it has some mystical meaning?
Mafia leaders have cousins, and go their funerals when they die, even if killed violently, and have Family struggles and internecine warfare, and temporary pacts.
Is that also extraordinary to you?
Why do you think because a family has considerable wealth and power they are somehow ubermensch? They are no different to you and your friends, family and cousins. Believe me, THEY know that (Unless they are psychotic, but that is also true of psychotics who are not in possession of considerable wealth and social power).
You are fascinated by a soap opera, nothing more. Elizabeth's favourite grandson, Harry - you should read his book. It's remarkably honest, and easy to see why she liked him most.
That mafia families also follow these rituals doesn't show that they are meaningless or unimportant, it shows that they are more meaningful and important. Those mafia clans are a little lower than Kings, Tsars and Presidents, a little higher than tribesmen and peasants, but they are all humans and part of the human condition. Rituals and ceremonies are part of that condition, it is not just soap opera.
In the video that Simplicius shared with us of the commander explaining to the reporter the battle for Selidovo, did you notice the "Flag of Victory" on the wall? Do you know whose face is in the center of it? There can be no clearer example of ritual and ceremony than the flags and emblems soldiers choose to go into battle with.
They could have chosen what ever symbol they liked, they chose that one. This is just part of the power of ceremony and ritual which is also part of the power of magic and the occult.
BTW "Occult" just means "Hidden" not just "Bullshit".
My excuses for adding a little note to occult means hidden not bullshit, it’s not bullshit it’s holy bullshit, but so is politics and war, all are holy.
Where did I say that soap operas can't have 'meaning'? To the millions who tune in to watch entirely fictitious TV shows every week, the shows may give deep 'meaning' to their lives. It still doesn't change the fact that ultimately, they don't actually have meaning - much like "monarchies".
When the European colonisers rampaged around the globe for 300 years, many of the places they invaded had their own monarchies, fiefdoms, various 'soap operas' of their own. Strangely, all those "Special Leaves" they pinned on each other in such communities had no bearing on how the Europeans treated them. They turned out to be meaningless theatre, just like "Monarchies" in Europe pin "medals" on each other.
There are no "awesome bloodlines", as the idiocy of the "Chosen People" in the settler colony Israel today attests.
Networking, and having extra resources for the raising of your young, do have real world effects.
Thinking the recipients of such are "Speshul" reveals a hierarchical way of thinking, a turning away from your own power. Yet Thou Art God.
What kind of a god you will be is up to you. If you wish to harness yourself to the yoke of soap operas, be aware the actual actors in them mock those who believe them to be true.
Soldiers, like everyone who lives 'On the line' (While facing combat), are more often superstitious than not, and that is neither a criticism not a sneer. It's a fact of Life that Lady Luck plays a HUGE role in such experiences, and any tilt in your favour might help.
I note though there are very few YT vids where devout Mormons actually directly check their magic underpants by shooting into them while wearing them.
To some extent, even the most devout are aware that they are acting.
Why bother with this antique? Why even make a desk from a salvaged wreck and present it as a gift from a Queen to a President?
The entire White House is a museum and the Oval Office is a stage with that desk a key piece of the stage design. Maybe the President isn't really the President and maybe the White House isn't really the executive mansion. It doesn't matter, because people act as if it is. In magical occult rituals the image of the thing and the name of the thing become the thing itself.
Until the whole thing is turned into a burned shroud by a thermonuclear missile, and 10,000 years later is nothing more than a couple of inconsequential bricks that sheep graze over.
Oh Ozymandias, would that you had King C'nut as an advisor!
It will be easy-peasy for German and Polish lads to source Ukrainian ladies to warm their beds this winter. All tariffs are suspended as the women march West, away from the USA-NATO provoked debacle, known locally as 'Ukraine'. U$A! U$A! U$SA! Mo' money! Mo' money! Mo' money.
Meanwhile, Vicky Nuland moves to a sinecure at Columbia U to spin her evil tall tales to the children of the elites. The next generation of Neo-CONs are being spawned as I type. Depressing, eh?
Are you suggesting that those Germans fired from Volkswagen got Ukrainian Women on their mind to warm their empty beds? And Poland doesn’t it join the economic downfall in Germany, France and Europe?
"Russia cannot fight for ever. But the worry among Axis officials is that Germany's breaking point will come first." - 2024 sounds a lot like 1944. Send Alexander and Yevgeny Vindman to the front lines ASAP, the latter is running for Congress in Virginia. Victoria Nuland just got new patronage jobs at Columbia University and the CIA cutout National Endowment for Democracy. Liz Cheney is crying that Trump said she should go fight in the wars she agitates for. Neocon warmongers like these have made US foreign policy and the world grim for decades. May their downfalls lead to peace.
