[NY Post] "Morale will improve or we'll shoot the rest of you!"
Russian military forces have installed a new mayor for the embattled city of Melitopol — one day after its elected mayor was kidnapped by a group of 10 Russian soldiers.
Galina Danilchenko, a former member of the city council, was proclaimed the acting mayor on local TV Saturday, CNN reported.
Now we have a name.
A new Quisling
Mayor Ivan Fedorov was taken from Melitopol’s crisis center Friday with a plastic bag over his head after he “refused to cooperate with the enemy,” Ukraine’s parliament said.
More than 2,000 residents of the Russian-occupied city in the Kremlin-backed rebel region of Luhansk staged a rally to support Fedorov Saturday, while Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded his immediate release.
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[AceComments] It's hard to imagine a worse foreign policy than our current mess of reactive measures and half-measures and meaningless pontifications that emerge from the White House and the state department. We are in retreat everywhere, and have lost any sense of the simplest goals: to protect American interests throughout the world.
In fact it is difficult to see anything remotely good about our total capitulation to Iranian desires for nuclear weapons and Russia's interest in supporting Iran as a proxy to do mischief...and worse.
Cui Bono? Who benefits? It's pretty clear that Iran and Russia benefit, and America and our staunch ally Israel are the losers in this charade. And to make matters worse, this author suggests that the Biden junta is selling out Ukraine just to get Russia's support of the catastrophic Iran deal!
Irina Tsukerman, a geopolitical and security analyst, suggests a more sinister linkage between Ukraine and the Iran deal. Biden could be sacrificing Ukraine in order to secure Russia’s co-operation in pushing the recalcitrant Tehran towards a deal, she argues. This may allow America to secure cheap Iranian oil, easing the squeeze on household budgets at home.
Worse still, once the nuclear deal is done, Biden may seek to handcuff Israel to prevent it from taking further military action in Syria or against Iran itself. Why? With the US hooked on Iranian oil, Biden would need to "contain" the regime and prevent it from turning the financial screw by raising oil prices.
But why support Iran in the first place? What possible benefit is there, even in the fever dreams and masturbatory fantasies of Biden's handlers? How can a reconstituted Iranian nuclear weapons program help American interests in the region? How can relaxing restrictions on Iran's terror network benefit America? After all, these are the people responsible for a huge amount of terrorism (much of it directed at America) over the last 40 years. That includes the bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Lebanon in 1983! And we will be lifting sanctions against Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, who led IRGC forces in Lebanon and Syria when Hezbollah bombed the Marine compound in Beirut and killed 241 U.S. service members.
The simplest reason for this insanity is a combination of two things:
The first is the obvious dislike of Israel on the part of so many of the actors in this farce. Valerie Jarrett and John Kerry come to mind, but the traditional anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment in the U.S. State Department has been allowed to emerge.
The second is a perverse desire for some sort of counterbalance to Israel's power in the Middle East. That it is benign, and is a huge positive matters not at all. These people would rather see a regional war than allow one country to have military dominance, especially a country that is unabashedly Western and Jewish. But by allowing Iran to produce nuclear weapons is a guarantee of much more instability in the region that can easily spill over to other places.
An ascendant Iran will broaden its terrorist activities, including unleashing Hezbollah in Lebanon. That will provoke a response from Israel, including increasing its attacks on Hezbollah in Syria (where Iran funnels arms). Russia has so far allowed Israel to enter Syrian airspace to attack arms transiting to Lebanon, but how long will that last? Will Israel have to fight the Russians as well as the Syrians, the Iranians and Hezbollah?
Of course China would never dream of taking advantage of regional unrest to further its own interests, so at least the world is safe from that complexity.
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Cui Bono? Who benefits?
That's what I'd like to know. Why are these idiots destroying our economy and making us poorer? Can't possibly be for Ukraine... the Ukrainians were already the poorest shithole in Europe.
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Russia benefits. Which is what certain people post several hundred times a week here trying to distract from, because they can't argue against it directly.
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They must be buying up stocks in companies that produce oil, gas, wheat, metals etc. looks like the Gulf Arabs, the Canadians and Australians will benefit too For Some Countries, Economic Ripples of Ukraine War Bring Windfall
Those rich in oil and gas, other commodities to get a boost from soaring prices, though inflation will sting consumers and weigh on global growth
The Biden administration is delaying decisions on new oil and gas drilling on federal land and other energy-related actions after a federal court blocked the way officials were calculating the real-world costs of climate change.
The administration said in a legal filing that a Feb. 11 ruling by a Louisiana federal judge will affect dozens of rules by at least four federal agencies. Among the immediate effects is an indefinite delay in planned oil and gas lease sales on public lands in a half-dozen states in the West, including Wyoming, Montana and Utah.
The ruling also will delay plans to restrict methane waste emissions from natural gas drilling on public lands and a court-ordered plan to develop energy conservation standards for manufactured housing, the administration said. The ruling also will delay a $2.3 billion federal grant program for transit projects, officials said.
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to protect American interests throughout the world.
There's your problem. That's not our goal. That's NEVER our goal. Our goal is to protect the interests of the American people.
After all, these are the people responsible for a huge amount of terrorism (much of it directed at America) over the last 40 years.
Could that have something to do with the fact that the CIA overthrew the elected government of Iran in the 1950s and installed the brutal Shah, a dictator? How would we feel about a government that did that to us? Maybe stopping fucking with other countries would solve the terrorism problem. Just a guess! Let's give it a try, though. It couldn't be worse than what we've got going now.
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Could that have something to do with the fact that the CIA overthrew the elected government of Iran in the 1950s and installed the brutal Shah, a dictator?
It is my understanding that Britain took the lead on that project, to protect the interests of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and that the Shah was already on the throne, having come to the throne upon the abdication of his father in 1941.
real article title: John Cleese has his microphone taken away at South by Southwest festival for saying that Britain should get 'reparations from Italy and France' for Romans and Normans enslaving Britons
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
British comedian John Cleese in row with fellow comics over slave reparations
Monty Python icon had been at South by Southwest public event in Texas, USA
But he landed himself in hot water after joking about France and Italy owing Brits slave reparations for the Roman Empire and the Norman invasion of 1066
His microphone was eventually taken off him by American comic Dulcé Sloan
Comedy legend John Cleese had his microphone confiscated at the South by Southwest festival during a comedic discussion in which he suggested Italy and France owed historic reparations for enslaving Brits.
The Monty Python icon, 82, was riffing with other comics in front of the crowd in Texas when he talked about the 'competition' between cultures over who has been more oppressed by colonisations throughout history.
Pointing to world history being 'a history of crime', he added: 'It's a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker and it's always been that. It's deeply, deeply distasteful.
'But to pretend that one lot were worse than another — you do know the British have been slaves twice, right?
Cleese explained: '[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed. We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans from about 0 to 400.'
Despite the event being labelled a 'comedy panel', his remarks sparked horrified reactions and an awkward environment for those in attendance.
At one stage Cleese even had his microphone confiscated by American comic Dulcé Sloan, who said she did it to 'save a comic whose career I respect', per The Hollywood Reporter.
'And now you saved the colonizer,' Pasternack said. 'I saved a comic whose career I respect,' Sloan fired back.
Cleese rebutted claims that the British Empire was the first to colonise communities from other states throughout his 90-minute performance entitled 'John Cleese in Conversation.'
The British comic insisted England was owed 'reparations' from both Italy and France, referring to the historic invasions of the Romans, and 1000 years later by the Normans under William the Conqueror.
'I want reparations from Italy', he told the stunned crowd. 'And then the Normans came over in 1066... they were horrible people from France and they colonised us for 30 years and we need reparations there too, I'm afraid'.
His fellow comedians speaking at the event, Jim Gaffigan, Dulcé Sloan and moderator Dan Pasternack all unsuccessfully attempted to draw Cleese away from his rant.
Pasternack even explained to the audience at one point: 'And this is why your phones are locked up'.
As tempers started to flare, Sloan grabbed out and temporarily confiscated Cleese's microphone to cheers and applause from sections of the audience, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Speaking after the ordeal, Cleese explained his actions by saying: 'The thing is, I'm going to be dead soon. That's why I'm in favour of global warming - I don't want to be cold ever again'.
To which Pasternack jokingly replied: 'Where you're going you won't be!' One thing I hate the modern clergy for is they've destroyed humor alongside their quest to destroy history.
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Cleese has been in the Wokesters gun sights before John Cleese Sparks Backlash Over Transphobic Tweets in Defense of J.K. Rowling
...When another user asked Cleese, “Why the fuck can’t you just let people be who they want to be?” he responded with, “Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman. Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?”
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College Station is better positioned geographically. Plus it would help if the TX legislators were forced to stand throughout each day's sessions, like the 12th Man
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He should have slapped the ever-loving crap out of "Dulce Sloan", whoever that is. Then moved on to slap the "moderator", and continued by slapping everyone in the audience who was "horrified".
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I think I had a Dulce Sloan once in Cancun at Senor Frog's. I was pretty plastered though so can't be sure
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Wikipedia:
Dulcé Lazaria Sloan is an American stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She is a correspondent for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central.
Black female, according to her photo. Born in 1983, which I suppose explains why she didn’t realize slavery is not an experience unique to African-Americans.
[NY Post] Oh noes! Now Putin's done it!
An award-winning journalist who was a former New York Times contributor has been killed by Russian forces near Kyiv, the region’s head of police said Sunday. Walter Duranty: "Sorry, Comrade. Omelette/Broken Eggs and all that..."
Brent Renaud, 51, a video journalist, was fatally shot when Russian troops opened fire on a car near the Romanivsky Bridge in Irpin, police said.
"The occupants cynical [sic] kill even journalists of the international media who try to show the truth about the inaction of Russian troops in Ukraine," Kyiv Chief of Police Andrey Nebitov wrote on Facebook.
"Of course, the profession of a journalist is a risk, but US citizen Brent Renaud paid his life for trying to highlight the aggressor’s ingenuity, cruelty and ruthlessness," he continued.
Two other journalists were also injured in the attack and taken to the hospital, Nebitov said.
Nebitov shared a video of a police officer at the scene with a bloodied man’s body.
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"even journalists of the international media who try to show the truth about the inaction of Russian troops in Ukraine"
"inaction" seems an odd choice of words here.
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^ Perhaps via neglect, laziness, carelessness, or somesuch?
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^ Quotes to taste. Sigh. Also...
"More nose, please!" Or,
Hell's kitchen.
"Hello!"
"Gotham callin'...
One omelet to go, in tarpaulin.
No butter or eggs.
Bro, this story's got legs!"
In a white suit and toque, Comrade Stalin
Smiles, raises his glass to the fallen.
Then all, with chianti,
Toast Comrade Duranty
There, chained to the dishwasher, bawlin'.
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The postage stamp named "Russian warship, go f**k yourself!" will appear in🇺🇦. The sketch by artist Boris Groh received the most votes and will soon be published by Ukraine's state postal company. 🇺🇦✌️#StandWithUkraine#StopRussianAgressionpic.twitter.com/ByYAzw2tYq
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I'm a stamp collector. I don't usually collect stamps issued after 2000, but I might make an exception in this case.
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^ Exception noted and wise
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Will there be a stamp commemorating the John McStain Brigade (martyrs? freedom fighters? mercenaries? peacekeepers? lunatics?) who were killed yesterday in the Russian missile strike on their training base near the Polish border
So much for the "benign hegemon" argument justifying NATO's encroachment: The base has hosted international NATO drills and a senior NATO official, Admiral Rob Bauer, previously hailed it as embodying “the spirit of military cooperation” between Ukraine and international forces. As such, the site symbolizes Russia’s longstanding concerns that the 30-member Western military alliance poses a threat to Moscow by operating so close to its territory.
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Simon Shuster of Time magazine is on the scene in Yaroviv. Shyster tweeted that it's highly likely that volunteers from one or more of the US, UK and Australia were hit by the Russian missiles. Here's Shuster:
"When Russia bombed the base near Lviv last night, it had to assume Americans were likely to be killed or injured. A coordinator of foreign volunteers in Ukraine told me the base was a hub for 1000s of them, coming from all over to help Ukraine. I met some from US, UK, Australia."
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* Yavoriv
I remember when it was our Special Forces killing Russian mercenaries in Syria. Now it's the Russians who are killing American mercenaries in Ukraine. Of course, the former occurred under Trump, when instead of provoking Russia we were preventing Russia from invading.
What an absolute fucking disaster this administration is.
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Gert Snitselaar, who coordinates the Dutch members of the Foreign Legion, told the Telegraaf and AD that it was clear Dutch people were killed in the attack. He did not want to offer a specific number just yet for fear of a disinformation campaign. "I was in contact with a few this morning, but since then there has been no communication," he told AD.
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Can't verify this for authenticity but the attached video at this link is apparently a Brazilian Foreign Legionnaire who, if my rusty Portuguese is correct, clearly confirms that a significant number of foreign fighters were killed in the strike on the Yavoriv training facility where they had been gathering.
The source of this video identified the speaker as "Thiago Rossi, ex Brasilian soldier that was part of #InternationalLegion in #Ukraine, [who] said that most of his Foreign unit was wiped in yesterday's Russian airstrike on their base in #Yavoriv near #Lvov."
In that Brazilian Legionnaire's video - presumably filmed today, he's fleeing on a bus to Poland and his voice his shaking - he says fue extermindos and keeps repeating the phrases mundo enteiro and todo gente and cabo -- the last IIRC is used often to mean the end, as in "wiped out."
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Looks like the Russians were indeed telling the truth when they said their cruise missiles killed about 180 foreign legionnaires in Yavoriv.
Here is a series of desperate messages by a foreign volunteer fighter, courtesy of Nolan Peterson (@nolanwpeterson on Twitter): "From an American volunteer on the front lines outside of Kyiv:
"Sitting close to the frontline, the last safe mode of transportation leaves for greener pastures. A core group of about 30 foreign fighters remains out of around 200 people who were here just minutes ago.. 1/"
"The base we came from was struck by rockets in the early morning hours. People we lived with for a couple days are confirmed dead. It is only a matter of time before our location is targeted. We are about to be cut off by a Russian tank column any day now..." 2/
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Perhaps time to ship out, comrades? A grave matter, this business of poking the bear and stomping "Ivan"...
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Cruelly destroyed by the false promises and mindless amateurism of an entire generation of American policy makers:
9h ago
Replying to @nolanwpeterson
"Food, water, and ammunition dwindle slowly. The mood is somber, people are sending their last messages to friends and family." 3/
"Where is NATO? Where is the supposed good of western civilization?" end
Noland Peterson: An important note: this American is a special ops veteran who completed combat deployments to Afghanistan. He came to Ukraine before Russia's full-scale war on Feb. 24. He is an experienced, well-trained soldier who gave up his lucrative career in the US in order to help Ukraine
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Comments #4 - 11 a monologue. Get a Blog, Lex
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Try harder, Frank
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Heh. C'mon, man, have a heart! I'm almost sold. Another few hundred posts should do it.
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^ Now that was a worthy effort!
Орден «За заслуги перед Отечеством» вам!
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and yet, another. On to your shit, "Lex". Get a therapist
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^ Shoot, he could be one... of a sort... nudge nudge shock shock. Could certainly fake it, anyway.
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And speaking of Russian medicine...
Doc Stalinstein, maddened by pride,
Made a monster, then added a bride
That mauled his creation -- "Mein Soviet nation!" --
So badly it g-ddamn near died.
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... and heroes of Soviet labor...
In Donbas a babe, born a man of
The people, at birth mined a ton of
Our black Russian coal,
Then ran back in the hole
To blast more! Rest in peace, Ms. Stakhanov.
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[GeopoliticalMonitor] China has been seen by many as the most important ally of Russia in the invasion of Ukraine. However, after nearly two weeks of fighting, confusing episodes have been culminating around China’s attitude to the war. Regarding both the UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, China has abstained rather than voted on the side of Russia. Regarding the sanctions on Russia, China hasn’t shown much of a willingness to help thus far, and two major Chinese banks, the Bank of China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, have even refused to help Russia process export transactions. Instead of supporting Russia, Chinese minister of foreign affairs, Wang Yi has called for de-escalation of the conflict. China seems to be pulling back its’ support from Russia, everywhere from diplomacy to economics.
On the other hand, however, Chinese statements right before the war seemed to have indicated Beijing’s full support for Moscow, and the fact that Russia waited for the end of the Beijing Winter Olympics seems to confirm rumors that Xi asked Putin to do so, indicating in turn that China was fully aware of what was coming, and decided to support it in full knowledge. Thus: Full support for the invasion before it started, but then a gradual pulling back once the invasion was underway — What’s going on here? Did China change its’ mind due to some unexpected occurrence?
What if nothing such happened, but it was a consistent strategy to encourage Russia to attack at first, but roll back its’ support after the war has started? Knowing the history of Sino-Russian relations, a Russian victory doesn’t seem to be in China’s interest. What is in China’s interest is a prolonged war of attrition, draining Russia’s resources as much as possible, weakening it as much as possible, meanwhile isolating it from the West as much as possible, and with a Russian defeat at the end. Go read the whole thing. There's a neat map and stuff...
