And probably another one drowned while vacationing in the Bahamas.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

The images you describe are part of the propaganda. People think that’s the only way propaganda is delivered, and therefore they can’t possibly be propagandized.

Indeed, because if they accepted they’d need to treat Russia as an equal, it would be an admission of defeat in their minds. They can never accept losing primacy.

The Russophobia and propaganda are just oozing out of the article. It’s essentially a call for a new Cold War.

It’s mind-boggling how they twist events to make Putin appear as the bloodthirsty warlord who’s bend on destroying the democratic and benevolent West.

It’s worth reading to understand the deranged mindset of these people.

Very sad to hear. That man was a legend.

Meaning, he’s likely a CIA asset.

Piracy is much better because:

a) happens in the background while you do other things (both downloading and uploading)

b) doesn’t usually use dedicated servers which consume a bunch of power for working and cooling (and take up land). In case of streaming services, servers need to be turned on 24/7 whether someone uses them or not. Then there’s the matter of energy used for their massive bandwidth to be able to distribute to all the clients simultaneously.

c) doesn’t use crazy amounts of power for encoding/decoding and compressing/decompressing a stream.

The third reason alone makes piracy a lot more environmentally friendly.

https://archive.is/XzZ9S

There’s a conspiracy theory that they are just pushing the collapse back as much as they can, so it blows up in Trump’s face when he gets into office in January.

The Ukrainians seem to be pulling brigades even from Kursk to halt the Pokrovsk collapse.

It is likely they realized that the ongoing Kursk offensive or the planned Zaporozhie offensive will not work, especially since their Western masters have not unlocked their ATACMS and other long-range weapons to be able to strike deep into Russian territory.

It is also likely the Russians will hold off advancing further (at least so rapidly) in the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka line in the near future, and instead will push exactly where the Ukrainians are pulling troops from.

The way the western economy is tied together through stock markets though means that one company or hedge fund failing because one manufacturer goes down, will cause a domino effect (either due to panic or interconnected stocks). That’s the fear anyway. We’ve seen exactly that when Intel’s stock went down, which was only mitigated by the Fed printing money and silently propping up the stock market.

The West has built itself an economy based on services and speculation. Meaning it’s backed by nothing, other than imaginary concepts. So when the prices of tangible goods go down, the few EU/US/UK industries that use/produce them suddenly have to lower prices as they can’t compete. If they lower prices, their stock goes down. If their stock goes down, then the whole speculation sector deflates in value. If the speculation sector loses value, the western economies collapse.

There’s a similar worry with the price of steel (which is also “overproduced” by China after diminishing its construction sector), and don’t forget the recent tarrifs imposed on EVs and renewable resources exported by China as well.

There’s wider implications on the West caused by price cuts:

• less profits for the capitalist class

• line doesn’t go up exponentially any more

• the global south suddenly has viable alternatives to importing high-tech and manufactured goods

• the financial instruments used to keep the global south down are no longer effective

A few weeks ago, the German army tried to silently whitewash Wehrmacht and SS war criminals by naming them as “tradition-formers”, “trend-setters” and “pioneers” of the modern German army.

The head of Ukrainian intelligence had said before that Russians only understand fear, in response to bombing civilian targets and raiding incursions in Belgorod. And some of the units in Kursk are under the direct control of Ukrainian intelligence.

And there’s a video of a Ukrainian POW, who surrendered in Vovchansk, stating that he was recruited from prison into the Ukrainian army, and the recruiters promised them they would be used to attack Russia, and then let loose to rape and pillage as much as they wanted as bonus payment.

Thanks so much

Anyone has a way to access the full article?

This was a weirdly comedic read about worlds colliding:

American elites trying to create an American chip monopoly for nationalist and imperialist reasons, ask their colony to bring the factory to the imperial core.

Asian worker exploitation culture being imported to the US, where everyone likes to brag how hard-working people they are and think that the rest of the world is poor because it’s lazy.

American labour aristocrats refusing to conform with Taiwanese worker exploitation culture.

Taiwanese capitalists making concessions to American workers so they can fulfill the wishes of American elites.

American elites crying because they can’t build their self-sufficient capitalist tech utopia that will grab the chip market by the balls.

Taiwanese workers looking in and feeling that everything’s a bit too surreal and unbelievable for their taste.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/24/usa.davidteather

Police-woman enticed him to meet, pretending to be 16-year-old girl

Case dismissed and files sealed.

Someone from within leaked the story to the press to smear him.

In my own opinion, someone is out to get him and they are grasping at anything to discredit him. If the sexual offenses allegations were true, they’d use those to raid his house.

And imagine the hubris of said war criminals not attending, because their other war criminal buddies were not invited.