Putin predicts ‘revolutionary’ changes
Only “truly sovereign” states will succeed after “enormous” geopolitical transformations, the Russian leader claimed
I live in Russia. Most of Russian people were robbed in February/March of 2022. Those Russians who had western stocks / shares bought in Moscow and St. Petersburg stock exchanges lost everything. Those who had crypto were able to save their holdings, but crypto lost 2/3 in price since that time and it is not the end yet. I'm afraid crypto will go lower after Powell's speech at the end of this month and soon we also will have problems with stablecoins. The solution is simple, withdraw your troops from Ukraine soil to pre 2014 borders, stop all hostilities, pay reparations, and all will soon be back to normal. Russia was set so far back after cold war that it really hasn't been an issue since then, it's GDP is lower than that of Brazil, and its resources allowed Europe to continue to prosper. But it was always a matter of time until China decides to challenge current world order. So pushing resource rich Russia into China's hands is perhaps the worst diplomatic failure of the 21st century so far. China's GDP is 10x of Russia. The mechanism was put in motion and now there's no simple solution to go back to "normal", plus your "normal" was always temporary to China. On top of that if not Ukraine there's always Kazakhstan and Belarus that might need some "democracy" spread to completely push Russia under China. Now that China knows that is has guaranteed access to a ton of cheap resources Biden administration officials are concerned that China could seek to declare a no-fly zone over Taiwan ahead of a possible visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi If this happens that's when the real problems begin |
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What if we combine those two? What would happened if you showed up in Germany with this flag? Rhetorical question  I'll start from afar  Probably for the communist STAR it is necessary to destroy the US flag, where are the stars? Or destroy the ancient Slavic and ancient Indian epics where there is a Kolovrat or a swastika? Or everyone who has a star should be banned and destroyed symbolism? It is only communist, is it true that there are no others? I brought these simple examples to what - you need to STUDY history, and not rush to the first visual coincidence. Also, you have to be CAREFUL. 1. If you CAREFULLY look at the Wolfsangel of Nazi Germany, you will notice a noticeable difference. Well, at least it has a "mirror" display of the Azov symbol. 2. In the law, which you cite, there is: - such an exception: "the swastika as a symbol of the Nazi Party, prohibited in all variants, including mirrored, inverted etc. (exceptions are only applied to swastikas used as religious symbols in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain temples)" - such a restriction: "Wolfsangel used by the 2nd, 3rd and 34th Waffen-SS, Hitler Youth and Junge Front", but there is no mention of the Old Slavonic symbol, the symbol of the Azov regiment. Do you understand what is your mistake? The mistake is that the "Azov" symbol is NOT FORBIDDEN in Germany! By the way, the “joke” is in the Russian Wikipedia, for some reason they cowardly cut off the information, and present it like this: “Wolfsangel - In Germany, the symbol is not officially banned, except for the case of using the banned neo-Nazi organization Junge Front (German: Junge Front, JF) as symbols )". Here they deliberately "forgotten" the Waffen-SS, where a huge number of Russians served, and the "Hitler Youth", on the basis of which the Russian "Yunnarmiya" was copied And now I’m explaining where it came from and what the “Azov” symbol means. Combat formations of which, by the way, destroy the Nazis in the form of rashists with the highest quality So - the central figure of the emblem of "Azov" is one of the most used symbols in the Ukrainian military tradition. The so-called "Hook" sign was extremely popular among the Volyn gentry and Cossack families (many centuries before the Nazis). In the modern interpretation of the patriots of Ukraine, it is a monogram, the intersection of two letters "I" and "N", which symbolize our central slogan - "The Idea of the Nation". By the way, the letter N has the old Ukrainian spelling in the monogram (this is how it was written in ancient Russian and Cossack documents before the spelling reform of Peter's time). History reference: The wolf's hook, one of the most interesting subrunic symbols, was originally a pagan sign that "saved from werewolves." Later it became a heraldic symbol, meaning a wolf pit (hunting trap). It is still present on the coats of arms of many European cities, for example - Erwitt, Dassendorf, Burgwedel, Wolfstein. In the 15th century, the "wolf hook" became the emblem of several peasant uprisings, thanks to which it acquired the basic meaning of freedom and independence, and in military heraldry - power protection, protection of the owner, a mirror image of any attack. - the press service of "Azov" reports. PS And the law to which you referred - I think it is excellent and fair! Symbols of totalitarian, bastard, misanthropic parties, formations, regimes must be destroyed! I absolutely agree with this law! By the way - why is the Vlasov (Russian fascist henchmen) tricolor not taken into account there? This is also a symbol of Nazism, not without reason Russia attached it to the Kremlin! Great history lesson, care to enlighten us how far back in that history Azov adopted the Nazi symbols? (Hint 2014). So you're saying Germans don't know history, and shouldn't ban swastika because it's an ancient Buddhist symbol? Did I understand you correctly? I guess this is totally cool to you too?   Cause you know everybody needs to learn history, look CAREFULLY and will notice the difference. Just like Azov, the symbol on the Aryan Nations (North American anti-semitic, neo-Nazi, white supremacist terrorist organization) flag is also actually just a mirror of the wolfsangel, silly mistake, which makes them both totally fine? Geez everyone is so dumb, it's a good thing that you're here to reeducate everyone. Do you think if they also make up some bullshit story about an I and N that there are enough dumb people to actually believing them too?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_NationsAnd who cares that the Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) is literally just three swastikas, arranged behind a sun and In the late 20th century, the Black Sun symbol became widely used by neo-fascist, neo-Nazi,[6] the far-right and white nationalists. The symbol often appears on extremist flags, t-shirts, posters, websites and in extremist publications associated with such groups. Modern far-right groups often refer to the symbol as the sun wheel or Sonnenrad.[5][7][8]
