The only vehicular route in and out of Crimea is now the Kerch Bridge, which has for some time been closed to heavy traffic. They’ve stopped private fuel sales on the island, and across Russia in general fuel logistics is showing signs of breaking down completely.
Another good day for Ukraine, at the end of a very good week.
They are massacred and you don't even see a Ukrainian defender in any of the images. Warfare has really changed out of all recognition and the way the Russians are still trying to fight is doomed.
It’s been said hundreds of times, but this week, with the attacks on Moscow and cutting off Crimea, does provide more evidence for things starting to happen quickly.
Russian logistics are starting to break down, and nowhere is now safe from Ukranian attack. The Flamingos can now fly 2,000km to take out a refinery in Siberia while almost every Russian city is now rationing fuel, and the military fuel trucks can’t get to the front lines without being taken out by drones.
Crimea has now banned all sale of fuel to the public as of 09:00 local time this morning. Fuel is being reserved for public services and security.
If Russians in Crimea have enough fuel in their cars to reach Russia they have to decide now whether to leave. Otherwise they may have to walk.
Yup, there’s apparently a lot of tourists also stranded in Crimea, God only knows what they were doing there in the first place. Now they have no chance of getting out.
The island is also much bigger than most people think it is, Sevastopol to Kerch is 300km by road, probably half a tank of petrol for most cars.
The best option for most will be to take a train to Kerch and a taxi or minibus over the bridge. It’s closed to heavy vehicles, so no large buses.
While Ockenden spoke to more than 800 staff at the trust, it is understood that half of the 60 senior executives and directors she approached refused to answer questions about their role in the scandal.
If Burnham wants an idea, how about no cooperation with investigations leads to lose of pension.
How does that work as it's part of their historic pay.
None co-operation should be regarded as admittance of gross misconduct - that's legal, what you are planning currently isn't.
Non cooperation could lead to a fine equivalent to pension.
Write it into employment contracts.
Again you can't do that retrospectively and even then it's utterly insane unless you want anyone sane to walk out the door never to return.
Are you suggesting that everyone has something to hide ?
I didn't think things were so bad in the public sector.
Perhaps you would prefer to continue the current practice of cover ups, blaming the little people, pay offs for the fat cats and lessons will be learned.
No I said you kick them out for Gross Misconduct.
Personally their pension is their pension - I wouldn't be looking at removing it from them as that just opens up a whole legal mess which to be frank isn't worth the hassle.
Want to change the rules today painlessly you say non co-operation is admittance to gross misconduct.
The only remotely interesting thing that's ever happened in the Reflecting Pool is when Peter Griffin beat the shit out of Trump in it in that episode of Family Guy.
While Ockenden spoke to more than 800 staff at the trust, it is understood that half of the 60 senior executives and directors she approached refused to answer questions about their role in the scandal.
If Burnham wants an idea, how about no cooperation with investigations leads to lose of pension.
How does that work as it's part of their historic pay.
None co-operation should be regarded as admittance of gross misconduct - that's legal, what you are planning currently isn't.
Non cooperation could lead to a fine equivalent to pension.
Write it into employment contracts.
Again you can't do that retrospectively and even then it's utterly insane unless you want anyone sane to walk out the door never to return.
Are you suggesting that everyone has something to hide ?
I didn't think things were so bad in the public sector.
Perhaps you would prefer to continue the current practice of cover ups, blaming the little people, pay offs for the fat cats and lessons will be learned.
No I said you kick them out for Gross Misconduct.
Personally their pension is their pension - I wouldn't be looking at removing it from them as that just opens up a whole legal mess which to be frank isn't worth the hassle.
Want to change the rules today painlessly you say non co-operation is admittance to gross misconduct.
The US has the 5th amendment to stop this sort of rule.
The only vehicular route in and out of Crimea is now the Kerch Bridge, which has for some time been closed to heavy traffic. They’ve stopped private fuel sales on the island, and across Russia in general fuel logistics is showing signs of breaking down completely.
Another good day for Ukraine, at the end of a very good week.
They are massacred and you don't even see a Ukrainian defender in any of the images. Warfare has really changed out of all recognition and the way the Russians are still trying to fight is doomed.
It’s been said hundreds of times, but this week, with the attacks on Moscow and cutting off Crimea, does provide more evidence for things starting to happen quickly.