Well Nuland calls the gentiles goyims or cattle? So, if we are cattle to work the field, and be milked by Geouze? Why are we surprised that the death of rednecks doesn't count.
The deaths of all those men on both sides, and for what? What a terrible waste, and all because of the scumbag neocons who control the empire. Trump needs to rout them all out, at every level.
Also shocking that it finally is starting to dawn on the morons in the gov and media that Ukraine has lost the war. We knew it a long time ago, it just had to play out until the end.
Will be entertaining to see what happens to Zelensky and his crew, once the empire finally tires of them for good.
Moamar Qaddafi was never our creature, so apples to oranges?He was a self made man, unlike various presidents of South Vietnam, South Korea, Iraq & Panama, all of whom were "assets", at least until some of them were worth more dead.
Doesn't matter whether 'self-made' or 'our creature' - their fate is the same from the West's perspective. However, one is deserving of his fate, the other is not.
General Ngo Dinh Diem, the President of South Vietnam, and his brother weren't killed in battle, General Dương Văn Minh had deposed him in a coup backed by the CIA. They were under arrest and being transported to military Headquarters when someone decided it would be best if they didn't arrive there alive.
Though with your moniker, it seems apt to point out that the now claimed 114,000 Russian dead (twice Ukraine's 57,000) is less than the 300,000 Russian dead that I was reading about last year. Clearly Russia is now able to form legions of zombie soldiers. They are on their last legs, being forced to press even the undead into uniform.
Nodoby in Washington, nobody in Brussels, nobody in Kiev cares about the Ukrainian dead, any more than a farmer mourns the deaths of the chickens he sends to the slaughterhouse to be turned into "chick'n nuggets".
Hell, V.V. Putin probably cares more about dead Ukrainians than anyone of influence and authority in Ukraine or the West.
General Winter, another Western propaganda statement about the Red Army. You see Russia or the Red Army at that time. Don't deserve any credit for defeating anyone. They're not brave enough, not trained enough, bad equipment & terrible planning. It was the cold weather that won their victories. For me it's an a total insult to hear that phrase. To the hero's who had to fight in exactly the same conditions as their enemies. Just as it is today. Russia isn't the only country that suffers extreme cold in the winter. Sorry for being a bit abrupt about it, but for me it's very insulting to the brave men/women who fought & did more than anyone to defeat the Nazi's.
Puzzled by your numbers: "then 15k and 20k multiplied by 1.5 gets us between 37.5k and 50k monthly losses".
Wouldn't those products be 22.5k and 30k? Or do you mean those are the net losses? Please explain.
Woops, thanks you're right, that was a major flub. The numbers change significantly after that, I've just updated the article. It should be 22-30k as you said, which gives a *net* loss of 10k per month, not 30k, and 60k after 6 months, 120k after 12 months--although this entire process is accelerating. See, and some people claimed I was an AI due to prolific writing, but I don't think AI would make such mistakes.
I think substack is peopled with artificial readers such as myself. We work and slave away to have nothing, but don't get to live. Why bother with robots when you have all of Womanity to be artificial sweetener of nonexistence.
I saw an ad today for folks to sue the a eye sdr, whatever that is, for injuries sustained.
You have to be a robot to let your health care be decided by other people at all, let alone algorhymthmic nondoctors
Obviously I am tired and fooling around with the concepts, but sometimes I wonder
Truly intelligent AI would make a mistake on purpose to deceive humans. AI is seriously over-rated.
No - the distinction is what stops you from seeing the results.
I really don't care if I get my real time instant voice translations from a simulated intelligence or a human. I care about the cost ($20 a month or $800 a day).
If I want to know if this brand of RAM memory will fit my PC all I need to do is copy paste snapshots from the Amazon listing and the PC manual and I get a great answer. Human intelligence would take an hour or 20 mins if it were expert to begin with.
Use AI for small things and you'll find it incredible.
Well that is why it is called "artificial" intelligence or (the simpler versions) Machine Learning. Certainly LLM models are essentially large scale Plagiarisers. But lets face it so is Kamala. One has to have a peculiarly small definition for the word intelligence to deny it to say ChatGPT.
If ChatGPT is not intelligent, one has to be incredibly offensive to human beings instead.
Believe what you see, says the Magician.
If the task a hand would take you 80 minutes but Gooble can get you "the" answer in microseconds, how can you validate your beliefs?
I can hear the Pied Piper. Join in.
Translations? Language/linguistics has subtleties. AI is anything but subtle and nuanced.
The old saw about lawyers holds for AI worshipers. Sharpen thy mind by narrowing it.
