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Its been found that a shortage of cloths washers has lead to an increase of menopause in woman, which in turn means more money to study all the ways of reducing the causes and effects of menopause.
And you thought it wasn’t a strange world.
Geraniums have blossomed in autumn
they have an affinity for the Mediterranean
Their flowers having five petals
coloured white, pink, blue or purple
The english name is cranesbill
resembling a crane’s head and bill
Crested cranesbill grows in Iran
which is often used as a medicine
The species being very hardy
should not be taken ever so lightly
They will keep flowering until spring
when its time for the necessary leavening
a cat sneezes,
chasing butterflies among
geraniums
a fly succumbing;
the patience of a spider
quietly rewarded
morning breeze,
the boundless sky filled with
pining voices
this world of ours;
sleepwalking through life,
not wanting to wake up
early summer rains;
blank spaces where last year’s words
have faded away
cafe graffiti;
‘over hills and dales we go,
to only where God knows’
‘…sleep walking through life, not wanting to wake up…’
that’s how it’s been alright, the long sleepwalk, then the final awakeninging to ‘you’ and ‘ I ‘, to humanity..
David Bowie – Where Are We Now?
https://youtu.be/HVVswZonvoc
Thanks Dimitar, for the lovely Haiku’s
If I Were a Blackbird; Kim Robertson ( Celtic Harp solo )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cher8d4N8zc
Koto Player ‐ Kasumi Watanabe
https://youtu.be/JDTp_YQizqE
25 strings Koto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koto_(instrument)
Thanks, Sudhi.
What a performance and what an instrument! I enjoyed
the left hand technique especially where she pushed
on the strings to change the pitch of the note. This,
akin to bending the strings on guitar, adds an
indispensable dynamic to the melody.
@Dimitar
Excellent Harpist. Sincere thanks.
It’s been too long since I heard “If I were a blackbird”.
Recommend “Silly Wizard”, Celtic folk artists, from Scotland, on youtube.
‘Irish’ Tenor, Celtic accent is an instrument in itself. Hypnotic. Induces tears.
“Geranium Raptures”
They receive daily leavening now
no need to wait til the Spring
Morn noon & night — right on the brow
makes them light — Aladdin on the wing
very souls cast out — through the prow
jacked up Gollum — putting on the Ring
no wisdom whatsoever from the Tao
Straight to Bandera with ‘suicide Bling’
in too deep — like a sow in the lough
That’s Iran’s arms — whataboutu, Beijing?
♧ —————— ♧
“Visions of Submissions in Fetal Positions
A.K.A. Wistfulness for Able Archer”
Nuclear Drill “Steadfast Noon”
dodgy first-strike trial balloon
Pirate Nation on a loon
Fascist broke Daniel Boone
mind-warped in a cocoon
sorry declining fiat Doubloons
with knife comes to High Noon
wormwood drinks at last saloon?
sadder than wile coyote cartoon
howling at Death’s Harvest Moon
The Tree of Life already hewn
hurtling into Event Horizon soon
Rooskie puts in thumb-sucking spoon
Bringing in the alternating rhymes in the first poem works well, AHH.
I like that. An eloquent imagery. And who knows, we may all shift back to natural medicines as this world falls apart more and more.
Iran will send ballistic missiles along with drones.
But always remember the Knyaz Oleg of the Russian Pacific Fleet with intercontinental missiles that can hit Washington DC from the Pacific, another ace in the hole.
Iran Sending More Missiles & Drones To Russia Despite West’s Sanctions Threat
Tyler Durden’s Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, OCT 18, 2022 – 09:26 AM
Allegations of increased Iranian military weaponry transferred to Moscow for use in Ukraine has brought the Islamic Republic under greater EU and US scrutiny, as both begin moving toward imposing fresh sanctions on Tehran as they gather evidence.
Reuters is reporting Tuesday that a deal for surface-to-surface missiles has been made, along with more drones, citing a handful of unnamed top Iranian officials. The outlet said in an exclusive, “A deal was agreed on Oct. 6 when Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, two senior officials from Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards and an official from the Supreme National Security Council visited Moscow for talks with Russia about the delivery of the weapons.”
One of the Iranian officials told Reuters, “The Russians had asked for more drones and those Iranian ballistic missiles with improved accuracy, particularly the Fateh and Zolfaghar missiles family.”
The West has long worried that Russia would turn to unsavory “rogue” states to resupply its fast depleting munitions for use in its Ukraine assault. This past week in particular has seen Russia for the first time rely heavily on repeat drone strikes on the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and other major cities.
On October 10, when this latest round of widespread Russian aerial bombardment began, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced in particular the Kremlin’s alleged reliance on foreign ‘suicide drones’. “We are dealing with terrorists,” Zelensky said in those remarks. “Dozens of missiles, Iranian Shaheds.”
