Think the Europeans will need to get by without Russian crude? You are 100% correct. But you are not thinking anywhere near big enough.
Most of Russia’s oil fields are both old and extraordinarily remote from Russia’s customers. Fields in the North Caucasus are either tapped out or were never refurbished in the aftermath of the Chechen Wars, those of Russia’s Tatarstan and Bashkortostan provinces are well past their peak, and even western Siberian fields have been showing diminishing returns since the 2000s. With few exceptions, Russia’s oil discoveries of the last decade or three are deeper, smaller, more technically challenging, and even farther from population centers than the older fields they would be expected to replace. Russian output isn’t in danger of collapsing, but maintaining output will require more infrastructure, far higher up-front costs, and ongoing technical love and care to prevent steady output declines from becoming something far worse.
While the Russians are no slouches when it comes to oil field knowledge, they were out of circulation from roughly 1940 through 2000. Oil technology came a long way in those sixty years. Foreign firms—most notably supermajors BP and Shell, and services firms Halliburton and Schlumberger—have collectively done work that is probably responsible for half of Russia’s contemporary output.
The Western supermajors have left. All of them. Just as the Ukraine War began, Exxon and BP and Shell have walked away from projects they’ve sunk tens of billions of dollars into, knowing full well they won’t get a cent of compensation. Halliburton and Schlumberger’s operations today are a shadow of what they were before Russia’s previous invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Between future sanctions or the inability of the Russians to pay them with hard currency, those operations now risk winding down to zero. The result is as inevitable as it is damning: at least a 50% reduction in the ability of Russia to produce crude. (No. Chinese oilmen cannot hope to keep things flowing. The Chinese are worse in this space than the Russians.) The outstanding question is how soon?
Sooner than you think. It’s an issue of infrastructure and climate.
First, infrastructure. All of Russia’s oil flows first travel by pipe—in some cases for literally thousands of miles—before they reach either a customer or a discharge port. Pipes can’t . . . dodge. Anything that impedes a single inch of a pipe shuts the whole thing down. In the post-Cold War globalized Order when we all got along, this was something we could sing-song-skip right by. But with the Russians dropping cluster bombs on civilian targets — as they started doing on Feb 28 — not so much. Whether the Russians destroy the pipes with their indiscriminate use of ordinance (like they damaged a radiation containment vessel at Chernobyl!!!) or Ukrainian partisans target anything that brings the Russians income, much of this system is doomed.
Second, climate. Siberia, despite getting cold enough to literally freeze your nose off in October, doesn’t get cold enough. Most Russian oil production is in the permafrost, and for most of the summer the permafrost is inaccessible because its top layer melts into a messy, horizon-spanning swamp. What the Russians do is wait for the land to freeze, and then build dike-roads and drill for crude in the long dark of the Siberian winter. Should something happen to consumption of Russian crude oil or any of the millions of feet of pipe that take that crude from wellhead to port or consumer, flows would back up through the literally thousands of miles of pipes right up to the drill site. There is no place to store the stuff. Russia would just need to shut everything down. Turning it back on would require manually checking everything, all the way from well to border.
The last time this happened was the Soviet collapse in 1989. It took millions of manhours of help from the likes of BP and Halliburton — and thirty-two years — for Russia to get back to its Cold War production levels. And now, with war on in Ukraine, insurance companies are cancelling policies for tankers carrying anything Russian on Seas Black and Baltic while the French seize Russian vessels, and the Russian Central Bank under the strictest financial sanctions ever, it is all falling apart. Again.
Even in the sunshine and unicorn scenario that Putin duct tapes himself to a lawn chair and throws himself into a pool, and a random band of kindly kindergarten teachers take over the Russian government, we should not expect the energy supply situation in Russia to begin to stabilize before 2028, and for us to return to what we think of as the status quo before 2045.
In the meantime, the debate of the moment is expanded energy sanctions. Once everyone concludes that Russian crude is going away regardless, there’s something to be said about pre-emptively sanctioning Russian energy before reality forces the same end result. Moral high road and all that. Bottom line: Uuuuugh! The disappearance of some four to five million Russian barrels of daily crude production will all by itself kick energy prices up to at least $170 a barrel. A global energy-induced depression is in the wind.
But probably not an American one. In the bad ol’ days before World War II there wasn’t a "global" oil price. Each major country or empire controlled its own production and maintained its own — sequestered — market. Courtesy of the American shale revolution and preexisting legislation, the U.S. president has the authority to end American oil exports on a whim and return us to that world. An American export ban would flood U.S. refiners with relatively cheap shale oil. Those refiners will certainly bitch — their facilities have a taste for crude grades different from what comes out of Texas and North Dakota — but having a functional price ceiling within the United States of roughly $70 a barrel will achieve precisely what Joe Biden is after: cheaper gasoline prices.
The rest of the world? They’ll have to grapple with losing Russian and American crude at the same time. If the "global" price stays below $200, I’d be shocked.
The first rule of geopolitics is place matters. To populations. To transport. To finance. To agriculture. To energy. To everything. The second rule is things can always get worse. The world is about to (re)learn both lessons, good and hard.
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I think most of the Russian production will just be seamlessly rerouted into the Chinese network. And we'll be paying Vlad via our payments for our iPhones.
[IsraelTimes/JTA] Konstantyn Batozsky believes he is on a list of so-called "neo-Nazis" to be rounded up "Gestapo-style" and "exterminated" by Russian forces seeking to enter Kyiv.
Batozsky, a Jew from eastern Ukraine, said he was informed about the "bounty on his head" by Ukrainian intelligence sources. But as a longtime and avowed Ukrainian nationalist who has collaborated with a paramilitary group that has a reputation for including extremists, he knows that it’s people like him that Russian President Vladimir Putin was talking about when he cited a need for "denazification" as a pretext for invading his country.
"I have been staying underground away from my apartment where the Russians will try to find me," Batozsky said from a makeshift bunker preparing for what appears to be an imminent invasion as bombs rained down outside the city center.
"I am happy that I’m alive," he reflected, as he coordinated efforts to get much-needed supplies to the Ukrainian army. "It now feels like every day could be the last."
Initially cheerful in the early days of the war as the Ukrainians were surprisingly resilient against the much bigger Russian army, Batozsky now sounded more worried. And angry.
"The Russians are advancing and the West is not helping. Just words are not enough," he lamented. Batozky pleaded for Western countries to intervene militarily.
Among those taking up arms for the first time as volunteers for the civilian army include Jews like Batozsky, who was passionately devoted to the Ukrainian national cause in his native Donetsk years before Russia decided to wage war on the entire country. He was a former adviser to the governor of Donetsk, Serhiy Taruta, now a member of the Ukrainian parliament.
Donetsk is one of two eastern regions where pro-Russian separatists, supported by the Russian military, clashed with the Ukrainian forces from 2014 to 2015. The simmering conflict was the precursor for the current Russian invasion as Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence, which is not recognized by Ukraine. it's a long article I don't have time to unformat
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Batozsky, a Jew from eastern Ukraine, said he was informed about the "bounty on his head" by Ukrainian intelligence sources
But of course.
"Kostya, they even have a photo of you doing the hora! The bastards were throwing knives at it!"
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New Jews - old Jews. People making claims. There ought to be an obligation to drop your drawers when making claims about Jewish heritage. An empty tin of matzah just doesn't cut it with the world at war.
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Ukrainians are looking for outside help using whatever emotional hooks they can find, as are the Russians. I don’t fault them for that. I just wish they wouldn’t go hysterical (Nazis! Nazis! Naziiiiiiiis!) when agreement isn’t forthcoming,
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Everyone knows that the Azov Battalion are neo-Nazis. It's been documented by dozens of independent researchers and investigative journalists from many countries. Why deny it?
[PJMedia] Old Joe Biden watched Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to Congress Wednesday and pronounced the Ukrainian president "convincing." Biden said that "Putin is inflicting appalling — appalling devastation and horror on Ukraine — bombing apartment buildings, maternity wards, hospitals. I mean, it’s — it’s God awful." As a result, "We are crippling Putin’s economy with punishing sanctions that’s going to only grow more painful over time with the entire NATO and EU behind us, and many other countries." The old man boasted that "the American people are answering President Zelenskyy’s call for more help, more weapons for Ukraine to defend itself, more tools to fight Russian aggression." Biden insisted that "it’s about freedom." It all sounded great, but he didn’t mention one key detail: his handlers’ new nuke deal with Iran will give Russia ten billion dollars. So who is paying for all that Russian aggression? A large chunk of this cash will be coming from you and me.
The Washington Free Beaconreported Wednesday that "Russia’s top state-controlled energy company," Rosatom, "is set to cash in on a $10 billion contract to build out one of Iran’s most contested nuclear sites as part of concessions granted in the soon-to-be-announced nuclear agreement that will guarantee sanctions on both countries are lifted."
Rosatom is set to work on the Bushehr nuclear plant in Tehran. According to the Free Beacon, "Russia and the Biden administration confirmed on Tuesday that the new nuclear agreement includes carveouts that will waive sanctions on both countries so that Russia can make good on this contract."
State Department Spokesman Ned Price tried to paint a happy face on this fiasco, claiming that "we, of course, would not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects that are part of resuming full implementation of the JCPOA," that is, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Obama’s disastrous 2015 nuclear deal. Of course.
And so Russia will get ten billion dollars from Iran to spruce up one of its nuclear plants, and where will that money come from? Gabriel Noronha, a former State Department official, explained on March 7 that "Iran is set to get access to a massive windfall of cash: My latest estimate (derived from figures declassified during my tenure at the State Department) is $90 billion in access to foreign exchange reserves, and then a further $50-$55 billion in extra revenue each year from higher oil and petrochemical exports, with no restrictions on how or where the money can be spent. Personally, the most troubling transfer of funds will be the $7 billion ransom payment the United States is preparing to pay for the release of four Americans from an Iranian jail. Now, let me be clear: I would be extremely glad to bring these Americans back home safely as quickly as possible. They are innocent victims who, along with their families, have suffered unjustly for far too long. But make no mistake: Biden’s payment will only supercharge Iran’s hostage-taking industry."
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Total scam. Putin is getting everything he wanted. Ukraine is totally fucked for decades to come, and the EU and the US will be on the hook to pay for this basket case. The US is paying Russia for oil and to help Iran. Africa and the Middle East will keep paying for Russian arms and wheat. India is now going to accept rubles, the Saudis are shifting out of dollars and into the yuan, and China and Russia are closer than ever.
Total fail. The only explanation is that Biden and the other crooks are getting kickbacks from Putin's victory in Ukraine
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Bought and paid for, and aware that they cannot allow the proof of their crimes to see the light of day, which they know would happen if they resist. Nothing else explains how a government can act so utterly against both common sense, and the best interests of its citizens.
[Brietbart] Just as soaring inflation has lifted gas prices at the pump under President Joe Biden, now its hitting domestic travel. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian warned Thursday the airlines’ U.S. ticket prices could increase between five and 10 percent in coming weeks as oil costs continue to climb.
The leap in fuel costs for a U.S. domestic flight "is probably about $25 on a ticket, that could be anywhere between 5% to 10% at these high levels of oil ... and international [flights] will be a bit higher than that," Bastian told the BBC in an interview Thursday.
In addition to raising the price of U.S. tickets, Delta is planning to implement an added fuel fee for international flights.
Other airlines, such as AirAsia, Emirates and Japan Airlines have also taken similar steps by adding fuel surcharges, according to the BBC report.
The news comes as oil prices show little if any path downwards in the immediate future and the American public holds slim hopes for change under the current administration.
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I would have thought more. Cost centers are labor, fuel, & debt service, at grossly 1/3 each. Double fuel cost bumps the price 15%, then add the secondary bumps as labor demands rise, and as the interest rates get raised. I bet it comes to 25% increase.
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There's a ton of price competition in aviation. Airlines can't just pass on every higher input cost to their customers without losing market share to EasyJet and other cheapo carriers
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Packed like cordwood, treated like crap seated next to annoying/uncouth strangers by random chance, and forced to endure hours of senseless displays of government tyranny and corporate cost cutting and indifferent customer service, now even more expensive, What's not to like?
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/\ And that's the pre-boarding gate atmosphere.
"Excuse me, but that guy next to you.... yes, the one who was laying on the floor eating spaghetti; He just pushed a paper plate and napkin into your carry-on side pocket. Just thought you should know."
[FinanceYahoo] Russia has transferred U.S. dollars to settle coupon payments due Wednesday on two Eurobonds, according to people familiar with the matter.
The people declined to be identified because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly on the issue. A Treasury spokeswoman said U.S. sanctions on Russia don’t prohibit Russia from making these debt payments, mirroring a similar statement from Wednesday.
Russia’s Finance Ministry said earlier on Friday the $117 million payment on the dollar bonds is with Citigroup Inc., and that the nation has fulfilled its obligations to investors. JPMorgan Chase & Co. processed the funds, serving as the correspondent bank Russia used to send the payment to Citigroup, Bloomberg News reported. There are still several steps to go before investors get their cash, and as of 11:00 a.m. in London, five bondholders in Europe say they haven’t received the coupon payments.
The wider market interest in the fact that the transfer was in dollars, and Citigroup has the cash, exemplifies just how complicated Russia’s relationship has become with global investor. In the weeks since it invaded Ukraine, the energy-rich nation has become the world’s most sanctioned and saw its credit grade sink well into junk on expectations of a default -- if not on the coupons due this week, then possibly later. A spokesperson for Citigroup declined to comment earlier on Friday.
“I can’t remember a time when there has been more uncertainty over a sovereign -- the Argentina default back in 2001 was messy but predictable,” said Gary Kirk, a portfolio manager at TwentyFour Asset Management. “This is far more difficult due to the global sanctions.”
Minister Anton Siluanov was cited by RIA Novosti as saying this week that the nation would try to settle the payment in dollars, but if that fails, they’ll use rubles instead. Russia has a 30-day grace period to meet the payment obligations starting Thursday.
Some investors are optimistic that bondholders will be paid in dollars. Russian credit swaps on Friday imply a 48% chance of default within a year, according to CMAI data, down from 60% Thursday morning. And its bonds due 2023 and 2043 -- which had two coupons due this week -- are holding gains that helped boost their price by more than 100% this week. Both are still trading at deeply distressed levels -- at around half their par value.
Russia's hard-currency sovereign bonds mostly traded well above par until mid-February, as investors shrugged off Moscow's troop build-up on Ukraine's border and U.S. warnings that an invasion was imminent. The decline since has been rapid, with longer-dated issues now indicated at around 20 cents in the dollar, although trading has all but ground to a halt.
[NYMag] Henry Hoeft, a 28-year-old former U.S. Army infantryman and steelworker from a small town outside Columbus, Ohio, was compelled earlier this month to leave his young son to fight in Ukraine, where his father’s family has its roots. After fundraising online and saying his good-byes, Hoeft packed up some of the combat gear he used sporadically in recent years as a member of the boogaloo boys — the extremist, anti-government militia that rose to notoriety in 2020 — and took the route that has become common for the thousands of ex-military types attracted to the newly established Ukrainian foreign legion. Posting about his journey on TikTok and Instagram, he flew to Poland, crossed the border around March 9 with fellow Ohio boogaloo alum Mike Dunn, and joined an outfit accepting combat volunteers from abroad.
“I hope that the war will end tomorrow,” he told the Columbus Dispatch before leaving. “But I will be there for as long as it takes.” Dunn and Hoeft looked energized as they provided family members and thousands of followers with travel updates on social media. After arriving in Ukraine, they described suiting up with the Georgian National Legion (which, unlike some similar groups, does not require foreign fighters to sign indefinite contracts). But within the week, Hoeft had a different message: “People need to stop coming here.”
In a video posted to his Instagram Stories on March 15, Hoeft claimed that he was serving with the Georgian contingent in Ukraine when his base “got fucked up” and a number of foreign volunteers from the U.S. and Great Britain were killed. (A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman referred to military volunteers earlier this month as “mercenaries” who would not be “considered as combatants in accordance with international humanitarian law.”) Hoeft said that when a group of American, Canadian, and British volunteers refused an order to serve in Kyiv with “no fucking weapons” and partially filled magazines, they were told “to get the fuck out” of the brigade. Hoeft says he and two others then hid in the back of an ambulance trying to leave the country. At the border, they stripped off their military gear to pose as civilians when they heard customs officials were sending foreign-legion volunteers back to the front. “It’s a trap,” he said in a video recorded in Poland.
Hoeft’s message and his decision to bow out of the fight early appeared to create a rift between him and Dunn, the former leader of a boogaloo faction in Ohio called the Last Sons of Liberty. A former Marine who says his military career was shortened by a heart condition, Dunn told ProPublica last year that he was “willing to die in the streets” fighting the U.S. government. (Hoeft claims he ditched the Last Sons when the group “got all crazy.”) On his TikTok account, which has now been banned, Dunn pushed back on Hoeft’s claims, while other Georgian National Legion volunteers denied Hoeft’s allegations that they were threatened if they did not leave the unit.
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Hoeft says he and two others then hid in the back of an ambulance trying to leave the country. At the border, they stripped off their military gear to pose as civilians when they heard customs officials were sending foreign-legion volunteers back to the front. “It’s a trap,” he said in a video recorded in Poland
It's almost like we're being fed a bunch of lies about all the "courageous" "heroes" of the "resistance"
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What did he think was going to happen, the potential ground zero of WWIII?
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LOL the media is calling them boogaloo boys now? This is such transparent propaganda. This story was out days ago, and is quite likely a lie from whole cloth.
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^ The boogaloo boys are a militia in America. They also call themselves the boojaheddin just for kicks. Look for Boogaloo Movement. Yes, it's a thing. Described as 'libertarian survivalist nuts', at least one of them also doubled up as a BLMer. I wish I could call them adrenaline junkies, they seems to be more regular retards like.
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Sounds like he arrived kitted out for an episode of Naked and Afraid. You can rule out the term "mercenary" for anyone who arrived at the party unarmed.
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Dron, we had a report about Mr. Hunter here. Possibly you were on walkabout at the time.
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This is true
"Washington’s loud championing of the Ukrainian cause has recently been accompanied by contrary signs of weakness and appeasement, from the humiliating botch of the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan last summer to President Biden’s hint that a “minor incursion” into Ukraine might not occasion a decisive response. Like Chamberlain veering between irrational extremes in 1938-1939, the West’s Ukraine policy has blatantly provoked Russian anxieties and offered Ukrainians the false promise of an American security umbrella, while doing nowhere near enough to actually deter Russia. Ukraine may not suffer as badly as Poland did from 1939 to 1945, but much of the country has already gotten wrecked."
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This says it all. Biden and the West did nothing to deter Russia and did everything to provoke Russia. The Ukrainians like the Poles in 1939-45 get to pay the price for Western failure
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Putin was following the pathway pioneered by Hitler in 1938-9.
Hitler convinced Chamberlain to give up his guarantees to Czechoslovakia in a conference at Munich in the Fall of 1938, and was allowed to taken over areas of that country that had German majorities. This alarmed Stalin, who worried that the Western powers could not be counted on to respect their international obligations.
Then in the Spring of 1939 Hitler took over the rest of Czechoslovakia, (with its large armament industry) with no real opposition, since the Czechs were defenseless after the first occupation.
This is what Putin expected to happen to Ukraine. It was supposed to consider its situation hopeless and accept Russian conquest.
Actually that occupation of Czechoslovakia, which grossly violated the Munich agreements, was greeted by Britain and France by mere talk, and this spooked Stalin completely and in response decided to make alliance with Hitler. His foreign ministry with that of Germany developed the plan to make war on Poland, and by so doing, started Wor;d War 2. Th USSR delayed its attack on Poland for two weeks for propaganda purposes, but documents show that the USSR was one of the countries that willfully started that horrible war.
(That it took part in the War Crimes trials in which Germans were punished both for war crimes and for starting the war, was part legitimate and part absurd.)
Hitler's success in Czechoslovakia and Poland at relatively little cost, boosted his popularity in Germany, and went to his head, causing him to decide to attack the USSR and the USA as well, in 1941.
Perhaps Putin is lucky that he has been bloodied in the early stages of his adventures.
