Blood on the table

”Murderer” by Kaj Stenvall, 2023, oil on board, 40 x 50 cm.

Vladimir Putin has long propped up his rule by claiming the West was at war with Russia. He and his entire staff are all pathological liars. "Putin has painted himself into this corner. It's a very dark place for where we are. I am not sure how we get to an end of it until Putin and his cronies go", says Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff.

Black Hats can do it

A yacht linked to Vladimir Putin.
According to New York Times the ship worth about
 700 million dollars, or about 660 million euros.
Built by Blohm+Voss company in 2014.
From YouTube Gibraltar Yachting.

The Lürssen shipyard group in Bremen has fallen victim to a cyber attack. As the Lürssen shipyards has announced, the group of companies became the target of a so-called ransomware attack over the Easter days. 

The luxury yacht manufacturers Lürssen and Blohm+Voss has previously stated in marketing communication that they are not interested in asking about the origin of the money offered by its customers.

Billions of dollars have already been laundered in the elite yacht manufacturing shipyard (e.g. money stolen from the Russian state treasury).

The Lürssen Group, based in Bremen-Vegesack, employs around 1,500 people. It is considered a world leader in the construction of luxury yachts and is also active in naval shipbuilding.

The company confirmed this at the request of buten un binnen. When asked, the police confirmed that criminal investigations had already been initiated. In addition, police cybercrime experts would advise the shipyard on how to deal with the incident.

In a ransom attack, attackers usually use malware to penetrate someone else's computer.

"In coordination with internal and external experts, we immediately initiated all necessary protective measures and informed the responsible authorities," 

said a company spokesman. The company did not want to say more at the moment.

Cyber attack apparently brings parts of the company to a standstill

According to information from buten un binnen, large parts of the shipyard operations have come to a standstill. The Lürssen-Kröger shipyard in Schleswig-Holstein is one of the few parts of the company that is currently still producing, according to the workforce.

A ransomware attack means that hackers penetrate a third-party IT system, for example a company. The data in the IT systems or on backup copies are encrypted. The company no longer has access to the data and operations are completely or partially paralyzed. The hackers demand money to decrypt the data.

У Путина рак.

Путин, вероятно, болен раком, сообщает немецкий журнал Focus. Это подтвердила недавняя утечка информации.

Фото: Кай Стенвалл.

Ovanligt grov rysk retorik

Det är på sin hemsida som Rysslands ambassad i Stockholm publicerat texten med rubriken ”Ett svenskt steg mot avgrunden”. Den är skriven av Rysslands ambassadör i Sverige, Viktor Tatarintsev.

Ambassadören skriver också att Sverige genom att ansluta sig till försvarsalliansen ”tar ett steg ner i avgrunden”.

Där hävdas också att Sverige kommer bli en lydstat och amerikansk koloni.

Denna Rysslands ambassad i Stockholm skriver på sin hemsida att Sverige blir ”ett legitimt mål för Rysslands vedergällningsåtgärder” om landet ansluter till Nato. 

So i texten hävdas att Sveriges politiker lurar svenskarna in i militäralliansen Nato. Se den publicerat texten med rubriken ”Ett svenskt steg mot avgrunden”. 

Bland annat citat:

”Om någon tror fortfarande att detta på något sätt kommer att förbättra Europas säkerhet, kan ni vara säkra på att de nya medlemmarna [Sverige och Finland tydligen] i det fientliga blocket blir ett legitimt mål för Rysslands vedergällningsåtgärder, inklusive de militära.”

Och: 

”Man bör inte utesluta att Natos önskan att kämpa mot Ryssland «till den siste ukrainaren» kommer att leda till en situation där det helt enkelt inte kommer att finnas några ukrainare kvar att slåss mot”. 

Fortfarande:

”Det är tydligt att svenska politiker ’förtrollade’ av Washington medvetet störtar ner sitt folk i Natos avgrund.”

”Var säker på att de nya medlemmarna [Sverige och Finland tydligen] i det fientliga blocket kommer att bli ett legitimt mål för ryska vedergällningsåtgärder, inklusive sådana av militär karaktär.”

Fortfarande:

"Den höga inflationen och de stigande matpriserna i Sverige kan förklaras med att Sverige gett sitt stöd till Kiev-regimen”.

Att Ryssland (Ryssä, på finska) skulle påstå att det inte är legitimt för Sverige att gå in i Nato är väldigt märkliga argument.

Målet är bara att skrämma.

полная расшифровка: «Они нас проебали, наших детей, их будущее, их судьбу, блядь, понимаешь?»

Фото Кай Стенвалл.

Война, Путин и «блядь» 157 раз в разговоре экс‑сенатора Ахмедова с продюсером Пригожиным.

Две недели назад в соцсетях появилась запись «перехваченного» телефонного разговора между, продюсером  Иосифом Пригожиным и бывшим российским сенатором Фархадом Ахмедовым. 

Они критикуют и кремлевских чиновников, и военное командование, и лично Путина, называя их подонками и преступниками. 

Ядро эпохи публикует расшифровку этого разговора с незначительными сокращениями.

Ахмедов: Скажи мне, куда мы идем там? Вот, вот уже по этому телефону более или менее. Вот в целом картина там, куда идет все?

Пригожин: Это самая большая трагедия. Это то, о чем я…

Ахмедов: Они все между собой обсираются. Заявления противоречивые, неконсолидированные, не координированные.

Пригожин: Слышишь? Да, да.

Ахмедов: Идет междоусобица, борьба за власть, которая…

Пригожин: Слушай, они объединились — Игорь Иванович, Сергей Викторович и Золотов. Они обвиняют во всем Шойгу. Называют его долбоебом — за глаза, естественно. И у них задача его снести, блядь. Но сейчас они это не делают — накопительный момент. Да, но потому что на кого-то надо списать, слушай. Чемезов играет, сука, здесь в гольф, блядь, ему похую, он отвечает за ВПК, бля. Он, блядь, сука… Они самые охуевшие люди. Мое мнение простое: они ведут себя как короли, как боги, блядь. Конченые они твари, вот что я тебе скажу. Ничего хорошего о них я сказать не могу. Они подонки, блядь.