With news of a fresh impending weapons transfer between Tehran and Moscow, the EU is reported to be moving toward new sanctions preparations. In the background is also the stalled JCPOA nuclear deal, already unraveling, but a new round of sanctions could prove the final death blow. According to a press briefing by the EU’s foreign affairs chief:
“We are following very closely the use of drones. We are gathering evidence, and we will be ready to react with the tools at our disposal,” EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell told reporters after the ministers’ meeting. “These [sanctions] processes have to be based on evidence. Evidence exists; it has been provided by the relevant intelligence services,” Borrell said.
“Once all the evidence is available, and there is a lot already, I don’t think there will be any problem with future steps taken by member states,” he added.
The US State Department chimed in on Monday, with spokesman Vedant Patel saying, “Earlier today our French and British allies publicly offered the assessment that Iran’s supply of these UAVs (for) Russia is a violation of U.N. Security Council resolution 2231.” Patel added in the press briefing: “This is something that we agree with.”
This indeed suggests that new sanctions are just around the corner. Tehran for its part has expressly denied that it has been supplying drones or other advanced weaponry to Russia for use in Ukraine, while the Kremlin has kept silent on the charges.
Starting in August, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, and others began reporting that the first Iranian shipment of Shahed drones were en route to Russia’s military. Numerous widely circulating social media videos out of Ukraine strongly suggest that some unknown number of Shaheds have indeed been deployed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-sending-more-missiles-drones-russia-despite-wests-sanctions-threat
Earlier, the fact that Moscow and Tehran discussed the supply of a batch of short-range ballistic missiles Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar, capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 300 and 700 kilometers, respectively, was reported by journalists from The Washington Post (WP).
Knyaz Oleg’ can hit Washington DC from Pacific.
Russian Nuclear Submarine ‘Knyaz Oleg’ fires Bulava Missile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcdRL5TbEI
Bulava Submarine-Launched Intercontinental Ballistic Missilehttp://www.military-today.com › Missiles
The Bulava has a declared range of 9 500 km. As most modern ICBMs this missile can carry more than one nuclear warhead. Each warhead will strike different …
Missile length: 12.1 m
Range (full load): 9 500 km
Missile diameter: 2 m
Range (reduced load): 4 000 km
Distance from Washington, D.C. to California is 3,704 kilometers.
Please send at least two of these sub launched ICBMs to Australia; one to Pine Gap, the other to Parliament House (The House of Liars and Traitors), Canberra.
Can anyone here confirm or disprove the alleged recent murder by Russian soldiers of Ukrainian orchestra conductor, Yuriy Kerpatenko, reportedly for refusing to conduct a “Russia unity” concert in Kherson? The sole source of this story seems to be the Ukraine culture ministry, as reported last week by Ukrainian journalist, Olena Vanina. According to Vanina, Kerpatenko was shot and killed in his home at an unknown date. All reports I’ve seen just pick up the same info. No comments or confirmation from friends, family, associates. No information attributed to local police or authorities. What’s the real story?
Could anything be more absurd? Shot in his home kind of indicates suicide to me. Perhaps he refused to play ‘Ride of the Valkyrie’ for Ze. Speaking of which, have you seen the video of Hitler receiving the news of Truss’s soon to come departure date?
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/10/hitler-is-informed-about-liz-trusss.html
He defected to Russia makes a bit more sense. Listed as MIA means his family will not be targeted. Ukie like to torture old men and women….hell Ukies like torture anyone in general because even with Viagra, they are still not up for the challenge….btw largest consumers of ED enhancing Rx’s worldwide is the US Armed Forces. They even developed a sublingual one for instant hardons because sitting around waiting for a reaction after thirty minutes was to long, very depressing er, deflating, when your equipment doesn’t work.
Cheers M
Hans Ungretel sent this letter to the editor: “Russian troops are being issued Viagra so they can rape Ukrainian women. Americans are so stupid, the media there is able to post crap like that. Someone will believe it.”
No Hans, Americans will only be disgruntled to learn that Russian troops didn’t need Viagra like western troops would!
Leave the capitol! Exit the Roman shell!
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/10/leave-capitol-exit-this-roman-shell.html
Just had to share this one. What’s possibly the funniest, or stupidest article I’ve read yet on the Ukraine crisis. US media is claiming that because of the N1&2 pipelines sabotage, Russia is trying to “starve” EU of desperately needed fuel for the coming cold season. LoL
Also, US inflation “hovering near 40 year high” …
https://www.rt.com/news/564940-yahoo-claims-russian-election-interferenec/
… but day before, msm claims US dollar is at a 22 year high and overshadowing many foreign currencies.
https://www.rt.com/business/564685-strong-us-dollar-headache/
Obviously, someone is “high” at the msm boiler room. With pure satire and comedy wafting like drug addled pipe dreams.
