[Oleg Atbashian] This is a brilliant study, profusely illustrated with cartoons and propaganda posters. Atbashian explains why Socialism cannot work. He exposes the injustice of "Collective Greed" and shows why Economic Equality is a fraud. The book is an eye-opener as the author illustrates his points with examples drawn from his life in the Soviet Union before 1994 and more recent events in the USA.
"Oleg Atbashian has written a timely warning for Americans about the collectivists among us and their plans for the future. I hope everyone reads this book."
-- David Horowitz, Author of One Party Classroom (2009)
"In his brilliant, witty, and wonderfully illustrated Shakedown Socialism, Oleg Atbashian -- who grew up in the Soviet Union, shows what is happening in Obama's America today, and explains why it is putting us on the road to ruin. Shakedown Socialism is an enlightening, sobering, and wonderfully clear explanation of why statism kills -- and thus also of why and how Barack Obama is killing the American economy. This book shows why Obama's statist economic policies are a looming disaster for America and for the spirit of the free human individual."
-- Pamela Geller, author, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War On America
"Brightly written and filled with entertaining and illuminating illustrations, Oleg Atbashian's Shakedown Socialism is a clear and eye-opening guide to exactly what is wrong with socialism and state control of the means of production, and how it kills both the economy and human initiative. Shakedown Socialism is an essential and inspiring guide to the virtues of the free market."
About the author:
Oleg Atbashian is an American writer and graphic artist. He was born in June, 1960, in Cherkassy, Ukraine, which was then part of the totalitarian Soviet Union. His writings present a view of America and the world through the prism of his Soviet experience. He is the author of Shakedown Socialism and the creator of a satirical website, ThePeoplesCube.com, which Rush Limbaugh described on his show as "a Stalinist version of The Onion." His essays and satires have been translated into many languages and his graphics reproduced in various publications around the world.
Raised in a communist dictatorship, he grew up believing in Marxism and in the communist future. From 1983 to 1986 he worked as a propaganda artist, creating visual agitprop for the local Party committee in a Siberian town. Observing the hypocrisy and corruption of the socialist system, however, he gradually reexamined his Marxist upbringing. Having returned to Ukraine in 1986, he joined the opposition movement, lending his apartment to dissident gatherings and collecting signatures in defense of Soviet dissidents.
His first Russian-language short stories were published in Moscow in 1990. Around the same time his translations of contemporary Russian, Ukrainian, and American poetry were published in the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine. He also wrote articles in Russian and Ukrainian for several newspapers. He now writes exclusively in English.
Atbashian emigrated to the United States in 1994 and settled in New York City, hoping to forget about politics and raise his three children in a country governed by reason and the rule of law. Working across the street from the World Trade Center, he witnessed the 9/11 attacks from a block away. That shocking experience was soon followed by his disenchantment with the American cultural establishment that almost uniformly blamed America for the attacks and used painfully familiar Marxist concepts of "anti-colonialism" and "class struggle." That prompted him to start speaking against the leftist ideology that permeated the American political scene.
Atbashian describes his political views as classical liberalism, with the emphasis on individual freedoms, free market capitalism, and international peace based on free trade.
In 2011 he moved from New York to Florida, where he now resides in the Tampa Bay area.
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He exposes the injustice of "Collective Greed" and shows why Economic Equality is a fraud.
Socialism sells an unattainable utopia. They demand total power. Our Founders realized man is inherently a corruptible creature. They proscribed limits on power. There is no guess on who had a better grasp of how the world really works.
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^ Cancer cells grow uncontrollably, hoard resources, spread throughout the body and hide from the immune system. Eventually they kill the host. Pretty good analogy!
[FoxNews] Three dedicated experts reveal keen insights to relieve sleep issues among those suffering from PTSD.
On Monday, June 27, PTSD Awareness Day — and on every day of the year, for that matter — it's important for all Americans to recognize that up to 30% of service members experience some sort of post-traumatic stress from their experiences during wartime or deployments or from other traumatic events, such as sexual and physical assault.
Dr. Yuval Neria, a Columbia University professor of medical psychology and PTSD expert, told Fox News Digital in an interview that PTSD sufferers often find difficulty falling asleep due to anxiety, agitation and hyper-vigilance.
They also may experience chronic nightmares.
