[Tablet] The purpose of the Biden team’s anti-Israel smear campaign is not just to make the Israelis look like they sympathize with a tyrant while offering to hide the blood money of their Russian co-religionists. That part is just ugly propaganda. The strategic purpose of the administration’s campaign is to force Jerusalem into an error that would give Putin reason to move against Israel, and thereby further limit its ability to strike Iran or its allies. As with Obama, Biden’s moves against Israel are keyed to the Iran deal.
Despite some occasional public vows of affection for Israel, Obama’s performative progressives, who staff nearly every important position in the Biden administration, do not see it as an ally. Insofar as Israel jeopardizes the Iran deal, it is a U.S. adversary. Russia, on the other hand, is an important partner in getting the deal across the finish line.
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Subtitled: The president and his people try to seal a new Iran deal by hanging their appeasement of Putin on Israel
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But these "deals" are not treaties, so the senate's approval is not needed. Like his boss, Joe will sell us out with his phone and pen.
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I don't get it. Russia attacks Ukraine, so Russia's evil and must be punished at any cost to us. But Russia helps Iran, so Russia's our friend and has to be appeased at any cost...Can someone explain what's going on here?
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Jack, I must have missed the part where they were actually doing anything to defend Ukraine from Russia. All they're doing is finding someone to blame.
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My 'investments' (retirement income stream) are over weighted in cash and energy and under weighted in other stocks and bonds. So, I am doing ok for now.
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We bought our first house in 1982. We caught a dip in the interest rate, which before and after was around 21% for an FHA mortgage with $2,000 down.
When trailing daughter #2 and her husband bought in Dallas in 2016, the issue wasn’t interest rates but a strong imbalance between buyers and sellers. Buyers were making no-conditions, above-asking-price offers sight unseen, driving average prices up 1% per month... and it’s only gotten worse there since then.
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WSJ article is behind the paywall but here's the gist. The Saudis are royally pissed about the Iran deal, about Biden not helping them vs Houthis etc and are serious about diversifying out of dollar assets -- probably the way the Kuwaitis do with the Kuwaiti Dinar (KWD).
If this happens, then a "block" will be "taken out of the wall" of the "supremacy of the US dollar in the international financial system, which Washington has relied on for decades to print Treasury bills it uses to finance its budget deficit." Economist Gal Luft, an expert on the dollar, says if that happens, "The wall will begin to collapse."
Pegged to a basket of currencies, the KWD is the world's most valuable currency and, while not 100% invulnerable to sanctions, has great strength and flexibility.
"Freezing Russia's foreign exchange reserves must have scared the daylights out of the Chinese (and others) who hold massive reserves in dollars. Any doubts countries had about the need to diversify into Yuan & other currencies/ geographies would have ended with that huge step."
Ali Shihabi adds:
"Ultimately countries will have to diversify more into non-dollar and also acquire material exposure to China/Asia in currency and investments. Also who knows maybe even #bitcoin. Diversification is the only sound and safe strategy for any large investor let alone a country."
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^ I'm not and it's not my opinion, it's just obvious. Common sense. Everyone sees this coming
Who knows, maybe some adults in Washington will take over from Biden and pull us back from the brink, halt the Iran deal, stop the sanctions, start helping the Saudis with their problems. But probably not.
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Uncertainty is the enemy of any fiat money. The US was already fueling that uncertainty with the nonstop explosion of debt going back to the W Boosh years. Add the scattershot "sanctions everywhere" approach of the Bidet misministration and the US dollar stool is now very wobbly.
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Meanwhile the Chinese stock market is crashing. May I recommend Swiss Francs (that was the go to in the 70's crash).
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If we straighten out our national finances and stop the hysterics, all those diversifying away will diversify themselves back to the dollar. In the meantime, if I were living elsewhere, I’d be pondering other options, too. Luxembourg, maybe. Not crypto, though, because that’s too easily manipulated for my taste.
Indeed. It's like ol' Rudyard had psychotic powers or something. Given that we have been evolving civilization since the Younger Dryas, you'd think we would have the basic plan down by now. Maybe we are just slow learners. It will be different this time!
[Babylon Bee] Jussie Smollett was sentenced on Thursday to a grueling 150 days in prison, 30 months of probation, and a $120,000 fine because he orchestrated a fake hate crime against himself. The former "Empire" actor has condemned the judge's sentence, saying he only received such a harsh sentence because he "created a hoax and tried to start a race war."
"Will the injustice never end?" Smollett asked at his hearing. "Your honor, I respect you and I respect the jury, but you're all stupid. This sentence shows a clear bias against people who stage hoaxes and try to start deadly race wars! You are just prejudiced against me because I wasted the time of the police and the rest of the country as well as millions of taxpayer dollars. I also inflamed riots around the country that led to billions in damage and dozens of lives lost. And people who do those things deserve light sentences just like those who don't do those things!"
Jussie Smollett has been transferred to Cook County Jail where he's already busy staging a fake suicide.
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Looks like Smelly's getting chubby. Is that how they like their bitches in the Big House?
[Political Wire] "American intelligence officials have discovered that the barrage of ballistic missiles Russia has fired into Ukraine contain a surprise: decoys that trick air-defense radars and fool heat-seeking missiles," the New York Times reports.
"The devices are each about a foot long, shaped like a dart and white with an orange tail, according to an American intelligence official. They are released by the Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles that Russia is firing from mobile launchers across the border, the official said, when the missile senses that it has been targeted by air defense systems."
"Each is packed with electronics and produces radio signals to jam or spoof enemy radars attempting to locate the Iskander-M, and contains a heat source to attract incoming missiles."
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A "mystery" to some possibly. Others might recognize it as an offensive adaptation of the US AN/ALE-47 countermeasures dispenser system. (C-130 in graphic deploys a buttload of countermeasure rockets)
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Excellent question Andy. Yes, I suspect the decoy's do confuse and overwhelm defensive radar systems. A few decoys dispersed among successive missile salvos would still permit effective defensive penetration. As we know, the Russians enjoy firing artillery in successive salvos.
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In Linebacker, we jammed the heck out of the North's equipment so they started to use their missiles in barrages. Yes, they did hit stuff. Day three they were out of missiles and signaled they'd sit down again at the table in Paris.
Two weeks after the United Kingdom dropped its last remaining Covid-19 mitigation measure -- a requirement that people who test positive for the virus isolate for five days -- the country is seeing cases and hospitalizations climb once again.
Covid-19 cases were up 48% in the UK last week compared with the week before. Hospitalizations were up 17% over the same period.
The country's daily case rate -- about 55,000 a day -- is still less than a third of the Omicron peak, but cases are rising as fast as they were falling just two weeks earlier, when the country removed pandemic-related restrictions.
Daily cases are also rising in more than half of the countries in the European Union
the UK Health Security Agency said BA.2 had an 80% higher relative growth rate than the original Omicron strain
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Oooohhh, scary. Meanwhile, in the US, "Serious/Critical" cases (hospitalizations) have fallen from just over 26,000 on Jan. 22 to just over 4,000 yesterday.
51 days of non-stop decline.
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Any increase at all will be a "dangerous surge..."
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If it's a previous (or similar) variant it will pass. It is likely a new variant, mostly immune to the current vaccines. Good excuse for more interventional measures(economic, political etc.) And for a new vaccine and associated mandates.
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So do we have yet another new strain and one that is more tolerant of slightly warmer weather?
Some additional facts to chew on.... UK COVID-19
Also interesting to notehere we have a country with 64.8 Million residents, with 140.4 Million vaccinations given. Yet still continues to see interesting C-19/22 infection numbers.
Either way, as predicted, arriving just in time for a massive US Media Panic and likely new "LSD creative" Mid-Term Voting processes.
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Remember how Joe declared he wanted 75% of the US vaccinated by July last year? Instead, the number has been stuck at 60% since well before then. That's probably a hard ceiling, short of coerced at gunpoint vaccination.
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[LoneStarParson}Religious leaders around the world, like Justsin Welby, Pope Francis and Foley improbably named Beach have condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Quite right too, we hate war, but consider. Imagine you were Head of State, a veritable Vladimir Putin.
Imagine, and then consider your borders. Would you put up with, if you had a choice, a hostile power financing and controlling bioweapons labs in a neighboring state and threatening to join a military alliance against you?
It sounds weird and preposterous, but that's exactly what we've been doing. Gay Pride Ukraine and big woke Trannie Corp's gonna take down monster Putin and turn Russia into a rainbow utopia.
A utopia in which you will WEF own nothing and be happy because your bathrooms are multisexual. That would be the West and the Zelensky Ukraine we're all cheering for. The Moscow Patriarchate says no, and so do Russia's MLRS which are pounding Karkov tonight with furious abandon.
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Imagine, and then consider your borders. Would you put up with, if you had a choice, a hostile power financing and controlling bioweapons labs in a neighboring state and threatening to join a military alliance against you?
Or drugs? Or dumping millions of aliens upon you?
We're there already.
[TheDiplomad] Russia's invasion of the nation of Ukraine grinds on.
It most certainly does not look like the blitzkrieg most of the world expected. Whether this is due to Ukrainian resistance, Russia incompetence, or just a slow deliberate methodical approach to the invasion, none of us outside of Putin's inner circle knows.
From my vantage point, and with the scant knowledge I have, it strikes me as though Putin's plans might have changed at the last minute. It appeared that his forces were building up to launch an invasion of eastern Ukraine, protecting the "independent" republics in that part of the country, and, perhaps, firming up the Russian position around Crimea. It SEEMS--those more knowledgeable, please join the discussion--that the plan got expanded at the last minute, and a multi-prong invasion of Ukraine was undertaken. This new plan, it SEEMS (there's that word), was neither fully developed nor properly resourced; it had not counted on the resistance APPARENTLY shown by the Ukrainians, or the reported incompetence of the Russian logistical system. If this proves so, Russia risks becoming a puppet, a colony of the PRC. The reports coming out that indicate Russia seeks Chinese military equipment and economic assistance seem--that word--to bear this out. That process is underway, it SEEMS.
I really don't know, and my speculation proves almost worth the price of admission to this blog.
What makes it even harder to figure out what's happening is the almost total shut-down of information from Russia, not by the autocrats and yacht-set oligarchs in Moscow, but by the autocrats and tech oligarchs of the "Free" World. If one expresses an interest in hearing the other side of the story, one risks getting labelled a traitor, and getting de-platformed or otherwise shutdown. We see Senator Mitt Romney, for example, calling former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard a traitor because she's asking questions about the bio-lab issue. What? A "traitor"? A death penalty offense? The USA is not a belligerent in this conflict; it is between two foreign nations, neither an ally of the USA. How is questioning the official line "treason"? Is dissent now treason? We have to accept the government line or we are traitors? Just as with COVID, we see our masters using a crisis to stifle democracy and independence of thought at home. What happened to the slogan from just a few months ago that dissent is the highest form of patriotism? Boy, that shifted quickly. They have to make all this noise because they're the ones who empowered Putin to wage this war and desperately need no-one to notice.
Ending the assault on freedom at home is issue number one.
We also see that these new found "patriots" calling on us to rally around the president and the flag do nothing to protect the long-term interests of the USA--a country many of them openly hate. In fact, they actively work to undermine the position of the US in the world and destroy freedom and prosperity at home.
I have said this before, sorry, but will say it again. The USA can only have security by restoring not just our energy independence, but our technical and industrial independence, as well. This is actually not that hard to do. On energy it's obvious: remove the absurd "green-powered" restrictions on oil, gas, coal, and nuclear development. On industry, takes a little longer, but we need to start. A combination of tax, regulatory, and tariff policies can go far in bringing industry home, stopping the hemorrhaging of our jobs and technical know-how. Sorry, but all those PRC-citizen students in our universities studying science and engineering, need to leave. This is not racist; this is common sense.
We are fools to allow the PRC to mine our technical institutes and companies. The gravy train should end for those American tech moguls who get rich outsourcing key industries. It is absurd, for example, that we have become nearly 100% dependent on China and India for antibiotics, and becoming increasingly likewise dependent on China for microchips and other key components for civilian and military applications.
Reestablishing our energy independence and industrial base is issue number two.
I wish the Ukrainians good luck; I hate what is happening there. My overwhelming concern, however, is for the United States. No more foolish wars or endless expansion of our commitments, and so-called interests abroad. No more flag-draped caskets coming home.
Isolationism? That maligned word? Yes, maybe.You might call it that. I, however, find the word less and less odious, and ever more endearing.
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With the development of a narco-anarchy on our southern border and a Marxist tyranny on the northern border, we need our military to defend ourselves.
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The totalitarian impulse to shut down debate strongly underlines the weakness of the argument being protected. Senator Romney should be ashamed of himself.
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If America ever actually got serious about its borders, that would just make the rest of the world want in even more.
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She's taking flak, and therefor is over the target.
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#1 for that to happen you'll need to decapitate the top levels of the services who forgot that their primary mission is to protect the homeland first.
[Anti-War.com] On Sunday, former House representative for Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard released a video calling for the Biden administration to work with Russia and other parties to establish a ceasefire in Ukraine so dangerous pathogens held by US-funded biological research labs in the country could be destroyed.
Despite the undeniable evidence that there are Pentagon-linked biological labs in Ukraine, any concern about the pathogens has been labeled "Russian propaganda" by hawks in Washington. In response to Gabbard’s video, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) labeled her as "treasonous."
"Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives," Romney wrote on Twitter.
Gabbard’s video also elicited a response from Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), one of the leading proponents of the idea that the US should impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which would mean direct conflict with Russia and risk nuclear war. "Actual Russian propaganda. Traitorous," Kinzinger said.
In response to Romney, Gabbard challenged Romney to provide evidence that what she said was not true. "Senator Romney, please provide evidence that what I said is untrue and treasonous. If you cannot, you should do the honorable thing: apologize and resign from the Senate," she said.
Gabbard also presented evidence of the US’s involvement with Ukrainian biolabs, including a Pentagon fact sheet dated March 11 that details US funding of the facilities. The Pentagon funds labs in Ukraine through its Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The fact sheet said since 2005, the US has "invested" $200 million in "supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and diagnostic sites."
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Secure site means admitting USA involvement, secure evidence.
Guess they don't want any of that noise. I mean, that would be a legit call for a temporary suspension of air activities...but no, its treason, which is an actual criminal charge.
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One fine day Pierre can get together with John McCain in hell and they can corroborate on their tall tales. I'm sure the devil is wise enough to give them all the credence they deserve.
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This whole line of either you agree with me or we should lock you up is just out of control.
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It's like, you're either Putin's cock holster or you're a neocon warmonger. No ones allowed to say hey, there's bad shit on both sides, or maybe it's not really any of our business
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"They aren't bioweapon labs, they are bio-defense labs, and if you mention them again, I'll call for your death."
Interesting tack.
Also interesting are the architects and beneficiaries of 20 years of Afghanistan and Iraq are all, "Acksually, invading a country is a war crime."
I hate to be fair here, but were there not economic nukes deployed, attempting to shut off the ability to purchase food and heat in the middle of winter for some 140 million Russians, and how many Canadians?
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All of these 'people' running their mouths are basically having to accuse others because they're not planning on doing anything for Ukraine themselves. Distract, distract, distract...
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Mittens has lost his lil mind, keeping with the pattern set for Presidential Election losers since 2000. Odd and sad. Too soon to say about The Donald yet, although the boy gives me pause sometimes.
[Town Hall] Guy wrote earlier this week about Russian intelligence officials warning that their military faces disaster in Ukraine. The invasion has not really gone according to plan. Russian forces are stalled. Major cities have not been taken; the capital of Kyiv has not been taken. The 40-mile convoy outside of the capital, which is supposedly the force that will deliver the death blow, has not moved in days. The Russian death toll ranges are all over the place. The Ukrainians claim that at least 12,000 Russians have been killed. Other estimates are in the 4-8,000 range. The truth is we don’t know, and we may never know.