This is not a friendly site but it makes the point that short-range missiles are a welcome advantage. I am assuming that advantage includes the supply of a batch of Iranian short-range ballistic missiles Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar, capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 300 and 700 kilometers, respectively, as was reported by journalists from The Washington Post (WP). So perhaps some credibility to the Iranian missile exchange with Russia as posted above.
“Russian military positions in these areas allow Russian forces to bring artillery, drone, and missile fire against much of the Ukrainian Black Sea coast from many short-range systems without having to use expensive longer-range capabilities that will always be in shorter supply,” according to ISW. “Ukraine’s hold on its entire western Black Sea coast will remain tenuous as long as Russia holds territory in southwestern Kherson much further north than the 2014 lines.”
This is an enemy site but great maps and facts to weed out-just root for the opposite. Really use link as it gives the importance of different positions.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-why-retaking-kherson-city-is-so-critical
Even in the west, many there consider “The Washington Post” to be just another rag. A washed-out propaganda exporter of extraordinary nonsense, from unqualified staff. If you posted a link to it, no one would read it. As there is plenty or real information here at The Saker, from highly qualified people.
Think of Kherson as an abyss.’ Or a top-secret Russian missile testing range. And posting misinformation here is pointless.
The article I referred to as ‘posted above’ was from Zerohedge and I have seen Saker use maps from the Drive. WaPo okay at times but in this case backed up by highly regared analysts.
If misery loves company and you want to find some, then all one has to do in America is get in the car, hit the hwy, and drive to the nearest city to find plenty of company.
It appears that after all the subway and bus riders left the mass transit system, they all hit the road and now find themselves along with the many others spending 2 or 3 times the amount of time it used to take to get to work, or where ever during their busy day.
And this adds up to heartache for some, as its tough when you have no choice but to break down and cry with a dead stop on the hwy, almost everyday.
Money drives the policy. Top 100 defense companies. The top five are in the US.
https://people.defensenews.com/top-100/
A quick website search yields:
Lockheed Martin. Institutional investors own 69.4% State Street Corp 15.1% Vanguard 7.9% BlackRock 6.2%
Raytheon. 79.4% Institutional investors. State Street 8.8% Vanguard 8.3% Blackrock 6.7%
Boeing. 62% Institutional investors 62% Vanguard 7.4% BlackRock 5.9% Newport Trust 5.8%
Northrup Grumman 83.9% Institutional investors. State Street 9.2% Capital Research 7.9% Vanguard 7.4%
General Dynamics 85.8% Institutional investors. Longview Asset Mgt. 10.9% Vanguard 7.6% Newport Trust 6.1%
Thales Group in France. Govt of France owns 25.7%
Leonardo in Italy. Govt of Italy owns 30.2%
Different sites have a little different info but that’s a whole lot of incentive to keep fighting a war. See the ownership pattern here? How many career congressmen and/or spouse, family members own stock with knowledge obtained from Govt policy? BlackRock is even policy advisor to the Federal Reserve.
They were no longer making profits off Afghanistan, so they needed a new opponent.
Ukraine was made for this type of conflict. Just another pawn in their so called global terrorism war, except this time the US gets to call someone else the terrorist. A first. Hmm.
Assange in 2011 On Prolonged, Normalized Wars:
“The goal is to use Afghanistan* to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe, through Afghanistan, and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war”
… but its also psychological to entrain the next generation to accept war:
[In the West], “People will reach maturity and adulthood, under the understanding that there is always a war, and at that point, war will not be something that is unusual or surprising, or horrifying. War will become the new normal.”
… and is used to curtail personal freedoms:
“The negative trajectory is a transnational surveillance state, drone-riddled, the networked Neo-feudalism of the transnational elite … how can a normal person be free within that system?”
Cunning, huh?
* substitute “Afghanistan” for whichever is the most recent targeted nation
I hadn’t heard or read that. So aptly put.
In the same context, look how many institutions want you to use qr codes to download apps to make things easier for you. I.e. banking apps, medical health apps to help you to remember to take meds, Amazon return qr codes, etc.
All to get you hooked on convenience that results in ever more surveillance. Just like desensitization of war acceptance.
All Wars are Bankers Wars b/c they loan monies to both sides at interest (usury).
War is a Racket – 5 short chapters. by Smedley Butler who foiled Prescott Bush’s attempted fascist regime change of FDR’s government in the 1930s
Full Text: (enlarge your screen)
https://archive.org/stream/WarIsARacket/WarIsARacket_djvu.txt
Read that in 2020 after reading some Noam Chomsky books. I was ignorant back then, and still learning. Definitely on the know with Ukraine. Soros paid for first govt employees from his Open Society organization, used his money in media to get first president into office to promote the ideas of the west. Bunch of vultures. Twas great article I came across in the New Yorker, Jan 23, 1995. “The World According to George Soros.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/the-world-according-to-soros
Yes, Prescott Bush brought up under review in congress because his bank (or association) supported Germany. Of course never went anywhere. And lo and behold his son and grandson end up as presidents. Makes you wonder, who got rich on those wars? Shame on Bush Jr stating at a gala, what, maybe that powders under the table? (Something like that).
