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Besoeker, when I clicked on the link, it landed on the following post. Did you intend to highlight this one?
Ukraine NOW [English]
⚡️Russian losses equal the number they suffered during Afghan war. Key points of the speech of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov:
🔻 In 13 days of the war, Russian soldiers killed 38 Ukrainian children and wounded more than 70. The data on more than 400 civilians killed and more than 800 wounded have been confirmed.
🔻 400,000 Ukrainians were taken hostage in Mariupol. They are constantly shelled by aircraft, rocket artillery, and missiles.
🔻 In 11 days, the Russian occupiers destroyed more than 200 Ukrainian schools, 34 hospitals, and more than 1,500 residential buildings.
🔻 Where are your values and ideals? Where is the work of international organizations that cost billions of dollars? Where is the UN, the Red Cross, the OSCE? They are not here.
🔻 A few more days, and Russia's losses of the killed and wounded will outweigh the losses of 10 years of war in Afghanistan.
🔻 Today, Europe has a chance to defeat a tyrant who has intimidated everyone for decades. This requires Ukraine to persevere.
🔻 I urge everyone to show that the free world is not afraid of a single tyrant hiding in a bunker.
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How does helping Zelensky help Americans?
Leave out the Trump interregnum. Can anyone explain how the W-Obama-Biden policy toward Ukraine and Russia made us...
stronger?
more secure?
freer and wealthier?
Now ordinary Americans are becoming little slaves to China, jerked around by global commodities markets.
Why are our leaders doing this?
WTF explains their insanity?
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03/08/2022 10:52
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Why are our leaders doing this?
Not our leaders. Klaus Schwalbe's droids running us proles towards the wood chippers.
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03/08/2022 11:03
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The neocons and the MIC relish conflict. As per usual, follow the money.
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Not. Our. Problem. Call me when The Russ AF starts flying close air support for the cartels and the "migrants" from central America.
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03/08/2022 11:33
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WTF explains their insanity?
Many are people that have 'No skin in the Game' -- they work for public schools (or other 'guaranteed income' jobs) and can emote without any fear of the consequences. If they could be drafted, or their children, things might seem more 'Real"...
You wouldn't think so but it seems we have a lot of war mongering fuckers in Washington DC and New York City who are working overtime to make it our problem. I don't believe they are insane...just evil.
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M.M. While I agree with you on most things, it IS our fight. I don't like the "Peace in Our Time" crowd. They don't have a good track record. The world is too small to ignore Hitlerian thinking. That said, a shooting war will probably be the final curtain on our little civilization story. So no.
All means to convince Russians that Putin will get them and us killed, yes.
#12
^ False analogy. The resolution to this is simple: it's no NATO expansion plus the Minsk II agreement that Zelensky ignored.
Which we could easily have had if our leaders were not out to destroy us by building up China and destroying our wealth and our freedoms at home.
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03/08/2022 13:17
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The slippery slope argument. If we don't act tough now we will have to fight later.
It's called bluster.
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03/08/2022 13:19
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How bout this: B21 is nearing first flight. Columbia class SSBNs about to lay down first keel. Instead od sending Ukraine used fighter jets, let's announce we are boosting our spending on strategic weapons by the same amount.
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03/08/2022 13:26
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LRSO is nearly ready. More faster please.
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03/08/2022 13:27
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Oh ok. So we're kinda-sorta (but not really) fighting Russia by forcing them to ship all of their huge natural resource wealth to China. Because ...China's our ally?
Because we want to build up China -- at our own expense?
Because we fondly hope and fervently pray that China will emerge as the dominant power in the world?
Does this make any FUCKING sense?
#FuckNeoconShitheads
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03/08/2022 13:28
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What would makes sense is pumping enough oil domestically that we supply our own needs while dropping the price worldwide. Simultaneously, balance the budget so we don’t need to borrow from China. If we cut those purse strings they lose half their power over us. If we finish moving our manufacturing out of China and find or develop alternate sources for all the stuff and manufacturing feedstocks we buy from them, they would lose the other half of their power over us, it seems to me.
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Yes. We can do much more damage by selectively opening and closing the still biggest-on-the-planet American wallet in a sensible way. That means no moral posturing and a willingness to show people we disagree with what devastating poverty actually is.
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03/08/2022 14:35
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"Why should we spend money to kill you when we can make you wish you were dead by not spending?"
Think about it.
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03/08/2022 14:37
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That means no moral posturing
That's what they do. Support for "Black Lives Matter" was 100% about moral posturing with no regard at all for actual evidence or second-order effects.
Ditto for the climate change insanity.
Ditto for the COVID insanity.
Ditto for the Ukraine insanity.
Same playbook in every case:
1 Preen, posture, ignore logic and evidence.
2 Fuck things up beyond all recognition.
3 Rinse
4 Repeat
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03/08/2022 14:43
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Most of the money is controlled by people who are in thrall of marketing consultants and shadowy gurus. The want to change the world, but they don't know what to do...
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03/08/2022 14:49
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How does helping Zelensky help Americans?
I heard the term Elephant trap used by folks to describe the US getting entangled in a painful war in Vietnam. There is value to the Russians using up their military assets and showing they aren't the fearful war machine everyone thought they were. If we can manage that by supplying Zelensky we should.
Multitasking, And anyway, Dire Revenge is required of Allah’s Mostest Faithfullest of All.
[WashingtonExaminer] At least two Iranians belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ covert-action Quds Force have been plotting to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton, according to a Justice Department official with direct knowledge of the investigation.
The source tells the Washington Examiner that the department possesses indictable evidence against the Iranians but that Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... officials are resisting publicly indicting the men for fear that it could derail their drive for a nuclear deal with Iran, currently nearing completion in negotiations in Vienna, Austria. Biden’s hope is to resume the 2015 JCPOA Iran
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[WashingtonExaminer] A Saudi man who has been a Guantanamo Bay detainee for 20 years for allegedly conspiring to take part in the Sept. 11 hijacking plot will soon be transferred back to his home country, the Pentagon announced Monday.
Mohammad Mani Ahmad al Qahtani,
...those endless Arab names with their many alternate spellings! In his case, the popular Arabian name Mohammed al-Qahtani in the Rantburg archives also appears as Mohammed al-Kahtani and Mohamed al-Kahtani. He made it to Orlando, Florida, before being deported a month before 9/11...
who is known as the "20th Hijacker,"
... yes, dear Reader, you do remember correctly: Zacarias Moussaoui is also known as the 20th Hijacker. Some people, brilliant as they are in other ways, just cannot count beyond their fingers and toes...
is being returned on the condition that he will be subject to security and humane treatment, according to the Defense Department statement.
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Whoops! But better in a primary than the real thing in November.
[Examiner] Election officials discovered 10,000 uncounted mail-in ballots over the weekend in Texas's most populous county after the first-in-the-nation 2022 primary last week.
Two close Democratic primary races, one for a state House seat and another for Texas attorney general, hang in the balance. The ballots, 6,000 for Democrats and 4,000 for Republicans, were scanned into the tabulation computer, but they were not added to the unofficial final results, Harris County officials announced Sunday.
"While we understand the seriousness of this error, the ability to identify and correct this issue is a result of a lengthy and rigorous process and is a positive example of the process ultimately working as it should," the county, which includes most of Houston, said in a statement obtained by the Texas Tribune.
Candis Houston, who is trailing incumbent state Rep. Harold Dutton Jr. by 136 votes in the Democratic primary, has already conceded the race. Dutton was baffled that so many ballots had gone missing without anyone noticing.
"It seems to me that somebody should’ve known that 10,000 ballots were missing," Dutton said. "If 10,000 ballots were missing and nobody knew that, God help us."
Joe Jaworski, former mayor of Galveston, Texas, leads civil rights attorney Lee Merritt by 1,418 votes in the race to become the Democratic nominee for attorney general. Although Jaworski claimed victory Friday, Merritt has not conceded, and it remains unclear who will receive the second spot in a runoff planned for May. Incumbent Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will also face a runoff election after failing to secure at least 50% of the vote in the Lone Star State’s Republican primary.
Among the other complications reported for the March 1 primary in Harris County were delays caused by 1,600 damaged ballot sheets, two voting locations reporting minor technical difficulties with their machines, and a shortage of election workers.
In addition, as a consequence of stricter new voting rules, thousands of mail-in ballots lacking proper identification were sent back, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
How many of those went to real people at real addresses?
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According to the Dems, the most honest election in the history of the universe.
Sure is a lot of opposition to looking at the evidence or changing the outcome of 2020 election. A whole lot of cheating occurred. Straighten out the 2020 election or the 2022 and 2024 elections (and future elections) won't mean zip.
Dems can't win on policy, so they cheat.
Hell, our elections are no better than Russian elections or any of the banana republics.
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Since most of the ballots are Donk, it looks more like incompetence than malfeasance.... unless, of course, the Donk ballots were for the wrong jackass....
He and President Trump disagree on some important things, but unlike Mitt Romney he continues to work for change in the right direction.
[WashingtonExaminer] The political nonprofit organization run by former Vice President Mike Pence is launching a $10 million advertising campaign pressuring more than a dozen House Democrats to embrace American energy independence amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Advancing American Freedom is targeting 16 incumbent House Democrats across 11 states with a 30-second spot linking President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan... ’s energy agenda to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The ad, running on broadcast and cable television and digital platforms, claims Biden’s decision to accede to the demands of "radical environmentalists" and cancel the Keystone XL pipeline in the United States helped Russian strongman Vladimir Putin
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That is indeed a ‘Barguzin’ train carrying nuclear missiles. It looks to me Russia is rising the stakes again. Instead of joking here you should better start to think about what this implies.
— 💙💛 Philip Van Acker (@philip_vanacker) March 7, 2022
another expert says:
No it's not. Armored train yes. One passenger car, and the rest of the carriages are too short.Mr. Vanacker is mistaken.
If not nuke then whom is in the train? Putin?
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...That appears - stress the 'appears' - to be a positively ancient armored train, definitely no nukes. My guess would be that since the Ukranians are whacking rail nodes, one of these relics would come in kind of handy.
And no, Mr. Van Aken, it's not a nuke train. If it was, the nice folks taking the video wouldn't have lasted long enough to tweet it.
Mike
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An invading force bent on seizing resources and subjugating a population....uses armored trains to solve a logistical challenge? What a novel idea.
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The Russians have an excellent rail network. But they don't have excellent unit logistics. They have too few support trucks per fighting unit. So they are stuck moving forward 200km and then have to pause to build up a forward supply base for a week or two. Rinse and repeat.
Combined with crappy maintenance, iffy part supplies and a general lack of most essentials to be moved forward quickly, you get what you see today.
Once the ground dries out so tanks can not just be stuck to chokepoints and ambush locations of roads, and supply stocks are refilled, Ukraine will be very hard pressed to hold their cities.
#13
So much bullcrap flying from both sides it'll take a hundred years to uncover the truth.
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Once the ground dries out so tanks can not just be stuck to chokepoints and ambush locations of roads, and supply stocks are refilled, Ukraine will be very hard pressed to hold their cities.
Forecast about a week ago looked sloppy.
-checks update-
warming with drizzles and flurries. If those videos yesterday are to be believed, ground looked damp yet rather firm. Tracks, not clods.
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*to be clear, I don't hate seeing them posted, the more info the better, but that there are enough tiktokers-cum-experts already to cheapen and stupefy the whole thing.
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….By the way Nuland now says America is “working with Ukraine” to ensure Russia “does not get its hands on the biological laboratories” which American media had only days ago said didn’t exist.
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China asked Washington today to release “relevant details as soon as possible” regarding alleged US biological laboratories in Ukraine: Foreign Ministry spokesperson…
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Nobody has yet answered the question whether those are actually biolabs established by the Soviet Union in the Cold War days when the U.S. and the USSR were competing in all areas of mass destruction — biological, chemical, and nuclear.
Because if so, Russia has as much responsibility for not shutting them down as we do. But regardless, China needs to shut up before we remind them kinetically that their biolab is the one that released super-Covid into the wild, and they not only covered it up, but worked to spread it out in the world faster while sabotaging development and manufacture of treatments as well as selling subpar masks, gowns, and gloves after having cleared the shops in Europe and the US of all the quality stuff.
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En route from the border with Mordor,
Steel putti, one sharp spetsnaz porter;
In turret, round bed,
Sheets of satin, all red,
Auto-mortar with card: OUT OF ORDER.
#26
Chemin d'amour, or, um... something about lust and rust, since I failed to adequatrly convey the rustiness of the whole affair? Though I did watch Grand Budapest Hotel last night.
[Red State] As Vladimir Putin’s brutality against the people of Ukraine continues, individual stories of human suffering continue to emerge — including from captured Russian fighters. Here are two of them.