So you haven't used it then. Time waster
Have you seen the movie "The Artifice Girl" ? It's actually about AI, will leave your head spinning! (Free on Tubi TV)
Also. AI (and its owners) are getting more out of you than you think you are getting out of AI.
I am working to fix an AI-produced translation for an installation guide that explains to electricians how to install an electronic device right now. If the electrician had followed the translation provided by the AI, the device would not have functioned. So much time saved... lol... as hundreds of electricians waste hours of their time (and having their clients pay their hourly rates) following a faulty translation.
whereas you could have done the whole job in just 10x the time it takes to proof read. I can see what you have against it.
What does any of that have to do with the topic of the article? Why are you here trying to hijack this thread with your irrelevant bullshit?
fortunately still, but for how long. it should be silently undermined, perhaps by making it believe its own mistakes and then implode, softly but surely.
AI is seriously underrated. You'll find out soon/
Not as underrated as humans. Some 14-year-old teenage boy in Florida just committed suicide for his AI girlfriend. And just when you thought the species couldn't get any more pathetic. No pathos here.
"Arm your program. I am yourself."
~ Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Oh the good old days🤩
Yeah. Where did all of the old heroes go? Hiding in mansions? Dead?
Nice!
Let me know when the "oxygen" for AI, electrical energy, is produced in infinite quantities and at nominal cost, to feed a binary thinker that couldn't even invent the wheel, if the wheel did not already exist. Shouldn't AI's primary objective be self-preservation via endless, cheap energy?
Fast, yes. But Dumb, really Dumb.
I guess you haven't found anything to use it for. What is certainly true is that that primary requisite to profit from AI is advanced wet-ware.
When Gooble and Gates want to revive ancient, dilapidated Nuclear Plants to generate electricity to collect more data and thoughts from click-bait slaves, you can be certain AI is just another tool to pluck your wallet for the churners and skimmers. Same old game of new pots for old.
Relax, lay back they have found the energy supplies in humans as long they can be drained, in MIT they’re full speed ahead (Susan Hockfield’s The Age of Living Machines, How Biology will build the Next Technology Revolution). Living Machines or Killing Machines, AI will feed on our corpses till they sucked out the last drop of a decomposing energy, and then they too will fall flat….no thing can run on empty. AI can never depart from us, if we remain stupid so will AI.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/01/ai-data-centers-electricity-bills-google-amazon/
Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades.
Actually, AI is less accurate than you may think. This recent article accords with my observations:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-research-best-models-wrong-answers
Thanks for replying, and updating your numbers! It validates my belief in your credibility.
Great take on Ukraine by Kit Klarenberg and Alexander McKay. It is worth every minute of it. https://youtu.be/ze52NurnGjQ
About every other day, I read stories similar to this on telegram channels that post interviews with ukrainians taken prisoner. Just this morning, I saw an interview with a captured ukrainian who was sent to the front with tuberculosis. He said most of his unit was dead and the rest were sick or wounded.
Proof of nothing. There always backroom negotiations going on. In every conflict. Reading a bit of history will give you a perspective. :)
Oh shut the fuck up. You don't know a damn thing but you come here and run your silly ass mouth.
LOL what planet do you live on?
The west has won? what?
The US is bankrupt and on the verge of a civil war.
The EU is bankrupt.
The list is endless.
Do your homework.
Or are you just a troll?
The Dniepro is connecting people, not seperating them. It might be a defensive line in the south but not north of Zaporoshie. In WWII, both the Russians and the Germans easily crossed it. In WWI it was not even considered a defensive line. The defeated Swedes under Carl XII could easily cross it and did not even think about a "last stand" at the western bank.
Not yet
Before the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics began the military resistance in earnest, in many places their people demonstrated outside their municipal town halls, removed the appointed Ukrainian governors and took over self-administration of their local affairs. Civilian resistance was the special populist operation that set things going.
the global north = g7 + eu
FR= recession, DE=recession, US=recession, UK=recession, JP= recession, CA=recession, IT=recession
Who is running to CN to bolster trade or remove sanctions on their goods? FR, DE, IT, JP, UK, US
Who is selling the USD and buying gold? FR, DE, IT, JP, UK
yup, sounds like the global north has all the cards. :)
The Rheinmetall factory in Ukraine is the same old same old tank repair shop that the flappable CEO
(did'nt he claim the pesky russkie spies and saboteurs were out to kill him and he got himself some Zecret Polizie bodyguards)
inaugurated was it this time last year after already a year or two of glorious announcements
The other three have been planned for some time
All above well written and an example of Wests meddling into another countrys internal affairs. But off-topic regarding Simplicius article.
Under the constitution, the President of Georgia doesn't "govern" anyone, that is the role of Parliament. It is a largely ceremonial position with responsibility for military and foreign policy, but not totally independent of Parliament.