Important if you have pension funds / life savings invested:
I posted about this in a previous cafe with links to graphs, but this article sums up the financial tsunami about to engulf the western world aka Zone A:
Thanks to the Fed’s excesses of 2008, the world is bound for another economic disaster
• Instead of fixing the imbalances of the global economy, the Fed flooded the system with liquidity and kept interest rates low, sparking a speculative frenzy that has lasted to this day
• By buying government bonds to shore up pension funds, the Bank of England has shown the world how a looming crisis could play out”
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3196227/thanks-feds-excesses-2008-world-bound-another-economic-disaster?utm_source=rss_feed
Here are a couple of great roundtables about the struggle in Ukraine from Russians and Western ex-pats in Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYyFDKXK9M&ab_channel=TheRoundtable%E2%80%94GonzaloLira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBbf3dxkLNU&ab_channel=JohnMarkDougan
I found something too, key events since the start of the operation.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/19/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-238
“Signs of the Times”
a soft pace to little bridge
stop to look down at the fish
cattle and alfalfa on the ridge
over flowing creek; make a wish
A Harley’s deep throaty pitch
memories of bygone bliss..
A curious autobiographical book
Ze’s prehumous epitaph hook
“16 most powerful war speeches”
at $16, the wallet barely breaches.
8+8=16 ; a double twist ouroboros
88 mph Delorean to Trump Warp Speed
what a mighty demon son of Cronos
inhabits high-heeled dancer gnomos
Phew! We survived Oct 19, a nine-eleven
Mind to drop “0” in Orders of the Raven
Next one Jan 19, Day of the Unforgiven
Perhaps many then already in Heaven
Alexander all wrapped up
big black hooded sweater
fine floating pale faced cup
a kind candle in the Dark murk
Stressed N Cold, again the flu struck
Flipping spicy Kharkov hotcakes
like changing YouTube channel makes
of ever more squirming aging rakes
How long the coffee takes?
♧ —————— ♧
“Timed, just right”
It is being timed so finely
afore fickle French ignite
eke out to midterms unkindly
maintain mirage of lost might
on Global Stage Oh so lonely!
hold Demmkracy & Freum bright
without crushing lemmings too plainly
not good for Optics so meanly
will burst PR bubbles so vainly
topple from heights so ungainly
down to the jungles beastly
from unsullied gardens cleanly
How far can Ruskie be pushed?
without getting simply crushed
like the bug the windshield crashed?
Need nuke attack splashed
over world headlines hashed
residual “Deterrence” flashed
of Unhinged willing to thrash
to keep some mojo uncashed
Losers with a last bloodbath
bearing the very gods’ Wrath
Despair in their grip hath
ZZzzzzzzzz……………
One wondered, “lot of talk about [Deagle] depopulation by 2025, no one says how this is to be done and the timer looks suspiciously late.”
Da Orangeman’s toilet paper offers clues.. as you like to say, “success” is baked in, through a combo of nukular, biologic, severed food supply, “denergization,” open borders, flushing of Lake Mead into Pacific, etc…
As I’ve said many times before, its easier said than done.
I can see a delaborization, (from quality of life), but not a depopulation.
We can revisit this in a few years, if your still around.
Alabama is right. If the goal is to reduce population, it will not work. It cannot work. Why? If Covid was meant to reduce the population, it failed on a long term. Last night CNN reported that in USA birthrate went up in last two years, by 6.8%, for reason of working from home or simply being at home. Don’t get me wrong, Covid was terrible thing and cruel idea, but at the end it backfired at the empire.
They believe by making us all poor we will die off. Wrong. Poor people have more kids, the poorer the people the more the kids. Reason: many of those kids will not survive, so the more the merrier – at least some will survive. Raising kids is not a simple task, it is hard. When people live in comfort, they tend to have less kids, since they believe the 1 or 2 have a good chance making it to adulthood – parents’ resources are focused on 1-2 kids. WEF cannot beat urge to procreate. Nothing short of meteor hit or some global disaster will reduce number of people. So, they, WF and UKSA loose. As simple as that. People will somehow screw theit way out of poverty (pun intended).
:-)
Thanks for tip Maestro.
Chained Moby Dick — still hungers:
krill, verse, and freeing
“Implosion”
Rock falls askew, shows horrors
gaping teeming hellhole rank
vermin in fright, give no quarter
scurry over others, some sank
collective judgement of fleas
salacious stuff — Ship of State sunk!