Russian National Guard Lt. Col. Astakhov Dmitry Mikhailovich, who was captured along with two other soldiers, as reported by The New York Post, told Ukrainian authorities they were told they were being sent to help Ukraine because it was "dominated by a fascist regime" and that "nationalists and Nazis had seized power." "Obviously, this information was unilateral information," Mikhailovich told reporters.
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a few years ago I would have been shocked that a high ranking general could be such an ignorant dupe
but then there is LT GEN Mark Alexander Milley
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I meant high ranking soldier, no reason to promote Mikhailovich
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03/08/2022 10:14
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While there's ample reason to question that these POWs are making those statements voluntarily, what they say is PLAUSIBLE.
That Russian light colonel is a "dead duck", even if he's offered asylum in the West. In particular, he'd better not acquire a taste for street-vendor hot dogs, as they might be "seasoned"
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UKRAINIAN GENERAL STATEMENT REGARDING NAZIS IN UKRAINE.
00:09:55 Ukrainian Army General in 2014 said that Masons and Jews now control Ukraine.
00:05:10 The Ukraine gov't gives military grade weapons to the criminals in Ukraine, who have begun stealing, raping, and shooting up Ukraine citizens
00:02:00 Putin states, "Neo Nazi forces provide heavy weapons to Central Kiev and Kharkov, to draw return fire by Russian armed forces against civilians. Ukrainian army, do not permit them to use you, your women, your children, and your elderly as human shields. It will be so much easier to talk and negotiate with you, instead of this gang of Nazis that has captured Kiev."
[France24] In an interview with FRANCE 24 on Monday, former US national security adviser and retired lieutenant general Herbert Raymond McMaster said that Ukraine can win the war with Russia, remarking that President Vladimir Putin had already lost the conflict in a sense by not winning outright.
McMaster said the Russian military had proven to be a "Potemkin army" and said they would continue to face stiff resistance from Ukrainians backed by a united West.
He said he feared, however, that Putin might launch an all-out assault on Kyiv, similar to the one he unleashed on Grozny in Chechnya and in Syria's Aleppo. He urged Western countries to do more to help Ukraine by sending increasingly sophisticated weapons and setting up training posts in the west of the country.
McMaster predicted that Putin’s final goal is not limited to Ukraine but that he also has his eyes trained on Moldova and Georgia. He urged the world to take seriously the threat of Russian using a nuclear device, especially as it struggles on the ground in Ukraine and faces crippling sanctions from a united front of Western powers.
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Putin has already lost strategically. He is just trying to keep grinding to force Ukraine into his terms so he can save face. If the Russians fix their logistics, wait until the mud clears up and blitzes through Kyiv and captures the government, Putin will get everything he wants.
If the Ukrainians pile up Russian bodies in front of the city and drag this out for a few months, Putin will have little choice but to call this off as his position will get weaker and weaker back home and internal unrest becomes too much.
#3
Yes, keep burning through your troops, ammo, food, pol, and resources. Buying time for others to actually get their military up from deep rusting storage to a somewhat functional status (cause the Yanks are degrading theirs as fast as politically possible).
#4
I think we can catch the Ruskies with their pants down!
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It all depends on 'win' means doesn't it? A cheap "Short Victorious War" (like Panama '89) installing a puppet government has already hit a snag in execution.
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. judge was set Tuesday to question one of the jurors who convicted the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell of helping the millionaire Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.
Maxwell’s lawyers say the verdict should be thrown out over the juror’s apparent failure to disclose before the trial began that he’d been a victim of childhood sexual abuse.
U.S. Judge Alison J. Nathan intends to ask the juror why he failed to note his personal history on a questionnaire during the jury selection process.
Maxwell’s lawyers potentially could have objected to the man’s presence on the jury on the grounds that he might not be fair to a person accused of a similar crime.
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Certain foreign countries and well placed patrons will insist on her freedom and repatriation, along with illegally acquired wealth and inheritances.
#4
that he might not be fair to a person accused of a similar crime.
And that's modern law for you. Written by demons, meant to serve demons, protected and glorified by fools. If they really wanted justice in those courts they'd allow only victims in juries.
[BaltimoreSun] Hundreds of trucks, cars and SUVs protesting the government’s response to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic circled the Capital Beltway on Monday for a second day as the group announced that it secured a meeting in Washington with two senators.
Organizer Brian Brase said that the group, which began its demonstration Sunday with two loops around the Beltway, has no plans to take the protest beyond the highway but acknowledged that there’s a faction of the convoy that wants to head into the nation’s capital. Authorities said traffic disruptions Monday were minimal and there were no reports of convoy-related incidents during the group’s single loop of the 64-mile Beltway.
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Drive 50mph in the HOV lane on the Beltway all day every day from now till November. One convoy starts from Shirlington, the next two from Montgomery Co and Anacostia. (Very slowly) Rolling Thunder
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Seems to me the media has done an effective job not covering the Peoples Convoy.
The end of a pointless exercise, because Iran only wanted to see how much ransom they could get while they continued to work toward workable nuclear bombs? Or only a pause in the pointless exercise, etc?
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s top diplomat at monthslong talks aimed at restoring its tattered nuclear deal with world powers has flown home for a sudden trip, a sign of the growing pressure on Tehran as the negotiations appear to be nearing their end.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency describes Ali Bagheri Kani’s trip late Monday as being "within the framework of the usual consultations during the talks."
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the top negotiator for the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... seems to suggest whether the talks succeeded or failed now rested with the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
"There are no longer ’expert level talks.’ Nor ’formal meetings,’" Enrique Mora wrote on Twitter, responding to comments by an Iranian analyst. "It is time, in the next few days, for political decisions to end the #ViennaTalks. The rest is noise."
[Breitbart] Nine out of the top ten states with the most expensive cost of gas per gallon are led by Democrats, according to a report from the Republican Governors Association (RGA).
"The new data comes just days after 25 Republican governors called on the White House to reverse energy policies that have kneecapped America’s domestic energy production," according to the organization. "Experts say the rising cost of gas is related to the effect Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has on foreign oil supplies the Biden Administration has come to rely on."
The RGA cited data from the American Automobile Association (AAA) on the most expensive average costs of gas per gallon (as of Monday morning):
California ($5.28)
Hawaii (4.69)
Nevada ($4.52)
Oregon ($4.46)
Washington ($4.40)
Illinois ($4.26)
Connecticut ($4.21)
New York ($4.20)
Pennsylvania ($4.17)
In contrast, nine out of the top ten states that have the lowest average cost of gas per gallon (as of Monday morning) are led by Republicans.
Missouri ($3.63)
Oklahoma ($3.65)
Arkansas ($3.69)
South Dakota ($3.70)
Iowa ($3.72)
Texas ($3.73)
Nebraska ($3.73)
North Dakota ($3.73)
Wyoming ($3.74)
"Democrat governors are silent as more than two dozen Republican governors have called on Joe Biden to restore American energy independence and ease the burdens felt by every hard working American family," RGA Communications Director Jesse Hunt said in a statement. "Amid record high inflation, the last thing American families need is even higher costs at the pump due to Democrat incompetence at home and now abroad. Voters are quickly finding out, if they hadn’t already, that life under Democrat control in their states is completely unaffordable."
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NN2N1 the amount deducted from my Social Security went up more than the amount Social Security did. I am now getting less than before the Social Security increase.
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Oil (wti) is almost $125/bar as of now.
If the price stays this high, it tanks the economy by late summer.
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As I think B has mentioned, Joe Bidet is caught in the monkey trap. He's fiercely grasping the green walnut even though his hand is stuck in the bottle. He will not give up his green base even when his approval ranting drops into the teens.
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The Saudis won't come to Biden's puppeteers' rescue. Now they are going begging to Iran and Venezuela. At least they will understand each other, in a low-life to low-life way.
That 800,000 bpd capacity of the cancelled Keystone 2 pipeline sure would be handy right about now.
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What I love is that the liberals in California didn't seem to realize that Electric vehicles don't buy gas but do use the roads. So tesla's are everywhere, tax revenue dropped, and road repairs lacked funding, and now they are looking into some kind of tax per mile driven without any discussion of removing the gas taxes to balance things. no wonder everyone with any sense is leaving.
#12
Fine. But most EBT card users prefer White Claw. Or Colt 45 Malt Liquoah, soul brothah...
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Cali plans to prove you can have infinitely high taxes, no infrastructure and the best quality of life on the planet. It will be a grim, ugly failure, but at least they have a plan.
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"Purchasing oil from Venezuela is a State Department op to give aid to Maduro's opponents and overthrow the government so the US can install it puppets!"
#15
He will not give up his green base even when his approval ranting drops into the teens.
He can't. That was the price he paid for Bernie dropping out of the primaries.
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As I recall, only a few US refineries can handle the heavy Venezuelan oil. Are they still online? If not, it's no quick fix.
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Cali plans to prove you can have infinitely high taxes, no infrastructure and the best quality of life on the planet. It will be a grim, ugly failure, but at least they have a plan.
It's still quite nice here...if you can afford it. The only way it will ever be affordable for all the people who want to live here is to turn it into a Third World shit hole and Newsom is doing his damndest to do just that.
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As I recall, only a few US refineries can handle the heavy Venezuelan oil. Are they still online?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] In the evening, reports came that our troops had driven the APU out of Izyum (although there are reports that there is still some resistance in the southern districts of the city), where part of the 81st brigade of the AFU was defending in the city, which had retreated from the city and is now covering it with artillery and mortars. The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were actively covered by aircraft. Raisins Izyum are of decisive importance for the entire northern part of the APU grouping in the Donbass.
The route was cut (now with ends) Kharkiv-Izyum. Control over Izyum creates the prerequisites for an attack on Slavyansk from the northwest.
In addition, by controlling Izyum, it is possible to advance on Pavlograd and Barvenkovo, with further cutting of the Donetsk-Pavlograd highway, control over which will lead to a complete operational encirclement of all forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbas.
From the south, the troops of the Melitopol group are moving towards the Pavlograd-Donetsk highway, which have already approached Gulyaipol and began to bypass it from the east. Donetsk and Gorlovka continue to endure hard shelling stoically, waiting for the hammer of the RF Armed Forces to fall on the group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
And yes, Izyum is the city from which the ATO in Donbass began. After 8 years, the war has come to where the military phase of the ATO began.
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Raisinsare of decisive importance for the entire northern part of the APU grouping in the Donbass.
Silly Google. Изюм / Izyum means "raisin." The city is of decisive strategic importance to the armies involved; the inhabitants of Izyum can survive without a daily raisin allotment.
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Good catch, Shairong Bucket9691. Fixed. Though why the translator only missed that one instance among multiple repetitions of the city’s name doesn’t bear thinking about.
#3
Contrary to neocons' spin lies and propaganda, the Russian Army will soon control all or nearly all of the Donbas. Gulyaipole is cut off. Kharkov will fall soon. The cauldron's in place now.
Along with no NATO expansion to within a few hundred miles of Russia's capital, autonomy for the Donbas region was the entire basis of the Minsk II agreement.
So now Zelensky and Biden have brought us back to Minsk II, only with thousands dead.
Why are we supporting this madness? Why did we encourage Little Big Man Zelensky to rip up Minsk II and hold out for NATO membership?
Have we ever in our entire history seen such incompetent and destructive US diplomacy?
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#1
Do I think every idiot breaking the law needs to be locked up?
NO! Just every felony level and socially violent/mentally harmful one should be.
The Petty crime idiots should be put to Weekend Community Clean-up and other community services. Why waste on average $158.00 a day on the NON-Violent.
With that said there should be a LAW that requires DA'a to indite ALL Felony level crimes
when the evidence points to a person. Plus a law that requires they seek a MANDATORY sentence. Unless presented a GUILTY Plea, only then a reduced sentence equal to 3/4's of the mandatory sentencing. NOTE: Excluding Murder charges
BUT NO WAY IN HELL,
a slap on the wrist or released despite clear guilt, without charges.
#2
In an idea world, the punishment would fit the crime. That would still leave room for lots of exotic solutions. Most petty criminals have a very low tolerance for the fear, frustration and misery they cause. As for the monsters, there's always a scarier monster to introduce them to.
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#3
How many states are looking to amend their laws to establish 'dereliction of duty' for those charge with enforcing the law?
[Federalist HT: Menhadden Spaviger9342] You may have heard over the weekend that Americans now "broadly support" imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine. "A broad bipartisan majority of Americans think the United States should ... work with NATO to set up ’no-fly zones’ to protect Ukraine from Russian air strikes," insisted a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Friday, noting that 74 percent of respondents supported the aggressive move.
The same poll, however, showed that only 39 percent of Americans want to see American troops sent to Ukraine, with fully 61 percent opposed — a statistic that was conveniently left out of the Reuters write-up (the report only mentioned vague "majorities" opposing boots on the ground). That gaping disconnect indicates two things: Most Americans cheering a no-fly zone don’t know what that would entail, and the warmongering media is using that ignorance to the advantage of its agenda.