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Russia has probably lost several thousand soldiers killed, maybe as many as 5000, including some of their best special forces and best field commanders
probably at least a thousand other pieces of mobile ground equipment also
probably at least a dozen aircraft also
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[NEWS.YAHOO] A Russian Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a military training base in western Ukraine killed at least 35 people and maimed 134, a local official said Sunday.The assault brought the war to within 25 miles of the border with Poland after a senior Russian diplomat warned that Moscow considered foreign shipments of military equipment to Ukraine "legitimate targets."
The United States and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... have regularly sent instructors to the range, also known as the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, to train Ukrainian military personnel. The facility has also hosted international NATO drills. Just weeks before the war began, Florida National Guard members trained there.
The base has become a crucial logistics hub and training center since Russia’s invasion began, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported. It was not immediately revealed whether imported muscle were at the center when the assault took place.
The governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytskyi, said Russian forces fired more than 30 cruise missiles at the Yavoriv military range, located about 20 miles northwest of the city of Lviv.
Russian fighters also fired at the airport in Ivano-Frankivsk, a city in western Ukraine about five miles from Ukraine’s border with Slovakia and Hungary. Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv said Russia’s goal was "to sow panic and fear."
The attacks early Sunday came after Russia bombarded cities across Ukraine on Saturday, pounding Mariupol in the south, shelling the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, and thwarting the efforts of people trying to flee the violence.
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[Gateway] Six years ago, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, the Ukrainians bet that a Hillary Clinton presidency would offer better protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though he had invaded Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration, whose Russian policies Clinton vowed to continue. Good afternoon. We're here at the behest of the US Government and we've come to help.
Working with both the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, Ukrainian government officials intervened in the 2016 race to help Clinton and hurt Donald Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation that’s been largely ignored by the press. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, where officials worked hand-in-glove with a Ukrainian-American activist and Clinton campaign operative to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on — and even investigate — their political rival.
Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers — including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election.
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Ciaramella was a CIA detailee to the White House occupying the NSC’s Ukraine desk in 2015 and 2016. In that role, Ciaramella met face-to-face with top Ukrainian officials and provided policy advice to Biden through the then-vice president’s security adviser Michael Carpenter. He also worked with Nuland and Chalupa.Ciaramella was carried over to the Trump White House.
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Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers
So obvious. The one US president of the last 30 years to resist NATO expansion has to be undermined by the Ukrainian-Democrat cabal. Trump PREVENTED Russian invasions. The Ukrainian-Democrat cabal PROVOKED Russian invasion.
Fuck these people, every last one of them - Hillary, Vindman, Nuland, Sally Painter. Damn them to hell for the mischief and damage these conniving idiots have caused us. And the world.
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If America had an independent journalist community maybe someone would question how the Ukraine war relates to years of Biden Family corruption in Ukraine.
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I thought this interesting:
In effect, Obama officials greased a revolution. Within months, Yanukovych was exiled and replaced by Petro Poroshenko, who would later do Biden’s bidding – including firing a prosecutor investigating his son Hunter.
It wasn’t Zelensky who was president of the Ukraine at the time, it was the man he replaced. Part of losing that bet was that Mr. Poroshenko was president no more. And President Trump was just providing support for President Zelensky to do what he fully intended to do anyway — shut down the mess his predecessor had made with all the Democrats.
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Everyone in the US with a MAGA hat is deemed a "literal Nazi" who you're supposed to punch and/or imprison, but liberals see actual, real-life Nazis in Ukraine and either swoon with admiration, arm them, or call you a Kremlin agent for wondering if this might work out poorly.
- Glenn Greenwald
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Rod Dreher in The American Conservative: Ukraine is This Year's BLM
...it’s a branding opportunity. It’s just like how all the corporations sought to sign on to Black Lives Matter, to show that We Care™ about the cause du jour.
[American Thinker] I won't lie: I'm a Tucker Carlson fan. He is willing to speak honestly about topics others ignore, sugarcoat, or lie about. Even when I don't agree with him, I find him worthwhile, and never more so than his Friday-night monologue about Biden's latest, terrifying power-grab and how our government is destroying the American economy. It was a tour de force, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Tucker opened with something I'd meant to write about and now don't need to: without a single pause, the Biden administration slipped effortlessly from COVID emergency powers (which are now passé thanks to polling) and is, instead, assuming war powers, even though we're not at war:
At exactly the moment when the emergency powers they awarded to themselves to fight COVID started to wane, our leaders began pushing for conflict with Russia. And then, on the basis of that conflict, they assumed historic war powers.
Without even pausing, the Biden administration declared total economic war on a sovereign country. No American had been killed. The United States had not been invaded or attacked. And yet, with no meaningful public debate or congressional authorization, the Biden administration destroyed that country's currency, then removed it from the international banking system, then impoverished its population. Then the administration began seizing the property of people affiliated with that country, without a trial or due process of any kind, without even bothering to explain exactly what crime they had committed.
Tucker could have added that, earlier on Friday, Biden creepily and gleefully whisper-shouted into the microphone a boast about destroying the economy of a country with which we are not at war:
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Without even pausing, the Biden administration declared total economic war on a sovereign country. No American had been killed. The United States had not been invaded or attacked. And yet, with no meaningful public debateor congressional authorization,
Depose this fucker. We Americans will bear the brunt of this "total economic war" that was not debated and not voted on by Congress.
This is an economic Pearl Harbor -- of our own president's making. Depose him before he destroys us
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This is an economic Pearl Harbor -- of our own president's making
Some historians argue Pearl Harbor was exploited by FDR, to push us into war. Isn't Biden a big admirer of FDR? You don't think...
no, that's crazy shit. Why that would be like saying the Democrats exploited COVID to grab emergency powers! Perish the thought!
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Maybe invest in iodine futures and bomb shelters? Pandemic Fears Give Way to a Rush for Bomb Shelters Since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, European anxiety has shifted from Covid to nuclear annihilation. Bunkers, survival guides and iodine pills are flying off the shelves. Giulio Cavicchioli, the owner of Minus Energie in Italy, has gone from working on 50 bunkers in the past 22 years to fielding 500 inquiries in the past two weeks.
[Redstate] Mr. Elon Musk, it looks like America and one of her astronauts aboard the International Space Station might need you. You know, the place where your space capsules have gone to a number of times, and have allowed the United States to not depend on the Russians for a lift up and back home.
Yeah, that place.
In what can only be described as living proof that a mess on Earth can leak into space, it seems that the Putin World Tour of ticking off everyone on the ground (except China, Iran, North Korea, and Belarus) has made its way into the heavens.
Approximately 254 miles up, anyway.
While all this mayhem goes on the Big Blue Marble we call Earth, there are astronauts from Russia and the United States looking on at the big, floating rock below, and probably scratching their heads at the madness. They work and live in close quarters, which is probably not a problem most of the time, but nowadays, it might be a tad bit weird.
When a crew transfer happens in the next month, it might get a bit more awkward, after Dmitry Rogozin, who is the head of the Russian Space Agency, made a bit of a veiled threat about not bringing back an American scheduled to leave on the Russian capsule.
[Washington Examiner] Like a lot of Middle America, the gang at Black Rifle Coffee Company has had it with the liberal media.
And now it is showing it on a new T-shirt that mocks the press with its own plea to readers and viewers: "Trust Us."
CEO Evan Hafer told us, "The mainstream media has completely lost the trust of the American people. Since 2016, they’ve been caught lying about literally every issue: the Russia ’collusion’ hoax, the ’mostly peaceful’ Black Lives Matter riots, ESG investing, the Wuhan lab, and ’transitory’ inflation, to name a few."
He added, "Our message to the mainstream media is simple: Start telling the truth."
The coffee firm, started by a handful of recent war veterans, often takes a hard-line approach to cultural problems and uses its social media platforms to push its causes.
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While the media has lied about them, they were all to happy to jump on the Orange Man Bad train too many times in what looked like just PR/sales posts.
[GatewayPundit] "A third world war will "destroy our civilization" unless Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are "removed from power" warns billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros.
And how does Mr. Soros suggest that might be accomplished? We have no James Bonds lying about, and is not the kind of thing that can be voted into existence.
"After receiving a green light from Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war in Ukraine in an effort to reclaim the old Russian empire," Soros wrote in an op-ed published by Project Syndicate on Friday." Gotta' admit that it's been awhile since I've been this conflicted...
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As they say:
Even the stupidest person is right at least once in their lifetime.
But has he drawn a 10 mile Nuke target circle around himself and his openly paid for DC supporters? Or was his intended goal to make CCP/USSR focus on "DC" their target, since that is his power base and could be used to summon a "hit: team?
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I have been waiting patiently for the worms to wiggle and squirm. Putin has cut off their money supplies. 10 million to DNC alone from Ukraine. They spend and spend and soon the choke hold takes hold sooner than later.
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Soros has been working for their predecessors since he was allowed to emigrate back in the communist days.
If you've been put in business by the KGB and you know what the sovereign wealth fund is going to do it's easy to build a war chest to go to war against western governments.
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I think George Soros should be removed from power. Are Putin and Xi listening?
They can take care of Nuland's boss, and we should depose Biden Blinken and the Kackler
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Dear George,
I'm quite certain that Zelensky could find you a spare AK-47 and point you to the Russian border. Go for it.
Sincerly,
Abu
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Manipulating the anxiety of the short-attention-span American public (read democrat base, clueless soccer moms and Rhinos) is the key to the heightened executive power of the ruling class. Amping up the sense of fear is the key to forestalling a mid-term election massacre that even the best voter fraud can't stop! Eyes off the cost of everything skyrocketing, the litany of failed Covid response and massive fiscal fraud, the tsunami of illegals overwhelming our social services, medical and economic safety net, and rampant corruption in DC and the MIC. Dancing on the edge of wr with Russia and China, gotta admit, that is a level of stupid not encountered in a long time...
Probably. Then again he's just doing what Japan, Saudi Arabia and China are now preparing to do.
Russia sanctions threaten to backfire on the buck
US block on Russia’s foreign-exchange reserves could cause China, Saudi Arabia and others to dump their US debt holdings
William Pesek
AsiaTimes
March 11, 2022
In recent conversations with senior Bank of Japan officials, the decision to separate Putin from billions of state wealth is likely to cause China, Saudi Arabia and other regimes in Biden’s crosshairs to reduce their holdings.
...The US president’s move to freeze a sizable portion of Russia’s foreign-exchange reserves... worries officials in Tokyo [because] the action could make Japan's $1.3 trillion of US government debt worth a whole lot less.
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[Korrespondent] The Russian military continues to shell Ukrainian cities, while killing civilians, including children.
During the 17 days of the war, 82 children were killed by enemy shelling and bombing of the Russian military in Ukraine. On Saturday, March 12, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov announced this live on the air of a joint UA telethon.
"Unfortunately, we are losing our children. To date, 82 children have died in this war, they died from the bullets of the invaders sent here by Putin. This is a very big price for us because we are fighting for our independence," he said. Danilov.
At the same time, he expressed confidence that Ukraine would win this confrontation.
"I want to say that those people who behave impolitely will be very ashamed of them after we win," the NSDC secretary said.
Recall that the Russian military shot a column of women and children during the evacuation in the Kiev region. Seven people died.
Earlier, the SBU reported that the Russian military had been instructed to shoot civilians .
Russian invaders shell the Svyatogorsk Lavra Several videos can be seen at the above link
[Korrespondent] There are many people from Svyatogorsk and other settlements in the Lavra.
Sources report that women and children could hide from the fire of the invaders in the Lavra, there are victims.
As clarified by the publication DonPress, the shelling took place the night before.
"There are many people from Svyatogorsk and other settlements in the Lavra who tried to hide from the shells and aircraft of the Russian invaders," the statement said.
Rescuers evacuated people to another relatively safe place.
We will remind, the Russian armies on the night of Saturday, March 12, fired at Nikolaev . As a result, eight people were injured, 167 houses were damaged, of which 11 were completely destroyed.
Vice Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk reported on the work of humanitarian corridors on March 12: out of 14 humanitarian corridors, nine worked. She said this during a briefing.
About 8,000 refugees left Sumy today. From Konotop - more than 3,000. No one left the Zaporozhye region - according to Vereshchuk, the Russians did not let the convoy through at the checkpoint in Vasilyevka.
The corridor from the Kiev region partially worked. It was not possible to take anyone out of Irpin and Vorzel, but about a thousand people were rescued from Bucha (including patients at a nursing home).
About 800 people were taken out of Gostomel, more than a thousand - from Nemeshaevo.
In general, about 13,000Ukrainians were evacuated today.
Tomorrow they plan to export from the same cities plus Mariupol - moreover, through the Russian-controlled Berdyansk.
Today, the Ukrainian side did not reach Mariupol, stuck at a Russian checkpoint.
Earlier it was reported that near Kiev the enemy shot a column of women and children : seven dead.
In Bucha, Kiev region, 67 civilians were buried in a mass grave. This was announced by the director of the Irpin City Center for Primary Health Care Andrei Levkivsky on Facebook.
The funeral took place on the territory of the city church. According to Levkivsky, the bodies were different, some were not even identified.
Earlier it was reported that the enemy fired on people during the evacuation from Bucha . As a result of another artillery attack in Bucha, residential buildings were destroyed, and a local resident received shrapnel wounds.
...apparently the equivalent of a village mayor, the elected head of the elected village council...
in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... on Friday. This is the third killing of a local elected representative by gunnies in Jammu and Kashmir this month.
One of the officials said, "At about 8:50 pm, snuffies fired upon Shabir Ahmad Mir near his residence in Adoura in south Kashmir's Kulgam district." They said Mir was taken to a hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Mir was an independent sarpanch.
The area has been cordoned off and a hunt launched to nab the attackers, the officials said.
The killing drew condemnations from political parties.
On March 9, an independent sarpanch, Sameer Bhat, was rubbed out by snuffies on the outskirts of Srinagar.
On March 2, snuffies rubbed out an independent panchayat member, Mohammad Yaqub Dar, in the Srandoo area of Kulgam.
[NYPOST] A homeless man beat and raped a woman inside a Manhattan church — a "sickening" attack that ended only when a hero priest intervened, she claims in a lawsuit.
The terrifying ordeal began Jan. 30, 2019, when the 68-year-old victim, who lives nearby Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Hamilton Heights, noticed the lights were off, which was "abnormal."
So the woman, identified in the legal filing only as "Jane Doe," went to check, found the Catholic church’s doors open, called out, and was suddenly accosted.
The alleged attacker was a man who had hung around the church before and "exposed his genitals to older women," she said in the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
The vagrant grabbed the woman, "covered her mouth, took her to the bathroom, locked the two of them inside and he proceeded to beat her with his fist and slam her against the wall. At that point, the perpetrator ripped off [her] clothes and raped her," according to the lawsuit.
The nightmare finally ended around 10 p.m., when Rev. Gilberto Angel-Neri came by, noticed the doors open and called out, prompting the victim to scream and her attacker to flee, she said in court papers.
Cops arrested Craig Ellis, 55, about two hours and a block away on Broadway. The homeless man with at least 43 prior arrests stretching back to the late 1990s allegedly had Jane Doe’s jacket and cellphone on him, police sources told The Post.
Ellis is being held on $100,000 cash bail, records show. He was hit with a slew of charges ranging from attempted rape and sexual abuse to robbery and assault and has undergone numerous psychiatric evaluations as the criminal case drags on, according to court records.
Jane Doe was taken by ambulance to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital after the attack.
The accuser and her husband claim the man who attacked her "was known to the church members and staff to be a danger to the community," and that Our Lady of Lourdes and the New York Archdiocese "failed to take reasonable security measures such that they allowed a dangerous person onto the premises."
She seeks unspecified damages.
Rev. Angel-Neri declined to comment. The Archdiocese declined to comment, saying it had yet to be served with the lawsuit.
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MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, Turkish forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions bombed the village of al-Bogaz in the eastern countryside of the city of al-Bab, north of Syria, with mortar shells.
From their base in the village of al-Zarzour, east of the city of al-Bab, the Turkish forces bombed the village of al-Bogaz with several mortar shells, a military source told North Press.
No material damage or casualties were caused by the shelling, the sources added.
On March 5, the village of al-Jat, north of Manbij, was hit with two thermal missiles by the Turkish forces.
The towns, villages and cities, in north Syria, are constantly bombarded by the Turkish forces and the Turkish-backed opposition factions.
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HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Internal Security Forces in North and East Syria (Asayish) managed to arrest a number of suspects and wanted during a security operation to pursue ISIS sleeper cells in the southern countryside of Hasakah, northeast Syria.
“The SDF and Asayish launched a broad security operation on Saturday dawn that targeted definite persons suspected of dealing with ISIS,” a military source of the SDF told North Press.
The source added that during the operation, wanted and suspected people were arrested, preferred not to mention the number, indicating that they will be subjected to investigation.
The military operation, supported by the US-led Global Coalition drones, started from al-Arisha district, passing through Shaddadi and Markada, reaching the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
With the operation started, the Asayish demanded the residents stay at home until it ends for safety’s sake.
The operation targeted more than 50 sites in different areas in Hasakah southern countryside, according to the source.
