[PJMedia] The Russian Air Force (VKS) has procured 350 modern combat aircraft in the last ten years and the question that must be on every Russian's mind in the second week of the Ukraine War is: What did we get for our money?
Because by all accounts, the Russian Air Force is nearly AWOL from Russia's biggest battles since 1945.
Part of what's missing is likely fear of losses to Ukraine antiaircraft missiles-weather-fixed, mobile, or man-portable air defenses (MANPADS).
One big reason the U.S. Air Force (and more recently, the Navy) went so big for stealth is that the battlespace was getting extremely uncomfortable for fighters and bombers. Soviet - later, Russian and Chinese - air defenses were getting denser and deadlier. The jet that was more difficult to detect, track, and hit would have the advantage.
The U.S. bet wisely on stealth because the modern battlefield, including Ukraine, is rife with antiaircraft missiles.
What few missions VKS has flown over Ukraine, they’ve flown mostly at night in order to minimize losses to MANPADS. The few precision strikes Russia has launched have been with cruise missiles, again to minimize risk to Russia’s expensive fleet of non-stealthy aircraft.
But what good is a modern air force that can’t be deployed in a modern battlespace?
Stealth is the price of admission to modern air warfare, but it’s a price Russia can’t afford to pay.
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Also another reason the US has been developing long range stand-off weapons. Some stealthy, some not. The low-stealth ones are cheap and can be launched in large numbers to overwhelm air defenses. The stealth ones pick off high value radar sites and C&C that control the air defense. Then send in the F-35s to pick off whatever is left.
In 10-20 years substitute the F-35s with stealth AI drones.
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Contrarian view: Putin realizes this one-on-one war could very well acquires some new players and, thinking that ground forces with minimal air support could get the job done in Ukraine, is holding his air assets back in case there is a main event.
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Always like talking to zoomies. Ask about how long they've been flying and what they've flown. Then point out that the Army spends a few weeks teaching E3/E4s a couple of weeks worth of how to use a Stinger and target identification. Given they literally have seconds to determine whether to pull the trigger or not and that if they don't fire it, they have to carry it all back are aspects involved in the operator's trigger decision process.
#3
Well Darth, they have already tried Pestilence, now they're trying War so Famine would seem to be the next thing. What comes after that I have no idea.
While the world focused on Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine last week, little attention was paid to the ineffably consequential decision by Democrats to go all-out in their assault on American democracy.
Just as Julius Caesar invited civil war by crossing the Rubicon, the partisan House committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol let it be known that it will recommend bringing two sets of criminal charges against former President Donald Trump regarding the 2020 election. One allegation is that that he tried to obstruct the lawful counting of votes. The other is that he engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the United States through his false claims of a stolen election.
Given how divided our country is, and the wide support Trump still enjoys, his indictment would be an incalculably reckless act. It would be tantamount to the first round of live fire across the bow....
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It's worse for Russia. They can't sell the oil they have for $20+ discounts. When their storage is full, then they will have to shut down the wells. Those wells will never operate the same again.
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Oops. I meant "Provision for," which is the same thing the US Navy does, "It has a spot here where we could put a ten million dollar CIWS if we were interested in not letting the 150 million dollar patrol boat sink..."
#7
This is pure disinformation Nato cia propaganda …you know the same white hats that vaccinated us and muzzle us after removing our president in a military organized and sanctioned way Americans are under a fascist role. We turned in what we accused NK …. our media, our governance, our police, military. And it’s not over yet…
The USA is mirroring NK Propaganda psychological manipulation indoctrination .
[Breitbart] The White House on Sunday rejected the argument that increasing domestic oil production would help lower gas prices, as the cost of oil moves toward record highs.
Crude oil prices rose as high as $130.50 a barrel on Sunday evening.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki released a set of talking points on social media, arguing against a focus on boosting oil production in the United States.
“It’s a reminder that real energy security comes from reducing our dependence on fossil fuels,” Psaki wrote, noting that Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine was causing a spike in oil prices.
Psaki pushed back against Republicans calling for more domestic oil production.
She argued that domestic oil production was up after the coronavirus pandemic but that the United States was still vulnerable to global oil markets.
President Joe Biden’s administration is exploring diplomatic shifts with oil producing countries including Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Iran, as Russia’s latest Ukrainian offensive has disrupted oil markets.
But Psaki argued the only way to truly be free from high gas prices was to stop using oil.
“The only way to protect US over the long term is to become energy independent,” she wrote, pointing to Biden’s efforts on subsidizing wind and solar energy.
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This is beyond the paradigm of election political thinking TW, this is transformation destruction of the economy. The motive hints at the identity of the power structure behind thr facade of cartoonish leadership at 1600.
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This is the whole idea - drive the price of oil sky-high and punish the American people for using cars. They hate you and wish you harm.
Remember, just get on the bus and all of this goes away. Don't live on a bus route? Move into the city. Bad schools? Your kids deserve to get beaten up because you're evil people.
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Note well that the WH and their minions are ignoring what the Ukrainian population is doing. They're taking on the Russian bears (see MIG-29s and nukes to paraphrase someone else). They think after denouncing their military as racist and evil that those people are going to be motivated to take on enough of the population that can shut this whole place down?
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Kinda raises the question of Biden and Putin being in cahoots on this. Putin gets Donbass and higher oil prices. Biden gets to look tough and tell everybody how he's standing up to the dictator just before the mid-term elections. Win-win.
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This is deliberate and calculated destruction of the American Economy. It has nothing to do with 'Energy Independence' or even 'Green New Deal' this is targeted directly at the Economy.
[Am Thinker] As bad as Joe Biden and his wretched allies in Europe are, they aren't anywhere near the level of trouble that Vladimir Putin is, as the latter's war on Ukraine drags on with no results.
Not only has Putin has not won his war, but he is now in hock to China, as another Chinese puppet-string actor, which is a wretched booby prize. China's help is likely to provide some comfort to Putin's economy in Russia for now, but it leaves Putin in roughly the same position as Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, who stays in power only due to Russia's patronage.
Richard Fernandez, via Twitter, has some observations: which I reformat slightly because I don't like the twitter quote thing
What am I getting wrong? By starting the war Putin lost the gas sale of the century, ruined this year's wheat harvest and is in hock to China. Where's he making it back?
It seems inescapable that, by going to war, Putin has undermined the system of oligarchs and strongmen of which he occupies the apex. From now on, the Chinese ambassador is the second most important man in Moscow. The longer the war the bigger he gets. Unless now Putin's the second most important man in Moscow, that's usually how the patronage game works.
As every bum knows, when you have to cadge drinks and mooch meals, you can pretend to be the big man but who are you kidding?
My thought: The old Soviet Union had the tripod of the Party, the Military, and the KGB/whatever they are this week, which was stable. Modern Russia just has Putin, which isn't a tripod.
Putin's the bum in that one, because he's bumming favors off China — finance, wheat-buying, oil- and coal-buying, internet, help on bank and financial transactions.
Putin threw it all on the table when he opted to invade Ukraine, and he's losing his shirt. Russia's economy is ruined when it could have been so good what with all those gas sales.
And even with scorched-earth warfare, redolent of how he flattened Chechnya, he still doesn't have Ukraine in pocket.
He made a bad bet and won't be able to unwind it without some stunning fumbling from the West or Ukraine, which could happen but most likely won't, given that the Europeans are getting pretty canny about how to move. I have my doubts about the last bit. Anyway... there's more formatting, go there if you want to read the rest.
[Reuters] The condition of China's winter wheat crop could be the "worst in history", the agriculture minister said on Saturday, raising concerns about grain supplies in the world's biggest wheat consumer.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the country's annual parliament meeting, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Tang Renjian said that rare heavy rainfall last year delayed the planting of about one-third of the normal wheat acreage. read more
A survey of the winter wheat crop taken before the start of winter found that the amount of first- and second-grade crop was down by more than 20 percentage points, Tang said.
"Not long ago we went to the grassroots to do a survey and many farming experts and technicians told us that crop conditions this year could be the worst in history," he said. "This year's grain production indeed faces huge difficulties."
The minister's comments underscore concerns about China's grain supply at the same time as the war between Russia and Ukraine, which together account for about 29% of global wheat exports, has disrupted supplies causing wheat prices to surge to 14-year highs.
However, Tang is confident China can ensure a bumper harvest of summer grain thanks to strong policy and technical support and the improving crop condition for the grain.
Fuelled by the Ukraine crisis, wheat prices in China soared to a record this week on existing domestic supply worries.
Tang's comments also come as Beijing has refocused on food security, a long-standing priority for the central leadership that has become increasingly prominent in policy since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020.
China's state planner said in its own report at the parliament meeting that grain supply remains tight, despite consecutive good harvests in recent years.
To address the issue, the National Development and Reform Commission's (NDRC) report said China will ensure that grain acreage for the year stays above 117.33 million hectares (289.93 million acres).
China will also increase the production of soybeans and other oilseed crops, the NDRC said, reiterating top policy priorities in the farm sector.
The country will also build up momentum to increase corn output, it said.
China's corn imports surged to a record last year, amid soaring domestic prices and low inventories.
China will guarantee the supply-demand balance of grain, edible oil, cotton, sugar and fertilisers through the effective use of reserves and imports, the NDRC said.
China will allocate 41.639 billion yuan ($6.59 billion) in subsidies in 2022 for agricultural insurance premiums, up 30.8% from a year earlier, the finance ministry said in another report.
At the start of the parliament meeting, Premier Li Keqiang said China will ensure key agricultural product supplies this year, including grains.
Everyone must work together to ensure that the country’s "rice bag" and "vegetable basket" are well-filled, and that we have a secure food supply for the people, Li said.
China will stop any attempts to use cropland for any purpose other than agriculture and specifically grain production, to safeguard the area of farmland, and revitalise the seed industry at a faster pace, Li said in the government work report.
Li also said China will see that hog production is better regulated and ensure the production and supply of livestock, poultry and aquatic products and vegetables.
China's massive pig herd was decimated by the deadly African swine fever disease, sending pork prices to record highs and increasing consumer prices.
China quickly rebuilt its pig herd to normal levels since then, according to official data, but stabilizing production and prices has become a major focus for the government.
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Got it for you, Snowy Thing. I note lots of excuses and promises, so China may have to turn their attention to more immediate concerns than world conquest — and supporting Russia — sooner than expected.
#3
Thank you. I'm trying to cut down on the quoting because I'm trying not to spend too much time and a lot of the articles these days have lots of complicated formatting.
Re: the content... I'm waiting to see if anything's going to happen re: us continuing to throw money at China for the forseeable future.
#4
More US ag land and business will have new ownership.
Are we becoming a 21st century version of Ireland’s potato farmers because we are too stupid to ban foreign ownership of our most basic advantages as a nation, our food abundance?
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While Pasha was here, the family was fully funded by the U.S. Government with housing, sustainment funds, etc. They are no longer entitled to that support since Pasha left....
LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) - Russia has told Ukraine it is ready to halt military operations "in a moment" if Kyiv meets a list of conditions, the Kremlin spokesman said on Monday.
Reporting by Catherine Belton, editing by Mark Trevelyan, Gareth Jones and Angus MacSwan
#2
The demands are "be our puppet and give up territory".
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#1 Or he could be looking for a window of time in which to unscrew his logistics and practice armor-infantry coordination.
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03/07/2022 9:52
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Hubnaskiy...
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03/07/2022 9:55
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except the terms are essentially a surrender
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
03/07/2022 10:09
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Actually he is certain to demand Minsk II be (finally) fulfilled
"Minsk II", you say? That would be the treaty that Little Zelensky refused to uphold .. because he was told by our twin shit-for-brains Joe & Blow that he ought to ignore Minsk II and go for NATO membership
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03/07/2022 10:10
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A fairly concise statement of Russian objectives, the big one being Ukrainian neutrality. The territorial parts are already accomplished.
#8
"Neutrality" being Russian code for "install a Russian puppet regime".
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03/07/2022 10:16
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🙄
This is EXACTLY what the Russians wanted all again
Now they're getting what they wanted - after tens of thousands of people have been killed
Heckuva job, you stupid fucks*
*Who? ALL of our assholes who told the Ukrainians they could poke the bear
Posted by: No Fortunate Son ||
03/07/2022 10:17
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It would be worse than the one in bed with the Bidet Crime Syndicate how exactly?
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03/07/2022 10:17
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Rantburg needs a kill file.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
03/07/2022 10:19
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^ fewer suites at the Kempinski for romping with ho's
Posted by: No Fortunate Son ||
03/07/2022 10:20
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You mean the one that was investigating Biden corruption until he abused his office to strong-arm them into firing the prosecutor?
Honestly, that's America's corruption problem, not the Ukraine's. We let him get away with it and even brag about it.
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03/07/2022 10:20
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Imagine the fun if Trump had refused to take the call and sent it to an assistant deputy secretary instead.
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03/07/2022 10:22
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Zelensky will be suing for peace soon. Izyum is now completely under Russian control. Key to the Donbas. Kharkov next. Endgame in the East.
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03/07/2022 12:44
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Zelensky will be suing for peace soon.
President Putin’s Russia will have to live with all the unexpected consequences of his little adventure regardless: financial and political dependence on China, the rearming and domestic fueling of Germany, new members joining NATO, and the sunk cost of a military invasion in money, manpower, and matériel that won’t be replenished by war booty after the world watched his blitzkrieg founder on the adamant unwelcome of his Slavic brothers. Even President Zelensky’s surrender and return to private life may not be enough to pacify the Ukraine this time, which will mean an additional ongoing expense to Russia of funds and prestige.
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#9 our assholes who told the Ukrainians they could poke the bear
[Ukraine getting poked by the bear]
"Whyever would anyone care,
Or excitedly shout,
'Dude, you'd better pull out!',"
Asked No Fortunate Son from, um, where?
Feel free to fix my punctuation when you're done, there. ;-)
#18
They've lived through much worse, even in the recent past. They'll manage
Agreed that this is a tragic outcome for everyone
Especially us - and our children
Amazing how quickly everything's unraveling for our dear country
My life's almost over... I did my best... but now my heirs will inherit an America that is much poorer, much weaker, much less free and far less influential in the world than we were two years ago
A curse upon the heads of those fools who enabled this stunning collapse
Damn them to hell
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03/07/2022 14:32
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Yer losin' yer touch there, Sasquatch
Posted by: No Fortunate Son ||
03/07/2022 14:43
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See you at St Peter's me fella me lad And may you be in Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead
🍸
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03/07/2022 15:00
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#22
What kind of language is this stupid troll trying to imitate? Someone pissed in your borscht?
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03/07/2022 15:15
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One of my grandfather's WWI anecdotes about the delightful black humor of his Aussie mates at Ypres involved the Aussie who took the corpse of one of the Krauts he killed and turned its head face up.
Papa: "Why'd you do that?"
Aussie: "He was a young 'un. Just wanted 'im to see more of the world!"
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03/07/2022 15:20
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Oh, is it afternoon already? Must be NATIONAL LAMPOON time!
Let's start with the country we can all agree to hate... GERMANY! (cf. p16). Take it away, PJ!
Racial Characteristics:
Piggish-looking, sadomasochistic automatons whose only known forms of relaxation are swilling watery beer from vast tubs and singing the idiotically repetitive verses of their porcine folk tune-both of which amusements probably hark back to a prehuman state.