Ахмедов: Но у них коллективная вина. Они же все наверху, каждый из них отвечает за свой сектор.

Пригожин: Сто процентов, да.

Ахмедов: Все сектора обосрали. Ни одного… Он говорил, что все — ничего, главное — армия, а оказалось, что и армии тоже нет.

Пригожин: Конечно! Конечно! Они его обманули, они его обманули, они его обманывали, блядь. Они живут в своей, в своей, в своей парадигме, они живут в своем мире, блядь. Ведут себя… Особенно у многих жены, сука, секретарши бывшие, блядь, понимаешь? Ну это пиздец просто, бля, который… Слушай, Боря, Боря был здесь, Боря был здесь, брат Аркадия. Ну чистый ушлепок, блядь. Честно тебе скажу, чистый ушлепок, блядь.

Ахмедов: Он всегда таким был — жадный.

Пригожин: Охуеть просто, это просто… У меня такое разочарование, блядь. Я эту публику, блядь… Просто я в шоке, блядь.

Ахмедов: Ну, удержатся они или нет? Вопрос в этом.

Пригожин: Не знаю.

Ахмедов: Ситуацию они просрали. Страну они просрали. Все они просрали. Все-все они просрали.

Пригожин: Да, да. Не знаю. Я не знаю… (Говорит в сторону.) А что мы ждем, Лер?

Ахмедов: Вопрос в том, что будет после них, вот чего. И как будет. Пойдет, блядь, с одной стороны кадыровцы, пригожинцы, будут опричники. Будет, блядь, махновщина, блядь. Будут махать кинжалами, кувалдами, блядь. Ну это же нонсенс абсолютно. Я ни одного вразумительного заявления не слышал. Ни одного хода правильного.

Пригожин: Ты правильно говоришь, ты правильно говоришь, ты правильно говоришь, Фархад.

Ахмедов: Они могли вот так тогда, когда было все, шло в подъем… Они могли, как бы, в тени этого подъема, на энергоносители цены, когда на них сыпал дождь, дождем вот это бабло… Их не было видно. А вот тогда, когда трудная ситуация, они все проявили, что они никчемные, недееспособные, неумные, неразумные, неквалифицированные.

Пригожин: Ты видишь, что он сделал? Он на шахматной доске их поставил друг против друга, блядь. Лишь бы спасти себя, блядь.

Ахмедов: Не, они друг друга сейчас… Не, он не спасет, это за все он отвечает. У нас республика, эм, федерация, президентская страна. Президент за все это ответит, за все. С него спросят.

Пригожин: Нет, Фархад, то, что они страну проебали, в этом даже можешь не сомневаться, блядь… (Говорит в сторону.) Лер, давай потом, пожалуйста.

Ахмедов: Они нас проебали, наших детей, их будущее, их судьбу, блядь, понимаешь?

Пригожин: Да. Они, честно, если честно, если честно, то, конечно же, они преступники, блядь, еще какие, блядь.

Ахмедов: Да. Мы-то как-нибудь уже прожили, слава богу, не один перелом видели и не такое видели.

Пригожин: Да.

Ахмедов: Но как так, я не знаю! Начать. Не закончить. Обосраться. Так зачем начинать было?

хмедов: Ну ты знаешь, как бы, мой вижн, Йось? Занимайтесь бизнесом, своей семьей, делами, максимум зарабатывайте, отдыхайте, выезжайте и меньше на все это обращайте внимания. И поменьше с ними общайтесь, кстати. Ничего хорошего от этого не будет, потому что положительные эмоции вы не получите. И подальше, подальше от них. Подальше от всего этого.

Уже это надолго, к сожалению, это надолго. Он назад не пойдет, вперед не может, он будет вот так вот. Там грызня. Это тараканы, блядь, в стакане, они друг друга уже грызут. Будут группироваться там. Одного уничтожат, потом друг друга они будут сжирать, в горло вцепляться, топить будут они друг друга, потому что они тонут. Они тонут. Они понимают, что уже все. Пипец наступил уже. Все.

Пригожин: Они всех хотят ко дну тащить.

Ахмедов: Да, а на это невозможно влиять. И не надо. Отойди в сторону, блядь. Пошли на хрен, блядь. От того, что с ними общаться, не общаться, ничего позитивного, положительного не получишь. Вот татарин этот, башкир. С ним делами занимайся, вторым, третьим, четвертым. Возьми проекты, запускай и зарабатывай. Все. Делай продюсерские, продуктивные дела. Пошли они на хрен, все. Мы все понимаем, что там происходит.

Пригожин: Да, согласен. Сто процентов согласен.

Ахмедов: Почаще на Мальдивы, в Дубай, не знаю, на Алтай, на Байкал, куда хочешь, но от этой Москвы подальше.

Пригожин: Да, слушай, это правда. Не, ну, там сейчас точно такая депрессивная история, и там делать нечего. Я просто… Ты даже не понимаешь, у меня, вот мы с Лерой ночью пришли с ужина, да, у нас такой внутри осадок, я тебе объяснить не могу. У нас там встреча была, вот. Это просто кошмар!

***

Доброй ночи отсюда тоже.

Fall spiral in the style of Dmitry Medvedev

Illustration by Ville Ranta.

Sure, Former Russian leader’s furious tirades are a desperate attempt to retain political relevance.

Dmitry Medvedev, the position of deputy chair of the Security Council, is on the bottom.

As time went on, rumours swirled in Moscow political circles about Medvedev’s increasing alcohol consumption. In 2020, Vladimir Putin told him to resign as prime minister but gave him a token job as deputy chair of the security council (no one knows what a mess is it).

We remember Medvedev and Putin walked at the official president’s residence in Zavidovo, on 24 September 2011, the day Putin declared he was ready to return to the Russian presidency. 

But there  behind Putin summoned Medvedev to a fishing trip in 2011 and told his protege he would be returning to the presidency, tells The Guardian, Medvedev meekly accepted it. As part of this deal, Medvedev asked that he should remain prime minister, and seems to have genuinely hoped he would become president again after four years.

Medvedev did what Putin wanted, but Putin stopped trusting him, and that turned Medvedev’s life into misery.