[ZeroHedge] The bulletproof vests were stolen from the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, a nonprofit organization based in Manhattan, the New York Police Department confirmed to news outlets on Wednesday.
“People right now in our community, they’re either in church praying or everyone is feeling disenfranchised. They have no power right now, and then this happens, and that absolutely affects people,” Ukrainian Congress Committee of America spokesman Andrij Dobriansky told NBC 4.
Police responded to a call of a burglary at around 9:15 a.m. before they “were informed that approximately 400 bulletproof vests were removed from the location,” NYPD Sergeant Edward Riley told the outlet.
He said that those vests were meant to be sent to medics, aid workers, and others—but not Ukrainian military members.
“Who isn’t being supplied are territorial defenses, the people who are getting humanitarian supplies across. So these kinds of donations—whether they come from Suffolk County, we have a lot of police precincts in New Jersey and upstate New York also donating, these are why it’s important,” said Dobriansky.
“As far as we can tell, maybe about three-quarters of that supply was taken last night,” added Dobriansky.
New York’s Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office told the New York Post that it donated vests to the group but wouldn’t confirm the 400 vests that were stolen were the ones that it had donated.
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I have not seen the movie The Purge, but NYC subways seem to be at least on the Snake Pliskin level. Bulletproofing the thugs is not going to improve matters.
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[Breitbart] A homeowner shot and killed an alleged intruder armed with a knife Tuesday night in Houston, Texas.
CBS Austin reports that the homeowner noticed he could not get inside his own residence from the side door so he went around to the front, where he confronted an alleged home intruder exiting around 7:45 p.m.
The alleged intruder was armed with a knife and allegedly tried to stab the homeowner, who responded by shooting and fatally wounding the suspect.
A detective told ABC 13, “As [the homeowner’s] walking around to the front of his residence, a man approaches him with a knife. The homeowner attempts to retreat, but the man continues to follow him with a knife in a threatening manner. The homeowner discharges his firearm one time, striking the individual.”
The alleged intruder was transported to a hospital, where he died.
RECAP
1. Another voter lost that will require other's extra efforts to vote for him.
2. The dead (D) Voter was just practicing Social Economical Equality.
3. The mother will be on TV crying "Not my Baby" and sue.
4. The Houston DA to file charges for unreasonable use of deadly force.
5. The media will announce the homeowner's address, that he is being held at this time and due to Defund Police, the house is unguarded ☺
6. The Media will announce BLM/AF plans for a bonfire vidual at this location.
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s deputies are taking $377 million from GOP-run heartland states to aid landlords in four Democrat-run states that use illegal migration to inflate their economies, according to a report in the New York Times.
White House officials have already pressured governors in states to shift $875 million for poor renters into urban districts, the newspaper reported March 16, adding:
Now they are going one step further, pulling back [$377 million in] cash from states with relatively few tenants — like Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming — or localities that failed to efficiently distribute the aid, including Alabama, Arkansas and several counties in Texas.
The money, in turn, is being diverted to four states that burned through their allotted amounts — with $136 million in additional aid headed to California, $119 million to New York, $47 million to New Jersey and $15 million to Illinois, according to a spreadsheet provided by a senior administration official. North Carolina, Washington and other localities will be receiving smaller amounts.
“This is better … But it’s a pitiful drop in the bucket compared to what we need,” said Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) told the New York Times.
“There’s just no question that immigration adds a lot more poor people to some states, who then need rent assistance, who drive up the cost of lower-income housing,” said Steven Camarota, the research director at the Center of Immigration Studies.
By encouraging migration, he said, “you create the political pressure for more assistance to low-income people to afford housing in the same way that immigration adds a lot of uninsured people to the country and so it creates a lot of political pressure to create Obamacare … We know that about a fourth of all low-income children in America live in immigrant households.”
Many states have inflated their local economies and locally funded businesses by welcoming many legal and illegal migrants. This use of migrants, however, has suppressed wages and inflated rents, leaving the states with growing populations of poor Americans and immigrants. Roughly one-third of the nation’s low-income renters live in the high-migration, high-rent states.
The GOP’s establishment wing has helped to create this economic shift away from red states. However, some GOP legislators are pushing back against the wealth transfer. They include Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL), Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Madison Cawthorne (R-NC), Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX), and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ).
Overall, the federal government’s policy of extracting migrant workers, consumers, and renters from foreign nations for use in the U.S. economy has shifted vasts amount of investment and wealth wage-earners to investors and from heartland states to the coastal states. That wealth transfer has also reduced the heartland states’ political and cultural status.
This migration-fuelled economic divide is also occurring within states, such as Texas, where housing funds were transferred from lower-migration districts to urban renters. The New York Times reported the $875 million transfer in January:
Arizona officials agreed to shift $39 million to the state’s largest county, Maricopa, while Georgia moved about $50 million from its allocation to Fulton and DeKalb Counties in the Atlanta area. The biggest single shift took place in Wisconsin, where Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, agreed to move about $110 million to county and city officials in Milwaukee, according to the Treasury Department.
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That has been the blue state's scam for decades. Extract wealth from the red areas to prop up their far left spending ideas. Trump was the first to try to upset that applecart and they got rid of him for it.
With the 2022 and 2024 elections, along with more republican governors, that gravy train is rapidly coming to an end.
Open threat by Russia’s ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. He says joining NATO is an internal matter for BiH but “the other thing is our reaction. The example of Ukraine shows what we expect. If there’s a threat we will react.” https://t.co/LMfrJUi8xN
Putin was pretty clear about this in regards to Ukraine also, but apparently, no one took him seriously. Perhaps being non-serious people themselves, Team Brandon could no believe Putin actually meant what he said.
For the Russians, NATO membership for Sweden and Finland is undesirable, but it does not present the same threat as Ukraine in terms of being a prime invasion route.
[ABC] Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that he personally believes war crimes have been committed in Ukraine, a day after President Joe Biden labeled Russian President Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" for the first time since Putin launched his invasion.
"Yesterday, President Biden said that in his opinion, war crimes have been committed in Ukraine. Personally, I agree," Blinken said. "Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime. After all the destruction of the past few weeks, I find it difficult to conclude that the Russians are doing otherwise."
Before the U.S. officially labels Putin's actions as war crimes, Blinken said State Department experts from the Office of Global Criminal Justice are documenting and evaluating evidence for a formal determination and will share the findings with those responsible for accountability. But he acknowledged reports on intentional attacks from the bombing of a Drama Theater housing children to opening fire at people waiting in line for bread.
[Zero] By a 183 to 159 vote, New Hampshire’s Republican-dominated House of Representatives approved HB1022, which would allow pharmacists to dispense Ivermectin under a standing order, meaning anyone can go to a pharmacist and get the human-grade of the medication.
NH Republican lawmaker Leah Cushman, a nurse, and the bill’s sponsor, told The Epoch Times in January that she "had absolutely no doubt lives will be saved if human grade Ivermectin was available to COVID patients."
"House Republicans sent a clear message today that we support expanding options for the treatment of COVID," Cushman told The Epoch Times.
She said its approval by the House also means people will not have to resort to buying human-grade Ivermectin from a foreign country in order to exercise their right to use the medication to treat their symptoms.
Cushman added that the provision in the bill that safeguards doctors from any potential discipline—or an investigation by the state’s licensing board—for prescribing Ivermectin for COVID-19 takes "some of the political pressure" off them.
The bill still has to win final approval from the Senate, but that is also Republican-controlled and so far its GOP lawmakers have shown they believe in the state’s Live Free or Die motto when it comes to treatment choices about COVID-19.
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Wasn't ivermectin the reason that Uttar Pradesh province in India was so successful in treating covid patients? Sure as hell wasnt due to Moderna or Pfizer's jabs
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Yes, Nero. That's what I was told too. While HCQ and Ivermectin helped stabilize patients, Covishield by AstraZeneca later came to mass market as vax [tends to not cause any side effects]. Because we told the WHO to fcuk off and made our policy based on our own tests and research.
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Because we told the WHO to fcuk off and made our policy based on our own tests and research.
Wish we Americans had done the same to Pfizer Moderna and Fauci-CDC. Maybe someday we'll be as wise as the Indian health experts (no sarc)
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European big pharma and the Indian pharmaceutical ecosystem have long been at odds over unnecessary high prices, patents on things like the DNA [!] of certain organisms, and such practices. There's even threats. In fact, the cheaper HCQ, which came mostly from India was blocked by Europe for all its 'countries' arbitrarily, just because it was something Trump had advised and later Chinese suppliers were contracted for substandard intermediates to locally produce HCQ for the French military. India was ready with shipments that were then mad to sit in storage. So we sent them to Africa, Afghanistan, even Pakistain free of cost.
A Political Symbolic vote.
But given the FDA and other Federal Dept's can stop or will overrule their vote with a quick re-interpretation of some rule or Reg.
But why would the Biden Admin do this?
Because any alternative to the "____" VAX is sure to have "____" Lobbyists working overtime to donate $$$$$$ Mid-Term Election Campaigns and employ family members in do-nothing $$$,$$$ roles. In order to protect their $$ BILLION $$ revenue.
[American Thinker] A concatenation of events is dropping on us like an imploding building and there’s not much we can do to stop it. However, we can mitigate some of the potential damage through our individual efforts and need to get started now.
But first, one bit of good news. H. Douglas Lightfoot and Gerald Ratzer have published a paper, "The Sun Versus CO2 as the Cause of Climate Change Projected to 2050," that thrashes the IPCC’s global warming model.
However, the paper also kicks off this food shortage discussion. The authors say the earth "is now in the early stages of cooling that might be similar to the Dalton Minimum and last for three or four decades. Average temperatures can drop by up to 1.5 degrees C and increase the rate of crop failures that have already started. It won’t be easy to maintain the benefits of the recent warm phase of the Sun during the upcoming solar minimum." That’s 2.7 degrees F, and significant.
Lightfoot and Ratzer confirm that we’ve already entered the Modern Grand Solar Minimum (GSM) and that negative impacts on crops are already occurring. We’ve seen harvest shortfalls in a variety of crops around the world over the past couple of seasons. Coupled with these shortfalls, a few countries have limited or halted exports of staple products, mostly grains and legumes.
For two years and continuing until today, there have been interruptions in commodities for sale. A number of factors contribute to this stuttering availability of commercial goods. Labor shortages in picking, packing, processing, and transportation led to gaps on some grocery shelves. Delayed imports of raw materials for canning, bottling, and bagging due to shutdowns in countries of origin will likely continue, especially now that China is locking down whole cities again.
Because of recent crop failures and lackluster harvests, many regional grocery warehouses, which usually have about 18 months’ worth of packaged and frozen food in stock, are practically empty according to a friend whose family owns a large chain of stores. Low stocks of livestock feed and hay due to drought are reducing meat, poultry, milk, and egg production in some areas.
Monica Showalter’s excellent article the other day—Biden is about to get caught flat-footed on another crisis: Ukraine war—generated global food shortages— examines the impact that Russia’s war on Ukraine is having and is expected to have on global grain and fertilizer availability, as well as food production.
Besides the drought hitting the mid-plains and potentially causing the abandonment of this year’s winter wheat (that’s for flour) crop, the La Niña system is expected to bring above-average rains to the eastern and southeastern parts of the US, potentially delaying planting and harvest. If California continues to value a practically nonexistent smelt over its people, there will be little water for the Sacramento-area rice farmers. They’ve already pulled down avocado and almond orchards due to restricted water allocations elsewhere in the state.
Farmers are being hit hard by shortages and skyrocketing inflation, just like the rest of us. Anhydrous ammonia, used to fertilize most grain and many row crops, has had a massive jump in price from $487 per ton in 2020, to $746 in 2021, to a record-breaking $1,492 per ton the first week of February this year. Demand for fertilizer is expected to grow, but high prices in Europe for natural gas (from which the fertilizer is made) caused a slowdown in manufacturing last winter.
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"A concatenation of events is dropping on us like an imploding building and there’s not much we can do to stop it."
Not events but deliberate policies. The sanctions are causing fertilizer and food shortages already and need to be stopped
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For you gardeners out there, here are some cheap alternatives to store bought fertilizers for your flowers and veggies. Way better than buying bags at Home Depot. Time to resurrect the Victory Garden concept.
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Good to see these ideas presented. Seeing a garden in sandy area I asked owner to show me. He pulled a six inch carrot out of the soil with ease. No digging. Why? Soil is so sandy he had to add sawdust to hold moisture. I did the same in my patch by adding coffee grounds and several bags of sand. Lose soil helps roots to grow and soil is spongy not compacted as was previously with clay soil. Cinders from coal ash does the same and blackens the soil and crops do marvelously well. Worms love these light soils as well.
While documenting large price increases and hidden reduced package size adjustments. I have been also noting and taking Cell Ph. pic's of empty food shelves and freezers in too many Big Box stores.
I am also finding more and more items on shelves with closely approaching Best By or Use By dates. While strangely, I have the same item already home with further out dates?
But either way, we have seen various item shortages since the start of the Pandemic (TP, Masks, Hand cleaners and etc.) Now stores cannot get rid of their stock of these even with drastic price cuts.
HOWEVER FOOD
Was not a major problem for our neck of the woods until around early Aug./Sept. of 2021. Then we started noticing longer outages of more and more items with large price increases when found in stock.
BTW: From the "SEEING IS BELIEVING" world versus media hype.
The Pepsico owned & WOKEN Pearl Milling Company brand is in plentiful supply????
Either they have ramped up extra production, or a lot of consumers are avoiding it because of the way they played Political WOKE with the people that once purchased their products.
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If you know anyone with livestock, especially horses, they owners are very happy to have you come help muck out stalls in return for manure. It's great fertilizer.
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am also finding more and more items on shelves with closely approaching Best By or Use By dates. While strangely, I have the same item already home with further out dates?
Hypothesis: In the past wholesale warehouses culled product that was close to expiration or Best By date, eating the loss, selling to dollar stores, or donating to nearby food banks. But now that supply is so tight, they’re selling that stock to retailers, giving the supply chain a little breathing room.
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There would have been continual food distribution problems this year regardless due to the same issues we had late last year.
This is new and above with this war. Fertilizer will either be very pricy or just not available, wheat from Russia and Ukraine that normally goes to the middle east will be in very short supply, energy disruption will cause transport costs to go up for everything and China will continue to hoover up all the food it can to rebuild its swine herd and feed its people as it has a food shortage from the floods last year.
Global famine for most 3rd world countries that import their food is guaranteed with much higher costs everywhere else.
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Food sovereignty must be a real consideration for the US. We have been a source of food for much fo the world and have been blessed with such abundance that it has ceased to even be a thought in public policy. That attitude must end. The Chinese are deep in farmland ownership as well as food processing and production (Smithfield for example) and that kind of acquisition must stop. Consider the OPEC model and the power it provides, as well as our moral obligation to our fellow citizens and our children.
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Well, obesity is sorta hard to hide. Treat overeaters like Liewatha's profiteering hoarder corporate swine and the food situation improves immediately.
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That attitude must end. The Chinese are deep in farmland ownership as well as food processing and production (Smithfield for example) and that kind of acquisition must stop.
I would agree. The food supply must be seen as a strategic resource. We need to keep it stable as the US withdraws from being the world police.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to authorize a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for all adults.
The request is broader than rival pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s request earlier this week for the regulator to approve a booster shot for all seniors.
In a press release, the company said its request for approval for all adults was made "to provide flexibility" to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and medical providers to determine the "appropriate use" of a second booster dose of the mRNA vaccine, "including for those at higher risk of COVID-19 due to age or comorbidities."
US officials have been laying the groundwork to deliver additional booster doses to shore up the vaccines’ protection against serious disease and death from COVID-19. The White House has been sounding the alarm that it needs Congress to "urgently" approve more funding for the federal government to secure more doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, either for additional booster shots or variant-specific immunizations.
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We need to stop calling the shot a 'vaccine'. It isn't. It doesn't act like a vaccine and I don't think there is a vaccine out there which requires 4+ injections.
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"I don't understand. Can some kind soul explain?"
1. Impose sanctions, create war hysteria and use media shills to tell the world Russia's about to fall off a cliff. Watch the credit default spread (=perceived risk of default) soar.
2. Verify that Russia has plenty of cash to meet its debt obligations and fund the war.
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The Russian CDS price is the default risk and it fell overnight from 14000 to 6000 basis points. That means a once in a lifetime profit for someone, probably the Koch Brothers trading arm. The Kochs are still doing business with Russia
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I'd bet on Soros (tho agree the Kichs probably made a bundle as well). Soros specializes in arbitraging the state. Plus he's got the best inside information
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Arbitrage used to be an easy manual market ploy, but electronic trading and near instantaneous spreads have made it impossible for anyone but institutions to employ. But, if you can move entire world news reporting and build massive expectations on either side of the financial instrument being traded, and you can avoid the regulatory oversight enforcement, then you can make obscene profits. Soros and the Kremlin seems likely winners. A lot of lesser players got ruined is my guess.
[Gateway] On Wednesday, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was touting a ’light at the end of the tunnel’ to the war in Ukraine (see Proposed ’Fifteen Point Peace Plan’ in Russia-Ukraine War Is a Total Defeat for Putin, but Zelensky Is Biding His Time), President Vladimir Putin gave a speech that did not indicate that he had any intention of settling for less than total victory in Ukraine and signaled a crackdown on elements of his own society.
The first part of the speech repeats his litany of complaints about Ukraine, the hardships imposed on the people of Donetsk and Luhansk (he never mentions that their hardship is 100% self-inflicted by them entering into a state of insurrection, and he never mentions that Russia fomented that insurrection and bears primary responsibility for those hardships), and the indignities suffered by Noble Russia at the hands of NATO and their stooges in Ukraine.
[Gateway] Former Missouri State Representative Cora Faith Walker, 37, died unexpectedly last Friday morning after attending cop-hating leftist Mayor Tishaura Jones’ birthday party. There was no known cause of death and this will not be known until toxicology results come back in about a month.
According to St. Louis Medical Examiner, Dr. Michael Graham, who conducted an autopsy on Monday, "There were no physical injuries or signs of trauma to the body."
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There was no known cause of death and this will not be known until toxicology results .
Ha! Report a month later:
The death of Cora Faith Walker, 37, has been ascertained to be of unknown causes after a lengthy forensic investigation. The coroner and chief pathologist issued a statement along the lines of 'I dunno. Bitch shoulda just kept on tickin', beats me...'
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I look at the above comments and wonder about humanity. She will be missed an mourned by her family, friends an acquaintances. If it is drug related, we can blame the XI and Mexico.
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^ Don't forget Brandon.
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If it is drug related, we can blame
...we can blame the lady herself. Ms Walker was fully adult and highly educated — a Master of Public Health followed by a JD and work as a public policy wonk as well as a professional politician — and therefore fully capable of making informed decisions about the likely result of any mind-altering substances she might encounter. Don’t deny her the full agency due to her humanity, Mr. Cookie, just as I’m sure you insist on it for yourself.
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So.. does that mean that in the USA we should consider Indians at high positions in the US business and government to be potential 5th column? Evena mainly Indian 2nd gen out of Jamaica US VP?
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Bank Account Raids Without Borders, then the nuking of Russia's Transaction Economy, actual live casualties be damned, was bound to have side effects. Idjits. But hey, super cool high fives on Tiktok pouring out Russian Dressing.
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3dc: our government talks out of all four sides of their mouths on both their faces. They work for decades at a time on deindustrialization and then turn around and expect sanctions to matter after giving Vlad 30 billion a month _net profits_ for being the only guy allowed to make money in the awl industry.
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Sanctions - just another way for bad people to make money.
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The best comment was on Instapundit two days ago: "I feel very emotional about this; so we should take drastic action without considering any of the consequences."
All the financial and economic histrionics and actions against Russia were bound to make other countries think twice about trusting the international systems and institutions that had been built up painstakingly over the past few decades. Why wouldn't China, India, and many others think that they don't want to be held hostage to the latest fashionable hysteria in Washington, DC?
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Stealing property and freezing assets from a nation that's not at war with you: there's a great way to make every country think twice about ever trusting your legal and banking system again
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So.. does that mean that in the USA we should consider Indians at high positions in the US business and government to be potential 5th column?
Potential? Allowing large numbers of Indians into this country was a mistake. Putting them in high managerial positions in major corporations was an even bigger mistake. I've worked with and around Indians since the late 80's Only about 5% are really competent.
