[Marshall Project] Eastern State Penitentiary, a former prison turned museum in Philadelphia, used to lure in visitors every Halloween with an event called "Terror Behind the Walls." The haunted house, with evil doctors, a jailbreak, and zombie inmates jumping out to scare visitors, was one of the museum's most lucrative fundraising events. But starting last year, the museum decided to drop the gore and emphasize the educational. Now the event is more optical illusions, eerie soundtracks, and live performances focused on the museum’s mission of highlighting issues of incarceration.
Museum curators debated the appropriateness of the haunted house over the years. Sean Kelley, Eastern State’s senior vice president and director of interpretation, said he had grown uncomfortable with the use of prison scenes in the haunted house. "I'm amazed at how numb many of us can be about these sites. The whole subject of incarceration is less a source of amusement than it was 10 years ago in America, but there's still like a layer of people thinking that it's funny," he said. "But it’s not funny to us."
Prison tourism often relies heavily on the spooky, the gruesome, and the salacious to attract visitors for a playful afternoon of ducking into cells and taking selfies in striped jumpsuits. But the entire industry, built largely on entertainment at the expense of incarcerated people’s dignity, is grappling with a growing criminal justice reform movement — and the business is being challenged by questions about exploitation and voyeurism.
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"The way the United States approaches prison tourism re-inscribes the kind of politics that support mass incarceration," said Jill McCorkel, a professor of criminology at Villanova University. "It turns human suffering into a spectacle."
Ya blithering bleeding-heart bint. What about the suffering of the victims of the pieces of shit that were incarcerated? Ever feel for them?
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Um, I think "suffering" is a fundamental component of "punishment."
Though I would not be surprised if academics miss that fine distinction.
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Humans and their morbid curiosity. I guess that is why torture museums are moderately popular in some places.
As for this broad Jill McCorkel....she can pound salt.
[Twitchy] Rachel Maddow actually ADMITS Trump and his rally had nothing to do with Jan. 6 Capitol breach (no seriously, WATCH)
We have watched this clip of Rachel Maddow several times now, waiting for there to be a punchline or something we’re missing, maybe a follow-up about how Trump is still evil and kicks puppies, starves orphans, etcetera, but no. Granted, this is just a clip, and who knows what she rattled off after dropping this little truth bomb but she said what she said. I am gobsmacked.
Take a look:
Even MSNBC admits President Trump and the rally had nothing to do with the Capitol breach! pic.twitter.com/sMGyHW3KcP
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While Trump was speaking, long before he finished, two travel buses pulled up in front of the capitol despite roads to the capitol being closed. People dressed as Trump supporters exited the two buses. The bus riders then entered the capitol somewhat peacefully.
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Smelled like an out of control FBI and Deep State sting operavion from the beginning. Control never has been an FBI strong suite. I could give Waco. Nadal Hasan, and Boston Marathon bombing as possible examples....I say again 'possible.'
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Jan 6 is not the "bombshell" the dems were hoping for. It's unlikely COVID hysteria will be rekindled in time for the November mid-terms. Polls show most Americans are skeptical of USA involvement in Ukraine and don't blame Putin for US inflation and shortages.
They will have to throw some sort of hail Mary before November that is unrelated to those items cited above. They are so screwed.
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..you really think they're going to give up the power? They got away with bare naked Central American election last time, why should they care what you or I think is legitimate and what is not.
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They leaked the Roe v Wade decision so they could wave that bloody coat hanger. That was pretty obvious but it remains to be seen how effective it was.
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Playing exclusively to the extreme fringes of their shrinking base is not going to be an effective strategy.