"Nightmares are really a common symptom of PTSD," said Neria. "People are terrified by their nightmares and always very ambivalent about whether to fall asleep or not because they know that they may meet their demons," he also said.
RAND Corporation senior behavioral scientist and sleep expert Dr. Wendy Troxel agreed that nightmares, along with feeling "chronically vigilant" and experiencing flashbacks, are among the hallmark symptoms of PTSD.
"There’s even some evidence that sleep disturbances can predict the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder," she said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Troxel led a 2015 RAND Corporation study that found that only 37% of veterans achieve adequate sleep — while more than half reported some sort of sleep disturbance.
Jen Satterly, a St. Louis-based certified health coach and respected authority on PTSD, has worked closely with combat veterans and others who have dealt with PTSD issues.
"Sleep — and a lack of thereof — is such a huge issue in this community, and it really affects everything," she told Fox News Digital in an interview this past weekend. "Unfortunately, for our special operators, they work in reverse cycle — so they've trained their whole lives to work at night."
Satterly worked alongside many special ops combat forces in the field and today helps veteran couples and others address their PTSD issues head-on, along with her husband, Tom Satterly, a highly decorated combat veteran whose story was portrayed in the Oscar-winning 2001 film "Black Hawk Down," about the 1993 battle in Somalia.
For veterans and active duty service members who recognize they may have PTSD symptoms or who want to try to ward it off completely — and for their loved ones and other family members going through these issues right alongside them — here are five expert tips on how to get better sleep.
1. Establish a routine to promote sleepiness
The best way to get into the groove of consistent sleep is to maintain a regular sleep-wake schedule.
"Our bodies and our brains simply work better when we have predictable, reliable routines," said Wendy Troxel. "And the best place to start with that is having a regular wake-up routine."
Troxel advised beginning by waking up at the same time every day followed by immediate exposure to sunlight.
"That's a very powerful cue to set our internal biological clocks, otherwise known as our circadian rhythms."
Neria, an Israeli military veteran, said people should avoid taking naps during the day in order to promote sleepiness at night.
The psychologist also mentioned the importance of daily exercise, since physical activity will exert energy as well as improve mental health.
2. Avoid alcohol, especially at night
Imbibing a few alcoholic beverages at night may make people feel sleepy at first — but alcohol is not a sleep aid.
"It is a sedative," Troxel said. "Sedation is not sleep."
Excessive alcohol, which the body must process during the night, will actually cause fragmented sleep — which disturbs REM sleep.
REM, or rapid eye movement, is the part of sleep most associated with emotional processing, learning and memory consolidation.
"So, by disrupting and fragmenting sleep, particularly REM sleep, this can further disrupt one's ability to emotionally regulate, which can exacerbate any other mental health symptoms," said Troxel.
Neria added that people with PTSD already have "great difficulty" achieving REM sleep due to disturbances such as nightmares.
3. Get up for a bit if struggling to fall asleep
For those who are tossing and turning and waiting for sleep to kick in, getting out of bed for a short time may help.
"Go to a chair in the room or go to a separate room and do something that's relaxing but distracting," Troxel said. That way, "you can actually get your body and your brain sleepy again so that you're able to fall back to sleep."
The key is to avoid stimulation from light or aggressive activity — so busying your brain with reading a book, listening to music or engaging in deep breathing could help, especially if a nightmare was the culprit in disrupting your sleep.
"Those types of self-soothing strategies can be really helpful, and you do that until you're ready to return to bed," said Troxel.
4. When to seek treatment
It might be time to seek medical treatment if sleep problems persist for more than three nights a week for longer than a month, noted Troxel.
"Better to nip it in the bud sooner rather than later, because the more chronic it becomes, the more debilitating it can become," she said.
5. Other suggestions
Consider taking natural supplements such as magnesium and melatonin, said Jen Satterly of All Secure Foundation; it's always wise to check with your doctor first. "Work on your gut health for better sleep as well," she said.
...over-the-counter prebiotics and probiotics, yoghurt, kimchi, sauerkraut, and other fermented foods and drinks improve the diversity of the gut flora
Don’t drink caffeine at least 8 to 10 hours before bed.
Also, consider reducing or removing energy drinks from your diet.
Use meditation or sleep-assist apps such as Calm to help relax into sleep, "without having the TV on," she said, "which can keep you awake in the long run."
