TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 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
Jeff is dying to tell you why I don't fly. I remember the time they told us it was a regular landing after dropping an artillery piece from 2000 feet. "Just part of training".
https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/donald-trump-is-a-gibbering-lunatic?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Pilot training is lagging behind. It will be summer 2025 before there are enough pilots.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/dutch-f-16s-to-arrive-in-ukraine-in-summer/
Yekaterinburg resident who insulted a child in a hat with a Z was sent to a colony
State owned media reported that a court in Yekaterinburg sentenced Alexander Neustroev, who insulted a schoolboy wearing a hat with the letter Z, to 3 years in a penal colony.
He was found guilty under the article on hooliganism committed with the threat of violence, motivated by hatred against any social group.
The incident, which was caught on video, occurred in April last year. Later it turned out that the boy's father was fighting in Ukraine. The boy's mother wrote a statement against Neustroev about the so-called discrediting of the army. An administrative protocol was first drawn up against Neustroev, but after the story attracted the attention of pro-war bloggers, a criminal case was opened on hooliganism.
Neustroev pleaded guilty and apologized to the family of the schoolboy.
In June, the court dismissed the case, imposing a court fine of 7.000 rubles. This decision caused howling outrage among the so-called 'patriotic' Z-channels. They began to threaten Neustroev with lynching.
The Prosecutor General's Office hastened to demand a revision of the court's decision in the case of Neustroev, claiming that it could not be terminated, since "it is directed not only against a schoolchild, but also causes damage to the social and moral education of the younger generation and the interests of the RF."
In February 2024, the prosecutor's office, having approved the indictment in the criminal case, sent it for a new trial.
Which finally bowed to the "peoples justice". Perhaps they can scrap next time all pretense and just fix a date for public lynching?
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The governor of one of the largest agricultural regions of russia announced the loss of a third of the harvest
Crop losses in the Rostov region this year due to weather conditions may amount to about 30%, Governor Vasily Golubev said.
"A couple of days ago, I introduced a high alert mode. And this mode is the threshold of the emergency mode. According to my estimates, taking into account communication with the villagers, I see a loss of about 30% of the harvest."
Due to early spring in the Rostov region in March, almost all crops sprouted, in April there was hot weather, and in May frosts struck, which led to the loss of 210 thousand hectares. Now there has been no rain in the region over the past two months.
May frosts damaged the harvest in almost all of central russia. Frosts destroyed the strawberry crop in the Bryansk, Kursk, Lipetsk and Rostov regions, where industrial production has been established. In this regard, suppliers are preparing to raise prices at least twice - that year 1 kg of these berries cost about 3000 rubles. And since strawberries are widely used in confectionery, prices for cakes, pastries, jams and preserves will also increase. In addition, this berry is used in pharmaceuticals - in the production of drugs for hypertension.
Bad weather damaged the harvest of apples, cherries and black currants. Due to problems with the harvest of apples and berries, russians should prepare for an increase in prices for baby food and juices as well. These products may rise in price by 30%.
Sources in the Ministry of Agriculture reported that the damage from frosts in May exceeds 10 billion rubles.
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No need to panic, comrades. Remember the wise words of your Minister Oksana Lut: "We see no difficulties: If the harvest is low, we just will have less."
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With the ax
State Duma is busy. It wants to send schoolchildren to felling trees during the summer holidays, and to bomb NATO airfields if F-16 take off to Ukraine.
The Z-regime plan to allow students to be hired for especially dangerous work during the summer holidays, including work at height, in confined spaces and in contaminated areas, with poisons and electric current, as well as felling wood, moving heavy loads, etc. as such enterprises are "in desperate need of personnel."
Allegedly minors are equally desperate asking for the ban to be lifted. Deputies believe that to be "an important career guidance task" noting that otherwise such enterprises will begin to lose personnel, since students cannot practice in their profession due to restrictions.
The Federation of Trade Unions of Tatarstan and a number of universities of the republic warned against such changes, noting that working in harmful conditions will increase the number of disabled people among young people and reduce the birth rate.
Putin ordered last year the lifting of restrictions on child work from the age of 14 to cope with a shortage of workers in the economy, which the authorities estimate to be in the hundreds of thousands. The shortage of personnel has worsened due to the war, mobilization, the mass exodus of Russians, as well as an increase in the number of employees of military factories.
A new red line has been drawn. While russia threatens to attack F-16 fighters and airfields based outside Ukraine "as a legitimate target for the russian army" if they participate in sorties, they stressed that there will be no claims to the "former partners" if the fighters stand at western airfields, as in storage, from where they will then be transported to Ukraine, where they will be maintained, after which they will begin to fly from Ukrainian airfields.