In Medvedev’s subsequent public appearances, he already looked a broken man. 

He was frequently caught on camera napping at official events, including at the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. A video investigation by Navalny linked a network of palaces and vineyards to Medvedev. He denied the allegations, but there followed a wave of street protests from those who felt Medvedev had turned out to be just as venal as others in the Russian elite.

In the decade after Medvedev left the presidency, hopes for any kind of genuine liberalisation in Russia faded. In 2014, Putin decided on the annexation of Crimea, and since then the system has only grown more authoritarian.

TV Rain, the television station promoted by Medvedev, was taken off air in 2014. In 2021 it was branded a “foreign agent” and its online output was effectively outlawed soon after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It recently started broadcasting again from outside Russia.

Twitter, once so beloved by Medvedev, was banned in Russia earlier last year. And now, instead of talking about copying innovative economic ideas from the US, Medvedev talks about nuclear war.

According to The Guardian, the increasing authoritarianism of the Putin regime, and even the invasion of Ukraine, can be traced back to the failed attempts to manage a transition.

Arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

Putin will be taken to international court.
Illustration by Kaj Stenvall.

Recently17 March 2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court: ICC issued warrants of arrest for two individuals in the context of the situation in Ukraine: Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and also Ms Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova.

"Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, born on 7 October 1952, President of the Russian Federation, is allegedly responsible (we know that he is) for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population - children - from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute). The crimes were allegedly committed in Ukrainian occupied territory at least from 24 February 2022. There are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes, (i) for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others (article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute), and (ii) for his failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission, and who were under his effective authority and control, pursuant to superior responsibility (article 28(b) of the Rome Statute)."

This is music to my ears.

Climate Warning

The map shows mean net emissions and removals of carbon dioxide from 2015 to 2020.
Credits: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.

This Map using estimates informed by NASA’s OCO-2 satellite measurements. Countries where more carbon dioxide was removed than emitted appear as green depressions, while countries with higher emissions are tan or red and appear to pop off the page.

Although the OCO-2 mission was not specifically designed to estimate emissions from individual nations, the findings from the 100-plus countries come at an opportune time. The first Global Stocktake takes place in 2023.

A pilot project has estimated emissions and removals of carbon dioxide in individual nations using satellite measurements.

The international study, conducted by more than 60 researchers, used measurements made by NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission, as well as a network of surface-based observations, to quantify increases and decreases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations from 2015 to 2020. Using this measurement-based (or “top-down”) approach, the researchers were then able to infer the balance of how much carbon dioxide was emitted and removed.

A NASA Earth-observing satellite has helped researchers track carbon dioxide emissions for more than 100 countries around the world. The pilot project offers a powerful new look at the carbon dioxide being emitted in these countries and how much of it is removed from the atmosphere by forests and other carbon-absorbing sinks within their borders. The findings demonstrate how space-based tools can support insights on Earth as nations work to achieve climate goals.

Now it's the time

1689, Gerard van Schegen, Muscovy on the map of Europe after.

They suggests that the word “Russian” be replaced with “Muscovian”, and the “Russian Federation” to be referred to as “the Moscow Federation”. In the history of the world that will be called that to the right way. This is mystery witch can only fully be solved by looking behind external events and seeking spiritual – meta-historical – dimensions of reality. 

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has considered an e-petition to rename Russia into ‘Muscovy’ in the Ukrainian language.

This petition in question was posted on 23 November 2022 and was signed by 25,000 individuals, enough to be considered by the president. 

The creator of the petition believes that the historic name for Russia is Muscovy, the word that was used in maps between the 16th and 19th centuries.

“The issue mentioned in the petition requires thorough elaboration both in terms of historic and cultural context and considering potential consequences in international law. Considering this, I addressed the Ukrainian prime minister and asked him to use a complex approach and explore such a possibility,” 

Zelensky said.

He also suggested that the academia be involved to resolve the matter.

According to Rudolf Steiner Russia will play main role in the sixth post-Atlantean epoch. This is called A thousand-year Slavic empire.

"And however paradoxical it may seem today, the spesific `Grail mood´ is in the fullest sense to be found in Russia. And the future role that rests firmly upon this unconquerable Grail mood in the Russian people.’

Sure now we attempt author attempts a truly esoteric approach, penetrating to the spiritual wellsprings of Eastern Europe in the light of old Rudolf Steiner’s research - as we 'll find real Russia.From the earliest times, all the future ‘conscience of humanity’ flowed from hidden mystery centres in Hibernia, to the eastern Slavic peoples.

According to Sergei Prokofieff there were forces that have been at work to hinder the progress of mankind: the materialistic Brotherhoods of the West and the occult aspects of both Jesuitism and Bolshevism. These adversary groups have created a ‘karma of materialism’, that the eastern Slavic peoples have taken upon themselves out of their ‘exalted willingness for sacrifice’.

Although Eastern Europe has been part of the Christian world for more than a thousand years, its spiritual identity remains a mystery - because their church is completely corrupted.

Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck became a role model when I reduced playing with the plectrum all the time with the current 8-year-old band; so quite late.

To this day I've never heard anything about Jeff Beck abusing drugs. If he's been clean of drugs he would rank high with Frank Zappa and Robert Fripp & John Lodge etc.

Sure, Beck may have played like he was wired but he was not on drugs. He is a vegetarian and he has never been a real drinker or a drug guy, not at all.

Btw, I hate drugs but also alcohol.

The darkness has enabled the light to come into our ken

Ecce Homo by Kaj Stenvall.

The ken of darkness and collective lies in Russia has been caused by the ruling church, which has prevented rational sanity.

"Wisdom steeped in love, which at once furthers the world and leads the world to Christ — this love of wisdom also excludes the lie. 

For the lie is the direct opposite of the actual facts and those who yield themselves lovingly to the facts are incapable of lying. 

The lie has its roots in egoism — always and without exception. When, through love, we have found the path to wisdom, we reach wisdom through the increasing power of self-conquest, through selfless love. Thus does man become a free personality. The evil was the sub-soil into which the light of love was able to shine; but it is love that enables us to grasp the meaning and place of evil in the world. The darkness has enabled the light to come into our ken. Only a man who is free in the real sense can become a true Christian."

