President Joe Biden said Russia should be kicked out of the Group of 20 nations in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, a major step that would be up to all members of the G-20.
Russia’s membership in the group, which represents the world’s major economies, was discussed during an emergency meeting with key U.S. allies, Biden told reporters Thursday during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
If the other members decline to revoke Russia’s membership, Ukraine should be permitted to attend G-20 meetings, Biden said.
The president's remarks came as the U.S. reinforced NATO’s support of Ukraine one month into Russia’s invasion, saying that they are determined "to hold Russia accountable for its brutal war."
Russian President Vladimir Putin was banking on NATO being split when he launched the invasion, Biden said. Instead, "NATO has never, never been more united than it’s been today."
Biden also said he hopes to meet with Ukrainian refugees while in Europe, giving away a part of his schedule that the White House had not announced.
"I plan on attempting to see those folks," Biden said, before adding, "I’m not supposed to say where I’m going."
The White House had announced that Biden will meet with leaders offering humanitarian assistance when he visits Poland this week. But they had not responded to questions about whether the president would see refugees.
Biden's remarks came as Russia was also strapped with more sanctions Thursday — even as Putin's economy has shrunk to half the size it was before the invasion, according to the White House. A senior administration official told reporters that independent assessments indicate Russia’s last 15 years of economic gains will evaporate this year and inflation will spike to 15%.
From the Russian ministry of defense Facebook page
Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation General of the Army S. K. Shoigu held telephone talks with the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia S. R. Papikyan.
The heads of military departments discussed the current situation in the region and areas of the execution of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorny Karabakh, as well as other issues of mutual interest.
Come for the abortions, stay for San Francisco and Disneyland (or Disney World — I’ve never mastered which one is where). A small investment to increase tourist dollars as productive companies flee for more hospitable climes.
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ISTR this committee serves for a term independent of the president's, and members from previous administration's are the norm.
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Health care has already been politicized. So it's more of "look at me!"
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Carpetbagger
In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical term used by Southerners to describe opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, who were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain.
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Biden wouldn't know the meaning of real war. That's why he punishes the general population with cowardly sanctions, just as the Americans did in Iraq
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The idea that Russia will not find a market for theirs is stupid
Sanctions as a way of making war is beyond stupid. Shooting ourselves in the foot and making us poorer, while stimulating efforts by other countries to devise new ways to make themselves independent of the US
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Europe is aiming to strike a deal with Biden to secure additional U.S. liquefied natural gas supplies for the next two winters and wean the continent off it its dangerous addiction to Russian energy.
Thereby creating shortages and increased prices for Americans, since he won't allow new drilling or fracking.
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The Biden administration has imposed new unreasonable regulations on natural gas drilling here to include environmental, climate, social justice, and racial justice implications. No new permits for natural gas have been issued since Biden took office. It's obvious his handlers want to completely destroy ant possibility of U.S. energy independance.
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Bidet's not going to be prexident forever. The commie wing of the dem party is not going to be permanently in charge either. The abundance that was created in the Trump years is necessary to the deep state's long-term plans and it will be back almost as quickly as it was gone, now that they have a war on the horizon to pay for.
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Sending them our gas!?? What the fuck, my heating gas bill doubled this winter!!!
[FOX] The head of Russia's Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu has not been seen in public for 12 days and is possibly missing, according to reports and messages circulated on Telegram on Wednesday.
Investigative journalists from the Russian independent news outlets Mediazona and Agentstvo claimed on Wednesday that the normally media savvy Shoigu has not appeared in public since March 11.
There are rumors that Shoigu is in poor health and is experiencing heart problems, while other messages are swirling online suggest Shoigu might have been fired from the ministry and is on house arrest, according to Russian journalists. Fox News has not yet independently verified these allegations. "Try the sushi"
Shoigu was last seen in public on March 11 presenting awards to Russian troops occupying Ukraine during what Russian President Vladimir Putin dubbed a "special military operation" but what the West has condemned as a full-scale invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine.
[CompactMag] Liberal hawks are flying high once more, talons extended for the hunt. For weeks now, Javelins, NLAWs, and other “defensive” arms have been flooding Ukraine, courtesy not just of the Pentagon, but good liberals and social democrats in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Lisbon, Madrid, and elsewhere. Hawks dominate TV news and major editorial pages on both sides of the Atlantic, and their propaganda multiplies online, aided by friends in Silicon Valley.
A NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine would lead to a direct and possibly apocalyptic confrontation with nuclear Russia. Nonetheless, some hawks continue to press for it. When even The Guardian publishes claims that a NFZ “shouldn’t be off the table,” it becomes clear that a deep consensus is in formation. Judging by some polls, broad majorities in the West favor a perilously escalatory response to Vladimir Putin’s misbegotten invasion.
At home, war fever manifests in sordid expressions of Russophobia: attacks against Russian businesses, the effective “cancellation” of Russia’s literary and philosophical masters, the firing of Russian artists from Western orchestras and operas. Anyone who dares question the prudence of escalation, or the wisdom and justice of US and NATO policy toward Moscow, faces the usual censure and censorship so characteristic of the “open society.”
In short: It feels like 2002-2003 all over again.
Partisan differences mean nothing in these circles. What matters is commitment to Democracy, Inc.
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Hawks dominate TV news and major editorial pages on both sides of the Atlantic, and their propaganda multiplies online, aided by friends in Silicon Valley.
He means CHICKEN hawks. The same shits who sat at home and cheered at hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq, Libya and Syria.
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He means CHICKEN hawks. The same shits who sat at home and cheered at hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq, Libya and Syria.
Ukraine is the new Iraq.
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Yeah, there are a lot of them out there lib and conservative...that have never seen the elephant...never been wounded, shot at, buddies killed or maimed, or attacked with high explosives. But, watched a lot of it on TV...missiles and tanks and AK-47s oh my!...it gets their little peeties all excited!
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Democrats have historically been warmongers. Neocons under W Bush changed that for a short while but the Republican DNA was never really compatible so the Neocons become never Trumpers and latched onto their Democrat host again.
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Neocons are not conservatives. They are liberals who have co-opted Conservative Inc. to push their war aims. Along the way, they have turned the already squishy Conservative Inc. grifters into rabid libs.
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[Breitbart via Cove] A plurality of Americans blame the Biden administration for high gas prices, an Emerson Polling survey released this week found.
Inflation is continuing to hit Americans hard as 83 percent reveal they are experiencing some level of hardship due to increased prices of goods. Of those, 40 percent say they are experiencing "significant" hardship. Given that, it comes as no surprise that the economy is the top issue for respondents.
According to the survey, "When asked about who they blame for an increase in gas prices" specifically, "a plurality (39%) blame the Biden Administration, 21% blame the sanctions on Russia, and 18% blame gas and oil companies."
Biden has long refused to take responsibility for skyrocketing gas prices, blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as gas and oil companies.
"I’m sick of this stuff. ... The American people think the reason for inflation is the government spending more money," Biden raged this month. "Simply. Not. True."
So, the Blamestorming has rather failed. You can’t really blame any politician for refusing to take any responsibility, but, you can blame them when they do everything possibly to make the situation worse, and then do the wrong things to address the problem to resolve the problem, or, at least reduce the impact.
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As long as lottery ticket prices stay stable, I will remain satisfied with the direction of the economy, but I will be watching the price of snack cakes as well. The Dollar Tree is charging me a $1.25 per Twinkie pack. That is a high as I go before I switch to carrots.
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[Aljazeera] Now, researchers at the University of Oxford have conducted the first major peer-reviewed study comparing the brain scans of 785 people, aged 51 to 81 of whom 401 had contracted COVID and 384 had not. There were, on average, 141 days between testing positive for COVID and the second brain scan.
The study revealed that, when compared to the scans of a control group, those who tested positive for COVID had greater overall brain shrinkage and more grey matter shrinkage and tissue damage in regions linked to smell and mental capacities months after the initial infection.
Although the research does shed some light on the ongoing symptoms of long COVID, I would caution against generalising the findings to the population at large before more research is conducted.
Researchers said even though the effects were more pronounced in older people who had been hospitalised for their symptoms, even those with mild symptoms had some changes.
"Despite the infection being mild for 96 percent of our participants, we saw a greater loss of grey matter volume, and greater tissue damage in the infected participants, on average 4.5 months after infection," said Professor Gwenaëlle Douaud, lead author on the study. "They also showed greater decline in their mental abilities to perform complex tasks, and this mental worsening was partly related to these brain abnormalities."
The study was conducted when the Alpha variant was dominant in Britain and is unlikely to include anyone infected with the Delta variant. The researchers also did not say if vaccination against COVID had any impact on the condition.
The scans they did reveal changes in several parts of the brain after people contracted COVID, including:
I have to agree with the Taste and Memory Fog findings.
FOOD
It took me over a month to regain the taste of Coffee, some meats & potato items. Some foods (Eggs & Beef) still don't taste right or have any taste at all.
But Peanut Butter and Apple Jelly sandwiches tasted like they always have before and after?
I am willing to bet a lot of Restaurants are getting unearned poor food taste ratings by post C-19 infected dinners also.
C-19 BRAIN FOG
The C-19 Brain Fog is still showing itself in stupid daily errors and slow down issues.
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^ Damn. I haven't had KP Chix in a long time. Used to be my favorite. There's a Thai place here that serves the hottest food (spicy wise) I have ever eaten, and that's where my Asian food budget goes now.
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similar findings : https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/covid-19-a-biological-weapon-targeting-ethnicity-and-body-systems/
[Gateway] An ex-FBI agent who led the bungled investigation into former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens
....Navy SEAL lieutenant commander, Rhodes scholar, founder of The Mission Continues, which redeploys veterans to service in their communities, Missouri’s first Jewish governor was very effective during his brief time in office (1/2017-6/2018). He is currently campaigning for a seat in the Senate...
pleaded guilty Wednesday to witness tampering in a deal that spared him from a trial and placed additional spotlight on the prosecutor behind the case.
William Tisaby appeared in a St. Louis Circuit Court and entered the plea to one count of misdemeanor evidence tampering and was sentenced to probation, which was immediately suspended. It was not immediately clear whether Tisaby was required to cooperate in any further investigation.
Tisaby had been facing trial on six counts of perjury and one count of evidence tampering in an indictment that accused him of hiding evidence and lying during the investigation into Greitens, a Republican who was forced to resign as governor after St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner charged him as taking a compromising photo of a woman he had an affair with.
The charges were dramatically dropped when Gardner admitted she did not have evidence the photo was taken and the woman testified she may have dreamed up the allegation.
Gardner has not been charged with criminal wrongdoing but has been accused by Missouri’s chief legal disciplinarian with violating dozens of attorney standards of conducts during the prosecution, including withholding exculpatory evidence. She faces a hearing on those allegations on April 11 and has denied wrongdoing.
[MAIL] Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to change tactics and focus his firepower on the east of Ukraine, according to Western officials, abandoning plans to seize vase swathes of his neighbouring country.
When Russia unleashed its multi-pronged invasion on February 24, a swift toppling of Ukraine and it democratically elected government seemed likely.
But with Wednesday marking four full weeks of fighting, Russia is bogged down in a grinding military campaign, and is being pushed back in some regions.
The slow Russian progression has seemingly taken the Kremlin by surprise, and Western officials have said that Moscow made a 'catastrophic miscalculation'.
As such, it is expected that Russia will change its military tactics in Ukraine and instead consolidate its supplies and logistical efforts in the eastern Donbas region.
Speaking to The Times, one western official said Ukraine's intelligent resistance had 'derailed' Russia's flawed plans, which had at the heart of them the assumption that Ukrainians would allow Russia to roll into their country without much of a fight.
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Odds are those were the actual strategic goals. he got those and went for more so that he could get them easily in any kind of peace resolution. I suspect on that front it all worked as planned.
However the drive stalled and created all sorts of additional complications going forward that i don't think Putin is going to like.
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Putin is not exactly my hero, because as an American I have been brainwashed by my criminal government, but I cannot blame him for reacting to the provocations brought on by the US cia and NATO. criminals We would not tolerate bioweapons labs, covert weapons transfers, and Neo NAZI sitting at our doorstep either.
Instead we have no problem by being invaded by a horde of illegal aliens from all over the world, drugs coming across the border in tractor trailer loads, human/child trafficking and cartels running a narco state. But God forbid Putin starts taking care of business in the Ukraine. Then we need to do everything in our power and checkbook to make it stop. And the reason is - because the cabal/NWO sees their honey pot being exposed and shut down.
I think if the USA start a war with Russia because Ukraine many Americans politicians and journalists and security executives will meet their maker, political vengeance assassinations will be the normal in USA
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Goodness, BIAFOD, you checked every single box on the troll list, and got 100% on spelling, 90% on idioms and slang, and 95% on grammar. Tell your group leader you’ve earnt a special gold star and deserve a bonus in hour pay packet today.
[NYP] Democratic pundits, worried about the midterms and Joe Biden’s terrible approval ratings, are sounding the alarm: That dastardly "fringe" is hurting the party.
"This whole noisy, identity left" composing "15% of the party" has taken over (James Carville). "The Democrats have to step away from the super wokeness" (MSNBC host Donny Deutsch).
But what’s the distinction between super wokeness and ordinary wokeness when the party’s oldest and most mainstream members are all pushing ideas that would have seemed outlandish in the Obama era?
Biden offered a Fed nominee who said she wanted to deny credit to the fossil fuel companies that power America, and tried to put an actual Marxist in charge of the currency. Only 10% of the senators in the party spoke out against this.
The party’s new legal superstar, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, can’t offer a definition of a woman because "I’m not a biologist"? Being moderately woke is like being moderately pregnant.