Check with your doctor to see if you should have your hormone levels tested.
[PJ] With several controversial SCOTUS rulings addressing divisive issues like gun rights and abortion, an exchange between Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Dr. Debra Birx during a congressional hearing on Thursday escaped scrutiny. However, if a power-hungry politician, university, or employer compelled you or someone you love to receive an experimental vaccine in the last two years, it may make you furious. And Birx should be ashamed of herself for not speaking out earlier.
The House Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing with Birx Thursday morning. Jordan questioned Birx on the United States’ participation in and funding of the World Health Organization and gain of function research. Birx was candid that she felt the United States should withhold funding from the WHO until needed reforms occurred. She also admitted the U.S. should not participate in some gain-of-function research, such as any in China.
However, Jordan’s questions about the Biden administration’s message on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness should shock the conscience. Jordan asked Birx if the government was lying or guessing when it told the public that people who received the vaccination couldn’t get COVID. Birx responded that she did not know. However, she continued (emphasis added):
"All I know is there was evidence from the global pandemic that natural reinfection was occurring. Since the vaccine was based on natural immunity, you cannot make the conclusion that the vaccine will do better than natural infection. Although it can often do slightly better."
It is unclear what vaccine produces better immunity to an illness than recovering from a natural infection, nor did Birx expand. Why didn’t she speak up about this while still in office? Public health "experts" like Dr. Anthony Fauci actively tried to convince Americans that natural immunity was inferior to the jabs. It is also unclear what large numbers of reinfections Birx was referring to, since most positive post-infection tests were reported in asymptomatic people. One study in preprint finds that the spike protein, the part of the virus the tests detect, can be in a recovered patient’s body for up to 12 months post-infection. How this could affect post-recovery testing in asymptomatic patients is unknown.
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If Gheys were practicing monogamous sex, this and HIV and AIDS wouldn't spread. It's the Bathhouse promiscuous behavior patterns that spread diseases. Whoda thunk it, right, Barack?
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CDC Monkey Pox Comments
"Monkeypox is rare and does not spread easily between people without close contact. The threat of monkeypox to the general U.S. population remains LOW."
Surprise CA. NY, Ill & Fla. account for
64.79+/-% of all cases.
So if a person is part of the US overestimated 3.4+/-% that are Gay or Bi-Sexual or have a Bi-partner. Then you stand about 3 in 100 chance of getting it.
Compared to a heterosexuals (Straight), odds of 0.00005760233918128655 of 1% / 100 in the USA.
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So if a person is part of the US overestimated 3.4+/-% that are Gay or Bi-Sexual or have a Bi-partner. Then you stand about 3 in 100 chance of getting it.
Compared to a heterosexuals (Straight), odds of 0.00005760233918128655 of 1% / 100 in the USA.
That's what mathematicians, statisticians, g@mblers and finance geeks call "a pretty big spread."
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anyone ask Pence what he was doing for over a year leading the Covid response team yet never having a press conference despite the ever changing narrative and rules coming out of Fauci?
[ZERO] A new talk by Professor John J. Mearsheimer has recently been made public, wherein the famous author and political science theorist details the causes and consequences of the Ukraine war. Mearsheimer became more well-known, and "controversial" in establishment circles, after it emerged that he clearly predicted going back to 2014 the war which kicked off in Feb. 2022. Correct me if I'm wrong....again, but I believe wat he is saying (has been saying for many years) is 'stay the fok out of it.' Amiright ?
He had said in a 2014 University of Chicago lecture, "The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is Ukraine is going to get wrecked." This tragedy for the Ukrainian people is playing out now, with little hope that now totally defunct Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks will halt the fighting. Other than efforts of France's Macron, attempts at basic diplomacy and direct communications are all but dead.
As the lecture intro describes: Prof. Mearsheimer focused on both the origins of the war in Ukraine and some of its most important consequences. He argues that the crisis is largely the result of the West’s efforts to turn Ukraine into a Western bulwark on Russia’s border. Russian leaders viewed that outcome as an existential threat that had to be thwarted.
While Vladimir Putin is certainly responsible for invading Ukraine and for Russia’s conduct in the war, Prof. Mearsheimer states that he does not believe he is an expansionist bent on creating a greater Russia.