Rudolf Steiner on 17 December 1912, Zurich

"Дякую за ваше лідерство"

Мистецтво Кая Стенвалла.

Президент Украины Владимир Зеленский встретился с Президентом Соединенных Штатов Америки Джозефом Байденом, прибывшим в нашу страну с визитом впервые с начала широкомасштабного российского вторжения.

"Чрезвычайно важно проявление поддержки", - отметил Владимир Зеленский.

Владимир Зеленский отметил, что визит Джозефа Байдена - чрезвычайно важный сигнал поддержки для Украины и украинцев.

Об этом сообщает официальное интернет-представительство Президента Украины.

«Я думаю, что было бы критически важно не оставить никакого сомнения в том, что США поддерживают Украину в ее войне против жестокой агрессии», – отметил лидер Соединенных Штатов.

End of the horror regime

Artwork by Kaj Stenvall.

Putin was brought to international court. 

Captured by SEAL commandos.

He is responsible for hundreds of crimes against humanity.

All that remains in the Kremlin is a double entity, which is a puppet ruler.

Enlightenment

Photo: UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE.

Here comes a immersive cinematic portrait of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, by Sean Benn, on the eve of Russian Putin’s military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 

According to Variety plans were made to shoot in Ukraine, but the pandemic struck and, for about two years, Penn and Zelensky communicated via Zoom and telephone. When Kaufman and Penn, who appears on screen throughout the documentary, met Zelensky in person on Feb. 23 of last year: 

Zelensky was dressed, per Penn, 

“in a suit, as would be a head of state at the presidential palace.” 

We know that next day, Feb. 24, Russian missiles came raining down upon Ukraine.

And soon was born a film tracking the emotional odyssey of a war hero, becouse just one day later something changed:

 “Zelensky was two completely different creatures from one day to the next”,

recalls Penn of that fateful historical moment. 

“He was a spirit in waiting",

Penn says.

Man became enlightened.

"I started to understand the precarious and vulnerable position of the world"

One Yankee Ermine ask from Nick Cave:

"When did you become a Hallmark card hippie? Joy, love, peace. Puke! Where’s the rage, anger, hatred? Reading these lately is like listening to an old preacher drone on and on at Sunday mass."

Nick Cave: 

"Things changed after my first son died. I changed. For better or for worse, the rage you speak of lost its allure and, yes, perhaps I became a Hallmark card hippie. Hatred stopped being interesting. Those feelings were like old dead skins that I shed. They were their own kind of puke. Sitting around in my own mess, pissed off at the world, disdainful of the people in it, and thinking my contempt for things somehow amounted to something, had some kind of nobility, hating this thing here, and that thing there, and that other thing over there, and making sure that everybody around me knew it, not just knew, but felt it too, contemptuous of beauty, contemptuous of joy, contemptuous of happiness in others, well, this whole attitude just felt, I don’t know, in the end, sort of dumb.

Nick Cave in 2016  when Cave's 15-year-old
son had died in an accident.

When my son died, I was faced with an actual devastation, and with no real effort of my own that posture of disgust toward the world began to wobble and collapse underneath me. I started to understand the precarious and vulnerable position of the world. I started to fret for it. Worry about it. I felt a sudden, urgent need to, at the very least, extend a hand in some way to assist it – this terrible, beautiful world – instead of merely vilifying it, and sitting in judgement of it.

Perhaps, Ermine, you are right, and I did, for good or ill, turn from a living shit-post into a walking Hallmark card. But, well, here we are, you and me, sending smoke signals to each other across a yawning ideological divide. "

Nick, I like this text.

Professional liars

The few words for this pravda.ru

"It is this agreement (YYA) that Finland intends to violate by questioning its existence. "

Another contracting party, a state called the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.

"Depending on the development of events (location of bases, missile launchers), Russia reserves the right to react up to the dissolution of this Nordic state."

We hit the Russian bear in the turf and it ceases to exist itself.

"All of the above scenarios are only hypothetical. Yet, Russia already admits that it is at war with NATO. Moscow will no longer impose any restrictions on itself."

so Moscow no longer imposes restrictions on itself - they have never had any restraints on lying and cruelty.

End.

Murders of civilians by AS-4 missiles in Ukraine

Kaj Stenvall paintings ”Don’t Blame Me”, 2023, oil.

Russian Tu-22M-3 bombers are hitting Ukraine with Kh-22 (AS-4 Kitchen) 1960s missiles. 

But since AS-4 missiles have a Circular Error Probable of 3 miles, they are missing their have no targets.

The death toll by Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 50, authorities said recently, as Western analysts pointed to indications the Kremlin was preparing for a drawn-out war in Ukraine after almost 11 months of fighting.

About 1,700 people lived in the multi-storey building, and search and rescue crews have worked nonstop since Saturday's strike to locate victims and survivors in the wreckage. 

The regional administration said 39 people have been rescued so far and 30 more remain missing. Authorities said at least 75 were wounded.

With a video surfaced purporbtedly shown the release of two Kh-22 (so called ‘AS-4 Kitchen’) missiles from a Tu-22M-3 bomber.

As widely reported and thus well-known, over the last month, and in reaction to the NATO’s deliveries of heavy weapons and associated ammunition, the Russians are running an intensive campaign of interdicting the work of the Ukrainian railway system.

Initially, such operations were run with help of cruise missiles like Kh-101 and Kh-555 (ASCC/NATO-codename ‘AS-15 Kent’). These were launched exclusively from strategic bombers like Tupolev Tu-95 and Tu-160. Quite often, the Russians deployed ship- and submarine-launched 3M-54 Kalibr (‘SS-N-27 Sizzler’), too.

As the stocks of these decreased, they began deploying P-600 Onix/Yakhont missiles of the K-300P Bastion-P coastal-defence system (‘SS-C-5 Stooge’), from sites on the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

About two weeks ago the Russians depleted their stocks of ballistic- and cruise missiles to the degree where they began deploying their old Kh-59s (‘AS-13 Kingbolt’): these are actually tactical, electro-optically guided missiles with a range of about 100–150km. We know that the Russians claim much more; but Russian advertisements and reality are two entirely different things. 

