[Walla.co.il] Some background on the victims of the attack in Bnei Brak The two Ukrainians killed in the attack worked in construction and lived in the city. Sasha lived with his wife, and saved to build a house in Chernivtsi. Dimitri lives with his partner and is originally from Krasnoyarsk. Their friend said: "They were really good people, we would sit in the grocery store almost every day"
The two Ukrainians killed in the attack, Sasha Sorokopot, 32, and Dimitri Mitrik, 24, worked in construction and lived in Bnei Brak. Sasha lives with his wife, and spared the years he spent in Israel to build a house in Ukraine, in Chernivtsi. He recently learned that the house was ready and he planned to return to Ukraine on Passover. Dimitri lives with his partner and is originally from Krasnoyarsk.
Julian, a close friend of theirs, said that "they were really good people. Dima was always funny to everyone. Dima did not drink or smoke at all, was an athlete, kept going to the gym. We would sit here in the grocery store almost every day. Yesterday in luck "I slept at home. There was someone else from Ukraine who ran away with the bicycle."
Along with Sasha and Dimitri, in the killing spree of the terrorist, Yaakov Shalom, Avishai Yehezkel and Sergeant Major and Amir Khoury were also killed. In the second arena,
the incident joins an attack that took place this week in Hadera and an attack in Be'er Sheva last week. Five other Israelis were injured. The two terrorists, cousins from Umm al-Fahm, were killed in a shootout. ISIS (Islamic State) claimed responsibility for the attack.
Four people were killed in a terrorist attack in Be'er Sheva: Doris Yachbas, 49, from Moshav Gilat, a mother of three; Laura Yitzhak, 43-year-old resident of Be'er Sheva and mother of three daughters; Rabbi Moshe Kravitzky, 50, is a former Chabad emissary in the Nahal Beka neighborhood in Be'er Sheva and the father of four children; and Menachem Yehezkel, 67, is also a resident of Be'er Sheva. Nafha is in the city. The terrorist is a resident of Hura, who previously tried to recruit ISIS students at a school in the locality. Passers-by shot him and killed him.
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Passers-by shot him and killed him.
Bittersweet and oddly heartening. Only in Israel. And maybe some parts of Texas.
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its extensive list of hate groups, is racist, according to its employees.
SPLC Union members protested outside of their employer's office Monday in opposition to the legal advocacy group's plan to require certain employees to return to in-person work. The union, in a statement, claimed the move targets black women because it primarily requires workers in low-level positions to return to the office.
"Staff in more highly regarded job classifications and who are higher-paid employees are being given the flexibility to work remotely, while women, Black, brown, and lower-paid employees are forced back into the office regardless of our work, our needs, and our advocacy for more inclusive treatment," Lisa Wright, a union bargaining committee member, said. "Forcing employees back into the office isn't about collaboration or cooperation—this is about policing and surveillance of SPLC's lowest-paid employees."
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Having quickly looked over the SPLC Hate Group list.
I initially noted that ANTI-FA and BLM are not listed??????
Also, I have to wonder what their own racial diversity in staffing is? Having noted it was not listed on any of the sites I checked that were doing audits of their $$$ handling and etc...
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Interesting that this is coming from within. These folks are the Uber Left. SPLC has run out of targets and now the true believers recognize they are now in the crosshairs.
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The reason for the claims of racism is that the SPLC wants its employees to actually show up for work. What goes around comes around.
[Babylon Bee] In a show of penitence for the insensitive joke told during the Oscars, Chris Rock offered to smooth things over with Will Smith by sleeping with his wife.
"My client feels incredible remorse for the violently inconsiderate jab aimed at Jada Pinkett Smith’s debilitating medical condition," said Rock’s publicist, "As such, Chris generously proposes making amends by making love."
Friends of the Smiths expressed surprise that Will’s initial reaction was to reject the comedian’s coital olive branch, knowing the cuckold really had no say in the matter. However, after learning he was at risk of losing his precious Oscar award, Smith expressed full support for the peace offering, again mistakenly assuming his decision would in any way influence his wife’s escapades.
Jada Pinkett Smith expressed overwhelming support for the comedian’s generous offer to reconcile and make things right and promised to pen him into her busy schedule of sleeping with other men
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Slapstick: 1 a device made of two flat pieces of wood fastened at one end so as to make a loud noise when used by an actor to strike a person
2 a style of humour involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props (cf. "slap stick", above)
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Me, I want better quality of events at the Oscars.
I want Sean 'p' Diddy whatsit to gun down George Clooney accidentally while aiming sideways at Ice Cube. I want Wesley Snipes to rush at the Rock with a machete and get smacked into a coma. I want vin deisel to be attacked by Chris Tucker on PCP and Jordan Peele to be hit by a stray bullet meant for Tom Cruise. I want Priyanka Chopra's dress to be torn and her face clawed out by Tessa Thompson. Gimme an Oscar night to remember. Gimme the truth.
[WION] Israel is witnessing a rise in gun attacks. 5 people were killed outside Tel Aviv in a third deadly gun attack in a week. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. It's the philistinesamalekitespaleo A-rabs of course, those citizens of a fictitious country everybody seems hesitant to take away from 'em.
I say find every perp's house and send an RPG into it, hear the lamentation of the wimmin.
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4 innocents plus the terrorist were killed. Two Ukrainian workers, one Arab Christian policeman and one Israeli father who died shielding one of his 5 children.
The terrorist was previously incarcerated.
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I think it was Gen.Swartzkopf when asked about forgiveness said "forgiveness is g-d's job. Its my job to arrange the meeting"
[Breitbart] Ketanji Brown Jackson disagreed with her expert witness’s definition of pedophilia during a hearing while serving as Vice-Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
At a February 2012 sentencing commission hearing, Jackson debated the definition of pedophilia with expert witnesses Gerald Grant, a digital forensics investigator; James Fottrell, a U.S. Department of Justice criminal child exploitation expert; and Dr. Gene Abel, founder of a medical group that works to identify pedophiles.
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50 elected officials are going to confirm this enabler of pedophiles, and 40 more are going to sit on their hands rather than doing everything they can to swing the vote the other direction. My thanks to the 10 senators who actually give a damn about doing their jobs.
[Dawn] Four suspects allegedly affiliated with Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) were arrested for allegedly trying to target political gatherings in the capital, police said on Tuesday.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... they said, one of their accomplices managed to escape.
Police said explosives, detonators, ball bearings and iron nails were recovered from them, and a case was also registered against them at a cop shoppe of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) under 7- Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and sections 4 and 5 of the Explosive Act. The four suspects were produced before a court from where they were transferred to police custody on four-day physical remand, they added.
According to the first information report (FIR), station house officer (SHO) of CTD cop shoppe got a tip about the presence of some suspects with explosives in Shakarparian and that they were planning a terrorist attack.
The SHO along with other coppers was on surveillance duty at Srinagar Highway near Zero Point at that time and shortly reached the area, the FIR said, adding that five suspects were spotted there.
Four of them were caught while one managed to escape, the FIR said, adding that the four suspects were residents of different areas of the capital.
During search, a shopping bag was recovered from them that had explosives weighing 500 grams, two detonators, iron nails of different sizes and ball bearings weighing 450g.
The FIR further said these people were identified as members of the TTP and were planning to carry out terrorist activities during the political gatherings.
[Rudaw] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... on Monday requested over five hundred million dollars from the 2023 budget for the fight against 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.... (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, with the funds to be allocated to training and equipping local forces allied to America in both countries.
Out of the $773 billion budget, Biden proposed $541 million for forces in Iraq and Syria, according to details of the budget request published by the US Department of Defense.
Iraqi forces are to receive $358 million, with $183 million to be given to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria (Rojava).
The Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga forces are considered part of the Iraqi forces and have received weapons, salaries, training, and equipment from the US.
The US coalition’s combat mission in Iraq ended in December but continues in Syria. The force continues its advisory mission with the Iraqi and Peshmerga forces.
The new budget request for 2023 is an increase of around $58 billion from 2022.
The amount dedicated to the fight against ISIS has risen by $19 million compared to the year before as ISIS still remains a threat in the region.
"These investments are as vital as ever, as we face a myriad of challenges," Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hick said regarding the $773 billion budget request at a presser.
ISIS controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014 but it was territorially defeated in 2017 and 2019 respectively. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the hard boyz continue to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions on both sides of the border, particularly in areas disputed by Erbil and Baghdad.
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Trickle down economics. Sudden surge in money requests. Could it be Ukraine money flow cut off. I expected such requests or we would hear choking sounds in DC. DNC, Clinton's foundation,Biden's, Kerry, Soros to name a few.
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541 million for anti-ISIS mission in Iraq, Syria = 540 million to corrupt politicians and Democrat pet projects and a million towards marketing to make it look like the money went to Iraq and Syria.
A wanted #Daesh individual was arrested near #Raqqa, in an Op by our #Asaiysh anti-terror units, were it targeted his existence location. The wanted individual was active in facilitating transportation, &was willing with his cell to hit security ,stability, &threatening civilians pic.twitter.com/5DLCjdnrOY
— Coordination & Military Ops Center - SDF (@cmoc_sdf) March 29, 2022
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 29, 2022
A mine action team affiliated with the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) dismantled, on Tuesday, unexploded ordnances left by war erupted between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) supported by the US-led Global Coalition and the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) in the city of Raqqa north Syria.
Two 10-ton shells, an 8-ton mortar and two mortar warheads were dismantled in wrecked buildings in Raqqa, Asayish posted on its official Facebook account.
On March 22, the Asayish announced, during a press conference in Qamishli, northeast Syria, the seizure of a shipment of an estimate of two and a half million narcotic pills filled in construction materials intended for smuggling to neighboring countries. The arrestees then admitted that a shipment was smuggled to a neighboring country without naming it.
The Asayish also announced the mine action team demined a landmine left by ISIS in Raqqa, ten days ago. Since last year, combat engineers have defused 79 land mines, 87 shells, 365 grenades, 12 explosive belts, and 25 missiles, all were remnants left by ISIS, Asayish told North Press.
[Rudaw] The US has granted Iraq another 120-day sanctions waiver allowing the payment of electricity imports from neighboring Iran, the US Department of State confirmed to Rudaw on Tuesday, adding that it hopes this will provide Iraq enough time to draw up plans to become less reliant on Iranian imports.
The waiver enables Iraqi payments for Iranian electricity imports, bypassing existing US sanctions on Iranian exports. An official from the US State Department responded via email to questions asked by Rudaw’s Bijar Bashqali, saying that that the waiver ensures that energy demands in Iraq are met during the 120 days "while it takes steps to reduce its dependence on" imports from Iran.
The official also referred to the progress made regarding energy agreements during the four rounds of the Strategic Dialogue talks between the US and Iraq over the course of the past two years, with the last round taking place in July last year. The agreements reached are aimed at reducing Iraq’s dependence on Iranian imports and making the country self-sufficient.
The State Department added that it believes that 120 days are enough for the Iraqi government "to take meaningful action" to achieve self-sufficiency and in turn become less dependent on Iran.
This is not the first time the US has provided waivers to Iraq since sanctions were slammed on Iran. US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... extended the waivers in March and August last year.
In January 2021, Washington granted a three-month extension after "long discussions," an official told AFP at the time. On March 31, the US again agreed to another four-month extension.
The recent sanctions waiver comes amid ongoing talks in the Austrian capital aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... and world powers, including the US, have held talks for almost a year aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, with Iran insisting that the US must lift its crippling sanctions.
Washington does not allow Iraq to pay Iranian dues in US dollars, but western and Iraqi sources said that Iraqi officials had obtained a green light from the United States to release the money owed to Tehran through a Swiss bank account.
From a comment and link provided yesterday by our own Omelet Turkeyneck.
[Federalist] Shortly after The New York Times quietly admitted that Hunter Biden’s laptop is legitimate even though it was smeared as "disinformation" to protect then-candidate Joe Biden during the 2020 election, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin released bombshell receipts showing Hunter received payments from foreign oligarchs that further reveal "the extent to which President Biden might be — and almost certainly is — compromised."
According to the documents obtained by the senators, energy company CEFC, "an arm of the Chinese Government," paid Wells Fargo Clearing Services $100,000 and designated "further credit to Owasco," Hunter’s firm.
"There’s no middle man in this transaction. This is $100,000 from what is effectively an arm of the communist Chinese government direct to Hunter Biden," Grassley said on the Senate floor on Monday. "To the liberal media and my Democratic colleagues: Is this official bank document Russian disinformation?"
Grassley and Johson had previously established that Hunter was financially involved with CCP oligarchs such as Gongwen Dong and Mervyn Yan using information obtained by the Obama administration, interviews with government officials, and bank documents signed by all of the suspected parties. Hunter had also reportedly admitted to representing CCP "spy chief" Patrick Ho, "who started the company that my partner, who is worth $323 billion, founded and is now missing."
This new receipt, Grassley said, is just the cherry on top of the Biden family’s anticipated corruption and a preview of more evidence to come.
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I wonder if Hunter was the final destination for the money, or if he was just the bag man.
He was by his own admission the bag man for Dad.
In one of his text messages to his daughter, Hunter said, "Pop makes me give him half [of Hunter's income]". It will not be hard to find bank payments and wire transfers linking Hunter's account with shady entities tied to his father.
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Not sure if the decision has been made by the Kalorama Kompound to signal to open the floodgates on Biden family corruption because Jojo is going to be 25th by summer, or that Jill's brain trust has decided the Hunter crimes need to be flushed out in toto before the mid-terms so Jojo can determine if a pardon is needed while still in office.
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Langley's fingerprints are on this. CIA leaders know that JoJo's bringing us to the edge of nuclear war with Russia and are maneuvering JoJo out. Another coup but this time, in a good cause
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It's well known in intelligence circles in Eastern Europe that Biden Junior is compromised. The FSB have his other laptop and he was taking money from oligarchs in Moscow and Almaty who themselves are compromised
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Langley's fingerprints are on this. CIA leaders know that JoJo's bringing us to the edge of nuclear war with Russia and are maneuvering JoJo out. Another coup but this time, in a good cause
There will be no coup. Biden will be removed via the Constitutional/legal means available.
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Not a coup coup. A soft coup. A voluntary retirement, sort of
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Will Hunter still have a Secret Service detail in Leavenworth? The could just hand it off to the guys on staff - they're all feds. Hopefully, the video surveillance system works OK.
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Hunter's going to end up with Snowden in Siberia.
Or in Fuckville with AmbassadorMcFahk
[1945] Meet the SR-72 Son of Blackbird — The Future of the US Military and Russia or China’s nightmare? : Imagine a future crisis somewhere in Europe or Asia and the United States getting an intelligence-gathering aircraft overhead of the site in an hour and a half. It could become a reality in very short order as the US’ premier aeronautics engineers are making it happen.
The Lockheed Martin SR-72 — also known as the "Son of Blackbird", is the United States’ hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) concept that is expected to have the capability to perform high-speed intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), as well as strike operations.
The aircraft is being developed under Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works or Advanced Development Programs. About 85 percent of the work done there is classified by the government.
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*Yawn* Remember the redesign of the B-1 Lancer from supersonic to low altitude and stealthy? Unless someone has figured a way to change aerodynamics this weapon system is only as lethal as the flying aerial tanker fleet that gets it in range. Basically an IRBM that flies really, really low.
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Remember the days when we didn't hear about a 'new' weapons system until after it had been deployed for a while?
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Remember the days when individual Soviet military officers PREVENTED WW III? E.g. Vasily Arkhipov Soviet naval officer 1962, Lt. Col Stanislav Petrov 1983. Had the Russians never opened their archives after the USSR dissolved, we would never had known of these men.
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I'll believe Russian military propaganda after they manage to take over Sumy.
[FOX] TAMPA — A new drug 20-100 times stronger than fentanyl is now making its way into common street drugs across the United States.
Isotonitazene, referred to as ISO, is creating problems for spring breakers in Florida and even leading to second-hand overdoses.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued a warning on ISO earlier this month, as law enforcement agencies warned the drug could be driving the recent increase in overdose deaths.
"For years, we have been warning about the dangers of fentanyl and how just one pill laced with this synthetic opioid can kill. Now, there is a new, deadlier drug being found in Florida. Isotonitazene ... is so strong that it can kill just by coming in contact with someone’s skin or being accidentally inhaled. ISO has already been linked to overdose deaths in Florida, so please, never take any illicit drug and know that using just one time could cost you your life," Moody said.
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These drugs are for those who prefer to avoid the dull routines of everyday life by getting high and risking "instant death" or permanent deathlike disability. Also for those who trust their drug dealers more than they would trust a licensed & authorized prescriber.
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^ On a "higher" (no pun intended) level - correct. They quit thinking at the win/reward/consequences level as soon as the drugs are available
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[ZERO] Update (1510ET): Ukraine's The Kyiv Independent English language news portal is citing the country's military who say Russian forces have partially withdrawn from Kyiv and Chernihiv, after the Kremlin said coming off "constructive" negotiations in Istanbul that the military would drastically reduce operations near the two major cities.