The operation came within the framework of pursuing ISIS sleeper cells following the recent attack on al-Sina’a prison in Guweiran neighbourhood in Hasakah city on January 20.
Reporting by Bassem Shuweikh
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Terrorists, locally known as bandits, on Thursday, invaded a mosque in the Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
According to the report, the bandits abducted about 14 persons in the attack and rustled an unspecified number of cattle from Tudun Amada village.
However, it is unclear if there were any casualties in the attack.
Eyewitness reports reveal that the heavy bandits divided themselves into groups; some were at the mosque while others moved from house to house abducting people.
Some of them rustled hundreds of cows, sheep, and goats.
About three weeks ago, bandits abducted the wives and four daughters of Mallam Ibrahim Tanko, the Ssrkin Hausawa of Anguwar Azara in Jere, along Abuja-Kaduna highway, Kaduna State.
The traditional ruler said the bandits, who wielded sophisticated weapons, invaded his house around 11:52pm on the day of the attack.
He said he managed to escape using one of the exit doors.
“It was after they searched and couldn’t see me that they went into a room where my daughters were sleeping and whisked four of them away at gunpoint,” he said.
The Sarkin Hausawa gave the names of his abducted daughters as Aisha Ibrahim, Farida Ibrahim, Zainab Ibrahim and Hussaina Ibrahim.
He said the bandits proceeded to a neighbour’s house and whisked away four residents alongside a nursing mother identified as Laraba Umar.
[National Pulse] A deleted web article recovered by The National Pulse reveals that former President Barack Obama spearheaded an agreement leading to the construction of biolabs handling "especially dangerous pathogens" in Ukraine.
The news comes on the same day that Biden regime apparatchik Victoria Nuland told the U.S. Senate that the American government is concerned about biological research facilities falling into Russian hands as a result of the ongoing conflict in Eastern Europe.
Originally posted on June 18th, 2010, the article "Biolab Opens in Ukraine" details how Obama, while serving as an Illinois Senator, helped negotiate a deal to build a level-3 bio-safety lab in the Ukrainian city of Odessa.
The article, which also highlighted the work of former Senator Dick Lugar, was additionally included in Issue No. 818 of the United States Air Force (USAF) Counterproliferation Center’s Outreach Journal.
"Lugar said plans for the facility began in 2005 when he and then-Senator Barack Obama entered a partnership with Ukrainian officials. Lugar and Obama also helped coordinate efforts between the U.S and Ukrainian researchers that year in an effort to study and help prevent avian flu," explained author Tina Redlup.
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Fact checkers have repeatedly debunked the claim as "false".
That is, until the viceroy in charge of Ukraine, Nuland, unexpectedly confirmed it under questioning in Congress. Whoops! Sent everyone scrambling to build a new story.
#2
After nearly three years of nightly news appearances, the man within the US Gov't who probably knows the most about such labs and initiatives is strangely missing from action.
#3
Well a biohazard level three is not the type of facility that you would use to study especially dangerous pathogens
So this is a yawner to me
Now if the labs are level four then you have some really nasty stuff in the cooler
#10
Just wondering why shutting the labs down has taken 17 years.
If the purpose was to keep the Soviet scientists gainfully enough employed that they wouldn’t sell their services — and work product — to the highest evil bidder, then shutting down the labs would be counterproductive.
#11
I was the project manager of a project to build a research laboratory at the old Letterman Army Hospital in SFO
We were told that labs had to handle the most dangerous pathogens in the world and the project needed to be way in excess of the old Biohazard V classification
Very scary especially considering that this thing was in the middle of a large city
Shafaq News/ Iraq's Federal Intelligence Agency said it had arrested two persons who served in the formations of the terrorist organization ISIS in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The agency said in a statement earlier that the "terrorists wanted in accordance with Article 4/Terrorism for their affiliation to ISIS" were captured in two separate operations in Baghdad.
Upon preliminary inquiries, the first arrestee known as "Abu Obaida" confessed for serving in the "Nahawand unit", while the other said he drove a "drilling vehicle" deployed in constructing hideouts for the terrorist group.
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[OneIndia] The security forces in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... have shot full of holes four Death Eaters in three separate encounters.
Two Death Eaters were from the Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... and they were killed in an encounter that broke out at the Chewaklan area in Pulwama, the police said.
In another encounter, a terrorist who was part of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba was killed, following an encounter at the Serch area in Ganderbal. One more Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist was killed in the Rajwat area of Handwara.
"#Encounter has started at Nechama, Rajwar area of #Handwara. Police and security forces are on the job. Further details shall follow. @JmuKmrPolice," the Kashmir Zone police said in a tweet.
According to Inspector General of Police, Vijay Kumar, the security forces launched joint operations at four to five locations on Friday night. This led to the killing of two Death Eaters of the Jaish-e-Mohammad and two from the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. One terrorist has been caught alive and the the encounters are Handwara and Pulwama are now complete.
Counter-terror operations were intensified in the Valley after a spree of killings of Hindus, Sikhs who are the religious minorities in the Union Territory. The civilian killings were reported in large numbers in September and October last.
However operations against the Death Eaters were intensified and by the month of October, the security forces had shot full of holes 13 terrorists.
The Jammu and Kashmir police said that the force is committed to hunt down these Death Eaters who try to create fear among the masses and spread mischief and tumult in the Valley. Such elements and their names should be excised from society the police also said.
[USNI] The Marine Corps has now separated more than 1,000 Marines due to refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
The Marine Corps separated 165 Marines over the past week due to their refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19. At 1,038, the Marine Corps leads the military branches for the most separations.
The Navy comes in second with a total of 469 separations, which includes 50 this past week. Of the separations this week, 24 had served for more than six years, while 26 served for less than six years. The highest rank was chief petty officer, said Lt. Travis Callaghan, spokesperson for chief of naval personnel, in an email.
The Air Force has separated 205 active-duty airmen, according to its weekly update. The Army has not yet separated a soldier.
The Navy, as well as the other branches, potentially could have more sailors that it would separate for refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but there are currently lawsuits preventing punitive action against a handful of service members who have refused to get vaccinated due to religious objections.
One lawsuit focuses on the Navy special warfare community and involves 26 Navy SEALs. The attorneys are currently aiming to make it a class action, which would apply to all members of the Navy. The case was heard by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which upheld a preliminary injunction preventing the SEALs from being punished for not being vaccinated.
Another lawsuit includes plaintiffs across the military branches, notably a Navy commanding officer of a guided-missile destroyer. The overseeing judge has also prevented the services from taking adverse action against the plaintiffs.
Liberty Counsel, the legal ministry representing the plaintiffs, is also seeking to turn the case into a class-action lawsuit, USNI News previously reported.
If the class-action lawsuit were to prevail, the Navy could have 4,000 sailors unvaccinated against COVID-19, which naval leaders have said is a risk to force health.
In a declaration associated with the navy commander lawsuit, Adm. Derek Caudle, commander of Fleet Forces Command, wrote that having 4,000 unvaccinated sailors "will create an unacceptable risk to readiness and could result in unnecessary deaths."
Currently, 4,593 active-duty sailors are not fully vaccinated, which could mean they are in the process of getting vaccinated, have an exemption or are waiting for a waiver request to be adjudicated. Sailors with an exemption are given non-operational billets, USNI News previously reported.
Another 3,241 members of the reserve are not fully vaccinated, according to the weekly COVID-19 updated.
The Marine Corps currently has 96 percent of its active-duty force fully vaccinated, with another 2 percent partially vaccinated. Its reserve force is 89 percent fully vaccinated with another 1 percent partially vaccinated.
When compared to the size of the force, the number of unvaccinated sailors and Marines is not a large percentage, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro told news hounds Wednesday.
The Marine Corps has separated about 0.56 percent of its force due to vaccine refusal. The Navy about 0.13 percent.
The percentage of the active-duty sailors currently undeployable due to lack of vaccination is approximately 1.3 percent.
"And it’s incredibly important for all our sailors and our Marines to be properly vaccinated because this is an issue of combat readiness," Del Toro said. "We simply cannot put the lives of our other sailors who are vaccinated at risk."
The Navy granted 12 permanent medical, 212 temporary medical and 28 administrative exemptions for active-duty sailors. The sea service granted one permanent, 10 temporary and 31 administrative exemptions to reservists.
Although there have been 3,476 requests from active-duty sailors and 875 from reservists, the Navy has not granted a religious exemption. It did grant one to a member of the individual ready reserve on the condition that the sailor be vaccinated if called up to active-duty or reserve status.
The Marines Corps does not break down exemptions, but it has granted 992 medical or administrative exemptions.
The Marine Corps received 3,653 requests for religious waivers, with six approved.
The Air Force approved 19 religious exemptions, with the Army approving none.
Sound like some "creative paperwork" is being done to hide the real numbers both by the DOD and/or at the unit level, maybe some are getting listed as having had the shot by of the unit level QT wink and nod.
Besides given we have learned a few things about the VAX and the Virus.
1. The VAX does not fully avoid, nor protect a person from the China Flu, in many cases, it lessens the infection.
2. Frequent VAX Boosters are needed for each new strain or every 3 months during China Flu Season (Sept-Feb). How will this be accomplished in a War / Battle Zone?
3. Acquired Immunity provides far better immunization than the VAX.
4. The VAX & Boosters are still a High Risk, experimental VAX. Certain age groups and persons don't really need the VAX. Certain age groups and persons are prone to adverse reactions.
5. The CDC & NIH, both have avoided full detailed disclosure concerning the adverse reactions and other true data surrounding the VAX. They have gone so far as asking for a 50 year CYA Non-Disclosure clause concerning the VAX.
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I have said all along, the dog chasing his tail. Cold virus mutates every 10 hours. They want to patient each virus as being novel. It is all about the money.
Yep. Pfizer has half the world in its pocket... or we should say, Pfizer has picked the pockets of half the world. We're actually paying them for colossal failure.
Funny that India which resisted paying Pfizer billions has achieved excellent results with its own treatments. Dr. Robert Malone is confident that these included ivermectin. Perhaps also hydroxychloroquine.
While the US and the rest of the Pfizersphere are reporting horrific side effects and being urged to take Pfizer jabs forever
1. The VAX does not fully avoid, nor protect a person from the China Flu, in many cases, it lessens the infection.
This, in general, is what vaccines do. They are not a magick amulet. They prime your body to respond to something in the future. Like practicing football plays before the game improves your chances of winning.
3. Acquired Immunity provides far better immunization than the VAX.
The trick here is not dying while you are acquiring your acquired immunity. It is really the key!
4. The VAX & Boosters are still a High Risk, experimental VAX. Certain age groups and persons don't really need the VAX.
In a civilized society, we would recognize the risk from being in a hurry and skipping the usual 5 years and a bazillion dollars of testing, and we would take care of those who had an adverse reaction. Or died.
5.The CDC & NIH, both have avoided full detailed disclosure concerning the adverse reactions and other true data surrounding the VAX.
The amount of messaging, lying, political spin, journalistic ignorance and information suppression has made it nearly impossible for your generic person to figure out what is going on. It is almost more annoying than the pandemic itself.
Even a once respectable institution like Johns Hopkins, a brand name in public health stats, got into the game when they posted a paper showing there were no excess deaths from COVID. The paper was taking down after a few days because "people were drawing the wrong conclusions".
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About time. I remember the Southwest flight attendants whining a few weeks ago when Southwest said they would begin serving alcohol again on flights.
[JustTheNews] Former Trump national security advisor attempted last December to quash subpoenas committee issued him.
Former Trump National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. (Ret) Michael Flynn appeared Thursday before the Democrat-controlled House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and exercised his Fifth Amendment rights in response to the panel's questions, his attorney says.
Flynn was subpoenaed to appear before the committee in November, 2021 and was also asked to produce documents and testimony in reference to a Dec. 18, 2020 meeting in the Oval Office, during which the seizure of voting machines was allegedly discussed.
In the letter sent to Flynn by the committee in December, members wrote that he and others discussed declaring a national emergency as part of a plan to promote the message that the presidential election has been "tainted by widespread fraud."
He was also allegedly involved in efforts to draft memos to seize voting machines that Trump ultimately did not sign.
Flynn was not Trump's national security advisor at the time, having resigned in February 2017 over a matter related to the Russia collusion ordeal.
In December, Flynn filed suit against House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... and members of the select committee seeking "declaratory and injunctive relief" from the subpoena going after his records and testimony. Flynn's legal efforts to quash the committee's subpoenas were thwarted.
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Having full knowledge that anything you say can and will be twisted and mischaracterized, be courteous and polite but tell the SOB's little as legally possible.
[IsraelTimes] The US State Department says it’s paying more than $2 million per month to provide 24-hour security to former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and a former top aide, both of whom face "serious and credible" threats from Iran.
The department told Congress in a report that the cost of protecting Pompeo and former Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... envoy Brian Hook between August 2021 and February 2022 amounted to $13.1 million. The report, dated February 14 and marked "sensitive but unclassified," was obtained today by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Pompeo and Hook led the Trump administration’s "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran, and the report says US intelligence assesses that the threats to them have remained constant since they left government and could intensify.
The threats have persisted even as US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan.... ’s administration has been engaged in indirect negotiations with Iran over a US return to a landmark 2015 nuclear deal.
As a former secretary of state, Pompeo was automatically given 180 days of protection by the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security after leaving office. But that protection has been repeatedly extended in 60-day increments by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken due to "a serious and credible threat from a foreign power or agent of a foreign power arising from duties performed by former Secretary Pompeo while employed by the department," the report said.
Hook, who along with Pompeo was often the public face of the Trump administration’s imposition of crippling sanctions against Iran, was granted the special protection by Blinken for the same reason as Pompeo immediately after he left government service. That has also been repeatedly renewed in 60-day increments.
The latest 60-day extensions will expire soon and the State Department, in conjunction with the Director of National Intelligence, must determine by March 16 if the protection should be extended again, according to the report.
The report was prepared because the special protection budget will run out in June and require a new infusion of money if extensions are deemed necessary.
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I am kind of surprised Blinken would continue to extend this protection. Pompeo would seem like a potentially dangerous opponent to this administration, so what would be the loss if he got whacked?
[OneIndia] The National Investigation has filed a supplementary chargesheet against two gunnies of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in connection with the Voice of Hind case.
The NIA in its supplementary chargesheet while naming Afshan Parvaiz and Towhead Latief Sofi said that they were involved in the publication of the magazine, Voice of Hind. The magazine aimed at inciting and radicalising the youth, the agency also said.
Investigations showed that the ISIS had organised a campaign in cyber space to further terror activities on the ground in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ISIS gunnies operating from various conflict zones along with the cadres in India assumed pseudo online identities and created a network, the NIA said. Further the agency said that an India centric online propaganda magazine Voice of Hind was published on a monthly basis.
The aim of the magazine was to incite and radicalise impressionable youth by projecting a a skewed narrative of imagined injustices in India to arouse a feeling of alienation and communal hatred. During the searches the NIA seized a large number of incriminating documents and digital devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptop , hard disks and T-Shirts having ISIS logo.
The Arab Coalition has conducted 21 targeted strikes in Yemen’s Hajjah and Marib to deter the Iran-backed Houthi militia, the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday.
The targeted strikes resulted in the destruction of 15 “military vehicles,” according to SPA, and caused casualties among the Houthis.
At least one trader has been reportedly killed and an unspecified number kidnapped when terrorists invaded a rural market in Chibani, a community in Munya Local Government Area of Niger State on Friday afternoon.
According to Daily Trust, the terrorists also reportedly invaded the Mararaban-Daudu community, also in the same local government and kidnapped residents.
A resident, Shehu Abubakar, said that the attackers launched the attack around 12pm when the market was filled to its capacity and operated for about three hours.
It was learnt that the terrorists carted away food items after the traders fled.
"We don’t know where many traders are right now because they haven’t started returning. A lot of goods were destroyed, apart from the ones they stole.
"Up till 5pm, traders had not gone back to the market to pick their goods. One person was killed and his remains taken to the police station at Sarkin Pawa,” he said.
Libya's parliament-appointed prime minister said Friday that armed groups backing him had withdrawn from positions around Tripoli, after the U.N. warned of a new escalation in the divided country.
Libya has had rival administrations since the eastern-based assembly swore in a prime minister earlier this month in a challenge to interim premier Abdulhamid Dbeibah.
Dbeibah has refused to hand over power to Fathi Bashagha, arguing that his own administration, installed last year under a United Nations-led peace process, has a mandate to rule until elections.
Pro-Bashagha forces had deployed on the eastern edges of Tripoli on Thursday, prompting the U.N. mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to warn against any escalation.
But Bashagha's office said in a statement in the early hours of Friday that the groups had "opted not to use arms, and to return to their bases."
Turkey randomly bombs a village in the countryside of #Syria’s #Ain Issa, wounding 3 children and causing damage to the villagers’ homeshttps://t.co/jTfGuO6F51
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 12, 2022
AIN ISSA, Syria (North Press) – Three children were wounded on Saturday in the bombing of the Turkish forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions on the village of al-Heisha in the western countryside of the town of Ain Issa, north Syria.
The child Khalaf Jassem Freij (15), Awad Nawash Unezan (14) and Maher Nawash Unezan (10), were wounded in the Turkish forces’ shelling on the village of al-Heisha using heavy weapons, a local source told North Press.
