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Lucky Luke

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Unfortunately, it also represents a big section of society.... Putin is counting on breaking their wills before his machine runs out of steam.
I think it's a small section of society who cannot or will not pay their electricity bill. I'd be looking at the country's leaders who didn't spend money on energy security. My green renewable energy bill from a carbon neutral state for 4 people, large home, shed with compressor and a small personnel grow is approx $800 per 1/4, aussie dollars.
ands thats to high due to fed gov interference.
 
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DIY-HP-LED

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Food prices direct from the farmer haven't changed the last 2 years. Fuel prices are coming down. Availability of stock is improving. Markets are steady. Real estate maybe leveling but rents are continuing to rise. Classic cars and pinball machines plus boats are starting to level out for their little price fall. As long as the US doesn't explode the world looks OK.
Ukrainian war will be going for ages and the world markets need to work around it. It's nothing new for them.
Well food inflation is outrageous and needs some explaining, high gas prices are caused by a lack of refining capacity not the price of crude and with EVs coming nobody will be building new refineries. Keeping America from blowing up could be problematic, the house is highly gerrymandered in favor of the republicans after decades of effort, a mere majority will no longer do.

However it looks like the GOP might screw up enough with Trump in a panic about going to prison to make a difference. The economy improving and responsible government help a lot, but many white Americans want something else and mere facts don't matter, even if it means cutting their own throats. What matters is the scripted opinion of their brainwashers on Foxnews, in their search for rationalizations of their "feelings", they even tend to ignore the news end of foxnews, biased and spun as it is.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Russian troops have wired energy units of Zaporizhia nuclear power plant with explosives. Major General Vasilyev, commander of the garrison stationed at the plant, announced readiness to blow up the plant, leading to a nuclear catastrophe.
Withdraw your troops or we will immediately give the Ukrainians the means to finish this war quickly, decisively and it won't end at their borders but inside Russia, not just Crimea. If they deliberately blow up a nuclear reactor and contaminate vast areas, there would be an awesome punishment inflicted upon them, they would feel the pain and depending on the wind direction countries like Poland could intervene directly and independently. Is it worth another 100 HIMARS and 200 M777s, tanks and planes for Ukraine? That could be the price of stopping direct Polish intervention and delivered yesterday, no delays at all.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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Joe must wanna keep the fear level down going into the election, one less concern along with lower gas prices and the effects of the recent legislation should also help reduce the general level of fear people feel. When we are fearful our focus narrows, we tend anger easily, to go tribal and critical thinking is impaired. It's easy to get people to feel fear and anger if they think a hoard of the "others" are invading the country taking over and replacing them, like in Ukraine only in their imaginations. Slow and steady, don't spook him into leaving or using nukes, let him bleed out slowly in the trap.

I figured once Joe had Vlad by the nuts he would squeeze a bit harder, however, day by day Vlad's military might is being ground down as irreplaceable munitions are spent and equipment is lost, along with the officer corps. The Russians are still being steadily reduced in Ukraine and to strengthen the south they must weaken the east and their dependence on rail transport makes them vulnerable. The Ukrainians have shorter lines of internal communications and could attack in the south or the east but the Russians need to go the long way around, including via Kerch to Crimea.

A longer war means longer sanctions and atrocities mean seizing Russian money held abroad, it means less European dependency on Russian energy and deep damage to their economy.
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What U.S Aid to Ukraine is ACTUALLY Doing