Regarding the war’s consequences, the greatest danger is that the war will go on for months if not years, and that either NATO will get directly involved in the fighting or nuclear weapons will be used — or both. Furthermore, enormous damage has already been inflicted on Ukraine. A prolonged war is likely to wreak even more devastation on Ukraine.
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Was Mearsheimer a lone voice in the forest, or were there others of a like mind ?
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There were SCORES of other top Russia experts, diplomats, scholars, CIA officials, military strategy experts who said the same thing going all the way back to Clinton's regime.
George Kennan in 1998; also around that time:
Edward Luttwak
Harvard Historian Richard Pipes
Ambassador Jack Matlock
Paul Nitze
Princeton Historian Stephen F. Cohen
Henry Kissinger
Current CIA Chief and then-Ambassador to Russia, Bill Burns, in his famous memo to Condi Rice in 2008
Senators Bill Bradley and Sam Nunn
Columbia Political Scientists Seweryn Bialer, Robert Jervis, Bob Legvold and Jack Snyder
German Foreign Policy expert Josef Joffe
Former CIA Russia Desk lead Ray McGovern
This was a train wreck that has been in motion for the vet a quarter century. So painfully obvious to every single American expert on Russia, and yet ignored by every one of the last five administrations.
1. Arrogance: "Because we can," as Bill Clinton loved to say. End of History! America triumphant!
2. Ignorance: foolish unawareness of Russian history, of Russian national pride, of Russian geography, of even the most basic economic facts of Russian production. See Obama's stupidity: "Russia makes nothing the world wants" -- try oil, gas, potash, titanium, neon, platinum, coal, nickel, and wheat, you ignorant little fool. Ignorance of Russian national strategy, and the simple fact that EVERY Russian elite -- as Bill Burns said, "from the knuckle-staggers in the deepest recesses of the Kremlin to the sharpest and most liberal Russians"-- that every Russian views NATO, correctly, as a hostile and threatening military power thatust not under any circumstances be allowed to expand into any part of Ukraine -- especially not Crimea.
And then there's the colossal ignorance of a generation of US politicians who grew up in an era that sneered at the achievements of "dead white males" -- like the greatest modern poet, the greatest modern novelist, the greatest modern playwright, the greatest modern composers and pianists, all of them Russian. Not to mention complete ignorance of Russian and European history, and the central, indispensable role that Russia has always played in Europe's security architecture for 200 years.
Clinton is an exception but he was too distracted and Russia too weak during his time for him to apply his intelligence to the problem. His expansion of NATO in 1998 sent the train rolling downhill toward today's train wreck.
3. Incompetence: see Bush's proclamation at the Bucharest Summit -- which resulted in Georgia's starting a foolish war that ended in disaster. See Obama's foolish provocations in the Maidan fiasco -- which unleashed violent Ukrainian ethnic-nationalism and fascism, triggering eight years of savage civil war and acreign of terror that killed over 13,000. See Trump's foolish decision to begin training these Ukrainian thugs in December 2017.
See Biden's unbelievable string of provocations in 2021 from March (encouraging Zelensky to seek NATO membership and claim Crimea) through July (the US-Ukrainian "See Breeeze" hostile and unbelievably provocative naval exercises off Crimea) and September and November's declarations.
4. Russophobia and reverse racism: the degree of stupidity, astonishing ignorance hostility and foolish arrogance shown above is not found when it comes to China or any Asian nation, or the Arabs and Africans for that matter. Chinese sensitivities must be deferred to. Japan's pride must be respected. Spheres of influence are respected. Rule of law prevails.
But when it comes to the Great Whitey, all that goes out the window. No deference or diplomatic finesse, as with Xi Jinping; no, the White Leader's evil! He's a "thug"! Same for Arab or African chaos states that require us to avoid provocative or insulting language. Ah, but the Great Evil Whitey, why, "Russia makes nothing the world wants!"
We're seeing an orgy of stupid Whitey-Hatred now, and Russia is the ultimate symbol of everything loathed by the left, the greens, and the global Ghey-trans civil rights freaks. It has tons of oil. It refuses to let ghey sign prey on schoolchildren. Russia is pro-family and its population and fertility are increasing. Russia's proud of traditional European culture and makes no apologies for it. Russia rejected Pfizer's monstrous experimental therapy that doesn't work and that's caused millions of horrible adverse side effects.