And here is a fact that cannot be disputed. An Indian in managerial position will only hire Indians in this order: family, village, cast, gotra/sub-gotra, nationality.
I can say this because I'm a white man married to an Indian for 20 years, been to India 30 times in that span. My father in and some my male cousins in law sat me down and explained in detail about India and Indians. Pops was a retired Indian Air Force Wing Commander from the Medical Corp.
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Totally cynical people. They're happy to side with Putin, like they took the side of the Soviets. But then, they're no different in this regard from most nations outside the self-righteous West
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You’ve mentioned it before, Fat Bob Thereter1848. I think in terms of Kamala Harris’s presidential run.
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Whisper... Whisper...Whisper ... Whisper... Wasn't Taiwan (ROC) one of the players at that Southern Flash Event in Carter's Time South of South Africa? Like South Africa, Israel and Taiwan? Wink Wink...
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Others are looking on as well. Japan, South Korea, India, all reminded me of the domino's dropping. Many nations perceive Biden and western nations as being very weak. We now have a united nation Asian powerhouse developing. Even Latin America is no longer a part of Western consideration. The African Arab world will go to the strong as well. Times are changing fast and with Biden democrat's they go for the money not country.
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We now have a united nation Asian powerhouse developing
India is not siding, won't side with the West. India more than China or any other nation will help Russia get around the sanctions. Other nonaligned nations will follow India's lead in busting the sanctions
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#1 Whisper... Whisper...Whisper ... Whisper... Wasn't Taiwan (ROC) one of the players at that Southern Flash Event in Carter's Time South of South Africa? Like South Africa, Israel and Taiwan? Wink Wink...
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3dc,
For some decades now Taiwan has been considered to be a 'breakout' nuclear power - that is, they don't have any assembled bombs or warheads...but they have components here and parts there and materials back that way that when assembled produce a functional device.
Mike
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^ One of the lessons of Ukraine is: Get yourself some nukes and don't give 'em up no matter what anybody tells you, especially the US. "Nuclear non-proliferation" is now a quaint concept. We live in interesting times.
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Another lesson of Ukraine is give high paying jobs to the children of American politicians and they'll push to defend you even at the risk of global armageddon.
[RadioFreeEuropeRadioLiberty] According to conservative estimates, Russia has lost more troops in three weeks of war in Ukraine than the United States did in more than 20 years in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
U.S. and British defense officials say more than 7,000 Russian soldiers have been killed so far. The figure is considered on the low end of the casualty count, with the Ukrainian Defense Ministry saying its forces have killed more than 14,000. Moscow has only issued an official casualty number once, on March 2, when it said 498 soldiers had been killed. The Russian Defense Ministry has not issued an estimate since.
Putting together a casualty figure is inexact and relies on combing through satellite images and videos of battles, U.S. officials and independent analysts say, which is reflected in the large range of estimates in Ukraine.
While the overall figures may be imprecise, it is becoming clearer that Russia is facing major setbacks in its war effort, with growing reports of low morale, defections, and mounting logistical complications.
Despite these problems, Russia’s military campaign makes sporadic, minor progress in some parts of Ukraine as the war enters a decisive stage for both sides.
To find out more about what to expect, RFE/RL spoke with Russian military expert Michael Kofman, who heads the Russia Studies Program at the Virginia-based think tank CNA.
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Am I just missing it or does Rand Paul's usually keen and outspoken opposition to foreign entanglements by the US currently seem to be on hiatus?
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All of Washington is hysterically in favor of war with Russia: huge profits for the MIC, speculators and Ukraine's "influencers" in DC, right wingers get to posture and look tough, left wingers get to shake their little fists at the scourge of LGBTQ+ people, journalists get ready-made copy. No one in Washington dares to go against the tide
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Putting together a casualty figure is inexact and relies on combing through satellite images and videos of battles, U.S. officials and independent analysts say
"So this is what we do. We sit in a circle and everybody puts his hand up the next guy's ass. We pull out a number and if the number repeats even once, that's it. There's a whole science to it."
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^ 87.25% of Internet posts studies are factually based
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#4 All of Washington is hysterically in favor of war with Russia: huge profits for the MIC, speculators and Ukraine's "influencers" in DC, right wingers get to posture and look tough, left wingers get to shake their little fists at the scourge of LGBTQ+ people, journalists get ready-made copy. No one in Washington dares to go against the tide
Then all they had to do was transfer the Polish Migs to Ukraine and let her rip. They didn't.
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They didn't want their fingerprints on it. When Duda said, "Fine, we send them to a US Base and The USA can do what they like." is when it fell apart, and would account for the very uncomfortable Harris, who is not very good in friendly circumstances.
I think Duda lied about no US contacts only reporter questions to help de-escalate the situation. The reporter questions were there obviously to bully and create expectation.
And the propaganda machine is still calling for Defensive Flight Containment or some such shit the Fox guy was peddling after the (awful) Zelensky plea.
[IsraelTimes] UN atomic agency report said to find that uranium was converted from one form to another, making it harder to dilute and transport out of country, as planned in emerging deal
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... has defied Western countries by carrying out work on near-weapons grade enriched uranium that will make it harder to implement the terms of any revived nuclear deal with world powers, Rooters reported Wednesday.
The work carried out earlier this month was to convert the uranium into a type that is less easily recovered and diluted so that it can then be removed from the country, according to an ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency report issued to member states last Thursday and seen by Rooters.
It came as negotiations continue in Vienna to save the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a pact that aimed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons but has been in tatters after the US pulled out in 2018. Since then, Iran has dropped some of its own commitments, enriching uranium to levels beyond those in the deal and that the IAEA says are only used by states seeking a weapon.
Converting uranium into a different form in the manner Iran has done will make it harder to implement any agreement for it to return to lower limits of enriched uranium laid out in the JCPOA.
Diplomats say that the emerging agreement will require Iran to dispose of its uranium enriched above 3.67%. Iran’s most enriched uranium is at 60%, a short technical step from 90% weapons grade, and it has about 33 kg of the material.
Until the recent work, it was all in the form of uranium hexafluoride, which can be easily diluted and transported, something that has been under discussion for months at the Vienna talks, Rooters reported.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... between March 6-9, Iran transformed 2.1 kg of up to 60% uranium from one form into 1.7 kg of another form. The process produced molybdenum 99, and another a medical radioisotope. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the enriched uranium then requires processing to recover it from the resulting materials.
In a joint statement last week, the Britannia, La Belle France, and Germany specifically warned Iran against carrying out the work, saying that doing so would have consequences for returning to the terms of the JCPOA.
"We strongly urge Iran to avoid undertaking any new escalations and in particular, call upon Iran to immediately cease all activity related to conversion of highly enriched uranium, which will have practical implications for returning to JCPOA limits," they said at the time.
DEAL CLOSE
Washington said Wednesday it was "close" to a deal with Iran on reviving the 2015 pact that saw Western powers provide sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on Tehran’s nuclear program, the latest sign of advancement following prolonged deadlock.
Days after Russian demands seemed to jeopardize talks in Vienna over restoring the pact, this week has seen multiple signals that an accord may at last be within reach, including the release of two British Iranians Wednesday after years of detention in Iran, and word that outstanding issues have narrowed to just two.
The negotiations began last April between Britannia, China, La Belle France, Germany, Iran and Russia, with the United States taking part indirectly.
The EU diplomat chairing the Vienna talks, Enrique Mora, told news hounds last week that delegations were down to negotiating the footnotes of the text, but progress stalled when Moscow demanded guarantees that Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine would not affect its trade with Iran.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov indicated Tuesday that Russia had received "written guarantees" from Washington.
Iran said Wednesday there were two remaining sticking points in Vienna, including an "economic guarantee" in case a future US administration repeats Trump’s abrogation.
Another source close to the talks said the other issue was the status of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, which Washington has branded a terrorist organization.
BLUF: Up a quarter of a point from zero, possibly to 1.75% by the end of the year — calendar or fiscal is not clarified. Inflation forecast up, growth forecast down.
[AlAhram] The Federal Reserve escalated its battle against the wave of prices increases battering the US economy on Wednesday by raising the benchmark interest even as it acknowledged the risk posed by the war in Ukraine.
At the conclusion of its two-day meeting, the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced a quarter-point rate hike, the first since 2018 and since it cut the rate to zero at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The central bank is walking a tightrope to ensure its efforts don't derail the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic even as Russia's invasion of Ukraine introduces new uncertainty in an economy battered by supply chain snarls and labor shortages.
In a statement, the FOMC said the fallout from the war in Ukraine is "likely to create additional upward pressure on inflation" and also could "weigh on economic activity," although the "implications for the US economy are highly uncertain."
Pointing to "elevated" inflation due to "supply and demand imbalances related to the pandemic, higher energy prices, and broader price pressures," the statement said that "ongoing increases" in the policy rate will be "appropriate."
While the rate cut in March 2020 was meant to support the economy as Covid-19 caused massive disruptions to businesses, the United States over the past year has been hit by high inflation, with prices for gasoline, food, cars, and rents pushing the overall consumer price index to a four-decade high.
Markets are expecting as many as seven rate hikes this year, which would take the policy rate to 1.75 percent, assuming the central bank increases by a quarter-point at each meeting.
DISSENTING VOTE
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said policymakers will do whatever it takes to keep inflation from becoming entrenched, including larger rate hikes.
One member of the committee, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, dissented from the vote, arguing for a more aggressive half-point increase as the first step in the tightening cycle.
The FOMC also released its quarterly economic projections, showing members of the committee raised their median inflation forecast for the year to 4.3 percent from 2.6 percent previously, and slashed the growth estimate to 2.8 percent from 4.0 percent.
Members were split on how high rates would go, with nine still expecting the level to be below two percent at the end of the year, and seven looking for a higher rate.
The last time the Fed raised interest rates was in December 2018.
US stocks opened the day with solid gains, but retreated after the announcement, although they stayed in positive territory.
The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average was up less than 0.2 percent around 1820 GMT.
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I propose a new currency backed by rolls of quality toilet paper. This will reduce the need to exchange the new currency for the old.
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So the Fed has raised rates all the way to a range of 1/4 of 1% to 1/2 of 1%. Boy howdy, THAT will show we're serious about inflation.
And their forecast of inflation of 4.3% would fail any question on an Econ 101 test. They might want to look at BLS releases on what the actual rate is (Spoiler alert: Currently 7.9% and going higher.)
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[BBC] Scientists say they have solved one of the biggest paradoxes in science first identified by Prof Stephen Hawking.
He highlighted that black holes behave in a way that puts two fundamental theories at odds with each other.
Black holes are dead stars that have collapsed and have such strong gravity that not even light can escape.
New research claims to have resolved the paradox by showing that black holes have a property which they call "quantum hair".
"The problem has been cracked!" Prof Xavier Calmet of the University of Sussex, told BBC News exclusively, with much satisfaction. He was among those who developed the mathematical techniques they say has solved the paradox.
At the heart of the paradox is a problem which has threatened to undermine two of physics most important theories. Einstein's general theory of relativity says information about what goes into a black hole cannot come out, but quantum mechanics says that is impossible.
[NYPOST] Forgive the profanity, but you have got to be s—tting us.
First, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... decides more than a year later that Hunter Biden’s business woes are worthy of a story. Then, deep in the piece, in passing, it notes that Hunter’s laptop is legitimate.
"People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity," The Times writes. "Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation."
Authenticated!!! You don’t say. You mean, when a newspaper actually does reporting on a topic and doesn’t just try to whitewash coverage for Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... , it discovers it’s actually true?
But wait, it doesn’t end there. In October 2020, The Times cast doubt that there was a meeting between Joe Biden and an official from Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company for which Hunter was a board member. "A Biden campaign front man said Mr. Biden’s official schedules did not show a meeting between the two men," The Times wrote, acting as a perfect stenographer.
Yet in the latest report, published Wednesday night, The Times said the meeting likely did happen. Biden had attended the dinner in question. Funny how this works when you don’t just take someone’s word for it.
In the heat of the presidential race of 2020, The Times never missed a chance to cast doubt on the laptop, saying the information was "purported" and quoting a letter from former Democratic officials who claimed — with no evidence — that it was Russian disinformation. As recently as September 2021, The Times called the laptop "unsubstantiated" in a news story.
Why was it unsubstantiated? Because of willful ignorance and The Times curious lack of curiosity. Hunter’s business partner Tony Bobulinski came forward immediately after The Post’s reports and confirmed that the emails bearing his name were legitimate. The Bidens didn’t even deny it was true! They just deflected, with the media’s help, saying it was a dirty trick or not a story. Mostly, the press just ignored it.
Now we’re 16 months away from the 2020 election, Joe Biden’s safely in the White House, and The Times finally decides to report on the news rather than carry the Biden campaign’s water. And they find that hey, Hunter Biden’s business interests benefited from Joe Biden’s political status to a suspicious degree. Perhaps this is a topic worthy of examination.
How did The Times "authenticate" the laptop? It doesn’t say. Unlike The Post’s reporting, which detailed exactly how we got the files and where they came from, The Times does a hand wave to anonymous sources. No facts have changed since fall 2020. They knew the laptop was real from the start. They just didn’t want to say so.
There’s never any shame with these 180s. Sorry that we wrote a "fact check" that turned out to be bull! Sorry we wrote a piece claiming something wasn’t a story and you were stupid for thinking so!
Twitter banned us for supposedly publishing "hacked materials" that weren’t hacked. The company’s CEO apologized, but by that point they had accomplished what they wanted. Like The Times, they cast enough doubt to avoid making their preferred candidate look bad.
Readers of The Times have discovered in March 2022 that Hunter Biden pursued business deals in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and Asia, and may have leveraged his father’s position as vice president to do it. Hunter also may not have properly registered with the government nor declared all his income. All legitimate topics of discussion about a presidential candidate’s family, no?
Readers of The Post have known this since October 2020. We also have a much better sports section. We’ve authenticated it.
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/\ Even if well, he'd be a very poor prospect. Of course he wouldn't have to actually run an election campaign. At least if his 2020 campaign fiction was any indication.
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Ben Smith in NY Times, November 2021: "a threadbare, 11th-hour effort to produce a late-campaign scandal that Murdoch's own WSJ [refused to follow up on]."
These are the liars who are trying to goad us into setting off World War 3 for Zelensky and Hunter Biden's Ukraine
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^ Says the Princess whose corrupt father was shopping the fake Russian Dossier on Trump. *SPIT*
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Large methane eruption from Meggie Moo's a$$...
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The new Dem line is that the laptop shows personal stuff that is irrelevant except for some minor technical violations of FARA (foreign Agent Registration Act) and maybe a minor violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act but that these are administrative issue.
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If Trump had been reelected this war would not have happened
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The new Dem line is that the laptop shows personal stuff that is irrelevant except for some minor technical violations of FARA (foreign Agent Registration Act) and maybe a minor violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act but that these are administrative issue.
I'm going to double-down on Brandon's 'pictures of nekkid people sleeping is bad' law is for this laptop.
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It's hard for truth to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain of the left-wing MSM corporate media--it's so Communist. Telling the truth anymore is a revolutionary act.
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Does Jojo's weird comments about naked pictures have a linkage to the NYT times laptop admission? Some kind of opening defense that everyone has blackmail worthy pictures, and nothing to see here?
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If you acknowledge that the laptop is legitimately Hunter talking about being Joe's bag man for Chinese bribery, how can you not impeach. The narrative that it is fake was the only thing preventing articles of impeachment, if the discussion centers on the Big Guy statements rather than the nudity or crack and sometimes the nudity and crack.
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how can you not impeach?
Get us into a war with Russia, scream about Putin all day every day
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how can you not impeach.
No point until the Republicans have two thirds majorities in both houses of Congress to ram the thing through, Super Hose. (So glad to see you commenting again — it’s been a while.) Otherwise it is merely posturing while doable things don't get done.
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I am not suggesting that the politicians push impeachment. Citizens should push impeachment in the same way that they are pushing decertification in Wisconsin and Arizona. Citizens are walking the GOP politicians back into a corner and see which ones are not really up to doing hard stuff. also Joe has a really bad approval rating. Also reminding independents that Joe was on the take from the CCP may drop Joe's approval by another 10 points. There is a red line where Nancy will take Joe out by herself. I am sure they already have a plan for removing him. It is time for us to sweep the leg and drive his approval down on their secret internal polling.
It is good to be back.
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It suggests that they has come to a modus vivendi with the Cackle-Jackal because and the damage is too great to survive a mid-term tsunami that puts the GOP in positions to really gut their power, and, find the criminal linkages to destroy a lot of the Swamp Elites. Better to blunt the damage, hang all the mess you can on the senile old thief-in-chief, and Play the POC/feminist defense game for whatever breathing space you cane buy while you try to crank up the voterfraudmobile...
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#20 "mid-term tsunami that puts the GOP in positions to really gut their power"
Your lips to God's ears. There are a lot of battles going on. It is hard to tell how they might come out.
1. Redistricting,
2. Decertification of 2020 results,
3. The Dan Schultz precinct strategy,
4. Purge the Pub Party of Rinos,
5. Run as many MAGA candidates as possible,
6. Go to court where necessary.
7. Dem policies that suck help a great deal to
make the Pub case (if the Pubs can get past a
hostile left-wing media. They have developed
alternative social media and Twitter type and
websites.
8. School board strategy to gain control by
parents of what content is taught in schools.
9. Reforming the voting process to prevent the
rigging of elections.
The left is fighting like hell all along the way. Gas prices, border issues and inflation have hurt the middle class and the poor and will hurt the left at the ballot box.
Syrian government forces bring in large reinforcements of vehicles and individuals to Jassim city in #Syria’s #Daraa, following clashes with local fightershttps://t.co/fPnwDS5vbQ
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DARAA, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, the government forces brought in military reinforcements to the northern countryside of Daraa and reinforced one of its most prominent military checkpoints with heavy vehicles and dozens of members.
“The government forces brought in military reinforcements, including heavy vehicles, from some of their military sites in the countryside of Daraa governorate to Jassim city in the northern countryside of Daraa,” a local source told North Press.
“The government forces reinforced the National Hospital checkpoint, one of the most prominent and largest checkpoints in Jassim city, north of Daraa, with a number of heavy vehicles and more than thirty personnel,” the source said.
The reinforcements came to the city two days after the state of tension that it witnessed as a result of the clashes between the government forces and local fighters at the backdrop of the government forces entering the city with the aim of arresting some young men.
The government forces withdrew hours after an agreement was reached between the city’s notables and the government forces officers to withdraw all the government forces and stop the military operation, in exchange for the release of five members who had been captured by local fighters.
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Judging by the image you could fake this with a TV monitor in front of you and an iphone taking pictures behind you. Just add mirrors to the tv frame and its basically the same thing.
[RealClearDefense] Putin's Offensive in Ukraine Presages the End of "Hybrid Conflict" as a Distinct Analytical Term. What Comes Next Will Be Far More Brutal.
For years, so-called "hybrid war" has bedeviled Western planners and military theorists. The concept of grey-zone or below-threshold conflict saturated American planning assumptions for around a decade, whether against Russia, Iran, or China. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, however, demonstrates that "hybridity" did not transform the character of war, and kinetic force retains its primacy. Whether Putin succeeds or fails in his Ukrainian gamble, Western statesmen would benefit by taking note: China’s most logical actions against Taiwan mirror Russia’s in Ukraine.
Russia's hybrid campaign in Ukraine began with its 2014 annexation of Crimea. Its "Little Green men," unmarked Russian special operations forces, deployed to Crimea in February. They encountered almost no resistance due to the poor state of Ukrainian political authorities, Russia's long-standing presence on the peninsula and Ukrainian pre-2014 military incapacity. Ukrainian soldiers based in Crimea defected en masse, particularly from naval units. When faced with the choice between better pay and remaining with their families under Russian rule, or worse pay and separation from their loved ones, they naturally selected the former option. Russia's operation in Donbas was more aggressive. Initially supporting local militias, Russia gradually shored up its involvement, ultimately deploying Russian units to preserve the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples Republics.
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[TheDriveTheWarzone] One of Russia's newest warships was said to have been struck by Ukrainian rockets, but has shown up unscathed in Crimea.
