How Secure Are Your Passwords?

We all think hackers won’t crack our own passwords, even if they’re easy ones with only a few characters, but just how easy is it for someone to break into an online login?

According to new research, anything with six characters, regardless of whether numbers or symbols are included, can be cracked instantly.

The same goes for anything that’s seven or eight characters but made up of just numbers or lower case letters, but the news doesn’t get much better for any eight-character combination.

In fact, they can all be guessed in approximately 39 minutes according to US cybersecurity company Hive Systems, which is based in Richmond, Virginia.

On the flip side, the way to ensure that your password isn’t cracked for some 438 trillion years is to use 18 characters made up of numbers, upper and lower case letters and symbols.

Of course, that would take you quite a while to input every time.

And research suggests that a more manageable 11 character password featuring the same alternative features would be cracked in about 34 years.

Hive Systems made a colour coded table for 2022, demonstrating how safe user passwords actually are.

The company said its data was based on how long it would take a consumer budget hacker to crack your password hash using a desktop computer with a top tier graphics card, and that if you use the same password on numerous sites, you’re in for a bad time.

The firm also discussed hashing, a technique that protects stolen passwords, and how hackers get around the one-way algorithm.

In the context of passwords, a hash is a scrambled arrangement of text that’s reproducible if you know what hash software was used.

For example, if the word ‘password’ is hashed using MD5 software the output would be 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99.

Passwords you use on websites are held in servers as hashed instead of in plain text like ‘password’ so that if someone views them, in theory, they won’t know the actual password.

In the given example for ‘password’, the hacker would only see 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99.

It’s impossible to reverse this hash to produce the word ‘password’, but what hackers do is make a list of all the combinations of characters on your keyboard so they can then begin hashing them, but finding matches between this list and the hashes from the pilfered passwords, hackers can figure out the user’s real password, which in turn lets them access to your logins for various websites.

In the end, people end up having so many passwords, usernames, verification codes, and some people would never remember them, so many have them written down in a book, especially those that are in their 60’s and 70’s and aren’t immortal, and then, of course, you have the phone where you phone and have to give passwords for that, or verification questions such as your hometown, first dogs name, mum’s maiden name and school.

Quite honestly this is all getting beyond ridiculous, especially when companies want us to all go paperless, which makes using a bank or utility company so difficult to use. There were the days of the cheque book but now everything’s online.

Now they’re saying that your password can be hacked in an hour, which is absolute garbage. The reality is that most only allow three tries before they force a 30-second pause for another attempt, which means that a brute force attack isn’t going to be completed in an hour. I’m not saying that it can’t be done at all, but it would take much longer than that.

Genetically Modified Male Mosquitoes Will Be Released In California And Florida

Billions of genetically engineered male mosquitos will be released in California and Florida over the next two years, as part of a mission to kill off biting females.

Oxitec, based in Oxford UK, is a biological pest control development firm, that’s produced the edited version of the flying insects to fight mosquito-borne diseases like Dengue, yellow fever and Zika.

Male Aedes aegypti mosquitos don’t bite humans, but females do, and so the genetic modification causes females to die off shortly after being born.

The project has been cleared by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the first wave is expected to be released this year, although it isn’t clear exactly when this will happen, as it needs state regulatory approval in Florida and California.

It isn’t likely to be a problem in Florida, as the state played host to a trial last year that saw millions of the same type of Oxitec mosquitos released in the Florida Keys.

Not everyone supports the idea, including Friends of the Earth, which describes it as a destructive move that’s dangerous for public health.

The EPA cleared the technology, giving Oxitec an experimental use permit that permits them to release 2.4 billion edited mosquitoes between 2022 and 2024.

In total two billion will be released in California, and another 400 million in Florida, where millions are already circulating through the mosquito population.

The male insects have been genetically altered to express the protein tTAV-OX5034, which results in the death of any newly born females.