"According to Ukraine’s military, the Russian army is regrouping in the east to concentrate its military power in the area. In the south, Russia is preparing to resume offensive operations," the Kyiv-based outlet wrote.
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Ukrainian forces should hug the withdrawing RU elements. Could be preparation or protective measure for a much larger attack. Obviously something that should be monitored closely.
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Kiev was never the focus. The base that matters is Sevastopol. Securing it by creating a cordon across the Black Sea coast and the Sea of Azov was the essential goal for Russia, along with ending the torture and slaughter of Russian speakers in the East. The Russians are very closed to finally securing all of their goals and are just toying with Zelensky now. Putin isn't even bothering to make plans to come to Istanbul.
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When the Pentagon successfuly finish off a war the they should offer up their analysis or advice.
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It's when wars are over that the Pentagon does its finest strategizing. In hindsight.
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could have fooled me
Yes, you were fooled. Zelensky is now desperate and dying for peace. Putin is playing with him like a cat with a wounded mouse.
Russia has achieved all its war aims in the south and is nearly finished in the east. Biden has disgraced himself on the world stage. People are calling for his removal, while Putin's grip on power is strong as ever.
Russia is dictating terms to his German and other western customers. The rouble has already made up all of its losses and hit 79 today. The resistance mark is around 85 which means that readers expect it to continue making gains.
The OPEC nations are solidly behind Russia and China refuse to join the West in punishing Russia. China, India and all the non western nations are avoiding or busting the sanctions, which are actually punishing the West. Germany announced today it will begin to ration gas to its citizens. The US policy is a total failure.
Russia’s top lawmaker suggested that Russia should also switch to rouble payments for other commodities. Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, said in a post on Telegram: “If you want gas, find roubles,” before suggesting that rouble payments should be extended to oil, grains, metals, fertiliser, coal and timber for roubles on global markets
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China refuses to join the West in punishing Russia
China's foreign ministry is joining the West in denouncing Biden's dangerous fantasies of regime change:
"Far from backing away from an anti-Western position, top Chinese diplomats are pressing their case. Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng have made statements since the invasion blaming the U.S. for not considering Russia’s security concerns and denouncing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s eastward expansion.
In China’s telling, the world should have sympathy for Ukraine not because it was attacked by Russia, but because it is the victim of a reckless U.S. bid to maintain geopolitical dominance.
According to Beijing, the lesson for small countries is don’t be used as a pawn. The U.S. will manipulate them into fighting proxy wars against its adversaries.
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Germany announced today it will begin to ration gas to its citizens. The US policy is a total failure.
German rationing is a German failure. President Trump’s observation a few years ago that focussing on energy contracts with Russia would leave Germany at Russia’s mercy when diplomatic winds changed, while his offer to significantly increase shipments of American liquified natural gas was scornfully rejected. And somehow nothing came of Israeli proposals for a pipeline as well.
And of course all those wind power windmills were not able to take up the slack when Germany’s coal-powered and nuclear power plants were decommissioned. So Germany must ration while reversing course. Again, all German policies — nothing to do with America.
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According to Beijing, the lesson for small countries is don’t be used as a pawn. The U.S. will manipulate them into fighting proxy wars against its adversaries.
Whereas China historically has financed Maoist terror groups to overthrow the governments of small countries including India, and in recent years has been fomenting BLM actions in the U.S.
Don’t listen to China, “small” countries! China is asshole.
"While most of the world’s major democracies have rallied to Ukraine’s cause, the world’s largest democracy has conspicuously declined to publicly take sides in the conflict.
Earlier this month, India joined with 34 other countries that abstained from the United Nations’ motion condemning Russia’s attack, and it has continued to abstain from U.N. General Assembly motions taking stances against Moscow’s aggression. India’s [Western] allies have firmly, yet fruitlessly, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to reconsider its stance.
Shortly after India’s first U.N. vote abstention, the U.S. State Department dispatched, then retracted, a diplomatic cable referring to the subcontinent as being “in Russia’s camp.” The European Union, United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan later held multiple mostly hopeless discussions with New Delhi to persuade it to fully divest from Russia. Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden claimed in a public address that the United States and its allies “presented a united front” against Russian President Vladimir Putin—then called out India, exclusively, for “being somewhat shaky” on the issue.
Russia's ruble rebound raises questions of sanctions' impact
"The ruble’s recovery could be a sign that the sanctions in their current form are not working as powerfully as Ukraine's allies counted on when it comes to pressuring Putin to pull his troops from Ukraine.
😂😂😂😂 "not working as powerfully as counted upon"
"It also could be a sign that Russia's efforts to artificially prop up its currency are working by leveraging its oil and gas sector. The ruble was trading at roughly 85 to the U.S. dollar, roughly where it was before Russia started its invasion a month ago."
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Singapore's PM dismisses USA as a "supplicant" begging and pleading humbly for assistance from China
"Richard Haass, who heads the Council on Foreign Relations, interviewed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore about the impact of the war in Ukraine on the U.S. and its allies' relationships with China.
"I'm not a Beijing whisperer," the Prime Minister of Singapore noted. "We cannot [help you with China]. We are not part of the family. We are an ethnic Chinese-majority country in Southeast Asia. Multiracial, multireligious, with independent national interest and priorities, and they treat us as such and we remind them that is so."
"The Chinese have taken their own position" on Ukraine and Taiwan "and they consider you a supplicant asking them to help solve the Russian problem," he explained.
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LOL - I still think our trolls take their payments in dollars
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anonymous troll's boastful chauvinistic lies from loser cultures and empires, keep it up
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Rationing gas in Germany
Vouchers for gas in California
Talk of food shortages and hunger in the US
"France's government is considering food vouchers to help residents afford to eat."
"A commodities trading company said diesel is in such short supply it may soon have to be rationed."
"The chance of a US recession in 2023 has risen to 35%, according to Goldman Sachs"
"CEO of Dutch trading company Vitol said this week pulling Russian oil off the Western market will force drivers and truckers to ration diesel fuel"
[American Thinker] Today, unquestionably serious cardiovascular, thrombotic and neurologic adverse events related to the vaccine have occurred around the world. The FDA’s own vaccine adverse event tracking system (the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System or VAERS) shows substantial and serious risks from the vaccine, even though the FDA only collects an estimated 10% of all adverse events.
Still, federal agencies and manufacturers aren’t officially warning the American public about these risks, despite having been privy to this information for almost a whole year. Why? Because it would counter the narrative that taking endless vaccines and boosters is your patriotic duty.
It’s pretty clear today there are both safety and efficacy problems with vaccines and boosters. Because all of the FDA’s 18,000-plus employees had access to the same drug safety data we have, one must ask:
Where is the updated Covid-19 labeling reflecting the latest safety and efficacy findings in VAERS?
Where are the FDA "Dear Doctor" letters giving updated safety guidance?
Where are the "Dear Pharmacist" letters to pharmacists who are still daily administering thousands of boosters to kids and other young healthy people?
Why isn’t the FDA recommending follow-up symptom tracking to avoid further inflammatory neurologic/thrombotic/cardiovascular tragedies instead of its proposal to extend the dosing interval and cross fingers that it would mitigate risk (as there is no concrete clinical evidence that it will do anything?
Why is the FDA ignoring internal drug safety epidemiologists who have stated during official FDA presentations that it only takes a single, well-documented adverse event to justify a safety signal investigation and warning to the American public of the risk?
Why isn’t the FDA demanding studies addressing genotoxicity, teratogenicity, oncogenicity, the potential for reduced fertility in men and women, the clinical effects of spike proteins in donated blood, and the bioaccumulation of vaccine in women’s ovaries? Why isn’t the agency convening and dedicating a Data Safety Monitoring Board to surveil all these post-marketing effects and others?
Are Americans expected to believe that the $6.5 billion-per-year taxpayer-funded FDA lacks adequate funding to address all these public health issues?
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Liars. They fucking lied about everything. "Flatten the curve," "finished by fall," "dead end" pseudo-vaccine that is NOT safe and NOT effective.
They lied about "BLM." They lied about "temporary" inflation. They lied and are still lying about Putin and Ukraine, and they're pushing us toward nuclear war and global famine. God damn these bastards
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We should least of all be surprised. A government that spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars per year murdering the unborn is capable of doing nearly anything.
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Bruce Willis???? “ A 52yo male developed sudden-onset reading difficulty and aphasia 7d after the second dose of an mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine”
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Bruce Willis?
FROM THE VAERS DATABASE as of 3-18-2022:
Cases for 60-70 year old males where
Symptom = 'Aphasia' and
1) All vaccines, vaccination date = 2019: 12 total cases
2) Pfizer mRNA vaccine alone, since 2021: 340 total cases
Bruce Willis is 67 and developed aphasia after being vaccinated. Could it just be a coincidence? Maybe, but how did Willis’ doctors rule out the vaccine being causal?
We aren’t told this. Why not?
340 cases of aphasia vs. 12 for his age group… a factor of 28 higher reporting rate for the COVID vaccines.
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Prior to the COVID vaccines, there were many reports of acute aphasia apparently resulting from acute COVID-19 infections, at least one of which was apparently improved by use of one of the monoclonal antibodies used for COVID treatment. Many speculations in medical literature can also be found re: COVID causing or worsening dementia such as Alzheimer's.
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There was buzz last year that Willis was having issues on productions dating back to 2020 when the busy former “Pulp Fiction” star was making a string of mostly B action movies with titles such as “American Siege,” “Survive the Game,” “Cosmic Sin” and “Hard Kill.
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OK, I understand the likelihood that Biden isn't the one who is calling the shots. I still want him out of the White House ASAP because the people who are pulling his strings need a puppet who won't blurt stuff that shouldn't be blurted. The game they're playing is dangerous enough without the defective puppet they're using now.
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The ruble is now back up to where it was before the invasion.
Wall Street investors are buying up Russian bonds.
The sanctions are a joke. China, the Saudis and OPEC, the Indians, Brazilians and dozens of other countries are ramping up trade with Russia.
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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." —Walter Scott, Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field (standard text dated 1833)
"I want the truth!" "You can’t handle the truth!" —Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) and Col. Nathan R. Jessup (Jack Nicholson), A Few Good Men (1992).
It is probably fair to say that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the most demonized man on the planet right now.More so than Kim Jong-Un, even when North Korea’s psychotic tyrant is having family members killed and conducting sadistic public executions. These range from firing squads with family members forced to watch, to anti-aircraft missiles that blow the condemned to bloody pieces in front of thousands of traumatized people.
Real crimes against humanity never get attention from our lying corporate media because North Korea has nothing GloboCorp wants. Maybe this is true of Yemen as well....
Casual brutalities aside, I find it amazing how many people seem able to get inside Vladimir Putin’s head. I’ve heard each of the following:
"We need to understand Russia's actual conduct," says a retired Air Force officer, a lawyer by training who has been involved in approving targets for U.S. fights in Iraq and Afghanistan. The officer currently works as an analyst with a large military contractor advising the Pentagon and was granted anonymity in order to speak candidly.
"If we merely convince ourselves that Russia is bombing indiscriminately, or [that] it is failing to inflict more harm because its personnel are not up to the task or because it is technically inept, then we are not seeing the real conflict." In the analyst's view, though the war has led to unprecedented destruction in the south and east, the Russian military has actually been showing restraint in its long-range attacks.
As of the past weekend, in 24 days of conflict, Russia has flown some 1,400 strike sorties and delivered almost 1,000 missiles (by contrast, the United States flew more sorties and delivered more weapons IN THE FIRST DAY of the 2003 Iraq war).
The vast majority of the airstrikes are over the battlefield, with Russian aircraft providing "close air support" to ground forces. The remainder—less than 20 percent, according to U.S. experts—has been aimed at military airfields, barracks and supporting depots.
A proportion of those strikes have damaged and destroyed civilian structures and killed and injured innocent civilians, but the level of death and destruction is low compared to Russia's capacity.
"I know it's hard ... to swallow that the carnage and destruction could be much worse than it is," says the DIA analyst. "But that's what the facts show. This suggests to me, at least, that Putin is not intentionally attacking civilians, that perhaps he is mindful that he needs to limit damage in order to leave an out for negotiations."
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Of course. If Putin was willing to crater Ukraine just to get at the leadership, Zelensky would be a red daub somewhere in the rubble. And there's nothing NATO could do about it without getting Americans killed. Granted, Biden could even go that far, but then the deepState would take out Biden before that. Russia is fully prepared either way. So any pulling back of hostility or dial down from the Kremlin means they're genuinely not interested in creating misery for everyone, just for certain people. Zelensky is making civs fight under threat of being branded traitors. Not only civs but anyone he can find. Enlisting free radicals, mercs, anyone to protect his presidency. This is real criminal behaviour.
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Zelensky is making civs fight under threat of being branded traitors. Not only civs but anyone he can find. Enlisting free radicals, mercs, anyone to protect his presidency. This is real criminal behaviour.
Yes it is. Zelensky more than anyone is responsible for this war. Why did he suddenly change his time last year and start declaring absurd goals like "taking back Crimea" and joining Nato?
Who goaded Zelensky to begin taunting the Bear in 2021? He didn't behave that way during Trump's time. Quite opposite actually
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Who goaded Zelensky to begin taunting the Bear in 2021?
The same people who staged the Maidan coup in 2014 and kicked over the hornet's nest in Libya. The Biden foreign policy team is full of Obama retreads, including Nuland and Sullivan
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Zelensky is making civs fight under threat of being branded traitors. Enlisting free radicals, mercs, anyone to protect his presidency.
Hollywood should have given Zelensky an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. A kleptocratic shit-stirring Loki impersonating a patriot
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#2 They're lying. The propaganda campaign is ridiculous. Putin's been restrained.
This article -- which is not from "USAA" by the way but from the dissident website USSA -- shows all the ways the propaganda operates. It's really breathtaking how the "lying corporate media" have ignored salient facts and either memoryholed or simply blocked out everything Putin has said.
The linked article reviews these point by point. It's amazing how sane and rational the Russian case actually is -- you would never know it from all the BS that's been spread by our left wing globalists and kleptocrats.
How many Americans or Euros know that the US pushed the Kiev regime to rip up the Minsk II Treaty? To demand Nato accession? That Zelensky was demanding nukes and openly declaring his intention to seize Russia's most important naval base?
How many know that for 8 years the Kiev regime installed through a US coup d'etat has been waging war on and terrorizing Russians who live in the eastern regions of the country?
Do Americans even know that Putin repeatedly warned the US that these actions were intolerable and represented a real and present danger to Russian security?
[They] hid in schools, covered themselves with civilians, bombed the drama theater from the inside , hid along Kronshtadskaya Street, hid in kindergartens, bombed the maternity hospital while operations were taking place there . It was very scary,” Ustinova says.
I wouldn't put it past the Ukranian paramils to bomb Ukranians for the benefit of the BBCs and Daily Mails. Or false flag and shit. If Putin will not kill enough civs, someone has to right?
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...come on, the Taliban got away with it for 20 years. If it works, someone else can follow the script, right. And what does the Taliban get for doing it? What they wanted and having the useful idiots give them aid in the billions.
There are no good guys only the lesser of evils. See - supplying Stalin in WW2
#13
The war started in May 2014. It's been going on without a break for 8 years. The precipitating cause was a new regime in Kyiv brought to power by a US-aided coup. There's extensive documentary evidence implicating American officials (Nuland, Pyatt) in that coup.
There's also tonnes of evidence that Obama administration and former Clinton administration officials colluded with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington to spread lies and disinformation about what was actually happening in Kyiv and in the eastern regions where the war was raging.
The Russians and many US foreign policy experts have been consistently warning the West for many years that these provocative and reckless actions by American operatives would eventually push Russia to protect its vital national interests on its southwestern border. Just like the US would if China were provoking a Mexican puppet regime to demand the return of Texas, use paramilitaries to kill Americans on our southwestern border and build up a hostile military with China's help and encouragement.
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The next thing I expect to hear from these obnoxious claques is that it was the Ukrainians who invaded Russia exactly when the Russian army had forces on the border for exercises, and unfairly used modern weapons to attack the long convoys of Russian armor that entered into Ukraine in response to that invasion. Notoriously corrupt governments are supposed to have weapons systems that are disassembled and don't work, or use bad logistic practices to destroy their own forces. Don't the Ukrainians know enough to steal from their army enough to make it a laughing stock?
The Russians at least know enough to follow the American example and screw up everything they touch. Ukraine used to be pretty good at screwing up. Didn't Zelensky know how?
And none of you guys mention the wonderful opportunities all those refugees have gotten to travel abroad like they were on vacation. They should be thanking Putin for that, and for the opportunity to escape from Zelensky's brutal tyranny.
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I guess orders went out to fluff this article in particular.
(The press didn't demonize Putin -- he did that himself.)