In another example of the fog of war and the myths that have emerged around the conflict in Ukraine, video footage and pictures appeared online today showing the Russian Navy's Project 22160 patrol ship Vasiliy Bykov sailing into the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula without any visible damage. The Ukrainian military reportedly severely damaged, if not sunk this vessel in the Black Sea more than a week ago using unguided artillery rockets fired from the shore. A video purportedly of Vasiliy Bykov burning after the supposed attack may actually show a commercial ship that was seriously damaged by an errant Russian missile early in the conflict and that remains on fire in the Black Sea nearly three weeks later.
The Vasiliy Bykov was the first Project 22160 patrol ship to enter service, being commissioned in 2018. The Russian Navy now has three of these vessels on active duty, all assigned to its Black Sea Fleet, which Russia relocated to Crimea after seizing it from Ukraine in 2014. A fourth Project 22160 ship was undergoing sea trials as of October 2021 and two more are under construction.
The Project 22160s, the design of which you can read more about here, are some of the most modern warships in the Russian Navy today. Destroying one would have represented a significant loss for Russia and it's not necessarily surprising that Ukrainian authorities were quick to say they had taken out Vasiliy Bykov.
In addition, Vasiliy Bykov had been involved in the Russian military's assault on Ukraine's Zmiinyi Island, or Snake Island, in the western Black Sea. The Ukrainian defenders there had attained an almost legendary status after audio emerged of them refusing a demand to surrender and responding instead with the now-iconic phrase "Russian warship, go fuck yourself!" The 13 Ukrainian border guards stationed on Snake Island were initially presumed to have been killed in an ensuing attack, though this later turned out not to be the case, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had quickly announced he would honor them as Heroes of Ukraine. So, sinking, or even seriously damaging this ship would have had clear additional propaganda value as a direct act of vengeance.
Still, from the very beginning, there were questions about the likelihood of shore-based short-range, unguided artillery rocket systems being able to hit a relatively small target, at least by ship standards, sailing out in the Black Sea. Subsequent reports said that the Ukrainian armed forces had pulled this off by using small patrol boats to lure the Russian ship toward the shore until it was within range. Video footage showing a burning vessel accompanied the claims as evidence of the attack at least having successfully damaged Vasiliy Bykov.
There is the possibility that the Russian Navy could have repainted one of the other two Project 22160 patrol ships, either the Dmitriy Rogachev or the Pavel Derzhavin, to conceal the loss of Vasily Bykov. However, comparisons between the imagery of the ship today and of it from before March 7 suggest that this is not the case.
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"the fog of war and the myths"
IOW all the media bullshit and propaganda designed to drag us into another pointless war that concerns us not. Like all of this BS
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Yes of course. Putin painted one of his old ships and gave it the same markings so he wouldn't look like such a loser. Like he secretly buried a hundred thousand Russian soldiers out in Belarus in unmarked graves last week. Fools.
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#3 Yes of course. Putin painted one of his old ships and gave it the same markings so he wouldn't look like such a loser. Like he secretly buried a hundred thousand Russian soldiers out in Belarus in unmarked graves last week. Fools.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-18 01:24
....During the Cold War, both the Russians and the US were known to paint new bow numbers on smaller combatants to confuse the other side. I'm not saying this is what happened; I haven't seen enough comparison pictures to make a call - but it's quite within the realm of possibility. If I see a pennant number on a Russian warship, I start by assuming a better than even chance it's not accurate.
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Here is what Ship Tracker shows...for the VASILIY-BIKOV aka MMSI 273549630.
Note the Last paragraph? "There is the possibility that the Russian Navy could have repainted one of the other two Project 22160 patrol ships, either the Dmitriy Rogachev or the Pavel Derzhavin, to conceal the loss of Vasily Bykov." Could Russia have adjusted and painted VASILIY-BIKOV on one of them as counter Properganda efforts?
BTW: the last "known" location Nov. 2021 puts at 41°07'33.6"N 29°04'53.4"E is in the Maslak, Turkey channel area to the Black Sea.
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Somebody probably donated Mk14 torpedoes to the cause. A good chance to clear old inventory.
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there were questions about the likelihood of shore-based short-range, unguided artillery rocket systems being able to hit a relatively small target
Multiple launch rocket systems like Grad are used to attack area targets, like men and vehicles in the open. With a missile, you need to hit the exact target, with MLRS, you just need to hit the 100 meter square the ship is in.
The VB may not have been sunk, since a warship is a harder target than people and trucks, but could have been damaged for a mission kill. Or the Russians decided they had worn out their welcome and it was time to leave.
Or the latest sighting of the Vasiliy Bykov is simply an inflatable rubber decoy.
Shafaq News / Former MP Mithal al-Allousi warned today of more Iranian attacks targeting Iraqi cities.
Al-Allousi told Shafaq News agency that the Iraqi government's "indifference" over the Erbil attack, and doing nothing more than denouncing instead of taking serious steps against this attack that violated the country's sovereignty and stability, will push Tehran to carry out more hostile operations against Iraq and Iraqis.
He expected Tehran to bombard more cities including Baghdad, under the pretext of locating Mossad sites.
Al-Allousi noted that the Iraqi government must take serious steps against this attack.
In the early hours of Sunday, a dozen of ballistic missiles landed in the capital of the Kurdistan region that appeared to target the United States Consulate.
Later that day, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed responsibility for the missile assault.
Spokesperson to the Kurdistan Regional Government, Gutyar Adel, said yesterday, "we resolutely refuse any reports about a presence of the Mossad or any [foreign] intelligence body in Kurdistan. We asked the Iranian government to participate by itself in the investigation into those baseless claims it made."
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[Breitbart] Great news for Joe Biden. After months of abysmal public approval numbers, President Biden’s favorability among registered voters has soared by 2 points to 45 percent! And all he had to do was bring us to the brink of World War III.
The media are thrilled with the possibility of nuclear war with Russia. Catastrophes are terrific for ratings, and flood-the-zone coverage of a war between two faraway countries that has almost zero effect on the lives of most Americans allows journalists to act like deep-think, geopolitical strategists (after having quickly looked up “Ukraine” on Wikipedia).
They dragged out the COVID panic porn for two straight years. By now, the only people still interested in pandemic updates are hysterical liberal women in Manhattan claiming to have “long-haul COVID.”
The national pastime has segued seamlessly from watching TV anchors cry on TV about the coronavirus to watching TV anchors cry on TV about the fate of Ukrainian children.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, but the media’s obsessive focus on Ukraine is terrific for the interests of the Democratic Party. Recall that, in his 2012 book, Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind, then-UCLA professor Tim Groseclose demonstrated that media bias alone costs Republicans about 8 to 10 percentage points in elections.
And that was 2012. One can only imagine what it is in post-Trump 2022. If only we could return to the junior varsity media bias of 2012!
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Full mobilization immediately followed by election postponement.....the conflict could simmer on for several years. The Euro's will need petrol, tires, and ammo. The Chinese can print the ration books and stamps.
#3
I think again the media is overselling public support for US involvement and the dems internal polls are all over the place, so they are screwed no matter what they do. I think the only safe bet is that they will make the worst choices possible. If the GOPe does not manage to throw the election, they will take up where the current congress leaves off.
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No gas guzzling autos made from 1941 thru 1945.....hmmmmm
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But, Besoeker, Bidin hates Tesla, SpaceX and Musk so they can't do quality electrics either.
He hates them because they don't do political contributions and Telsa isn't unionized so a Democrat United Auto Workers fleecing Union can't extract $ from them either.
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The conflict(OH I like using that word) is nearly done. Media here spews the usual propaganda. Same people who invested in Covid. The spigot has been turned off to the Democrat swamp critters. Soros, Kerry, DNC, Biden's, Hillary and so on. Now is the time to watch heads explode in DC. Putin finally has got his deep water southern port. The anaconda has and will slowly constrict its hold.
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Hedge funds are making fortunes now in Russian bonds. The war is total manipulation
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Ref #5: That's the way I see it as well. The Biden crime family and this administration considers Musk a non-person, even though he employs some 50,000 people.
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I drove a Yugo once. It was more like a Won'tgo.
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A Yugo is famous for being the only vehicle ever blown off the Mackinac Bridge. Due to its heavy battery, the electric Yugo promises to be more wind resistant.
#13
The notion that Joe Biden would actually assume the role of Commander-In-Chief in a possible nuclear war ought to be a sobering thought for people. So-called journalists who are beating the drums of war ought to start acting like adults and use their fu#king brains.
Edward Bronstein, 38, died March 31, 2020 in Pasadena less than two months before George Floyd died in Minneapolis No riots and marches for him. But he was just a white man panicking because he was afraid of needles, not a black man dying after once again taking an overdose of illegal drugs.
Footage of his final moments was released by LA cops on Wednesday after his family sued to see the harrowing video
He was pulled over for suspicion of drunk driving and police were forcing him to give blood for a sobriety test
His family sued for excessive use of force and violation of his civil rights
Daughter Brianna Palomino said her father 'was treated like trash' and did not deserve to die the way he did
Video shows Bronstein being forced onto a mat in the police station's garage while handcuffed then five officer kneel on his back as they extract blood
He screams 'I can't breathe' 11 times before he eventually falls silent
The California Highway Patrol fought the release of the video tape, but a federal judge ordered them to do so
Criminal justice experts say the tape shows a callous disregard for human life
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I never understood this American obsession with standardization of procedures. I mean there's a hundred ways to arrest people. We usually shoot the resistant types in the calf. The muzz we shoot in the kneecap or groin. And you guys have those fancy whatchamacallits... those stupid star trek things... oh! Tasers, don't you?
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'Cause any American cop who doesn't follow standard procedures and is found out will, at best, spend the rest of hs natural life justifying his actions to bureaucrats and lawyers. Unless he has political protection, in which case pretty much anything goes.
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I never understood this American obsession with standardization of procedures.
Because we're not a 3rd world crap hole like India. Although, I do like the idea of shooting muzz.
Shafaq News / The commander of the deputy commander of the second axis of the Peshmerga forces (Qara Tappa-Hamrin), Major General Mohammed Rustom, said today that ISIS had been completely paralyzed three months ago.
Rustom told Shafaq News agency that the December 2021 operations had paralyzed the terrorist organization on the outskirts of Kifri district and villages adjacent to Saladin governorate, and prevented it from resurging and carrying out attacks for three months.
He added that terrorist attacks have decreased by 95% in the mentioned areas, noting that military operations are always ongoing to monitor any movements and locate the terrorists' hideouts.
The Peshmerga forces, in coordination with the federal forces launched, a few days ago, comprehensive security operations to clear and search some areas following the night attacks that targeted Peshmerga points in the mentioned governorates and remote areas.
[OneIndia] In its March edition of Voice of Hind, 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.... has spoken about the hijab issue that has rocked Karnataka. The terror group has called the ban on hijab as discriminatory and is aimed at humiliating Moslem women publicly.
The Voice of Hind, which is the propaganda magazine of the ISIS frequently published reports commenting on the Moslems in India. It perceives the Moslem community in India to be marginalised.
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[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says two Paleostinians have been arrested for shooting at troops near the West Bank town of Aqraba last night.
"Last night, during a routine activity by IDF forces on a road near Aqraba... gunfire toward forces operating in the area was identified," the military said in a statement.
The IDF says the suspects opened fire from Carlo makeshift sub-machine guns.
IDF and Shin Bet forces chased the suspects in the town, during which the suspects shot up troops, the IDF says.
One of the suspects is shot by Israeli forces amid the incident, and one of their weapons has been seized, the IDF says.
There are no reports of Israeli soldiers hurt in the two shooting incidents.
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SERE KANIYE, Syria (North Press) – A tension rose between two Turkish-backed armed factions in the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), north of Hasakah, northeast Syria, yesterday.
A tension rose, yesterday, between al-Hamza Division and the Regiment 20, backed by Turkey, due to the defection of a group from al-Hamza Division and join the Regiment 20, a local source told North Press.
The source added that members of the two factions deployed in the city, and leaders of Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction and few Turkish officers intervened to resolve the dispute that sparked between the two factions.
Insecurity has spread in the areas controlled by the Turkish forces and the Turkish-backed opposition factions in northeast Syria since the Turkish invasion in late 2019.
In October 2019, the Turkish forces and the Syrian opposition factions launched ground and aerial offensive against Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad in NE Syria displacing approximately 300,000 civilians, human rights reports said.
[Rudaw] Four rockets targeted Salahaddin's Balad airbase on Thursday without causing any damage, according to a statement from the Iraqi Security Media Cell.
The rockets were allegedly launched from Khalis district, northwest of Baquba by "gangs that do not want stability for Iraq", landing in open spaces in the airbase, reported the cell. The statement added that the rockets "did not leave behind any material or human damages."
The media cell also stated that the authorities will hunt down the perpetrators of this "cowardly terrorist act", reassuring Iraqi citizens that "the acts of criminal terrorist gangs will not pass unless the perpetrators are put behind bars and under the judgment of the law."
Balad airbase, the main base for Iraqi F-16 fighter aircrafts, has been the subject of at least five similar rocket attacks within the past year. The base used to host a number of contractors from an American security firm specialized in the maintenance and supervision of aircrafts, before they evacuated due to security concerns.
In recent months, tens of rocket attacks have targeted Iraqi facilities hosting foreign diplomats and soldiers, including the US embassy in Baghdad.
Similar attacks on international targets in Iraq are blamed on Iran-backed Iraqi militias who want to force American forces to withdraw from the country. The attacks increased after the US assassinated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Baghdad in January 2020.
#7
Remember when the 82nd Airborne was activated to assist flying Afghanis out of Kabul while bribing the Taliban to not attack?
Six months, and however millions of southern border crossers later, Harris was asked How Many Ukrainian Refugees will the US take, and she was like, "As if."
#9
The international rule is refugees are supposed to ask for asylum in the first country they get to. Ukrainians should be asking for asylum in Europe, then applying for a regular visa to come here, not cross however many borders to try to get in illegally.
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I have trouble planning a trip to another state a month a way. Seems like an awful long way to travel with a change of underwear and a backpack. Do they have hot soup stations at intervals all the way across Europe into Mexico? What about junior that they left behind with his shiney new long rifle to play Beau Geste? The logistics of this doesn't add up.
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[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced a resident of the Krasnodar Territory to 10 years in prison, finding her guilty of trying to persuade her son to join the banned terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham.
According to investigators, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory, wishing to join the Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham international terrorist organization
...formerly known as Al Nusra, Al Qaeda’s branch in Syria...
banned in Russia, bought tickets for herself and her son on a plane from Krasnodar to Istanbul. Then she planned to go to Syria with her son.
"Sitnikova also persuaded her son to join the ranks of this organization," Interfax quoted the press service of the Southern District Military Court as saying today.
According to the case file, a resident of Kuban persuaded her son to study the Islamic religion in Turkey in order to then join the Syrian terrorists. She also transferred 10,000 rubles to the terrorists, the press service said.
The court sentenced a resident of Kuban to 10 years in a penal colony, finding her guilty under the articles on attempting to take part in the activities of a terrorist organization and assisting a terrorist organization, as well as under the article on involving a minor in a crime, the report said. There were no comments from the convict or her lawyers regarding the court's decision.
The " Caucasian Knot " also wrote that on December 13, 2021, the court sentenced a 26-year-old man to eight years in a strict regime colony, finding him guilty of trying to persuade prisoners of the Krasnodar pre-trial detention center to participate in an organization banned by the court.
The Turkish forces and the opposition factions continued to bombard the village of al-Hoshariya in #Syria’s #Manbij for days, injuring 4 people. #SDFhttps://t.co/fr3wO1hMMU
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MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – Four people were injured as a result of days of Turkish bombardment on the village of al-Hoshariya, northeast of Manbij.
Turkish shelling on the village of al-Hoshariya, northeast of the city of Manbij wounds 4 people.
“Two members of the government forces stationed in the village of Qirata were wounded on Thursday, as a result of being targeted by a tank shell by the Turkish forces,” an informed source told North Press.
Two people were wounded, yesterday, as a suicide drone exploded in the village of al-Hoshariya northeast of Manbij city, north Syria.
On Saturday, the Turkish forces targeted the village of Boghaz in the eastern countryside of al-Bab with mortar shells.
The villages located on the line separating the Manbij Military Council of SDF and the Turkish-backed factions, are bombed nearly every day by Turkey and opposition factions.
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An #ISIS member in #Iraq blows up his aunt’s house in #Baghdad after refusing his marriage proposal to marry her daughter, Alsumaria News reports.https://t.co/yKbyzFo5k5
An ISIS member in Iraq blew up his aunt’s house in Baghdad after she refused his marriage proposal to marry her daughter because he lacks academic qualifications, Alsumaria News reported on Wednesday.
According to Alsumaria which cites a report by Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, the man proposed to marry his cousin several times but his proposal was always rejected because he does not have any academic degrees while the girl holds a master’s degree.
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"I have changed my mind. I thought he was a loser even as a terrorist. Fatima has agreed too..."
More jizya for the Talibs, even if they have to follow behind the UN rapporteurs, collecting for Allah’s beloved Lions of Islam what the generous idiots abroad meant to give to the needy Afghan civilians.
[DW] The UN Security Council renewed the assistance mission to Afghanistan for another year. Russia abstained from voting, calling out the mission's renewal for "stubborn ignorance of the new realities" of Taliban ...Arabic for students... rule.
The UN Security Council voted Thursday to renew the UN's assistance mission to Afghanistan for another year.
The UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Deborah Lyons will continue in her role for the renewed mission.
Russia abstained from voting but the vote passed with 14 votes of the 15 members on the Security Council.
Norway's ambassador to the UN Mona Juul said the resolution that was drafted by Norway gave the UN "a solid mandate to engage with all relevant actors on all aspects of its mandate."
The US deputy chief of mission to the UN Jeffrey DeLaurentis said the vote represents "an important step'' in aiding the Afghan people who are facing "urgent and mutually reinforcing challenges.''
WHY IS AFGHANISTAN IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE?
The UN and other aid agencies have said half of Afghanistan's 38 million people face starvation. The country has known war continuously since 1979.
International aid to Afghanistan dried up after Kabul fell to the Taliban last August as foreign currency reserves held abroad were frozen. Numerous Taliban leaders have been sanctioned by the US and the UN.
The Taliban government is still not recognized by the international community. The fundamentalist group's return to power after nearly 20 years of 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... -backed governments has been marked by a sharp decline in the Central Asian nation's economy.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE UN MISSION TO AFGHANISTAN?
The UN established the mission 20 years ago after the US deposed the Taliban for sheltering al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ...... who used to be alive but now he's not...... in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington D.C.
Priorities for the renewed mission include delivering aid, funding humanitarian activities, protecting human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. and women's rights.
When the Taliban previously ruled Afghanistan in the late 1990s, women were forbidden from working, girls education was banned, and a host of additional prohibitions restricted their public lives, confining them largely to the home.
WHY DID RUSSIA OBJECT TO RENEWING THE AFGHANISTAN ASSISTANCE MISSION?
Russia wanted the 15 members on the Security Council to refer to "de-facto authorities" and mention the need for the host country to approve the UN's presence.
Instead, the resolution mentions "relevant authorities" and nothing is said about the host country's approval.
In refusing the vote, Russia's UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia called out what he termed the "stubborn ignorance of the new realities" of Taliban control in Afghanistan.
Russia's decision to abstain from voting on the UN Security Council comes as Moscow faces unprecedented geopolitical isolation, a consequence of the brutal invasion of Ukraine it launched on February 24.
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what the generous idiots abroad meant to give to the needy Afghan civilians
You really think so? The UN is full of islamics and quasi islamics now, policies and resolutions being decided in favor of them everywhere. The 'generous idiots' may not be idiots at all in fact. Who's to say the Emirate of Afghanistan was not an intended outcome all along? A new training ground for islamic terror with a refugee pipeline straight into the heart of western countries willing to adopt Afghans? There's this new islamophobia resolution now, for enabling islamics to propagate their pre-modern ways in all our cities without being called out. There is some new sympathy with Palestinians and Arabs everyday. March 15 is World Anti-Islamophobia Day now. I don't think this is idiocy. Idiocy is keeping the UN funded.