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Its the Chutzpah voter fraud that worries me. I just voted in person in Nevada. Brought in my mail-in ballot (Nevada has gone all-in for mail-in) to a voting site to do in-person voting. There was an elaborate procedure to void my serialized, by name mail-in ballot, and verify my signature, but NOT ask for any form of ID. Then you get a plastic card to insert into a large touch-screen voting machine (not provided with any privacy protection) and select the candidates on the primary ballot. After another fairly tedious review on the screen, you select "print ballot" and the machine whirs a few seconds and tells you to withdraw the card and you are finished. NO PRINTED DOCUMENT appeared. When I asked one of the watching poll workers where the printed ballot was, he explained that "printed" meant it went into the system electronically, not that a ballot was actually printed for deposit by me. The whole process was merely a confabulation to explain I had just voted electronically, and had no proof that the machine correctly mirrored my choices. I admit I'm primed to distrust the system, but this is theater, not secure in-person voting.
Stalin's words came to mind more powerfully than ever. Some faceless IT tech can decide who won if they wish, or get paid to do so.
WE MUST return to voter ID and paper ballot counted manually with bi=partisan poll watchers.
Regarding the Christina Pushaw story...
[AceOfSpades] Gee, I wonder why the DOJ would have chosen to leak this story today to a corrupt propaganda paper that carries its water for it.
Might it have leaked this in order to offset the story that General John Allen, a leader at the leftwing, extremely Clinton-aligned Brookings Institution -- essentially an incubator for the Russiagate Conspiracy Theory, as it employed "Primary Sub-Source 1," Igor "Iggy" Danchenko, who will go on trial soon -- is now being investigated for acting as an illegal, undisclosed agent of Qatar?
Dave Reaboi has been screaming about all the DC Swamp Creatures -- especially those allied with the Democrats -- who are paid foreign agents of Qatar, but who are permitted to continue operating without registering under FARA because so many of them are on the take that to start calling out any of them would bring down the entire dirty whorehouse. At this point Ace posts a screenshot of a tweet I can't find to link to... go to the original post, please. Anyway, continuing...
Dave Reaboi has been making the case that a substantial part of the DC foreign policy Swamp is not-so-secretly on Qatar's payroll for years. He wrote a book about it: Qatar's Shadow War: The Islamist Emirate and its Information Operations in the United States.
Federal prosecutors have obtained records indicating that John R. Allen, the retired four-star Marine general who commanded all American troops in Afghanistan and now heads a venerable Washington think tank, secretly lobbied for the government of Qatar, lied to investigators about his role and tried to withhold evidence sought by a federal subpoena, according to court documents.
The court records are the latest evidence of a broad investigation by the Justice Department and F.B.I. into the influence that wealthy Arab nations like Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia wield in Washington.
The records about General Allen were filed in April in Federal District Court in central California in an application for a warrant to search General Allen's electronic communications.
So yes, I strongly suspect the DOJ leaked the bullshit about Christina Pushaw to offset this major, major scandal about a four start general getting caught acting as a secret agent for Qatar.
Given that half of DC is on Qatar's payroll, I don't know if I'd expect this go any further than Allen. The whole town has a strong personal interest in making this investigation short and laser-focused on a single individual.
Though that might be a little tricky:
Other filings in the case appear to remain sealed, and the public release of the warrant application may have been accidental. The filing lays out evidence that General Allen joined in the secret lobbying plan along with Richard G. Olson, a former United States ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan, and Imaad Zuberi, a business executive with ties in the Middle East
They accidentally released the warrant application, so they rushed out the leak about Christina Pushaw.
Mr. Zuberi is serving a prison sentence for violating foreign lobbying, campaign finance and tax laws, as well as for obstruction of justice. Mr. Olson has agreed to plead guilty for participating in the Qatari lobbying effort in violation of a prohibition on such activity during the first year after leaving diplomatic service.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stood up for his press secretary, Christina Pushaw Wednesday, after a hit piece in the Washington Post accused her of violating the FARA Act.
"I am not deterred by any smear piece from these legacy media outlets," DeSantis said during a press conference in West Palm Beach. "The only reason they’re attacking her is because she’s doing a great job."
According to the Post, Pushaw belatedly registered this week as a foreign agent of a former president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, regarding work she did for the politician between 2018 and 2020. She made the disclosure after being contacted by the Justice Department, her attorney Michael Sherwin said.
