A heavy snowstorm is coming we are preparing heating for animals.
Your help with emergency costs is very appreciated
ps,we have suspended the dogs' mission for a few days because the storm is very dangerous for our modest car .
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Finance, business & IT journalist. Currently Head of Partner Content at Datacenter Dynamics. All tweets personal and all retweets retweeted for interest value
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More extraordinary tales of senior police nepotism in London. Apparently you are an 'internal terrorist' if you raise issues about the appalling new IT system. They also said this when we objected to PPAF, Direct Entry and degreegate, all now gone. #lionsledbydonkeys
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Near Bakhmut, a mercenary commander from the russian "Wagner" PMK was wounded.
Then russians took him behind the house and killed him with an axe.
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It’s fair to say since October RU has likely doubled the force deployed in Ukraine, and significantly reduced the length of the front being defended after retreating from Kherson. Force density has therefore increased relative to territory being occupied. 5/
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After Kharkiv & Kherson, the Russian military was at its most vulnerable going into the winter. Mobilization helped stabilize Russian lines, raise manning levels, and establish reserves. Consequently, Ukraine no longer enjoys a significant manpower advantage. 2/
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The Soviet ЭШ 6/45 Walking Excavator is like a living piece of post-apocalyptic artwork. The rust, the mismatched curtains, even the fact it's decades old and built in a country which no longer exists.
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In this map by the EMSC you can tell how two separate faultlines have been activated.
While initially the aftershocks moved on a southwest axis, the second earthquake has been followed by aftershocks moving northwest.
Clearly shows that the two earthquakes were separate events.
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This man is an aggressive pig who needs to learn some damned manners.
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She moved away from him and he thinks she's rude because she doesn't want to be hit on. Oh okay.
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🆔 Covid contact tracing app
🆔 Vaccine passports
🆔 Smart cities / 15 minute cities
🆔 Central bank digital currencies
🆔 Carbon trackers
🆔 Voter ID
One thing connects these:
Digital ID. It will be sold as “safety and convenience” but it’s really for control and surveillance.
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When commuting into the city many decades ago, a bloke rushed to throw up out of the window and due to the train travelling pretty fast, it all blew back in and landed on an unsuspecting ladies lap...she didn't react in a typically British way 🤣🙄
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Tank crews from the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been quick to master the controls of the mighty Challenger 2 this week.
The UK is providing Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to help them defend their homeland and retake territory.
🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
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Newly declassified US cable from Jan. 30, 1992: "[Former Soviet Republics] are seeking to attain as much real freedom from Moscow as they can, because they all believe a restored and powerful Russia in the future will attempt to reestablish its sway by one means or another."
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The exposé in The Times on Raab’s ‘bullying’ doesn’t exactly give the accusations much credence… His diary was difficult to manage, he was particular about document formatting and he told officials when work was poor quality. Sounds like a typical place of work…
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“We brought Mujahideen from all over the world, we trained and armed the Taliban and sent them inside (Afghanistan), they were our heroes, the Haqqanis are our heroes, Osma Bin Laden was our hero.”
— Former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf
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Because the United States and its allies refuse to provide Ukrainian defenders with long-range missiles and attack aircraft, the Russians are keeping ammunition dumps and troop concentrations at a safe distance. The invaders have been left undisturbed to prepare a new offensive.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett conveyed a message from Putin to Zelensky that Russia would not assassinate Zelensky
The Wagner Group and Kadyrovtsy's subsequent arrival to kill Zelensky likely undercut Israel's ability to act as a backchannel
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According to the Canadian Defense Ministry, their first batch of Leopard 2s being Transfered to Ukraine have arrived in Eastern Poland and they will soon beginning the process of training Ukrainian Military Personnel on their Operation.
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This is what a top quality depot level tank overhaul facility looks like.
Note the housekeeping - cleanliness - and organization of tools, jigs, assemblies and part bins.
There is a chain drive in the floor to hook vehicles into & pull them forward.
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The Excalibur factories in the Czech Republic preparing the next batch of T-72B. Currently those T-72M1 are undergoing restoration and modernization.
The Czech Republic promised to deliver 90 of those MBTs.
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#Ukraine #CzechRepublic
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The Treasury has signalled there is no new money for defence despite recognising the urgent need to rearm in the wake of Russia's war in Ukraine, defence sources have said.
Read 's exclusive report 👇
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If you are interested in Russia's Africa policy, read this insightful review of my book
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Review - In "Russia in Africa" Samuel Ramani deep dives into the roots of Russia-Africa relations – from the 16th-century bond between Christian communities in Egypt and Russia, to the Soviet Union’s support for anti-colonial movements in the 20th century. african.business/2023/02/trade-
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1/ QUICK THREAD on the Russian take of where UAVs and drones are today for both Russian and Ukrainian militaries - from a pro-Kremlin Telegram channel - main points below:
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Not a single Chinese Communist Party head of Tibet has actually come from Tibet. Only the largely ceremonial heads of the local legislature have, the Party Committee holds the real power.
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Erdogan taking a page out of his best friend Imran Khan's playbook?
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#LATEST: “Global powers from Europe to US are making great efforts to influence the May 14 elections (in Turkey). Therefore,they have launched vile campaigns against me,” says Erdogan.
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Alleged leak of details of 2022 payouts to PRC-friendly #SolomonIslands MPs. Comes on eve of Feb 7 attempt to topple Malaita Premier Suidani. If accurate, indicates the level of dissent within SIG about political attacks on Suidani.
Requires urgent corroborating investigation.
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Happy anniversary to when I got battered by some random man for absolutely no reason and the police did nothing as they claimed they couldn’t get CCTV of the incident (IN SOHO) as cameras apparently aren’t allowed to point at the street anymore because of GDPR…
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Appeal for information following a reported incident where pedestrians failed to stop and yield to the more vulnerable cyclists at a crossing
When traced we will issue Fixed Penalty Notices for £71.75 to offenders
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Parapsychology is a “null field” like homeopathy: Because it investigates a non-existent phenomenon, it provides an index of the power of research bias to produce desired results. doi.org/10.1016/j.jcli
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By mid-2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab knew that they had discovered an incredibly interesting new lineage of SARS-like viruses.
In Dec 2019, a novel coronavirus from that lineage caused an outbreak in their city.
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Another thesis, from June 2019, describes an entirely new lineage of SARS viruses under study at the WIV - the lineage that SARS2 is in - and you can see from the figure that there were 9 in total: Ra4991 and eight others.
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Good evening and welcome along to today in 1983 on BBC1 Ceefax!
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Moscow is equipping its fighter jets, submarines and soldiers with the help of Chinese companies, customs data shows wsj.com/articles/china via
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Yes, someone very close to NRF leadership told me that Taliban was castrating prisoners.
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I have heard of Panjshiri men being plucked from the street or abducted from their homes, taken to "unknown locations", and then returned with some of their toes missing. I have also heard of secret prisons in Panjshir where the prisoners have their genitals "pressed".
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Prisons in Afghanistan have been transformed into slaughterhouses. Prisoners are being subjected to electric shocks, amputation of limbs such as hands, feet, genitalia & dozens other horrible tortures. Sattar Sirat, former Special Force was detained & died under Taliban ...
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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Plea for attendees for 97 year old Ipswich RAF veterans funeral with no family to attend. Ipswich crematorium, 22nd February 11.45 . currently one neighbour and 2 from solicitors attending only
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