Democrats now view everything in terms of who’s being systematically oppressed. The reasonable view of racism is that there has always been racism in America. The woke translation is that America is defined by bigotry. From there you get to "I have no idea how to distinguish a woman" in about three intellectual moves.
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Ya know, if you came home from the movie and found the babysitter doing the stuff to your 6 year old that the Democrats want to do to them in a classroom or library, there would be arrests.
[NPR] Evan Neumann is under federal indictment in the U.S. for more than a dozen charges related to last year's Capitol insurrection. But Belarus, a Russian ally and neighbor to Ukraine, has granted him asylum, saying he is under its protection indefinitely.
"I am very grateful, and it is bittersweet," like eating cranberries, Neumann said in a video posted by state media Belta. "So, very happy and very sad at the same time."
Neumann is currently wanted by the FBI on multiple charges of assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, including using a metal barricade as a battering ram. But he fled the U.S. one month after the insurrection, traveling to Ukraine before winding up in Belarus. And now Belarus, which is aiding Russia's attacks on Ukraine, has granted Neumann refugee status.
He received his new Belarusian identification document from the department of citizenship and migration office in Brest, with reporters looking on. Belarus claims that the U.S. charges against Neumann are politically motivated. He was granted refugee status almost exactly one year after the first criminal complaint was filed against him last March.
Belarusian officials say that when Neumann was in Ukraine, he became suspicious that he was under surveillance. Taking only a map, a rucksack and some belongings, they said, he crossed the border into Belarus in August of 2021, whereupon he was detained by military personnel. After arriving, he immediately asked for protection.
"Belarus is very nice," Neumann said, "and I feel safe in Belarus, especially compared to my compatriots in America."
Asked what he will do now, Neumann replied, "Right now, my plans are to stay in Brest. I have started a life here. Now that I have a document, I would like to travel to Minsk. I have not seen that yet."
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"Belarus is very nice," Neumann said, "and I feel safe in Belarus, especially compared to my compatriots in America."
That would likely be his....fellow 'FBI compatriots' and stringers in America.
Evan's $1.6m Mill valley, CA. safe house sold nearly a year ago. No information currently available on Evan's former employment, academic history, travel, possible military service, clubs, friends, hobbies, pets, bank, credit cards and history, or family....other than a camera shy brother who knows little or nothing and has declined to share anything.
Dozens of British volunteer fighters narrowly escaped death after Russia launched the air strike. A source told the Sun: ‘A hundred yards difference you would be looking at hundreds of western casualties. There were so many passports in there — British, Brazilian, Canadian, American, you name it.
‘It was like the Star Wars canteen. There were gun nuts, biker gangs, tough guys, American religious people there to do God’s work, war addicts. One British guy was boasting that he’d killed someone in a bar fight.
‘Another Brit said he was a Royal Marine who wasn’t at liberty to disclose his rank or his unit — that’s a red flag right there. There’s no vetting, there’s no command and control, no chain of command. It’s a complete sh*t show.’
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There’s no vetting, there’s no command and control, no chain of command.
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Here's a tough guy, surprised to find that "it's not like Iraq or Afghanistan!"
"...all of a sudden the gates of hell opened up on us. We got very close to getting whacked. I’ve never experienced firepower like that, I don’t think anyone of this generation ever has. Iraq and Afghanistan was totally different. The Russians are a conventional modern army.”
Imagine that: picking on someone your own size.
Next, Rambo gets arrested - by the Ukrainians, on suspicion of being a Russian spy. Then the fun starts:
They were taken to a security service base and interrogated for three hours. Jason said: “My head was slammed down by one of the guards. A different guy came in and I could tell by his kit that he was in an elite unit. He had cable ties and two hoods and I thought ‘S***, this is real’. They kept shouting Russian at me but obviously I said I was English. They whacked me around eight or nine times. I had quite a bad concussion and was bleeding heavily.”
Yeah, shout in English, mate. Just shout louder, that'll make the bloody wogs understand you.
Now we know who the shithead was who let the Russians know where the British mercenary-targets were located. No wonder the Ukrainians thought this idiot was betraying them -- because our genius was betraying their location with his phone:
“They looked at my phone and my messages which was a really scary moment."
🤣🤣🤣
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No word from NPR about all the January 6 riot suspectstrespassers tourists being held without bail for over a year, without a speedy trial or even any formal charges.
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^ We should ask Putin to send a Spetsnaz contingent to liberate the D.C. gulag prisoners
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NPR is big on the Jan6 deal. I think they want to have it declared a national holiday.
[Washington Examiner] Two private islands owned by the late Jeffrey Epstein are hitting the market for $125 million, reports say.
The proceeds from the sale of the properties, Great St. James and Little St. James, will be used to pay off outstanding lawsuits and the cost of the financier's extensive estate operations, Daniel Weiner, an attorney for the Epstein estate, told the Wall Street Journal.
Epstein first purchased Little St. James, which spans 70 acres and includes a main residential compound with four guest villas, in 1998 for $7.95 million. In 2016, Epstein bought the 165-acre Great St. James, which remains largely undeveloped, for $18 million, according to the outlet.
Allegations surrounding activities at the private islands have been at the center of several lawsuits.
In 2020, Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George filed a lawsuit against Epstein's estate, alleging that underage girls and young women were taken to Little St. James by him and his associates and forced into sexual servitude.
Last year, George added new allegations to the lawsuit, claiming that Epstein and his associates forced at least three U.S. victims into arranged marriages to avoid deportation.
A number of high-profile celebrities and officials have allegedly visited the island over the years, including President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Kevin Spacey.
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Perhaps our elites can use the island as their Vault after they start WWIII with Vlad. Andrew Anglin says:
The US elite is actually too cowardly to start a nuclear war. The people claiming that we could win such a conflict are the same people who said that the Kabul government would stand for at least six months – they were off by roughly five months and 29 days.
So if you’re a pedophile or other pervert in Washington, or a deranged old man, then do you really have the nerve to bet that the US can win a nuclear war, that you won’t get nuked, and that if you do get nuked you can escape to an underground bunker and live out the rest of your life in a Fallout-style Vault?
We will see if hubris can trump rational self-interest and kick off WWIII. It’s certainly possible. But I’d say the chances are lower than 20%. I think there’s an 80% chance that the people in Washington are going to keep choking, and when the dollar collapses, they will just try to maneuver into becoming a third world type elite class.
(For those who don’t know, third world countries have massive peasant populations, and tiny ultra-wealthy elites who live in castles and drive around the crowded streets in Lamborghinis. No peasant will touch them, as they all know that the police exist for the sole purpose of protecting the elite.)
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Have we ever heard about Epstein's will? Who did he leave his mysterious fortune to?
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A will? He probably didn't have one since he didn't plan on killing himself
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What if, big what if, but what if the tizzy in Hollywood about Haiti being a shithole was as much about Bad Trump as it was about Port-au-Prince being a layover with a VIP lounge, where they got the best of the best treatment until their connecting flight?
[Oneai dia] A grenade-throwing module of banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) was busted in Srinagar on Wednesday with the arrest of four terrorist-associates and recovery of four hand grenades, police said, according to news agency PTI.
According to a police spokesperson, an overground worker (OGW (Over Ground Worker) Over ground workers (OGWs) are people who help militants, or terrorists, with logistical support, cash, shelter, and other infrastructure with which armed groups and insurgency movements such as Hizbul Mujaheddin and Jaish-e-Muhammad in Jammu and Kashmir can operate.... ) of the LeT, identified as Zubair Sheikh, a resident of Elahi Bagh Soura, was intercepted by a police team during a naka checking at Bemina Chowk in the evening and a hand grenade was recovered from his possession.
Sheikh was put under arrest and a case under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) registered against him, the spokesperson said.
During questioning, the accused revealed that he had received the grenade from another OGW (also called a terrorist-associate), Shamim Ahmed Chilloo, a resident of the Tankipora area of Shaheed Gunj here, the spokesperson said.
Chilloo was also arrested and during questioning, he told the interrogators that he had received a consignment of four hand grenades and handed over a grenade each to Sheikh, Amir Rehman Dar, a resident of Tengpura Bypass, and Shahid Ahmed Mir, a resident of Dangerpora Nowgam, the spokesperson added.
Subsequently, raids were conducted and the two other OGWs -- Dar and Mir -- were also arrested.
On their instances, three more hand grenades were recovered, the police spokesperson said.
During the course of the investigation, it came to light that the accused were working on directions of the LeT. The first arrested accused was on his way to launch a grenade attack but his plan was thwarted, the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... a policeman was injured in a grenade attack by bully boyz in Rainawari area of Srinagar on Wednesday, an official said. Police constable Mohammad Amin received minor splinter injuries in the earth-shattering kaboom, he said.
[IsraelTimes] A Russian officer tells his superiors the war in Ukraine is a "madhouse" according to a call allegedly intercepted by Ukraine.
According to a translation posted online, the officer says the war is going worse than Russia’s war in Chechnya in the 1990s. The officer continues to say that around half the troops have frostbite, they are unable to evacuate the hundreds of dead, and don’t have enough tents and body armor.
He says the operation is a "madhouse" after higher-ups thought it would go relatively easy, according to the translation.
"Our task was to get to Mykolaiv. And we are sitting here," the officer says.
The translation and authenticity of the call could not be independently verified.
[Twitter] If some of our Russian speakers would listen to see if the translation is reasonably accurate, and that the speaker does indeed sound like a real Russian soldier, that would be helpful. More translation in the Twitter thread.
- One column was hit with Grad rockets. Can’t even figure out if it was friendly fire - Medics only have bandages. Can’t help with frostbite - No hot stove - Digging trenched to sleep in - Commander of 49th CAA told troops on 4th day that war will be over in hours
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I’m afraid I don’t move in those circles, Vespasian Omereque5237, and our little website here is not the kind to interest big donors of any stripe. Were my father not dead over a decade, and profoundly deaf before that, I could have asked him about the translation. But accents, I fear, were not his forte; even half a century after emigrating, he still sounded like a greenhorn Slav in all his languages.
A pity you will not be helpful in this matter — one likes to have more than one opinion, however familiar badanov is with both Russian and Ukrainian after reporting on the first few years of the excitements in the Donbas for us. Still, the fact that no one popped up to indignantly insist that of course the recording is a fake, he sounds exactly like a Ukrainian pretending to be Russian — the way South Americans mock Mexican speech patterns and the Dutch mock the Flems’ more musical version of their shared language as hillbilly — is suggestive.
[IsraelTimes] Mohammad Abu al-Qi’an’s two brothers, who were arrested overnight, are suspected of aiding him by providing "the means" to commit the deadly terror attack in Beersheba yesterday, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
The pair are also suspected of being members of a terror organization, the reports say. Abu al-Qi’an himself was tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in 2016 over his affiliation with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... The two are set to be brought before a court later today to extend their remand.
Police said earlier they were suspected of failing to prevent the attack.
Abu al-Qi’an was killed by passersby after murdering four people and injuring two in the southern city yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] A 15-year-old Paleostinian from the West Bank town of Kafr ’Aqab was detained yesterday morning at the entrance of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City with a knife, police say.
Along with the knife, the teen was also carrying brass knuckles, a mask and a Paleostinian flag in his bag.
He was brought to a court hearing earlier today, and his remand is extended until Sunday.
Police did not say if the suspect admitted to planning an attack.
[IsraelTimes] Border Police officers arrested 17 Paleostinian suspects overnight in the West Bank town of Abu Dis for allegedly hurling stones, improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails at troops last month.
Police say they used "advanced technological means" to identify the suspects who attacked a military post near the town on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
The suspects have been taken to the Shin Bet security agency for further questioning, police say.
[Breitbart] Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson that he did not find her testimony "credible" after the judge claimed she did not remember a child pornographer to whom she gave a light sentence.
"You know what I think?" Cotton said. "I think he got caught with child pornography again, and wouldn’t have if he had been in prison for the eight to ten years that the guidelines called for in 2013 when you first sentenced him."
On Wednesday, during day three of Jackson’s confirmation hearing, Cotton mentioned a case involving child pornographer, Wesley Hawkins, who the senator noted, "was convicted of a child pornography offense in 2013."
"The sentencing guidelines for this offense called for a sentence of 97 to 121 months, or eight to ten years," Cotton explained. "The prosecutors asked for 24 months; you sentenced him to three months."
"We’ve heard a lot about this case and your three-month sentence of Wesley Hawkins," the senator continued. "But you got another crack at him in 2019, judge. In 2019, you sent Wesley Hawkins back under conditions of confinement with the bureau of prisons for six months, with additional restrictions on his computer usage."
I consider this all a Song and Dance, See my Pony show.
Look what the GOP is dealing with here:
Voting against a Female, Black (minority), Liberal, Pro-LGBTNQO, that won't even share what she considers defines a Female and to top it off with rapidly approaching Mid-Terms.
Sadly I put her odds as pretty good at being confirmed along party lines given a few senate RINO's.
But how can a career DC swamp RINO Rat handle it and still look good both ways?
Look and question toughly, then agree to do a Voice Vote to hide your vote?
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She is sympathetic towards Islam?
That must be why she sought to defend and release the islamists of Guantanamo prison!
I bet she supports BDS and thinks Israel is an apartheid state.
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Blackburn nailed her to the wall...not that it will matter in the end. MSM will never show this exchange so people will never know just how far out there this woman is and the Senate will confirm.
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Isn't claiming there's a biological aspect to male vs female (don't open the "gender" can of worms) actually something the left hates?
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So she doesn't like women, doesn't like children, and doesn't like anyone who isn't her style Black.
And doesn't know anything.
Charming.