We have reports that hospitals in southern Belarus are absolutely overrun with Russian war dead. They’re filled to the brim, with some suggesting that the Russian military has mobile crematoriums to mask the true death count. There are also suspicions that mass graves for dead Russian troops have been created. If true, it means that the Ukrainian estimates are more accurate and that the Russian death toll is catastrophic.
Russia has not been able to gain air superiority, which has allowed Ukrainian defenders to inflict heavy losses against their Russian invaders. We’ll see how long that lasts. They’re holding, and that’s a good thing.
Did Russian intelligence know this and not tell Putin out of fear of upsetting him? Either way, some heads are going to roll. One person who could be a prime scapegoat candidate is Putin's top military adviser, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. For now, it’s his top spy chiefs who have been placed under house arrest (via Daily Mail):
Vladimir Putin has placed the head of the FSB's foreign service and his deputy under house arrest after blaming them for intelligence failings that saw his army handed a series of embarrassing defeats in Ukraine, it has been claimed.
Andrey Soldatov, a respected author on the Russian secret services, said sources inside the FSB told him that Sergey Beseda, 68, head of the agency's foreign service, has been placed under arrest on Putin's orders.
Also arrested is Anatoly Bolyukh, Beseda's deputy, according to Soldatov, who said Putin is 'truly unhappy' with the agency - which he ran before becoming president.
Putin is said to blame the agency for intelligence which assured him ahead of the invasion that Russian forces would face only token resistance from the Ukrainian army and that Ukrainians themselves were eager to be rid of their leaders. Putin would accept no other conclusion.
In 2014, shortly after the Maidan coup stoked by Victoria Nuland, Zelensky was a professional comedian. This video shows his standup routine delivered to a national TV audience in which Zelensky makes light of the Ukrainian regime's support for the neoNazi "Banderite" battalions who were at the time committing atrocities across the east and south of Ukraine.
The routine's format is a mock "letter" to his "uncle" (think: 'Hello Muddah') from a recruit into a Nazi battalion in Ukraine's war on the Donbas region after Nuland's coup in 2014. Half the audience laughs; the other half is appalled. Transcript:
ZELENSKY reads mock "letter" to "uncle":
0:30 "Dear Uncle... things will be alright because I am in the ranks of the [neo-Nazi] Banderites" AUDIENCE LAUGHTER
0:40 "This [ie fighting in a Nazi battalion] is the only way to make money in Ukraine... My salary is small but we are allowed to steal from the Russians" LAUGHTER
0:50 "The same [theft] happened to the Jews, but then the main Bandera man, [Jewish billionaire Igor] Kolomoisky prohibited it"
NERVOUS LAUGHTER, PEOPLE LOOKING DOWN
1:08 "As for me, I'm learning English to forget Russian -- with the help of American mercenaries. They're all over the place."
LESS LAUGHTER
1:17 "I have married: his name is Vadik! This is normal for us Europeans..."
1:35 "Today our president, Barack Obama, has promised us we will join NATO soon - as an American henchman, of course."
1:46 "If you can, please send me Hitler's book, Mein Kampf. They're sold out here." LAUGHTER
Zelensky ends by giving a Nazi salute three times after delivering this last punch line:
1:57 "I do morning exercises on the balcony. I do it like this [Nazi salute, repeated], from my heart to the sun"
This is the obscene little puppet who makes light of his own corruption - he is a protege of the corrupt oligarch Igor Kolomoisky - and his country's open embrace of neo-Nazis. At the same time that those monsters were torturing killing and burning their neighbors.
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Alexi Sayle stood on stage throwing the Nazi salute, dressed as Mussolini -- and it not only aired on the BBC, but it's been on US cable TV as well.
Should Russia invade Great Britain and the US to "denazi" US?
Does it mean Sayle is a fascist?
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Wow... this is some twisted shit. Where did this guy come from?
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Some background - the Jewish Ukrainian oligarch whom Zelensky's routine makes light of, Igor Kolomoisky, is not only Zelensky's boss and patron at 1+1. Kolomoisky is a primary funder of thugs and murderers within Kiev and yes, neo-Nazi battalions in the East.
Reuters on Kolomoisky's "shady private armies"::
Amnesty International has reported that the Aidar battalion — also partially funded by Kolomoisky — committed war crimes, including illegal abductions, unlawful detention, robbery, extortion and even possible executions.
Newsweek on Kolomoyski's war criminals:
The Aidar battalion is publicly backed by Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, who also allegedly funds the Azov, Donbas, Dnepr 1, Dnepr 2 volunteer battalions, operating under orders from Kiev
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Looked at the video. He is making fun of the "Banderites". He is also making fun of the USA at the same time. Yeah, what a fascist. Try again Russian troll.
In the meantime in Moscow, all Putin wants is peace. A piece of Ukraine, a piece of Modava, a piece of Latvia, ...
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Hunter Biden's Lapdog is just another Puton troll trying to sow confusion but has the usual trollish problem with irony, sarcasm and humor in general.
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Internationale Outrage, or, The Bloody Bandera
To Jews under blank banderoles,
"He's damned us," wail commissars' souls'
As Russians' scream, "Mommy,
He acts like a commie!
Just look how he murders our Poles!"
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Waiter, more Nazis for my friends! Can't have a political discussion nowadays without Nazis. We're talking modern Nazis and Neo-Nazis, of course, not the old-school National Socialist German Workers' Party Nazis.
You know that face your dog makes when you explain quantum mechanics to him? You can get people to make that same face by telling them the Nazis were socialists. Drives them into total cognitive dissonance. You'd think the name would give it way, but no.
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Strong stuff. I didn’t realize the education piece — I saw the impact a generation of brilliant Russian-Jewish immigrant mathematicians and scientists had on Israel, and assume that those left at home were more of the same.
[Ukrinform] Amid losses sustained, Russian troops are replenishing their forces at the expense of mobilized residents of the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region.
That’s according to General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrinform reports.
As of 06:00 on March 15, there have been no significant changes in the position and nature of actions of Ukraine’s defense forces. The Army is inflicting devastating blows on groupings of enemy troops, targeting their rear infrastructure.
Over the past day, the Air Force downed four helicopters and a warplane, while a Ukrainian fighter was shot down an enemy cruise missile.
According to the General Staff, groupings of Russian troops engaged in the offensive had not much success in any of the operational areas. The main efforts are still focused on holding ground on the already occupied positions.
The enemy pursues missile and bomb strikes on critical infrastructure, using a network of health care facilities in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to treat their wounded.
The invaders also continue to use civilian infrastructure to equip firing positions and place heavy weaponry and military hardware.
According to the General Staff, due to the inability to maintain infrastructure operations in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the Russians have suspended further mobilization of utility workers.
The poor moral and psychological condition of enemy forces leads to their servicemen refusing to fulfill their commanders’ orders.
The available reports suggest that mobilized residents from the temporarily occupied territories in Luhansk region are being deployed to the front line to replenish Russian invasion forces amid losses sustained.
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Ukrainian claims of Russian losses of morning of March 15:
Over 13,500 personnel, 404 tanks, 81 planes, 95 helicopters.
7 days ago they claimed the number of dead was 12,000. That means that the pace of ground combat has really dropped in the last 7 days.
Videos that I am seeing in the British newspapers indicates that the battles have moved to the rear supply lines where convoys are being attacked and wiped out. One video I saw was of an engineering column with bridging and construction equipment burning by the side of the road.
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.....battles have moved to the rear supply lines where convoys are being attacked and wiped out.
[Ukrinform] Russian invaders continue to strike residential areas in Kharkiv, destroying the city's historic center.
Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, said this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.
"The occupiers continue to strike residential areas in Kharkiv, destroying the historic center. The shelling continues in Chuhuiv, Izium, Derhachi. Today the enemy also launched strikes from Iskander missile systems. According to the General Staff, the attack came from Russian territory," he wrote.
He added that Kharkiv is defending for the 19th day. The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not allow the enemy into the city and carry out counter-offensive operations in the region.
Other headlines at Ukrinform
Russian invaders launch 65 attacks on Kharkiv over past day
Ukrainian defenders stop Russian attacks on outskirts of Kharkiv
Ukrainian Armed Forces not allowing Russians to achieve air superiority — U.S. defense official
[Ukrinform] 1 star general. That's five generals so far if including the Chechen general that was wiped out with his column.
Another Russian general has been killed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"One Russian general down. Position and surname are being established," the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted on Facebook.
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This is a WoT site. Kidnap, torture, rape, and convert jihad of female Hindus and other religions is integral to asserting asserting Muslim domination, esp in S. Asia, as is grooming and rape in Europe.
Or we can close our eyes to it and pretend it never happened.
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How proud were these Pashtoons of their work to release this video to the world? And the look in their eyes in anticipation of what comes next. Spit.
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Stories and videos of old Asian ladies getting the crap beat of them on the street and stomped in the head are posted here. Much more violent than the deleted link. The deleted Pakistan video was psychological torture and menacing, not so violent.
I am disappointed with the double standard when it comes showing bad Muslim behavior (sweep it under the rug) while violent content from American streets (inter-racial, anti-police, police shooting, home invasion, Michael Brown and the like, Kyle Rittenhouse, ...) is acceptable.
I don't accept that the above is somehow news worthy while that poor Hindi girl is not.
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"Another day in paradise," or, uh... Where Angels Fear to Tread?
"Now weather."
"Salaam. What a scorcher!
Once more, there will be no departure
From norms. As you pray,
We'll be airing, all day,
Boring stories of Islamist torture.
Back to you, Mohammed."
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We regularly have stories from Pakistan of forcible conversions, Angaiper Ulavins1210, and of the various methods by which Moslem colonists assert their colonization of the natives in Europe and elsewhere. I used to do regular round-ups for Britain, Europe, and Australia until the governments and news media mostly stopped including key information. The objection is to videos like that, which are not suitable for a family site like Rantburg, where the trailing daughters are not the only children who grew up reading over their parent’s shoulder.
[Winteroak.org.uk] Welcome to the second phase of the Great Reset: War.
While the pandemic acclimatised the world to lockdowns, normalised the acceptance of experimental medications, precipitated the greatest transfer of wealth to corporations by decimating SMEs and adjusted the muscle memory of workforce operations in preparation for a cybernetic future, an additional vector was required to accelerate the economic collapse before nations can ’Build Back Better.’
I present below several ways in which the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is the next catalyst for the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda, facilitated by an interconnected web of global stakeholders and a diffuse network of public-private partnerships.
Points brought forward sans full narrative:
1. The war between Russia and Ukraine is already causing unprecedented disruption to global supply chains, exacerbating fuel shortages and inducing chronic levels of inflation.
2. The war’s economic fallout will lead to a dramatic downsizing of the global workforce.
3. The war has significantly reduced Europe’s reliance on the Russian energy sector and reinforced the centrality of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and ‘net zero‘ emissions which lies at the heart of the Great Reset.
4. Food shortages created by the war will offer a major boon to the synthetic biology industry as the convergence of digital technologies with materials science and biology will radically transform the agricultural sector and encourage the adoption of plant-based and lab-grown alternatives on a global scale.
5. Russia’s exclusion from SWIFT (The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) foreshadows an economic reset which will generate precisely the kind of blowback necessary for corralling large swathes of the global population into a technocratic control grid.
6. This war marks a major inflection point in the globalist aspiration for a new international rules based order anchored in Eurasia.
7. With speculation mounting over the war’s long term impact on bilateral trade flows between China and Europe, the Russia-Ukraine conflict will catapult Israel – a leading advocate of the Great Reset – to even greater international prominence.
8. It is now common knowledge that Digital IDs are a central plank in the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda and are to be streamlined across industries, supply chains and markets as a way of advancing the UN 2030 SDGs and delivering individualised and integrated services in future smart cities.
9. Europe is directly in the line of fire once a hybrid war between NATO and the Sino-Russia axis is underway.
10. The economic implications of this war will be so disastrous that governments and the public sector will require a significant injection of private capital to address the financing shortfall.
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Last week Russia's exclusion from SWIFT spelled the end of globalism; now it's an essential step.
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Do people not really understand that there are all different kinds of points of view out there and that they're going to have different interpretations of events? Are people really that simple-minded?
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The economic implications of this war will be so disastrous that governments and the public sector will require a significant injection of private capital to address the financing shortfall
Well of course. How to Destroy A Democratic Republic in Five Easy Steps
1. Spin up Russia Hoax, Steal election (operation Anti-Orange Revolution), Grab Power
2. Spin up Plague Hoax, Grab More Power, Crush Main Street
3. Use recession to justify $5T in new spending, 90% of it needless by its own standards, and set off Hyperinflation
4. Along with #3, Stoke even more Inflation by choking off new O&G production, and Pummel the US middle class
5. Encourage Ruritanian jokers to poke the Bear and provoke a war that's none of our business, then impose the Mother of All Sanctions on the world's biggest wheat and precious metals exporter so as to destroy what's left of the American middle class
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Thanks to Putin's foolishness, American farmers look to have a very profitable year with exports in big demand. Only hope they planted more wheat and less soy for Chinese pigs.
As for metals, live with a few less stainless steel clad appliances for a few years. The style is worn out and out of fashion.
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^ I don't think that gaslighting will work much. Most Americans interest in the Ukraine mess stops at "we don't want to be involved," (as it should.) They don't look at it in the depth that's going on here.
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/\ Exactly correct. Something akin to getting the snooty French waiter the third time in a row.
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I just re-read and Anti-Orange Revolution line and realized it probably meant against the Orange-revolution in Ukraine, but I read it as anti-Trump revolution.
[American Thinker] Planned Parenthood obviously has more money than it knows how to spend well. Abortion on a mass scale is quite lucrative, of course, and those who profit from it by definition have a warped sense of humanity. Abortion fanatics can be very generous donors, anxious to see as many babies killed as possible, for reasons I cannot begin to fathom.
But the latest effort by Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the political affiliate of the abortion mill, bespeaks a mentality that doesn’t seem to grasp what abortion actually does: kill children.
Behold the vehicle deployed at SXSW in Austin, Texas:
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The ice cream truck (that's what it looks like, and it's no accident) is a clever piece of marketing. It's laser-focused on the audience at SXSW - tech industry people who are maybe smart in their narrow field but mostly have the minds of children when it comes to the world at large.
These tech people are the sort that see everything as an abstraction, primarily. That would include human lives. You must remember, in the end to these people, everything is data, similar to Stalin's casual pronouncement that millions of deaths is "just a statistic."
They are absolutely certain only they understand how to build a better world. There will be broken eggs aplenty as they make their omelet. Think of the way the kitchen looks when mom lets the kids "help" make breakfast.
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Let's not forget who performs the most gender transitions in America? PP is in the business of destroying America by killing the unborn, warping the adolescents, and bribing the swamp.
I miss the days when it was popular to picket/burn/assault PP clinics and their demented staff.
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Variety's Owen Gleiberman calls the concept of Cage playing Cage, 'a conceit we get used to in seconds'
How is that different than any of his other pieces, or Hollywood Theory for the last 30+ years of character actors. George Clooney is by far the worst.
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Interesting that the virtue signalers in media never would accept an anti-abortion ad showing what PP actually delivered. You get vapors over pronouns but shut down actually seeing what you support.
[Washington Examiner] A Pentagon agency has denied any role in attributing the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee to Russia after an email indicated special counsel John Durham's team asked a computer expert who had researched Trump-Russia collusion claims about it.
Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann was indicted last year for allegedly concealing his clients, including Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, from the FBI when he pushed since-debunked claims of a secret back channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank.