Verkh. Rada-like — the sleaze!
our minds and psyches the poorer
see signs of sad social sickness
ruin of Brit nazi admirer
♧ —————— ♧
“To attain the last mile: Secure, Simplify, & Stupefy”
O Zidar and Alabama!
Your judgement be fulfilled!
We will know more next summer
post-winter stats of the killed
and true covid toll still rumour
hidden by lying CNN — hearts stilled
keep complacent, lower the clamor
not fight Purge by Beast skilled
Full effects seen ~ three years later***
most crime toll yet unfulfilled..
I affirm delights of lockdowns!
We added two to our litter!
Like Swedes unfazed by lockdowns.
No Twitter / Netflix, now fitter.
*** = A consensus is full vax effects seen 1.5 – 3 years after administration.. assuming most dosed by Spring 2021, this window for full effects is from Autumn 2022 (now) through Spring 2024. Imagine augmented by Cold, Dark & Hunger in addition to joblessness, house/rental evictions for millions, nuclear war fever stress.. Even without martial law instituting mandatory continuing shots every 1-3 months for privilege of food. And MSM lying entire time the culling is in process to cover the scale of crime in motion..
so it is quite arguable we ain’t seen anything yet. Note hot phase of WW3 (= end of the Grid), fully cut supply chain, hyperinflation and other horrors are coordinated to fall precisely in this covid window. So it is too early for complacency compañeros! Let’s buckle up and pray
Ah. But you underestimate the damage vaccines can do. All cause mortality for 2021, up all over the world over 2020. Removed. Mod. Insurance company claims up 40% to 168% over 2020. Documented fact.
And what is NATOs response, if not depopulation, because from what I’m reading people will die without heat and food. Russia supplies fertilizer to the world as a by product of oil production. Next years crop will be greatly reduced. These seed and fertilizer companies know this. Bayer, Cargill, Dupont. Only 5 mega companies control the world’s seed stock through their smaller holdings.
Pepsi raised their prices on pop and snacks 17% so they can retain their net profit per share. Food boxes are getting smaller at the same price. My food bill up 30% for basic stuff for 4 of us since early 2021. Don’t expect it to come down for a few years.
Venezuela, right behind you. And they didn’t deserve that either as they have the world’s largest untapped oil reserves.
“Numerology, revisited”
Lizzie flushed in forty four days
Obomber 44th, narcissist dronificator
Second Brit scalp in ’22 = 44
44 x 2nd Ze curse in UK gives 88
88 mph Delorean = Trump Warp Speed
88 the usual double twist ouroboros
77 was BoJo’s code, 88 for Least Trusst
On this October 20: Kamela Lotus’s birthday,
Ghadaffi’s lynching & 1st Crusade arrival in Antioch
➡️ let’s wait a few days. This was scripted.. Lemmings being gaslit & entertained.. Gematria sleuths should report to us soon.
♧ —————— ♧
“Movement.. AKA Suicide in Motion”
Where do all the mute Bombers go?
Whose transponders go dark on boards?
What is it everybody knows?
Drawn swords — Crete to Norway’s fjords;
Quebec to the Carpathian snows
the Pit vomited these hordes.
Why the big bicoastal troop shifts?
Hostiles “foreign or domestic?”
De Lepre’s fav jockey Monkey Werx
sends his Lord account of good works
ZZzzzzzzzz……………
Hi Cindy, yes I know about All Cause M.. we discussed this over the last ten months. I agree what has occurred to date is not trivial at all. And biggest effect may be decreased fertility as reflected in decreased live births, reported by so many countries. However, relative to what likely comes starting this winter, it is a drop in the ocean.
The human immune system is incredibly blessed, powerful and resilient. For it to be degraded requires a steady series of “hits” over time, each significant in themselves, such as malnutrition, disease, poisoning, isolation (torture), hypothermia, fear and stress from war/lack of employment/loss of home, etc etc. The criminals are stacking the deck to ensure achievement of their aims.
That is what I meant. What we’ve seen so far has been preliminary. It ensnared the already weakened or highly susceptible or unlucky recipients of particularly noxious batches. Hell is reserved for transnational elites, Technocrats, all their other minions and Principalities behind them all.
How are those sanctions in the CHIPS Act playing out for you Biden? :-) :-)
“China’s first photonic chips production line opens next year 2023, the world’s first, offering higher speeds at lower power: 1,000 times electronic chips. From 2015 – 2021, the domestic photonic chip market expanded from $800 million to $2.08 billion, a 15% CAGR. Making photonic chips is not as demanding as electronic chips, as photonic chips don’t require extremely high-end lithography machines like EUV, and can be produced using raw materials and equipment that are already mature in China.”
China’s first photonic chip production line to be ready in 2023
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202210/1277405.shtml
via Godfree Roberts
Guess we’ll be competing against them. They certainly would seem to be years ahead of us though. Look at their optic and tracking systems they use on a continent wide basis. As far as I know we are not there yet with that capability.