Enough people have been live-blogging the hearings that the NYT had to make a comment about it, and conceded she had some bad, err, tough moments.
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She didn't say there's no difference, she just implied that she's not qualified to tell you what it is.
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In other words, identifying as a human being is beyond her purview. Behold the new Perfect Democrat. How dare we stand in judgement! We will be punished for our apostasy.
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She didn't say there's no difference, she just implied that she's not qualified to tell you what it is.
This is the trend I'm concerned about; only those with a certified credential are allowed to comment on a subject. Like everything The Scarecrow says should just be ignored until the end, when The Wizard hands him a diploma.
Its the tool they are using with teachers; you can't comment on public schools unless you are working for public schools, because what do you know about it?
It was the same shit with the Covid. It was like, "Warming water until it is hot to the touch will sterilize it."
"No, you need to bring it to a boil for at least five minutes."
"Oh, what do you know about it, you have a degree in hydrodynamics? You some kind of biologist? Go pray to your best friend in the sky that you don't destroy the planet with your flat earth bullshit, and I hope you die."
[Western Journal] An administration devoted to destroying the legal framework for immigration just got a lesson in the law.
Since President Joe Biden took office 14 months ago and unleashed a flood of illegal immigrants from the southern border to points throughout the U.S., he’s been aided every step of the way by a disgrace of a homeland security secretary more interested in hobbling his department’s own agents than enforcing his country’s law.
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Ohio, said "no."
According to CBS News, District Judge Michael Newman — appointed in 2020 by then-President Donald Trump — issued a nationwide injunction again enforcement of parts of a memo issued in September by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that limited the cases where Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents should seek to deport illegal aliens.
Newman ruled in favor of attorneys general from three Republican states — Arizona, Montana and Ohio — who challenged the Mayorkas memo as flouting federal law under the guise of making law enforcement more efficient.
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Unfortunately the fun has just begun. The people in charge have no ability to fix anything. They always demand money for this and that and nothing changes. Politicians today in power are professional con men. In times past they would scam people in each community they coned and moved on to avoid being caught but today they are career politicians and use they craft over and over having no fear of being caught. They were called slickers in those days and were just as destructive.
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In an article a couple of weeks ago, some Russian analyst said that Putin rose to power because he would beat his enemies by escalating to unthinkable levels - there was a word for it among the various gangs that translated into something like "icyness".
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I suspect massive retaliation will be cyber-attacks. Hopefully they'll drain the bank accounts of a few of our corrupt politicians who made money off shady deals in Ukraine.
It would be nice to see Biden or Pelosi complain how they lost ? million dollars when there is no conceivable way she could have earned that on their salary.
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The US these days is basically like that drunk guy at the bl@cjkac table. The savvy players are figuring out how to use his distraction to their advantage.
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The smart move would be to let the secondary and tertiary...'totally unforeseeable' cascading effects of the blanket sanctions play out before getting into cyber. Even then lots of small nuisance everywhere would be enough, especially with current cluorocracy (Sp?).
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I suspect massive retaliation will be cyber-attacks. Hopefully they'll drain the bank accounts of a few of our corrupt politicians who made money off shady deals in Ukraine.
Surely he can find some more vulnerabilities in Windows.
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Our resident Putin lovers should consider that all this software was created mainly in the USA so when it's time for real cyber war, we'll make Putin look bad at it.
I know that bothers our pro Putin friends in the GOP, but, such is life.
No fewer than 7000 Boko Haram and Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists have turned themselves in since last week, the Nigerian Army has said.
This was made known by the Theatre Commander, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), Major General Christopher Musa while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri on Wednesday.
According to the General, sustained operations against the ISWAP and Boko Haram have led to significant successes.
“Thousands of insurgents comprising of combatants, non-combatants, foot soldiers alongside their families, continued to lay down their arms in different parts of Borno,” he noted.
He added that the repentant terrorists and their families would be profiled by the army and other agencies before they undergo rehabilitation processes.
Musa assured that the military and other security agencies would continue to devise and implement strategies to end terrorism.
About 30,000 insurgents and their families have surrendered in the last nine months.
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Looks like ISWAP got smart. They will run for election after a quick rehabilitation. And form a legitimate Government where everybody else will be the terrorists. That seems to be the latest MO around the world.
Ukrainian officer Anatoliy Shtefan spread the information that the father-in-law of the terrorist Igor "Strelkov" Girkin Sergey Sitolenko was killed in the war.
The collaborator was killed near Avdiivka. Sergei Sitolenko, alias "Satiy," has been fighting against Ukraine since 2014, that is, since the occupation of Crimea and the creation of pseudo-republics in the Donbass. Sitolenko's son-in-law Igor Girkin was one of the "founders of the DPR."
Igor Girkin himself confirms this information on his page on the social network.
[DW] Somali security forces have reportedly killed two gunnies who tried to attack a military compound in the capital. The bully boy group al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... has grabbed credit for the attack.
The al-Qaeda-linked gang al-Shabaab grabbed credit for a deadly attack on Wednesday on the international airport complex outside the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Two of the attackers were killed in a firefight with security forces, Somali Police Commissioner Gen. Abdi Hassan Hijar told the Somali National News Agency.
The Rooters news agency citing a diplomatic security memo, said two security guards, thought to be Kenyan nationals and a Somali policeman, were also killed in the incident, while four others were maimed.
ATTACKERS DID NOT GET INTO THE AIRPORT
The attack happened at the heavily fortified Halane base at the Aden Adde International Airport that hosts peacekeepers, the offices of UN organizations, and diplomatic missions.
Police said al-Shabaab murderous Moslems began shooting indiscriminately at one of the entrances to the site. Al-Shabaab said it had also fired mortars into the camp.
Somalia was already on edge because elections, already postponed several times, were underway.
21:35 The NM of the DPR inflicts fire damage on the units of the 25th airborne brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and is fighting for the capture of the settlements of Kamenka and Novobukhmutovka. 19:46 Ukrainian media report that the mayor of Mariupol fled the city to be in touch with the Ukrainian authorities and remotely help the residents of the city.
19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian Nazis have fired more than 250 shells at the DPR, using 122mm artillery, 120mm mortars and Grad MLRS. 13 settlements were under fire. One civilian was killed and seven people were injured. 30 residential buildings, 11 infrastructure facilities and two cars were damaged.
19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR have destroyed 17 Ukrainian invaders, five firing points, two infantry fighting vehicles, one armored personnel carrier and one truck. Two 122mm self-propelled artillery mounts 2S1 "Gvozdika", one command and staff armored vehicle and a field artillery depot were captured.
19:00 Today, seven more Ukrainian soldiers voluntarily laid down their arms and went over to the side of the DPR.
18:28 Under fire from Kiev militants, three civilians of Yasinovataya (DPR) were injured: two men born in 1952 and 1947, as well as a woman born in 1949.
18:22 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Panteleimonovka in the DPR. They fired eight shells at him, caliber 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:36 Today, as a result of Ukrainian shelling, seven apartment buildings in Yasinovataya (DPR) were damaged.
16:58 Eyewitnesses report that Ukrainian militants attacked the area of the settlement of Komsomolskoye near the capital of the DPR.
15:37 A resident of Yasinovataya (DNR), born in 1951, died under the shelling of Ukrainian Nazis.
15:35 As a result of shelling from the Ukrainian Nazis, a resident of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk suffered. A woman born in 1949 received a bruised wound of the frontal part on the left. Two houses were also damaged.
15:26 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the territory of the DPR, as a result of which the mine named after. Chelyuskintsev was de-energized. A total of 14 miners remain underground.
15:16 As a result of shelling from the Ukrainian Nazis, three apartment buildings in Pervomaisk (LPR) were damaged.
14:17 Over the past day, 562 people, including 110 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye by the People's Militia of the DPR.
14:16 During the day on March 22, 26 residents of the DPR were injured.
14:14 Several more civilians of the DPR were injured as a result of aggression by the Ukrainian Nazis. Wounded: two residents of Donetsk, a resident of Yasinovataya, three residents of the liberated part of Mariupol and a resident of Volnovakha.
13:37 The People's Militia of the DPR and the Russian army control about 70 percent of the development of Mariupol.
12:56 The western part of Gorlovka is under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis.
12:05 On the part of Mariupol liberated from the Ukrainian Nazis and in the village of Sartana, as a result of shelling from the side of Kiev militants, 17 civilians were injured, including a girl born in 2008. All the wounded were taken to the medical facilities of the DPR, where they receive the necessary medical care.
12:04 As a result of the shelling of the village of Mikhailovka (DPR), a residential building caught fire. power lines were also damaged.
11:28 An explosion thundered in the LPR, which was felt by the entire north of the republic. Presumably, it took place in a large ammunition depot near Rubizhne.
11:12 The air defense forces of the People's Militia of the DPR shot down a Tochka-U fired by Ukrainian Nazis over Yenakiyevo.
11:10 Ukrainian Nazis again shelled the village of Mikhailovka (DNR). As a result of the shelling, the village is de-energized. A field is burning near the cemetery in Mikhailovka on Zuev Street.
11:09 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR and the Russian army left the Armed Forces of Ukraine without the opportunity to rotate troops - the head of the republic Denis Pushilin.
10:32 Over the past day, the Kiev security forces have fired 67 shots across the territory of the LPR, using artillery with a caliber of 122mm and mortars with a caliber of 120mm. Four settlements were under fire.
10:19 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR destroyed 76 Ukrainian invaders, 28 firing points, two tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, two armored vehicles and the Bukavel-AD electronic warfare station. Four tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, three armored vehicles, two sets of communications of the tactical link "Harris" were captured. In addition, 19 soldiers from the 54th and 36th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily laid down their arms.
10:16 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis fired more than a hundred shells at the DPR, using 152mm and 122mm artillery, 120mm mortars, Grad MLRS and tanks. A total of 12 settlements were under fire. A total of 13 residential buildings, eight infrastructure facilities and eight cars were damaged and 28 civilians were injured, including a child.
09:45 Ukrainian Nazis fired two mines with a caliber of 122mm at the city of Yasinovataya in the DPR. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:58 Ukrainian Nazis organized an ammunition depot in the house of the former mayor of Donetsk in Maryinka.
08:55 As a result of shelling from the Ukrainian Nazis in Pervomaisk (LPR), the college building and the department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were damaged.
08:53 As a result of shelling by Ukrainian Nazis in Bryanka (LPR), three houses, eight outbuildings, a medium-pressure gas pipeline and secondary school No. 4 were damaged.
08:51 Ukrainian Nazis fired 22 shells of 122mm caliber in Donetsk and Panteleymonovka (DPR). Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:47 Kiev punishers fired at the territory of the LPR eight times in a day. Four settlements were under fire.
8:43 The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, announced the complete defeat of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This should make it easier to advance in certain areas of Mariupol.
8:15 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk and the settlement of Donetsk in the LPR. In total, 16 shells were fired at them.
[Bloomberg] The ruble did drop 40% against the dollar in the week after the reserves were frozen, but 10 days later it had recovered more than half that loss. The ruble is now down less than 25% against the dollar and only 18% against the euro since Feb. 25. Financial conditions in Russia have also recovered significantly, according to the Institute of International Finance in Washington. Some of this is more guesswork than normal because the country’s stock and bond markets aren’t fully trading.
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Their requirement that Russian oil and gas be paid for in rubles will also increase demand for the ruble, thereby increasing its value.
And, simultaneously, decreasing demand for the US dollar, thereby decreasing its value. You have been warned.
Wouldn't it be something if Biden is like, "Yeah and kick Russia out of the G20 and replace it with Ukraine!" and the G20 is like, "Well actually, since you set in motion an absolute economic wreck of the USA and keep trying to start a nuke war in Europe...well, here is a sealed correspondence for who is in charge. Please see they get it promptly." Hands letter to assistant.
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Because I can't imagine Europe has lots of rubles on hand.
They don't. The idea is that countries buy Rubles from Russia and then buy the goods. It is a strategy as the Ruble has foreign currency to back it up and the exchange stabilizes and keeps inflation in check. How many countries go along with this is the question.
Asuspect, Etiene Malachy Akpan, who is facing trial for alleged terrorism has reportedly escaped from custody in Akwa Ibom State.
The police spokesperson in Akwa Ibom, Odiko MacDon, disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement on Tuesday, noting that the suspect escaped at the court premises in Akwa Ibom during the continuation of his trial.
The police who did not give details about the suspect’s escape, said the suspect was also standing trial for serial murder, kidnapping, and armed robbery.
“He is wanted by the police in connection with series of armed robberies, kidnapping, murders and terrorism in the (Akwa Ibom) state.
“The suspect who was on trial for the above offences escaped within the court premises when brought for the continuation of his trial,” said MacDon, a superintendent of police.
According to the police spokesperson, Akpan has been declared wanted. He appealed to members of the public with useful information on the whereabouts of the suspect to contact the nearest police station or any security agency.
The suspect, also known as Anthony Malachy Akpan, is said to be 34 years and hails from Atan Midim in Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. He is dark in complexion and 1.6 metres tall, according to the police.
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The good old days had their faults but they were much better days. You get crankier as you get older especially if you recall the fifties. You can compare before and after.
#4
And didn't the dickweeds on the left have her statue removed from outside the Philly Spectrum a few years ago because they scrounged up some work she sang or some mental retardation in their minds?
[ABC] Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state, died Wednesday from cancer at age 84, according to her family.
Albright was nominated for secretary of state by President Bill Clinton and served in the role from 1997 to 2001. She was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997.
"As the world redefined itself in the wake of the Cold War, we were partners and friends working to welcome newly liberated democracies into NATO and confront the horrors of genocide in the Balkans," President Joe Biden said in a statement. "When I think of Madeleine, I will always remember her fervent faith that 'America is the indispensable nation.'"