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[They] hid in schools, covered themselves with civilians, bombed the drama theater from the inside , hid along Kronshtadskaya Street, hid in kindergartens, bombed the maternity hospital while operations were taking place there . It was very scary,” Ustinova says.
I wouldn't put it past the Ukranian paramils to bomb Ukranians for the benefit of the BBCs and Daily Mails. Or false flag and shit.
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I wouldn't either, Dron66046. The Daily Mail are making money hand over fist with all the sensational lies and bullshit they're vomiting up every day.
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Do Americans even know that Putin repeatedly warned the US...
who is this Putin guy everyone keeps talking about?
OK, OK, more seriously, Putin has been clear about what he considers a red line as far as NATO goes. I wonder if the reason the US did not believe him was because none of our politicians actually mean what they say, much less have the stones to act on it.
Example: Biden saying Putin cannot remain in power
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When you start with the assumption of a false flag and "reason" from there, what it tells me is you assume the side you support is likely to commit atrocities and are desperate to plant doubt.
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[Washington Examiner] A longtime CIA veteran who signed the infamous letter baselessly asserting Russian involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop saga said he was proud to have played his part in influencing the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden — before backtracking and claiming he was being sarcastic when he became embroiled in a Twitter spat with Donald Trump's ex-intelligence chief.
John Sipher retired in 2014 after a 28-year career in the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, and he is one of the dozens of former intelligence officials who claimed the laptop story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
Sipher, a longtime defender of Christopher Steele's discredited dossier, is now a co-founder of Spycraft Entertainment and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Despite offering no proof, Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, along with many in the media, dismissed the laptop story as being a Russian disinformation operation.
The letter hedged a bit at various times, noting that "we do not have evidence of Russian involvement." But, it said, "our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case." The letter argued that "if we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election" and expressed "our view that the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue."
After the New York Post published emails belonging to his son, then-candidate Biden called the laptop story "garbage" and part of a "Russian plan" during an October 2020 debate with then-President Donald Trump. He was referring to the Politico report about the letter in an article titled "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say."
The title was misleading because the letter never directly called it Russian "disinformation," but Sipher himself shared the story.
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It would be interesting to see the emails used to organize the letters. Maybe they just used smoke signals or met for discussion in an online CandyCrush forum.
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I’d like to sarcastically read Sipjer’s obit tomorrow.
[Garowe] The city of Minneapolis in the U.S. Midwest has allowed the Islamic call to prayer, known as the adhan, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan.
The call to prayer can be recited by local mosques in the city of Minneapolis, the largest in the state of Minnesota.
The city council approved a bill, presented by council member Jamal Osman, allowing the prayer to be recited publicly by loudspeaker between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., so long as local noise ordinances are respected.
Calling the measure a step in the right direction for religious equality, Osman said, "We have a lot of work still to do to make sure everyone is enjoying the same rights, every religion is enjoying."
Under the measure, mosques will be able to make the call to prayer by loudspeaker three times a day, except for morning and night prayers, provided that the volume is below a certain decibel limit.
"The Adhan is one of the most important parts of our faith," Osman wrote on Twitter, adding that the call can be made at the same hours allowed for Christian church bells.
He called the move "a signal of the equality and community we have built here. This is America and we are allowed to share our faith from the rooftops, just like everyone else."
The call to prayer was first legalized in the U.S. in 2004 in the city of Hamtramck, Michigan, by a decision of the local government, followed by Dearborn, the only U.S. city in the same state where Moslems are a majority.
The city council of Paterson, New Jersey, where nearly 30,000 Moslems live, was the third city to pass a measure authorizing the call to prayer, in March 2020.
And pity the people of Minneapolis. The azaan is 'an important part of the faith' because it's one of the six muhaaz [waypoints] to be won on the way to dominance of a community. It is a rallying cry, more a sign of dominance that reminds everyone that the eye-slam is here to stay.
These are roughly the six waypoints taught by islamic strategists out of the deoband. The older turkic ones are fourteen in number and similar, containing some guidelines on taqiya. In modern Islamism, taqiya is only an attitude. A basic obfuscation of intent taught to every moslem from childhood.
1. Population expansion. Establishment of significant numbers to demand recognition of religious needs. Countries where they are purposely denied anything beyond survival, they do this by silently breeding. In liberal, bleeding heart countries they do so by immigration. They
2. Mosques and madrassas. At first these are led by young, modern men or fuddy duddies with white beards and a genial attitude. Preaching is about love, peace, etc. The best values, how to be a good citizen and all that. This actually ensures one generation even gets through school and college as perfectly well adjusted little bastitches. They are encouraged by community [especially in liberal socialist nations] to take up law, civil services, influential roles that will help in...
3. Dawah. Attraction of other communities to the thingy. By good behaviour, with music and entertainment, with celebration of the culture itself, dressing it up and advertising it as grand. This is a mixed bag and locals begin to feel the pique by now. And the moslems begin to get irritated with the slowness of the locals to accept their greater faith. Poetry, islamic fashions, Ramzaan, Eid, iftaar, azaan, slowly mutate into something else.
4. Mass namaaz on roads jamming traffic, displays of numbers in bloody slaughter of goats openly, the river of blood symbolic of a promise of violence. Islamic laws begin to glaringly clash with local laws of the land. Honor killing and rape and murder become rampant. Supremacist aggression and criminal actions are encouraged by the new leaders of the mosques which by now have councils. These are not fuddy duddies but men with bookshelves full of Egyptian, Turkish and Indian muslim authors calling for a guerrilla approach to genocide and domination.
5. While the previous generation has gone on to establish benevolent trusts, foundations, PACs and lobbies. Some of them manage to convert local celebrity or marry into industry, government, places of influence where they may help their other arms of ghazwa [conquest]. Any influence is good. All that matters is the goal, which is to ultimately dominate. They continually 'condemn' the crime and the bigotry of 'some section' of moslems. These are allegedly not real moslems and do not represent the real peaceful... whatever. Using the stupid legal remedies provided to all and sundry irrespective of the fact that they care fcuk-all for your constitutions, one arm intimidates physically while the other litigates for the freedoms to do so. They legislate more and more of the Shariah into local law. This present bill is a case in point. Now these goings on create friction with the host society. And they either push back and win or they don't. For example in Thailand they won, and in Japan and Hungary and Italy, Burma and some parts of India. But these places all had a physically aggressive element, supremacists and Islam haters unafraid of their own misguided authorities. Not in hundreds but thousands. Where a physical dominance was possible.
6. Where physical dominance of the kaffir is impossible due to numbers, they ally. There is a marxist, anti-national, anti-establishment element in every sôciety. Quasi-commie wards of sorôs types, communities of tribals barely integrated and leaning to criminality, organized criminals... They help build an ecosystem of elements geared up for undermining the very moral and social substratum of the host population that won't allow them dominance. The BLM is a good example of this as I've repeatedly said. Most of the comedians, actors and influencers of black youth have got to be either closet Sunnis or must have some 'my islamic friend'. From põrn stars to congresswomen, open hatred for the judeochristian part of society is propagated until it becomes murderous rage. Color, ideology, class are just excuses. The aim is to make all enemies of the opposing majority your friends, and to aid them in the jihad proper.
In every case of this slow, plodding encroachment on local population, Islamists have lost only when the population itself took up arms and unafraid of the labels of fascist and Nazi and islamophobe, lynched and raped the fear of the majority into them.
Now you may curse at me for being some third world hate monger and tell me 'we do things a bit differently heah!' Trust me, your enemy is banking on it.
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Clearly laid out, Dron. I’ve seen it defined as successive increases of percent of local population.
We’ve been watching the various stages of the process progress in various parts of the world. In the suburbs of France they’ve got mass namaz blocking select streets along with killing priests and nuns and desecrating churches. In England they beat up teachers who try to teach about the Holocaust and get the idiot elected Lord Mayor of London, while the police dare not arrest — or actually overtly protect — “Asian” grooming gangs. In Germany it is considered racist to notice that the migrants colonists from the Ummah are raping native sons as well as daughters. In America the process is still beginning, except in certain communities, and of course prisons; in the armed forces and the FBI, etc, certain things can no longer be spoken about or openly planned against, a situation that had already begun by the end of the George W. Bush presidency, with his talk of the “Religion of Peace”; President Barack Hussein Obama — unbeliever in higher powers that he clearly is, that son of a Communist anthropologist — took it up several notches.
True. And that is only because of a cultural defence put up by evangelicals and fringe nationalists. The real defenders who are being made to look like villains by the fags in showbiz.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 29, 2022
Late on Monday, anonymous gunmen assaulted the house of a former member of the Syrian opposition factions killing him and his wife in al-Sanamayn city in the northern countryside of Daraa, south Syria.
Muhammed Jaber al-Etmeh, nicknamed ‘Saydalani’ and his wife identified as Hana’ al-Etmeh were critically injured after their house was targeted with handmade grenade dropped by unknown gunmen, local sources told North Press.
The two were transferred to the hospital where they succumbed to their injuries.
Al-Etmeh, who joined the opposition factions before, underwent a settlement process by the government in 2018 and he joined no military formations afterwards.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 29, 2022
A doctor working in one of the Russian-backed factions was killed on Tuesday when an explosive device exploded against his car in the northern countryside of Daraa.
“The doctor, Tha’ir Ziyad al-Balkhi, was killed as a result of the explosion of an explosive device planted in his car by unknown persons while it was in front of his house in the town of Mahja in the northern countryside of Daraa,” local sources told North Press.
“The doctor worked in the ranks of the Eighth Brigade of the Russian-backed Fifth Corps. He worked in the hospital of the city of Busra al-Sham, the Brigade’s stronghold in the eastern countryside of Daraa,” the sources added.
It is noteworthy that the officers of the Russian forces recruited hundreds of former members of the opposition factions from Daraa in their 8th Brigade, after the government forces entered the governorate in 2018.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 29, 2022
A child was shot on Tuesday evening, by a member of the government forces in the northern countryside of Daraa.
“The child, Yamen Hussam Qanbus, was shot in the chest by a member of the State Security detachment of the government forces, in the city of al-Hara in the northern countryside of Daraa. He was subsequently transported to Damascus hospitals,” a local source told North Press.
“The officers of the government forces present in the detachment justified the shooting, saying that the child was injured by a gunshot wound by mistake,” the source added.
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A member of ISIS was killed and four others were arrested on Monday in two separate operations by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) along the Global Coalition forces, in a town, east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
“The Global Coalition aircraft targeted the house of Abed al-Salem al-Abbo, an ISIS member, near the main road in the center of the town of Theban with a helicopter landing operation,” a military source from Theban town, 50 km east of Deir ez-Zor, told North Press.
“Al-Abbo was killed during the landing operation when trying to escape, and another member of ISIS was arrested,” the source said.
The landing coincided with raids by SDF to pursue wanted men on charges of belonging to ISIS in the same town.
“SDF stormed al-Latwa neighborhood near the bank of the Euphrates River in the center of the town, to pursue wanted persons on charges of belonging to ISIS,” the same source told North Press.
“Three wanted persons, including a displaced person from the town of Mahkan, which is under the control of government forces, east of Deir ez-Zor, west of the Euphrates, were arrested in the raids,” the source added.
Recently, the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor has been witnessing an increase in cases of killing of members of the SDF, employees of the Autonomous Administration, tribal dignitaries and civilians, as a result of which SDF and the Global Coalition forces have intensified their security operations in the region.
On Sunday, ISIS announced, through media close to it, capturing and killing three SDF members in the town Susah in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 29, 2022
Residents a town east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria, found, on Tuesday, bodies of two fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) who were kidnapped three days ago.
“Residents of the town found bodies of two SDF fighters near the site of their work lying on a land in the center of Susah town, 120 kilometers east of Deir ez-Zor,” an SDF military source said.
Three SDF fighters were kidnapped while they were on an exploratory walkabout on the river crossings in the town, to find the bodies of two of them later while the third is still missed, the source added.
Yesterday, the Islamic State Organization (ISIS), through close outlets, claimed responsibility for arresting and killing three SDF fighters after subjecting them to investigations and confiscating the weapons they had.
In response, the SDF imposed a curfew in the town after the incident and started patrols to pursue the kidnappers, but they did not managed to hunt them so far.
Recently, Deir ez-Zor countryside has been witnessing a spike in assassinations against SDF members, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) employees, clan dignitaries and civilians despite launching intensive security operations.
Two days ago, the SDF arrested three wanted individuals on charges of links to ISIS in the town of Diban in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Iraqi security forces reportedly raided three ISIS hideouts in Nineveh, earlier today, Tuesday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that the force on duty found and seized "fresh vegetables" and logistic supplies inside those hideouts.
"The operation is still underway," the source said.
In al-Hadar desert, southeast of Mosul, a force from the Iraqi army detonated a pickup that belonged to the terrorist organization of ISIS.
The detonation carried out under controlled conditions went smoothly without any complications.
Earlier today, the spokesperson to the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Major-General Yehya Rasool, said that the Iraqi airforce warplanes executed four airstrikes in Wadi Chay in Kirkuk.
On Tuesday, an official security source said that an explosive device blew up targeting a vehicle belonging to the 16th Division of the Nineveh Operations Command of the Iraqi army.
The explosion wounded two Iraqi soldiers. The source reported.
The two soldiers were on a mission as part of the operations launched on Tuesday in three governorates.
The Iraqi security forces and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) carried out large-scale operations in three governorates against ISIS members this morning.
In a statement, the PMF media said that the Nineveh-Saladin- Al-Anbar Operations Commands, affiliated with the Joint Operations Command of the Ministries of Defense and Interior and the Air Force Command and Army Aviation, launched security operations to "eliminate terrorist groups and destroy their hideouts in Al-Jazeera and the areas among the governorates of Nineveh, Saladin, and Al-Anbar."
For its part, the Joint Operations Command, the highest authority in the Iraqi army, said that the commanders of the operations of Al-Jazeera, Saladin, and West Nineveh, in collaboration with the Popular Mobilization Units, the Nineveh, Saladin, and West Anbar axes, and the Air Forces, carried out an overall security operation (Strong Will) in the southern Al-Hader and Al-Jazeera regions in the north of the Euphrates and the areas west of Wadi Tharthar.
The Al-Anbar Operations Command said it had launched the "Lions of the Desert" Operation, which targets areas north of the Al-Qaim district towards the Al-Jazeera desert in Mosul.
"Our forces carried out this morning a security operation from three main axes, in partnership with the Iraqi army and the army's aviation," Qassem Musleh, the PMF commander of Al-Anbar Operations, said in a statement.
The Commander added, "the operation is one of the PMF's major security operations since the victory over ISIS."
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The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) decided to demolish its headquarters in Baghdad.
Photos obtained by Shafaq News Agency showed excavators demolished the building of the KDP 5th branch in the Karrada area in central Baghdad.
Yesterday, the KDP closed its headquarters in Baghdad and suspended its work in protest against setting fire and destroying its properties.
The KDP's 5th branch in Baghdad said, "We affirm that the Kurdistan Democratic Party is a long party in Iraq with a long and honorable history of struggle alongside the Iraqi national parties, and it was and still plays a leading role in consolidating freedom, democracy and the political process in Iraq."
"KDP cannot accept these outlaw offending, insults, and chaotic behavior."
"Since the headquarters of our party was attacked for the second time without taking the necessary protection measures by the security services, we have decided to close it."
"We reiterate our condemnation and denunciation of any offending of religious references, and at the same time, we condemn and denounce the attack on our headquarters."
"We call Iraqi national political forces to condemn these acts that are far from morals, values, and humanitarian principles."
On Monday, The Kurdish Ministry of Interior announced arresting Nayef Kurdistani after sharing a tweet they considered "offensive" to the Iraqi Supreme Religious Authority.
Before the arrest, angry demonstrators destroyed and broke fire into the Kurdistan Democratic Party's headquarters in Baghdad.
Turkey's warplanes reportedly bombarded sites of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) inside the territory of the Kurdistan Region earlier today, Tuesday.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency that the bombardment mainly targeted PKK sites on Mount Matin that overlooks Amedi district, north of Duhok.
"The extent of the damages is not immediately clear," the source said.
The head of Fallujah police department, Jamal al-Jumaili, said that military cashes and ammunition left behind by ISIS were detonated by al-Anbar operations command.
A rocket attack targeted the vicinity of a military base in Nineveh today, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that two rockets landed in the vicinity of the Zlikan base hosting Turkish forces.
The Turkish forces are deployed in the Zlikan base in Bashiqa district to fight the Kurdistan Workers Party, which has long provoked a dispute between Baghdad and Ankara.
[NYPOST] Russia on Tuesday claimed it would "radically" reduce its attacks around Kyiv and Chernihiv as a good-will gesture amid peace talks — but critics contended the move was just a retreat after Kremlin losses."Given that the talks on the preparation of an agreement on the neutrality and non-nuclear status of Ukraine have moved into a practical field ... a decision has been made to radically, by several times, reduce the military activity in the areas of Kyiv and Chernihiv," said Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin.
