[IsraelTimes] 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... -based terror group threatens to meet ’escalation with escalation’ as Israel launches large-scale operation in West Bank following wave of deadly terror attacks in Israel
The Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group threatened on Thursday to escalate violence against Israel, after Israeli forces launched a large-scale anti-terror operation in the West Bank in response to a string of attacks in the last two weeks that have left 11 Israelis dead. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, threatened to meet "escalation with escalation" and warned of a "comprehensive explosion."
Three Paleostinian button men were killed in a firefight with Israeli troops Thursday when commandos entered the Paleostinian city of Jenin in a rare daytime raid and dozens more were arrested, the army said in a statement.
Paleostinian Authority health officials reported two deaths and 14 maimed in the festivities. A source involved in the matter later told The Times of Israel that indeed only two deaths had been confirmed, however, another two Paleostinians were brain-dead, but still on life support.
The warning came as Israeli officials have sought to head off tensions ahead of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, amid fears that the violence could snowball into the same type of unrest that rocked Israel in May 2021, when Hamas began shooting rockets into Israel, sparking an 11-day war with Gaza and days of rioting between Arabs and Jews inside Israel.
At the same time, Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... leader Ziyad al-Nakhaleh called for the group’s armed wing to be put on "high alert."
The widescale Israeli operation in the West Bank, expected to continue in the coming days, was launched following a meeting of top ministers, who decided to bolster police and military forces and push offensive anti-terror operations.
The arrest operation — dubbed "Breakwater" — targeted individuals suspected of planning future attacks, as well as some thought to be tied to Tuesday’s deadly attack in Bnei Brak, perpetrated by a Paleostinian from a village near Jenin.
Paleostinian media identified two of the Paleostinian casualties in the raid as Sanad Abu Atiyeh, 17, and Yazid al-Sa’adi, 23.
Some 31 suspects were arrested overnight, including a Paleostinian from Hebron suspected of affiliation 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.... , the military said. Since a terror attack in Beersheba on March 22 carried out by an Arab Israeli man from the southern town of Hura — previously enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for attempting to join Islamic State — Israeli security forces have arrested 43 suspects who allegedly sympathize with the jihadist group.
Days after the deadly attack, two cousins from Umm al-Fahm — one of whom had been previously enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for attempting to join Islamic State — killed two coppers at a bus stop in Hadera.
On Tuesday, five Israelis were killed in a killing spree carried out by a Paleostinian terrorist in Bnei Brak. There was no indication that he was a member of Islamic State.
And on Thursday morning, an Israeli man was seriously maimed in a stabbing attack near the West Bank settlement of Neve Daniel, medics said.
Responding to the "wave of murderous terrorism," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Wednesday "There is no limit on resources" that should go toward tackling terrorism. He noted that the military’s presence in the West Bank and along the Green Line has been heavily reinforced in recent days.
An Israeli man was seriously maimed Thursday morning in a terror stabbing near the West Bank settlement of Neve Daniel, south of Jerusalem. The 28-year-old was assaulted by another bus passenger, a Paleostinian armed with a screwdriver. Medics said three others were treated at the scene for anxiety.
The terrorist was rubbed out by an armed passenger on the bus, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed.
Paleostinian health officials identified the assailant as Nidal Juma’a Ja’afra, 30. Israeli soldiers later entered Ja’afra’s hometown of Tarqumiyah to search his house.
According to Paleostinian media reports, festivities erupted in the area soon after the troops raided the town. There was no immediate comment by the Israeli military.
[BBC] Russia’s 331st Guards Parachute Regiment is considered "the best of the best", but BBC Newsnight has been tracing the casualties as the unit battles through Ukraine.
The regiment's commanding officer - Col Sergei Sukharev - died in mid-March. His chief of staff and numerous other officers have also fallen.
The regiment previously served in the Balkans, Chechnya and the 2014 Russia invasion in the Donbas.
Tracking the unit through Ukraine, Newsnight’s diplomatic and defence editor Mark Urban looks at the outpouring of grief and anger from Russia in response to the devastating losses. What went wrong for the once-elite regiment? And what does its fate tell us about Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
This film was produced by Maria Jevstafjeva and Louis Harris-White.
April 1 (Reuters) - Russia accused Ukraine of carrying out an air strike against a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod on Friday, an incident the Kremlin said set an unfavourable tone for peace talks with Kyiv.
Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said he could not confirm or deny reports of Ukrainian involvement in the strike as he did not have military information. The Ukrainian Defence Ministry and the general staff did not respond to requests for comment.
Video footage of the purported attack -- the first accusation of a Ukrainian air strike on Russian soil since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 -- showed what looked like several missiles being fired from low altitude, followed by an explosion. Reuters could not immediately verify the footage.
And remember it was the National Enquirer of BatBoy fame which broke the 'John Edwards was Banging a Bimbo while his wife was suffering from cancer.' story which the 'respectable' networks refused to cover.
#12
just compromise and end this thing before it gets out of control
"Comprimise" with an invader who wants to turn your nation into his puppet?
And I love the idea that Ukrainian counter-strikes prompt the shrieking over things "getting out of control". No, Putin's invasion is the problem. He could withdraw his troops and start negotiating on how much to pay for the damage.
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#9 Why is the US and NATO supporting Ukraine if not to see events in Russia like this? It's all about making Russia hurt.
Lovely. That's like saying "Let's you n him fight!"
You think Russia's not going to hit back at Ukraine ten times harder? They'll level the country, wipe out all Ukraine's oil depots. Brilliant strategy, that
#14
Of course compromise. Great power nations always compromise with each other. What do you think US policy toward Taiwan is?
The goal is to end the war and save lives. Regime change ain't gonna happen. That's just another Jewish neocon fantasy. We're not dealing with Iraq or Libya here
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They'll level the country, wipe out all Ukraine's oil depots.
True. Ukraine is going be totally destroyed. Macron will then tell us we have to pay the bill for reconstruction... €100 billions, for the next thirty years. While he impose rationing on us lol
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Lovely. That's like saying "Let's you n him fight!"
Posted by: Gretch Forkbeard4984
Uhmmm, exactly. Russia is our enemy. They would and have done it to us.
I case you haven't noticed, that's exactly what the west is doing now in the Ukraine.
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Ha, right then - not just Jews. It's a fantasy of all the neocons in Washington. But those cunts Victoria Nuland and Anne Applebaum are the worst. Feminine neocons of a globalist persuasion then
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Russia is our enemy.
Really? Who is "us"? When did Russia declare war on any western nation? Russia and Ukraine are at war, not Russia and the EU or France or the USA
The notion that we should kill ourselves over this shitty little country is deranged. We are not at war with Russia, it's just the stupid globalists who think so
Can we get a ruling from the judges here? Do we hate these guys because they are Juice or do we hate them because they are neocons? I would hate to waste a bunch of hate hating people for the wrong reasons.
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^ This coupon cannot be redeemed in combination with other coupons on same time purchase.
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#19 "Russia and Ukraine are at war..."
Excuse me, but it's a special military operation, not a war.
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it's a special military operation, not a war.
Supposedly a special military operation to de-nazify Ukraine. How many nazis has Russia handed over to the Hague so far?
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I hate them because they are neocons. No offence to my Jewish friends. It's just bloody annoying to be dragged into wars that don't benefit us. No more Iraq War cockups, thank you. We should mind our own business and look after our own for once
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those cunts Victoria Nuland and Anne Applebaum are the worst.
Anne Applebaum has gone berserk. She used to be an ok historian but she recently wrote a piece for The Atlantic in which she all but called for World War III. The mad little cow's probably on the payroll of the Polish government
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We should mind our own business and look after our own for once
Yep...look after our own border, for chrissake. 209,000 illegals in March, and we're supposed to just ignore this and support Biden's warmongering in f**king Ukraine. Hell no... fix the goddamn border
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#16 Yep, right there.
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^ And now we've got to pay for millions of Ukrainian migrants. Brexit was all about stopping this shit. Ho hum. They just ignore us and do whatever they bloody well please
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Jewish neocons
It's not just them, it's all the neocon bastards like Lindsey Graham and Rubio, plus the open borders globo-liberal shits
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Hey, trolls, if you care so much put down your keyboards, stop collecting the Chekist's rubles, and get your asses to Donbas where you can get turned into charcoal like the poor conscripts.
#36
get your asses to Donbas Western Ukraine where you can get turned into charcoal like the poor conscripts "Volunteer Fighters"
If you love this war so much, then you go for it. Tell us how it turns out for you
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Touched a nerve, eh? Looks like the Russian army is leaving western Ukraine with its tail between its legs, and the Ukrainians are resupplying with the tanks they abandoned. How the price of gasoline in Belgorod today?
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I don't care one way or the other. It's a civil war. None of our business. I want our government to stop butting into other people's affairs and start fixing our own problems. Biden is making a bad situation infinitely worse. Carlson is right: he's just making us a lot poorer. FJB
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You're like a guy who drives across town to watch a bar fight while criminals are invading his home and setting it on fire
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Phase one over, phase two starting. For those with military experience there’s a step called “reorganize and consolidate.” So far this has been a war of maneuver - more like naval warfare than traditional US ground doctrine. There are 40-60,000 Ukrainian troops trapped in the Donbas cauldron. Those are / were the best equipped / trained Ukrainian forces. Having ground them down for 30 days of minimal sleep / resupply it’s time to transition. The casualty rates will increase on both sides but there are insufficient trained, equipped Ukrainians to reinforce the pocket. Reductions using stand off weapons will be the preferred mode. Remember most Ukrainians speak / understand Russian. Calls to surrender will at some point be heeded. When the fixed Ukrainian force is no longer combat effective the remaining Russian forces committed will be able to transition to their next phase. Please keep in mind that the Ukraine is simply where the most visible portion of this war is being fought.
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Kiev was never central to Russian objectives. Their two goals were 1) to eliminate Ukraine as a potential NATO bulwark and 2) to protect the Russian speaker's in the Donbas.
The tactical means of achieving goal #2 involved beating down the Azov Battalion and other fascist paras.
The strategy for achieving goal #1 had three elements. The most important by far was to secure a lasting land bridge across the Azov Sea coast all the way to Crimea so that Russia's crown jewel, the naval base at Sevastopol, will never be threatened by NATO. Next in importance is to split Ukraine in two. Finally, the the third leg of the stool was to as Mearsheimer says, "wreck" Ukraine.
After Ukraine is wrecked it will become another Gaza, a basket case ward of the Western liberal nations, the shattered rump of a nation supported by the West which fights on hopelessly against its ruthless, dominant neighbor.
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...split Ukraine in two. Finally, the the third leg of the stool was to as Mearsheimer says, "wreck" Ukraine
Similar to the Union strategy in the West during the Civil War. Grant split the South in two with the victory at Vicksburg, then Sherman wrecked the heart of the south with his March to the Sea.
They called Grant a bloody butcher of his own men and Sherman today would be called a war criminal, but they won the war. In the end, that's all that matters.
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#46 If that is an accurate summary of Putin's thinking, then Putin is quite insane.
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#43 IMHO the Kiev thrust was a tangential gambit. There was maybe a 10% chance of the Ukies folding, capturing key leadership, etc. and wrapping things up quickly. Didn’t happen but it was worth a shot. More importantly was securing the Chernobyl site after the Ukrainian comments about going nuclear. A dirty bomb is nobody’s friend. Operationally that thrust tied down significant numbers of the Ukrainian forces defending Kiev - who could not then reinforce the other vectors of attack. Estimate it’ll take until the end of April to complete mop up activities in the cauldron. That’s a LONG time in todays arena. Presume both sides (US and Russia) will be planning the subsequent actions in the interim. “Firer’s, watch your lane.”
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the Kiev thrust was a tangential gambit There was maybe a 10% chance of the Ukies folding, capturing key leadership, etc. and wrapping things up quickly. Didn’t happen but it was worth a shot. More importantly was securing the Chernobyl site after the Ukrainian comments about going nuclear..
Exactly. Kiev was not a feint but a small side bet
#51
After Ukraine is wrecked it will become another Gaza, a basket case ward of the Western liberal nations, the shattered rump of a nation supported by the West which fights on hopelessly against its ruthless, dominant neighbor.
So all the sentimental talk about Ukrainians and Russians being one people, about Kiev being the heart of the Rus — all that was always meaningless? And really the intention all along was another Holodomor?
So the Putinist line is now "we meant to do that"?
And really the intention all along was another Holodomor?
We always knew that. If Putin wanted to keep the Russian colonists safe, he'd have repatriated them.
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And the second line is "it's a civil war"?
Except it's not. Why are the Putinists compelled to tell such clumsy lies?
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"Holodomor"
That's rich. It's Biden and the West's SANCTIONS that are going to cause 8-10 million people around the world to starve... and you have the gall to accuse Russia of causing starvation. Fuck you
#58
Except it's not.
You're so ignorant... The war in the Donbas has been going on for eight years! 14,000 people have died in this civil war!
It's a civil war between one side that's loyal to Kiev and that wants to join the West and another, Russian-speaking, that's loyal to Moscow. Only the ignorance of so many in the West can explain the unbelievable denial of basic facts
#59
I smell sweaty guys with anonymous nyms in track suits a LOT lately
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gold chains and bad cologne optional
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Frank, they're just bent out of shape because Putin's blaming the FSB for this colosssal screw-up. And Putin's in his bunker moving around little flags and saying "Steiner Kommt!"
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It's a civil war
If that's true - I have no way of knowing, but if it is true, we should FFS stay out of it and not prolong it.
Defend our own border from millions of invaders. Yeah, millions. They're expecting up to 18,000 every DAY now. Take care of the homeland. Let the Russians and Ukrainians sort out their problems while we sort out ours
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It's NOT a civil war - they are sovereign countries. Yes the US Border is a mess. Don't deliberately confuse the two. Trolling
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Who the fuck appointed you as hall monitor?
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Mr. Pruitt, the site owner, invited Frank G to be a moderator. The list of moderators and their particular highlight colours for in-line comments can be seen in the right margin of the main pages, to help you know who you’re dealing with. I’m the periwinkle one.
#67
Hi, meet Frank. He's a hall monitor. That's why he has the hat. And a stick.
There are a couple overlapping things going on here: one is the Donbas breakaway republics thing which is pretty much a Ukrainian civil war. The other is Russian security vs NATO.
The important bit for the Russians is Russian security. The Donbas is kind of a side-quest. But success there does mean a much fatter corridor to Crimea.
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So it is a civil war, plus NATO sticking its nose into Russia's back yard and affecting Russian security. Makes you have more sympathy for Russia.
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No, factually, and I don't.
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04/01/2022 21:39
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Hey, Boss, are you guys deliberately mocking Herb by systematically mimicking his problems with pronouns and the imperative? Cuz that would be pretty uncivil.
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#72
negotiate seriously with Putin.
Yeah tell him to get the fuck out of Moscow, it's now Ukrainian territory.
#74
The important bit for the Russians is Russian security.
And Putin's ego.
Mostly Putin's ego.
If he cared about Russia's security, he'd have made sure they had an army that wasn't just a slush fund for his buddies.
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#40 There are 40-60,000 Ukrainian troops trapped in the Donbas cauldron. Those are / were the best equipped / trained Ukrainian forces. Having ground them down for 30 days of minimal sleep / resupply it’s time to transition. The casualty rates will increase on both sides but there are insufficient trained, equipped Ukrainians to reinforce the pocket.
This is correct. The bulk of the Ukrainian Army -- most estimates are closer to 60,000 troops -- is encircled in the East, in the Donbas. The Russians are slowly and steadily tightening the noose. If the Ukrainians lose this force, they are finished.
Russia is concentrating on the Azov region, not Kiev.
#76
Clearly the Russian strategy is focused on cutting off Ukrainian access to the Black Sea -- in effect making Ukraine landlocked. Similar to the Israeli strategy against the Palestinians: shatter the nation and render it incapable of seriously threatening Israel.
Same for Russia vs Ukraine: make Ukraine into a kind of E European version of the Palestinian Territories, with no value to NATO.
