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Suddenly discovering the joys of not flying commercially:

At least 60,000 passengers had their flights delayed or canceled at airports across Russia as Ukraine unleashed large-scale drone attacks this week, according to a national tourism body.

Russia's association of tour operators said in a statement on Wednesday that at least 350 flights were affected by the threat of drone strikes, including trips out of the country to destinations such as Istanbul and Dubai.

The affected facilities included Moscow's four airports and air travel hubs in the regions of Sochi, Kazan, and Kirov, per the association. Its statement said many of the flights were delayed overnight, while some flights that did manage to depart had to wait up to seven hours.

Russian independent Telegram news channels posted photos of large crowds gathering in airports and stranded passengers resting in departure hall areas.

"This delay will provoke subsequent delays according to the domino principle," the tourism operators' association warned.

"The aviation infrastructure is working at its limit," it added.

It advised travelers across the country to prepare for further disruption by bringing cash to buy food and drink at airports and taking a "small supply" of water with them.

And the joys of no internet/gps:

The Internet was "almost completely" shut down by the authorities of Mordovia and Saransk.

Internet disruptions continue in dozens of Russian settlements in the central regions of Russia amid massive Ukrainian drone attacks. Baza reported that the matter concerns at least 30 cities and towns in the Yaroslavl, Tver, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Tula, Leningrad, Kaluga and Kursk regions, as well as in St. Petersburg and Moscow, where internet outages began on Monday due to the rehearsal of the Victory Day parade, The Moscow Times.

In addition, the internet was "almost completely" shut down by the authorities of Mordovia and Saransk - due to a nighttime attack by AFU drones on the Optical Fiber Systems enterprise, Saransk Mechanical Plant and Saranskkabel-Optika plant. Astra writes with reference to readers that there is no access to the Internet also in the Vladimir region, Voronezh, Orel and Taganrog.

Mobile Internet at night disappeared, in addition to the above-mentioned cities, also in Kursk, according to Mash. In the settlements where the danger of drones was announced, payment terminals, validators in public transport, electronic boards, ATMs and delivery services stopped working. Moreover, in many cities problems with the Internet began in the afternoon of May 6, and by evening the connection disappeared altogether, the channel writes.

In the morning on Wednesday about mass failures reported and residents of the Moscow region, as well as the capital of the Russian Federation. In some areas ATMs do not work, in some stores stopped accepting payment by card, in addition, there are problems with food delivery. People are sent messages informing about possible Internet outages during the period from May 7 to May 9.

"RIA Novosti" confirmed the information about inaccessibility of a number of services for Muscovites. According to the agency, customers are notified about disruptions in mobile Internet and communication by telecom operators, cab and bank applications, as well as food delivery services and clothing stores. They note that the inconvenience will last until May 9.

These are the resources of Yandex, Bilain, MTS, online cinema IVI, Sberbank, Samokat and other services. Lamoda warned that on May 7-9 in Moscow expected restrictions on courier delivery, "VkusVill" reported the suspension for the holidays express delivery of products and payment by card to the courier. Mosgortrans recommends passengers of public transport to replenish the card "Troika" before the holidays. According to the information of Deptrans, from May 7 to May 9 in the capital will also be introduced restrictions on the movement and parking of cabs, carsharing, electric scooters and bicycles.

The day before the Internet outage due to UAV raids was reported by residents of Tula and Kursk regions. Subscribers of all major operators - MTS, "Bilayn", "Megafon" and T2 - faced interruptions. As explained by the head of the "Society for the Protection of the Internet" Mikhail Klimareva, the AFU install modems with Russian SIM cards on their drones. On the way, the drone connects to mobile communication stations to adjust its flight and transmit intelligence via the Internet. According to the authorities, blocking the mobile Internet prevents enemy drones from operating, the expert said.

I understand that the parade in Moscow is now cancelled for this year. Presumably they ran out of T-34's.

https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1920377564096254257

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1920344805902856593

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1920434001728164184

Population of Russia

1930: ~100,000,000
1935: ~102,684,000
1940: ~110,333,000
1945: Data for Russia specifically during WWII is scarce and heavily impacted by wartime losses.
The population would have significantly decreased from 1940.
1950: ~102,580,107
1955: ~110,971,852
1960: ~119,735,095
1965: ~126,400,607
1970: ~130,093,010
1975: ~133,841,842
1980: ~138,257,420
1985: ~142,896,392
1990: ~148,005,704
1995: ~148,557,451
2000: ~146,844,839
2005: ~143,800,049
2010: ~143,242,599
2015: ~144,668,389
2020: ~145,617,329
2025: ~143,494,210 (projected)

Openly mocking Donnie T on government channels:

Uh-oh:

More:

https://x.com/Mylovanov/status/1936172179818742152

https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1937383842798797077

I wonder if we need another Sewell's folly.