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/light-based-computer-chips-replacing-electrons-with-photons/
And to think we are wasting money on an old chip technology infrastructure new start up per Biden’s bill. Or are we?
German press release: “The Federal President cancels his visit [to Kiev] scheduled for 20 October. The decision is related to security issues.” Berlin fears Steinmeier train getting stranded due to power cuts caused by Russian strikes on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.
However, according to second intriguing narrative, Germans fear Kiev regime might finally get at Steinmeier [who scripted the Minsk Accords as FM] by staging some outrageous false flag operation to pin blame on Russia for dastardly act, so as to drag NATO into the cauldron.
– via MKB
Here’s what it sounds like when an Iranian Shahed drone is coming in. Video sent by a western volunteer in Mykolaiv, taken about 20 minutes ago.
“They burn more than they explode. That’s why they use them to target infrastructure,” he tells me.
Listening to these raining down could unnerve me.-Loadstar
https://twitter.com/PaulSzoldra/status/1582863719905734657
BREAKING: A missile was released from a Russian aircraft by mistake near an unarmed RAF plane on a routine patrol over the Black Sea, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says.
https://news.sky.com/story/russian-jet-released-missile-near-raf-aircraft-during-patrol-over-black-sea-12725414
NOTE: Could be nothing more than ‘Operation Distraction’ from the UK PM’s Liz Truss tannking of the UK economy
… and UK Guardian reports that Liz Truss will make a special statement in 15 minutes…It look’s it’s over. (1:55pm UTC)
SHE IS OUT !!!
dimwit 3 braincells programmed with kill the russians Wallace days UK intel plane will be accompanied by Typhoon fighters.
So ..will Hunt allow defence budget to increase to 3% from two as he and Truss promised?????? And permit her instant promise on election to fund another 2.3 billion as Bojo did???? When the nurses wage rise would cost 1.3 billion?????
Liz Truss resigns Prime minister forced to quit after just 44 days in office
https://www.ft.com/content/ae9dc267-06ba-4388-b8ff-0061be227c3c
800-1000 more tanks for Russia
Because of the introduction of a tank reserve into battle by the Russian command, as well as thanks to ambush actions, the enemy suffered a significant defeat.
The tank reserve consists of 800-1000 of the Soviet T-62 tanks being restored and repaired. According to available information, nearly 22,700 units have been produced by this model tank. Wish we had them all.
Noirth Korea has added tech updates and although called ‘obsolete’ by Bulgaria the T-62 because of design can function better in certain terrain than more modern models. I would hardly call them obsolete, rather a gift from the Soviets.
“They deployed up to three battalions, including one tank battalion, on a narrow section of the front. Under the settlement of Sukhanovo, Kherson region, the enemy managed to penetrate the defense of Russian units, however, due to the introduction of a tank reserve into battle by the Russian command, as well as thanks to ambush actions, the enemy suffered a significant defeat.
As a result, Ukrainian units fled in disorder. The situation on the front line of defense has been restored, according to the Telegram channel of the Russian Defense Ministry.”
https://vz.ru/news/2022/10/20/1182989.html
https://news.rambler.ru/army/49329462-v-voennoy-spetsoperatsii-stali-ispolzovat-tanki-t-62/
800 Soviet T-62 tanks from the 60s enter UralVagonZavod for repair
By Boyko Nikolov On Oct 13, 2022
MOSCOW ($1=64.02 Russian Rubles) — Russia intends to restore and repair old Soviet T-62 tanks. This is what Tpyxa.net claims, also saying that the main battle tank repair quantity is 800 units. Tpyxa.net says that these tanks will be supplied to the Russian armed forces in Ukraine.
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/10/13/800-soviet-t-62-tanks-from-the-60s-enter-uralvagonzavod-for-repair/
Such is the evidence of what mundane-astrology discerns about the present three weeks: the defensive strength of the constelleation Venus (defence)plus Sun (center).
Next week Mercury, adding Mars via Twins, will add to the defensive the offensive aspect.
Still the Mars-Neptune water+ charge -constellation further centers the attention on the
Kachva-reservoir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakhovka_Reservoir
Discussing the possibilities of the 42. week:
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2022/10/high-trained-psychomonsters-going-to.html
Iran on the ground in Crimea-allegedly. This will be confirmed and denied for the next three centuries. We just don’t know. Put your stars to work on that one and thank you for the response.
Iranian troops in Crimea backing Russian drone strikes
By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER
40 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Thursday that Iranian troops are “directly engaged on the ground” in Crimea supporting Russian drone attacks on Ukraine’s power stations and other key infrastructure, troubling evidence of Tehran’s deepening role assisting Russia as it exacts suffering on Ukrainian civilians just as the cold weather sets in.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Iran has sent a “relatively small number” of personnel to Crimea, a part of Ukraine unilaterally annexed by Russia in contravention of international law in 2014, to assist Russian troops in launching Iranian-made drones against Ukraine. Members of a branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps were dispatched to assist Russian forces in using the drones, according to the British government.
