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atomheartbevo

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  1. 4 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    But if prices go down from $1,000 to $100, that's just a 90% decrease.  Anybody with the least little bit of understanding of math understands that the 900% increase and the 90% decrease both denote a difference of $900.  But what percentage of the American people do you think have that least-little-bit level of mathematical knowledge?  50%?  Not a chance.  33%?  I mean, maybe if you're lucky.  It's probably less than 20%, if we're being realistic. 

    4 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    Remember that most Americans read at or below a sixth-grade level.

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  2. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kremlin-insider-openly-defies-putin-he-was-ready-to-be-shot/

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    Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, public unity has been rigidly enforced around President Vladimir Putin. But a new account suggests one senior official openly refused to comply in the earliest days of the war. According to a report by the New York Times, Dmitry Kozak, then Russia’s deputy chief of staff, defied Putin on the second day of the invasion in February 2022.

    The newspaper cited three people familiar with the exchange. Putin instructed Kozak to demand Ukraine’s immediate surrender, the report said. Kozak declined, arguing that he did not understand the purpose of the invasion.

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    As the conversation became tense, Kozak told Putin “that he was ready to be arrested or shot for his refusal,” according to the New York Times. The call, the report said, was conducted on speakerphone, allowing senior Kremlin officials to hear what was described as a rare moment of insubordination.

    Kozak, 66, had been one of Putin’s closest allies, serving the Kremlin for around three decades. He was widely regarded as one of the few senior figures willing to argue against the invasion.

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    Three days before the war began, Kozak delivered a 40-minute speech to Russia’s Security Council warning of the consequences of attacking Ukraine. Unlike other speeches at the meeting, his remarks were not broadcast publicly. 

    Kozak nearly became Russia’s acting president between 2008 and 2012, but the role ultimately went to Dmitry Medvedev. Over time, he was increasingly sidelined by Putin.

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    According to the New York Times, Kozak continued to urge mediation with Ukraine after the invasion and repeatedly warned the president that the war was a mistake. He also predicted that the conflict would push Sweden and Finland to join NATO, a development that later occurred.

    One source cited by the newspaper said Kozak believed he was “working in the service of the state, and not in Putin’s personal interests”.  Kozak resigned from his Kremlin post in September, after years of diminishing influence. He has not spoken publicly about his opposition to the war and declined to be interviewed for the New York Times report.

     

  3. A nation without a formal navy has not only defeated Russia's Black Sea fleet, but is hitting Russian ships off the coast of Africa in the Atlantic, and now in the Mediterranean. 

    Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv blows up Russian oil tanker in Mediterranean

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    Ukraine struck a shadow fleet vessel crossing the Mediterranean Sea in an unprecedented attack that could curtail Russia’s fundraising for war. The Ukrainian Security Services (SBU) claimed the drone strike on the sanctioned Qendil oil tanker, which was some 2,000km outside of Ukrainian territory and was left critically damaged.

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    Video showed a hexacopter drone smashing into the EU and UK-sanctioned vessel off the coast of Libya. The first strike in Mediterranean waters could discourage buyers of Russian oil carried on the ageing ships that make up the shadow fleet, analysts said. An SBU source told the media that this “new, unprecedented special operation” was “absolutely legitimate” as the tanker was used to “circumvent sanctions and earn money that went to the war against Ukraine”.They added that the tanker, which was heading west between Malta and Crete, was carrying no cargo at the time of the strike, meaning there was no risk of an oil spill.

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    Speaking at an annual year-end press conference in Moscow, Vladimir Putin vowed to retaliate.

    “Another of our tankers in the Mediterranean has been attacked,” the Russian president said. But he claimed it would not have the desired effect of disrupting supplies, adding “in the end, [it] will only create an additional threat.” “A response from our country will follow.”

    Guessing the blue dot at the western end is where it was hit.  Would love to know how they are getting their drones that far out there.

     

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  4. TPUSA Turns Into War Between Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson

    They are trashing the shit out of each other and other people within the GOP.

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    Shapiro is going after Tucker for hosting Nazis and white supremacists and Andrew Tate (he actually brought up the sex trafficking and pornography) and Nick Fuentes and not attacking Candace Owens, and Tucker is not backing down and going all in continuing to give the Nazis and white supremacists a platform.

    And Megyn Kelly catching plenty of strays.

    The purity test is going to be a doozy.

  5. 2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I do think the Russians to some extent are gruntled by abstract notions of reclaiming Soviet territory for the Rodina.  As little good as it does any individual Russian not Putin or an oligarch.

    It gives them something to be happy about before they pass out.

    It's just rank nationalism.  What you're proud of when there's nothing else to be proud of.

    Kind of like when OU wins a conference or national championship.

  6. 1 hour ago, bolverk said:

    csb: My dear friend from Liège would take offense at either of those proposals. However, she did have a really cool Luxembourgish buddy.

    The aforementioned Belgian chick, a French gal, that Luxembourg guy, this Texan, and a whole bunch of their classmates all got drunk at an end-of-the-school-year party in a barn somewhere south of Namur in the Ardennes. Then the four of us hit the road to buy weed in Amsterdam. None of the other three spoke English well, so they wanted me to serve as their translator, knowing all those herring-eaters would speak perfect English.

    They did, and it was a real good time. Now I’m old, and that makes me sad.

    ~Fin~

     

    "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anybody?"

  7. 35 minutes ago, Drew said:

    We will absolutely forget he was aquaman for this.  Some guys are just born to play a role(Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool is the other best example of this) and Jason Momoa is so perfect for Lobo.

    I'd toss in Downey Jr as Iron Man.  Maybe the Chris's for Captain America and Thor.

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    27 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    It’s actually amazing that the right has made DEI such an enemy that a politician can run that he will be the most effective RR commissioner because he will root out DEI spending. Hats off to them in a perverse way.

    perhaps Venezuela will soon be made the #1 enemy to replace DEI.

    If we are going after DEI, shouldn’t we start tearing up wheelchair ramps as being woke and DEI?

  9. EU leaders agree on 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine after a plan to use Russian assets unravels

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    European Union leaders agreed on Friday to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years, but they failed to bridge differences with Belgium that would have allowed them to use frozen Russian assets to raise the funds.

    The plan had been to use some of the 210 billion euros ($246 billion) worth of Russian assets that are frozen in Europe, mostly in Belgium. The leaders worked deep into Thursday night to reassure Belgium that they would protect it from any Russian retaliation if it backed the “reparations loan” plan but in the end the leaders did not use that option, but as the talks bogged down the leaders eventually opted to borrow the money on capital markets.

    Fucking Belgium, c'mon guys.

  10. 4 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    I've lost interest in NASCAR for some reason, but Biffle always seemed like a good guy. 

    I mostly lost interest many years ago, but still kind of kept up with a few people.  Biffle definitely seemed like a good guy, and he would poke fun at himself. Not a lot of the egos in NASCAR will do that.

  11. 21 minutes ago, Jshep34 said:

    Beyond shadow of a doubt Gates is a pedo

    When you hang with the guy after he was arrested the first time, you kind of lose your credibility.

    Before he was arrested, you could feign innocence about his private life. But after, and you keep hanging with him and keep riding his personal aircraft?

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