Russian logistics are starting to break down, and nowhere is now safe from Ukranian attack. The Flamingos can now fly 2,000km to take out a refinery in Siberia while almost every Russian city is now rationing fuel, and the military fuel trucks can’t get to the front lines without being taken out by drones.
Crimea has now banned all sale of fuel to the public as of 09:00 local time this morning. Fuel is being reserved for public services and security.
If Russians in Crimea have enough fuel in their cars to reach Russia they have to decide now whether to leave. Otherwise they may have to walk.
Yup, there’s apparently a lot of tourists also stranded in Crimea, God only knows what they were doing there in the first place. Now they have no chance of getting out.
The island is also much bigger than most people think it is, Sevastopol to Kerch is 300km by road, probably half a tank of petrol for most cars.
The best option for most will be to take a train to Kerch and a taxi or minibus over the bridge. It’s closed to heavy vehicles, so no large buses.
I think the Crimean railway line has also closed to passengers. They need to take the bus to Kerch.
While Ockenden spoke to more than 800 staff at the trust, it is understood that half of the 60 senior executives and directors she approached refused to answer questions about their role in the scandal.
If Burnham wants an idea, how about no cooperation with investigations leads to lose of pension.
How does that work as it's part of their historic pay.
None co-operation should be regarded as admittance of gross misconduct - that's legal, what you are planning currently isn't.
Non cooperation could lead to a fine equivalent to pension.
Write it into employment contracts.
Again you can't do that retrospectively and even then it's utterly insane unless you want anyone sane to walk out the door never to return.
Are you suggesting that everyone has something to hide ?
I didn't think things were so bad in the public sector.
Perhaps you would prefer to continue the current practice of cover ups, blaming the little people, pay offs for the fat cats and lessons will be learned.
No I said you kick them out for Gross Misconduct.
Personally their pension is their pension - I wouldn't be looking at removing it from them as that just opens up a whole legal mess which to be frank isn't worth the hassle.
Want to change the rules today painlessly you say non co-operation is admittance to gross misconduct.
I'd rather these inquiries were confined to technical issues – what went wrong and how it can be prevented in future – rather than legalistic exercises in assigning blame.
It has to be the absolute peak of Trump Derangement Syndrome, that people are now vandalising national monuments in Washington because they don’t like the man in the big White House who’s trying to clean up the city for the 250th celebrations, egged on by a mainstream media who think that it’s the biggest news story in the world this week.
I can't see any corroboration of Trump's claims of vandalism, just the arrest of an innocent cyclist. It has to be absolute peak of embarrassment to mindlessly repeat Trump's lies and propaganda.
As I said, peak TDS, people totally losing their minds because they don’t like the guy who’s trying to clean up the city.
This is how the fake news spreads. That picture of the reflecting pool full of algae is from 2022.
The other pictures show the ballroom construction that’s ongoing, and the teardown from the UFC event last week, that the UFC paid for entirely and includes restoration of the grass in their budget.
This pool has been a nightmare for decades, it’s not a new thing, just people starting with OrangeManBad and working backwards. The pool workers now need to have police protection from the idiots trying to cause disruption.
the difference is your man is the only president who is having a melt down over it
He’s mad because people are vandalising a pool that just got renovated, just because they don’t like him.
Everyone used to agree that cleaning up a city is a good thing, now there’s thousands of people who would prefer it dirty because they don’t like the president.
Cleaning up the city is not a bad thing in itself however it remains the fact that instead of having a team of experts work out the best solution for making the reflecting pool look nice whilst dealing with the long-standing problem with algae and then opening tenders by construction business/specialists to do the job, Trump gave the job at an inflated cost to a guy who installs pools he knows. Not to a specialist in this sort of project and no care for tax-payers getting the best deal.
Now the reflecting pool has worse algae because of the darker base causing warmer water and the sealing of it preventing filtering and water change that would happen before.
The Biden admin had a quote of $300m to refurb the pool, going down the ‘team of experts’ route, after the Obama admin had spent $35m on a refurb and failed to fix the algae problem.
Trump’s refurb was $12m, and yes the contractor guys were people he knew who’d done work for him before. There’s no evidence that the cost was inflated, nor that taxpayers were getting poor value for money.
The pool itself has always been a nightmare to keep clean, it’s massive (2,000’ x 167’) but only a couple of feet deep on average. Anyone with a pool in their garden knows how much maintenance is required to keep it clean, and an awful lot of Americans have pools in their gardens.