The three children were transported to Omar Alloush Hospital in Ain Issa town for treatment, the source added.
Furthermore, the indiscriminate shelling of the village at eight o’clock resulted in material damage to the homes of residents, the source said.
In early March, Turkish forces bombed the western and eastern countryside of Ain Issa town and the motorway M4, north of Raqqa, north Syria.
Reporting by Gulistan Muhammad
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[OneIndia] A member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... from Kerala has been killed in Afghanistan. Najeeb Ali who hailed from Kerala was killed in a suicide kaboom, according to the Voice of Khorasan, the publication of the Islamic State Khorasan Province.
He was described as a 23 year old engineering student from Kerala. The article said that he had come all the way from India on his own, while adding that it was very difficult to make hijra during those days. The article described him as a quiet person who always had a smile on his face. "Ewwww! Is that his face?
"Ayup. I'd know that smile anywhere...at least the part that's not missing"
“It’s not missing anymore — I found the rest of it over there. Is anyone missing an ear? I found one of those, too.”
Another invasion route to keep track of, because apparently migration is a fundamental right.
[DW] Thousands of migrants colonists from West Africa are taking the risky journey to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... via the Spanish Canary Islands. As a result, aid organizations have said that 2021 saw more fatalities in the Atlantic than ever before.
Madala Tounkara, of Mali, was still a minor when he boarded a small wooden fishing boat seven years ago and set off on a perilous sea voyage from the coast of Mauritania in West Africa. Like many African migrants colonists, his longed-for destination was the Canary Islands — a Spanish archipelago off Africa's northwest coast. To reach Gran Canaria, the boat carrying Tounkara had to contend with the raging waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Two Colorado County Clerks have the data that could end crooked Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s career.
The two Republican County Clerks — Elbert County Clerk Dallas Schroeder and Douglas County Clerk Merlin Klotz asked the court on Friday to allow them to compare the data they saved from the 2020 elections to the servers after Secretary of State Griswold altered the machines.
Griswold does not want anyone to examine the voting machines after she had them worked on for some reason?
It is interesting how Democrats have fought EVERY SINGLE audit into the 2020 election?
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Normally a 2020 Election type situation would have a big * beside it in the history books.
But it is now 99.99% electronic media and history is history only for a nanosecond.
Book Burning is no longer needed by the National Socialists or the Liberal Democrats. They have control of Social Media.
Yesterday Hezbollah, today hiring cannon fodder at $200-300 for a six month stint from the pool of Russia-linked Syrian paramilitaries, while trained Syrian combat troops from the 4th Armored Division and 5th Corps are to get up to $3000.
[AnNahar] With Russia's war on Ukraine now in its third week, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... on Friday approved bringing in volunteer fighters from the Middle East, particularly Syria.
Syria clearly has a rich pool of fighters to draw from. Russia's military is deeply entrenched in the Mideast country, where its intervention - starting in 2015 - helped Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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Assad's finest? What they hell, is this a drive by Putin to demilitarize the islamics? Choose a conflict and pour them all into it. Next up, Taliban?
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Bashar al Assad inherited the Baathists from his father — Arab Socialist, not Muslim as such, though his tribe is traditionally a Shiite variant.
Turkey’s local Turkik Muslim Brotherhooder and ISIS remnant paramilitaries, and Al Nusra and its Al Qaeda franchise and Muslim Brotherhood allies are the religious ones in Syria.
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Before they leave they should talk to some of their brothers who went to Libya on behalf of the new Ottoman Empire.
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they should talk to some of their brothers who went to Libya on behalf of the new Ottoman Empire.
A bunch of them — still unpaid because Neo-Ottoman Sultan Erdogan the First is still paying off his new 1000-room palace — were shipped off to Azerbaijan to bully Armenia with. They reportedly were not paid for that work, either.
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Getting close to throwing in the towel, thank God:
Zelensky Ready to Negotiate, Open to High-Level Peace Talks in Jerusalem
Tom Ozimek
Mar 12, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that he’s ready to hold high-level peace talks with Russia, flagging Jerusalem as a possible location and expressing hope that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett could help broker a deal
Putin struck an optimistic note on the several rounds of technical negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian delegates in Belarus, saying he saw a positive shift in the discussions.
Moscow has demanded that Ukraine cease military action, pledge never to join NATO and enshrine neutrality in its constitution, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory, and recognize the separatist-controlled regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states.
Zelensky earlier signaled openness to a compromise with Putin on some of his key demands for halting the offensive in Ukraine, including on NATO membership and the status of the contested territories
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[NewsFrontInfo] 00:17 Ukrainian Nazis attacked the Lavra in the city of Svyatogorsk. There is evidence that the Kiev militants were preparing a provocation in advance, in order to later blame Russia for it. There are civilians wounded.
00:02 Fighting and explosions are heard near Rubizhne. Ukrainian resources report that the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR stormed the city. 23:17 Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on the village of Kalinovo. They used 122mm artillery. Six rounds of ammunition were fired at the settlement. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
21:52 Ukrainian Nazis staged a looting raid on residential buildings in Mariupol. They took away the last money and food from people, and shot everyone who resisted them.
21:37 ANNA-NEWS reports that the resort in Slavyansk, where the Nazis from "Azov" * were located, was hit.
20:40 The advanced units of the People's Militia of the DPR, during the development of the offensive on the eastern outskirts of Mariupol, entrenched themselves on Azovstalskaya Street. During the systematic cleansing of residential areas from Ukrainian Nazis, eight firing points and a stronghold of militants were destroyed since the beginning of the day. Three modernized T-64 BV tanks and infantry fighting vehicles were captured.
20:05 During the shelling of Donetsk by the Ukrainian Nazis, a seventeen-year-old guy was injured.
19:50 During the shelling of Donetsk by the Ukrainian Nazis, a woman born in 1959 was injured.
19:35 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR have reached the outskirts of the city of Severodonetsk.
19:34 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR liberated the settlements of Molodezhnoye and Vozgorye from the Nazis. They also captured the southern and central parts of the Popasnaya settlement.
19:13 The armed formations of Ukraine lost 1,055 people killed and 1,229 wounded in the battles in the Donbass - Eduard Basurin, official representative of the People's Militia of the DPR.
19:12 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired ten mines of 120mm caliber at the Gorlovsky village of the Gagarin mine.
19:09 In Donetsk, after the shelling, the Mayak book market caught fire. It is located in the northern part of the capital of the DPR.
18:25 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the center of Donetsk from the Grad MLRS. A package of ammunition was released around the city. The shell fell near the square of the Baku Commissars.
18:16 The village of Dokuchaevsk in the DPR was under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis. Ten rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the republic, who were in the fire and rescue unit, were injured. It was she who became the target of the militants.
18:01 During the day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR evacuated 217 people, including 25 children, from the surrounded Mariupol and the settlements of its suburban area.
17:28 Nazis from "Azov" * in Mariupol have equipped their positions in a wasteland near Tokarev Lane along Pobedy Avenue. In the immediate vicinity there are two educational institutions at once - school No. 61 and kindergarten No. 46.
17:02 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the Yelenovka railway station, now, completely de-energized.
16:58 In Mariupol, the operation to liberate the city from the Nazis continues. The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR are already fighting in the area of the Sea Boulevard in the southern part of the eastern region of Mariupol.
15:47 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Trudovskie on the outskirts of Donetsk. Several houses were seriously damaged.
15:39 In the morning, Kiev militants fired at three settlements in the DPR: Panteleymonovka, Staromikhaylovka and Aleksandrovka. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:11 The fire and rescue unit in the village of Volodarskoye near Mariupol went over to the side of the DPR. Its employees have remained true to their duty to help people and are already supporting the forces of the republic.
15:05 Today we can say that we have liberated 85 settlements, including Volnovakha. Today, the settlement is already being worked out there as part of its activities. The Ministry of Internal Affairs - the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
14:32 A powerful explosion thundered in the center of Donetsk. The details of what happened are being specified. Everyone is asked to be extremely careful.
14:30 Shelling from the Ukrainian Nazis in the village of Irmino (LPR) destroyed a residential building, and three more houses, a utility building, a school building and a gas pipeline were damaged.
14:23 Kiev Nazis again opened fire on Donetsk. Under fire was the Kuibyshevsky district of the capital of the DPR. The local mosque was damaged.
13:55 The People's Militia of the DPR will develop an offensive to the north-west of Volnovakha towards Vuhledar.
13:20 The air defense forces of the People's Militia of the DPR intercepted a Ukrainian missile of the Tochka-U complex over Shakhtyorsk. During the operation to liberate the republic from the Nazis, this is already the 14th such ammunition.
12:24 Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on Pervomaisk in the LPR. They used 122 mm artillery and fired six shells into the city. Information about the victims and damage is being specified.
11:35 The People's Militia of the LPR liberated about 80% of the republic from the Nazis. Now the village of Rubezhnoye is blocked, NM LPR on the outskirts of Severodonetsk.
11:23 Ukrainian Nazis shelled the village of Irmino in the LPR. They used 152 mm artillery and fired six shells at him. Information about the victims and damage is being specified.
11:11 The People's Militia of the DPR liberated the settlements of Valerianovka and Zeleny Gai from the Nazis, and also blocked Novoandreevka from the south and east. They advanced deep into the republic for 9 kilometers.
11:04 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR liberated the settlements of Sorovtsevka, Shchedrishchevo, Zhitlovka from the Nazis and blocked Rubizhne. They advanced deep into the republic for 6 kilometers.
10:35 During the day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR evacuated 135 people from the combat zone in the Mariupol and Volnovakha directions, including 25 children.
10:35 The People's Militia of the DPR acquired new trophies: they captured three tanks, an infantry fighting vehicle, an armored car and an anti-aircraft gun ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" based on MTLB.
10:33 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis fired 496 shells at the DPR. They shelled 17 settlements using MLRS, 122 mm artillery and 120 and 82 mm mortars. Four civilians were injured. Also damaged were 30 residential buildings, nine infrastructure facilities and one car.
09:58 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Krutaya Balka: 10 122 mm rounds fired; n.p. Novobakhmutovka - n.p. Mikhailovka: 40 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
09:53 A Ukrainian Armed Forces grenade launcher chained to a pole in Novotroitsky. This is beyond good and evil. Apparently, his brothers punished him for something, giving him two grenade launchers, but this could not help him.
09:33 Criminal cases have been opened in the DPR against 45 commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
09:02 The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR said that complete demining in the Donbass could take decades.
08:48 The Azov militants (banned in the Russian Federation) do not deliver water to people locked in basements, military commander Yuri Kotenok writes. A critical humanitarian situation is developing near Mariupol. The local residents, who are being evacuated from the liberated territories by the fighters of the NM DPR, confirm that the national battalions used them as a human shield, while in fact they were not supplied with anything - not even water.
08:40 The DPR office in the JCCC reported new shelling: 07:30 — n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Wide beam: fired 5 minutes with 120 mm caliber, 07:30 - n.p. Maryinka - Donetsk (village of the Trudovskaya mine): 5 mines fired with a caliber of 120 mm, 07:40 - n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Wide Beam: fired 10 minutes in 120 mm caliber.
08:10 Ready for use ATGM NLAW APU in Volnovakha.
08:00 Offensive of the Russian Armed Forces and the DPR army after the capture of Volnovakha. In this configuration, there is a shift in the offensive line in the direction of Ugledar.
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[Korrespondent] 22:01 According to the National Security and Defense Council, 82 children have already died in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. 22:00 Danilov, citing intelligence data, said that after Ukraine, Russia would probably move to Lithuania, then to other Baltic countries, then to Poland. In this case, much will depend on the reaction of NATO.
21:58 Of the 12 green corridors, nine worked today, Vereshchuk said. In particular, the corridor in Energodar did not work - the invaders did not let the humanitarian convoy into the city. Corridors in the Kiev region partially worked: they did not work from Vorzel and Irpen, but Bucha did, from where they took almost a thousand people.
21:47 Russian invaders took control of a humanitarian convoy, which was heading from Zaporozhye to Mariupol, the Zaporozhye regional administration reports.
21:40 Today, 5,729 people were evacuated from the Sumy region in cars and 4,353 people in buses, said the head of the military administration Dmitry Zhivitsky.
21:39 The largest Belarusian bank Belarusbank introduces restrictions on Visa, Mastercard and Maestro cards. According to the press service of the bank, abroad, its customers will now be able to receive cash or spend up to 400 rubles within a day.
21:31 The United States, as part of a new aid package, will provide Ukraine with anti-tank and anti-aircraft systems, as well as small arms, Reuters reports.
21:15 An emergency meeting of the regional council took place in Kherson, at which the deputies adopted an appeal that "Kherson region is Ukraine", and there will be no pseudo-republic in the region.
20:53 The Cabinet of Ministers compensates local communities for utility bills when accommodating migrants - the corresponding resolution has already been adopted.
20:43 The Russian invaders "appointed" a new "mayor" of Melitopol after the abduction of the legally elected Ivan Fedorov. Galina Danilchenko, the head of the local HLE, is trying to take over its functions. Her appeal has already been published in the media: "We need to adjust all the mechanisms to the new reality."
20:29 The Kharkiv governor said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Russian fighter near Izyum, it fell on the territory of the Belgorod region.
20:24 The French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) conducted a large-scale survey on the war in Ukraine among residents of Germany, France, Italy and Poland - only about 55% of the EU population.
The poll showed that 79% support tough sanctions against the Russian Federation; 67% support the provision of weapons to Ukraine; 87% support the need to accept and help refugees from Ukraine; 70% support Ukraine's accession to the EU; 75% have a positive attitude towards Zelensky; over 90% have a negative attitude towards Putin.
20:21 Among Americans, 81% of respondents consider Ukraine an ally or a friendly country, for 70% of US citizens Russia is the biggest enemy, reports The New York Times, citing a YouGov poll.
20:17 Kuleba named three victories for Ukraine: victory in the information war, a change in attitude towards Ukraine and Ukrainians in the world, as well as undermining the Russian economy.
20:16 Kuleba believes that the elimination of Putin will be sufficient to end the war in Ukraine, "but the de-Putinization of Russia is required to restore peace and security in the Euro-Atlantic space."
20:14 According to the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security, Belarusian servicemen categorically refuse to participate in the war against Ukraine. To suppress the protests of the military, the command appoints Russian officers to senior positions in the army.
20:13 Intelligence reported that the Kadyrovites shot 12 wounded Russians in Borodyanka, who were waiting to be sent to Belarus for treatment.
20:00 The EU has serious concerns that the Russian Federation may "expand its military activities" against one of the NATO countries, Borrell said.
19:51 In the Ivano-Frankivsk region, two suspects were detained in an attempt to seize power in the western regions and create the "Republic of Ukraine". The criminals were looking for about 500 people with combat experience in the western regions to seize administrative buildings. They face five to ten years in prison.
19:24 PayPal will block the electronic wallets of citizens of the Russian Federation from March 18.
19:15 On March 11, Russians shot a convoy of women and children in the Kiev region, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reports. When trying to evacuate from the village of Peremoga, Baryshevsky district, towards the village of Ostroluchie, along the agreed green corridor, a column of civilians was shot, which consisted exclusively of women and children. As a result, seven people died, including one child.
After the execution, the invaders forced the remnants of the column to return to the village of Peremoga and do not let them out of the village. At present, it is almost impossible to establish communication, as well as to provide humanitarian and medical assistance.
19:13 Zelensky addressed the Italian people to explain the difference between Ukraine and Russia: "We live. They kill."
19:11 In the Chernihiv region, the Ukrainian army liberated two settlements, did not allow the occupier to establish a crossing and captured more than ten units of enemy equipment, OK Pivnich reports.
19:10 The General Staff warns of the threat of sabotage at military facilities in Volyn.
19:09 The Kharkiv diocese of the UOC-MP reports that as a result of shelling in the city, the Church of the Holy Myrrh-bearing Women, the Assumption Cathedral and the Church of Queen Tamara in Pyatikhatki were damaged.
19:07 Roskomnadzor explained the need to block Instagram, including "ensuring the psychological health of citizens, primarily children and adolescents."
19:04 A rally in support of Ukraine is taking place near Johnson's office in London, activists are demanding to close the sky and impose a ban on the purchase of oil and gas from Russia.
19:02 Residents of Kherson, Berdyansk, Melitopol today continued to go to rallies against the Russian invaders.
18:59 Podolyak confirmed that negotiations with the Russian side are continuing in video format , special subgroups have been created for this. In a comment to Babel, Podolyak explained that Ukraine does not have time for long trips to the place of negotiations.
18:47 About 200 people were evacuated from Vuhledar and Volnovakha district. The city and neighboring villages are under constant shelling by the Russian army. Donbass police officers, the State Emergency Service, together with the leadership of the regional military administration, delivered civilians to a safe place, from where they will be transported to more peaceful regions of Ukraine.
18:25 The mayor of the occupied Genichesk, Alexander Tulupov, announced that he was resigning, along with him, almost the entire leadership of the city was resigning.
"We are forced to state that we have been placed in such conditions when we cannot work and exercise powers as representatives of the Ukrainian local government," he explained.