He added that the pledge was meant "to increase trust" in talks aimed at ending the fighting, as negotiators met again after several failed rounds of discussions.
But some military analysts described the move as a relatively empty gesture, given that Russia has yet failed to take the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, which it had reportedly expected to swiftly do after invading its eastern neighbor in late February.
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And my hair will grow back all by itself.
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given that Russia has yet failed to take the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, which it hadreportedly expected to swiftly do
"Reportedly" means, "We just pulled that out of our arse."
Russia never wanted to "take Kyiv." The political objective was always to partition the country in order to secure the rights of Russian speakers in the east and consolidate control of the coastline and Crimea in the south.
Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz is warning that in the next few days, CBP will have encountered 1 million migrants from when Fiscal Year 2022 started in October
So far in FY2022, 838,685 migrants were encounters by CBP – and when figures are released for March that number will climb to at least 1 million
It comes as the administration plans to give COVID-19 vaccines to migrants taken into custody in the U.S. Brilliant idea. Why should those legally here be the only ones to experience side effects? And this will mean pre-purchased vaccines will be used up instead of going to waste
Estimates show that around 170,000 migrants are waiting on the Mexican side of the southern border to cross into the U.S. once Title 42 ends
The provision allowed for immediate expulsion without hearing asylum claims in the midst of the pandemic
In preparation for this surge, DHS is prepared to initially provide up to 2,700 vaccines per day to migrants at their facilities
They plan to increase that to 6,000 daily by the end of May
BUT, we need also seasonal AG workers, like it was PRE-Jimmy Carter days.
Anyone walking around in Wally World can see we already having spot food shortages. We will desperately need persons willing to work long hard hours as farmhands to grow, harvest, and get it to market.
SO, what if we stopped, at any government level, paying US Citizens, Visa holders, and illegals to sit on their butts and have babies. But, instead instituted a Community Work for Benefits requirement.
I am willing to bet we'd see a lot fewer people living off of the Taxpayer's dole and filling those Wally World / Mickey D's and etc... vacant jobs.
[An Nahar] Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has noted that the latest improvement in the Lebanese-Gulf ties had started with the Kuwaiti paper that had been submitted to Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... "We thank Kuwait’s foreign minister for his efforts and we hope the Lebanese-Saudi relations will be gradually restored," Bou Habib said in remarks to OTV.
"We have not heard from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... that its ambassador will return to Lebanon and everything said was only published in newspapers," the minister added.
"As for the Kuwaiti ambassador, he will return, but no date has been set until the moment," Bou Habib went on say.
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"Local sources tell Amaj that despite the Taliban's efforts to launch a massive offensive against the Andarabis, they were defeated in the battle with heavy casualties and were forced to retreat. The Taliban have not yet commented." #Afghanistanhttps://t.co/rq41S5kOyn
Andarab is a valley and district in the south of Baghlan province populated by Tajiks, historically known for its grain products. It lies next to Panjshir Valley, home of Ahmad Massoud’s anti-Talib National Resistance Front, and is aligned with the NRF. It appears the Talib conquest of Afghanistan remains incomplete, despite taking women and children hostage.
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The ISI neglected to send their loaner officers to run the operation, no doubt. Or the Taliban are so sure of their ability after having reconquered the country that they refused to accept them.
It’s good to know the Tajiks were not erased when we stopped seeing reports of the resistance.
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Checking the National Resistance Front’s Twitter page, herewith the only previous report of action Either they weren’t announcing actions before or it took them some months to prepare before going on the counterattack:
by the brave freedom fighters of the National Resistance Front and several other Taliban were wounded. Taliban mercenaries retreated after losing their commander; and the situation in the area has now returned to normal. 2/2
— National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (@nrfafg) February 23, 2022
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Scuttlebutt was the Chinese have made overtures to Masoud's loyalists. They first wanted them to make peace with Kabul, then they offered covert help in resisting. Materiel, armament, ammo. Why, we cannot say. Maybe they wish to contain the conflict from spilling eastward. Maybe they're hedging bets. Many in Masoud's group lean toward commie I'm told. China is no fool. If it sees promise in Masoud, there must be a reason. I think it's just because sasquatches are bad for long term business relationships. The Taliban cannot outgrow their sasquatchery like Saudis or Turks can. Masoud's resistance is still made of moderate moslems. I don't know, maybe wrong.
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Tajikistan has had diplomatic relations with Israel since the 1990s, including trade and a variety of joint projects. This suggests a broad-mindedness not seen in Pashtun culture.
As for China, they reached out the the Taliban, too. We just had an article about the Talibs preserving some Buddha statues in order to turn China up sweet as they get copper(?) mines going.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Ignorance or protecting the organization?
The Florida lawmaker is currently under investigation for sex trafficking claims
He asked how Americans 'are supposed to trust' the FBI if its cyber division cannot establish the whereabouts of Hunter Biden's laptop
Matt Gaetz claimed to be in possession of the laptop's hard drive, likely a copy
House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler stopped him from entering it into the record but changed his mind a short while later after 'further investigation'
Gaetz also introduced the 'Spook Who Cried Wolf Resolution' aimed at stripping security clearances from intel experts who called laptop 'Russian disinformation *Snicker*
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FBI Director Christopher Wray should have his clearance pulled and be 'Red Badged.' He should be cleaning out desk and immediately escorted to the door.
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Similar to Clinton's so-called "home brew servers", Hunter's laptops contain sensitive, potentially encrypted contact and communications information. Nothing became of the Clinton servers and nothing was to become of the Biden laptops.
It is likely that Hunter did not orchestrate these foreign connections and dealings through his own initiative. The lad's bulb is simply not that bright. He was provided access, funding, specific direction and guidance.
I fear a tragic 'drug overdose' is likely in Hunter's future. Just my guess.
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The contents were not admitted, they were set for review prior to admission.
I wonder how many copies for the hard drive there are if Gaetz has one?
I noticed Jordan and Gaetz were the only Representatives awake during the hearing.
Hunter told his daughter that "Pop makes me give him half" of Hunter's income. So there are certainly bank records showing debits from Hunter's account for five & six figure payments to financial entities connected with Biden Sr. They will not be hard to find.,
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/\It appears there are many in government who have been a party to espionage and treason. IMO, I think many acted to take down duly-elected POTUS Trump by any means possible-inside and outside the government and country.
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Why should anyone expect that the deep state won't remove stuff they don't want from the Library of Congress?
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JBs defense will be that he was not cognitively aware that he had been bought off. His daily performance will lend credence to that legal theory.
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Plausible deniability! Ask the question in a different way: Are there people associated with the FBI or CIA or NSA who do know where the laptop was secured if asked in a SCIF by a peer with comparable Codeword clearances?
[An Nahar] Authorities in three European countries have frozen more than $130 million in assets linked to an investigation into money laundering in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , a European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... agency said Monday.The measures taken by officials in La Belle France, Germany and Luxembourg come as Lebanon grapples with a devastating economic crisis and coincide with domestic and European investigations of its longtime central bank governor, Riad Salameh. The crisis, which started in October 2019, is rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement and has continued with no serious steps by the country's political class to work for a solution.
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[NYPOST] Ukrainian forces may have struck back inside Russia on Tuesday with their first significant shelling.A Ukrainian missile appeared to have hit a temporary Russian military encampment outside Belgorod, in Russia’s village of Krasny Oktyabr, about 40 miles from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, said the Russian state-run news agency ...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?... Tass.
Regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said there were no casualties, but an emergency service worker told Tass that 4 Russian soldiers were maimed.
Video posted online from two local Belgorod news outlets appeared to show ammunition blowing up, but the source of the earth-shattering kaboom could not be immediately confirmed outside of Tass.
If verified, the strike would apparently be the first that struck a military target inside Russia and maimed soldiers. Last week, Tass said two men were hurt when a shell from Ukraine went kaboom! in the same area.
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[Korrespondent] 22:28 Small towns northwest of Kiev from the first days of Russia's war against Ukraine have become hotbeds of fierce hostilities. Local residents suddenly found themselves between two fires on the front line. Read more about what they had to endure in the material Three stories of evacuation from the suburbs of Kiev . 22:20 Hristo Grozev sees "obvious signs" that Russian troops are returning from the Kiev-Sumy direction back to the Russian Federation.
22:19 Biden also expressed doubts about the sincerity of Russia's intentions to withdraw troops from Kiev and Chernigov: "We'll see if they do what they propose." At the same time, he assured that the United States will continue to provide Ukraine with weapons and will increase sanctions pressure on the Russian Federation.
22:16 Podolyak says that all the documents for the meeting between Zelensky and Putin are already ready: "We can already start preparing meetings of the presidents. Of course, we want to do this as soon as possible."
22:13 Military warehouses are on fire near the village of Krasny Oktyabr near Belgorod. According to the Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, there are no victims or injured among the residents.
Russian publics write about a strike on a Ukrainian missile warehouse. According to some Russian media, the 19th missile brigade delivered the Tochka-U missile. There is no official information yet.
21:51 The French Development Agency will provide Ukraine with 300 million euros in concessional loans, Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko said.
21:47 According to the agreed three humanitarian corridors, today 1,665 people arrived in Zaporozhye on their own transport, Vereshchuk said. Of these, 936 people from Mariupol and 729 residents of the Zaporozhye region.
21:43 Vereshchuk said that the Cabinet of Ministers is preparing a program to support Ukrainians who were forcibly taken to Russia.
21:29 The head of the Kiev Regional Military District Alexander Pavlyuk said that the enemy is regrouping troops, partially withdrawing them to the territory of Belarus. In the direction of Brovary, the Russians are trying to hold on to their previously occupied positions and prevent further advancement of Ukrainian troops.
21:25 In Nikolaev, Moskovskaya Street was renamed Mariupolskaya.
21:21 Arestovich said that Putin's plans have completely failed, Russia is afraid to involve Belarusians in the "special operation", as they will go over to the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He also said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are already liberating the Sumy region, part of the Kharkov and Kiev regions. "Russian columns are leaving from there. This is a failure for them," the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office added.
21:19 The Pentagon believes that the movements of Russian troops in the Kiev region are "relocation, not withdrawal of troops," and you still need to be prepared for major clashes in other regions of Ukraine.
21:15 Putin, in response to Macron's request for the evacuation of the inhabitants of Mariupol, replied to the French president that "to resolve the situation" Ukrainian troops must lay down their arms, the Kremlin press service reports.
The French presidential administration reported this as follows: "During the conversation between Macron and Putin, it was stated that a humanitarian operation in Mariupol is now impossible."
21:10 Luxembourg has frozen Russian assets worth 2.5 billion euros.
20:59 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council reports that the occupiers are driving away their equipment and shelling from the outskirts of the villages, after which they pass through the village, help people get out from the rubble and tell the legend that it is allegedly the Ukrainian military who are shelling.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine remind that the Ukrainian military does not shell the settlements where the Russian military are located, without first checking that the destruction of equipment will not harm the civilian population.
20:57 In the Brovarsky district of the Kiev region, enemy troops fired at one of the warehouses, resulting in a fire on an area of 20,000 square meters, the State Emergency Service reports.
20:56 The commander of the joint forces of NATO in Europe, US Air Force General Tod Walters said at a hearing in the US Senate that Russia has repeatedly used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine.
20:55 Macron, in a telephone conversation with Putin, said that it was impossible to pay for gas contracts in rubles.
20:53 Chaly said that in the draft documents discussed by representatives of the Ukrainian and Russian delegations at the talks, there are no terms "denazification" and "demilitarization" of Ukraine.
20:52 During the analysis of the rubble of the building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration, rescuers got the bodies of 12 dead already, the State Emergency Service reported.
20:50 Russian occupiers have banned employees of the Zaporizhzhya NPP from coming to work with smartphones, Energoatom reports.
20:40 Podolyak on the Crimean issue: "Direct bilateral negotiations on the Crimean issue and fixing the current situation for 15 years is a revolutionary proposal. As it means, at a minimum, the return of the topic of Crimea to the negotiating agenda. Before that, the Russians categorically refused this. "And besides, it allows us to preserve the current legal interpretations of Crimea, since for us Crimea is, of course, part of Ukraine. Refusal of mutual military escalation on the Crimean issue is the key to a general cessation of the war."
20:35 Podolyak said that Ukraine looks strong as an initiator of the reform of the global security architecture. Kyiv also receives guarantees of mandatory entry into the single market of the European Union as a full member. "What is extremely important - both in terms of financing large-scale programs for the modernization of the economy, and in terms of abandoning excessive bureaucratic procedures on the way to join the EU," he specified.
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office also explained that the presence of Russia, along with the United States, Great Britain, Turkey, Germany and other countries, as a signatory of the multilateral agreement "imposes many additional burdens on the Russians and allows us not to go for a complicated bilateral format."
"Only within the framework of a multilateral agreement can the traditional Russian non-binding nature of legal agreements be avoided," Podolyak stressed.
20:10 In Mariupol, the Russians abducted and took to Russia the staff and patients of the city maternity hospital No. 2, the City Council reported.
20:08 The head of the Zaporizhia OVA Alexander Starukh said that the Russian invaders did not let a single column through the green corridor today.
20:06 Journalist Roman Tsymbalyuk reports that the deputy commander of the 234th Airborne Assault Regiment (military unit 74268, Pskov) of the 76th Airborne Assault Division was killed in Gostomel.
20:03 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirms that Russia is withdrawing individual units from the Kiev and Chernihiv regions. At the same time, the enemy is regrouping to concentrate the main efforts on the Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions.
19:53 Kuleba said that in Irpen, although he was released, there is still "a lot of work", and so far it is impossible to talk about bringing humanitarian aid there.
The Foreign Minister also said that the Chernobyl area remains the most difficult region, where people have been isolated from the first day of the war. He assured that the authorities are doing everything to achieve agreements on green corridors.
19:47 Blinken said he does not see "any significant efforts on the part of Russia to end the war it is waging through diplomacy." According to him, "there is what Russia says, and there is what Russia does - we are focused on the latter."
19:36 Medinsky clarified that the "de-escalation" of hostilities by Russian troops in the Kiev and Chernigov directions does not mean a ceasefire.
19:32 Pushilin said that the "DPR" will consider the issue of joining the Russian Federation after the liberation of the entire "republic".
19:25 The UN counted 3,039 civilian casualties in Ukraine during the Russian invasion, including 1,179 dead. The organization notes that the real losses are much higher.
19:15 Ukraine has suffered "considerable losses" in personnel among the military, but they will not disclose the exact figure until the end of the war, Arestovich said.
"Not a single army in the world names its losses during the war. It is simply forbidden. This is a state secret, firstly. And secondly, it can help the enemy evaluate the effectiveness of their actions," the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office explained.
19:11 In the area of the village of Boguchar, Voronezh region of the Russian Federation, the enemy removes military and special equipment from long-term storage, more than 40% of which is in a faulty or inoperative condition, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
19:09 Adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadim Denisenko on the results of the negotiations: "So far, the words of the Russians that they will reduce the intensity of hostilities are just words. We hear the cannonade near Irpen. There are fights in Mariupol all the time."
18:59 Since the beginning of the war, the SBU has eliminated a large-scale network of enemy Internet agents that supported Russia's aggression in Ukraine. In total, the special service detained 20 people in different regions. Seven of them have already confirmed their connection with the special services of the Russian Federation, and some of them already have court verdicts.
18:56 Russian occupiers kidnapped the head of Berislav Alexander Shapovalov and the head of the Hola Pristan Alexander Babich , Klitschko said.
18:41 An official bot for the evacuation of the population has been created in Ukraine, Deputy Interior Minister Igor Bondarenko said: @Evacuation2022_bot and the support site evacuation2022.com
18:38 The death toll as a result of a missile attack on the building of the Nikolaev regional council has increased to nine, reported in the State Emergency Service.
18:28 Russia is involving the inhabitants of the occupied Crimea in the war against Ukraine, which is a war crime, said Maria Tomac, head of the Crimean Platform Operations Support Service at the representative office of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
According to her, citizens of Ukraine, illegally drafted into the Russian army in Crimea, "are used in this war as manpower, cannon fodder against their own people, against their own country."
In particular, according to Tomak, at least 18 graves are currently known in Crimea. At least 15 more captive Crimeans were captured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:20 Belgium expels 21 Russian diplomats. We are talking about employees of the Russian Embassy in Brussels and the Consulate General in Antwerp, they must leave the country within 15 days.
The Czech Republic also said it was expelling one Russian diplomat.
18:18 Since mid-May, the operator of the Croatian oil pipeline JANAF has suspended the pumping of oil for the Oil Industry of Serbia - in fact, the only oil refiner in Serbia.
18:14 Blinken said that Washington is ready, if necessary, to take part in the implementation of the agreements between Kiev and Moscow on the security of Ukraine.
17:58 The Belarusian media write, citing eyewitnesses, that columns of Russian military equipment were seen moving from the Ukrainian border to the rear.