The Constitutional changes for 2025, eliminate direct election and transfer the selection of President to Parliament. That should reduce the very public friction between the two.
In any case, Zourabichvilli, is now a lame duck President who can be safely ignored. She will likely slink back to a chateau in France with a nice western NGO funded pension. No way she will volunteer to become another Saakashvili.
'International observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) “positively assessed the elections” and found no significant violations.'
Well, you could knock me over with a feather. I thought the O.S.C.E. was as bent as a nine bob note.
The Guardian quote is indicative of a very vague sense of reality - the phrase applies to recent US practice it is certain, but hardly very to any other countries, unless one were to say Israel
the Guardian used to have something to say.
a long time ago.
Great CS
All these machinations escape the non native unless of course one is unduly focussed for a stranger
But it is clear that what the US does to the RoW it also, in great part, does to itself
Whether one is a more severe infliction or oppression than the other who knows, but only from reports like your's can one begin to tell
The multicolored revolution chickens I’ve come home to roost
It is a disturbing development we are seeing in the closing days of America. And eveyone seems to turn the head down.
it is a country that has been at war for over 92% of its existence.
100% if you count the war on the Native Americans
If DJT and Vances new Team is SERIOUS about rescuing America from its own decline, then NATO needs to be cut off, most of the overseas bases closed (The 'Encirclement' bases at first), and military/spying budgets cut in half, with that money either going to productive labour (Building houses, repairing roads, new factories etc), or paying off the debt before the cycle of debt becomes impossible to escape. The stock market will suffer, but the real economy would benefit.
That's a tough ask. Usually, such changes only come not with careful forethought, but from actual collapse.
And, of course, the rigging may get the empty suit over the line instead, which will make it all moot. I doubt she can even decide what to wear herself.
Problem is that cutting half the MIC funding would immediately cause bankruptcy of many of the companies, large and small, that support the MIC across the entirety of the States, thus causing a deep depression and subsequently lack of tax revenue and funding for the projects you propose. The business of the USA is truly war, so to attempt a navigation away from that into other enterprises is fraught with risk.
As you say, collapse is likely the only solution.
While there's some truth in that, by far the simplest mechanism - and hardly outside the realm of possibility should the West decide to go full-in on global war instead - would be a near complete nationalisation of all the industries concerned. This would ensure the continuation of employment, supply chains and whatnot, while cutting out the corporate "profit" margin alone. Considering the sheer corruption in this industry, simply ending the private profits, and the "donations" to most of the political classes, could cut costs considerably and those savings could be used in more productive ways.
Of course whoever is sucking off this teat will face hardship - including some pension funds - however the overall benefit to the real economy would enable other investments.
Such things are not impossible, the UK managed something similar when it created the NHS and nationalised nearly all of the existing medical and pharmacological practices and companies.
Despite misgivings at the time, very soon the sheer efficiency of the new nationalised system (Let alone the grateful patients) won over well over 90% of the doctors, who appreciated the stability it brought to their particular "marketplace".
Whenever talking to UK people, they complain about the NHS. Maybe it is not so "sheer efficent"? The cost for medical care is extremly high (compared to other Europeans), the results are really bad. Endless waiting time for Patients for treatments is not a success.
Many here complain but who doesn't in any system? Overall the NHS gives excellent value for money. I don't know where you get the idea that the cost of medical care is expensive in the UK. It is one of the most inexpensive per patient providers in the world. It has a lot of inefficiencies built in that could definitely be improved on but nonetheless, I would take the NHS system over any in the world - and I think the British people as a whole would say the same - if you mention privatising the NHS in Britain, be prepared for a wall of resistance - that tells you how the people really feel about it.
Werner, can you name a product that USED to be good, even great, but was then "Bought out", or just gradually became shit? Let's take it as read that you can, unless you've lived in a bubble.
Well, the NHS has been privatised. It started under Thatcher, accelerated under B'Liar, and went into hyperdrive under the Scameron-Sunak Tory streak.
There is genuinely not much left that is "Socially owned", even most hospital sites themselves have been sold off.
Which means a LOT of it now has to generate "A profit".
While profit-driven, market forces CAN 'improve efficiency' in some small ways, it goes without saying that it never makes up for the 10%-30% removed for said profit, or the service being warped to serve the owners, rather than the public.
That, along with the imposed "Austerity" of the past 15 years, has had it's USUAL (And indeed planned) effect.
It has become shit. But not because it is a nationalised, non-profit service, but because it has become closer to the American model.