Durham revealed in February he has evidence Sussmann’s other client, known to be former Neustar executive Rodney Joffe, "exploited" domain name system internet traffic at Trump Tower, former President Donald Trump’s Central Park West apartment building, and "the Executive Office of the President of the United States."
Dr. Manos Antonakakis, dubbed "Researcher-1" in Durham’s filings, is a professor at Georgia Tech, wrote in a July 2021 email that Durham prosecutor Andrew DeFilippis asked him about work he had done associated with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, apparently also asking him about an online persona named "Guccifer 2.0," whom U.S. intelligence officials and special counsel Robert Mueller concluded was created by Russian intelligence to assist in a hack-and-leak operation against the DNC in 2016.
The alleged DNC "hack" was big news at the time. Someone at DARPA must have heard the news. Did DARPA investigate the "hack", it's origins, attributions? If not, why not ?
Was DARPA simply in the nur befehle befolgen mode. Additional clarification appears to be required.
Notice if will, how the correct questions are so seldom asked.
The Ukrainian Air Force has announced that a Russian Forpost drone crossed into Polish airspace after inspecting the damages by the bombed Yavoriv training center.
Minutes after entering Polish airspace it turned back into Ukraine and was shot down by the Ukrainians. pic.twitter.com/65nI6xSl09
„If China does back Russia in its showdown with the west, the Biden administration will shift its focus to persuading allies, in Europe particularly, to rethink their relationships with Beijing“
Wow, what a scoop by @johnismay. Russia has been firing Iskander missiles with penetration aids to fool missile defenses, meaning we get to see the Russian PENAIDS themselves. I never expected to see these. https://t.co/LKBKaBXspt
Another interesting read from the minds at West Point.
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[ABC] On Sunday, China ordered all of Shenzhen's 17.5 million residents into a seven-day lockdown, with three rounds of testing. All public transport is halted and all businesses, except essential services, will be closed until March 20.
As a result, Apple supplier Foxconn has shut two of its plants in the area and relocated production elsewhere.
The lockdown and outbreaks threaten manufacturing and tech production in Shenzhen, known as China's Silicon Valley. It's home to Huawei and Tencent, and is home to one of the country's key ports. The fun continues.
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In order to ensure a needed "110% turn out" for Mid-term Elections. The US Liberal Socialist Democrat party (LSD's) will be working hard to implement their Covid-19 Mid-Term ☺ "Open Poll Voting process" ☺. Which is modeled after their successful Open Borders Policy.
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China has a very large and vulnerable population to illness and it is only getting larger every day. They have few ways to treat them and their medicines are complete crap.
This is the only choice for them to keep from a major system shock, full 100% containment.
And they are slitting their own throats with it as they need to keep being a major exporter to survive economically. People don't make cheap Chinese crap when they are locked down.
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Wonder what the real sickness and death rate is in China? In similar population India, from excess mortality data, about 4 million, while 500K is acknowledged by the government. The problem with China is that no data can be trusted, even mortality tables, if the CCP believe there is some advantage in manipulating it.
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any blue state voters want to stay home on election day?
?? What are you talking about? COVID hysteria is how the Democrats turn out their base. Thanks to Democrat brainwashing, "handling the pandemic" is the only issue where Biden polls favorably
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A new variant beyond Omicron?
And Omicron is little affected by the current vaccines - though we are now being told to get yet another booster anyway. Shouldn't we be seeing a new vaccine now instead of just another shot of the same? (Assuming the vaccines are of value.)
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^ It's theater. Like all theater, it's a made-up story and you have to use your imagination while you sit in the audience watching it.
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As I mention a few days ago regarding another CCP panic and massive widespread testing parade due less than 10 people being found with the C-19/22.
It looked like the CCP wanted to infect as many as possible given the multiple ROWS of jammed packed with people for Testing. What better way to start a Wide Spread massive infection.
[American Conservative] Propaganda riven with sympathy for the plucky defenders has dominated the early days of the Ukraine war. This purposefully created a false sense of Russian setbacks and a misunderstanding of Russian strategy. The Russians are executing a standard mechanized warfare maneuver in line with their goals, attacking south from Belarus to link up with forces attacking northward from Crimea. When they link up south of Kiev, Ukraine will be split into two. Kiev may be bypassed, or it may be destroyed, but that is secondary to the larger strategic maneuver. Another Russian thrust from east to west seeks to cut the nation into quarters so Ukrainian forces cannot reinforce one another.
Forget all the silliness about the Russians running out of gas; their supply lines are short (many Russian forces are within 70 miles of their own border), protected, and over decent roads. This is what is happening on the ground and Ukrainian forces are in no position to do anything but delay it. Watching war through a smartphone from a peaceful country may help you believe the Russian assault is going poorly, but that is at odds with the facts.
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Right. Sp all those photos and battdame assessment by @Oyrx and OSNIT Twitter all fake.? Right?
And how"s the Blitzkrieg working out? O right again, Russian armour is scrap metal.
And finally let's not about logistics. No siree. Trust the plan!
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I see three likely endings, the order is random, not in likelyhood or preference of outcome:
(1) Russians run out of material and retrench back to the independent areas and Crimea (with or without a peace treaty). Those areas become parts of Russia.
(2) Afghan option. Russia occupies all of Ukraine and the people fight for a decade with support from the west. Eventually after a long time, perhaps a decade, the Russians pull back but keep those same independent areas and Crimea.
(3) Putin is removed and Russian troops are brought back to Russia. Status of the independent areas and Crimea may be returned to Ukraine in hopes of rejoining the world community. Then again they may not be. Putin could possibly be removed by someone worse than him, no way to tell at this point.
I had the idea, reading this, that hosting an internal version of Twitter might not be the best use of the employees’ time...
[Military] An internal U.S. intelligence messaging system became a "dumpster fire" of hate speech during the Trump administration, a veteran National Security Agency contractor says. And it's "ongoing," another Defense Department contractor tells SpyTalk.
Dan Gilmore, who was in charge of overseeing internal chat rooms for the Intelink system for over a decade starting in 2011, says that by late 2020 the system was afire with incendiary hate-filled commentary, especially on "eChirp," the intelligence community's clone of Twitter.
"I was the admin of this application and after a couple years, it became a dumpster fire," Gilmore, a 30-year veteran of Navy and NSA cryptologic systems, wrote Thursday in an extraordinary public post on his own website. "Professionalism was thrown out the window, and flame wars became routine."
Flame wars are highly unprofessional, not to mention a time suck and general morale destroyer. That was the point when Mr. Gilmore should have recommended shutting the thing down as hopeless, even if it meant he would have to find other employment.
NSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"Hate speech was running rampant on our applications," wrote Gilmore, whose identity and credentials have been vouched for by another Pentagon contractor. "I'm not being hyperbolic. Racist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamaphobic [sic], and misogynistic speech was being posted in many of our applications."
Even more startling, Gilmore alleges, "there were many employees at CIA, DIA, NSA, and other IC agencies that openly stated that the January 6th terrorist attack on our Capitol was justified."
Noted for future reference.
Gilmore says that "more than a few babus government employees at many different IC agencies" grew "concerned about the content that Intelink was allowing to be hosted."
"I wanted to tell everyone that there is a cancer within the government and when I tried to weed it out, I got fired," Gilmore wrote. "It was just easier for government management to get rid of me rather than to deal with the underlying issue."
Another NSA contractor told SpyTalk that the hate speech started in 2016 after Trump's election and is "ongoing." Trump's followers in the agency get away with professional indiscretions, some of them serious, while others get dismissed for minor infractions, this person said on condition of anonymity.
"We literally had folks get their clearances burned for time card discrepancies while pro-MAGA types might have multiple DUIs, foreign contacts, and (in one case) vehicular homicide," the source said. "They were kept working while others were let go."
Extremist groups have made inroads in U.S. military and police units, experts say. Intelligence sources have told SpyTalk over the past several months that pro-Trump fervor is centered in special operations and hostage rescue units.
...where the pointy end of the spear is lived, and airy theory and political games must give way to hard facts.
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Intelligence sources have told SpyTalk over the past several months that pro-Trump fervor is centered in special operations and hostage rescue units.
My Edward Jones guy likes to talks about solid investments, future growth, and economic security. It's what he does.
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For the last thirty years, it has been the job of every intelligence agency to be islamophobic. Take that away, and you might as well shut them down and wait for the bombings.
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ISTR the source site actually has nothing to do with the US military.
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This is the sort of thing you have to expect when you've got a national security state that has no problem working with Nazis. This didn't begin yesterday and it won't stop tomorrow.
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hate speech started in 2016 after Trump's election
Ah I see. This is reported by establishment deep state facists that are upset people aren't using the right pronoun and not sticking to the established narrative. So all of that is hate speech.
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You mean the rank and file who despise the woke/progressive BS policy and rigid mindsets?
Actually a relief that they feel it necessary to suppress as hate speech, code for dissenting opinion to a demokrat. It means not everyone has been bent yet...
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:00 First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov:
I came across an interesting report by the commander of the 105th Separate Territorial Defense Battalion of the 109th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade, which was on electronic media in the military registration and enlistment office of the city of Volnovakha.
According to this report, local authorities were able to allocate only those facilities that belonged to them to accommodate the newly formed paramilitary units. And these are municipal facilities - primarily schools and preschool institutions.
21:35 On the operational line, the DPR Ministry of Health received information about the wounding of five civilians from the territories previously liberated by the NM of the DPR as a result of shelling by the VFU:
- woman, born in 1974
- woman, born in 1974
- male, born in 1972
- woman, born in 1977
— girl, born in 2014
Proceedings will be held on all facts of war crimes of the VFU, and the results will be transferred to the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR.
21:26 In the near future, 2,100 volunteers from Nagorno-Karabakh are expected to be sent to support the forces of the NM DPR. The backbone will be artillery units. Crews of anti-tank systems, D-30 howitzers and self-propelled guns Gvozdika. All volunteers have 2020 extreme war experience. Financing was undertaken by a number of Russian businessmen of Armenian origin.
19:45 DPR Defense Headquarters: the number of victims of the shelling of Donetsk by Tochka-U has grown to 36 people.
19:44 The shelling of Donetsk "Tochka-U" was carried out by Ukrainian nationalists of the 19th rocket brigade from the outskirts of Krasnoarmeysk. It is said in the statement of the people's militia of the DPR.
19:41 Lieutenant Colonel of the People's Militia of the LPR Andrey Marochko: the forces of the defense department of the Republic encircle the armed formations of Ukraine, which are still stationed in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk.
19:40 A laptop of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with data on the targets of the Tochka-U strikes came into the possession of the DPR NM. Among the objects for launching missile strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine are the Government House of the DPR, a radio and television transmitting center and a military registration and enlistment office, the People's Militia Department of the DPR reported.
18:30 JCCC: AFU shelled the settlement Novoluganskoye - n.p. Zaitsevo: 5 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
18:16 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Steppe - n.p. Yelenovka: 4 shots fired from a tank - STsKK.
17:27 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: The special forces liquidated the main forces of neo-Nazis in residential areas along the perimeter of the city. The successful operation to unblock the city made it possible today from 15:00 to open humanitarian corridors for the exit of civilians and to begin mass evacuation of the population, which had been held hostage by neo-Nazis for a long time.
17:25 The operation to unblock Mariupol made it possible to open humanitarian corridors and begin the evacuation of residents. 200 buses have been organized for the evacuation of Mariupol residents, the first 50 have already arrived in the city. Also, the first humanitarian cargo has already been delivered to Mariupol - the Russian Ministry of Defense.
17:23 Almost all the firing points equipped by neo-Nazis in the suburban areas of Mariupol have been destroyed - the RF Ministry of Defense.
15:50 March 14, at about 11:30 Moscow time, from the territory controlled by the Kiev nationalist regime, a tactical missile "Tochka-U" was struck at a residential area of the city of Donetsk. The shelling of the city was carried out from the north-western direction, from the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Krasnoarmeysk, which is controlled by Ukrainian nationalist units. As a result of the explosion of a cluster warhead in the center of Donetsk, 20 civilians were killed. Another 28 people, including children, were seriously injured and taken to medical facilities - the Russian Ministry of Defense.
15:45 There are no children among those killed in a missile strike in the center of Donetsk. The TOK correspondent was informed about this in the Ministry of Health of the DPR.
15:39 As a result of the shelling of Yasinovataya, md. Dawn, a local resident born in 1949 was wounded. From the received wounds the man died in hospital - the head of the city Dmitry Shevchenko.
15:21 "In the very near future, in a matter of days, the situation will change dramatically. We are accelerating," head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, on the air of the 60 Minutes program, spoke about forcing the liberation operation.
15:16 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Maryinka - Donetsk (Trudovskoy settlement): 3 shells fired 122mm caliber - STsKK.
15:02 Tomorrow, March 15, is declared a day of mourning - Pushilin.
14:10 DPR Defense Headquarters: according to updated data, 17 dead and 28 wounded at the site of the fall of fragments of the Tochka-U missile.
13:55 In the center of Donetsk, only one cassette of the Tochka-U rocket charge went off. If everyone had worked, the consequences would have been worse. At least 23 people were killed as a result of the UAF missile attack on Donetsk. 28 people were injured - Basurin.
13:50 The object from which the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched Tochka-U today will be installed and destroyed. To date, DPR forces have already shot down more than 15 Tochka-U missiles - Head of the DPR Pushilin.
13:47 The offensive operation will continue and be accelerated as much as possible, Pushilin said at the site of the shelling of Donetsk by the Ukrainian Tochka-U
13:31 The number of victims after the shelling of Donetsk has grown to 23, among them a child - the Ministry of Health of the DPR.
12:41 In Melitopol, the handing over of weapons that were uncontrollably distributed in Ukraine continues. "Today I handed over a Kalashnikov assault rifle, which I received upon mobilization. He also brought a machine gun of a neighbor who was afraid to come," declared resident of Melitopol.
12:27 "If Tochka-U flew to its destination and worked, the radius of destruction would be 500 m - there would be nothing alive at all," head of the DPR on air 60 minutes
12:15 DPR Defense Headquarters: according to preliminary data, in the center of Donetsk, at the site of the fall of fragments of the Tochka-U missile, 20 dead and 9 wounded. The information is being specified.
11:52 In the center of Donetsk, near the Government House, a Tochka-U was shot down. At least 8 civilians were killed in an attack on the center of Donetsk.
11:42 AFU shelled the center of Donetsk, administrative buildings were damaged.
11:36 Social networks: Arrival in the center of Donetsk. Details to be confirmed
11:15 Nationalists continue to occupy hospitals on the territory of the captured cities. According to the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR in Dzerzhinsk, Ukrainian militants occupied the 5th floor of the children's department of the Central City Hospital. It is noted that the ammunition is placed in the basement. Sick children continue to stay in the hospital, parents are trying to pick them up.
11:05 AFU shelled a kindergarten in Yasinovataya. According to the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR, as a result of the shelling of the VFU, the building of kindergarten No. 6 "Zhuravushka" in the Zorka microdistrict was damaged.
11:03 DPR fighters are fighting near Mariupol, where nationalist units are located. Formerly locals told that the national battalions are blocking the gum corridors near the city, which were organized by Russia.
11:00 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation shows transfer of captured Ukrainian equipment and weapons to units of the People's Militia of the LPR and DPR. Among other things - American Javelin anti-tank grenade launchers and British NLAW.
10:48 Smoke from a fire at a coking plant may cover several districts of Donetsk - Basurin.
10:23 This night, special forces from Chechnya entered Mariupol. A total of 5,000 people arrived. Good help to the forces of the DPR. The Nazis have no chance of survival.