They are released from Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers, but the mass of examples still in service with the VKS is so old. Moreover, guiding a missile like Kh-59 under combat conditions is a very hard job.

Jeff Beck dies aged 78 - I'm just realizing it now.

Jeff Beck (Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023) was more than an idol to me, he was a source of inspiration.

I will continue on this path.

Often in jam sessions, I have played his tone patterns by my ear.

 

He Brings You Nothing But Darkness

I Bring You Nothing But Darkness.
 Kaj Stenvall's Painting.

Regime collapse is now more likely than a coup.

Can Russian President Vladimir Putin lose the war in Ukraine and retain power? 

No, he can't.

In fact, a different danger is more plausible: a comprehensive meltdown of the regime, as multiple challenges overwhelm its capacity to react and dysfunction drains confidence in Putin’s leadership.

Discussion has focused on the possibility of a coup, whether an armed insurrection by disgruntled Russian generals or a mutiny by Kremlin insiders. 

Sure, as Ukraine’s driving counteroffensive erodes Russia’s position on the battlefield, that questions about regime is getting increasing attention. 

Have you ever wondered what is hidden inside lighthouses?

Pictures:

GB 1- Bell Rock (1811) in Scotland

 on the North Sea. 

And 2- Skerryvore (1844) in Scotland, 

Inner Hebrides.

The Bell Rock lighthouse also contained several newer features, such as the rotating lights alternating between red and white that were designed by the carpenter Francis Watt.

According to legend,  the legend is immortalised in The Inchcape Rock, a poem by the 19th-century poet Robert Southey, Bell Rock got its name because, in the 14th century, the Abbot of Arbroath had had a warning bell installed on it, which was stolen a year later by a Dutch pirate.

Before the construction of the lighthouse, the rock had caused many shipwrecks because, except for a few hours a day at low tide, it lies just below the surface of the sea. By the turn of the 19th century, it was estimated that, in a typical winter, as many as six ships were wrecked on the rock. 

And In one storm, seventy ships had been lost off the east coast of Scotland.

In 1799, the Masters of Trinity House in Leith determined to build a light on the Bell Rock, due to the high numbers of losses. They commissioned Scottish engineer Robert Stevenson to devise a design for a lighthouse on the Bell Rock, but the proposal was shelved.

However, after the warship HMS York was wrecked on the rock in 1804 - in 1806 approving the proposal and enabling construction to begin.

Orsaken till kollapsen av kolsänkorna blev tydlig?

Stor avverkning och långsamt växande tallar gör det svårt för Finland att nå EU:s klimatmål – det kommer att kosta till os, säger Naturresursinstitutet Luke i dag i sin nya rapport.

En stor förklaring till den minskade tillväxten i skogarna finns enligt Lukes nya rapport hos tallarna.

Tallskogarnas åldersstruktur har helt enkelt nått en fas där det är naturligt att tillväxten minskar. Utgående från den faktorn kommer tillväxten att ligga på rätt samma nivå eller till och med lite lägre under de närmaste åren.

Enligt Lukes nya utredning kommer skogarnas kolsänka under åren 2021–2025 att vara 50–100 miljoner ton mindre än referensvärdet. Det här innebär att Finland inte kommer att nå EU-målen om utsläppsnivåer för markanvändningssektorn.

Stor avverkning och långsamt växande tallar gör det svårt för 

Den kollapsade kolsänkan i Finland ser inte ut att växa de närmaste åren, vilket innebär att Finland måste ta till andra åtgärder för att nå EU:s klimatmål för markanvändningssektorn. 

Det är Jord- och skogsbruksministeriet som bett naturresursinstitutet Luke att redogöra för orsakerna bakom den kollapsade kolsänkan. Förhandsuppgifterna om dem kom i maj och bekräftades med nya siffror förra veckan: markanvändningssektorn är nu en utsläppskälla, och det beror på stor avverkning och långsam tillväxt i Finlands skogar.

Skogsmarkerna i Finland är fortfarande en kolsänka, men den är mycket mindre år 2021 än året innan och den är inte längre stor nog för att täcka de andra utsläppen inom markanvändningssektorn.

Kolsänkan beror på avverkningen jämfört med tillväxten i skogen

Kolsänkan som räknas för klimatmålet omfattar inte all skog och mark i Finland, utan räknar med den förändring som skett i skog- och markanvändning under ett år. Medan kol släpps ut från våtmarker och jordbruksmark kan det i stället bindas i träprodukter och skog.

Tallarna har dessutom tre svåra tillväxtår bakom sig på grund av torka. I norra Finland var tillväxten exceptionellt liten år 2018 på grund av det torra vädret, medan tillväxten de två följande åren försvagades av att tallarna fick ovanligt mycket kottar.

Det är miljöfaktorer som som temperatur, regnmängd och växtperiodens längd som påverkar hur tallarnas tillväxt de närmaste åren ser ut.

Enligt Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) åldras jorden – avtagandet av dess livskraft kan ses som en förstyvning av jordskorpan och t.ex. som en avmattning i trädtillväxten.

Finland avverkade rekordmängder skog år 2018, men 2021 avverkades nästmest. Nu ser det ut som om avverkningen år 2022 når samma nivå som 2021: fram till oktober i år låg årets avverkningsmängd bara 3 procent bakom året innan.

Efterfrågan på inhemskt trä har ökat och kommer enligt Luke att öka ännu mer de närmaste åren, på grund av nya investeringsbeslut och för att virkesimporten från Ryssland har avslutats.

I markanvändningen i övrigt finns inga större förändringar och Luke räknar inte heller med att det uppstår några större sådana under jämförelseperioden 2021–2025. 

This year, St. Nicholas Day is special, ...

says Volodymyr Zelensky and continues:

Not only because it is overshadowed by war, but because we all are confident that good has incredible power and prevails. 

"Because we strongly believe that no evil can ever prevail. "

According to Zelensky our all children ask St. Nicholas to bring peace and victory to Ukraine, while we all make miracles for each other during wartime. We support and help each other, warm up the hearts of others with good deeds, and fill our own hearts with warmth. 