The name "Black Sun" came into wider use after the publication of a 1991 occult thriller novel, Die Schwarze Sonne von Tashi Lhunpo (The Black Sun of Tashi Lhunpo), by the pseudonymous author Russell McCloud. The book links the Wewelsburg mosaic with the neo-Nazi concept of the "Black Sun", invented by former SS officer Wilhelm Landig as a substitute for the Nazi swastika and a symbol for a mystic energy source that was supposed to renew the Aryan race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)Please entertain us with your best attempt at pointing out how everyone is mistaken, through some obscure history reference, reeducate everyone and explain how this is totally normal and should be acceptable to everyone, go on...         An extremely simple question to start with - do you happen to work in Russia Today? ))) The approach is 100% consistent with the approaches in their offices. Don't be offended if I revealed your real job 1. To begin with, PROVE that the symbol of Azov is of Nazi origin In addition to some kind of nonsense, I did not read anything in your post. 2. It is not necessary at the beginning of the answer to distort the information and rely on it to "prove" the rest (Great history lesson, care to enlighten us how far back in that history Azov adopted the Nazi symbols?). Azov chose a historical old symbol, in the previous post everything is extremely accurately painted. I understand that this does not suit you, you need to carry to the masses the idiotic concept of the Nazi Kremlin "Ukrainians-Nazis" 3. You won't be able to push through the twisted information about what I said "So you're saying Germans don't know history, and shouldn't ban swastika because it's an ancient Buddhist symbol? Did I understand you correctly?" - no, not at all. I said that some ancient symbols could be used later for completely bad purposes. But this does not mean that we should ban, for example, ancient Indian treatises, because they contain images of what the Nazis later called the swastika! And judging by the fact that you still continue to insist on the identity of the symbol of Azov with some kind of Nazi symbols, this fact most likely indicates problems with your vision By the way - the letter "Z" periodically slips in your text - it absolutely corresponds to the Nazi symbols, both Hitler's Germany (Wolfsangel) and Putin's Russia ("Z") ... Bottom line: if you want a normal dialogue, behave accordingly. And with such nonsense and solid lies - this is for you in the Rostov courtyard, where you will be 24 * 7, telling these tales to grannies soviet! And most importantly - why, among all that you have collected incomprehensibly where, there is not a single photo from the den of modern Nazism - Russia? With their almost annual congresses of Nazis from all over the world, their marches and ziggings to their leaders? Forgot ? Or get fired? You know when i was pointing out absurdity of BSv they accused me of being Greg Maxwell so you're not even the first one to attempt to strengthen your argument by imbecile attempt at guilt by association. But sure if you feel it helps your argument we can all pretend that i registered on this forum almost 10yrs ago, but your mad investigatory skillz uncovered that i work "in"  Russia Today  "PROVE that the symbol of Azov is of Nazi origin"German Reich lasted from 1933-1943 all Nazi symbols can be traced to other origins. Congrats on arguing that no swastikas can be PROVEN to be of Nazi origin. I'll pay for your flight to Israel or Chicago if you walk around with a mirror image of a swastika on a flag. We can all start a bet on how many steps you'll be able to take. "the letter "Z" periodically slips in your text"lol what? Where? Am i talking to a low effort bot that uses copy pasta or you're out of arguments and just making up shit now? Cite, or GTFO! Now, an extremely simple question that even you might be able to answer. This is 18yr old Payton S. Gendron, he's a mass murderer that murdered 10 innocent Black people in a mass shooting this year (2022) at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, USA.  He described himself as an ethno-nationalist supporting white supremacy and motivated to commit political violence. He voiced support for the far-right "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory in the context of a "white genocide". To attempt to drum up more support he put out a manifesto, in which he describes his "antisemitic, eco-fascist, ethno-nationalist, national socialist (Nazi), populist, and white supremacist views." It's filled with the typical pseudoscience which was just enough to convince an 18yr old mind to become a neo-Nazi murderer. Apparently there are a lot of weak minds here, so i won't link to it so not to help him propagate it, but here's a picture of the first page  Now the simple question to you is this, can you PROVE that the symbol of the Black Sun on his bullet proof vest, and on the first page of his manifesto, is of Nazi origin? Hint: is a type of sun wheel (German: Sonnenrad) symbol originally employed in Nazi Germany and later by neo-Nazis.How about Aryan Nations  can you PROVE that their symbol is of Nazi origin? If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck... |
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We'll be back under $20k before the end of the month.