17:57 Kuleba said that he did not discuss the issue of Crimea and Donbass with Lavrov, because "this is our land."
17:45 In the Zaporozhye region, a Russian tank crushed a car with local residents. As a result, two men died, one underage boy burned to death in a car, according to the National Police.
17:42 Biden signed a memorandum on providing defense assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 200 million.
17:40 According to Forbes Ukraine, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed 2,593 units of enemy equipment worth $5.1 billion, or about 700 billion rubles.
17:36 Cyber police, together with volunteers, developed a website for Russian and Belarusian military who do not want to fight against Ukraine: https://www.defenseua.com/
On the site, the military from Russia and Belarus can find contacts of government organizations and detailed instructions on how to refuse to participate in the war against Ukraine. Applicants are guaranteed compliance with the Geneva Convention on the maintenance of prisoners of war.
17:13 The Vatican said it was ready to do everything possible to help achieve an end to the war in Ukraine.
17:11 Rosatom said that the management and operation of the Chernobyl and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants are carried out by Ukrainian personnel, "Russian specialists provide advisory assistance."
17:08 As of March 11, 500-600 Russian soldiers have surrendered, Zelensky said. Many have fled, many are hiding in some buildings, someone is sneaking into Russia. "There's a bit of chaos," the president added.
16:57 The mayor of Melitopol is alive, he is being tortured because he does not want to say that he is glad to see the Russian "authorities", Zelensky said.
16:55 Zelensky believes that Israel should be among the countries that will sign an agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine.
16:52 The SBU intercepted the conversations of the invaders, from which it follows that in Kharkov they were given the command to shoot at civilians. Russia is throwing more and more forces into the encirclement of the city, but to no avail. According to the SBU, out of 2,000 people from the so-called "LPR" who tried to storm Kharkiv, 20-25 people survived.
16:50 Azerbaijan stated that there was a proposal from the Ukrainian side to hold talks with Russia in the country, and Baku is ready to organize them.
16:35 Zelensky: "100 percent we know that there will be a victory, and 100 percent we do not know when it will be." He also stressed that the Russians "will enter Kyiv if they destroy all of us."
"Only they will have to live on this earth without us. They will definitely not find friends among us," the president added.
16:34 Zelensky said he does not see the courage of NATO members to unite for the sake of Ukraine.
16:33 Zelensky said Ukraine is ready to buy air defense systems, even if on credit.
16:31 During the Russian invasion in Ukraine, about 1,300 soldiers were killed, Zelensky said.
16:17 G7 leaders made a joint statement about sanctions and other pressure on Russia. In particular, they intend to close loans for the Russian Federation from the IMF, WB and other world financial institutions.
16:12 Zelensky said in an interview with foreign media that he was ready for negotiations with Moscow, and expressed the hope that the peace process would be launched "in practice, not in words." He also added that "issues are already being discussed, they have begun to agree on something."
16:09 According to the Ministry of Energy, as a result of the Russian invasion, more than 960 thousand people remain without electricity. The most difficult situation is in Donetsk, Kiev, Kharkov and Chernihiv regions.
About 264,000 people were left without gas. The most difficult situation is in Kiev, Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions.
16:08 Volnovakha as a city no longer exists , said the head of the Donetsk OVA Kirilenko.
16:00 Zelensky said in an interview with foreign media that he offered Israeli Prime Minister Bennett to hold talks with the Russian Federation in Jerusalem.
15:55 Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Igor Zhovkva said that direct negotiations between Zelensky and Putin are hardly possible. According to him, "we are talking about the mediation of leaders in the organization of such negotiations."
15:47 Putin "told" Macron and Scholz in detail about the series of talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives "held in video format" in recent days, Moscow reported.
15:34 The State Bureau of Investigation initiates putting Kiva on the international wanted list, the necessary package of documents has already been collected.
15:14 Near Odessa, 600 Russian marines staged a riot and refused to go to war against Ukraine, one of the prisoners told the SBU. According to him, the Russian military, while approaching Odessa, realized what was happening and refused to obey the leadership.
15:11 In Nikolaev as a result of night attacks eight people are wounded, 11 private houses are destroyed, 167 houses, hospital and 11 educational institutions are damaged, mayor Alexander Senkevich reported.
14:56 The Russian occupiers are preparing a referendum on the creation of the "Kherson People's Republic" , said Sergei Khlan, a deputy of the Kherson Regional Council. According to him, the Russians are already calling local deputies in order to persuade them to their side and help organize a "referendum."
14:29 Ukrainian intelligence reports that the Russian army is actually legalizing looting - units of the occupying forces were instructed to switch to "self-sufficiency", that is, to take everything they need from the local population and rob warehouses, shops, pharmacies.
14:23 The Russian invaders in Melitopol blocked the humanitarian headquarters, where the locals came for food, clothes and medicines. Now they cannot get help, Gerashchenko said.
14:15 The Ministry of Energy of Azerbaijan stated that the country has enough gas reserves for supplies to Europe, and expressed its readiness to increase supplies to neighboring countries if necessary.
14:00 Russia has already used more than 90 tactical battalion groups. A third of the Russian troops have been destroyed or put out of action , Arestovich said. According to him, the Russian Federation is trying to create an additional group of up to 20 thousand people and throw it to the front.
He also said that the only hot spots in Ukraine now are the JFO zone and Mariupol.
13:53 Zelensky: "The dynamics of the losses of the invaders on the 17th day is already such that we can confidently say: this is the biggest blow to the Russian army in decades. They have not lost anywhere else in such a number of days."
13:50 Irish deputies unanimously voted to change the name of the street on which the Russian embassy is located - now it is the street of Independent Ukraine.
13:43 Arestovich urges residents of Central and Western Ukraine to "stop sitting at home" and go to work, resume normal life. Otherwise, according to him, a collapse in the economy and the collapse of the rear will begin, followed by a social crisis, because people simply run out of money, and then the political one.
13:37 The head of the Donetsk regional administration, Pavel Kirilenko, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had withdrawn from Volnovakha. According to him, in the south of the region, the offensive is coming from the side of the Zaporozhye region, from the north - from the side of Izyum. Toretsk and Avdeevka were hit, air bombs were dropped on the villages of Yatskovka, Rubtsy - both of them were destroyed.
Mariupol is completely surrounded, the humanitarian situation in the city is deteriorating. Fights are being waged along the entire line of demarcation in the JFO zone.
13:36 The main efforts of the invaders are focused on the capture of Mariupol and Severodonetsk. The enemy captured the eastern outskirts of Mariupol, according to the General Staff.
13:34 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that the military leadership of Belarus is tightening the security of the border with Ukraine, and the likelihood of the direct participation of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus in hostilities against Ukraine remains.
13:29 Macron and Scholz are having a telephone conversation with Putin, Western media reported.
13:16 Germany intends to become independent of Russian coal by the fall, and by the end of the year - almost independent of Russian oil, the country's Ministry of Economy said.
13:07 The head of the Sumy region Dmitry Zhivitsky said that there would be no evacuation from Akhtyrka today, since there is no confirmation of green corridors and artillery shelling of the city continues.
12:54 The Russians are using Serbia as a loophole for flights to Europe, writes The Guardian. Air Serbia has doubled the number of direct flights from Moscow to Belgrade to meet growing demand from Russia.
12:46 The airport in Lutsk is completely destroyed after yesterday's strike, the mayor of the city said.
12:31 The Russian Foreign Ministry again stated that convoys with foreign weapons for Ukraine would become "legal targets" for the Russian armed forces.
12:29 According to the clarified information of the Skhid air command, the Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed two missiles over the Dnieper.
12:27 The Chief of the General Staff of the Belarusian Armed Forces announced that five battalion-tactical groups were sent to the border with Ukraine to replace the military there now. However, he argues that this has nothing to do with entering the war on the side of Russia.
12:10 A total of 11 representatives of Rosatom arrived at the Zaporozhye NPP, Energoatom reports. Among them were identified the chief engineer of the Balakovo NPP Oleg Romanenko and the deputy chief engineer for repairs of the Rostov NPP Ivan Malakhov.
They were sent ostensibly to assess nuclear and radiation safety after the shelling and seizure of the station, as well as to provide assistance with repairs. Another reason for their appearance is the refusal of the pro-Ukrainian leadership and personnel of the ZNPP to cooperate with the invaders. They said that now it is the territory of Russia and will remain so forever.
12:08 Bloomberg has calculated that Russia's GDP has lost $30 billion due to two weeks of war in Ukraine.
11:50 Podolyak denied Israeli media reports that Prime Minister Bennet advised Zelensky to accept Putin's conditions and surrender.
11:48 The Ministry of Defense of Belarus stated that the movement of troops in the country has nothing to do with the preparation, and even more so with any participation of Belarusian military personnel in the "special operation" in Ukraine.
11:21 Arestovich believes that in the coming weeks, Russian troops will try to throw their reserves into areas where they can potentially succeed: "I give two, maybe three weeks, maybe three and a half, to actively attack their attempts after a pause. After this they will become like bunnies, because they have nothing to fight with at all."
11:11 According to the General Staff, yesterday's missile attacks on Lutsk, Dnipro and Ivano-Frankivsk were carried out by strategic bombers Tu-95MS PKS RF. Air-launched cruise missiles were used, and at least six Tu-95MS aircraft were involved in the missile attack, launching at least ten cruise missiles.
11:03 Occupants hit Belogorodka in the Kiev region with Grads, where they brought evacuees from Bucha, writes Gerashchenko.
11:00 Putin does not believe in his own army and resorts to Stalinist repressions. As one of the captured Russian soldiers said during interrogation at the SBU, the army leadership resumed the practice of "execution squads" - echelons that follow the main forces and kill those who want to escape.
“We were given to understand that we would not return back, because trains were coming after us, killing deserters trying to return home,” the prisoner admitted.
10:58 In Melitopol, right from a rally against the kidnapping of the mayor of the city, one of the organizers of the protest, Olga Gaysumova, was kidnapped, according to her page on the social network. It was she who called yesterday to come under the district state administration and demand that the mayor be released.
10:56 During the 16 days of the war in Ukraine, 79 children were killed and almost 100 were injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
10:52 Israeli media write that Prime Minister Bennet advised Zelensky to accept Russia's conditions for ending the war and surrender. The answer of the Ukrainian president was short: "I heard you."
10:50 Mayor Vasilkov reports that as a result of missile strikes, the airfield has been completely destroyed - the runway has been disabled, ammunition depots and fuel and lubricants have been destroyed.
10:24 As a result of night attack of Nikolaev hospitals, a boarding school and a boiler room are damaged, two people are wounded, local authorities reported.
10:17 As a result of the morning air raid, Sumy was left without water and electricity.
10:14 The Cabinet of Ministers proposed to the Rada to cancel the excise tax on fuel and reduce the VAT rate from 20% to 7%.
10:13 Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Kanatovo airfield near Kropyvnytskyi, the governor of the Kirovograd region said.
10:12 Ukrainian military completely destroyed the 488th motorized rifle regiment from the Bryansk region, said the speaker of the Operational Headquarters of the Odessa Regional Military Administration Serhiy Bratchuk.
10:11 According to British intelligence, fighting continues northwest of Kiev with the bulk of Russian ground forces, which are now located about 25 kilometers from the center of the capital. Parts of a large Russian convoy dispersed, which may indicate an attempt to encircle the city, the British believe.
10:09 The Ukrainian command reported that a Russian cruise missile was shot down over the Dnieper.
10:06 Vereshchuk listed the humanitarian corridors that are open as of 09:00 on March 12:
A convoy with humanitarian cargo and buses for evacuation leaves Zaporozhye for Mariupol
From Polog (Zaporozhye region) to Zaporozhye
Buses to evacuate people from Polog and Tokmak will leave Zaporozhye for Pology
From Gostomel to Kyiv
From Kozarovichi (Kyiv region) to Kyiv
From Mykulichi (Kyiv region) to Kyiv
From Andreevka (Kyiv region) to Zhytomyr
From Makarov (Kyiv region) to Zhytomyr
From Borodyanka (Kyiv region) to Zhytomyr
From Trostyanets to Poltava
From Sumy to Poltava
From Lebedin (Sumy region) to Poltava
From Konotop to Poltava
From Bolshaya Pisarevka (Sumy region) to Poltava
From Krasnopolye to Poltava
10:05 The Ministry of Defense announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of March 12:
personnel - more than 12 thousand people,
tanks - 362,
BBM - 1205,
artillery systems - 135,
MLRS - 62,
air defense systems - 33,
aircraft - 58,
helicopters - 83,
automotive equipment - 585,
ships/boats - 3,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 60,
UAV operational-tactical level - 7.
10:02 In Vasilkov near Kiev this morning, several rockets hit the area of a military airfield and damaged an ammunition depot, the National Police reported.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that on March 12, "long-range high-precision weapons" were struck at the military airfield in Vasilkovo and the main center of radio and electronic intelligence in Brovary.
10:00 Head of the Donetsk regional administration Pavel Kirilenko said that a green corridor had been opened in Mariupol, a humanitarian convoy had left Zaporozhye. More than 90 tons of food and medicines are sent to the city, which has been under blockade for 13 days.
09:55 In Kharkiv, the bodies of the dead continue to be removed from the rubble after the enemy bombing on the night of March 9-10. According to the State Emergency Service, the bodies of five people were recovered yesterday - two women, two children and one man.
09:53 Specialists have begun repairing the damaged power grids of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant captured by the Russians, the IAEA director general said. So far, one section has been repaired, but the power supply has not been restored. Repair work will continue.
09:49 In Melitopol, local residents went to the captured building of the district state administration demanding the release of the mayor of the city, Ivan Fedorov, who was kidnapped by Russian invaders the day before.
09:24 In Kiev, a Russian drone was shot down on Podol , as a result of its fall, the Oschadbank building on Khoreva Street caught fire. According to Anton Gerashchenko, the drone was stuffed with a kilogram of explosives (plastids) with metal balls. According to preliminary data, it was a kamikaze drone of the Cube model, which is capable of carrying up to three kilograms of cargo.
09:03 Chernihiv was left without electricity, practically without water, heat and gas, there are problems with mobile communications and the Internet, Governor Vyacheslav Chaus said.
09:01 The IAEA announced the resumption of data transmission from monitoring systems at the Zaporozhye NPP.
08:55 Azerbaijan will send 380 tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine today, including food, medicines and medical supplies.
08:54 The scale of the losses of the Russian army testify to its complete unsuitability, said ex-Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt.
08:45 The London Internet Exchange LINX disconnected the key providers of the Russian Federation - Rostelecom and Megafon - from the point of international traffic exchange. Now the traffic will go through Asia, and this will reduce the data transfer rate.
08:39 An oil depot is on fire in Vasilkov after an airstrike, Kuleba said.
08:32 The British Ministry of Defense announced that Russia is striking with unguided missiles from points inaccessible to Ukrainian air defense, in order to increase the number of civilian casualties.
08:21 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the 31st battalion-tactical group of Russian troops has lost combat capability, the General Staff reports
08:15 Residents of the Kiev region today can be evacuated by their own transport from Bucha and Vorzel in the direction of Belogorodka, the Buchansk City Council reported.
07:27 At the Zaporozhye NPP, the occupiers gathered the management personnel and reported that now the station allegedly belongs to Rosatom, Energoatom reports.
06:39 According to the Federation of American Scientists, Russia has 5977 nuclear warheads. Most of them are ballistic missiles or missiles that can be aimed at long distances. Preferably they are located on bases or by the sea. Less than a third of the total number of warheads have been decommissioned and are subject to dismantling.
06:15 Italy blocked the yacht Sy A of the Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko worth 530 million euros.
05:58 The Russian authorities are conducting a secret mobilization and replenishing the reserves of their army fighting in Ukraine, at the expense of residents of all regions of the Russian Federation, as well as the "DPR", "LPR" and Crimea, Budanov said.
04:42 In the city center in Chernihiv, Russian troops attacked the Ukraine Hotel.
04:23 Instagram will be blocked in Russia on Monday, March 14.
03:17 Russia attracts mercenaries from different countries of the world, including Libya and Syria, to the war with Ukraine, Budanov said. The Russian Federation also imports people from such unrecognized territories as the PMR, Abkhazia, and Ossetia. Read more about the Syrians, as well as Wagner PMCs - in the material Whom Russia throws into Ukraine .
01:49 Russia is developing two options for nuclear blackmail to accuse Ukraine, Budanov said. The first is a large-scale arson of radioactive forests, after which a radioactive cloud will immediately rise and go in the direction the wind blows. The second is the use of artillery on a nuclear storage, the result will be the same.
01:20 Ukraine has rejected the idea of holding talks with the IAEA and the Russian regulator about Ukrainian nuclear power plants, since this is how the Russians are trying to gain a foothold in Ukrainian nuclear facilities, Kuleba said.
01:10 During shelling Nikolaev in the evening on March 11 the cancer hospital got under blow, local authorities reported.
00:58 The number of captured invaders has reached such a level that it was necessary to create a Coordinating Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war, Zelensky said.
00:55 Zelensky demanded that Russia immediately release the mayor of Melitopol and ensure complete security for all heads of state communities. "If you are turning into an analogue of ISIS terrorists, then what's the point in talking to you about anything at all?" he added.