"This is a gift from a 14-year-old Henriikka from Finland. Since Russia’s full-scale war began, she decided to help our people in every possible way. She began knitting warm woolen socks and selling them to donate for Ukraine. At her request, one of these pairs of socks reached me. I am grateful to Henriikka and her grandfather Antti Puijola!"

And president continues that every story like this inspires and gives strength to carry on. Especially on a day like this.

Believe in your dreams and the dreams of others, believe in good, peace, love, justice, and believe they will surely prevail.

Believing in this means believing that Ukraine will prevail, too.

Man of the Year -> The Spirit of Ukraine

Photo-collage by Uzalendo News.

Here comes one Zeitgeist.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is Time Magazine's 2022 Person of the Year. This Time Magazine has named also The spirit of Ukraine as its 2022 Person of the Year.

The award goes to an event or person deemed to have had the most influence on global events over the past 12 months. The magazine said Mr Zelensky had inspired Ukrainians and was recognised internationally for his courage in resisting the Russian invasion.

"Zelensky's success as a wartime leader has relied on the fact that courage is contagious", 

editor Edward Felsenthal wrote.

"In a world that had come to be defined by its divisiveness, there was a coming together around this cause, around this country," 

Time Magazine added that the The Spirit of Ukraine referred to Ukrainians around the world, including many who fought behind the scenes.

This includes people like Ievgen Klopotenko, a chef who provided thousands of free meals to Ukrainians and medic Yuliia Payevska who was captured, then released after three months in Russian captivity.

The tradition began in 1927 - although back then it was the Man of the Year.

На шествии ”612” сожгли российский флаг: Это было наказанием для России - за ее ужасный государственный терроризм в Украине

Несколько участников шествия 612 подожгли российский флаг у ворот кладбища Хиетаниеми. Полиция попросила их остановиться.

Во время акций также никто не был задержан. Финляндия — свободная страна, 6 декабря она отпраздновала 105-летие своей независимости.

Полиция сообщает, что серьезных происшествий на акциях не. 

Несколько участников шествия "612" сожгли российский флаг перед воротами кладбища Хиетаниеми. По словам находившейся на месте событий фотографа Yle Сильи Вииталы, полиция попросила демонстрантов остановиться.

Полиция сосредоточила свое внимание на четырех демонстрациях, которые прошли в центре столицы примерно в одно и то же время.

Это марш "Хельсинки без нацистов", марш "Финляндия просыпается", шествие ”612” и автопробег ”Мотти 612”. Из них "Финляндия просыпается", и акции ”612” охарактеризовали националистическими или крайне правыми.

В демонстрации"Хельсинки без нацистов, по оценкам полиции, приняли участие 1000–1 500 человек. Число участников остальных акций варьировалось от 200 до 400 человек.

"иностранных агентов"

.

. 

"Обращение в Минюст РФ. Прошу зачислить меня в ряды иноагентов моей любимой страны, ибо я солидарна со своим мужем, честным, порядочным и искренним человеком, настоящим и неподкупным патриотом России, желающим Родине процветания, мирной жизни, свободы слова и прекращения гибели наших ребят за иллюзорные цели, делающие нашу страну изгоем и утяжеляющие жизнь наших граждан,"

 - написала Алла Пугачева в Instagram.

Алла Пугачева отреагировала, 18 сентября 2022,  на внесение ее мужа Максима Галкина в список физических лиц, выполняющих функцию "иностранных агентов".

В список иностранных агентов Алла Пугачева не попала.

На фото:

Максим Галкин и Алла Пугачева с детьми Лизой и Гарри больше девять месяцев назад покинули Россию.

Elon Musk's management of Twitter must approve an "extensive independent audit" of the platform by next year

European Union warns Elon Musk that Twitter faces ban over content moderation - Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

EU industry chief Thierry Breton made the threat during a video meeting (30.11) with Musk on Wednesday.

Breton had previously urged Musk to comply with landmark EU rules against online hate speech and disinformation. The European Commission's justice chief Didier Reynders had also voiced similar comments.

Now The European Union has threatened Elon Musk's Twitter with a ban unless the billionaire abides by its strict rules on content moderation, setting up a regulatory battle over the future of the social media platform.

Breton told Musk he must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching like an arbitrary approach to reinstating banned users and agreeing to an "extensive independent audit" of the platform by next year, according to the report. the FT reported this by citing people with knowledge of the conversation.

Elon Musk's management of Twitter must be agreeing to an "extensive independent audit" of the platform by next year.

Good!

This kind of stowaways do not always have the same luck

Photo: The Spanish coastguard.

On the photograph three stowaways are shown perched on the rudder of the oil and chemical tanker Alithini II.

Accoring to The Spanish coastguard men who stowed away on a tanker that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria by balancing on its rudder just above the waterline.

The Maltese-flagged Alithini II arrived in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria on Monday afternoon after an 11-day voyage from Lagos in Nigeria, according to Marine Traffic, a ship-tracking website.

Spanish data shows migration by sea to the archipelago jumped 51% in the first five months of the year compared with a year earlier.

Perilous crossings to the Canaries from north Africa have increased dramatically since late 2019 after checks on Mediterranean routes were tightened.

Spanish data shows migration by sea to the archipelago jumped 51% in the first five months of the year compared with a year earlier.

In October 2020, four people stowed away on the rudder of an oil tanker from Lagos, hiding for 10 days before they were discovered by police as the vessel came into Las Palmas.

En chock!

Det händer alltid något i världen som man inte ens kan föreställa sig i förväg.

i Sverige kunde spermier användas för donation utan mäns tillstånd – det var en chock för alla.

 

Enligt SVT kan spermier ha använts för insemination utan tillstånd på Halmstad lasarett! En uppgiftsgranskning kan avslöja två fall där donatorbarn hittades av biologiska fäder som oberoende uppger att de aldrig donerat spermier. Däremot har de sökt hjälp från samma fertilitetsklinik. – Jag kan bara tycka synd om det, säger Halmstad kvinnoklinik verksamhetschef Maud Ankardal till SVT.