Germans have never been successfully Christianized. Their language lacks any semblance of civilized speech. Their usual diet consists almost wholly of old cabbage and sections of animal intestines filled with blood and gore.
Once every two or three decades, they set forth, lemming-like, on pointless military adventures during which great numbers of them are slaughtered--much to the improvement of the world in general. Their lardy women have long, tangled masses of sticky hair under their arms, and the men shave the sides of their heads.
Good Points:
Kill a lot of French.
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03/07/2022 15:39
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Well, National Lampoon. Fortunately, Mr. O’Rourke became much better at his craft with experience and a more critical audience.
#30
Ha... delightful to imagine one of PJ's parsee-man foreigners reciting an Irish tune, in aspirated gentle tones, tip o' the tongue taking a trip lightly tapping the teeth: It's a long long way to Tipperary
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03/07/2022 16:17
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I was born in the CROSSFIRE of a HURRICANE in the howling rain with a STEELE spike right through my brain
😉
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03/07/2022 16:29
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Speaking of Aussies, here's PJ again:
AUSTRALIANS
Racial Characteristics:
Violently loud alcoholic roughnecks whose idea of fun is to throw up on your car. The national sport is breaking furniture and the average daily consumption of beer in Sydney is ten and three quarters Imperial gallons for children under the age of nine. "Making a Shambles" is required study in the primary schools and all Australians are bilingual, speaking both English and Sheep.
Possibly as a result of their country's being upside down, the local dialect has over 400 terms for vomit. These include "technicolor yawn" "talking to the toilet," "round-trip meal ticket," and "singing lunch."
It is illegal to employ the aboriginal inhabitants as anything but toilets, and some of the peculiar forms of native wildlife have up to nine assholes. The recent destruction of Darwin by a hurricane was actually a cover story for the regrettable coincidence of paydays on three separate sheep stations.
Good points:
Amusing zoos.
Proper Forms of Address:
Steady there, Cool off, For Christ's sake-not in the sink, Stay back, I've got a gun!
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03/07/2022 16:39
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hibernian black humorist PJ O'Rourke
He is not hibernating. He recently passed away and is no longer bothered by all the trouble in the world.
#34
Sweet Jaysus, does NO ONE read his children good literature any more?
Must be the effect of all that idiotic Harry Pooter slop, cranked out by a plodding dullard who couldn't write her way out of a paper bag.
Let the master educate you about the meaning of Hi-ber-ni-an. "Your"* welcome
* contraction, Rantburg-moron patois, = you're
from "How the Whale Got His Throat"
So the Whale swam and swam and swam, with both flippers and his tail, as hard as he could for the hiccoughs; and at last he saw the Mariner’s natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and he rushed half-way up the beach, and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide, and said, ‘Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations on the Fitchburg Road;’ and just as he said ‘Fitch’ the Mariner walked out of his mouth.
But while the Whale had been swimming, the Mariner, who was indeed a person of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, had taken his jack-knife and cut up the raft into a little square grating all running criss- cross, and he had tied it firm with his suspenders (now , you know why you were not to forget the suspenders!), and he dragged that grating good and tight into the Whale’s throat, and there it stuck!
Then he recited the following Sloka , which, as you have not heard it, I will now proceed to relate—
*** INSERT VOICE OF GEOFFREY PARKER, IN NOT-BAD IRISH BROGUE HERE***
"By means of a grating
I have stopped your ating."
For the Mariner he was also an Hi-ber-ni-an.
And he stepped out on the shingle, and went home to his mother, who had given him leave to trail his toes in the water; and he married and lived happily ever afterward. So did the Whale. But from that day on, the grating in his throat, which he could neither cough up nor swallow down, prevented him eating anything except very, very small fish; and that is the reason why whales nowadays never eat men or boys or little girls...
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03/07/2022 16:59
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* Geoffrey Palmer
Geoffrey Parker is a wonderful military historian specializing in Spain and Holland in the 16-17th centuries
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03/07/2022 17:03
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OK, so you read some history but still nobody believes you.
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03/07/2022 17:55
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Kipling’s Just So Stories, In hardcover with the delightful pen&ink illustrations shelved properly on my KidLit bookshelves. Have you read his Puck of Pook Hill fairy stories?
You might find Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality more to your taste than the Rowling originals, since you don’t appreciate those properly.
Bigfoot Clolurong9717, I suspect Dron would have started giggling uncontrollably and broken character long since. Nor would he have missed any of the little jokes. He’s not in professional mufti when here, after all.
#43
P.J. O'Rourke wrote a funny, sad article about Russia.
My recall was was in the 1990a. In one case he was going thru part of the country and observed that this seemed like a country from another century and I don't mean the 19th. In another he pointed out that in Russia the way to enforce a contract is with a contract and a couple of armed enforcers.
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03/07/2022 18:33
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#44
He is not hibernating.
You know your Snark
Has missed its mark,
When you have to stop and explain.
Perhaps a humor gland underdeveloped,
Or just a brain too full of Ukraine.
I kinda thought "all the trouble in the world" gave it away, but maybe I'm just too big a PJ fan. A book recommended btw, along with "Parliament of Whores" which attempts to explain the US government.
[PJMedia] A trio of Black Lives Matter and Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... rioters who tried to frame right-leaning groups were convicted of federal crimes, The Post Millennial reports.
John Wesley Wade, 35, Ellie Melvin Brett, 37, and Vida Jones, 19 were initially arrested in Oct. 2020 following a three-day spree of vandalism to police cars, postal property, and a bank in metro Atlanta. The three men planted notes that attempted to tie the crimes to the Proud Boys and other Trump-supporting groups.
"The suspects tried to frame the Proud Boys by leaving notes near the sites of vandalism that read ’Stand By,’ a reference to when former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... told the right-wing group to ’stand back and stand by’ after he was asked to condemn white supremacist militias during the first 2020 presidential debate," reports Mia Cathell at The Post Millennial.
The crime spree began on Sept. 30, 2020, at a Walmart on the west side of Atlanta, when one of the men smashed the window of an Atlanta Police Department vehicle with a brick. The note referred to the 2020 election and the Electoral College. Similar phrasing to the wording on the note showed up on an Instagram account belonging to one of the three men.
An hour later, one of the men threw a brick through the window of a Wells Fargo branch in Midtown Atlanta, and then in the wee hours of Oct. 1, another APD vehicle was vandalized, this one parked at a residence not far from the Walmart where the first incident took place. These two acts of vandalism featured similar notes as the first incident — but these were only the beginning.
The next night, the trio graduated to arson, beginning with a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) police car parked at a train station. Then they set multiple fires at a post office in the West End area of Atlanta, damaging five USPS vehicles and destroying bulk containers of mail. Later, video footage at a nearby gas station showed one of the men buying another gasoline can.
In the south Atlanta suburb of East Point, the men set fire to two public works vehicles. Law enforcement found a note attached to a brick in one of the vehicles.
"The note stated ’*STOP the FAITHLESS ELECTOR vote in the WHITE HOUSE...and the FAITHLESS CHRISTMAS in the WHITE HOUSE;’ cited several Bible verses, but misspelled Jeremiah as "Jerimiah;" and included the Instagram handle, ’@NoFaithLessElector,’ associated with Brett," reported Cathell.
The three men filmed each act of arson and posted them on social media. On Oct. 4, an Instagram account reportedly associated with Jones posted footage of fire and police response to the East Point fires with the caption, Where’s the media coverage?"
A Twitter post from a now-suspended account from The Base, an Antifa group out of New York City, referred to the three as "comrades."
Brett pled guilty and will be sentenced March 22, and Jones pled guilty and faces a sentencing hearing on March 25. Wade received a sentence of five years for federal arson charges. Interestingly enough, at the time of the incidents, Wade was out on bond for his role in burning down a Wendy’s in Atlanta in the riots following the death of Rayshard Brooks at the hands of police.
Tellingly, the GPS data from Wade’s ankle monitor places him at the incidents of vandalism and arson. Sentencing guidelines also stipulate that any time he serves for the Wendy’s incident and for the property damage and arson spree will not run concurrently. Wade was one of 36 suspects arrested in conjunction with the burning down of the Wendy’s restaurant.
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Too quick to the touch. Federal sentences are served at 85%, but there are covid early releases and other such nonsense diversions. But more importantly, what are they actually gonna get.
#7
I'm going to go out on a limb and note that Anitfa/Burn Loot and Murder seem to be dumber than a box of rocks. Yes, I know that's mean to the rocks but I am avoiding using profanity. The fact they are trying to frame someone and yet post it to THEIR own social media accounts shows a level of....stupidity that beggars the imagination. Even our chew toys don't approach that level.
#8
Bringing young people back from the dead is very difficult indeed.
Wouldn't that be an interesting project to work on! Do they need to be actually alive again or just re-animated? Like the guy said, there is a difference between all dead and mostly dead.
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Bringing young people back from the dead is very difficult indeed.
On a certain day every two years
When the dodo stands on the donkey's rear,
Through their ears, beacons of dark blast
Cross past the booth, mateys, your vote is caste!
[WesternJournal] Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has signed a bill that restricts women’s and girls’ sports to athletes who are, in fact, women and girls, making the Hawkeye State the latest state to pass such legislation.
The bill, HF 2416, requires that athletes enrolled in girls’ and women’s sports at both public and private schools and community colleges, as well as universities affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, be limited to athletes listed as female on their birth certificates.
"This is a victory for girls’ sports in Iowa. No amount of talent, training or effort can make up for the natural physical advantages males have over females. It’s simply a reality of human biology," Reynolds said Thursday while signing the bill, surrounded by smiling young women and girls. "Forcing females to compete against males is the opposite of inclusivity and it’s absolutely unfair."
"It worries me that this bill is needed at all. It’s hard to imagine how anyone who cares about the rights of women and girls could support anything less," she also said, according to NPR.
"The message that women are so much more than a hormone level, that the things girls love are worth protecting and their hard work and dedication is recognized and their dreams can become a reality," local track star Ainsley Erzen, who has been an outspoken proponent for protecting women’s and girl’s sports, said at the signing ceremony.
Iowa is the latest of several states to pass legislation protecting women’s sports. Last year was a record-breaking year for such legislation; 37 states drafted similar bills with Idaho, Montana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia and Florida successfully passing measures restricting women and girls’ sports to female athletes only.
The issue has been drawing attention across the nation for some time, but college swimmer Lia Thomas of the University of Pennsylvania, who has been enjoying a wildly successful career on the women’s team after competing on the men’s team for three years, has brought the issue to the forefront in recent months.
Proponents of transgender athletes in women’s and girls’ sports were out in full force on Thursday as Reynolds signed the legislation, which Iowa’s Democrats unsuccessfully opposed.
Becky Smith, the executive director of the LGBT youth organization Iowa Safe Schools stood behind Reynolds and silently held up a transgender flag in what the group said was a display of solidarity for transgender athletes.
There’s an elephant in the room when it comes to transgender athletes competing in women’s sports — well, two, if you count the fact that legislation like this only ever targets women’s sports. It highlights the stark reality that absolutely no one thinks that female athletes will have an unfair advantage over male athletes if allowed to compete in men’s and boys’ sports. (Under HR 2416, female athletes who identify as male are still free to play on boys’ and men’s teams.)
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Can we send all the Trans-gendered to the Trans-Dniester?
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Get yer keister across the Dniester by Easter... sister! And speaking of Slavic nuns... and your lot... transported I was, the other night, by The Innocents, even if it was lousy with woke Frenchwomen gettin' in the way of it.
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Black Bottom?! Oh noes! Annette H war'n't no Yoruban
I wish that you could see the dance that they found!
Every high brown gal and her bon-bon buddy
Go down where the tracks are muddy
To do a step that soon will be renowned!
They call it black bottom, a new twister,
Sure got 'em, oh sister!
They clap their hands and do a raggedy trot, it's hot!
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[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says troops shot and killed a Paleostinian who allegedly hurled Molotov cocktails at a military post near the West Bank town of Abu Dis, near Jerusalem.
According to the IDF, troops identified two suspects hurling Molotov cocktails in the area, and opened fire.
The second suspect expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, the IDF says.
Israeli troops shot and killed a 16-year-old Paleostinian on Sunday night in the West Bank when he threw Molotov cocktails at a military post, the army said.
The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry identified the teenager as Yamen Nafiz Jaffal. He was shot in his hometown of Abu Dis on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
According to the Israeli army, Jaffal threw Molotov cocktails at a military observation post, alongside another Paleostinian. Soldiers spotted the two during a "pre-planned operation" inside the Paleostinian town, the army said.
Six Paleostinians have been killed in violent mostly peaceful confrontations with Israeli troops over the past two weeks.
BLUF:
[Washington Examiner] "Sources have been telling me, sources that are well connected to the Russian Security Services, that the offensive is not going well, that some special forces, the Russian Spetsnaz, are furious because they have been sent into battle without proper support, and many of them have been killed. They say that the national guard forces and the regular army, the national guard forces include those Chechen units, that two of them are not coordinating on the field. And that the overall battle plan is somewhat disjointed in that it's partly a plan for war and partly a plan for peacekeeping and so-called de-Nazification of this country. And it has led to a lack of cohesion," Engel reported.
"A lot of this goes back to the man who's behind it all, Vladimir Putin, who I'm told is now increasingly isolated, is just taking advice from his inner circle, that there are only about three people who matter right now," Engel continued. "And that speech, you mentioned it a short while ago, that Putin gave yesterday — bizarre location, speaking at Aeroflot, to a group of flight attendants. He sounded incredibly angry. He sounded detached. He was talking about how the Ukrainians here are machine-gunning people, that they're driving around in cars packed with explosives, jihadi-style. And he went very deep and repeatedly on this theme that they're fighting against the Nazis. It was the angriest I've ever seen him."
What kind of sources? Top. Sources.
Yeah, this reads like a media op. "OMG! Putin has lost it. What if he goes nuclear? We must do something." All part and parcel with that terribly distorted pic of Putin at a loooong table the other day.
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I think a number, perhaps a dozen or so, Spetsnaz ops were launched in the first two days of invasion. These were done to take airfields and other important property near big cities.
A lot of these ops were stopped and the troops killed or captured.
Obviously the Spetnaz command is somewhere between unhappy and suicidal.
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This stuff is so juvenile it must have come from the West Wing.
I was thinking that the bad news is that the Brandon WH gave a wink and nod to the invasion, but the good news was they provided the invasion plans.
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I think a number, perhaps a dozen or so, Spetsnaz ops were launched in the first two days of invasion. These were done to take airfields and other important property near big cities.
[Aljazeera] Thousands of people have been arrested at protests across Russia against President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s interior ministry said more than 3,500 people had been arrested: 1,700 in Moscow, 750 in St Petersburg and 1,061 in other cities. The ministry said 5,200 people had taken part in the protests.
The OVD-Info protest monitoring group said it had documented the arrest of at least 4,366 people in 56 cities.
The last Russian protests with a similar number of arrests were in January 2021, when thousands demanded the release of opposition leader Alexey Navalny after he was arrested on returning from Germany where he had been recovering from nerve agent poisoning.
Some Russian state-controlled media carried short reports about Sunday’s protests but they did not feature prominently in news bulletins.