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#3 It has become difficult to rationally discuss. People have taken sides, some tribally, some out of sentiment or personal friendships. But one thing that can be agreed upon by all is that the stated reasons for this catastrophe are utter nonsense.
After the fall of the Soviet Union one of the first things they asserted was their concept of border nations and legitimate Russian analysts universally said, 'they really mean it'. Putin has said the same things in direct language for decades. This was a provocation and one that has been incrementally building for years.
Why? We live in a time of governments that do not serve their own people but other agendas set by small groups of internationalists. How any of this benefits them is beyond, well me primarily, but I see no other threads that should have begun to create a recognizable pattern.
At this point in time, I only hope there is an ambitious 18 Alpha or more in theater who can help some of the obscenely orphaned billions of dollars find a new home.
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/\ At this point in time, I only hope there is an ambitious 18 Alpha or more in theater who can help some of the obscenely orphaned billions of dollars find a new home.
They'd better dust off the EXFIL plan. I'm afraid there will be no 'happy ending' on this one.
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And "Jeremiah" chimes in with the "nothing is Russia's fault" line of Kremlin BS. No mention of Russia's role in the "violent ethno-centrism" in Ukraine, no mention that Russia invaded over what in past decades the Russians would have lectured the world was "a purely internal matter".
Because Sainted Russia -- run by a gangster, with a population that has a hard time finding a future outside the vodka bottle -- is supposedly the future of "western" civilization.
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No mention of Russia's role in the "violent ethno-centrism" in Ukraine,
Crawford is a caricature of a spitting Russophobe. Of course Putin deserves blame for invading. Mearsheimer' amd every other Russian expert's point is that the ultimate blame resides with NATO and the five US presidents whose foolishness, arrogance and gross incompetence created the crisis in the first place.,they bear most of the blame. No honestvassessment can conclude otherwise.
Within Ukraine, the violently Russophobic Ukrainian nationalists bear almost the entirety of the blame.
A bit of history. The internal diplomatic balancing act -- over Crimea and the rights of the pro-Russian eastern provinces -- that was pursued successfully within Ukraine throughout the 1990s was upset by the bandit and fake democrat Tymoshenko after 2004. At that point the nationalists began a surreal campaign to purge the entire country of any taint of Russianness -- in everyday language, in the schools, the culture, and supplemented this was harsh punitive measures that benefited their own corrupt crony billionaires while ripping off and suppressing the rights of Russian speakers.
Imagine your children and their teachers suddenly being forced to use a language nobody uses. That all of your favorite films and television programs are suddenly dubbed in that weird, harsh grating and inferior patois. That all the street signs suddenly have ridiculous new names reflecting the nationalist insanity.
That your local assembly no longer has basic rights and cannot pass local ordinances any more. That all your taxes are suddenly being redirected to the piss-poor worthless regions favored by the same corrupt thieving nationalist politicians who forced your language underground. Ukrainian nationalism ran amok beginning around 2004. It's the central fact in the domestic story.
Even Zelensky, when he improbably slouched into the presidency in 2019, was solidly against Ukrainian nationalism and foolish provocations.
It was only the combined pressure on him by extreme right-wing fascist political parties such as Right Sector as well as the return to power of the Nuland Biden and Jake Sullivan crew in March 2021 that caused the little comedian to suddenly go 180 degrees, becoming the defiant pro-NATO would-be conqueror of Crimea
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Within Ukraine, the violently Russophobic Ukrainian nationalists bear almost the entirety of the blame.
Doing nothing more that what the Russians did to the ethnic Germans of the former East Prussia, now Kaliningrad. 'It all depends upon who's ox is getting gored'
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None of this moistens my panties at all. I'm just a little upset because so many people have to die so that Hunter Biden can get a seat on the Gazprom board of directors.
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I don't see Besoeker thinking I believe he wears panties. Enjoy your Mearsheimer all-day sucker.
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I, myself, believe we should not be aligned with Ukraine at all. It's a corrupto-state. That's what makes it so attractive to the corruptos inside the beltway.
No aged academic blathering is needed to explain that.
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We're fucked now precisely because our idiot leaders didn't listen to the dozens of wise men, including Mearsheimer, who told them to pull back from the brink.
If Obama had listened to them prior to 2014 none of this would have happened.