The species, Aedes aegypti, isn’t native to either California or Florida but has started to become an intrusive nuisance, bringing multiple human diseases.

It’s been known to spread Dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika and yellow fever.

The idea behind the modification was to kill off any female offspring before they reach adulthood and are able to go out and bite humans, spreading these diseases.

This would also work to decrease the population of the intrusive species, further hindering disease transmission, although that’s still theoretical.

The altered species have been put through numerous trials and tests, to ensure the modification won’t harm ecosystems or humans.

Dr Robert Gould, President of San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility, said that once emitted into the environment, genetically engineered mosquitoes couldn’t be recalled, and that rather than forging ahead with an unregulated open-air genetic experiment, they’d need precautionary action, transparent data and proper risk assessments.

But how can we possibly know all the consequences of this action?

We can understand the logic and as humans, we have one constant that never alters, and that is that no human is perfect, and we should never allow ourselves to believe that any vaccine, cure or solution was intended for every human, and that scientists should never risk overconfidence in themselves when making a cure, that it could if overlooked cause a human being to die or be seriously ill, and to create something is great, but never overlook that it’s not flawless and that they could be risking human life because nobody should lack common sense, particularly scientists because nobody is perfect and errors can and will be made.

And is it actually our role to gender identify mosquitoes?

In certain parts of the US, people are continually swatting mosquitoes, sometimes killing hundreds at night in their living room, and they’d daren’t have the windows open, but they just come through the doors anyhow, and people swat them all, regardless of gender.

We shouldn’t be meddling with nature, and after COVID I wouldn’t imagine that many people want anything that’s modified being released on them.

PIG GRUNTS Are Translated Into Emotions By Scientists

Scientists say they’ve translated pig grunts into emotions for the first time, in a possible breakthrough for monitoring animal wellbeing.

Researchers trained an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm with 7,414 recordings of pig noises, collected throughout the life phases of 411 pigs, including slaughter.

The algorithm could potentially be used to create an app for pig farmers that see whether the animals are happy just from the noise they’re making.

The research was led by the University of Copenhagen, the ETH Zurich and France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE).

Study author Dr Elodie Briefer at the University of Copenhagen said that they’ve taught the algorithm to decode pig grunts. Now they need someone who wants to develop the algorithm into an app that farmers can use to improve the welfare of their animals.

Researchers say the algorithm can decode whether a particular pig is experiencing a positive emotion (happy or excited), a negative one (scared or stressed) or somewhere in between.

The recordings were gathered from both commercial and experimental scenarios, either associated with positive or negative emotion, from birth until death.

Positive situations include, for instance, those when piglets nurse from their mothers or when they’re united with their family after being separated.

The emotionally negative situations included missed nursing, short social seclusion, piglet fights, piglet crushing by the mother, castration and handling and waiting in the slaughterhouse.

In experimental stables, the researchers also created different mock scenarios for the pigs, designed to produce more nuanced emotions in the centre of the spectrum.

These included an arena with toys or food and a corresponding arena without any stimuli.

The researchers also placed new and unfamiliar things in the arena for the pigs to interact with.

Along the way, the pig’s calls, behaviour and heart rates were monitored and recorded when possible.

The researchers then examined the audio recordings to determine the positive situations and emotions from the negative ones.

As already revealed in earlier research, there are more high-frequency calls from pigs such as screams and squeals in negative situations.

At the same time, low-frequency calls such as barks and grunts occurred both in cases where the pigs experienced positive or negative emotions.

With an even more detailed study of the sound files, the team found a new pattern that revealed what the pigs experienced in specific situations in even greater detail.

I would guess that translating these cries at the abattoir would surely send chills down your spine, but then I suppose you have to harden your heart because you can’t let your feelings get between us and the bacon you’re eating, but then hardening your heart to the natural world and the animal’s plight keeps you blinkered and morally primitive.

Can you picture driving up alongside a pig transportation lorry, looking at the pigs with their little snouts sticking out, not knowing they were going to their impending death, quite distasteful when you think about it?

