Posted on 08/17/2024 11:39:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin is feeling the stress from Russia's invasion of Ukraine - as he is seen wringing his hands in a meeting with his top officials after Volodymyr Zelenskyy's troops bit back and made a counter-incursion into the country.
The dictator, 71, was in a security council session on the crisis he faces due to Ukraine's dramatic invasion of the border areas of Kursk region.
His very public hand-wringing and fidgeting came as he was told earlier this week about how Russia had lost territory to Kyiv troops and - at the time - more than two dozen settlements, a figure far higher now.
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As he was told the news, Putin was seen with a solemn expression on his face, fidgeting with a pen and absent-mindedly rubbing his wrists. He occasionally appeared to grimace as he was told the worst information.
Such non-verbal gestures are seen by experts as reflecting anxiety, stress, or indecision.
They may show the dictator is facing an internal conflict and a lack of confidence, or feels fear, or insecurity. He may be seeking to calm himself in an act of self-soothing.
Putin is more often seen strongly gripping a table with one hand, which could also be a reflection of tension and anxiety. As such, the hand-wringing is unusual for the Russian leader.
During the meeting Putin showed some strange facial movements, at several points appearing to bite his lip, appearing exasperated at what he was being told by his officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
What about the thousands of Ukraine mothers, fathers, wives, sisters and brothers whose loved ones are being rounded up to fight and die for a country that none of them can cast a vote in?
The courageous Zeepers are willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian life.
From 2014:
Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
From 2023:
NYT Says 'Evidence Suggests' Ukrainian Missile Misfire To Blame For Market Tragedy
From 2024:
Practically every European country in WWII, especially those occupied by the Nazis had their own Nazi party members and leaders who sold their souls to the Third Reich, and plenty of their citizens served in Hitler’s military.
I don't give a crap about either country, or what happens to them. That's their's and Europe's problem. Not the problem of the United States, and especially not the responsibility of the United States sending billions in unaccounted-for tax dollars to support yet another proxy war with Russia. We've been fighting proxy wars with Russia and also China since The Korean War. That's over 71 years. The only people who realize any victory in proxy wars are the politicians on both sides of the Congressional aisle, their family, friends, and big donors, who have become rich ten-times-over through investments in the industrial military complex. I want my country to thrive...not be destroyed economically while a handful of people get rich along the way. That doesn't make me a Putin supporter. It's makes me a supporter of America, and America should come first in any person who claims they love their country, and should be caring about it before all others.
>>>>BEWARE the Russian agitprop ‘Kool-Aid’ served by those opposing freedom for Ukraine.<<<<
My meme of the old, burned out hag serving UKE propaganda Kook-Aid to her fellow zeepers really hit close to home, didn’t it mommy?
Well, be thankful, at least she’s not fat.
>>>>All the little vatniks on here:<<<<
In case you haven’t noticed, FR is an American Conservative site. We communicate with one another in English.
Nobody except you, and your zeeper pals, understand what you’re saying.
The rest of us don’t give a crap.
>>>>Btw, I love how you post to yourself! 😅
Do you talk to yourself, too?<<<<
The “REVEREND” posts to herself when she’s slurping down the Communion wine.
Which means she posts to herself frequently.
>>>>Like any other desperate zeeper who calls America First patriots a Russian.... show me the posts!!
Show me my post where I said I’m Russian or made a Pro-Russian post!
You’re a damn liar!
You call yourself a Christian?
Now go run and have my post deleted again.<<<<
You can be certain she’ll have your post deleted and then deny it through her rotting teeth.
Yet another thing the “REVEREND” lies about.
Thank you for posting the informative article on rice.
I enjoyed it so much that I’m posting it again.
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ARTICLE
WHERE AND HOW RICE IS GROWN
Www.Weknowrice.com
By Hui Yin November 15, 2022
As a staple food for more than half of the world’s population – with Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South America being the largest consuming regions – and with an annual global rice yield of approximately 535 million tons, rice is by far one of the most important commercial food crops.
In the rice industry, fifty countries produce rice, with China and India supporting 50% of total global rice production and Southeast Asian countries separately supporting an annual production rate of 9-23 million metric tons, of which they export very little, with over 300 million acres of Asian land used for growing rice.
Not only is rice eaten steamed or boiled – with rice cookers making the cooking process much simpler and near-effortless today – but rice grains can also be dried and ground into rice flour and used to make beer and liquors.