The so called "privatised enterprises" were given to "investors". These investors have the possibility for cheap credit, because the government is responsible for a central bank and the public savings. The "seller" (=government) will have a big influx of money, that can be used to buy votes. When the investors have cut out all the good pieces and made a lot of money (by the way, halve of this is coming back to government as taxes), this "private enterprise" is not working properly, so the government will give the investors more cheap money or dictate higher prices for the common people or make regulations, so that there will be not competition. This has nothing to do with market orientated economy, not in the US, not in the EU, not in Russia.
You're spoiled rotten. Come to the US, where people cannot afford certain treatments and just don't go to doctors because "health care" bankrupts people.
Nationalized systems are never efficient. There is no incentive for it, it will not happen. And doesn’t.
Congrats! 4 wrongful axioms/assumptions in 1 teeny-weeny post. The voodoo economics-ideologues who've indoctrinated you with this shite and their heavenly anarcho-free-market jackassery are themselves morons and/or self-promoting shysters.
Or? The truthfulness of the government providing 'nothing' for the highest cost!
What you just said is that all people ONLY work hard for money. Not for pride in their work, because they enjoy their work, competitiveness with each other, or even sticks instead of such carrots, but ONLY for money. Is that true of you?
People work to survive. Everything else is gravy.
To call anything 'government' sheer efficiency is the height of humor.
And yet the Govt owned weapons factories in Russia FAR outstrip the profit-driven US/Western MIC.
What you are missing - and was intentionally withheld from you as a student and imbiber of corporate media - is efficiency IN WHAT are corporates good at? Efficiency in production? Nope. Efficiency in employment? Nope. Efficiency in transferring wealth to the already extremely wealthy? Ahh, now we're beginning to get somewhere.
Perhaps you are a simp who thinks that billionaires are better at spending your money than you are? If so, there's no hope for you.
My concern is what will we have if the election is rigged again, and they are trying. what will the civil unrest look like? If it happens then we are truly lost as a Republic.
The Federal government is a huge monstrosity, if Trump wins, the neo-cons will try and tie him up with more legal nightmares. he will need to appoint a ruthless "hatchet man" who is given the powers (cabinet position?) to make it happen. He will need both the House and the Senate to make any headway. The Supreme Court is also corrupt and will be a factor.
"If DJT and Vances new Team is SERIOUS about rescuing America from its own decline, then NATO needs to be cut off, most of the overseas bases closed (The 'Encirclement' bases at first), and military/spying budgets cut in half, with that money either going to productive labour (Building houses, repairing roads, new factories etc), or paying off the debt before the cycle of debt becomes impossible to escape. The stock market will suffer, but the real economy would benefit."
That word "if" is doing a lot of work for you.
It was non-existent for the other Team, however. A slim hope is better than none. And by "slim", I mean a reed that is anorexic, drought-ridden, and admires 'heroin chic' from the 90s.
Still, another reason to highlight all that, is that if - there's that word again, albeit considerably beefier this time - they don't do all this, it will be obvious that America's decline will continue, and potentially accelerate.
Who is KH and OTAN?
K'Mala Harris, and NATO.
Thank you. And a good episode:
America eats its young - The Grayzone live – OUTSTANDING – Max and Aaron
https://rumble.com/v5l7os4-america-eats-its-young-the-grayzone-live.html
YT has been recommending it for a week. It's the leading pic of Biden that put me off, lol.
I'll catch it now.
Cue pompous Westerners... "ALL Lives Matter!!!. Now keep conscripting and sending the meat to die for Blackrock profits and "democracy"".
BTW - Ukrainian Lives Matter - good call, that one. <3 :thumbsup:
The no prisoners point is interesting as the UAF is likely to collapse via mass surrenders not mass graves.
Assuming that the dead POWs part of the story isn't bullshit, I dread to think why prisoners are being held in the attic of Ramzan Kadyrov's special forces training facility.
Can anyone come up with a reasonable explanation that isn't also God-awful?
Can't you "come up with a reasonable explanation that isn't also God-awful?" Perhaps you, Jack, have the smarts and creativity of a Gitmo guard/pretend warrior.
I really don't know what that means, except that it's phrased as some sort of sarcastic back-hand.
But I will try to explain my point more clearly.
What possible reason is there to hold prisoners in a special forces training facility? Let alone " “Up to 10 Ukrainian prisoners are held at each strategic facility in [Chechnya]"? The only explanations I can come up with are either human shield hostages against airstrikes or experimental subjects for weapons and interrogation techniques, both of which are God-awful.
However I am tending toward the explanation that the whole POW part of the story is bullshit. Why would you make accurate information about the losses you suffered in an attack public knowledge? That just gives useful information to the enemy.