Russia’s RIA news agency said the Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, adjoining the Kremlin, had been "liberated" by police, who had arrested some participants of an unsanctioned protest against the military operation in Ukraine.
[Breitbart] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently discovered a rodent infestation at a Family Dollar distribution facility in Arkansas, which led to the temporary closure of over 400 stores in multiple states.
The inspection at the West Memphis, Arkansas, facility began in January after the FDA received a consumer complaint, the agency said in a February 18 release. Products purchased from January 1, 2021, through at least February 18, 2022, at "Family Dollar stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee may be unsafe for consumers to use," the FDA stated.
The FDA’s report detailed the conditions of the facility:
They're only Shiites, after all. Being blown up is why Allah made them, donchaknow. ISIS-K was just doing what comes naturally.
[Dawn] A senior police official on Sunday said that the mosque in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... that was attacked by a jacket wallah on Friday was not categorised as the most sensitive or sensitive and that security had been deployed there as per routine.
The official, who is based in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, told Dawn on condition of anonymity that although there had been no threat alert, police personnel had been deployed outside the mosque. The terrorist first shot and killed one of the two coppers and injured the other before entering the mosque and detonating the explosive wrapped around his body.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... security in Rawalpindi division has been placed on high alert.
Regional Police Officer (RPO) Ashfaq Ahmad Khan directed the police in Rawalpindi, Attock, Jhelum and Chakwal districts to improve the security measures, especially for worship places, educational institutions and public places.
He also directed the senior coppers to deploy extra police at sensitive places and launch intelligence-based search operations in their respective areas.
On the third day of the Test match between Pakistain and Australia in Rawalpindi, the RPO and City Police Officer (CPO) Omer Saeed Malik went into a session with bigwigs of the Pakistain Cricket Board (PCB) and also reviewed the security measures put in place for the players, cricket lovers and officials.
The RPO, who visited the cricket stadium’s surroundings, directed the police to ensure foolproof security and streamline traffic movement during the matches. About 4,500 police personnel, four companies of the army and two companies of Rangers have already been deployed for the security of the stadium.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the suicide blast in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, saying that “houses of worship should be havens, not targets”. Whadda ya know, they are, most of 'em!
“I condemn today’s horrific attack on a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, during Friday prayers. My condolences to those who have lost loved ones, and my solidarity with the people of Pakistan,” the UN chief tweetedOf course, you liver spotted rotten marshmallow.
[Oneindia] With the Karnataka police invoking the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 in the case relating to the murder of a Bajrang Dal worker in Karnataka, there is a likelihood of the National Investigation Agency taking over the probe.
The UAPA is usually invoked when there is a suspicion of a larger conspiracy which could potentially threaten national security. Shivamogga resident, Harsha was hacked to death by a group of men and the police suspect that this could be due to an ongoing feud since 2016.
While prime facie the police feel that this was due to a rivalry, the fact that this incident took place during the hijab issue is something that would require a closer look.
The UAPA in Karnataka has been invoked in the past several times. The UAPA was invoked in the murder case of RSS worker, Rudresh in Bengaluru. The same was also invoked against one Abid Pasha in Mysuru, for his alleged involvement in six murders. All these cases were handed over to the NIA to probe the larger conspiracy.
South India has reported several cases relating to the killing and targeting of Hindu leaders. In 2020, the NIA raided 25 locations in South India in connection with an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... case.
The case pertained to a criminal conspiracy with an objective of murdering Hindu Leaders, creating communal riots and to do anti-national activities by forming a terrorist gang, being inspired by ISIS, a proscribed terrorist organization. The members of the terrorist gang conducted meetings at Bengaluru and other parts of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and propagated ISIS ideology, procured arms and ammunition and other incriminating material for executing their plans.
In this case 5 accused namely Mehaboob Pasha, Mohammed Mansoor Ali Khan, Saleem Khan, Zabiulla, Syed Azmathulla were arrested earlier and other accused are absconding.
In 2019, the NIA took over the the probe into the Ramalingam murder case. he arrested was identified as one Shali alias Muden Ahmed Shali, a 51 year old resident of Thenkasi, Tamil Nadu. Earlier the NIA had arrested Mohammad Faruk, near Trichy. The case pertains to the brutal attack and murder of Ramalingam by radical Islamists on February 5 2019.
Muden Ahmed Shali was head of the dawah
...“outreach”, ie. proselytizing, love jihad, and a variety of other methods to convert thetargets to Islam and the Islamic jihad...
team that had entered into an altercation with Ramalingam on the morning of 5th February, 2019 and the accused had also participated in the subsequent conspiracy meetings, wherein it was decided to attack Ramalingam, the NIA said.
The NIA in a dossier speaks about the Darul Khada an outfit comprising Moslem scholars, social workers and advocates. The NIA says that they run a parallel judiciary which settles a host of issues. The NIA dossier also states that in July 2009, a Kerala level declaration was passed by the Darul Khada in Malappuram in which it had called upon the Moslem community not to attend civil courts, but get all issues sorted out by it.
A Pak drone carrying over 4 kgs of suspected contraband was shot down by the Border Security Force (BSF) along the international border in Punjab's Ferozpur sector on Monday, an official said.
The quadcopter was detected around 3 am after troops heard a humming sound. They illuminated the area with "para bombs" to aim at the drone, a BSF spokesperson said.
He said a small green coloured bag was attached to the drone and it contained four packets in yellow wrappings and one small packet in a black wrapping.
The gross weight of the suspected contraband item is about 4.17 kgs, with packing material, and the packet wrapped in black weighs about 250 grams, the spokesperson said.
The corpse count in yesterday's grenade blast at Amira Kadal rose to two as a girl injured in the incident lost battle for life at a hospital here on Monday, officials said.
Quoting Medical Superintendent SMHS hospital, Dr Kawaljeet Singh, news agency GNS reported that 19-year-old Rafiya daughter of Nazir Ahmad Tinda of Dargah, succumbed to her injuries at the hospital this morning.
Rafiya had suffered multiple injuries in the blast which took place at around 4:20 hours on the busy street on Sunday.
An elderly person Muhammad Aslam Makhdoomi, 70, from Makhdoom Sahib area of Nowhatta Srinagar was the first to die in the attack on a joint party of security forces while 28 persons including a policeman were maimed in the blast near the busy Amira Kadal bridge.
Police on Sunday evening detained several persons for questioning in connection with the blast, a police brass hat said.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has taken over the probe into the Delhi gold smuggling case. The NIA had earlier probed the Kerala gold smuggling case.
The case pertains to the smuggling of gold into the Delhi Airport from the United Arab Emirates. Sources tell OneIndia that the NIA would look at the possibility of a terror link in this case.
The Kerala case was first busted by the Customs following the recovery of 30 kilograms of gold which arrived from the UAE on June 30 2020. The NIA probe found that the gold was smuggled in a diplomatic cargo using forged authorisation letters.
On January 12 this year, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, Mohammad Shahjan was caught with 175 grams of gold and fake Indian currency notes worth Rs 10 lakh. He had arrived at Delhi from Ras-al-Khaimah in Dubai. Shahjan was arrested along with Amir-ul-Haq had come to the Delhi Airport to collect the consignment.
The NIA will investigate all angles and one primary one would be relating to the use of the UAE route to bring in gold into India. The NIA would also look to find out if the proceeds were going to be used for terror funding. The larger conspiracy in this case would also be looked into, the source cited above also said.
Initial investigation against arrested accused Abdul Wahid Saddam has revealed that he is an active member of a gang involved in smuggling of FICNs and gold into India.
[Dawn] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty... has said that people reserve the right to ask the security agencies why they are not safe despite years of operations against turbans and claims that they have been neutralised.
He visited Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... on Sunday to condole with the victims’ families of the Friday bombing at a mosque that left 63 people dead and some 200 maimed.
Recall, dear Reader, that’s the one ISIS in the Khorasan claimed, possibly even truthfully.
Speaking to media, the JUI-F chief said that security forces conducted operations across the country, particularly in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, for years to stamp out terrorism and provide safety to citizens.
"As a result of these operations millions were displaced, especially from the tribal districts. Thousands of them have yet to return to their homes. But the government and the security organizations have failed to provide security to people," he said.
Mr Rehman said that they asked the institutions as to why they failed to safeguard the lives and properties of people. "We will foil the nefarious designs of forces bent on creating chaos and fueling sectarianism," he added.
To a question, he said that opposition would table a no-confidence motion against the government within a few days. "We have the strength and have prepared a draft of the resolution to push through the motion," he added.
The JUI-F chief alleged that government was spending money of taxpayers to send members of National Assembly abroad on tours. He dispelled the impression that the opposition movement failed, claiming that government was isolated through the combined and sustained efforts of the opposition parties.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... the special representative of prime minister on religious harmony, Maulana Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, also visited Peshawar to condole with the families of the victims.
On this occasion, he said that the Friday’s incident did not belong to a particular school of thought. He said that it was their joint issue.
Their (the victims) only sin was that they raised slogan of Allah-o-Akbar (God is Great). That was why they were targeted. "We are all Hussaini and we are ready to render sacrifices for our country," he said.
Hussaini? That proves they were Shiites.
He added that the culprits would be brought to justice and the case would be sent to anti-terrorism court for speedy trail.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... the families of the bombing victims staged a protest demonstration in the city. A large number of people including families of the victims participated in the rally, which was started from Church Road.
"Targeting faithful in a mosque is height of brutality," said Allama Shabir Hassan Maisami, general secretary of Shia Ulema Council. "There is no religion of those bombing a mosque," he added.
He said that as citizens of Pakistain, the people were prepared for any sacrifice for their country. "But for the last 20 years, the blood of the people has been spilled for no reason. Why is the state not answerable for this carnage? Why is it silent and not acting against the murderers," he questioned.
Allama Shabir said that Shia community had been at the forefront of those, who offered sacrifices for the country, and would continue to do so. "But why are we not safe against the threat from foreign elements," he questioned.
He said that Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid claimed that there was no security alert but they knew that there was one. "We should be informed about who facilitated the terrorists? We should know why the killers of APS children have not been arrested yet," he added.
He said if the victims of the bombing did not get justice, the council would give a call for a nationwide protest.
Lookit Pakistan’s pet Taliban trying to seduce the Afghan populace with games.
[Dawn] The announcer roared over the public address system as a lone rider separated from a melee of horses and galloped towards a chalk circle drawn in the middle of a muddy field in the Afghan capital.
Despite being pursued by what appeared to be a cavalry charge, the rider dumped his "prize" in the circle and raised an arm in triumph.
Kandahar had taken the lead against Kunduz in Sunday’s grand final of Afghanistan’s national Buzkashi championships.
Banned as "immoral" when the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... first ruled from 1996 to 2001, the Islamists have embraced Buzkashi since returning to power in August, and the winning team hails from their heartland despite it having no real tradition of the sport.
"Unfortunately, Buzkashi was not allowed previously and was only played in provinces where the Taliban didn’t rule," Qais Hassan, the owner of the winning Kandahar team, said.
"Today, luckily, Buzkashi is not only being played all over Afghanistan, but the government, the Islamic Emirate, is organising this competition."
The sport is both spectacular and violent mostly peaceful — a lot like the country, many Afghans are quick to tell you — and steeped in history.
Two teams with six horsemen a side fight for possession of, traditionally, a beheaded animal carcass — Buzkashi means "dragging the goat" in Persian — with the aim of dropping it into the "circle of truth".
It has been played for centuries in Central Asia, with slight variations from country to country.
These days a 30-kilogram stuffed leather bag resembling a carcass is used instead of the real thing, but the skills required to compete remain the same.
Commentary by Russian military journalist. Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Today there will be another attempt to save the population of the cities, where the Nazis actually took him hostage to use as a human shield.
The Russian Defense Ministry decided not to postpone the process of withdrawing the population on the back burner and announced a "day of silence". The guarantor of compliance with the conditions on the Ukrainian side was Emmanuel Macron, who, against the backdrop of the election campaign in France, is trying to earn points.
The withdrawal of the population will be carried out in four directions:
▪️ from Kiev :
Kiev - Gostomel - Rakovka - Sosnovka - Ivankov - Oranoe - Chernobyl - Gden (Belarus) - Gomel (Belarus). From there - delivery by air transport to the Russian Federation;
▪️ from Mariupol:
route number 1: Mariupol - Novoazovsk - Taganrog - Rostov-on-Don. From there - by air, rail and road transport to selected destinations or points of temporary accommodation;
▪️ from Kharkov:
Kharkov - Nekhoteevka - Belgorod. From there - by air, rail and road transport to selected destinations or points of temporary accommodation;
▪️ from Sumy:
route number 1: Sumy - Sudzha - Belgorod. From there - by air, rail and road transport to selected destinations or points of temporary accommodation;
[DW] Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the country's external environment is becoming "volatile, grave and uncertain." China's economy has suffered amid anti-COVID-19 measures and a crackdown on real estate debt.
It looks like China really needs the handling fees from Russian credit cards.
China cut its annual growth target on Saturday amid an economic slump. The new target has been set at its lowest level in decades.
HOW MUCH GROWTH IS CHINA AIMING FOR?
China will aim for growth of "around 5.5%" this year, Premier Li Keqiang said in a report to the country's legislature.
"Achieving this goal will require arduous efforts," Li said in the report.
Last year, China aimed for economic growth of 8.1%.
In December, President Xi Jinping's government announced a "policy pivot" toward shoring up growth in the country. This moved China away from long-term initiatives to cut debt and carbon emissions, as well as nurturing growth based on consumer spending rather than trade and investment.
As a way to stimulate growth, the Chinese government has promised tax cuts for entrepreneurs and told banks to increase lending.
The government is also injecting money into the economy by increasing spending on public works.
WHAT IS THE STATE OF THE CHINESE ECONOMY?
Li's report said commodity prices "remain high and prone to fluctuation," adding that China's external environment is becoming "increasingly volatile, grave and uncertain."
China's economy is under pressure from weak global demand for the country's exports.
Strict "zero-COVID" measures, including lockdowns and closed borders, have stymied growth from manufacturing hubs, tourist centers and port cities.
Chinese economic growth dropped to 4% in the final quarter of 2021 after a crackdown on debt in China's real estate industry. The crackdown led to a slump in construction and housing sales.
China's second-largest real estate developer, Evergrande, has been under pressure since last year as it has not been able to pay back its liabilities. In January, Evergrande suspended the trading of its shares on the Hong Kong exchange.
More on this story from yesterday, with more photos of the “acting” minister of interior affairs boldly walking around with his face naked to the elements for all to see. Note the alternate spelling of the gentleman’s name.
[DeutscheWelle] Taliban ...Arabic for students... officials released images of Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
...yesterday spelt Sarajudin Haqqani, demonstrating the problem of transliterating names from another alphabet, he’s #2 in the Taliban organization as well as regional vice president for Afghanistan on the Al Qaeda organization chart, and Very Special Contact for Pakistan's ISI when they want attacks on Indian projects in Afghanistan...
for the first time as he made a rare public appearance in Kabul. Haqqani has long been wanted by the US over a string of terror attacks.
Afghanistan's Taliban government for the first time published clear photos of acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani on Saturday.