Although they probably know that something bad is going to happen to them because animals only feel fear in the moment because they have no sense of tomorrow.

We should really consider this as we later cook pork chops for our tea!

And God help those scientists that translate the squealing those poor animals emit at the slaughterhouses just before they’re killed, it certainly won’t be fit for publication, and I certainly don’t think that being a farmer being able to talk to pigs would make slaughtering any easier, especially if you were telling them to be quiet before they were killed.

It’s A Virgin Birth!

Fatherless mice have been created in the lab using only unfertilised mouse eggs, in a move that could one day pave the way for creating one parent babies.

Virgin births, also known as parthenogenesis, have previously been seen naturally in birds, lizards, snakes, sharks, rays and other fish, but now scientists in China say they’ve achieved parthenogenesis in mice without any male genetic DNA.

Earlier endeavours in mammals have mostly been unsuccessful because of genomic imprinting, a process in which the parent of origin determines which copy of a gene is active.

Yanchang Wei and colleagues at Shanghai Jiao Tong University revealed that parthenogenesis is possible in mammals through a targeted technique that edits DNA methylation marks, which are chemical modifications that can change gene activity without altering the underlying DNA sequence.

The authors used the epigenetic rewriting approach to seven imprinting control regions in mouse oocytes, successfully altering DNA methylation in one copy of the gene but not the other.

The researchers said that the transfer of modified embryos into foster female mice then resulted in the generation of viable full-term offspring.

They wrote in their paper that following parthenogenetic activation, those edited regions displayed maintenance of methylation as inherently established regions during early preimplantation development, and it was said that the transfer of altered parthenogenetic embryos into foster mothers resulted in significantly extended development and finally into the generation of viable full-term offspring and that the data showed that parthenogenesis could be accomplished by targeted epigenetic rewriting of multiple critical imprinting control regions.

However, only one live offspring survived to adulthood, accentuating the necessity for further investigation and improvement of the technique used in an endeavour to enhance its success rate.

However, the outcomes indicate that parthenogenesis could be achieved in mammals through the chemical DNA modifications used by scientists.

According to the authors, the feasibility of parthenogenesis in mammals opens up possible avenues to agriculture, research and medicine.

Parthenogenesis is a technique that effectively forms clones of the parent since the embryo acquires genetic material from only one individual, and one of the most typical methods for this form of reproduction is for the egg to be fertilised by a still immature egg cell that acts almost like a sperm.

Usually, parthenogenesis occurs in lower plants and invertebrate animals like ants, wasps, or bees. However, it’s been noticed in some species like reptiles, fish and even birds who would typically reproduce sexually.

Some people will probably find this horrifying because this is meddling with nature, and it appears to be wrong on every level, and why would they want to do this? And I hate to spoil the narrative but most women actually do like men and children do need fathers.

Although some women’s experiences of men have sometimes proved otherwise. Some women are going their separate ways and feel that it’s easier to go it alone, and is it really what we really need now, more fatherless children?

And just because scientists can do this, doesn’t mean that they should do it, but of course, feminists will love this.

They should be leaving those mice alone and they should be leaving humankind alone, the world doesn’t need any more kinky fuckery with our DNA, and then madness should stop right now before these mad scientists create havoc.

Two parent-children must have evolved for a reason, but things are evolving all the time, some with good consequences, others with bad consequences, and will this be the extinction of men?

This is almost like Jurassic Park, the movie. Scientists were so obsessed with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Britain’s Energy Watchdog Urges Families To Turn Down The Heating By One Degree

Director of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol

The world’s energy watchdog has stated that families in Britain should turn down their heating by a degree to cut down Western reliance on Russian gas.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) said its ten-point plan would cut gas imports from Russia to the European Union by more than a third in the coming year.

