The Cost of Cowardice

The failure to cross the Rubicon is proving to be expensive for President Trump: Donald Trump and his family business have been fined a devastating $364 million for inflating property prices worth following a blockbuster fraud trial in New York. Judge Arthur Engoron also banned the former president from serving as the director of a […]

https://voxday.net/2024/02/17/the-cost-of-cowardice/

The number of people trying to summit Mt. Everest

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This is a good introduction to the gnostic mystery thinking that is popular in elite circles and that guides their apocalyptic thinking and actions. Looking forward to part two.

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"Dexter Taylor is a 52-year-old native New Yorker and a software engineer who enjoys building things. When he discovered the world of gun manufacturing, he believed he had found a new hobby and possibly a small business opportunity. Now, he is locked in a legal battle for his freedom against the state of New York."

Article:
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/15/brooklyn-mans-gun-hobby-leads-to-a-swat-raid-and-a-legal-fight-for-his-freedom-n2167600

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia has concentrated about 500 tanks, more than 600 combat vehicles and about 40 thousand soldiers in the Kupyansk direction with the goal of recapturing the territory of the Kharkov region, from where the Russians left in the fall of 2022, Forbes writes.

The Russian group is opposed by approximately 10 Ukrainian brigades, numbering about 20,000 troops. But the main problem is not even the difference in numbers, but the shortage of ammunition among the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the publication notes. With a five-fold advantage in shells, Russia can concentrate artillery without fear of Ukrainian counter-battery fire.

“This situation allows Russia to apply a well-known approach: the systematic destruction of urban areas, making them unprotected,” explained the Ukrainian analytical group Frontelligence Insight.

Ukraine is trying to compensate for the lack of ammunition by using thousands of FPV drones, but the range of such a drone is only 2-3 kilometers. This is not enough to hunt Russian artillery, which is located 20-25 km from the front.

NEW - The United States has just undergone its most substantial one-year population increase in history, with growth exceeding 3.8 million people in 2023, primarily attributed to illegal immigration, according to a recent report by John Burns Research and Consulting.

Under President Biden's leadership, over 8 million people have entered the country illegally.

On Biden's inaugural day, he signed executive orders that incentivize illegal immigration:

• Paused Deportations
• Suspended "Remain in Mexico"
• Stopped Border Wall Construction

As the nation grapples with the rising costs linked to illegal immigration, major cities are making budget cuts to essential services such as fire, police, sanitation, libraries, and education.

Despite facing these domestic challenges, President Biden and Washington D.C. politicians are advocating for allocating an additional hundred billion dollars to protect foreign borders from distant invasions.

This situation exemplifies the "America Last" approach, wherein America and its citizens bear hardships and sacrifices, functioning as pawns on a geopolitical chessboard that primarily serves the interests of the elites.

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Avdeevka Finally Falls

As Simplicius has been predicting, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been driven from Avdeevka after a prolonged siege. The abandonment of the fortifications there should enable the Russian forces to quickly push back the front line far enough to finally end the shelling of Donetsk, the region’s capitol city. Ukrainian troops have been ordered to […]

https://voxday.net/2024/02/17/avdeevka-finally-falls/

"Some 1,500 Ukrainian troops were killed as they retreated, leaving their weapons and equipment behind, the ministry said.

"The seizure moves the front line further away from the city of Donetsk, thereby shielding its civilian population from bombardment by Ukrainian forces. Situated around 20km away, Avdeevka had been fortified and used as a staging ground for such attacks since 2014."

https://www.rt.com/russia/592600-moscow-key-city-donbass/

"For all their theorizing on guerrilla wars, Communist writers such as Mao and Che Guevara are notably silent about the best, if not indeed indispensable, base area for every successful guerrilla movement — a friendly foreign territory contiguous to or easily accessible from the guerrilla area. Their reason is obvious — to maintain the myth of independent, indigenous "liberation wars" and to disguise the fact that most of them are organized, led and supplied by established Communist governments... Guerrillas never win wars, but their adversaries often lose them!"

Charles W. Thayer (1963). Guerilla.

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We’re Dangerous and We’re Spreading

The Economist senses the ongoing decline of Clown World and is terrified of the consequences of its inevitable collapse: IN THE 1980s Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher built a new conservatism around markets and freedom. Today Donald Trump, Viktor Orban and a motley crew of Western politicians have demolished that orthodoxy, constructing in its place […]

https://voxday.net/2024/02/17/were-dangerous-and-were-spreading/

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Winds in Antarctica

Temperature is far from the only challenge awaiting the brave souls at the South Pole. Here blow the strongest and most persistent winds on the planet, reaching speeds of 322 km/h (with an average of about 240 km/h)! Moreover, these winds blow almost year-round, hardly ever subsiding. Nowhere else in the world will you encounter such harsh weather conditions.

However, it’s almost always sunny here: due to the cold, the air is very dry (it has the lowest relative humidity on the planet), making this place have the most intense solar radiation on Earth.

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