Haqqani, wearing a black turban and white shawl, made a rare public appearance at a graduation ceremony for newly recruited Afghan coppers. They are the first class to graduate from the police academy under the Taliban's rule.
More details from the speech he made, for those interested in the Taliban’s easy promises.
[AlAhram] Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... strongman Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has named a 25-member government to lead the West African country during a three-year transition following January's coup.
It started with a mutiny in an army barracks on January 23rd.
General Barthelemy Simpore retains the job of defence minister that he held under Roch Marc Christian Kabore who was ousted after troops mutinied over his strategy against jihadists.
Simpore has even been elevated to the rank of minister of state, according to a Damiba decree published late Saturday.
Six women have been appointed to the cabinet, including Olivia Rouamba who will serve as foreign minister.
Yero Boly, who was a minister in various governments under the previous president Blaise Compaore, was named minister of state to the president and tasked with national reconciliation.
Civil society and union leaders such as Lionel Bilgo and Bassolma Bazie have also been appointed ministers, the former to handle national education and literacy.
Damiba on Thursday named economist Albert Ouedraogo the new prime minister.
Damiba, a 41-year-old lieutenant-colonel, seized power on January 24, toppling elected president Kabore.
He was sworn in as president and head of the armed forces by the top constitutional body on February 16.
Brief ceremonies to officialise his position were held Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Damiba signed a so-called transition charter that declared elections would be held 36 months after his inauguration.
The period was longer than the 30 months that had been proposed by a commission set up by the junta.
The charter stipulates that the president is not eligible for the "presidential, legislative and municipal elections which will be organised to put an end to the transition."
In addition to the 25-member cabinet, a 71-member legislature is being set up to ensure the transition.
Their members will also be barred from contesting the post-transition ballot.
On Wednesday the head of state ordered a general audit of the public sector, a measure aimed at promoting good governance.
One of the poorest countries in the world, the landlocked Sahel state has had a long history of volatility since gaining independence from La Belle France in 1960.
[JPost] Yassss, anything else M'Lord? The Russians don't want those Polish MIGs into play. What are they gonna do? Bomb or close Polish airspace? Everybody's got hostages
The Russian Defense Ministry warned Romania and other countries against allowing Ukrainian military aircraft to use their airfields, saying that doing so could be regarded as "the involvement of these states in an armed conflict," according to TASS.
"Practically all combat-ready aircraft of the Kiev regime have been destroyed," said Defense Ministry spokesperson Maj.-Gen. Igor Konashenkov. "At the same time, we are reliably aware of Ukrainian combat aircraft that previously flew to Romania and other border countries. Please note that the use of the airfield network of these countries for the deployment of Ukrainian military aviation with subsequent use against the Russian armed forces can be regarded as the involvement of these states in an armed conflict"
The Defense Ministry additionally claimed that the airfield of the Ukrainian Air Force in Vinnytsia was destroyed by a high-precision weapon by the Russian Armed Forces on Sunday.
Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko had claimed that the missile was fired from the disputed territory Transnistria - a former Soviet breakaway state situated between Moldova and Ukraine - although Transnistria has denied this.
The Ukrainian Air Force later announced that the attack on Vinnytsia was carried out with eight missiles fired from Russian bombers from over the Black Sea.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian rockets had completely destroyed the civilian airport of the central-western region capital of Vinnytsia on Sunday.
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Which gives you an idea of how Russia thinks of Belarus, as they move troops and material through that "country".
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Well, fix radio this morning had their hype man talking up Polish Air Assets to Ukraine. Apparently its an idea so fucking stupid it is being considered and floated.
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Apparently its an idea so fucking stupid it is being considered and floated
No idea's too fucking stupid for our neocon chickenhawks
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Nah, they are just agents anymore of the decision process who have networks laid. Now, getting Remington to raise the avatar and pledge ammo to Ukraine (plus shipping and handling) smells of a Neocon network.
Now, that said, there are reports that this news item was dismissed by Poland, as this is that 2 week old story, not today's reconsideration.
I had a neo-Klingon ask my opinion about the situation. I asked "Do you think serious people are in charge?" Which got a dramatic pause. Well, here then is a Agit-Prop piece gone stupid wrong. Either they were considering Flying Tiger Club, and Poland was like, don't talk about Flying Tiger Club -or- was considered and Poland was like Not Interested in That Way. Which makes this morning's prop piece on a Major Media Network totally non-nonsensical, breathless reporting on a 2 week old debunked float and airing Fake News, or just too stupid to check the date.
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I'm not sure why Ukranian airfields wouldn't work just fine since the Russian airforce seems mostly missing in action. Russian Special forces hitting them on the ground maybe?
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The west, esp America, has a huge asymmetric advantage in the air. Much more than Russia has against Ukraine. It's a bluff because if Russia ever acted on it, their Air Force and armored columns in Ukraine would be destroyed in days. That's from a standing still start, since the Biden Admin refuses to prepare.
In recent times, there has been an escalation of attacks on government forces in the #Syria’s Palmyra desert and Deir ez-Zor by unidentified gunmen. #ISIShttps://t.co/lu3bJFkrmY
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 6, 2022
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced that 13 members of its forces were killed in an attack by unknown persons on a military bus in the Palmyra desert.
“At about 13:30 this afternoon, a military bus in the Palmyra desert was attacked by various types of weapons,” the ministry reported a Syrian military source.
“13 members, including a number of officers, were killed, and 18 others were wounded,” it added.
“ISIS cells carried out a large-scale attack, at dawn on Sunday, on sites where government forces and allied fighters are holed up, near the village of al-Sawab at the T2 station in the depths of the Syrian Badia, east of Homs,” local media said.
“ISIS militants took advantage of the weather conditions and the dust storm that hit the Syrian desert,” according to local media.
Shafaq News/ Iraq's Federal Police on Sunday has found more than 40 Austrian rockets and other explosives in al-Rachad district, Kirkuk.
What is an Austrian rocket? I realize my education in such things is lacking, but I had no idea the Austrians had something special in this line.
According to a statement issued earlier today, a force from the fifth division's 19th brigade of the Federal Police, in cooperation with the Federal Intelligence Agency, launched a combing campaign in the vicinity of al-Banadra village in al-Rachad district.
The security forces found more than 40 Austrian rockets, 20 explosive devices, and ten detonators, among other supplies.
The seized material were destroyed under controlled conditions by the accompanying Explosive Ordnance Disposal squads, the statement said.
Elsewhere, the Security Media Cell (SMC) reported arresting two persons with links to the terrorist organization of ISIS in Diyala and Nineveh in two separate operations.
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Gunmen in Yemen have kidnapped two foreign employees of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in eastern Hadramout governorate, a security source and two other local sources said. Read the rest at the link
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Being kidnapped in Yemen is part of the expat experience there. Back in the old days, when Ali Abdullah Saleh was running things, most of them survived it
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I thought you need brains to become a doctor of any kind. Just goes to show how many idiot savants are working in the medicine industry. Trust them at your own risk.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The court gave a two-year suspended sentence to a resident of Dagestan, finding him guilty of posting extremist materials on Instagram.
The case was considered by the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala. According to the security forces, the man posted extremist materials on a social network in April 2021. He was accused of committing a crime under Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activities),
Taking into account the admission of guilt, the court sentenced him to imprisonment for a period of two years probation, RIA "Dagestan" reported today with reference to the press service of the regional FSB.
According to article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, public calls for extremist activity committed using the mass media or the Internet are punishable by up to five years in prison.
Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in January the Kizilyurt District Court imposed a fine of two thousand rubles on a local resident, finding him guilty of publicly displaying extremist symbols on a social network.
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[REGNUM] The shelling damaged the office of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine in the city of Mariupol. The organization announced this on March 6 in its report.
Information about damage to the patrol center of the OSCE mission in Mariupol was received at about 11:30 local time on March 6. According to preliminary data, the building of the patrol center was damaged, OSCE communication equipment was destroyed, and two cars belonging to the mission were burned.
It is specified that the evacuation of all employees of the OSCE SMM is almost completed. The head of the mission and senior leadership remained on the territory of Ukraine. All of them will leave the country in the near future.
Earlier , REGNUM reported that the OSCE mission in Kharkov announced the continuation of the evacuation of the team. It is noted that the head of the SMM and the senior leadership of the mission in Ukraine will remain in the country until the evacuation of all employees is completed.
Ukrainian security forces shelled Yenakiyevo – DPR JCCC
[REGNUM] The electrical substation that feeds the production facilities of the Yenakiyevo Metallurgical Plant was de-energized as a result of shelling by the armed forces of Ukraine (APU). This was announced on March 6 by the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
“ Information has been received about damage as a result of shelling by the armed forces of Ukraine of the settlement of Yenakiyevo… ,” the report says. “ As a result of a power line break, the electrical substation on the territory of the Enakievsky Metallurgical Plant was de-energized .”
The substation was powered by the backup input.
As REGNUM reported , on March 6, the deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR, Eduard Basurin , told reporters that three 220-mm Uragan multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), as well as tanks and other weapons of Ukrainian formations, were captured during successful offensive operations by the People's Militia units DNR.
Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Gorlovka in the DPR with Tochka-U missiles
[REGNUM] Kiev militants fired Tochka-U missiles at the settlement of Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), a residential building collapsed, a school was damaged, and three people were under rubble. This was stated by the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko.
“As a result of the shelling of Gorlovka by Tochka-U, the building of school 55 along Lenin Avenue, 60 was damaged. The glazing on the flight of stairs and in the classroom from the side of the MOLOKO store was damaged. On Lvovskaya Street, 38, as a result of the collapse of a house, three civilians found themselves under the rubble. An ambulance left for the scene,” the mayor wrote on his Telegram channel.
As REGNUM reported , over the past 24 hours, DPR air defense systems intercepted and destroyed four Tochka-U tactical missiles launched by Ukrainian militants, the press service of the People's Militia of the DPR reports.
"The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation pointed out the need to promptly take all measures aimed at identifying persons involved in criminal activities to destroy the civilian population, collect and record evidence," the statement says.
As REGNUM reported , on March 6, the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) stated that the militants of the Azov National Battalion (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) shot a column of civilians who were trying to leave Mariupol along the humanitarian corridor in the direction of Novoazovsk.
Ukrainian intelligence spooks detained in the LPR [REGNUM] In the Lugansk People's Republic, two intelligence agents of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who were planning terrorist attacks in the LPR and Russia, were detained. This was reported on March 6 to the Ministry of State Security of the LPR.
"Agents of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine were sent to the territory of the LPR in order to prepare and commit terrorist acts, both within the Republic and on the territory of the Rostov region of the Russian Federation," the ministry said.
It is noted that the detainees served in the "Right Sector" (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). At the end of February, they were preparing for a terrorist attack on the territory of the oil depot in the city of Rovenki. However, due to the activation of hostilities in Stanytsia Luhanska, the curator canceled the task.
After the transition of Stanitsa Luganskaya under the control of the LPR, the scouts were given the task to arrive in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Region, from March 7 to March 9 in order to carry out terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure facilities.
The DPR announced the release of 68 settlements [REGNUM] As of March 6, the troops of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) have already liberated 68 settlements previously occupied by the armed forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was reported by the headquarters of the territorial defense of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
"As of the evening of March 6, 68 settlements that were previously under the control of the armed formations of Ukraine have been liberated ,” the headquarters said in a Telegram channel." … A group of DPR troops reached the border with the Zaporozhye region and established control over a number of settlements."
As REGNUM reported , on March 6, the deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR, Eduard Basurin , told reporters that more than a hundred servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had defected to the side of the DPR since the beginning of the special operation.
As the great strategist Lao Bi-Den so wisely observed, if you ignore your enemy, you shall prevail. For he is cunning and sly, and his thoughts and strategies can only lead to confusion and despair. Ignore your enemy. Stay pure, for that is the Way of the Woke.
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No Fortunate Son
Still trying to remember which lifeless soul you were previously. Casting bait and gobbling it yourself 4, 8, 32 times in a single thread: Lex?
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#FuckNeocons = #Shitshow?
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Via Facebook page of writer Clarice Feldman
The military situation on the ground has not changed significantly in the past 24 hours. Russian forces continue to mass for renewed offensive operations east and west of Kyiv, west of Kharkiv, and toward Mykolayiv-Odesa but have not yet initiated new large-scale ground attacks.
Russia has increased aerial and artillery/rocket attacks on civilian positions and infrastructure, including known evacuation corridors. Ukrainian forces reportedly conducted a second counter-attack in two days, this time near Mariupol. The Ukrainian air force and air defense forces continue to operate, inflicting damage on Russian ground forces and disrupting Russian air and missile operations.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Russian forces spent the past 24 hours largely regrouping and preparing for renewing offensive operations around Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Mykolayiv.
The Ukrainian General Staff reports the presence of a large concentration of Russian forces west of Kharkiv that it assesses will launch a wide offensive southwest toward the Dnipro River, although no such offensive has begun as of this publication.
[Khaama] Sure to pucker ISI assholes: "Why don't they stay bought!?"
Do you suppose this will stop the Haqqani boys from attacking Indian projects and equipment in-country at the ISI’s request?
India has earmarked USD 26.7 million to Afghanistan, keeping a continuing focus on its people, without recognizing, like the rest of the world community, the Taliban regime.
The sum allocated in India’s Annual Budget for the year April 2022-March 2023 is less compared to USD 47.6 million of 2021-22, which can be easily explained by the lack of formal ties, especially the economic relations since the Taliban took control last August.
The Islamic Emirate has yet make an official comment on the matter.
Nadima is a famous comedian who is well-known by Afghans. She makes funny videos and posts them on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.
A relative of Nadima, who wished to go unnamed, told TOLOnews that she went missing from her office nearly one month ago and since then there has been no information about her.
"A women called Nadima has been detained by the Taliban at her office. We call on the Islamic Emirate to put an end to these actions," said Moanisa Mubar, a women’s rights activist.
Meanwhile, Sayed Omid Kazimi, a family member of Sayed Baqir Mohsini, an Afghan professor who went missing on Friday, told TOLOnews that Mohsini was released today.
The disappearance of these two high-profile figures faced a widespread reaction by international organizations as well as Afghans on social media.
"The disappearances and detentions of Taliban critics, journalists & activists continue. Sayed Baqir Mohsini & Nadima are taken by the Taliban & there is no information about their whereabouts. This a group of dictators & repressors who must never be recognized & supported," said Samira Hamidi, a member of Amnesty International.
"The detention of political, civil and media activists is against the law and a violation of basic rights. Any detention should take place based on the legal system," said Sayed Javad Sijadi, a political analyst.
The government officials have yet to provide details about the recent disappearances. Earlier, the Islamic Emirate did not report the detention of female activists who had gone missing for several weeks.
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Female AND a comedienne ... in Kabul; Talk about a no-win situation.
[IsraelTimes] Far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvirwhipped out a rod on a group of Paleostinians who were allegedly throwing rocks at Israeli vehicles traveling along Route 60 near the al-Aroub refugee camp in the West Bank, according to Hebrew media reports.
Ben Gvir tweeted that he "was forced to pull his weapon to drive away" rock-throwing Paleostinians near al-Aroub until law enforcement officials could arrive.
There was no immediate confirmation from the military or the police.