10:12 The offensive of the allied forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR in the direction of Vuhledar is developing. The scattered enemy forces have the option of retreating in the direction of Kurakhovo.
During the day, the fate of Ugledar will be decided. The key point will be cleared of Ukronazis.
10:11 The mine came under fire. Zasyadko, the main ventilation fan is de-energized. Currently, 83 mountain women are underground.
10:10 Ukrainian military block and intercept humanitarian supplies for the population - Pushilin.
09:55 As a result of the morning shelling by Ukrainian militants of the village of the Trudovskaya mine, the glazing at school No. 103 and the Donetsk professional mining lyceum No. 93 is damaged - the head of Donetsk Kulemzin.
09:51 LPR troops, having previously blocked Severodonetsk from the east and south, are fighting against nationalists on the northeastern outskirts of the city, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
09:50 Subdivisions of the RF Armed Forces, continuing the offensive, reached the line of Vodyanoye, Sladkoe, Stepnoe, Taramchuk and Glorious. Promotion per day amounted to 11 kilometers - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
09:43 A war gonzo war correspondent reports that the Russian Aerospace Forces are working in Avdiivka. Avdiivka is a city north of Donetsk, from where Donetsk is constantly under artillery fire.
9:33 It became known that the territory of the Shchastinsky TPP in the LPR was cleared of mines and the station began its work.
9:12 A total of 86 people were evacuated from Mariupol and its suburbs. According to the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR, over the past day, from 08:00 on March 13 to 08:00 on March 14, 86 people, including 15 children, were evacuated from Mariupol and its suburban settlements to the Bezymennoye Novoazovsky district. In total, for the period from March 5 to 08:00 on March 14, 922 people were evacuated to the Bezymennoye PPN.
9:10 JCCC: shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Marinka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 6 mines fired with a caliber of 120 mm.
8:53 NM DNR: Extinguishing fire at the Avdiivka Coke Plant, which began as a result of sabotage by Ukrainian militants, is now impossible. The entrance of emergency services to the plant is blocked by units of the "Right Sector" and the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8:51 The Gorlovka-Yasinovataya-Makeevka highway is closed, Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said.
08:40 The JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction: n.p. Marinka - Donetsk (Trudovskoy settlement): 5 shells of 122 mmcaliber were fired.
08:30 AFU shelled the settlement Novoselovka Second - n.p. Panteleimonovka: 10 122 mm shells were fired. — SCCC.
08:23 The JCCC reported that the village was under fire. Avdiivka - n.p. Mineral: 10 shells fired caliber 122mm.; n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 15 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
07:00 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, four artillery attacks were recorded on four settlements of the LPR:
n.p. Irmino received damage to polyclinic No. 3 "Stakhanovskaya Central City Multidisciplinary Hospital" at the address: st. Profsoyuznaya, 1. n.p. Zolote-5 damaged 2 residential buildings and 4 outbuildings.
n.p. Novokrasnyanka, a girl born in 2008, was wounded, and a residential building was also damaged - the representative office of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
06:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novoselovka Second - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye (southern): 6 shells fired caliber 122 mm. — SCCC.
05:00 For 25 days, as a result of hostilities in the DPR, 26 civilians were killed, 174 civilians were injured of varying severity, 12 of them were children - JCCC.
[REGNUM] A new artillery attack of Donetsk with 82mm mines was carried out on March 14 by the armed formations of Ukraine, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports in its telegram channel.
The fire was fired at the village of Trudovskoy mine (Petrovsky district of Donetsk). Everything was fired by four mines. In addition, Ukrainian militants fired small arms at the village of Mikhailovka.
As REGNUM reported earlier, Ukrainian armed formations fired six 122-mm artillery shells at the Kievsky district of Donetsk.
[OneIndia] Security agencies have very often flagged illegal immigration as one of the biggest security threats the country is facing. The arrest of four Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
...nowadays it appears to be connected to Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent...
operatives from Madhya Pradesh only goes on to show how deeply infested this problem is.
Four forces of Evil of the JMB, s Fazhar Ali alias Mehmood (32), Mohammad Aqeel alias Ahmed (24), Zahooruddin alias Ibrahim (28) and Fazhar Zainul Abdeen alias Akram Al Hasan (25) were arrested by the MP police. In a statement the police said that they were involved in the Bodhgaya blasts.
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Human interest rather than actionable intelligence. But the lady made her way back to sanity, thanks to her open minded and thoughtful daughter, so there is hope for others in a like situation.
[IsraelTimes] Catherine Perez-Shakdam ignites a media firestorm in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... after publishing a ToI blog post; she appeared in Iranian state media for years before reconnecting with her Jewish roots.
On the eve of Iran’s 2017 presidential election, Ebrahim Raisi, who would become president in 2021, sat down to give an interview to the Russia Today news outlet. His interlocutor was a French citizen, Catherine Perez-Shakdam, then a practicing Shi’a Moslem.
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[THEEPOCHTIMES] A Michigan county elections official and former township clerk was charged with ballot tampering related to the August 2020 primary election, according to state Attorney General Dana Nessel. Kathy Funk, who was running in 2020 as a Democrat for reelection as Flint Township clerk, also was charged with misconduct in office, Nessel said. The charges, which are both felonies, each carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison upon conviction.
Nessel alleged that Funk purposely broke a seal on a container for ballots so that the votes couldn’t be totaled during an anticipated recount. She narrowly won reelection in the unofficial count, the attorney general’s office said.
"Election officials must uphold the integrity of their positions. Those who abuse that commitment undermine the very foundation of our democracy," Nessel, a Democrat, said in a Twitter response to a Clickonbankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... report.
"Our department is committed to prosecuting election violations, regardless of the political party of the perpetrator."
Nessel’s office didn’t provide any more details about the allegations against Funk.
After the August 2020 election, Funk filed a report with the Flint Township Police Department claiming there was a break-in at the election office and said a seal on a canister containing ballots had been broken, according to local reports. Her opponent, Manya Triplett, said she had considered a recount but, according to state election law, those votes couldn’t be included in a recount because of the tampering.
Under Section 168.871 of Michigan state law, "the board of canvassers conducting a recount" has to look over "all ballots of a precinct using an electronic voting system" unless certain problems arise.
The law stipulates that ballots cannot be recounted if "the seal on the transfer case or other ballot container" is broken or have a different number than recorded in the poll record book, among other circumstances. If the seal on the ballot "label assembly" is broken or if numbers don’t match the poll records or ballot labels, they cannot be counted, according to the Michigan Legislature’s website, which offers details of state voting law.
Funk later resigned as Flint Township clerk to become Genesee County’s elections supervisor, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Funk’s attorney told the news outlet that she is expected to enter a plea of not guilty.
"She says it’s absolutely not true," attorney Matthew Norwood said of the charges, according to the outlet.
Genesee County officials and Norwood didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.
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The interesting part of this story is that Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel is prosecuting a Democrat for election fraud. Dana has previously been against election integrity measures.
Also interesting is how easy it is to eliminate ballots from a recount merely by breaking the seal on the box. Ooopsie!
An #Antifa member in Seattle who hit a Latino officer on the head w/a metal bat & who conspired w/comrades to burn down a precinct has been sentenced to 5 years in prison. Jacob Greenburg cracked Officer Jimenez's helmet during the riot at the former CHAZ.https://t.co/hgtJRlq6ew
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Implication being that if the officer were white the 'Teefa would have gotten community service, placing bricks in piles convenient to the next riot protest.
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I met a family who moved here from Portland recently. They were heartbroken over what has happened to Portland and Oregon in general. It was hard to not ask how they had voted over the past few years but I didn't. They blamed the Californians who have moved in.
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watch the latest stacey abrams ads. First 2 had me fuming.
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[IsraelTimes] One of the buildings in Erbil struck over the weekend by a missile fired by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was an Israeli training facility, a senior US official tells The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... The US consulate was not the target of the attack, but the IRGC does not mind that it was nearby, the official adds.
Mustafa al Kadhimi is received by Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the semi-autonomous Kurdish-controlled region.
The Iraqi premier inspected damage caused by some 12 ballistic missiles that landed near the US consulate, which is new and unoccupied, and caused damage to a nearby local television channel.
Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... grabbed credit for Sunday’s missile barrage, calling it retaliation for an alleged Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard last week.
A "strategic center for conspiracy and mischiefs of the Zionists was targeted by powerful precision missiles fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," the Guards said in a statement.
Kurdish authorities have dismissed as "baseless" Iran’s claims of Israeli sites in the area.
Iran warns against ‘threats’ from Iraqi soil after missile strike on alleged Israeli site
[IsraelTimes] Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... warns it won’t tolerate "threats" coming from Iraq, a day after firing ballistic missiles at what it said was an Israeli site in the neighboring country.
"It is not at all acceptable that one of our neighbors that has deep relations with us... becomes a center for creating threats against the Islamic Theocratic Republic," says foreign ministry front man Saeed Khatibzadeh.
"Iran will not tolerate that a center near its borders becomes the center for sabotage, conspiracy and sending terrorist groups to Iran," he says at his weekly presser in Tehran.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Sunday they had targeted a "strategic center" belonging to Israel in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, using "powerful precision missiles."
Kurdish authorities, however, insisted that Israel has no sites in or near Erbil, the capital of their autonomous region in Iraq’s north.
So unprofessional:
Update from @EricSchmittNYT: A senior Biden administration official refuted the earlier comment by a US official, saying the administration believes that the building that was hit was a civilian residence only and did not also serve as an Israeli training site.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces reports two violent mostly peaceful incidents committed by settlers at the illegal Homesh outpost against troops stationed in the area in recent days.
On Saturday night, settlers who were hurling stones at Paleostinian vehicles in the area attacked a soldier who attempted to stop them, the IDF says.
And earlier today, a settler rammed a military checkpoint near the outpost, hitting an officer and another soldier, the military says. The two did not require further medical treatment according to the IDF.
No suspects have been arrested, and the incidents have been reported to the police.
The unauthorized settlement was officially dismantled in 2005, but a hardline yeshiva has continued to operate there on a daily basis, with no intervention by the army, in direct violation of Israeli law.
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Wally Jumblat ...Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... has stressed on Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's deeply-rooted Arab affiliation.
He told the PSP's al-Anbaa news portal, in remarks published Monday, that fixing the relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council is a "high priority."
He said that every effort must be put to "return Lebanon to the Arab fold," and urged the government for positive dialogue with the GCC countries.
In a social media statement on Monday Jumblat slammed the government, accusing it of ignoring the electricity file and the ration card.
"This government has decided to completely blackout the electricity file after promises about Egyptian gas and Jordanian electricity," he said.
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[An Nahar] Germany said Monday that it will replace some of its ageing Tornado bomber jets with U.S.-made F-35A Lightning II aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
Announcing the decision, Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said Germany also will upgrade its Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets for electronic warfare — a capability that's also currently fulfilled by the Tornado jets. The Eurofighter will be replaced from 2040 with the Future Combat Air System, or FCAS, that's being jointly developed with La Belle France and Spain, she said.
Germany's air force commander, Ingo Gerhartz, said the current war in Ukraine made it necessary to choose Lockheed Martin's F-35s. Previously, the government had considered replacing the Luftwaffe's Tornados with a mix of different U.S. and European-made aircraft.
"There can be only one answer to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's aggression," said Gerhartz. "Unity in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... and a credible deterrent. This in particular means there is no alternative but to choose the F-35."
The German military does not have nuclear weapons of its own, but as part of the system of nuclear deterrence developed during the Cold War it maintained bombers capable of carrying U.S. atomic bombs, some of which are stationed in Germany.
The opposition Left Party criticized the decision to purchase almost three dozen F-35s for Germany's military.
"We reject arming the Bundeswehr with new, nuclear-capable combat jets," said Ali al-Dailami, the party's deputy defense front man. He warned that equipping German pilots to drop U.S. atomic bombs could "fuel the risk of nuclear war in Europe."
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"We reject arming the Bundeswehr with new, nuclear-capable combat jets," said Ali al-Dailami, the party's deputy defense front man.
....Now that there is a double-barreled Teutonic name if I've ever heard one.
And it's the Luftwaffe getting the -35s, not the Bundeswehr, you weapons-grade plum.
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during the Cold War it maintained bombers capable of carrying U.S. atomic bombs, some of which are stationed in Germany
Why didn't you think this up during the second world war itself you fucking idiots? Listen to Ali Allah ul Din whatever.
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...and missiles. 'Systems' were sold to allies. However, the warheads belong to the President of the United States, held by his minions (aka custodial teams) in the immediate area.
[IsraelTimes] Revolutionary Guard claims to foil plot by ’Zionist Regime’ at Fordo enrichment facility, where Tehran has refused access to surveillance camera footage by IAEA
Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported Monday that the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard arrested members of a "network" working for Israel that planned to sabotage Iran’s major underground nuclear facility at Fordo.
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On Monday, the Palestinian Embassy in Tripoli announced that it had managed to secure the release of 32 Palestinians, who had been held for a lack of legal travel documents.
In a statement, the Embassy said that their release came after great efforts by the acting Ambassador, Mohamed Rahhal with the Libyan authorities. It pointed out that efforts are underway to correct their legal status, and residency in Libya.
Notably, a boat carrying about two dozen migrants capsized off the coast of Libya on Saturday. At least 19 people are presumed dead, authorities said.
The shipwreck is the latest tragedy involving migrants crossing the Mediterranean sea. Libya has emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East, hoping for a better life in Europe.
Human traffickers have benefitted from the chaos in the country. People are smuggled through the country’s porous borders, before being packed into ill-equipped rubber boats, in risky voyages through the perilous central Mediterranean sea route.
At least 192 migrants drowned along the central Mediterranean route in the first two months of 2022, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. More than 2,930 were intercepted and taken back to Libya. Once back, the migrants are typically taken to government-run detention centers, rife with abuse and ill-treatment.
In 2021, an estimated 32,425 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya. At least 1,553 are presumed to have drowned last year, according to IOM.
[An Nahar] Tehran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will head to Moscow on Tuesday, his ministry said, days after negotiations on an Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... nuclear deal stalled amid new Russian demands.
Amir-Abdollahian will "go to Moscow on Tuesday" to continue discussions on the nuclear deal, ministry front man Saeed Khatibzadeh told news hounds on Monday.
Ten months of talks in Vienna have brought major powers close to renewing a landmark 2015 agreement on regulating Iran's nuclear program.
But the negotiations were halted again after Russia on March 5 demanded guarantees that Western sanctions imposed following its invasion of Ukraine would not damage its trade with Iran.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has dismissed as "irrelevant" the Russian demands for guarantees, saying that they "just are not in any way linked together".
The current round of negotiations started in late November in the Austrian capital between Iran and Britannia, China, La Belle France, Germany and Russia, with the U.S. taking part indirectly.
The 2105 deal gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.
But the US unilaterally withdrew from the accord in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... and imposed tough economic sanctions on different sectors, including oil exports.
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 14, 2022
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – An individual was killed and another was wounded on Sunday-Monday night by unidentified attackers west of Idlib, northwest Syria.
Unknown individuals, who were riding motorbikes, shot at two individuals near the town of Armanaz in the northwestern countryside of Idlib, eyewitnesses told North Press.
The young man Ibrahim Ismail was killed and another, who accompanied him, was critically wounded in the shooting. The wounded was transferred to the nearest medical point for treatment, according to the sources.
Ismail, who hailed from Armanaz town, worked in solar energy maintenance and services, the sources added.
On February 20, Unknown attackers killed an individual, who was an investigator affiliated with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front),in the northern countryside of Idlib 24 hours after two children, who were kidnapped, suffocated to death.
Areas controlled by the HTS witness security chaos accompanied by successive explosions, arrests, assassinations and killings.