Pollsters asking Americans if they support a no-fly zone aren’t explaining to them what the consequences of such an action would be. NATO has so far refused to enact a no-fly zone precisely because it would almost certainly lead to war, and Russia has made it clear it would interpret such a move as an act of war.
As my colleague John Daniel Davidson noted last week: "Of course a no-fly zone would mean just that: The U.S. would have to shoot down Russian warplanes, and Russian warplanes would very likely do the same to us. We would be in a shooting war with Russia before the no-fly zone was even established." Florida Republican Rep. Marco Rubio agreed, saying a no-fly zone "would mean World War III."
Reuters even admitted, four paragraphs into its report, that "It was not clear if respondents who supported a no-fly zone were fully aware of the risk of conflict." Of course they weren’t, as evidenced by the 35-point difference between support for a no-fly zone and support for American troop involvement.
The poll also found 57 percent of Americans agreed that "Given the current economic climate, the United States cannot afford to be taking military action in Ukraine." Six in 10 Americans also didn’t want to see the U.S. conduct airstrikes against Russia.
Pollsters didn’t even ask how many respondents would oppose a full-scale war with Russia, a number which would surely be even higher. In fact, look through the toplines of the survey and you won’t even find the word "war."
There’s a real chance that if the United States and the rest of NATO are dragged into a full conflict with Russia over Ukraine, we could see a devastating nuclear war. That’s not a possibility our politicians and media should take lightly, but nevertheless, they continue to recklessly bandy about unserious responses to Russia’s aggression.
While Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., implores his Twitter followers to assassinate Vladimir Putin, and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., urges a no-fly zone (while also peddling disproven propaganda), the censors who preach about fighting misinformation at home have happily allowed false stories about Ukraine that fit their pro-war agenda to propagate.
Meanwhile, another recent poll from Rasmussen Reports shows the broad divide between elites who are pushing for war and the actual people who would fight it. Overall, 49 percent of American voters answered "yes" to the question, "If a wider war breaks out in Europe, should the U.S. military be involved?"
But that belief is held by only 37 percent of respondents with an income below $30,000, compared to 66 percent of respondents making more than $200,000.
I seem to recall the upper income percentage of respondents in the 80+% range a week ago, in which case the current 66% is a precipitous drop.
The majority of U.S. military recruits come from middle-class backgrounds, a demographic that supports shedding American blood in Europe far less than the ruling class does.
"If a wider war breaks out in Europe, should the U.S. military be involved?"
All Voters - Yes - 49%
- Yes by Income - Under $30K: 37% $30-50K: 48% $50-100K: 51% $100-200K: 52% Over $200K: 66% https://t.co/W4yFT6LZvt
#3
I can almost feel the winds of war. No fly zone, earth shattering 2020 Wisconsin election investigation? Hunter, Clinton, Fauci, and COVID masks, the economy, all of this will likely soon be overcome by events....as planned.
Does anyone think MIGS flying from Poland to the Ukraine will not return to Poland and it's supporting maintenance bases, spares, fuel, ordinance? RU is holding back it's Air Force for just such an event. If Putin sends cruise missiles into Poland, what will NATO do ?
Notice the lack of recent discussion regarding the upcoming US mid-term elections? My guess is there won't be any election.
Biden, or rather his handlers are holding back US oil production for a reason. Could that reason be war? I fear we are on the precipice.
So maybe civil war next ... as if we didn't have enough crises
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are now preparing to indict Trump on conspiracy charges.
That should be fun — Donald J. Trump in the national spotlight again, this time with high priced lawyers at his side. CNN will be overjoyed to to be able to cater to the 90% of their audience that they lost when he went home. And the rest as well — they won’t be able to stop themselves from covering it
It’s not like the committee has a leg to stand on. They’re just hoping that somehow this will save their cumulative bacon in November, instead of the comparison between their boy and him being the difference between the living and the stumbling zombie.
Likely supplies for a long-term occupation. Putin sees himself as the savior of the religious cultural icon of Kiev. He may wish to avoid destruction of the city.
#10
If through some miracle we are able to stay out of this conflict, it will mark a turning point in foreign policy trends which began shortly after WWII.
#11
Amen. Stay the fuck out of this. Not our circus.
Fix our own country. Depose our own dictators.
And keep calling out the shitty warmongers who are trying to drag us into this pointless war with filthy trucks like falsifying polling data
Fuck the warmongers. Fix our own democracy that's under siege from our own dictators
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03/08/2022 8:35
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* filthy tricks
The truckers are pure and clean
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So did the Biden group take lessons from the Clintons? Using polling data for strategic decision making? It failed in Kosovo and in Mogadishu. The dems are going to roll us into a bigger mess if they listen to this stuff and use it for decision making.
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#14
Amen. Stay Get the fuck out of this.
Good advice for your countrymen, Boris.
Good morning afternoon. Shitty weather in Russia as normal?
#19
We're seeing blowback in real time. While idiots slaver about poking the bear, we're now getting poked in the ass by the rest of the world - a world led by China.
Is that the tail wagging our bitch?
Are the corrupt shits and billionaires who rule roughshod over us actually trying to build up China now? Does that explain their mad encouragement of that little puppet Zelensky - when everything in our society now is going straight to hell?
Whether by design or by accident, what our leaders are doing is insane. Bring down these madmen before they destroy our country
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Why Hasn't the 40-Mile Russian Convoy Outside Kyiv Moved in Days?
I read an article somewhere that the Russian trucks use Chinese tires that turned out to be super-substandard. They can't go off-road without getting stuck so the roads are piled up three vehicles wide so vehicles can't get to the front of the columns without new tires or tracked vehicles. Then the long wait has led to batteries and fuel running out.
This might be propaganda, there has been a bit of that bandied about, but if true, that's the military fiasco of the century and will certainly lead to a bit of friction between China and Russia in the future.
#22
The desperation of these assholes is palpable. I have never in all my years seen such blatant misrepresentation of polling data. This is beyond shameless.
No American outside our elites wants to have anything to do with this. But then, no ordinary American supports all the other insane shit these bastards have rained down on our heads for nearly a decade now.
Hoax after hoax after disgusting hoax: "Systemic racism!" "Trump's a Russian agent!!" "White supremacy!!!"
And of course, all the COVID bullshit. "Flatten the curve! finished by Fall 2021! Boosters ad infinitum!"
Regime change begins at home. Fuck these liars. Before they ruin us altogether
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I wonder if the war approval poll results correlate with the odds that the respondent listens to drive-time NPR.
No, that's right. That is why I got the fox news drive time hype man F-16s for Flying Tiger Club talk.
Had a talk with a neo-Klingon the other day. I hope I got the point across that if he is really for Ukraine, really really, then the best thing to do is let them fight "on their own". If they win "on their own" they negotiate with Russia from strength. If they lose "on their own", they have legitimate grievance. If NATO gets involved, they become a testing field and will always be subject to the current "winner". Are you for Ukraine as a self determining state, or are you for Ukraine because people who lied to you about Covid for 2 years, all these new found friends of Sean Hannity, say "Keev! Qapla!"?
If serious people are still involved, this is being played out and done, so chill. If serious people are not involved, then we don't need to get involved, so chill.
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When I see all the TeeVee talking heads suited up on a troop plane to Ukraine, I'll take it seriously. BTW, has Vindman gone back on active duty status yet?
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03/08/2022 11:14
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#29
Vindman is hollering at our Congresscritters again, trying to egg them on to declare war
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03/08/2022 11:16
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#30
Something, something, a successful insurgency requires a -neutral- neighbor.
#31
Well, it appears now that Biden and Buttigieg are going to establish a no-drive zone across America. Well, anything beyond a long electric extension cord.
#33
I lost all sympathy for Zelensky when he called for NATO to impose a no-fly-zone over Ukraine. Then Ukraine 2022 can be like Serbia 1914, right? Too bad he listened to the likes of Tony Blinken, John McCain and Lindsey Graham but he should have known that he is just a pawn in their game. Putin offered him a deal. He should take it.
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November 2020, Vindman joined the staff of the national security blog Lawfare with a fellowship of the Pritzker Military Foundation.[40] Additionally, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in international affairs at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, with an expected completion date in 2022.[41] On August 1, 2020, Vindman authored an opinion piece in the Washington Post addressing his retirement.[42] On February 2, 2022, Vindman sued several Trump allies, alleging that they intimidated and retaliated against him while he testified in Congress, and thereby violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. The defendants in the lawsuit are Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, former White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, and former White House deputy communications director Julia Hahn.
President Biden apparently promoted his brother last year.
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I lost all sympathy for Zelensky when he called for NATO to impose a no-fly-zone over Ukraine. Then Ukraine 2022 can be like Serbia 1914, right? Too bad he listened to the likes of Tony Blinken, John McCain and Lindsey Graham but he should have known that he is just a pawn in their game. Putin offered him a deal. He should take it.
The only person on the planet who can ensure that Zelensky does the intelligent thing is the US president.
This mess could have been brought to a conclusion if Biden had told Littke Big Man Zelensky to live up to the Minsk deal.
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03/08/2022 13:41
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#36
Ordering other countries' leaders what to do. So... democratic.
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03/08/2022 13:42
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#37
Let's be honest. The louder a politician screeches about democracy, the less use they actually have for it.
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03/08/2022 13:44
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NFS, I'm looking forward to your comment on the article titled "So I will ask.." Cant miss it. Top of the page.
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That is EXACTLY what US leaders beginning with Eisenhower in the Suez Crisis of 1956 have done repeatedly and with success when dealing with leaders of other nations whose warmongering threatened American interests. Should we have intervened in Hungary that year and set off WWIII? Ike said He'll no. He also kept us out of Vietnam; it was his Democrat successors who dragged us into that mess.
Read Evan Thomas's excellent account, "Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World.”
Here's Evan Thomas recalling Ike's brilliance in 2013:
We think of Ike as a great military man, but as president he used his understanding of the military to rein it in.
Ike’s credo: true national security begins at home with a sound economy, shored up by a careful balance of resources and commitment.
How did Eisenhower do it? Once Ike extricated the United States from the Korean War in 1953, he managed to cut the defense budget over his two terms by about a quarter, from about 70% of the federal budget to 60%. (Today, defense is about 20% of federal spending.)
Aware from reading Clausewitz and his own experience that small wars have a way of becoming big wars, Eisenhower was determined to keep the United States out of any war. He resisted the temptation to send ground troops into Vietnam after the French military collapsed at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The jungle, he told his National Security Council, would “absorb our troops by divisions.”
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*Ike said Hell no.
Just imagine how much stronger, freer, safer and wealthier we would be today if we'd had Eisenhower-style anti-neocon presidents these last two decades.
#FuckNeocons
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#42
The US was at the top of the heap after WWII. We've basically let everyone else catch up since then. The notion of Joe Bidet telling anyone what to do is hilarious in a very black comedy way.
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#43
But, as I said, instead of sending used planes and pop guns to the Ukrainians, more strategic buildup here at home. If you're excited about the idea of an American president ordering the world around, imagine Trump making a handful of phone calls to say Stratcom will be making a demonstration of Prompt Global Strike in one hour, but keep your pants on.
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03/08/2022 14:14
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#44
^ Was funny. Very quickly has stopped being funny ... we are seriously sliding toward economic ruin, dictatorship, even civil war. Like living through a horror movie, all happening in front of our eyes in real time
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03/08/2022 14:16
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#45
So, we should thrash and panic. That always works out so well...
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03/08/2022 14:18
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If you're excited about the idea of an American president ordering the world around,
No, not the big powers that matter. Just the pipsqueaks like Duterte in the Philippines, Zelensky, AMLO in Mexico, Pinochet back in the day, etc -- that is, put them in their place when their behavior clashes with or threatens to harm American interests.
America First -- with due respect for China and other great powers who can hurt us if they choose. And now we are in a world of hurt because of this asinine policy of encouraging the Little Big Man in Kiev to poke the bear. Unbelievably stupid.
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03/08/2022 14:23
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#47
Zelensky has not threatened America at all. He has got his tit in a wringer and expects Uncle Sam to bail him out. Duterte, AMLO, even Yippie-Kay-Erdogan do not threaten the US and we don't need to move a paperclip at the Pentagon over them.
NFS, you need to hike up your pants. Your Hammer and Sickle boxers are showing while you jump up and down screeching about how concerned for America you are.
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#48
M.M.,
should thrash and panic
Ha, you're right - sorry if that seemed excitable. Insert 1970s Mennen After-Shave commercial here. "Thanks, I neede that (sarcasm)!"
But the truth is that these assholes really are destroying everything they can touch. I try not to be optimistic because reality has a way of sandbagging me when I am
Did you see that DeSantis met with Dr Malone and the Briwnst Be doctors the other day? I love that guy. But Biden's thugs are gonna go nuclear on Ron now. Fun times
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03/08/2022 14:33
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#49
*met with the Brownstone doctors
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03/08/2022 14:34
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#50
your Hammer and Sickle boxers are showing
🙄
Oh stop. FFS, just stop with that bullshit. I don't have anything against you.