17:45 Poland has banned the import of coal from Russia. About 80% of electricity is produced in the country through the use of coal.
17:39 Ireland expels four Russian diplomats.
17:37 Russian troops attacked the airfield in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region, the mayor of the city Nikolay Melnichuk said. According to him, the enemy completely destroyed all strategic reserves of fuel and lubricants.
17:34 According to American intelligence, Russian battalion tactical groups have already left some areas adjacent to Kiev. In Washington, this was described as a "major strategic shift," writes CNN.
At the same time, the sources of the publication believe that Russia can cover the retreat with air and artillery bombardments of Kyiv, and Russian troops can always turn around again if combat conditions allow.
17:28 Johnson said that the agreement between Ukraine and Russia will not be enough to remove British sanctions from the Russian Federation. According to him, the pressure on Putin should be increased both through further economic measures and through the provision of military assistance to Ukraine "to ensure that Russia reverses its course."
17:14 The Netherlands is expelling 17 Russian diplomats.
16:55 The author of the legendary phrase about the Russian ship, the border guard from Zmeiny Island Roman Gribov returned from captivity and received an award for services to Cherkasy .
Roman Gribov, a border guard from Snake Island, is the author of the legendary phrase "Russian ship, go on ..y!"
16:46 Anonymous hackers said they "put down" the servers of the Federal Air Transport Agency.
16:30 The date of the next round of negotiations will be clear after the refinements in the subgroups and the reaction of the Russian side to the concept of the agreement, Podolyak said in a commentary to the UP.
16:22 Gerashchenko called Moscow's statement about the reduction of military activity around Kiev and Chernigov "absolutely false, aimed at dragging out time to strengthen the strike force in the Donbass to encircle our JFO forces."
16:06 The North Atlantic Council will meet for the next meeting on April 6-7, Ukraine is also invited, NATO said.
16:00 Dzhemilev said that the Ukrainian concept for the liberation of the occupied territories does not provide for the use of force. Also, according to him, if Russia enters into negotiations on Crimea, it will mean that it recognizes the territory as occupied.
15:56 The first deputy head of the international committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation said that "the results of the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations are a serious claim that the special operation is close to completion."
15:54 The United States is preparing new sanctions against the Russian Federation, designed to strike at the supply chain in the defense sector, the country's Treasury said.
15:49 Medinsky said that Russia is not against Ukraine's entry into the EU. He also stressed that Ukraine is abandoning the desire to return the Crimea and Donbass by military means.
15:48 Cavusoglu said that since the beginning of the Ukrainian-Russian talks, "the most meaningful progress has taken place today."
15:38 Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said that the meeting of the Foreign Ministers and the Presidents of Ukraine and the Russian Federation is on the agenda.
15:29 Zelensky appealed to the Danish Parliament and offered the country to take patronage over Mykolaiv after the war.
15:14 Medinsky said that Russia received "written proposals from Ukraine, confirming its desire for a neutral and non-nuclear status."
15:06 European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer said that the EU will not pay for Russian gas in rubles.
15:03 Representatives of the delegations said that now Russia should consider Ukraine's proposals and announce its decision.
15:01 Medinsky: "Russia has proposed that a meeting between Putin and Zelensky is possible simultaneously with the waxing of the peace treaty by the foreign ministers."
15:00 The RF Ministry of Defense stated that "due to the fact that negotiations with Ukraine are moving into a practical plane, a decision has been made to significantly reduce military activity in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions ."
14:59 Chaly explained what Ukrainian neutrality would mean:
refusal to deploy foreign military bases and military contingents;
refusal to enter into military-political alliances;
military exercises on the territory of Ukraine can be carried out only with the consent of the guarantor countries;
the doors to the EU are open for Ukraine, and the guarantor countries will have to support this and undertake not to interfere.
Chaly also said that if final agreements are reached at a high level, a multilateral conference will be prepared with the highest officials of the guarantor countries, at which this agreement will be signed.
14:57 Podolyak spoke about the procedure for implementing decisions: first, a referendum in Ukraine, then refining in the Verkhovna Rada, then ratification by the parliaments of the guarantor countries.
Regarding Crimea, Ukraine proposed the following scheme: negotiations with Russia on its status should be held for 15 years. During these negotiations, the parties undertake not to use military force to resolve the issue of Crimea.
The situation with ORDLO will also be spelled out in a separate paragraph. Issues of the "DNR" and "LNR" will have to be resolved during the negotiations Zelensky and Putin.
14:55 Arakhamia explained that since "we have unresolved issues with ORDLO and Crimea, the guarantors will not work in these territories." He also said that some countries have already given prior consent.
14:52 The agreement on Ukraine's security guarantees should stipulate that consultations in the event of a conflict should last no longer than three days , and the guarantor countries will be required to provide assistance. Also, all guarantors should contribute to Ukraine's accession to the EU.
As a member of the Ukrainian delegation, Alexander Chaly, explained, guarantees should be similar to Article 5 of the NATO Charter: “If Ukraine becomes an object of aggression, after three days of consultations, the guarantors must provide Ukraine with weapons, military assistance and close its skies. If we manage to consolidate these key provisions , then Ukraine will be in a position to fix its current status of a non-bloc and non-nuclear power in the form of permanent neutrality."
14:50 Arakhamia: "We only recognize the borders of Ukraine recognized in the world. No compromises."
14:49 Arakhamia said that Britain, China, the United States, Turkey, France, Canada, Italy, Poland and Israel could become security guarantors for Ukraine following the talks.
14:48 The first day of Ukrainian-Russian talks in Istanbul has ended, they lasted about three hours.
14:47 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said that Severodonetsk was completely left without electricity and water.
14:45 The IMF said that Russia "will find itself in a deep recession this year" due to the unleashed war in Ukraine.
14:44 Zelensky said that the intensity and cruelty of the hostilities against Ukraine have reached a level even higher than it was during the Second World War.
14:42 In a number of regions of Russia, policemen are offered or ordered to go on a "business trip" to the Donbass from June, but not to fight, but to perform their direct functions - to protect public order. They allegedly will have to temporarily fill vacancies in the local police while it is re-formed according to the Russian model, according to the opposition Russian Telegram channel We can explain with reference to sources in the Russian Interior Ministry.
Police officers were sent to Crimea in 2014 on the same business trips during the transition period.
14:36 More than 500 people were evacuated from Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Popasna and Rubizhne - that's all who came to the place where the buses were sent, said the head of the Luhansk regional administration Serhiy Gaidai.
14:33 According to Ukrainian intelligence, due to the imposed sanctions in Russia, the fulfillment of the defense order is disrupted. A striking example of Russia's "technological independence" and "import substitution" was the KAMAZ plant: modern models were equipped with Cummins engines (USA), ZF gearboxes (Germany) and Bosch fuel equipment (Germany). The company was forced to return to the production of models of the 1960s, which the Russians called "classic".
14:24 Israel and Turkey are discussing the construction of a gas pipeline to the Israeli Leviathan field as an alternative to Russian gas supplies to southern Europe, Reuters reports.
14:22 At the site of the destroyed building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration as of 13:30, the bodies of seven dead were found, 22 more people were injured, the State Emergency Service reports.
14:14 The NBU said that Russia's attempts to introduce the turnover of the ruble in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine violate international conventions and should be taken into account in claims to international courts.
14:07 Russia has pulled more military equipment to the border with Ukraine in the Kursk region than it was before February 24, according to InfromNapalm. Experts believe that the Russian Federation is accumulating obsolete, possibly reactivated, equipment near the borders with Ukraine.
14:06 Shoigu said that Russia would "react appropriately" if the plans of a number of NATO countries to supply combat aircraft and air defense systems to Ukraine are implemented, Russian media write.
14:00 Ukraine's losses from the Russian invasion exceed one trillion dollars , Shmyhal said. According to him, this amount includes losses already caused to infrastructure and the economy, as well as upcoming losses in subsequent years.
13:56 Near Kharkov, the commander of the 200th separate motorized rifle brigade, Colonel Denis Kurilo, was liquidated, the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine report.
13:49 Since the beginning of the war, more than 510,000 people have returned to Ukraine, 80% of them are men, the State Border Service reported.
13:45 From under blockages of the destroyed building of the Nikolaev regional state administration got bodies of three dead, 22 people were injured, reported in State Emergency Service.
13:30 The contraction of the Ukrainian economy following the results of a month of full-scale war could be 35% or more, Shmyhal said. According to him, hostilities are being conducted in ten regions where enterprises are located that provide about 50% of the country's GDP.
13:12 Medinsky said that Moscow had protested in connection with the publication of the video, which, according to the Russian side, depicted bullying of captured soldiers. We are talking about a video that the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the SBU previously called fake.
He also said that negotiations are still ongoing, the parties will make a statement in a few hours.
13:01 Podolyak said that today in negotiations with Russia, issues of international security guarantees for Ukraine and a ceasefire are being discussed. Also on the agenda is the issue of compliance with the norms of the Geneva Convention and the inadmissibility of violating the rules of warfare. In particular, we are talking about the inadmissibility of bullying prisoners.
12:57 Peskov said that Abramovich is not an official member of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, but nevertheless he is also present at the talks in Istanbul. "In order to carry out contacts between the two sides, you need to get approval from both sides. In the case of Abramovich, this approval is from both sides," Peskov explained.
12:47 Shoigu promised that Russian citizens, called up for military service in the spring, would not be sent to any hot spots, Russian media write.
12:34 The command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that yesterday Ukrainian air defense destroyed two X-type missiles 30 kilometers from Lviv, which were flying towards the city. The missiles were fired from a fighter jet from the territory of Belarus.
12:26 Russian media cite the words of Shoigu, who said that in general, the main tasks of the first stage of the "special operation" in Ukraine have been completed, you can focus on the main goal - "the liberation of Donbass."
According to him, "the air force and air defense of Ukraine were practically destroyed, its navy ceased to exist, significant losses were suffered by all formations of the Ukrainian ground and air assault troops."
12:23 The meeting of Visegrad Four defense ministers in Budapest will not take place, as Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic refused to participate because of Hungary's position on the war in Ukraine.
12:15 In Nikolaev rescuers dismantle blockages of a building of the regional state administration under which there can be eight people. Most of the people (50-100) managed to leave the building, said Vitaly Kim. He also believes that the occupier, most likely, has already refused to attack Nikolaev and take it under control, since he destroyed the main control center of the city.
11:47 The head of the IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, arrived in Ukraine to begin providing urgent technical assistance to ensure the safety of nuclear facilities.
11:28 Chernihiv authorities reported that up to 400 people died in the city.
11:14 Poland said it was ready to accept even more Ukrainian refugees.
11:03 Mayor of Irpin Alexander Markushin said that about 4,000 residents of the city now need to be evacuated. He clarified that these are mostly people who live in the private sector, "and they really, really don't want to leave." Before the war, the population of Irpen was more than 60,000 people.
11:01 The Ukrainian delegation at the talks in Istanbul includes: Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, adviser to the head of the OP Mikhail Podolyak, head of the Servant of the People faction David Arakhamia, MPs Andriy Kostin and Rustem Umerov, Deputy Foreign Minister Mykola Tochitsky, deputy head of the OP Kirill Tymoshenko, former Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Chaly.
11:00 The UN admits that the number of Ukrainian refugees may reach eight or even ten million in the coming months, writes El Pais.
10:50 The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russians over the Sea of Azov, five kilometers from the coastline, shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter flying to Mariupol to evacuate "the commanders of the Azov national battalion." The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine notes that the Ukrainian Mi-8 could not have ended up over the Sea of Azov, much less fly to Mariupol from the sea. Probably, the Russians shot down their own helicopter and are trying to pass it off as Ukrainian.
10:38 Podolyak reports that in parallel with the talks between Ukraine and Russia, the heads of delegations Arakhamia and Medinsky are holding negotiations at a wide table separately in Istanbul "on the fundamental provisions of the negotiation process."
10:34 From the side of Crimea, Russian planes flew to Nikolaev, "they will work at very low altitudes," the Nikolaev military-civil administration reports. Residents are asked to stay in shelters.
10:31 The US Department of Defense plans to increase the production of Stinger air defense systems and Javelin anti-tank missiles, writes CNN.
10:07 The building of the Nikolaev regional state administration got under rocket attack of invaders, Vitaly Kim reported. According to the State Emergency Service, as a result of shelling and hitting a nine-story administrative building, the central section of the building was destroyed, nine victims were released from the rubble.
10:02 The UN called on Russia and Ukraine to investigate cases of ill-treatment of prisoners of war.
10:00 Ukrainian and Russian delegations arrived for negotiations at the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul. Erdogan greeted the meeting participants before the start of negotiations and said that the continuation of the war is not beneficial to anyone.
09:59 The Ministry of Economy of Japan clarified that the list of luxury items prohibited from supplying Russia includes 17 items, including clothing and footwear, motorcycles, laptops, watches with precious metals.
09:56 As of today, three humanitarian corridors have been agreed:
09:35 Amnesty International accused Russia of committing war crimes in Mariupol, and also compared what is happening in the city with the destruction of Syrian Aleppo.
09:33 During the month of the war, the invaders destroyed more than 60 Ukrainian churches and religious buildings, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
09:31 Kuleba urged states to criminalize the use of the Z symbol as a way to publicly support Russia's war against Ukraine: "Z stands for Russian war crimes, bombed cities, thousands of Ukrainians killed. Public support for this barbarity must be banned."
09:24 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of March 29:
personnel - about 17,200 people,
tanks - 597,
armored fighting vehicles - 1710,
artillery systems - 303,
MLRS - 96,
air defense systems - 54,
aircraft - 127,
helicopters - 129,
automotive equipment - 1178,
ships/boats - 7,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 73,
UAV operational-tactical level - 71,
special equipment - 21,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
09:20 In the village of Rozovka, Zaporozhye region, the invaders detained journalist Irina Dubchenko, accusing her of supporting and harboring the Ukrainian military. The journalist was taken to Donetsk for "investigative actions".
09:18 Russia has fired more than 1,370 missiles in Ukraine, the Pentagon has calculated.
09:16 At the hands of Russian invaders in Ukraine, 144 children were killed, more than 220 were injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
09:10 The British government called on all public sector organizations to urgently review and, if possible, terminate contracts with Russian and Belarusian companies.
09:07 Israel lifted entry restrictions for Russian and Ukrainian IT professionals who cooperate with Israeli companies.
08:59 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the large landing ship Saratov in Berdyansk with a Tochka-U missile, which is not intended for combat operations at sea, SBU Major General Viktor Yagun said.
08:51 According to British intelligence, Ukrainian forces continue to conduct local counterattacks northwest of Kiev, but Russia still poses a serious threat to the capital "due to its strike capabilities."
The report also states that Russian forces continue to advance on Mariupol, shelling the city, but the center remains under Ukrainian control.
08:33 This morning, the Russians launched rocket attacks on an object near Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region. According to local authorities, there were no casualties.
08:17 Peskov said that "any outcome of the operation" in Ukraine "is not a reason for the use of nuclear weapons." He recalled that, according to the concept of security of the Russian Federation, "we can use and will actually use nuclear weapons to eliminate the threat to the existence of our country."
08:02 The Pentagon presented Congress with a defense strategy for 2022, where the main threats are Russia in Europe and China in the Indo-Pacific region.
"We will work with our allies and NATO partners to strengthen credible deterrence in the face of Russian aggression," the document says.
07:30 In Severodonetsk, Russians fired at two five-story houses, they partially collapsed. 13 people were pulled out from under the rubble, there are two dead, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.
06:10 Serbian President Vučić proposed holding talks between Ukraine and Russia in Belgrade. Earlier, Lavrov also said that Moscow "is ready to consider other locations, including Belgrade."
06:00 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that Ukraine should not be "sold out" in negotiations with Russia, and Putin should not benefit from the invasion. According to her, all previous settlements since 2014 failed to provide Ukraine with lasting security.
"Putin just came back for more. So we can't let him win this terrible aggression," Truss said.
05:57 Erdogan's speaker called "maximalistic and unrealistic" Putin's demands to recognize the "independence" of ORDLO, and Crimea - Russian: "These are red lines for Ukrainians in Crimea and Donbas, and rightly so, because they directly relate to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine ".
05:50 Australia has imposed sanctions against 14 Russians whom it considers "responsible for serious corruption" uncovered by Magnitsky, as well as against 25 people related to his death.
05:18 According to journalist Roman Tsymbalyuk, 58 Russian servicemen who were waiting in Belarus for transfer to Ukraine refused to fight. We are talking about contract soldiers of the 9th motorized rifle regiment of the 18th motorized rifle division of the Baltic Fleet (military unit 88771, Sovetsk, Kaliningrad region). The journalist writes that their desire to fight the Ukrainians abruptly disappeared after they talked with servicemen from another division who returned from Ukraine.
