[AFLDS] Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) Monday announced the death of his 17-year-old daughter Gwen, who abruptly passed away on Monday morning. The cause of death is unknown, though the DuPage County Coroner is investigating.
"This morning, Congressman Casten’s beloved daughter, Gwen (17), passed away," tweeted the Congressman’s account Tuesday. "The Casten family requests privacy, and we will be issuing no further comment during this heartbreaking time."
The untimely death comes as news media report an alarming rise in deaths among young, healthy people. News outlets say the deaths are flummoxing doctors, who are calling the phenomenon Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) and are starting "SADS registries" to discover the cause of the deaths.
Physicians who predicted the phenomenon were since censored and not included in any of the media reports. Those doctors include Dr. Zev Zelenko and Dr. Peter McCullough, the most published cardiologist in the world, who stated that the risks of the vaccine outweigh its benefits.
Studies have also shown a significant correlation between cardiac arrest and the COVID-19 vaccine, though these, too, were attacked.
Congressman Casten, who is in the middle of a re-election campaign, is a major proponent of the vaccine, calling the unvaccinated "knuckleheads" in September and telling Business Insider that every member of his staff got the shots "because they don’t like to be dead."
"I’ve made a point of not hiring knuckleheads, and everybody on our staff got vaccinated..." he said.
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Physicians who predicted the phenomenon were since censored and not included in any of the media reports. Those doctors include Dr. Zev Zelenko and Dr. Peter McCullough, the most published cardiologist in the world, who stated that the risks of the vaccine outweigh its benefits.
We really do need a Federal 'Bureau of Disinformation' to sort through these conspiracy theories.
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Did he vote for her to die? Probably not directly. But still...
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If he voted for vaxxes or against stopping fentanyl at the border, he's complicit, to use a word progressives love.
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Or, maybe she just OD'd, and the local LE will cover it up because that's how they roll...
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The incidental death of any child is something difficult to deal with.
We will likely read many rumors used to promote various agendas. Ranging from Fentanyl, other drugs, the VAX to politically motivated for sympathy votes.
But until we can read between the lines of the more than likely politically polished Coroner's Report. I'll let the dead lay in peace, and the family have it's private time.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
The enemy in the industrial zone of the Azot plant is partially isolated from the main forces in Lisichansk. The estimated size of the group reaches 2,500 people + an unspecified number of vehicles. Normal supply of the group is impossible. Because of this, just like at Azovstal, there was talk of "humanitarian corridors."
Fights for settlements on the eastern outskirts of Severodonetsk. The enemy recognizes very heavy losses in the battles for Severodonetsk.
2. Slavyansk.
Battles at Bogorodichny. The Armed Forces of Ukraine recognize the loss of half of the village, our sources say that Bogorodichny has been liberated. In fact, it is still in the contested area.
Our troops broke into the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Valley and started fighting already on the territory of the village.'
Fighting in the Tatyanovka area and in the direction of Sidorovo.
Seversky Donetsk in the direction of Raygorodok or Seversk is not yet forced.
3. Kharkov.
Fighting in the area of Upper Saltov, Ternovoye and Rubezhnoye.
Fighting south of Cossack Lopan in the Velikiye Prohody and Tsupovka area. The Zolochevsky fortified area and the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Saltovka and Chuguev are subjected to active strikes by the RF Armed Forces.
Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strain the flank of the Izyum grouping of the RF Armed Forces did not have significant success.
4. Avdievka.
Fights at Krasnogorovka and New York, but without serious progress. The enemy continued shelling the Donetsk-Gorlovka agglomeration.
5. Artemovsk.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repulsed all attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to return the village of Roty under control and, in turn, advanced in the direction of the village of Vershina and Semigorye.
The position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is defending the Uglegorsk TPP and Novoluganskoye, has become significantly more complicated, since the supply roads are under the fire control of the RF Armed Forces. To the north, fighting continued at Mednaya Ore and Pokrovsky.
UPD: In the evening it was reported that PMC "Wagner" took Semigorye, cutting off the supply lines of the group defending the Novolugansk and Uglegorsk thermal power plants.
6. Soledar.
The RF Armed Forces entrenched themselves on the outskirts of Belogorovka and Berestovoye. The Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway is actually cut off, it is practically impossible to use it to supply the Severodonetsk grouping. The significance of the Artemovsk-Seversk-Lysichansk road has increased many times over, and holding Seversk is now vital for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to be able to retreat from the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk agglomeration.
7. Zolotnoye.
The cleansing of Kamyshevakhi has been completed, fighting is underway on the outskirts of Zolote.