Yemen's Huthi rebels are not prepared to hold talks with the government in Saudi Arabia or other "enemy countries", an official said Thursday, after a proposal to meet in Riyadh.
The Iran-backed rebels said they were open to finding a peaceful solution to the seven-year war but baulked at travelling to Saudi Arabia, which leads a military coalition fighting on the side of the government.
"We will welcome an invitation to dialogue that does not take place in enemy countries," a Huthi official said on condition of anonymity.
"We will always extend our hand for peace," the official told AFP.
[IsraelTimes] Military says suspects taken for questioning over incident at southern border with the Strip
Three Paleostinians were detained by Israel Defense Force soldiers after trying to infiltrate into southern Israel early Thursday morning, the military said.
The suspects were found to be carrying knives, bottles of gasoline and lighters when they were captured near the southern section of the border, according to the IDF.
The military did not clarify whether the three suspects had successfully passed through the fence at the time of their capture.
The suspects were detained and taken for questioning.
Last month, three Paleostinian men set fire to an empty Israeli truck used for maintenance at the border. In the past, Paleostinians have crossed the border to set fire to empty military posts.
On Sunday and Tuesday, two unarmed Paleostinians separately attempted to cross the border into Israel and were detained, the IDF said.
While Israel has a high-tech series of fences and walls guarding its frontier with Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , both above and below ground, a number of gaps remain in the steel fencing surrounding the Strip.
These gaps have been used by Paleostinians in Gaza to illegally enter Israeli territory, often with hopes of fleeing the beleaguered enclave.
While attacks on Israeli civilians by those infiltrating from Gaza are rare, last May, a Paleostinian man who crossed into Israel armed with several knives attacked and lightly maimed a security guard some five kilometers from the border fence.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23.55 One "Point U" damaged the gas pipeline, which is still on fire, the second one fell outside the city of Melitopol, but did not explode. The sappers are working on the spot. 22:37 Arrival in Melitopol again. Zelensky's terrorists fired a Tochka-U ballistic missile at a peaceful city. Judging by the explosions, again with a cluster warhead, prohibited by all international rules and conventions.
19:30 In social networks, they write that in Zaporozhye, the Nazis have occupied banks and are checking accounts. Wealthy people, entrepreneurs are kidnapped and money is squeezed out at gunpoint for the "needs of the detachments" of the defense. Some civilians tried to escape, but at checkpoints they were detained, beaten and extorted of their last valuables for an unhindered exit from the city.
19:16 Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aircraft hit 29 military facilities of Ukraine - Russian Defense Ministry.
18:09 The attack on Yavoriv land fill was inflicted not only due to the fact that foreign mercenaries were stationed there. A source from the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine distributed a document according to which on March 7 the Ukrainian command decided to deploy 155 mm 2S22 Bogdan self-propelled artillery mounts under a NATO projectile on all units. Together with artillery mounts, all available NATO ammunition for them was brought there. That is, the blow was struck not so much on the "Foreign Legion", but on a possible accumulation of artillery installations, and the Americans.
17:46 MFAN sources sent video recording from Kharkiv, on which a battery of 152-mm howitzers "Hyacinth" of Ukrainian troops is stationed in the Pobeda culture and recreation park in the eastern part of the city. The Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed artillery in close proximity to the Church of the Matrona of Moscow, which belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, and the Ladder school. The guns were directed towards Severnaya Saltovka, the district of Kharkov most affected by the hostilities.
17:31 Telegram channel "Southern Bridgehead" reports that today Cossack Lopan in the Kharkiv region was covered with artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to sources from the scene, the shelling began around noon. They beat on the square, the school and the village council. In the building of the latter, humanitarian aid was given to civilians. People were just handing out another batch. In total, according to the inhabitants of the village, about 40 shells arrived. Everything - from the side of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from Kharkov. According to preliminary data, 4 people were killed and several were injured. Among the victims was a 12-year-old girl. She came with her grandmother for humanitarian aid. They were already returning home when Ukrainian shells began to fall. One exploded next to them. The fragments killed the woman on the spot, the teenager's leg was torn off.
17:20 In Melitopol, controlled by the RF Armed Forces, the residents are returning cars that were forcibly expropriated earlier by the Terodefense for their own needs.
17:15 Media: Advisor to the head of the Presidential Office and a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with Russia, Mikhail Podolyak, said that a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky could take place after the completion of work on the agreement, possibly in the coming weeks. He also said that the agreement between Russia and Ukraine could take from several days to one and a half weeks.
15:36 Personnel objective control of the impact of the Russian Malka (self-propelled guns 2S7M caliber 203 mm) on enemy self-propelled guns. The enemy gun was destroyed, a small ammunition depot with her, too. Forest area near Kharkov.
15:35 Russian Defense Ministry: We believe that components of biological weapons were created on the territory of Ukraine.
15:32 Military infrastructure facilities have been hit in Kharkiv. Reportedly journalists, there were warehouses, a local police station, as well as fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:24 Human Rights Watch calls on Ukraine to stop publishing videos of Russian prisoners of war and violating their rights.
15:10 Head of Chernihiv regiondoneunpacking the humanitarian aid they received from the Kiev authorities. According to the head of the region, instead of oil, there were foam plastic briquettes in the package.
14:23 Headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR: Ukrainian troops transported 17 hostage children to Lviv.
13:30 Social networks: AFU deployed three artillery pieces towards the Zhuravlevsky Hydropark across Solidarity Street in Kharkiv. Half an hour later, the guns were destroyed by pinpoint artillery fire of the RF Armed Forces.
13:11 The Russian Federation cannot take into account the requirement of the International Court of Justice and stop the military operation in Ukraine, Dmitry Peskov said.
13:02 Russian Airborne Troops have set up checkpoints to ensure the safety of the passage of military columns and the movement of residents along the roads in the Kiev region. On the most dangerous sections of the roads, the Airborne Forces deployed platoon strongholds. Particular attention is paid to the identification and detention of sabotage groups of Ukrainian nationalists who, under the guise of civilians, attack civilians who want to leave Kyiv and other settlements along humanitarian corridors or on their own.
12:24 The corpse of a Ukrainian civilian smokes after hisshotRussian military. Everything you need to know about stories about the killing of civilians by the Russian military in Ukraine.
12:03 The positions of Ukrainian nationalists in the Kiev region have been destroyed. Videopublished by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The camouflaged fortifications were discovered using UAVs. They were then hit with artillery.
11:31 Information about the incident yesterday in the drama theater of Mariupol from the Verkhovna Rada deputy Serhiy Taruta, with the confirmation of the neo-Nazi Botsman: it follows from it that the information dispersed in all Ukrainian media about the death of 1,500 people turned out to be a lie from beginning to end.
11:27 Statements that the Russian military is behind the strike on the drama theater in Mariupol are lies - the Russian Foreign Ministry.
11:26 The Ukrainian flag was taken down over the building of the Kherson regional administration, occupied by Russian troops. When this happened is unclear. Photo in telegram channels appeared today.
11:25 The special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine does not aim to destroy the statehood of this country or overthrow Vladimir Zelensky-Zakharov
11:23 Social networks: Russian troops entered Chuguev. The units of the Russian army entered the city of Chuguev, Kharkov region. A photo taken by servicemen at the local police department appeared on the network. Apparently, the city came under the control of the Russian army.
11:11 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are abandoning their equipment, retreating near Kharkov. In the area of the village of Bobrovka, which is located one and a half kilometers from the Kharkov district, retreating units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine abandoned their BTR-4 Bucephalus.
11:03 Mayor of Kherso nis silent about the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: A few days ago, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made a suicidal attempt to break through from Nikolaev to Kherson. As a result, ten Ukrainian tanks were destroyed by Russian artillery. Now, out of revenge, Ukrainian fascists are shelling the suburbs of Kherson, including residential areas. Many houses have already been destroyed, about 15 civilians have been injured.
11:02 And again they report from Kyiv: Again in the morning, a battery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired in Kyiv and fired at a residential building in the Darnytskyi district. Naturally, now they are yelling that this is a Russian downed rocket that fell on the house.
11:00 Briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry on the situation in Donbas: Over the past day, Russian aviation and air defense shot down Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters, as well as 12 UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will publish a new package of documents on the developments of Ukrainian biolaboratories and provide the results of their examination. As part of the US project in Ukraine on the transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza, the possibility of causing economic damage was assessed.
10:30 Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is under the reliable protection of the Russian Guard units.
10:18 The division of the S-300 system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been destroyed over the past day - the Russian Ministry of Defense.
10:17 On the evening of March 16, high-precision missiles delivered an air strike on an ammunition storage arsenal in the village of Sarny, Rivne region. Storage facilities with missiles and ammunition, including missiles for the Tochka-U tactical complex, were destroyed, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
09:28 The Ministry of Defense showed footage of destruction of military warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Russian Su-25s. Attack aircraft flights were carried out at night at low and medium altitudes.
8:54 Nazis are hiding for "quiet time" in kindergarten, and in the comments they openly declare that for their brothers there is no longer a quiet place in Ukraine except for schools and nurseries. Planes arrive and multiply them by zero.
8:34 At a briefing, the Russian Ministry of Defense listed the regions of Ukraine in which the population, according to them, stands for "good relations" with Russia. These are Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Nikolaev, Odessa, Poltava, Sumy, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions. In total, 15 million people maintain “strong ties with Russia” in these territories.
7:22 Rockets hit in the Kharkiv region in Merefa - in objects in which strengthened VSU.
2:00 Missiles hit targets near the city of Sarna. There were warehouses with small arms and ammunition.
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"Embarrassing peace deal"?
He wanted to close the deal in the Donbas and createvavlabs bridge across to Crimea. They did that. Ukraine will become a neutral no man's land, and its economy and cities are totally wrecked, as Putin wanted.
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and its economy and cities are totally wrecked, as Putin wanted.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the West continued to throw money at Ukraine afterward, for rebuilding. That’s what they’ve been doing for the Palestinians for years.
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Yeah, while China Saudi Arabia and India throw money at Putin's Russia. Ukraine will cost the West at least $50 billion a year for another 20 years. Europeans now have to pay to rearm themselves, and rebuild Ukraine, and support 3-4 million destitute Ukrainian refugees.
Russia didn't "swallow a hedgehog." It's the EU that's now digesting a financial hedgehog
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Russia has to rebuild a depleted army that did not perform up to expectations, Beldar Darling of the Danes1602, the Ukraine, the heart of the Rus, rejected them to the point of destruction instead of falling gratefully into Russia’s loving arms.
At a time when Russia’s population is falling.
So: a resentful Ukraine not generating profits for Moscow after a very expensive invasion. Both have swallowed hedgehogs, adn probably China will not be nearly as happy with the outcome as they planned, also.
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/\ Concur! China is very likely taking a serious re-look at any action on Taiwan. One would assume there existed some sort of military or economic support agreement btwn the two with regards to Russians recent "Special Operation" in the Ukraine. Any support Russia could give China currently, appears to be evaporating.
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Russia will spit out its hedgehog. The EU will be stuck with a wrecked Ukraine and millions of piss poor refugees for another 30 years. Except this one will cost the EU one hundred times more than the Paleos cost them
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[Korrespondent] 21:56 Putin does not want peace, and additional sanctions may be required to end the war in Ukraine, the Italian prime minister said. 21:52 Deliveries of American weapons to Ukraine go once a day or every two days, additional military assistance will be transferred just as quickly, Psaki assured.
21:50 The war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine can lead to famine in certain regions of the world.
21:48 Details about the decision of the International Criminal Court on the lawsuit of Ukraine against Russia - in the material Victory of Ukraine: what the Hague decided on the Russian war .
21:38 Over the past 24 hours, 3,810 people have been evacuated, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Kirill Tymoshenko said. From Mariupol, 2,000 residents were able to get to Zaporozhye; another 1,810 residents of Vorzel, Bucha, Gostomel, Shevchenkovo and Borodyanka are safe.
21:34 The soloist of the ballet of the National Opera of Ukraine Artem Datsishin died. On February 26, he came under fire, was seriously wounded, and now died in the hospital, said Tatyana Borovik, soloist of the National Opera.
21:33 PayPal has fully earned in Ukraine, now you can not only pay, but also withdraw money to Ukrainian bank cards, Fedorov said.
21:05 The Azov Regiment reports that in Mariupol they cannot begin to dismantle the rubble of the drama theater due to constant shelling.
21:02 Russia stated that 43,000 people left Mariupol today. Vereshchuk denied this information: according to her, 800 cars left Mariupol today.
20:42 The mayor of Khmelnytsky Alexander Simchishin said that the authorities will seize apartments from landlords who inflate housing prices for refugees.
20:28 Italy has announced that it will help Ukraine restore the Mariupol Drama Theatre.
20:25 AFU captured the new Russian electronic intelligence station Thorn-MDM. "This is one of the modern means of electronic warfare of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which is of great value to us and our allies," Gerashchenko wrote.
20:24 Canada has banned the broadcast of Russian TV channels RT and RT France.
20:21 Scholz declared the inadmissibility of insults and attacks on Russians, since, according to him, only Putin is responsible for the war in Ukraine.
20:19 In Severodonetsk, Russian troops fired at a shelter for mothers with children, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
20:11 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that he was contacted by a scammer posing as the Prime Minister of Ukraine. "When the conversation got suspicious, I ended the call," he tweeted.
The head of the British Ministry of Defense stressed that "no Russian disinformation, distortions and dirty tricks can divert attention from Russia's human rights violations and illegal invasion of Ukraine."
20:06 Zelensky awarded the Order for Courage of the III degree to the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, who was captured, but refused to cooperate with the invaders.
20:04 Reznikov appealed to Western partners with a request not to transfer weapons to any intermediaries who apply on behalf of Ukraine.
"These people can present themselves as 'advisers', 'assistants', 'heads of departments', as well as demonstrate 'documents' - forgeries. As a minister, I responsibly declare: they are all scum, marauders and traitors who have nothing to do with the defense of Ukraine," - said the minister.
19:44 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the village of Posad-Pokrovsky in the Kherson region from Russian invaders, MP Goncharenko said.
19:41 If Moscow does not comply with the binding decision of the International Court of Justice on the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, then it must give up the right of veto in the UN Security Council, said the speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko.
19:38 Biden, who yesterday called Putin a war criminal, today dubbed him a "bloody dictator" and "a pure thug."
"A bloody dictator, a pure thug who is waging an immoral war against the people of Ukraine," the American president said.
19:35 The head of the Transcarpathian OVA, Viktor Mykyta, said that in order to revive the economy of Ukraine, the regional authorities decided to create all conditions for the relocation of enterprises and businesses to the region. According to him, a separate unit has already been created for this purpose, and local authorities have received more than 500 applications for business relocation.
19:32 Employees of the SBU, who were trying to extract citizens from the rubble of the Mariupol Drama Theater destroyed by the invaders, came under enemy fire.
19:30 According to the State Border Service, more than 320,000 citizens have returned to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion, most of them men.
19:28 In ORDLO, from March 20, another wave of mobilization into the ranks of the 1st Army Corps begins due to the impossibility of high-quality staffing of the group of occupation forces, the General Staff said.
19:24 According to the General Staff, the aviation units of the 960th Assault Aviation Regiment of the 4th Army of the Russian Armed Forces suffered significant losses. The military massively write reports on dismissal.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine also inflicted significant damage on units from the 252nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Western Military District, fighting in the Kharkov and Izyum regions. The enemy lost up to 30 percent of personnel, weapons and military equipment. Defense Forces liquidated the commander of the 3rd motorized rifle division, Colonel Igor Nikolaev.
19:22 In the Kherson region, in addition to units of the Russian armed forces, the presence of police officers from the Krasnodar Territory and the Crimea temporarily occupied by Russians was recorded. The operational groups of the FSB carry out punitive functions. The enemy is campaigning to attract the local population to the so-called "police", according to the General Staff.
19:19 Russia has used up almost the entire set of Caliber sea-based cruise missiles and Iskander operational-tactical missile systems in the 21 days of the war against Ukraine, the General Staff reports. As a result, the enemy continues to carry out missile and bomb strikes against infrastructure facilities and residential areas of large cities using indiscriminate weapons.
19:16 In Kharkiv, during the repeated shelling of the Barabashovo market at about 14:00, a rescuer died, another of his colleagues is in the hospital with shrapnel wounds, the State Emergency Service reported.
19:07 Podolyak on the negotiations: "I would like to gently recommend to active commentators on the negotiation process who are not inside. Do not spread your lies in a country that is fighting hard. The negotiations are difficult. The positions of the parties are different. For us, fundamental issues are inviolable."
19:04 In the Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev, around 16:30 today, as a result of enemy shelling, cars caught fire and a fire started in a warehouse. According to preliminary data, two people died.
18:54 The soldiers of the Azov regiment destroyed four enemy tanks and two armored personnel carriers in a day, another armored personnel carrier was shot down. Destroyed near a company of enemy infantry, reports Gerashchenko. The fighting for Mariupol continues, including on the streets of the city.
18:49 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated the commander of the 331st Guards Airborne Regiment of the Russian Federation, Colonel Sergei Sukharev, Russian media report.
18:48 Near Priluki, Chernihiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a group of Russian military men and captured the Uragan multiple launch rocket system.
18:29 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Chernihiv, more than 200 civilians have been killed, Mayor Vladislav Atroshenko said.
18:14 In Kiev, the Honored Artist of Ukraine Oksana Shvets died as a result of rocket attacks, the Young Theater reported.
18:13 Kadyrov announced that he was sending another thousand fighters to Ukraine, led by his assistant Apty Alaudinov.
18:11 In the Kharkiv region, the Russians abducted the head of the Veliko Burluk community , Viktor Tereshchenko, directly from the workplace , said the head of the Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov.
18:09 As a result of the shelling by the invaders of Novye Petrivtsi near Kiev, a two-year-old child was killed, four people were injured, the National Police reported. A multi-storey building was damaged, neighboring residential buildings were damaged.
18:06 The Saeima of Latvia also demands the introduction of a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
18:05 Lukashenka allowed the Ministry of Finance under Western sanctions to "fulfill obligations on public debt in the national currency."
18:04 The Russians fired cluster bombs at the village of Cossack Lopan in the Kharkiv region, at least six people were killed, local residents reported.
18:01 The city council of Mariupol said that the situation in the city is critical. More than 350 thousand citizens continue to hide in shelters and cellars. On average, from 50 to 100 air bombs are dropped on the city per day.
17:58 Biden, during a virtual meeting with Irish Prime Minister Michol Martin, said that he considers the actions of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine "inhumane", and called on the West to show unity in this situation.
"We must be united - and we certainly are. The cruelty of Putin, his actions and what the Russian troops are doing in Ukraine is simply inhuman," Biden said.
17:53 In Kharkov, after the shelling of the invaders, the largest market in Eastern Europe, Barabashovo, is on fire.
17:36 Macron admitted the possibility of a military conflict in Europe: "Our forces are the only full-fledged army on the European continent. We need to increase investment in order to be ready for a possible high-intensity armed conflict that could begin on our continent."
17:34 The Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus announced the opening of a case against Arestovich for calling for "acts of terrorism and sabotage at the facilities of the Belarusian railway."
17:20 The Czech Republic has declared that it can no longer accept Ukrainian refugees.
17:17 Erdogan talked to Putin and told him that if a ceasefire is declared, it will be possible to come to a long-term solution to the situation in Ukraine. He also noted that top-level talks may be required to reach consensus on some issues, and reiterated his suggestion that Putin and Zelensky be hosted in Istanbul or Ankara.
17:11 The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has suspended all ties with Belarus.
17:08 Rogozin, after the European Space Agency refused to cooperate with Roskosmos as part of the ExoMars mission, said that Russia would land on Mars itself in a few years.
16:55 Podolyak said that Russia "came to the first talks with many wishes, most of which are no longer being considered." According to him, recently the behavior of the Russians "drastically softened" - there is neither rudeness nor rudeness inherent in the Russian authorities.
Podolyak stressed that Ukraine's position regarding the occupied territories remains unshakable: the country's borders cannot be changed .
16:54 The head of the Latvian Foreign Ministry said that it is necessary to hold a war crimes tribunal for Russians not in Nuremberg or The Hague, but in Kharkov or Mariupol.