[OneIndia] In its supplementary chargesheet against two residents 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.... , the National Investigation Agency said that the accused persons were involved in recruiting cadres for 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.... The NIA filed the supplementary chargesheet against Afshan Parvaiz Jarabi and Tawhead Latief Sofi, both residents of Srinagar. The case relates to the conspiracy hatched by the ISIS to radicalise and recruit Moslem youth in India to wage violent mostly peaceful Jihad against India.
The NIA said that in order to achieve their goal, an organised campaign was launched online supplemented by on ground financing activities. The case was registered against cyber entity Qasim Khurasani and his associates.
The NIA said that in the case Parvaiz is a top ISIS operative and a close associate of one Umar Nisar. He was also associated with the Afghanistan-Pakistain based ISIS operatives and was involved in the recruitment of youth. Following the arrest of Nisar, he was appointed as the head of the ISIS in India.
Parvaiz was also handling the media as well as the ground activities of the ISIS. He was also actively disseminating the ISIS propaganda material through various online platforms.
The other accused Tawheed Latief Sofi was also a close associate of previously charge sheeted accused persons Umar Nisar and Jufri Jawhar Damudi. He was involved in content editing and poster creation for ISIS propaganda magazine, Voice of Hind and had also carried out recee of Hindu temples, Government buildings including cop shoppes to carry out subversive acts.
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I’m poor, my family is starving “ supplemented by on ground financing activities”. Where is the money coming from, China, Iran?? Emp Iran for a start.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Russia has admitted to losing its first GRU military intelligence spy in the war - the latest high-profile casualty of the savage Ukraine invasion.
Captain Alexey Glushchak, 31, from Tyumen in Siberia, died in the carnage in Ukrainian port Mariupol, but the Russians have given no details of how he was killed.
'Due to the strict secrecy of the military operation, the circumstances of the death of the Tyumen hero are not disclosed,' said a statement.
Pictures emerged of father-of-one Glushchak's funeral in Russia, where he was buried with full military honours and a guard of honour, despite Russia hiding 'thousands' of deaths from those back at home, Daily Mail reports.
Putin's stalling invasion has so far seen the loss of 12 commanders including three generals.
Glushchak was killed fighting near Mariupol, the Russian military said, as it acknowledges losing a GRU officer for the first time.
On the day the military intelligence officer died he had spoken to both his wife and mother in Russia, it was revealed.
He called to congratulate them on International Women's Day but on the same day in the evening they learned he had been killed.
He will be posthumously decorated.
Two elite paratrooper intelligence officers were also revealed to have been killed as the toll worsens for 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... ’s forces.
Georgy Dudorov, deputy commander of the reconnaissance company for the 137th regiment of the 106th Tula Guards Airborne Division, was acknowledged as dead.
Another paratrooper intelligence officer killed was Aleksey Aleshko, a graduate of the prestigious Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne School.
It follows the loss of Major General Andrei Kolesnikov of the 29th Combined Arms Army last week, the third general to be killed in battle of the 20 taking part in the invasion.
His death came four days after the killing of Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, 45, the first deputy commander of Russia's 41st army.
The general took part in the second Chechen war, the Russian military operation in Syria, and the annexation of Crimea, winning medals from those campaigns.
According to reports, Gerasimov was the son of Valery Gerasimov - the Chief of General Staff of Russia's armed forces.
And Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky, 47, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, was killed.
Sukhovetsky died during a special operation in Ukraine, his comrade-in-arms Sergey Chipilev wrote on social media.
He was shot and killed by a sniper near Mariupol, which has been under a brutal siege by Russian forces for days.
Their deaths coincide with the first expressions of anger and dismay on the toll of coffins now returning to Russia.
Accurate numbers of Russian troops killed in fighting are hard to come by. Ukraine claims 12,000 have been killed, but has not updated that figure for several days.
European and American estimates are lower - between 2,000 and 6,000 - while Russia has only acknowledged around 500 deaths.
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He will be posthumously decorated.
These sort of decorations should be avoided if possible.
[IsraelTimes] Users unable to reach sites with gov.il extension for an hour, as National Cyber Directorate reportedly declares state of emergency over incident.
Israeli government websites were downed for over an hour due to a major cyberattack on Monday evening, officials said.
Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel held an assessment with officials due to the "broad cyberattack" on government websites, a statement from his office said.
Users attempting to enter sites with gov.il extensions were unable to for at least an hour, before the sites slowly began to come back online.
"Operations have been carried out by communications companies in order to return the service as soon as possible, and the service is gradually returning," the Communications Ministry said.
"The ministry will continue to monitor [the situation] until full restoration," it added.
Internet-access advocacy group NetBlocks tweeted that a "significant disruption has been registered on multiple networks supplied by Israel’s leading [internet] providers," with a graph showing connectivity interruption.
An official cited by Hebrew-language media reports said the National Cyber Directorate declared a state of emergency in order to study the extent of the damage caused by the "massive" cyberattack.
According to assessments, the Israeli sites were taken down via a denial-of-service attack, which bombards websites with junk traffic to render them unreachable, though this remained unconfirmed.
Israeli officials did not immediately say who was behind the attack, but some media reports were quick to point the finger at Iran.
Israel and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... have for years been involved in a largely quiet cyberwar, which occasionally bubbles to the surface.
Jerusalem Post reported that an allegedly Iranian-affiliated hacker group had grabbed credit for the apparent attack. The ministries of health, interior and justice as well as the prime minister's office were all at least briefly down Monday.
Access to some of the sites had been restored, the government said. While the homepages of some government pages were down, subdomains continued to work, The Jerusalem Post reported.
Iranian state TV said Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... had thwarted an attack on the nuclear site in Fordow. Iran has previously accused Israel of carrying out similar attacks in the past on the country's nuclear facilities.
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[Korrespondent] 21:52 In the Russian Federation, for the first time since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, a suspect in treason has been arrested, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow reports. Yuri Abramov faces up to 20 years in prison.
21:47 During the evacuation from Gostomel, the enemy fired at a column of civilians, the National Police reported. Russian troops fired mortars at a convoy of four buses, as a result, the driver of one of the buses was injured. Also under fire was a car in which the spouses were traveling - the woman died on the spot.
21:45 Out of ten humanitarian corridors, seven have worked today, in total, about four thousand people have been taken out, Vereshchuk said. The column, which was supposed to arrive in Mariupol, did not get into the city - it was detained by the occupiers in Berdyansk.
21:42 Bellingcat investigator Hristo Grozev reports that panic has already begun in Moscow due to the lack of a new plan of action to invade Ukraine. According to him, the Russian elites openly declare that the course of the Russian Federation is "suicidal", it is impossible to continue the war, and repressions have begun in the special services.
21:40 A team of doctors with a mobile hospital arrived from Israel to Ukraine, Yermak said.
21:31 The media write that the girl who came out with a poster during the live broadcast of Channel One is employee Maria Ovsyannikova. She has already been detained by the police, now she is being interrogated at the police department.
21:29 American doctors have deployed a field hospital near Lviv, where they will provide free medical care to all those in need in war conditions, said the head of the Regional State Administration Maxim Kozitsky.
21:09 In Russia, during the evening news broadcast on Channel One, a girl ran out with an anti-war poster:
21:06 The International Court of Justice in The Hague will rule on the case of Ukraine against the Russian Federation on March 16. According to the press service of the court, the decision will be announced at 17:00 Kyiv time.
20:54 Humanitarian cargo with food, water, clothes, as well as buses by which people could leave Mariupol, could not get to the city, said the deputy head of the Presidential Office Kirill Tymoshenko.
20:49 Scholz, after meeting with Erdogan in Ankara, called on Russia for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.
20:47 In Odessa, the threat of an enemy amphibious landing remains, but Ukrainian soldiers are ready to meet them, assured the head of the regional administration Maxim Marchenko.
20:21 Reuters and Financial Times write that China is ready to provide military and economic assistance to Russia in the war against Ukraine. The publications cite anonymous sources in the US.
20:20 Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska joined the Ukrainian delegation in the negotiating group with the Russian Federation, Podolyak said.
20:18 The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, together with the investigators of the Main Investigative Directorate of the SBU, reported the suspicion to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Army General Sergei Surovikin, the Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, and the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
20:16 Rogozin said that Russia can launch the first module of its orbital station as early as 2026, "if you push yourself hard." He also threatened that the Russian Federation "will make the station a military-applied one if the situation in the world is hostile."
20:08 Shmyhal said that Ukraine demands to immediately exclude Russia from the Council of Europe.
19:57 The EU has agreed on the fourth package of anti-Russian sanctions - the black list will include individuals and legal entities, the restrictions will affect several sectors of the Russian economy.
19:53 In Russia, they reported the death of another colonel in Ukraine - it turned out to be Sergey Porokhnya, commander of the 12th engineering brigade.
19:49 Russian troops today around 17:00 tried to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian defenders in the Donetsk direction. As a result, the enemy lost up to 100 personnel, two tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles and one armored personnel carrier, after which he retreated, OK Skhid reports.
Four infantry fighting vehicles and two infantry platoons were destroyed in the Volnovakha direction.
Also during the day, Ukrainian aviation destroyed a supply convoy - more than 12 vehicles.
19:43 The decision on the possible transfer of the MiG-29 to Ukraine should be made by the entire NATO structure, the Polish Foreign Ministry said.
19:42 Putin and Bennet discussed the situation in Ukraine, "agreed to continue the dialogue," Russian media report.
19:38 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation warned that it would strike at the military enterprises of Ukraine "in response to the shelling of Donetsk with a Tochka-U missile."
19:17 According to the IMF, Ukraine will need about 4.8 billion dollars of external financing this year, and GDP will shrink by 10%, provided that the war ends soon.
19:14 A British journalist received a shrapnel fracture of both legs as a result of the military operations of the Russian invaders and is now in intensive care. According to Venediktova, the journalist was not at any military facility at the time of the injury.
19:10 Russian oligarch Valery Oif is selling his stake in the Dutch football club Vitesse. Also, Oif, who is the main shareholder of FC, will "immediately" withdraw from the supervisory board, according to the club's website.
19:04 The Russian military fired at the Lavina Mall shopping center in Kiev, MP Goncharenko said.
18:45 In Kharkiv, as a result of enemy attacks, about 600 houses have already been destroyed, Mayor Igor Terekhov said.
18:33 As a result of an air strike on a TV tower in the Rivne region, nine people were killed, nine more were injured, the regional administration reported.
18:29 A Russian drone has fallen in Romania. According to local media, the drone was found in the municipality of Dumitra, just over a hundred kilometers south of the border with Ukraine.
18:24 Slovakia expels three employees of the Russian embassy based on information from the security services, reports Reuters.
It is also reported that the Slovak police detained employees of the Ministry of Defense and counterintelligence on suspicion of spying for the Russian Federation.
18:20 Vereshchuk said that the Russians let 160 private cars from Mariupol pass, which reached Berdyansk. "But this is about nothing, because there are 300,000 people there, and 160 cars is a maximum of 600-700 people," she added.
18:17 The Pentagon has warned China of the consequences if it decides to assist Russia in the war against Ukraine.
18:06 The UN Secretary General said that the prospect of a nuclear conflict, previously unthinkable, has now returned to the realm of the possible, and called for maintaining the safety of nuclear facilities.
18:05 Venediktova said that an exchange of prisoners could take place in the near future.
18:03 Facebook changes the rules and prohibits publishing posts with death wishes to heads of state, including Putin and Lukashenko, Reuters reports citing a letter to Meta Platforms employees.
17:52 In Brussels on March 16, an extraordinary session of NATO defense ministers is going to discuss the situation in Ukraine, the Turkish Defense Ministry reported.
17:45 The Estonian Parliament appealed to the UN member countries with an appeal to close the skies of Ukraine from the Russian aggressor. As the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said, this is the first decision from the parliament of a country that is a member of the EU and NATO.
17:38 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reports that the invaders are targeting agricultural machinery and undermining food security in Ukraine and the world. Systematic cases of such actions were recorded in Brovarsky district (Kyiv region), Melitopol district (Zaporozhye region), Prylutsky, Nezhinsky, Novgorod-Seversky districts (Chernihiv region), as well as in a number of districts of Kherson and Kharkov regions.
17:33 "DPR" accuses Ukraine of using Tochka-U in Donetsk, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine refutes this information.
17:32 During the work of humanitarian corridors, 150 thousand people were able to use them, Vereshchuk said. At the same time, she added that, in general, the process is very difficult due to non-compliance with the regime of silence by the Russian troops.
17:28 Germany will no longer announce the supply of weapons to Ukraine. German government spokesman Wolfgang Buechner said the decision was made "in order to avoid security risks," writes AP.
"Russia's goal is to cut off supply routes to Ukraine and strengthen its own defense, and we do not want to contribute to this," Defense Ministry spokesman Arne Kollatz explained.
16:54 The State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine has banned the import of publishing products from the Russian Federation.
16:49 Shares of Chinese companies have collapsed on record amid news of Russia's request for military assistance, writes Bloomberg. Although Beijing officially denied this information, March 14 was the worst day for shares of Chinese companies that are traded on the stock exchange in Hong Kong since November 2008. Investors are afraid of Western sanctions against China, which is moving closer to the Russian Federation.
16:46 The occupiers destroyed the sewage treatment facilities in Zaporozhye - now sewage enters the Dnieper, said the head of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration Oleksandr Starukh.
16:43 The EU plans to introduce new sanctions against Rosneft, Transneft and Gazprom Neft, writes Reuters. The ban will apply "to all investment, technology transfer, financial and other services related to the exploration and production of energy." At the same time, countries will continue to buy oil from Russian companies.
16:38 The Rada is planning to adopt a bill on business support during the war period, which has already been approved by the tax committee of the parliament.
16:25 There are 11 representatives of Rosatom at the Zaporozhye NPP. "Obviously, explosions of ammunition at the station site are carried out with their direct participation. So it turns out that Rosatom is also involved in this terrorism," Energoatom's press service said.
16:22 Zelensky will speak via video link before both houses of the US Congress on March 16 at 15:00 Kyiv time.
16:17 From today, Revolut becomes available to Ukrainians who left for the EU due to the Russian invasion. The company has simplified many of the requirements for creating an account, and has also waived a number of fees for currency exchange and account replenishment. Refugees can now link their Revolut account to a Ukrainian bank account.
15:59 A technical pause has been taken in the Ukrainian-Russian negotiations until tomorrow - for additional work in the working subgroups and to clarify certain points, Podolyak said.
15:55 Most of the Luhansk region was left without mobile communications, Governor Gaidai said.
15:52 One of the captured Russian soldiers said at a briefing that there were more than 150 conscripts in his battalion alone.
He also envied those who were able to pay off this war: "You could buy a military ticket for 80,000."
15:46 Media reports that a rally against forced mobilization was planned today in the center of Donetsk. But suddenly there was an explosion, as a result of which 20 civilians were killed, another 28 were injured.
15:45 Arestovich says that the enemy has decided on the main directions of the strike - this is the JFO zone in the Donbass and Nikolaev. Reinforcements are being sent there from other directions. On the other front lines, the situation has stabilized.
15:44 The head of the Kiev city military administration, General Nikolai Zhirnov, believes that in order to capture the capital, the Russians must gather all available human resources and bring them to Kiev.
15:42 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland reported that the number of Ukrainian refugees in the country has reached 1.8 million.
15:41 During martial law, pharmacies will give out insulin free of charge with a prescription from a doctor.
15:39 The Russian military blew up part of the ammunition at the site of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant near the ruins of the training center and power unit No. 1. According to Energoatom, they plan to continue to carry out explosions at the largest nuclear facility in Europe. At the time of the explosions, the staff left their jobs.