#77
Foreign Minister Lavrov was in China yesterday, today is in India for meetings with Modi. In recent weeks the foreign ministers of the U.K., Austria, Mexico and other nations traveled to India. The only foreign Minister whom Modi would meet is Russia's.
India and China are siding with Russia against the West.
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[Breitbart] A Gulf Cartel commander and four of his bodyguards died Thursday morning during a shootout with the Mexican military near the Texas border.
The shootout took place in Miguel Aleman, where soldiers clashed with a Gulf Cartel strike team led by “Commander Tilin.”
One was a female who was fatally injured in the shootout despite efforts to save her by responding medical personnel.
According to information provided to Breitbart Texas by Mexican law enforcement sources, Tilin and his security detail were in Miguel Aleman on Thursday morning when they encountered a military patrol. The incident turned into a chase with both sides exchanging fire.
The shootout set off blockades throughout the city. The military did not sustain any casualties.
The shootout comes at a time when the Gulf Cartel is waging a fierce turf war against the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, which has forced the Gulf to deploy substantial numbers of gunmen.
[ArcaMax] RALEIGH, N.C. — Three of North Carolina’s most powerful Republican elected officials are backing a primary-election challenger to U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn.
Cawthorn, a first-term representative from far-western North Carolina, has generated headlines and controversies since before joining Congress after a surprising GOP primary victory in 2020.
But the most recent string of controversies — a series of charges of speeding and driving violations, unflattering comments about the Ukrainian president after Russia’s invasion, and claims that people in Washington have invited him to orgies and he’s seen some do cocaine — represent a breaking point for some.
In particular, the remark about sex and drugs has led to outrage among fellow Republicans, who seemed content to let other controversies surrounding the 26-year-old go.
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis is backing state Sen. Chuck Edwards in Cawthorn’s 11th Congressional District. In addition, state Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore planned to host a fundraiser for Edwards on Thursday afternoon. Donations of $250 to $2,900 are required to attend the event, according to an invitation. Edwards is one of seven Republicans running against Cawthorn.
"Mr. Cawthorn hasn’t demonstrated much in the way of results over the last 18 months," Tillis told CNN on Wednesday at the Capitol.
The primary is May 17.
Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the U.S. House, met with Cawthorn on Wednesday after his sex-and-drug comments alarmed and angered members of the GOP caucus. McCarthy told reporters afterward that Cawthorn exaggerated or lied about the claims, saying he "did not tell the truth."
"I’m very disappointed. I told him he’s lost my trust. He’s lost my trust. He’s going to have to earn it back," McCarthy told Capitol Hill reporters after meeting with Cawthorn. McCarthy did not rule out removing Cawthorn from his committee assignments in his comments.
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He has certainly demonstrated a lack of discipline common to most rookies.
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"Mr. Cawthorn hasn’t demonstrated much in the way of results over the last 18 months," Tillis told CNN on Wednesday at the Capitol.
What Republican has?
Isn't this another case of flack getting heavier over the target?
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Allegations are not evidence. You'd think all the totally made-up crap they put Trump through from the moment he was elected (actually earlier) would cause people on our side to insist of receipts or keep your mouth shut. OTOH, why should we give any less than we have been getting?
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Maybe McCarthy is the guy hosting the cocaine and orgy parties? Wouldn't surprise me one bit.
[AyPee] Russia’s tech workers are looking for safer and more secure professional pastures.
By one estimate, up to 70,000 computer specialists, spooked by a sudden frost in the business and political climate, have bolted the country since Russia invaded Ukraine five weeks ago. Many more are expected to follow.
For some countries, Russia’s loss is being seen as their potential gain and an opportunity to bring fresh expertise to their own high-tech industries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has noticed the brain drain even in the throes of a war that, according to the U.N. refugee agency, has caused more than 4 million people to flee Ukraine and displaced millions more within the country.
This week, Putin reacted to the exodus of tech professionals by approving legislation to eliminate income taxes between now and 2024 for individuals who work for information technology companies.
Some people in the vast new pool of high-tech exiles say they are in no rush to return home. An elite crowd furnished with European Union visas has relocated to Poland or the Baltic nations of Latvia and Lithuania.
A larger contingent has fallen back on countries where Russians do not need visas: Armenia, Georgia and the former Soviet republics in Central Asia. In normal times, millions of less-skilled laborers emigrate from those economically shaky countries to comparatively more prosperous Russia.
Anastasia, a 24-year-old freelance computer systems analyst from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, chose Kyrgyzstan, where her husband has family.
“When we heard about the war on (Feb. 24), we thought it was probably time to leave, but that we might wait and see. On February 25, we bought our tickets and left,” Anastasia said. “There wasn’t much thinking to do.”
Like all the Russian workers contacted for this story, Anastasia asked to remain anonymous. Moscow was cracking down on dissent even before the invasion of Ukraine, and people living outside Russia still fear reprisals.
“As long as I can remember, there has always been fear around expressing one’s own views in Russia,” Anastasia said, adding that the war and “the background noise of patriotism” made the environment even more forbidding. “I left one day before they began searching and interrogating people at the border.”
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Been seeking less East & West Pravda type news and more actual facts. As they say "Seeing is believing", so I started looking at Ukrainian Live Webcams that are still up and running in the major cities.
The link below is to 1 such collection of Ukrainian Webcams.
There are also Earthcam, Skyline, WWITV, geocam, and "nagix.github.io/ukraine-livecams/#5.5/47.774/31.685/0/45" and others.
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1st thing I noticed after viewing about 20+ live webcams as I clicked thru.... No military troops, smoke,damages or war scenes.
But I briefly saw a T-72, w/o the painted symbol rolling down a street.
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Had to check, not that I don't trust Skid, but...Bungling Biden as headline...Ouch. Guess they are getting tired of pretending, or just can't hide it anymore.
[euronews] Known for its home appliances like vacuum cleaners and air purifiers, Dyson is launching its first piece of wearable tech in the form of wireless headphones that have an air filtration system built in.
The company says its Dyson Zone product is aimed at millions of city dwellers worldwide who are exposed to high levels of airborne pollutants and excessive noise.
Each cup of the over-ear Bluetooth headphones contains a compressor which draws air through electrostatically-charged filters, trapping particulates.
The filters can also cut out common pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide, Dyson said.
[OneIndia] The Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... administration has sacked five more its employees including two cops for their alleged links with terror groups. They were dismissed on the instructions of LT. Governor, Manoj Sinha.
Constable Tawseef Ahmed Mir from Pulwama, computer operator Ghulam Hassan Parray from Srinagar, Arshid Ahmad Das, a teacher from Awantipora in south Kashmir's Pulwama district, constable Shahid Hussain Rather of Baramulla, and nursing orderly in the health department Sharafat Ahmad Khan from Keran, Kupwara were the five to be sacked for alleged terror links.
The J&K government has so far sacked over 20 employees for their links with terrorists.
In February the National Investigation Agency arrested its former Superintendent of Police and IPS officer Arvind Digvijay Negi on the ground that he was leaking secret documents to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
The case was registered by the NIA in November last year and it pertains to the spread of the network of the over ground workers of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. Earlier six persons had been arrested by the agency in connection with the case.
Officials tell OneIndia that while such activities have been taking place for long, the security agencies have now started closely monitoring the situation as a result of which such elements are being arrested.
In November last year a senior prison officer and a school principal were sacked for working with Lions of Islam in Jammu and Kashmir. After investigation suggested that these persons had terror links, Deputy Superintendent of Jails in the Union Territory, Feroz Ahmad Lone, and government school principal Javid Ahmad Shah were sacked. In October last year the J&K government sacked six of its employees for having terror links. Two among those dismissed were police constables.
The probe revealed that Lone was working with Riyaz Naikoo, a terrorist of the Hizbul Mujahideen ...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003... who was recently rubbed out by security forces. He is alleged to have helped the Lions of Islam gain access to the prison and meet with another terrorist who was arrested.
A close watch is kept on these government officials, especially those who are working in the jail administration. The jails in Jammu and Kashmir have over the years become breeding grounds and radicalisation takes place in a big way before newer recruits are produced in jails itself, the official cited above said.
These developments come in the wake of the instructions issued by the administration on the periodic character and antecedents verification of babus government employees.
The instructions said that the general administration department of every employee is mandatorily required to maintain absolute integrity, honesty and allegiance to the Union of India and its Constitution. The instruction also said that the employee shall not do anything unbecoming of a government servant.
The J&K administration took the decision after a designated committee mandated to scrutinise sensitive cases under Article 311 (2) (c) of the Constitution. The committee recommended the removal of the six employees over terror links.
[Bloomberg via Aljazeera] Demand for second homes in the U.S. is plummeting as mortgage rates climb steeply.
After a pandemic buying frenzy, mortgage-rate locks to buy second homes dropped last month to the lowest level since May 2020, according to a report by Redfin Corp. While demand was still up 35% from February 2020, before Covid-19 hit the U.S., it was significantly lower than the previous month’s 87% jump, the brokerage said.
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Only this time Blackrock and others are buying the houses out of repo or from distressed sellers.
Buffett too, and lots of other hedge funds have joined the party. It's a big reason supply is so limited and prices are so high. Big investors can borrow cheap, collect rents, and watch the book value climb. When the market starts tanking they'll buy more houses and keep on collecting rents.
[Breitbart] A man who pleaded no contest to assault charges on Tuesday afterward exited the building and entered a police annex building where he allegedly assaulted a Fresno detective.
ABC 30 reports 24-year-old Joseph Roy pleaded no contest on an assault charge earlier in the day. The plea would spare him from prison time but "required to complete alcohol and anger management treatment and wasn’t allowed to have a firearm."
The plea would also result in a felony on Roy’s record with the understanding the felony would be reduced to a misdemeanor after one year if Roy maintained good behavior.
Roy’s attorney spent time trying to get the sentence postponed, claiming his client could not comprehend what was happening. Shortly thereafter Roy exited the court proceedings, entered the annex, and allegedly assaulted the detective.
KMPH notes the detective Roy allegedly assaulted was 24-year veteran of the police force. He "suffered a puncture wound to his forehead and long cuts to his face and scalp," among other injuries.
The detective was able to shoot Roy, thereby stopping the alleged assault. Roy died at the scene. Wonder if he knew what was happening then? "You're dying, asshole. Quit bleeding on our carpet, dammit"
Police Lt. Bill Dooley said, "This is one of those cases where our suspect intentionally identified the Fresno Police Department. Intentionally went inside. He was not fighting to try to escape. He was fighting to try and hurt."
Dooley added, "There’s no connection between the detective who was assaulted by Mr. Roy. They’ve never had contact. The detective has not worked any of his cases."
[Blaze] A 35-year-old man showed up at a hospital in New York after injecting his penis with cocaine and subsequently watching in horror as his member turned black and began to rot, according to emergency room doctors at BronxCare Hospital Center.
The unidentified man reportedly spent three days with "excruciating and progressive penile and scrotal pain" that started almost immediately after the injection. Doctors reported "ulcerations and swelling" on his penis and scrotum with "foul-smelling serous discharge" as well as "necrosis" of the penis, the medical term for rotting tissue.
The man admitted this wasn't the first time he'd made the stunning decision to inject cocaine directly into the "dorsal vein" of his penis, stating that he had tempted fate "at least two times in the past two weeks without any complications." "you're going to feel a little prick"
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An American goes to Hong Kong, partakes of the dodgy night life and comes down with an exotic venereal disease. He rushes to an American doctor who tells him, "It's bad. We'll have to amputate your peter immediately or it will spread."
The guy decides he needs a second opinion, so he figures a Chinese doctor may have more experience with this problem. "Doc, the other doctor said he'll have to amputate immediately!" The Hong Kong doctor smiles inscrutably and says "Gleedy Amelican doctol, arwise want to opolate. Wait thlee days and it farr off by itserf..."
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That's great news! One less genius to pro-create.
[OneIndia] Radical islamic preacher, Zakir Naik Indian Islamic preacher, founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation, which doesn't rely very heavily on the scientific method. He is also the founder of the oxymoronic Peace TV channel through which he reaches 200 million viewers. He has been called an authority on comparative religion and the most influential Salafi ideologue in India, though usually by himself. Before becoming a public speaker, he trained as a physician. His preaching is currently banned in India, Bangladesh, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Antarctica. He is currently holed up in Malaysia, where he's not banned... 's organization Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) has been banned on charges of radicalising Moslem youth.
The Ministry of Home Affairs in a notification declared the IRF an unlawful association and banned it for five years. The MHA said that the speeches of Naik were objectionable in nature and he had been extolling known faceless myrmidons apart from stating that every Moslem should be a terrorist.
The notification also said that Zakir Naik has been promoting forcible conversion of youth Islam. He has also justified suicide kabooms and had made objectionable comments against Hindus and Hindu Gods.
The notorious radical preacher has been a centric figure in every 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.... recruit in India. The runaway who is in Malaysia has had his name taken several times in the past by radical elements. He has however maintained that he has nothing to do with these incidents and India is indulging in a witch-hunt against him.
In the Kerala Islamic State case, his name has cropped in the past as well. The raids that were conducted on Sunday are related to the same case and the NIA has learnt that the members of this module were on the same social media group that the faceless myrmidons who undertook the Sri Lanka blasts were. The NIA has however said that it found no direct link between the Kerala module and the one in Sri Lanka.
Last year, the NIA arrested Nashidul Hamzafar a 26 year old management student from Wayanad in Kerala. He was the first ISIS recruit from Kerala to be deported from Afghanistan. During his interrogation, he details the role played by Islamic preachers such as Naik and what sort of an influence they had on him, which ultimately prompted him to join the ISIS.
Hamzafar says that he was not attracted to the ISIS ideology for long. I found them to be too brutal and the outfit only scared me, he says. My ambition was to pursue my education and find a good job in Dubai.
A lot changed when one of his friends, Shihas sent him an audio clip regarding the Islamic State. My perception towards the outfit changed. Then I began listening to audios of Zakir Naik, Noman Alikhan among others. Their speeches inspired me and my approach towards life changed.
Going by his statements, it becomes clear that the likes of Zakir Naik through his Islamic Research Foundation and the Kerala based Peace Educational Foundation have played a huge role in the radicalisation of youth in Kerala.
Recently a Mumbai court had framed charges against Arshi Qureshi. The case relates to the indoctrination of Ashfak Majid and his associates into extreme jihadi ideology by a group of like-minded youths from Kasaragod district of Kerala. It was also stated that some members of the Zakir Naik run NGO, Islamic Research Foundation too were involved in the radicalisation process. It was further alleged that these persons had motivated the youth to join the Islamic state.
Naik has repeatedly claimed that he is being targeted due to his religion. An NIA official however says that this is misconstrued and the agency is targeting him for acts of terror.
In a reply to the Interpol, the NIA said that he is under investigation for funding terror suspects. The NIA also pointed out that it had repeatedly sent out summons to Naik, but he has not once presented himself before the agency. The NIA also said that his passport had been revoked.
Further the NIA also said that Naik's NGO Islamic Research Foundation had been banned by the Government and the same was upheld by the tribunal. He had funded a few terror suspects through his NGO and hence he needs to be questioned in that connection, the NIA also told the Interpol.
Naik not only provoked Moslems to take up arms, but was also involved in an extremely serious conversion racket. Investigations conducted in the year 2016 showed that his organization was active and strong in many parts of the country.
A complaint had been filed by one Ebin Jacob from Kerala, who alleged that his sister had been converted. The lady in question was born as Merrin. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... following her marriage she was taken to meet Naik's aide, Arshi Qureshi. She had converted and her name was changed to Mirriam.
Sources in the investigating agency tell OneIndia that they have learnt that Rs 50,000 cash would be paid to people who would convert to Islam. "We believe that these were forced conversions which is against the law. Moreover the law on conversions does not permit monetary benefits" sources said.
Naik exploited the situation in Kerala and added to the already existing menace of conversions to Islam. In 2016 two of Naik's aides were arrested and they revealed in detail about this racket. At that time the police had 5,700 conversions under the scanner and it was believed that nearly a 1,000 of them were done by Naik's IRF.