If Biden had listened to them in March and forced negotiations and a settlement on Ukraine then, we would have cutvour losses and avoided a trillion dollars in economic losses and spared tens of thousands in lives
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^ Bath House Barry say Ukraine as another piece of ammo in his fight against the non-communist world. The Vindman saga confirms it.
Where was Mearsheimer when Trump needed to be told to essentially ignore almost backstabber he hired, including his own fambly?
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Say, not say.
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"This particular obscure academic over here agrees with me" is just not a compelling argument.
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Imagine your children and their teachers suddenly being forced to use a language nobody uses. That all of your favorite films and television programs are suddenly dubbed in that weird, harsh grating and inferior patois. That all the street signs suddenly have ridiculous new names reflecting the nationalist insanity.
Back in the early 1990s, my Czech and Polish au pair girls told interesting stories about being forced to study Russian in school.
My paternal grandmother was one of the linguists who at the turn of the last century did the studies that categorized Latvian as a formal language rather than as mere debased peasant dialect. She was born a Russian, but her son was born a Latvian with a national history and literature to support it. Also military training for all schoolboys against future Russian reconquest, as did indeed happen.
As for the suffering of the poor Russian speakers, that is exactly what the Russia as the Soviet Union did to the Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainians for the better part of a century. What a transparent argument to justify a second attempt at cultural genocide you make, Jeremiah Angusoque4776.
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I've come to the conclusion that they pay by the word in Saint Petersburg. Say, two rubles per? I hope they allow The New Guys to post the same work on multiple sites!
So "Jeremiah" wrote himself lunch in this thread alone?
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^I think we can safely lay to rest the old racial stereotype of Ivan being drunk and lazy. As a penny-a-word hack, "Jeremiah" seems really quite industrious! (You have to be. I started my writing career as a penny-a-word hack.)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
The control of the entire territory on the northern bank of the Seversky Donets was officially announced.
Nevertheless, according to the LPR law enforcement agencies, up to 1,000 enemy soldiers remain in the industrial zone and forest plantations, who could not retreat or changed into civilian clothes, trying to blend in with the civilian population. There are also foreign mercenaries among them.
The remnants of the Severodonetsk grouping, which retreated to Lisichansk, are now either being used to defend Lisichansk, or are gradually being pulled towards Seversk, while such an opportunity still exists.
2. Lisichansk.
The cleanup of Volcheyarovka has been completed. The enemy rolled back to Lisichansk. There are fights at the Lisichansk refinery and in Belaya Gora. There are battles for Verkhnekamenka, the retention of which is critically important for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since in the event of its loss, the proposed withdrawal to Seversk could become a big problem.
The Seversk-Lysichansk highway is under the fire control of the RF Armed Forces. The enemy will have to solve the problem of the operational encirclement of the entire Lisichansk grouping.
3. Soledar.
Intensive fighting in Belogorovka, Berestovoye and in the Nikolayevka area near the Artemovsk-Soledar-Lysichansk highway. This road for the APU is completely lost.
4. Artemovsk.
Fighting in Klinovoe and in the direction of Pokrovsky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine note the accumulation of forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Artemovsk direction and are waiting for the start of the assault on the city, but I believe that until our troops reach Soledar from the north, the assault on Artemovsk will not begin directly.
There are no changes near Kodema and Semigorye, as well as in the area of Novolugansk and Uglegorsk TPPs.
5. Zolotoye.
They report on the continuation of the cleansing of the territory of the boiler and active filtration measures, since a significant number of enemy soldiers, as in Severodonetsk, mixes with the local population. Those who were able to retreat from the cauldron are mostly now either in the Lisichansk area, or have retreated to Seversk and Artemovsk.
6. Avdievka.
On the front to the north of the village without significant changes - positional battles are going on, as well as near New York. There is no significant progress here.
The enemy continues to shell Donetsk, Makiivka and other settlements, but somewhat less intensively than a week ago, after hitting artillery and MLRS positions. Today there were powerful blows to Avdievka. In addition to terrorist shelling, the enemy continues to target roadblocks and warehouses using Western weapons and OTRK (including targets in the depths of the DPR and LPR.
7. Slavyansk.
Fights near the Valley, Krasnopolye and Mazanovka.