15:34 The State Bureau of Investigation announced that it was putting the propagandist Solovyov on the international wanted list.
15:24 In the Zaporozhye region, the invaders robbed the Vasilyevsky historical and architectural museum-reserve Popov's Estate, said the head of the regional department of culture, Vlad Moroko. Together with saws and a screwdriver, they stole a marble toilet from the time of the Popovs.
“The first time this toilet was stolen by the Bolsheviks. Subsequently, one of the descendants of the thieves “returned” the artifact to the museum. And here again, new invaders steal the ill-fated toilet,” he wrote.
15:21 Peskov said that Russia can capture large Ukrainian cities, but does not do this because of concern for the civilian population .
15:12 The authorities of Mariupol say that as of 13:00 there is "actual confirmation of the observance of the silence regime in the direction of the humanitarian corridor for private transport" from the city.
15:09 Germany stated that it cannot accept such a number of Ukrainian refugees from Poland. The German government asked Poland to stop the movement of special trains that Ukrainians fleeing the war travel for free.
15:03 On the morning of March 14, Russian troops attacked one of the pumping stations in Chernihiv. According to Chernihivvodokanal, four people were killed, there are wounded.
14:59 The occupation of Ukrainian nuclear plants will cost Russia hundreds of millions of dollars, says one of the most influential people in the American nuclear industry, former member of the US Atomic Energy Commission Jeffrey Merifield, writes The Wall Street Journal.
"An underestimated motive for Russia's invasion of Ukraine is Kyiv's stance, which was to sever relations with long-standing Russian nuclear suppliers, as the United States encroached on Russia's largest nuclear export market (Ukraine)," the expert notes.
14:49 In Energodar, the invaders are trying to distribute "help" to local residents in the form of peas and flour. According to the press service of Energoatom, the Ukrainian humanitarian aid that came from Zaporozhye was taken away and is not given back to people.
14:28 Russia continues to destroy infrastructure in Ukraine and strike at cities, but "we will restore every street of every city, every house, apartment of every Ukrainian," Zelensky promised.
14:26 Zelensky again called on businesses to start working and instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to reduce taxes as much as possible and create a new tax model for the period of the war and the post-war period.
14:16 In Poland, the police pushed back the activists at the Kozlovichi-Kukuriki checkpoint on the border with Belarus and allowed the movement of trucks with goods bound for Belarus and Russia.
14:09 Zelensky will not be able to speak at today's PACE session "due to unforeseen circumstances", media quote the chairman of the assembly. Instead of the president, Prime Minister Shmygal will speak via video link. The performance was expected at 17:00 Kyiv time.
14:06 More than a thousand people have been recruited in Syrian mercenary recruitment centers in recent days, about 400 of them have already arrived in Russia, the General Staff said. Camps have been set up near the Ukrainian border in the Rostov and Gomel regions for their accommodation and training.
14:04 Russian troops have been stopped in the Nikolaev and Krivoy Rog directions, the General Staff said.
In the Polesye direction, the invaders do not abandon their attempts to gain a foothold in Bucha and Irpen. DRGs are preparing to act under the guise of the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the Donetsk and Tavria directions, the enemy continues to conduct active hostilities. Due to the numerical advantage in some places it has a partial success.
13:58 Putin signed a law that allows Russian airlines not to return aircraft leased from foreign companies.
13:53 Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko said that the hryvnia exchange rate is stable: "I think we will keep it."
He also urged all businesses in regions where there is no fighting to open up and operate. "It is very important that the country's economy continues to work," the minister stressed.
13:50 Elon Musk challenged Putin to a duel for Ukraine:
13:37 Energoatom said that in the near future the invaders who seized the Zaporizhzhya NPP plan to start "recycling" ammunition right at the plant site near the ruins of the ZNPP training center.
"In other words, the rashists are going to blow up ammunition right in front of power unit No. 1 of the nuclear power plant," the report says.
13:29 The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that the country will not become "a way to circumvent the sanctions that the West has imposed on Russia."
13:15 Zarubezhneft's tender for the sale of six consignments of Urals oil with a volume of 600,000 tons with shipment in the second quarter was declared invalid, since none of the buyers responded to the offer.
12:56 In London, activists occupied Deripaska's house and hung a Ukrainian flag on it.
12:44 The State Border Service reported that on the western border of Ukraine there were practically no queues in front of the checkpoints on the morning of March 14, only about 30 cars accumulated at the Shehyni checkpoint.
12:42 The State Emergency Service criticized the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko, who, with his messages immediately after the moment of shelling the enemy, can help adjust the fire of the Russian occupiers.
12:35 Putin personally ordered not to let the humanitarian corridor into Mariupol, Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, said. According to him, the situation in the city is now the most difficult in all of Ukraine.
12:30 The invaders again damaged the line to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was repaired by Ukrenergo specialists the day before. According to the press service of Ukrenergo, emergency teams are forced to go to the danger zone again and repair the damage.
12:28 As a result of the fall of rocket fragments on a house on Kurenevka in Kiev, one person died, six were injured, Klitschko said. The trolleybus, which was without passengers, was completely destroyed.
12:22 Podolyak commented on the course of negotiations with the Russian delegation: "The parties are actively expressing their already clarified positions. Communication is difficult, but it goes on. The reason for the disagreement is that we have very different political systems. Ukraine is a free dialogue in society and a mandatory consensus. Russia is an ultimatum suppression of one's own society."
12:18 Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korniychuk is filing a lawsuit with the Israeli Supreme Court against the actions of the country's government and personally Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked on the issue of accepting Ukrainian refugees. According to Channel 12 ITV, such a step is unprecedented.
The lawsuit alleges that the minister violates the agreements reached earlier by Jerusalem and Kiev on a visa-free regime, using "vague language" for this. The ambassador explained that all diplomatic options to protect Ukrainian citizens had been exhausted.
12:11 Russian soldiers who have already managed to take part in the hostilities against Ukraine and returned to their places of deployment are massively refusing to return to the war. Photos of the corresponding reports of servicemen of the 41st Air Force of the Central Military District of the RF Armed Forces, who arrived in Ukraine in full force, were at the disposal of the information publication Guildhall.
12:08 According to updated information from the Kyiv City State Administration, as a result of an explosion in a residential building in the Obolonsky district of the capital on the morning of March 14, one person died, not two.
11:47 Ex-People's Deputy Evgeny Rybchinsky promised a house and 40 acres of land near Kiev for the murder of Kadyrov, if he is really in Ukraine.
11:41 In the sky over Kiev, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down a cruise missile , the remnants fell into a house on Kurenevka, Gerashchenko said.
11:30 Pushilin said that as a result of the fall of the Tochka-U rocket in the center of Donetsk, according to preliminary data, 20 people were killed, nine were injured.
11:28 Another blow was dealt to the central part of Kharkiv, the State Emergency Service and the mayor of the city said. The four-storey house was completely destroyed.
11:26 Media reports about the shelling of the center of Donetsk, at least eight dead.
11:23 The staff of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant no longer performs repairs and maintenance of equipment, said IAEA Director General Rafael Grosi. According to him, this is due to physical and psychological fatigue after working continuously for almost three weeks.
11:12 The National Bank announced that 11.8 billion hryvnias have already been collected to support the army and humanitarian aid.
11:10 According to WHO estimates, the number of victims in Ukraine from the military invasion of Russia is 18 million people, including 6.7 million were forced to become internally displaced.
10:59 Australia and the Netherlands have filed a lawsuit against Russia demanding to pay millions of dollars in compensation in the case of the MH17 disaster, which killed 298 people in 2014, said Australian Foreign Minister Maris Payne.
10:41 Yermak said that negotiations are underway with Israel on his humanitarian participation in the situation in Ukraine. Among the first results - Israel allowed Ukrainians whose relatives already live there to come to the country.
10:36 The fourth round of Ukrainian-Russian negotiations begins. "Negotiations. Fourth round. About peace, ceasefire, immediate withdrawal of all troops and security guarantees. Difficult conversation. Although the Russian Federation is aware of all the absurdity of its aggressive actions, it remains under the illusion that the 19-day violence against the peaceful cities of Ukraine - the right choice of strategy," Podolyak wrote.
The talks will be held in video format. Ukraine's position remains unchanged.
10:26 In Berdyansk, Russian invaders "arrested" and took a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in an unknown direction.
10:22 The National Bank of Ukraine canceled the permit for the free export of foreign currency worth more than 10 thousand euros. Such permission was introduced with the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February. Now citizens again must provide supporting documents from banks on the origin of funds. In particular, documents on cash withdrawals from their own accounts.
10:18 Kuleba addressed the West: "To those who abroad are afraid that they will be "dragged into the Third World War." Ukraine is successfully resisting. We need you to help us fight. Provide us with all the necessary weapons. Impose more sanctions against Russia to completely isolate it. Help Ukraine make Putin fail and you will prevent a big war."
10:14 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, 90 children have died, more than 100 have been injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported.
09:55 The Ministry of Defense announced the approximate combat losses of the enemy on the morning of March 14:
personnel - more than 12,000
tanks - 389,
armored combat vehicles - 1,249,
artillery systems - 150,
MLRS - 64,
air defense systems - 34,
aircraft - 77,
helicopters - 90,
automotive equipment - 617,
ships/boats - 3,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 60,
UAV operational-tactical level - 8.
09:51 In Chernihiv, Chernihiv Polytechnic University came under attack at night, Governor Chaus said. There were no casualties. Also, the city of Nizhyn was fired upon by Hurricanes, and an enemy aircraft was shot down over Chernigov.
09:50 Kramatorsk was hit by a missile, at least two people were killed, the mayor of the city said.
09:48 In Kherson, the invaders set fire to the house of the Secretary of the City Council Galina Lugova. "I was left without a home. I think I'm on the list for physical destruction," she said.
09:47 On the Polish-Belarusian border, at the Kozlovichi-Kukuriki checkpoint, activists have been blocking trucks with goods heading to Belarus and Russia for the second day, Polish media write.
09:46 In Akhtyrka, as a result of a night airstrike on residential areas, at least three people were killed, Mayor Pavel Kuzmenko said.
09:43 The occupiers have been shelling Avdiivka since yesterday evening - they are shooting from Tochek-U and multiple launch rocket systems, said the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant was fired upon by Grads. The gas pipeline, school, private houses are damaged. Information about the victims and injured is being specified.
09:39 Vereshchuk reported on humanitarian corridors for March 14. Kyiv region:
In Mariupol today there will be an attempt to unblock the path for a convoy with medicines from Berdyansk (via Mangush) to Mariupol. This was not possible in previous days.
09:22 Voice of America journalist Asya Dolina reported that a pregnant girl on a stretcher from the attacked maternity hospital in Mariupol died along with her unborn child.
09:19 Transport communication between Energodar and Zaporozhye is lost, the invaders bombed the bridge in the Kamensky area. Humanitarian convoys and evacuation of people are not yet possible, Energoatom reports.
09:02 Instagram from today is officially in the register of resources banned in Russia.
08:59 The Czech Republic suspends the issuance of visas to Russians - now the country will issue them only humanitarian visas.
08:54 Ukraine insists on creating a separate account in the EU, to which Russia will receive money for gas and oil. Then this money will be used to restore the economy of Ukraine and reparations, said Lana Zerkal, a member of the Ukrainian delegation to participate in the oral hearings of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
08:51 In the Nikolaev area on March 14 at 06:00 the Russian invaders fired at the city of Snigirevka from aviation - five houses on the street are damaged. Oktyabrskaya, said Governor Vitaly Kim.
08:50 The KSCA reported that the Antonov plant was also fired at in the capital tonight.
08:48 As of 07:40, the bodies of two dead were found in a house in the Obololnsky district of Kiev, which was fired upon, the rescuers said. Three more are hospitalized.
08:46 The General Staff reports that according to the statement of one of the officials of the special operations forces of Belarus, the special forces of the Republic of Belarus will not participate in the war with Ukraine.
08:45 A military camp is located in Russian Belgorod, where servicemen are kept, who, after treatment, have been discharged from hospitals and are waiting to be sent to units. Also in the camp are Russian servicemen who refuse to participate in hostilities - they are being interrogated, the General Staff reports.
08:43 The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine began using the face recognition system of the American company Clearview AI, which has access to a database of 10 billion photos, Reuters writes. Two billion photos - from the social network VKontakte. The system will help identify the Russian attackers, combat disinformation and identify the dead.
08:39 Zaluzhny congratulated the Ukrainians on the Day of the Ukrainian Volunteer.
08:37 In Rivne, a TV tower was damaged as a result of an airstrike. Television and radio broadcasting does not work in the region, Governor Vitaliy Koval said.
08:23 In the Obolonsky district of Kiev, a shell hit a nine-story house at night, a fire started. Rescuers evacuated 63 people from the building, the fire was extinguished.
08:01 At night, the town of Stavishche in the Zhytomyr region was subjected to a missile strike. According to preliminary data, seven administrative buildings were destroyed, four people were injured, and searches are underway for other victims, the State Emergency Service reports.
07:27 The Russian Orthodox Church in Amsterdam announced a break with the Moscow Patriarchate. The clergy expressed their desire to join the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul, which is considered a rival of the Moscow Patriarchate.
05:54 The Czech Republic will provide military assistance to Ukraine for 31.5 million dollars.
05:39 The British Ministry of Defense reports that Russia has isolated Ukraine from maritime trade.
05:10 Australia has imposed sanctions against 33 Russian oligarchs, including Roman Abramovich, Alexei Miller, Dmitry Lebedev, Sergei Chemezov, Nikolai Tokarev, Igor Shuvalov and Kirill Dmitriev.
03:32 The Bahamas joined the sanctions and left Russia without offshore companies, the Central Bank of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas said.
01:30 Arakhamia announced the fourth round of Ukrainian-Russian negotiations on March 14 at 10:30.
00:36 On March 13, missile strikes were carried out on targets in Uman, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Starichi using strategic aircraft. In addition, launches of the Iskander OTRK from the territory of Belarus continue, the General Staff reports.
00:30 In Russia, cases of mass refusal of military personnel from business trips to Ukraine are recorded, despite promises of the status of a war veteran, additional daily payments and an increased official salary, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
00:16 Of the 14 humanitarian corridors scheduled for March 13, nine have been activated. More than 5,500 people managed to get out of the shelling, Vereshchuk said.
00:02 Western media writes that Russia has requested military and economic assistance from China in the war with Ukraine. China denied this information.
[An Nahar] 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.... had planned to assassinate French President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... in September 2020, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Monday.The daily said it has learned that the IS group had also been planning to assassinate ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... and Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief Jebran Bassil.
The Lebanese investigations indicated that the IS hard boyz were instructed to carry out a suicide kaboom in a blast-hit Christian neighborhood or at the Beirut port, al-Akhbar said.
A coded message was found on a laptop belonging to the network's leader Mohammed al-Hajjar. The technical info showed that members of the IS group and an external handler had discussed the possibility of Hariri being with the French President at the targeted site. The handler answered: "Kill Saad too!"
ISIS does that a lot: they make grand plans, get everybody all worked up, but then nothing ever happens.
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Excerpts below from Zelensky's stand up routine given on a national variety show while he was a professional comedian.
The format is a mock "letter" to his "uncle" (think: 'Hello Muddah') from a recruit into a Nazi battalion in Ukraine's war on the Donbas region after Nuland's coup in 2014. Half the audience laughs; the other half is appalled.
