May 30, 2022

So elon musk reposted a Hard Drive article without credit, got called out and whined about it

So elon musk reposted a Hard Drive article without credit and when he got called out for it (and ratio'd) he deleted the original post and whined about wokeness.

To top it all off he then declared the meme wasn't that funny anyway so THERE. Actual spoiled child behavior lmao.


https://twitter.com/woot_master/status/1531346663498842112

Elon keeps stealing shit from Hard Drive Mag and goes full meltdown right wing culture warrior when called out on it. If they're so unfunny and woke why does he keep stealing their shit

https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1531339915530850304

is posting
@HardDriveMag
articles without credit the worst thing that Elon Musk has done? not even close. but is it fun that we probably made the richest man on earth feel shitty today? a little bit, yea. a little bit

https://twitter.com/jeremysmiles/status/1531328808699183106

May 30, 2022

Biden: US will not send Ukraine rockets that can reach Russia

Source: aljazeera

The United States will not send Ukraine rocket systems that can reach Russia, President Joe Biden said on Monday.

The US president’s comments followed reports that the Biden administration was preparing to send advanced long-range rocket systems to Kyiv for its fight against Russia.

CNN and The Washington Post reported on Friday the Biden administration was leaning towards sending the MLRS and another system, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS, as part of a larger military aid package to Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government has urged the West to provide it with more longer-range weapons in order to turn the tide in the war, now in its fourth month. US officials had said such weapons systems are actively being considered.


Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/30/biden-us-will-not-send-ukraine-rockets-that-can-reach-russia

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This is a BIG mistake IMO. Some Biden advisers were for it, some against, sadly, this will just help monster putin destroy Ukraine.

May 30, 2022

Nato has the right to deploy in eastern Europe, deputy chief says

Nato is no longer bound by past commitments to hold back from deploying its forces in eastern Europe, the US-led alliance’s deputy secretary general has said.

Moscow itself has “voided of any content” the Nato-Russia Founding Act, by attacking Ukraine and halting dialogue with the alliance, Mircea Geoana told Agence France-Presse.

Under the 1997 Founding Act, intended to reset the relationship between Russia and the Alliance, both sides agreed to work to “prevent any potentially threatening build-up of conventional forces in agreed regions of Europe, to include Central and Eastern Europe”. Geoana, speaking in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, said:

Geoana did not give details of any such planned deployment, but said he anticipated “a robust, flexible and sustainable presence”.

May 28, 2022

Russia has resorted to crowdsourcing food, clothes and even military supplies for its troops

“No one expected there to be such a war,” Tatyana Plotnikova, a business owner in the city of Novokuybyshevsk, told the Times in a phone interview.

“I think no one was ready for this”.

The article suggests Russia’s $66bn (£52.2bn) defence budget was woefully inadequate for such a large scale undertaking as the invasion of Ukraine.

A grass-roots network of citizens is donating roubles to pay for, among other items, drones, crutches and potatoes to be sent to the front line.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/28/world/europe/russian-soldiers-military-supplies.html

May 28, 2022

Some of President Joe Biden's national security advisers are said to be fearful Ukraine may use the

long range rockets to hit targets inside Russia.
per the observer

Ukraine is in a race against time to save the eastern Donbas region as relentless Russian artillery and air strikes threaten to turn the tide of the war, and support for Kyiv’s continued defiance among some west European allies appears to be slipping.

Ukrainian officials say they urgently need advanced US-made mobile multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) to halt Russian advances in Luhansk and Donetsk. The rockets would be capable of striking Russian firing positions, military bases, air strips and supply lines at a range of up to 300km (185 miles).

Ongoing disagreements in Washington have held up MLRS deliveries. Some of President Joe Biden’s national security advisers are said to be fearful Ukraine may use the rockets to hit targets inside Russia, a development that could spark an escalation drawing in the US and Nato. Kyiv has previously launched attacks on Russian soil.