The revelation of the U.S. intelligence finding comes as the Biden administration seeks to mount international pressure on Tehran to pull back from helping Russia as it bombards soft Ukrainian civilian targets with the help of Iranian-made drones.
The Russians in recent days have increasingly turned to the Iranian-supplied drones, as well as Kalibr and Iskander cruise missiles, to carry out a barrage of attacks against Ukrainian infrastructure and non-military targets. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week that Russian forces have destroyed 30% of Ukraine’s power stations since Oct. 10.
“The information we have is that the Iranians have put trainers and tech support in Crimea, but it’s the Russians who are doing the piloting,” Kirby said.
He added that the Biden administration was looking at imposing new sanctions on Tehran and would look for ways to make it harder for Iran to sell such weapons to Russia.
The U.S. first revealed this summer that Russia was purchasing Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles to launch against Ukraine. Iran has denied selling its munitions to Russia.
White House officials say that international sanctions, including export controls, have left the Russians in a bind as they try to restock ammunition and precision-guided munition stocks that have been depleted during the nearly eight-month-old war. As a result, Russia has been forced to turn to Iran as well as North Korea for weaponry.
Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, told reporters that military officials “wouldn’t be surprised” if the Russians sought more drones from Iran “given their situation.”
Zelenskyy said last week that Russia had ordered 2,400 from Iran.
U.S. officials believe that Iran may have deployed military personnel to assist the Russians in part because of the Russians’ lack of familiarity with the Iranian-made drones. Declassified U.S. intelligence findings showed that Russians faced technical problems with the drones soon after taking delivery of them in August.
“The systems themselves were suffering failures and not performing to the standards that apparently the customers expected,” Kirby said. “So the Iranians decided to move in some trainers and some technical support to help the Russians use them with better lethality.”
The Biden administration released further details about Iran’s involvement in assisting Russia’s war at a sensitive moment. The administration has levied new sanctions against Iran over the brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests spurred by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in Iranian security custody.
Morality police had detained Amini last month for not properly covering her hair with the Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab, which is mandatory for Iranian women. Amini collapsed at a police station and died three days later.
Her death and the subsequent unrest have come as the administration tries to bring Iran back into compliance with the nuclear deal that was brokered by the Obama administration and scrapped by the Trump administration.
At the United Nations this week, Ukraine accused Iran of violating a Security Council ban on the transfer of drones capable of flying 300 kilometers (180 miles). Britain, France and the U.S. strongly back Ukraine’s contention that the drones were transferred to Russia and violate a 2015 U.N. Security Council resolution that endorsed the nuclear deal between Iran and six nations — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear activities and preventing the country from developing a nuclear weapon.
Kirby said the administration has little hope for reviving the Iran nuclear deal soon.
“We’re not focused on the on the diplomacy at this point,” Kirby said. “What we are focused on is making sure that we’re holding the regime accountable for the way they’re treating peaceful protesters in their country and supporting those protesters.”
The White House spoke out about Iranian assistance to Russia as Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions on Iranian officials and businesses accused of supplying the drones.
“These cowardly drone strikes are an act of desperation,” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said in a statement. “By enabling these strikes, these individuals and a manufacturer have caused the people of Ukraine untold suffering. We will ensure that they are held to account for their actions.”
Among the individuals hit with asset freezes and travel bans by the British were Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, chairman of the armed forces general staff overseeing the army branches supplying Russia with drones; Brig. Gen. Seyed Hojjatollah Qureishi, a key Iranian negotiator in the deal; and Brig. Gen. Saeed Aghajani, the head the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Aerospace Force UAV Command.
Shahed Aviation Industries, the Iranian manufacturer of the drones being used by Russia, was also hit by an asset freeze.
https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-8b085070758120c31d421f68a65e4b14
A new game show is about to drop,
go on over to the store and shop,
the price of life is on sale,
weather male or female.
Italy’s Meloni may turn out to have an even shorter shelf-life than Truss.
Berlusconi has the experience to keep her coalition in office. Meloni’s Russophobia might be her undoing
https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-giorgia-meloni-slams-silvio-berlusconi-over-vladimir-putin-remarks-war-ukraine/
Love Medvedev – trolling Truss & the UK!
“Bye, bye @trussliz, congrats to lettuce” – Dmitry Medvedev
And Musk praises Medvedev as a great troll!! Gets invited to Moscow for Victory Day.
The DoJ wants to investigate Musk as a national security risk.
Will the UK ban lettuce?