The Religious Zionism MK claimed that he encountered "dozens of terrorists" who were throwing rocks at Jewish cars. Ben Gvir said that two IDF soldiers at the scene told him that they were not authorized to fire at the rock-throwers and were awaiting reinforcement.
"Didn’t we say that we changed the rules of opening fire? We must stop abandoning our soldiers!" Ben Gvir tweeted.
The MK was referring to a decision in December by the IDF allowing troops to shoot at Paleostinians who had thrown rocks or Molotov cocktails at cars, even if the assailants no longer present an immediate threat. The IDF noted at the time that the military’s preferred outcome is still an arrest without shots being fired.
There were no immediate reports of injuries, and some media reports indicated that the Paleostinian rock throwers had begun to disperse before Ben Gvir drew his weapon.
The incident occurred less than a few hours after two coppers were maimed in a Jerusalem stabbing attack. The Paleostinian attacker was rubbed out.
Following that incident, Ben Gvir called for Police Chief Kobi Shabtai and Public Security Minister Omer Barlev to resign.
Ben Gvir is currently under investigation for an incident last year in which he pulled out a pistol during an altercation with Arab security guards over a parking spot.
He was questioned by police last month over the incident. Lawmakers from both coalition and opposition parties called for further investigation into the circumstances of the incident, with a focus on Ben Gvir’s suitability to have a gun permit.
Known for his anti-Arab rhetoric, Ben Gvir has had a number of run-ins with the law and with Arabs, including fellow politicians. Prior to entering the Knesset, the ultra-nationalist was a lawyer who represented Jewish terror suspects.
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[CENSOR] Directions:
The Ukrainian army built a front line. This is an important operational achievement. Russian columns lost the ability to move in any chosen direction. This does not mean that the defense has been stabilized, it means that Ukraine has restored organized resistance. As the Ukrainian leadership did not mobilize the operational reserve and territorial defense before the war, every day of resistance gives us the opportunity to mobilize forces now.
The situation near Kiev remains tense. The enemy continues to slowly push our defenses near Irpen, Bucha and Makarov, there are heavy fighting. Russian troops are trying to take control of the Zhytomyr highway and cover Kiev from the west to block logistics and delivery of reinforcements. Russia is launching missile and air strikes on various cities in the Zhytomyr region. According to the Chechen scenario, the Russian army simply demolishes any suspicious houses with tanks and artillery, without checking whether there are residents or not.
Russia continues to work in various directions to maintain the strategic initiative and not allow the Ukrainian command to concentrate reserves. The shackling of Ukrainian troops is carried out with the help of aviation and missile terror, the destruction of major cities. The enemy is trying to gain a foothold in the southern direction.
The situation near Kharkov.
The enemy is not conducting active ground combat operations, but is trying to restrain the actions of the defenders of Kharkiv by constant missile, artillery and air strikes. In Kharkov, the Russians are demonstratively destroying residential areas, dozens of blows were inflicted on high-rise buildings, the city's life support system.
Russian troops are regrouping in the Balakleya area. They threaten to cover Kharkiv from the east. But the main direction of action of this group is Raisins. Raisins are being attacked by Russian aircraft and artillery, and the Russians' attempt to capture the city quickly is repulsed.
Zaporozhye region.
Russian troops are concentrating their efforts on consolidating the captured Energodar and the Zaporozhye NPP. Another Russian group threatens Gulyay-Polya and hangs over the southern flank of the OOS force. The Russians are building a railway and trying to gain a foothold in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
It is obvious that the activity of two Russian groups in Balakleya and Polohy poses threats in different directions, but the most likely direction of their strikes will be an attempt to narrow the supply corridor in the Donbass with raids on Izyum from the north and Gulyai-Pole in the south and force Ukrainian troops to leave Donbass.
Mariupol is a key city in the southern Donbass. He fought heroically in the encirclement under fire from Russian aircraft and artillery. An 18-month-old child died today in Mariupol from a direct hit by a Russian shell. The Russians are trying to knock out our garrison and force it to surrender. Russia is trying to create a scenario of the second Ilovaisk in Mariupol, only on an even larger scale.
They were excited. Ukrainian troops heroically hold Volnovakha. The Russian command continues its attacks to capture the city, to drive our troops out of the southern Donbass and to further push our positions away from Mariupol. Yesterday, in the battle near Volnovakha, our soldiers destroyed the commander of the Russian Sparta battalion.
The Nikolaev area.
Ukrainian troops drove the Russians away from Nikolaev and Voznesensk. However, the enemy continues to pose a threat in these areas, he intends to capture our main ports and the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant. The situation remains tense.
Chernigov.
The heroic defense of the city continues, our troops are firmly holding their ground. The Russians are trying to suppress our forces with constant aviation terror.
Sumy, Okhtyrka.
The heroic defense of these cities continues. Russian aviation terrorists have destroyed the life support systems of these cities to force residents to leave their land.
The popular uprising in all the occupied territories is invaluable. The united resistance of the people of Ukraine thwarts all Putin's plans to seize the country and compensates for the mistakes made in the organization of our defense, especially in the south. Therefore, any kind of resistance, explicit or implicit, from every citizen, any help with information, participation in protests, sabotage against the occupiers are of great importance.
Conclusions:
Ukraine withstood the first blow of the Russian army. The operational pause in the actions of Russian troops is associated with heavy losses and regrouping to tighten the rear.
The Russian army has changed its strategy. After the failure of attempts to encircle Kyiv and Kharkiv, the Russian command focused its main efforts on the struggle for communications and cutting off the Black Sea and Donbass from Ukraine.
After a series of defeats in ground battles, the Russian command began to use outright terrorist tactics and shot down residential neighborhoods, killing civilians who were allegedly going to "denazify."
It is possible to stop the advance of Russian columns and disrupt their maneuver only through constant pressure on their communications. Only the use of active defensive tactics in various directions will force the enemy to retreat and liberate our land. An operational pause is necessary for the enemy to consolidate and recover losses, he is also very vulnerable.
Ukraine still surpasses the Russian army in numbers, motivation, and fighting spirit, but the enemy has an advantage in mobility, including armored vehicles and artillery, in aviation and missile weapons. The key factor that predetermines the Ukrainian victory is the unity of the Ukrainian people in the struggle. However, to win the war requires mobilization, armament and training. And this is the time we seek at the cost of resistance. Work on victory goes every second, all Ukrainians are united by only one thing - the desire to win.
[IsraelTimes] Two coppers were maimed in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday, before the 19-year-old Paleostinian assailant was rubbed out, officials said.
According to police, the resident of East Jerusalem came up to the coppers with a knife and attacked one of them in the city’s Moslem Quarter at around 4:30 a.m.
Officers shot up the attacker, and he was declared dead at the scene shortly thereafter.
The assailant was later named as Karim Jamal al-Qawasmi from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of at-Tur.
A second officer was hurt in the leg when he was shot by so-called friendly fire as his colleagues opened fire toward the assailant.
The two officers were taken to hospital in good-to-moderate conditions, police said.
"In the coming period, and until after Ramadan, gunnies and turbans will try to set the area on fire. Police and Border Police will be alert and ready," Public Security Minister Omer Barlev, who oversees the police, said in response to the attack.
The Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group claims as its member the Paleostinian attacker who stabbed two Israeli officers in Jerusalem’s Old City earlier tonight.
"Hamas mourns its son, the martyr Abd al-Rahman Jamal Qasim from al-Jalazone camp north of Ramallah," Hamas says in a statement circulated in the group’s official media.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:35 In the sea not far from Odessa, a boat "Slov'yansk" was sent by missile attack to the sea bandera. This is how it looked before denazification.
23:30 In the LPR, two intelligence agents of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, who were planning terrorist attacks in the republic and Russia, were detained, the Ministry of State Security of the LPR said. 22:50 The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck at the part of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR in Yenakiyevo.
22:46 As a result of the evening shelling of Horlivka from the positions of the VFU "Tochka-U" along Lvovskaya Street, 38, two citizens received injuries of varying severity: a woman born in 1946. and a man born in 1966 The injured were provided with medical assistance.
22:35 For 18 days of hostilities, 26 civilians of the DPR were killed, another 133 were injured of varying severity, the JCCC reported.
22:17 In Gorlovka, a building collapsed during the shelling, there are people under the rubble: the school building was damaged due to the shelling by “point-y”, three people under the rubble are the authorities.
21:55 Head of the DPR Pushilin: in Donbass, 26 civilians have died from shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the beginning of the escalation.
21:33 In Ukraine, radicals are carrying out ethnic cleansing, militants are taking people who do not have Ukrainian passports in an unknown direction.
21:26 Nazis hinder people's attempts to leave Mariupol through humanitarian corridors, up to the use of weapons.
21:15 Vladimir Putin, by his decree, awarded the title of Hero of Russia (posthumously) to the commander of the Sparta battalion of the NM DPR, Vladimir Zhoge, "for heroism and courage shown in the performance of civic duty."
20:23 Horlivka City Hall damaged by shelling - Prikhodko. Other buildings in the city center also came under fire.
19:45 Groupings of troops of the DPR and LPR, with fire support from the Russian Armed Forces, continue offensive operations. DPR units are successfully developing an offensive in the city of Mariupol from the north-western and eastern directions - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
18:25 Food supplies in Mariupol are only enough for a few days - Basurin.
18:11 Anyone who knows what a "BATTLE LOG" is should understand what information has appeared at our disposal. All those who gave orders to shell our settlements, including with MLRS, will be punished.
17:41 Consequences of shelling of a kindergarten in Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine today.
16:50 The International Red Cross announced that the second attempt to evacuate 200,000 civilians from Mariupol failed again. This once again proves that the Nazis are holding on to a "human shield" from the civilian population.
16:10 In the Kiev region of Donetsk, a civilian was wounded. As a result of the shelling of the VFU in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, on the street. Polygraphic, a civilian was injured. The victim was hospitalized. A direct hit was recorded in kindergarten No. 392, located at the address: st. Aristova, 11.
In addition, damaged houses in the Kuibyshev district, on the street. Nizhneangarskaya, as well as in the Petrovsky district, along the streets of Katasanov and Hugo.
15:44 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding the children in a boarding house in Slavyanogorsk. This was told to RT by a resident of the Donbass village of Nikolaevka. According to her, there are about 27 people. A similar situation developed earlier in Volnovakha - the children were taken from there to Kramatorsk.
15:33 VFU destroyed kindergarten No. 392 for the second time in the Kievsky district of Donetsk. In 2015, the VFU shelled and destroyed this garden. In 2020, the garden was completely restored and received 165 little pupils.
15:23 Ukraine again disrupted the exit of people along the humanitarian corridor from Mariupol and Volnovakha, refusing to guarantee their safety. The Azov* militants (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) said that today they drove around the city of Mariupol and announced that people should not leave the bomb shelters and evacuate. This once again confirms the information that the national battalions are disrupting the evacuation in order to leave more civilians in the city, which serve as a deterrent effect.
15:21 A roar is heard in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, social networks report.
15:19 The Russian Emergencies Ministry has started delivering about 300 tons of humanitarian aid to the residents of Donbass.
15:02 As a result of artillery shelling of the village of Aleksandrovka, on the southwestern outskirts of Donetsk, 5 civilians were injured of varying severity.
15:00 As a result of shelling of the VFU of Donetsk, a civilian was wounded.
14:54 Putin told Erdogan: the suspension of the special operation to protect the Donbass is possible only if the fighting is stopped by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the requirements of Russia are met.
14:26 The Ukrainian military fired eight mines at the settlement of Lugansk in the DPR.
14:24 The evacuation from Donetsk has been officially stopped, but people are trying to move deeper into the city because of the shelling - Basurin.
13:28 The evacuation from Mariupol has begun, more than 300 civilians have been evacuated through humanitarian corridors. This was announced by the Defense Headquarters of the DPR.
12:50 According to the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR, as of March 6, 2022, 45 settlements that were previously under the control of the AFU have been liberated.
12:40 The DPR forces are already conducting a sweep in certain areas of Mariupol, Pushilin said.
12:28 Ukrainian forces tried to announce the evacuation of citizens from Mariupol towards Zaporozhye, but provocations are possible in this direction, Pushilin said.
12:13 Retreating Ukrainian troops are abandoning expensive equipment, also supplied by the West as part of military assistance to Ukraine. Among such samples, the most indicative are the Archer thermal imaging sights, which are found in large quantities by our servicemen at the positions of the Ukrainian security forces - the people's militia of the LPR.
11:36 On the operational line, information was received from the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations about the shelling of the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka, as a result of which a fire was recorded at the address of the street. Altaiskaya, 57, 53, 49.
11:34 As a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kievsky district of Donetsk, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
- st. Sobinova, 134, 136 (the gas pipeline was interrupted);
- 36 Kievsky Ave., 36g.
11:12 DPR scouts broke up a convoy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was heading to Mariupol. Three MLRS "Hurricane" were captured, on which the letters "Z" were applied, but the color characteristic of the APU equipment remained.
11:11 People's militia of the DPR reports that information is being received about obstructing the exit of the civilian population from Mariupol by militants from Azov.
11:10 Fighters from ORB "Sparta" continue to clear Volnovakha. The day before, they defeated the 15th separate mountain assault battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:08 The City Council of Mariupol reported that the evacuation of the civilian population begins at 12:00. The evacuation will take place from three places by buses, it is also possible to leave the city by personal transport, the Ukrainian authorities of the city said.
11:00 Azov militants (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) set about 10,000 mines in the residential areas of Mariupol, said the official representative of the NM DPR, Eduard Basurin.
10:50 APU shelling of the settlement Water - Donetsk, Kyiv region): 8 shells of 152 mm caliber were fired.
10:40 AFU shelled the settlement Krasnogorovka - Donetsk, area of the village of Abakumov mine): 2 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
10:28 Information is confirmed about the mining by Azov militants * (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) of residential buildings on the central streets of Mariupol, in areas of park areas on Moskovskaya Street and Pobedy Avenue. Nationalists randomly installed about 10,000 mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" - Basurin
10:27 Divisions of the armed forces of the DPR established control over the settlements of Peredovoe, Karernoe and Ravnopol.
10:26 At the moment, 54 settlements are under the full control of the LPR.
10:22 People's militia continues to liberate the territory occupied by Kiev.
10:16 Armed formations of Ukraine struck from the BM-21 Grad. Launched0 15 missiles Experienced - n.p. Donetsk, Kievsky district.
10:15 A grouping of troops of the Lugansk People's Republic, continuing offensive operations, took control of the settlements of Rubtsy, Karpovka, Makeevka, Novolobovka, Lipovoe, Sredne, Zelenaya Dolina, Zakablukhovka.
9:21 Over the past day, 13 civilians of the DPR were injured.
8:52 Shelling of the settlement Marinka - Donetsk, the village of the Trudovskaya mine: 3 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
08:45 AFU shelled the settlement Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of Abakumov mine): 2 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired;
8:43 As a result of the night shelling of the village of Aleksandrovka, three civilians received mine-explosive injuries:
- a woman born in 1955: wounds of the left hand and left shin with the presence of foreign bodies;
- a man aged 54 years: multiple shrapnel wounds to the face, chest and forearm;
— 80-year-old woman: shrapnel wounds to both legs and a fracture of the femoral neck. The injured were taken to hospitals.
