[Babylon Bee] BERKELEY, CA—BLM leaders are calling for more nationwide protests this summer after discovering a fantastic home on Malibu Beach that they should easily afford if they begin riling people up now.
Co-founder Patrisse Cullors appeared as a guest on CNN's Don Lemon Tonight to get the word out about a need to protest something.
"BIPOCS are constantly marginalized and stuff like that," Cullors told a vigorously nodding Don Lemon. "For example, I bought a six million dollar home with BLM donations and was heavily criticized for it. I had to resign as executive director of BLM. That's racism at work! We need to hit the streets now!"
"You're absolutely right," said Lemon. "We need to call for justice and things like that. JUSTICE for Patrisse Cullors!"
"That and George Floyd. We can get more mileage out of him. Then I can finally get that Malibu beach house I've always wanted," replied Cullors while sipping champagne. "And if anyone criticizes it we'll just say we bought it as a 'BIPOC Creative Community Space' or something like that! Hahahahaha!"
Prominent black female Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked her opinion on why people incite peaceful protests to help greedy people make money off of worldwide outrage.
"I don't know, I'm not an anthropologist," she said.
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Te 72 Point Headline should be seeing.
CITIZENS CALL FOR MASSIVE ARRESTS OF VIOLENT PROTESTERS, LOOTERS, AND RIOTERS
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They're not gonna riot on Biden's watch, especially in the lead up to the mid term elections. Regardless of BLM leaders' avarice, this summer will be quiet.
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...with the kill rate in NYC how could they tell the difference?
[Daily Reckoning] One reason American movies are so bad these days is they have forgotten how to tell a story. Stuff just happens to characters. Cause, effect and consequence no longer exist in the workshops of Hollywood.
And one might sense that these imperatives are likewise missing from what used to be known as real life in the USA, with all its stories and narratives. Stuff just happens to the people in this country now. And then sometimes, stuff un-happens.
With the Russian operation in Ukraine alarming the populace, you might have forgotten the late COVID-19 epidemic that provoked so much public hysteria and government policy overreach.
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[REGNUM] One of the most discussed topics recently is the question of when and where to complete the Special Military Operation? As usual, there are a lot of experts, connoisseurs and, most importantly, advisers. However, there are basically only two positions.
One is to complete at the western borders of Ukraine.
Second, we don't need Galicia, it will be an eternal and aching headache, so don't release it. Therefore, stop at the borders of Western Ukraine.
I consider it possible to combine both positions. This means completing a special military operation near the western borders of Ukraine. And then start real negotiations, but not with Ukraine, but with its owners in the face of the collective West.
Since the special military operation will be difficult to complete until the channels for the delivery of military aid and mercenaries from the West to Ukraine are blocked, Russia, and maybe Belarus, should close the western border of Ukraine and complete the second part of the special military operation. As we know, the first part of the operation is the liberation of Donbass and the liquidation of a significant grouping of Ukrainian troops trapped in the cauldron.
And somehow it became a shame for the state when we kind of unblocked Kiev, and there freely arrived on the night of April 8, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen , and the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell . They did not just express words of support to V. Zelensky . They named the amounts of financial and military assistance to the Nazis, which, according to the plan of the operation, must be eradicated. Moreover, Josep Borrell, like a diplomat, declared that only a collective military victory over Russia could be a favorable outcome.
It became even more ashamed of the state when the possessed Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev . He held a planning meeting with V. Zelenskiy, promised military assistance, loans, and also spoke out against negotiations with Russia.
The possibility of combining both positions noted above was prompted by the opinion of the same Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. He is often confused with the US oil barrel, a unit of oil equal to 158.988 liters, or 42 gallons, but at times he has interesting thoughts.
So, Josep Borrell said that, in his opinion, Russia will not stop at Ukraine and NATO countries, among other things, may fall victim to it. A very promising idea!
After M. S. Gorbachev and four other members of the State Council of the USSR fulfilled the wishes of the United States and recognized the independence of the Baltic republics on September 6, 1991, the USSR ceased to exist in its former composition and within its former borders. Then independent Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia became members of the European Union and members of NATO. Since then, these three NATO countries, on the one hand, and Poland, also a NATO country, have come to represent the most violent Russophobic wing in the collective West.