"She began her work in 2018 as a volunteer in the post-Soviet country, Sherwin said, and was ultimately paid $25,000 over the course of two years. She received her first payment, of $10,000 in October 2018, in cash, according to her filing. She stayed for free for six weeks in an apartment owned by a Saakashvili associate in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.
"Her efforts included writing op-eds, reaching out to supporters and officials, and advocating on his behalf in Georgia and in the United States," Sherwin said. "The work ended in 2020. Ms. Pushaw was notified recently by the DOJ that her work on behalf of Mr. Saakashvilli likely required FARA registration. Ms. Pushaw filed for the registration retroactively as soon as she was made aware."
National Security expert David Reaboi, who previously worked for the Embassy of Hungary registered as a foreign agent under FARA, told American Greatness that the story is a "nothingburger."
"Of course, there’s no shame in working for a foreign client, especially one that’s pro-America and aligns with your values," Reaboi said. "What Christina Pushaw did wasn’t improper in any way, and long preceded her work for the Governor in Florida."
He continued: "Christina is by far the sharpest Comms staffer working in politics today—she’s exceptionally good at her job, and she doesn’t suffer fools. It’s no surprise that the leftist media is after her, because she’s made them look more foolish than anyone else. This cheap attack will fail, thankfully."
For her part, Pushaw told Florida’s Voice that "retroactive filing is routine."
"I voluntarily complied as soon as I was notified that I might be required to file," she said. "I have been very open about my past work in Georgia, which ended in 2020 — six months before I came to Florida. This has nothing to do with my work or the governor’s office."
Pushaw pointed out on Twitter that—contra the media narrative—she was working for a leader who was an enemy of Russia President Vladimir Putin.
Lib logic:
Put a Ukraine flag in your bio, and you’re a hero standing up against Russia
Actually spend years living and working in a foreign country for a leader who went to war with Putin, and you’re a Russian agent
Not serious people
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 8, 2022
[Townhall] But the facts weren’t out about that day. Many remain undiscovered. And today, to the annoyance of hysterical Democrats hellbent on advancing their theatrical narrative about January 6th, Republicans are raising one looming question that remains overtly (and purposefully) ignored by the Democrats’ Partisan Witch-hunt Committee:
Why did Nancy Pelosi fail to properly protect the Capitol while President Trump, on January 4th, requested 10,000 National Guard Troops be available to provide security to Americans and the United States Capitol on January 6th?
The Left would very much like for you to ignore this question. Its answer fundamentally undermines the January 6th Partisan Witch-hunt Committee’s highly-crafted and theatrically-based storyline about President Trump’s involvement in the events of that day—a theory that was completely rejected by an FBI investigation. If you were planning on "inciting an insurrection," "trying to overthrow the Republic," or "subverting the democratic process," you wouldn’t have asked for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the institution you were trying to overthrow!
Pelosi’s blunders were not anomalies in her leadership, her errors were systemic. A secret after-action analysis by the Capitol Police identified "fifty-three areas of failure" in Capitol security under Nancy Pelosi’s management.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Pavel Kukhmirov
[RODINANANEVE] Despite a number of successful actions of our army in the Donbass, in general, there is no point in denying that the war has stalled. The forces of Russia and the Kyiv regime have entered into a clinch, and the situation has not changed fundamentally for weeks. And now for months. However, something is still happening. For example, the supply of modern weapons systems to Ukraine from the United States and other NATO countries. For example, more and more "foreign specialists" and other "contractors" enter the territory. For example, the increase in Ukrainian military activity in other areas.
Literally, it has just become known about new incidents in Transnistria , which they are clearly trying to set on fire with completely understandable goals. But this, for now, is still trifles.
The barbaric bombardments of Donetsk, Makeevka, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Snezhnoye, Stakhanov and other cities of Donbass have begun again and are not trifles at all. According to some reports: with the use of the very modern weapons systems supplied by Western countries. And there is nothing surprising here. It's like in Brazilian football: if you don't score, they score for you. Marking time can have no other result. But Ukraine does all this for only one reason: because it can. Question: why can she?