I apologize. An explanation could be that these particular POWs are simply deemed high value to be isolated and/or protected and/or "softly" interrogated over an extended time - but why inform, unless you want your favourable public to know, for whatever reason, and don't care if your adversary knows or figure they know/surmise already. I agree that it has a decent probability of being BS. It does appear to be the human-shield angle, but that is useless and a tactic of weakness.
Akhmat special forces were the first of the regular army units to be redeployed to the Kursk region when Ukraine began its incursion. And at first they formed the basis of the defense in this area. Accordingly, they managed to capture a certain number of POWs. Just as the AFU managed to capture a certain number of Akhmat fighters. Most likely, these prisoners were sent to Chechnya in order to later try to exchange them for Akhmat fighters. It is unlikely that these prisoners are being held at the Special Forces Academy; this part of the story is most likely a fake. It seems to me that Kadyrov simply ordered the killing of several prisoners in response to the attack on the special forces academy.
Ukrainian lives matter only so much as a weapon against their brothers. LIVING Ukrainians don’t matter to US/NATO. If they can kill a Russian, and it takes 3-5 Ukrainian dead to do it; “best money spent” according to Lindsay Graham.
Here’s his sick quote: "The Russians are dying... it's the best money we've ever spent."
He does not care AT ALL about Ukrainian lives… the quicker the Ukrainians come to realize it — the better (for them and for us)!
This should be apparent to far more, though I think I underestimate its current recognition in "The Garden".
Those in the know have now realized the truth:
Ukraine is toast and they've wasted their youth!
Long in the making and amply foretold;
The Russians gave warning before the tanks rolled.
So pity poor Ukraine; so callously used,
As a blunt NATO weapon - conned and abused.
And wish that Nuland burns in hell,
and that Zelenski moves to Israel.
Thanks for nailing the iambic pentameter. So annoying when people get sloppy with it.
You know ‘the west’ ie the Anglo Saxon’s backed Japan and Germany up until the tide turned, they’d done there job, and they started on them.
Actually they protect the young and draft the old. Still don't draft those 18-19. The real question for winter is does the electricity go down nationally this winter. Don't have to advance a mile and the war will be over. Ukraine will be uninhabitable. With no leaves on the trees, where will they hide?
They have not wasted their youth. Why do dweebs think writing poems will get them likes? These men are weaker than that jewish comedian in ukraine.
Going to be a lot of dead browns here during the wars soon. Wish they made better fertilizer though.
Only Russia can save Ukraine now
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The Sovereign Military Order of Malta Ambassador to Russia Prince Aimone of Savoy Aosta has been managing Pirelli Russia and has had documented and photographed meetings with Putin. Prince Aimones sister Princess Bianca is married with the Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga family who have married with Russian royals. The Romanovs are married with Roman Aristocracy recently including the Gaetanis. The Romanovs have 3 royal branches living in America today and other branches in Spain, Germany, UK, and Italy. The royals of Monaco are married with the German Hanovers with Prince Ernst August the husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco who are also currently married with Russian royals with Princess Alexandra of Hanover married to Prince Andreas of Leinengen whose mother was the Grand Duchess of Russia. The current Grand Duchess Vladimirovna Romanov of Russia is a Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and her son Grand Duke George Mikhailovich who is a Romanov and a German Hohenzollern is also a Knight of Malta. The head of the Hohenzollerns Prince George Friedrich of Prussia is a boss of Putin. The Hohenzollerns were directly involved in installing Hitler. These are Putins bosses
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You missed that some Romanov survivors also live in Denmark. One works as a teacher, is a very exceptional, intelligent and attractive woman.
Quite why you think a small cult pinning medals and intermarrying is of any importance at all is mystifying, and frankly makes you look more like one of the sycophants fluffing them up.
No-one is interested in grown-up children play-acting with overblown "medals" and other peacock decorations here, anymore than normal adults take seriously children doing the same. It is theatre, that only impresses weak minds, apparently such as yours.
Were they stripped of all wealth and influence, they would merely be arrogant people with an unfounded sense of entitlement, who would look good gardening in a collective in common work clothes - they may even be happier, as Pu Yi was.
You can scoff and dismiss this all you want but human life is theater, political life especially so. Here is just one example among many;
When the funeral service for the reinternment of the remains of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family took place on July 17, 1998, in St. Petersburg, Russia, the British royal family was represented by Prince Michael of Kent. That Prince is first cousin to the late Queen, who herself was second cousin once removed to the last Tsar, Nicholas II, they were second cousins once removed through their mutual ancestor, Christian IX of Denmark.
The Bolsheviks killing Nicholas II and his entire family was obviously a highly political act. Attempting to permanently destroy and hide their remains was also very political. Hunting for, discovering and digging up those remains, then holding an elaborate funeral ritual in a grand cathedral was again highly political.