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03/08/2022 14:37
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#51
Well, that was a great commercial. DeSantis is my governor. Not sure we are going to let the deep state put him through what Trump got. We can keep him until 2026 and then send him to the Senate.
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03/08/2022 14:40
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#52
Did you know that Coen Bros' fave John Goodman appeared in one of those "byyyyyyyy...Mennen" ads?
YouTube does have at least one redeeming quality
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#53
The debate continues:
Is Putin an unstable megalomaniac who will stop at nothing to restore the Soviet Union to its former glory?
Or does he have legitimate concerns about NATO troops on his border?
OK, Putin is a ruthless dictator and a murdering bastard. But how does he see us? Since the collapse of the Soviet Union he has watched NATO advance from one country to another until now it is on the brink of moving into Ukraine which was never an independent nation but was the bread basket of the Soviet Union and, before then, the Russian Empire. Who is the aggressor?
I studied some Russian history in college. I don't remember a lot of it but I was left with some impressions. They have always been isolated way out there in Moscow, so far from glamorous cities like London, Berlin, Vienna and Paris. So they have always been backward compared to the rest of Europe and so their armies have never performed as well as some of their European rivals. We're seeing that now in Ukraine. So they have always relied on keeping vast tracts of land, like Ukraine, between themselves and their enemies.
It's also kinda strange that all this somehow suddenly happens in the lead up to our mid-term elections in which Democrats feared they would suffer staggering losses due to their inept governance. They need a distraction. Then you have Republicans who are on the take from defense contractors. It's been kinda slow since Afghanistan.
Also most peculiar are all the media types on TV, the internet and the newspapers banging on their war drums for all they're worth. They don't know jack squat about Ukraine or Russia and yet they are eager to take sides because bad, bad Putin and brave, brave Zelensky. It stinks. Take a look at CBS News, even Fox News lately, and tell me you can't smell it. Why are we all in such a hurry to take sides in a war that we don't understand?
Wake me up when Putin attacks Poland.
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#54
I believe we should wait until Dr. Fauci issues the CDC guidelines on No Fly Zones.
#58
MM,
Got it. 😂 🤣
(And YES, my grandfather wore Old Spice!! As does his grandson. Can't whistle, though)
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03/08/2022 15:09
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#59
The Angiver (?) moron is definitely a NeoCon.
Dron-Ji was warned by friends about neocons here...
But point taken. This is a good crew. Am Fortunate to be here
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03/08/2022 15:11
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#60
I can't whistle either. One of those things....
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03/08/2022 15:15
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#61
Ok. As a young boy who had no idea what shaving was about, the Personna commercial with the electric arc enthralled me.
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03/08/2022 15:17
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#62
One of the cool older guys who ran with my brother's pack told us how he copped a feel with Bridget H_______, found out she was shaven down there, and hollered, "She's BALD! I've been ripped off royal!!"
Taught me worlds about gymnast girls' pubes and the declaratory use of 'royal' -- all during one sleepover anecdote.
But I was baffled by their use of "warm Coke." Still am.
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03/08/2022 15:23
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#63
*declamatory
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03/08/2022 15:24
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#64
Nothing ever as funny as Sergio Aragones' bearded clam margin cartoons in National Lampoon.
"Cream in your coffee?" says one clam.
"Not recently." replies the other.
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03/08/2022 15:36
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#65
"Boris" - fuck off
Yes, do fuck off, Boris(es). The script you all work from is old, well known, and busted. Ask your bosses for some new material. You all are not the first paid Russian trolls, below average in ability and won't be last. Pity, you all get paid by the byte and not the bite.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:22 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the settlements of Verkhnetoretskoe (southern) and Vasilievka in the DPR. The militants fired 110 mines with a caliber of 120 mm and 435 grenades from the AGS into the villages. 22:42 Eyewitnesses report the situation in the still occupied Severodonetsk in the LPR. There is no water, electricity and gas in the city, and shell explosions are constantly heard. However, the biggest problem lies with the Nazis: the militants are shooting civilians who are trying to evacuate from Severodonetsk.
22:23 As a result of hostilities in the DPR, 26 civilians were killed in 19 days, another 139 were injured, including 9 children - the DPR representative office in the JCCC.
22:00 According to preliminary information, the city of Mangush in the north-west of Mariupol came under the control of the People's Militia of the DPR and Russian troops.
21:52 Three civilians of the DPR were injured during the shelling of the liberated territory of the republic by the Ukrainian Nazis: two women born in 1958 and 1945, as well as a man born in 1853.
21:24 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR continue to approach Severodonetsk. They actively drive the Nazis out of the villages around the city and take them under their control.
21:17 Some eyewitnesses report that the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR entered the city of Popasnaya in the LPR. There is also information that many fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, originally from Lviv, have surrendered. They are already in the commandant's office of Pervomaisk, where they testify about their crimes.
19:45 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Molochny and the city of Pervomaisk in the LPR from the Grad MLRS, artillery and mortars. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
19:03 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR reached the border of the Zaporozhye region, according to the official representative of the NM of the republic, Eduard Basurin.
19:03 During the operation to liberate Donbass, the losses of Kiev militants only on the territory of the DPR amounted to 591 killed and 724 wounded.
18:48 Mariupol has already been completely encircled, and in some areas of the city, the Nazis are already being purged - the deputy commander of the Vostok battalion.
18:42 The air defense forces of the DPR shot down a Tochka-U operational-tactical missile over the Novyi Svet settlement.
18:41 As a result of shelling from the Ukrainian Nazis, a resident of Horlivka, born in 1991, was wounded.
18:37 Ukrainian nationalists in Mariupol are deploying firing points in houses with inscriptions "do not shoot - there are children!". This is a terrorist tactic - the Russian Ministry of Defense.
18:35 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR liberated the settlements of Kudryashovka, Voronovo, Metelkino, Medvezhye, Askoronovka, Petrovka, Aleksandrovka from the Nazis.
18:35 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR liberated the settlements of Latmoye, Berezovoe, Yasnoye, Maksimovka and Valeryanovka from the Nazis.
17:57 Ukrainian armed formations again fired at Horlivka. About 10 shells hit the village of Molochnoye. As a result of the shelling, a house was damaged at 18, Fruit Street, without any casualties. Now work is underway to search for possible damage and victims on the territory of the village. We find out the details - the mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko.
17:03 As a result of artillery fire from the Ukrainian Nazis, a resident of Pervomaisk in the LPR, born in 1946, died.
16:04 Ukrainian militants opened artillery fire on the Ferroalloy Plant in Stakhanov in the LPR. People managed to hide in a shelter. The company has temporarily stopped work.
15:54 The Putilovka microdistrict in the north of Donetsk is under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis. The militants also shelled Gorlovka. They fired two 120mm mines.
15:52 Fierce battles are going on right now on the outskirts of Mariupol. They are concentrated in the Vostochny microdistrict.
15:18 In the basement of an apartment building in the recently liberated Trekhizbenka in the LPR, they found the body of a man with signs of torture. The Nazis killed him on February 25 while trying to retreat.
15:11 The northern outskirts of Donetsk and the suburbs, as well as Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka, Mineralnoe, Vasylivka, other front-line areas and settlements are under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis. People are being urged to stay indoors.
15:05 Ukrainian Nazi strikes on Donetskbrokenschool. Only recently it was restored after the destruction received in 2014 and 2015, but now only ruins are left of it again.
15:05 Residents of Severodonetsk also report that the Nazis shoot civilians for trying to leave the city.
15:03 Residents of Rubizhne in the still occupied part of the LPR say that the city is being held hostage by the Kiev Nazis. It no longer has food, no water, and electricity and communications are only in fits and starts. Everyone who worked at the enterprises was given work books in their hands and sent home. It is impossible to leave the city: the militants pull people out of cars, take them out into the field and shoot them.
14:47 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR drove the Nazis out of the village of Kryakovka. Before the start of the war, people lived here, but in 2014 the militants drove the civilians out of their homes, and the settlement itself was turned into a military fortified area.
14:20 Ukrainian Nazis shelled the village of Ozeryanovka, which is located near Gorlovka in the DPR. The details of what happened are being specified.
14:10 The liberation of Mariupol from the Ukrainian Nazis will take place in the near future. The official representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, Eduard Basurin, announced the imminent start of an operation to clean up the city.
14:05 Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on Pervomaisk from positions in the still occupied Popasna. They use 122 mm artillery. 20 shells were fired into the city. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:55 Residents of the settlements of Zhitlovka and Popovka, still occupied by Kiev, near Kremennaya in the LPR, said that the Nazis were driving people out of their houses and equipping firing points in each of them.
13:50 Ukrainian Nazis continue to retreat and abandon their equipment. Near Severodonetsk, the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR captured several infantry fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The letter Z has already been applied to the cars.
13:33 Ukrainian punishers are shelling the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, as well as the villages of Trudovskie and Oleksandrivka from MLRS and artillery. All residents are urged to remain at the shelter.
13:31 Gorlovka in the DPR is again under fire from Kiev militants. They fired 40 rockets from the Grad MLRS into the city.
13:27 Ukrainian Nazis continue to shell the cities of Donbass, but the military notes that they are clearly saving shells. Their logistics is blocked and they have nowhere to wait for new deliveries.
13:23 The southwestern and western part of Gorlovka in the DPR is under intense fire from the Ukrainian Nazis.
13:20 The Kiev Nazis did not even let the employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross out of Mariupol. They tried to leave the city along the humanitarian corridor, but the militants did not let them through, saying that the road was allegedly mined by the People's Militia of the DPR and the Russian army.
13:16 Ukrainian Nazis are shelling the city of Popasnaya in the LPR, which is still under the occupation of Kyiv. They use the Grad MLRS. Cannonade is heard in Kirovsk and Alchevsk, as well as in Gorlovka in the neighboring DPR.
13:00 In the vicinity of Mariupol, the equipment of the People's Militia of the DPR is already moving.
12:48 Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on the village of Trudovskie on the outskirts of Donetsk. Artillery battles continue on the western front line. The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to hit them with Tochki-U, but they were shot down by the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR. Now the Gorlovka-Yasinovataya highway is temporarily closed.
12:40 Ukrainian saboteurs from the national battalions are operating on the territory of the LPR, who are trying to destabilize the situation in the republic. They are focused on inflicting maximum damage and intimidating the population - the head of the LNR Leonid Pasechnik.
12:35 Kiev militants fired at two settlements in the LPR - Nizhnee Lozovoe and Logvinovo. They used 152 mm artillery and anti-tank missile systems. Information about the victims is being specified.
12:23 The Nazis in Mariupol used one and a half hundred civilians as human shields. They opened fire from behind the backs of the civilian population, as a result of which four people were killed and five wounded.
12:17 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR have advanced six kilometers deep into the republic. They liberated the settlements of Smolyaninovo, Voevodovka, Kremennaya, Kudryashovka, Borovenki, Purdovka, Zamulovka from the Nazis.
12:10 The People's Militia of the DPR continues the operation to liberate Mariupol and Volnovakha from the Nazis. The militants place weapons in residential areas and fire from there, hiding behind civilians.
10:47 Over the past day, 14 settlements of the DPR were under fire from Ukrainian Nazis. They shelled the republic 30 times, using the Tochka-U tactical missile system, Grad rocket launchers, 152 and 122 mm artillery, as well as 120 and 82 mm mortars. Nine civilians were injured. Also, 36 residential buildings and 17 infrastructure facilities were damaged.
10:20 In the morning Ukrainian militants opened fire on Donetsk. The Kievsky district of the capital of the DPR again came under fire: the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired six shells with a caliber of 122 mm.
10:08 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR have already liberated 67 settlements from the Nazis. They also help the defenders of the DPR and have taken control of several settlements in the neighboring republic.
09:30 Elimination of a fire at an oil depot in Lugansk. Several containers are currently on fire.
08:12 For 18 days of hostilities, 26 civilians of the DPR were killed, another 133 were injured of varying severity, the JCCC reported
08:08 Employees of the Ministry of State Security of the LPR detained agents of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, who were preparing terrorist attacks on the territory of the LPR and the Russian Federation. They were taken while transporting weapons and ammunition. It is reported that they were previously members of the “Right Sector” banned in the Russian Federation (banned in the Russian Federation) and that it was they who committed sabotage at the Rovenky oil depot.Video.
8:00 In Lugansk, an oil depot caught fire. According to preliminary information, the reason for this was the strike by the nationalists from the Tochka-U tactical missile system. Additional information about civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure is being specified, an official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR said.
Fifteen soldiers have died in an Islamic State group attack on an army bus in the central Syrian desert, a war monitor said, as state media reported a "terrorist attack".
Despite the fall of IS's "caliphate" in 2019, the group continues to launch deadly attacks from hideouts in the Syrian desert, which extends from the outskirts of the capital Damascus to the Iraqi border.