Patrick says

Then again we'd get some real nutty neighbors.

Lose a mil in a stupid war - get a mil from India.

The story of unlimited manpower is not what we thought it was.

was made using some sketchy looking website, but funny.

seriously feels like forever wars deep state runs foreign policy and media, and we are like free range chickens on tax farm only allowed one opinion that’s for war.

and guys i’m sick of that. always more and more wars, while our cities fall apart, poverty everywhere, illegals all over, homelessness, sexual immorality, drug overdoses. but government hell bent on wars instead.

RWSGFY says

Lose a mil in a stupid war - get a mil from India.

The story of unlimited manpower is not what we thought it was.

Trump is considering to put 500% tariff on countries doing business with Russia!

Trump won’t because stock market will collapse again and he will TACO

Fortwaye says

Trump won’t because stock market will collapse again and he will TACO

lol! at least he is scaring many countries to get some deals.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/potboiler-saturday-july-19-2025-c

The Hill was the only corporate media platform I could find that at all covered this massively historic story, running below the weak headline-with-scare-quotes, “Gabbard claims Obama officials ‘manufactured intelligence’ of 2016 Russian election interference.” But you could write an entire book about how unprecedented and important this story is. Yesterday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tweeted this highly-polished thread:




The first thing you should notice is that Tulsi tweeted this from her official government account, not her personal account. Thus, she is speaking as DNI. No previous DNI has ever made an announcement like that one; not even close.

We live in a time of unique historical moments. Everything from Trump’s re-election and the assassination attempts to the southern aurorae and Hunga Tonga. It is easy to become hardened to claims of historicity when everything feels record-shattering. But this story still stands out.

Tulsi Gabbard’s public disclosure as Director of National Intelligence is unprecedented and historic in nearly every dimension of American governance. Never before has a sitting DNI directly accused former top intelligence officials—including her predecessors—of orchestrating a domestic disinformation campaign to subvert an incoming president.

She did not leak anonymously, defer to internal channels, or await a closed-door investigation; instead, she unveiled evidence from a pending investigation in a tightly structured public thread, complete with official documents, internal communications, and a direct handoff to the Department of Justice— all under her own name and title. ...

On December 8th, 2016, IC analysts prepared a brief for then-President Obama that would have reported that Russia “did not impact recent U.S. election results.”

But before it was published, that report was pulled. The next day, December 9th, Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, and CIA Director John Brennan met with President Obama at the White House. “Obama directed the IC to create a new intelligence assessment that detailed Russian election meddling,” Tulsi said, “even though it would contradict multiple intelligence assessments released over the previous several months.”

A series of high-profile leaks to the Washington Post, NBC, and others, immediately followed, all sourced to “anonymous” intelligence officials. The WaPo reported, “This presidential campaign marks the first time Russia has attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome of an election, the officials said.” Similarly, NBC ran with, “U.S. intelligence officials now believe with a high level of confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.”

Then, on January 6th, 2017 —two weeks before Trump took the oath— “DNI Clapper unveiled the new, Obama-directed politicized assessment, a gross weaponization of intelligence that laid the groundwork for a years-long coup intended to subvert President Trump’s entire presidency.”

You know the rest. Resistance! RussiaGate! Election interference! Impeachment! Impeachment again! And so on, ad nauseum.

Tulsi ended her thread with this even more remarkable tweet, advising that she was now “providing all documents to the DOJ”:

I am providing all documents to the Department of Justice to deliver the
accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people
deserve.

... As more evidence, she immediately announced turning it over to DOJ. For what? The only reason she’d hand it off to DOJ is for prosecution. On cue, understandably fatigued MAGA people sighed, and complained that nothing ever happens. But this is different.

It’s different because there is also zero chance that Tulsi would have invoked DOJ in her announcement without clearing it with DOJ ahead of time. There’s no evidence DOJ was surprised, which is exactly what we should expect. In other words, DOJ was already waiting for the official handoff. And DOJ wouldn’t have agreed to this if they didn’t plan to do something.

The last thing Pam Bondi needs right now is another disappointing non-investigation.

I'm still 99% sure that no one who had any real power will serve any time, because that never happens.

Would love to be proven wrong.

Probably not even licensed - these fucks LOVE not paying for software.