I’ve been quick to critise Trump on many things, most notably his attitude towards Ukraine until very recently, but pretending that this pool is the biggest thing going on in the world at the moment, as most of the US media is doing, is just crazy.
Meanwhile, against most predictions the World Cup is going very well, with fans taking over cities and enjoying road trips, most matches being sold out or close to it. Scotland fans in particular managed to drink Boston dry, and put a traffic cone on the head of every statue in the city! https://x.com/celtic_jaime/status/2068326662559736208 English, Norwegians, Germans, Dutch, Japanese fans also turning up in massive numbers, with almost no reports of disorder.
The only vehicular route in and out of Crimea is now the Kerch Bridge, which has for some time been closed to heavy traffic. They’ve stopped private fuel sales on the island, and across Russia in general fuel logistics is showing signs of breaking down completely.
Another good day for Ukraine, at the end of a very good week.
They are massacred and you don't even see a Ukrainian defender in any of the images. Warfare has really changed out of all recognition and the way the Russians are still trying to fight is doomed.
It’s been said hundreds of times, but this week, with the attacks on Moscow and cutting off Crimea, does provide more evidence for things starting to happen quickly.
Russian logistics are starting to break down, and nowhere is now safe from Ukranian attack. The Flamingos can now fly 2,000km to take out a refinery in Siberia while almost every Russian city is now rationing fuel, and the military fuel trucks can’t get to the front lines without being taken out by drones.
Crimea has now banned all sale of fuel to the public as of 09:00 local time this morning. Fuel is being reserved for public services and security.
If Russians in Crimea have enough fuel in their cars to reach Russia they have to decide now whether to leave. Otherwise they may have to walk.
Yup, there’s apparently a lot of tourists also stranded in Crimea, God only knows what they were doing there in the first place. Now they have no chance of getting out.
The island is also much bigger than most people think it is, Sevastopol to Kerch is 300km by road, probably half a tank of petrol for most cars.
The best option for most will be to take a train to Kerch and a taxi or minibus over the bridge. It’s closed to heavy vehicles, so no large buses.
I think the Crimean railway line has also closed to passengers. They need to take the bus to Kerch.
Does anyone still think there won’t be a coronation?
I can imagine Al Carns, and a candidate for the Socialist Campaign Group, trying and failing to gain enough nominations to stand.
Does that count as a contest or a coronation?
I'd count that as a contest, but one where the other contenders failed at an early stage.
I'd call it a coronation as the contest never formally launched. It's just not a happy for all coronation.
i think it will be a coronation some time between 8th July and 22nd July. Possibly 17th July, the last day before the summer recess. The NATO summit is on 8th July in Ankara and Burnham won't want to attend that with defence fiasco unresolved. But he may want to attend the EU summit in Brussels on 22nd July to make friends.
It has to be the absolute peak of Trump Derangement Syndrome, that people are now vandalising national monuments in Washington because they don’t like the man in the big White House who’s trying to clean up the city for the 250th celebrations, egged on by a mainstream media who think that it’s the biggest news story in the world this week.
I can't see any corroboration of Trump's claims of vandalism, just the arrest of an innocent cyclist. It has to be absolute peak of embarrassment to mindlessly repeat Trump's lies and propaganda.
As I said, peak TDS, people totally losing their minds because they don’t like the guy who’s trying to clean up the city.
This is how the fake news spreads. That picture of the reflecting pool full of algae is from 2022.
The other pictures show the ballroom construction that’s ongoing, and the teardown from the UFC event last week, that the UFC paid for entirely and includes restoration of the grass in their budget.
This pool has been a nightmare for decades, it’s not a new thing, just people starting with OrangeManBad and working backwards. The pool workers now need to have police protection from the idiots trying to cause disruption.
the difference is your man is the only president who is having a melt down over it
He’s mad because people are vandalising a pool that just got renovated, just because they don’t like him.
Everyone used to agree that cleaning up a city is a good thing, now there’s thousands of people who would prefer it dirty because they don’t like the president.
Cleaning up the city is not a bad thing in itself however it remains the fact that instead of having a team of experts work out the best solution for making the reflecting pool look nice whilst dealing with the long-standing problem with algae and then opening tenders by construction business/specialists to do the job, Trump gave the job at an inflated cost to a guy who installs pools he knows. Not to a specialist in this sort of project and no care for tax-payers getting the best deal.