In addition, a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell was recorded in kindergarten No. 35 on the street. School 162: damaged wall, roof, windows.
Damaged residential buildings in the private sector:
- st. Gorky: a direct hit on the house, the load-bearing wall was destroyed, the windows were damaged;
- st. School, 163: a direct hit on the roof.
08:40 VFU opened fire on the settlement. Novotroitskoye - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: fired 10 mines in 120 mm caliber;
8:33 Humanitarian corridors will be reopened in Mariupol and Volnovakha on Sunday morning - Basurin.
8:04 It's been loud in Donetsk since the morning. Arrivals are reported in the western part of the city.
07:30 VFU opened fire on the settlement. Sands - n.p. Merry: fired 7 mines in 120 mm caliber.
01:33 Shelling of the settlement Novotroitskoye - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: 10 mines fired in 120 mm caliber.
00:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the settlement. Avdevka - n.p. Spartak: fired 6 mines in 120 mm caliber.
[CFP] This is the lead Russian negotiator for the Iran nuclear talks, Mikhail Ulyanov. He’s bragging about how Russia, Iran, and China teamed up to deliver huge wins for Iran’s nuclear program in Vienna negotiations.
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[RIA Novosti] The Western information-political machine and the media have driven their citizens, who are on the verge of nationalism towards Russia's actions, because of how the media describe them, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
"We must pay tribute to the information and political machine of the West, which, through social networks, through instant messengers and mailing lists, naturally, through the media, has brought the population of their countries to some level of insanity. This is the land to which the same "Western machine" has approached. by simply turning their people from people who seemed to be told about some kind of high principles, into people who are already on the edge of some kind of nationalism. That's for sure," she said.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years." For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for "bloody crimes against civilians" in Donbass.
[Defense News] Russian invasion still slowed, airspace over Ukraine still contested, Pentagon says
6:33 p.m. EST March 6
Though Russia has now committed about 95% of the combat power it amassed along Ukraine’s borders, the Pentagon has seen "limited changes on the ground" while the airspace remains contested, a senior U.S. defense official said Sunday evening.
After 11 days of war, "Russian forces continued efforts to advance and isolate Kyiv, Kharkiv and Chernihiv across the north and east are being met with strong Ukrainian resistance," the official said, in an email to reporters.
"There does not appear to be any significant movement along the Russian axes," the official said. "Leading elements remain outside these city centers. We cannot give specific distances today."
The long convoy of Russian troops and vehicles headed south to Kyiv "continues to be stalled," the official said, offering details on the condition of anonymity.
"We assess that the Russians have now committed inside Ukraine somewhere near 95% of the combat power they had amassed along the border.
Fighting continues in the south, near the cities of Kherson and Mykolaiv, the official said.
"We cannot independently verify reporting of Russian forces firing on protesters in Kherson," said the official, who added that the Pentagon has not observed an amphibious landing in or near Odessa either.
"Nor do we assess one is imminent," the official said.
"We’ve observed continued ongoing fighting and efforts to encircle Mariupol," the official said. "There continue to be reports of wide-spread utility outages (water and electricity)."
Earlier in the day, Ukraine claimed Russia violated a second ceasefire agreement. The official could not independently verify those claims. It's pretty clear the Russians did. Including one where a NYT reporter was 20ft from a mortar explosion that killed 3 of a family of 4.
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Where is the Russian airforce? May have been a factor in the choice of the decap operation to start off with. You can fire up a wheel or track go down the road and it breaks down. With aircraft they fall from the sky. Readiness not there? Someone is watching I'm sure.
Commentary by Russia military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine will be held tomorrow on the territory of Belarus. Moscow once again made it clear today that if Kyiv does not accept the conditions (without any concessions), then the consequences for Ukrainian statehood will be severe.
The United States says that the second phase of the operation could begin on Monday, including operations to establish control over Odessa and Kiev, as well as to encircle the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbas. In the statements of the Zelensky gang, there are more and more hysterical notes and accusations against the West that it has thrown (there has never been such a thing).
2. The humanitarian corridors in Mariupol and Volnovakha are still being disrupted by the Nazis from Azov, despite all the agreements. Is anyone surprised? Me not. So far, about 300 people who have settled in Mariupol have been released from the hands of terrorists.
A few dozen more were able to escape from Volnovakha. Ukrainian terrorists do not want to get rid of their human shield. Which dooms many people to death when the counter-terrorist operation begins in Mariupol itself and the active cleansing of Volnovakha continues.
3. Misunderstandings continue with the real location of Zelensky, and Ukrainian and American sources disperse the evil about the impending evacuation of Zelensky to the West.
The search for spies and traitors also continues. Kivu was accused of "high treason" and put on the wanted list. Caught, probably killed like Kireev. And there they will already think who he is a "traitor" or a "hero". Zelensky himself said today that the West wants Ukrainians to be killed (wake up) and that "we are fighting for where the new border will go."
The old border will obviously no longer exist. In any case, the borders will change - the question is, of course, an interesting one, where they will pass.
4. Anti-war rallies are taking place in the Russian Federation today, with the help of which Zelensky called for stopping the operation in Ukraine. Judging by the number of those gathered, even the arrest of Navalny (who is this, by the way?) And coronavirus restrictions (by the way, where is covid?) worried citizens more. But let's see, maybe by the evening the number will grow up.
In the meantime, everything is rather pathetic, which apparently contributed to the fierce information purge, which has continued today.
5. Enforcement of the law on fakes about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation began today. The first lucky man got off with a fine of 60,000 rubles. I had an idea to write about the problems in the offensive operation (of course, they also exist), but for now I'll wait - I need to see how the law works in practice. Well, or after the end of the operation there will be material when military censorship will not be so fierce.
With regard to the operation itself, it is worth noting that even in the West there are discrepancies regarding the plans of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, although progress on the map gives some idea of what they are striving for.
From a subjective point of view, priority number 1 is the destruction of the APU grouping in the Donbas by encircling and defeating this grouping, which will deprive Ukraine of most of the armed forces and heavy equipment.
There may be a military summary in the evening, if I gather my strength, I’m tired as hell - the first thing I will do when it’s all over, I’ll disconnect from the Internet for a day, they will just sit and watch some kind of movie.
The broadcast in Ukraine continues as usual here https://t.me/boris_rozhin (today the channel has exceeded 350,000 subscribers, oh wei)
In the title photo - the destruction of the airfield in Vinnitsa, 8 "Caliber" flew in and that's it. Zelensky was crying, they say, for what, and Vinnitsa. Well, yes, but the Nazis from Vinnitsa who fought in the Donbass had nothing to do with it. He is such a boomerang. And keep in mind that the Russian Federation frankly spares not only civilians, but even the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But she could (if she were the way she is painted, to fuck around residential areas, like the Armed Forces of Ukraine).
[NPR] After what's been a bleak several months politically for President Biden, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey finds he is seeing a significant boost in his approval ratings across the board following his State of the Union address and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"This is an unusual bounce," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll. "It gets him back to where he was pre-Afghanistan."
Here's a look at some of the numbers:
Overall approval rating jumped to 47%, up 8 points from the NPR poll last month. Presidents don't generally see much, if any bounce, out of a State of the Union address. Since 1978, there had only been six times when a president saw an approval rating improve 4 points or more following State of the Union addresses, according to the pollsters. Three of those bounces were for former President Bill Clinton.
Ukraine handling is up 18 points to 52%.
Coronavirus pandemic handling is now 55%, up 8 points.
Economic handling up 8 points to 45%.
I always trust NPR polls.
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It’s NPR/PBS. The probability of the questions being neutrally phrased and the sample being representative rather than strongly biased to the left approach zero.
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"We sampled our newsroom, and everybody said Joe and the Toe are a swell couple"
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Caught NBC nightly news for the first time in a long while. Lester Holt was vacationing in reporting from Western Ukraine. NBC did a bunch of takes from politicians about Ukraine; not one word quoted or mentioned about Biden.
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The bravery of Ukraine is great but unfortunately, the media will be able to give Biden some of the credit for it.
However, by the summer the Ukraine situation will be stabilized one way or the other and the price of gasoline will be even worse than it is now.
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The lowest price for gas in my little burg is $5.19/gal. Avg price is around $5.50/gal.
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"This is an unusual bounce,"
In fact, it is unbelievable. Manufactured poll results. Let's face it Fake POTUS is a dangerous moron who was installed by criminals on the left. He has dementia. The Emperor has no clothes.
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However, by the summer the Ukraine situation will be stabilized one way or the other and the price of gasoline will be even worse than it is now.
The jury is still out on how this little disruption will impact Ukrainian agriculture but, if you have any spare change, you might want to invest in wheat futures. It's what Pelosi would do.
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The day after SOTU I wondered on this forum whether or not I should watch the recording of it on my DVR, being as how I did not watch it live. After viewing clips of the address on Tucker and other TV shows I got a good look at Ms. Kackle Toe sitting, standing and applauding at the designated statements that Joe made. These clips allowed me to make my decision which was that I could not bear to watch the entire SOTU because that woman is so damned repulsive. Somebody must have warned her about the cackling because she looked mean and threatening...sinister, like some gangster's broad. But it didn't matter. Blithering idiot Biden is bad enough but I cannot stand looking at that woman. I deleted the recording without watching it.
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Then blame Big Oil's record profits like what the UK did. IIUC they imposed price controls, turned on subsidies to drop the (up front) price to consumer, then added Green Energy fees up to the point where the price was still lower, and better, but some 20-25% more than it could be. What a deal!
Russia, The Sauds, the Iranians, the Venezuelans, everywhere but Made in USA.
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Haha, Russians are losing! They can't surround anything!
Hisssss, Russians are evil! They've surrounded the cities!
Try harder, "Angaiper Ulavins1210"
Go join the John McStain Brigade. Shipping out tomorrow to Mariupol, oops, I meant Odessa, oops I meant Archangelsk
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...looks like Vlad's new second man is the Chinese ambassador. That's the sound of the Mongols or as the Chinese call it Yuan Empire come a knocking, particularly big if you are on historical claims. Maybe Vlad can get the same deal as Alexander Nevsky, keep to local business while being a nice vassal.
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Market rumors say Russia throws in the towel today. As they are not a "face culture" their Chinese controllers are completely flummoxed.
Watch out for neocons spontaneously combusting if you're inside the beltway.
Grains of salt? By the truck load, oh, yeah...
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Unfortunate One seems angered over a Daily Mail report of Russian atrocities. It could be incorrect, but yesterday you were claiming you weren't a Putin fanboi.
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Market rumors say Russia throws in the towel today.........
I saw inklings of that (thanks MM, thought I was misinterpreting their anxiety), but not holding my breath.
Another 12 yards of NaCl.
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#4 Market rumors say Russia throws in the towel today.
Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-07 08:09
M. Murcek,
Do you have any sources on that, even if not confirmed?
Mike
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03/07/2022 8:41
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Every day is day zero and time to return to the base argument and forget all the temporary acknowledgements and concessions from the previous shift.
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03/07/2022 8:44
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Sigh. So disappointing, "Thing." And here I thought we could be friends. Tell me when you're shipping out to Ukraine with the JMcSB so I can ask Miss Lindsey and Miss Amy to greet you and wave their hankies from the dock. Newport News? When?
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03/07/2022 8:59
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...And this just in: the Nazis can stay if they renounce NATO and officially hand over the Crimea, Donbass and Lugansk.
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03/07/2022 9:26
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"ZeroHedge"?
🙄
That's a 💩 site for Reddiots
We need to know where the neocon chicken hawk Bill Ackman put his money last week
Oh wait... 3 minutes ago, the king of market manipulation's changed his tune.
Peace is in sight now, is it, Bill? That's quite the 180-degree turn from Mr. flood-the-zone with No Fly Zone.
Care to guess who scooped up Russian bonds at the bottom, kids?
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03/07/2022 9:36
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How long did it take you to learn to sound like an idiot, or does it come naturally?
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03/07/2022 9:43
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The guy says something for everybody who is not in favor of WW III. It's a good sales position, but not a deal closer when all the spittle starts flying.
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03/07/2022 9:47
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As I noted in another thread, even Marco got the "no escalation by NATO" memo. It's all over but the crying by the neocon guests on the squawk shows.
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03/07/2022 9:50
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Can we auction off setting Fiona Hill's hair on fire on pay per view?
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03/07/2022 9:51
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#17 Ha. Comedy Today!!
Zero Mostel was a hoot. Funnier than ZeroHedge anyway
Fun fact: his son Josh played ''Caiaphas' in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar: "So you are the Christ, you're the great Jesus Christ, Prove to me that you're no fool - walk across my swimming pool" 😄
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^ YES. Nails it
Except they missed the die-for-corrupt billionaires part. Next BB article maybe
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03/07/2022 10:13
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Let's you and him fight. The motto of brave c*cks*ckers everywhere.
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03/07/2022 10:15
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Every cop novel you can read: "Where'd he get the gun?"
"Not from me, officer..."
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03/07/2022 10:16
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What "government oppression" did you guys "cower" under? I did no such thing.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
03/07/2022 10:23
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Um, I shared the story, Rob. Never said I was part of it.
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03/07/2022 10:24
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To M.M:
Captain Dudley Smith: It's best to stay away from a man when his blood is up.
Ed Exley: His blood's always up.
Captain Dudley Smith: Then perhaps you should stay away from him altogether.
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Your speaking my language, Son.
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Your welcome
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TeamPutin's forces have annihilated TeamZelensky's ellie 81st
Airborne Assault Brigade. Strategic of Izyum secured now by YeamPutin. That's the key to controlling the Donbas (and Kharkov).
Reports now that TeamPutin's assault is "progressing rapidly."
Looks like the John McStain Brigade won't have anything to do by the time they reach Kherson, oops, Kharkov, er, Warsaw.
Maybe catch a tourbus to Krakow and check out Old Town?
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Zelensky was really, REALLY stupid to walk away from Minsk II. Who could he have been listening to? Oh. Right.
#FuckNeocons
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accused the West of abandoning millions of his people to their deaths
Wait a minute. Zelensky pushed them to their deaths. Was making Ukrainians part of the whole 'EU experience' really that important? What did people expect would happen when open society Nazis installed this fruitcake and they accepted?
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(Western) Markets are in free fall now. Another neocon cock-up.
Reminds me of that Jamaican waiter's comment to us in 2004: "That Boosh, he's wastin' yer money, mon!"
#FuckNeocons
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I said it last week, Putin should settle for Donbass and call it a day. The PR is really bad for business, Vlad.
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BREAKING: Russian Army has captured Izyum. End is near in the Donbas.
So fucking stupid of us to encourage Littke Big Man to walk away from Minsk. Now Izyum is in ruins, 10,000+ people are dead - and Zelensky will have Minsk II's terms shoved down his throat.
If he's still alive by then.
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It's hard for me to say this with Unfortunate Son chewing gum in my ear but I think Zelensky should take the deal. Yes, the bear is clumsy and Ukrainians have resisted with great courage. Putin may be finding that he's bitten off more than he can chew and if he tries to swallow it won't go down well. But this nonsense needs to stop.
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Who could he have been listening to? Oh. Right.
My dear Mr. No v.2: surely you have noticed that President Biden and his team are Democrats, not Neocons.