Or you admit you're wrong But it's based on maths and science. How can maths be wrong? |
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What if we combine those two? What would happened if you showed up in Germany with this flag? Rhetorical questionI'll start from afar Probably for the communist STAR it is necessary to destroy the US flag, where are the stars? Or destroy the ancient Slavic and ancient Indian epics where there is a Kolovrat or a swastika? Or everyone who has a star should be banned and destroyed symbolism? It is only communist, is it true that there are no others? I brought these simple examples to what - you need to STUDY history, and not rush to the first visual coincidence. Also, you have to be CAREFUL. 1. If you CAREFULLY look at the Wolfsangel of Nazi Germany, you will notice a noticeable difference. Well, at least it has a "mirror" display of the Azov symbol. 2. In the law, which you cite, there is: - such an exception: "the swastika as a symbol of the Nazi Party, prohibited in all variants, including mirrored, inverted etc. (exceptions are only applied to swastikas used as religious symbols in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain temples)" - such a restriction: "Wolfsangel used by the 2nd, 3rd and 34th Waffen-SS, Hitler Youth and Junge Front", but there is no mention of the Old Slavonic symbol, the symbol of the Azov regiment. Do you understand what is your mistake? The mistake is that the "Azov" symbol is NOT FORBIDDEN in Germany! By the way, the “joke” is in the Russian Wikipedia, for some reason they cowardly cut off the information, and present it like this: “Wolfsangel - In Germany, the symbol is not officially banned, except for the case of using the banned neo-Nazi organization Junge Front (German: Junge Front, JF) as symbols )". Here they deliberately "forgotten" the Waffen-SS, where a huge number of Russians served, and the "Hitler Youth", on the basis of which the Russian "Yunnarmiya" was copied And now I’m explaining where it came from and what the “Azov” symbol means. Combat formations of which, by the way, destroy the Nazis in the form of rashists with the highest quality So - the central figure of the emblem of "Azov" is one of the most used symbols in the Ukrainian military tradition. The so-called "Hook" sign was extremely popular among the Volyn gentry and Cossack families (many centuries before the Nazis). In the modern interpretation of the patriots of Ukraine, it is a monogram, the intersection of two letters "I" and "N", which symbolize our central slogan - "The Idea of the Nation". By the way, the letter N has the old Ukrainian spelling in the monogram (this is how it was written in ancient Russian and Cossack documents before the spelling reform of Peter's time). History reference: The wolf's hook, one of the most interesting subrunic symbols, was originally a pagan sign that "saved from werewolves." Later it became a heraldic symbol, meaning a wolf pit (hunting trap). It is still present on the coats of arms of many European cities, for example - Erwitt, Dassendorf, Burgwedel, Wolfstein. In the 15th century, the "wolf hook" became the emblem of several peasant uprisings, thanks to which it acquired the basic meaning of freedom and independence, and in military heraldry - power protection, protection of the owner, a mirror image of any attack. - the press service of "Azov" reports. PS And the law to which you referred - I think it is excellent and fair! Symbols of totalitarian, bastard, misanthropic parties, formations, regimes must be destroyed! I absolutely agree with this law! By the way - why is the Vlasov (Russian fascist henchmen) tricolor not taken into account there? This is also a symbol of Nazism, not without reason Russia attached it to the Kremlin! Great history lesson, care to enlighten us how far back in that history Azov adopted the Nazi symbols? (Hint 2014). So you're saying Germans don't know history, and shouldn't ban swastika because it's an ancient Buddhist symbol? Did I understand you correctly? I guess this is totally cool to you too? Cause you know everybody needs to learn history, look CAREFULLY and will notice the difference. Just like Azov, the symbol on the Aryan Nations (North American anti-semitic, neo-Nazi, white