On the Yamal peninsula in the Arctic Circle is the Bovanenkovo gas field, the source of liquid natural gas that Britain pays billions for

It said that the average thermostat in European buildings is set at 22C. By adjusting thermostats by 1C, the West would save about 10 billion cubic metres of gas within a year, if implemented alongside other measures including a windfall tax on fossil fuel companies.

Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, said that nobody was under any illusions anymore and that Russia’s use of its natural gas resources as an economic and political spear showed that Europe needed to act quickly to be ready to face considerable uncertainty over Russian gas supplies next winter.

The watchdog has also advised the West not to sign any new gas agreements with Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom, or to renew expiring contracts.

Its ten-point plan, published on Thursday, also proposes setting a minimum obligation on energy companies to store gas, speeding up the replacement of gas boilers with heat pumps, and seeking alternative gas supplies from elsewhere in the world.

Gas prices have skyrocketed to record levels in recent months after Vladimir Putin dramatically reduced supplies to Europe ahead of the invasion of Ukraine.

Barbara Pompili, minister for ecological transition for France, holder of the EU’s revolving presidency, said that more than ever, getting rid of Russian fossil fuels and of fossil fuels, in general, was essential and that what was at stake was both the need to accelerate the fight against climate change, and as they could now see, the short term energy security of the European continent.

The European Commission will use the IEA’s proposal to inform its own plan of action on energy in response to the war, to be published next week.

Kadri Simson, the EU’s energy commissioner, called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a watershed moment in the shift away from gas.

According to Unison, UK imports of Russian gas have doubled since 2018 and despite an embargo on Russian owned ships anchoring in British ports, two carrying it are expected to arrive at the Isle of Grain in Kent this weekend.

The most foolish thing that Britain did was to stop producing our own energy to use other country’s energy, now we’re paying the price for being stupid.

But let’s get to really where the blame lies. Our short-sighted government virtue signalling, telling the world how good we are at reducing our energy input, but of course, Boris Johnson and his eco wife won’t be affected by the cost as they get everything for almost nothing, and it’s extremely easy making decisions for other people when it doesn’t actually affect them.

And don’t they realise that numerous people already have their heating down as low as possible because of the price growth, and there are many people who can’t afford to turn their heating on at all. It’s amusing how people that have no money troubles can always find a way to make you sacrifice and suffer.

People are giving, while the government take, take, take, while MP’s give themself a pay rise and claim their energy bills on expenses while telling OAPs that the triple lock and a five pounds a week pay rise was unaffordable on a state pension of £9,000. What is it that George Orwell said? “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

Four Hours After A Man Stole A Car, A Baby Boy Is Found

An 11-month-old baby boy who was missing for almost four hours in Melbourne’s south after a man robbed an automobile with the infant sitting inside has been found safe and well.

The baby had been inside the rear of a white 2013 Toyota Rav 4 before it was stolen from Putt Grove in Keysborough at 2.10 pm on Tuesday.

Police say the child’s mother had briefly left the car while leaving the engine running before an unidentified man hopped into the driver’s seat and took off with the baby still on board.

The baby and the Toyota were subsequently discovered in Cranbourne at approximately 5.40 pm and a man was arrested.

Inspector Fiona Halford told reporters that she could safely say that they had located the child safe and well and that he was in the process of being returned to mum and dad, and that she just couldn’t thank the public enough, as it was a member of the general public who had identified police of the location and subsequently police attended that location and found the child safe and well.

Police earlier released pictures of a man they wanted to speak to and a car similar to the one stolen.

Investigations are ongoing and a 46-year-old man is helping police with their inquiries.

The man in question must have realised his blunder at some stage, but the mother and her son have now been miraculously reunited after the opportunistic robber took off with the woman’s car and her 11-month-old baby who was inside.

The baby was returned to his mother and father after a member of the public spotted the allegedly stolen white 2013 Toyota RAV 4 on a suburban street.

Harrowing CCTV footage of the moment the unidentified man takes off in the 4WD shows the baby’s distraught mother running after the automobile as it speeds away, but now the man allegedly driving the car has been arrested.