Now the reflecting pool has worse algae because of the darker base causing warmer water and the sealing of it preventing filtering and water change that would happen before.
The Biden admin had a quote of $300m to refurb the pool, going down the ‘team of experts’ route, after the Obama admin had spent $35m on a refurb and failed to fix the algae problem.
Trump’s refurb was $12m, and yes the contractor guys were people he knew who’d done work for him before. There’s no evidence that the cost was inflated, nor that taxpayers were getting poor value for money.
The pool itself has always been a nightmare to keep clean, it’s massive (2,000’ x 167’) but only a couple of feet deep on average. Anyone with a pool in their garden knows how much maintenance is required to keep it clean, and an awful lot of Americans have pools in their gardens.
I’ve been quick to critise Trump on many things, most notably his attitude towards Ukraine until very recently, but pretending that this pool is the biggest thing going on in the world at the moment, as most of the US media is doing, is just crazy.
Meanwhile, against most predictions the World Cup is going very well, with fans taking over cities and enjoying road trips, most matches being sold out or close to it. Scotland fans in particular managed to drink Boston dry, and put a traffic cone on the head of every statue in the city! https://x.com/celtic_jaime/status/2068326662559736208 English, Norwegians, Germans, Dutch, Japanese fans also turning up in massive numbers, with almost no reports of disorder.
It has to be the absolute peak of Trump Derangement Syndrome, that people are now vandalising national monuments in Washington because they don’t like the man in the big White House who’s trying to clean up the city for the 250th celebrations, egged on by a mainstream media who think that it’s the biggest news story in the world this week.
I can't see any corroboration of Trump's claims of vandalism, just the arrest of an innocent cyclist. It has to be absolute peak of embarrassment to mindlessly repeat Trump's lies and propaganda.
As I said, peak TDS, people totally losing their minds because they don’t like the guy who’s trying to clean up the city.
This is how the fake news spreads. That picture of the reflecting pool full of algae is from 2022.
The other pictures show the ballroom construction that’s ongoing, and the teardown from the UFC event last week, that the UFC paid for entirely and includes restoration of the grass in their budget.
This pool has been a nightmare for decades, it’s not a new thing, just people starting with OrangeManBad and working backwards. The pool workers now need to have police protection from the idiots trying to cause disruption.
the difference is your man is the only president who is having a melt down over it
He’s mad because people are vandalising a pool that just got renovated, just because they don’t like him.
Everyone used to agree that cleaning up a city is a good thing, now there’s thousands of people who would prefer it dirty because they don’t like the president.
Cleaning up the city is not a bad thing in itself however it remains the fact that instead of having a team of experts work out the best solution for making the reflecting pool look nice whilst dealing with the long-standing problem with algae and then opening tenders by construction business/specialists to do the job, Trump gave the job at an inflated cost to a guy who installs pools he knows. Not to a specialist in this sort of project and no care for tax-payers getting the best deal.
Now the reflecting pool has worse algae because of the darker base causing warmer water and the sealing of it preventing filtering and water change that would happen before.
The Biden admin had a quote of $300m to refurb the pool, going down the ‘team of experts’ route, after the Obama admin had spent $35m on a refurb and failed to fix the algae problem.
Trump’s refurb was $12m, and yes the contractor guys were people he knew who’d done work for him before. There’s no evidence that the cost was inflated, nor that taxpayers were getting poor value for money.
The pool itself has always been a nightmare to keep clean, it’s massive (2,000’ x 167’) but only a couple of feet deep on average. Anyone with a pool in their garden knows how much maintenance is required to keep it clean, and an awful lot of Americans have pools in their gardens.
I’ve been quick to critise Trump on many things, most notably his attitude towards Ukraine until very recently, but pretending that this pool is the biggest thing going on in the world at the moment, as most of the US media is doing, is just crazy.
Meanwhile, against most predictions the World Cup is going very well, with fans taking over cities and enjoying road trips, most matches being sold out or close to it. Scotland fans in particular managed to drink Boston dry, and put a traffic cone on the head of every statue in the city! https://x.com/celtic_jaime/status/2068326662559736208 English, Norwegians, Germans, Dutch, Japanese fans also turning up in massive numbers, with almost no reports of disorder.