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In fact his followers have only grown, with each successive 'ban' and asset freeze. Narrowly avoided jail thanks to corrupt gummint servants who tipped 'im off. I had actually advised bumping him off in 2010 after one of his peace conference thingies. Today, there's danger of this whole thing blowing up as a diplomatic charlie foxtrot with the OICs.
Also, the Indian police brass and home agencies are populated by civilian recruits and officers, hopelessly dirty bastards, products of one of the most corrupt societies ever. There is no concept of duty, honor, loyalty to anything. What they do is let these foundations and outfits propagate, let them acquire capital assets, even take protection and hush money sometimes from them. Only when it becomes a national security matter they swoop in. 'Top Men' from revenue and finance, enforcement, intelligence, everyone then feasts. On the appropriated assets, the untold sums of money and property confiscated. Everyone from the ministry of finance to law and home gets a piece. Sometimes they even let the primary fcuker escape. Because they have purposely diluted evidence, looked the other way for years, they present a watered down and half-assed case to the courts. Result is, no great repercussions for the offender and the bureaucrats successfully digest what loot they can.
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"Shot hisself in the back of his head with a shuttergun, by God!"
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I'm afraid the leadership is too full of tail between the asscheeks hindoos, they're afraid of Moslem riots, civil war, then having to explain themselves to the west. Those self-righteous arbiters of morality with the sanctions stick in their hands.
Which is why the current diminishing of the west's capability to 'protect human rights' by interventionism is actually welcome here.
We have such treats planned. It's the civil leadership that always obstructs good work. Because of them everything has to be surgical, wrapped in political obfuscation. A little like Israel. In fact a lot like Israel.
Moslem countries have the luxury of being... moslem. They adopt and kiss the stupid constitutions Europeans taught them but ultimately they live by the calvinball they know.
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Heh... Our NSGs and CAPFs trainers actually trained their police rapid action teams from which RAB was later born. They send their best officers here every year to specialize in tactics, cyber, etc.
What I wish is our officers would learn something from them.
[Breitbart] Haitians protesting against a recent spike in crime in the Haitian city of Les Cayes on Tuesday stormed a local airport and burned a small jet owned by a U.S.-based Christian missionary group, Reuters reported.
"The protesters entered the local airport in Les Cayes even though police fired tear gas at the group, according to a video of the incident filmed by online media group Cayes Infos," Reuters relayed on March 29 after reviewing the footage.
"The video shows dozens of people approaching the plane and pushing it down the tarmac. The plane is later seen on a street, apparently near the airport, where it was set on fire," the news agency detailed.
Agape Flights, the missionary group that owned the doomed airplane, confirmed the incident in a statement posted on its website March 29.
The press release read, in part:
Rioting broke out in the Les Cayes, Haiti area on March 29, 2022, including the airport.
Due to the rioting, Agape’s Chieftain aircraft has been destroyed, but our team on the ground is safe. We are preparing to bring them back to the U.S. safely.
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We're obviously not getting the whole story here. They include the burning of the plane but not what led up to it. What were they doing that pissed these people off so much?
Haiti is where the Clinton Foundation trafficked children for abuse by pedophiles. Never forget this.
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From the article: Here is a quote from a missionary update that helps “explain” a bit: “People are mad that the roads are blocked by gangs, and the only way to travel to the Southern part of the country is via air. They assume the airlines control the gangs and are profiting off of the insecurities. Agape’s plane, happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
We are also hearing that they thought it was a politician’s plane.
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I say drop firearms all over the Island with plenty of ammo. Blockade the coasts and the border with DR. And let the asses kill each other off. How many times has there been military intervention needed IN THE PAST 50 YEARS? And who gets stuck with the dirty work of setting up another weak government or else a criminal strong man? The US Military.
I say let them fight it out until they realize just how bad their culture of gangs is, and let them bleed until either they fix it the old way (killing gangsters), or they kill so many off their own that their broken society/culture collapses.
Burn it down and then maybe we can consider a "from the ground up" rebuilt which they will have to do most of themselves.
[GP] Special Prosecutor John Durham wants to ask potential jurors if they have any links to Hillary Clinton’s promotion of the Russian collusion hoax.
Recall, Hillary Clinton hatched the Trump-Russia plot in 2016 to distract from her emails transmitted over a private server while she was the head of the Department of State.
John Durham wants to know about any links to Hillary Clinton’s promotion of the Russian collusion canard in a questionnaire to potential jurors.
Attorneys for Clinton’s campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann however are objecting to the question.
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A defense lawyer asked me if "My older brother ever got in fistfights?", I said "Yes" and was dismissed from the Jury Pool of a trial concerning an Assault & Battery... Seems Durham has a reasonable question.
[Washington Examiner] Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears slammed President Joe Biden's attempts to blame energy prices on Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, saying "the American people aren’t stupid" and aren't falling for it.
"They know that prices were rising from the day that he started," Sears told the Washington Examiner after speaking at an event at American University in Washington, D.C., hosted by the AU College Republicans and the AU Network of Enlightened Women.
"We were a net exporter of energy before he came into office, and he changed all that. So this is pretty much squarely on his shoulders and the shoulders of Democrats."
Of the president's response to rampant inflation, Sears told the Washington Examiner, "We ought to continue to drill," adding that "he should open the Keystone Pipeline."
The lieutentant governor praised the president for news that he is releasing one-third of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve but said, "We should’ve replenished it when President Trump wanted to do so."
She further decried "onerous" regulations that she says prevent companies with current leases from drilling to their full potential. "So, to tell us that the businesses should act on the leases that they already have is stupid, and it’s disingenuous at the same time," Sears continued.
Biden alone is not to blame.
It took a ☺ Village ☺ Liberal Socialist Democrat idiots in DC to screw it up this bad.
Remember Biden in week 1 of his admin, told us he was just signing whatever is put in front of him.
The LSD poorly thought out Eco Agenda did this with Biden.
Actions that stopped a lot of drilling, Fracking, and pipeline delivery. This is what has left us in short supply.
I am sure the DC LSD's understood how their actions would interact with the Free Market Rule of Supply and Demand.
Thus driving up prices that hurt everyone and yes their own voters.
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and since the price of oil is based on the world market, some of the blame goes to Countries that won't allow fracking, e.g., the UK and Czech Republic
and also some States that have similar anti fracking rules, e.g., CA, NY
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[Rudaw] The top commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday warned the Arab Gulf countries that Tehran will not tolerate the occurrence of political and security relations between them and Israel, days after officials from Israel, the US, and four Arab countries took part in a groundbreaking summit with Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... as the main topic of discussion.
"Unfortunately some of the regimes ruling the countries in the south of Persian Gulf have established political and security relations with the Zionist regime, this issue is a serious threat for the security of the region and in particular these regimes," Commander Hossein Salami said at Abu Musa island near the Strait of Hormoz, where he paid a visit to the IRGC forces stationed in the island. "We say emphatically and warn that these kinds of relations are not acceptable at all."
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[NYPost] Inflation and high gas prices are forcing a generation of “entitled” younger Americans to learn the pain of not being able to buy things at the store, the head of asset management giant BlackRock said.
“For the first time, this generation is going to go into a store and not be able to get what they want,” BlackRock President Rob Kapito told a conference in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday.
“And we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice.”
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I had always thought that sacrifice implied a further cause. The gods, a decent harvest, victory, whatever. The point being what exactly is everybody supposed to be sacrificing for? Perhaps it goes back to that whole, entire 'nobody said THIS would be fun' concept.
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Mr Kapito probably dresses up a little spooky when he sacrifices.
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I was born in 1961. This is the first time I can recall store shelves being consistently empty, except in Buffalo, NY during the Blizzard of 1977 and when Cincinnatians panic buy milk and bread before serious storm warnings. (I love living here, but people panic needlessly — and have no idea how to drive when there’s snow on the roads).
At university and the first years of our marriage we had to spend very carefully, because we both paid for our own schooling, and then we were saving up to pay for our wedding and to buy a house. But there was plenty of stuff to buy.
If he is talking about the Millennials, they’ve had the Dot Com bust, 9/11, the 2008 recession, the Covid lockdown... all with limited opportunity for jobs. Amazon thrives because this generation needs to get more for their money. — and with Amazon Prime they don’t even have to pay for books and movies.
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I had parents, aunts, uncles and their contemporaries who were children of the Great Depression. They spoke of growing up in a time of great privation, but they also remember not only surviving it but being better people for having made it through that.
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Whiners. Sacrifice for Ukraine. Virtue! Suck it up. Do your part.
[BBC] Ukraine: Sheltering with monks in a Romanian monastery
Ukraine: Sheltering with monks in a Romanian monastery
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Each of the almost four million refugees who have fled Ukraine so far has their own story, the threads of their past lives, their escape routes and their current places of shelter all interwoven.
The BBC's Nick Thorpe met a family who found shelter in a Carpathian monastery in north-east Romania — living amongst monks, until one day they can return home to Kharkiv in Ukraine.
[Blaze] Billionaire and expert Twitter troll Elon Musk commented on the state of Twitter, suggesting that the social media platform failed to provide the requisite level of free speech in any balanced fashion and, therefore, should probably be replaced by a better system.
Chad Prather, host of the "Chad Prather Show," explained that Musk's scintillating missive left the Twittersphere presuming he is toying with buying Twitter outright or perhaps launching his own social media platform. Twitter is well known for its habit of protecting the speech of those with Joseph Stalin's level of ethics while making it a priority to ban the accounts of people who are capable of identifying a man vs. a woman.
Musk's 17 million followers responded with a firestorm of mostly positive replies, which leaves the question of whether he will attempt to buy out Twitter and rebrand the bluebird? Or is this the parallel economy game?
If anyone can pull off a Twitter rival, that person is Elon Musk. And while conservatives do not align with the man on every issue, we need to remember that he's not a conservative. Instead, he holds some conservative views that speak to common sense.
Suppose Musk does create a new form of Twitter? Would the platform devolve the way Twitter has and become another 5-10-year failed social experiment?
"Perhaps going outdoors and soaking in the sunshine will be a better use of time than rebranding or replacing Twitter," Chad said.
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^ Exactly two people asked me why I hadn't joined Trump's social media platform. I said "For the same reason I'm not on any of the others. I prefer time-wasters I get enjoyment from..."
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[Rudaw] Most of the German women and kiddies linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) have been repatriated from northeast Syria (Rojava), a Kurdish official told Rudaw English on Thursday.
Germany repatriated 37 nationals, ten children and 27 women, from Rojava’s Roj camp late Wednesday following an "extremely difficult operation," German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced on Thursday.
"The 27 children are victims of 'Islamic State,' and they have the right to a better future away from its deadly ideology, and to live in safety, as we wish for our own children," the minister was quoted in a statement by her office, noting that "the mothers have to take responsibility for their actions. Some of them were immediately taken into custody upon arrival in Germany."
She added that "the majority of the German children whose mothers are willing to return to Germany have been brought to safety. There are now only a few special cases for which we are continuing to work on individual solutions."
German federal police confirmed that several of the repatriated women - aged between 23 and 36 - have been arrested on suspicion of committing crimes, adding that others are being investigated, reported Deutsche Welle on Thursday.
At least 50 fighters 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.... of the West African Province (ISWAP), have been killed in an ambush by its affiliates, Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihad faction of Boko Haram ...the name means Western education is forbidden, They're what you get as the result of a traditional African or Islamic education... in the North East of Lake Chad, Borno State.
The latest battle is part of a renewed war of supremacy between the deadly sects.
The rival groups have been attacking communities in the North-East region since both camps fell apart over leadership issues.
The groups have also since been having festivities, and Abubakar Shekau ...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka... , leader of Boko Haram, was reportedly killed during one of such festivities in 2021.
The latest incident sources said, happened when Boko Haram fighters laid an ambush for ISWAP fighters in the Abadam Local Government Area of Borno State.
This was said to have led to a shootout between the two groups.
The Boko Haram fighters led by Mohammed Ari were said to have overpowered those of ISWAP, killing about 50 of them.
Their bodies were also shown in a trending video as they were being slaughtered and dumped inside makeshift graves around the Lake Chad axis.
Some ISWAP forces of Evil were also burnt inside their gun trucks.
The Iraqi Ministry of Defense announced that seven terrorists were arrested today, Thursday.
The Ministry said in a statement that the intelligence agency dismantled an ISIS terrorist cell consisting of four members, responsible for providing logistical support for ISIS gangs in Diyala and Saladin.
The statement noted that the arrest was the fruit of four-day teamwork, pointing out that the defendants confessed to their crimes.
For its part, the Baghdad operations command arrested the three other terrorists in the Iraqi capital.
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[LegalInsurrection] On November 10, 2020, the Court heard oral argument on (1) the appeal by Oberlin College and Dean of Students Meredith Raimando seeking to overturn the compensatory and punitive damage awards totalling, after reduction under Ohio tort reform law, $25 million, plus over $6 million in attorney’s fees, bringing the judgment to over $32 million, and (2) the cross-appeal by Gibson’s Bakery and two members of the Gibson family (including the widow of the late David Gibson) seeking to restore the full $33 million punitive damages award, arguing the tort reform reduction was unconstitutional, which would add back about $15 million to the judgment.
One of the Judges who sat on oral argument, Julie Shafer, was not reelected on November 3, 2020, and was replaced by Judge Betty Sutton, who joined Judges Jennifer Hensal and Donna Carr.
A decision was just issued, written by Justice Carr:
"Appellants, Oberlin College and its Dean of Students, Meredith Raimondo (collectively “Oberlin” or individually “the college” or “Raimondo”), appeal from a judgment of the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas that entered judgment against them and awarded compensatory and punitive damages to Gibson Brothers, Inc., Allyn W. Gibson, and David R. Gibson1 (collectively “the Gibsons”). The Gibsons cross-appealed the trial court’s reduction of damages that the jury had originally awarded them. This Court affirms."
Summary: The appeals court ruled Oberlin College has to pay the bakery all the money.
A sad note: "As satisfying as this must be to the Gibson family, it also must be bittersweet because the two lead plaintiffs and the patriarchs of the family did not live to see the appeals court verdict:
- David Gibson of Gibson’s Bakery has passed away. (November 16, 2019)
- “Grandpa” Allyn W. Gibson of Gibson’s Bakery Passes Away At Age 93 (February 14, 2022)
Fuck the Oberlin administrator-bastards. Fuck then and their lawyers fircwhat they did to these kind, decent, normal people:
"as David Gibson revealed when he announced his cancer diagnosis after the verdict, Oberlin College dragged out the case knowing David was terminally ill."
Is Ohio potentially another Florida -- ie a center of the Resistance to woke insanity and creeping dictatorship?
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...Grew up a short drive from Oberlin, and even then (late 60s, early 70s) it was known as 'Moscow-On-Route-57'. The school has been living on its mid 19th century reputation for way too long, and may be about to hit something of a wall.
The school was originally intending to pay damages out of their endowment fund, and since it's just shy of one billion dollars, $33M USD would have effectively cost the school nothing. Trouble is that the alumni who contributed so much of that money are adamantly opposed to any of it going for the damages...which means it will come out of Oberlin's insurance. And that's going to cost them bigly.
There's also the fact that the College - faculty and students alike - hate the locals, and the locals return the favor. The locals are kind of a microcosm of the rest of the state: politically center-liberal, socially VERY conservative. Politics at the state level have been inching rightward for a while now, and if the Democrats do enough damage, I can see cities like Cleveland and Toledo digging in and saying 'enough'.
Mike
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Meredith Raimondo should be paying her own penalty $ - I doubt the insurance will find she acted within her duties and job requirements
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I forget who that RINO governor or senator was from Ohio and, I think, made a half-a$$ attempt to run for president.
Also, there was/is a congressman who was all for impeaching Trump.
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The College, the staff, and its alumni have learned an important lesson today. Hate Speech, Lies, and organizing protests based on them costs Big Buck$
BTW: The College Demographics show that the enrolled student population at Oberlin College, is 60.4% White, and only 5.41% Black or African American. In short a White LIBERAL college.