ZELENSKY reads mock "letter" to "uncle":
0:30 "Dear Uncle... things will be alright because I am in theranks of the [neo-Nazi] Banderites" AUDIENCE LAUGHTER
0:40 "This [ie fighting in a Nazi battalion] is the only way to make money in Ukraine... My salary is small but we are allowed to steal from the Russians" LAUGHTER
0:50 "The same [theft] happened to the Jews, but then the main Bandera man, [Jewish billionaire Igor] Kolomoisky prohibited it"
NERVOUS LAUGHTER, PEOPLE LOOKING DOWN
1:08 "As for me, I'm learning English to forget Russian -- with the help of American mercenaries. They're all over the place."
LESS LAUGHTER
1:17 "I have married: his name is Vadik! This is normal for us Europeans..."
1:35 "Today our president, Barack Obama, has promised us we will join NATO soon - as an American henchman, of course."
1:46 "If you can, please send me Hitler's book, Mein Kampf. They're sold out here." LAUGHTER
Zelensky ends with a bang, giving a Nazi salute three times after delivering this last punch line:
1:57 "I do morning exercises on the balcony. I do it like this [Nazi salute, reieated], from my heart to the sun"
^ This is the obscene little puppet who makes light of his at his own corruption and his country's open embrace of neo-Nazis.
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Holy shit! Zelensky really said that?? Why are we supporting this creep?
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Jack, think. #4 is Russian trolling.
1. Which country is fascist dictatorship
2. Which county had free election and a surprise outside candidate win.
3. Which president is Jewish? Do you really think, even jokingly, of buying Mein Kampf or making the Nazi salutes?
4. Zelensky was the Ukrainian voice of Paddington Bear. Do you think the American producers would tolerate him going around and promoting Mein Kampf? Seriously. All we have heard from Russians are lies, misdirection and demoralization posts since the beginning of the invasion buildup.
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#4 is Russian trolling.
Fuck you, troll. Stop gaslighting us. You're as bad as Psaki.
The video is authentic. No one with a conscience and a brain would make such jokes in 2014, with all the gruesome atrocities committed by neo-Nazis in Odessa in May of that year and across the Donbas then and the years following. At minimum, this man is a sick asshole who enjoys manipulating people like you.
[AMGREATNESS] Dozens of TikTok "influencers" were given a White House briefing on the Russia-Ukraine war, Thursday, the Washington Post reported. In a Zoom call, National Security Council staffers and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama... reportedly provided to "30 top TikTok stars" the Biden administration’s talking points on "the United States’ strategic goals," and answered a number of questions.According to WaPo internet technology news hound Taylor Lorenz, "millions" of people are turning to the Chinese-owned social media app for information about what is going on in Ukraine.
TikTok videos offered some of the first glimpses of the Russian invasion and since then the platform has been a primary outlet for spreading news to the masses abroad. Ukrainian citizens hiding in bomb shelters or fleeing their homes have shared their stories to the platform, while dangerous misinformation and Russian propaganda have also spread. And TikTok stars, many with millions of followers, have increasingly sought to make sense of the crisis for their audiences.
This is not the first time, the administration has used TikTok influencers for propaganda purposes.
The administration worked with dozens of top TikTok stars last year to encourage vaccination. He also hosted a briefing for influencers to educate them about his infrastructure plan. To emphasize the child-care components of his "Build Back Better" initiative, he sat for interviews with two parenting influencers on Facebook Live and YouTube.
Last August, the Biden White House recruited a TikTok personality known as "Benny Drama" to promote the experimental, genetic vaccines in a cringe-inducing video called "A day in my life as a White House intern
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...Were I King For A Day (and I'm not; more's the pity) I would decree that everyone using the word 'influencer' should receive, without warning or explanation, a severe electric shock.
Until, of course, they renounce such things.
Followed by one more shock, just as a matter of principle.
Mike
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Its very possible any one of these agents draws a larger crowd each evening than all TV news viewers combined, especially if you count second tier influencers.
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I think the network evening news draws between 5-8 million viewers each. Despite all the talk about cable and internet news and opinion influence, network news outdraws them all.
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^ Yes, but the people who look to network news are either looking to hear what they already think reinforced, or, are too unsophisticated of information consumers to understand they could learn more elsewhere.
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I saw somewhere Influencer is the number 1 career choice for high schoolers.
Don't know. All I know is four years ago they were convincing people to eat laundry soap, so I wonder where it is now. Sales networking baby. Its young, its now, its hip, its wow. If the kids are doing it, then drunk mom is on board, which just finished 2 tours of lockdown enforcers. Look up Island Boys, if you dare.
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There was a part in there about having a hard time keeping up with Russian propaganda because Russia doesn't play by the rules, unlike us pure as the snow Western governments.
I wish there was post-discussion like, "Well that wasn't the real definition of Inflation." or if it went, "The larbiggest attack since WW11." Yes, spelled correctly from some I've seen, WW11.
I think I saw something like 180,000 Russian troops, which is right in that North Korea 1950 range, and Sino-Vietnamese estimates.
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/\ One likely course of action (COA) would be a pull-back to separatist controlled Lunask and Donetsk region and connect the land-bridge (and rail link) between Crimea and Mariupol along the Black Sea.
Pushing the Crimean border northward to Kherson could also be a part of that COA.
Having nearly cut off Ukraine's access to the Black Sea, declare victory, hand out orders of Saint George medals, and hurry off to the Bolshoi.
[RFE] Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children have become refugees since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. Their testimonies of the horrors of war are a stunning combination of unfiltered emotion and calm descriptiveness. The children also reflect on politics, with one girl remarking that Russian President Vladimir Putin was perhaps "neglected as a child." RFE/RL interviewed several Ukrainian refugee children in Poland and Lithuania on March 2-8.
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[GREATERKASHMIR] Police on Monday claimed to have busted a module of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen outfit by arresting three 'militant associates' involved in the recent killing of a Sarpanch
...an elected village headman or mayor responsible to the elected village council, because India is all about democracy at all levels...
in southern district of Kulgam.
"Kulgam Police busted #terror module of proscribed terror outfit HM involved in recent #killing of #Sarpanch Shabir Ahmad Mir & arrested 03 #terrorist associates actively involved and recovered #incriminating materials including 02 Pistols on their disclosure," said a police front man, in a tweet.
The front man, while quoting IGP 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.... , said that the vehicle used in the commission of the crime has also seen seized. "During investigation, it was learnt that the Sarpanch was killed by HM terrorist Mushtaq Yatoo on the directions of HM Chief terrorist Farooq Nalli," the front man quoted IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar as having said.
Mir, as per police, was shot at by the murderous Moslems on Friday evening in Audoora area of Kulgam. He was rushed to a nearby hospital but did not survive the bullet injuries, said an official.
[Sun] The alleged NSA spy tool is capable of lurking in a victim's computer and accessing sensitive information, according to the Chinese outlet Global Times.
Despite the claims, there has been no confirmation by US officials on the alleged hack or of the tool's existence.
A report obtained by the outlet from National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center claims the dubbed Trojan horse, or NOPEN, is a remote control tool for Unix/Linux computer systems.
The instrument can allegedly remotely control existing network servers and terminals, which attackers can manually implant, or cyberattack platforms by the NSA, the outlet reported citing the NCVERC report.
According to the Chinese outlet, the tool is "mainly used to steal files, access systems, redirect network communication, and view a target device's information."
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Paper, grease pencils and overlays, typewriter and viewgraphs, the old school is amused at the discovery that electrons are not always the safest form of information storage and sharing.
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What happened to the Russian Boogeyman that US Taxpayers spend $$$ TRILLIONS defending against?
It died in the late 80s and no one noticed. We have been building up against "near peer" adversaries and only in the last few years (see Syria and now Ukraine) have we seen that the Russian stuff isn't even close to peer level. It is little better than the stuff Iraq had in 1991.
Yeah, the Russians have some kewl high tech toys... but they cost a lot to produce them and they can't afford to put them into mass production. And the money spent on them hasn't gone to military upgrades or training. What little went there was hovered up by corrupt generals and spent on yachts.
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What happened to the Russian Boogeyman that US Taxpayers spend $$$ TRILLIONS defending against?
Those trillions went on display in Iraq I and II.
The Europeans never got around to covering their part (like the whole part) of their own defense. They expected the Americans and Russians to mutually immolate over them.
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One of the main problems with Russian weapons that their best integrated circuit tech is 20 years behind the world. Even then, their best fab is not commercial scale and can't make the quantities needed for their military. Now Russia will also be cut off from commercial and dual use chips.
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As the Russians slowly grind down Ukraine and the tragedy of mistakes grows, I hope we do not fall for the MIC efforts to create another marketplace for endless arms sales and expenditures to keep the carnage going as a zero sum game. Putie is awakening to this being an existential struggle for himself, and I think he has that inbred slavic /Rus fatalism that might toy with a Götterdämmerung moment in extremis.
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I have heard that their reserves are going to the cities, and 19,000 Syrian mercenaries are being deployed to protect the supply lines.
I predict lots of war crimes in the near future.
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#10 I have heard that their reserves are going to the cities, and 19,000 Syrian mercenaries are being deployed to protect the supply lines.
I predict lots of war crimes in the near future.
I suspect that the Syrians will find out PDQ that there's a hell of a difference between a berserk, semi-literate jihadi and a trained, motivated Ukranian. They'll probably be longing for the piece and quiet of Syria in no time.
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For information: MIC is Military-Industrial Complex, right?
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and 19,000 Syrian mercenaries are being deployed to protect the supply lines.
The Syrian mercenaries are still being advertised for, as of the other day. Hardly any had been actually hired yet, so who knows what they’ll be qualified to do.
[Deadline] Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s path to becoming the next U.S. ambassador to India hit a potential snag Thursday when a senior senator said he wants Garcetti’s confirmation vote delayed pending an investigation into whether the mayor knew about and ignored sexual harassment and assault allegations made against his former senior advisor.
In a letter made available to Politico, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), "I will object (to Garcetti’s nomination) because I have received numerous credible allegations from multiple whistleblowers alleging that Mr. Garcetti, while mayor of Los Angeles, had knowledge of sexual harassment and assaults allegedly committed against multiple city employees and their associates by his close advisor, and that he ignored the misconduct."
Investigators in Grassley’s office are reportedly conducting their own investigation into the allegations and requested the nomination be put on hold until their process is complete.
Grassley continued, "The United States owes it to the Republic of India to send them a qualified Ambassador that will represent the values of the United States. Mayor Garcetti may very well be fully qualified, but at this time, the Senate needs to look at these allegations further."
Grassley also said his office had spoken with people who "have not previously spoken to the Foreign Relations Committee, and are presenting new allegations that must be fully investigated."
According to Politico, Democrats can confirm Garcetti without GOP support, but they will need all 50 of their members in attendance as well as Vice President Kamala Harris’ vote to break a 50-50 tie.
The Office of the Mayor pushed back on Grassley’s allegations.
"Repeating a malicious falsehood will never turn a lie into the truth," it said in a statement to Deadline. "The Mayor has testified under oath multiple times, including before the U.S. Senate, and stands by his testimony unequivocally: he absolutely did not witness nor was he informed of any of the behavior being alleged. The Mayor has spent the better part of his life advocating aggressively on this issue, and had he been aware of any such behavior, he absolutely would have acted to stop it."
[Dawn] Investigators probing the murder of a big shot of Pasban-e-Aza
...a Shiite organization in Pakistan...
feared the return of sectarian terrorism in the metropolis, as they believed that Syed Salman Haider Rizvi was killed because of sectarian reasons.
On Saturday night, Rizvi, the son of Pasban-e-Aza founder SM Haider, was shot full of holes by armed assailants near his home in Federal B Area’s Block 20.
Talking to Dawn, Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) official Raja Umar Khattab recalled that such a killing apparently based on sectarianism took place after a considerable period.
He feared the sectarian terrorism was again rearing its ugly head in the metropolis.
The official pointed out that the victim had been a close associate of Askari Raza, who was shot full of holes in a sectarian attack in the past.
Investigators treating Pasban-e-Aza leader’s murder as sectarian killing case
He said the initial probe revealed that four assailants were already waiting for Rizvi and when he got off the vehicle after reaching his home in Ancholi, one of the attackers approached him.
The official said that after a brief chat, in which the assailant probably asked Rizvi’s name, he fired at him and rode away along with his accomplices.
Spent bullet casings fired from a 9mm pistol had been collected from the scene of the crime and sent to police’s forensic science laboratory for cross-matching.
FUNERAL
In the evening on Sunday, the Pasban-e-Aza leader was laid to rest.
His funeral prayers were held on Shahrah-e-Pakistain after Zuhrain, which was led by Allama Hasan Zafar Naqvi. Religious scholars, leaders of different parties and people belonging to different segments of society attended the funeral. He was laid to rest in the Wadi-e-Hussain graveyard on Superhighway.
The victim apart from being active for release of missing persons was associated with different organizations and trusts.
’CONSPIRACY FOR VIOLENCE’
Talking to the media after the funeral, Allama Baqar Zaidi demanded the arrest of the killers within 24 hours and warned that they would be compelled to hold a countrywide protest.
He added that under a well-planned ’conspiracy’, assassinations of Shia leaders had been started in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... after similar incidents took place in other parts of the country.
He expressed the fear that ’sectarian violence’ might be raising its ugly head again, but the rulers seemed to be busy in partisan politics.
The religious leaders urged the president, prime minister, chief justice and chief of army staff to take notice of the killing.
Separately, Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Karachi chief Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman as condemned the murder of Pasban-e-Aza leader and the killing of the driver of JI leader Imtiaz Palarin in a gun attack on his car in Nooriabad early on Sunday morning.
Hafiz Naeem said the recent killings were aimed at triggering ’sectarian violence’ in the metropolis.
He claimed that the Sindh government and law enforcers had failed to protect citizens.
[FOXNEWS] Bombing a maternity hospital, They did that in Chechnya too. Look how they rounded up the perps...
shelling residential buildings, firing on fleeing refugees, and destroying any infrastructure that supports the lives of innocent civilians ... are all war crimes under international law. Whoever is involved in the chain of command that gave the orders — all the way up to the head of state — can and should be charged. This means 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... must be indicted for war crimes.
There is no question about who issued the orders. The invasion of Ukraine and the cruel bombing campaign cannot be blamed on a rogue Russian general. It was organized and directed by Putin himself. He admitted as much in his maniacal vows to destroy his perceived enemies in neighboring Ukraine.
Historically, the gathering of incriminating evidence has been both difficult and time-consuming. Perpetrators cover up their crimes and witnesses are reluctant to speak out in fear for their own lives. But the atrocities in Ukraine are different.
On a daily basis, the world has watched in real time many of the war crimes committed by the military forces that Putin controls. Thanks to modern technology, the evidence has been collected by news hounds with cameras, as well as Ukrainians on their cellphones or other devices. Satellite images confirm the death and destruction.
The compilation and authentication of the damning evidence is no longer an obstacle as it once was. It has already been communicated electronically throughout the world and stored. We have watched it unfold with our own eyes.
The appalling video of the bombings as they happened, photographs of mangled bodies of women and kiddies, pictures of mass graves, and the personal accounts of the carnage by those who watched in horror constitute self-evident proof.
In the city of Mariupol alone, some 1,200 civilians were slaughtered. That number seems to rise by the hour. The names of the victims and how they were massacred by Putin’s heavily armed troops have been meticulously recorded.
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How many regiments does the world court have to take Putin captive and bring him to trial?
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Obama dropped 200,000 bombs killing and maiming tens of thousands of women and children, bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital and sent gunners in to kill the fleeing nurses and patients.
> The attacks took place despite the fact that MSF had provided the GPS coordinates of the trauma hospital to the US Department of Defense, Afghan Ministry of Interior and Defense and US Army in Kabul as recently as Tuesday, 29 September. The attack continued for more than 30 minutes after we first informed Resolute Support and US military officials in Kabul and Washington that it was a hospital being hit.