00:31 Ukraine knows almost all the plans of Russia, said the head of Ukrainian intelligence Kirill Budanov. "As soon as some ideas are born in large offices, we immediately know about them," he added.
According to Budanov, now there are two people left who unequivocally support the continuation of hostilities in Ukraine - these are Putin and Shoigu. “Even the generals of the Russian Federation are against it. Some are more active, some are just silent, sometimes even sabotaging some orders of the Russian leadership,” Budanov said.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet against five Khalistan
...the idea of an independent Sikh homeland in the Indian (and Pak, but they don't dwell on that) Punjab. The local troublemakers are financed by the Sikh diaspora, who love the idea of the folks they left behind murdering their neighbours before dying romantically for a hopeless idea, with training and additional funding from Pakistain’s ISI via Lashkar-e-Taiba as yet another arrow in their quiver aimed at the Indian throat since the 1980s....
i bandidosbully boyz in connection with a narcotics and arms smuggling case.
The NIA has charged Harmesh Singh, Darvesh Singh, Gurmukh Singh,Gagandeep and Lakhbir Singh Rode.
Good Sikh names, all...
The NIA said that these persons were smuggling arms and narcotics from Pakistain and bringing it into India.
Investigation has revealed that the chargesheeted accused persons had smuggled illegal consignments of arms, ammunitions, explosives and narcotics from across the Indo-Pak border to carry out terror activities in India.
These illegal consignments were sent by accused Lakhbir Singh Rode (Chief of ISYF,
...the International Sikh Youth Federation, banned in Canada as a terror organization in 2003, and a favourite of Canadian politicians ever since...
a banned terrorist organization) and his associates from Pakistain via drones. These consignments were received by co-accused and further discreetly passed on to other accused persons involved in the conspiracy to carry out subversive activities in India. Incriminating evidences have been found against all the chargesheeted accused persons. Till now, 5 accused have been arrested in the case while accused Lakhbir Singh Rode is absconding.
[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... bully boyz have yet again struct in the republic of Kenya, amid ongoing crackdown within the East Africa nation, targeting the al-Qaeda linked group which controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.
Media reports indicate the al-Shabaab fighters killed four construction workers, injured two in an attack in Lamu, Kenya on Friday. The coastal county has been a hot spot for the bully boyz due to its proximity to Somalia where the bully boyz have a huge base.
Local media reported that attackers also burnt two vehicles as they caused havoc across the village. Reports indicate that military manning the village were elsewhere for various operations when the bully boyz carried out the attack, leading to questions about the safety of locals.
Through proxy media sites, al-Shabaab grabbed credit for the attack, adding that it has killed six Kenyans and one Chinese in the attack which took place in the vicinity of Majengo, Lamu County. Chinese companies have lately been winning construction tenders in Kenya.
Kenya media reported one Chinese national was missing but no confirmation yet from Kenya police. It's the first time al-Shabaab is killing a foreign national within the county since 2020 when the bully boyz attacked the Manda Bay base controlled by US Africa Command.
Despite a number of security operations by Kenya aimed at clearing al-Shabaab from Boni Forest, the group’s Jaish Ayman unit continues to operate it. Unit commander Maalim Ayman was designated by the US for allegedly planning the Jan 2020 attack on Manda Bay which killed three Americans.
A report published by the Wall Street Journal claimed the US Africa Command soldiers manning Manda Bay were not adequately equipped to deal with immediate threats in the county. Five al-Shabaab turbans from different countries were killed during the attack.
The East African nation has been laying strategies to flush out the bully boyz who control huge swathes of rural central and southern Somalia. The US is also contemplating sending more troops to Somalia, over a year after the unprecedented exit.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Computer repair shop owner who handed Hunter Biden's laptop to the FBI says he's lost his business and is on verge of bankruptcy after liberal intimidation campaign which resulted in death threats
John Paul Mac Isaac says he's since lost his store and now faces bankruptcy, after being victimized in an intimidation campaign once his findings went public
'I was getting a lot of death threats,' John Paul Mac Isaac, owner of The Mac Shop in Wilmington, said Saturday
'I had to have a Wilmington trooper parked in front of my shop all the time,' he revealed to the New York Post, who first reported on the contents of the laptop
Files found in Biden's personal computer included emails showing shady business dealings by the current US president's son with foreign officials
After weeks of being approached and harassed by multiple mysterious figures, Mac Isaac was forced to close down the shop and flee the state in Nov. 2020
#2
Just for the heck of it, Google "Seth Rich Photo" on Google and see how many articles in include the words in the leading paras "conspiracy theory."
#3
But, now the flip side of the coin this is not being addressed.
When we hand over a broken computer to a Repair shop we are "trusting" them with our lives contents. READING & releasing that data is a breech of that trust.
If he wasn't in it for the fame and/or wrongfully trusting the BIDEN DOJ/FBI. Then he should have quietly passed the data to a Q-Anon type source for release.
#4
Breach of trust? Hunter Biden abandoned his laptop. The owner went through it after it became his property.
Moreover there are lots of anti-cheese pizza laws on the books. Repair shops are doing a disservice if they don't scan your hard drive for CP. Lots of pedos got busted this way.
#5
1st of all to clarify I am NOT defending HUNTER.
I am addressing only the issue of proper handling of customer assets and the part why the guy's customer dumped him.
I myself, having been "invited" to do "legal" ITSEC/TCSM since 1988. The one thing I learned is to Guard and Control your customer's data.
The "Abandoned Laptop" is still the property of the Owner UNTIL they are contacted, or there is a legal notice run in the Legal Section of the local Newspaper.
The name Hunter Biden alone surely allowed alternative avenues of contact.
#7
The "Abandoned Laptop" is still the property of the Owner UNTIL they are contacted, or there is a legal notice run in the Legal Section of the local Newspaper.
I have a vague recollection that the laptop's owner was contacted, but said owner never actually did anything about it. I am too lazy to go and check, though.
[Garowe] The ISIS-linked faction in Somalia, has pledged allegiance to the new leader who was announced last Thursday, as the group seeks to revamp itself after years of losses in an operation instigated by several military teams in the works.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... branch has been battling to make a presence in the Horn of Africa nation but their efforts have often been thwarted. The group has a very limited presence in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... state, northeastern Somalia.
On Saturday the group said in a statement that it recognizes Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Quraishi as the group's leader, just days after he was picked. The new leader succeeds Abu Ibrahim al -Quraishi who died last month alongside his successor Abubakr al-Baghdadi.
ISIS affiliate was formed in 2015 in Puntland by a Somali-British man named Abdulkadir Mumin after defecting from al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... . The group has, however, faced resistance from al-Shabaab, a dominant group in Somalia.
The al-Shabaab group controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia and has for decades tried to expand territory. The rivalry between the two groups has made it difficult for both to expand, an advantage to various security forces.
ISIS has resorted to guerrilla attacks since losing its last significant piece of territory in Syria and Iraq. The US military killed the group's first two leaders in special operations in Syria.
Somalia has been a hotbed of terrorism and the United States is now contemplating the possibility of redeploying soldiers to the country to help in fighting against terrorism. The US had withdrawn over 700 soldiers last year following a decree by former President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:55 Residents of Bucha, Irpin, Gostomel and Vorzel report that continuous explosions have been heard for more than two hours.
22:38 "We need to start living in a new way as soon as possible!" - and about. Mayor of Melitopol Galina Danilchenko appealed to the residents of the city and deputies of local councils. She said that on the territory of the Zaporozhye region liberated from the Ukrainian Nazis, the creation of committees of People's Choices had begun. 22:27 In the village of Drozdy, Belotserkovsky district, Kiev region, territorial defense units have placed positions in the Kalinka kindergarten. The building is located at Molodezhnaya street, 4, writesTelegram-channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya".
22:01 Unique frames operation of the L-370 "Vitebsk" airborne defense system from the cockpit of a Russian Ka-52 "Alligator" attack helicopter during the cover of the landing of the Airborne Forces at the airfield near Gostomel, Kyiv region, February 24.
21:54 Nikolaev is blocked, the RF Armed Forces are methodically attacking enemy positions on the outskirts, there is no assault yet, military expert Boris Rozhin said. Part of the group left in the direction of Krivoy Rog and Nikopol. According to him, there are fights to the east and west of Kyiv, with again an accentuated desire of the RF Armed Forces to move south in order to achieve a complete encirclement of the city. In the liberated territories of Kherson and Zaporozhye, the power of military-civilian administrations is being strengthened. The communications of the group operating in the Zaporizhia direction are being established.
21:15 Ukrainian servicemen fired at a Russian civilian ship in the Sea of Azov, sailing from Greece to Taganrog, a criminal case was initiated, the press service of the RF IC reported.
20:39 AFU fired at the Russian civilian cargo ship "Sormovsky 3064" in the Sea of Azov, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (IC RF) reported.
20:36 According to reliable data, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are experiencing (as a result of purposeful actions of our aviation) an increasingly acute shortage of fuel and lubricants, which is already affecting their mobility and ability to supply troops, as well as maneuver forces, military expert Igor said Strelkov.
20:15 Negotiations between the Ukrainian delegation and the Russian one continue continuously in video format, special working subgroups have been created, said Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of Zelensky's office.
19:30 During the day, aviation and air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down in the air: one Mi-24 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force and three unmanned aerial vehicles, including one Bayraktar TB-2, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aircraft hit 79 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine.
19:18 More than 12 million Ukrainians need humanitarian assistance, according to the UN.
19:08 Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine continue in video format. The representative did not disclose the details of the video meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations.
18:44 Biden issued a memorandum on the provision of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of up to $200 million, the White House reported.
18:20 The management and operation of the Chernobyl and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants continues to be carried out by Ukrainian personnel, Russian specialists provide advisory assistance, Rosatom said.
17:47 According to Zelensky, the losses among the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the beginning of the military special operation amounted to 1,300 servicemen. It is worth noting that as early as March 2, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported more than 2,870 killed and about 3,700 wounded soldiers of the Ukrainian army.
17:44 Nazism is officially merging with the Armed Forces of Ukraine,writesTelegram-channel "Military correspondents of the Russian Spring". Units of the neo-fascist Azov regiment (banned in the Russian Federation), stationed in Kharkov, became part of the Ukrainian army and became two separate reconnaissance and reconnaissance and sabotage battalions.
17:25 In Vasilkov near Kiev, rockets hit the ammunition depots at the airfield.
16:30 The first batch of military assistance to Ukraine from Spain almost entirely consisted of training aids and dummies of Instalaza C-90 and Alcotan-100 grenade launchers, writes Telegram-канал «Readovka».
15:20 Footage of the combat use of the Russian Aerospace Forces has appeared on the Web. Video destruction of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and fortified objects by army aviation helicopters as part of a special military operation.
14:44 In the Zaporozhye region, the Point-U of the Armed Forces of Ukraine got stuck in the ground.
14:26 “The city is restoring its vital activity,” locals told about life in Berdyansk, liberated from Ukrainian nationalists. Residents said that the city was returning to normal life: milk, meat appeared on the market, food prices began to fall.
14:08 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are running out of Bayraktars Almost all the vehicles that were in the arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were shot down by Russian air defense fire, and some were out of order due to improper operation. Indirectly, the shortage of drones in the Ukrainian army is evidenced by the fact that the outdated Soviet Tu-141 Strizh began to be actively used, which were specially removed from conservation for this purpose.
13:35 Convoys with weapons for Ukraine can become legitimate targets for the Russian Armed Forces, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
13:19 All incorrectly parked cars in Lviv may not return to their owner - they will go to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Readovka writes. The mayor of the city, Andriy Sadovy, decided to introduce new penalties for car owners who park their personal vehicles incorrectly - now their cars can be used by Ukrainian soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for military purposes.
12:58 A destroyed Russian Armed Forces and a burnt out Ukrainian BTR-4.
12:30 The Ukrainian authorities announced that people would be taken out of Zaporozhye today to Pologi - this settlement is under the control of the Russian military. The mayor of Energodar said that from 9:00 (10:00 Moscow time) a humanitarian corridor will be opened to leave Zaporizhzhia - the route runs from the ZAZ plant and goes through Vasilievka to the settlement of Pologi.
11:55 The Ukrainian military fired at buses with refugees from Nikolaev on the way to Odessa. The mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, said that buses evacuating residents of Nikolaev to Odessa were subjected to shelling, writes Readovka. However, there is a discrepancy here - the fact is that there are no Russian military between Odessa and Nikolaev now, as well as on the entire side of the Southern Bug. Therefore, we can conclude that the Ukrainian authorities no longer deny that the Ukrainian Armed Forces and nationalists themselves are shelling, obviously in order to keep civilians in the city.
11:50 Yesterday, at about 3 am Moscow time, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed the personnel of the 10th separate mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Baryshevka, Kiev region. This unit is part of the 8th separate mountain infantry battalion and has recently arrived to strengthen the defense of Boryspil, transmits Telegram-channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya".
11:30 a.m. The Kanatovo airfield in the Kirovograd region was hit,informsmilitary commander Kitten.
11:05 In total, 3491 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine were put out of action during the operation, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
10:51 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, invited him to accept Russian leader Vladimir Putin's proposal to cease hostilities, but official Kyiv refused, writes the Axios portal, citing its source among Ukrainian officials.
10:40 First-person special operation: how special forces soldiers work in the Chernihiv region. In the video, the fighters are conducting reconnaissance and search operations in areas liberated from the Nazis and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The search and liquidation of formations that have not laid down their arms is being carried out, they are also assisting the population in supplying medicines, food and basic necessities. During the patrol, armored vehicles "Lynx" and "Tiger-SPN" are used.
10:19 On the morning of March 12, a high-precision long-range weapon hit Ukraine's military infrastructure facilities. The military airfield in Vasilkovo and the main center of radio and electronic intelligence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Brovary were put out of action, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
10:00 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that Russian troops are "25 kilometers from Kyiv."
09:45 The Russian Ministry of Defense published video recording helicopter strikes on armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
09:37 The result of the air strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the oil depot in Vasilkov.
09:00 Precise missile strike in Chernihiv hit the base of mercenary militants from different countries that make up the so-called "Foreign Legion", who arrived to help the Ukrainian Nazis.
8:55 a.m. Vasilkov (Kyiv region) explosions are heard. Local residents suggest that the local airport was hit.
08:41 The population will be evacuated from the Sumy region today, the humanitarian corridor has been agreed. This was announced by the governor of the region Dmitry Zhivitsky.
08:30 Satellite images of the fighting in the Kiev region.
08:28 Gadyach, Poltava region, NLAW anti-tank guided missiles are brought to the Ukrainian defense system on civilian vehicles.
08:00 Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine leave their weapons en masse. The Russian military found boxes with Igla MANPADS.
I’m writing this from Skopje, North Macedonia, where I’ve been for the last week teaching one of our Leadership Academy for Development courses. Following the Ukraine war is no different here in terms of available information, except that I’m in an adjacent time zone, and the fact that there is more support for Putin in the Balkans than in other parts of Europe. A lot of the latter is due to Serbia, and Serbia's hosting of Sputnik.
I’ll stick my neck out and make several prognostications:
Russia is heading for an outright defeat in Ukraine. Russian planning was incompetent, based on a flawed assumption that Ukrainians were favorable to Russia and that their military would collapse immediately following an invasion. Russian soldiers were evidently carrying dress uniforms for their victory parade in Kyiv rather than extra ammo and rations. Putin at this point has committed the bulk of his entire military to this operation—there are no vast reserves of forces he can call up to add to the battle. Russian troops are stuck outside various Ukrainian cities where they face huge supply problems and constant Ukrainian attacks.
The collapse of their position could be sudden and catastrophic, rather than happening slowly through a war of attrition. The army in the field will reach a point where it can neither be supplied nor withdrawn, and morale will vaporize. This is at least true in the north; the Russians are doing better in the south, but those positions would be hard to maintain if the north collapses.
There is no diplomatic solution to the war possible prior to this happening. There is no conceivable compromise that would be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine given the losses they have taken at this point.
The United Nations Security Council has proven once again to be useless. The only helpful thing was the General Assembly vote, which helps to identify the world’s bad or prevaricating actors.
The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time. It is much better to have the Ukrainians defeat the Russians on their own, depriving Moscow of the excuse that NATO attacked them, as well as avoiding all the obvious escalatory possibilities. The Polish MiGs in particular would not add much to Ukrainian capabilities. Much more important is a continuing supply of Javelins, Stingers, TB2s, medical supplies, comms equipment, and intel sharing. I assume that Ukrainian forces are already being vectored by NATO intelligence operating from outside Ukraine.
The cost that Ukraine is paying is enormous, of course. But the greatest damage is being done by rockets and artillery, which neither MiGs nor a no-fly zone can do much about. The only thing that will stop the slaughter is defeat of the Russian army on the ground.
Putin will not survive the defeat of his army. He gets support because he is perceived to be a strongman; what does he have to offer once he demonstrates incompetence and is stripped of his coercive power?