Commuters Are Furious As 24Hr Tube Strikes Cripple The Capital

London’s Tube strike sparked outrage across the capital, with commuters fighting at busy bus stops and accusing cab-hailing services like Uber of scamming the public by adding an extra £40 to the price of fares.

The Underground will be crippled all day because of a walkout by thousands of employees, suspending services on all lines except the Overground, DLR and TfL Rail.

About 10,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have walked out for 24 hours, and will do so again on Thursday, in a row over jobs, pensions and conditions.

The RMT said its members were solidly backing the industrial action, which was causing travel disorder across the metropolis.

Images showed enormous crowds waiting at bus stops at stations like London Victoria and London Bridge, while tube trains at Stanmore lay inactive.

Tensions boiled over as passengers attempted to push their way to the front of queues and pile onto buses, with fights breaking out in the carnage against a background of heavy rain.

More cars on the road saw traffic grind to a standstill, which only added to the woes of commuters desperately trying to get to work on time.

Uber appeared to increase its prices substantially as a result, while there were reports of cab drivers pitting customers against each other by cancelling some trips in order to pocket higher fares elsewhere.

Meanwhile, there was added anger after the private hire colossus Uber was accused of scamming the public by charging some £40 more than the price of a usual fare.

Commuters were earlier being alerted of excessively busy services during rush hour amid the widespread Tube Strike which has led to disruption on all Underground lines.

The announcement was delivered over speakers to passengers waiting in the rain at Finsbury Park Station in north London for a Thameslink service at about 8.30 am.

Despite clearly higher than usual numbers of customers on the platform at Finsbury Park, relatively few were on the platform at St Pancras International for Thameslink trains. The Thameslink service was encountering delays of several minutes for most trains.

South London commuters blasted the walkout, which comes as many return to the office after the COVID pandemic.

Accountant Tim Hallan, 32, from Dulwich fumed that it was extremely frustrating and that it couldn’t have happened at a worse time. He said that he’d only just started commuting back into central London after the office opened back up following the coronavirus.

A bunch of people said that we should have driverless trains, but on some lines, we’ve already got them but that doesn’t mean that they would still run, and when the whole world is automated, who’s going to be paying their pensions?

Meanwhile, people are dying in Ukraine and the best that British workers can do is go on strike. Of course, we don’t live in Ukraine and we’re not getting bombed, well, at least, not yet, and they whine about everything and don’t realise that it’s the union bosses that come out on top with their big bonuses and subscriptions that the workers contribute to.

Can you imagine if our nurses, doctors and cancer nurses and doctors decided to strike? Even when they were given a 1 per cent pay rise they still got up and went to work and endangered their lives throughout the pandemic.

And just when the country’s trying to get back on its feet, you can always count on the train drivers to put a spanner in the works. Everyone’s suffering right now, not just the train drivers!

A Tank Convoy Near Kyiv Sparks Fears Of An Imminent Attack On The Capital

A 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on the sixth day of the conflict as its president accused Russia of war crimes.

Vladimir Putin’s forces launched what Ukraine’s ambassador to the US has said were vacuum bomb attacks as Russia intensified bombing of the city of Kharkiv.

Vladimir Putin launched an indiscriminate bombing campaign on Kharkiv just 24 hours after local resistance had sent his troops packing from its streets.

The bombs, shells and rockets which began falling yesterday left at least 11 dead, including three children, with homes and even a school reduced to rubble.

Regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy said that Russian artillery also struck a military base in the city of Okhtyrka and more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed.

After a first, five-hour session of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia yielded no stop in the fighting, both sides agreed to another meeting in the coming days, but Ukraine’s embattled president Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed the stepped up shelling was designed to force him into concessions.

The Kremlin has found itself increasingly isolated by economic embargoes that have sent its currency plummeting and seen it booted out of the World Cup.