16:42 The head of the Luhansk regional administration, Sergei Gaidai, said that people were evacuated from Popasna, despite the fact that during the evacuation, the Russians opened fire on the bus. Now they are moving to the western regions of the country.
16:40 One of the key aspects of the peace agreement with Russia is an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territories of Ukraine. But strategically, Kyiv wants to get a specific mechanism that guarantees security in the future, Podolyak said in an interview with WP Wiadomości.
16:34 Podolyak says that the agreement on a peace treaty with Russia may take from several days to one and a half weeks.
16:33 As a result of today's shelling of Merefa near Kharkov, 21 people were killed, 25 were injured, ten of them are in serious condition, the regional prosecutor's office said.
16:29 The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Ankara is ready to hold a meeting between Zelensky and Putin. According to Minister Cavusoglu, Russia does not object to Ukraine's proposal to make Turkey one of the guarantors of security.
16:23 Belarusian television reported that the KGB of the Republic of Belarus prevented a terrorist attack in the Mozyr region, which was directed "against the Russian military and equipment."
16:10 Schwarzenegger addressed the Russians: "I know that your government says that this is a war for the denazification of Ukraine. Denazification of Ukraine? This is not true. Ukraine is a country with a president of Jewish origin. A president of Jewish origin, whose father, among other things, all three brothers were killed by the Nazis. Ukraine did not start this war. Those in power in the Kremlin started it."
16:09 Podolyak said that Zelensky's meeting with Putin could take place after the completion of work on the agreement, possibly "within the coming weeks."
16:00 Ukraine will receive from the United States the most modern type of weapons against tanks and armored vehicles, said Senator Michael McCole. We are talking about a light kamikaze drone Switchblade.
15:53 Aksyonov announced plans to build a new city in Crimea for 50,000 people. According to him, the city can be located on the western coast of Crimea in the Saki region or in the Simferopol region, near the village of Nikolaevka.
15:42 A group of former and current European politicians wants to nominate Zelensky for the Nobel Peace Prize. To do this, they turned to the Nobel Committee and asked to extend the deadline for nominating candidates until the end of March.
15:39 Two enemy missiles were shot down in the Dnipropetrovsk region today, a Russian drone was shot down in the Kharkiv region, the Air Command of Skhid reported.
15:32 On March 18, "patriotic actions" will be held in Russia on the occasion of the annexation of Crimea and in support of the war in Ukraine. The central event will be a concert at Luzhniki, Putin's participation is not ruled out. State employees and students are forced to participate in rallies.
According to Russian opposition media, the organizers "recommend" avoiding yellow-and-blue clothing and attracting "only people of Slavic appearance" to the extras.
15:27 The International Committee of the Red Cross promised to intensify efforts to organize humanitarian corridors and facilitate the evacuation of civilians from Ukrainian cities. ICRC President Peter Maurer stated this at a meeting with the Ukrainian government team.
The Red Cross has already delivered 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and the organization's office in Kyiv has been opened on a permanent basis.
15:15 In the Kiev region, the streets of cities are littered with the corpses of civilians, said the head of the Main Directorate of the NP of the Kiev region, Andrei Nebitov. According to him, in the Buchansk region during the evacuation of people, the invaders fired at the evacuation columns with tanks. The Russian military rob civilians.
In Irpin, active hostilities continue, the enemy managed to equip his positions there. Enemy DRGs are also active there.
Nebitov also said that there was a partisan movement in the Kiev region.
15:12 According to the State Bureau of Investigation, since the beginning of March, together with border guards, 1,109 men aged 18 to 60 have been detained who were trying to illegally travel abroad.
15:10 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a column of two Russian regiments that were driving towards Kamenka. According to Zaluzhny, it was possible to destroy enemy equipment on March 16 near the city of Izyum, Kharkov region. The column consisted of the equipment of the new 437th training regiment, as well as the battalion tactical group of the 26th tank regiment of the 47th tank division.
15:06 Arestovich says that on average, one in four Russian missiles are shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces, one hits a target, another one hits civilian neighborhoods.
"Looking at the statistics of hits, we understand that the enemy bombed Sumy, Kharkov, Chernigov on purpose, knowing that the target was residential areas. As for Kyiv, this has not yet been observed. Most likely, in the case of the capital, this is a wrong tip. In the western part Ukraine, the enemy targeted residential areas," he explained.
15:05 Russia used 97 tactical groups in Ukraine, of which 15 were completely destroyed, another 18 lost their combat capability, Arestovich said.
15:00 Human Rights Watch called on Ukraine to stop publishing videos of Russian prisoners of war, as it "violates their rights and the rights of their loved ones."
14:55 The prosecutor's office opened proceedings against collaborators in Kherson, who on March 16 held an illegal meeting in the building of the regional council of the pseudo-authority "Committee of Salvation For Peace and Order" created by the occupiers. The composition of the fake body mainly included people who already have problems with the law.
At the meeting, the criminals convinced local residents that the Ukrainian authorities no longer rule the region, and called for support for the Russian occupation. Now they face imprisonment for up to 15 years or life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
14:51 Scholz, after Zelensky's speech in the Bundestag, said that Germany would continue to support Ukraine, but military intervention by NATO was ruled out.
14:35 In the center of Chernihiv, the invaders fired on civilians from heavy artillery. There are dead and wounded. Among the dead is a US citizen, the National Police said.
In addition, in Chernihiv, when dismantling structures, rescuers took out a family of five dead people - three children and their parents.
14:33 The State Ecological Inspectorate stated that the Russian invaders have already stolen Ukrainian water in the amount of almost 620 million hryvnias. The amount of damage for the unauthorized use of the water resources of the people of Ukraine is 32 million 628 thousand 960 hryvnia per day.
14:31 Peskov called traitors Russians who quit or leave the country because of the war in Ukraine. But by doing so, in his opinion, Russia is "cleansed."
14:30 The head of the financial committee of the Rada, Daniil Getmantsev, suggested that the government consider the possibility of seizing the property of a business that raises prices during the war.
14:26 Arestovich called on Ukrainians to arrange a "total rail war" against the enemy in the occupied territories. According to him, first of all it concerns the directions:
Crimea - Melitopol,
Crimea - Kherson,
Valuyki - Kupyansk,
Gomel - Kyiv (general direction).
and others you find.
"It is only necessary to strictly take into account that the communication routes are guarded by the enemy, so first soberly assess your strengths and capabilities," he stressed.
Arestovich explained that a disruption in the supply of the enemy by rail could radically change the situation in our favor, especially in the Crimea-Melitopol direction. In this direction, Russia supplies the group that is storming Mariupol.
14:11 Lukashenka threatened to "respond" to Ukraine if it "continues to escalate against Belarus and provoke."
He also expressed his conviction that hostilities in Ukraine will soon end, since Kyiv will either sign an agreement with Moscow, or "then you will have to sign an act of surrender."
14:09 Biden is holding talks tomorrow with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, during which he plans to discuss the situation in Ukraine and bilateral relations, the White House said.
14:07 In Russia, due to the depreciation of the ruble and the inability to buy foreign currency, the demand for precious metals has sharply increased, local media write. Queues for gold are already formed from five in the morning. There are only a few points in Moscow where you can buy precious metals. Earlier, the authorities abolished VAT on bullion.
14:02 The Russian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina said that if the country decides to be a member of any international union, this is its internal affair. "But our reaction is another matter. Using the example of Ukraine, we showed what we expect. If there is a threat, we will react," the ambassador stressed.
14:00 Putin said that under the new sanctions, large Russian business structures, including banks, can "calmly come to Crimea" , because now they have nothing to fear.
13:57 In Poland, due to a hacker attack, there was a large-scale stop of trains throughout the country. The authorities are sure that the Russian Federation is to blame for this. According to the publication cyfrowa, a total of 820 kilometers of the country's railway lines became defective.
13:53 Thanks to a long curfew in Kiev and the region, law enforcement officers managed to stabilize the situation and detain several Russian DRGs, Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, said.
13:50 Only 86 million hryvnias remain on the special account of the National Bank for the needs of the military, so the NBU is asking for support, the press service of the regulator said.
In total, the National Bank transferred almost 12 billion hryvnias for the needs of the military. Of these, about 3.6 billion hryvnia equivalent came from abroad in foreign currency.
13:47 Arestovich said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the command post of one of the armies of the Russian Federation - this could mean the death of several generals and a pause in the conduct of hostilities by the enemy.
13:39 Today, information was spread in the media that Russian ships were noticed near Odessa. The Odessa OVA stated that the maneuvering of the Russian ships is psychological pressure on the inhabitants of Odessa. According to the regional administration, preparations for the landing have not yet been noticed.
13:27 Poland will stop buying gas from Russia after the completion of the current contract for the purchase of gas through the Yamal gas pipeline, the government said. The contract ends in December 2022.
13:25 Mayor Oleshek of the Kherson region said that the Russians had already left the city. He announced their arrival this morning.
13:15 Citizens of Russia and Belarus from tomorrow will be able to move "within the borders of the Union State without restrictions," Mishustin said.
13:11 The world's largest food manufacturer Nestle refuses to leave the Russian market. Shmygal said that he had spoken with the head of the company, but the parties did not come to an understanding.
13:07 Ukraine has requested satellite images from Japan to determine the location of Russian troops, the Nikkei newspaper writes. Japanese satellites can take pictures at any time of the day and in any weather, and are also distinguished by high resolution. The decision to provide images to Ukraine should be taken by the Security Council of Japan.
13:06 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova called the shelling of Ukrainian cities with heavy artillery, aircraft and cruise missiles "staging NATO fakes."
Podolyak replied to this statement: "It's simple: multimillion-dollar lawsuits and compensations to the families of the dead, terms for war crimes - and Zakharova will believe the truth."
13:03 In almost all directions, the enemy is trying to resume the offensive or regain the lost lines, but to no avail, the General Staff says. The occupiers had partial success in the area of Rubizhne, where they consolidated on the northern outskirts of the city and moved towards its southern part, and also continued the assault on Mariupol.
12:53 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has promised to provide Russia with 40,000 fighters for the war in Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported. According to the military intelligence of Ukraine, in the near future, it is planned to move weapons, military equipment and other resources from Syria to Russia and Belarus to support the Russian troops.
12:51 Great Britain will deploy the Sky Saber air defense system and 100 military personnel in Poland, the head of the Ministry of Defense said.
12:50 Russian invaders are reinforcing the grouping with additional units of the 1st Tank Army and coastal units of the Baltic Fleet, the General Staff reports.
12:44 Syrian mercenaries consider participation in the war on the side of Russia as a chance for desertion and illegal migration to the EU, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense said.
12:38 Arestovich said that everything that Ukraine agrees with Russia should be better than before the war, "otherwise, why were there victims of the Ukrainian people then?"
He stressed that "we will never give up our national interests," and also recalled that the president had repeatedly stated: Ukraine should be recognized within the international borders as of 1991.
12:34 In Spain, the 135-meter Crescent yacht worth about $600 million, which is associated with the head of Rosneft Sechin, has been detained, Reuters reports.
12:29 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that "the future of Crimea is forever with Russia," and "no sanctions or threats will change this."
12:22 In Kharkiv, on the night of March 17, the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God on Kholodnaya Gora was shelled. Church utensils were damaged, there were no injured or dead, reported in the Kharkiv diocese of the UOC.
12:20 The state news agency Re-inform has been created in Ukraine. The Cabinet of Ministers has already approved the budget financing of the relevant state-owned enterprise.
12:19 Reznikov said at an extraordinary meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of defense ministers that Russia's goal is to destroy Ukraine. And by fighting with our country, the enemy is fighting against the whole world, "against humanism, international law, peace and freedom."
12:15 Russia refused to fulfill the requirement of the UN International Criminal Court to stop the war in Ukraine.
"No, we cannot take this decision into account. The International Court of Justice has such a thing as the consent of the parties. There can be no consent here," Peskov said.
12:13 The Ministry of Commerce of China said that the country will continue "normal economic and trade cooperation with Russia and Ukraine based on the principles of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit."
12:12 Russia announced that it paid off its foreign debts and avoided default.
11:52 Podolyak on the tactics of the Russian Federation: "Viscous positional battles on the front lines. Local boilers for civilians. Targeted strikes on objects to shelter civilians. Delaying decisions on humanitarian corridors. Active attempts to destabilize public opinion in our country, provoke internal conflicts."
11:50 Russian troops have entered the city of Oleshki, Kherson region, and are going to settle in the city, Mayor Yevgeny Ryshchuk said: "We don't know their position. We were told: maintain order, as they did, we will have nothing to do with you now."
11:41 The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China opposed US sanctions against the Russian Federation, as they "destabilize the world market." China also intends to protect the interests of its enterprises, the agency said.
11:36 Denisenko says that during the 21 days of the war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down about a third of the planes that are in Russia. Earlier, the General Staff reported that the number of downed aircraft reached 86, helicopters - more than 100.
11:32 Zelensky spoke in the German Bundestag and called on Scholz to take a leadership role and help stop the Russian invasion. The president reproached the chancellor for the fact that countries across the ocean were closer than Germany.
"Why did the states across the ocean turn out to be closer to us than you? Because this is a wall that someone does not notice, but which we fight against while we are fighting to save our people. Chancellor Scholz, destroy this wall, give Germany well-deserved leadership, support us, stop the war, help us stop it," Zelensky said.
11:16 British intelligence notes that the Russian invasion of Ukraine "significantly stalled on all fronts", writes Sky News. Russian troops have made "minimal progress" on land, at sea and in the air in recent days and "continue to suffer heavy losses."
11:03 The Seimas of Lithuania unanimously supported the resolution to close the skies over Ukraine.
10:58 As of the morning of March 17, as a result of the military invasion of Russia, 108 children were killed and more than 120 were injured, the Prosecutor General's Office said.
10:40 Russia will not be able to return to the global financial system until 2037, analysts at The Wall Street Journal say. To do this, the Russian Federation will first have to pay off creditors, and in addition to direct debt, we will talk about debt to Ukraine.
10:33 The General Staff announced the estimated combat losses of the enemy on the morning of March 17:
personnel - about 14,000,
tanks - 444,
armored combat vehicles - 1435,
artillery systems - 201,
MLRS - 72,
air defense systems - 43,
aircraft - 86,
helicopters - 108,
automotive equipment - 864,
ships/boats - 3,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 60,
UAV operational-tactical level - 11,
special equipment - 10.
10:31 The Cabinet of Ministers allowed the circulation of fuel of the environmental standard Euro-3 and Euro-4, and also simplified the passage of customs procedures for the supply of petroleum products, the Ministry of Energy reported.
10:26 Volga-Dnepr, the largest cargo carrier in Russia, completely stopped flights. His planes are blocked due to sanctions, writes Kommersant. European regulators have banned flights by British and German airlines owned by the group's founder Alexei Isaikin. Experts say that the market for transportation from Asia to Europe is lost for Russian companies for such a period that the business may not survive.
10:25 Taruta said that the bomb shelter in the Mariupol Drama Theater survived, in the morning they managed to start dismantling the rubble, people come out alive.
10:22 Mariupol is destroyed by 80-90%, said Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov. According to him, not a single building was left without damage. It will be impossible to launch industrial enterprises in the city. Including the complete destruction of the Azovstal plant.
10:20 In Russia, state employees are massively herded to rallies in support of Putin and the war, local media write.
10:19 At night, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down two Russian aircraft over the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Air Command of Skhid reported.
10:14 More than 100 saboteurs have already been detained in Kiev, the head of the Kiev military administration said.
10:11 Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korneychuk said that tonight "again" 12 families (women and children) were kept all night at Ben Gurion Airport, and in the morning they were deported to Poland.
10:09 Uzbekistan opposes Russia's "special operation" in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said. He also stressed that Uzbekistan has not recognized and is not going to recognize the LDNR.
10:04 In Mariupol, residents who are trying to evacuate receive messages demanding to follow to the occupied territories. The occupiers directly threaten: "If you go to Zaporozhye, the same thing will happen there, you will be bombed," MP Goncharenko said.
09:56 A National Information Bureau has been created in Ukraine, which will deal with the issues of prisoners. The department was established in accordance with the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949, Vereshchuk said.
09:33 As of March 17, nine routes of humanitarian corridors have been agreed:
Donetsk region: buses will depart from Zaporozhye to Berdyansk to pick up people from Mariupol to Zaporozhye. A tank truck with fuel for refueling private cars will also be sent.
Kyiv region: Borodyanka - Zhitomir, Shevchenkovo - Brovary. It is planned to send humanitarian cargoes with food and medicines to Gostomel, Bucha, Semipolki, Markintsy, Opanasov.
Kharkov region: it is planned to deliver humanitarian aid from Kharkov to Volchansk.
09:29 Bodies of 53 dead as a result of shelling were received in the morgues of Chernihiv during the day, Governor Chaus said.
09:28 Moldovan President Maia Sandu called on the Russian Federation to withdraw troops from Pridnestrovie.
09:04 Great Britain, Albania, France, Ireland, Norway and the United States requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine. The meeting is to take place today at 21:00 Kyiv time.
09:03 According to WHO, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 43 targeted attacks have been carried out on hospitals and medical workers. The WHO emphasized that never anywhere in the world have seen such a number of attacks on the healthcare system as now in Ukraine.
09:01 French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that Russia only "pretends that it is negotiating," while itself participating in "a dramatic process of prolonged cruelty." He also stressed that "we do not negotiate with a gun to the head."
According to the French minister, the talks now should be focused primarily on a ceasefire - then both sides will be able to make informed decisions.
08:59 According to the UN, more than three million Ukrainians left the country during the Russian invasion.
08:37 Ukraine is now "paying" for the fact that the West did not understand the threat posed by Putin for many years, Johnson said.
08:20 Reznikov said that in Russia the funerals of the soldiers who died in Ukraine were held in more than 200 settlements. According to him, the Russian authorities are no longer able to hide the "crushing losses" of the units of the Russian Airborne Forces.
08:19 Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan sent the Russian Federation an official request for a meeting and discussion of the situation in Ukraine.
08:18 The Russians shelled Rubizhne all night, damaged at least 27 houses, said the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the invaders also shelled Popasnaya and Severodonetsk.
08:15 The United States has created an international group to search for and arrest the assets of the Russian elite in the West. The group included representatives from the UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and the European Commission.
08:14 According to US intelligence estimates, Russian troops have lost more than seven thousand soldiers during the war in Ukraine, writes NYT. The Pentagon notes that even a 10 percent casualty rate, taking into account the dead and wounded, makes individual military units incompetent.
08:13 China will never attack Ukraine, said PRC Ambassador to Ukraine Fan Xianrong.
08:12 The occupying troops have big problems with the recruitment of combat units and support units, the General Staff reports.
08:09 The Chinese Ambassador to the United States said that China "does not benefit" Russia's war in Ukraine. He also called "pure disinformation" the claim that Beijing knew about this war, agreed with it or gave tacit consent to it.
08:07 Since February 24, the Russian military has hit three Panamanian-flagged ships in the Black Sea with missiles, Reuters writes. One ship sank, the other two remain afloat, but they are damaged.
07:40 There are no more “safe” places left in Ukraine where you can wait out the Russian invasion, said Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky.
"We will no longer name the areas where shelling did not take place or where there were no representatives of sabotage groups. Unfortunately, this phenomenon has already become common for us," he said.
07:33 In Merefa near Kharkiv, a school was hit tonight, a cultural center was also destroyed, the head of the local community, Veniamin Sitov, said. There are no casualties among civilians, several soldiers were injured.
07:19 Russian media writes that in Kherson, the occupiers have created a new "authority" - "Committee of Salvation for Peace and Order." It included the owner of the Tavria News website, Kirill Stremousov, and a local anti-Maidan activist, against whom criminal cases were initiated in Ukraine.
07:00 In the Darnitsky district of Kiev, fragments of a downed Russian missile hit a multi-storey building, there is a dead person. According to the State Emergency Service, an apartment on the 16th floor caught fire.
06:06 Canada has closed its skies for Belarusian aircraft.
05:10 The King and Queen of Belgium announced that they would accommodate three families of Ukrainian refugees in the premises belonging to the royal charitable foundation.