NOTE: The former Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo is a White Female and is now VP of Student Affairs at Oglethorpe University in the Metro-Atlanta GA. area.
☺ Just what Atlanta needs another transplanted Yankee Liberal. Coming down here to tell us how they did it up north to screw up everything...☺
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The College, the staff, and its alumni have learned an important lesson today. Hate Speech, Lies, and organizing protests based on them costs Big Buck$
NN,
I wish that was the lesson they learned. All Oberlin, its students, faculty, and administration know now is that Those Deplorable Hicks beyond the Quad are racist/unwoke/otherwise icky, and this just proves it.
Mike
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☺ Just what Atlanta needs another transplanted Yankee Liberal. Coming down here to tell us how they did it up north to screw up everything...☺
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That's rich NN. Emory U reminds me of Antioch College in Yellow Springs Ohio. Birth place of LSD (or so they say).
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Guess I'm lucky to have attended Miami U. in Ohio before all the BS ramped up (late 1970's). My MS thesis advisor flew P-51s during WWII. He didn't put up with any crap...
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I am an Ohioan. My younger brother graduated from Oberlin; I went to a service academy. We have compared notes. Oberlin is a little isolated to be attractive to any non-hardcore liberals. I think there are several other equally liberal schools around the state that have better parties.
With respect to being like Florida, Ohio is a conglomeration of communities that either have Trump or BLM signs in the front yard. All the working class towns are solidly pro-Trump. The affluent towns tend to be liberal, but the majority is MAGA. The biggest difference is in leadership. Jordan is the exception not the rule. Dewine resembles Desantis in the same way that a jelly donut resembles a Porterhouse steak. I guess their last names start with D so they are alike in that regard
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I forget who that RINO governor or senator was from Ohio and, I think, made a half-a$$ attempt to run for president.
Governor John Kasich ran for president twice, DooDahMan, in 2000 and 2016. Before that he was a congressman for nearly two decades.
Mike DeWine is Ohio’s current governor. He’s conservative for a country club Republican. Or possibly he’s anti-Trump for a conservative Republican. His career covers all the bases: public prosecutor, congressman, lieutenant governor, senator, Ohio attorney general, now this.
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He is the only GOP governor to implement the kill gramma policy that plaques deep blue states. The Ohio death toll matches that policy. Nobody has noticed that yet.
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My answer to #4
Ohio is no Florida
SW Ohio Resident most of life.
Ohio Governor, Mike Dewine is a RINO who faked covid to avoid standing on stage with Trump during the Presidential campaign. He is for red flag laws, but signed CCW into law. He raised property tax significantly, increased gas tax for road improvement, is heavily involved in the First Energy Scandal that brought down the House Speaker.
Current canidates running for Governor are weak from both parties.
Lt. Governor John Husted is the capitol's pajama boy. Life long politician, like nails on chalkboard to listen to him speak.
A knowledgeable Columbus lobbyist acquaintance of mine suggests Dewine will be reelected and retire two years into his term, turning over the reigns to Husted, good ol' boy that he is.
The House and Senate are majority Republican and conservative but can be bribed.
Liberals run the big cities and the rest of the state is conservative.
it will be a long time before Ohio is like Florida.
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Alumni of Oberlin include Nobel prize winners. accomplished musicians, public intellectuals (including some conservatives).
I suspect many of the alumni already regret their donations to the Oberlin endowment. Too bad there is no way to claw it back.
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Oberlin's Chair of the Board of Trustees is Chris Canavan. He's a Soros tool.
Canavan is Managing Director of Lion’s Head Global Partners, a financial advisory firm that specializes in sustainable development. Lion’s Head has offices in London, New York, Nairobi and Lagos. Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Chris was Director of Global Policy Development at SorosFund Management, where he spent nine years working on a variety of initiatives for the firm’s founder.
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Trouble is that the alumni who contributed so much of that money are adamantly opposed to any of it going for the damages...which means it will come out of Oberlin's insurance.
Not just the alumni. A lot of faculty are furious as well. Oberlin used to stand for free inquiry and free speech. The current administration are a bunch of bozos. There's a deep divide between the admins and the faculty
Sensible proposals, simple to implement. And exactly the opposite of everything President Biden and the Democrats, backed by their captive Deep State, have chosen to do. Except for the NATO thingy — I don’t know why he brought that up.
[JustTheNews] 45th president says he’s not interested in House speaker's job, and knows what next president needs to do on inflation, crime, the border, Russia and China.
Former President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... is laying out a 2.0 vision on how he would make America great again, again, offering Just the News his plan for defeating Joe The Big Guy Biden
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[SHAFAQ] The leader of the Sadrist Movement, Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival al-Khoei assassinated shortly after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... , announced this Thursday evening the withdrawal of the Sadrist bloc from negotiations to elect the president of the republic and form the next government, allowing the Shiite Coordination Framework to negotiate with the other political forces in this regard.
Al-Sadr said on Twitter that he thanks God "for winning the largest bloc, forming the largest alliance (Saving the Homeland), and nominating a prime minister acceptable to all."
"For Iraq not to remain without a government which will deteriorate the security, economic, and service conditions, I am giving (the third: the Framework) an opportunity to negotiate with all the blocs to form a national majority government, without the Sadrist bloc, in a period from the first day of Ramadan until the ninth of Shawwal (40 days)." He added.
Al-Sadr addressed the Sadrist representatives not to interfere with this issue "neither positively nor negatively."
Iraqi politicians failed for a third time on Wednesday to elect a head of state, further deepening a political crisis spurred by infighting following general elections five months ago.
After al-Sadr's statement, the State of Law Coalition said that its leader, Nuri al-Maliki, one of the main poles of the Coordination Framework, would hold talks with other political forces to pave the way for the formation of the next government.
The representative of the State of Law, Thaer Mukheef, told Shafaq News Agency, "The leader of the Sadrist movement has set 40 days for the Framework to form the government with the agreement with other parties."
He added, "There's a high probability that this process will change the political map, and I think that the Kurds may agree on one candidate for the presidency."
"We seek not to exclude anyone, and we hope that al-Sadr would participate in the government, and we will seek to communicate with him about this."
Iraqi politicians failed for a third time on Wednesday to elect a head of state, further deepening a political crisis spurred by infighting following general elections five months ago.
So far, Iraqi politicians have disagreed on a compromise candidate for the presidency, exacerbating a political vacuum that prevents the appointment of a prime minister.
A lack of a quorum, set by the Federal Supreme Court at two-thirds of the house's 329 members, held the vote for the third time since February.
The parliament presidium opted to convert the session to an ordinary session to discuss the lineups of the permanent parliamentary committees.
In a brief statement, the media bureau of the Iraqi parliament said that the parliament speaker, Mohammad al-Halboosi, inaugurated the sixth ordinary session without revealing the number of politicians who attended the session.
A source said that only 152 politicians showed up for the latest vote, and the vote for a new president was delisted from the session's agenda.
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[Korrespondent] 22:15 The State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone reported that as of now there are no strangers at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. 22:13 Up to 20,000 residents of Izyum need to be evacuated, but the Russian invaders have been preventing the work of green corridors for almost 20 days, Deputy Mayor Vladimir Matsokin said.
22:07 In the occupied Melitopol, 18 school directors quit their jobs so as not to work with the administration of pseudo-measure Galina Danilchenko, ex-Minister of Education Lilia Grinevich said.
21:45 Today, 1,458 people have reached Zaporizhia via the agreed humanitarian corridors on their own transport, Vereshchuk said. Of these, 631 people from Mariupol and 827 residents of the cities of the Zaporozhye region.
A total of 45 buses were going to Berdyansk, but the invaders did not let them through. People got off the buses and tomorrow morning they must go to Zaporozhye. The occupiers also took away humanitarian aid that was going to Melitopol - 14 tons of food and medicine.
21:30 In the Luhansk region, the situation may worsen in the near future, so local residents are asked not to postpone the evacuation, said the head of the Regional State Administration Serhiy Gaidai.
21:27 Auction house Christie's has banned the sale of luxury goods to customers from Russia and Belarus.
21:23 Zelensky, after a conversation with Erdogan, said that Turkey is ready to become a security guarantor for Ukraine.
21:08 Russian occupiers, without means of protection, dug trenches in the most polluted place of the Exclusion Zone - the Red Forest. More details - in the material The invaders left the Chernobyl nuclear power plant .
20:52 During the retreat from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the invaders took the captured National Guardsmen with them, said the mayor of Slavutych, Yuri Fomichev.
20:50 More lethal weapons will be sent to Ukraine to counter Russian aggression, in particular, longer-range artillery and more anti-aircraft missiles, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said.
20:38 The invaders do not let people out of the captured villages of the Dergachev community of the Kharkiv region and do not allow them to be evacuated. They do not even listen to the Red Cross and the clergy, said VTG head Vyacheslav Zadorenko.
20:25 American intelligence agencies have partially declassified a report stating that Putin's entourage does not provide him with accurate and complete information about what is happening in Ukraine. For more details, see Putin in a Vacuum .
20:22 Russia plans to capture a third of the territory of Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told CNN. In his opinion, in this way Moscow seeks to strengthen its position in the negotiations. In this regard, he called on the allies to continue to impose sanctions against the Russian Federation.
20:20 Russia has banned the entry of some officials from the EU's top leadership and MEPs. In particular, the list includes "a number of European commissioners and heads of EU military structures, as well as the vast majority of deputies of the European Parliament who promote anti-Russian policy."
20:15 Russia has blocked the continuation of the work of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, said US Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter.
20:08 Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankar announced non-interference in the "conflict" between Ukraine and Russia. He also called for a settlement through diplomacy and peace talks.
20:07 Arestovich on negotiations: "There is no demilitarization and denazification in the negotiation process. There has been a constructive approach. Any war ends with a peace agreement. By May 9, the Russian Federation must demonstrate a certain result or victory to Putin. To strengthen its position, Russia can take Mariupol or try to encircle the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the zone OOS".
20:04 Arestovich said that part of the group of Russian troops from the side of Brovary is withdrawing, and part remains and holds the lines. In the northwestern direction (Bucha, Gostomel) there are signs that the Russian troops are on the defensive, battles are coming.
In the Sumy region, according to the adviser to the head of the OP, there is a rotation of enemy troops. In Izyum, fierce battles are "a repeat of the Kursk Bulge of the Second World War."
He also said that the negotiating group is preparing a framework agreement for the meeting between Zelensky and Putin.
19:55 A senior US Department of Defense official says that the Russians will soon concentrate airstrikes on Kiev, Chernigov, Izyum and Donbass, CNN reports.
19:52 From today, the United States is imposing sanctions against 13 individuals and 21 legal entities of the Russian Federation. These are the so-called secondary sanctions - they impose restrictions on companies that are not registered in Russia, but could help Russian counterparties evade sanctions. Most of them are involved in the field of high technologies.
19:47 Greenpeace activists in kayaks and inflatable boats blocked two oil tankers off the coast of Denmark, which were supposed to transport 100,000 tons of Russian oil. It is known that the Seaoath ship arrived from Russia with 100,000 tons of oil and was trying to transfer raw materials to the larger tanker Pertamina Prime.
19:45 The Board of Governors of the World Association of Organizations Operating Nuclear Power Plants decided to transfer Energoatom, together with all plants and nuclear power units, to the WANO Paris Center.
19:43 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on March 29, 200 mercenaries were transferred to the Gomel military airfield. In addition, Russia continues to transfer missile units to Belarus in order to increase the intensity of ballistic missile attacks on settlements and infrastructure on the territory of Ukraine. So, in the Gomel region, the arrival of three Iskander missile systems and two S-300 air defense systems was detected to cover them.
19:37 The Russian occupation troops are trying to create a new grouping of troops in the Slobozhansky direction in order to establish control over parts of the territories of the Kharkiv, Lugansk and Donetsk regions, including the blockade of the cities of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, the General Staff reports.
19:33 According to Vereshchuk, about 75,000 residents were saved from Mariupol, about 45,000 more were forcibly taken by the occupiers to the so-called "DPR" and Russia. About 100,000 remained and need immediate evacuation.
19:28 Sweden allocates more than a billion dollars for the accommodation of Ukrainian refugees.
19:17 A lot of Russian military equipment enters the Luhansk region. Most of it is unloaded in Debaltseve, after which it goes to the Luhansk region, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the number of shelling of settlements has increased significantly in the region. The official death toll in the region is 150 people, but the real number cannot be established due to constant shelling.
19:14 As part of reducing dependence on Russian gas, the European Union intends to increase LNG supplies from the US and other countries .
19:07 The head of the Kiev regional military administration, Oleksandr Pavlyuk, said that Irpin is under the control of the Ukrainian army, but the city is constantly shelled. Vorzel, Bucha and Gostomel are still in the hands of Russian troops. According to him, the enemy withdraws troops, but retains significant forces in the Kiev direction, which hold back the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:57 Tariffs for the transit of oil through the territory of Ukraine from April 1 will increase by almost 30%. New tariffs for the Druzhba oil pipeline in the direction of Slovakia and Hungary under an agreement with JSC Ukrtransnafta will amount to 11.5 euros per ton compared to 9 euros per ton.
18:54 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, following the results of the donor conference, said that the countries agreed to supply Ukraine with more lethal weapons.
18:50 Traffic along the Kiev-Zhytomyr highway, which was blocked due to the Russian occupation of some settlements, can be resumed in the near future, said the head of the Kiev Regional Police Oleksandr Pavlyuk.
18:29 According to the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Gruzevich, 700 units of enemy equipment moved away from Ivankov, Kiev region, towards the Belarusian border. "There will be no enemy in Kyiv, at least not a living one," he said.
“Vyshegrad is already ours, under control. Yesterday we found almost seven high-capacity minefields within settlements, sappers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the State Emergency Service are working. In a day or two we will see good news,” Gruzevich said.
He specified that the remaining enemy forces around Kyiv "can still cause damage with missile strikes, but our air defense forces are ready for this."
18:21 Stoltenberg assured that "if Finland decides to apply to join NATO, it will be able to quickly get membership in the alliance."
18:18 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the country is introducing a ban on entry to the top leadership of the EU in response to sanctions.
18:14 The White House announced that Biden will announce record deliveries of oil from strategic reserves to the market - one million barrels per day for six months. In particular, it is planned to unpack strategic stocks in coordination with allies around the world.
18:08 The US Treasury said that anti-Russian sanctions may affect three more sectors of the economy - aerospace, maritime and electronics. Now the American authorities will be able to impose sanctions against any individual or legal entity from these areas.
17:57 In Melitopol, Zaporozhye region, collaborators who seized city power are threatening teachers of local schools and parents of schoolchildren, demanding to resume the educational process in the city on April 4, local media write.
17:53 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the villages of Sloboda and Lukashevka near Chernihiv from the invaders, the head of the regional administration said.
17:45 Russian invaders are leaving the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the satellite town of Slavutych. They set off in two columns towards the Ukrainian border with Belarus. According to Energoatom, information about the trenches that the Russians dug right in the Red Forest, the most polluted in the entire Exclusion Zone, was also confirmed.
"It is not surprising that the invaders received significant doses of radiation and panicked at the first sign of the disease. And it manifested itself very quickly. So, almost a riot began to brew among the military, and they began to gather from there," the company said.
According to Energoatom, the occupiers drew up and signed the act of acceptance and transfer of the guards of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which states that "there are no claims from the administration of the protected facility in relation to the troops of the state guard of the Russian Federation."
17:27 Washington imposed sanctions against 13 individuals and 22 companies associated with the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation.
17:15 The EU can discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, but at this stage it is necessary to concentrate on a ceasefire, Borrell spokesman Peter Stano said. He added that "if there is such a request addressed to the European Union, the Member States will discuss it."
16:54 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Ukraine wanted to "spray biological weapons" from Bayraktarov: "The request of the Ukrainian Motor Sich to the Turkish manufacturer of Bayraktarov about the possibility of spraying aerosols from them is noteworthy ... In fact, we are talking about the development by the Kiev regime of biological delivery vehicles weapons capable of being used against Russia."