Meanwhile, Britain’s UN Ambassador warned at an emergency meeting of the Security Council that Ukraine is on the verge of a humanitarian tragedy.

The United Nations has expressed serious concern of another Chernobyl catastrophe after Russian troops started operating near Ukraine’s largest nuclear power station.

Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he was following the events in Ukraine extremely closely and with serious concern.

Formula One’s governing body will stage an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Ukraine. It’s understood that the fate of F1’s sole Russian driver Nikita Mazepin is set to top the agenda.

Russia pledges that it will strike back against the EU following its support of Ukraine and warned the West against supplying weapons to the country, and a second round of talks aimed at ending Russia’s attack on Ukraine was set to take place after the first meeting concluded without resolution.

Ukraine’s MoD says Russia has lost 5,300 soldiers, 29 planes, 29 helicopters and 151 tanks.

Russia’s MoD has admitted suffering losses but declined to say how many.

Ukraine documented 352 civilian casualties since the beginning of the attack, including 14 children. The UN puts the civilian toll at 102, including seven children.

But it seems that Vladimir Putin is only in talks to buy himself more time for a military solution. He desperately needs to win with military strength to show the rest of the world how good his army is, and he needs a victory to help threaten other countries he wants to control. He has no interest in talks.

It gives him time to get that long tank convoy to where he wants it, and there’s no way Vladimir Putin will negotiate because he wants them to surrender and roll over, but they’re not going to do that, and what’s the point in peace talks if Vladimir Putin can’t be trusted to abide by the outcome?

This man has far too much power and he appears to have the ability and freedom to do what he wants. He’s just one man and this war will end up being World War III if he’s allowed to continue. He wants to ruin countries and have control over them as Hitler did.

Vladimir Putin has no intention of agreeing to peace and he’s just keeping Zelensky occupied while he continues to destroy Ukraine because he’s a deranged dictator intent on taking what he wants and eradicating what he can’t.

Anonymous Declares Cyber War On Vladimir Putin’s Government

Hacking group Anonymous had declared cyber war against Vladimir Putin’s government after he mounted a full-scale attack on Ukraine.

The elusive computer experts issued the stark announcement on their Twitter account on Thursday evening.

They said shortly before 10 pm: ‘The Anonymous collective was officially in cyberwar against the Russian government.’

About 30 minutes later, they announced that they had taken down the website of the Kremlin-backed TV channel RT, which broadcasts in Britain and has been heavily criticised for its coverage.

When a newspaper outlet tried to access the website, it was still unavailable and only displayed an error message that said that the site couldn’t be reached.

The cyberwar declaration raises the possibility that Russia could be subjected to systematic hacking attempts in the coming days.

Prior to the attack on Ukraine on Thursday, the country’s government and banks were targeted by a huge cyberattack that was thought to have been carried out by Russia.

People on social media reacted positively to Anonymous’s cyberwar declaration against Vladimir Putin.

One person wrote: ‘THANK YOU! Now, work on draining their finances.’

Another said: ‘You are awesome, thanks.’

A third wrote: ‘THANK YOU! I love you! The most beautiful thing EVER…’

Anonymous said in their tweet about RT: ‘The #Anonymous collective has taken down the website of the #Russian propaganda station RT News.’

Anonymous has previously targeted groups including the Ku Klux Klan and Islamic revolutionaries.

Members are known as ‘Anons’ and are distinguished by their Guy Fawkes masks.

In July last year, the collective warned Tesla founder Elon Musk that they intended to target him after saying he exerts too much control over the cryptocurrency markets.

It appears that Anonymous has not taken down the site, and it seems to be working okay. Perhaps another ploy to lure more people to connect to their news website?

Anonymous is a decentralised international activist and hacktivist collective and movement mostly known for its various cyberattacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations and the Church of Scientology.

The thing is you can block any website you want, but you can’t block people’s minds. Once it’s in the media and people have read it, it’s in their minds permanently.