IS cells "attacked a military bus" in the Palmyra desert, "killing 15 soldiers and wounding 18 others", the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
State news agency SANA had reported 13 dead "including officers" and 18 wounded in a "terrorist attack" on a military bus on Sunday afternoon.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of sources across the country, said the death toll could rise as most of the soldiers were "seriously wounded".
IS did not immediately claim responsibility for the attack.
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[REGNUM] Three settlements near the administrative border with the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine were taken under control by the military personnel of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This, according to the "Donetsk News Agency", said on March 7, the deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR, Eduard Basurin , to journalists.
"Units of the People’s Militia of the DPR reached the border of the Zaporozhye region and established control over the settlements of Azov, Rozovka and Mirnoye," he said.
As REGNUM reported , on March 7, the representative office of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported that the village of Molochny and Pervomaisk in the Donbass had been fired upon by Ukrainian security forces.
[AlAhram] La Belle France's army said Monday that its anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed Yahia Djouadi, a "big shot" of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) responsible for finance and logistics.
La Belle France's army said Monday that its anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed Yahia Djouadi, a "big shot" of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) responsible for finance and logistics.
Djouadi, an Algerian also known as Abu Ammar al-Jazairi, was killed overnight from February 25 to 26 around (160 kilometres (100 miles) north of Timbuktu in central Mali, the army said in a statement.
His death "once again weakens al-Qaeda's governance" in Mali, it added, calling him "a major link in northern Mali and especially the Timbuktu area" to the Qaeda-aligned GSIM group.
A former "emir" of al-Qaeda's Libyan operations, Djouadi fled to Mali in 2019 and settled in the Timbuktu region, helping organise the group and coordinating supplies, financing and logistics, the army said.
It added that he was killed by ground forces supported by a Tiger attack helicopter and two drones.
La Belle France is preparing to redeploy some 2,400 troops away from Mali to other countries in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... facing cross-border jihadist insurgencies, after falling out with the military junta in Bamako.
While the pullout is set to stretch over six months, the army said that "operations continue against armed terrorist groups, especially against the top leaders of al-Qaeda, GSIM and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara ...he succulent fruit of the union of splinter factions from Mokhtar Bekmokhtar'sal-Mourabitunes and MUJAO. Once the dust had settled and the smell of gunsmoke had dissipated, they became the Islamic State in Mali, then adopted their present clever name. They are headed by Adnan Abu Walid Saharaoui. It operates along the borders of 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... , Niger, and Mali... (ISGS) group."
French forces first intervened in Mali in 2013, but disputes between Gay Paree and Bamako since a 2020 coup have prompted the military government to turn to other allies like Russia's Wagner paramilitary group.
Even with international allies on the ground, the Malian state has struggled to reassert control of territory from the jihadist insurgency that began in the country's north in 2012 and has since spread to neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso.
The fighting has claimed thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
La Belle France has said forces from its Operation Barkhane contingent killed a senior regional al-Qaeda leader in an overnight raid near Timbuktu last week. Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... two UN peacekeepers have died in an explosive attack.
On Monday, two members of the UN's Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) force were killed in a roadside kaboom when the vehicle they were traveling in hit an improvised bomb.
"This morning, a supply convoy ... struck an improvised bomb north of Mopti," MINUSMA front man Olivier Salgado wrote on Twitter. Four other peacekeepers were maimed in the attack.
The nationalities of those killed and injured in the attack were not immediately released.
FUTURE OF UN PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN DOUBT
Western nations participating in the international mission have said the shifting situation on the ground may in fact compromise the 13,000-strong contingent, the annual mandate of which must be renewed this June. As with the French deployment to Mali, UN troops have been on the ground in the Sahel since 2013 in an effort to halt the advance of Islamic fighters who began seriously challenging governments and civilians in the region in 2012.
MINUSMA troops have been heavily dependent upon French air and medical support throughout their mission. La Belle France's withdrawal from Mali, as well as the recent coup, has caused contributing nations such as Germany, Sweden and Denmark to rethink their commitment to it.
[LegalInsurrection] Democrat election lawyer Mark Elias predicted Democrats would try to keep Republicans off ballots using J6 as an excuse, and a North Carolina activist group took up the call. But a federal judge rejected the attempt.
With unpopular policies that drive inflation, laser focus on socio-cultural destruction that only a tiny (but vocal) portion of their own party cares about, and a hugely unpopular president and vice president, Democrats are giving up on winning elections at the polls and have turned to, among other tactics, trying to use their ridiculous faux hysteria about J6 to disqualify Republicans from running for office.
North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn was targeted for such a move based on his speaking at a public event on January 6, 2021. The crazy left is attempting to argue that his giving a speech "amounted to an insurrection."
A judge just blocked this ridiculous attempt to block Cawthorn from running for office.
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A federal judge Friday blocked an effort to keep U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn off North Carolina ballot this year, saying the state’s election board can’t proceed with an inquiry that would have delved his role leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Chief District Court Judge Richard Myers said he couldn’t allow the challenge, filed by attorneys looking to label the first-term Republican as an insurrectionist who should be legally barred from the ballot, to move forward. The courts, Myers said, must protect the soapbox, the ballot box and the jury box.
"When those fail, that’s when people proceed to the ammunition box," said Myers, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... The next step remains unclear. The North Carolina State Board of Elections could appeal Myers’ decision, but the legal team representing the board declined to say whether the board will do so. An elections board front man said the board was reviewing the court’s decision, which came down a bit before 12:30 p.m.
The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... has more in their article, "Judge Blocks Effort to Disqualify Cawthorn from Ballot as ’Insurrectionist’: A district judge ruled that the Amnesty Act of 1872, which forgave confederates, overruled a clause in the 14th Amendment barring ’insurrectionists’ from Congress."
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One of the biggest mistakes the "right" ever made in this country was to back off of actively confronting people advocating communism (and "socialism" among those who wished to pretend they were kinder than communists).
Had we continued to pummel their ridiculous economic theories, we wouldn't be where we are today. Instead of continuing to confront they're nonsense, we were collectively "nice".
As a result, we're now at the point where the left can argue that we should cease the use of fossil fuels and replace them with the power of unicorn farts and its considered "rude" to argue that the people advocating such nonsense are intellectually stupid and insane.
The push to allow all sorts of madness to be given "equal footing" without pushback has lead us to the place where economic fraud, election fraud and legal fraud are treated as if they were all just "differences of opinion".
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One of the biggest mistakes the "right" ever made in this country was to back off of actively confronting people advocating communism
The the Wall came down there should have been a reckoning. Period.
As for the Bolsheviks who've taken over the former Donk party, they need to be reminded of the three boxes. Soap box, ballot box, ammo box. Look at the Ukrainian citizens are doing to the Russian Army. You are demoralizing the one we had that was somewhat tactically effective and placing 'politically correct' rather than effective people in charge. That is what you are going to send against Americans? Cause your virtual world is going to change real quick.
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It's "foot in the door." The same people screeching about any efforts to de-certify the 2020 election will be having spontaneous orgasms if they judge shop this into a friendly court say halfway through Cawthorn's next term.
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...I believe SCOTUS Roberts established a precedent when he told Trump that his appeal was 'overcome by events'. Of course, our imperial judiciary has a habit of flip flopping depending upon the applicant.
[The Hill] Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over the weekend ordered more U.S. troops and military equipment sent to Europe as Russia presses its attack on Ukraine, a senior defense official said Monday.
Austin ordered roughly 500 additional troops to Poland, Romania and Germany "to respond to the current security environment in light of Russia's renewed aggression against Ukraine" and to bolster NATO’s eastern flank, the official told reporters.
They stressed President Biden's assertion that no American troops will be sent to Ukraine and that the additional forces are "enablers" going to NATO allies "to shore up capabilities that are already there."
As part of the new deployment, KC-135 refueling aircraft will be sent to Greece, though it was unclear how many aircraft would be sent or where they would come from.
Additionally, an air support operation center will be deployed to Poland and Romania, and an ordinance company and a maintenance company will be sent to Germany for "additional logistic support to the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division" already deployed there, the official said.
They could not provide a breakdown of how many troops will go where and would not rule out more forces being sent later.
The U.S. military now has about 100,000 personnel stationed in Europe on either a rotational or a permanent basis as Russia’s violent incursion into Ukraine comes up on its two-week mark.
We have no business there in even the best of times.
Now we're facing crisis after crisis at home. Our economy is collapsing and Democrats on the 1/6 Committee are about to call for Trump's arrest on charges of "sedition."
Why the FUCK are we doing this?
Is it to distract us from the fires engulfing us at home? If so, then we need to get rid of these seditious lunatics in Washington -- by whatever means available
(Bloomberg) -- As equity markets sink around the world, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Inc. strategists say a perfect storm looks to be gathering.
“Downside risk remains most acute over the next 6-8 weeks,” Morgan Stanley’s Michael Wilson wrote in a note to clients. “We are firmly in the grasp of a bear market that is incomplete in both time and price.”
Separately, Citi strategists led by Jamie Fahy said a global gauge tracking analyst estimates on corporate profits has turned negative for the first time since September 2020. This is a potential “game-changer,” eroding their conviction on the prospects of risk assets, they wrote.
Earnings delivery is “paramount” at a time when liquidity is being sucked out by central banks across the world, the Citi strategists said.
Fear: economies are heading to a stagflationary shock. Several major benchmark gauges across Europe have dropped more than 20% from their recent highs, while the S&P 500 is hovering around a 10% correction. With gas and oil prices soaring, Citi and Morgan Stanley strategists say “demand destruction” may now be unavoidable. Optimists are wavering: "Any relief should be sold,” said Wilson.
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Everything happening at home is engineered, and could be quickly reversed, as The Donald demonstrated in 2017.
Which means none of those things are crises at all. Take control of both Houses of Congress away from the Democrats in November — preferentially with veto-proof majorities — and keep a close watch on our Republican congresscritters to ensure they don’t get overexcited about spending, and we’ll be at least ok within six months to a year.
Shit is so fake that the minute an outsider took office we got cheap gas, cheap food, became energy independent, no wars and focused on our country’s own issues.
Establishment hacks get back in and we have inflation, medical tyranny, world war 3, need to take a mortgage for gas.
ordered more U.S. troops and military equipment sent to Europe
Which begs the question; who profits most from this sort of ineffective force projection? Sending millions of dollars of equipment, deploying expensive hardware hastily contracted for contingents, then... usually, leaving it there.
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Additionally, an air support operation center will be deployed to Poland and Romania, and an ordinance company and a maintenance company will be sent to Germany for "additional logistic support to the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division" already deployed there, the official said.
Residents of #Syria’s Afrin and other areas are arbitrary arrested by Turkish-backed opposition factions for ransoms or for pushing them to leave their areas.https://t.co/qQKUu3T0Be
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ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – The Turkish-backed Levant Front faction arrested on Monday evening a resident of the village of Kafr Jannah in Sharan district in the countryside of Afrin, north of Aleppo.
“Aref Hamdoush, a resident of the village of Kafr Jannah, was arrested by members of the Levant Front on charges of collaborating with the Autonomous Administration previously,” a special source told North Press.
“Hamdoush was arrested at al- Shatt checkpoint at the entrance to the city of Azaz while going to the city. He was taken to one of the to the faction’s security points of the faction and his fate is still unknown,” the source added.
The area, according to human rights reports, has been witnessing systematic arrest campaigns against the residents with the aim of taking money and pushing them leave their areas.
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[CNBC] 2nd in command of Russian 41st Army is getting to be as hazardous as 3rd in command of Al Qaeda.
Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency claimed that Russian Army Major General Vitaly Gerasimov was killed, and other senior Russian Army officers "were also killed or wounded" near Kharkiv.
Gerasimov was identified by the intelligence agency as the chief of staff and first deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army.
The agency claimed that data obtained related to his death "show significant problems with communication" in Russia’s army, "and with the evacuation of their defeated units."
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week confirmed the death of another army general, Andrei Sukhovetsky.
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They know they killed him because their comms were not up to the job of calling back to base so they used a cell phone to call his boss. Remember the Ukrainian hackers got the cellular phone numbers and other info for every single Russian in the Russian military. Ukraine even published both phone numbers (caller and callee) who were involve in the death report and the time and duration of the call.
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Ike.
Who when president successfully avoided letting the US get dragged into stupid wars over first Hungary and then Britain and France's Suez fiasco. Which led to the collapse of their empires within just 4 years.
Now we're the shitheads who are destroying our own empire. Hard to believe our own idiots are not trying to bring America down. No pro-American leader could be so fucking stupid
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We were never supposed to have an empire. After WW II, we tried to redirect to shiny cars, bbq grilles, tract housing and Marilyn Monroe. But some people in various places didn't relate.
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What sort of arms race would there have been if we weren't worried about the commie bomb?