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Oh this is rich: Lt. Col. Flounder is on Capitol Hill now, trying to blame Republicans for causing the war!
Now we hear BS and wretched lies from our resident Ukrainian troll and his fellow neocon DeepStaters who tried to bring down Trump - the only sane person in the asylum - because he wanted to AVOID war.
Unfuckingbelievable
#FuckFlounder
#FuckNeocons
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My dear Wife*,
Neocons hated Trump. The worst neocons are fervent Biden supporters: Miss Lindsey has thrown her tiny fists behind Biden. So have David Frum, Anne Applebaum, Bill Ackman et al. Victoria Nuland is the most notorious of the crew - that bitch stirred up the whole hornets nest with her scheming in 2014.
These are the brave champions of Stout Little Zelensky. Lt. Col. Flounder is their hero.
*that does sound awkward, doesn't it? Or is hubby on another of his business trips? (goose/gander, nudge nudge wink wink)
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Zelensky should take the deal.
Well, (chew) every day that passes (chew) pushes Little Big Man further (chew) and further (chew) from the very nice deal he had with Minsk III (chomp-chew-chomp).
No wonder he's getting so hysterical.
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Now the cauldron in the East is established. Russian Army can now close in along three axes:
1 from Krasnograd in the west
2 from Kramatorsk in the east
3 from Pavlograd in the south
Ukrainians in Pokrovsk, other pockets will be totally surrounded very soon
Who the fuck told Zelensky to walk away from Minsk II?
The same geniuses who forced Pfizer's useless vaccine on us, apparently
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^^^^
Why are you spending so much time here Ivan? Instead of psyops and cheerleading in the moment, perhaps you might consider the future this mess will have on the quality of life where you and yours live. A massive disconnection from the West seems likely and I suspect, given your clear cultural connection to it, that won’t be your preference. Where was your US immersion training? I doubt you will see it again.
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Ivan - hah
Maybe you're thinking of Ivan Dixon? Not enough melanin for this harp. Wrong Stalag
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My dear Wife*,
Neocons hated Trump...
*that does sound awkward
Not awkward in the least, merely incorrect. Mrs. Wife or trailing, were we on a first name basis, is the proper salutation. TW or tw is what some here have chosen, though it makes me feel very 1960s corporate senior management. Wife is actually my married nym, you see, trailing being the given, (not “Christian name” because I’m not), the whole being a term of art for my role during that delightful period in our lives when Mr. Wife’s career took us far from American shores. Mr. Wife, who finds the whole thing immensely amusing, is indeed away at the moment, helping his parents in what appears to be his father’s final decline.
I’m afraid I don’t understand your goose/gander reference in this context. If you would be so kind as to explain, I’ll happily answer.
I agree that many in the National Review/Weekly Standard crowd became vocal NeverTrumpers, and Bill Krystal, at least, went over to loudly advocating voting for Joe Biden in 2020, while his failed Weekly Standard replacement was quietly funded by various Democratic/Progressive sources. But in doing so they removed themselves from positions of influence with either side of the aisle — I’ve not noticed anything about their thoughts on this or any other subject for a while. President Zelensky is hearing directly from President Biden and the US State Department, any other voices being much smaller in comparison.
Senator Graham goes his own way, as far as I can tell, sometimes supporting Trump/Republican initiatives, sometimes Biden/Democratic ones, using a logic opaque to me that may be the emergent behaviour of sausage making in smoky back rooms.
I can’t imagine that Lt. Col. Flounder, as you so picturesquely name him, has President Zelensky’s ear. It was his malicious testimony about the conversation between Zelensky and President Trump’s ambassador, aimed to protect then-former Vice President Joe Biden’s peculiar business arrangements with President Zelensky’s predecessor, that triggered that failed Congressional impeachment, after all.
Russian Army can now close in along three axes:
That does depend on what percentage of the Russian army is fed, fueled, and mobile due to a complete set of working parts. The after action reports for this exercise are going to be educational for all interested parties, regardless how it turns out.
Well reasoned discourse, indeed, Angavising Forkbeard2228.
The Russia sanctions, although they hold no promise of changing P---n's behavior, constitute one of the biggest gifts American policymakers have delivered to Beijing.
By effectively putting Russia, the world’s richest country in natural resources, in Beijing’s pocket, the sanctions will yield major dividends for a resource-hungry China, including allowing it to dictate the terms of the bilateral relationship and secure greater access to Russian military technology.
After Biden’s Afghan debacle and failure to deter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, could Taiwan become his next foreign policy disaster? Xi will likely bide his time and wait for an opportune moment before moving on Taiwan, taking a distracted U.S. by utter surprise and bringing down the curtain on the West’s long ascendancy.
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Beginning to wonder if regime change in Russia doesn't happen in the not distant future due to internal forces as the oligarch/kleptocrats and nomenklatura really consider how the descent into the Chinese orbit as a vassal state might feel individually.
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Migs from Poland will need logistics and maintenance. That maintenance tail lies in Poland. Are we to believe the Migs will NOT be returning to their maintenance bases ?
This is becoming rather ominous. Will US involvement in a Euro war result in a national emergency, martial law, the postponement of midterm elections ?
#54
Ima buy me gold, potash, titanium, coal, palladium platinum an lotsa oil n gas, sell the house and light out fer the territories
Where there's water and power and lamb and beef and bison and venison
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a dental-floss tycoon
Riding the range
With my zircon-encrusted tweezers by my side
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03/07/2022 21:43
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#55
Ok that's it. Ah'm tapped out. It's the end of the world as we know it Frank Zappa PJ O'Rourke Michael O'Donohue Rudyard Kipling Geoffrey Palmer Geoffrey Parker Annette Hanshaw Jim Varney Ernest P. Sorrel Gen. Haig Commander Cody Ricky Skaggs Ivan Dixon Hogan's Heroes Michael Stipe Johnny Pesky and
..Van
....Lingle
......Mungo
It's the end of the world as we know it - and I feel fine
g'night and god bless tw and mistah fred
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The Russian trolls are less obnoxious today.
It's a team effort. Depends on which shift is posting at the moment.
[Khaama] Someone left the irony on: Bombing in 5...4....3...
A week after the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC)
...founded in 1969 as the 57-member Islamic Conference. It claims to be the collective voice of the Muslim world, to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world. It looks like they’re Muslim bagmen, transferring donations from the wealthy to various charities and deserving governments...
special representative for Afghanistan Dr. Muhammad Saeed Ayash began its mission in Afghanistan, the organization’s office opened in Kabul on Sunday, March 6, 202.
OIC in a press release said that the office aims to oversee pledges made by foreign ministers of the organization about addressing the situation in Afghanistan.
As per the statement, the office will coordinate humanitarian activities with international agencies, and no effort will be spared to address the ongoing situation of the Afghan people.
The organization in an extraordinary summit over Afghanistan set up an exclusive bank account named Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Trust Fund.
[JPost] Since Iran has deployed new air defense batteries in Syria last year, the IAF has had to change how they carry out their strikes
Iran has used advanced air-defense batteries against Israeli planes carrying out war-between-war operations in Syria in an attempt to challenge IAF pilots.
Tehran first deployed the batteries to Syria last year as Israeli strikes against Iranian weapons and military infrastructure intensified.
Since Israel began its war-between-wars campaign (known as mabam in Hebrew) in 2013, the IAF has carried out thousands of strikes to thwart Iranian entrenchment and the smuggling of advanced weapons to Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon. According to foreign reports, it has also carried out strikes in Iraq and Yemen.
The Syrian Arab Army is equipped with a range of older Russian-made surface-to-air missile systems, including the SA-2, SA-3, SA-5, SA-6,-SA-8, SA-11, SA-17, SA-19, SA-22 and the Pantsir 1.
Russia has also deployed advanced S-300 and S-400 air-defense batteries but has not given them to the Syrians; instead, they are manned by Russian forces. They have yet to be used against Israeli pilots due in part to the ongoing safety mechanisms in place between Jerusalem and Moscow.
The response time of Syrian SAMs has decreased, and more than 1,000 missiles have been fired at IAF jets over the past seven years, but they have been unable to deter their missions.
*Snicker*
Iran also separates the radars of their SAMs from the missile launchers, leading the IAF to change its operational procedures by sending up larger formations to hit more targets at once rather than having jets return to the same target and risk being downed.
In 2018, an F-16 crashed in northern Israel after it was struck by an SA-5 missile fired by Syrian forces during an IAF operation. Syrian missiles have also landed in Israel in recent years, including this year, when shrapnel from one missile hit northern Tel Aviv, and another errant interceptor missile landed close to the Dimona nuclear site in the Negev Desert.
In July 2020, Ali Abdullah Ayyub, the deputy commander of Syria’s armed forces, and Maj.-Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, signed an agreement to broaden bilateral military cooperation and to develop a robust air-defense system for Bashar Assad’s regime.
"From now on, Iran will strengthen its ties with Syria even more on all levels," Bagheri said at the time.
Since their introduction, the IAF has been studying the Iranian batteries, which have architecture unlike that of the Russian batteries.
It’s good to give the Israelis a mental challenge from time to time.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:35 The Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kyiv released from custody one of the suspects of rape, kidnapping, murder and cruel torture, Daniil Lyashuk from the scandalous battalion "Tornado" * (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation).
22:07 The situation in Kharkov: howitzers, mortars, MLRS, anti-aircraft guns. This is what is now working from Kharkov for departure. Howitzers and mortars in the interior - Kievskaya, the Malyshev plant, and so on; MLRS ride, and anti-aircraft guns on Shishkovka and on the slopes on Shevchenko under the polytechnic. Spring landscape with soundtrack.
22:05 Poland will not send fighters to Ukraine and will not give permission to use its airfields. This was announced by the government in Warsaw.
21:22 Since the beginning of the special operation, thousands of people want to leave Ukraine and go to Russia, but the Kiev authorities refuse to let them out;
21:20 The Ukrainian side categorically rejects cooperation on the evacuation of people from Kharkov and Sumy.
20:30 According to updated information from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Gorlovka with a rocket fired from the Tochka-U shopping mall.
20:06 Propaganda of the Nazi Reich on TV has subsided: as a result of the shelling, a direct hit on the TV tower happened, due to which the broadcast of some channels in the city was interrupted.
18:43 The facts of the emergency cleansing by the Kiev regime of the traces of the military biological program being implemented in Ukraine, funded by the US Department of Defense, have been revealed. Employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories provided documents on the destruction of especially dangerous pathogens of plague and anthrax on February 24.
Documents obtained in Ukraine indicate that in the immediate vicinity of the territory of Russia, the development of biological weapons components was carried out - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
18:41 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: The use of the airfield network of countries for basing combat aviation of Ukraine can be regarded as the involvement of countries in an armed conflict.
18:40 Employees of Ukrainian defense industry enterprises are forced to restore damaged Ukrainian military equipment, the Russian Federation will strike at such objects, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
18:31 Fighter aircraft and air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down three more Ukrainian Su-27 fighters and three unmanned aerial vehicles in the air. In total, yesterday and incomplete today, the Ukrainian Air Force lost 11 combat aircraft and 2 helicopters. Almost all combat-ready aviation of the Kiev regime has been destroyed, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
18:27 In Ukraine, there is a mass exodus of men from mobilization. Or maybe it’s worth taking up arms and starting, together with adequate people, to clean the country from the Nazis?
17:55 Adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, Aleksey Arestovich, complained about the panicked mood of Ukrainians who criticize the actions of the authorities in Kyiv.
17:36 "Zakhisniks" are posing with NATO weapons in a kindergarten. I suppose the issue of arrivals to kindergartens is closed? Whom to thank is also clear. They will be kicked out of there, and then the media, which does not care about everyone equally, will talk about vile Russians fighting children. Oil painting.
17:27 A photo showing the aftermath of a missile attack on the Vinnytsia airport. Now Zelensky and the media resources controlled by him complain that it was a civilian infrastructure facility. It is not true. Vinnitsa Airport is not a civil one, but a dual-purpose one. The 456th separate mixed aviation brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is based on it. Or rather, based.
16:56 Kharkiv. Today. Zelensky's militants traditionally hide in residential areas in the immediate vicinity of high-rise buildings behind the backs of women and children.
15:00 Vinnitsa was attacked. Presumably Gavrishovka airport.
13:00 A terrorist attack was prevented in Kherson. The people's militia of the Kherson region detained the major of the territorial defense brigade, who was tasked with blowing up people at the rally. The purpose of the attack is to blame the Russian military for what happened and provoke clashes between the local population and the security forces.
12:20 More than 216,000 Ukrainians have entered Moldova since February 24, 1,429 have asked for asylum.
11:53 War criminals Turchinov and Poroshenko "lit up" in Ivano-Frankivsk.
11:20 In western Ukraine, in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, under the leadership of representatives of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the schismatic OCU, churches and parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate are being seized.
11:03 Heavy fighting is underway for Izyum southeast of Kharkov. MANPADS operators and sniper pairs were housed in the residential area of the city.
10:32 The clashes at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant could be related to the fact that documents on work on creation Kiev nuclear weapons - RIA Novosti.
10:31 In total, 2,203 military infrastructure facilities of Ukraine were hit during the operation. Among them: 76 command posts and communication centers of the Ukrainian armed forces, 111 S-300, Buk M-1 and Osa anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as 71 radar stations.
Destroyed: 69 aircraft on the ground and 24 aircraft in the air, 778 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 77 multiple launch rocket systems, 279 field artillery pieces and mortars, 553 units of special military vehicles, as well as 62 unmanned aerial vehicles.
10:30 Over the past day, fighter aircraft and air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down four Su-27 and one MiG-29 aircraft in the Zhitomir region, Su-27 and Su-25 in the Radomyshl region, one Su-25 in the Nizhyn region, two Mi- 8 in the Kyiv region, six unmanned aerial vehicles, including Bayraktar TB-2.
10:29 On the morning of March 6, a long-range precision weapon was struck. The airfield of the Ukrainian Air Force in Starokonstantinov was put out of action.
10:30 On the evening of March 5, a massive strike was inflicted, as a result of which 61 objects of the military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit, including: 22 units of weapons and military equipment in an underground shelter, a brigade command post, 9 warehouses of ammunition and logistics and 3 radar posts .
10:27 The missile forces in Ukraine destroyed the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
10:15 Subdivisions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during offensive operations took control of the settlements of Priyutnoye, Zavitne-Bazhanne, Staromlynovka, Oktyabrskoye and Novomayskoye. Progress forward was 11 kilometers.
9:50 Good news on the Volnovakha-Mariupol line. Our troops are advancing to the borders of the region.
9:36 At the abandoned base of the neo-Nazi unit "Bears" near Mariupol, improvised explosive devices were made to carry out terrorist attacks.
8:30 Documentation on the nuclear program of Ukraine was found at the Zaporozhye NPP.
7:50 March 6 Ukraine can organize a humanitarian corridor from Kharkov, Ukrainian negotiators with Russia said.
7:34 There was a series of airstrikes in Kharkiv: a military unit in the area of Kholodnaya Gora and a military unit of the National Guard in the village of Zhukovsky were destroyed.
7:17 In the city of Ovruch, Zhytomyr region, an airstrike was carried out on a military unit at the intersection of Taras Shevchenko Street and Heroes of Maidan.