Well, seriously: why? After all, Russia really has an overwhelming technological superiority over it. I will modestly keep silent about mobilization superiority, because it is a topic for a separate and separate discussion. But now it's about something else.
For a very long time, Ukraine has been promised strikes against some “decision-making centers”. Or rather, they promised. Now the promise is gone. As a result, creating in Ukraine a feeling of complete impunity not only for all possible terrorist attacks on Donetsk (and they are precisely terrorist, since they are inflicted on the civilian population), but also on the territory of the Russian Federation itself.
And this is just the beginning: it can be much more fun. This begs the question: why are these same decision-making centers not dealt with the same blows? In response, something unintelligible and unconvincing sounds, from the series "they all have already hidden" and "everything is decided for them in Washington."
No. This is complete nonsense.
Let's start with the fact that initially there was confusion in terminology. Their decision-making centers, perhaps, are in Washington. But the control centers in Ukraine. And they meant just that. Because decisions are made by people, and structures manage. And they were obviously going to “strike” not at incompetent or hostile elites (before that, in Moscow, alas, they had not yet matured all the more), but at the nerve centers of the state system. Here is the correct question. Whoever and wherever "made decisions", but everything is controlled by information and staff culture in any expression. Not only in the military, but also in many others.
And it is precisely on her nerve nodes that striking is absolutely real. And attempts to include "sarcasm" about this, they say, "where are they, these nodes", is completely out of place. These nodes themselves are known, as well as their addresses/passwords/appearances. What are they?
Well, firstly , since we are talking about "centers", then first of all these are data centers that manage large amounts of information. And above all, these are financial centers responsible for banking processing. Hitting them is almost a knockout. The modern state from this will simply begin to disintegrate into fragments. Inflict a couple of pinpoint strikes on the centers of financial and industrial groups in Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk - the result will already be amazing.
Second , it's a connection. Mobile communications and the Internet of Ukraine still work like clockwork. And now it is precisely on them, in many respects, that even command and control of the troops is carried out (I know - I saw it), not to mention the civilian infrastructure of the state. And here, too, we are talking about data centers and servers of cellular and Internet companies. I'm not talking about state special communications. A blow to them is a blow to the nerve centers, which paralyzes.
Thirdly , information terminals of law enforcement agencies and other government departments. All the same servers and data centers. Hit them and the state administration will shrink, as if having received a blow to the solar plexus.
Well, and fourthly , these are military and civilian headquarters, which, in fact, are also information control centers. There are actually not very many of those. And those key people who are of critical importance in the implementation of management are even fewer. And there is no need to tell, they say, "we have no irreplaceable ones." You don't have it. And in such stories, they are still there. And the conclusion from the equation of each is a critical damage to the controllability of a large and complex system.
That's what they are, these control centers. Suddenly, right? This is the very heart of the hydra, which must be beaten, and not deal with nonsense with chopping off its heads, which instantly grow back.
But if we talk specifically about “decision-making centers” in the true sense of the word (that is, not about structures, but about personalities), then this is also an option. Which has never been neglected neither by the USA, nor by Israel, nor by Europe. Yes, no one at all. Including Russia - for example, in Ichkeria,
...following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the so-called Chechen Republic of Ichkeria evolved into the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate, the umbrella group for the jihadi organizations in the North Caucasus...
where a lot of things were decided by means of personal cleansing of the elite of the terrorist quasi-state formation.
Much critical. I see no reason why the Dudaev elite is fundamentally different from the Bandera one. No, I understand that this needs a political decision. Well, I leave to the court of the respected reader the question of why it is not accepted.
Well, and finally . What I said above is no revelation. These are obvious things. But 100 days have already passed of what we are forced to call a “special military operation” (although what is happening has a simpler and more correct name), and this “obvious” has not yet been implemented.
