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Roger A. Shrubber

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still can't believe Elon gonna do that to that asshat........oh yeah let give him a platform to spout shit.....
this is why i've never liked musk worth a fuck...he's not a philanthropist, or a humanitarian, he's a venture capitalist...he cashes in on peoples desire to be more energy efficient, then doesn't deliver what he promised.
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/teslas-electric-cars-might-not-green-think/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timabansal/2021/05/13/how-green-is-tesla-really/?sh=dbbac6e1576e

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lifetime-carbon-emissions-electric-vehicles-vs-gasoline-cars-2021-06-29/

until the grid goes green and quits using oil and coal, electric cars are going to be producing enough of a carbon footprint that they only cause minimal pollution reduction
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Ret. US Army Major points out 'tremendous failure' of Russian forces

May 11, 2022 Ret. US Army Major Mike Lyons gives his analysis on the most recent attacks and troop movements in the Russian war against Ukraine.
 

BudmanTX

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this is why i've never liked musk worth a fuck...he's not a philanthropist, or a humanitarian, he's a venture capitalist...he cashes in on peoples desire to be more energy efficient, then doesn't deliver what he promised.
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/teslas-electric-cars-might-not-green-think/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timabansal/2021/05/13/how-green-is-tesla-really/?sh=dbbac6e1576e

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lifetime-carbon-emissions-electric-vehicles-vs-gasoline-cars-2021-06-29/

until the grid goes green and quits using oil and coal, electric cars are going to be producing enough of a carbon footprint that they only cause minimal pollution reduction
venture capitalist....hmmmm...explains a lot why he's in Texas then
 

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Russia's international reserves fell by $13 billion over the month
As of May 1, 2022, Russia's international reserves amounted to $593 billion. This is 2.2%, or $13.3 billion less than as of April 1, follows from the materials of the Bank of Russia. As of April 1, the reserves amounted to $606.4 billion. In March, they decreased by $10.7 billion.

After the start of the military operation of Russian troops in Ukraine, about $ 300 billion of Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves were frozen due to anti-Russian Western sanctions. Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina announced Russia's intention to challenge the asset freeze.

Auto sales fall below lockdown levels The market shrank by 78.5%
The car market of the Russian Federation in April updated the anti-record: a total of 32.7 thousand new cars were sold. This is worse than the result of "black April" 2020, when the lockdown was in effect in the country due to the coronavirus, and dealerships did not work. Now the key problems remain the impossibility to put new cars of foreign brands on the market, including due to the crisis in the logistics of components due to military operations, as well as the lack of demand. Only one brand - Chery Exeed - was able to show sales growth, while shipments of cars to the market were led by at least several brands.

Sales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in April fell by 78.5%, to 32.7 thousand units, follows from AEB data ( .pdf ). This is worse than the March result, when the market decreased by 62.9% (55.1 thousand units sold), as well as the results of April 2020 , when the country was under lockdown due to the coronavirus, and sales amounted to 38.9 thousand cars. According to the results of the past four months, the car market fell by 43% to 293.8 thousand units. The data does not include BMW and Mercedes-Benz sales, which are reported quarterly.

 

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Biden oversaw US biological program in Ukraine, Defense Department says
Joe Biden coordinated the work of the executors of the US military biological program in Ukraine, said Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces.

"The leaders of the Democratic Party are the ideologists of the US military-biological activities in Ukraine," the general said.

According to him, at first a legislative base was created to finance research directly from the federal budget. To do this, under state guarantees, they attracted funds from NGOs controlled by the Democratic Party.


"We know everything about Russians." How Western intelligence helps the Ukrainian army
Political, diplomatic and economic pressure on Moscow, the supply of weapons and military equipment - NATO countries continue to defiantly help Ukraine. However, support of a different kind remains behind the scenes: from the very beginning of the conflict, Western intelligence services have been continuously supplying Kyiv with intelligence. What exactly - in the material RIA Novosti.

Back in 2014, the Americans began to transfer satellite images of the Donbass and border areas to Ukraine. However, at first, they kept the appearance of decorum - they blacked out Russian military facilities and reduced the clarity of images. Canada has granted the Armed Forces limited access to the RADARSAT-2 satellite. And in 2015, the State Space Agency of Ukraine signed a contract with the European company Airbus Defense and Space on the use of data from the Pleiades-1 and Pleiades-2 spacecraft.

All eight years of the war in the Donbass, it was not so important. The positional nature of the armed conflict did not imply a sharp change in the operational situation. Now, however, all conventions are thrown aside. Intelligence from orbit arrives in Kyiv daily, in fact, in real time.

 

DIY-HP-LED

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and the turret goes......weeeeeeeee..

I wonder do the Ukrainians have a contest to see who can make one pop up the highest? Or perhaps best landing with the barrel stuck into the ground at a 90 degree angle a perfect 10, he stuck that landing! Also depth of pentation by the barrel into the ground will settle close calls... handicapping for various surfaces... I can see the trophy of a lollopped T72 turret, with it's barrel stuck in the ground. It would kinda look like one of those Ukrainian sunflowers and might be a good name for the award.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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Biden oversaw US biological program in Ukraine, Defense Department says
Joe Biden coordinated the work of the executors of the US military biological program in Ukraine, said Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces.