16:49 Zelensky addressed the people and politicians of Belgium: "Our defenders deserve to receive from Europe, for whose freedom they are fighting, the weapon that will definitely stop the Russian offensive, which means the offensive of tyranny. When we talk about aircraft, tanks, artillery systems, anti-ship weapons, we are talking about what is really needed. And what the countries of the European Union, NATO have. Our defenders deserve that European companies finally stop earning along with those who are trying to destroy us."
16:48 Paris and Berlin will not accept Moscow's conditions to pay for gas supplies in rubles, the head of the French Ministry of Finance repeated his position.
16:44 Russian media clarified by Putin's decree on payment for gas in rubles: the State Commission may issue a special permit so that gas can be paid in foreign currency.
“This means that the story will be exactly like with a ban on paying Russian debts in foreign currency: in the end, when they get a refusal from the EU and the G7, they will quietly allow you to pay whatever you like. If only they paid,” said MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
16:41 Great Britain introduces new sanctions against Russian propagandists, as well as Russian Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, known as the "Mariupol butcher" for the brutal blockade and destruction of Mariupol.
16:35 According to the Office of the President, the Russians captured 24 officials of local authorities and civil servants, the fate of two more is being specified.
16:34 Pushilin decided to create "the administration of the city of Mariupol."
16:27 Putin announced that he had signed a decree on a new procedure for paying for Russian gas in rubles with "unfriendly countries": now they must open accounts in Russian banks. The order will come into effect on April 1.
According to him, if "unfriendly countries" do not pay in rubles from April 1, "we will consider this a default on gas contracts, in which case the existing contracts will be stopped."
16:09 The invaders are shelling Kharkiv right now, including important industrial enterprises, MP Goncharenko said.
16:07 Erdogan said that Turkey is ready to become one of the security guarantors for Ukraine, but the details need to be clarified.
16:05 During the first day of operation of the new functionality, 20,000 applications were submitted in Dії about property destroyed as a result of the Russian invasion. Shmygal assured that all applications would be carefully worked out, "so that after our victory, every city, every house will be systematically rebuilt."
16:02 NATO will supply weapons to Ukraine in its opposition to Russian aggression for as long as necessary , Stoltenberg said.
16:00 Shmyhal said that Ukrainian business is returning to work. Thus, more than 120,000 entrepreneurs applied in two days to switch to a new taxation system - 2% of turnover. Also, in the last 24 hours, a thousand new sole proprietors have registered through the Diya system. And 1,500 manufacturing enterprises have applied for relocation, several hundred have already moved or are moving right now.
15:56 The largest refineries in Russia plan to reduce the volume of oil refining to the lowest levels in history, writes Reuters. In particular, Rosneft, Surgutneftegaz, Lukoil and Gazprom Neft are planning to reduce oil refining.
15:40 Arestovich - on why negotiations to end the war are needed: "A big war, military aggression and a peace agreement is always a compromise between the parties. Because both sides suffer losses. And if you think that we do not, - very You are very mistaken. They have practically destroyed our military industry and in many ways are specifically finishing off our civilian industry. They will do everything to squander us so that no one is interested in us, like a destroyed territory. So they are doing this, and will do it."
15:38 New houses in Ukraine after the war will be designed with bomb shelters and fortified underground parking lots, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said. Moreover, according to him, the apartments should have "safety rooms" - individual bomb shelters in the core of the house, which should stand in the event of a missile hit.
15:28 Stoltenberg on Istanbul talks: "I welcome all efforts to find a political solution to this brutal and senseless war, including the recent talks in Turkey. At the same time, it is clear that we have seen not much desire on the Russian side to find a political solution."
The NATO Secretary General emphasized that instead of reducing the intensity of hostilities by Russia, the “military seizure of Ukraine and the shelling of cities” continues: “We see that Russia is moving some troops, most likely trying to strengthen forces in the Donbas. We need to judge Russia by its actions, not words. And it remains to be seen if the Russian side is willing to find a political solution."
15:14 The Spanish government has already sent a total of ten aircraft with offensive weapons to Ukraine, the country's Defense Minister Margarita Robles said.
15:04 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine declares that it has personal data of all Belarusian servicemen and their relatives, "whom they are trying to draw into a shameful, alien to them and obviously losing war against Ukraine."
In this regard, the Ministry of Defense calls on the citizens of Belarus to refrain from participating in the war against Ukraine, otherwise "we will confirm the seriousness of our statements by publishing relevant information."
14:59 From under blockages of a building of the Nikolaev regional state administration removed a body of one more dead, the total number of victims reached 20 people.
14:53 Shmyhal said that the sowing campaign has already begun in 20 regions of Ukraine. According to him, sowing can be carried out on 80% of the area that was sown last year.
The prime minister also said that the food industry will deploy new capacities and hire new workers - we are talking about 300 such enterprises. The Cabinet of Ministers will soon consider and approve a separate loan product for retail chains in order to revive their cooperation with Ukrainian manufacturers.
14:49 Russia is offering oil to India, one of the few buyers of Russian energy carriers, at a discount of up to $35 per barrel, writes Bloomberg.
14:31 The head of the Kiev OVA, Oleksandr Pavlyuk, said that Makarovskaya and Irpinskaya communities are under shelling, an oil depot in Fastov was also fired upon, and withdrawal of enemy forces is observed in the Baryshevskaya, Kalityanskaya and Velikodymerskaya communities of the Brovarsky district.
14:29 Finns are looking at their long border with Russia in a new way, fearing that the Russian Federation could invade their country as well. Against the backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty, support for NATO membership is growing in Finland. Read more in the material Will Finland join NATO .
14:27 German Economy Minister Robert Habek warned citizens that the country will become poorer because of the war in Ukraine, but this price "is incomparable with the suffering that Ukrainians endure."
14:18 Erdogan said he intends to hold talks with Zelensky and Putin this week to discuss the possibility of their early meeting.
14:10 The Prime Minister of Italy said that both Ukraine and Russia see the country as a guarantor of security.
14:09 EU countries are ready to consider a request to provide Ukraine with security guarantees, if it comes from Kyiv, said the representative of the EU Foreign Service, Peter Stano.
14:07 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that Russia's payments for gas will be made in euros and dollars, "and converting them into rubles or not is an internal affair of the Russian Federation."
14:04 The Office of the Prosecutor General opened 3457 criminal proceedings against Russian servicemen under the article "violation of the laws and customs of war." "All the most serious - the murder of citizens, mass violence, abuse of children, torture. Documentary facts. The consequences for the Russian Federation are catastrophic in all jurisdictions," Podolyak wrote.
13:55 A Ukrainian blogger and "political expert" who approved of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was arrested in Lvov. Based on the materials of the SBU, Gleb Lyashenko was declared suspected of high treason.
13:33 Zelensky, in an address to the parliament and people of the Netherlands, said that "we have no right to give this war another 36 days, we must all together force Russia to seek peace as soon as possible."
13:30 Losses of the 1st motorized rifle battalion of the 36th separate motorized rifle brigade (military unit 06705, Borzya) of the 29th combined arms army of the Russian Federation amounted to more than 60% of the personnel, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
13:28 The Prime Minister of Italy said that Putin, in a conversation with him, said that the time had not yet come for a meeting with Zelensky. Also, according to the Russian leader, the conditions for a ceasefire in Ukraine "have not yet matured."
13:26 The air assault troops, together with other defense forces, liberated Calm, Malinovka, Vesele, Zeleny Gay, Krasnoe of the Zaporozhye region from the invaders, MP Goncharenko said.
13:21 When trying to attack Kiev, the Russian troops found themselves in a vulnerable position, which allowed the Ukrainian army to counterattack. Therefore, now the Russians will have to focus on other areas, said Jack Watling, a researcher at the London-based defense think tank at the Royal Combined Arms Institute.
According to him, although the attack on Kyiv is now secondary for Moscow, they will not transfer troops from the capital to the Donbass, since the units in the Kiev direction are too weakened. They will probably be taken to positions that are more convenient for defense.
13:10 In the Dnepropetrovsk region, a missile attack was carried out on a military unit, Governor Valentin Reznichenko said. According to him, two people were killed and five injured. The administrative building and the fuel depot were destroyed.
12:57 The death toll as a result of rocket attacks of the building of the Nikolaev regional council increased to 19 people, reports GSChS.
12:53 Google said that Russian-based hackers tried to attack the military authorities of several countries in Eastern Europe and the NATO center of excellence. We are talking about the hacker group Coldriver, also known as Calisto, engaged in phishing mailings.
12:40 The EBRD predicts that Ukraine's economy will contract by 20% this year and then recover in 2023 if everything goes according to the scenario with a ceasefire in a couple of months.
12:38 The commander of a separate special unit of the International Defense Legion of Ukraine under the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense said that there are a lot of people who want to join the Legion - about 20-30,000 are now on the border of Poland and Ukraine.
“We can’t take everyone. We select really professionals who know what a special assignment is,” explained the commander with the call sign Adviser. “They are not here for money. Their motivation is to maintain peace and democracy around the world ... I have people from all over the world, they are really professionals."
12:27 The world's largest leasing company AerCap filed a lawsuit against Russia in the amount of $3.5 billion to cover the loss of its aircraft and engines, which the Russian Federation decided not to give away, writes the Financial Times.
Since the imposition of sanctions against Russia, the company has managed to return 22 aircraft out of 135 and three engines out of 14 that were placed on Russian aircraft before the start of the war.
12:24 A commandant's office has been created in Kiev, headed by Major General Viktor Plakhtiy. According to the city military administration, the commandant's office was created to organize and ensure activities during the introduction of a curfew and the establishment of a special blackout regime, as well as to coordinate the actions of military formations, law enforcement agencies, authorities and military command and control.
12:15 The UN announced the composition of the commission that will investigate war crimes in Ukraine. It will include Erika Møse from Norway, Jasminki Dzumhur from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Pablo de Griffa from Colombia as three independent members.
Members of the commission are to present an oral report on their work to the 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council in September 2022. A full written report is due in March 2023.
12:07 Yermak explained why a group of experts is needed to monitor anti-Russian sanctions: "There are sanctions that work for a long time - but we don't have time. There are sanctions that someone calculated and came up with ways to circumvent them. Unfortunately, there are sanctions that which have been introduced look beautiful, but they do not work at all. Therefore, an initiative has arisen - we have created a platform, already about 30 experts who will constantly analyze whether the sanctions work or not, and speak publicly how it works."
11:49 Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanyshina announced the death of her husband from a Russian shell in the Chernihiv region.
11:47 Putin signed a decree on spring conscription, according to which 134,500 people will be drafted into the Russian Armed Forces.
11:38 Belarusian human rights activists report mass detentions of railroad workers due to the "rail war". In order to slow down the movement of Russian military equipment to Ukraine, the Belarusians independently disable the equipment.
11:36 According to the UN, more than four million people were forced to leave Ukraine because of the war. Over 2.3 million Ukrainians have crossed the border with Poland.
11:30 The head of the Kiev region police, Andrei Nebytov, said that after the end of hostilities, all bodies buried in residential areas would be exhumed. Forensic scientists will run DNA testing on unidentified bodies to establish identities. The work will continue until the location and cause of death of every citizen is established, he assured.
11:27 Internet providers who refuse to block Russian propaganda have begun to be excluded from the Register of operators, telecommunications providers. In the future, companies will face more serious sanctions, according to the State Service for Communications.
11:26 Ukraine received a notification from the International Committee of the Red Cross that Russia confirms its readiness to open access for a humanitarian convoy to Mariupol with transit through Berdyansk, Vereshchuk said.
11:23 "Authorities" of Crimea said that the apartment of the Zelensky family in the village of Livadia near Yalta could be included in the list of property subject to "nationalization".
11:11 Japan in its Diplomatic Blue Book returned to the definition of the South Kuriles as a territory "illegally occupied" by Russia. This wording was last mentioned in 2003.
11:05 Zelensky, in his speech to the Australian Parliament, said that if the world had punished Russia for attacking Ukraine in 2014, there would not have been a large-scale invasion in 2022. And now, according to him, the world must correct mistakes and change international security mechanisms. He also recalled the downed MH17 aircraft, for which the Russian Federation was never punished.
The President called on Australia to join the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine - for example, the city of Kherson.
10:59 As a result of the shelling of Russian troops in Kharkov, an underground gas pipeline of medium pressure was destroyed, about 34,000 consumers were left without gas, Kharkivgorgaz said.
10:56 As of March 30, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the Nikolaev region, 134 civilians, including six children, were killed, the head of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration Vitaly Kim said.
10:47 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, said that Maryinka, Krasnogorovka and Novomikhailovka were once again bombed with phosphorus charges. 11 wounded, including four children, were taken from Maryinka to the Kurakhovskaya hospital. In the morning, the Ocheretinsky community was also under enemy fire.
10:34 Swedish television channel TV4 said that two Russian aircraft that violated Swedish airspace near Gotland on March 2 were equipped with nuclear weapons. Experts are convinced that this was a deliberate act to intimidate Sweden.
The violation of Swedish airspace lasted about a minute. In response, the country's air force raised two fighters. At this time, according to Swedish media, it was confirmed that Russian aircraft were equipped with nuclear warheads.
10:24 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said he does not see "full implementation" of the results of the Istanbul talks between Ukraine and Russia. He also said that on March 30 he talked with Kuleba and Lavrov about organizing their meeting, which is possible "in the next two weeks."
10:21 Russian occupiers yesterday near Chernihiv shot five buses with volunteers who tried to enter the occupied territory in order to evacuate people from there, Gerashchenko reports. Among the volunteers, one was killed, four were seriously injured. One driver was also injured.
09:58 The UN reported that the organization managed to obtain evidence of the use of prohibited weapons by Russia in settlements at least 24 times. Experts are also investigating the facts of the possible use of prohibited weapons and ammunition by the Ukrainian side.
09:50 Arakhamia said that Ukrainian diplomats are actively working to find a scheme according to which Ukraine will receive Russian assets arrested around the world in the form of compensation for damage.
09:48 In the Naked Pristan of the Kherson region, people went to a peaceful rally, demanding that the Russian invaders return the kidnapped mayor of the city and other residents, reports Suspіlne.
09:43 Australia will introduce duties in the amount of 35% on the import of all goods from Russia and Belarus into the country, the government said.
09:36 The German government claims that Putin has agreed to receive payments for gas from the EU in euros, but it is not yet clear how the mechanism will work.
09:32 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of March 31:
personnel - about 17,500 people,
tanks - 614,
armored fighting vehicles - 1735,
artillery systems - 311,
MLRS - 96,
air defense systems - 54,
aircraft - 135,
helicopters - 131,
automotive equipment - 1201,
ships/boats - 7,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 75,
UAV operational-tactical level - 83,
special equipment - 22,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
09:28 The head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said that the enemy is withdrawing the group from the north of Ukraine and transferring it to the east of the country, while during the relocation of troops there is a massive shelling of the Luhansk region. According to him, as a result of the battle with the units of the Joint Forces Operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the headquarters of the Kadyrovites was destroyed.
09:24 Mayor of Dnipro Boris Filatov warned residents that the authorities, together with the SBU, are beginning to search for and detain those who post photos of shelling on social networks.
09:21 In the subdivisions of the 60th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 5th combined arms army of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Federation, two platoon commanders have been removed from their posts due to non-compliance with the order to conduct hostilities, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. To carry out explanatory work, the deputy commander of the brigade for military-political work should come to Yasinovka, Donetsk region.
In addition, according to the General Staff, in formations and units of the Baltic Fleet, in particular, the 79th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 11th Army Corps, conscripts massively refuse to continue to serve and sign contracts.
09:17 As of today, two humanitarian corridors have been agreed: Melitopol - Zaporozhye and Energodar - Zaporozhye.
09:09 Russian troops do not leave the Chernobyl zone, but, on the contrary, are fixed around it, said the former deputy head of the SBU Viktor Yagun. "It is very difficult to knock them out of the city limits, they resist very strongly," he added.