'I’ve been quick to critise Trump on many things'
lol absolutely no self awareness
I’ll call balls and strikes, there’s good things he’s doing and bad things he’s doing, same as any other leader. Too many only ever see the bad things though, or can’t bear to give him any credit for anything.
It has to be the absolute peak of Trump Derangement Syndrome, that people are now vandalising national monuments in Washington because they don’t like the man in the big White House who’s trying to clean up the city for the 250th celebrations, egged on by a mainstream media who think that it’s the biggest news story in the world this week.
I can't see any corroboration of Trump's claims of vandalism, just the arrest of an innocent cyclist. It has to be absolute peak of embarrassment to mindlessly repeat Trump's lies and propaganda.
As I said, peak TDS, people totally losing their minds because they don’t like the guy who’s trying to clean up the city.
This is how the fake news spreads. That picture of the reflecting pool full of algae is from 2022.
The other pictures show the ballroom construction that’s ongoing, and the teardown from the UFC event last week, that the UFC paid for entirely and includes restoration of the grass in their budget.
This pool has been a nightmare for decades, it’s not a new thing, just people starting with OrangeManBad and working backwards. The pool workers now need to have police protection from the idiots trying to cause disruption.
the difference is your man is the only president who is having a melt down over it
He’s mad because people are vandalising a pool that just got renovated, just because they don’t like him.
Everyone used to agree that cleaning up a city is a good thing, now there’s thousands of people who would prefer it dirty because they don’t like the president.
I'm not sure that they can stand that up ie "vandalism" and "tools". Here's the photo. AIUI bits of the swimming pool lining have been breaking off and floating around.
To me this looks like normal Trump overreach, and he will run away as soon as challenged on it, as per usual.
Professional swimming pool types are not impressed. This is Swimming Pool Steve. The problem is suggested as being inadequate surface prep, which sounds a very Trumpish thing to do. Like not prepping a floor properly before you tile or paint it.
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The island is also much bigger than most people think it is, Sevastopol to Kerch is 300km by road, probably half a tank of petrol for most cars.
The best option for most will be to take a train to Kerch and a taxi or minibus over the bridge. It’s closed to heavy vehicles, so no large buses.
https://x.com/real_ames/status/2068405487851163695
Let's see how long that narrative lasts, eh ?
Personally their pension is their pension - I wouldn't be looking at removing it from them as that just opens up a whole legal mess which to be frank isn't worth the hassle.
Want to change the rules today painlessly you say non co-operation is admittance to gross misconduct.
Does that count as a contest or a coronation?
I'd count that as a contest, but one where the other contenders failed at an early stage.
I'm guessing the tools are some allen keys and puncture repair tools.
I'm going for the symmetry of 200 runs - a 100-run deficit in each innings.
NEW THREAD
Trump’s refurb was $12m, and yes the contractor guys were people he knew who’d done work for him before. There’s no evidence that the cost was inflated, nor that taxpayers were getting poor value for money.
The pool itself has always been a nightmare to keep clean, it’s massive (2,000’ x 167’) but only a couple of feet deep on average. Anyone with a pool in their garden knows how much maintenance is required to keep it clean, and an awful lot of Americans have pools in their gardens.
I’ve been quick to critise Trump on many things, most notably his attitude towards Ukraine until very recently, but pretending that this pool is the biggest thing going on in the world at the moment, as most of the US media is doing, is just crazy.
Meanwhile, against most predictions the World Cup is going very well, with fans taking over cities and enjoying road trips, most matches being sold out or close to it. Scotland fans in particular managed to drink Boston dry, and put a traffic cone on the head of every statue in the city!
https://x.com/celtic_jaime/status/2068326662559736208 English, Norwegians, Germans, Dutch, Japanese fans also turning up in massive numbers, with almost no reports of disorder.
Possibly 17th July, the last day before the summer recess.
The NATO summit is on 8th July in Ankara and Burnham won't want to attend that with defence fiasco unresolved.
But he may want to attend the EU summit in Brussels on 22nd July to make friends.
lol absolutely no self awareness
Report:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/20/cyclist-arrested-reflecting-pool-denies-trump-vandalism-claims/
To me this looks like normal Trump overreach, and he will run away as soon as challenged on it, as per usual.
Professional swimming pool types are not impressed. This is Swimming Pool Steve. The problem is suggested as being inadequate surface prep, which sounds a very Trumpish thing to do. Like not prepping a floor properly before you tile or paint it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcwqnDUC4-Q