04:44 Russia has run out of precision-guided munitions for air strikes, so the occupiers have begun to resort to older and less accurate means of destruction, British intelligence reported.
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Rumors only that started coming out two hours ago F15s piloted by US pilots to patrol Ukraine airspace in the Donbas region. Not sure of this but historically MIG have never been able to shoot down an F-15 which supposedly was designed to clear airspace of MIGs.
24-48 hour rule applies to this chatter which says the F-15 patrols will be based out of Poland.
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Source of above chatter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TykUX0Gqjsc
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Certainly hope it isn't true. The longer-term political downside of a US pilot being shot down and captured is unfathomable.
#4
Link doesn't work ...smells like BS
US pilots in a Russian battle space means a declaration of war on Russia, which means we're going to be hit with Russian hypersonic missiles here in the US.
Not happening
[FoxNews] Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger essentially predicted the current situation that led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a chilling op-ed published eight years ago.
Kissinger penned an op-ed in the Washington Post on March 5, 2014 headlined, "To settle the Ukraine crisis, start at the end," which detailed much of what has unfolded as Russia’s attack continues.
"Public discussion on Ukraine is all about confrontation. But do we know where we are going? In my life, I have seen four wars begun with great enthusiasm and public support, all of which we did not know how to end and from three of which we withdrew unilaterally. The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins," Kissinger wrote.
"Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other — it should function as a bridge between them," he continued. "Russia must accept that to try to force Ukraine into a satellite status, and thereby move Russia’s borders again, would doom Moscow to repeat its history of self-fulfilling cycles of reciprocal pressures with Europe and the United States."
The eight-year-old piece detailed why many Russians historically feel that Ukraine would never be seen as an independent country.
"The West must understand that, to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country. Russian history began in what was called Kievan-Rus. The Russian religion spread from there. Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries, and their histories were intertwined before then. Some of the most important battles for Russian freedom, starting with the Battle of Polyvana in 1709, we fought on Ukrainian soil," Kissinger who was secretary of state from 1973 to 1977, continued.
Kissinger explained why priorities needed to be established in order for Ukraine to thrive.
"Even such famed dissidents as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky insisted that Ukraine was an integral part of Russian history and, indeed, of Russia," he wrote. "The European Union must recognize that its bureaucratic dilatoriness and subordination of the strategic element to domestic politics in negotiating Ukraine’s relationship to Europe contributed to turning a negotiation into a crisis. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities."
Kissinger called Ukrainians "the decisive element" because they live in a country with a deep history and a "polyglot composition," noting the Western part of the nation was "incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939, when Stalin and Hitler divided up the spoils" but the largely Russian section of Crimea didn’t become part of Ukraine until 1954.
"The west is largely Catholic; the east largely Russian Orthodox. The west speaks Ukrainian; the east speaks mostly Russian. Any attempt by one wing of Ukraine to dominate the other — as has been the pattern — would lead eventually to civil war or break up. To treat Ukraine as part of an East-West confrontation would scuttle for decades any prospect to bring Russia and the West — especially Russia and Europe — into a cooperative international system," Kissinger wrote.
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"In my life, I have seen four wars begun with great enthusiasm and public support, all of which we did not know how to end and from three of which we withdrew unilaterally."
[IsraelTimes] Video shows flight tickets, ID, tax papers, imagery said to be of David Barnea’s home; unconfirmed reports claim Iran ...The nation is 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... behind cyber attack; Israel says materials ’old’.
[IsraelTimes] The "Open Hands" Telegram channel is vowing to release "new" information on Mossad chief David Barnea, after publishing a video yesterday with his personal documents and photos.
"In response to Israeli Prime Minister’s Office: You’ve said that the material is not new; wait for the next episode to find out whether we are updated or not!" the hackers say in a message written in Hebrew, English, and Arabic.
According to Hebrew-language media reports, an old phone belonging to Barnea’s wife was hacked by the group, which has been ostensibly tied to Iran.
Channel 13 news reports there was no sensitive information on the phone that could potentially harm state security.
[NYPOST] A Russian model who called Vladimir Putin a "psychopath" has been found dead and stuffed inside a suitcase, a report says.
Gretta Vedler, 23, went missing a year ago after her anti-Putin social media rant, but the two events do not appear to be connected.
"Vedler’s ex-boyfriend Dmitry Korovin, 23, has now confessed to strangling her to death before driving her 300 miles to the Lipetsk region and abandoning the body in the boot of a car.." the Daily Star reports.
Korovin told authorities that he slept in a hotel room for three nights with her dead body, which was stuffed in a newly bought suitcase. The man then left her body in the trunk for a year but kept posting to her social media pages to make it look like she was still alive.
In January 2021 Vedler had raised concerns over Putin’s crackdown on protests and desire to enhance the integrity of Russia
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I know the business of Khashogging troublemakers. Yupp, nicely done. While others will just see a pretty face and sweet bod wasted by bad bad bald man, I see a precise and methodical bastard at work.
C'mon, guys. How many of you wanna see the same thing happen to the Don Lemons and Chrissy Teigens?
A glamorous Hollywood scholar,
It studies the face on the dollar.
The look of surprise
In its eyes as it dies,
Getting smaller and smaller and smaller!
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:38 Thanks to the actions of the DPR army and the RF Armed Forces, 43,000 civilians were evacuated from Mariupol today. As soon as the Nazis lost the opportunity to shoot civilians leaving the city, the hostages poured out of the city in tens of thousands a day. In total, since the beginning of the assault, our military released more than 80,000 hostages, whom the Nazis held in Mariupol as human shields.
21:34 Above the administration city of Rubizhne erected the flag of the LPR. However, fighting is still going on in the city (in some areas), there is still no connection, as well as electricity and water.
20:32 Stories about the "fights near New York" (Donetsk region) - game from couch strategists, now there is absolute silence. Couch strategist would be I. 20:30 Verkhnetoretskoe, which was occupied yesterday, remains under the control of the DPR, all counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been repulsed, the enemy has suffered such losses that they are no longer trying to counterattack.
20:27 The Russian coalition occupied two villages to the south-west of Vuhledar, squeezing units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine there. Vuhledar is located 28 km southwest of Donetsk. Founded as a mining village in 1966. The population before the start of the fighting was about 15,000 people. It is an important strategic point for supplying enemy forces in the region, and the Ukrainian headquarters of the Vostok operational-tactical group was also located there.
19:33 The People's Militia of the DPR reported that six units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the beginning of the military special operation have lost 1,099 people dead and 1,276 wounded.
19:21 During the liberation of Maryinka died three foreign mercenaries are the People's Militia of the DPR. The authorities of the republic call the names: Michael ***, Logan **** and Cruz ****. Also, the people's militia seized weapons: NLAW and SMAW grenade launchers, an AN / TPQ-48 radar station. Names redacted until confirmed dead 19:15 As a result of shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a civilian was wounded in Vasilievka.
18:28 Shelling Golubovskoye village in the Lugansk Republic. Ukrofascists purposefully shoot at civilians. Direct hit to a residential building.
18:06 “We were like in a cage. Our houses were methodically shelled with hailstones by the Ukrainian army.” A resident of Mariupol told a @SputnikLive correspondent that the Azov militants purposefully hit residential buildings, and long before the start of hostilities in the city. “Grads flew from Azovstal. Everyone knows this. The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Mariupol from the very beginning. From the 26th,” he said. "Walked, laughed, creatures (Azov), and fired at houses with incendiary shells."
17:44 Ukrainian armed formations left Rubizhne and retreated to positions in Severodonetsk, local residents report.
17:40 The DPR army seized a shipment of NATO weapons near Donetsk: in Marinka, DPR fighters seized a large number of Swedish AT-4 grenade launchers and other military property at the location of the 1st mechanized battalion of the 54th OMB.
16.48 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 2 shelling of the territory of the LPR was recorded: n.p. Novotoshkovskoe - Donetsk: mortar 120mm (8 min). n.p. Zolote-4 - Pervomaisk: mortar 120mm (15 min);
16:28 The Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR: the power engineers of the Oktyabrsky Distribution Zone powered 5 TPs, 850 household subscribers in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, and the employees of the Kiev Distribution Zone - 6 TPs, 300 household subscribers, who were also left without power as a result of the shelling of the VFU.
Power engineers of the Yasinovatsky Distribution Zone TE "Makeevskie Electric Networks" SUE DPR "REK" restored power supply to 7 transformer substations, 242 household subscribers of the village of Krasny Partizan, which were de-energized as a result of shelling on the evening of March 16.
15:43 The death of more than 70 people in the DPR in 2018 from multidrug-resistant strains of tuberculosis may be associated with the activities of a biological laboratory in Ukraine - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
15:34 On the operational line, the DPR Ministry of Health received information about the wounding as a result of shelling by the AFU of two men from the territories previously liberated by the NM of the DPR. All the victims were taken to the Novoazovskaya Central District Hospital, where they receive the necessary medical care.
15:30 Ukronazis fired at the column of refugees. Departure from Mariupol towards the DPR.
15:02 Civilians leave Mariupol along the humanitarian corridor organized by the forces of the DPR and the Russian Federation. If yesterday it was possible to evacuate hundreds a day, today it is already thousands every day, @SputnikLive correspondent reports from the scene. Also, at the humanitarian checkpoint, men are checked for tattoos with Nazi symbols.
14:23 Headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR: Ukrainian troops transported 17 hostage children to Lviv.
13:30 Social networks: AFU deployed three artillery pieces towards the Zhuravlevsky Hydropark across Solidarity Street in Kharkiv. Half an hour later, the guns were destroyed by pinpoint artillery fire of the RF Armed Forces.
13:11 The Russian Federation cannot take into account the requirement of the International Court of Justice and stop the military operation in Ukraine, Dmitry Peskov said.
13:10 The use of photos of Donetsk in the media and during Zelensky's speech in Congress with the opposite connotation is a lie and a forgery, - Peskov.
13:05 The JCCC recorded shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Marinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 3 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired.
13:00 Basurin said that the liberation of Mariupol is going according to plan.
12:25 As specified information, as a result of the shelling of the village of Golmovsky by Ukrainian armed groups on March 16, 2022, houses were damaged along the streets: Shokalsky, 42, Arensky, 18, Arensky, 24, in Klubny lane, 4. A VAZ 2107 car was also damaged.
Also, according to updated information , as a result of night shelling from the side of the VFU of the Gorlovsky village of Kochegarka, significant damage was recorded in the house on Usadebnaya Street, 4.
12:24 During the shelling of the VFU, the village. Alexandrovka, on the street. Gorky,5 a woman born in 1954 received shrapnel wounds. Damage to private sector houses was also recorded:
- st. Gorky, 5 - a direct hit on the house. A wall was destroyed, windows and a roof were damaged; - st. Gorky, 300, 302 - windows, roofing, walls were cut by fragments, households were damaged. the buildings; - st. Shevchenko, 195, 197 - damaged windows, households. buildings - Alexey Kulemzin.
12:15 Ossetian volunteer units put forward to Donbass.
11:57 Chechen fighters in Mariupol broke through defense of the Azovstal metallurgical plant, where the Azov people settled. Mariupol will be taken before the end of the week.
11:31 Information about the incident yesterday in the drama theater of Mariupol from the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Serhiy Taruta, with the confirmation of the neo-Nazi Botsman: it follows from it that the information dispersed throughout all Ukrainian media about the death of 1,500 people turned out to be a lie from beginning to end.
11:27 Statements that the Russian military is behind the strike on the drama theater in Mariupol are lies - the Russian Foreign Ministry.
11:12 Possible provocation in Kramatorsk: local residents are outraged by the placement of the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the buildings of educational institutions.
In particular, the warriors and part of the territorial defense were placed in the 6th school (Bolshaya Sadovaya, 71) and in the 91st kindergarten (Shkolnaya, 16). Warriors react extremely aggressively to the comments of the townspeople. Earlier, from documents obtained in the liberated Volnovakha, it became known that the practice of using educational, cultural and health facilities as shelters was introduced at the command level of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Videos from busy schools and kindergartens appear regularly.
This choice is based on the fact that such facilities have high-quality bomb shelters in which the military can hide. Civilians are left to hide in the buildings themselves, which makes it possible for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to repeat the criminal provocation following the example of Mariupol.
11:01 DPR units are conducting offensive operations to capture the settlements of Maryinka, Slavnoe and Sladkoe. Promotion per day amounted to 4 kilometers - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
10:50 As a result of a direct hit by a shell of Ukrainian fighters, on the street. Radishcheva, 11 in the Petrovsky district, the house was completely destroyed, a man born in 1966 received a mine-explosive injury and shrapnel wounds. The victim was taken to the surgical department of the INVH them. VC. Gusak - Alexey Kulemzin.
10:12 DPR turned to Russia with a request to strengthen the air defense of the republic, this work is in progress - Pushilin.
10:35 AFU shelled the settlement Novomikhailovka - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: fired 5 mines in 120 mm caliber. and n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yasnoye: fired 5 minutes in 120 mm caliber. — SCCC.
09:45 The DPR representative office in the JCCC on March 17 recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction: n.p. Marinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 9 mines fired with a caliber of 120 mm.
09:42 295 people were evacuated from Mariupol and its suburbs. According to the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR, 295 people, including 66 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol and the settlements of its suburban area to the Bezymennoye Novoazovsky district. In addition, 2 people from Volnovakha were evacuated.
09:07 DPR forces liberated 95 settlements on the territory of the republic, Basurin said.
08:56 Residents of Donetsk are deprived of water supply: according to the Headquarters of Territorial Defense of the DPR, as a result of a strike by Ukrainian militants, Verkhnekalmiuska pumping station remains without electricity. The high-voltage line 35 kV was damaged. Emergency work is underway.
08:04 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Armed Forces of the DPR fordayadvanced 2 kilometers in the Marinka area. There is also a promotion in Severodonetsk with the Armed Forces of the LPR.
07:20 AFU fired at the settlement Novomikhailovka - n.p. Kremenets: 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired. — reported in the JCCC DNR.
02:45 In the JCCC, shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
02:30 Shelling from the side of the VFU on the settlement Trinity - n.p. Red Partizan: fired six shells of 122 mm caliber. — SCCC.
[Breitbart] "Kindergartners are natural social justice warriors," one trainer told teachers.
Private schools across the country are implementing radical leftist curricula as the nation's leading private school accreditation association has been training teachers through lectures such as "Decolonizing the Minds of Second Graders" and "The White People Way," as shown on footage obtained by Breitbart News.
More than 1,600 private schools nationwide receive accreditation through the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), which also provides training conferences for teachers at member schools.
"The principal professional development conference hosted by NAIS for teachers, The People of Color Conference, was started by 'Educational Diversity/Equity Consultant' and former NAIS Director of Diversity Randolph Carter, who is a self-described Black Panther," Breitbart reported.
Carter is the founder of East Ed, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, according to his LinkedIn. The East Ed's now-defunct website describes him as a "member of the Black Panther Party."
Carter's biography on the East Ed website states that "while at the National Association of Independent Schools, he directed their equity programming and founded two of their signature projects: People of Color Conference and Student Diversity Leadership Conference."
While Carter is no longer at NAIS, he still participates in the People of Color Conference.
In December 2021, a conference session to train NAIS teachers focused on social justice in kindergarten.
"Kindergartners are natural social justice warriors," trainer Traci Allen told teachers, as shown on video obtained by Breitbart.
"And I think if we just build upon the mindset of the kindergartner, that is fantastic, you can get them to do fabulous things in the social justice realm," she said.
In "Decolonizing the Minds of Second Graders," another lecture at the December People of Color Conference, one trainer discusses how she wore a gas mask, goggles and a bulletproof vest as she protested George Floyd's death in Portland.
"It's an ongoing system of power that perpetuates the genocide and repression of indigenous peoples and cultures," the lecturer said in the video from Breitbart. "And so, we are settler colonialists, right? We perpetuate that unless we are indigenous to the land that we are on."
Another session at that conference featured a slide with the title "Burn Sh** down" as a lecturer who identifies as a vice principal tells teachers to "[recognize] when systems are broken and [imagine] something new."
In another talk, titled "The White People Way," a lecturer spoke about critical race theory (CRT) and "white tears."
"In order to recognize that you are experiencing the 'White People Way' pitfall, you can look for signs of white supremacy culture; so seeing things like a focus on perfectionism, a focus on power hoarding, not being willing to share, and a focus on product," she told teachers in the video obtained by Breitbart. "Additionally, you may hear comments about, 'Oh, we need to meet people where they are,' rather than pushing the work further. You may see literal white tears and that can be a tool to disrupt the work. You may also see policing of language and tone, or arguments about semantics — and we are seeing this I think, really strongly nationally with the backlash around CRT, we've seen it with white privilege and with a variety of other terms — arguing about those terms prevents us from moving forward on the work."
Private schools accredited by NAIS are now implementing radical curricula.
"Fourth Grade Black Panther Studies" is now being taught in St. Paul's Episcopal School in Oakland, Calif., according to the school's website.
Breitbart obtained a copy of an "Anti-Discrimination Pledge" from Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Ga.
"On my honor I commit to confronting racism and discrimination by working with my peers and teachers to help create a safe, supportive and respectful environment for everyone," the pledge states, adding: "Along with my community, I will participate in personal education that equips me with the skills to be anti-racist and that empowers this community to be inclusive to all of its members."
Breitbart News obtained the material from "Undercover Mother," which describes itself as a "Mom Collective with children in independent school."
"We circle our young to protect them from the abuse being inflicted by schools and the cartels of the regional and National Association of Independent Schools," the group states.
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We'll have to keep the teaming inner city ghettos pacified for a while. Perhaps fentanyl sales and distribution will do it. Migrants from Latin America can mule it up. Law enforcement and the judicial systems can be instructed to ignore them.
Perhaps this will assist the Chinese economy and convince the globalists that we're serious about the environment.
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Yes I read it here at Rantburg first. It's just vile. I can understand the angst of a cultural sub-group against their exploitation to a point. But when that sub-group cannot forgive and forget and needs revenge on a racial level to the point of vileness. Then it means the stereotype is true and the sub-group never deserved any leniency or human treatment in the first place. Or maybe it's to do with the nation of Islam contagion that got into the black power movement early and turned so many black americans against christian America. I'll wager that conservative Christian blacks are all Pro Trump and anti-Democrat and un-woke. Decent, hardworking, classical liberal families who want nothing to do with these BLM worshiping Afro-Marxists.
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^ It's the poorest schools and the elite schools that are the biggest pushers of the woke nonsense
[HotAir] And apparently at least one judge agrees that these students, allegedly the top law students in the country, have crossed a line. DC Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman sent an email to every federal judge in the country suggesting that students involved in last week’s Yale protest might not be suitable candidates for clerkships.
The latest events at Yale Law School, in which students attempted to shout down speakers participating in a panel discussion on free speech, prompt me to suggest that students who are identified as those willing to disrupt any such panel discussion should be noted. All federal judges—and all federal judges are presumably committed to free speech—should carefully consider whether any student so identified should be disqualified from potential clerkships.
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The latest events at Yale Law School, in which students attempted to shout down speakers participating in a panel discussion on free speech, prompt me to suggest that students who are identified as those willing to disrupt any such panel discussion should be noted. All federal judges—and all federal judges are presumably committed to free speech—should carefully consider whether any student so identified should be disqualified from potential clerkships.
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All conservative speakers should bring a bullhorn to each conference. Make the shouters have to sustain an effort. The lefty cardio is probably not up to it. Too much vaping.
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Or maybe it's to do with the nation of Islam contagion that got into the black power movement early and turned so many black americans against christian America.
They were pretty much simultaneous over a century ago, Cthulhu of Ryleh. See Wikipedia on the Moorish Science Temple movement, of which the Nation of Islam is one of several spin-offs. Also search Rantburg for Washitaw Nation, Indigenous Moors, Moorish sovereign citizen movement, etc. They are not proper Muslims, and not even heretics, since they were not Muslims to begin with.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Gorlovka and Yelenovka
[REGNUM] The village of the mine. Gagarin in the city of Gorlovka (DPR) was fired on the evening of March 17 by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
At 19:40 Moscow time, Ukrainian militants opened fire on the village from the settlement of Novgorodskoye: eight 82 mm caliber mines were fired.