Not only are they the most barking Tabaki, they have completely surrounded the Kaliningrad region. Thus, part of the territory of Russia was completely surrounded by NATO countries.
For some time, the Baltic states allowed Russia to exercise the right to public easement established by the Roman law, that is, the right to use the territory of another state in order to meet state or municipal needs. For some time, trains carrying goods and passengers to Kaliningrad followed through the territory of the Baltic states, and planes from Russia to Kaliningrad flew over the airspace of the Baltic states.
But then the Baltic countries became insolent and forbade Russia to use their land territory and airspace. Russia had to build sea ferries to deliver goods to Kaliningrad that were previously delivered by rail, and planes now fly to Kaliningrad over neutral airspace, which is more than an hour longer and, of course, more expensive.
There are certain technical difficulties in supplying the Kaliningrad region with gas and electricity from the mainland of Russia. So, in order to supply liquefied gas through the gas receiving terminal, it was necessary to build a floating regasification platform "Marshal Vasilevsky". There were certain technical problems with the supply of electricity from the mainland to the Kaliningrad region.
The union state of Belarus, which previously exported and imported significant volumes of goods through the ports of the Baltic states, also faced difficulties. I had to negotiate with Russia on the construction of a separate port near St. Petersburg for Belarusian cargo. According to preliminary estimates, the cost of building such a port could cost about $2 billion.
We return to the topic of combining two positions, suggested by Josep Borrell, which is as follows.
Since the US and NATO have not responded to Russia's just diplomatic demands for security guarantees, including the withdrawal of NATO's borders to the 1997 borders, Russia will have to solve this problem itself. Russia has warned the US and NATO that if they do not accept proposals to meet our demands through diplomatic means, then military-political and military-technical methods will be used. The third stage of a special military operation could be the unblocking of the Kaliningrad region, which is currently surrounded by NATO countries, and the provision of a neutral and demilitarized status for Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
The railway and air links with Kaliningrad will start working again, it will probably be easier to return to gas supplies through the main gas pipeline Minsk-Vilnius-Kaunas-Kaliningrad, it will also be possible to loop power transmission lines, as was the case in the USSR.
It is likely that such an operation could be even cheaper than building a new port for Belarusian cargo.
It seems that this will not meet with much military resistance, since NATO made sure that the “cartoons” of 2018 have already become a reality - Onyxes, Zircons and Daggers fly far and hit right on target. It is unlikely that the local population will fiercely resist the troops of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, since the descendants of the Baltic SS and policemen have long moved to Europe. In fact, the majority of the Russian-speaking population remained on the territory of these states, deprived of their rights, including the right to citizenship. Now they can easily obtain citizenship of the Russian Federation.
But then real negotiations on concluding a barter agreement can begin - they give us Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. We are, as it were, eliminating the consequences of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. We return Galicia to Poland, let them deal with the remnants of Bandera themselves. We return Transcarpathia and Bukovina to Hungary and congratulate Viktor Orban on his victory in the elections. We return the Chernivtsi region to Romania, let them sing beautiful songs together with the Ukrainians and dance colorful and incendiary dances.
We can’t give up southern Bessarabia in any way - these territories returned to the Russian Empire, when Romania was not even in the project. Izmail, Reni, Vilkovo, Bolgrad, Belgorod-Dnestrovsky will take their rightful place in the Novorossiya.
Undoubtedly, for that part of the people of the former Ukrainian SSR who consider themselves original Ukrainians, Ukraine should be preserved within its original borders and the territory that was previously called Little Russia.
It also seems that the DPR and LPR should not rush to a referendum on joining the Russian Federation. We should wait a bit until the Kherson People's Republic, perhaps, is revived, since these territories, including the southern part of Transnistria, were previously part of the Kherson province of the Russian Empire.
And, perhaps, the Odessa People's Republic will be proclaimed as the legal successor of the Odessa Soviet Republic, the beginning of which was laid by the formation of the military revolutionary committee (MRC) of Rumcherod, which began on January 13 (26), 1918, an armed uprising in Odessa. On the evening of January 18 (31), the Council of People's Commissars of the Odessa Soviet Republic was elected, which recognized the supreme authority in the person of the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Russia and the Soviet government in Kharkov.
