TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@social.cleverlibre.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 71 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
This is a really good one. I have that photo somewhere in my library. "Get a Brain Moran's". Almost as funny as the KKK guy with the sign proclaiming he has "Superior Jeans"
https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/sporky-and-the-space-nazi-get-screwed?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Everyone should visit the Donald J Trump library at least once.
https://djtrumplibrary.com/
Mass forced deportation of Ukrainian children is a crime the world has never seen.
For the sake of a common future, the world must respond
Today, on World Children's Day, the conference "United for Justice: War Crimes against Ukrainian Children" will be held in Toronto, organized by Massey College, the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada, the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada and the Office of the Attorney General.
Mass forced deportation of Ukrainian children is a crime the world has never seen.
For the sake of a common future, the world must respond
Today, on World Children's Day, the conference "United for Justice: War Crimes against Ukrainian Children" will be held in Toronto, organized by Massey College, the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada, the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada and the Office of the Attorney General
Finland may completely close the land border with Russia, — IltaLehti.
Ukrainian energy facilities have implemented a three-level protection system:
▫️The first level involves safeguarding against explosive waves or indirect attacks using Shaheds, which are gabions comprising sandbags secured within metal cages.
▫️The second level incorporates structures designed to defend against direct drone strikes.
▫️At the third level, comprehensive structures are employed to provide combined protection against rocket attacks and "Shahed" strikes.
To support transformers at the substations, concrete block walls have been constructed. Additionally, cylindrical cells filled with sand and stones are utilized. These blocks and cells offer significant protection, accounting for 80-90% of cases, particularly shielding against drones and their debris.
Things are slowing a bit. I think the Russian soldiers are close to revolt over the meat assaults.
https://t.me/WarriorsUkrainian/14951
JDAM strike on a hangar. They must be using one of those heavy lift UAVs the Brits supplied. Thank you Britain.
🇺🇦🇺🇦 It was an amazing week. 🇺🇦🇺🇦
Russian losses for one week.
Russians in church singing about God's ballistic missiles
https://t.me/WarriorsUkrainian/14943
Good morning. 42⁰ and raining steadily. The freeze starts tomorrow and lasts a week.
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders are hoping to muster a supplemental package to aid the war efforts in Ukraine and Israel, as well as make improvements to the U.S. immigration system, by the end of the year, according to multiple people involved in discussions.
The ambitious timeline would mean striking a deal that satisfies the funding requested by the Department of Defense to aid conflict zones, while simultaneously crafting an immigration package that not only provides resources for border security but includes a suite of policy changes to appease conservatives without alienating progressive Democrats.
The Republican-led House has already passed an aid bill for Israel, but it includes hefty cuts to the IRS and excludes humanitarian assistance — both items that the White House and Senate Democrats find untenable. The question is how the next stage of negotiations will proceed.
Senate leaders, both Republican and Democratic, believe the best path toward writing a piece of legislation that has a hope of passing both chambers and getting President Joe Biden’s signature would likely need to originate in the Senate, where there is room for bipartisan negotiation.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has made it clear that passing the supplemental aid would be a top priority for him in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
“I know both sides genuinely care about approving aid to Israel and Ukraine and helping innocent civilians in Gaza,” Schumer said from the Senate floor Wednesday. “So I hope we can come to an agreement even if neither side gets everything they insist on. But it — we will be working on it immediately when we get back after Thanksgiving.”
But while Senate leaders are moving forward with their process, there is a group of conservative Republicans pushing the new House speaker, Mike Johnson, to pass a GOP-led bill in the House as a starting point for bicameral negotiations.
If the effort is successful, the House bill would be far more conservative than what might emerge in the Senate and could give hard-liners in the upper chamber more leverage in their negotiations over the final package.
“Johnson can’t make the Senate do the right thing,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., a Johnson ally, told NBC News. “But guess what? If they do their spending bills, if they’re going to be able to pass Ukraine aid with border security, if they do it with real benchmarks, I mean that makes it awfully difficult for senators to vote against it.”
Johnson has not yet said how he plans to handle the negotiations. But House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who is a strong proponent of funding for Ukraine and Israel, has been in regular contact with the speaker on the supplemental aid, and he suggested in interviews last week that he expects the Senate to act first.
Four Senate sources directly connected to the negotiations told NBC News the window between Thanksgiving and Christmas is crucial, and that there is concern among both Republicans and Democrats that if the calendar slides into the New Year, the chances of getting all four planks of the plan — aid to Israel, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific, and for border security — over the finish line reduces dramatically.
So now with the report in, time to bounce Georgie out on his ass.
On November 19, 1997, the space shuttle Columbia embarked on a mission from the Kennedy Space Center, marking a significant milestone for Ukraine as it carried Leonid Kadenyuk, Ukraine's first and, to date, only astronaut, as part of an international endeavor.
Beyond conducting scientific research, Kadenyuk aimed to elevate Ukraine's global presence, symbolized by bringing the Ukrainian flag, coat of arms, portraits of Taras Shevchenko, and Serhiy Korolev aboard the shuttle. His mission also resulted in the Ukrainian national anthem being played in space—a historic moment.
Upon his return, Kadenyuk was hailed as a national hero. He later served as an advisor on aviation and cosmonautics to state leadership and became a member of the Verkhovna Rada. Throughout his life, he remained concerned about the perceived insufficient progress in developing Ukraine's rocket and space industry.
Russian sabotage in Bulgaria
https://t.me/United24media/15515
Russia is forcibly sending people into Finland
https://t.me/United24media/15517
❗️DeepState:
Heavy fighting continues in the industrial zone near the Yasinuvata 2 station near Avdiivka
The enemy uses tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and infantry. The latter numbered one platoon.
Katsaps managed to break through the ATO fortifications and continues to advance, sometimes even reaching the western outskirts of the line.
The situation is difficult, while it is possible to fight back, but the loss of the line will be a matter of time, because it has already been sufficiently dismantled by the Katsap artillery, according to DeepState.
Further north in the Bakhmut direction, the enemy continues to advance north of Klishchiivka, reports DeepState.
Their cars exploded
Putin Needs More Meat For Assaults: Russia's Struggle in Mobilisation - UATV
Russia plans to toughen penalties for evading mobilisation, analysts of the Institute for the Study of War have said. Russian senators suggest that evaders should be held criminally liable. The Council of Federations also wants to punish contract workers more severely for desertion and failure to follow orders. Back in early August 2023, chairman of the Duma's Defence Committee, promised that in autumn 2023 the Duma would consider a law on punishment for evading mobilisation.
Watch the news story to see how Russian military commissions are failing to cope with the Kremlin's plans to recruit ‘cannon fodder’.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 71 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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