Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Links — 1 JUNE 2022 Part 1

Moon of Alabama
Ukraine Bits: Casualty Numbers, Kampfgruppen, Territorial Defense Forces
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/06/ukraine-bits-casualty-numbers-kampfgruppen-territorial-defense-forces.html

India Punchline
Biden tweaks Ukraine narrative
M.K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service and former ambassador.
https://www.indianpunchline.com/biden-tweaks-ukraine-narrative/

RayMcGovern.com
Catch-up Reading; Oberg is excellent (you won’t find him in the NYT)
Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and retired 27-year career CIA whose tasks included preparing and briefing The President’s Daily Brief and leading the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch
https://raymcgovern.com/2022/05/31/catch-up-reading-oberg-is-excellent-you-wont-find-him-in-the-nyt/

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
US Cyber Command Chief Says Military Hackers Conducted Offensives 'to Support Ukraine'
https://sputniknews.com/20220601/us-cyber-command-chief-says-military-hackers-conducted-offensives-to-support-ukraine-1095923179.html

Zero Hedge
Biden Unveils Longer Range Rockets For Ukraine, Stresses 'We Don't Seek NATO-Russia War'
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-unveils-longer-range-rockets-ukraine-says-we-dont-seek-nato-russia-war-op-ed

Russia Holds Nuclear Forces Drill As Biden Unveils $700M More In Arms For Ukraine
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-holds-nuclear-forces-drill-biden-unveils-700m-more-arms-ukraine
Tyler Durden

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
China responds to ‘collusion’ between US and Taiwan
https://www.rt.com/news/556443-china-security-patrol-taiwan/

TASS (Russian state media)
China urges Russia to develop cooperation in new directions — special envoy [Li Hui] (technology)
https://tass.com/economy/1459037





12 comments:

Footsoldier said...

The Left’s Culture War Rebranding


https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/12/the-lefts-culture-war-rebranding/


Is the squad finished ?


By a political system that is always open to new ways of preserving the status quo.


The man from Del Monte he say yes.






Peter Pan said...

Their credibility is shot, but getting rid of these grifters won't be easy. They are safely ensconced in gerrymandered, heavily Democrat districts.

Can't even get rid of Nancy Pelosi, for goodness sakes.

Footsoldier said...

Nostradamus predictions for 2022.





"Blue-head shall white-head

 harm in such degree

As France’s good to both shall e’er amount.”




“No abbots, monks, no novices to learn;

Honey shall cost far more than candle-wax”

So high the price of wheat,

That man is stirred

His fellow man to eat in his despair”




"Like the sun the head shall sear the shining sea: 

The Black Sea’s living fish shall all but boil.

When Rhodes and Genoa

Half-starved shall be

The local folk to cut them up shall toil.”



"The Moon in the full of night over the high mountain,

The new sage with a lone brain sees it:

By his disciples invited to be immortal,

Eyes to the south. Hands in bosoms, bodies in the fire.”





You can read whatever you want out of his 942 poetic quatrains.



So I'll go first for a laugh.....


1. Ukraine flag turns into a Russian flag as the blue at the top of Ukraine's flag turns into the white at the top of Russia's flag. As France overviews the surrender process.

2. Describing the inflation and food shortages.


3. War in the black sea


4. Riots in Pakistan after the overthrow of Imran Khan.



That's what you call back fitting the narrative lol. That's how you do it when the market doesn't move the way you expected.




Footsoldier said...

" Their credibility is shot, but getting rid of these grifters won't be easy. "


That's an under statement Peter.


Putin has a plan on how to get rid of these grifters if missiles hit Russia from Ukraine. The Satan plan.


The newest Satan 2 Russian ICBM can carry 10 warheads of 750kt each (compared to Japanese WW2 bombs of 25 & 15kt). A single ICBM can destroy 10 major cities in the US or pretty much every major city in Canada. Just 1 of them can do this.


All of this happens in less than an hour and once it starts, there's likely no stopping it as each side races to inflict as much damage before it has destroyed itself.


The Russian intercontinental ballistic missile brigades motto is..


" after us, silence"



Peter Pan said...

I those are the only options, I vote to put up with the Squad.

Ahmed Fares said...

Footsoldier,

Are you Russian, as that is what it seems from your comments? (I'm from Lebanon, by the way, though I live in Canada.)

As an aside, I'm with Russia on this one because I feel they are in the right and I also can't support Ukrainians because they support Nazis. Also, I can't have respect for a people who elect a clown as their leader, especially one who plays a piano with his junk.

Also, I'm learning a lot from your comments, so thank you for that.

Matt Franko said...

“ if missiles hit Russia from Ukraine”

Yo, If they are not nuclear then Russia is not going to respond with nuclear…

Or if you’re saying that’s the new rule then we should go kill everyone in MENA tomorrow in response to 9/11 and just go take the oil…,

Ahmed Fares said...

...we should go kill everyone in MENA tomorrow in response to 9/11

So Matt is a deist then, deism being the belief in a creating God but not a sustaining God.

Deists have been referred to as sentimental atheists.

“If the red slayer thinks he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.

Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanish'd gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.

They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

The strong gods pine for my abode,
And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
But thou, meek lover of the good!
Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.”


― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brahma

Peter Pan said...

There was a story arc involving a guy named Noah... since then, God has mellowed out a bit.

Ahmed Fares said...

There was a story arc involving a guy named Noah...

Flood of consciousness.

That's from Sufi hermeneutics, by the way. But since I'm doing Hinduism today, this:

In the midst of the Ocean of Nectar, where covered with groves of heavenly wishing trees is the Isle of Gems, in the mansion of wishing jewels with its grove of nipa trees,
on a couch composed of the four gods Shiva [and the others], your seat a mattress which is Paramashiva — some few lucky ones worship you, a flood of consciousness (cit) and bliss (ananda).


That's not to say there wasn't an actual physical flood. When Al-Ghazali was asked whether the stories in scripture were literal or allegorical, he replied: "Both, God writes the spiritual mysteries in the lives of the prophets."

Peter Pan said...

It was last time God wiped out most of humanity. So there is a precedent for doing so again.

Peter Pan said...

If I was God, you're warned not to be in Davos, Switzerland or anywhere near those who hold power.