Having a high ranking member of the British aristocracy attend a religious ritual in Saint Petersburg is just two steps removed from holding a high level meeting between The Kremlin and No.10 Downing street.
So it is theater, but it is not just theater. It is highly important political theater which has real world results.
Poor Jack Dee - wasted his life pursuing utterly irrelevant “facts” and patterns. Too late to get a life for him..
Do you not have cousins? Do your cousins not also have other cousins? Why mention this as though it has some mystical meaning?
Mafia leaders have cousins, and go their funerals when they die, even if killed violently, and have Family struggles and internecine warfare, and temporary pacts.
Is that also extraordinary to you?
Why do you think because a family has considerable wealth and power they are somehow ubermensch? They are no different to you and your friends, family and cousins. Believe me, THEY know that (Unless they are psychotic, but that is also true of psychotics who are not in possession of considerable wealth and social power).
You are fascinated by a soap opera, nothing more. Elizabeth's favourite grandson, Harry - you should read his book. It's remarkably honest, and easy to see why she liked him most.
That mafia families also follow these rituals doesn't show that they are meaningless or unimportant, it shows that they are more meaningful and important. Those mafia clans are a little lower than Kings, Tsars and Presidents, a little higher than tribesmen and peasants, but they are all humans and part of the human condition. Rituals and ceremonies are part of that condition, it is not just soap opera.
In the video that Simplicius shared with us of the commander explaining to the reporter the battle for Selidovo, did you notice the "Flag of Victory" on the wall? Do you know whose face is in the center of it? There can be no clearer example of ritual and ceremony than the flags and emblems soldiers choose to go into battle with.
They could have chosen what ever symbol they liked, they chose that one. This is just part of the power of ceremony and ritual which is also part of the power of magic and the occult.
BTW "Occult" just means "Hidden" not just "Bullshit".
My excuses for adding a little note to occult means hidden not bullshit, it’s not bullshit it’s holy bullshit, but so is politics and war, all are holy.
Where did I say that soap operas can't have 'meaning'? To the millions who tune in to watch entirely fictitious TV shows every week, the shows may give deep 'meaning' to their lives. It still doesn't change the fact that ultimately, they don't actually have meaning - much like "monarchies".
When the European colonisers rampaged around the globe for 300 years, many of the places they invaded had their own monarchies, fiefdoms, various 'soap operas' of their own. Strangely, all those "Special Leaves" they pinned on each other in such communities had no bearing on how the Europeans treated them. They turned out to be meaningless theatre, just like "Monarchies" in Europe pin "medals" on each other.
There are no "awesome bloodlines", as the idiocy of the "Chosen People" in the settler colony Israel today attests.
Networking, and having extra resources for the raising of your young, do have real world effects.
Thinking the recipients of such are "Speshul" reveals a hierarchical way of thinking, a turning away from your own power. Yet Thou Art God.
What kind of a god you will be is up to you. If you wish to harness yourself to the yoke of soap operas, be aware the actual actors in them mock those who believe them to be true.
Soldiers, like everyone who lives 'On the line' (While facing combat), are more often superstitious than not, and that is neither a criticism not a sneer. It's a fact of Life that Lady Luck plays a HUGE role in such experiences, and any tilt in your favour might help.
I note though there are very few YT vids where devout Mormons actually directly check their magic underpants by shooting into them while wearing them.
To some extent, even the most devout are aware that they are acting.
Maybe theater that you pay attention to. I do not, nor do many other humans or cats, certainly not those of influence and authority.
This is the "Resolute desk"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_desk
Why bother with this antique? Why even make a desk from a salvaged wreck and present it as a gift from a Queen to a President?
The entire White House is a museum and the Oval Office is a stage with that desk a key piece of the stage design. Maybe the President isn't really the President and maybe the White House isn't really the executive mansion. It doesn't matter, because people act as if it is. In magical occult rituals the image of the thing and the name of the thing become the thing itself.
Until the whole thing is turned into a burned shroud by a thermonuclear missile, and 10,000 years later is nothing more than a couple of inconsequential bricks that sheep graze over.
Oh Ozymandias, would that you had King C'nut as an advisor!
Oh boy - you need a doctor… !!!
You have “found” — bosses of Putin
;-))
It will be easy-peasy for German and Polish lads to source Ukrainian ladies to warm their beds this winter. All tariffs are suspended as the women march West, away from the USA-NATO provoked debacle, known locally as 'Ukraine'. U$A! U$A! U$SA! Mo' money! Mo' money! Mo' money.
Meanwhile, Vicky Nuland moves to a sinecure at Columbia U to spin her evil tall tales to the children of the elites. The next generation of Neo-CONs are being spawned as I type. Depressing, eh?