"The leaders of the Democratic Party are the ideologists of the US military-biological activities in Ukraine," the general said.

According to him, at first a legislative base was created to finance research directly from the federal budget. To do this, under state guarantees, they attracted funds from NGOs controlled by the Democratic Party.

Thus, former US President Barack Obama "in 2005 entered into partnership agreements with Ukraine on the start of the implementation of military biological programs in the country." In turn, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "initiated the adoption of the American strategy to counter biological threats and contributed to the legalization of dual-use research."

The current head of the White House, Joe Biden , as vice president under Obama, "coordinated the activities of the military biological program and was involved in financial fraud in Ukraine." And investor George Soros turned out to be "the main sponsor of military biological research in Ukraine and a lobbyist for Big Pharma."

In addition, pharmaceutical companies participate in this scheme, including Pfizer, Moderna and the American Merck, as well as Gilead, a company affiliated with the US military department, Kirillov explained.

This allows US experts to bypass international safety standards when testing new medicines. Thus, Western companies are seriously reducing the costs of implementing research programs and gaining significant competitive advantages, the military concluded.

Earlier, specialists from the Ministry of Defense visited two biological laboratories in Mariupol and found traces of emergency destruction of documents there. According to the agency, a network of more than 30 biological laboratories was formed in Ukraine that worked in the interests of the United States, but everything necessary to continue the military biological program was removed after the start of the Russian special operation. The ministry came to the conclusion that Ukraine has actually become a Pentagon testing ground for the development of biological weapons components and testing of new samples of pharmaceuticals.

"We know everything about Russians." How Western intelligence helps the Ukrainian army
Political, diplomatic and economic pressure on Moscow, the supply of weapons and military equipment - NATO countries continue to defiantly help Ukraine. However, support of a different kind remains behind the scenes: from the very beginning of the conflict, Western intelligence services have been continuously supplying Kyiv with intelligence. What exactly - in the material RIA Novosti.

Back in 2014, the Americans began to transfer satellite images of the Donbass and border areas to Ukraine. However, at first, they kept the appearance of decorum - they blacked out Russian military facilities and reduced the clarity of images. Canada has granted the Armed Forces limited access to the RADARSAT-2 satellite. And in 2015, the State Space Agency of Ukraine signed a contract with the European company Airbus Defense and Space on the use of data from the Pleiades-1 and Pleiades-2 spacecraft.

All eight years of the war in the Donbass, it was not so important. The positional nature of the armed conflict did not imply a sharp change in the operational situation. Now, however, all conventions are thrown aside. Intelligence from orbit arrives in Kyiv daily, in fact, in real time.

NATO does not even think to hide the fact that their devices are constantly hanging over the combat zone. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, just hours after the fire on the missile cruiser Moskva, said the agency already had satellite images of the sinking ship.

And in early April, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin publicly acknowledged the transfer of intelligence to Ukraine. According to him, the Pentagon provides information to Kyiv in order to "help the Armed Forces of Ukraine attack enemy troops in the Donbass."

Private entrepreneurs are not far behind. The American company SpaceX sent more than five thousand Starlink satellite Internet terminals to Ukraine for the rapid exchange of intelligence information.

The Ukrainians can use the information received, in particular, when planning attacks on Russian settlements.

“The border areas of Russia, like the Donbass, are also under constant surveillance from orbit,” says military expert Alexei Leonkov. “The West regularly informs Ukraine about the location of our troops: where they are moving, where they are attacking or defending. the operation of radio equipment in close proximity to the line of contact, especially about the electronic warfare systems that jam Ukrainian drones. Western specialists also designate targets for strikes."

According to the expert, Earth remote sensing satellites are now the main source of information for the Western military. Prior to the Russian special operation, American drones, including RQ-4 Global Hawk heavy strategic drones, were constantly flying along the contact line in Donbass. And the coast of Crimea and the airspace of Ukraine were regularly flown by NATO spy planes U-2SDragon Lady, RC-135W Rivet Joit and P-8A Poseidon.

It is easy to guess what their goals were. The Ministry of Defense emphasizes: Ukraine was going to return by force the uncontrolled areas of Donbass in early March. Kyiv was pushing the West to do this, transmitting to the Armed Forces of Ukraine the coordinates of the positions of the armies of the DPR, LPR and Russia, the locations of military units, air defense systems, and maps of field fortifications. However, Russia now controls the skies over the war zone. And NATO is unlikely to dare to risk the lives of pilots and expensive equipment.

NATO ground infrastructure is also used. In particular, at the Polish airfield near the city of Rzeszow, 70 kilometers from the eastern border, American Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems are deployed. They not only guard this important transit point, from where convoys with weapons leave, but also monitor the airspace over Western Ukraine.

The target detection range of standard AN / MPQ-65 radars is up to 180 kilometers. This allows you to view the sky of the entire Lviv region and notify the Ukrainian General Staff in a timely manner about the approach of Russian cruise missiles to military infrastructure facilities.