And if Anonymous is hacking websites so that they can screw up Russia’s communication grid, then they’re not doing it very well if we can still get on their website.

The thing is the website might be there because it’s taken down and then put back online again, but it has to keep being taken down because cyberwar is as ruthless as a physical war.

It’s like a game of bashing squirrels. You hit them on their heads and then they pop up again, so you have to keep on doing it, this is why it’s called a cyberwar.

However, if Anonymous were that good, they would have hacked into the computers of nuclear weapons and deactivated them for good, or even hacked the security codes to Vladimir Putin’s residence, but it seems that Anonymous have a lot of work to do, that’s if they do it at all!

But there are a bunch of people who are all for Anonymous and support their cause, including some saying that they should break into their data centres and eradicate their assets, and who would have believed that hackers could end up being heroes of a sort? But let’s see how good Anonymous really are.

After all, Vladimir Putin believes he’s entitled to have everything his own way because he’s a bloodthirsty mad man, and I doubt that Putin will be scared of a few people wearing Halloween masks and random threats over the internet.

Over 150 Russian Officials Sign Open Letter Condemning Vladimir Putin’s Invasion Of Ukraine

More than 150 senior Russian officials have signed an open letter criticising Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine as an unprecedented atrocity and warning of disastrous consequences.

The deputies said they were convinced Russian citizens didn’t back the conflict and blamed Vladimir Putin personally for ordering troops into Ukraine in an attack for which can’t be justified.

Vladimir Putin gave the order to attack, delivering an impressive speech to the Russian nation in which he declared a special military operation to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine in what amounted to an outright declaration of war.

Missiles and bombs showered from the sky, tanks moved across the border, troops parachuted down on eastern parts and explosions were witnessed across the nation in the early hours and into the morning.

The letters advised Russians not to partake in the attack and called on citizens to speak out against the attack because only massive popular condemnation could stop the war.

Among the letter’s signatories were Moscow deputies Elena Rusakova, Maxim Gongalsky, Andrey Morev, Elena Kotenochkina and Elena Filina as well as St Petersburg officials David Kuvaev and Polina Sizova and Veliky Novgorod deputy Anna Cherepanova.

It was a surprising step for Russian officials to speak out against Vladimir Putin who usually holds an iron grip on dissent and last week televised a meeting with Moscow’s top security chiefs in which they seemed to be railroaded into backing his plans to invade Ukraine.

The letter, which described the signatories as those elected by the people, said they unreservedly condemn the invasion of the Russian army on Ukraine.

The decision to strike was made personally by Russian President Vladimir Putin and it’s almost certain that the citizens of Russia didn’t give him such a mandate.

The letter warned of catastrophic consequences and that thousands of people would be wounded, mutilated and would die, and that numerous cities would be destroyed and it said that Russia would face the condemnation of the world community resulting in seclusion, increasing prices and poverty.

The letter added that hopes for a good life in Russia are crumbling before their eyes, and they advised not to participate in the aggression and not to support it.

It comes after heartbreaking pictures emerged from Ukraine showing bloodied civilians staggering through the streets of towns in the east of the country following Russian shelling in the early hours of the morning.

The citizens of Russia can and probably will protest but they will be captured and put into prison. Russia isn’t the problem, Vladimir Putin is the problem. He has set himself up to be a Tsar, and it will be a bloodbath if he isn’t relieved of his duties, but at present, he has a tremendous grab for power.

Well, we know what happened to the last Tsar. Nicholas II and his family were murdered by Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin.

And the majority of Russians, particularly the young ones, feel nothing but humiliation and shame that they’re being dragged through this horror by a gangster and his cronies, but how can ordinary Russian people stand up to this man when the whole world is watching in stalemate?

Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about an open letter, the man is a lunatic.

There’s also been speculation that Vladimir Putin is sick, and according to some sources that the President has cancer and Parkinson’s Disease, whether this is true or not, the man might feel he’s already finished and that he’s going to take the rest of the world with him.

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