President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a statement called Albright "one of the finest Secretaries of State, an outstanding UN Ambassador, a brilliant professor, and an extraordinary human being."
"As a child in war-torn Europe, Madeleine and her family were twice forced to flee their home," the Clintons said. "When the end of the Cold War ushered in a new era of global interdependence, she became America's voice at the UN, then took the helm at the State Department, where she was a passionate force for freedom, democracy, and human rights."
The Reuters headline calls her a “feminist icon”. The media are in bed with people like this.
Here's Madeline Albright confessing to causing the deaths of 500,000 children on television. Like all evil psychopaths, she wasn't ashamed of it.
Everyone must understand the monstrous crimes that people like this committed in our name. We must loudly and publicly reject them and make it clear actions like killing half a million children are not in our interest.
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^ killed by our sanctions. Which didn't change Saddam's calculations at all. How many people around the world will starve because of Biden's pointless sanctions?
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^ I would worry more about America than the world. The world is taking care of itself.
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/\ Exactly correct. UN and Foggy Bottom shop gossip better slept through. Keep it simple, ignore the global clutter and concentrate on the pot roast back home.
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Remember when Madeline Albright lied about Saddam having WMD?
Remember when Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against the Kurds? The photos and chemical analyses were trumpeted all over the world — you can’t have missed it. Remember when vast bunkers containing endless barrels of insecticide — the poor man’s nerve gas — were found in Iraq?
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...I knew several folks who had occasion to be in the same place as her in the performance of their duties, and to a man their opinion was the same: she was a thoroughly unpleasant, entitled snob.
Mike
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Not to worry. Vicky Nudelman's picked up the torch.
> The former US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, admits in his memoirs that he made a mistake in claiming that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction sites round Baghdad and Tikrit, one of the main justifications for launching the Iraq invasion.
> Rumsfeld says now: "I made a misstatement." What he meant to say is there were 'suspect sites'.
Here they are making a full confession on video:
I just don't know how people don't change their views in the face of overwhelming, direct evidence like this. I just don't.
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Jesus the level of denial is astounding. Even the deep state admitted there were no WMD.
For neo-runts like Albright and Nudelman, denial is a way of life
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"claiming that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction sites round Baghdad and Tikrit" Anyone with half a brain would note the very specific geography of this admission.
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No nuclear weapon technology were found. The terminology of what WMD meant was changed to remove chemical and biological so the left could bash on W Bush as a liar. Admissions by anyone after the fact are accepting of the new terminology or part of the rehabilitation of W Bush in order to attack Trump and shouldn't be taken seriously.
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The only thing chemical and biological weapons destroy is lives. The left hated the idea of the neutron bomb for exactly that reason. For them to split hairs semantically about what NBC weapons can do and why that very specific genie needs kept tightly stoppere4d in the bottle is utterly illuminating.
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Neocons fucked up Iraq, Libya, Syria and now they're trying to drag us into a war with Russia because "Putin is evil." Fuck them and their war tourists
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Biden is fucking up the world
Fucking up the Middle East and Africa anyway. And causing another 10 or 20 million starving migrants to flood into and fuck up Europe. Danke, Joe
Jesus Christ. We have Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush, on tape, admitting that there were no WMD in Iraq. What more do you need!!!
I never realized that people in 2022 still believed the WMD lie. They came out and confessed they lied over a decade ago! Incredible. How do you maintain your belief in the face of such direct first-hand evidence?
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Ref #26: We have Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush, on tape, admitting that there were no WMD in Iraq. What more do you need!!!
This topic comes up here with some frequency OP. Yes, what the leadership said at the time was that.... "there was no WMD in Iraq." What they didn't say...
* Always take note of what isn't said.
...They DIDN'T say that there had never been any, or they had destroyed it all. Also not said by the leadership at that time, "existing WMD had been moved elsewhere".... by whomever. Many people in the WMD and non-proliferation community figured the Russians (hate to blame them for everything), back wen they had trucks with good rubber, moved the stuff to Syria. In fact I believe there was some imagery at the time that identified a convoy or two.
As you may remember, the US goal at the time was regime change. That goal was accomplished. Any WMD slipping away to neighboring countries was probably not viewed as an administration positive outcome.
The WMD 'slipping away to neighboring countries' could also indicate a coordinated removal effort. Perhaps something that the administration did not wish to discuss. Again, just perhaps.
Bottom line, Saddam had WMD and would have very much liked to have had a nuke. As you may recall, Saddam was in an ongoing conflict with Iran. Both Iraq and Iran were lusting after nukes. Iran obviously still is.
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The 2nd Iraq War was a disaster
Half the reason most of the world will not side with us against Russia is that US credibility was shattered by a series of disastrous US interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya
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Well in Duke Nuke'em they would have been in a sinister looking building at the end of a labyrinth, so unpossible.
...wait a second...
confirms
Yes, it was not too long after that ISIS raid when there was that 'chemical attack' in Syria a lot of people were suspicious about, the one when all the usual suspects wanted war with Russia and Kerry flubbed his scene making the case for war, 'if they remove all chemical weapons..' and Team Assad was like Deal! 5 seconds later and what wind in the warship's sail dissipated.
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2) That Saddam sought to assassinate Bush the Elder.
Tin pot, third world dictators need to know they can't get away with taking a shot at POTUS.
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That said, as soon as our guys bagged Saddam, we should have left the rest of those people to their own devices. Either that or install an American general as governor of the place and sit on it for a couple centuries until all the oil is gone. Nation building is for the birds.
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My understanding is that there were numerous Chem Artillery rounds, and other chemical materials found (Which constitutes a part of the validity of the WMD claim). Additionally, there were substantial comms intercepts between various military figures and Saddam et al talking about the weapons and the progress in making and acquiring non-nuke WMD weapons. Our belief in the WMD program was in substantial part based on these intercepts. Post war analysis suggests they were lying, at least in part, to cover for the graft and corrupt diversion of funding for their own uses/wealth. Less about lies by our side and more about poorly confirmed intelligence in my opinion.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 23, 2022
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – A clan notable was shot dead yesterday by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike in Deir ez-Zor western countryside, east Syria.
“Unidentified gunmen riding a motorbike shot dead Ahmad al-Jassem al-Ajjan, 58, one of the al-Dawagna clan notables near Jazrat Albo Shams town highway,” said Khaled al-Ajjan, the victim’s cousin
Five hours after the assault, ISIS adopted the operation through its social media platforms and indicated that “the liquidation took place on charges of dealing with the Syrian Democratic Forces(SDF)”.
ISIS-backed Amaq News Agency published a statement declaring that the Islamic State’s gunmen, using machine guns, targeted Ahmad al-Jassem on charges of dealing with the SDF.
Recently, Deir ez-Zor countryside has been witnessing a spike in assassinations which target SDF members, AANES employees, clan dignitaries and civilians.
Earlier On February 5, the ISIS adopted two operations against SDF, one of them targeted an SDF member’s house while the other targeted a military checkpoint in Deir ez-Zor eastern countryside.
Reporting by Omar Abdurrahman
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 23, 2022
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday, unidentified gunmen shot dead a former member of the opposition factions in Daraa northern countryside, south Syria.
Local sources told North Press that the man named Muhammad Maamon al-Shehadat was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Da’el, a town in Daraa northern countryside.
The source added that al-Shehadat was a former member in the opposition factions who signed the Russian-sponsored 2018 settlement agreement but didn’t join the government forces.
On a similar subject, local sources told North Press that unidentified attackers, using an improvised explosive device (IED), had targeted on Wednesday a car belonging to a member of the government forces in Daraa, causing damage to his car.
The sources added that the car, which belonged to Hussein al-Mufaalani, a member of the government’s Military Security Branch, was targeted with an IED by unidentified attackers in al-Dahia neighborhood in Daraa.
Daraa governorate has witnessed regular assassinations that claimed hundreds of lives since the government seized it in July, 2018.
There are fears that several mobile policemen might have been killed late on Tuesday evening after terrorists, otherwise known as bandits, attacked a security checkpoint in Katsina State.
Sahara Reporters gathered that the incident happened along Sheme- Kankara road in the Kankara Local Government Area of the state around 11pm.
Some residents were said to have been killed from stray bullets as the policemen engaged the terrorist numbering over 300 in a fierce battle.
The gunmen also abducted a yet-to-be ascertained number of people.
Katsina, despite being the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, has witnessed sporadic attacks by bandits and kidnappers that have claimed the lives of many.
Over 700 people have been reportedly killed by the gunmen in Jibia, Kankara, Dutsinma, Musawa, Danmusa and Safana local government areas of the state in the last five months.
On December 11, 2020, some bandits kidnapped 344 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara. They were released about a week later.
Also on December 19, 84 Islamiyya students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya in Mahuta village, Dandume Local Government Area of the state were abducted but rescued shortly after.
[AlAhram] Atiya Azimi was up all night packing and repacking her bag, feverish at returning to school for the first time since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... seized control of Afghanistan.
The joy was shockingly brief.
In the middle of a lesson, just hours after the school reopened, she learned the hardline Islamists had revoked permission for girls to study.
"Suddenly we were told to leave until another order is issued," said Azimi, who was returning to grade 12 at Zarghona Girls School in the capital Kabul.
"What have we done wrong? Why should women and girls face this situation? I ask the Islamic Emirate to start our classes."
"I did not sleep the whole night thinking about going back to school again," she told AFP.
Secondary school age girls have been out of education for around a year in many provinces.
Schools were first closed under the previous US-backed government as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak, and after the Taliban took power the new rulers reopened all schools for boys.
But girls were allowed to return only to primary schools and were banned from secondary schools in most areas.
The Islamists claimed that schools needed to be adapted so girls and boys could be segregated, despite the vast majority of schools in conservative Afghanistan already operating separate classrooms.
The Taliban's education ministry weeks ago announced that girls' secondary schools would reopen for the start of the new academic year on Wednesday.
The 11th hour U-turn, which has yet to be explained by the Taliban, was a devastating blow for students.
"Our hopes were high but now they are shattered," said Muthahera Arefi, 17, turning around from a Kabul school to head home.
Across the country, groups of jubilant girls had arrived at schools on Wednesday morning carrying their bags and books, greeting their former classmates with grins and chatter.
At Rabia Balkhi school in the capital, girls were not able to even make it through the school gates.
"They denied us entry into the school. It's heartbreaking for my girls," said a mother who asked not to be named.
One of her two daughters, both with a hijab covering their hair, was brimming with tears.
"I was looking forward to meeting my friends again, to be together again," said the girl, who also asked not to be named.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... ordered girls' secondary schools in Afghanistan to shut down on Wednesday just hours after they reopened, an official confirmed, sparking confusion and heartbreak over the policy reversal by the hardline group.
"Yes, it's true," Taliban front man Inamullah Samangani told AFP when asked to confirm reports that girls had been ordered home.
He would not immediately explain the reasoning, while education ministry front man Aziz Ahmad Rayan said: "We are not allowed to comment on this."
The international community has made the right to education for all a sticking point in negotiations over aid and recognition of the new Taliban regime, with several nations and organizations offering to pay teachers.
On Wednesday, the order for girls' secondary schools to resume appeared to only be patchily observed, with reports emerging from some parts of the country — including the Taliban's spiritual heartland of Kandahar — that classes would restart next month instead.
But several did reopen in the capital and elsewhere, including Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and Panjshir — temporarily at least.
"All the students that we are seeing today are very happy, and they are here with open eyes," Latifa Hamdard, principal of Gawharshad Begum High School in Herat, told AFP.
Even if schools do reopen fully, barriers to girls returning to education remain, with many families suspicious of the Taliban and reluctant to allow their daughters outside.
Others see little point in girls learning at all.
"Those girls who have finished their education have ended up sitting at home and their future is uncertain," said Heela Haya, 20, from Kandahar, who has decided to quit school.
"What will be our future?"
It is common for Afghan pupils to miss chunks of the school year as a result of poverty or conflict, and some continue lessons well into their late teens or early twenties.
Human Rights Watch also raised the issue of the few avenues girls are given to apply their education.
"Why would you and your family make huge sacrifices for you to study if you can never have the career you dreamed of?" said Sahar Fetrat, an assistant researcher with the group.
The education ministry acknowledged authorities faced a shortage of teachers — with many among the tens of thousands of people who fled the country as the Taliban swept to power.
"We need thousands of teachers and to solve this problem we are trying to hire new teachers on a temporary basis," the front man said.
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Think of the fools who believed that the US must help the islamics fight off Brehhnev's campaign. Now think of the same kind of fools cheering Zelensky and sending him and his murderous scum weapons and kisses. That is what only propaganda and not enough awareness does to people.
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Sorry but it's not our problem
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Brezhnev was only in power until 1982. Three other leaders of the USSR continued the war, the last being Gorbachev (whose chairmanship of the CP began in 1985).
In retrospect the US probably did too much in the way of helping the anti Soviet forces and to that extent the majoritarian view agrees with you. However, the anti Soviet forces were not dominated by the Taliban until pretty late in the conflict.
There are people who claim that the US help to the anti Soviet Afghan side (and in terms of dollars it wasn't that much) bled the USSR and accelerated the collapse of the USSR. That, of course, can not be proved but also not disproved.
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Afghanistan certainly didn't help the Soviet Union but here is what Gorbachev says:
Turning Point at Chernobyl, by Mikhail Gorbachev, Project Syndicate: The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was an historic turning point: there was the era before the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed. ...
As for the girls, we got their hopes up and now they're crushed. Sorry. Eventually we may see that American intervention in Afghanistan planted the seeds for change. Hard to say.