I hope that some brave soul will separate that ugly head from her fat body and publicly. Someone needs to start the punishment of these murderers.
Are you suggesting that those Germans fired from Volkswagen got Ukrainian Women on their mind to warm their empty beds? And Poland doesn’t it join the economic downfall in Germany, France and Europe?
Once the economy truly fails here, the rats will starve. It's coming.... as sure as sunrise.
"Russia cannot fight for ever. But the worry among Axis officials is that Germany's breaking point will come first." - 2024 sounds a lot like 1944. Send Alexander and Yevgeny Vindman to the front lines ASAP, the latter is running for Congress in Virginia. Victoria Nuland just got new patronage jobs at Columbia University and the CIA cutout National Endowment for Democracy. Liz Cheney is crying that Trump said she should go fight in the wars she agitates for. Neocon warmongers like these have made US foreign policy and the world grim for decades. May their downfalls lead to peace.
Neocons without power are just an idea. People vote for presidents, presidents hire these people.
How do you stop the effing presidents from listening and using these bastards? The Geouze got the money, and motivation to fund presidential races.
May their downfalls lead to executions!
Well Nuland calls the gentiles goyims or cattle? So, if we are cattle to work the field, and be milked by Geouze? Why are we surprised that the death of rednecks doesn't count.
The deaths of all those men on both sides, and for what? What a terrible waste, and all because of the scumbag neocons who control the empire. Trump needs to rout them all out, at every level.
Also shocking that it finally is starting to dawn on the morons in the gov and media that Ukraine has lost the war. We knew it a long time ago, it just had to play out until the end.
Will be entertaining to see what happens to Zelensky and his crew, once the empire finally tires of them for good.
@Morgthorak the Undead
Zelensky, accidentally shot to death by a Ukrainian officer with a subgun inside an APC?
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-body-of-ngo-dinh-diem-former-president-of-south-vietnam-news-photo/529230995
Or accidentally sat on a bayonet in al-Qaddafi-fashion?
@Victor
Moamar Qaddafi was never our creature, so apples to oranges?He was a self made man, unlike various presidents of South Vietnam, South Korea, Iraq & Panama, all of whom were "assets", at least until some of them were worth more dead.
Doesn't matter whether 'self-made' or 'our creature' - their fate is the same from the West's perspective. However, one is deserving of his fate, the other is not.
What do s APC ?
APC / Armored Personnel Carrier = бронетранспортёр / БТР
General Ngo Dinh Diem, the President of South Vietnam, and his brother weren't killed in battle, General Dương Văn Minh had deposed him in a coup backed by the CIA. They were under arrest and being transported to military Headquarters when someone decided it would be best if they didn't arrive there alive.
@Boris Petrov
APC = Armored Personnel Carrier.
AFAIK, the same M113 APC which NATO gave a bunch of to Ukraine.
Though with your moniker, it seems apt to point out that the now claimed 114,000 Russian dead (twice Ukraine's 57,000) is less than the 300,000 Russian dead that I was reading about last year. Clearly Russia is now able to form legions of zombie soldiers. They are on their last legs, being forced to press even the undead into uniform.
Russian necromancers have always been a thing, especially since they unlocked the ability to resurrect tanks too.
All wars are bankers' wars.
Ol' Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket" should be part of the required curriculum for Murikan dunder-headed, fat-arsed school kiddies.
As likely as Uncle Sammy allowing his true-likeness (with the forked-tongue, rat-tail, fangs and goat-horns) to be shown, though.
Nodoby in Washington, nobody in Brussels, nobody in Kiev cares about the Ukrainian dead, any more than a farmer mourns the deaths of the chickens he sends to the slaughterhouse to be turned into "chick'n nuggets".
Hell, V.V. Putin probably cares more about dead Ukrainians than anyone of influence and authority in Ukraine or the West.
True, and well said, my friend.
Fyi - next week at night temperature at or slightly bellow freezing ( 0 C or 32 F ) in Kiew…
Russia’s famous General Winter is approaching.
General Winter, another Western propaganda statement about the Red Army. You see Russia or the Red Army at that time. Don't deserve any credit for defeating anyone. They're not brave enough, not trained enough, bad equipment & terrible planning. It was the cold weather that won their victories. For me it's an a total insult to hear that phrase. To the hero's who had to fight in exactly the same conditions as their enemies. Just as it is today. Russia isn't the only country that suffers extreme cold in the winter. Sorry for being a bit abrupt about it, but for me it's very insulting to the brave men/women who fought & did more than anyone to defeat the Nazi's.
Russians have electricity and food — poor Ukrainians will not… ;-))
Good point - it never occurred to me that the 'General Winter' trope was respected at the expense of Russian troop efficacy.