FGAZ 18-05 Page 5 14 Mar 2022


Russia needs a change of leadership real bad but a revolution is not
really possible anymore there. Putin's state has been preparing for
such a scenario since 2011. They are ready to consolidate its power.

Putin claims he is realigning a brother nation in Ukraine after being
led astray by a "fascist" leadership. How long can that story last in
Russia?

It's the style of newspaper articles from the 1930s and 40s. In a
sense, there is already a civil war raging in Russia and the
riot-police are already there. Putin is trying to drag the people
into a dark past and forcing them to think as if the ideas and
circumstances of eighty years ago still hold true today.

Half of all Russians know someone in or outside Ukraine who can paint
the real picture for them. So it will be difficult to sell the idea
of Ukraine as a Nazi state or historical slave state, as Putin is
trying to do.

Russians cannot continue to pretend that nothing is wrong and to
avoid "war" as the subject. Not talking about it but making its
presence inaudibly known is also a way to protest.

Sometimes silence is a statement on its own.

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Pioneer Introduces New Optical Disc Drive
By Sean Dennis 1:18/200

From: https://tinyurl.com/ya24322v (tomshardware.com)

Optical Discs Aren't Dead, as Pioneer's New Drive Doubles BD Write
Speeds

By Mark Tyson published 1 March 2022

Return of the optical drive

Physical media is back from the dead, or at least that's the opinion
of Pioneer, which just launched a new optical disc drive (ODD) for
desktop or media center PCs with a spare 5.25 inch bay. Yes, it's
2022, but there are allegedly still ODD holdouts. For them, the
[45]Pioneer BDR-213JBK doubles the maximum write speed on Blu-ray
discs and covers the full gamut of reading and writing optical media
including CDs, DVDs, and BDs, plus a multitude of sub-variants.

Pioneer says it improved both recording quality, and this handsome and
not at all over-the-hill device has a textured hairline finish and
blue LED on its facade, alongside the classic silver embossed Pioneer
logo. In case you don't know what you might use an ODD for in 2022,
Pioneer has some helpful suggestions.

"With the spread of telework these days, there are increasing
opportunities to store large amounts of data such as work data and


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