By-products from the growing and processing of rice create many valuable new rice products. Rice husks, rice stubble, rice bran, broken rice, and rice straw are used as common ingredients in different food products, livestock feed, and even industrial, household, and building products.
With rice production and the global rice trade being so lucrative and beneficial to so many around the world, you may be wondering about where rice growers are and how rice farming and rice cultivation work throughout the year. Here is how rice farms grow rice globally.
Where is Rice Grown and How is It Grown?
The earliest rice site may have been in China roughly 10,000 years ago. Some archaeological evidence suggests that China had rice fields as early as 2300 BCE and that places in South East Asia had rice farms at this time as well.
Rice most likely came to Western countries through the traders and voyagers of the Columbian Exchange in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Meanwhile, Africa developed and domesticated its own species of rice called African rice (or Oryza glaberrima), though this variety didn’t gain as much popularity globally.
Rice plants produce a variety of short-grain rice, medium-grain rice, to long-grain rice, as well as aromatic rice like jasmine rice, basmati rice, and glutinous rice or sticky rice. There are three different types of rice: japonica, javanica, and indica.
Japonica rice varieties are high yielding and tend to be resistant to disease. Javanica types of rice fall between japonica and indica varieties in terms of yield, use, and hardiness. Although quite hardy, indica yields less than japonica types and are most often grown in the tropics like Southeast Asia.
Varieties of rice are selected and grown specifically for their end use. For U.S. rice, long-grain rice is typically used for boiling, quick-cook products, and soup, whereas shorter-grain rice is used in breakfast cereals, baby food, and liquors.
Because rice consumption and cultivation are so widespread, there are now four distinct types of rice farms or ecosystems. They are commonly referred to as irrigated, rainfed lowland, upland, and flood-prone agroecological zones. Irrigated rice ecosystems are the primary type found in East Asia providing 75% of most rice produced globally.
Rainfed lowland ecosystems only sustain one crop per growing season and flooded fields reach as much as 19.7 inches during part of the growing season. Rainfed low-land rice is grown in areas of South Asia and Southeast Asia and accounts for 25% of global rice production.
Upland zones are found in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and are the primary type in the rice industry of Latin America and West Africa. Upland rice fields are generally dry and directly seeded. Usually, rice seeds and rice crops are either sown simultaneously with another crop, intermittently with another crop, or the crop is shifted every few years to a new location.
More interesting info! So much so, I’m posting it again. I don’t want anyone to miss it.
ARTICLE
The Apollo Mission That Nearly Ended With a Mutiny in Space
There were arguments over food, helmets and spacesuits that required 30 minutes for astronauts to use the bathroom.
By 1968, America’s space program was on the brink. A launchpad fire at Cape Canaveral killed three astronauts as they were conducting tests in their space capsule in January 1967. After 20 months of congressional hearings, political fallout and a spacecraft redesign, three new astronauts prepared for a mission dubbed Apollo 7: Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham.
The crew’s 11-day mission to orbit the Earth was a shakedown cruise for an eventual trip to the moon. It was the first time three men flew in space together, and also the first time NASA broadcast a television feed from space. Apollo 7 was a crucial step toward Apollo 11’s epic journey in July 1969.
But it is also remembered for the testy exchanges between the crew and NASA officials on the ground that almost turned into a mutiny.
Astronauts were unhappy from the start.
The lessons from Apollo 7 continue to resonate a half century on as both NASA and private space companies plan for human missions back to the moon and perhaps Mars. Nearly any technical problem can be solved when crew and ground controllers cooperate, but as Apollo 7 showed, disagreements can turn a mission upside down, experts say.
“The crew was going to do what the crew was going to do,” says Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator of space history at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. “You can listen to the audio. It is quite tension-filled. It wasn’t playful banter.”
There were arguments over whether to launch at all, conflicts over a television broadcast, complaints about the food, and unhappiness with spacesuits that required 30 minutes for astronauts to use the bathroom. Schirra, a 45-year-old former Gemini astronaut and a Navy test pilot, was at the center of the disputes. He had already decided to leave NASA when he was selected for the Apollo 7 mission.
“He had very little at stake,” Muir-Harmony says. “That might have something to do with some of his insubordination.”
Wally Schirra was shaken by the death of a fellow astronaut.
Schirra was badly shaken by the death of his friend and neighbor Gus Grissom
in the Apollo 1 fire. The safety of his crew was his prime concern and outweighed nearly all other tasks that NASA planned for the Apollo 7 flight, according to Andrew Chaikin, a NASA historian and author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of The Apollo Astronauts. In the aftermath of the fire, Schirra and everyone else at NASA was on edge.