09:07 In Kiev, from April 1, the sale of alcohol will be partially allowed: it will be possible to buy it from 11:00 to 16:00 in shops and service establishments, the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
09:04 The enemy replenished the ammunition load of Caliber-type cruise missiles on the frigate Admiral Makarov in Sevastopol. The probability of launching missile strikes on Odessa, the Odessa region and other regions of the state remains high, said the representative of the Odessa Regional Military District Serhiy Bratchuk.
09:03 Chairman of the UN Human Rights Council Federico Villegas has created an international independent Commission that will investigate Russia's war crimes in Ukraine.
09:00 Due to the shelling of the building of the city council in Dergachi, Kharkiv region, at least one person was killed, three were injured, the City Council reported.
08:46 British Ministry of Defense predicts fierce fighting in the Kiev region in the coming days: "Russian troops continue to hold positions east and west of Kiev, despite the withdrawal of a limited number of units. In the coming days, fierce battles are likely to unfold in the suburbs of the city."
The agency also points out that, despite the statements of the Russian Federation about its intention to reduce military activity around Chernihiv, missile attacks on the city continue.
08:28 The death toll as a result of shelling by Russians of the building of the Nikolaev regional state administration has increased to 16 people. Rescuers continue to work, according to the State Emergency Service.
07:47 Employees of the FSB, the 652nd group of information and psychological operations and officers of the 12th Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation are involved in the creation of the "Kherson People's Republic". The main direction of their activity is carrying out "explanatory work" with local authorities and the population. To do this, they are shown videos with figureheads, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
07:45 Russia is trying to form occupation authorities in the occupied territories. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Russian Federation, employees of law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and courts are being selected, who will later be sent to Ukraine.
07:31 According to the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Sergei Gaidai, as a result of the hostile actions of the Russian Federation on the night of March 31, nine residential buildings caught fire in Lisichansk, and five in Severodonetsk. An oil storage facility and a school also came under fire. Russian troops are hitting the cities with all kinds of heavy weapons. Two people died, two children are in serious condition.
07:00 Arakhamia said that the Ukrainian delegation in negotiations with the Russian Federation does nothing without consultations with the military: “Now the military is No. 1, our support. And if they don’t like something, we just cross it out. We discuss everything with the military , then - with diplomats, and then we voice something.
06:45 APU liberated the village of Sloboda in the Chernihiv region, MP Goncharenko reports.
06:40 British intelligence said that some Russian troops refuse to follow the orders of their leadership, even disable their equipment, including downing a plane. According to the British Government Communications Headquarters, Putin has "grossly misjudged" the capabilities of his military, and his advisers are simply afraid to tell him the truth.
06:37 Russian oil tankers are increasingly disappearing from tracking systems. This suggests that they are deliberately turning off the transmission in order to circumvent the sanctions, writes CNN. According to the intelligence company Windward, dark activity among Russian-affiliated crude oil tankers has risen by 600% since the start of Russia's war with Ukraine.
06:18 The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugee Protection, together with Ukrposhta, began paying 2,220 hryvnias to internally displaced persons, Vereshchuk said. You can receive money through the branch of Ukrposhta, sign up for the program - in Lviv, Uzhgorod and Mukachevo.
05:46 Under the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Belarusian regiment Chase began to form - this is the official structure of the International Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The regiment was created on the initiative of Belarusian officers with the support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to protect the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, as well as to create a base for a new professional Belarusian army.
05:19 The invaders use the airport of Brest in Belarus for shelling Ukraine. The issue of the invasion of Belarusian troops "stepped aside", said Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs.
04:08 In the Kharkiv region, the Russian invaders lost four aircraft in a day - previously, Su-34 fighter-bombers, as well as one UAV, the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. There is also information about two enemy cruise missiles shot down in different directions.
03:35 Ukraine is negotiating with Poland on the possibility of a complete closure of the border with Belarus, Ukrainian Ambassador Andrei Deshchitsa said. According to him, diplomats from Ukraine are discussing similar issues with the Baltic countries.
02:47 The US State Department announced that American and European diplomats held the first meeting of a high-level dialogue on Russia, discussed new steps to isolate the Russian economy. Diplomats agreed to urge China "not to support" Russia's war in Ukraine and not to help Moscow bypass Western sanctions.
02:14 Online negotiations with the Russian delegation will resume on April 1, Arakhamia said. According to him, within a week, the participants in the negotiating groups should work out a more coordinated draft agreement.
02:05 Active activity of enemy DRGs should not be expected now, since Ukrainian patrol officers identified and detained most of them in the first days of the war, said Oleksiy Beloshitsky, First Deputy Head of the Patrol Police Department.
According to him, the invaders had high hopes for their sabotage groups. They were supposed to eliminate the Ukrainian authorities and establish control over Kiev.
01:16 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have restored control over the settlements of Orlovo, Zagradovka and Kochubeevka on the border of the Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions, the General Staff said.
01:07 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since the beginning of the armed aggression against Ukraine, the command of the RF Armed Forces has lost several military leaders from the top officers, namely:
Commander of the 1st Tank Army, Lieutenant General Sergei Kisel - removed from his post;
commander of the 6th Combined Arms Army, Lieutenant General Vladislav Yershov - removed from his post and arrested;
Chief of Staff - Deputy Commander of the 35th Combined Arms Army Major General Sergei Nirkov - seriously wounded;
Chief of Staff - Deputy Commander of the 36th Combined Arms Army Major General Andrey Seritsky - seriously wounded;
Deputy Commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army, Lieutenant General Andrey Sukhovetsky - died;
commander of the 49th combined arms army, Lieutenant General Yakov Ryazantsev - died;
Commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army, Lieutenant General Mikhail Zuska, was removed from his post and arrested.
01:02 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the points of permanent deployment of military units of the Russian Federation and units of the Eastern Military District, the overwhelming majority of military personnel remained on active duty, which indicates the exhaustion of the possibilities for the formation of additional units.
00:35 A survey by the American sociological center Pew Research Center showed that 72% of US citizens trust Zelensky in matters of international politics, while confidence in Biden is 48%.
00:13 Zelensky on negotiations: "There is a negotiation process, it continues. But so far these are just words. So far, no specifics. There are also other words - the alleged withdrawal of Russian troops from Kiev and Chernigov. We know that this is not a withdrawal, but consequences expulsion of the invaders by our defenders. At the same time, the enemy is accumulating troops for new strikes in the Donbass. But we were preparing for this. We do not believe in anyone, not in any good words. And we will not give anything away."
00:09 Zelensky recalled Ukrainian ambassadors to Morocco and Georgia: "There are those who work together with everyone to defend the state, and there are those who waste time and work only to remain in office. There will be no weapons, there will be no sanctions, there will be no restrictions for Russian business - look for another job."
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That’s what a liveblog looks like, Mr. Exceptional — have you not been reading the ones posted here every day since President Putin’s Ukraine Adventure began? One reads down through the items, mentally arranging them into patterns. A few items trigger a search for more information, usually found elsewhere on Rantburg, whether other articles or reader discussions.
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11:11 Japan in its Diplomatic Blue Book returned to the definition of the South Kuriles as a territory "illegally occupied" by Russia. This wording was last mentioned in 2003.
Keep an eye on this. This is the second time in two weeks that the Japanese have brought this up, and I wonder if they're not quietly seeing what kind of response they'll get.
Mike
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^^^Very interesting. Thanks, Mike.
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would be interesting if Ukraine would tally its own losses
If the Ukraine totals are accurate, Russia has lost, in one month, more than 20% of their initial invasion force. Probably much more than 20% of their elite and special forces. Probably much more than 20% of their best equipment.
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Iraqi Security forces launched a search campaign today to locate the sources and hideouts in which explosive devices are being manufactured and distributed, north of Jalawla, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the campaign covered the orchards and al-Islah Bassin, following explosions that resulted in injuries among the residents of the area.
The forces have deployed more units and enhanced their presence in the area and cooperation with the residents to monitor any suspicious potential terrorist movements.
Areas northeast of Diyala, located between Jalawla, Khanaqin, and the borders of the Kurdistan region, are continuously subjected, since 2017, to terrorist attacks and security breaches, after the withdrawal of the Peshmerga forces and the security gaps that emerged resulted in from it.
Jalawla officially became a sub-district in 1958, is inhabited by about 70,000 people, and is located 70 Km north of Baquba. It is one of the contested territories between Baghdad and Erbil.
Meanwhile, al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) announced launching a military operation to secure the Diyala river.
A PMF statement said that the joint operations command units managed to secure wide areas during the early hours of the operations.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Woke Wisconsin school district orders teachers not to share their pupil's gender identities with their parents
Teachers at Eau Claire School District in Wisconsin were told not to reveal a pupil's sexual orientation and gender identity to parents if they confided in them
Staff were told 'Remember, parents are not entitled to know their kids' identities. That knowledge must be earned.'
The policy has outraged school board candidates who argue that parents should everything that is going on with their child while at school
Board superintendent Michael Johnson says the policy is to ensure students feel safe particularly if they are 'unable to be themselves' while at home
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Google has chosen sides in the conflict
[ColonelCassad] A subscriber sent a new manual from YouTube, which is sent to the platform moderators in connection with the Russian special operation in Ukraine. It is specified in detail which content must be removed and which is removed from monetization.
There will be no full-scale blocking of war-related content. Anything that “goes beyond” will be blocked: the assertion that NATO is responsible for the conflict, Russia’s support, the idea of recreating the USSR by Russia, the letter “Z”, etc.
Example: the video was blocked with the wording “the video begins with the glorification of the “Z” symbol and the rest of it contains support for the war."
Videos will be removed from monetization, which, for example, talk about the genocide of Ukraine in the Donbass, Ukrainian biological weapons, denazification, the thesis that there is no conflict in Ukraine, etc. What is shown are graphics which show part of the manual in English
Ukrainian journalist Yuri Butusov posted video on Monday showing what he said were the burned bodies of three Russian soldiers, it was filmed at the same location as a previous video showing Russian POWs being shot in the legs https://t.co/fBMiWplgiw
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Remember when Female Genital Mutilation was the worse thing ever?
Now they are lopping tits and chopping balls off children and sewing the leftover bits onto their privvies like the entourage of Xerxes' Tent, all while pumping these children so full of hormones PETA would shit a porcupine if it were done to a cow.
Women don't exist, Men are to be detested, and the only children they want are yours.
And here, The Face of the Democrats and public pedophile calls it virtue.
I knew there would be secondaries after the Don't Rape Kids bill, but WoW.
[NYPOST] Just when you thought Florida’s housing market couldn’t get any scarier.
A worker putting the finishing touches on a new Fort Myers-area home this month discovered a gigantic 12-foot alligator loitering in the master bedroom, according to the Miami Herald.
A window blind installer spotted the reptile and hastily called professional trappers to remove it.
Video taken at the residence in Babcock Ranch — where houses fetch upwards of $1.5 million apiece — show two men straining to yank the gator out of the home with a rope.
The agitated reptile can be seen rolling over several times during the struggle before finally being removed.
Project manager Matthew Goodwin told McClatchy News that the alligator was likely looking for some indoor warmth during a stretch of cold weather and became trapped.
Goodwin said the reptile made sure to sample every nook and cranny in the home before settling on the master bedroom.
"He went into every room and his mark," Goodwin said, according to the outlet.
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Nice pet to have in Florida. Make a nice, shallow pool for him in the basement, feed him 1/10th of Florida over a few years, get arrested and have a movie made about you. And become Florida Man.
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New ad in New York. Cracker fecit:
"Our cannibals run around nekkit
And stop to say grace
When they chew off yer face!
There's sharks, snakes, and toads,
And we share our abodes
With huge gators. We're scared that you'll wreck it!"
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[NYPOST] President Biden’s nominee for a key position in the Labor Department was rejected by the Senate on Wednesday — with three Democrats joining all 50 Republicans to vote against the pick.
The vote to advance David Weil’s nomination to head up the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division failed 53-47 as Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly of Arizona opposed the nomination.
The vote to end debate on the nomination only needed a simple majority to pass.
Weil, who held the same position in the B.O. regime, faced stiff opposition from Senate Republicans, who claimed he would impose overly burdensome regulations affecting small businesses and independent contractors. Business groups had also expressed vehement opposition to Weil, a dean at Brandeis University, for his belief that corporations like McDonald’s should be liable for actions by franchisees.
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It seems that many in the DC Swamp (GOP & LSD) have figured out that Mid-Terms are coming. Those in risky voter positions must find a better voter base foundation for Re-election.
[Garowe] Æthiopia, and Kenya on Wednesday signed a landmark military cooperation deal, a move that comes amid political instability in the Horn of Africa which has lasted for a couple of months.
Æthiopia is currently embroiled in a crisis in the Tigray region while Somalia and Kenya are battling with al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... Lions of Islam who have continued to run riot in both nations. There have been serious undertakings to permanently defeat the bully boys.
Æthiopia's Chief of Staff Field Marshal Birhanu Jula held discussions with his Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] counterpart General Robert Kibochi at Defense Headquarters in Nairobi where the agreement was reached.
The two states agreed to be on frontline in strengthening East Africa Standby Force [EASF] which is critical on matters emergency. When al-Shabaab attacked US Naval Base in Manda Bay, the EASF played a significant role in giving reinforcement..
The force is a regional organization whose mandate is to enhance peace and security in the volatile wider Eastern Africa region. At Manda Airfield, the force immediately gave back up to KDF soldiers and those from US Africa Command.
At home, Field Marshal Birhanu Jula and the ENDF are battling against Tigray Defense Forces, an outfit allied to Tigray People's Liberation Front. The war has lasted for over 17 months leading to the death of thousands of people and the displacement of millions of others.
[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is asked about the absence of Algeria at the Negev summit earlier this week during a presser at the end of his visit to the North African nation and uses the opportunity to highlight the benefits of joining the Abraham Accords for countries who have not yet joined.
He acknowledges that normalizing relations with Israel is a decision that each country has to make on its own, while adding that the Negev summit provided the latest example of what they have to gain.
"This is going to have real, practical benefits for the people in the countries participating in that effort who have normalized their relations with Israel," Blinken said. "We’re seeing that take life in terms of connections that have grown very rapidly between people, between businesses, between students, tourists... even [during] COVID."
"My bet is that as other countries that are not part of that process see this take shape, they will conclude that this is something they want to be a part of... but, of course, it’s on us to demonstrate that it really works and that it produces results. I believe that it will," he adds.
[NYPOST] The Ukrainian president said his country’s defense against the Russian invasion is at a "turning point" and again pressed the United States for more help, hours after the Kremlin’s forces reneged on a pledge to scale back some of their operations.
Russian bombardment of areas around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv and intensified attacks elsewhere in the country further undermined hopes for progress toward ending the brutal war. Talks between Ukraine and Russia were set to resume Friday by video, according to the head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia.
A delegation of Ukrainian politicians visited Washington on Wednesday to push for more U.S. assistance, saying their nation needs more military equipment, more financial help and tougher sanctions against Russia.
"We need to kick Russian soldiers off our land, and for that we need all, all possible weapons," Ukrainian parliament member Anastasia Radina said at a news conference at the Ukrainian Embassy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made the case directly to U.S. 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... "If we really are fighting for freedom and in defense of democracy together, then we have a right to demand help in this difficult turning point. Tanks, aircraft, artillery systems. Freedom should be armed no worse than tyranny," Zelensky said in his nightly video address to the nation, which he delivered standing in the dark outside the dimly lit presidential offices in Kyiv. He thanked the U.S. for an additional $500 million in aid that was announced Wednesday.
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Expect that Russia will soon suggest a ceasefire even though 80k Russian soldiers are on Ukraine soil. This would be done to prevent further deterioration of the Russian military.
Ukraine would then be under considerable pressure to accept that offer.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] ANigerian Customs officer, Muawiyya Gambo Turaki, and his son, Khalifa, have been identified as some of those kidnapped by bandidos during a fresh attack on Kofar Gayan low-cost in Zaria, Kaduna State.
SaharaReporters had earlier reported how button men on Wednesday night stormed the estate and whisked away many residents of the estate.