The fate of the Odessa Soviet Republic was sealed on December 4, 1917, when the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which included the Kherson province.
The countries of the Quadruple Alliance at that time were at war with Russia. They also recognized the UNR and signed a separate peace treaty with the UNR on February 8, 1918:
“Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, on the one hand, and the Ukrainian People's Republic, on the other, declare that the state of war between them has ended. The parties signing the treaty decided from now on to live in peace and friendship.
From March 1918, the Odessa Soviet Republic tried to resist the troops of Austria-Hungary and Germany, who entered Ukraine by agreement with the Ukrainian Central Rada. On March 13, 1918, the Odessa Soviet Republic ceased to exist due to the occupation of Odessa by the Austro-German troops.
There will probably be no problems with Russia's recognition of the independence of the Odessa People's Republic.
After that, the Donetsk People's Republic, the Lugansk People's Republic and the Odessa People's Republic will be able to hold referendums on joining the Russian Federation. The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic held such a referendum back in 2006. That's when these four republics, having called the Republic of Moldova with them, together holding hands, will return to their ancestral territory, the assignee and successor of which today is the Russian Federation.
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^ The article also contains a large number of egregiously stupid statements, therefore it seems to me to have ben written by a recent journalism graduate - like maybe last week.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
The Azov militants reported that they dropped bombs with a chemical substance on Mariupol, which, in terms of symptoms, is similar to Zarin.
Azov almost won, but then the cunning Russians, out of desperation, "used" chemical weapons. Chronology
A) Eduard Basurin, who was not previously one of the great minds of our time, blurted out something about using the chemical troops to smoke out the inmates of the Azovstal cellars. One of the tasks of the chemical troops, in addition to protection against chemical, radiation and biological hazards, is "inflicting losses on the enemy using incendiary weapons. I remind you that the famous "Sun" is also a chemical troops.
B) For some reason, RIA Novosti put this in the news feed.
C) On the basis of this foolishness, the Nazis from the Azovstal catacombs made an absurd and unsubstantiated Internet stuffing about a poisonous substance from a drone.
D) Khodorkovsky and his gay company immediately began to disperse this game. Twitter is now in uniform chemical attack. From the abundance of hysterics, you can really suffocate. You read and go nuts, what stubborn and crazy personalities are now fighting in fits there.
Back in 2017, Russia completely destroyed all of its stockpiles of chemical weapons, including sarin. This was confirmed by Hamid Ali Rao, Deputy Director General of the Technical Secretariat of the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
April 11, 19:01
American Version
According to the Pentagon, Russia has 55 battalion tactical groups in the south, almost all of them deployed to Ukraine. There are 20 BTGs in the north, of which about half are in Ukraine. Two BTGs have recently appeared north of Luhansk and east of Kharkov. Follow the links to see the main map and others.
According to the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, the Russian army is completing preparations for the transition to new active actions, building up the control system and logistics in the Izyum and Donetsk directions.
The main goals, according to the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the RF Armed Forces at this stage are as follows:
- Preparation for the defeat of the group participating in the operation of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass;
- Establishing full control over the Donetsk and Lugansk regions;
- Ensuring a sustainable land corridor with Crimea.
P.S:
According to Ukrainian sources, Mi-6s have provided Zelensky's office with new data on the second phase of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine. Now the Kremlin is not going to stop at the recognition of the LDNR and Crimea, but they want to occupy the entire left-bank Ukraine. For this, Russia is preparing a big cauldron for Ukrainian troops in the Donbass.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have created a large strike force of about 90,000 people, which is constantly growing, with military equipment now all the roads in the second echelon - in the Voronezh region are clogged. The Armed Forces of Ukraine also collects all reserves. To counteract the Ukrainian side, a grouping was formed in the Dnepropetrovsk region, numbering about 80,000 people.
The group created by the Armed Forces of Ukraine has many mobilized, but it has a lot of modern weapons that are supplied to Ukraine by the West. The contour of the encirclement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass is expected along the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region - 40-50 km east of Pavlograd. This will allow the Russian army to quickly surround the group in the Donbass and methodically clean it up, as was already done with ISIS in Syria.