RWSGFY says

Smart people. Why pay for useless software?

https://x.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1949870764938711343

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/thirsty-saturday-august-2-2025-c

Independent journalist Matt Taibbi, of “Twitter Files” fame, evaluated the new RussiaGate disclosures the same way I did: We now know how it all started. In yesterday’s Substack article titled, “No Doubt Left: Russiagate Was a Cover-Up,” Matt boiled it down like this:

One, Hillary Clinton and her team apparently hoped to deflect from her email scandal and other problems via a campaign tying Trump to Putin. Two, American security services learned of these plans. Three — and this is the most important part — instead of outing them, authorities used state resources to massively expand and amplify her scheme. The last stage required the enthusiastic cooperation and canine incuriosity of the entire commercial news business, which cheered as conspirators made an enforcement target of Trump, actually an irrelevant bystander.

Hillary Clinton got in trouble being dumb, tried to save herself by doing something dumber, and all of American officialdom backed the play. That’s it.

A comment on that post:

Doohmax

Yep. Hillary posted classified information on a personal server, deleted emails under subpoena and framed her political opponent with a blatant lie. The FBI caught her…..and immediately opened an intense investigation on ……Trump!

Patrick says

'm still 99% sure that no one who had any real power will serve any time, because that never happens.

Would love to be proven wrong.

Nothing will happen because nothing happened; the entire thing is a farce.

If you do the diligence, you will see that the Obama-era report had three key conclusions:

1. Russia attempted to influence the election by various forms of propaganda (e.g. memes).
2. The election outcome was not impacted by Russian influence.
3. There was no involvement on the part of the Trump campaign.

There is absolutely no implication of collusion in the 2016 report. There is nothing to investigate or prosecute; it's just a manufactured distraction by the Trump administration. Furthermore, Putin himself stated that he wanted Trump to win, so that is a foregone conclusion.

Putin prefers Trump because he is easy to manipulate and has a long history of sowing discord and chaos within his own circles.

Read the actual report, not the nonsense being put out there by Trump lackeys.



https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/press-rubio-statement-senate-intel-release-volume-5-bipartisan-russia-report/

Ok glowie.

Nomograph says

you will see that the Obama-era report

@Nomograph Why do you say this is an "Obama-era report" when it came out in 2020?

But yes, the report exonerates Trump.

The question now is whether Obama used his office to lie about Trump and Russia to distract from Hillary's email security violations.

Now in the Donnie's EO:

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1956501599167136210

https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1957119994430398976

The Russia+Putin= Trump Bad Hoax failed, so now we have the Israel+Epstein= Trump Bad Hoax

If you fail the break MAGA from without, do it from within.

That is why we need to eradicate the Globalist Nazis.

https://x.com/AXChristoforou/status/1962781709767782571

https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1963330356838338827

Globalist imbecility is breathtaking...



https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/1963553537377337636

RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) has revealed in its 2025 interim report that net profits have fallen by 96% to Roubles 2.7bn ($US 33.8m) in the first six months of this year. This is a significant decline from the first half of 2024, when RZD earned a net profit of Roubles 61.8bn.

A combination of high interest payments and the wider crisis in the country’s rail industry is to blame, with the outlook for the second half of the year set to be gloomy.

RZD's financial health took a sharp downward turn in the second quarter of 2025, when profitability spiralled into a net loss of Roubles 10.55bn , a stark contrast to the net profit of Roubles 13.25bn recorded in the first quarter. RZD’s net revenue rose by 10.8% to Roubles 1.5 trillion in the first half of 2025.

A high credit burden and falling freight loadings are the key factors dragging RZD's financial performance down, according to local analysts.

“Net profits are largely determined by the size of payments needed to serve existing loans,” says Sergey Frolov, managing partner of NEFT Research, a Moscow-based think tank. "The forecast for the second half of the year is more pessimistic - judging by the current dynamics, the decline in freight turnover will accelerate."

Freight volumes are diminishing significantly. During the first half of 2025, RZD handled 553.5 million tonnes, 7.6% down compared with the same period the previous year. In June, the decline in freight volumes reached 9.2%.

The discouraging financial results appear to have prompted RZD to embark on a belt-tightening policy. Since last month employees of RZD’s central office and at least two regional branches have been requested to take two additional days leave at their own expense , according to local business news outlet RBC. The move allows RZD to retain staff who would otherwise have to be made redundant.

https://www.railjournal.com/financial/rzd-posts-poor-half-year-results/

Eric Holder says

The discouraging financial results appear to have prompted RZD to embark on a belt-tightening policy. Since last month employees of RZD’s central office and at least two regional branches have been requested to take two additional days leave at their own expense , according to local business news outlet RBC. The move allows RZD to retain staff who would otherwise have to be made redundant.

Now do the California HST.