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OK, Schwarzkopf, 31 years ago. I'm not saying it's a bad thing if you have no generals who have won a war...only if you have as many wars as we have had.
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My original question was "Last American general to die on the front lines." It's almost like the thread was immediately and purposely mis-directed.
As good as the discussions are here, that does happen sometimes.
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M.M.,
Major General Keith Ware in 'Nam.
Maj. Gen. Ware commanded the 1st Infantry Division and was killed in action on Sept. 13, 1968 during the Battle of Loc Ninh
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It would be a shame if they assassinated one of the inept ones that got their armored columns stuck.
[IsraelTimes] Two coppers were moderately hurt in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday evening, police and medics said.
In a statement, police said an assailant attacked the two officers near an entrance to the Temple Mount, and they responded with gunfire.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the two men in their 20s were treated at the scene and then taken to the Shaare Zedek and Hadassah Mount Scopus hospitals in the city.
The alleged Paleostinian assailant died of his wounds after being shot, a police spokesperson confirmed to The Times of Israel.
Meanwhile, back home in Russia: an answer to the claim made here yesterday evening in comments that The people of Russia wouldn't support this evil invasion if they knew reality. An interesting thread — worth scrolling down. I’d love our Russian visitors to share their thoughts about it all.
Let's discuss what's happening in Russia. To put it simply, it's going full fascist. Authorities launched a propaganda campaign to gain popular support for their invasion of Ukraine and they're getting lots of it. You can see "Z" on these guys' clothes. What does it mean? 🧵 pic.twitter.com/F2zjcpJCDZ
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We should never listen to prisoners. They are under a real unique set of stressors. All the John Wayne, I'll die before talking bullshit, is just that and people react, its never good. He is being exploited and used. This should not happen and don't believe a word of it.
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I'm trying to recall here. Was the Tom Clancy book to movie modified to change the villains from Muslim terrorist to nationalist Russian oligarchs setting off a nuke device? Wasn't it a Call of Duty game that starts a world war done by a nationalist Russian oligarch?
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Authorities launched a propaganda campaign to gain popular support for their invasion of Ukraine and they're getting lots of it.
Yeah, try watching CBS these days.
The bullcrap is flying so thick from all sides it'll take a hundred years to uncover the truth.
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This is why COVID was shoved aside. They will soon need to be rounding up people who don't think the US should go to war.
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I have not watched the video, but the title alone makes it suspect in that it primes the viewer for a certain conclusion as to the authenticity. Maybe I'm just cynical from too much Hollywood Mainstream Media, but as badanov said the other day, no one is wearing angel wings here.
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They will soon need to be rounding up people who don't think the US should go to war.
It's starting. First step: social media giants flagging users as "spreading pro-Russian" views. Second step: College kids are now reporting they're afraid to say anything that in any way goes against the War Party's narratives.
Next will be forced participation in employers' virtue-signaling theatrics. And then the FBI cracking down on dissent. Think of Woodrow Wilson and the Palmer Raids -- with all the coercive power and surveillance capabilities of the modern digital police state
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Classic gummint propaganda: Anti this means pro that. Ayn Rand called it "package dealing."
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Does Geneva Convention allow for pows to be used as such?
Didn't read the small print? - Only applies to the United States
Not to be confused with those who 'make it up' when playing the denounce America game. Can you please cite the part of the Conventions you make your claim on?
[IsraelTimes] Military officials see rising trend of Iranian drone activity in recent years, as Tehran aims to supply affiliate groups with thousands of aircraft
As officials in recent days have said a potential nuclear deal between Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and world powers may be in the offing, the Israeli military on Monday published fresh allegations regarding Tehran’s drone program, including new footage of Israeli planes downing several Iranian unmanned aircraft.
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 7, 2022
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, unknown individuals targeted a military vehicle of the Syrian government forces with an IED in the eastern countryside of Daraa, southern Syria.
A military vehicle affiliated with the Brigade 52 of the government forces was targeted with an IED planted by unknown persons on the road between al-Hirak and Soura towns, east of Daraa, an eyewitness said.
The vehicle was delivering food to the military points of the government forces in the area, and 5 members were in, the eyewitness added.
The targeting did not result in human casualties, according to the eyewitness.
Assassinations dominate the scene in Syria’s southern governorate of Daraa, most of which are filed against unknown persons and they target former members of the opposition factions and those who have been subject to settlement agreements.
Despite the entire control of the Syrian government on Daraa and the reconciliation it made with the residents, the governorate witnesses unrest and security chaos where arrests, assassinations, and killings have sharply increased.
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DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, several government forces’ members were killed and wounded in a missile attack carried out by unknown on a military point of the government forces in the town of eastern Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
“Unidentified gunmen targeted a military point of the Fourth Division of the government forces at the western entrance to the town,” a military source from the government forces, in the town of Boqrus, 10 km east of Deir ez-Zor, told North Press.
“The attack resulted in the killing of two members of the city of Homs in east of Syria, and the injury of three members with mild injuries. They were taken to al-Assad Hospital in the center of Deir ez-Zor, and they are in good condition, according to a doctor in the hospital.
The Badia regions and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor are a source of concern for the Iranian-backed factions and the government forces, as they witness operations by ISIS cells where the government forces and Iranian factions sustained heaves loses, despite the intensive security campaigns to comb the area.
On Sunday, 13 government forces’ soldiers were killed and 18 others were wounded in the Palmyra desert, in an attack by gunmen on a bus they were traveling in.
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[Defense News] The first B-21 Raider bomber has entered the ground test phase, paving the way for its expected rollout this year and subsequent first flight.
Northrop Grumman now has six of the stealthy, next-generation aircraft in various stages of production, Darlene Costello, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, said in a Friday roundtable with reporters at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida.
Tom Jones, Northrop’s Aeronautics Systems president, also confirmed in a statement that the first Raider is now undergoing ground tests.
Costello said that with the start of testing on that B-21, "we are on track for first flight [and] we’re holding to our schedule." She would not go into further detail on plans for the B-21.
In another roundtable with reporters at the conference, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said he’s satisfied with the B-21′s progress so far.
"At least at this stage of the game, the B-21′s moving forward really well," Kendall said.
During the ground test phase at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, where Northrop is building the B-21, testers will turn the B-21′s power on, test its subsystems, test its structural integrity, and apply coatings and paint.
The next step will involve getting the B-21 ready for flight. This includes carrying out engine runs as well as low-speed and then high-speed taxiing.
After that, the actual first flight from Plant 42 to Edwards Air Force Base in California will take place. Formal flight testing will be held at Edwards.
[AlAhram] Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels launched at least one missile into the busy waters of Red Sea over the weekend, the US Navy said Monday, raising the risks of their fire striking one of the many commercial vessels using a waterway crucial to global shipping.
The Red Sea connects into the Suez Canal, which sends cargo and energy shipments from the wider Mideast onto Europe. Since seizing Yemen's capital in September 2014, the Houthis have launched missiles, deployed bomb-laden drone boats and released mines into the Red Sea.
The missile fire took place Saturday in the Red Sea, the Navy said.
``Although maritime traffic was not impacted in this instance, these actions are destabilizing and present a danger to all vessels transiting a critical international waterway,'' said Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a front man for the Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet.
Spokesmen for the Iranian-backed Houthis did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... , which has led a coalition battling the Houthis since March 2015 and has a coastline stretching some 1,760 kilometers (1,100 miles) along the Red Sea, also did not respond to requests for comment.
Houthi missile fire in the Red Sea has come near an American warship before. In October 2016, the US Navy said the USS Mason came under fire from two missiles launched out of Yemen. Neither reached the warship, though the US retaliated with Tomahawk cruise missile strikes on three coastal radar sites in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen's Red Sea coast.
The week before, the Emirati vessel SWIFT-1 came under Houthi missile attack. The Emirati government asserted the SWIFT-1 at the time carried humanitarian aid; UN experts later said of the claim that they were ``unconvinced of its veracity.'' The vessel had been sailing back and forth in the Red Sea between an Emirati troop base in Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and Yemen.
In April 2021, an Iranian fat merchantman that is said to serve as a floating base for Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces came under attack in the Red Sea likely part of a wider shadow war between Israel and Tehran.
More recently in January, the Houthis seized the Emirati-flagged ship Rwabee in the Red Sea off Yemen. The Saudi-led coalition asserted the ship carried medical equipment from a dismantled Saudi field hospital. The Houthis released video showing military-style inflatable rafts, trucks and other vehicles on the vessel, as well as rifles.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 7, 2022
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, the US-led Global Coalition forces to Defeat ISIS stressed their continued support for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria, which continue to defend the region.
“We remain committed to support our SDF partners as they continue to defend NE Syria,” Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTFOIR) posted on its Facebook.
“SDF are working towards maintaining stability, protecting the people of NE Syria, and acting to provide a feeling of security and safety,” the CJTFOIR added.
The Global Coalition forces proved their close partnership with the SDF through the direct intervention in the air and on the ground during the ISIS attacks and jailbreak on al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah, northeast Syria.
The SDF, with the support of the Coalition, managed to regain control over the prison on January 25.
Meanwhile, the Global Coalition forces brought huge military reinforcements to their bases in northeastern Syria, including Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
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[Insider] James Stavridis, a former NATO supreme allied commander, said on Sunday that President Vladimir Putin "may be the best thing that ever happened" to NATO, explaining that the Russian leader's invasion of Ukraine had prompted the West to bolster its defenses.
In an interview with MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart, Stavridis, who served as a NATO commander from 2009 to 2013, cited Germany's boost in defense spending, announced days after Putin declared an assault on Ukraine.
"I spent four years as supreme allied commander of NATO. At every conference, every meeting of high-level NATO officials, I would find my way to Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and the minister of defense, Ursula von der Leyen," Stavridis said. "And I would say to them, 'You've got to raise your defense spending.' And I got nowhere in four years.
Predating President Trump, one notes, but saying the same thing.
"In 48 hours, Vladimir Putin has inspired the Germans to effectively nearly double their defense budget — a smart move on the part of Germans," Stavridis continued.
"Vladimir Putin may be the best thing that ever happened to the NATO alliance," he told Capehart.
Germany, Europe's largest economy, announced on February 27 that it would create a special one-off fund of 100 billion euros for military spending. Chancellor Olaf Scholz also said the country's year-on-year defense budget moving forward would be more than 2% of its GDP, reversing a recent decline in military spending.
Scholz said the extra funds were to bolster Germany's own security and to fulfill its NATO obligations.
Stavridis told The New York Times on Friday that the established global system was like a battered car that "could use a good tuneup."
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"Vladimir Putin may be the best thing that ever happened to the NATO alliancemy post-retirement earnings prospects," he told BLM / Alphabet Wokesters and anti-Trump conspiracy-monger Capehart.
[IsraelTimes] 3 men, 1 minor charged with throwing Molotov cocktails at residence of Tal Yushuvayev, sparking festivities in contentious East Jerusalem neighborhood
Prosecutors on Monday indicted four Paleostinians from East Jerusalem, including a minor, for the alleged Molotov cocktailing of a Jewish home in Sheikh Jarrah last month.
The Jerusalem District Prosecutor’s Office requested that the group be kept in jug until the end of the legal proceedings against them.
The suspects were arrested in the days following the attack on Tal Yushuvayev’s home, which sparked festivities in the flashpoint neighborhood after far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir opened a makeshift office at the scene.
According to the indictment, Mu’taz Haj Mahmoud, Balal Jabari, Jamal Husseini and an unnamed minor prepared Molotov cocktails and threw them at Yushuvayev’s residence.
No injuries were reported in the fire. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the house was badly damaged and police said an officer was lightly hurt from smoke inhalation after entering the home.
The indictment further alleges that the four were involved in additional arson attempts in the months preceding the incident.
In November, according to the indictment, the three tried to set fire to the same house, and in December, two of them set fire to and totally burned the Yushuvayev family’s vehicle.
In addition, in January, one of the defendants, along with another person, threw Molotov cocktails at the Yushuvayev family home, causing damage to property.
According to the indictment, they also took part in festivities in the neighborhood, during which they threw stones at Jews and fireworks at security forces.
The defendants are charged with a range of offenses, including arson, racially motivated malicious harm, terrorism, aggravated sabotage, using weapons for terroristic purposes, and attempted assault on a police officer.
Today was relatively calm. Neither side gained a new ground. Russian forces are regrouping and preparing for a new phase of ground offensive.
Note: I decided to change frontlines and areas to respect more Ukrainian territory layout. It’s hopefully for the better.
Kyiv Oblast: Russian forces continue to amass near Irpin, Chechen units arrived to the area as well. The time of attack on Kyiv is approaching.
Zhytomyr Oblast: A Russian missile hit an oil depot near Zhytomyr and caused severe damage to the area.
NORTHERN FRONTLINE
includes Chernhiv and Sumy Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast: Ukrainian Territorial Defense units ambushed two Russian logistical convoys near Chernihiv and destroyed all vehicles. This causes more problems for Russian units roaming around the region. Ukrainian forces prepare for possible upcoming offensive to besiege the city of Chernihiv.