supremacist terrorist organization) flag is also actually just a mirror of the wolfsangel, silly mistake, which makes them both totally fine? Geez everyone is so dumb, it's a good thing that you're here to reeducate everyone. Do you think if they also make up some bullshit story about an I and N that there are enough dumb people to actually believing them too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_NationsAnd who cares that the Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) is literally just three swastikas, arranged behind a sun and In the late 20th century, the Black Sun symbol became widely used by neo-fascist, neo-Nazi,[6] the far-right and white nationalists. The symbol often appears on extremist flags, t-shirts, posters, websites and in extremist publications associated with such groups. Modern far-right groups often refer to the symbol as the sun wheel or Sonnenrad.[5][7][8]
The name "Black Sun" came into wider use after the publication of a 1991 occult thriller novel, Die Schwarze Sonne von Tashi Lhunpo (The Black Sun of Tashi Lhunpo), by the pseudonymous author Russell McCloud. The book links the Wewelsburg mosaic with the neo-Nazi concept of the "Black Sun", invented by former SS officer Wilhelm Landig as a substitute for the Nazi swastika and a symbol for a mystic energy source that was supposed to renew the Aryan race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)Please entertain us with your best attempt at pointing out how everyone is mistaken, through some obscure history reference, reeducate everyone and explain how this is totally normal and should be acceptable to everyone, go on... |
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Are you talking about a guy in Russian symbols in Ukraine? Then a couple of interesting facts 1. Any propaganda and support for Russia is prohibited in Ukraine, including the public publication of symbols. Guess why? Because Russia is officially recognized as an aggressor country. Because Russia has already committed a huge number of wild crimes on the territory of Ukraine. Propaganda includes an open display, including Russian symbols, as well as communist ones. This is the legal norm in Ukraine. I see nothing wrong with banning regimes that have killed tens of millions of Ukrainian citizens over the past 80 years. Tell me - for example, in Germany, you walk the streets for a long time with a swastika, an SS flag, and a portrait of Hitler to the cries of "Heil Hitler"? So in Ukraine, the bastard communist and today's bastard-Nazi Putin's regime are prohibited by law. This is fine ! And the person who purposefully demonstrates it is just a provocateur who aims to create a hype. 2. Guess for what actions they give a real criminal term in Russia? - for the poster "No to war" - for the poster "I am for Peace" - for publishing YOUR personal opinion on social networks, against military aggression. - for the publication of the facts of Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. - they even detain you for clothes, if for example your clothes consist of yellow and blue (the colors of the Flag of Ukraine)! You say this is idiotic and fake? I will answer you - no, in Russia this is a reality! At the same time, Russia officially says that there is no war, that the Ukrainians are brothers, and that they are fighting against some kind of ephemeral "Nazis, Bandera and the Kyiv junta" - does it sound true? What if we combine those two? What would happened if you showed up in Germany with this flag? Rhetorical question President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday abruptly fired the head of Ukraine's powerful domestic security agency, the SBU, and the state prosecutor general, citing dozens of cases of collaboration with Russia by officials in their agencies...
In a Telegram post, Zelenskiy said he had fired the top officials because it had come to light that many members of their agencies had collaborated with Russia, a problem he said had touched other agencies as well.
He said 651 cases of alleged treason and collaboration had been opened against prosecutorial and law enforcement officials, and that more than 60 officials from Bakanov and Venediktova's agencies were now working against Ukraine in Russian-occupied territories..