“It was a terribly traumatic time for NASA,” Chaikin says. “Everyone understood they had to up their game. After the fire, they had to do everything humanly possible to make the spacecraft safer and better. Apollo 7 was the final exam on whether they built a spacecraft that was up to the challenge.”
Schirra was used to flying by himself, as an aviator. During the three-man Apollo flight, Schirra seemed to have strong feelings about what it meant to be a mission commander.
“He wanted to make the point that the crew was in charge,” Chaikin says. “Nobody on the ground is taking the risk that he and his crew was. They weren’t risking their butts. He felt strongly about that and he had an ornery streak anyway.”
The existing tension and anxiety that Schirra felt about the fire was compounded by decisions NASA officials made during launch. After the launchpad fire, NASA engineers designed an emergency system that would allow the crew capsule to separate from the booster rocket. A ground-based landing could endanger the crew because the seats in the Apollo command module didn’t have extra padding that was installed in later missions.
More…
https://www.history.com/news/apollo-7-near-mutiny-ground-control-astronauts
Grey rocking just skims over “foolishness” comments refuses to reward or participate in such negative behavior. The image serves as a gentle reminder to be kind.
“To post pictures of a man (any man) without a shirt on, is perverted now???”
Don’t misconstrue the point. Putin has been noted for his pedophilia... not being shirtless. Although at his aged images, one wonders why he would approve of such negative images.
Anyway, BEWARE the Russian agitprop ‘Kool-Aid’ served by those opposing freedom for Ukraine.
Agitprop Many of these trash President Zelensky videos are created by a Japanese film parody by the Kaikets Excavation Team- Ukraine. [カイケツ発掘隊 ウクライナ]
Ukraine launches drone strikes targeting Russia’s strategic oil infrastructure
Paul Godfrey
Aug. 29 (UPI) — Ukraine said Thursday that it had used domestically manufactured drones to expand strikes against strategic Russian oil facilities overnight and target field artillery infrastructure just across the border inside Russia.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that following an attack on an oil depot in Rostov province Wednesday morning, Ukrainian forces had hit an oil storage facility in the Kirov region, northeast of Moscow and more than 900 miles inside Russia and an artillery ammunition dump in the Rossosh district of Voronezh region, about 35 miles from the border with Ukraine.
NikitA live in Moscow, circa 2010:
Anke69: "Nope, I was talking about the little perverted pig that is the current dictator of the Ukieland."
Zelinsky is the constitutionally elected president of Ukraine.
KGB Lt.Col. Vlad the Invader is the dictator in Moscow.
The Zelensky Kvartal-95 video which has y'all so excited is apparently authentic -- unlike some others -- it's an outrageous comedic parody from 2010 mocking a then hugely popular video, "Ropes" (24 million views), by the girl-group NikitA.
"Ropes" features very attractive young women in a very "high-class" situation.
The Kvartal-95 parody mocks it by replacing those "high-class" young women with normal everyday people.
It's supposed to be hilarious, but if you don't know what it parodies, then it won't make much sense, will it?
Anke69: "Putin without a shirt....😱 OMG, you've never seen a man without a shirt on?? 😅😅😅🤦♀️
What exactly are you wearing to the beach, your wife's bathing suit??
How desperate can you Ukrainians get??"
Just to be clear -- according to DNA analysis, my ancestry is roughly 1/4 each from Northern, Western, Eastern and Southern Europe, and all of the ancestors who came to the US in the early 18th century spoke some dialect of German.
Now, let's talk about your boy-toy Vladimir Putin.
While you've obsessed over monogamous Zelensky's comedic parodies mocking pop culture of the 2010s, meanwhile, back in Moscow, married Vladimir Putin was entertaining a string of girlfriends, fathering children by some of them and encouraging popular groups like NikitA.
More important, Putin was even then murdering & attacking his political opponents, including:
Russian threats to neighbors since 1991:
Which one do you think?
>>>>Grey rocking just skims over “foolishness” comments refuses to reward or participate in such negative behavior.<<<<
English isn’t your first language is it “REVEREND”?
>>>>Putin has been noted for his pedophilia.<<<<
You persist in your allegations, but still haven’t provided one iota of proof.
You’re breaking the 9th. Commandment, “REVEREND”...Something you do on a frequent basis.
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