A source in the community had said, "Many people were taken from the Low Cost Housing Estate in Zaria. In our estate, a number of people’s relatives were taken by kidnappers."
Also, a flyer tagged "Pray for Low Cost, Zaria", sighted by SaharaReporters, reads, "Low Cost Area in Zaria of Kaduna State is under attacks by bandidos right now. Gunmen raided low cost housing estate in Zaria Wednesday night and kidnapped an unspecified number of persons."
Kaduna is currently one of the most terrorised states in Nigeria. On Monday, a Kaduna-bound train was attacked by terrorists. Eight persons have been confirmed killed and 26 injured from the attack.
Last Saturday, a large number of gunnies overran the Kaduna airport, killing one person.
[AlAhram] Heavy festivities between rival groups in Sudan's Darfur have left several people dead, with one local leader on Thursday reporting some 30 had been killed in the latest ethnic violence.
Fresh fighting broke out on Tuesday between the Fallata people and an Arab tribe in villages outside Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, witnesses said.
"The fighting has continued until Thursday, and has so far killed some 30 people and maimed dozens," a leader from the Fallata said, requesting anonymity.
One resident of South Darfur, Mohammed al-Fatteh, said fighting erupted after an Arab leader was killed.
A leader from an Arab group also said that the fighting continued on Thursday, reporting that there were "multiple killings and maimed."
Sudan's western restive Darfur region was ravaged by a bitter a civil war that erupted in 2003. The conflict pitted ethnic minority rebels who complained of discrimination against the Arab-dominated government of then-president Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... Khartoum responded by unleashing the Janjaweed, mainly recruited from Arab pastoralist tribes, who were blamed for atrocities including murder, rape, looting and burning villages.
The scorched-earth campaign left 300,000 people dead and displaced 2.5 million, according to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... The main conflict has subsided over the years, but the region remains awash with weapons and deadly festivities often erupt over access to pasture or water.
Or someone stepped on someone else’s cousin’s shadow. Really, it’s what they do in that part of the world when they are not otherwise occupied.
Earlier this month, separate festivities broke out among herders and farmers in the rugged mountainous region of Jebel Moon in West Darfur, leaving at least 35 people killed. Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of houses torched in several bouts of violence in Jebel Moon, as well as elsewhere in Darfur in recent months, the United Nations and medics say.
The violence has reflected a broader security breakdown in Darfur following last year's military takeover led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, that derailed a transition to full civilian rule.
[FoxBusinessNews] The national average price of gas is about 62 cents higher than a month ago
The Biden administration will release 1 million barrels of oil each day for the next six months from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum reserve in an effort to combat soaring gasoline prices.
Biden formally announced the move at a White House event Thursday afternoon, saying that his plan would release around 180 million additional barrels from the reserve. That would leave the already-depleted SPR down to around 388 million barrels, the lowest level since March 1984.
The White House said ahead of the president's remarks that "This record release will provide a historic amount of supply to serve as a bridge until the end of the year when domestic production ramps up."
During his speech, Biden also called on Congress to force oil companies to pay fees for unused leases, accusing energy producers of "hoarding" wells on federal lands. He said that companies "sitting on unused leases and idle wells will either have to start producing or pay the price for their inaction."
"We're going to start WW111, but first lets decommission 20 ships, destroy recruiting, cut troop numbers, give a chunk of Air Force a two month leave, make women do shell humping, have some drag queen galas, and drain the energy reserve."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] It doesn’t get more lurid than this. Those poor children.
Marcelino Olguin, 63, of Perris, California, has been charged with seven counts of committing a 'lewd and lascivious act on a child' and six of torture
The foster dad and his wife Rosa, 58, were appointed caretakers of five Turpin siblings after they were rescued from their parents' house of horrors in 2018
Both they and their daughter, Lennys, 37, now face abuse charges involving the Turpin children
Marcelino is accused of molesting two Turpin sisters just months after the siblings were placed under his and his wife's care
The couple are also accused of abusing another four children, including a five-year-old force fed sleeping pills and made to stand in a corner for hours on end
[Frontpage] Marvel's movie sausage factory has scored over $25 billion worldwide.
Disney's theme parks are still profitable, in the billions, but they're one of the least profitable elements of the Mouse Empire. (Forget Mickey and Donald, even Disney may not be able to bribe enough D.C. politicians to hang on to the IP rights.)
Disney still cashes in by exploiting kids, but, much like Marvel and DC, they've long since moved on to adults and the virtue signaling that comes with that.
Adult immaturity is much more profitable than catering to kids and while Disney isn't giving up on cashing in on kids, its business model is acquiring and developing intellectual properties or IP that an older audience is deeply invested in. Adult fandom instead of kid fandom. Is that a smart business move?
$25 billion. Hard to argue with that. And that's not counting licensing and all the rest.
That means going woke and super-woke.
Even when it comes to theme parks, the Disney Adults are the 'whales' who spend a lot of the money and they tend to be lefties. Disney had already begun to shift to accommodate its weirdo base on sociosexual issues. That meant caring a lot less about building a magical wonderland for kids and more about catering to men and women in their thirties who still want to pretend they're kids.
What you're seeing is the end result of that policy.
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[Rudaw] A Ottoman Turkish prosecutor on Thursday asked an Istanbul court to halt the trial of 26 suspects in the murder of Saudi critic beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi ......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal...... and hand the case over to Riyadh.
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Mr. Khashoggi was no mere activist. He was a paid propagandist, which is no doubt why the Washington Post led the outcry in the name of freedom of the press.
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Legally the prosecutor may be right. K was a Saudi citizen who entered the embassy or consulate of his own accord. That place is officially Saudi territory. He was apparently assaulted there. What jurisdiction does Turkey have for trying someone for a crime allegedly performed by Saudis whose vitim was a Saudi, on Saudi territory?
Actually K had been exiled from Saudi Arabia and was not to return to it under penalty of death.
He returned, sort of, and was apparently put to death. It is not clear that this action broke Saudi law.
Enemies of the US and/or Saudi Arabia made a big fuss about this to harm relations and to help the
ayatollahs in Iran.
Would some country have the right to prosecute the US government or any official for the death of Epstein, or the death of that girl on january 6?
That seems unlikely to me. What's the difference between these cases?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has recalled Kyiv’s ambassadors to Morocco and Georgia, saying they did not do enough to get arms for Ukraine or get these countries to institute sanctions against Russia.
"There are those who work so that Ukraine can defend itself and fight for its future and there are those who waste their time clinging to their posts. I have signed a first decree to recall such a person, the ambassador to Morocco," Zelenskyy said in a video message Wednesday.
"We have also recalled the ambassador to Georgia," he added.
Kyiv’s envoy to Georgia, Igor Dolgov, had been called for consultations earlier this month after Tbilisi refused to approve sanctions against Russia.
Georgia had also blocked volunteer fighters from the Caucasus country to go to Ukraine.
"With all respect, there are no arms, no sanctions, no restrictions on Russian business. Please find another job," Zelenskyy said.
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Maybe he will send in Sean Penn to let them know the real score.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:55 LPR units continue offensive operations on the outskirts of Severodonetsk, having advanced 2 km in a day, more than 40 people of the personnel of the Ukrainian brigade have been killed 21:33 The DPR group has established control over part of the settlement of Novobakhmutovka. Over 50 people of nationalists were killed during the day.
21:09 A child who was injured during the shelling of the Tekstilshchik microdistrict (DPR) yesterday fell into a coma - the DPR Ministry of Health.
20:46 Units of the united detachments of the NM of the DPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, while cleaning up the left bank of Mariupol, destroyed another Nazi base "Azov".
20:19 People's militia of the DPR from the captured American complex "Stinger" shot down one Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter, it fell in the Rybatsky area
19:33 Ukrainian troops fired at Donetsk and Ozeryanovka with rockets from the Grad MLRS and large-caliber shells.
18:44 Ukrainian troops fired 20 rockets from the BM-21 "Grad" and 12 shells with a caliber of 122mm in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
18:39 In Starobelsk, two branches of the postal service "Post of the LNR" have begun work.
17:30 The first video from the crash site of the downed Ukrainian helicopter has been published on the Web. He tried to evacuate the leaders of the Nazis from Mariupol, but was destroyed after leaving the city. Two people survived, they tried to escape, but were detained.Video18+
17:27 Information about the death of Kalina has not been confirmed. A certain Dyachenko, similar to the leader of the Nazis, turned out to be killed.
17:22 One of the commanders of "Azov" * with the call sign "Kalina", who demanded to unblock Mariupol, probably died in a downed helicopter that was trying to evacuate the leaders of the militants from the city. A body resembling a Nazi was found at the crash site, but there has been no official confirmation yet.
16:14 Ukrainian Nazis again opened fire on Donetsk. Seven shells with a caliber of 122mm were fired at the Petrovsky district. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
16:14 Another 267 people, including 60 children, were evacuated from Mariupol.
15:35 The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin ordered the creation of the administration of the city of Mariupol.
15:21 In the liberated territories of the LPR, more than 1,500 kilograms of explosives in TNT equivalent were defused, more than a thousand mines, shells and traps were found.
15:21 Kiev Nazis fired at Dokuchaevsk in the DPR. Ten shells of 122mm caliber were fired at the settlement. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:49 A 27-year-old young man died at night in the village of Biryuzova (DPR) under fire from Ukrainian punishers. Another civilian was injured.
14:45 It is reported that from the passengers of the second helicopter, which tried to evacuate the leaders of the Nazis from Mariupol, three people survived.
13:02 Kiev Nazis shelled the village of Yasinovataya in the DPR. Four shells were fired at him, caliber 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:01 Kiev militants continue to build fortifications among the residential areas of the cities of Donbass. Online appeared a photo of how the Armed Forces of Ukraine are digging trenches right in the yards of Kramatorsk (the occupied part of the DPR).
12:40 Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on the village of Lugansk in the DPR. They used Grady MLRS and fired 20 rockets at the village. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:40 Kiev militants fired at the village of Aleksandrovka in the DPR. They fired 20 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:09 The air defense forces of the DPR near Mariupol destroyed two Ukrainian helicopters. Kyiv once again tried to evacuate the leaders of the Ukrainian nationalists.
11:00 A peaceful resident of the DPR, born in 1974, suffered as a result of the shelling of Yelenovka by the Ukrainian Nazis.
10:30 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis fired more than 300 shells at the DPR, using Grad and Uragan MLRS, 152mm and 122mm artillery, and 120mm mortars.
10:30 During the day, seven settlements of the DPR were under fire from Ukrainian militants. 40 residential buildings, 14 civilian infrastructure facilities and five cars were damaged.
10:30 During the day, two civilians of the DPR were killed. Another 15 people, including a child, were injured.
10:30 During the day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army, destroyed 42 Ukrainian nationalists, 13 firing positions, two infantry fighting vehicles, one armored vehicle and one truck. One tank, one armored recovery vehicle and two armored vehicles were captured.
10:30 During the day, seven soldiers of the 25th Airborne Brigade, five soldiers of the 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade, and three soldiers of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine crossed over to the side of the DPR.
10:22 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR have advanced another 5 kilometers and are now fighting in the area of the village of Kremennaya. They have already cleared the village of Zhitlovka.
09:28 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Donetsk, firing six 122mm shells at it. Also, the village of Yelenovka came under fire - four shells of 122mm caliber were fired at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:29 The official representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, Eduard Basurin, stressed that the Ukrainian militants would not be given a corridor to exit Mariupol (DPR).
09:11 Since the beginning of the escalation in the Donbass, 12 civilians of the LPR have been killed.
09:11 Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on the settlement of Yasnoye in the DPR, firing eight shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:30 In Lisichansk (LPR), which is still occupied by Ukrainian Nazis, an oil depot has been destroyed.
08:30 Over the past day, Kiev militants opened fire twice on the territory of the LPR, using Tochka-U. The defender of the republic died under fire.
[Rudaw] A Kurdish woman was expelled from Denmark alongside two of her children on Monday, following the use of excessive physical force by Danish authorities during her attempted deportation back to Iran.
Qadam Kher Haqani Zada, a refugee from Kermanshah province in western Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... (Rojhelat), was dragged out of one of Denmark’s refugee camps, a place she had been calling home for several years, in the early morning hours of Monday by agents of the Danish deportation authorities.
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In which the honourable senator from the little state of Vermont postures for the crazy left wing of the Democratic party, because there is no way that travesty will garner enough votes to pass out of committee.
[CommonDreams] U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday unveiled the Ending Corporate Greed Act, which aims to end corporate price gouging in the midst of multiple global crises by imposing a 95% tax on the windfall profits of major companies.
"The working class cannot bear the brunt of this economic crisis, while corporate CEOs, wealthy shareholders, and the billionaire class make out like bandits."
The bill—spearheaded by Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.)—is inspired by previous windfall profits tax plans implemented during World Wars I and II as well as the Korean War. During WWII, Sanders' office noted, "the tax rate reached as high as 95%, which ensured that companies could not profiteer off the war.".
The Senate Budget Committee chair argued that "we cannot allow Big Oil companies and other large, profitable corporations to continue to use the war in Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the specter of inflation to make obscene profits by price gouging Americans at the gas pump, the grocery store, or any other sector of our economy."
In addition to the existing federal tax rate—which congressional Republicans cut from 35% to 21% under former President Donald Trump—Sanders' bill would establish a 95% tax on a company's profits that exceed its average profit level for 2015-19, adjusted for inflation.
The new tax would only apply only to companies with $500 million or more in annual revenue and would be limited to 75% of income per year. Sanders' office estimates that the temporary emergency measure, which would only apply in 2022-24, "coud raise an estimated $400 billion in one year from 30 of the largest corporate profiteers alone."
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Well, it's not a bad idea. They can and do have a political agenda, and that political agenda can and does including promoting wars for their own profit.
You think Lockheed and Raytheon are in favor of peace? Nobody is that naive.
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It's a stupid idea. "Windfall" profits grab will kill industry investments and dividends that retirees depend on. Stupid. But let's drag in Raytheon and Lockheed to make the straw man, right?
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If US corporations hadn't done miracles never seen in the annals of industry, would the US have won the war?
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Thou shall covet, thou shall bear false witness, thou shall steal - three commandments of socialism.
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How about a 95% tax on wealth held -- directly or through holding companies -- when leaving an elected office? Or even just the inflation-adjusted increase in wealth?
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[MAIL] Kamala Harris is facing increased criticism for continued gaffes and inappropriate laughter during public appearances, with one former Trump-era speech writer saying her rhetoric 'undermines American diplomacy' on the world stage.
'America's allies and partners expect our leaders to speak with coherence and clarity on issues that matter to them,' former speechwriter for ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo David Wilezol told DailyMail.com in a statement.
'Harris' repeated rhetorical gaffes don't just make her look bad – they undermine American diplomacy,' added Wilezol, founder and president of the ghostwriting firm Seventh Floor Strategies.
During a meeting Wednesday afternoon, the vice president held a bilateral meeting with Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness to discuss the COVID response on the island. In a speech surrounding the meeting, Harris compounded her communication woes by delivering a bit of word salad.
'We also recognized, just as it has been in the United States, for Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way its impact has been the pandemic,' Harris said.
She continued the confusing speech by saying: 'So to that end, we are announcing today also that we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to I believe what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health, but also the economy.'
Dr. Jonathan Bronitsky, who served as chief speechwriter to then-Attorney General Bill Barr said of the remarks: 'An outside observer can only speculate about the reasons for the declining lucidity of Kamala Harris's extemporaneous remarks––maybe she's distracted, nervous, underprepared, or perhaps some combination of the above.'
'However, what is clear is that her blundering at the podium, combined with Joe Biden's pattern of peculiar behavior and relentless bloopers, is serving only to further fuel fearful suspicion both at home and abroad that the Oval Office is without a chief,' he continued.
Vice President Kamala Harris is yet again facing criticism for gaffes and word salad during public appearances after appearing alongside Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday to discuss the U.S. helping in the island's COVID recovery
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Strangely enough, I am actually on Harris' side on this one.