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-president-fires-security-service-chief-prosecutor-general-2022-07-17/And before that, Ukrainian law enforcers detain former Crimea SBU department chiefAnd before that,  Hero spies? Isn't that mutually exclusive? Or just a new term? https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17857369/ukraine-peace-negotiator-spy-shot-russia-kireev/And i'm sure i'm missing many other top ranking UA officials killed/arrested/sacked for treason. Is there anyone left in SBU who's not a spy? How do people yelling genocide explain all these treason cases at the highest level of government? If this is happening in the top ranks what's happening bellow them? Orc mind control drugs from Putin? |
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and the ring door camera records audio.. wonder how sensitive it is.. like can it record conversations inside the house near the wall its mounted on? and, if so, how near is near.. I have multiple ring camera’s Two for indoor and one on the front door. they are okay for in the room. the front door does not pick up sound in the house as the mic points to street. the living room can record some sound in the bedroom as it points at the wall of the bedroom. even if you shut the bedroom door you can still hear a bit of sound. so the key is where the mic/lens points. https://www.amazon.com/Ring-Indoor-Compact-Security-Camera/dp/B07Q9VBYV8/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?see link for indoor model i use If 30yrs ago you'd say that people would willingly pay to install MICs that let let cops and big corporations listen in on your bedroom, they'd think you're crazy, yet here we are. People are too eager to sell their privacy for any kind of convenience, think the going rate is a forum emoji |
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PSA: How to not freak out citizens in your state. /s  Back in 61-62-63 I was in K first second grades. We did weekly A-bomb drills. I thought in this day and age everyone knew that hiding under your desk against A-bomb had nothing to do with safety and everything to do with fear. Guess nothing really changed  |
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I love lamb.
I always check out the lamb cuts available at my local grocery store.
Today there were racks of lamb...6 lollipops for like 53 bucks...yikes! Ill pass on that one.
I usually go for the butterflied cut.
Nothing like a welsh lamb roast, albeit not available in US. Only when I'm in UK.
So usually I get New Zealand or Australian. Sometimes I can find local farm raised.
I roast it with lots of fresh garlic cloves and serve it slathered with Tesco mint sauce....
Awesome meal with roast potatoes, peas and extra thick Bisto lamb gravy.
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I can attest for a strong confirmation bias. Otherwise, he seems to have seen fight, which means that there is very little chance he will change his mind because that would mean that he has killed and fought for the wrong reasons. It takes a very special individual to recognised big mistakes, so expect a continuous line of "US is bad", "RF is doing the right thing", ...
Also, being soldier (except for psychopaths) requires believing that you are actually fighting for a cause. Forget about him accepting that this war is about the oil & gas corridors and the reaffirmation of the old USSR territorial controls. He is all about "fighting the US" and the capitalists.
You didn't read carefully...fact that I was in war and fought against Serbs doesn't mean I have to follow mainstream narrative...specially because its always simplistic and mostly propaganda BS...both in our war and this one in Ukraine Your geopolitical reasons "oil & gas corridors and the reaffirmation of the old USSR " are right ones...only problem is that you intentionally left out other half I suggest you read few books from William Engdahl and John Perkins https://www.compact-online.de/oskar-lafontaine-oeffnet-endlich-nord-stream-2/?cookie-state-change=1657633826143"When will there be a Chancellor who will have the courage to tell Washington this far and no further. Where does this German addiction to submission come from when you see how German journalists and politicians behave towards Washington? When you think of your own people, there is only one solution: open Nord Stream 2 to prevent the worst. De Gaulle still knew that states have interests, not friends. Just as the Americans have been trying for 100 years to prevent German technology from merging with Russian raw materials (George Friedman), the federal government should finally see that the sanctions are not harming Russia and the USA, but primarily Germany and Europe." Agreed, US will come out stronger, Europe and - IMO - the RF will come out weaker. I have said it over an over in many posts, there are winners of this war but not in Europe. Of course, Nordstream 2 was built because it would have been fantastic for EU's competitivity, and you are right, the RF and Europe do make excellent partners for many reasons. The obvious problem is that partners have to talk and solve problems peacefully. The moment you start shelling and sending rockets to your neighbours, that dialogue is impossible. If you think of it, the EU cannot allow the RF to wage a war in Europe and get even more influence in the vicinity of Poland, and just blatantly take over territory from a sovereign state - all while making references to nuclear weaponry, no matter how justified some people may think it is, the answer was inevitable: sanctions, pressure... The usual Putinists will argue that RF is doing great and becoming bigger and all that crap. The truth is that the war is an economic, diplomatic and strategic disaster for the RF. The difference is that Adolf Putin did choose to start the war instead of trying other things, Europe has been left with no choice but to support Ukraine. The latest I got is that the EU will consider any RF try to avoid the sanctions a criminal action. This means that from having the assets frozen, the will be simply taken and used for a reconstruction fund for Ukraine. For me that is a very harsh decision: Europe is based on respecting property and law and this does not help. Needless to say that Europe would rather not have to do any of this, nor risk critical industrial supplies (mostly gas) nor getting in bad terms with a country that could have been a great partner... this is clearly a loose-loose situation for the EU and the RF, no to mention Ukraine of course. You should have known better the definition of Nazism in order to throw such unfounded and groundless accusations against me. Perhaps I do not have enough emotional involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, due to the great geographical distance from the place of the main development of events. Perhaps in my personal hierarchy of life values, the ideals of humanism and pacifism are not in the most honorable place. But I did not claim that Russians are better than Ukrainians, or Americans, or Germans, or representatives of any other nationalities, if only because I do not like false generalizations. Think about it at your leisure before you sit in a puddle next time.