154,600 views Aug 7, 2022 $54 Billion Dollars in American Military Power Projection gets Ukraine no tanks, Infantry Fighting Vehicles or Fighter Jet Aircraft like the M1 Abrams, M2 Bradley, or F-35. What is the strategy here with this money? What is the United States goal with sending aid to Ukraine. Will it help with the counter offensive? Can the US Army intelligence services hope to help out in this war for that amount of funds? The Russian Invasion of Ukraine has entered a new stage in the south in Kherson and east in the Donbass. Who will win, remains to be seen.
that's one of the better videos you've posted. i already pretty much knew what he is saying, but it makes it all clearer to hear it spelled out
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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Withdraw your troops or we will immediately give the Ukrainians the means to finish this war quickly, decisively and it won't end at their borders but inside Russia, not just Crimea. If they deliberately blow up a nuclear reactor and contaminate vast areas, there would be an awesome punishment inflicted upon them, they would feel the pain and depending on the wind direction countries like Poland could intervene directly and independently. Is it worth another 100 HIMARS and 200 M777s, tanks and planes for Ukraine? That could be the price of stopping direct Polish intervention and delivered yesterday, no delays at all.
didn't you watch your own video? we won't give them the means to actually win while we can still bleed russia white and destroy their image as an international power...that not only has the obvious effects, it acts as a deterrent to others who have plans of military expansion, lest they share the same fate....while also painting America as both caring and tough, while practicing restraint.
 

BudmanTX

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HGCC

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I really like my solar panels 3-4 months a year, during the summer they really show their worth and keep the my bill low. Less so in the winter. It's sort of a sliding scale over time, but I think it's around 50 a month for the lease on the solar panels. There are a few dark and snowy months when they don't recoup that, but in general I like them and don't mind. I am good with paying a bit more to use a cleaner energy source if need be.

I always feels kinds sheepish when they send out the "your use vs. Neighbors" letters though. Fuck off, my light bulbs are big.
 

printer

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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: tension jumped at the Zaporizhzhya NPP
Due to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), a power surge occurred at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. This was reported in the official telegram channel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“There was a power surge at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant due to the shelling. It caused smoke at the open switchgear of the station, ”the Ministry of Defense said.

Earlier, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the nuclear power plant from the Uragan MLRS. The strike was inflicted on the spent nuclear fuel storage area. The Kremlin said that the shelling of nuclear power plants is fraught with catastrophic consequences, writes RT .

"What? Bomb a nuclear plant ourselves? Net comrade."
 

printer

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Razoni grain ship no longer docking in Tripoli
The Sierra Leonian-flagged Razoni ship, carrying 26,000 metric tons of corn for chicken feed that departed from Odesa last Monday will no longer dock in the northern Lebanese port.

According to Marine Traffic, it changed its status on Saturday to "order," meaning the ship was waiting for someone to buy the corn.

"All that I know is that the ship is no longer coming here," Tripoli Port director Ahmad Tamer said.

Ukraine's embassy in Beirut tweeted Monday that the corn's final buyer in Lebanon refused to accept the cargo due to delivery delay beyond a contractual limit and that the shipper was now looking for another buyer.

The shipment had been a grain of hope for the economically-shattered tiny Mediterranean nation, also suffering from a food security crisis. Soaring food inflation, wheat shortages, and breadlines have crippled a population, of which about half are food insecure, according to the United Nations World Food Program.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: tension jumped at the Zaporizhzhya NPP
Due to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), a power surge occurred at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. This was reported in the official telegram channel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“There was a power surge at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant due to the shelling. It caused smoke at the open switchgear of the station, ”the Ministry of Defense said.

Earlier, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the nuclear power plant from the Uragan MLRS. The strike was inflicted on the spent nuclear fuel storage area. The Kremlin said that the shelling of nuclear power plants is fraught with catastrophic consequences, writes RT .

"What? Bomb a nuclear plant ourselves? Net comrade."
we need an emoji that laughs for a few seconds, then cries for a few seconds...
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: tension jumped at the Zaporizhzhya NPP
Due to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), a power surge occurred at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. This was reported in the official telegram channel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“There was a power surge at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant due to the shelling. It caused smoke at the open switchgear of the station, ”the Ministry of Defense said.

Earlier, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the nuclear power plant from the Uragan MLRS. The strike was inflicted on the spent nuclear fuel storage area. The Kremlin said that the shelling of nuclear power plants is fraught with catastrophic consequences, writes RT .

"What? Bomb a nuclear plant ourselves? Net comrade."
How quickly the Russians forget they did it first.

 

Roger A. Shrubber

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How quickly the Russians forget they did it first.

that's very enlightening, seeing all the security camera footage of the fight...written descriptions leave a lot of room for interpretation
 

BudmanTX

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in the beginning of the war, the Russians took the complex, and they still have it. It's a red zone, IAEA need to be there to protect it, and it needs to be a demilitarized zone under they're protection...with UN observers...
 