Sumy Oblast: There are still some roaming Russian elements in the south of Sumy, but there is no visual proof to geolocate them. There are sights of upcoming offensive to besiege the city of Sumy.
SLOBODA FRONTLINE
includes Kharkiv and Luhansk Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast: Russian forces are regrouping near Kharkiv and continue to shell the city. There are some roaming elements in the south, but we have no information regarding their location.
Luhansk Oblast: Russian forces are reportedly moving towards Slovyansk from Svatove. The enemy also tried to break Ukrainian defense lines near Sievierodonetsk, but wasn’t successful.
PRYAZOVIA FRONTLINE
includes Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Donetsk Oblast: The report of yesterday’s counter-attack of Ukrainian forces near Mariupol was confirmed. The Ukrainian Azov Regiment destroyed several Russian vehicles and captured at least three T-72B3 tanks and one T-64BV tank.
Zaporizhzhia Oblast: Russian forces amassing its forces in direction of Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian forces are preparing defenses to repel any attack on the regional capital.
SOUTHERN FRONTLINE
includes Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa Oblast
Nothing about events in Odesa at the link.
Mykolaiv Oblast: Russian Forces continue to attack Mykolaiv airport, but so far without a success. The main force meanwhile continues to move north towards Voznesensk.
Kherson Oblast: Ukrainian artillery (or some say Special Forces) attacked Kherson airfield and destroyed several Russian helicopters stationed there. However, there has been no visual proof so far, only the reports of explosions from that area. See the respective maps at the link
[Ukrinform] Ukrainian troops destroyed more than three dozen enemy helicopters in Kherson region last night.
The Marine Command reported this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.
"At night, Ukrainian soldiers shelled the Chornobaivka airfield near Kherson. The occupiers decided to partially deploy their fleet there. Thirty enemy helicopters were destroyed, as well as manpower and equipment," the statement said.
Over the past day, on approaches to Mykolaiv, three enemy convoys were destroyed, the Ukrainian defenders seized trophies, a large number of ammunition, wheeled equipment, and seven D-20 howitzers.
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Don't know if 30 is true or even if it can be verified. Other sites also report an arty strike on the Kherson airfield and multiple helos destroyed. Only time will tell.
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The following claims 49 helos destroyed. The accompanying sat photo shows what looks like helos on the left and a few on the right. The middle is unrecognizable but could be destroyed aircraft.
49Pan, you may to better able to interpret the image.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Makhachkala gave a local resident a two-year suspended sentence, finding him guilty of participating in a religious extremist organization, the Dagestan FSB reported.
Here’s hoping they can keep track of him going forward, against his next big adventure.
The court and the investigation established that the native of Makhachkala was a member of a cell of the At-Takfir Val-Hijra religious extremist organization banned by the court in Dagestan, took part in the meetings of its adherents and called for the overthrow of the constitutional order in Russia.
The At Takfir wal Hijra movement has existed since 1971. Its leader was the Upper Egyptian agronomist Shukri Mustafa (1942-1978).
Originally Muslim Brotherhood, he joined Sayyid Qutb in splitting off to pursue violent jihad. After Shukri Mustafa was executed, the group split again, the more moderate faction following Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who subsequently became Al Qaeda’s second in command. Takfir wal Hijra has cells all over the place — Ukraine reported arresting three Crimean turbans in 2009, and a larger cell was tied up in Moscow in 2013.
The creators of the movement came to the conclusion that the Egyptian society no longer corresponds to Islam, so in 1973 the Takfirists left for the sparsely populated foothill regions of Egypt.
In 1976, the size of the group (they called themselves Jamaat al-muslimin - "community of Muslims", considering the rest infidels) was several thousand people. In 1977, members of the movement took hostage the former Minister for Religious Affairs of the Egyptian government, Muhammad al-Dhahabi. Shukri Mustafa was arrested in 1977 and executed in 1978, RIA Novosti informs. The activity of the international religious association "At Takfir wal-Hijra" (Atonement and Exodus) is prohibited in Russia decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of September 15, 2010.
Smart move, Russia.
The Leninsky District Court of Makhachkala found him guilty of participating in a religious extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), RIA "Dagestan" cited a message from the press service of the FSB for the republic today.
"The court sentenced him to a two-year suspended sentence with a one-year probationary period," the agency said.
Note that the maximum penalty under this article is six years in prison.
The verdict has already entered into force, the report says.
The "Caucasian Knot" does not yet have any comments from the local resident or his representatives regarding the decision of the court.
[METRO] Russians ‘to be disconnected from global internet from Friday’
An unverified tweet has been making waves, claiming the country will remove itself from the international online community on March 11.
A post from Belarus-based media outfit Nexta, has made the claim, suggesting that all companies wanting to keep an online presence there will need to shift to domestic servers.
‘Russia began active preparations for disconnection from the global Internet,’ the tweet reads.
‘No later than March 11, all servers and domains must be transferred to the Russian zone. In addition, detailed data on the network infrastructure of the sites is being collected.’
#Russia began active preparations for disconnection from the global InternetNo later than March 11, all servers and domains must be transferred to the #Russian zone. In addition, detailed data on the network infrastructure of the sites is being collected. pic.twitter.com/wOCdRqOJej— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 6, 2022
The claim has made the rounds on social media, with another account claiming it is in preparation for cyber attacks against the US.
‘Russia will disconnect from external internet starting March 11,’ posted an unverified Twitter user with the username Black Swan.
‘All companies in Russia are required to get on a ‘.ru. address and Russian domestic server. Business have 5 days to comply. Cyber attacks on US inbound…’
BREAKING: RUSSIA WILL DISCONNECT FROM EXTERNAL INTERNET STARTING MARCH 11. ALL COMPANIES IN RUSSIA ARE REQUIRED TO GET ON A “.RU” ADDRESS AND RUSSIAN DOMESTIC SERVER. BUSINESS HAVE 5 DAYS TO COMPLY. Cyber attacks on US inbound…— Black Swan (@RetirementRight) March 7, 2022
Is it likely to happen? As ever, the answer is murky.
A report by the Russian daily Kommersant seems to contradict the claim, saying the Ministry of Digital Development has denied a government move to block Russian access to the internet.
So while Putin could have called to block Russia from the web, it may not come to pass.
Kommersant said that the ‘order’ is now only limited to the government websites and has been taken to prepare the country’s internet infrastructure against any external disconnection and cyber threats.
‘We are preparing for various scenarios to ensure that Russian resources are available to citizens,’ the Ministry said [translated from Russian].
‘The telegram for government agencies outlines a set of simple cyber hygiene recommendations that will help to organize work more effectively to protect our resources from malicious traffic, keep services running and control over domain names,’
Whether or not the March 11 claim is true, it’s well known in tech circles that Russia has been working on its own internal internet for several years.
In 2018, the country brought in the Digital Economy National Program which aims to protect the country’s online infrastructure even if other countries were able to cut it off.
Then, a year later in 2019, Russia’s Ministry of Communications announced it successfully tested a countrywide alternative to the internet.
The government said that regular Russian browsers didn’t notice any changes to their typical web usage while the domestic web was in place.
‘Sadly, the Russian direction of travel is just another step in the increasing breaking-up of the internet,’ Prof Alan Woodward, a computer scientist at the University of Surrey, told the BBC at the time.
‘Increasingly, authoritarian countries which want to control what citizens see are looking at what Iran and China have already done.’
‘It means people will not have access to dialogue about what is going on in their own country, they will be kept within their own bubble.’
‘The calls to increase pressure on our country being made in the West oblige us to think about additional ways to protect Russian sovereignty in cyberspace,’ said Leonid Levin, the chairman of a Russian committee on information technology, also in 2019.
Russia adopted legislation, known as the ‘sovereign internet’ law, in late 2019 that seeks to shield the country from being cut off from foreign infrastructure, in answer to what Russia called the ‘aggressive nature’ of the United States’ national cyber security strategy.
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I'd read long ago that Russia/Iran/North Korea and others were working on their own alternate internet, one they could police and censor. I wonder if anything ever became of that.
No fewer than 26 people have reportedly been killed and many others injured by suspected armed herders at Tor-Damisa community in the Donga Local Government Area of Taraba State.
It was learnt that the people killed in the attack included children and women.
According to Punch, the attack, which happened in the early hours of Monday, has left hundreds of houses burnt while properties worth millions of naira were also destroyed.
The attack was said to be a reprisal attack after a Fulani man in the area was allegedly shot in the leg by a suspected Tiv farmer, who is currently receiving treatment and in police custody.
The village head of the community, Zaki Ugondo Uma, who said that more bodies were still being recovered, explained that there was a little misunderstanding between Fulani herders and some Tiv farmers in the community and that he made frantic efforts with the Fulani leaders to restore normalcy.
He said, "Some farmers had an issue with Fulani herders, but we reached a truce and they assured us of peace. I am taken aback as we woke up this morning to witness a massive attack on our community affecting over 15 villages.
"As I am talking, we are yet to recover all bodies, but more than 26 corpses have been recovered. We are in a situation of despair as we don’t know if the attack will continue.
"I am calling on the state to provide security and as well intervene with relied materials for thousands that have been rendered homeless," Uma added.
Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, Taraba State Command, ASP Usman Abubakar, noted that the command was aware of the incident but was yet to ascertain the cause of the crisis and the number of casualties.
[Dawn] The head of Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church on Monday urged the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... to investigate the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, calling the massacre a "political plot".
The original events transpired before our eyes here. The miscreants were associated with two ISIS-associated groups: National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) (also spelt Sri Lanka Thawheed Jamaat, Tawheed Jamaath and Thowfeek Jamaath), which had not only pledged allegiance, but had gotten training from ISIS experts, and Jamathei Millathu Ibrahim (JMI).
In an address to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith demanded a mechanism to probe the attacks, which have been blamed on local Islamic radicals.
"The first impression of this massacre was that it was purely the work of a few Islamic krazed killers," Ranjith said. "However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... subsequent investigations indicate that this massacre was part of a grand political plot."
The Church has previously suggested that the attacks, which targeted three churches and three hotels in Colombo in April 2019, helped Gotabaya Rajapaksa win the presidential elections in November the same year.
The government has not responded to the Church’s accusations.
Ranjith, who initially supported Rajapaksa’s election as president, said there were attempts by the government "to harass and intimidate those who clamour for justice".
Catholic priests have been summoned and questioned at length by the Criminal Investigations Department over statements critical of the slow progress in investigations. "Nearly three years after the horrendous crime, we are still in the dark as to what really happened on that Easter Sunday," the cardinal said.
His address to the UN Council came a week after meeting with the pope.
Sri Lanka is on the agenda of the UN’s top rights body at the moment for a separate reason.
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Bastards. Srilanka security forces have been hard on both islamics and Catholics and their camraderie has not gone unnoticed in the island nation. The politicians have acquired strong local support against the islamic organization ACJU, and there are cases of land grabbing and encroachment on the catholic diocese already, so first they conspire together to trick the laity into 'forgiving the muslims', then they ask for this. The UN, that prized litigator for islamics around the world. Who are they going to probe, the UN? Survivors who saw the islamic blow himself up? The police, who picked up the pieces? The islamics themselves who'll say the man was either a saint or a mentally unstable person? Is a UN investigation any more credible than a nation's own investigative agency's?
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has killed several militants of the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) with airstrikes from two of the newly acquired A-29 Super Tucano Jets in Borno State.
It was gathered that the NAF component of Operation Hadin Kai launched a series of attacks on Monday at the terrorists’ hideout in Dooma village, Kaga Local Government Area.
The operation was conducted around noon after Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions, revealed the location of the ISWAP members.
The ground assessment from the spots of the air interdiction indicated that scores of the terrorists were killed in the process.
Since the death of JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.
In 2021, it appointed Wali Sani Shuwaram, a 45-year-old as the new Leader (Wali) of ISWAP in Lake Chad.
The sect’s membership has swollen with the defection of hundreds of Boko Haram fighters under Shekau.
The terror group has caused over 100,000 deaths and displaced millions of individuals mainly in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 00:48 Residents of the Vinogradar residential area near Kiev said that Ukrainian militants had deployed MLRS in the area of the Retroville shopping center and Varshavsky Plus residential complex. Thus, the Nazis fire, hiding behind the civilian population.
23:56 From 10 am on March 8, Russia announces a “silence regime” so that civilians can leave Kharkov, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol.
23:55 More than 2 million people have turned to the Russian Armed Forces with a request to evacuate from Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
23:00 Kyiv began to legalize the presence of foreign mercenaries from PMCs in the conflict zone, writes Telegram-channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya." The first photos of foreign mercenaries from all over the world appeared from the Ukrainian capital - the USA, Great Britain, Sweden, Lithuania, India, and even a few Mexicans. The Ukrainian authorities pass off the new arrivals as volunteers, who, apparently, will also be voluntarily given a payment for participating in the battles against the Russian army.