Although much had to be realized already in the first hours of hostilities. Options for answering the legitimate question "why so?" just two. It's either incompetence or bidding. Well, rather, an attempt to conduct these auctions. So to speak, save yourself some room for maneuver. Or to be more precise: the opportunity to pass back.
Only here I will tell you one thing, guys: you do not have such an opportunity. And the sooner you understand (or accept) this, stop playing and start fighting seriously, the less lives will pay for the result.
And it is by no means only about the lives of the residents of Donetsk.
Pavel Kukhmirov is a writer and a former militiaman. He resides in Rostov, Russia.
Once again the propagandist forgot “Shoulder to shoulder into the great Soviet Russian future,” but otherwise he hit so many notes it’s like a full orchestra playing Tchaikovsky.
[REGNUM] The Cossacks have always been a reliable stronghold of Russian statehood, but the genocide of decossacks and 70 years of Soviet power have weakened the Cossack gene pool. The revival of the Cossack troops in modern Russia on the basis of a serious comprehensive state program, obviously, strengthened the borders of modern Russia, making them strong and safe. This is proved by the Cossacks not in word, but in deed - freeing the territories of Donbass and Ukraine from Ukrainian nationalists. The ataman of the All-Russian Cossack Society (VsKO) Nikolai Doluda drew attention to this .
The public position he is required to take. One wonders what he thinks in private.
No wonder the people say: "As long as the Cossack is alive - Russia is alive." Historically, it so happened that the fate of the Cossacks is inextricably linked with the fate of Russia, because the Cossacks are Russia, the Cossack general is sure. Knowledge and understanding of history, those events that hardened and made Russia stronger, helped the country in the dashing 90s, years of stagnation, not to lose its bearings.
"The Cossacks are a unique phenomenon in Russian history. In no country in Europe did the tradition of chivalry revive, because it did not have a folk background. They were knighted for faithful service to their master. At its core, the Cossacks in Russia are a phenomenon of the spiritual life of the Russian people. It arose by the will of the people. According to Gogol, 'the Cossacks are a spark carved from the chest of the Russian people by blows of misfortune.'"
In the 18th century, under Peter I, the Cossacks became a service class. The Cossacks are the heart of the Russian world, the backbone of Russia, which today is building up and strengthening its muscle," Doluda noted.
And Kiev is the heart of Russia, the original Rus. Therefore it is necessary that Russia again own it, if necessary clearing the aboriginal people away to accomplish the great deed.
Returning to history, the Cossack general recalled that the Don and Zaporozhye Cossacks, of their own free will, in 1642 took the Turkish fortress of Azov and asked Tsar Mikhail Romanov to include it in Russia .
"The Cossacks were called the knights of the wild field, the steppe knights of Russia. The main thing in the Cossacks is the male will, courage and readiness to give life for the Motherland. The genocide of decossackization and 70 years of Soviet power weakened the Cossack gene pool.
"And today in the Cossacks, unfortunately, there are not only grains, but also tares ... Grains are real Cossacks who fought in Transnistria, Abkhazia, Crimea, who today protect the people of Donbass from neo-fascist wickedness. Who invests their professionalism and mental strength in the education of the younger generation in Cossack kindergartens, schools, cadet corps, universities. The strong-willed spiritual core of the Cossacks was not broken by the events of decossackization, the civil war. <...> The Cossacks did not settle accounts with Soviet Russia. Because the Fatherland for the Cossack is a sacred concept," the ataman of the East Kazakhstan region emphasized.
Doluda drew attention to how the Cossacks courageously overcome difficulties, excluding from their ranks random people who joined the ranks of the Cossacks for their own benefit. Their strength of character and will manifest themselves in many situations.
"A real Cossack is distinguished by an irresistible will to live, which cannot be banned, closed, turned back. If the Cossack got up and moved, he could not be stopped. The origins of the Cossack strength is that the Cossacks are determined to win - good over evil. The Cossacks win anyway. Even at the cost of life."