Things that Russia is doing in Ukraine isn't much different from nazism. For example, filtration camps for Ukrainians from occupied territories. It doesn't remind anything? When someone else from Ukraine or West would use same rhetoric as you did in previous post, wouldn't you call him nazi? Didn't you talked about "genocide of Russian speaking population in Donbas"? But now when you said that it doesn't matter how many people will have to killed and how many buildings will have to be destroyed, then everything is ok? I do not call the guy Adolf Putin for nothing. Is not a way of speaking nor a senseless insult. The current RF regime is totalitarian, nationalistic, supremacists, supresses more freedom and balances each day,... It has all the characteristics of a Nazi regime. It's 17 February 2014: Russian sphere of influence has been reduced to Russian speaking Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. Germany's GDP is growing, inflation is low at 1,43%, 1EUR = 1,37USD. For over a year now Nord Stream AG has been evaluating an expansion project to bring more cheap gas directly to industrial Germany consisting of two additional lines (Nord Stream 2). Most people don't even know the names of the presidents of those countries still left under Russia's sphere of influence, well except maybe Belarus's president Lukashenko has been labeled "Europe's last dictator" but no one really cares about it anymore than US's war in Afghanistan, much less willing to lose heat during winter over some Russian proxy. Everyone is mainly concerned with growing their economies, well, mostly everyone ...  Here just take a free cookie from US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt ...I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, Fuck the EU... Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957Yeah not much downside and a lot of upside for US, but surely it's not like there are any precedent or examples in world history where US was ever involved in any coups d'etat right, it's just a conspiracy theory, probably just a convenient coincidence for US right? And now for something completely different, from today's news “As somebody who has helped plan coups d’etat, not here, but other places, it takes a lot of work,” Bolton said. former US national security adviser John Bolton https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/13/so-what-coups-might-john-bolton-have-been-involved-exactly/ |
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BREAKING: US INFLATION HITS 9.1%, A NEW 40-YEAR HIGH The irony in this cannot be overstated. Oh well i'm at my ATH in BTC holdings, sure they say that "The Markets Can Remain Irrational Longer Than You Can Remain Solvent" but can it stay irrational through halvings? Figure i can hodl through at least the next two, tick-tock another block ... |
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today's outrage...
...what the F is that 'heated seat subscription" from BMW?
pinching pennies on a supposedly premium car?
Bitcoin variant: you would have deposited bitcoin in a bank, but need a "subscription" to "unlock" it.
jeez...some companies just run out of ideas and are peddling this gimmick.
I will NOT purchase any hardware with "subscription"...in principle.
Ugh am i gonna have to stark jail breaking cars too soon? |
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With the way things are going, in no time his yearly property tax will be 100% of the original cost. *2027 Every two (2) Years I Pay Property taxes equivalent to the original cost of my house... *2032 Every (1) year I Pay Property taxes equivalent to the original cost of my house... *2035 My yearly property tax is 200% (2x) the original cost of my house ... |
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This shows that the bear market is caused solely by "institutional size traders": https://u.today/bitcoin-ethereum-and-altcoins-present-signs-of-incoming-price-turnaround-heres-whenwe have 3.3 mil small holders with more than 0.1 btc. Total holdings of 0-1btc wallets is 6% and these holdings kept growing through almost all bear markets (with a small spike and decline in 2017) All we need is to have just 10-15 times more small holders and bitcoin might reach a much higher plateau. 'smart" funds would have to pay through the nose to get some. Or all of those small holders need buy the dip to 10-15x their BTC hodlings |
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1 BTC ≠ 1 BTC.ICE is now able to track transactions made through nearly a dozen different digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether. https://theintercept.com/2022/06/29/crypto-coinbase-tracer-ice/Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users, according to contract documents shared with The Intercept. Fuck you Coinbase. The destruction of privacy is also an economic issue, bad for Bitcoin. Bitcoiners who accept this are their own worst enemies.With tracking inevitably comes UTXO blacklisting, and thus the continued process of turning Bitcoin into an NFT. 1 BTC ≠ 1 BTC. Oldie-but-goody, Adam Back in 2014: https://youtu.be/3dAdI3Gzodo?t=47My comments on another thread, re “coin taint”: [...] —and in the long term, please support any competent efforts to add to Bitcoin what Dr. Back says on one of his slides:
“Idealized cryptographic ecash aims to enforce fungibility via indistinguishability rather than law... trust in mathematics over law”.
