Russian Polls of Draft (aka “Conscription” or “Universal Military Obligation”) aged Male Citizens
Russia has held more drafts, conscriptions, and partial mobilizations during last year than they had in the previous 10-years. Russia has claimed only a few thousand have been killed in “Putin’s War,” but a country doesn’t need so many drafts, conscriptions, and partial mobilizations β IN LESS THAN A YEAR β unless the death numbers are much higher…steadily much much higher.
The numbers keep rising, with the ‘number of Russian troops killed and wounded in Ukraine is approaching 200,000‘ mentioned a couple days ago. Those numbers don’t include the prisoners, deserters, and ‘Draft Dodgers‘
Should American Descendants of African Slaves pay a ‘Fortuitous’ Tax?
Anyone who actually knows the history of Slavery, and especially Slavery in Africa, would have to admit that the β20 and oddβ Angolans (“kidnapped by the Portuguese”) who arrived on August 20, 1619 in the ‘British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists‘ were some of the most fortunate ‘indentured servants‘ (no slave laws at that time) in the history of Slavery, and Ditto on the β especially Slavery in Africa. Indentured servitude lasted longer than Slavery in Colonial America/United States ‘n was in use as late as 1917.
Fact is, the other 388,747 or so African slaves who arrived in North America were also some of the most fortunate slaves in the history of the Atlantic slave trade.
Tails – ‘Portable Operating System that Protects against Surveillance & Censorship’
Tails = The Amnesic Incognito Live System. It is a ‘security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity.‘ If you’ve never tried Linux then Tails may be an easy way for you to test it.
On my ‘KM&T‘ Blog ‘Hub‘ page dropdown menu there is the Linux ‘Hub‘ listed, and that link leads to my old Linux Newbie – since 1996 blog. Lots of handy Linux info there so I have made it a ‘Hub‘ to this new self-hosted KM&T blog. At that old Linux blog is a page located on the sidebar – Special *PURPOSE* Linuxes. There are some interesting ‘Specialty‘ Linuxes listed in the articles there.
Russia’s ‘Musical Chairs’ of Generals & its non-stop ‘Infighting’
I read one South African (a German living in SA), who supports Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, ignorantly claim that ‘Paper Bear‘ Putin is a “hands-off” military leader of this War he started. Nothing could be further from the facts. That’s akin to saying that Adolf Hitler & Joseph Stalin were “hands-off” military leaders. Totalitarians like Putin, Hitler & Stalin have their hands on ‘n in everything, and their Generals know/knew it.
Books will be written on ‘Paper Bear‘ Putin’s disastrous mistakes after mistakes leading up to his invasion of Ukraine, during the failed invasion, and post-invasion; however, I want to do a brief blog post on the early ‘n often ‘Musical Chairs‘ of Putin’s Generals, and the incredible amount of ‘Infighting‘ amongst an assorted array of Kremlin officials, Ministry of Defence (MoD), milbloggers, state broadcasters, Wagner Group & Chechen forces (those last two are Neo-Nazi private military companies operating beyond Russia law that states private military contractors are illegal there).