22:50 The mayor and some deputies of the Berdyansk City Council announced a possible shutdown of mobile communications on Tuesday, March 8,writes"Southern bridgehead". The authors of the Telegram channel note that local residents are beginning to understand that the true culprits of the communal problems that have rained down on the city in the past few days are officials trying to cling to power.
22:34 To the north of Zhytomyr in Chernyakhiv, an oil depot is on fire as a result of two air strikes. There is every reason to believe that gasoline and diesel fuel for the military needs of the Ukrainian Nazis will run out much earlier than they think in Kyiv, writes the Telegram channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya".
22:25 Russia has information about an impending provocation against the gas transportation system of Ukraine: it is dangerous and Moscow is not interested in this, said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.
22:13 On the afternoon of March 7, Berdyansk stopped receiving gas to houses and boiler houses, informs "Southern bridgehead." According to unconfirmed reports, gas supply was cut off as a result of the explosion of the gas pipeline between Berdyansk and Mariupol. Due to the cold weather, the apartments and housing construction of the Berdyansk people are cooling down quickly. Tomorrow, the problem of cooking in houses with gas stoves will also become relevant.
22:11 The cruise missile of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Caliber" struck the place of basing of the 79th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the governor of the Nikolaev region Vitaly Kim said.
22:00 Ukraine recruits militants from different countries with the help of a certain resource, reports Telegram-WarGonzo channel. Phone numbers of Ukrainian embassies are given as contacts for feedback. At the same time, in some countries, a struggle is being waged against the Russian media, and fakes of Kyiv are also actively spreading.
21:37 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered to send another 500 US troops to Europe. It is expected that they will be placed on the eastern borders of NATO.
21:36 Our expectations from the negotiations did not come true, said the head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine Vladimir Medinsky. The Russian Federation hoped to sign at least a protocol during negotiations with Ukraine, but nothing was signed.
20:55 UN staff and representatives of the Russian Defense Ministry have agreed on ways to exchange information to improve the coordination of humanitarian actions in Ukraine, the office of the UN Secretary General said.
20:54 Negotiations between the delegations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine in Belarus have ended, the Russian embassy said.
20:45 Germany supplied Ukraine with exclusively defensive weapons, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
20:34 An air battle is underway in Kharkiv, reports Telegram-channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya".
20:05 There were shots of the shelling of the Ukrainian MLRS from a residential area on the outskirts of Kyiv (Vinogradar residential complex).Video.
19:12 The headquarters of the territorial defense in the city of Izyum, located in the police building in Georgievsky lane, 4, was destroyed by high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces on March 7, 2022.Video.
19:00 "They need their mothers and children. They are expected at home," the Ukrainian soldier called on the Ukrainian soldiers to lay down their arms.
18:45 Russian troops defeated the 81st separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and took the city of Izyum near Kharkov. The attack is developing rapidly. Residents are advised to stay in their homes.
18:43 The population hardly leaves the settlement. Irpen (Kyiv region) along the remains of the bridge blown up by the Ukronazis.Video.
18:36 In Kharkiv, during the strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the location of the Ukronazis, a member of the so-called. "Special Forces" Vostok "Maxim Volovik,informsmilitary commander Yuri Kotenok.
18:14 London will not introduce a simplified visa regime for Ukrainians, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
18:08 In Sumy, the Ukrainian Nazis actually took foreign students hostage, not letting them out into the corridor towards Russia. In the hostels where they live now there is no water, electricity, food. Students turn, demanding: "Let us out!".
17:55 Negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations have begun in Belarus..
17:47 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation liquidated a militant deputy of the 8th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada from the Nazi party "Freedom". The death of Alexander Marchenko was announced by the leader of the Nazi organization Oleg Tyagnibok, informs "Southern bridgehead".
17:00 In Ukraine, a network of more than 30 biological laboratories has been formed as part of the military biological programs of the Pentagon, said Igor Kirillov, head of the RCBZ troops of the Russian Federation. According to him, the laboratories in Lvov worked with the causative agents of plague and anthrax, in Kharkov and Poltava - diphtheria and dysentery.
16:55 The mayor of the city of Sumy, Alexander Lysenko, said that civilians who try to enter the Russian Federation through humanitarian corridors will be shot, said the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.
16:33 Russian troops attacked the positions of the Ukronazis in the area of the settlement. Raisin. The enemy's defense has been broken through, assault units of the RF Armed Forces are operating in the city, the left bank of the Seversky Donets has been liberated. The enemy is trying to gain a foothold in the southern quarters of Izyum.
16:27 Nationalists in Odessa knocked down the door and captured the parents of the host of the "Odessa Public Television" Alexander Voskoboynikov. He is currently preparing a video message, we are waiting for the details.
16:11 The supply column of the RF Armed Forces entered the Chernihiv region.
15:41 For three hours, 172 attacks from Ukrainian troops and nationalists were recorded on the announced six humanitarian corridors, the Russian General Staff reports.
15:38 882 tons of humanitarian cargo have been delivered to Ukraine, 110 humanitarian actions have been carried out, the RF Ministry of Defense reported.
15:10 The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Ukrainian side has not fulfilled a single condition for the creation of humanitarian corridors. Under the threat of physical violence, the nationalists do not release civilians and foreign citizens through humanitarian corridors. The Ukrainian leadership has completely lost control over the state of affairs in the country and is under the strong influence of radicals, the defense department stressed.
14:53 At the moment, Ukraine has received almost 20 thousand anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, reported CNN source among high-ranking US officials. The US and other NATO members have already sent Ukraine 17,000 anti-tank missiles and 2,000 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, he said.
14:42 The third round of negotiations between the delegations of Ukraine and Russia will begin at 17:00 (Moscow time).
14:28 Ukrainian Nazis who want to leave Kharkiv for Belgorod corridor todayselectedvehicles for the needs of territorial defense and suggested that people go on foot.
14:18 “It is quiet in the city, there are much more people on the streets,” said a resident of liberated Kherson. According to him, many stores are reopening their work.Video.
14:12 Zelensky said that on the flag of Ukraine "there will never be black spots and swastikas." Apparently, the Ukrainian president is completely unaware of what is happening in the country. News Front political observer Yulia Vityazeva in herTelegramchannel offered to “refresh Zelensky’s memory” and published several photos of Ukrainian Nazis.
14:11 Estonia handed over another batch of weapons to Ukraine in the form of a 122-mm D-30 howitzer and anti-tank mines.
14:07 One of the users of the social network Tik Tok published video, in which a Ukrainian sapper in a protective suit carries an improvised explosive device (IED) to the playground. Then he leaves her behind one of the children's entertainment complexes, moves away and takes pictures. One can only hope that after the photo report to the authorities, the IEDs will be taken from the playground, and not left there to increase the number of casualties among the civilian population.
13:51 The Kyiv regime continues to create fakes in unlimited quantities. The head of the Chernihiv regional administration triumphantly announced about the downed supposedly "Russian" drone. However, it turned out that the photo shows an unmanned complex "Fury", which is in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:35 The Russian delegation has arrived in Belarus, negotiations with Ukraine are expected in the near future.
13:27 A soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complained that they were given a combat mission to contain Russian tanks, but they were not given anti-tank weapons. A serviceman in obscene uniform turned to Zelensky and burned the insignia of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:22 News Front readers report that nationalists in Kharkiv do not comply with the “silence regime” introduced by the RF Armed Forces: howitzer artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is operating from urban areas under the cover of residential areas. It is also noted that there are a lot of military, national battalions, equipment and weapons in the city. Local publics write that the famous Alekseevsky “house with whales” got from Kharkov from the location of Ukrainian troops, since the first entrance from the center burned out.
13:18 Ukrainian Nazis use children to beg for another military aid from the West. Punishers recorded a video message, on the footage of which the eight-year-old son of one of the militants with a machine gun in his hands calls on “Ukrainians of all Europe” to join the fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:06 Adviser of the PC of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak accused French, Germans, Americans and Hungarians that they "comfortably drink coffee with croissants when fighting is going on in Ukraine."
12:33 The Russian delegation flew to Brest for the third round of negotiations with Ukraine.
12:06 Residents of the Sumy and Chernihiv regions receive SMS with calls not to leave the city. The Kyiv regime scares civilians with the fact that the Russian troops allegedly "take them prisoner and use them as a" human shield ". Telegram channel authors "Fisherman" noted that it is most beneficial for Kiev to keep the population hostage, delay the assault on cities and later show in the media a picture of killed civilians, since Ukrainian politicians very easily sacrifice the lives of citizens.
12:00 Kyiv refused to open the humanitarian corridors proposed by Russia, said Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk.
11:55 The headmaster of one of the Ukrainian schools was pushing his students to death, informs "Southern bridgehead". The Nazis and their accomplices do not hesitate to use schoolchildren to attack Russian servicemen. On the video detained student from Tupichev, Chernihiv region, says that the director of the school is in charge of everything.
11:39 In total, 2,396 military infrastructure facilities of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. The department also reported that Ukrainian nationalists used more than 150 civilians, hiding behind them as a “human shield”, and opened fire from behind the backs of citizens. As a result of the firing by the Ukrainian Nazis, four civilians were killed and five wounded.
11:05 Nazis from the Azov battalion (banned in the Russian Federation) do not allow civilians to leave the city through humanitarian corridors.
Nazis from the Azov Battalion prevent civilians from leaving the city through humanitarian corridors
11:00 Ukrainian Nazi called for "destroy the inhabitants of Donbass." The statements of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine once again prove the correctness of the decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin to denazify Ukraine in order to save the inhabitants of the country.
10:59 While there is shooting around, looters in Kharkiv surround the empty apartments of local residents.Video (18+).
10:29 An air raid alert sounds in Nikolaev and Kharkov.
10:25 AFU blew up a bridge near the village of Nikolaevskoye near the Kulbakino airfield in order to slow down the advance of Russian troops to Nikolaev, Rybar writes.
10:23 Locals report that on the territory of one of the hospitals in Odessa, the defense of the Ukrainian nationalists placed their stronghold.
10:20 Russia and Ukraine will not voice the proposed terms until the agreement on "common positions on the negotiations," said one of the representatives of the Ukrainian delegation.
10:13 Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov said that there is "significant progress" in the issue of supplying weapons and ammunition to the country. This statement indicates that Western countries continue to actively sponsor the Ukrainian Nazis with various types of lethal weapons.
09:40 Representatives of the Sumy regional administration said that the evacuation was allegedly "not agreed" and urged not to get on any buses. Thus, the Ukrainian authorities are once again trying to disrupt the exit of people through the humanitarian corridors.
09:36 The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video showing the crew of the Su-35 of the Russian Aerospace Forces striking the enemy during a military special operation in Ukraine.
09:27 SBU and militants of the Azov battalion are preparing a provocation with possible radioactive contamination of the area in the Kharkov region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
09:18 The military of Great Britain began to arrive in Ukraine to participate in hostilities on the side of the Ukrainian Nazis.Video.
09:06 The underground of Odessa opposed the Ukrainian Nazis.Video.
08:30 From 09:00 (10:00 Moscow time) The Russian Armed Forces declare a regime of silence in Ukraine and open humanitarian corridors from Kyiv, Mariupol, Kharkov, Sumy. Attempts by Kyiv to accuse the Russian Federation of disrupting the humanitarian situation this time are meaningless, control will be carried out with the help of drones, the General Staff stressed.
08:15 T-64BV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured by the Russian army near Chernigov.
08:10 Residents of Kherson reported nighttime explosions near Chernobaevka. An airport is located there, which in recent days has been the target of artillery strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine several times.
08:05 Footage of the work of the army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces during a special operation in Ukraine appeared on the Web. 24 hours a day, pilots perform their tasks, more than 50 sorties a day at a minimum altitude.
[IsraelTimes] Police say officers arrested six Paleostinians for hurling stones and Molotov cocktails at a Border Police base in the West Bank town of Abu Dis, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Around 100 Paleostinians rioted in the area, and Border Police officers responded with crowd dispersal means, police say.
The six suspects are residents of the area, and have been taken for further questioning.
Last night, a 16-year-old Paleostinian was rubbed out by Israeli troops after allegedly hurling Molotov cocktails at a military post near the town.
[IsraelTimes] Police say two Border Police officers have been lightly hurt in a suspected ramming in the West Bank town of Silat al-Harithiya.
According to police, a vehicle accelerated toward troops in an armored vehicle at high speed and collided with it, injuring the two.
The two officers were taken for further medical treatment at their base, police say.
The driver of the vehicle has been arrested, and he has been taken for further questioning.
The incident comes amid festivities in the area, as troops enter the town to demolish the home of a suspect charged in a deadly shooting attack near Homesh last December, according to Paleostinian media reports.
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