Piracy is much better because:

a) happens in the background while you do other things (both downloading and uploading)

b) doesn’t usually use dedicated servers which consume a bunch of power for working and cooling (and take up land). In case of streaming services, servers need to be turned on 24/7 whether someone uses them or not. Then there’s the matter of energy used for their massive bandwidth to be able to distribute to all the clients simultaneously.

c) doesn’t use crazy amounts of power for encoding/decoding and compressing/decompressing a stream.

The third reason alone makes piracy a lot more environmentally friendly.

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The Ukrainians seem to be pulling brigades even from Kursk to halt the Pokrovsk collapse.

It is likely they realized that the ongoing Kursk offensive or the planned Zaporozhie offensive will not work, especially since their Western masters have not unlocked their ATACMS and other long-range weapons to be able to strike deep into Russian territory.

It is also likely the Russians will hold off advancing further (at least so rapidly) in the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka line in the near future, and instead will push exactly where the Ukrainians are pulling troops from.

The way the western economy is tied together through stock markets though means that one company or hedge fund failing because one manufacturer goes down, will cause a domino effect (either due to panic or interconnected stocks). That’s the fear anyway. We’ve seen exactly that when Intel’s stock went down, which was only mitigated by the Fed printing money and silently propping up the stock market.

The West has built itself an economy based on services and speculation. Meaning it’s backed by nothing, other than imaginary concepts. So when the prices of tangible goods go down, the few EU/US/UK industries that use/produce them suddenly have to lower prices as they can’t compete. If they lower prices, their stock goes down. If their stock goes down, then the whole speculation sector deflates in value. If the speculation sector loses value, the western economies collapse.

There’s a similar worry with the price of steel (which is also “overproduced” by China after diminishing its construction sector), and don’t forget the recent tarrifs imposed on EVs and renewable resources exported by China as well.

There’s wider implications on the West caused by price cuts:

• less profits for the capitalist class

• line doesn’t go up exponentially any more

• the global south suddenly has viable alternatives to importing high-tech and manufactured goods

• the financial instruments used to keep the global south down are no longer effective

A few weeks ago, the German army tried to silently whitewash Wehrmacht and SS war criminals by naming them as “tradition-formers”, “trend-setters” and “pioneers” of the modern German army.

The head of Ukrainian intelligence had said before that Russians only understand fear, in response to bombing civilian targets and raiding incursions in Belgorod. And some of the units in Kursk are under the direct control of Ukrainian intelligence.

And there’s a video of a Ukrainian POW, who surrendered in Vovchansk, stating that he was recruited from prison into the Ukrainian army, and the recruiters promised them they would be used to attack Russia, and then let loose to rape and pillage as much as they wanted as bonus payment.

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Anyone has a way to access the full article?

Well, you know, the Wehrmacht did nothing wrong! They didn’t know! They were clean!

Or at least there was a reason we’ve been hearing this stuff all these decades.

The American project of restoring Germany’s military and industrial might that can start world wars, as a tool in their pocket has been completed.

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This is World News, not Fake News.

How a bunch of Nazis brainwash children in the woods of western New York state

Bear in mind, Macron was first elected on the promise he would “normalize” French politics and squeeze the far right out.

That just means for every 9 guys aged 20, the unit has a 270-year-old man. And you know, you can still use those to terrorize the Russians.

We are literally talking about the exact same people who kicked Jeremy Corbin out, support Israel and Ukraine, and in these elections said that they’ll basically change nothing.

That’s what I like to see. If Asia finally unites into a common front, they can actually decolonize. Same goes for Africa.

I think we all agree at this point that holding out for better negotiating terms will only result in a weaker position and worse outcome for Ukraine. Zelenskyy needs to wake up and start peace talks immediately.

There’s been efforts to elevate the Azov Nazis in the eyes of Ukrainians recently, and the US has lifted sanctions to equip them. It’s likely that they’ll be used to conduct another coup if Zelensky tries to negotiate too early/give away too much. Or they are being prepared to take power again after peace is signed and Zelensky is gone.

Zelensky this last week started saying that Ukraine will start negotiating by the end of the year.

The recent “peace summit” in Switzerland was a failure, but immediately afterwards we saw a bunch of Western nations ramping up the aid and committing to deploying support personell for the rear (mostly medics and engineers they say). Probably Zelensky promised there will be one last counteroffensive. If some success, he’s probably thinking he will convince the Russians to accept less concessions.

He announced this week that Russia must accept:

• Ukraine joining NATO (no chance)

• Ukraine joining the EU (maybe feasible, as Putin’s last terms did not prohibit this)

• Russia to pay Ukraine monetary concessions for the war and lost territorry (significant that the Ukrainians are backpedalling on 1991 borders; maybe Russia will actually pay as a negotiating chip for further Ukrainian concessions)

He did not talk about:

• demilitarization (which will definitely be a Russian term)

• denazification (which Russia will likely accept symbolically, in favour of other concessions)

• commitment to neutrality (which Russia will definitely demand)

And he still wants to treat Russia through a third party (likely the US/UK, possibly China) which Russia will not accept.

The Biden-Trump debate, as well as the French election results have shown that the West is unlikely to continue supporting Ukraine for long. That Zelensky is willing to negotiate by the end of the year probably has something to do with Biden’s likely exit from the White House in January.

Furthermore, the current situation on the ground could not be more starkingly obvious:

• Russians are sweeping Ukrainian defenses and making massive gains in significant areas.

• The recent mobilization in Ukraine was a massive failure. Newly mobilized troops are either surrendering en masse AND giving up information to the Russians (which has led to an increase in precision strikes on Ukrainian HQs, ammo depots, vehicle depots and areas of troop concentration), or refusing to attack or take up positions for defense, or dying in large numbers due to poor training.

• Ukrainian manpower is completely depleted and Ukrainian losses are climbing to record numbers.

• Lack of defensive works that outlines the massive corruption regarding Western aid

• Removal of commanding officers (like the general that Azov wanted removed) and disagreements between general staff and Zelensky (Zelensky and Syrsky are not getting along - it is likely that Syrsky refused to carry out a counteroffensive - also the aforementioned removed general was Syrsky’s friend/supporter/ally).

It is no wonder that Western media will start actually telling some truth about Project Ukraine. They need to prepare the people for the inevitable defeat of the West in Ukraine.

Yes, from “southern” Cyprus