Because from the moment of birth, the Cossack knew that his life did not belong to him, but to God and the Fatherland. Cossacks compare everything good and bad with the commandments, lay down their lives for the faith of their ancestors, for the land on which the graves of their fathers, for their wives and children. Therefore, the church ranks the Cossacks with the army of Christ. By good will, the Cossacks bear the burden of responsibility for the fate of the Fatherland. The modern Cossack, perhaps, is not churched enough. But he works with his heart, tries to live in harmony with God. This is the truth of Cossack life at all times," said the ataman of the All-Russian Cossack Society.
In this direction, the Cossacks also educate the Cossack youth.
Nikolai Doluda notes that today Russia is returning to itself, to its historical values. And the Cossacks have something to offer. This is both the experience of Cossack democracy and the continuous system of Cossack education, based on continuity, mentoring and spiritual and moral priorities of duty, honor, love for the Motherland, multiplication of cultural and historical traditions, respect for elders.
"A thousand volunteer Cossacks holding the defense in the Crimea in 2014 on Chongar, Perekop, Turkish Val, more than five thousand Cossacks as part of the Kuban, Don, Tavrida, Yermak Cossack units, who are fighting in the Donbass with neo-Nazis - demonstrate the experience of high self-organization. The named Cossack units numbering 250, 300, 400 people were assembled, equipped and crossed the combat zone within 10-12 days," said the Cossack general.
Speaking about the return to the historical experience of the chief atamans of military societies, Doluda again pointed to historical experience. Even Peter I appointed Peter Romazanov as the first ataman . In this position, he remained permanently. There were chieftains on the Don, Kuban, Terek, Orenburg. And this is a historical tradition for the Cossack troops of Russia.
Mykola Doluda is sure that today the tasks of organizing public service, developing the Cossack economy, forming Cossack military units, opening new Cossack schools, cadet corps, developing the Cossack component in universities can only be solved by the ataman, endowed with state powers.
As expected, the chief chieftains of military Cossack societies will be appointed by decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the proposal of the chieftain of the All-Russian Cossack Society and the approval of the Council under the President of Russia, the Federal Agency for Nationalities of Russia. At the same time, the chieftains of all other levels must preserve electivity as the basic principle of Cossack democracy.
In order to prepare a personnel reserve, a system of continuous Cossack education has been built - from kindergarten to university. Work on professional retraining of representatives of the Cossack societies is carried out in several universities in Russia.
"The Cossacks are the foundation of a united, changing Russia. It builds its development in accordance with the tasks defined by the Strategy of the State Policy of the Russian Federation towards the Russian Cossacks until 2030. This is a strategic planning document in the field of Russian national security. In a word, in the context of today's events in Ukraine, the number one task for the Cossacks is to participate in the formation of the country's mobilization human reserve, to promote national security in all spheres of public life," Mykola Doluda concluded.
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"Returning to history, the Cossack general recalled that the Don and Zaporozhye Cossacks, of their own free will, in 1642 took the Turkish fortress of Azov and asked Tsar Mikhail Romanov to include it in Russia ."
As the direct descendent of Zaparozhian hetmen I can attest that that last bit is .... not quite how things happened. But whatever - go for it.
This will resonate with some young Russian men who have been looking for purpose and identity. Cossack martial arts training camps have attracted some of them, for understandable reasons in a country with high drug abuse rates and shockingly low lifespan expectations of late.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
Fighting in the industrial zone of the city. The enemy suffers heavy losses in the battles for the city, data about which even leak into the Ukrainian media. However, the topic of "withdrawal to Lysichansk" continues to be blocked for political reasons. In fact, the fighting in Severodonetsk turned into the grinding of those reserves that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine pushed into the industrial zone.
2. Soledar.
Fighting in the area of Berestovoye and Belogorovka. The enemy is gradually squeezed out of the line, grinding the reserves transferred here from Artemovsk. The Lisichansk-Artemovsk highway is still under the fire control of the RF Armed Forces, however, the supply through Seversk is maintained by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
3. Svetlodarsk.
A small advance at Dolomite. Uglegorskaya TPP and Novoluganskoye are still under the APU. Counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Roty were not successful.