Emelie blev till med hjälp av donerade spermier vid kvinnokliniken på Länssjukhuset i Halmstad och föddes 1986, rapporterar Expressen.  När hon sedan i vuxen ålder kontaktade kliniken för uppgifter om donatorn, hade de ingen information att ge. 

För att få svar gjorde Emelie DNA-test och kunde genom släktforskare spåra sin donator till en man i Halmstad vid namn Zdravko.

För Zdravko kom Emelies existens som en chock, han hade aldrig donerat någon sperma. Däremot hade han i samband med en fertilitetsutredning med sin dåvarande fru lämnat spermieprov på kliniken.

Den fruktansvärda händelsen.

It suffers chronically from bots, fake accounts and other problems

Former US president Donald Trump's once-blocked Twitter  - but account reappeared on Saturday after the platform's new CEO Elon Musk announced he was lifting the ban.

Musk started a Twitter poll on Saturday, asking his legion of 117 million followers if Trump should be reinstated on the platform. 

Soon Trump's suspended account was reinstated, complete with the 59,000 tweets - he made them during his time on the platform.

However, Donald Trump was less than keen earlier in the day and said he had no interest in returning to Twitter. 

According to Trump Twitter is suffering from bots, fake accounts and that the problems it faced were almost incredible.

Banksy was there

Credit: Instagram by Martyn Reed, an artist, who said:
 "It’s beginning to look like Banksy is in Ukraine."

Unknow street artist, called Banksy has unveiled his latest artworks in the liberated Ukrainian town of Borodianka.

Borodianka was hit particularly hard by Russian airstrikes in the first few weeks of the conflict

The graffiti artist posted three images of the piece Friday on social media, with a simple caption reading Borodyanka, Ukraine - perhaps using an alternative spelling for the town's name.

Banksy is working in the war-torn country in Borodianka, located just about 35 miles northwest of the capital, Kyiv. 

It was home to 13,000 people before the war, but most fled after Russia's invasion. What was left of Borodianka, after intense shelling and devastating strikes, was then occupied by Russian forces, who moved in on February 28.

Look at one artwork, not officially claimed by the artist, depicted a man being flipped during a judo match with a little boy.

Another showed two children using a metal tank trap as a seesaw.

Borodianka was hit particularly hard by Russian airstrikes at the start of the invasion of Ukraine in February, with many buildings reduced to piles of rubble by long-range attacks.

The town has since been the focus of reconstruction efforts, with several tower blocks demolished as a result of damage caused by the fighting.

I felt a tremendous amount of power there - there was such a time in 2018 in November-Decembe

During the 2018 Moscow City Duma election Alexei Navalny supported independent candidates, most of whom were not allowed to participate in the elections, which led to mass street protests. 

Navalny led protests on urge a boycott of Russia's 2018 presidential election. Navalny was arrested on the day of the protest and then released the same day, pending trial.

I saw him.

I saw som extremely strong speachers on the edge of the Red Square.

The megaphone was directed towards the Kremlin administrative quarters.

The mood was ominous.

It didn't really do anything to stay there.

Previously.

In July 2019, Navalny was arrested, first for ten days, and then, almost immediately, for 30 days. On the evening of 28 July, he was hospitalised with severe damage to his eyes and skin. 

On 29 July 2019, Navalny was discharged from hospital and taken back to prison, despite the objections of his personal physician who questioned the hospital's motives.

Supporters of Navalny and journalists near the hospital were attacked by the police and many were detained.

Very terrible things

Here comes the world wide news. 

A pro-Kremlin television presenter has been accused of inciting genocide after calling for Ukrainian children to be “drowned” and “burned” alive during an interview on the state-funded RT channel.

Anton Krasovsky, the chief of Russian-language broadcasting for the channel formerly called Russia Today, said Ukrainian children who said they were being occupied by Russia should be 

“thrown in a river with a strong undercurrent”.

But even in the era of Russian wartime propaganda, where it appears that allmost anything goes, Krasovsky’s remarks have provoked a backlash, commented The Guardian.

They should have been drowned in the Tysyna river,”

said Krasovsky during an interview with the fantasy writer Sergei Lukyanenko. 

“Just drown these children. Drown them!”

Recently he was suspended from RT, and the head of Russia’s powerful investigative committee said it would review his remarks as part of a potential criminal investigation.

The incident has been deeply embarrassing for RT, which has been a vocal cheerleader for the war but also distanced itself from his remarks.

“For the moment, I am halting our cooperation [with this Krasovsky], because neither I nor the rest of the RT team can allow even the thought to flash that one of us is capable of supporting such savagery,” wrote RT’s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, in a post.

Still Russian state media has previously hosted commentators who have denied the existence of Ukrainian culture or called for the country’s total annexation by Russia.

It is also still very unclear what has happened to the tens of thousands of children who were robbed from Ukraine by the Russian military forces.

I'm afraid we'll never see them alive again.

Kyssen och ett fönster

Edvard Munch - detalj av verket Kyssen,1897; båda kyssarnas huvuden smälts samman. Ansiktena är otydliga och det enda ljuset kommer från ett fönster i bakgrunden.

Målningen visar ett par som omfamnar varandra i den långa kyssen. Kärleken brinner och brinner i dem på natten.

Kyssen ingår i den serie på omkring 20 målningar som benämns Livsfrisen och skildrar den moderna människans ångest och kanska dunkla vardagsliv. 

Verkets mest kända versionerna är två oljemålningar från 1892 respektive 1897 som tillhör Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design respektive Munchmuseet, båda i Oslo.

Kyss (på norska) är en serie målningar av den norske konstnären Edvard Munch från åren 1891–1897. De  De tidigare versionerna kallas på norska: Kyss ved vinduet.

(Munch utförde även ett antal etsningar och träsnitt med samma motiv som idag bland annat finns utställda på Moderna museet och Thielska galleriet i Stockholm).

Storm Eunice

Here's an image of Monstrous waves battering a Lighthouse. 

Christopher Ison's dramatic photo, 'Storm Eunice', taken in Newhaven in the UK last year.

This photograph has won the Royal Meteorological Society Weather Photographer of the Year Competition 2022.