Funny if Ursula von der Lyin’ was next to go! Corruption has never been so in-your-face as it is today:
“Ursula is married to the German doctor Heiko von der Leyen… who is director of Orgenesis, which is owned by Pfizer… the same company that Ursula signed a €71billion contract with to buy an astronomical 4.6 billion doses (10 per citizen)”
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1583065527483715584
The only same, rational leader in Europe atm,
“Brussels’ latest plan on EU gas price cap is equal to a total gas embargo for Hungary. Committing economic suicide will not help Ukraine. I expect a huge debate at the upcoming #EUCO.” – Viktor Orban
Now lets see if Berlusconi can tip the scales:
Washington gets nervous as influential fmr Italian PM departs from the EU’s obedient war line. “Silvio Berlusconi … linchpin of the incoming right-wing government, blames Ukraine’s president for pushing President Vladimir V. Putin to invade” – NYTimes
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfiiP11X0AQwv4e?format=jpg&name=900×900
As rational human beings, we don’t start dealing with a problem until we give that problem its correct name.
The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda is a classic on state terrorism from the late Edward S Herman in 1982 who says in each country a “web of myths evolves” which prevents people from “calling everything by its right name”
Downloadable book here: https://counter-hegemonic-studies.site/terror-herman-82/
I’ve posted this before in the Newsfeed, I think?
Compulsory viewing: After the collapse of the USSR, the US was at its safest in its history with no known adversaries/near-peer rivals (not that the USSR was ever a *real threat), so its intriguing why the US military operations: regime change/invasions/occupations spiked after its Unipolar moment in World History (which some geo-economists have suggested only lasted 17 years, to the 2008 GFC)
The Sugar High of Unipolarity: Why U.S. Military Interventions Increased after the Cold War (59:44) https://youtu.be/HXGQGw7MuNE
The Three Piggies in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c-fP4djJbM
The Problem explained in 2 minutes.
Now if only the kindergarten in D.C. , London, Berlin realized this is not a joke!
Teacher’s in Russia are voluntarily mobilizing.
Strong and touching footage from Saratov: a college teacher goes to the front, he is seen off by his colleagues and students –
https://cont.ws/@SonOfCont/2403585
In Saratov, a teacher of life safety and physical education from secondary school No. 66, Ilya Chirichkin, voluntarily mobilized. As Chirichkin explained, he personally came to the draft board and took the summons.
“At one time, our grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought for our bright and worthy future. I think we should do it now. Now it’s time to move from words to deeds. And in this difficult time, I must be there. You must know that I will always remember you. I promise I’ll try my best to be back in time for prom and put graduation ribbons on you. Today you have given me so much strength and confidence that I simply have no right not to return,” the teacher noted.
Moon of alabama is down in Norway🙄
Ekaterina Shelehova – Beyond the Quiet River (Studio Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awo-gkgTYXM
I hope you enoy the 3 minutes of bliss 🥰
Thank you PerNorway, for the beautiful song.
From the comments –
“The first time I heard this song I cried, and then listened to it another 500 times. So I hope you enjoy my rendition of it!”
Ekaterina Shelehova performs За Тихой Рекою (Beyond The Quiet River), originally written by Sergey Trofimov.
Lyrics (In English)
Beyond The Quiet River :
Beyond the quiet river, in a birch grove
The first spring flower will blossom.
And I’ll make a simpler wish
And crossing myself look at the East.
The sky will turn a crimson dawn,
And the eternal sun will rise over the world.
And a white bird will soar above the ground,
And bring God’s forgiveness from the heaven.
And something more will be opened to my heart,
Such that it couldn’t be comprehended in my life.
And it’ll be calm and delightful as in childhood,
When my mother was embracing me.
The holy prayer will be shed by tears,
Christ’s love will overfill all sadness,
And at that instant a soul will touch
The great universe named Russia.
Eurasian integration continues apace …
Turkey has asked Russia to build a 2nd new, 4-reactor nuclear plant in Sinop
(RF is already building Turkey’s 1st nuclear plant at Akkuyu, in southern Turkey)
President Erdogan made the request while visiting President Putin last week in Kazakhstan – Bloomberg
#Winning! More on chips (not fries, LOL!)
A good review of US actions on semiconductors towards China and their likely consequence:
“Washington has brought a knife to a gunfight […] China will dig in for an economic war of attrition that it may well win.”
https://compactmag.com/article/fighting-a-chip-war-on-the-cheap
The money the US now forbids China to spend abroad will be used to build its own domestic semiconductors industry
$400 billion a year that used to be spent (in large part) to buy chips from the US will now be spent in China to improve their domestic chips manufacturing capabilities, thanks to the CHIPS Act that essentially forbids selling to China.
And US chips firm have just lost their biggest customer by far (who’ll become their fiercest competitor). So far, some of the biggest losers of US efforts to fight China on semiconductors are Intel & Nvidia, the industry’s flagship US firms: minus34.6% & minus37.7% since the CHIPS Act in AUG. compared with minus23.8% for the benchmark semiconductor index.