04:47 Japan from April 5 introduces a ban on the export of luxury goods to Russia, including premium cars and precious stones. Also, the country's authorities will ask Japanese companies not to agree to pay for Russian LNG in rubles in case of receiving such requirements.
04:10 Biden said that he does not retract his words that Putin cannot remain in power: “I expressed moral indignation at the behavior of Putin and the actions of this man. I neither then nor now spoke about changes in policy. I do not I'm sorry about that... I don't care what he thinks."
02:31 The Ukrainian defense forces pushed back the Russians from the approaches to Krivoy Rog by 40-60 kilometers, the head of the military administration Alexander Vilkul said.
01:39 The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 17 air targets during the day on March 28: eight enemy aircraft, three helicopters, four UAVs and two cruise missiles.
01:26 According to the British Ministry of Defense, the Russian PMC Wagner is already deployed in eastern Ukraine. It is expected that more than a thousand mercenaries, including the top leaders of the organization, will be withdrawn to conduct hostilities.
00:08 Zelensky: "Now there are a lot of hints and warnings that the alleged strengthening of sanctions, for example, in the form of an embargo on the supply of Russian oil to Europe, will happen if Russia uses chemical weapons. There are simply no words. Just think about how much all this has reached. Waiting for chemical weapons..."
00:03 Zelensky said that Italy agreed to become one of the guarantors of Ukraine's security.
[NYPOST] Tesla founder Elon Musk has identified what he views as the three most significant existential threats facing humans — with falling global birthrates at the top of the list.
He can claim to have done his bit: Mr. Musk has five surviving children with his first wife and two with the recent girlfriend. Most of the children were carried by surrogate mothers.
The billionaire, who has spoken extensively about his belief that humans aren’t having enough children, reiterated his concern when asked to reveal his "biggest fear." Musk said humanity’s falling birth rate has been "troubling [him] for many years," adding that he drives his friends "crazy" by bringing it up so often.
"I spent a lot of time talking about the birthrate thing," Musk said in an interview with the Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner published over the weekend. "That might be the single biggest threat to the future of human civilization."
Musk identified two other leading existential threats: his fears of "artificial intelligence going wrong" and the rise of what he called "religious extremism."
Musk’s fear was reflected in recent data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The US birth rate declined by 4% from 2019 to 2020, marking the sixth consecutive year of declines and the lowest number of births since 1979.
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his fears of "artificial intelligence going wrong" and the rise of what he called "religious extremism."
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"Religious extremism" does not necessarily involve fanatical belief in a higher being. COVIDIANism, climate changeism and marxism all fit the profile nicely. The have dogmas, totems, vestments and sacrifices.
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[NYPOST] President Biden appeared to let slip Monday that US troops are training Ukrainian forces in Poland — contradicting his national security adviser and creating more confusion about the 82nd Airborne’s mission in Eastern Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Biden was trying to clarify remarks he made on Friday, when he told American forces in Poland: "You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see — you’re gonna see women, young people standing in the middle — in front of a damned tank just saying, ’I’m not leaving, I’m holding my ground.'"
A White House official quickly told The Post that "the president has been clear we are not sending US troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position."
On Monday, under questioning from Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy, Biden insisted he had been misunderstood.
"I was talking to the troops. We were talking about helping train the troops in — that are — the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland," he said. "That’s what the context [was]. I sat there with those guys for a couple hours. That’s what we talked about."
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This fuckwit is going to get us all killed. Get him out of the White House -- use the 25th Amendment. Harris cannot be worse than this madman who is going to start a war with Russia
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They've been training Ukraine troops since 2015. Putin already knew. It doesn't matter. Harris is not an option. That's like setting yourself on fire because your thermostat's not working.
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Does this remind anyone of South Viet Nam circa 1964?
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It doesn't matter.
Of course it matters. Biden said, "You're gonna see when you're there" -- in Ukraine.
So the US President just told US troops that they will soon be fighting at the front, engaged in combat with Russian troops. Combine this with the shithead's "regime change@ comment and the picture is obvious. He and his government are bristling for war with Russia.
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Hasn't even been a secret we have been training them since the 2014 disaster. But the second we send US troops into Ukraine it is a shooting war with Russia and that will involve nukes.
[Moonbattery] If you use the Neighbors app to report a crime to the police, be sure not to include a description of the perp. That would be racist, except in the relatively rare occasions when the criminal is white.
Here’s what happened when Sarah Corriher attempted to report a white woman getting throttled by a member of a race higher up on the Cultural Marxist totem pole: She comes across like Jordan Peterson, well-spoken and cutting through the BS with every word. Be sure to hit the link and watch her video.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel and its regional allies are working to develop a joint defense pact to protect against the threat of Iranian drones, Israeli media reports, citing Israeli Air Force officials.
Air Force sources say that Israel may soon sign an alliance with Middle East partners, similar to that of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... in Europe.
The opportunity for this arose following several normalization agreements between Israel and Arab countries, such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which are geographically close to Iran.
The Israel Defense Forces view coordination between the countries as a "strategic asset" in defending against aerial threats that it did not previously have, officials say.
Last week, Israeli officials said they believed two drones, which were reportedly launched from Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... and intercepted by the US-led international coalition in Iraq last month, were aimed at Israel.
Israel has repeatedly warned that Iranian drones are a significant threat to the region — especially as Tehran arms proxies stationed along Israel’s borders.
The Israel Defense Forces have confirmed it intercepted at least four Iranian drones heading for Israel or the West Bank and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip in recent years.
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The Paleos are yesterday's Current Thing. Sure, it was fun using them to torment the Juice, but there are bigger fish to fry in terms of regional security and prosperity. It is time to put away childish things. And stupid posts.
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Ukrainians are the new Paleos
Zelensky is Arafat
The gift that keeps on giving will keep on draining billions out of the EU... for another half-century
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#3 The PaleosUkrainians are yesterday'stoday's Current Thing. Sure, it was fun using them to torment the JuiceRus, but there are bigger fish to fry in terms of regionalglobal security and prosperity
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:10 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian born in 1986. in the Kievsky district of Donetsk.
In addition, information was received through the operational line of the JCCC DPR about the wounding of 27 civilians as a result of shelling by the AFU of the previously liberated territories:
n.p. Pavlovka:
three men:
- born in 1990, 1978, 1989.
n.p. Mariupol:- girl born in 2001
- guy born in 2006
13 women: born in
1942, 1949, 1953, 1954, 1954, 1957, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1967, 1970, 1977, 1984.
9 men: born in
1961, 1961, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990.
Also, information was received about the wounding of three civilians from the previously liberated territories, whose personal data are being specified:
- a man;
- Two women.
The victims were taken to medical institutions of the Republic, where they receive the necessary medical care.
21:14 Representation of the DPR in the JCCC: AFU shelled Gorlovka, firing 8 shells with a caliber of 122 mm.
20:31 "A new microdistrict will be built in Volnovakha to replace the destroyed housing," Pushilin promised.
20:29 The mayor of Donetsk: there are no more than two weeks of water left in the city.
20:26 The people's militia of the LPR suggested that the Ukrainian security forces in Popasna lay down their arms.
19:01 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the following settlements:
n.p. Gorlovka (Central city district):
- st. Levanevsky, 21, 49;
- st. Zaboyshchikov, 6.
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
(https://t.me/online_dnr_sckk/10751) - st. Stepnaya, 138.
18:47 More than 300 people, including 78 children, were evacuated today from Mariupol to the village of Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky district in the DPR.
18:28 A new microdistrict will be built in Volnovakha to replace the destroyed housing - Denis Pushilin.
18:19 Our units are doing everything possible to give us access to the Seversky Donets canal, as it was originally intended - Denis Pushilin.
18:04 When forming local government bodies in the liberated settlements first of all, we consider local personnel if their reputation is not tarnished - Denis Pushilin.
18:01 Shelling of VFU settlement Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three mines with a caliber of 120mm were fired.
17:50 Military DNR at the cost of his life heroicallysavedwomen and children at the time of the next shelling of Mariupol by Ukrofascists.
17:45 Ukraine cannot be trusted even when it has signed something, it is incapable of negotiating, it is still premature to talk about the end of the special operation - Denis Pushilin.
17:43 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired 5 shells of 122 mm caliber. — SCCC.
17:41 Ukrainian troops fired at Yelenovka in the DPR, firing six shells with a caliber of 122mm.
17:31 Ramzan Kadyrov offered assistance in restoring the Republic, we will definitely accept it - Head of the DPR.
17:30 We are well aware that an alien ideology was imposed on the residents of the territories temporarily controlled by Ukraine, by force. I think the adaptation period will be short - Denis Pushilin.
17:20 There are all the prerequisites for the creation of a tribunal. Those who publish testimonies of their crimes on social networks make our work easier - Denis Pushilin.
17:15 We will absolutely reach the constitutional boundaries - Denis Pushilin.
17:00 Additional information was received about the damage caused by the shelling of the AFU in the area of the wholesale market:
gas station on st. Gorlovskaya Division, 2b;
st. Tukhachevsky, 27 - private housing construction;
st. Levanevsky, 45;
st. Levanevsky, 47.
Revealed damage to the roof of a private residential building in the village. Maisky at the address: st. Heroes of Perekop, 59 a.
16:47 AFU fired at the settlement Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:41 As a result of the shelling of the village of Golmovsky, the buildings of the Golmovsky treatment facilities were damaged. Fortunately, no one was injured - the workers were in shelter. The extent of damage is specified.
15:35 In Starobilsk, assistance is provided for people evacuated from the territory of Lisichansk, Severodonetsk and Rubizhne.
15:30 The 119th humanitarian convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered food and building materials to the capital of the DPR to restore the liberated territories.
15:28 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the death of a civilian in Gorlovka, born in 1962. on st. March 8, 61 "b". And on st. Gorlovskaya Division, Central city district of Gorlovka, three civilians were wounded.
15:17 According to updated information, residential buildings in Gorlovka were damaged at the following addresses:
st. March 8, 59 (photo 1);
st. March 8, 59a (photo 2, 3);
st. Fizkulturnaya, 23.
15:02 According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about the death of a civilian as a result of shelling from the AFU of the Central City District of the settlement. Gorlovka. Two more civilians were injured. The personal data of the victims are being established.
According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling from the side of the VFU of the village of Golmovsky settlement. Gorlovka at the addresses:
- st. General Antonov, 68 - a direct hit in a residential building
- st. General Antonov, 66, 70.
14:34 The cleansing of Maryanka continues. The troops of the DPR occupied a significant part of the fortified area of the punishers. The fighting is taking place in the area of the waste heap, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine used to have a long-term observation post.
14:12 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling from the VFU of the following settlements:
settlement "Administrative" of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk:
- st. Sofia, 11 and 16 (multi-apartment residential buildings).
n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of Zaitsevo (southern)):
- st. M. Mazaya, 5, 7 - a fire was recorded. Information about the consequences of the shelling continues to arrive.
14:01 There is shelling of the village of Zaitsevo. The outbuilding on the street is on fire. Mazaya, 7. According to updated information, a fire broke out as a result of a VFU shell explosion in the village of Zaitsevo. The fire moved to the house on the street. Mazaya, 5 - Prikhodko.
13:50 Already released 135 b.p. Donetsk People's Republic, Maryinka is still a hot spot - Head of the DPR.
13:49 The enemy is doing everything possible to make life difficult for the civilian population: we still have problems with electricity and water, we have to repair damaged infrastructure under incessant shelling - Denis Pushilin.
13:47 Water is supplied to the Republic from the territory controlled by the AFU, several stations are now de-energized and there is no way to restore them yet, because there are active hostilities. Now, the construction of a water conduit from a reserve reservoir is being carried out at an extreme pace - Alexei Nikonorov.
13:45 Metallurgists from Mariupol are offered work in similar positions at enterprises of the Republic - Alexey Nikonorov.
13:42 Food packages and fresh bread have been delivered to Stary Krym. Gasoline for household needs was also delivered to residents.
13:39 Italian journalists working in Mariupol lucidly explained and showed why the allied forces are forced to work in the residential sector and what is really behind the words of Kiev and European politicians and the media "Russia is shelling the houses of Ukrainians." Turning other people's houses into ammunition depots or using them as firing points? Then don't complain. The Kiev authorities, with the support of the West, are doing everything so that Ukrainians have nowhere to return, so that anti-Russian rhetoric, along with the germs of neo-Nazism, floods the Old World, and to survive another wave of the refugee crisis
13:32 According to the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR, as of March 29, 2022, on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, a group of DPR troops, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, liberated and established full control over 135 settlements. There are battles for Maryinka, Novomikhailovka and Novobakhmutovka
12:39 A total of 27 settlements liberated by the forces of the DPR are connected to the power supply, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the republic reports.
12:36 Water is supplied to the Republic from the territory controlled by the AFU, several stations are now de-energized and there is no way to restore them yet, because there are active hostilities. Now the construction of a water conduit from a reserve reservoir is being carried out at an extreme pace - Alexey Nikonorov on Channel One.
11:36 Ukrainian militants opened fire in the area of the Oktyabrsky Mine mine in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk - Kulemzin.
11:15 Southern group of militants in Mariupolcut off. After it was possible to cut off the Ukrainian terrorists in the eastern Left Bank, things went much better for the allied formations in all sectors of the front. In addition to the fact that they managed to dive into the Kalmiussky district and go to the Azovmash plant, they also managed to cut off the southern group of terrorist forces in the area of the Railway Station.
11:02 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - Donetsk (Kuybyshevsky district): sebven mines fired with a caliber of 120mm.
10:42 Ukrainian troops fired 20 mines around the Donetsk airport.
10:37 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Horlivka, on the street. Krylov, a woman was injured.
10:00 In connection with the arrival of Ramzan Kadyrov in Mariupol, in this areafor the first timeover the past two weeks, the activation of the Air Force and artillery of Ukraine has been observed. Yesterday, Russian air defense systems shot down two Tochka-U missiles, two Bayraktar attack drones, and one APU fighter when approaching Mariupol. A Ukrainian combat helicopter was also destroyed this morning.
09:34 The Ministry of Communications of the DPR reported that the work of the TV and radio broadcasting facility in Volnovakha was resumed. Now on the screens of city residents there is Channel One, RUSSIA1 and RUSSIA24
09:33 As a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR, 2 people died per day, 29 were injured. This was announced by the representative of the NM DNR Eduard Basurin.
09:32 Over the past day, 629 people, including 131 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky district.
09:30 in Mariupol earned regional hospital - peaceful life resumes on the outskirts of the city.
09:16 As a result of the night shelling of Donetsk, a civilian born in 1937 was killed by a Ukrainian shell. in the village Trudovsky. Completely destroyed house on the street. Gogol, 10 in the Petrovsky district.
Fixed hit AGK "Strela-2" in the gatehouse on pr. Kremlin, 21 in the village. "Oktyabrsky mine" of the Kuibyshev region.
09:14 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of four civilians, including one child, as a result of shelling by the AFU of the territories liberated earlier:
n.p. Stary Krym:
- woman born in 1954
n.p. Mariupol:
- girl born in 2010
- woman born in 1954
- man born in 1983
09:12 Fixed damage to the roof of a residential building in Gorlovka on the street. Geroev Perekopa, 53 (photo 1, 2), as well as the glazing of a dairy in the village of Maisky.
Fixed damage to the roof of a residential building in Horlivka
09:10 Photo and video from the place where the shell fell on the street. Krylova, 35. There is a victim, born in 1960.
Photo and video from the place where the shell fell on the street. Krylova, 35. There is a victim, born in 1960.
08:41 AFU hit the settlement Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired. — SCCC.
08:21 Most of Mariupol is currently under the control of the Russian armed forces - Kadyrov.
08:19 Pushilin said that he met with Kadyrov in Mariupol. The head of the DPR said that he had discussed with the Chechen leader "plans for further cooperation, including after the end of hostilities."
07:58 The morning in Gorlovka began with the shelling of the VFU. Fixed shell hit in the house on the street. Krylova, 35 in the village. May. Finding out the details - Prikhodko.
07:20 Armed formations of Ukraine fired at N of the item. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka: 4 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
07:10 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novoselovka - n.p. Mikhailovka: 4 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired. — SCCC.
07:00 The JCCC announced the shelling of the settlement by Ukrainian punishers. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk, Petrovsky district: 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
06:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Lastochkino - n.p. Chestnut: 20 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
06:20 AFU shelled the village Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four shells of 122 mmcaliber were fired.
[NYPOST] You might find some laughs in the $5.8 trillion budget President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... unveiled Monday — if it weren’t so alarming.
Team Biden, for example, brags about its "fiscal responsibility," arguing that a plan to spend a jaw-dropping 32% more than just four years ago cuts the deficit in half. Umm, only because the prez spent so much in 2021.
That includes the Democrats’ $2 trillion COVID "stimulus package" when the economy needed no stimulus, and so fueled today’s rampant inflation. Plus the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, though not the $5 trillion the prez wanted for the "Build Back Better" bill (which he still hopes to pass).