The judges commented that they loved the power of nature in the photo: 

“That reminding us how small and insignificant we are as it conveys the dramatic movement and force of sea together with the resistance offered by a man-made building.”

A man speaks:

"I was rewarded with a set of images I’m very proud of,”

Ison says.

“When the storm was predicted, and it was carrying the first ever red warning for the south coast of England, I knew I had to find a spot to record it – this was going to be big.” 

“I got there reasonably early to find many photographers already drenched in rain and seawater, standing very close to the harbor wall. "

And:

"I decided to head to high ground and slightly further away with my back to the weather." 

A monstrous year. (I say)

Crimean Bridge burned down as an attack against Russia

The Kerch bridge burn, symbol of Russia’s occupation of the Crimean peninsula, was hit at dawn the day after the president’s birthday.

The blast, when it came at 6.07am (3.07 GMT), was devastating. 

Pressure on V. Putin grows now as this his jewel in the crown bridge to Crimea is blown up

On the train tracks above, the powerful blast wave ruptured the fuel tanks, releasing a waterfall of burning fuel as the road carriageway buckled and collapsed. One of the supports, with its twin reinforced concrete pillars and pedestal, apparently evaporated.

Within minutes, images were circulating on Ukrainian and Russian social media channels and soon being posted around the world.

The torture room was found in Pisky-Radkivski village, Kharkiv region

An suspected incinerator similar to the one used by the Nazis at Auschwitz.
"Another torture chamber of the Russian occupiers."

Anton Gerashchenko, who serves as an adviser to the minister of internal affairs of Ukraine, tweeted the latest accusation of abuse, sharing photos that appear to indicate torture in the village of Pisky-Radkivski.

"Investigators found a torture room in Pisky-Radkivski village, Kharkiv region. Tortures such as being buried alive and putting a burning rug into a gas mask were reported. A box with torn out teeth implants was also found." 

Gerashchenko tweeted on Tuesday.

According to NewsWeek this one Ukrainian official presented photographic evidence on Tuesday of torture rooms in a village in the country's Kharkiv region.

One photograph showed a gas mask, which he said was used for torture, thrown on the ground. Another showed a box that appeared to contain teeth that were forcibly removed from torture victims. Evidence of being buried alive was also found in the village.

Allegations of war crimes and abuse from Russian soldiers emerged soon after President Vladimir Putin launched the Ukraine "special military operation" on February 24.

Slava Ukraini!

A torture chamber in Pisky-Radkivski. 2 photos. A gas mask that was put on the head of a victim who was covered with a smoldering rag and buried alive. And a box of gold dental crowns. A mini Auschwitz. How many more will be found in occupied Ukraine?
Photo @serhii_bolvinov pic.twitter.com/So4glJlt9N

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) October 4, 2022

Jack Bruce

Young Jack Bruce with his Fender VI.

You sometimes played a Fender VI.

“Yes. I started playing that with Graham Bond, because when John McLaughlin left it meant that I could do little guitar-type solos and stuff. It wasn’t really a very playable instrument because the strings were very close together for a bass, and the scale was too big for a guitarist. It was a kind of hybrid. I enjoyed it for a while, it was fun.”

Was it only with Cream that you were allowed to express yourself on the bass as much as you wanted?

“Well, I was always doing that, really. Obviously with Cream we were able to do that because it was a jamming-type band. Cream was like a jazz band, but we didn’t tell Eric that... we were like a little free-jazz trio with Eric as Ornette Coleman, but without him knowing it.”

(Eric once said that his own band played for the first time only on the Ocean Boulevard album.)

Peter

Peter and Hugh at the Savoy Theater in Helsinki
 on October 24, 2021.

With the Pawn Hearts, 1971, we felt something like this:

"That when he makes my teeth hurt with his singing, it's done on-purpose. That the squint that pinches my face when I hear him sing is my lack of knowledge about this next level of singing - singing so beyond my comprehension that I'm like a Neanderthal trying to figure out a Rubik's Cube. So I feel bad that I'm just not at that level.

Then I think, what if the people telling me all of the above are just messing with me."

I have been this kind of man, said my friends, and I 'm still it.

 "I've been doing what the hell I like for 50 years", he said 2017. Five yars ago.

Can I still see Peter Hammill?

I’ve been an ardent listener since 1971.

Hammill's voice is a very distinctive element of his music.

"Singing in registers from baritone to high falsetto, Peter growls, croons, shrieks and shouts in ways that have drawn comparison with the guitar playing of Jimi Hendrix, "

writes Wikipedia.

I' also like Hendrix and I play his music.

Peter, I hope you are feeling better.

Peter Hammill (four months ago) on Twitter: 

"Sorry to say that the tour’s off as I had a hospital visit and surgery overnight. All well now but recovery time will b needed."

I hope. 

Riots broke out all over Russia

One Russian man opening fire and killing the 
in Irkutsk region. 

New wave of arsons at military enlistment offices and local administrations unfolds across Russia when Vladimir Putin announced the Russian mobilization - arsonists started to set fire to military enlistment and administrative buildings and one office of the United Russia party with renewed vigor.

In the first six months of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine at least 20 military commissariats were set on fire; now the frequency of such incidents has increased dramatically. 

This is a partial list of new instances of arson – more are likely to follow.

According to Meduza women in Dagestan and other regions protest mobilization 

Residents of Dagestan carried out several actions protesting mobilization, the largest of which was in Makhachkala, Meduza reported.

Starting around 3:00pm Moscow time residents, mostly women, gathered in the center of the city. 

The Telegram channel “Morning Dagestan,” which had more than 30,000 subscribers before the action, published a call to come out to a demonstration. By 4:00pm about 100 people had come out, reports Dagestan outlet Chernovik:  “mothers and children gathered, and representatives of older generations, and youth.” Judging by witnesses’ videos, a few hundred people were at the protest in Makhachkala. 

Video of a Russian man opening fire and killing the military commandant in a draft centre in the city of Úst-Ilimsk in Irkutsk region. The military commandant was the head of the local draft committee. He has died, according to reports. pic.twitter.com/knnWNJxE9Y

— Andrew Roth (@Andrew__Roth) September 26, 2022