Battles near Toshkovka and Ustinovka.
In the evening, messages came about the capture of the village of Vrubovka. If the information is confirmed, then this brings the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation very close to solving the problem of encircling the Gorsko-Zolotoy group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
UPD: The information is confirmed. They took the cut. Gorsko-Zolotaya grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the operational environment.
8. Izyum.
Battles at Bolshaya Kamyshevakha and Kurulka. The enemy is trying to probe the defenses of the RF Armed Forces in the Balakleya area, but pressure on the flank of the Izyum grouping is still limited here.
9. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoe-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoseloka-Ugledar-Novomikhaylovka-Maryinka without significant changes. Positional battles and artillery shelling in separate directions.
10. Nikolaev.
Positional battles in the Nikolaev and Kherson directions. The enemy made a number of attacks, but had no success.
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to resume the offensive and achieve at least some success within the framework of the tasks set by the political leadership to achieve advancement in the direction of Kherson.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, meanwhile, are building up forces in the Nikolaevsky direction. Gauleiter Kim threatens to blow up the bridges in Nikolaev if the city is threatened with loss.
See the photos at the link.
[REGNUM] The Alexander III Cadet Ball was held on the Yalta embankment. The ball was timed to coincide with two memorable dates at once: the 210th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812 and the Day of Russia.
A total of 250 cadets of the Yalta secondary school No. 11 took part in the celebration. To the accompaniment of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Crimean State Philharmonic, the cadets danced everything that was popular during social events: waltz, polonaise, quadrille, polka and pas de grasse.
The initiator of the ball was the director of the MBOU "Yalta Secondary School No. 11" Alexander Tutatchikov, and the main manager was the chairman of the non-profit public organization "Heirs of Russia" Anna Koryakova.
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Hair colors found in nature, women and girls in flowing gowns and young men and boys wearing neck ties and squared away uniforms, no visible ink or excessive piercings, and all celebrating their country's heritage...but WE are really the good guys, the veritable torch of civilization. OK
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I wrote a short story once about a guy who was all tatted up but no one could tell while he was dressed for work.
He had to dress funny on the golf course.
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Cesare, the Nazis were exquisitely groomed and wore designer outfits, too. Aesthetics do not correspond to morality.
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That's kind of a leap, Rob. I make and made no defense of the Hugo Boss boys, long defeated and well massacred. But we have trouble, and yes, I do mean right here in river city.
We live in a country that castrates it's little boys and neuters it's young women. Ask yourself, can you imagine the emergent drag queen menace showing up at the Alexander III Cadet ball?
How about celebrating their history and a victorious struggle. You know, maybe like the 150th anniversary of our Civil War and the anniversaries of so many incredible sacrifices on both sides. The 100th of the United States kicking the absolute crap out of the Hugo Boss' boys fathers. Yeah, I guess I missed that. Damned Wild Turkey must have gotten the upper hand again.
Morality? Suffice it to say I got involved in the independent oil business while I was still in college. Before the Army, Mrs C and the multitude of jr.'s. Not that I imagine it commends me in any way, but to be sure I absolutely understand the wrapper doesn't always foretell the goods.
We have a serious problem here. Look anywhere. Art? architecture? Public discourse? We are bombarded daily, Hell hourly with commands to hate Ivan. Chiefly from people who spent decades tongue bathing the Soviet Union.
Yet they are a country that is building nearly a church per day. A country that built a cathedral to celebrate it's fighting men. So what? we just had Memorial Day. That's right,' Day'. Now we have "Pride MONTH' and I don't care if you're a lighthouse keeper or a fire watcher you will not escape it.
Fine. The Russians are the stuff of the darkest nightmares. If that's so, it only makes events like this and even the Romanov wedding in St Petersburg awfully hard to square with the current American version of civilization.
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What did I see in the very first picture? Little boys ooohhhing and aaaahhhing over a Chevrolet Camaro. So, at least, we can still do a few things that Russians cannot.
But anyone who is paying attention must certainly notice that ours is a society in decline. Church attendance in the United States is falling at an alarming rate. Fentanyl overdoses are killing hundred of thousands per year. Homeless encampments foul our cities. Gang violence terrorizes our inner cities. Our southern border is undefended. Formerly great cities like Detroit, Seattle and San Francisco are dead or dying. The mainstream media is in bed with the Chinese Communist Party and ignores these problems while trying to make us believe that a senile old crook has it all under control.
I don't know if Russia is any better. I've never been there. But it's hard to imagine that it's any worse.