Also, Ukrainian formations fired at the village of Signalnoe (Maryinsky district, DPR) from the ACS: at 18:50 Moscow time, 20 grenades were fired, and small arms were also used. The shooting of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was carried out from the settlement of Glorious.
In addition, the village of Yelenovka (DPR) was attacked from the Glorious Armed Forces of Ukraine at 20:25 Moscow time and an hour later at 21:25 Moscow time, using 120 mm caliber mortars (ten mines) and 122 mm caliber artillery pieces (six shells).
Earlier, Yelenovka was fired upon by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the settlement of Novomikhailovka: at 19:35 Moscow time they opened fire from a 120 mm mortar, firing six mines.
Luhansk flag raised over the Rubizhnoye
[REGNUM] The city of Rubizhnoye was liberated from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the soldiers of the People's Militia of the LPR raised the flag of the Republic over the building of the city administration, the press service of the Lugansk department reported on March 17.
The representative of the People's Militia noted that martial law had entered the final phase for local residents. On the outskirts of the city, the sounds of gunfire can still be heard, as well as the work of Ukrainian artillery.
“But every hour these episodes become less and less. Local residents gather in the administration, they are provided with assistance. To the best of their ability, the military is providing , ”said the representative of the People’s Militia.
According to him, humanitarian aid will be sent to the city. “And for the residents of Rubizhne, life will become normal again ,” he added.
Surrendered Ukraine officer told of crimes of "Azov" in Mariupol
[REGNUM] The commander of the patrol platoon of the National Guard of Ukraine, who surrendered to the DPR, said that residents tried to escape from the city of Mariupol as soon as the Russian special operation began, but the Azov militants (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) ordered not to let civilians out. The video footage was published on March 17 by the press service of the People's Militia of the DPR.
According to Evgeny Orel , who surrendered , the residents of Mariupol began to leave on February 25-26. Then the Ukrainian command stopped these attempts. The former military man says that he heard "a broadcast with" Azov (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) " , during which the militants said that "civilians should not be released."
He said that the residents of Mariupol were trying to leave in droves. “We saw the signs “children” [on the cars] ,” he said. People fled the city, "knowing what would happen . " “Everyone knew that Azov (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) would fight in a serious way,” he added.
Recall that at present, the DPR forces are actively evacuating residents from Mariupol. The evacuees are transported to the Novoazovsky district of the republic. According to some reports, Ukrainian militants mined a number of civilian infrastructure facilities in the city.
Ukrainian artillery damaged houses in the LPR
[REGNUM] Three houses in Zolote-5 and nine in the village of Kalinovo (LPR) were damaged as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on March 17, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire.
Also, four outbuildings were damaged in Kalinovo: this settlement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was fired from artillery pieces. “As a result of the mortar shelling of the settlement of Zolote-5, three housing constructions were damaged, ” the JCCC reported.
Recall that since the beginning of the day in the DPR, 15 residential buildings were damaged by fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also, two infrastructure facilities were damaged, six transformer substations were de-energized, the village of Shakhty No. 11, school No. 116, 600 private sector houses were without electricity.
Ukrainian militants fired mortars at the DPR
[REGNUM] The southern part of the village of Zaitsevo (DPR) was shelled on the evening of March 17 by Ukrainian formations, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from the northern part of Zaitsevo. The fire was opened at 19:35 Moscow time. Ukrainian militants fired six 120 mm caliber mines at the village.
According to the People's Militia of the DPR, since the beginning of the day on March 17, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have fired more than a hundred shells and mines from 122-mm cannon artillery and 120-mm mortars.
Since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian militants have shelled six settlements of the DPR: four civilians were injured. At the same time, 15 residential buildings and two infrastructure facilities were damaged.
Three American contractors killed in Donetsk Full names redacted until confirmed
[REGNUM] The destruction of three American military instructors who fought on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the liberation of the city of Maryinka (DPR) from Ukrainian militants was reported on March 17 in the press service of the people's militia department of the republic.
While liberating Marinka, the stronghold of the 1st mechanized battalion of the 54th brigade was destroyed. During the inspection, samples of foreign weapons were found - NLAW, SMAW grenade launchers, AN / TPQ-48 radars and personal belongings of American instructors who participated in hostilities on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“In a backpack next to the remains of one of the militants, a US Tennessee flag was found, as well as other items that made it possible to identify the dead as: Captain Michael H**** , Lieutenant Logan ***** and Lieutenant Cruz ***** , who came to Ukraine to kill civilians in Donbass in 2018," - reports the People's Militia.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli troops spotted a suspicious man close to the border with Jordan last night, and after searching the area, found a bag with two pistols, the military says.
Six other suspects — allegedly involved in the smuggling attempt — who approached the area in vehicles were also detained, the military says.
The IDF has stepped up efforts to halt smuggling attempts along the Jordanian border in recent months.
[IsraelTimes] Cops arrest two Bedouin men; law enforcement believes arms were intended for both criminal and terror purposes in West Bank; bust valued at $770,000
Israeli security forces arrested two people suspected of smuggling guns and drugs into Israel from Jordan last week, confiscating a large number of firearms in the process, the military and police announced Thursday.
According to Israel Police, 34 handguns, two assault rifles, a sniper rifle, 16,000 rounds of ammunition and ecstasy pills were found in bags left behind by the two men near the border last Friday.
Soldiers operating surveillance cameras spotted the two suspicious men crossing the border near the Dead Sea, and after a brief chase the smugglers were arrested at the Ha’arava Junction, police said.
Law enforcement officials said the suspects were around 25 years old, from a southern Bedouin town. They were taken for questioning, and their remand is expected to be extended further on Thursday.
Police indicated that the guns were likely to have been sold to Paleostinians in the Hebron area for both criminal and terror purposes.
Officials estimated the value of the guns at some NIS 1.7 million ($525,000), and the drugs at approximately NIS 800,000 ($245,000).
"This confiscation is another success of the cooperation between Israel Police and IDF forces... in preventing the smuggling of illegal weapons over the border, which are suspected to reach terror and criminal elements," police said in a statement.
The IDF has stepped up efforts to halt smuggling attempts along the Jordanian border in recent months.
Last month dozens of firearms apparently smuggled over the Jordan border were seized in separate attempts.
Authorities have increasingly sought to crack down on the spread of illegal weapons in the Arab Israeli community, which have been used to carry out record-breaking numbers of murders in recent years.
According to the Abraham Initiatives, a non-government group lobbying against violence in the Arab community, 125 Arabs — an all-time record — were killed in Israel in 2021 as a result of violence and crime.
[IsraelTimes] A US Navy veteran who was nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... for nearly two years sues the Iranian government for $1 billion, alleging that he was kidnapped, held hostage and tortured.
The federal lawsuit describes in unsparing detail the "prolonged and continuous" abuse that Michael White says he suffered behind bars, including being beaten and punched, whipped on his feet, deprived of food and drink, and pressured to falsely confess that he was a spy for the US government.
"Mr. White endured this trauma for nearly two years, never knowing if or when he would be released and reunited with his family, repeatedly promised that his conditions would improve soon, only to be crushed psychologically when they did not," the lawsuit states.
The allegations in the complaint mirror the claims made by White in a 156-page manuscript that he wrote behind bars and that was later obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The 31-page complaint traces White’s travel to Iran, saying he was lured there in the summer of 2018 by a woman he considered his girlfriend so that he could be kidnapped by Iranian government agents and put in prison. He was charged with insulting Iran’s Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys and cooperating with the US government against Iran — charges the lawsuit says were fabricated — and sentenced without a trial to 10 years in prison.
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complaint traces White’s travel to Iran, saying he was lured there in the summer of 2018 by a woman he considered his girlfriend
Fuck off! Nobody cares. And mentioning his service to the navy is not going to get any sympathy either. The navy is not some holy thing which if you join you are owed an extra fuck on fucking up.
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Yet more proof about how distance relationships can be tricky. Sometimes you get a broken heart, sometimes you get smacked around with a rubber hose with for a couple of years in a sweaty abode that smells of mule and Brute aftershave. There is a that off chance that you'll find true love so keep trying .. especially if you get your $1B, then you can try to find higher end love in Monaco.
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I guess there can be a downside to exaggerating your military record and importance in your dating profile.
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[JustTheNews] Critics had called for leader's resignation over ongoing problems related to the agency's role in Operation Lone Star (OLS), Texas
The head of the Texas Military Department (TMD), Maj. Gen. Tracy Norris, has been replaced by Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer as Texas adjutant general months after critics called for her resignation over ongoing problems related to the TMD’s role in Operation Lone Star (OLS), Texas’ border security mission.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he appointed Suelzer to lead TMD, which consists of the Texas Army National Guard, the Texas Air National Guard, and the Texas State Guard.
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Sidenote - don't expect Army Times, Military Times, and Stars and Stripes to be legit conservative voices backing the military. They've been taken over:
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I cannot resist pointing out that it my understanding that the Texas Military Department is employing personnel in a STATE ACTIVE DUTY status, a form of state civil service unique to those who have or have had an affiliation with the Texas National Guard. They are NOT on federal active duty (neither Title 10 or Title 32) and are acting under the authority of Texas Law. The intentional confabulation by those who resist efforts to enforce our border with descriptions about "active duty in the US Armed forces" or so imply, is pure bulllsh*t. Texas is trying to protect its overwhelms border and the influx of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens because of the criminal disregard of the Biden Administration and DHS to enforce existing law. Beto is merely the latest dishonest demokrat politician trying to sabotage border sovereignty! Management problems, payroll, are exclusively a Texas government proble, and no one is compelled to accept a State Active Duty status, it is uniquely voluntary.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol. The cleansing of the city continues successfully. The advanced units reach the central regions, the enemy is gradually pushed back to Azovstal. The exit of civilians continues from the city. The military on the ground are talking about the timeframe for the liberation of Mariupol - four to seven days.
2. Ugledar. The settlement has not yet been officially taken, but to the north of it the troops are already advancing towards Bogoyavlenka, with a subsequent movement towards Kurakhovo. Prechistovka was taken from the west of Ugledar, which creates the prerequisites both for moving north and for a turn to Velikaya Novoselka.
3. Maryinka-Avdeevka. There are no major advances yet. It is impossible to overcome the powerful fortified areas of the enemy from a swoop. Aviation and artillery are trying to make the task easier, but so far the cumulative effect of multi-day strikes has not yet been achieved.
4. Gorlovka. Novotoretskoye remained with the DPR. Counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the aim of returning the village were repulsed. Tomorrow, perhaps, advancement will begin either towards Novoselka-2, or in the direction of New York.
5. LPR. They took Rubizhne, the enemy withdrew to Severodonetsk, where stubborn street fighting continues. Lisichansk is not yet actively stormed. The liberation of these cities is a matter of time. Fighting continues in the western part of Popasna, the city is not yet completely controlled by the LPR, the enemy stubbornly clings to it.
6. Kharkov. Active fighting east of the city. There is no information confirming the occupation of even part of Chuguev by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In Izyum, the enemy continues to defend in the southern part of the city and is trying to unblock the road in the Kamenka area, where fighting is taking place near the Izyum-Slavyansk highway. The front from the north is gradually shifting towards Slavyansk.
7. Kyiv. Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be active on the Vyshgorod-Gostomel-Bucha line ended in serious losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in people and equipment. There was no serious counteroffensive. It is noted that the western grouping of the RF Armed Forces continues to methodically put pressure on the south, trying to get out and gain a foothold in the Vasilkov area. In the east, Ukrainian sources report that the RF Armed Forces have occupied several villages on the outskirts of Brovary. From our side, there is no confirmation of this yet.
8. Sumy and Chernigov. No major changes.
9. Nikolaev. Fighting north of the city. The city itself is blocked from three sides, but there is no assault. The transfer of reinforcements for the RF Armed Forces through Kherson is noted. The Armed Forces of Ukraine expect the activation of operations of the RF Armed Forces in this area in the coming days.
10. Odessa. Ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation work on targets on the coast, complementing the work of aviation. Landing events are not carried out, but the enemy is forced to keep serious forces here, fearing to miss the moment of the exhibition. The Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, having won complete dominance at sea, is now playing a fettering role, forcing the enemy to keep troops near Odessa that would be useful in the area of Nikolaev or Krivoy Rog.
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It used to be Diddy Wah Diddy.
"Damn tootin'," says Joe. "Hero City!"
But for Russians disputin'
That Putin is shootin',
Today it's a town without pity.
[OneIndia] Earlier this week, the Madhya Pradesh ATS arrested four Lions of Islam of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (Bangladesh) They were arrested in connection with the Bodhgaya blasts.
The arrested were identified as Fazhar Ali alias Mehmood (32), Mohammad Aqeel alias Ahmed (24), Zahooruddin alias Ibrahim (28) and Fazhar Zainul Abdeen alias Akram Al Hasan (25).
During the probe, the ATS learnt that three out of the four JMB operatives had paid middlemen Rs 4,000 to enter India. After entering India, they stayed at West Bengal and then moved to Assam and Uttar Pradesh before entering Madhya Pradesh.
Another angle that came to light was that they were receiving funds from Kolkata. While it is not clear where exactly in Kolkata the funds were coming from, an official tells OneIndia that they would probe this matter.
The police said that these persons were arrested from a building located near the Fatima Mosque in Bhopal. "These Lions of Islam were living as tenants in Bhopal and they were making a team of a remote-based sleeper cell to execute their terrorist activities. On the basis of inputs, a search operation was carried out and four Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested," the police said.
In recent times there have been several arrests of illegal immigrants colonists colonists from Bangladesh who have entered the country through West Bengal.
Back in 2012, the Intelligence Bureau had reported that the issue was catching up like wildfire in the states of West Bengal, Kerala, Telangana (then AP) and Karnataka. The report stated that there are all sorts of people. Many are here in search of a livelihood, but then there are many who indulge in illegal activities such as smuggling as drugs and sometimes arms.
They come into the country through West Bengal and gradually move into other parts of the country.
While touts and middlemen help them with documents, there are others who take advantage of their poor living conditions and lure them with money in order to carry out illegal activities.
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Kolkata is our Chicago. It's the capital of the State of West Bengal which is a near impregnable commie-islamist bastion. And the leadership routinely allows for radical bangladeshis to be imported via the eastern border much like your Mexico.
But they're not needed in leftist states, they're needed in right-wing territory, where the enemy demands that damage be caused. So, they made their way into Bhopal, which is a town in Madhya Pradesh or MP. And that's as right-wing as a man high on weed, dressed only in ash and armed with a goddamn trident.
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So that's how they got caught. Islamists and jihaders can't survive for long in right-wing areas. In fact if they had been caught earlier, while in UP, you wouldn't even have heard of them.
Somebody kneeling while the anthem is sung or while the tricolor is hoisted would be trampled, throttled, stomped on, dragged by their hair and set on fire before the cops swoop in to mercifully arrest them, B.
[PostMillennial] The Sheriff of Polk County held a press conference on Wednesday talking about the culmination of a massive sting operation which lead to 108 arrests being made, including employees of FunSpot and Disney.
The Sheriff of Polk County held a press conference on Wednesday talking about the culmination of a massive sting operation which lead to 108 arrests being made, including four Disney employees.
This announcement comes after on March 9, just days ago, the CEO of Disney loudly and publicly opposed Florida's new "anti-grooming" law, which, according to polls, is supported by over 60 percent of Americans.
The so-named "Operation March Sadness Two" was a multi-agency effort centered around Florida's Polk County, which lies just southwest of the Orlando urban area, and is a highly touristic area.
According to local area news, people included among those 108 who have been arrested "include a retired judge from Illinois, a few restaurant managers, a man who works at FunSpot and several who work at Disney."
People arrested were as young as 17 years old, and as old as 67. Most of them are now facing charges of soliciting a prostitute, but further charges may be laid in certain cases, as the case may be.
Sheriff Grady Judd during his press conference particularly highlighted the case of the 27-year-old Xavier Jackson of Kissimmee Florida, who was one of the people caught in the operation, and "just happens to be a lifeguard at the Polynesian Resort for Disney."
Jackson is accused of sending explicit photos to someone who he thought was only 14 years old.
The new Florida bill makes it easier for authorities to act against "grooming" behavior in which children are inappropriately sexualized. It has been named the "don't say gay" bill by its detrectors, but also enjoys wide support from people on both sides of the political aisle.
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I think every Disney employee going through an FDLE background check at company expense would be a great thing about now. It would give the C-suite something to attend to besides the education of other people's children.
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108 who have been arrested "include a retired judge from Illinois
Which makes me think what perverts are sitting in those high seats in the cult of the black robe today?
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Pedos are drawn to professions with access to children. Nobody should be surprised, especially when Disney became woke and probably avoided asking their employees questions that might be judgy.
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How is the access to the facial recognition files of children?
ICYMI, the other day some mother asked if there was an alternative for of ID her young daughter could get instead of Facial Scanning...and all the monkeys jumped on this simple question and started throwing poo.
Could it be the park is a glorified Chester Molester Van?
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I don't know what amount of criminality Polk Co. gets but Sheriff Grady gets a lot of good press. Nothing wrong in publisizing the good work of your department and your deputies.
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They sure came down weird and hard against the "Don't Rape Children" bill.
I have no doubt that none of them got farther than “The evil Republicans are pushing through a ‘Don’t say gay’ bill! Reeeeeeee!!” and never actually read the text of the bill at all.
Shafaq News / Al-Hashd al-Shaabi's (PMF) operation command in Diyala launched today a security campaign to track down ISIS terrorists in Khanaqin district.
Yesterday, the Iraqi Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen Abdulamir Yarallah, visited the governorate to assess the adopted security plans as the Nowruz holidays approach, a source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that Yarallah, who was accompanied by a high-level security delegation, discussed with the security leaders and al-Hashd al-Shaabi operations command the adopted plans and measures to secure the borders with hotspots, including the Hamrin Bassin, and repel any potential ISIS attacks.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 17, 2022
DARAA, Syria (North Press), Unidentified people targeted on Thursday two military patrols of the government forces in the eastern countryside of Daraa.
A Political Security military patrol of the government forces was targeted with an explosive device on the Damascus-Daraa highway, near the bridge of the town of Khirbet Ghazaleh, in the eastern countryside of Daraa, local sources told North Press.
A second explosive device exploded while a military patrol of the government forces was passing near al-Iman gas station, on the Damascus-Daraa highway, the sources added.
The targeted area witnessed a big security alert for the government forces, according to the sources.
Members of the two patrols were seriously injured, and they were transported to the National Hospital in Izraa in the eastern countryside of Daraa, eyewitnesses told North Press.
Two days ago, armed men in Daraa damaged and damaged more than five military vehicles of the government forces, after clashes that lasted for more than an hour between the two parties north the governorate. The clashes resulted in killing and capturing members of the government forces, according to what a source told North Press at the time.
The clashes came after government forces raided a number of residents’ homes, in search of wanted people who had refused to reconcile with the government forces in Daraa.
Reporting by Ihsan Muhammad
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[IsraelTimes] Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, mourns the death of Diab al-Masri, the father of the notorious Hamas commander Mohammad Deif, who leads the terror group’s military wing.
The story swamps Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... media as Paleostinians in the coastal enclave, which is ruled by Hamas, prepare to hold a funeral procession.
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QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The New York Times interviewed over the past several months four Syrian men who worked at or near secret mass graves, which led to an examination of satellite images.
Together, those clues revealed the locations of two sites where each one holds thousands of bodies of Syrians killed in detention centers administered by the Syrian government during the war.
They could also contain powerful evidence of war crimes committed by the government security forces, according to human rights groups, including the systematic torture and the killing of detainees.
To draw attention to those atrocities, the Syrian Emergency Task Force, an advocacy group, brought one of the men interviewed by The New York Times to Washington this week to speak with members of Congress and others about the mass graves.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Zeihan] This newsletter is an adapted excerpt from Peter's upcoming book, 
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Now we’re 16 months away from the 2020 election, Joe Biden’s safely in the White House, and The Times finally decides to report on the news rather than carry the Biden campaign’s water. And they find that hey, Hunter Biden’s business interests benefited from Joe Biden’s political status to a suspicious degree. Perhaps this is a topic worthy of examination.
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