The invasion has already done huge damage to populists all over the world, who prior to the attack uniformly expressed sympathy for Putin. That includes Matteo Salvini, Jair Bolsonaro, Éric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orbán, and of course Donald Trump. The politics of the war has exposed their openly authoritarian leanings. "i.e.: Everyone I don't like"
The war to this point has been a good lesson for China. Like Russia, China has built up seemingly high-tech military forces in the past decade, but they have no combat experience. The miserable performance of the Russian air force would likely be replicated by the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, which similarly has no experience managing complex air operations. We may hope that the Chinese leadership will not delude itself as to its own capabilities the way the Russians did when contemplating a future move against Taiwan.
Hopefully Taiwan itself will wake up as to the need to prepare to fight as the Ukrainians have done, and restore conscription. Let’s not be prematurely defeatist.
Turkish drones will become bestsellers.
A Russian defeat will make possible a "new birth of freedom," and get us out of our funk about the declining state of global democracy. The spirit of 1989 will live on, thanks to a bunch of brave Ukrainians.
Courtesy of 3dc:
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Sounds good, doesn't work. Russian Federation is over. It's not gonna survive the war in Ukraine and certainly not gonna survive the defeat. However the political landscape of North Eurasia will look like after the war, new order will be built on completely different principles pic.twitter.com/LB7voumnGg
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/\ The Russians had the Wehrmacht directly up their arse until Uncle Sam came to their assistance. In 1948 the US, UK, and FR joined their sectors in an effort to unify the German people and heal the land. The Russians countered by cordoning off their sector and claiming it as a client state. How quickly the Russians had forgotten US and Allied assistance.
Even before the United States entered World War II in December 1941, America sent arms and equipment to the Soviet Union to help it defeat the Nazi invasion. Totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency, the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 in support of what Stalin described to Roosevelt as the “enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy — bloodthirsty Hitlerism.”
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The program sent nearly 2,000 locomotives and innumerable boxcars to the Soviet Union. In addition, almost half of all the rails used by the Soviet Union during the war came through Lend-Lease. - cite.
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After Russia is defeated, we'll break them up into small parts, easily dominated and the threat they pose to our rulers will be removed.
Then, the immigrants. Africa is bursting at the seams with people who want a new life. Russia is undergoing a demographic collapse. A massive importation of new people is exactly what is needed to rescue the former territory of the Russian Federation. Moreover it will ensure the Rus, a danger to the world since they were a people a thousand years ago, never emerge again.
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Putin at this point has committed the bulk of his entire military to this operation—there are no vast reserves of forces he can call up
Just spit-balling here...
Xi looks at mighty Russian military:
a) producing copious amounts of fail
b) mostly sitting in the west of the country, leaving the east barebones.
c) pissing off almost all potential allies
Starts thinking about all that tundra and resources just sitting there for the taking.
Maybe. If China starts badmouthing Russia and/or sympathizing with Ukraine, that'll be a real indicator.
#8
All those "Chinese speaking Siberians, looking for protection from a madman" crying out to Xi?
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Preparing for DefeatFrancis Fukuyama
Oh FFS... not this idiot again. The "intellectual" who told us liberal democracy would sweep the world and bring about the "end of history" - the most retarded phrase coined by any intellectual since Marx and Engels. This was the delusion, as Mearsheimer puts it, behind the Nuland-Obama wrecking crew's idiotic pretension of being "21st century people."
The foolish doctrine of liberal internationalism has done such extraordinary damage to the US. This has killed more of our and the world's people, caused us to lose wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, helped ruin Libya and is the ultimate cause of the disaster in Ukraine.
God save us from neocon shitheads like Fukuyama. Go back to Palo Alto, little man. Enjoy your thruple with McFaul and Condi Rice
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When I worked in Washington every policy maker I knew had a copy of that fairy tale prominently displayed in their offices
I read the danged thing and decided it was a wish list for foreign policy geeks
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The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time.
Seriously, the Biden administration? Looked to me that they were trying to bait Poland into the transfer.
[PJMedia] The former leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, has been hit with seven charges in relation to Jan. 6, 2021, including conspiracy. Tarrio wasn’t in Washington, D.C., that day, but that’s irrelevant when it comes to a conspiracy charge. He was arrested Tuesday in Miami.
The indictment included six other Proud Boys from around the nation.
Commentary by Russian blogger Andrey Chervonets
Unique footage, video of Russian paratroopers taking control of Gostomel airport on February 24
Gostomel was kept surrounded for two days against the NGU brigade, 200 against 4000, and kept. On the second day, tanks and landing troops marched up to ours.
This topic recalls the notorious video with polite Russians
[NYPOST] A man with a history of assaulting kids allegedly attacked a Queens toddler by allegedly flipping the wagon she was sitting in, police said.
Christopher Elder, 31, accosted a woman who was pushing her toddler granddaughter as she tossed out trash in Flushing early Friday, according to the NYPD.
The incident unfolded about 6:20 a.m. at 45th Avenue and Robinson Street when Elder, of Queens, began shouting at the woman, Maria Zamora, 48, who doesn’t speak English.
He allegedly grabbed and shook the cart with both hands and then kicked it into the street causing the woman’s 3-year-old granddaughter, Sophia, to fall to the pavement, authorities said.
Sophia suffered a cut to her head and was taken to Flushing Hospital Medical Center, where she received five stitches, the complaint says.
Gabriel Zamora, Sophia’s uncle, said Saturday that he rushed to the hospital when his mother told him what happened.
"Someone hit me. Someone kicked me," Zamora said the tot told him.
"Now she’s very scared. She didn’t want to come home yesterday," Zamora said.
He said she liked to ride in the little blue wagon, which was outside the family’s home Saturday.
Sitting inside was a brown paper grocery bag Zamora said that Elder left behind. It contained two cups of instant ramen noodles, one of them open.
The little girl, who had a bandage on her forehead and a cut under her left eye, came out to wave to a photographer.
Elder was caught nearby at 45th Avenue and Kissena Boulevard, and then taken to Elmhurst Hospital for evaluation.
He was charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child and harassment. He was arraigned Saturday in Queens Criminal Court and sent to jail without bail until his next court date on March 28.
Elder appeared to have been near the Zamora’s building Friday morning to visit a relative.
His uncle, Tyrick Elder, said he was at the apartment house to see his brother when Christopher appeared around 6 a.m. and was banging on the door so hard it fell off its hinges, according to a criminal complaint.
Tyrick Elder had an order of protection against his nephew, the complaint said.
Christopher Elder was also charged with criminal contempt and criminal mischief Friday.
A woman who lives in the building said she had seen him there previously knocking on his relative’s door.
Elder has a long rap sheet that includes at least eight prior arrests, many for unprovoked assaults, including a Dec. 11 arrest in Flushing in which he allegedly assaulted a 9-year-old girl by throwing her to the ground, police said.
On Feb. 25, Elder allegedly hit a 30-year-old man in the head with a glass bottle at a U-Haul location off the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, cops said.
Following his arrest Friday, he was charged in that incident, too.
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Once again the Liberal Utopia called NYC displays the true results of Liberal compassion for Mental Health issues.
* A 72-hour evaluation,
* Give the Nut Job a prescription for a med they sell, or won't take or can't afford to fill,
* Then dump them back on the streets.
LOGIC & HISTORY SAYS:
If you keep putting violent crazies back on the streets without extended evaluation (months) without verified corrective treatment, then expect their violence to escalate.
#1
We're close to the endgame now. The Russians are mopping up in the East and Kyiv's on its last legs.
Despite the western media's BS, propaganda and cheerleading, the truth is that Zelensky is desperate and would be wise to accept Bennett's advice and give up. John Mearsheimer agrees:
"John Mearsheimer - What Should Ukraine Do & Is Russia Losing The War Due To Economic Sanctions"
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"If the Ukrainians were smart, they would divorce themselves from the United States... and work out a modus vivendi with Russia.... My view is, if you're a small player in the international system, and you live next door to a gorilla, then you absolutely have to accommodate that gorilla"
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We hear lots of posturing puffery about "morality." The truly moral solution now is for Ukraine to renounce Zelensky's reckless and foolish vow to take over Crimea and Sevastopol (issued March 24, 2021); divorce itself from NATO and the US; and agree to the Minsk II terms with new emendations reflecting the new military reality in the Donbas.
As Mearsheimer says, this "modus vivendi with Russia" would be the best outcome by far for the US, for Russia -- "and most importantly, for the Ukrainian people."
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Surrender is theend survival of what's left of Ukraine, FIFY
and Zelenski's life.
Not if he's guaranteed a safe haven where he's parked his illicit money (BVI, per the bank account data revealed in the Panama Papers).
Israel could also take him in: many of the "great Jewish oligarchs from Ukraine and Russia have Israeli citizenship. Including not just Viktor Vekselberg, Mikhail Friedman, Gusinsky, Khodorkovsky and many others but also -- well, looked here, Igor Kolomoisky, the patron and protector of none other. than ... Zelensky.
So Zelensky will probably end up safe in Israel, like Pinochet being whisked off safely to England for his remaining years. Zelensky's family and corrupt fellow Kolomoisky-puppets have pads in Londongrad so he'd feel right at home.
Not a good offer.
The least bad offer. For all of us, especially the poor Ukrainian people.
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^ Yes, indeed #1. Then#4 yes. Swamp, Kerry, Biden's, Soros and DNC desperately needs massive cash cow Ukraine. I look each day for them to wiggle and squirm. People have left Ukraine because the massive Zelensky corruption. Soros placed devotee.
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Official now. Endgame. Time to scoot Zelensky to safety a la Pinochet. (Hint: Poland is a really BAD idea. Try the British Virgin Islands. Or maybe Martha's Vineyard.)
US and Europe weigh plans for Ukrainian government in exile
By Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood
CNN
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US and European officials have been discussing how the West would support a government in exile helmed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should he have to flee Kyiv. etty
US and European officials have been discussing how the West would support a government in exile helmed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should he have to flee Kyiv, Western officials told CNN.
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Trump would have prevented this - as he is now reminding us. That's why the Clinton and Obama crowd had to stop him
Nobody was ever tougher on Russia than me’: Trump says he’d be speaking to Putin to avoid WWIII
By Patrick Reilly
NY Post
March 12, 2022
Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump were in the White House, the former president insisted during a rally in South Carolina.
"This could lead to WWIII. I see what’s happening, because if you think Putin’s going to stop, it’s going to get worse and worse. He’s not going to accept it, and we don’t have anybody to talk to him. You had somebody to talk to him with me,” Trump told the crowd in Florence, South Carolina on Saturday night.
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I don't think Israel will take Zelensky. Didn't he stash most of his loot in London real estate? Maybe Boris can install him as the new Chelsea FC owner. He could entertain the crowd with stand-up before the game
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I’ve got as far as the first question in Nero’s link. Interesting.
We’ve been hearing voices both past and present saying that the reason for what has happened is, as George Kennan put it, the strategic blunder of the eastward expansion of nato. The great-power realist-school historian John Mearsheimer insists that a great deal of the blame for what we’re witnessing must go to the United States. I thought we’d begin with your analysis of that argument.
I have only the greatest respect for George Kennan. John Mearsheimer is a giant of a scholar. But I respectfully disagree. The problem with their argument is that it assumes that, had nato not expanded, Russia wouldn’t be the same or very likely close to what it is today. What we have today in Russia is not some kind of surprise. It’s not some kind of deviation from a historical pattern. Way before nato existed—in the nineteenth century—Russia looked like this: it had an autocrat. It had repression. It had militarism. It had suspicion of foreigners and the West. This is a Russia that we know, and it’s not a Russia that arrived yesterday or in the nineteen-nineties. It’s not a response to the actions of the West. There are internal processes in Russia that account for where we are today.
I would even go further. I would say that nato expansion has put us in a better place to deal with this historical pattern in Russia that we’re seeing again today. Where would we be now if Poland or the Baltic states were not in nato? They would be in the same limbo, in the same world that Ukraine is in. In fact, Poland’s membership in nato stiffened nato’s spine. Unlike some of the other nato countries, Poland has contested Russia many times over. In fact, you can argue that Russia broke its teeth twice on Poland: first in the nineteenth century, leading up to the twentieth century, and again at the end of the Soviet Union, with Solidarity. So George Kennan was an unbelievably important scholar and practitioner—the greatest Russia expert who ever lived—but I just don’t think blaming the West is the right analysis for where we are.
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TW as an aside, while your counter-argument is sound, perhaps the pace and motives of the most recent (read past 10-15 years) efforts to seal off the borders of Russia from the West were not coordinated with a further connectivity with the economy and cultural connectivity with the Russians, and by that I mean a genuine attempt to reverse the triangulation with China, encourage comity and remind them they are a mainland part of Europe, not Asia in the main. Their baseline culture is Western by heritage, but since the times of Peter the Great they have been rebuffed almost continually until the great tragedy of Marxist theocracy, but even that rotted fairly quickly. By all modern real-politic standards, they should see the China threat above all others, and see the role of vassal state as foreign and destructive to the Motherland!
#14
End days now. Both sides' negotiators just said they expect a signed agreement within a few days. Who will shelter Zelensky when he goes into exile? Soros? On Zuckerberg's Hawaiian island?
Or maybe in Epstein's palace?
RUSSIA AND UKRAINE GIVE BRIGHTEST ASSESSMENT YET OF PROGRESS IN TALKS ON WAR
March 13, 2022
(Reuters) -Russian and Ukrainian officials gave their most upbeat assessments yet on Sunday of progress in their talks on the war in Ukraine, suggesting there could be positive results within days.
Ukrainian negotiator and presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said in a video posted online,
“I think that we will achieve some results literally in a matter of days."
RIA news agency quoted a Russian delegate, Leonid Slutsky, as saying the talks had made substantial progress.
“According to my personal expectations, this progress may grow in the coming days into a joint position of both delegations, into documents for signing,” Slutsky said.
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Is Epstein's palace still available for Little Big Man's exile? Mucho spare room for Igor Kolomoisky and his entire entourage
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Location of peace talks being finalized now - Israel or Turkey. I'd guess Istanbul.
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By all modern real-politic standards, they should see the China threat above all others, and see the role of vassal state as foreign and destructive to the Motherland!
[Jpost] No casualties were reported in the attack. "Our partners in nuclear peace"
Some 12 missiles were fired from Iranian territory and fell near the US consulate in Erbil in northwestern Iraq on Saturday night.
The Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Service announced that 12 ballistic missiles were fired from "outside the borders of Iraq and the Kurdistan region, specifically from the east," according to the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
Independent open-source intelligence (OSINT) accounts shared videos reportedly shared by Iranian civilians showing missiles being fired from Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... at the time of the attack, with at least one of the videos being geolocated to a site in Khasabad in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran.
Tweeted videos can be seen at the link.
The governor of Erbil, Omed Khoshnaw, stated earlier in the night that multiple missiles fell in the area, saying it was unclear whether the target was the US consulate or the airport in the city.
While damages were reported in the attack, no casualties were reported.
The health minister of Kurdistan stated that there were no injuries or deaths reported in the attack on Saturday night. A US official told Rooters on Saturday night that there were no US military casualties in the attack.
The missile attack came as negotiations to return to the JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran stalled in Vienna.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell tweeted on Friday that the talks in Vienna needed a "pause," due to "external factors." Borrell added that a final text is "essentially ready and on the table."
Iranian foreign ministry front man Saeed Khatibzadeh stated on Saturday that there were at least one or two key issues that the US and Iran had not yet reached an agreement on. He added that the two states disagree on how sanctions should be lifted, with Iran wanting more sectors released from sanctions and the US wanting less.
Iranian officials stated that it is unclear when negotiations will resume.
Another video from missile launches from Khasabad military base in eastern Azerbaijan province of #Iranpic.twitter.com/VkVB1dWegc
Breaking footage was just released, which reportedly shows multiple cruise missiles launched from Iran striking the US consulate in Erbil, Iraq.
Very few details have been released at this time, but the video apparently shows these missiles flying out from the Iranian Khasabad missile base in Eastern Azerbaijan Province.
A "strategic center for conspiracy and mischiefs of the Zionists was targeted by powerful precision missiles," says a statement on the Guards’ official website.
They hit the local television station. So not terribly precise.
It warns that any future attacks by Israel "will face harsh, decisive & destructive responses."
Iranian state media agency IRNA, citing local reports, earlier claimed without evidence that “secret Israeli bases” were targeted in the attack.
The attack caused some material damage but no casualties.
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Now would be the time to really show the world America is not done yet. It would keep Putin in line, solve all mohameddan problems for the next five years, and re-establish morale.
Nuke them. Don't think twice about it. Nuke Tehran.
On November 4, 1979, 52 United States diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized hostages.
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Dates: Nov 4, 1979 – Jan 20, 1981 (444 days)
Location: Tehran, Embassy of the United States, Tehran
Over 40 years ago now, but as I recall, our Washington D.C. minders and thinkers did little if anything about it. Is there any question why the Iranians think they can get away with whatever they want ?
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This on the heels of Ulyanov publicly saying that the Iranians got 'everything they wanted and more' and while some of this administrations, uh, luminaries publicly floating the idea of buying Iranian oil.
No expert I, but it rather sounds as though we have an answer.