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In retrospect the US probably did too much in the way of helping the anti Soviet forces
Don't take it personally Lord Garth, but you understand that sounds like a really bad 'oops!'
And that was the exact attitude of the US establishment after every major intervention anywhere.
[DW] Vocal government critic Amina Mohammed is reported to have been killed in a kaboom in the Somali city of Beledweyne. Hours earlier, security forces battled armed attackers near Mogadishu's airport.
A young female politician was killed by a jacket wallah on Wednesday in the city of Beledweyne, around 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Mogadishu, witnesses and relatives said.
Amina Mohammed, a vocal critic of the government known for her fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches, was killed as she approached a building housing leaders of Somalia's Hirshabele state.
"I heard a huge blast, I went to the scene which is just at the entrance of the state house," local elder, Aden Farah, told the Rooters news agency by telephone. "May God rest her soul."
Two suicide bombers were behind the blast, which killed at least 10, among them other politicians and security officials, the local police spokesperson Hassan Dhi'isow told German news agency DPA.
Deutsche Welle was unable to independently verify the number of fatalities.
It comes just hours after Somali security services battled with armed attackers near Mogadishu's international airport.
Mohammed was running to be reelected in the next Somali elections and was reportedly in the city to defend her seat.
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Sadly, mixing democracy with warlord factions does not seem to be resulting in a prosperity and safety in Somalia. I would expect that achieving Hattian levels of stability might be an improvement for the country. Googling Haiti news might force me to reconsider my assessment.
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21:50 Today, 4,550 people have been evacuated, Vereshchuk said. Difficulties, according to her, were only with the Mariupol direction, where buses were sometimes not allowed to pass. Of the nine humanitarian corridors, seven have worked. 21:45 Key figures of the power and economic bloc of Russia have disappeared from the public space. More about this - in the material Shoigu disappeared, Chubais fled - what is known about this .
21:20 In Chernihiv, as a result of the shelling of one of the food enterprises, the main ammonia pipeline and one container with ammonia were damaged. The head of the Regional State Administration, Vyacheslav Chaus, assured that the State Emergency Service was keeping the situation under control, there were no victims or injured.
21:18 Scholz, in a telephone conversation with Putin, called for a truce and improvement of the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, after which he spoke with Zelensky, the German Cabinet said.
21:00 Blinken officially confirmed the US position that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine: “Today I can announce that, based on the information currently available, the US government believes that Russian troops have committed war crimes in Ukraine. Our assessment is based based on careful analysis of available information from government and intelligence sources.”
20:58 Roskomnadzor reported that access to the News.Google service is now restricted in Russia.
20:56 The Russians fired at the checkpoint in Slavutych, Kiev region today. The city is blocked and it is impossible to leave it, Mayor Yuri Fomichev said.
20:51 Oksana Baulina, a journalist from The Insider, died in Kiev - she filmed the destruction after the shelling of the Podolsky district of the capital by Russian troops and came under new shelling. Another civilian died with her, two people accompanying her were wounded and hospitalized, the newspaper reported.
20:39 The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that they had handed over to the US Embassy in Moscow a note with a list of deported American diplomatic staff declared persona non grata. The American side was informed that any "hostile actions of the United States" against the Russian Federation would receive a "decisive and adequate response."
20:27 The Kinzhal missile is almost the main pride of the Russian military industry. Russia says it's a hypersonic weapon. Allegedly, the Russians have already used it in Ukraine, but there were problems confirming this. More details - in the material Powerful weapon or the myth of the Russian Federation .
20:04 The European Investment Bank transferred two more payments of 100 million euros to Ukraine this week.
19:59 Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas visited Kiev today, Reznikov said.
19:55 Sending peacekeepers to Ukraine is possible only if such a decision is approved by the UN Security Council, said the representative of the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric. But since Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council with veto power, a positive decision is out of the question.
19:23 From under the rubble of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration building, which was shelled on March 1, the bodies of 24 dead were removed. The rubble is still being cleared, according to local authorities.
19:16 A number of European officials said that according to the contracts, payment for Russian gas is carried out in euros, there is no other contractual basis.
19:10 Chaotic mining of the area and the destruction of agricultural equipment threatens the sowing campaign in certain regions, the General Staff reports.
19:08 More than half of Ukrainians (53%) lost their jobs due to the war, showed the results of a survey by the Rating group.
18:55 Klitschko said that the Podolsky district of Kiev was fired again. The parking lot was damaged, one person died, two were injured.
18:44 According to UN estimates, more than 3.5 million people have already left Ukraine, the number of refugees may increase by another four million.
18:35 Russians in Ukraine have already fired at 58 ambulances and killed six doctors, Lyashko said.
18:25 NATO leaders today will agree on the creation of four new battle groups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, the Secretary General said.
18:21 The head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Vitaly Savelyev, said that due to sanctions, Western lessors demanded that Russia return more than 500 aircraft worth $20 billion to them.
18:19 Israel has banned Ukraine from buying Pegasus spyware, which allows listening to Russian telephone conversations, fearing that this will be seen as an act of aggression against the Russian special services, write The Guardian and The Washington Post.
18:15 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council called today's statements by the leadership of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation that shells allegedly flew from the territory of Ukraine, as a result of which there were dead, as a provocation. According to the Kremlin, such provocations should be the reason for the announcement of a general mobilization.
18:02 Yermak commented on Putin's decision today: "Russia's decision to convert payments for gas into rubles is an attempt to strengthen the ruble and declare an economic war on the EU. But the West can strike Russia with an oil embargo, which will lead to the fall of the Russian economy. Now this will be key economic battle, and the collective West must win it."
18:00 In the Chernihiv region, Russian invaders are distributing propaganda leaflets, in which they assure that Russia is not at war with the civilian population, but guarantees its safety and freedom of speech. The occupiers are calling on local residents to assist them and report on "sabotage groups" and "negatively minded nationalist elements."
17:54 EU ambassadors approved the provision of an additional 500 million euros to Ukraine for military assistance.
17:52 Zelensky, in an address to the French parliament, said that France should play a leading role in the new post-war security system. He also called for a decision on Ukraine's accession to the EU and to strengthen military assistance, as well as to increase sanctions pressure on the Russian Federation.
17:48 According to a recent survey by the Rating group, 19 percent of Ukrainians were forced to leave their homes during the war, but the vast majority (93 percent) plan to return home as soon as it is safe. About 44 percent of Ukrainians had to temporarily separate from their loved ones.
17:46 Syria fails the plan to attract militants to the war in Ukraine on the side of Russia, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. According to Ukrainian intelligence, to date, the promises of the Syrian authorities on the systematic supply of mercenaries for the Russian army are not being fulfilled. The majority of the Syrian military is not ready to risk their lives for the sake of an illusory monetary allowance.
17:34 Podolyak urged all speakers not to provide the general public with any logistical information that could be useful to the enemy: "28 days of war were not enough for us to understand the main thing: the Russian Federation is no longer fighting against the Ukrainian army, but only against our logistics centers, humanitarian convoys , centers for the supply and distribution of food, clothing, medicines. And against civilians who want to leave the places of fighting or encirclement."
17:20 Aksyonov said that the "authorities" of Crimea are considering the possibility of nationalizing hotels whose owners support Ukraine.
17:07 Russia will cease to be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights on September 16. This decision was made by the ECtHR after the Russian Federation was expelled from the Council of Europe on March 16, the press service of the Council of Europe reports. This means that the ECtHR will continue to consider complaints against Russia until September 16.
16:59 Ukrainian citizens can stay in the European Union under a visa-free regime or a temporary protection directive, as well as receive refugee status. For more details, see the article How Ukrainians can find housing and work in EU countries .
16:54 Biden considers a real threat of chemical warfare in Ukraine. "I think this is a real threat," he answered a journalist's question about the likelihood of Russia using chemical weapons against Ukraine.
16:41 Stoltenberg said that "Belarus will not start a war against Ukraine, because it is already participating in it."
16:37 Ukraine's ability to win the war against Russia rests on three pillars: its resilience, arms supplies and Western sanctions, Kuleba said.
16:21 President of the European Council Charles Michel said that "Putin must be defeated - this must be a common goal." He is convinced that this is a security issue for the future of Europe and for the future of the world.
Michel also revealed that Zelenskiy had been invited to speak at a European Council meeting that Biden would personally attend.
16:10 Finland will not issue a license for the nuclear power plant being built by Rosatom, said Economic Development Minister Mika Lintilä.
16:08 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has allowed the Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 joint projects with Russia to be frozen. He stated that at the moment economic cooperation between the Russian Federation and Japan is impossible if it concerns "only business" and not national interests.
16:03 Podolyak commented on Putin's decision to transfer payments for gas into rubles: "The Russian Federation has opened an anti-European front. Financial. Putin announced the transfer of payments for gas into rubles and the rejection of dollars and euros, which will provoke operational failures, pressure on public opinion. This is the second a step towards escalation The first one is threats of strikes against Eurologistics centers for helping Ukraine.
15:57 The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, after a many-day stay in Ukraine, arrived in Moscow, where he intends to "raise urgent humanitarian problems" and insist on "alleviating the suffering of people affected by conflicts in Ukraine and in other contexts."
15:55 Johnson said that Putin's actions have already "crossed the threshold of barbarism," and the West should not hesitate to increase sanctions and provide further defensive military assistance to Ukraine.
15:53 Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, ex-head of Rosnano Anatoly Chubais left Russia. He also resigned as Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Sustainable Development.
15:49 China said it would not support Russia's exclusion from the G20. The Chinese Foreign Ministry believes that the G20 needs to continue to cooperate to solve common problems, and the Russian Federation is an "important member" of the group.
15:46 Nestlé announced the termination of the supply of products to and from Russia, as well as the further suspension of its brands in the Russian Federation. The company promised that it would not pay any more taxes in Russia for the foreseeable future and would use any profits made to help humanitarian aid.
15:36 Mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko is not in the city, but is constantly in touch, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko. He explained this by the fact that there is no connection in Mariupol.
15:34 NATO leaders will provide Ukraine with additional assistance in the field of cybersecurity and protection against chemical and biological attacks, as well as radiological and nuclear threats , Stoltenberg said.
15:22 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called Belarus' decision to reduce the number of Ukrainian diplomats "another unprovoked unfriendly step" and promised "not to leave Belarus' actions without a proper response."
15:20 The Belarusian military has already begun to contact representatives of the Ukrainian authorities with a request to take them prisoner in case of war, said Vladimir Fityo, press officer of the command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:18 The International Labor Organization announced the termination of cooperation with Russia. The ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations dealing with the regulation of labor relations. Today it includes 187 states.
15:09 Ukraine has enough food supplies for two years. 30 million hectares of farmland have been mined in the country, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported. They also added that the sowing campaign has already begun.
15:06 Until April 15, Belarus allowed visa-free entry from Ukraine to citizens of "all foreign states" who leave the war zone.
15:02 Arestovich said that near Mariupol, a Ukrainian sniper eliminated the commander of the 810th Marine Brigade of the Russian Army, Colonel Alexei Sharov. He was appointed commander in 2021, and considered the phrase "Where we are, there is victory" as his main slogan.
15:01 Ukrainian air forces shot down two Russian aircraft in the southeast of the Kharkiv region, the air command of Skhid reported.
14:56 According to the State Special Communications Service, Mariupol, Vorzel, Irpen, Bucha, Gostomel and Izyum remain without mobile communications.
14:53 Putin instructed to transfer payments for Russian gas supplies to Europe into rubles "in the shortest possible time". He also said that "the collective West, by freezing Russian reserves, declared a default against Russia and drew a line under the reliability of its currencies."
14:48 Russian oligarchs are extremely dissatisfied with Putin's policy, one of them, Pyotr Aven, said at a meeting in Moscow with Kazakh billionaire Alexander Mashkevich. According to Ukrainian intelligence, during the meeting it was said that representatives of Russian big business are looking for ways to influence Putin or his close circle from the power bloc.
The situation is complicated by the fact that Putin is in strict isolation and practically does not let anyone near him. Some oligarchs are even discussing paying for the physical removal of the dictator.
14:44 The authorities of the Isle of Man have deregistered the planes of eight Russian billionaires, including Abramovich and Usmanov.
14:34 Belarus decided to reduce the number of Ukrainian diplomats to five people and close the Consulate General of Ukraine in Brest.
14:15 The mayor of Irpin, Alexander Markushin, reports that 80% of the city is under the control of the terrorist defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, strong shelling continues: since yesterday, a very powerful shelling has been carried out from mortars and MLRS Grad. There are up to 4-4.5 thousand residents left in the city who refuse to leave. There are also many sabotage groups and marauders in the city.
13:53 In the Nikolaev area will allow to sell alcohol on Saturday and Sunday, Vitaly Kim reported.
13:51 The Russian army is trying to turn Chernihiv into a second Mariupol, Arestovich said.
13:49 In the area of Izyum, Kharkiv region, the defense forces of Ukraine liquidated 60 percent of the occupying troops, the General Staff reports.
13:44 Vereshchuk denied Moscow's information that two prisoner exchanges had allegedly taken place.
13:35 Podolyak said that negotiations with Russia are difficult: "In short: the negotiations are constantly online. The negotiations are quite difficult, because the Ukrainian side has clear and principled positions."
13:32 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have encircled Irpen, Bucha and Gostomel near Kiev. At the same time, the Russian occupiers continue to constantly fire at the Makarov, Buchan, Irpin and Dmirovo communities, the Buchansk city council reported.
12:57 Residents of Energodar knocked down a flagpole with a red "flag", which was hung by the Russian invaders, and burned it.