Fights near Sidorov, Prishib and Tatyanovka. According to Slavyansko - The Kramatorsk agglomeration is under attack
8. Ugledar.
Intense fighting continued in the area of Pavlovka and Yegorovka, but the enemy was unable to develop success after entering Pavlovka. Nevertheless, attempts to completely oust our troops from the Yegorovka area will certainly continue.
9. Zmeiny Island (Serpentine Island).
The enemy attacked the Tavrida drilling rig (the platform was damaged), and also continued attacks on the island, which were repulsed (1 Su-25 was shot down).
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine promises to continue the confrontation for Zmeiny Island.
10. Nikolaev.
On the Nikolaev, Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions without significant changes. In fact, there is no “attack on Kherson” - fuss continues in the villages between Nikolaev and Kherson.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Black Sea Fleet continue to inflict regular strikes on military facilities and concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment in Nikolaev and the Krivoy Rog region.
Odessa, Izyum, Marinka, Zaporozhye, Kharkiv - no changes.
[NYP] If you’ve flown recently, or attempted to, it might have gone something like this: Your 1 p.m. flight became a 5 p.m. flight became a midnight flight before being summarily canceled. No explanation is given. The next flights out are already fully booked, but they have a middle seat with two stopovers leaving next week if that still works for you.
We’ve put up with so much from airlines. Food on airplanes is now limited to crackers and a shot glass of soda. We pay exorbitant amounts to check baggage. Only some people get to bring a carry-on bag on the plane. We pay to choose our seat. A seat, by the way, that is designed for someone who is 4’8" and 95 pounds. They’ve tortured us in a variety of ways.
We dealt with it because they got us from point A to point B swiftly and safely. Sometimes it was even cheaply. We accepted the continued downgrading of service because they had something we wanted that only they could deliver. But airlines are not keeping up their end of the bargain. We’re missing meetings, events, family time and more because they just can’t get their act together.
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I'm done with airlines whenever humanly possible. Livestock get better treatment. I'm old enough to remember when you wore a suit and tie to fly, the seats were comfortable, fellow passengers were well behaved, leg-room was more than adequate, and the food was quite good, served on a small tray with actual metal siverware, and the stewardess was cordial and deferential. Of course the plane was a four engine Constellation turboprop and Eisenhower as still in office!
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The airline industry would have gone under w/o the subsidy. It was justified as a national defense priority if memory is correct. Not saying it was right or wrong.
People were to frightened to fly. Freight traffic increased though.
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Screw the airline industry, I don't fly why should my taxes go to bail out ANOTHER airline. There is demand , that means someone will always step up to start another 1. Hell, put the cartels on it, they could do a better job.
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[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democrats have temporarily pushed pause on the January 6th hearings in order to lead an insurrection against the federal government.
"On January 6th, a branch of our federal government was almost overthrown because politicians used dangerous rhetoric that caused—wait, hold on everyone, I just got the update. Roe's been overturned!" said Representative Adam Schiff. "Okay, well if all the Republicans could please sit tight, there will be a brief recess while our Democratic caucus takes to the streets demanding we overthrow a branch of the federal government."
After closing down their presentation entitled "How Trump Undermined Institutional Authority", Democrats raced to join the crowd surrounding the Supreme Court building. "Rigged! Rigged decision!" shouted Senator Elizabeth Warren. "Judges must no longer be allowed to hold power! We will never abide by an illegitimate decision by an illegitimate court. Fight, fight!" she screamed as beleaguered police arrived in riot gear.
Despite the fact liberal states will still have the most permissive abortion laws in the world outside North Korea, Democrats helpfully painted the Supreme Court's decision as a matter of life and death. "They are literally going to enslave every woman in America and force them to have 17 babies," said Representative Ilhan Omar to a group of mentally unstable lunatics. "Which is why the Supreme Court cannot stand! To the streets!" she shouted, then returned to the House for a speech on why Trump's words were directly responsible for violence.
At publishing time, the January 6 committee had resumed its hearings to the stark sound of no one caring.
[Liberty Daily] Think about the worst thing a U.S. Senate candidate could say on a recorded conversation with a prison inmate. Whatever you thought of, the things Krystle Matthews said were worse and Project Veritas delivered the audio just two days before her runoff to represent Democrats as their U.S. Senate candidate in South Carolina.