4. Zolotnoye.
Fighting in the area of Vrubovka, Toshkovka and Ustinovka. There is no significant progress, just like on the outskirts of Zolote.
5. Avdievka.
In the industrial zone of Avdievka, in Kamenka and Krasnogorovka, there were no significant changes.
Fighting on the outskirts of New York. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue terrorist shelling of Donetsk and other cities.
6. Izyum.
Kamyshevakha, Kurulka, Dolgenkoye - no changes. Attacks on Krasnopolye and Dolina have not yet led to the capture of these villages.
Fights for the Mother of God.
7. Svyatogorsk.
The troops are clearing the forest to the west of Svyatogorsk, and are also fighting in the Tatyanovka area. There are unconfirmed reports of the capture of Prishib and advance towards Sidorovo. In other areas, the Seversky Donets has not yet been forced. The enemy reinforced the grouping near Seversk and Zakotnoe.
8. Kharkov.
Positional battles on the line Cossack Lopan-Liptsy-Ternovoe-Rubezhnoye.
Local attack attempts from both sides did not significantly change the overall picture. We can note the further intensification of enemy fire damage on the outskirts of Kharkov and in the Sumy region.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing to resume offensive attempts in the direction of Kazachya Lopan and Liptsy.
9. Zaporozhye.
There are no significant advances on the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka line. The enemy is fortifying positions in the area of Kamenskoye and Orekhov, expecting an attack by the RF Armed Forces on Zaporozhye.
10. Nikolaev.
The RF Armed Forces ousted the remnants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Kinburn Spit and provided the possibility of artillery strikes on Ochakovo, where the enemy suffered losses in the ship composition.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine expect the resumption of active offensive operations of the RF Armed Forces north of Nikolaev, as well as on the Black Sea coast.
In the Davydov Brod area, the enemy has so far gone over to the defensive.
On the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions - without significant changes.
In the large graphic, the numerals in the first columns are deaths, the second wounded, and the third totals.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
The last I heard, the total number of troops of both Lugansk and Donetsk was around 40,000, Just a guess, that number with recruiting could expand the force by about 10 percent total, FLOT to the rear. Just under 25 percent losses totals.
[ColonelCassad] Data on the losses of the personnel of the DPR:
The result from the beginning of the active phase of hostilities is 2057 dead and 8526 wounded. Total losses for 16 weeks - 10583 people (that is, about 50% of the composition of 1 AK at the beginning of the year). 1 AK is the Donetsk 1st Army Corps Average daily losses are gradually decreasing over the entire period and are:
- irretrievable - 18.5 daily;
- sanitary - 76 daily;
- general - 94.5 people daily
All the newspapers on Ostrov write about one thing today - the death sentence for foreign mercenaries in the DPR
The head of the British Foreign Office, Liz Truss, called the verdict illegitimate, and the mercenaries themselves were "prisoners of war."
Lisa, it's not for you to judge legitimacy. You hold such a post and are absolutely legally illiterate. Your knowledge of jurisprudence is much worse than your demonstrated knowledge of geography. Legitimacy is the agreement of the people with the government, its voluntary recognition of its right to make binding decisions. Empty-headed, you see, you consider yourself the people of the DPR, since you are challenging the legitimacy of court decisions.
And this trio cannot be prisoners of war. Article 47 of Protocol No. 1 "On International Armed Conflict" to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 directly in the definition of the concept of a mercenary indicates that this person "is not a citizen of a party to the conflict." This is also recognized in the UK. Two weeks ago, the lord, a member of parliament, when asked by an English journalist about the fate of the mercenary captured at Azovstal, answered that he was outside British jurisdiction, because I went to fight myself. And now suddenly the mercenary has turned into a prisoner of war?
If, according to Truss, these mercenaries are prisoners of war, then this means that the UK is officially a party to an armed conflict. Does Ms. Truss understand everything that follows from this fact?
The United States is “seriously concerned” by the death sentences that a court in the DPR issued against foreign mercenaries - two British and one Moroccan who participated in the hostilities in the Donbass.