12:54 The occupiers used prohibited phosphorus ammunition over the northwestern outskirts of Kiev, said the mayor of Irpen, Alexander Markushin. According to him, the approximate affected area is Gostomel and Irpin. The use of such types of ammunition against civilians is a crime against humanity and a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
12:48 Poland is expelling 45 Russian diplomats on charges of espionage , the Russian ambassador said. They must leave Poland at various times, but a maximum of five days, he said.
12:46 The EU approved an agreement with Ukraine, which will allow the provision of classified information to Kiev, including satellite images, writes Bloomberg.
12:41 Russia's combat power in Ukraine for the first time since the beginning of the war fell below 90% of its pre-invasion level, The Guardian writes, citing a senior US Department of Defense official.
12:20 Russia has almost completely turned into a no-fly zone for civil aviation. According to media reports citing Flight Radar data, more than 80% of the aircraft in the skies of the Russian Federation are transit flights of Chinese airlines.
12:11 The Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Kiev and Moscow held two prisoner exchanges.
11:56 Peskov said that Russia does not trust the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, and "the Russian military does not shoot at civilians, does not strike at them, but helps them."
11:51 In Oleshki, Kherson region, Russian invaders kidnapped the director of the Kherson Regional Music and Drama Theatre, a deputy of the regional council, the organizer of the world-famous theater festival Melpomene of Tavria, an activist of pro-Ukrainian rallies, Oleksandr Kniga. They broke into his home and took him away in an unknown direction.
11:35 The Cabinet of Ministers for the period of martial law allowed drivers of category B (cars) to drive vehicles of category C, C1 (trucks).
11:34 Fedorov said that the Ministry of Digital Transformation is using artificial intelligence to search social networks for accounts of dead Russian soldiers using photos of corpses in order to inform friends and relatives about their deaths, as well as dispel the myth of a "special operation" in which "there are no conscripts" and "nobody dies."
11:32 Zelensky addressed the Japanese parliament and called on Tokyo to take a leadership role in the unification of Asia in order to force Russia to stop the invasion. He also asked for stronger sanctions against the Russian Federation.
11:22 The European Union will allocate 2.5 billion euros for the food security of countries most affected by the consequences of the war in Ukraine.
11:16 In Russia, they are trying to lure Belarusians into war with Ukraine - in particular, they offer a reward of $1,000-1,500 a month and preferential education in Russian military universities for the fulfillment of "special tasks", the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reports.
11:15 In the Nikolaev area the Russian invaders fired at houses at night therefore two people were lost, Vitaly Kim reported.
11:13 The destroyed bridge to Chernihiv will not interfere with the supply of humanitarian aid to the city, Chaus assured.
11:10 If NATO sends its peacekeepers to Ukraine, this will be a direct clash between the alliance and Russia, Lavrov said. He also accused the United States of using sanctions to "remove the obstacle in the form of Russia on the way to building a unipolar world."
11:09 Russian Defense Minister Shoigu has not been seen since March 11. Also, from that day on, the head of the General Staff Gerasimov did not appear in public, according to Russian publications.
11:07 Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed that Zelensky and Xi Jinping will have a telephone conversation today.
11:06 The factories of Mariupol will not work under Russian occupation under any circumstances, Rinat Akhmetov said.
11:04 British intelligence reports that Russian troops are trying to surround the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which hold the defense in the east, approaching them from the north and south.
11:01 Deputies from United Russia were banned from leaving the Russian Federation without good reason. According to the Russian opposition media, deputies of all levels, as well as officials, civil servants, law enforcement and military, employees of the judiciary and prosecutors, and many others have already faced or may soon face a similar ban.
11:55 The General Staff announced the approximate combat losses of the enemy on the morning of March 23:
personnel - about 15,600 people,
tanks - 517,
armored combat vehicles - 1578,
artillery systems - 267,
MLRS - 80,
air defense systems - 47,
aircraft - 101,
helicopters - 124,
automotive equipment - 1008,
ships/boats - four,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 70,
UAV operational-tactical level - 42,
special equipment - 15.
10:49 According to Ukrainian intelligence, Putin is preparing to block the exit of Russians from Crimea. In particular, information was confirmed about the preparations for blocking traffic along the Crimean bridge towards the Russian Federation by the forces of the Russian Guard. Also, the occupying authorities will restrict the movement of the Parma crossing and air communication between the peninsula and the Russian Federation.
The formal reason for such actions is the fight against Ukrainian saboteurs and the prevention of possible terrorist attacks. In fact, the authorities are trying in this way to respond to panic among Russian citizens who illegally resettled in Ukrainian Crimea after February 2014. Many of them within the last month have started to sell their property and leave.
10:43 Arestovich writes that the Ukrainian military destroyed most of the Russian equipment remaining in Chernobaevka tonight.
10:39 The police resumed work in Irpen, Kiev region. Cleansing of the territory from saboteurs is beginning, but the main task now is to help and evacuate civilians who remain in the city, the National Police said.
10:20 Podolyak addressed the West: "Dear partners! Don't you want to see the dead eyes of murdered Ukrainian children in your dreams and feel the burning from Mariupol? Just four steps: modern air defense if you can't close the sky; cruise missiles/ammunition for heavy jet systems; severe oil embargo; total closure of ports for Russian ships."
10:14 At night the Ingulsky district of the Nikolaev area got under attack. According to the State Emergency Service, shells hit a residential building, a warehouse and cars parked nearby. As a result, fires broke out, two people died under the rubble of the house.
10:12 A state website has been created in Ukraine - https://help.gov.ua/, through which anyone can provide or receive humanitarian assistance.
10:10 Turkey said it does not intend to give up the Russian S-400s, which the United States had previously asked to transfer to Ukraine.
09:41 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that the accusations of the KGB of Belarus in espionage of Ukrainian diplomats will further complicate relations between Kiev and Minsk.
09:38 As of today, humanitarian corridors have been agreed:
Mariupol - Zaporozhye: Berdyansk - Zaporozhye
Zaporozhye region: Pologi - Zaporozhye, Gulyaipole - Zaporozhye
Kyiv region: Velyka Dymerka - Brovary, Bogdanovka - Brovary, Borodianka - Bila Tserkva, Svetilnya - Brovary
Lugansk region: Rubizhne - Bakhmut, Nizhne - Bakhmut
In addition, the routes will pass through other cities: Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, Gorskoe.
09:17 The Security Council of Belarus stated that the country's armed forces are not going to leave its territory: "We will not allow us to be unleashed and drawn into any military conflicts, but we will defend our country, our territory."
09:04 According to the Kyiv City State Administration, as a result of the shelling of the capital, buildings in the Svyatoshinsky and Shevchenko districts were damaged. In particular, a shopping center, private houses and high-rise buildings suffered.
In addition, a housing estate in the Shevchenko district was shelled in the morning, now the fire is being extinguished in several private houses and high-rise buildings, four people were injured.
08:56 The Ukrainian military eliminated the commander of the marine brigade of the Russian Federation, said the speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk. According to him, this unit was supposed to storm Odessa.
08:55 Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Yenin urged citizens who were forced to leave their homes in the regions where active hostilities were taking place not to rush to return. He explained that "unpleasant surprises" could await them at home: abandoned weapons, ammunition, mines, "stretch marks" and much more. He urged to wait until the police or rescuers clean up the area.
08:46 The Pentagon called the Kremlin's rhetoric on the use of nuclear weapons "dangerous." "This is not how a responsible nuclear state should operate," said US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby.
Earlier, Peskov said that Russia would use nuclear weapons if there was a "threat" against it.
08:44 In Rubizhne, Luhansk region, a Russian shell hit a high-rise building, three people were killed, two of them were children, local authorities report.
08:43 The invaders hit the Nivki district in Kiev from Gradov, there are victims, MP Goncharenko reports.
08:36 Zelensky on negotiations: "We continue to work at different levels and in order to encourage Russia to peace. Until this brutal war ends. Ukrainian representatives work at the negotiations, which continue almost every day. It is very difficult. Sometimes scandalous. But moving forward step by step."
08:07 In Chernihiv, the Russian military bombed the road bridge across the Desna, which connected the city with Kiev, said the head of the Chernihiv OVA Vyacheslav Chaus. Evacuation flights moved from Chernigov along this bridge and humanitarian aid was brought to the city.
08:00 In one of the special forces involved in the storming of Mariupol, less than 10 percent of the personnel are ready to continue participating in the war, the rest are killed, wounded, sick or demoralized, the General Staff reports.
07:57 In Belarus, representatives of the opposition forces and activists who condemn the assistance of the Russian Federation partially disabled the railway connection with Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
At the same time, there is an active movement of Russian and Belarusian military equipment in Belarus and its further accumulation along the Ukrainian border.
07:45 American retired lieutenant general, military analyst Ben Hodges believes that Ukraine will not only survive, but also win the war against Russia. The general notes that he was not surprised by the strength of the Ukrainian army - he was surprised by the weakness of the Russians. Their lack of experience is clearly visible, and arrogant behavior leads to huge losses among the generals of the army.
07:32 Ukrzaliznytsia offers a new service - transportation of a car by an evacuation train.
07:20 The Russian military has withdrawn its aircraft from the airfield in Chernobaevka near Kherson, writes The New York Times, citing fresh satellite images.
07:00 In Ukraine, daily monitoring of prices for socially significant goods is introduced, the State Food Service reported.
05:58 Zelensky: "Our Armed Forces made us happy today. Again Chernobaevka - again the defeat of the occupiers. Russian planes were shot down again. Especially important - a bomber over Mariupol. And so it will be with everyone who kills our people, civilians on our peaceful land."
04:01 Russian invaders plundered and destroyed the newest central analytical laboratory in Chernobyl, the State Agency for Management of the Exclusion Zone reported. On the basis of the laboratory there were highly active samples and samples of radionuclides - now they are in the hands of the Russians.
03:35 The White House is preparing new sanctions against Russia, which they plan to announce on Thursday, March 24, American media write.
02:17 British intelligence believes that the occupiers will try to suppress the protests in the occupied territories of Ukraine by force.
01:34 Macron talked on the phone with Putin for an hour, but could not convince him to stop hostilities in Ukraine, French media reported.
00:05 Yermak hopes that Zelensky's conversation with Xi Jinping can take place in the near future.
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ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – The Turkish-backed Military Police faction arrested yesterday a person from Afrin region, northern Syria.
Members of the Military Police faction arrested Muhammad Mustafa, nicknamed Hamouda Mist Kinki, from his shop in the village of Shekhotka in the Maabatli district on the pretext that he previously served in the self-defense duty (military conscription in the era of the of the Autonomous Administration), local source told North Press.
Muhammad was transferred to an unknown destination without any information about his fate until now, the source added.
Muhammad was arrested three times previously and on the same charge, and he was released after his relatives paid huge sums of money to the factions.
Since March 2018, the city of Afrin and its countryside have been under the control of the Turkish-backed armed factions.
The factions continue to commit violations in the Afrin region, including kidnapping, arresting, killing, and seizing the property of the indigenous population and selling it to factions’ members and settlers.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
1. Mariupol.
Street fighting. The authorities of the DPR claim to control approximately 70 percent of the residential development of the city and certain parts of industrial development. The enemy continues to put up stubborn resistance. According to a number of reports, after March 23, prisoners will no longer be taken. For the time being, they are still offering to hand over their weapons and surrender.
2.Ugledar direction.
After Stepnoy and Glorious, the fighting shifted to Novomikhailovka, which covers the Maryinka-Kurakhovo highway from the south. Fighting continued throughout the day. There are no big changes under Velikaya Novoselka yet.
3.Marinka.
Slowly pushing the enemy out of the village. The troops are gradually advancing, but at such a pace, it can take from 5 to 7 days to occupy Maryinka, which is not surprising, since we are talking about breaking into a powerful fortified area, which is second only to Avdeevsky.
4. Avdievka.
There are no major advances near Avdievka itself. But to the north, the fighting has already shifted to Novobakhmutovka and Novoselka-2, where the DPR army is pushing back the battered units of the 25th battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are moving away from Verkhnetoretsky.
5.LNR.
Lisichansk-Severodonetsk-Popasnaya.
No significant progress was observed.
Rubizhne was subjected to shelling from artillery and Grads.
6. Izyum.
Heavy fighting continued in the Izyum region and, above all, for Kamenka, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to prevent full control of the Russian Armed Forces over the village and advance towards the Slavyansko-Kramatorsk agglomeration and Barvenkovo.
In the direction of Lozova, there is also no serious progress so far.
7. Kharkov.
No significant changes. Fights of varying intensity to the north and west. In Kharkov itself, it turns out that they are still digging up corpses in the building of the Regional State Administration - by March 23, 24 bodies from among the local Volkssturm had already been dug up. The excavations are ongoing.
8. Zaporozhye.
On the Gulyaipole-Orekhov-Vasilyevka line without significant changes. To the north, the enemy is fortifying Pavlograd and seeking to quickly restore the operation of the Pavlograd-2 station after a missile strike.
The part of the Nikolaev grouping of the RF Armed Forces that has gone to Nikopol is also not advancing towards the city yet.
In the direction of Kryvyi Rih, no advances to the regional center were reported either. Locals say that the troops are fortifying 10-20 km from the city.
9. Kyiv.
Fighting continued to the west and southwest of Kyiv. The RF Armed Forces are trying to move south, in the direction of Vasilkov. The enemy defends stubbornly.
Fighting also continued in the city of Irpen, part of which is controlled by the RF Armed Forces. N.p. Bucha, Vorzel, Gostomel are also for the RF Armed Forces. During the day, a fake about the “encirclement” of all Russian troops flashed by and disappeared on the Internet.