Dr. Back discusses various privacy technologies, from centralized blind signatures to Zerocoin/Zerocash. Unfortunately, the technological information is only up to date as of 2014. His explanation of the fungibility issue is the important part here; the only change on that point is that the problem has become worse, much worse.
So stated, because some people will only pay attention when they are proverbially hit in the wallet. Fungibility is one of the most important arguments for privacy. That's a known attack vector and was inevitable. There's no historical justification to assume those in power will give it up willingly without a fight. Luckily it's greatly negated by the concept of jurisdictions, as long as we don't have one world government, and BTC is global. What do you care if North Korea/China/Russia blacklists your BTC? And they'd feel the same about your laws. Gresham's Law tells us that your "blacklisted" UTXOs will just find their way to another jurisdiction, and their blacklisted UTXOs will come to you, rinse and repeat. As long as we don't have one world hegemony  * Mandatory coinbase user reference |
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Probably one hedge fund liquidating, as another one feeds on it's flesh, they're quiet cannibalistic, it's like a circle of life for them. 10min tictoc another block
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If bitcoin keeps falling soon it won't be enough to just hold BTC. Every holder will have to buy a miner and make it work at home. Because falling under $ 17 000 will force many miners to turn off their equipment. Those who mine with S17 and pay $0.1 per kilowatt lose $1.2 every day if 1 BTC costs $ 20 000.
Oh my God... I just had this terrible thought... This could lead to a sort of negative feedback loop! Ahh, what could we call it... an "abysmal spinning down". No too clunky. Umm, a "deceasement loop"... nah deceasement is not a word, is it? I don't know... someone could come up with a good name for it. How have we never thought of this before? ...death spiral ? When people started talking about a death spiral in 2018 the bottom was in. This is from December 3, 2018. It's by a University professor of finance "expert". https://www.ccn.com/worthless-bitcoin-has-entered-death-spiral-finance-professor/Silly professor Only if there was some kind of automatic procedure to change the hardness of the puzzle every two weeks or so depending on the supply/demand for mining Lots of gamblers selling BTC, lots of people buying BTC meh world moves on. Fill up your bags and hunker down in about 638days all global miners will work for 10min for just BTC3.125 if my math is right about 50kg of gold is mined every 10min globally or about $3MM worth |
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Well, that's one way to decouple. Someone is liquidating big time
Why wait for the weekend though, they should of done it yesterday. There were huge ask walls hovering above $20k trying to extract the max value, looks like volume at $20k dried up so they decided to push lower, now hovering above $19k looking for buyers. But you are right, timing feels nefarious, Fri night into Sat in US, like long squeezes back in the day, so no one could get fiat into exchanges till Monday. |
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Well, that's one way to decouple. Someone is liquidating big time
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The matter is still the same, the RF is not only showing disrespect for PoWs, they are even making a point of killing them in public. What can you expect if you are an RF captured soldier and there are no officers present?
You've got it all mixed up again. The trial of the mercenaries took place in the DPR, from the point of view of Russia it is an independent state, from the point of view of Ukraine it is the Donetsk region within Ukraine. Putin is a powerful man, but he has no power over the Supreme Court of a sovereign state (he doesn't even have power over Russia's Supreme Court). Of the countries that really matter to the case, this "independent state" is only recognised by RF and only sustained thanks to the RF money and weaponry. Stop pretending that something in the RF or the "republics" is done without the seal of the Tzar, nobody is going to believe you. Again, you can make any argument you want, it does not change the chances for the RF invading army PoWs.
Ukraine may actually be following it at government level - you can follow the convention even if you do not recognise it.
The matter is still the same, the RF is not only showing disrespect for PoWs, they are even making a point of killing them in public. What can you expect if you are an RF captured soldier and there are no officers present?