Is this one of those things where it's OK when Democrats commit war crimes but not OK when anyone else does it?
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^ It's not about only Democrats. Americans can commit, support and fund any attrocity on the globe as long the media provides the right vibes. And they can call it a sad but necessary action, one event in a long journey of America's evolution as the world's gunslinging cowboy.
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^ Quick quiz: How did Libya go from a functioning socialist country where everyone got enough from the government to live to civil war and literal slave markets?
Khadaffy wasn't a good guy, but Jesus. Imagine for just a minute and put your own feet in the shoes of Libyans, Iraqis, Afghans, Yemenis, and Syrians. Each time you hear the name America, would you not feel badly physically existentially threatened?
The deep state in charge of the wars are horribly bad, evil people who need to be removed and replaced with a government that represents the interests of the American people. Obama and Bush need to be turned over to the ICC for trial at The Hague for war crimes.
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Never going to happen. If it was, Obama would be there, Bush would be there, etc...
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How did Libya go from a functioning socialist country
The Al Qaeda-linked jihadis Libya produced in those years spawned ISIS-pledged jihadis in their children, who went on to blow up the children of the countries they fled to, while colonel Moammar Khadaffy trained and supported an endless list of primarily but not exclusively socialist/communist terrorist groups: a variety of Palestinians, the Black Panthers and Nation of Islam, Sandinistas, ANC, Provos, Red Brigades and Red Army Faction, Moros, etc.
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Bringing the leader of a Permanent member of the Security Council up on war crimes is not get anywhere.
Also Russia has pact with China so even if Russia couldn't vote on this thing they are protected, and even without the pact China would be a fool as this would open them up to all sorts of crimes regarding their Muslim slave/organ donor population.
Lastly, if it went through, the leaders of the west would bring themselves up for real or imagined actions. None of them are gonna risk that kind of harassments.
This is stupid. If anything go after the General that got the order to ensure the next General given such orders might reconsider...
[BIZPACREVIEW] In a truly bizarre story out of Nevada, an Iranian woman
...so she is Iranian. I wondered about that...
was arrested for stabbing a man who she lured to a Las Vegas-area hotel after hooking up with him on a dating app, an act of Dire Revenge for the 2020 killing of a top Iranian terrorist leader.
Nika Nikoubin was arrested after police responded to a call from the 14th floor of the Sunset Station Hotel and Casino which, according to its website, is just minutes from the Las Vegas Strip in nearby Henderson, the incident occurred on March 5.
Upon their arrival, the officers found the injured man who had been stabbed after being blindfolded during sex, his identity has not been released.
The motive for the depraved act of violence appears to have been retribution for the death of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, a terrorist criminal mastermind who was taken out by a dronezap that was authorized by former President Donald J. Trump.
The 21-year-old femme fatale said that the reason for stabbing her victim twice in the neck was "for Dire Revenge against U.S. troops for the killing of Qassem Soleimani in 2020," according to the police report, she also said that she didn’t want to kill him.
Nikoubin met her victim through the popular dating app Plenty of Fish , luring him to Sunset Station for kinky sex, "While in the room, the pair began engaging in sexual activity, when Nikoubin put a blindfold on the victim, police said. Nikoubin then turned off the lights, and several minutes later, the victim "felt a pain on the side of his neck," according to Las Vegas CBS affiliate 8 News Now.
"After the stabbing, the victim pushed Nikoubin off of him and ran out of the room to call 911, police said," the outlet reported, "Nikoubin also ran out of the room, telling a hotel employee that she had just stabbed a man, police said."
Nikoubin found inspiration in music, "When talking to police, Nikoubin told an investigator "she wanted Dire Revenge," police said. She said she had listened to a song called "Grave Digger," which "gave her the motivation... to carry out her Dire Revenge" the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
Certainly the name appears designed to trigger something.
[ConservativeTreehouse] Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan returns from Ukraine with a somber message about the situation and likely future. Harrigan notes that Russian victory in Ukraine is a foregone conclusion — Ukraine will be flattened if needed. However, that outcome comes at a serious cost.
The war inside Ukraine will wage on for years as an insurgency against Vladimir Putin. The western alliance will spend trillions if needed. NATO will kill as many Ukrainians and mercenary units as needed in order to battle Vladimir Putin in a proxy war. The industrial war machine will gleefully churn out the material needed for the DC based political war machine to purchase.
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The industrial war machine will gleefully churn out the material needed for the DC based political war machine to purchase.
Schwinn bicycles, the Delta-88, and the Selectric-III are gone. War is now our business, and business appears to be good.
Yes Leonard, there is a very good reason Donald Trump is no longer the president.
“The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact”.
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The problem with this statement is that Russia doesn't have the industrial base to keep up with the level of war expenditures. A war sucks up all your ammo, supplies and fuel faster than anything and at greater levels than planned. And Russia is almost out of all those things, especially with 70-75% of its total military now deployed into the Ukraine.
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Anything we can afford to wait out, we should wait out. This, of course, is the one approach that the frantic media and our frantic politicians are completely averse to.
"Do something! Now!" is the only course they know.
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Read the second paragraph of the original post. Who is cast as the aggressor? NATO. NATO didn't invade the Ukraine; Putin's Russia did.
Putin can end the war in a couple of days and Russia will continue to exist; the Ukrainians can only end the war by surrendering. Given the Holodomor, why should they?
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this war has already sucked up nearly all of Russia's best combat battalions.
that's why they are working to get mercenaries from Syria, train war capable criminals, transfer units from Siberia, etc.
I don't know for sure how bad their finances are they are likely also pretty dicey now and getting worse by the day.
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Interesting that he accuses NATO, not Putin, of killing Ukranians. I wonder if he accuses the French of killing American revolutionaries.
[An Nahar] More than a dozen U.N. agencies and international aid groups said Monday that 161,000 people in war-torn 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... are likely to experience famine over the second half of 2022 — a fivefold increase from the current figure.
The stark warning came in a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, ahead of an annual fund-raising conference that the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... is hosting on Wednesday. The IPC is a global partnership of 15 U.N. agencies and humanitarian organizations working in Yemen and funded by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , the USAID and UKAID. It tracks and measures food insecurity in conflict-stricken regions.
The report underscores the dire situation in the poorest Arab nation that plunged into civil war for in 2014, when Yemen's Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels took control of the capital, Sanaa, and much of the country's north, forcing the government to flee to the south, then to 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... "These harrowing figures confirm that we are on a countdown to catastrophe in Yemen and we are almost out of time to avoid it," said David Beasley, head of the World Food Program, appealing for immediate funding to "avert imminent disaster and save millions."
The IPC report says 19 million people in Yemen — out of a population of more than 30 million — are likely to unable to meet their minimum food needs between June and December, up from 17.4 million.
Also, 2.2 million children, including 538,000 already severely malnourished, and about 1.3 million women, could be acutely malnourished by the end of the year, the report said.
"More and more children are going to bed hungry in Yemen," said Catherine Russell, UNICEF's executive director. "This puts them at increased risk of physical and cognitive impairment, and even death."
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Post and story from a TW comment and link last evening.
(Bloomberg) -- Chinese stocks listed in Hong Kong had their worst day since the global financial crisis, as concerns over Beijing’s close relationship with Russia and renewed regulatory risks sparked panic selling.
The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index closed down 7.2% on Monday, the biggest drop since November 2008. The Hang Sang Tech Index tumbled 11% in its worst decline since the gauge was launched in July 2020, wiping out $2.1 trillion in value since a year-earlier peak.
The broad rout follows a report citing U.S. officials that Russia has asked China for military assistance for its war in Ukraine. Even as China denied the report, traders worry that Beijing’s potential overture toward Vladimir Putin could bring a global backlash against Chinese firms, even sanctions. Sentiment was also hurt by a Covid-induced lockdown in the southern city of Shenzhen, a key tech hub, and the northern province of Jilin.
That comes on top of a spate of regulatory worries. Tencent Holdings Ltd. is reportedly facing a possible record fine for violations of anti money-laundering rules, which pushed the stock down nearly 10% on Monday. There’s also a risk of Chinese firms delisting from the U.S., as the Securities and Exchange Commission identified some names as part of a crackdown on foreign firms that refuse to open their books to U.S. regulators. This is indeed a significant development. The Russian stock market has crumbled. It is likely Chinese investors have a fear that their US 'box store' cash cow could be put on indefinite hold, not to mention US grain imports. Eating appears to have become a habit in China. Teaching moment to be found here somewhere.
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On Sunday, China ordered all of Shenzhen's 17.5 million residents into a seven-day lockdown, with three rounds of testing. All public transport is halted and all businesses, except essential services, will be closed until March 20.
As a result, Apple supplier Foxconn has shut two of its plants in the area and relocated production elsewhere.
The lockdown and outbreaks threaten manufacturing and tech production in Shenzhen, known as China's Silicon Valley. It's home to Huawei and Tencent, and is home to one of the country's key ports.
Mmm, it's not. Chicago Board Options Exchange's CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) has been wavering between 29 and 33 for the last week. As I type, it's just under 31. Average for the last 5 days is -1.76%.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:23 Only from Kramatorsk a volley was fired from the MLRS towards Slavyansk. A volley was heard at Yasnogorka, probably they worked from a chalk quarry. 22:50 Military correspondent Kotenok: residents of the village of Vygoda, Odessa region, report that a large convoy of APU equipment, including air defense systems and charging vehicles, has entered the village. Technique moves with extinguished fires.
22:44 Ukrainian troops in Odessa place technology in residential areas. The tanks are directed towards the sea.
22:43 The position of Russian troops near Kiev, March 14.
Losses of brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the DPR from February 24 to March 14, 2022:
95 odshbr - 87 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed and 107 were injured;
25th Air Assault Brigade - 82 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed and 111 wounded;
56th Separate Rifle Brigade - 112 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed and 142 wounded;
54th Separate Rifle Brigade - 167 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed and 178 were wounded;
53rd Separate Rifle Brigade - 279 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, including the brigade commander, and 303 were wounded;
36th Infantry Regiment - 249 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed and 303 were wounded;
12th Rifle Brigade - 235 NGU servicemen were killed and 246 wounded.
20:10 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation calls on all citizens of Ukraine working at military production plants to leave their jobs, as these military-industrial complex facilities will be bombed in response to the missile attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donetsk on March 14 against civilians.
17:54 Nationalists, under the threat of reprisals against family members, are forcing men from 18 to 60 years old to enlist in battalions in Kharkov, Odessa and Nikolaev - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
17:52 Social networks: Armed militants of "terror defense" in Zaporizhia seized banks and check the accounts of depositors. Wealthy residents are robbed by nationalists “for the needs of territorial defense detachments” - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
17:49 Melitopol and Kherson are under the full control of the Russian Armed Forces, the population of the cities is provided with everything necessary, there are no problems in helping the residents - the Russian Defense Ministry.
17:42 Almost 7,000 foreigners are held hostage by militants in Ukraine, as well as the crews of more than 50 vessels blocked in seaports - the Russian Defense Ministry.
17:00 Russian commandant's office of Melitopol redeems weapons from the inhabitants of Melitopol. The reward for the returned machine is $100 in cash. The Russian military is buying up weapons to prevent them from falling into the hands of criminals.
16:55 Ships of the Russian Navy enter the port of Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region.
13:52 The mass surrender of Ukrainian servicemen and militants of neo-Nazi groups into captivity began due to the lack of supplies of ammunition, fuel, food and uniforms. According to the residents of the city of Dnepropetrovsk, the radicals created special patrols in the city, seizing warm clothes, food and medicine from citizens.
13:51 Russian Armed Forces continue to maintain order in the liberated territories of Kherson. Checkpoints have been set up in the city to preserve the safety of the civilian population.
12:28 Social networks write that the Ukrainian General Staff ordered to hide artillery, tanks and air defense in houses. At the request of the Bank General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is developing a new instruction for the protection of troops. The document indicates how to more effectively hide heavy weapons systems in residential buildings. At the same time, the instruction specifically states that the presence of civilians is an important element of protection. Therefore, Ukrainian commanders should choose places with a large crowd of people, and during the defense not carry out evacuation.
11:11 APU blew upbridgein the area of Kamianske: Transport communication between Zaporozhye and Energodar is stopped.
10:58 The Armed Forces of Ukraine, retreating, blew up all the bridges, and then it’s impossible for people to leave from there, or vice versa, humanitarian convoys have to go on a detour through hot spots.
09:55 Local media reports that the Antonov aircraft factory is on fire in Kyiv.
09:54 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 3,920 military infrastructure facilities of Ukraine have been disabled . special military vehicles, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
09:53 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aircraft hit 187 objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including: two command posts, one Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system, one guidance and targeting radar station, two multiple rocket launchers, two electronic warfare stations, two ammunition depots and fuel and lubricants, 31 military equipment accumulation sites.
09:43 In social networks they write that broadcasting of Russian TV channels has begun in Melitopol and Kherson.
09:24 A TV tower in the city of Rivne has been destroyed. Her destruction confirmed regional governor.
09:20 In the port of Berdyansk, the Russian military is disarming Ukrainian ships.
08:20 The forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The attack was carried out by Su-25 attack aircraft. After a successful operation, the aircraft returned to base.
08:18 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to go to the end in scorched earth tactics. At the moment, a plan has been worked out for the destruction of all bridges, and detachments have already been partially trained to carry out these tasks. In the Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions, part of the bridges had already been blown up during the retreat. The infrastructure of the country is being destroyed at such a rate that soon the country will be uninhabitable.
08:15 Zhytomyr authorities urged civilians to leave the city and not resist the Russian army.
07:40 Now known that many schools and kindergartens were completely occupied by Ukrainian warriors and members of the Terodefense. There is a list of 23 already occupied properties, but there will be many more soon.
07:32 Social networks report that explosions have become more frequent in Kyiv in the morning - fighting is underway on the outskirts
06:00 David Phillips, a journalist for The New York Times, confirms the presence of American militants at the Yavoriv training ground at the time of the strike.
05:00 Acting mayor of Melitopol Galina Danilchenko announced the start of broadcasting of Russian TV channels in the city.
03:00 "Let's go fill someone up." Consequences of the uncontrolled distribution of weapons to civilians in Ukraine. On the personnel one can see how young people “play” with the issued weapons and try to figure out how they work.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Babylon Bee] Jussie Smollett was sentenced on Thursday to a grueling 150 days in prison, 30 months of probation, and a $120,000 fine because he orchestrated a fake hate crime against himself. The former "Empire" actor has condemned the judge's sentence, saying he only received such a harsh sentence because he "created a hoax and tried to start a race war."
[Political Wire] "American intelligence officials have discovered that the barrage of ballistic missiles Russia has fired into Ukraine contain a surprise: decoys that trick air-defense radars and fool heat-seeking missiles," the New York Times reports.
[Anti-War.com] On Sunday, former House representative for Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard released a video calling for the Biden administration to work with Russia and other parties to establish a ceasefire in Ukraine so dangerous pathogens held by US-funded biological research labs in the country could be destroyed.
[Washington Examiner] A Pentagon agency has denied any role in attributing the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee to Russia after an email indicated special counsel 
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...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[An Nahar] Germany said Monday that it will replace some of its ageing Tornado bomber jets with U.S.-made F-35A Lightning II aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
" ...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...
[IsraelTimes] Users unable to reach sites with gov.il extension for an hour, as National Cyber Directorate reportedly declares state of emergency over incident.
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[Sun] The alleged NSA spy tool is capable of lurking in a victim's computer and accessing sensitive information, according to the Chinese outlet Global Times.
...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...
[BIZPACREVIEW] In a truly bizarre story out of Nevada, an Iranian woman 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