"We need some secret sleepers," she said. "Like you need them to run as the other side, even though they for our side. And we need them to win. We need people to run as Republicans in these local elections. This is the only way you’re gonna change the dynamics in South Carolina."
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Dems have been doing this for years to 'select' primaries in Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota. The plan usually doesn't work, but sometimes it does. It has a secondary strategy, however.
Run a stealth candidate, make the real conservative expend buckets of time and money during the primaries, thus lessening his/her effectiveness during the real elections.
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When I was working Ga. campaigns in the mid 70's to early 80's. Cross-over voting and paying for a shill candidate to keep the opponent was common. Over the years, the process just got harder with a collection of Campaign Finance Voting law changes.
BTW: Herschel Walker (R) got 413,361 votes compared to Warnocks (LSD) 151,019.
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BTW: Herschel Walker (R) got 413,361 votes compared to Warnocks (LSD) 151,019.
Which means Warnock will win in the general election by 557,000 votes. And Raffensperger will say it's all good.
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^ Brutal realism. Real brutalism. Something like that...
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I believe they've been doing this everywhere for years. Run a crazy hard right and a moderate against real Republicans. One might win, or you might just force the Republican to say something that makes people stay home. The left have always treated elections as a war against evil and any tactic however dishonorable is acceptable.
The right on the other hand, well any of them that deny this, or do nothing to stop the tactic can be assumed to be in on it, but protecting their position as long as they can.
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And GOPe comes up with people like Roy Moore and Todd Akin.
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Manchurian candidates (RINOS) placed in the Pub Party to create a single party? No wonder things are so screwed up in D.C. Time for a Declaration of Independence 2,0. Time to restore and reaffirm the Bill of Rights and shift power from Washington to the people and States via the 10th Amend. There needs to be term limits and a reformation of the tax struture; a flat tax might be a good approach.
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All you need to know about the authenticity of the demokrat black political class and working the white guilt ATM:
"Matthews complained about black people in South Carolina: “Honestly, these ain’t the same type of black people that I grew up around. I don’t recognize these black people.”
She continued, “Listen, I can’ move in all kind of circles but I’m a n***** at heart…. I’m very much a n***** in a lot of ways, but I know how to turn it off and turn it on.”
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They've been doing this at the Presidental level for decades: Mitt Romney, John McCain. I believe there were one or two primary candidates the media was fawning over leading up to the 2016 primary before Trump blew them away. They had no hope in 2020 with Trump.
Generally if the media is fawning over a Republican Candidate leading up to a primary - its a RINO.
[Hot Air] Since the announcement of the decision in Dobbs on Friday, elected officials and media personalities across the board have been weighing in with their own takes as you would expect. But one of the last people I would have expected to dive into the public debate was Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. And yet he somehow made the decision to wade into the Roe v Wade issue up to his hips. This turned out to be a very poor decision for several reasons, as we’ll see in a moment, but the question here goes far beyond one retired military officer’s personal views. The spectacle Austin created was simply damaging and Lloyd Austin needs to either resign or be fired, not that Joe Biden will make any such move. At Redstate, Mike Miller highlights Austin’s comments and points out how wrong he managed to get the entire affair.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s preparations for a further military campaign in northern Syria are intended to shore up President Erdogan’s popularity at home.
As the Ottoman Turkish army and the Syrian militia factions under its command complete preparations for another military campaign in northern Syria, Ankara’s determination to re-escalate the conflict in the area has raised widespread concerns regionally and internationally. The new Ottoman Turkish intervention in northern Syria is integrally related to Turkey’s recalcitrant Kurdish question, as Ankara claims that the predominantly Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria are affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which Turkey has designated a terrorist organization.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Oleg Atbashian] This is a brilliant study, profusely illustrated with cartoons and propaganda posters. Atbashian explains why Socialism cannot work. He exposes the injustice of "Collective Greed" and shows why Economic Equality is a fraud. The book is an eye-opener as the author illustrates his points with examples drawn from his life in the Soviet Union before 1994 and more recent events in the USA.
Here, let me put a local political face on that. 
[PJ] With several controversial SCOTUS rulings addressing divisive issues like gun rights and abortion, an exchange between Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Dr. 
[Liberty Daily] Think about the worst thing a U.S. Senate candidate could say on a recorded conversation with a prison inmate. Whatever you thought of, the things 