To the east of Kyiv, fighting took place in the area of several urban settlements to the northeast and east of the Brovary region.
10. Nikolaev - Odessa.
Near Nikolaev without major changes, rocket attacks on targets in and around the city, plus exchanges of artillery strikes.
Odessa is also unchanged.
A boom-mobileing killed a senior Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i military leader and three of his entourage in the southern port city of Aden on Wednesday, three security sources said.
The defense ministry confirmed that Brigadier General Thabet Gawas was killed in a "cowardly attack carried out by several terrorist elements" but provided no further details.
Gawas was returning from a personal visit when his car was hit by the blast in a suburb of the city, the security sources said. Aden's AIC Television showed footage of a car in flames.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Gawas had long been an enemy of the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militias, fighting them in their northern stronghold of Saada even before the 2014 coup against the legitimate government.
In 2004, he led the first military operation against the Houthi rebellion that ended with the killing of the founder of the militias, Hussein Badreddine al-Houthi. The operation earned him the name "Vanquisher of the Houthis" among several Yemenis.
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Immigrated to Canada to avoid conscription into Nelson Mandela's communist army. Moves out of California due to high taxes and the threat of unionization. Refers to COVID as a government scam. Insists combustion engines are still necessary. Employs 50,000 US and Canadian workers. Has a lovely girl friend and more money than he'll ever be able to spend.
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near the airport on the east side of town well outside the urbanized part
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It's in Travis County. Their DA is owned by Soros and allowed BLMAntifa to run riot - then charged 2 Police Officers with doing their job as ordered. Also big on Defund the Police and not enforcing 'minor' crimes.
A year ago, Harry’s Razors advertised on our shows. But then, they pulled their ads due to “values misalignment”. Introducing Jeremy’s Razors. Stop giving your money to woke corporations that hate you. Give it to the god-king: https://t.co/DLWEe8hraRpic.twitter.com/yt5gVG8pl0
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p2k got it, they just want to be able to get married. I seem to recall hearing that bullshit quite a few years ago.
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Even with the current, artificially inflated price of gas, I drive to mom n pop stores for almost all my needs. I still go to Publix, but they are on the lib hate list, so I'm good with them.
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Between this and their new and improved mil discount program ( must enroll electronically) and eligible list of items slashed, they have moved themselves to my ‘last option’ position.
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I moved over to Dollar Shave club when Gilette went woke. Then they bragged about donating to BLM. It was at the heart of riots when too many failed to see through that group, and they shut up soon after but it left a bad taste in my mouth.
The Harry's Razor commercial rocks and when I run out of Dollar Shave Club blades I'll probably be jumping ship, if its real that is.
[Garowe] China has intensified campaigns to strengthen its relationship with Somalia as it seeks to expand ties with Africa, a continent believed to be full of resources and potential to compete with economic bigwigs.
For the last decade, China has invested massively in Africa and has even tried to establish military bases further threatening traditional allies such as the United States, Germany, and Britannia. The US has come out open to fire warning shots to China.
On Tuesday, Somalia's Foreign Affairs Minister Abdisaid Muse held talks with Chinese counterpart Wangi Yi. Muse is attending the 48th session of the Council of Foreign Affairs ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Reports indicate the two discussed ways of improving cooperation between the two countries and how they can mutually work together on matters of security, humanitarian affairs, fishery, and regional issues. Both countries have huge interests in the sectors.
Abdisaid Muse also seized the opportunity to eulogize victims it Boeing 737-800 crash of Eastern Airlines of China which crashed in the southern part of the country, killing over 132 people who were on board.
Fundamentally, the two emphasized the importance of maintaining and furthering the long-standing relations between the two countries that are based on respect for territorial integrity, independence, politics, and the unity of the Federal of Somalia and China.
While China is fighting to protect interests in the Republic of China [Taiwan], Somalia is also facing a similar challenge in Somaliland. China has proposed a military base in the Horn of Africa but such attempts have often faced resistance from the US.
[The Federalist] According to a recent headline from The New York Times, "the CDC isn’t publishing large portions of the COVID data it collects." That headline downplays what the article in fact reveals:
Two full years into the pandemic, the agency leading the country’s response to the public health emergency has published only a tiny fraction of the data it has collected, several people familiar with the data said.
The article says when the Centers for Disease Control "published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65...it left out the numbers for a huge portion of that population: 18- to 49-year-olds, the group least likely to benefit from extra shots."
"The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public," according to the Times, "because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective."
After "several inquiries from The New York Times," CDC unexpectedly decided to publish its data on the risks of hospitalization and death from both unvaccinated and vaccinated Americans, with or without booster dosing. But it did so in a manner that obscures younger individuals’ overall Covid risks, which is very low, instead attempting to force a comparison between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals’ hospitalization. The exact data about Covid risks by specific age has not been released in any graphical or easily viewable form anywhere.
This rationale for deliberately hiding government-collected effectiveness data was even confirmed by the CDC’s spokeswoman, Kristen Nordlund. This taxpayer-funded agency didn’t want to give taxpayers the full picture of vaccine effectiveness—for their own good.
It also feels confident enough to publicly admit this, but only after many Americans were fired from their jobs and suffered from serious adverse events and deaths after they were forced to take shots they didn’t want based precisely on false narratives fueled by CDC duplicity.
That rationale from the CDC hardly justifies the fact that the selective omission of public health information is more than clinical malpractice; it is scientific fraud.
[Rudaw] Kurdish security forces (Asayish) on Tuesday seized a record amount of narcotics, after a raid at a warehouse in Qamishli, northeast Syria (Rojava), led to the discovery of more than two million captagon pills.
A shipment containing huge quantities of captagon pills, with a total weight of 438 kilograms, was transported from rebel-held areas of Syria and carefully concealed at a warehouse in Qamishli, where it was subsequently seized by security forces, Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported.
Asayish officials revealed that the narcotics were "professionally concealed in construction materials such as granite, basalt, and ceramics."
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[CNBC] Omicron’s more contagious subvariant, BA.2, has more than doubled in prevalence over the past two weeks in the U.S...
BA.2 has been steadily growing as a proportion of the Covid variants circulating in the U.S. since Feb. 5 when it represented about 1% of genetically sequenced virus samples, according to the CDC. BA.2 probably already accounts for 50% of new infections in the U.S.....
Though BA.2 is rising in the U.S., leading public health officials are not expecting another dramatic surge in new cases,
....not expecting? Ok, then..
largely due to the amount of immunity the population has from vaccination and the fierce outbreak during the winter omicron wave.
"The bottom line is we’ll likely see an uptick in cases, as we’ve seen in the European countries particularly the U.K.," White House Chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci told ABC’s "This Week." "Hopefully we won’t see a surge — I don’t think we will."
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Glad (so far) it's not a totally different C-19/22 variant.
Meaning those of us that have had it, may have some immunity to re-infection.
BTW: Digging around I see the Life and Health Insurance industry have taken a Mega bottom line Hit.... but with Federal Aid, Tax Law adjustments, and some mergers, they are re-building.
[Federalist] Joe Biden is no longer useful to the ruling class.
It is painfully obvious, as was predictable, that Joe Biden’s presidency is a dumpster fire. As demonstrated by the party’s destructive callousness towards children, the elderly, and the poor during their Covid lockdown frenzy, Democrats care about none of these real-world results of their policies. But they do care about polling, and Joe Biden’s is abysmal.
According to even heavily politicized polls, Biden is at least performing as badly as Donald Trump. Biden is between the third- and fifth-most ratings-underwater president ever in American history at this point in his first term.
Biden of course also has the advantage of a wildly favorable press and social media monopoly while Trump had the strong headwind of a wildly negative one. That factor obscured for a great many of American voters actions that easily demonstrated long before his election that Biden was unfit for the presidency.
Now that he’s president, however, and very publicly bungling essentially every major issue all the way up to U.S. national security, Biden’s weakness and incompetence have been impossible for the corrupt media to entirely cover up. Biden’s appalling withdrawal from Afghanistan may have been the first major blow to public confidence in his governing ability, and it’s been followed by blow after blow: the repercussions of ending U.S. energy independence, historic inflation caused by massive government spending, aggression by America’s foreign foes, a tacitly open border with human trafficking of historic proportions, not to mention fueling America’s legalized mass killings of unborn infants and forcing schools to inflict gender dysphoria on the children in their care.
So yes, the polls look bad. That’s why Democrat officials suddenly switched away from their Covid mania, lifting mask mandates in blue states, ending the daily falsified “body counts” on TVs and newspapers, and jumping immediately into European war hysteria. But that’s not been enough to turn those polls around. Historic indicators presently suggest a “red wave” in the upcoming midterms.
That brings us to The New York Times’s recent “limited hangout“: its highly suspicious, very late acknowledgment that, hey, that laptop containing evidence that Joe Biden is just as corrupt as his son Hunter Biden told Russian prostitutes — that laptop is real, and so is its data. Yes, the United States’s top foreign adversaries likely have blackmail material on the U.S. president, and likely paid him some very big bribes.
Oh, and yes Twitter and Facebook did use their global communications monopolies to rig the election for Joe Biden by hiding this information (and who knows what else).
Why would The New York Times do this — and Facebook and Twitter not ban this information release just like they did before? Well, one explanation is hierarchy reinforcement. As I wrote Monday, like forcing their “minions” to wear face masks, the ridiculously belated laptop confirmation also equals the ruling class “flexing their power to say things they won’t allow their political opponents to say.”
There’s another explanation, though. It’s that Joe Biden is no longer useful to the ruling class. After being used to win an election, he’s now making it impossible for them to credibly foist on Americans the idea that his party could win another one with him on their masthead. The donkey is showing through the lion skin, and so they need a new donkey.
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Harris will be dealt with first. Expect a Ron Brown sort of retirement for her. That will be the sign that Joe is on the way out. The only question will be whether he resigns quietly or "Dr." Jill puts up an ugly fight.
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Harris resigns to pursue other interests. Biden appoints Hillary as VP. Biden resigns, citing ill health. Hillary is president. Establishment goes full-on censorship and repression, massive voter fraud in 2024, Hillary elected, and American democracy sunsets in favor of open oligarchy.
Then Hillary brings in Victoria Nudelman to prepare another coup, in Moscow.. which will end like Hillary and Nudelman's grand adventure in Benghazi. Only this time the regime will not fall but will launch nuclear missile attacks on the US
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This is like picking up a periodical in the grocery store check out line next to the gum. Maybe they will replace Harris with Snookie. Not sure how old she is. Pro tip - if you shake hands with Snookie in the receiving line, go hard on the post-shake Purell.
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If she didn't get on with the "white inner circle," why did the bitch want to be given Scandinavia?
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why did the bitch want to be given Scandinavia?
The Scandis are European White People which makes them nicer and better than American White People, all of whom fought for the Confederacy in the War Between the States.
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all of whom fought for the Confederacy in the War Between the States.
I didn't know that.
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Brahmins fancy themselves 'white'
Harris is a half-Brahmin. Like many Indian expatriates in the Caribbean her mum was eager to avoid the taint of being viewed as black.
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I understand the April update will have Ivan Drago as Pickett; gonna be lit.
OT/watched Red Cliff recently because it was handier than searching for the DVD. There were parts I don't remember and I was like, "Sure, long movie, directer's cut." Then there was the scene where Fan Man had to harvest 60,000 arrows or whatever under penalty of death, which made Team Sun kind of sketchy...maybe I missed that part, because it sure watched like the sketchy, which I thought was an excellent part of the story, was edited out. The movie Moose was absolutely Cloud Edited.
[ABC] Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced that the State Department has made a formal assessment that Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine.
"Based on information currently available, the U.S. government assesses that members of Russia's forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine. Our assessment is based on a careful review of available information from public and intelligence sources," Blinken said in a statement.
The assessment does not come with any new U.S. sanctions, but it backs a global push for accountability for Russia's artillery and airstrikes on civilians and civilian infrastructure.
President Joe Biden has said he believes Russian leader Vladimir Putin is a "war criminal," an accusation that the Russian government said threatened diplomatic relations between the two countries, already strained to their breaking point over Putin's war against Ukraine.
But whether the war crimes assessment means Putin himself is a war criminal will depend on an individual court of law, according to U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack.
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QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) emphasized on Wednesday that a military and political strategy should be developed to prevent ISIS, which continuously endeavours to capture some of Syria’s land, warning that ISIS sleeper cells are still posing a major threat.
In March 23, 2019, the SDF announced liberating the last stronghold of ISIS in Baghouz town in Deir ez-Zor countryside.
The general command of the SDF said “ISIS was trying to find a foothold to expand and attract other possible worldwide members.”
In a statement published in the third anniversary of driving ISIS out of its last stronghold in Baghouz, the SDF pointed out that the last attack on al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah “is a proof to ISIS ongoing threat in light of the international community negligence to find a solution.”
Moreover, the statement warned that the lack of an international comprehensive plan to settle the condition of the ISIS members and their families held in prisons and camps and to provide sufficient support to rebuild the ISIS-battle-damaged areas “increase human and economic costs”.
The SDF criticized the irresponsibility of some countries toward its ISIS nationals and their failure to give the necessary assistance required to establish an international court in northeastern Syria.
The statement indicated that these approaches affect the previous years’ efforts in fighting ISIS, let alone enabling it to overcome its setbacks.
The general command of the SDF invited the member states of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS to back them in their long war and put a clear military, security and political strategy to prevent ISIS return.
The SDF statement also invited the international community to “support stabilization and economic and community developments, as well as preventing other actors, particularly Turkey, of diminishing the SDF and people achievements which cost the lives of thousands of martyrs”.
Reporting by Adnan Hamo
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Two Word Strategy: Donald Trump.