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^ circling back... to Tehran
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Maybe these dummies will realize one day, it's not all puppy dogs and ice cream. There is real evil in this world that needs to be rubbed out. And it's not just abroad. I'm not holding my breath thou.
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I read somewhere this morning that this is a newly built "embassy" and not currently staffed. Just because I read it doesn't make it true. Anybody else seen similar reports?
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Over 40 years ago now, but as I recall, our Washington D.C. minders and thinkers did little if anything about it.
And also from the memory hole:
How about when the CIA overthrew the democratic government of Iran in the 1950s and installed the Shah, a brutal dictator whose Savak secret police terrorized the country?
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Impressive, Lex. Multiple comments under three different nyms in the same thread. Why don't you get your own multiple-personality blog?
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Try again, Frank
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so iran got the no bid pentagon contract to destroy all evidence cuz the bengonzo crew is still recovering from kerosene burns and wrenched shoulders from swinging fire axes , how is the one they hit in the head still in charge of war policy specilizing in economics!?????
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He's already nuking us with nuclear sanctions, so why stop there?
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being covered by NPR, NBC, NYTimes, WaPo
Biden Admin hasn't made an announcement yet.
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Funny that the Ukrainian and the Russian negotiators issued statements today that they both expect a signed peace deal within days. Does Team Biden even have a clue as to what's going on in the world now?
Or are the Russians now in control of events from Kiev to Vienna to Tehran?
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[LA Times] Russian forces kept up their bombardment of cities across Ukraine on Saturday, capturing the eastern outskirts of a key southern port and waging an increasingly violent campaign with an eye to encircling the capital even as they sought to bring a political veneer to their occupation in cities they have captured.
The moves come as the White House announced it would send an additional $200 million in arms and equipment for Ukraine. That announcement came hours Moscow signaled it could soon expand the war to embroil Kyiv's allies, warning the U.S. that it would consider convoys carrying weapons to Ukraine to be "legitimate targets."
While wide-scale Russian bombing campaigns intensified in cities including Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Chernihiv, Russian forces plan to conduct a referendum that would turn the city of Kherson — the first major city captured by Russian forces earlier this month — into a vassal breakaway republic, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
"Given zero popular support, it will be fully staged," he wrote on Twitter, warning that it was a repeat of Russia's playbook in 2014, when Russian-backed separatists held a referendum that led to the creation of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics in eastern Ukraine.
"Severe sanctions against Russia must follow if they proceed. Kherson is & will always be Ukraine."
Sergey Khlan, a deputy in the Kherson Regional Council, said in a post on Facebook on Saturday that Russian authorities were contacting deputies and asking for their cooperation in holding the referendum to create a putative Kherson People's Republic.
"The creation of Kherson People’s Republic will turn our region into a hopeless hole without life and future," Khlan wrote.
"Do not give them a single vote! Do not give them any opportunity to legitimize [the Kherson People’s Republic]... Enter the history of Ukraine not as traitors whom nobody wants, but truly as citizens whose names will be remembered by the next generations."
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Saturday that shipments of Western weapons to Ukraine could be attacked by Russian forces, according to Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency. Western nations’ "thoughtless transfer" of portable air defense and antitank missile systems to Kyiv, Ryabkov said, demonstrated "the escalatory component of Washington’s policy."
The White House announced Saturday it approved an additional $200 million in arms and equipment for Ukraine, on top of $350 million President Biden approved last month.
"We have warned the U.S. that the U.S.-orchestrated inundation of Ukraine with weapons from some countries is not just a dangerous move, but also an action that makes these convoys legitimate targets," Ryabkov said. The Russian diplomat did not say whether Russian forces would target such convoys in Poland or Romania, NATO countries that border Ukraine.
The tough talk came on a day that Russian forces sustained "heavy losses in manpower and equipment" in areas northeast of Kyiv and were prevented from regaining a foothold on previously captured frontiers, according to the Ukrainian military.
To folks in the administration and Pentagon and CIA and NSA and various Peaceniks and Greenies... We really need "Rods from God" and "Bright Pebbles" here and they need the massive orbit lift capability of SpaceX's StarShip. Get off your stupid hate Musk/SpaceX/Tesla fetish and approve StarShip launching from Boca Chica and beg on your fricking GUILTY hands and knees MUSK to launch these two weapons systems ASAP. You can find Reagan's old prototypes in some BLACK PENTAGON STORAGE somewhere. Do it or continue on as TRAITORS to the people of THE USA and the Constitution and your oaths of office.
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Like I said the other day, If they didn't have to get on TV and brag about how much they were sending , then maybe they wouldn't have been targeted as fast.
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the shipment of weapons to ukraine will include Stingers so the Russian planes that attack will themselves become targets
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The amount of time to train a good fighter or ground support pilot? The amount of time to train a Stinger trigger puller?
[CBSNEWS] Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Saturday executed 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to bad boy groups — the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in its modern history. Also known as: "Taking out the trash"
The executions carried out surpassed even the toll of a January 1980 mass execution for the 63 bully boyz convicted of seizing the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979, the worst-ever bad boy attack to target the kingdom and Islam's holiest site.
It wasn't clear why the kingdom choose Saturday for the executions, though they came as much of the world's attention remained focused on Russia's war on Ukraine. The number of death penalty cases being carried out in Saudi Arabia had dropped during 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, though the kingdom continued to behead convicts under King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians... and his assertive son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists...
All had been "found guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes," the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, saying they included convicts linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, or to al-Qaeda, 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... rebel forces, or "other terrorist organizations."
They had been plotting attacks on vital economic sites, or had targeted or had killed members of the security forces, or had smuggled weapons into the country, the SPA added.
Of the 81 people, 73 were Saudi citizens, seven were Yemeni and one was a Syrian national.
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Aren’t they worried about their executioners developing tennis elbow?
The report does not give a reason for Iran’s suspension [of secret talks], but it comes after Saudi Arabia put to death 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to ties to militant groups, a group that activists believe included over three dozen Shiites.
Shiites, who live primarily in the kingdom’s oil-rich east, have long complained of being treated as second-class citizens. Saudi Arabia’s executions of Shiites have stirred regional unrest in the past.
Iran, the largest Shiite Muslim country in the world, and Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties in 2016 after Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Brois Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol. Storm of the city. Promotion in all directions. The enemy defends stubbornly, but he is pressed. It is already formally possible to travel to Crimea from Donetsk. Although a full-fledged land corridor has not yet been opened. The de-blockade of Mariupol, which Azov and Zelensky are asking for, is practically impossible in the current realities.
2. Volnovakha. Completely freed and cleaned. The troops are already freely passing through it in the direction of Ugledar, closing the front with the RF Armed Forces, which are also advancing in the direction of Velikaya Novoselka - Ugledar with an emphasis on Ugledar.
3. Donetsk - Gorlovka. Shelling of the cities of the DPR. Front near Avdiivka, Maryinka, Pesok, etc. noticeably perked up, but there is no significant progress.
4. LPR. Fighting in Rubizhne and around Severodonetsk. In Popasnaya (which was prematurely declared liberated a couple of days ago), fighting continues - LNR troops control part of the city.
5. Izyum. Fighting in the city area and on the southern outskirts. The situation in the city itself is incomprehensible, locals confirm the presence of the RF Armed Forces in the city and the fighting going on in the south. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to pin down the Russian troops in Izyum and Balakliya with attacks in order to prevent their advance to the south and in the direction of the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
6. Nikolaev. The city is blockaded, the RF Armed Forces are methodically attacking enemy positions on the outskirts, there is no assault yet. Part of the group left in the direction of Krivoy Rog and Nikopol.
7. Kherson - Zaporozhye. The power of civil-military administrations is being strengthened in the liberated territories. The communications of the group operating in the Zaporizhia direction are being established. At Gulyaipole - fighting. The front line in the area of Kamensky and Orekhov without major changes.
8. Kyiv. Fighting to the east and west of the city, with again accentuated by the desire of the RF Armed Forces to move south in order to achieve a complete encirclement of the city.
9. Chernihiv - no major changes. The city is blocked, in the city itself a hotel where foreign mercenaries were located was destroyed at night.
10. Sumy - no major changes.
11. Odessa. They continue to wait for the landing, but it is still not there. However, the city continues to fortify, transferring reinforcements from western Ukraine. There are no signs of an offensive by the RF Armed Forces from the PMR.
12. Belarus. Despite another wave of fakes that Belarus will attack Ukraine (yesterday at 21.00), the Belarusian Armed Forces do not show a noticeable increase in their presence on the border beyond the increase in the number of BTGs of the Belarusian army on the border with Ukraine from 5 to 10. The very border of Ukraine with Belarus is actually not guarded.
In general, for the evening of 12.03. One can note significant successes in the development of the offensive of the DPR army, as well as the troops of the RF Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled a village in the LPR from artillery shells - JCCC
[REGNUM] The urban-type settlement of Kalinovo in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) was fired from 122mm artillery pieces by representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU). This was announced on March 12 by the representative office of the LPR in the joint center for control and coordination of the ceasefire regime (JCCC).
"One shelling (Kalinovo) was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine," the report aid.
It is noted that the Ukrainian security forces fired six shells from artillery at the village.
No casualties or injuries have been reported.
As REGNUM reported , on March 12, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation initiated two criminal cases on the facts of the crimes of the Ukrainian armed forces against the civilian population of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.
Ukraine violates agreements on humanitarian corridors - Russian Defense Ministry
[REGNUM] Agreements on humanitarian corridors, which were supposed to be opened in Ukraine for the evacuation of civilians to safe areas, continue to be cynically violated by Kyiv. This was stated on March 12 by the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev at a briefing.
"The Ukrainian side continues to cynically violate the agreements reached on opening humanitarian corridors towards Russia," Mizintsev said. "Notification of the population in the cities of Kiev, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy and Mariupol was simply not carried out."
As REGNUM reported , on March 11, the deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the Donetsk People's Republic, Eduard Basurin , said that 69 people left the besieged Mariupol through the humanitarian corridor in a day.
Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened cases on the facts of war crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass
[REGNUM] The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on the facts of the crimes of the armed formations of Ukraine against the civilian population of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics initiated two new criminal cases under Art. 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (ill-treatment of the civilian population, the use in an armed conflict of means and methods prohibited by an international treaty of the Russian Federation). This was reported on March 12 on the website of the department.
"For the period from March 10 to March 12, 2022, multiple artillery and mortar attacks were recorded, as well as the facts of the use of the Tochka-U tactical missile system by representatives of the Ukrainian armed formations at settlements where civilians are located, and objects of critical civilian infrastructure of the DPR and LPR," the message says.
"As a result of the shelling of the Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky districts of the city of Donetsk, Gorlovka and Volnovakha in the DPR, as well as the settlements of Pervomaisk and Stakhanov in the LPR, three civilians not participating in the armed conflict were injured of varying severity.
A total of 77 residential buildings and administrative buildings of the people's republics were damaged and destroyed, including a boarding house for the elderly and disabled in Gorlovka, the buildings of two medical institutions, one shell fell on the territory of a school in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk," the report said.
The ICR qualifies the actions of the Ukrainian armed groups as a gross violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and the Convention on the Laws and Customs of War on Land.
Ukrainian security forces shelled Donetsk
[REGNUM] During the shelling of Donetsk by the armed forces of Ukraine (AFU), two more people were injured. This was reported on March 12 at the headquarters of the territorial defense of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
"During the shelling of the Kuibyshev region, a young man was injured," the headquarters’ Telegram channel said. "A woman was wounded in the Kiev region.”
As REGNUM reported, on March 12, the press service of the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that 10 employees of the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations were injured as a result of an explosive object entering the control room of the fire and rescue unit in Dokuchaevsk.
Fred poked his head in the O-club on Monday to say hey.
He still is ill but is recovering. He wants to -- at least part time -- get back into Rantburg.
He hates to bleg, so I will. His coffers, his sole recompense for his efforts at Rantburg, is running low and are in need of replenishment.
At his last bleg he mentioned Zelle at his email address, and there is a Paypal link on the front page. If you ask real nice, he could provide a snail mail address for donations.
Rantburg will go on regardless, but your donations will help Fred with his expenses.
Update just after midnight on Sunday 13. March: I was distracted by that little excitement in Ukraine, and neglected to roll over the bleg since Wednesday. If you are able to give and have not yet, please help us help Fred keep this place going.
********, if you look in the yellow box on the right side of the main page you’ll see a link that says Email Me. Click on that and send Fred your email address – he’ll send you his mailing address in return.
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Do you accept crypto? (Sorry, don't trust Planet Janet / Old Yellen). Get better, Fred
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Check written for my share of Rantburg’s running costs, with gratitude for what you’ve created, Fred. Will mail later today. Hope you feel better enough to start commenting soon — we miss your wry insights.
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The Delaware address is the one I have, M. I’m going to check with Gloria to make sure it’s still valid, will get back to you in this thread as soon as I have that confirmed. :-)
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OK, I live on the West Coast and I don't get up all that early anyway so I see all these people have already donated. But I donated just now and best wishes to Fred and all the mods.
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Paypal worked for me.
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So who is responsible for all this Russian FSB propaganda being placed on Rantburg in Fred's absence?
Maybe you don't understand the nice thing about Rantburg is that differing opinions are allowed as long as they remain civil. If you want political correctness, tune in to CBS News or The View.
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[WeaselZippers] KAMALA HARRIS: 'Our task is to show people that in many ways they got what they ordered. Right? They said this is what they wanted...so let's get out there as we do and remind them of that.' Vid @ link
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^"At least 5 people have been bold enough to approach me on the subject. It seems very important to them that I know that my president biden is not of his right mind and should not be president.
They have all been Trump lovers too." This currently in Vietnam. My friend married a Vietnamese woman and because of Covid government restrictions hasn't been able to see his wife for two years. This information was posted this week. I played my small part by telling him Thailand lifted restrictions and Vietnam quickly followed. My friend was in security during the Vietnam war. Spook stuff I believe. I must add Vietnamese prefer Americans to Chinese. Seems Americans are truly welcomed.
[IsraelTimes] US-based environmental nonprofit accused of ’greenwashing’ Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, cancels visits to Jewish state while keeping planned trip to China.
The national environmental nonprofit Sierra Club, headquartered in Oakland, has canceled its scheduled trips to Israel in response to pressure from progressive and anti-Zionist groups.
News of the Sierra Club’s decision came in a mass email obtained by J. that was sent out by Mary Owens, the chair of the Sierra Club’s National Outings team, to hundreds of volunteers who lead part-recreational, part-educational, conservation-focused trips around the world.
For years, the Sierra Club has offered trips to Israel to explore the country’s biodiversity, bird migrations, desert landscape, and ancient ruins.
Last year’s trip was called "Natural and Historical Highlights of Israel," offered for two weeks in March for about $5,000 per person. It advertised a "comprehensive journey through this enduring land," with birdwatching, sea snorkeling, a visit to the Dead Sea, and evenings on a kibbutz. Sierra Club outings are a major source of fundraising for the organization.
On the Sierra Club’s website, more than 250 upcoming trips are listed, including more than 200 to sites in the US and others to places like Malaysia, Nepal, and Antarctica. A trip to China is planned for October.
The website no longer lists a trip to Israel, and a number of web pages with information on past Israel trips were down on Friday afternoon. A notice appears at the top of the Middle East destinations landing page noting "There are currently no Middle East trips scheduled."
The email from Owens, who said she was not authorized to speak to the press, described the Sierra Club’s decision to cancel its trips — one scheduled for this month, and another for March 2023 — as the result of an advocacy push from one "Jewish American activist" and a host of both progressive and anti-Zionist groups, including the pro-Paleostinian Adalah Justice Project; the Indigenous rights group the NDN Collective; the Campaign for the Boycott of Israel; Jewish Voice for Peace; the Sunrise Movement; and the Movement for Black Lives.
An employee with the NDN Collective confirmed he was aware of his organization’s efforts but was not authorized to say more. A request for comment from JVP, the Jewish anti-Zionist group, went unanswered.
The email from Owens read: "On January 20, the board of directors received an email from a Jewish American activist urging us to cancel our upcoming trips to Israel (scheduled for March 15 and 29, 2022 and March 2023), saying that we are greenwashing the conflict there and providing legitimacy to the Israeli state, which is engaged in apartheid against the Paleostinian people."
The decision comes as the Sierra Club, one of the oldest and most influential environmental nonprofit organizations in the US, has made a push to fold progressive values and language more overtly into its mission, including rhetoric around social justice and anti-racism.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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"After receiving a green light from Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war in Ukraine in an effort to reclaim the old Russian empire," Soros wrote in an op-ed published by Project Syndicate on Friday."
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it .jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[JustTheNews] Former Trump national security advisor attempted last December to quash subpoenas committee issued him.
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979....jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet against five 
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them...
/\ The Russians had the Wehrmacht directly up their arse until Uncle Sam came to their assistance. In 1948 the US, UK, and FR joined their sectors in an effort to unify the German people and heal the land. The Russians countered by cordoning off their sector and claiming it as a client state. How quickly the Russians had forgotten US and Allied assistance.
[NYPOST] A man with a history of assaulting kids allegedly attacked a Queens toddler by allegedly flipping the wagon she was sitting in, police said.
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists...