"But if they take off from the airfields of some country, enter the airspace of Ukraine, launch missiles and return there, then this is a legitimate target. As for the possibility to shoot down, we can shoot down anyone and anywhere," the head of the State Duma's defense committee, Andrei Kartapolov said.
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A bright flash from the history of the Russian Resistance. Without reference to any “dates” or “anniversaries” - it is simply important to read, understand, and take note.
On May 10, 1923, in Lausanne, Switzerland, near the Cecil Hotel, Soviet diplomat and veteran Bolshevik Vaclav Vorovsky was shot dead by White Guard officer Maurice Conradi. Having killed Vorovsky and wounded his two assistants, Conradi gave the revolver to the head waiter with the words: “I did a good deed - the Russian Bolsheviks destroyed all of Europe... This will benefit the whole world.”
In his opening statement at the trial, Conradi said:
“I believe that with the destruction of every Bolshevik, humanity moves along the path of progress. I hope that other brave souls will follow my example, thereby demonstrating the greatness of their feelings.”
The prosecutor in his speech stated that even the murder of a tyrant is a crime.
In response, one of the lawyers, Theodor Ober, pointed out the window at the monument to the national hero of Switzerland William Tell, and suggested demolishing it. Tell, according to legend, killed the imperial governor during the Swiss struggle for independence.
The defense turned the trial of Conradi into a trial of Bolshevism. During the ten days of the trial, about 70 witnesses spoke in the courtroom, talking about the crimes of Bolshevik tyranny. As a result , the court acquitted Conradi by a majority vote, qualifying his act as an act of fair retribution for the Soviet regime for its atrocities.
According to the verdict, Conradi, a member of the anti-Bolshevik resistance, would be recognized as “acting under the pressure of circumstances.”
Russian émigré writer Mikhail Artsybashev, covering the trial, wrote:
“Vorovsky was killed not as an ideological communist, but as an executioner... Killed as an agent of the world’s arsonists and poisoners, who are preparing the fate of unfortunate Russia for the whole world.”
Swiss public opinion was entirely on Conradi's side. The Western press, under the influence of the court, actively wrote about the crimes of the Bolsheviks in the USSR and their subversive activities in the West.
It would be good for modern journalists, lawyers, and Western officials to know this story. To know how clearly the West used to separate good and evil.
Moscow, enraged by the acquittal, broke off relations with Switzerland.
The communists, as a response propaganda campaign, began to disfigure the streets and squares of the cities under their control by renaming them in honor of Vorovsky.
Ukraine has washed away the traces of this yoke and removed the names of Vorovsky and other scoundrels from the maps.
In Mariupol, until 2016, there was also Vorovskogo Street. Now Putin's occupiers have probably returned the name back. But this is temporary.
The time will come when the streets of the liberated cities of Russia will also bear the names of Maurice Conradi and other heroes - both from past eras and from the present era.
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In South Africa, the party of the former president and friend of Putin was accused of receiving money from russia
Putin is trying to expand his influence in Africa and for this purpose began to financially support former President Jacob Zuma, who returned to politics after resigning and serving time in prison. At least, that's what African politicians and experts say. The two men have developed friendly relations, and Zuma's daughter supported Putin after he started the war in Ukraine.
Zuma, a representative of the African National Congress (ANC) party, became president in 2009 In December 2023, six months before the parliamentary elections held a week ago, he founded a new party, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK - Spear of the Nation), which unexpectedly won 14.5% of the vote. At the same time, the ANC, which had ruled the country since 1994, for the first time did not receive an absolute majority (40.2% of the vote).
Zuma's party has been well-funded since it was registered in January, John Stenhausen, leader of the largest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, told the Financial Times (with 21.7% of the vote). From the very first day of the election campaign, they had tents, branded clothes and expensive campaign materials, he noted: "I am sure that the money came to their accounts from russia. This is not a family organization. I definitely believe that it was russian money."
Stenhausen, however, admitted that he had no evidence to support this. But Herman Mashaba, the former mayor of Johannesburg and leader of the ActionSA party, which broke away from the Democratic Alliance in 2020 (received 1.2% of the vote), also has questions about the sources of funding for the MK.
"The MK wasted money in these elections, but at the same time did not submit a declaration to the Election Commission of South Africa. This is incomprehensible. There have been a lot of questions about where they got the money from and we don't have hard evidence yet, but they have to explain it."
In South Africa, all parties are required to report receiving more than R100,000 ($5,300). However, the MC, unlike other parties, did not submit a declaration of donations to the Election Commission.
According to Mmusi Maimane, leader of the Building One South Africa party, the MK spent several million rands on the campaign, significantly overspending long-established parties.
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@freerussia_report
🔴 These are not fireworks to celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. These are our air defense systems protecting our civilians against a barrage of Hezbollah rockets in northern Israel.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 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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