Western specialists are also working directly in the combat zone. It is no secret that foreigners are fighting in the Armed Forces of Ukraine - both mercenaries and military personnel. It is they who, according to the DPR and LPR, act as operators of American-made counter-battery radars, helping Ukrainians to identify the positions of Russian artillery.

The other day, the British media reported the arrival in Lviv of about two dozen fighters of the elite SAS special forces, specializing, among other things, in deep reconnaissance. It is not excluded their direct participation in hostilities.

It is important to understand that NATO countries are helping Ukraine with military supplies and intelligence information not out of great love for the Kyiv regime. Observing the actions of Russian troops, tactics, peculiarities of the use of weapons, strengths and weaknesses, generals in Brussels and Washington carefully analyze how a potential enemy fights. And there is no doubt: according to their findings, dozens of textbooks for Western military schools and academies will be written.
yeah, we were operating biological warfare labs right where the russians, the nosiests fucks alive, could surveil them with minimum effort...

as to giving the Ukrainians satellite imagery and intelligence, so fucking what if we are? what you gonna do about it, comrade? YOU made yourself our enemy, we didn't really give two shits about what your third rate empire was doing, as long as you played nice with the other kids...but you can't keep from kicking over everyone's sand castles and stealing their toys, so you fucking take what you get

(yes, i know this is russian propaganda, replying to it in that sense, even though the second story probably is true...i just don't give a fuck, i hope it's true)
 

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Volodin called on the US leadership to answer for participation in the conflict in Ukraine
Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin said that the United States is taking part in hostilities in Ukraine.
According to Volodin, which the speaker of the State Duma expressed on Saturday, May 7, in his Telegram channel, this is confirmed by the words of US President Joe Biden , who demanded to stop leaks about the exchange of intelligence information with Ukraine.
Volodin also drew attention to the supply of weapons and equipment from the United States to the Ukrainian military, as well as to the American intelligence forces sent to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Volodin said that Washington "essentially coordinates and develops military operations" in Ukraine, and the US leadership, according to the speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation , should be held accountable "for the crimes committed in Ukraine by the Kiev Nazi regime" and add to the list of war criminals.


The authorities of the Kherson region will ask Putin to include the region in Russia
MOSCOW, May 11 - RIA Novosti. The authorities of the Kherson region will appeal to Vladimir Putin with a request to include the region into Russia, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the regional military-civilian administration.

"The city of Kherson is Russia, no KhNR (Kherson People's Republic. - Ed.) will be created on the territory of the Kherson region, there will be no referenda. This will be one single decree based on the appeal of the leadership of the Kherson region to the President of the Russian Federation, and there will be please include the region in the full-fledged region of the Russian Federation," he said.

 

printer

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yeah, we were operating biological warfare labs right where the russians, the nosiests fucks alive, could surveil them with minimum effort...

as to giving the Ukrainians satellite imagery and intelligence, so fucking what if we are? what you gonna do about it, comrade? YOU made yourself our enemy, we didn't really give two shits about what your third rate empire was doing, as long as you played nice with the other kids...but you can't keep from kicking over everyone's sand castles and stealing their toys, so you fucking take what you get
Can dish it out but can't take it. Just a normal bully.
 

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I wonder do the Ukrainians have a contest to see who can make one pop up the highest? Or perhaps best landing with the barrel stuck into the ground at a 90 degree angle a perfect 10, he stuck that landing! Also depth of pentation by the barrel into the ground will settle close calls... handicapping for various surfaces... I can see the trophy of a lollopped T72 turret, with it's barrel stuck in the ground. It would kinda look like one of those Ukrainian sunflowers and might be a good name for the award.
After the war there will be enough turrets to go around that everyone can get involved and then they can call it a legitimate sport. Olympics one day?
 

BudmanTX

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I wonder do the Ukrainians have a contest to see who can make one pop up the highest? Or perhaps best landing with the barrel stuck into the ground at a 90 degree angle a perfect 10, he stuck that landing! Also depth of pentation by the barrel into the ground will settle close calls... handicapping for various surfaces... I can see the trophy of a lollopped T72 turret, with it's barrel stuck in the ground. It would kinda look like one of those Ukrainian sunflowers and might be a good name for the award.
oh you know there is a couple of UA guys with a javalins, going "dude hold my beer, check this shit out"
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Attack Finland and soon Sweden before they join NATO and you are at war with the UK and Uncle Sam. Now Vlad, do something stupid and pay a horrible price.
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Finnish President tells Russia 'You caused this' as he signs security pact with UK

 

DIY-HP-LED

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Finland by itself is nothing Vlad would want to fuck with on a good day, he has 80% of his weak, incompetent and shitty army deployed in Ukraine and gobbled up much of his munitions and resources. He would like to attack, but knows better, especially now that he realizes how weak he is and Ukraine will destroy his army in Ukraine this summer or sooner. The Finns have a modern army, a huge trained reserve and make modern weapons that NATO uses, they have bomb shelters and strategic reserves of raw materials, energy and even pharmaceuticals. Now they have two nuclear powers and guarantees at their backs until they join NATO, Sweden is next up, but the Russians gotta go through Finland first to get to them.
 
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