Here we go

All band: Me, myself, I and Heikki (the bass player gets a job), we´ll take some gigs sometimes in clubs and other good places.
We ´re playing, `couse we like it. The subscription from here.
(Next gig 29.6.2011 - Get your ass at K-Klubi)
Next gig: 28.7 - Hiili, Aurinkoterassi). My regards.
Get your ass at Resistori-Klubi: Next gig: 29.9.2011 .. .. !
Next gig 1.5 at Kuopio Market Square at 14.00.
Next gig playing for Save the Rupla, 28.7.12 at Piispanpuisto (at Bishop´s Park of Kuopio).
Now: I´m gonna present some of my texts in three languages  with simple accompaniment at next TEXTfirst night.
Get your ass at Henry´s pub  15.1.2013 at 22h, for my please,..and the new gig: April 16nd.
I will get my ass and quitar to Lekkeri 13.4.2013 @ Helmi's birthday party with streetpunk.
the next time you will see me in Kuopio will be 26th May 2013. there comes a gig ... at Pushkin's statue to start at 12:00.
Next gig playing for Save the Rupla, 23th November 2013 at Rupla. Starts at 14:00 -> Get your ass on there where occurs!
Nästa min spelning ska finnas på Nykterhetshuset 2014/12/04 (kl 11:00) i Kuopio. Hör du, som nya arbetarklassmusik, några bra låtar.
The Next gig will be May 1, 2014 on Kuopio Market Square's stage at 9.00.
.. and you will also see me in Kuopio on the gig-stage at the lake of Valkeinen about at fourte
en May 1, 2014.

hemmagården på onsdag, den 28:e dagen kl 21 i denna månad ->
Ro sitt röv hit och se:
The Old Union Band.
The solo-gig on the Kuopio's VR-Magazine at 8/08/2015 Saturday. There will be some kind of antifascist theme. Get your ass there at 19:00. The next gig at same place at 29/8/
den spelningen på Kuopios marknadstorget den lördag, 12 september (2015) klockan 11 framåt.
det kommer att
finnas upproret nu!
Live at BilliardCenter oct 30, 2015. The FridayBand.
scenen 6 augusti `16 på Peräniemenkasino i Kuopio.
Följande gig på scenen 12 augusti `17 vid Peräniemenkasino i Kuopio-stad.
Gig på Peräniemenkasino den 4 september 2021. Jag har startat nya soloalbumsinspelningar.

Ps. Someone did ask,
my first album The Desert Songs is sold out.
I `m sorry.
(we are working with the new material)
(Update 20.9.11: Heikki has left the band.)
Pena Tikanmäki came in on bass.
I'm making a new record..
(Update 08.7.12: ROH Band Mark II works)
(Update 30.3.14: The Old Union Band has been formed)
(Update 30.8.15) the newly named: Fridayband.
(Update 20.9.11: Heikki has left the band.)
Pena Tikanmäki came in on bass.
I'm making a new record (update: 15.11.2023

19 sep. 2023

The Cursed War of Aggression

Then we went to February 24, 2022. It had been maybe 10 hours since Vladimir Putin announced some kind of  “special military operation” against Ukraine, but the fighting was already taking place dangerously close to Kyiv. 
Russian forces were trying to take control of the Hostomel airport on the north-western outskirts of Ukraine’s capital. Columns of tanks and other heavy equipment were heading towards Kyiv from Belarus. It was only a 130 kilometers journey. 
“If the ILs would have been able to land at Hostomel, we might be today in a totally different situation than what he have." 
Estonian military intelligence chief colonel Margo Grosberg took pause before said that the answer seems just a tad too long. But he acknowledges that the Hostomel battle that day (24.2.2022) might well have been the most crucial battle in the whole course of the Ukrainian war so far.
Then, roughly 800 km away in Pskov, 18 IL-76 transport planes started their engines and headed towards the takeoff track. 
According to VSquare the planes were full of perhaps Russia’s most elite airborne troops from the 76th Guards Air Assault Division. The approximately 1,000 troops loaded onto the planes were highly trained, and many of them already experienced from the Chechen wars. 
Their objective was to fly to Kyiv and quickly finish their war of aggression, so-called “special military operation”.
The ILs were already halfway towards the Hostomel airport when, according to VSquare, Christo Grozev was the first to publicly draw attention to it: 
“The only plausible goal would be to capture and subordinate Kyiv and install a puppet government today. While the world is watching and doing almost nothing.”
But luckily this time Grozev got it a little bit wrong. 
Two different sources confirmed to Delfi Estonia that Estonia’s military intelligence, officially known in English as the Military Intelligence Centre of Estonian Defense Forces, had sent an advance warning to their Ukrainian colleagues before the troops had even stepped on the planes.
And Ukraine poured everything it had around Kyiv to keep the planes from landing. The Ukrainians showered the airfield with artillery fire to make the landing strip unusable. Apparently one of Russia’s KA-52 attack helicopters was shot down and crashed on the runway making it virtually impossible for the ILs to land. After circling in the Ukrainian sky for some time, they needed to return to the base. 
Read more from here.

During the war, Grosberg asked for a different type of present from Ukraine. He asked for a Russian unmanned aerial vehicle, drone that Ukraine had captured. The Ukrainians packed one of a specific type of UAVs that was in surprisingly good condition. Back home, the Estonian military intelligence was able to study the UAV and Grosberg says the local defense forces are now better aware of how to defend against it. Then they sent the model back to Ukraine.
Besides Russia’s totally failed initial planning, the second reason that the war has carried out for so long lies in the collective west and its slow political decision making process, according to Grosberg. 
“Now, 550-plus days into the war, we have agreed to supply Ukraine with weapons and equipment that president Vladimir Zelensky asked on day one. "
If it would have been granted right then and not delivering heavy equipment by a few pieces at a time only, the situation could be much different.
Grosberg makes clear that he doesn’t think much of the supposed “red lines” that might push Putin to opt for tactical nuclear weapons. 
Surely, he says, the new weapons won’t cross that red line, if indeed such a line exists. 
 "I don’t see the threat of tactical nuclear weapons as significantly high."
Anyway, I don't think that humanity has the right to use nuclear weapons anymore.


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