Fact is, this budget still leaves a whopping $1.3 trillion in red ink, which will only further fuel inflation.
Biden’s supposed deficit-reduction also relies on crushing new taxes — raising corporate rates from 21% to 28%, for example. Plus a bid to set a minimum 20% tax on households worth more than $100 million that would hit income and unrealized gains on stocks and other assets. It’s likely unconstitutional, probably unworkable — and won’t pass, since at least two Democratic senators voiced opposition the last time the idea came up.
Another knee-slapper: Biden touts his plan’s new outlays for national defense and law enforcement. Yet his national-security spending, including outlays for the Pentagon, would rise by just 4.5% — less than inflation. And while he’d pump $32 billion more into what he calls crime-fighting, much of it is for stuff like "community violence intervention" that does little to help our cities.
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Simply put, what the USA collected in Revenue vs. Spent for the last 4 years:
FY 2021 $3.86 trillion collected vs. $6.8 trillion spent.
FY 2020 $3.71 trillion collected vs. $4.79 trillion spent.
FY 2019 $3.46 trillion collected vs. $4.4 trillion spent.
FY 2018 $3.33 trillion collected vs. $4.109 trillion spent.
And the LSD's want to spend $5.8 Trillion with official estimates saying the US will collect about $3.9 Trillion in actual revenues?
So are they adding another $2+/- Trillion to the National Debt of $30.35+ Trillion
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They're doing their best. $30 $32 trillion in debt, plus hyperinflation, plus the Saudis other Arabs Indians Chinese all working to ditch dollars, evade the sanctions and trade with the russkies. They really do want to kill the dollar and make us poor, don't they? What other conclusion is there?
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According to the National Debt link that I listed above in my comment.
We are now at 125.59% in Debt to GDP Revenue.
We as of a few seconds ago spending $6.528 Trillion with $4.112 Trillion in Federal Tax Rev.
Plus we have pumped $368+ Trillion into the CCP economy (gov) more than they have purchased from us. We as US taxpayers have actually financed the CCP rise to power with all of our NAFTA related purchases in the last 20 years.
[NYPOST] This Chechen devil wears Prada — and has reportedly been promoted to lieutenant general in the Russian military amid his efforts to help strongman Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... ’s invasion of Ukraine.
Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov, 45, a notorious warlord and Russian army member accused of multiple human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... abuses, was elevated in rank by the Kremlin and traveled to the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol to boost troops’ morale, according to the Times of London, which cited Russian state media.
"Friends, the city of Mariupol daily receives liberators represented by the Russian armed forces. Today, I decided to pay an unexpected visit there together with my dear nephews," Kadyrov said Monday on Telegram, where he cited a group of Chechen officials with him, the Washington Examiner reported.
"At the moment, most of the city is under the control of the Russian armed forces," added Kadyrov, who recently taunted Elon Musk over the Tesla founder’s tongue-in-cheek suggestion to engage in "single combat" with Putin.
Shortly after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last month, Kadyrov delivered a speech in which he mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and demanded that the leader beg for Putin’s forgiveness, the outlet reported.
It reportedly emerged later that Kadyrov had worn a pair of $1,500 Prada boots while delivering his address.
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little change in territory held by either side Russia has announced units will be withdrawn from N and NE Ukraine but no withdrawal observed. Presumably these units would, if they were still functional, be redeployed in the Donbass.
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Follow up to this story of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel raid from a few days ago.
[THEGUARDIAN] Mexican authorities have confirmed that 20 people were killed when a group of button men stormed a cockfight, in a small town in the western state of Michoacán.
Officials and witnesses described a choreographed massacre in which assailants in military uniforms arrived just after 10.30pm on Sunday night and opened fire with assault rifles at the crowds of primarily middle-aged men.
Two small trucks, one of them branded with the logo for Sabritas, a potato chip company, were used to block the highway leading to the cockfighting arena.
Video filmed by witnesses nearby captured the sound of machine gun fire, which could be heard several miles away.
Photos leaked to social media showed the aftermath of the massacre, with barriers and chairs knocked over, and bodies scattered inside and outside the building.
Mexican police told local media they found 19 bodies — 16 men and three women. Another victim died en route to the hospital. More than 100 shells from 7.62 caliber rifles littered the ground.
The police also seized 15 cars that were on the scene.
Mexican army and national guard troops were deployed on Monday morning to capture the assailants, but it remained unclear which of the region’s many organized crime groups they belonged to.
Cockfighting, while illegal in many areas, remains a popular pastime in parts of Mexico, though the fights between roosters are usually held clandestinely.
Las Tinajas is a tiny pueblo of about 10 streets, close to Michoacán’s eastern borders with two other states, Guanajuato and Estado de México.
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Denzel [one of my favourites] said it best. The devil gets in you when you're at the top. Pride. These mega rich assholes take digs at each other for fun all the time. Why they even blaspheme and make sick perverse jokes about each other's... cooches and all. Suddenly Smith gets it in him to go up there and slap the comic. It's not about Honor, it's about class.
[Dawn] The interior ministry on Monday confirmed that anti-Pakistain terror outfits are regrouping in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... via the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
This was revealed in a written reply submitted to the National Assembly during the question hour in response to a query posed by PPP MNA Dr Shazia Sobia Aslam Soomro. She asked if it was true that "anti-Pakistain terror outfits are regrouping in Balochistan via Sistan, and if yes, details thereof along with action plan thereof, if any".
In its response, the interior ministry stated: "Yes, anti-Pakistain terror outfits are regrouping in Balochistan via Sistan."
The response, attributed to Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, also mentioned the measures being taken by the government to mitigate this trend.
According to the response placed before the National Assembly on Monday, the National Intelligence Coordination Committee (NICC) has been institutionalised to integrate all federal and provincial intelligence grids for effective and timely countermeasures. Effective border management and fencing along the western border would also stem this tide, the response added.
"Persistent intelligence-based operations are being undertaken to neutralise terror organizations," the response stated, adding that operational capabilities of the counterterrorism apparatus were being enhanced.
The response also recalled recent government initiatives to engage disgruntle Baloch rustics for reconciliation, including special socio-economic development packages for mitigating murderous Moslem threats in Balochistan and KP, and addressing the most marginalised segment of society through the "Ehsaas Programme" along with engaging the youth in constructive activities.
Banned terrorist organizations — including Baloch separatists, the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) and the self-styled 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.... (IS) group — have recently intensified their activists in different areas of the province, carrying out terrorist attacks, kabooms and assassinations.
Since the beginning of the year, these groups have carried out at least seven major attacks, in which at least 22 people bit the dust, including security personnel.
Two major attacks were carried out at the camps of Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... in Nushki and Panjgur on Feb 2 at the same time. The attackers were well equipped with the latest weapons and equipment.
Both sides suffered casualties during the attacks — nine security personnel, including an officer, bit the dust, whereas 20 attackers were killed by the security forces.
All the kewl kids are normalizing with Israel, after all. In fact, many of them are meeting with Israel about Hezbollah paymaster Iran right now.
[An Nahar] The head of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... ’s parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, claimed Tuesday that political rivals want to win the parliamentary majority "in order to secure laws that would allow them to normalize relations with the Israeli enemy."
"All parties want to keep us away from the parliamentary action arena in order to implement their agendas," Raad added, at a political rally in the southern town of Yohmor.
As for the issue of offshore gas exploration, the MP said: "We have international proposals for gas exploration that are in our interest and for which we wouldn’t pay a cost, but the Americans are refusing, because they want to bring a company that would impose its conditions."
And accusing Washington of "blackmailing us with the Israeli enemy," Raad emphasized that "the Israelis cannot threaten us with anything."
"Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... has a resistance that owns drones and precision missiles. Let the Israeli dare come near," the Hizbullah politician added.
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[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces are bolstering troops along the border with the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, as Paleostinians mark Land Day tomorrow, and the holy Moslem month of Ramadan begins this weekend, Hebrew-language media reports.
Land Day marks the Israeli government’s expropriation of Arab-owned land in the Galilee on March 30, 1976, and the ensuing demonstrations in which six Arab Israelis were killed.
The reports say the Gaza Division will be bolstered with more infantry troops and special forces, in case of violent mostly peaceful protests along the fence.
Police have bolstered forces in areas where there is a threat of violence, following a deadly terrorist attack committed by two Israeli Arab button men affiliated with Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Hadera on Sunday.
The Israel Defense Forces has also bolstered troops in the West Bank.
Meanwhile, ...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth... a wave of arrests against those with Islamic State ties is expected to continue after 12 were detained overnight.
At the same time, Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Public Security Minister Omer Barlev met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II to discuss ways to lower tensions with the Paleostinians during the holy Moslem month, seen as a time of greater possibility for violence.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:44 Kiev orders the national battalions to shoot staged videos about the alleged Russian military killings of civilians and looting, the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. 21:30 It looks like the Verkhovna Rada has decided to ban Zelensky. In any case, the draft law on “banning the use of symbols of support for the attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine”, which implies a taboo on any mention of “Z”, “O” and “V”. Will anyone tell them?
20:48 A bill on a prison term of up to 10 years for Ukrainians who illegally left Ukraine after February 24 has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada. From 7 to 12 years in prison also threatens those military personnel and border guards who contributed to the illegal departure from the country.
19:02 The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) must admit that in an attempt to repel the attacks of the Russian army, they endanger the civilian population - William Shabas, professor of international law at Middlesex University in the British capital, accusing the APU of losses among civilians.
17:54 A source in the OP said that the Russian delegation at the talks in Istanbul said that the meeting between Zelensky and Putin is not possible without a framework agreement on the recognition of the LDNR and Crimea.
17:48 De-escalation in Kiev and Chernihiv directions does not mean ceasefire - Medinsky
17:47 As a result of an air strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the Starokonstantinov airfield in the Khmelnytsky region, absolutely all fuel reserves were destroyed.
17:32 Ammunition for Ukrainian-made Turkish-made Bayraktar drones was seized in the Kherson region. True, almost all Bayraktars have already been shot down by Russian air defense.
17:17 Teroborona militants at a checkpoint in Vyshgorod mistook the ambulance crew for a Russian DRG. Two paramedics and an ambulance driver were killed. Another consequence of the uncontrolled distribution of weapons among the population.
17:13 A powerful blow was delivered to the airfield in the Khmelnytsky region. Local authorities confirm damage to infrastructure but say there were no casualties.
17:05 Acting mayor of the city of Berdyansk A.F. Saulenko signed an Order on the creation of a city executive body - the mayor's office. Also, in order to organize and coordinate the entrepreneurs of the city, for their purchase of medicines and fuel on the territory of the Russian Federation, the Mayor established the Union of Entrepreneurs and Private Initiatives of Berdyansk.
16:50 More than 24,000 refugees from Ukraine have arrived in Crimea since the beginning of the special operation to demilitarize the country. 10 temporary accommodation points have been deployed on the territory of the republic.
16:11 The deadly network of NATO's secret military biolaboratories also affected Kherson. According to sources, in October 2021, isolated strains of viruses of pathogenicity groups 2-3-4 were stored at the state enterprise "Biological Factory" in the then Ukrainian city of Kherson at the state enterprise "Biological Factory".
15:43 Ukraine abandons the desire to return the Crimea and Donbass by military means - Medinsky.
15:40 At the Russian embassy in Armenia, stock in support of Russia and the peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh. The activists came with posters “Armenia and Russia together”, “Glory to Russia”, “For friendship” and “We believe in Russian peacekeepers”.
15:38 Russia demands from Kyiv to immediately release the Rosatom employees held at the Rovno nuclear power plant - Zakharov.
15:27 Air raid in Ukraine. Sirens roar in Kyiv, Kharkov, as well as the cities of Zhytomyr, Volyn, Rivne and Kharkov regions.
15:25 Russian special forces captured Ukrainian servicemen who participated in the torture of soldiers of the RF Armed Forces. We are talking about citizens of Ukraine Serhiy Velichko, nicknamed "Chile" and Konstantin Nemichev "from the fan group of the local football club Metalist," said Vladimir Shamanov, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Development of Civil Society, Issues of Public and Religious Associations.
15:11 Due to the fact that negotiations with Ukraine are moving into a practical plane, a decision has been made to significantly reduce military activity in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions - the Ministry of Defense.
15:10 Russia received written proposals from Ukraine confirming its desire for a neutral and non-nuclear status - Medinsky.
14:33 The Russian military delivered 20 tons of humanitarian aid to residents of Kharkiv and Sumy regions.
14:27 In Izyum, the cleansing continues, fighting is going on in the area of the village of Sukhaya Kamenka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine periodically try to counterattack Kamenka. Forces are being brought up, including armored vehicles. Aviation and air defense are actively working in the air.
The counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are unsuccessful, but the Ukrainian command is well aware of the value of this direction and is chasing all the new meat. A little later, we will please our subscribers with shots of objective control.
14:14 More than 20 tons of humanitarian aid were delivered by Russian servicemen to the settlements of Kharkiv and Sumy regions. Residents are given food packages, baby food and medicines. First of all, the necessary assistance was provided to families with children, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
14:00 In the Kursk region, a checkpoint was fired from Ukraine. The border guards killed the attackers with return fire.
13:48 The main tasks of the first stage of the special military operation in Ukraine have been completed - Shoigu. The head of the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Ukrainian army had caused significant damage, which allows us to focus our efforts on achieving the main goal - the liberation of Donbass.
13:47 In the Novomoskovsky district, which became the target of a missile attack in the morning, there are deployment points for several units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at once. They are concentrated in the area of the neighboring settlements of Gvardeyskoye and Cherkasskoye to the north-east of Dnepropetrovsk.
Cherkasy: 20th Motorized Rifle Battalion of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade. 502nd EW Regiment. 74th Reconnaissance Battalion. 121st Communications Brigade. 532nd Repair and Restoration Battalion.
Guards: 25th Separate Airborne Brigade. 1039th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment
13:41 Sounds like large-scale air raid in the central and western parts of Ukraine.
11:14 In Nikolaev, it flew well to the regional administration, part of the building was destroyed.
In Nikolaev, it flew well to the regional administration, part of the building was destroyed.
11:13 Colors in the city of Irpin (in the Bucha region) continued. Part of the city is controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Volkssturm, part of the RF Armed Forces. Part of the city, in fact, no one controls. The city itself was badly damaged by artillery fire. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have never declared control over the city of Irpin. The Armed Forces of Ukraine yesterday began to overpower on the Internet, but in fact the battles for the city went on and on.
11:08 Head of Crimea Aksyonov said that a significant part of the residents of the regions of Ukraine liberated during the special operation declare their readiness to receive Russian passports
11:07 Footage of the torture of Russian prisoners was shown on Spanish television in the Tele5 newscast. Virtually "uncut". Thanks to the Spaniards for not being afraid.
10:31 Half an hour ago, the RF Armed Forces delivered a powerful blow to Nikolaev.
10:30 Konashenkov: the Russian military has destroyed almost 200 planes and helicopters in Ukraine.
09:38 "Today, Ukraine does not give anything completely." Mayor Grocery (suburb of Kharkiv) Ivan Stolbovoy communicates with the inhabitants of the city. He called for cooperation with the Russian army, spoke about the points where you can get humanitarian assistance and promised that he would continue to conduct a dialogue with the Russian Armed Forces - to work on restoring the supply of water and electricity.
09:00 Russian sappers are working on demining the territory in the Kherson region.
08:53 Personnel destruction of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Mi-28N attack helicopters. The air strike was delivered in pairs from a distance of up to five kilometers.
08:47 The commander of the Central Military District arrived at the location of the units operating in the Chernihiv direction, presented state awards to the servicemen - the Russian Ministry of Defense.
08:40 Russian military evacuated 138 citizens of Turkey and 10 citizens of Ukraine to the Crimea from the Kherson region.
08:18 In Romania, another mine was defused, which was brought by the current from the Ukrainian side.
08:16 Published online video reprisals against a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - the militants of the thero defense grab him right in the temple and take him away in an unknown direction. Presumably, filmed in the town of Smela, Cherkasy region. The further fate of the priest is unknown.
01:30 VSU again opened massive fire from MLRS and artillery on two villages near Kherson, destroying the houses of Ukrainians.
01:20 Group near Kharkov witnessed the strike "Gradov" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The village of Tsirkuny near Kharkov is regularly shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Nazis. Today it hit again.
[An Nahar] Israeli security services raided the homes of at least 12 Arab citizens and arrested two suspected of having ties to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in a crackdown sparked by recent deadly attacks, authorities said Tuesday.
Hours before the raid, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said the recent assaults inside Israel, which killed six people, marked a "new situation" that required stepped-up security measures.
Law enforcement officials said 31 homes and sites were searched overnight in northern Israel, an area that was home to the button men who killed two coppers and maimed four more people in the city of Hadera over the weekend.
The Islamic State group claimed Sunday's attack, as well as a stabbing rampage in southern Israel last Tuesday in which four people were killed. Police shot and killed the two button men, and the stabber was shot and killed by a passerby, police said.