"We call on Russia and the forces it controls to respect international humanitarian law, including the rights and protection afforded to prisoners of war," U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken tweeted, impotently calling the trial “bogus” and the mercenaries, despite all the facts, called "legitimate combatants".
Wow, how the West got up! How to kill innocent millions themselves, so silently, and then, by a court decision, their mercenaries were sentenced - they immediately screamed about justice and laws!
"Exceptional" still believe that for the whole world, only the decisions of only US sham trials are valid. The Yankees played hegemony.
I love to watch the US secretaries of state put on jester hats and throw fools around. Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the International Criminal Court - the Kangaroo Court, simply because they tried to prosecute some privates and sergeants of the US Army (they killed, just for their own pleasure, many civilians in Afghanistan - children, women, the elderly, but not the Taliban).
The US Congress urgently adopted a law against the ICC, and its judges and investigators were banned from entering the territory of the United States, it was even written into the law that if any of the US military personnel were destined to get there, then the United States was obliged to conduct a military operation (against its own allies in Brussels) for their release.
At the same time, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, by his education and position, cannot but know that the norms of international law on prisoners of war do not apply to mercenaries, and they are judged as ordinary criminals, according to the legislation of the country in which they came to kill people for money. ..
"International humanitarian law (or the law of armed conflict) does not directly prohibit mercenarism, but only says that mercenaries are not combatants and do not have the right to prisoner of war status. This means that a mercenary risks being prosecuted for participating in an armed conflict if captured."
By the way, the investigation and the court investigated this issue and came to the conclusion that all three do not fall under the Geneva Convention. There is evidence in the case file. What kind of prisoners of war and "lawful combatants" does this defective mattress squeal about then?
Firstly, the law allowing foreigners to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine was adopted by the Rada only on April 14, and the blockade of Mariupol began on March 1.
And secondly, Article 47 of Protocol No. 1 "On International Armed Conflict" to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 in the definition of the concept of a mercenary indicates that this person "is not a citizen of a party participating in the conflict", and in order to obtain Ukrainian citizenship, one must refuse from anyone else.
Mercenaries in Ukraine, of course, do not do this. So they are not combatants, but mercenaries, and they do not have any protection rights according to the conventions. In general, they can be shot on the spot without trial or investigation.
The same Aiden Aslin is a typical mercenary. Before Ukraine, he fought in Syria and was recruited to the Donbass by a friend. He himself talked about this in one of his interviews. At first, he said that he served mortars, but he has a characteristic sniper tattoo on his left arm and a callus from a trigger on his finger. He was a sniper. These cannot be released.
And in conclusion, I would like to note the following:
All the mercenaries who came to fight against the Donbass should cut down on their noses that when they are hanged, London and Washington will not be able to help them with anything other than deep concern.
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Since the day that these idiots "took" office.
My Gas has gone from $2.12 to $4.49 a Gallon as of yesterday. That's 111.79%.
A loaf of Bread from $2.25 a loaf to $3.25 that's 44.4%
We now buy store brand @ $1.75 a loaf.
Milk was $2.89 is now $3.79 that's 31.14%
Eggs went from $0.75 a dozen to $1.89 That's 152.0%
Bacon was $2.85 an LBS is now $4.95 That's 73.68% it was $7.07 a LBS for about 6 months.
Chicken Wings $2.89 an LBS to $4.04 That's 39.79%
Our 2022 SSA COLA was 5.9%
The 2022 Congressional Pay Raise was 21%
Speaking with a Wally World Shelf Stock'er I know.
I was joking and said "How long before Y'all set up a Loan Dept. and hire armed guards?"
He responded they now have a Store Credit card and were hiring more Loss Prevention staff to monitor certain high loss sections. He added, they are closely watching those with large pursues and Baby Strollers with drape covers.
#4
Maybe, just maybe, the people in government are totally clueless that they are the problem and not the 'endless' solution. Nah, they're doing this on purpose.
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