I heard its even worse if officer is present Officers of the Ukrainian defence army are there to implement the official policies. As of now, the official policy is to follow the rules of war and the Geneva Convention as far as I know. There may be groups in Ukraine that may not have such a degree of discipline, but that is a completely different matter from having an official policy of classing PoWs as "terrorists" and kill them. All in all, this simply makes life much harder for both RF and Ukrainian soldiers. I'd be careful challenging independence on the grounds of being sustained thanks to other nation's money and weaponry. ... The latest bill, which had been delayed for a week by the objection of Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, includes money for logistical support and training for Ukrainian military and national security forces, and for a fund intended to secure the continuity of Ukraine’s government. https://web.archive.org/web/20220609211642/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/20/upshot/ukraine-us-aid-size.htmlAs far as mercenaries, I believe to become Ukrainian citizen they would have to give up their previous citizenship as Ukraine doesn't allow dual citizenship, which apparently didn't happen. How are they different from other mercenaries, or is the claim that there are no mercenaries at all in Ukraine and all foreign fighters fall under Geneva convention now because they signed some paper with UA army? Following that logic Aiden Aslin wasn't a mecenary in Syria as well if he also signed some form there? Are you misinterpreting what I say on purpose or is it that you are really missing the point? The "statelets" were created by the RF invading them and declaring them as "independent" - AKA stealing the territory from Ukraine. Ukraine is independent because the majority of Ukrainians would rather not be under Adolf Putin's thumb but mainly because it is a country that is widely recognised as such by most, if not all, nations. The "independent" satellite regions of the RF empired have simply been invaded by the RF and then "declared" independent. Again, just a handful of countries recognise them - all pretty much directly linked to Adolf Putin. It is just plainly ridiculous that you try to compare that with Ukraine. As for your display of "evidence" of western support to a widely recognised independent country... nothing new. This war is burning many supplies from both many estates and particularly the US. This includes training in some quite new and sophisticated systems. ... It's easy: If the main criteria for you is "to be paid" it's easy to say that every russian soldier is a mercenary in terms of international law. russia didn't declare a war to Ukraine, only some kind of "special operation", so all it's soldiers on ukraine territory it's a mercenaries. Without a proper (in terms of russian law) procedure they are going to another country to fight because of the fat they get paid for it.
Bla bla bla So, as i see, you don't mind and agree with the idea that of russia didn't proclaime a war to Ukraine we can consider russian soldiers as mercs and can sentence them to death? Ok. Fair deal i think. If russians will shot this guys we should do the same with russian mercenaries. And this is something that Adolf Putin may even be happy to hear about if it happened. Most of the young Russians that are stupid or desperate enough to join the RF army have already been killed, captured or are at the front wishing to be back home. The only chance of getting new recruits is trying to generate hate - as of now he only has indifference and opposition and that does not win wars. Ukraine's goal is to #1 survive, #2 hold on to as much land as it can with minimal losses. US's goal is to 'weaken' Russia, Do you not see a conflict of interest with such arrangement? Knowing USs track record, do you think it's supporting and sending $50B out of goodness of its heart with no strings attached? How high (if at all) do you think Ukrainian soldier lives rank in US calculations to weaken Russia? If a goal is just to weaken Russia without defeating it, wouldn't supply of weapons look exactly as it does today, trickling in enough to cause higher losses (on both sides) and drag things on yet not enough to really change the ultimate outcome. Given the following option guess who would prefer what, think RU position is clear here, they're committed regardless. -Outcome X with Y UA losses and Z RU losses -Same outcome X only with >Y UA losses and >Z RU losses A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an outside power and subject to its orders. Puppet states have nominal sovereignty, but a foreign power effectively exercises control through means such as financial interests, economic, or military support. By leaving a local government in existence the outside Powers evade all responsibility, while at the same time successfully paralyzing the Government they tolerate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_stateNo need for "or", all boxes financial, economic, military are definitely checked off. Now you can claim that being under one power is more preferential than the other in certain sectors, but calling Ukraine independent at this stage is naïve |
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A thought occured: M. Saylor is a giant death_wish...sorry, pal.
wtf did he (M.S) got so much on margin?
Should have just bought in cash+ a little (or none) on margin.
Now, obviously WS 'wants' to liquidate his position as they always do with all margins.
There must be a player or players behind this and it all point to one in particular...
..Who was the person who said that bitcoin cannot do transactions recently?
Where did celsius funds go?
Make your own conclusions.
That's why BTC needs no leader. Saylor getting margin called would not help BTC |
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