Lucky Luke

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Well food inflation is outrageous and needs some explaining, high gas prices are caused by a lack of refining capacity not the price of crude and with EVs coming nobody will be building new refineries. Keeping America from blowing up could be problematic, the house is highly gerrymandered in favor of the republicans after decades of effort, a mere majority will no longer do.

However it looks like the GOP might screw up enough with Trump in a panic about going to prison to make a difference. The economy improving and responsible government help a lot, but many white Americans want something else and mere facts don't matter, even if it means cutting their own throats. What matters is the scripted opinion of their brainwashers on Foxnews, in their search for rationalizations of their "feelings", they even tend to ignore the news end of foxnews, biased and spun as it is.
Don't want to pay inflated prices don't buy from the supermarkets.
12 months ago i was paying $280 for a full lamb, butchered to suit and delivered. Its the same price today.
12 months ago i was paying $13.50 per kg for a butchered to suit and delivered cow. It's the same price today.

Supermarkets have been using the excuse of fuel (mainly diesel prices) to inflate their own retail prices and therefore their profits. Good to see fuel prices starting to slide lets hope it continues to. Lets also hope that there is more pressure applied to the supermarkets for fair and reasonable pricing rather than gouging.

Repubs will probably win the next US election. Its sad but that's the way they set their political system up and there doesn't seem much wish to change it.
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Don't want to pay inflated prices don't buy from the supermarkets.
12 months ago i was paying $280 for a full lamb, butchered to suit and delivered. Its the same price today.
12 months ago i was paying $13.50 per kg for a butchered to suit and delivered cow. It's the same price today.

Supermarkets have been using the excuse of fuel (mainly diesel prices) to inflate their own retail prices and therefore their profits. Good to see fuel prices starting to slide lets hope it continues to. Lets also hope that there is more pressure applied to the supermarkets for fair and reasonable pricing rather than gouging.

Repubs will probably win the next US election. Its sad but that's the way they set their political system up and there doesn't seem much wish to change it.
not an option locally.

Also, you imply operating a chest freezer. A typical one draws one MWh per annum. Locally that is $550 per annum at my base day rate here - not counting the fact that the usage pushes me up one tier, as much as doubling that cost.

Your experience does not generalize.
 
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printer

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Sanctions squeeze has Russia stripping planes for spare parts: report
A group of Russian airlines is stripping planes of spare parts as sanctions implemented due to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine impact the country.

Sources told Reuters on Monday that major Russian airlines such as Aeroflot have grounded their planes so they can be disassembled for spare parts, adding that airlines are taking parts from their planes to keep them airworthy.

Russian-made Sukhoi Superjets, which are dependent on assembled foreign parts, have already started the disassembly process, removing an engine from a grounded jet to allow another Superjet to continue flying.

The disused airplanes from which parts are removed to keep others flying are often referred to as “Christmas trees.” The process is linked to financial difficulties due to widespread reshuffling from the sanctions imposed by Western powers, according to Reuters.

Sanctions on Moscow stem from its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, which began in February, and have prevented Russia from obtaining spare engine parts or undergoing maintenance checks in Western countries.

Oleg Panteleev, the head of the Aviaport aviation think tank, told Reuters that most Western-based manufacturers know that Sukhoi Superjets fully operate in Russia.

“Western manufacturers understand that almost all Superjets are being operated in Russia,” Panteleev said. “You can simply stop producing and shipping spare parts – and it will hurt.”

Russian officials hope that some of the used aircraft parts will ensure that foreign-built aircrafts can continue to fly through 2025, Reuters reported.

A source also said that due to the Western-imposed sanctions, unused jets are being stripped for spare parts, as Russian jets are currently flying fewer routes than normal.

This comes as Aeroloft has experienced a 22 percent traffic fall due to the Western-imposed sanctions against Russia, according to data provided by the company.

Sources also told the news wire that Middle East and Asian companies may be at risk of secondary sanctions from Western powers if they provide aircraft supplies to Russia.
 
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