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Russia is not the West's enemy. Ukraine is not an ally. Ask yourself, in which cities would a man like De Gaulle or Eisenhower or Churchill, or his traditional conservative descendants, feel more at home today: in Moscow or Budapest? Or in rainbow-worshipping, "diversity"-soaked New York, Paris and London?
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[REGNUM] At the end of August 1919, the situation on the Southern Front deteriorated sharply. In the rear of the front, in Saransk, the Don Cavalry Corps was formed. They were commanded by the former military foreman F. K. Mironov.
[MaineCoastTV] Russian President Vladimir Putin has given another of his...heavy-on-the-revisionist-history speeches. This time, he categorized the Great Northern War--the 18th century conflict that saw the Tsardom of Russia successfully challenge Sweden for Baltic superiority--as one where Russia "reclaimed" such territories as Estonia and Latvia. As with Moscow's claims that places like Ukraine have always been a part of Russia, this is just simply not true.
But reality isn't the point. Or rather, the Russian president is delivering a Russian "reality" to the bulk of the Russian people. This is primarily an insular conversation, where a strongman is trying to justify a war of expansion. But it also sends a warning to a Sweden and Finland that have already moved ahead to join NATO: we have beaten you in the past, we consider much of your neighborhood as properly our own, and don't sleep too comfortably in your beds at night.
The latter might be a projection of Putin's, or Russia's, strategic anxieties but that doesn't mean we should dismiss them out of hand. As seen in the graphic from my first book below, the Russia of today is not what we'd consider geographically secure. It is not an island power detached from mainland squabbles like Japan or the United Kingdom. Nor is it a mountain fortress like Iran. Russia is a vast territory--difficult and expensive to secure--and its more densely populated western core features multiple invasion routes for those who would be so inclined.
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But no one wants to invade Russia -- its full of Russians.
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" Sweden and Finland that have already moved ahead to join NATO" Turkey threw a wrench into that one.Russia and China are vast territories. I don't see media attacks on the leadership of China of cancer, mental instability or delusions of world conquest when China is the bugger here in this day and age.
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Well, I mean, everyone from from Tom Freidman to Tony Fauxi says we should be more like china. Who's gonna argue with experts like those?
/sarc
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Dissolve NATO and reconstitute without Turkey
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Dissolve NATO. Period.
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Our former NATO assigned troops could be put to very good use along the Mexican border.
Tip to the Euro's and our former NATO allies; keep an eye on the Russian rail system. If they are coming your way, it appears they'll be arriving via train. Just something I recently noticed.
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That’s been one of my primary take aways from the Ukrainian conflict. On both sides - one train line is barely adequate for supplying defense but two train lines operating fuel an advance. Not much change from WW2 if you study logistics from that period. Trucks simply can’t transport enough POL, munitions and armor to REMAB sites to establish critical mass for an offense
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But no one wants to invade Russia -- its full of Russians.
Yeah, and they remember what all those Russians did to Napoleon and Hitler. So now it's no surprise if Russians think of NATO as the 21st Century version of wannabe conquerors from the West. And you think that just because Joe Biden says it ain't so that it ain't?
Face it, folks, it's been dirty for dirty for centuries and Russians are not the only ones with a history of aggression. Too bad we can't just get along.
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Commentary by Russian military blogger Boris Rozhin
This sounds like the information came from one of the frontline Russian militiamen, instead of the Russian ministry of defense, which claims the information. So far, the Ukrainian side has yet to comment on the incident.
[ColonelCassad] Shooting near Novomikhailovka
More than 30 servicemen of the 25th battalion of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to lay down their arms and surrender after conducting fire preparations for the offensive of the Russian troops;
The Ukrainian servicemen, who occupied a stronghold in the area of the Animal Farm, appealed by radio to the command of the Russian unit to cease fire and provide an exit corridor;
At about 10 p.m., servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with white flags began to advance towards the Russian positions.
At that moment, a detachment of Ukrainian nationalists, who arrived at the strong point on armored vehicles, opened crossfire at the servicemen of the 54th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the back.
As a result of this execution, 32 Ukrainian servicemen were fatally wounded and killed.
Against the backdrop of growing military failures and the demoralization of the Ukrainian troops, the Kyiv nationalist regime is trying to stop the retreat and surrender of its units by punitive actions of detachments. The lives of Ukrainian servicemen and mobilized fighters of territorial defense units mean nothing to the current leadership of Ukraine. (c) RF Ministry of Defense
The case when a quasi-role-playing game of Nazism led to role-playing games in detachments as in the worst domestic and foreign films on this topic.
PS. Plus a video https://t.me/boris_rozhin/53617 with a soldier who surrendered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who tells how those who surrendered were shot in the back by the mobilized.