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Don't do it halfway. Putin should moor his yacht in one of India's many ports, as a symbol of the new trade ties. And as collateral.
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Michael Kugelman, senior fellow for South Asia at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, says India’s stance is a consequence of its special relationship with Russia.
“New Delhi has long viewed Moscow as its most reliable and trusted partner, a perception shaped by many decades of friendship, going back to the early years of the Cold War. Indian leaders often speak of Russia as India’s closest and most reliable friend, a country that has never had any sort of crisis with India. And they see it as a country always willing to help India out on the global stage, including at the UN, where Russia’s voting patterns on issues like Kashmir have supported India.”
According to Kugelman, India’s Cold War nostalgia towards Russia continues to weigh in in their relationship. “It boils down to a simple calculation: Russia has our back and we will have its back as well,” he said.
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To some people, it's Terkels all the way down. They are confusing correlation and causation.
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Western governments sanction Putin’s inner circle, Israel and various Jewish organizations are more hesitant.
Of course they realise they could be next. The US is not being run by conservatives or democrats or any distinction of political leadership you have seen so far.
It is being run by people whose mission seems to be to run it and all its allies into the fucking ground. Why the conservatives at this site have such a new found loyalty for the Biden non-presidency is beyond me.
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With India and China, you have 30% or so of the entire population of the world. And two rapidly growing economies.
The dumbest businessman knows you don't encourage the competition. But the current administration, having never run anything in its life, is oblivious to the consequences of cutting off major commodities and countries from our own currency and systems (SWIFT.)
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China and India are the #1 and #3 economies in the world, both of them growing much faster than the US. The countries that refuse to join US sanctions comprise most of the world's GDP and over 80% of its population. Sanctions on Russia are the stupidest policy imaginable
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oblivious to the consequences of cutting off major commodities and countries from our own currency and systems (SWIFT.)
Perhaps not. How the SWIFT System Works
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Sanctions on Russia are the stupidest policy imaginable
America's foreign policy is like a senile elephant, trampling everything in its path and shitting all over the place. The rest of the world are forced to clean up afterwards. Ukraine has nothing whatsoever to do with India, yet Indians are now being punished with the fallout from Biden's foolish sanctions. To hell with him and them
Consumers in India are battling the first hikes in five months this week in the prices of diesel and petrol, as well as more expensive vegetable oils.
Many Indians are cutting down on fried food and even vegetables as the Ukraine war inflates the prices of items from edible oils to fuel, threatening a sputtering recovery in the consumption-based economy after two years battling Covid-19.
Consumers in Asia's third-largest economy are feeling the bite as companies pass on a surge in costs since the invasion, battling the first hikes in five months this week in the prices of diesel and petrol, as well as more expensive vegetable oils.
"God only knows how we will manage this level of price rise," said Indrani Majumder, the sole earner in a family of four in the eastern city of Kolkata, adding that the past two years of the pandemic had brought a halving in salaries.
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The discussion of western sanctions is just a diversion from the fact that Putin launched a disastrous war that is killling both Ukrainians and young Russians. Here's a fine looking young officer. Western sanctions didn't kill him -- Putin did. I feel for his loved ones. Why did he have to die? Stop the war. Or at least send the children of the siloviki and oligarchs to fight it.
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For us it's not a "diversion." Your stupid policy will literally kill millions of innocent people in the global South who want nothing to do with the West's civil wars. It's not our business or our problem. Why are you dragging us into it?
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It is being run by people whose mission seems to be to run it and all its allies into the fucking ground. Why the conservatives at this site have such a new found loyalty for the Biden non-presidency is beyond me.
As I keep pointing out to the Antiheroes with a Thousand 'Nyms, they're the only people who think Joe Biden is actually fighting against Putin.
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India has bitter experience of US sanctions. They were imposed on us in 1998 and they only succeeded in driving us further away from the US.
Listen to the US Ambassador to India (2004-2009), David Mulford, in this discussion from a week ago, "The Strategic Value of India."
At the 40th minute. Ambassador Mulford says, "The effect of imposing sanctions on India for its nucular [sic] weapons testing program was a very hard experience for us [the U.S.] ... You cannot have a policy of dictation toward India. India is a sovereign state. It takes its sovereignty very very seriously."
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It seems no matter how bad the US treats it's "allies," they always come back for more. Sugar, that is...
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India is not a US ally and never has been. Americans' attitude of "either you're with us or you're against us" blinds them to all sorts of distinctions
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Does India support Russia's war on Ukraine? You are free to interpet the word "support" with as much nuance as you choose. Do you approve of the shelling of Mariupol? Again, you are free to intepret the word "approve" in a non-American nuanced way. Just tell me if you have a position on the Ukrainian war, and give me some clue as to what that position might be. Educate me. I want to hear what you have to say.
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I have no position on that war. But I do have a deep seated aversion to US sanctions.
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A fair answer, for which I thank you. But if I may press you a bit, would you support these sanctions?
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Don't like the US? Fine, let's see how you get along without all the money those H1B's make when we cancel their visas and send them home, and start onshoring the jobs that have been exported to India.
I think they dont realize just how small an economy they are tying up to, and how much being dumped out of the US would cost them.
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without all the money those H1B's make when we cancel their visas and send them home
Typical American ignorance. The 330,000 Indian H1B's are a rounding error for one of the largest economies in the world, with 1,330,000,000 people
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Rounding error in number of people, to be sure. But how much money do they send home, money that they would not be able to earn in India?
Remittances from legal and illegal Mexican expats in the US are a significant portion of the Mexican economy. Ditto remittances sent home to Egypt from expats and the Egyptian diaspora.
Remittances to India stood at US$68.968 billion in 2017 and remittances from India to other countries totalled US$5.710 billion, for a net inflow of US$63.258 billion in 2017.[3][4][5]
As per the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), remittance is received from the approximately 35 million members of the Indian diaspora.[6]
The map didn’t change much on Tuesday. Russia seems to halt all operations in order to regroup and resupply its units. The primary focus is on Mariupol and the last cities under Ukrainian control in Luhansk Region at this moment. Russian jets bombed a railway station in Pavlohrad and damaged the railway, which was used as the primary supply route for Ukrainian troops in Donbas.
Go to the site. They have improved greatly the graphics presentation of the maps.
[AlAhram] More than 200 homes were also destroyed in Sunday's attack on four villages in the Kaura local government district, Kaduna State security commissioner Samuel Aruwan said in a statement.
"Security agencies have reported to the Kaduna State Government that after search operations and detailed checks, 34 people have been confirmed dead following Sunday's attack in Kaura local government area," he said.
"Two military personnel were among the 34 killed."
Northwest and central Nigeria have long been terrorised by criminal gangs, known locally as bandidos, who raid villages, conduct mass kidnappings for ransom and steal cattle, but attacks and abductions have intensified.
Sunday's attack came on the same day as another raid that killed 16 people in a remote village in northwestern Zamfara State.
A week earlier, button men killed 11 security personnel, including seven coppers and four vigilantes, in attacks in central and northwestern Nigeria.
- TIT-FOR-TAT ATTACKS -
The gangs, who were officially declared forces of Evil by the government in January, operate from camps hidden in a vast forest across Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states.
Bandit violence in Nigeria's northwest is just one challenge facing security forces, who are also battling against a 12-year jihadist insurgency in the northeast and separatist tensions in the southeast of Africa's most populous nation.
Earlier this month, button men killed at least 57 members of a local self-defence vigilante group in festivities in northwestern Kebbi State, prompting President Muhammadu Buhari to condemn their "brutal murder".
Local residents often form informal vigilante units, known as Yansakai, to protect villages from bandit raids, though some states banned them after they were accused of extrajudicial killings. But they are often involved in tit-for-tat festivities with bandidos.
Security experts have warned the gangs, who are driven by financial motives, are increasingly forging alliances with jihadists from the northeast of Nigeria.
Security forces say they have been bombarding and raiding the forest hideouts and authorities last year also cut telecommunications in some northwest states in an attempt to disrupt bandit communications.
Criminal gangs in Nigeria's northwest made international headlines last year when they raided a number of schools and kidnapped students in a bid to squeeze more ransom out of communities.
Nigeria's bandit violence has its origins in the festivities over land and resources between farmers and nomadic cattle herders
...the Fulani...
in the northwest where tit-for-tat attacks have spiralled into wider criminal activity.
[Garowe] The ongoing war in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... is directly to blame for restlessness and internal conflicts within the Horn of Africa, a report published by the Freestar notes, with Somalia, now being the most affected country within Africa.
Egypt and the UK coordinated on Tuesday to exchange security expertise in their fight against terrorism during a seminar organized by the Armed Forces in Cairo.
Military officials and academics from both countries attended the Egyptian-British Seminar for Counterterrorism 2022, which is held as part of joint efforts between both countries to counter mutual challenges.
Speaking at the gathering, Chairman of the Military Intelligence Service Maj. Gen. Khaled Megawer welcomed the British delegation, stressing the importance of exchanging expertise to keep abreast of developments regarding terrorism.
Megawer discussed Egypt’s success story in fighting terrorism, which he said relies on scientific basis to face the root causes of the phenomenon.
Shafaq News / The Iraqi intelligence agency announced dismantling an ISIS network in Saladin today.
The agency said that it had received intelligence information about the four-members network, which had carried out many attacks against the civilians and the security forces, and was responsible for providing financial and logistical support for the terrorist organization's members.
The perpetrators confessed to their crimes and all the required legal measures were taken against them.
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21:57 The forces of the RF Armed Forces hit 86 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: 6 command posts, two multiple launch rocket systems, 8 field artillery guns, three ammunition depots, 49 areas of accumulation of weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 21:20 Russian air defense systems destroyed nine Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of settlements Izyum, Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv.
20:39 Russian Armed Forces units advanced another 2 km during the day.
19:37 Subdivisions of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a battery of 152mm D-20 howitzers of the enemy in the Chernihiv direction.
18:38 AFU shelled the village of Zhuravlyovka, Belgorod region. The shells hit the house. There are people injured.
17:39 Columns of smoke over the suburbs of Kyiv in the city of Irpin, fighting continues
16:59 Ukrainian S-300 destroyed in Kyiv
16:01 In Ukraine, since the beginning of the special operation, 184 aircraft and helicopters, 246 UAVs and 189 air defense systems have been destroyed.
15:19 Fighting will continue in Kamenka, south of Izyum. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to counterattack with small tank groups, 2-3 vehicles each. In the morning, another air and artillery strike was inflicted on Kamenka
14:18 Aviation and missile forces of the Russian Federation destroyed 8 Ukrainian air defense systems in a day, including 6 Buk and one S-300
14:00 Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 and 16 drones in a day, including three Bayraktar TB-2
13:30 An artillery position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is located in the Hydropark area in Kharkiv. A truck and an armored car proceeded there from the center. After bringing up ammunition and rotating personnel, they returned back along the same route.
13:09 The Russian army destroyed eight tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 9 vehicles and tractors, three pillboxes, seven field artillery guns and mortars of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
12:05 Over the past day, the forces of the Russian Armed Forces hit 97 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine
11:42 At the arsenal in Orzhev, 14 kms northwest of Rivne, a large arsenal with weapons and military equipment of the Ukrainian troops, including those received from Western countries, was destroyed
11:25 One of the divisions of the 96th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit near the Danilovka settlement
10:50 AFU placed the AN/TPQ-48 radar station on the Kharkiv high-rise building
09:44 Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of the destruction of the hangar of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by army aviation helicopters.
09:27 A checkpoint of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near Chernihiv. The Russian army launched an artillery strike on him.
08:55 Ukrainian politician and journalist Anatoly Shariy said that as a result of the strike on the barracks of the 79th Special Operations Brigade in Nikolaev, 294 Ukrainian militants were killed.
08:49 The Kiev regime is rapidly running out of weapons and ammunition. The West did not count on such swift hostilities and did not prepare additional supplies to Ukraine.
8:41 Fighting in the suburbs of Kyiv continues. Smoke rises over Irpin.
Turkey and opposition factions bombed #Syria’s Ain Issa countryside causing material damage to civilians’ propertyhttps://t.co/YPjTmCjZMh
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 23, 2022
AIN ISSA, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday, Turkish forces and the affiliated opposition factions bombed the western countryside of Ain Issa town, north of Raqqa, north Syria, with missiles and heavy weapons.
“Turkish forces and opposition factions targeted the village of Mu’laq and Ain Issa camp, one km away from the highway M4, with heavy weapons,” a local source told North Press.
several Turkish shells fell on the village of Mu’laq and Ain Issa camp, plus the Sayda town, the source added.
The bombing resulted in material damage to the property of the residents of those villages, and caused panic and fear among them, according to the source.
On Tuesday, two children were injured in the bombing of the Turkish forces on the village of Khirbet al-Bayda in the eastern countryside of Ain Issa town.
The town and other areas in northeastern Syria are often bombed by Turkish forces and the affiliated opposition factions.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
President Joe Biden said Russia should be kicked out of the Group of 20 nations in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, a major step that would be up to all members of the G-20.
[FOX] The head of Russia's Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu has not been seen in public for 12 days and is possibly missing, according to reports and messages circulated on Telegram on Wednesday. 
[NPR] 
[Washington Examiner] Two private islands owned by the late Jeffrey Epstein are hitting the market for $125 million, reports say.
...the 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
Those remote desert labs with massive centrifuges were tomato blight research facilities. The animal cages were utilized for staff pets. 
...Arabic for 
...Arabic for 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
[The Federalist] According to a recent headline from The New York Times, "the CDC isn’t publishing large portions of the COVID data it collects." That headline downplays what the article in fact reveals:
Looks white, or a bit off-white to me. 