The strengths of the Russian Federation now are: air superiority, motivated units of the L/DPR, strategic initiative, the ability to continuously launch missile strikes.
The downside for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is that there are 170-180 km between Kramatorsk and the nearest large city of Pavlograd, and only small towns remain between them, which will not become a big obstacle for the Russian army. This will not allow the Ukrainian side to use its traditional tactics - to use artillery behind the civilian population of large cities, as the Armed Forces of Ukraine used to do in the vicinity of Kyiv, Kharkov and Nikolaev.
The beginning of the active phase can be expected after the active phase of cleaning up the city from the remnants of Ukrainian units in Mariupol, some of which, in all likelihood, will simply be docked at Azovstal.
[Victory Girls] White House press secretary Jen Psaki must know the inflation numbers are going to be catastrophically bad.
If they weren’t going to be bad, then Psaki (who must be marking time with daily margaritas until she can leave for her own MSNBC show) wouldn’t have mentioned the upcoming report on consumer inflation.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday will issue its March update to the consumer price index, or CPI. The CPI is the department’s tool for measuring inflation in a basket of goods and services that the average American would buy — ranging from eggs and milk to cell phones and unleaded gasoline."
Economists consider two versions of the CPI data: The headline print that includes all prices consumers face, and a so-called core CPI that excludes often volatile food and energy price fluctuations."
The White House says it anticipates a wider-than-normal disparity between the headline and core CPI readings because of an abnormal increase in gasoline prices that occurred in March. The price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline hit a record high of $4.33 on March 11, according to the American Automobile Association."
That price has since slid to $4.11 a gallon, according to AAA."
So, the report is going to be bad. Very, very bad. The kind of bad that’s going to test just where the floor is on Biden’s approval numbers. So Jen Psaki is trying to get ahead of just how bad these numbers will be by assigning the blame, pre-emptively.
[Bee] Justice Clarence Thomas walked out to get his mail this morning and found a surprise in his mailbox. According to sources, he was lucky enough to receive an invitation to celebrate Kentanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation as the nation’s first black Supreme Court Justice.
"Yippee! I feel so honored to have been invited to such a historic celebration!" said the longtime originalist justice appointed by George H.W. Bush. "Wow—the first black Supreme Court Justice. Who would have thought I'd see such a day?"
Justice Thomas then dropped the rest of the mail and jumped up and down while clutching the RSVP made of pink, lacy stationery.
Several critics have opposed Thomas's invitation to KBJ's barrier-breaking confirmation party. "This day is a victory for black people, not white people like Clarence Thomas," said Betina McSwan, an activist for the group Demand Justice. "He opposed reparations and affirmative action just because it violates the Constitution. Then he voted for Trump, so he ain't black!"
Others were confused by the invitation, saying that Thurgood Marshall deserves to be honored as the first black Supreme Court Justice due to his being the first black Supreme Court Justice.
"That's ridiculous," said McSwan. "Blackness isn't skin color, but is more of an idea, like Antifa, gender, and the Constitution."
At publishing time, Thomas decided not to attend after finding he was only invited so the January 6 committee could bug his house.
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[Dawn] WHEN a political leader makes a doubtful claim about a foreign conspiracy to oust him one is hardly surprised. Most politicians have a tenuous relationship with the truth. But what is astonishing is that an overwhelming majority of people in Pakistain have long believed such claims, focusing largely on the US.
Here is how the argument goes. Historically, the US has preferred a certain kind of government in Pakistain, such as a military regime, to serve its security and strategic interests. As the lifespan of such governments has begun and ended with the US connection, Washington must have brought them to power and removed them when they were no longer needed, it is argued.
The reality is that political dynamics in Pakistain have nearly always functioned fairly autonomously, and the primary, though not always the sole, stimulus for the rise and fall of governments has been domestic, and not external. Zia ul Haq
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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.
[Babylon Bee] BERKELEY, CA—BLM leaders are calling for more nationwide protests this summer after discovering a fantastic home on Malibu Beach that they should easily afford if they begin riling people up now.
[Bee] Justice Clarence Thomas walked out to get his mail this morning and found a surprise in his mailbox. According to sources, he was lucky enough to receive an invitation to celebrate Kentanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation as the nation’s first black Supreme Court Justice.