Israeli leaders condemned the killings and pointed to the timing. Both attacks came ahead of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan and Sunday's killings came on the eve of a high-profile meeting between the foreign ministers of four Arab nations and the United States in the Israeli Negev. All four Arab nations — Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates — along with the United States, condemned the killings.
Ramadan is expected to begin on Saturday. Last year, festivities between Israeli police and Moslem protesters during the holy month boiled over into an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, the Islamic Death Eater group that rules Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... . Hamas praised the shooting as a "heroic operation."
Attacks by IS inside Israel are rare.
The group operates mainly in Iraq and Syria, where it has recently stepped up attacks against security forces. It no longer controls any territory but operates through sleeper cells. IS has claimed attacks against Israeli troops in the past and has branches in Afghanistan and other countries.
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This is how it works. IS works on the gig principle. You have islamic angst and wanna let loose, you go ahead and do it. If you're successful the IS claims it and you're suddenly a great emir. of course you're dead or in jail but the glory is yours and IS gets the points.
They don't really have the capacity for much except communications online and some payments. Outsourcing the action to willing recruits and guys already trained by any Islamist org. The only activity IS does is attract and convince the wolves to give them credit. I'm sure there's a business term for it I don't remember right now.
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It’s just marketing, Dron. ISIS has the reputation of being the nastiest jihadis around, so lots of those not already accredited elsewhere claim the label so they can look kewl, too.
They used to claim to be Al Qaeda, even though technically they were unaffiliated, because those were the videos they used to self-radicalize. Which is different than those who actually were seduced by the silver-tongued professional groomer calling over the internet from the home base in Raqqa/Yemen/Somalia/wherever the latest hotspot might be.
[MEMRI.ORG] In response to reports that the Biden administration is considering removing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations as part of its efforts to renew the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... (the JCPOA), articles in the Saudi press attacked the administration, calling this an absurd move and a crime that will threaten global security. The writers claimed that the Biden administration, like the B.O. regime before it, is eager to sign a nuclear agreement with Iran in order to extricate it from its plight, even if this comes at the expense of America's Arab allies. The IRGC. they argued, which controls Iran, is the spearhead of regional and global terror, and also operates other organizations, like the Lebanese Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , the 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... s 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... and the Shi'ite militias in Iraq. Therefore, removing it from the terror list is an unprecedented act of supporting terror and a "plot" that crosses every red line, which changes the power-balance in the region and places the Arab states, and the world on the lam, in direct danger.
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A concept from the 60s which you could also get for your train set. Not that engines or cars derail, or on occasion run into something sitting on the tracks.
[IsraelTimes] In the past year, in dozens of strikes attributed to Israel, the Israeli Air Force has fired 586 munitions at targets in Syria, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
Amid the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, the Syrian Arab Army fired 239 anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli jets and missiles, mostly without success, the reports say.
The new numbers were given by air force officials during a recent briefing with news hounds.
As a rule, Israel’s military does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, but has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country.
[IsraelTimes] Ibrahim Ighbariah got 18 months for Islamic State ties after brother testified he wanted to join police; 2nd shooter reportedly moved from Fatah prison wing for being ’too radical’
One of the the two bandidosbully boyz who carried out a deadly shooting attack in Hadera on Sunday reportedly had his prison sentence over his ties to 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.... reduced by a judge during his trial several years ago, despite requests by the prosecution for a lengthier sentence. Two cousins, Ibrahim and Ayman Ighbariah, both Israeli citizens, killed two Border Police officers on Sunday and maimed multiple others before being rubbed out by undercover officers who happened to be eating nearby.
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[JPost] Five people were killed in at least two locations in Bnei Brak. 11 Israelis have been killed in the past week, making it the bloodiest in recent memory.
Number of dead rises to five. That makes 11 dead Israelis in one week. While circumstances are still unclear, the attack in Beersheba was exactly one week ago.
The shooting was first reported around 8:00 p.m. on HaShnaim Street. One person was found killed in a car and two other people were shot dead on a nearby sidewalk. A video later circulating on social media showed a man yelling in Arabic and shooting at random people with an assault rifle on a residential street.
Another person was found dead on Herzl Street, perpendicular to HaShnaim Street. A fifth victim, a police officer, was evacuated to the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in critical condition and died from his wounds soon after.
The shooter was later shot dead by a police officer who arrived at the scene on a motorcycle. The officer, 32-year-old Arab Christian Amir Khouri, was evacuated to Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in critical condition and died from his wounds soon after, making him the fifth victim.
The shooting in Bnai Brak was the latest attack in a new wave of terrorism, marked by the stabbing of four Israelis in Beersheba last week and the shooting of two Border Policemen in Hadera on Sunday night.
The shooter was identified as Dia Hamarsha, 27, from the village of Ya'bad in the northern West Bank near Jenin. He was jailed for half a year in 2015 for illegal arms dealing and affiliation with a terrorist group, and had worked illegally at a building site in Bnei Brak.
Another person was arrested at the scene and investigated on suspicion of assisting the shooter, and a third person was arrested later further east on Jabotinsky Street.
Bystanders repeatedly disrupted reporters on air with chants of "Death to the Arabs" and calls against Bennett and Bar Lev. A crowd attempted to overturn a car they suspected of belonging to the terrorist.
Israeli security forces conducted a widespread arrest campaign throughout the West Bank early Wednesday morning in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, Bethlehem, Kedum, Ramallah, Marda, Ya'bad, and villages south of Bethlehem.
In a rare statement, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas condemned the terrorist attack late on Tuesday, Israeli media reported.
"The killing of Israeli and Palestinian civilians will only lead to a deterioration of the situation ahead of Ramadan," the PA head said. "We are trying to obtain some stability."
Police arrest 8 suspects in Bnei Brak who illegally entered Israel; not tied to attack
[IsraelTimes] Police have arrested eight Paleostinians suspected of illegally entering Israel in an apparent arrest spree in Bnei Brak after tonight’s attack, Channel 12 reports. The suspects are not believed to have ties to the shooter and the possibility remains that the assailant acted alone.
A Palestinian man distribute sweets to people on the street after five Israelis were killed in shooting attack, in Deir al-Balah in the center of #Gaza strip, on March 29, 2022. Photo by Ashraf Amra pic.twitter.com/0UfaRTaMRb
[FoxNews] It is evident Biden is intent on allowing the crisis to continue
When it comes to border security, the Biden administration isn’t satisfied with just opening the floodgates -- causing the single largest illegal immigration crisis in our history.
Now Biden is going a step further by seeming to remove the gates entirely.
DHS is set to implement a new rule substantially changing the role of asylum officers of the U.S. Citizens and Immigration Service (USCIS). Instead of simply determining credible fear which allows a claimant to appear before a judge, under the new rule asylum officers will now have the same authority as a judge. Secretary Mayorkas said: "Through this rule, we are building a more functional and sensible asylum system to ensure that individuals who are eligible will receive protection more swiftly, while those who are not eligible will be rapidly removed."
While on the surface this might seem like a good idea for border security, it is not. In fact, and if statistics hold true, it will do the exact opposite. It will make the problem worse – much worse. It is a Trojan Horse.
In the asylum process there are two equally important components, USCIS and immigration judges.
USCIS is responsible for the intake and processing of asylum claims as well as making an initial determination as to the credibility of a person’s fear about returning to their country of origin. The judiciary reviews all pertinent evidence, hears the case by allowing the claimant to prove the claim, and makes a final determination based upon the law.
By removing immigration judges, the Administration is putting complete authority in the hands of a single department, DHS, with no review by the Department of Justice.
It also requires that these attitudes be reflected in national policies because nation-states are, and will continue to be, the essential building blocks of any world order
Notice that two of the writers are probably Indian imports to America. Hindus. Products of one of the most opportunist, self-serving, shortsighted and corrupt societies on earth. Unfortunately you can trust an Indian only so far as you can put him back on a plane.
[An Nahar] Clashes between U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters and members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group killed at least three people inside a restive camp in northeastern Syria that houses IS families, local Kurdish authorities and an opposition war monitor said Tuesday.The festivities broke out late Monday night at al-Hol in Syria's province of Hassakeh, when Kurdish fighters exchanged fire with an IS sleeper cell, according to Shixmus Ehmed, head of the Kurdish-led administration's department for refugees and displaced. He spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named via voice messages Tuesday.
The fighting involved pistols, automatic rifles and rocket propelled grenades, he said, adding that the situation remains tense. The sprawling al-Hol camp has for years held tens of thousands of women and kiddies — mostly wives, widows and children of IS members.
The Kurdish police force, known as Asayish, said its members were attacked and fired back, killing an IS member and wounding others. It said police were careful during the festivities because IS fighters had hidden themselves among civilians. The police did not give casualty figures among civilians.
Syrian Kurdish fighters have intensified their inspections at al-Hol in recent weeks, following a late January attack by IS on a prison in the lovely provincial capital of Hassakeh, where some 3,000 murderous Moslems and juveniles are held.
That attack led to 10 days of fighting between the U.S.-backed fighters and IS murderous Moslems that left nearly 500 dead before the situation was brought under control. It was the biggest attack by IS since the fall of the group's so-called Islamic "caliphate" in 2019, and stoked fears it may be staging a comeback.
Following the Sunday night festivities, the Kurdish fighters surrounded the area to prevent any IS button men from escaping, Ehmed said, without giving a breakdown for the casualties.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human rights, an opposition war monitor, said a woman and a child were killed as well as an IS fighter. The Observatory added that four women and six children were maimed.
The Kurdish fighters imposed a curfew inside the camp, the Observatory also said, adding that the fighting was concentrated in areas housing family members of Iraqi and Syrian IS fighters.
Some 50,000 Syrians and Iraqis are located in al-Hol. Nearly 20,000 of them are children while the rest are mostly women.
A nearby separate and heavily guarded section of the camp known as the "annex" is where about 2,000 women from 57 other countries are held, with about 8,000 children. The women in the annex are considered to be the most die-hard IS supporters.
In February, women at al-Hol tried to kidnap their Kurdish guards, leading to a shooting that left one child dead and several people maimed.
IS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed days after the January prison attack. U.S. officials said he went kaboom! along with members of his family as American forces raided his hideout in the northwestern Syrian town of Atmeh, near the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , on Feb. 3.
The Islamic State group has named Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi as its new leader.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 29, 2022
The Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) announced, on Tuesday, a member of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) sleeper cell was killed and others were wounded during clashes erupted in Hawl camp.
An Asayish patrol was targeted, yesterday, with medium and light weapons while touring inside the camp, Asayish said in a statement.
The statement indicated that the clashes between the Asayish patrol and ISIS cell killed one ISIS member and wounded others, without specifying the number.
The security forces reinforced their deployment in all sectors of the camp and the surrounding area to prevent the ISIS agents from escaping and to be able of arresting them.
The Hawl Camp witnessed a state of calm following clashes between Asayish and ISIS sleeper cells inside the camp, a security source told North Press, on Tuesday.
Late yesterday, a security source told North Press that the Hawl Camp had witnessed a security alert following a rebellion by ISIS sleeper cells inside the camp.
The fourth and fifth sectors of the camp witnessed a crossfire between the Asayish and ISIS sleeper cells who used small arms in their attack.
A non-governmental organization (NGO) worker told North Press, on Tuesday, that all NGOs suspended their activities within the camp as a result of the security situation in the overcrowded camp.
In early March, a high-ranking security source told North Press that they had received intelligence information that ISIS was preparing to take full control of the Hawl Camp.
The security forces in northeast Syria (Rojava) arrested a suspect allegedly planning a suicide kaboom in the notorious al-Hol camp, a conflict monitor reported on Monday.
The forces arrested "a person attempting to blow themselves up" in the camp, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. The conflict monitor did not disclose the name, age or gender of the suspect.
[SCOTUSblog] The Supreme Court on Monday issued orders from the justices’ private conference last week, adding three new cases to next term’s docket. The new cases involve a challenge to an animal-welfare law in California, a death-penalty issue in Arizona, and a copyright dispute over an Andy Warhol work.
The justices also turned down a request from Texas to weigh in on the private nondelegation doctrine, a principle that bars Congress from delegating its legislative powers to other entities – but with three justices indicating that they would like to address the issue in a future case.
The justices granted review in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, a case arising from a challenge to a California law that makes the sale of pork in California contingent on compliance with conditions that virtually no existing commercial farms meet – specifically, that the pig from which the pork derives was born to a sow who was housed in a 24-square-foot space and could turn around freely without touching any barriers.
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[NYPOST] A Russian commander killed himself after finding all but one of his unit’s tanks were completely stripped of crucial parts, according to Ukraine’s military.
The Land Forces of Ukraine said that invading forces have suffered such heavy losses that their units have been forced to get new military equipment from long-term storage at an airport just 21 miles from the border.
"The condition of this equipment is mostly extremely unsatisfactory, which makes its full use impossible," the Ukrainian force said on Telegram.
Russian 4th Tank Division "found out that out of 10 ’canned’ tanks, only one is in a more or less operational condition. The rest are completely dismantled. Some of them don’t even have engines!" the Ukrainian forces claimed.
"According to available information, the commander of the 13th Tank Regiment of the Russian 4th Tank Division of the Russian Federation shot himself," the message said.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry shared the same report, quipping that "the number 13 of the regiment" had indeed proven to be unlucky.
It said the apparent suicide was part of the "consequences of the liberation of Trostyanets in the Sumy region by the Ukrainian military and the defeat of the Kantemirov tank division."
Lt. Gen. Serhiy Kisel, the commander of another unit, the Russian 1st Tank Army, was also "removed from office" because of "huge losses and the failure of the Russian invasion of Ukraine," the ministry claimed.
"It was impossible for the Russian leadership to turn a blind eye to poor command of the troops," the ministry said.
Ukraine’s military claimed Tuesday that more than 17,000 Russian troops have been killed — and nearly 600 tanks and 1,710 other armored vehicles destroyed.
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[NYPOST] A Ukrainian woman has said she was repeatedly raped at gunpoint for hours by drunken Russian troops who shot her husband dead — and as her terrified 4-year-old son sobbed nearby.Using the pseudonym Natalya, the 33-year-old mom told the Times of London that troops stormed her rural home in the suburbs of the capital, Kyiv, on March 9 — even though she had a white sheet on her gate "to show there is just a family here and no one wants any harm."
Natalya — whose rape Ukraine’s prosecutor-general Iryna Venediktova had announced was the subject of an official investigation — said they were forced to leave their home with their hands raised after invading soldiers first rubbed out their dog.
She said the unit’s commander, who introduced himself as Mikhail Romanov, seemed drunk — and deliberately crashed her car so that she would not be able to flee.
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A Ukrainian woman has said she was repeatedly raped at gunpoint for hours by drunken Russian troops who shot her husband dead — and as her terrified 4-year-old son sobbed nearby
A perfectly believable event. It was also a plot point in a recent TV series, "Billions" IIRC.
[NYPOST] The Ukrainian sailor who told a Russian warship to "go f—k yourself" as he helped try to defend Snake Island was awarded a government medal in a video posted by Ukraine on Tuesday.
Hero seaman Roman Hrybov received the award "For Merits to Cherkasy Region" from Regional Gov. Ihor Taburets.
Hrybov was one of a handful of sailors manning the defenses of Snake Island in the Black Sea during the early hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month.
When Russia’s military craft the Valisy Bykov ordered Hrybov and his comrades to surrender, the brave sailor reportedly replied by radio, "Russian warship, go f—k yourself."
The reply prompted the Valisy Bykov to bombard the island.
Hrybov and the other Snake Island defenders were initially declared dead, until it became clear they’d been captured by Russian forces. His retort became a rallying cry in the early days of the Ukrainian resistance.
The Valisy Bykov was reportedly destroyed two weeks later by Ukrainian forces defending Odessa.
The captured Ukrainian sailors were freed last week in a prisoner swap, and Hrybov’s award ceremony was held soon after.
In an interview with Ukrainian outlet Today, Hrybov’s mother said her son had never bowed to anyone.
"By the way, I have never in my life heard my son swear at me," Tatiana Hrybov added.
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Such a brave chap. I would like to shake his hand as well. I'm glad he survived.
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I’m sure that the slogan will be taught to Ukrainian school children in perpetuity. Across the Ukrainian diaspora of on-line kindergartners, they are probably busy with crayons coming up with a suitable commemorative flag design. Maybe we can get some Disney execs to judge their artwork.
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Russian warship, трахни себя!
We will gladly live like Libya,
But this island we won't give ya!
So Отвяжись! And tell the Pute,
that every Ukranian brute
serves the one with eyes like рыбья.
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[Babylon Bee] In a show of penitence for the insensitive joke told during the Oscars, Chris Rock offered to smooth things over with Will Smith by sleeping with his wife.
[Breitbart] Ketanji Brown Jackson disagreed with her expert witness’s definition of pedophilia during a hearing while serving as Vice-Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
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