Moscow, keenly aware of the game-changing potential of the rocket systems, has already voiced strong objections. “If the Americans do this, they will clearly cross a red line,” said Olga Skabeeva, an influential Russian state TV host whose views reflect the Kremlin’s. Russia’s response could be “very harsh”, she warned.


IMHO those advisers need to understand that this is a fight for our survival too. If I were president Biden those advisers would be history.

May 27, 2022

Musk has a twitter poll that's trending asking who do you trust more politicians or billionaires

of coarse, its just another tool that fascists use to undermine government. That rich brat is dangerous, I tagged the thread as offensive.

May 26, 2022

US to send long-range rocket systems to Ukraine -

The US is preparing to send advanced, long-range rocket systems to Ukraine after an urgent request from Ukrainian officials, multiple officials reportedly told CNN.

The Biden administration is leaning toward sending the systems as part of a larger package of military and security assistance to Ukraine, which could be announced as soon as next week, the outlet reported.

Senior Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, have pleaded in recent weeks for the US and its allies to provide the Multiple Launch Rocket System, or MLRS.

The US-made weapon systems can fire a barrage of rockets hundreds of kilometres — much farther than any of the systems Ukraine already has — which the Ukrainians argue could be a game-changer in their war against

May 26, 2022

Kharkiv hit by fresh strikes amid fears city is still on Russian agenda

Artillery has pounded the city of Kharkiv for the first time in two weeks, just as life in Ukraine’s second city was starting to return to normal after Russian troops were pushed back from its outlying towns and villages.

Kharkiv’s regional governor, Oleh Synehubov, said at least seven people had been killed and 17 injured in the attacks on the northern part of the city.

“There’s no logic to it, it’s just terror against the local population, to sow panic and to destroy critical infrastructure,” said Synehubov, dressed in military fatigues with a pistol at his hip, in an interview with the Guardian in central Kharkiv shortly after the attacks.

The largely Russian-speaking city near the border of the two countries was heavily attacked during the first days of the war as Russian forces tried to take control, but they were pushed back to the suburbs. The Russians sent artillery and missiles into the city, on one occasion destroying the regional administration building, housed in a grand Stalin-era structure.

guardian live feed

May 26, 2022

Russia uses Orwellian propaganda news vans in Mariupol

Russia has deployed mobile propaganda vans with large-screen televisions to humanitarian aid points in the captured city of Mariupol as the Kremlin has pushed forward with efforts to integrate newly occupied territories across the south of Ukraine.

Videos published by the Russian ministry of emergency situations showed the vans, which it called “mobile information complexes”, playing state TV news segments and political chatshows where pundits support the invasion to locals in the ruined city that still lacks electricity and running water.

The Orwellian turn comes as much of Mariupol was destroyed in an artillery bombardment that left thousands dead. One of the vans was deployed near the ruins of the Mariupol drama theatre, where hundreds were killed in an airstrike in March.

Several of the trucks now patrol the city, mainly playing Russian television news segments. “The people of Mariupol have been held in a virtual informational vacuum for three months due to the lack of electricity,” wrote the emergencies ministry in a statement.

guardian live feed

May 24, 2022

U.S. to end Russia's ability to pay off international debt

Source: pbs

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will close the last avenue for Russia to pay its billions in debt back to international investors on Wednesday, making a Russian default on its debts for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution all but inevitable.

The Treasury Department said in a notification that it does not plan to renew the license that allowed Russia to keep paying its debtholders through American banks.

Since the first rounds of sanctions, the Treasury Department has given banks a license to process any dollar-denominated bond payments from Russia. That window expires at midnight May 25.

There had already been signs that the Biden administration was unwilling to extend the deadline. At a press conference heading into the Group of Seven finance minister meetings in Koenigswinter, Germany, last week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the window existed “to allow a period of time for an orderly transition to take place, and for investors to be able to sell securities.”.


Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-to-end-russias-ability-to-pay-international-debt

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(in a nutshell: Without the license to use U.S. banks to pay its debts, Russia would have no ability to repay its international bond investors. The Kremlin has been using JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup as its conduits to pay its obligations.)