[ColonelCassad] Urgent statement of the Head of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine - Head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev:
The Ukrainian side requested the organization of a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians (women, children and the elderly) who are at the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk, to the territory controlled by Kiev in the city of Lisichansk.
Taking into account the fact that on June 13, 2022, by order of the Kyiv authorities, in order to prevent the retreat of territorial defense units, the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the last bridge across the Seversky Donets River in the direction of Lysychansk, it is not possible to carry out a safe evacuation in this direction.
The militants of the nationalist battalions, retreating from the residential areas of Severodonetsk, deliberately brought hundreds of civilians out of the city to the industrial zone of the Azot chemical plant in order to hide behind them as a "human shield".
Realizing the hopelessness of the situation of our armed formations, we regard the appeal of the Ukrainian side for the alleged rescue of civilians as an attempt to withdraw the surviving units from the encirclement. Thus, there are all signs of a repetition of the "Mariupol scenario".
Guided by humane principles, the Armed Forces of Russia and the formations of the Luhansk People's Republic are ready to carry out a humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians.
To do this, from 08:00 (Moscow time) to 20:00 (Moscow time) on June 15, 2022, a humanitarian corridor will open in a northern direction (to the city of Svatovo, Luhansk People's Republic).
At the same time, the safe evacuation of all, without exception, civilians and their movement as part of humanitarian convoys to temporary accommodation centers is guaranteed.
We offer militants of nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries who are at the Azot plant from 08:00 (Moscow time) June 15, 2022 to stop any hostilities and release the civilians they are holding through this humanitarian corridor, as well as to stop senseless resistance and lay down their arms.
The Russian Federation guarantees the preservation of life and compliance with all the norms of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, as happened with those who had previously surrendered in Mariupol.
The actual readiness of the Ukrainian side to start a humanitarian operation is indicated by the raising of white flags.
Once again, we call on the official authorities of Kyiv to show prudence, to give appropriate instructions to the militants to stop the senseless resistance and leave the territory of the Azot plant.
Through operational communication channels, this statement is immediately communicated to the Ukrainian side through I.A. Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Ukraine.
(c) RF Ministry of Defense
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Somewhere I have seen this recently.
Ah yes, in Mariupol. Then it was called extraction. The fact that requests for humanitarian corridors and the like were sent transparently hints that the northern fur-bearing animal (heh)
will soon come to the remnants of the AFU grouping in Severodonetsk.
PS. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR, the industrial zone of the Azot plant is defended by a group of 2,500 people, of which up to a quarter are foreign mercenaries.
Full-fledged supply of the defenders was disrupted due to the destruction of bridges and the possibility of artillery of the RF Armed Forces to fire at the approaches to Severodonetsk from Lysichansk.
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Taking into account the fact that on June 13, 2022, by order of the Kyiv authorities, in order to prevent the retreat of territorial defense units, the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the last bridge across the Seversky Donets River in the direction of Lysychansk, it is not possible to carry out a safe evacuation in this direction.
Hmmm. I thought it was Russians who blew that bridge so Ukrainians could no longer supply their people in Severodonetsk.
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This has been widely reported in Europe. It was entirely predictable due to the outbreak of dozens of mutinies and other instances of refusal to fight on the part of the poor Ukrainian troops who've been sent into the slaughterhouse by their mad politicians.
This kind of internecine killing is what we saw in World War One after the commanders were shown to be murderous cretins intent on prolonging the slaughter to no discernible end.
Shooting near Novomikhailovka
More than 30 servicemen of the 25th battalion of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to lay down their arms and surrender after conducting fire preparations for the offensive of the Russian troopsAt about 10 p.m., servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with white flags began to advance towards the Russian positions.
At that moment, a detachment of Ukrainian nationalists, who arrived at the strong point on armored vehicles, opened crossfire at the servicemen of the 54th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the back.
As a result of this execution, 32 Ukrainian servicemen were fatally wounded and killed. Against the backdrop of growing military failures and the demoralization of the Ukrainian troops, the Kyiv nationalist regime is trying to stop the retreat and surrender of its units by punitive actions of detachments.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[MaineCoastTV] Russian President Vladimir Putin has given another of his...heavy-on-the-revisionist-history speeches. This time, he categorized the Great Northern War--the 18th century conflict that saw the Tsardom of Russia successfully challenge Sweden for Baltic superiority--as one where Russia "reclaimed" such territories as Estonia and Latvia. As with Moscow's claims that places like Ukraine have always been a part of Russia, this is just simply not true.