#3
I have been writing about this shit show off and on since at least 2015, and in all that time, -- before last month -- no one so much as raised a whimper about my using pro Russian or pro Ukrainian sources.
#6
Badanov - I've "known" you for almost decades. You are no Kremlin tool. I've never seen anything but presentation with the acknowledged alert that everybody in power lies and spins .
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^Neither is Badanov a Trotskyite Deviationist Wrecker because he wrote about Kolchak's operations in Siberia! :)
#8
The copy-paste cabal of UK-US media alone is not enough for a comprehensive view of any situation. All it leads to is the position the politicians and their mouthpieces want to herd you into.
What Rantburg does is supplement your intake of info, by carefully collated voices and bits of articles, news, opinions from multiple perspectives. Because we're not going to be herded. Or guilted or panicked or browbeat into believing the mainstream line. People here form their own opinions and are unapologetically inclined to keep or revise them.
Badanov has been kind enough to fill in for Fred, and is bringing us translations of the word from Russia since before this was just sabre rattling.
It's only prudent to keep abreast of not only what your enemy is publishing, it pays to also know what kind of bullshit is being fed to masses round the world. So there are sometimes reports and articles out of terrorist states, hostile kingdoms and utter fantasies from the AP and BBC too.
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All of this will soon be overcome by events. Yes, Clinton, Hunter, Fauci, COVID, masks, etc, etc, etc.
If MIGS fly out of Poland, will they not return to Poland for maintenance, fuel, ammo? Russia will not stand by and let this happen. We are on the precipice.
November elections suddenly no longer discussed. Perhaps there will be no elections. Domestic oil production in abeyance, for good reason? When Poland's air bases are attacked with Russian cruise missiles. What will NATO do ?
Please forgive my worst case scenario-isms. I pray I am wrong.
[FoxNews] I suggest we send Ms. Stupid Loudmouth McWeave (D-Hoooston) to Russia to "Do you KNOW WHO I AM??" all over the place. Please stream in 4K video Griner was arrested in Russia last month for alleged possession of cannabis oil
At least she’s not in North Korea. Those people are uncivilized.
Texas Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is demanding the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner who was detained by authorities in Russia for allegedly possessing a vape with cannabis oil.
"We know that there were some issues dealing with vape cartridges and other items but let me be very clear," Lee, who represents Griner’s hometown of Houston, Texas, in Congress, said on Saturday. "Brittney Griner is a United States citizen, she was a guest in Russia...and I will be demanding her release."
Lee added that she has spoken with the State Department to "try and get them to focus on her circumstances."
The State Department? They only pay attention to senators, and not much attention even to them. But it’s truly nice that you’re trying, Congresswoman.
"I don’t want to disregard a sovereign nation but Putin has disregarded sovereign nations his entire service in this world," Lee said. "Anyone that is killing and attacking and destroying Ukraine, a neighboring country that is not bothering them, has no right to hold Ms. Griner. Period."
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/\ So this happened a month ago and just now suddenly appears on the radar. Hmmm.
US Government and Foggy Bottom 'Protected Species' negotiations broke down. Family decided to....kick it up a notch and go to Jackson Lee and the media ?
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"Anyone that is killing and attacking and destroying Ukraine, a neighboring country that is not bothering them, has no right to hold Ms. Griner. Period
#4
Bassetbaw diplomacy has gone downhill since Dennis Rodman used to hang with Kim.
That says it all.
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Bet the State Department is overwhelmed with its own incompetence without adding this nonsense for Likes.
"We let foreigners come here all the time and kill our citizens while drunk driving, so what's the big deal?"
And yeah, these qualifiers Ukraine, a neighboring country that is not bothering them, crack me up, especially from the ones who don't know their Wednesdays from their Thursdays.
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Well, Sheila, you might have trouble with this concept but there are still countries in this world that do not let just anybody bring just anything across their borders. It's called border security. Further, not all countries in this world have legalized marihuchie and some of them take their laws seriously. But, hey, if you try to be nice to that mean old Putin and promise you won't march NATO troops right up to his border he might be willing to make a deal.
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Maybe Sheila could get Kamala to go to bat for her?
Still no infantry support around Russian armour, Ukrainians continuing to exploit this to great effect?
#Ukraine: In #Luhansk Oblast, another LNR/Russian convoy was hit by Ukrainian forces, destroying a MT-LB based vehicle, BTR-80, and a BMP-1 variant. pic.twitter.com/LeAz7L6BSD
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 6, 2022
#Ukraine: It seems that the Russian VDV was hit hard in #Mykolaiv. No less than 5x BMD-2 IFV (All with 9M113 ATGM, possibly more inside) and one with a RP-377VM C-IED jammer, as well as 2x BTR-D, were lost to Ukrainian forces. pic.twitter.com/99Y55Pg3vf
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 6, 2022
#Ukraine: The Ukrainian army suffered losses near Sievierodonetsk, #Luhansk Oblast - 4 T-64BV tanks and 2 cargo trucks were damaged/destroyed. pic.twitter.com/unx0uRKGcp
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 6, 2022
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They are wandering around as there's not as many as one rifleman in the township. Not getting it.
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And, as far as I can see from limited information, they're not wandering all that fast. I'm reminded of the WW2 joke that LST (Landing Ship, Tank) actually stood for "Large Stationary Target".
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It's as if they are checking out something somebody else did. Is there any footage of it happening so we know it's not a drone hit or something?
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^ You may have seen this but Besoeker offered some professional analysis in this thread.
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Ck out the RPG gunner's security guy toting a tricked out M4, then posing for happy snaps. Interesting, no ?
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 6, 2022
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – A young man was killed and another injured as they were targeted by unknown gunmen yesterday in Daraa city, southern Syria.
Mahmoud Abazid was shot dead by unknown gunmen in al-Qusoor neighborhood in the city center, a local source told North Press.
Another young man, identified as Abdullah Abazid was injured in the same accident.
Mahmoud was a former media activist and worked for news coverage in Daraa before it was controlled by the Syrian government forces in 2018, the source said.
Mahmoud never joined a military group of the armed opposition, the source added.
The government forces deploy the most in al-Qusoor neighborhood where a security zone of the government locates.
During the Syrian war, the neighborhood remained under the control of the government forces.
Recently, multiple assassinations, mostly against former opposition members who underwent a settlement process, have been committed in Daraa. The perpetrators are unidentified and the Syrian government forces have not tried a little bit to uncover the identity of the perpetrators, according to the locals.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 6, 2022
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, separate places in the de-escalation zones, northwest Syria, witnessed military escalation and exchange of shelling between the Syrian government forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions.
“From the sites in the city of Kafr Nabl, the Syrian government forces bombed the opposition factions’ sites in the towns of al-Bara, Kansafra and Harsh Benin, south of Idlib, with heavy artillery and missiles, ” opposition military sources told North Press.
The fortifications of the opposition factions near the town of Sheikh Suleiman in the western countryside of Aleppo were hit with heavy artillery and rocket launchers, the sources added.
“The Operations Room of al-Fateh al-Mubin, which includes Hayat Tahrir al-Sham plus other opposition factions’ sites near the towns of Malajah and Ma’arat Mukhas, south of Idlib,” according to the sources.
The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnesses daily bombardment between the government forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions, without any change in the territorial control.
[ORYXSPIOENKOP] A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, munitions, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment (including aircraft) are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. ATGMs and MANPADS are included in the list but not included in the ultimate count. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991.
Russia - 845, of which: destroyed: 337, damaged: 10, abandoned: 147, captured: 351
Ukraine - 248, of which: destroyed: 93, damaged: 4, abandoned: 44, captured: 105 Interesting tidbit: DNR/LNR claim 1 Javelin missile (minus CLU launcher) captured. Video shows only missile tube container w/o exposing missile. Could be empty tube. Could be missile.
Yes, on the map the Ukraine is in Europe, not in Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia. But because Russia is the other half of this war, we’re filing it there until this nonsense is over.
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BREAKING: Russia publishes documents which show Ukraine was working on biological weapons near russian borders — such as Anthrax and Plague & that the pentagon has instructed to destroy them — violating article 1 UN prohibition of biological weapons. — These are US funded labs
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These are former Russian ("Soviet") labs. I have no doubt Putin knows what those labs WERE working on -- what they ARE working on is an open question.
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I bet that high school kid tracking Musk's flights could tell us.
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Fauxi wasn't a hands on guy. His emails were probably the majority of his "work product."
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What would it matter? Claims about these labs started AFTER the invasion started-- it's clearly a post-hoc excuse, not actual casus belli.
Had Putin gone to the UN, presented whatever information they had on these labs and demanded they be dismantled or open to international inspection, he'd have placed the US in a much more difficult place.
As it is, it just looks like a pathetic excuse.
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Call me when we put a couple TLAM-Ns on the Wuhan lab.
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 6, 2022
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions arrested yesterday a civilian of Afrin countryside, north of Aleppo, northern Syria.
A group of the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sham faction arrested Muhammad Sido, from Rajo district, on the pretext of dealing with the former Autonomous Administration, a local source told North Press.
He added that Sido was arrested in the village of Kafr Mazzeh in Sharran district, while he was on his way to fulfill some of his needs.
The source indicated that Sido was transferred to the headquarters of the security faction in the district, while his fate is still unknown.
Since the Turkish incursion into Syria, the killing and wounding of 8,590 people have been documented, while the number of detainees has reached 8,230, about 5,530 of whom have been released, while the fate of the rest is still unknown.
The city of Afrin and its villages, north of Aleppo, have been controlled by Turkish forces and the affiliated factions since March 2018.
Since then, the region has been witnessing ongoing security chaos accompanied by infighting among militants of the Turkish-backed factions, arrests, and kidnappings amid the factions’ disability to settle the security and spread safety.
[Radio Free Europe] KYIV -- Ukraine's government has started a website to recruit foreign volunteers to an "international legion" to fight invading Russian troops, following repeated calls by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for outsiders to join in his country's defense.
His office announced the website's launch on March 5 and said, "foreigners who want to help Ukraine can find a detailed, step-by-step instruction on the website on how to join the just fight with the aggressor."
It suggested that people contact the Ukrainian Embassy in their respective countries.
Such participation in foreign conflicts is banned in many countries.
The UN Mercenary Convention of 2001 also prohibits the recruitment, use, financing, and training of mercenaries.
The Ukrainian recruitment website says contracts with the government can be signed on arrival in Ukraine.
Zelenskiy has said several times that Ukraine welcomes foreigners who want to join Ukrainian forces fighting Russian troops since their invasion began on February 24.
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Aux armes, neocons!!
Allons, enfants de notre Neo-cons,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !!
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Nominate your favorite chicken hawks to enlist in the John McStain Brigade here:
1. Bill Ackman: made $2.6 billion manipulating COVID hysteria ("I had a dream...") in 2020, now trying to maneuver us into war so he can scam another cool couple billion
2. Miss Lindsey and Miss Amy Klobu-Comb
3. Our own "Angaiper Ulavins1210", all brawn (no room for brains) - virtual brawn anyway
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*sigh* And your earlier iteration had made such progress, Mr. No. It really undermines the claims you were making about your background, which is a shame — I prefer to believe my interlocutors, as doubting takes so much more energy.
And flame wars are boring. We got that out of our system back in the single digits of this century.
This being the 21st century, I don't see why we are having wars in meat-space when we could do them virtually. Let's settle this in CS:GO or Arma 3 like civilized people.
I'd have a couple thousand Moscow loyalists and mercs infiltrate at right about this time. With uncle Sòròs and German bankers footing the bills, it'd be win-win-win.
Изюм взят = IZYUM HAS BEEN TAKEN. Big news indeed.
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Why the fuck is Biden doing this? Sanctions are just killing the US economy
Now the market is in a total rout.. Dow down 800 points
NASDAQ down almost 4%
All the gains of the last 2 years have been wiped out
We're back to the bottom and worse is yet to come
#25
^ When it comes to capital allocation that's more or less true. For at least the last year all the geniuses (e.g., Larry Fink of Blackrock) have been pushing an ESG investing agenda and starving oil and gas. Oops. But as our greatest native philosopher told us “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
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[JPost] An indication they're not getting great smuggling results? How much can a covert drone carry? It is estimated that this was an attempt by Iran to find out whether it was possible to "open an axis" of supplying weapons to Gaza using unmanned vehicles.
In the first-ever publicized operational interception, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit announced on Sunday evening that F-35 aircraft intercepted two Iranian UAVs en route to the Gaza Strip with a cargo of pistols.
The interception occurred in March 2021, before the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas. The aircraft that shot them down were 'Adir' fighter jets.
It is estimated that this was an attempt by Iran to find out whether it was possible to "open an axis" of supplying weapons to Gaza using unmanned vehicles.
But Israel is only announcing their work now, a year later.
The interception was coordinated with Israel's neighbors,
Oh? Fascinating.
thereby preventing infiltration into Israel.
The UAVs were tracked by intelligence throughout their journey.
This is a developing story.
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The Department of Military Engineering of the General Staff of the Libyan Army announced that it had removed 12 tons of mines, booby-traps, and remnants of war, detonating them in the Bir Al-Ghanam area.
In a statement on Saturday, it said that these explosives were collected from several areas south of Tripoli.
Notably, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) announced that it has managed to remove or destroy 13,000 explosive items from Libya during 2021.
It noted that it has completed surveys of 500 square kilometers, in partnership with the Libyan Center for Mine Action and Remnants of War. It tweeted that it has provided awareness activities to 47,000 beneficiaries.
UNMAS is a service within the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations that specializes in coordinating and implementing activities to reduce the threat posed by mines, explosive remnants of war, and other explosive devices.
Earlier this month, the Explosives Bureau team at the Libyan Police’s Technical Affairs Department cleared anti-personnel mines from a farm in the Ain Zara area of Tripoli.
The Ministry of Interior said in a statement that the team combed the farm, as they believed that mines had been planted extensively on the land.
This came after a report was received that three people had been killed on the farm, which has become known as the “death farm, according to the statement.
In March 2021, UNICEF said that estimates indicate that there are more than 500,000 people at risk in Libya due to remnants of war. This includes 63,000 displaced people, 123,000 returnees, 145,000 residents, and 175,000 migrants.
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
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[PJMedia] The Russian Air Force (VKS) has procured 350 modern combat aircraft in the last ten years and the question that must be on every Russian's mind in the second week of the Ukraine War is: What did we get for our money?
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
[WesternJournal] 
[Breitbart] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently discovered a rodent infestation at a Family Dollar distribution facility in Arkansas, which led to the temporary closure of over 400 stores in multiple states.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...Deobandi holy man, known as 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[DW] Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the country's external environment is becoming "volatile, grave and uncertain." China's economy has suffered amid anti-COVID-19 measures and a crackdown on real estate debt.
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
[KavkazUzel] The court gave a two-year suspended sentence to a resident of Dagestan, finding him guilty of posting extremist materials on Instagram. 
[Khaama] 
[TOLO] 
[Defense News] Russian invasion still slowed, airspace over Ukraine still contested, Pentagon says
[Khaama] 
[Radio Free Europe] KYIV -- Ukraine's government has started a website to recruit foreign volunteers to an "international legion" to fight invading Russian troops, following repeated calls by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for outsiders to join in his country's defense.