'America's allies and partners expect our leaders to speak with coherence and clarity on issues that matter to them,'
The fewer 'allies' and 'partners' we have, the better off we'll be. Ever since we got into the empire business after 1945, things have gotten worse for us. We start wars we don't understand and don't know how to win. Just look at all the people ready to jump in on the side of literal Nazis in Ukraine.
Ukraine's National Militia says it "polices" the streets. So why does it also fight the police themselves? BBC Kiev correspondent Jonah Fisher reports on the increasing visibility of far-right groups in Ukraine.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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It will be very interesting to see how things change following the mid-term elections in November. Especially if it really is a Republican blowout as both sides are predicting.
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The Obama/Biden is baked by the CIA Pentagon DOJ plus all the major corporations and media ..plus FBI etc etc
PS. Forgot China
Your election will be canceled
Taiwan will be the excuse this time
Food and energy quotas cards are coming.
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If the populace doesn't rally around their flag and leaders in a time of war, that's a problem. Ask Americans how that played out late in our involvements in Vien Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Those experiences are the major reason that outside our current political crop, neo-con pundits, the corporate media and the Beltway Bandits, there's not really much enthusiasm for US involvement in Ukraine right now, nor likely to be in the future.
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 31, 2022
The Russian-backed Division 25 affiliated with the Syrian government forces conducted advanced military training in central and northwest Syria, which is considered a major stronghold for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) and other Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition factions, at the request of Russian forces in order to fight in Ukraine, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said, Thursday.
The Division 25 led by Suhail al-Hassan, Known as "Tiger", is the major fighting group in the Russian-air-backed government’s battles in northwestern Syria.
These military drills are an attempt by Russia to send clear messages to the international community that Syrian military Divisions of the "regime’s army" are on standby to fight alongside Russians in the Russian-Ukrainian war in the event of escalating fighting, according to SOHR.
The Russian Sputnik news agency cited sources as saying that the "Tiger conducted advanced military drills for the third consecutive day in areas in Idlib for airdrops by members the Division 25 Special Missions."
The "Division 25 special operations", which was formed in 2013, spreads on contested front-lines in the Syrian Desert as well as Idlib fronts.
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...The first time they run up against western-trained, motivated, and well-equipped troops instead of deranged semi-literate jihadis...they're gonna get creamed.
Mike
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'Cannon Fodder', Mike.
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The Mongols had a siege tactic called the "Endless Storm" where wave after wave of expendable subject troops were sent up ladders against the city walls until the defenders were exhausted. Russia is going to need 'gunfodder' if they want to attack the urban cities...
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This is the Russian/Soviet tactic as was seen in the last days of the battle Berlin. My guess is Div 25 will be sent in to the breakaway republics for a campaign of mass murder, rape and torture as part of their "deNazification" process. On the other hand, they might even be needed.
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Wouldn't this make Syria a party to the conflict?
Where's all the condemnation of escalation? Where are the calls for Syria to keep out of it?
(Or is it an admission that Syria is effectively part of the Russian Empire now?)
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Judging on Russia's military performance so far, "Don't get slaughtered" isn't something everyone was taught.
As Friday April 1
1856. Russian deaths
38000. Ukrainians deaths
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If fewer than 2000 Russians have been killed (but by extension that means there have been 20,000 wounded), why are they dragging Syria into the war? Why expand the war if it's all under control?
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Forget it - he's a Brit and on the payroll. IP's don't lie
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Train Attack: Nigerian Military, Others Know Terrorists’ Hideouts, Listen To Them, Know Their Plans, But Refuse To Bomb Them – El-Rufai | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/splacAGFLzpic.twitter.com/fzQb47lSNp
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has alleged that the Nigerian military knows the location of bandidos in his state but has refused to bomb their hideout.
This comes after a Kaduna-bound train was attacked by holy warriors on Monday evening with eight persons confirmed dead and 26 injured.
Some of the passengers were also kidnapped.
According to Punch, E-Rufai, who expressed sadness and frustration over the recent train attack, said; "We have enough intelligence for us to take action. The Air Force undertakes enough ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance); and the DSS (Department of State Services) has informants all over the place.
"We know what they (terrorists) are planning. We get the reports. The problem is for the agencies to take action. Don’t wait until they attack before you respond. The Army should go after their enclaves to wipe them out. Let the Air Force bomb them.
"Before, they were categorised as bandidos and if you bombed them, you would have issues with human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. organizations and international criminal courts and so on. But, now that they have been declared holy warriors by the court, they can be legally killed without any consequences from international human rights organizations."
He described Kaduna as currently being in a ’State of War’.
"We know where their camps are, we know where they are; the SSS (State Security Service, also called DSS) have their phone numbers, they listen to them, and they give me the report. We know what they are planning. We shouldn’t be waiting for them to attack; why can’t we go after them?"
[MISES] American policy makers have shown a surprising amount of sanity so far in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While some war enthusiasts among the American punditry have certainly been agitating for World War III, the leadership in both the White House and Congress has repeatedly and straightforwardly refused most calls to escalate the conflict.
Unfortunately, a number of foreign parliaments among the US's NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) "partners" have not been nearly as hesitant to escalate matters. Among the most reckless on this issue have been lawmakers from a number of Eastern European states. For example, policymakers in the Baltics in recent weeks have called for a no-fly zone in Ukraine. Newsweek reported this month:
Lithuania's parliament unanimously approved a resolution calling for a no-fly zone over Ukraine—joining other NATO members Estonia and Slovenia in the appeal. Rihards Kols, chairman of the Latvian parliament's foreign affairs committee, also announced [on March 17] his country is calling for such a zone.
But here's the problem: a so-called no-fly zone would be a de facto declaration of war on Russia by NATO. Moreover, when we say "by NATO," we mostly mean "by the United States."
At around the same time, the Polish regime began its own scheme to escalate the war and bring the US into direct conflict with Moscow. Warsaw, apparently without consulting Washington, hatched a plan to send fighter jets to Ukraine via US military bases and then have the US "backfill" Poland's air force with F-16s. This would have constituted a significant escalation as well, and was fortunately quashed by the White House.
This sort of behavior that free rides on the American taxpayer has become an identifiable pattern with countries that see themselves as benefiting enormously from US military spending but who contribute next to nothing to US security or even to the NATO alliance.
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Why wouldn't they be in favor of someone else doing the fighting and dying for them? It's an entirely rational policy. Just look at our elites in DC who also think the same way. None of them are in the military, so who cares when C-141s full of coffins come back from their latest war?
When you've got a drunken moron spending his money like water, you're a fool if you don't catch some in a basin. Of course they're free-riding on us. They love it! They have an idiot to pay for their defense!
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When you've got a drunken moron spending his money like water, you're a fool if you don't catch some in a basin.
Me, I prefer doing things that are productive toward my own long-term goals rather than getting distracted by trying to catch “free” money, which ends up with little money and no progress. But I admit to being hopelessly bourgeois, and therefore suspicious of the purpose of welfare spending of all sorts.
[DW] South Korea's defense ministry has said that North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... fired an existing intercontinental ballistic missile and not a new one in last week's test launch.
South Korea has negated North Korea's claim that it launched what experts have dubbed its "monster missile" last week.
South Korea's military on Wednesday accused the North of firing a less-powerful existing weapon instead of a newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as Pyongyang had claimed.
Last Thursday, North Korea said it had test fired a Hwasong-17 missile — its longest-range ICBM — in the most significant weapons test in years.
State media in Pyongyang had called the launch "a historical event.''
SEOUL DISMISSES PYONGYANG LAUNCH CLAIMS
Seoul's military has said that, in reality, it was the same ICBM North Korea launched in 2017.
"US and South Korean intelligence has determined that what was fired on March 24 was a Hwasong-15," a defense ministry official told news agency AFP.
South Korea's Defense Ministry said it told a parliamentary committee that the details of Thursday's launch, including the weapon's speed, combustion and stage separation, were similar to those of the Hwasong-15, not the Hwasong-17.
The ministry said the alleged false announcement was likely an attempt by Pyongyang to compensate for a failed Hwasong-17 launch earlier this month.
Acccording to accounts from South Korea, the missile launched from the North's capital region on March 16 went kaboom! soon after lift off, with residents of Pyongyang witnessing the mid-air blast.
North Korea did not make any comments on the failed launch and state media is yet to respond to Wednesday's report from South Korean defense chiefs.
Since the beginning of the year, North Korea has conducted a flurry of missile tests in an apparent attempt to modernize its military arsenal and increase pressure on the United States amid stalled nuclear talks between the two countries.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:52 Chernobyl under the control of anti-fascists. The departure of anti-fascists is a fake IPSO. 21:36 Air defense systems shot down one Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter in the air, 30 kilometers west of the city of Izyum, as well as four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.
21:26 During the day, operational-tactical aviation hit 28 military facilities of Ukraine.
21:17 The second Ukrainian Mi-8 was damaged by a missile hit, evaded towards the sea, but crashed 20 kilometers from the coast.
21:10 The Kyiv regime attempted to evacuate from Mariupol on two Mi-8 command personnel of the regiment of Ukrainian nationalists "Azov"
20:15 The FSB of the Russian Federation detained an SBU agent. An SBU agent was detained at the exit from Crimea. According to the FSB of the Russian Federation, the SBU officer was detained in March when he tried to leave for the territory of Ukraine "in order to organize contacts that could harm the security of Russia."
19:37 On the basis of the Russian University of Special Forces, volunteers are being trained who will serve in the liberated territories of Ukraine.
18:58 The Russian military shot down two Ukrainian MI-8 helicopters near Mariupol, used for emergency evacuation of the highest ranks of the Azov battalion from the city.
18:25 Ukrainian flags were taken down in the Melitopol region. Instead of them now - Russian.
17:49 There are reports of a fire in Kyiv.
17:41 Strikes again hit the Kharkiv region.
17:17 The Russian Defense Ministry published Hunter Biden's correspondence with employees of the US Department of Defense Threat Reduction Office and Pentagon contractors in Ukraine.
16:47 The Russian Defense Ministry continues to study materials on the implementation of the military biological programs of the United States and its allies in the NATO bloc on the territory of Ukraine.
16:20 The educational process resumes in Melitopol from April 4.
15:45 In order to reduce the level of crime and stabilize the situation in Berdyansk and due to the large number of applications, the acceptance of firearms from the population on a paid basis has been extended until April 30, 2022.
15:18 On the evening of March 30, high-precision air-launched cruise missiles destroyed large fuel bases in the settlements of Dnepropetrovsk, Lisichansk, Chuguev and Novomoskovsk, from which the Ukrainian group of troops in Donbas was supplied with fuel.
14:42 During the day, the air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Balakleya, Verbovoye, Verkhnetoretskoye, Dokuchaevsk, Korolyovka, Komarin, Experienced, Pavlovka, Repki, Chernihiv, Chernobyl, Shchors, including one "Bayraktar-TB2" in the Bezymyanny area.
14:31 Former director of KP "Chistota" (Melitopol) threatens employees of the enterprise. People are receiving threatening calls and calls not to go to work. Also, former director Vladimir Morozovsky stole some of the equipment before fleeing the city. They tried to burn the special equipment, but when this failed, the equipment was damaged.
13:30 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a missile attack was carried out on a military unit, - Governor Reznichenko.
12:59 The Kherson region of Ukraine, which is under the control of the Russian army, is gradually returning to peaceful life, the local authorities advocated cooperation with Russia.
12:37 The network has published evidence of the direct military participation of the British military in the conflict in Ukraine.
11:47 A Ukrainian delegation arrived in Washington this week to ask for additional military support, CNN reports.
11:31 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 124 aircraft and 77 helicopters, 216 anti-aircraft missile systems, 341 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1815 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 195 multiple rocket launchers, 762 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 1689 units of special military vehicles.
11:15 In the Kiev region, the search group of the Russian Guard detained a high-ranking employee of the Security Service of Ukraine.
10:31 Attack helicopters Ka-52 destroyed the firing positions of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:13 Residents of Kyiv are evacuated from the city, maneuvering between anti-tank mines, which were installed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:07 The advance of the RF Armed Forces for the day amounted to six kilometers. Destroyed up to 60 Ukrainian nationalists, two tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, nine vehicles for various purposes.
10:00 Subdivisions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, continuing their offensive operations, took complete control of the settlement of Zolotaya Niva, crossed the Kashlagach River and entrenched themselves at an advantageous line.
09:28 Ukrainian Nazis during the special operation of Russia destroyed about fifty churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. The Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions fire at religious institutions or equip them with military facilities. In addition, they are holding clergy hostage.
08:37 Already more than 529,000 residents of Donbass and Ukraine are in Russia as refugees. Of these, more than 100,000 children.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 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... today threatened to turn off Europe's gas supplies from tomorrow if countries refuse to pay in roubles.
The Russian President, announcing a decree in televised remarks, said foreign buyers would have to 'open rouble accounts in Russian banks' which can be used to pay for 'gas delivered starting from tomorrow'.
'If such payments are not made, we will consider this a default on the part of buyers, with all the ensuing consequences. Nobody sells us anything for free, and we are not going to do charity either - that is, existing contracts will be stopped,' he said.
The move has been seen as a bid to bolster the Russian currency and economy, hit by Western sanctions, in order to fund the war. But Western companies and governments have rejected the move as a breach of existing contracts, which are set in euros or dollars.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... relies on Russia for 40 per cent of its gas consumption, costing the bloc £340million (€400million) a day in contracts which are mostly settled in euros or dollars. According to Gazprom, 58 per cent of its sales of natural gas to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and other countries as of January 27 were settled in euros. US dollars accounted for about 39 per cent of gross sales and sterling around three per cent.
A Kremlin decree published today sets out that contracts will be stopped if buyers do not sign up to the new conditions, including opening rouble accounts in Russian banks. The buyers can still pay in foreign currency and authorise the bank to sell that for roubles, which are placed in the second account, where the gas is formally purchased.
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck rejected Putin's the demands as an unacceptable breach of contract, adding that the manoeuvre amounted to 'blackmail' and that he had not yet seen a new decree signed by Putin mandating gas payments in roubles.
Separately, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said German companies would continue to pay for Russian gas using euros as stipulated in contracts. 'By all means, it remains the case that companies want, can and will pay in euros,' he told a joint news conference with his Austrian counterpart Karl Nehammer.
A spokesperson for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... said that companies do not plan to pay for Russian gas in roubles, adding that the government was monitoring the implications for the European market of President Putin's demand.
Asked if there were any circumstances in which Britannia would pay in roubles for Russian gas, the front man said 'that is not something we will be looking to do,' adding that Putin's latest decrees show 'the impact that our sanctions are having on the Russian economy'.
'There are no gas pipes directly linking the UK with Russia, our imports from Russia made up less than four per cent of total UK gas supply in 2021 so we are obviously less reliant on it than many of our European partners,' the spokesperson added.
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What is it with Putin...
It is like every other day Euro is ok, then rubles only the next?
#3
It's just economics, bro. Russia is rolling in money now -- look at the current account surplus. It's expected to DOUBLE this year.
$200-240 billion easily pays for the war and then some. From Reuters this morning:
"Analysing tanker traffic data, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) estimates Russia's March oil export earnings will total $12.3 billion - up sharply on March 2021 as energy prices soar.
Collapsing imports could see Russia's current account surplus double from 2021 to $200-$240 billion this year, the IIF also estimates.
#4
The war has been costing Russia about $500 million per day -- less now that they're relaxing the pressure on the north and focusing on mopping up what remains to be done to complete their control of the coastline in the south and east.
If the Russian Army is now spending $300-350 million per day, then Russia's increased current account surplus would allow them to easily fund the war for the rest of 2022.
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Where are all these rubles going to come from? Is Russia going to sell them to the other countries? For what currency?
Dollars?
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It's called correspondent banking, it's been around for over a hundred years. India and Russia will trade with each other using the rupee-rouble trading mechanism. They're selecting the bank now - India easily got around the US sanctions to buy oil from Iran using UCO Bank. There's another precedent, India's purchase of Russian air defence systems.
#11
India, China, OPEC along with Europe's importers of Russian gas will render the sanctions useless.
The sanctions are just the US elephant trampling everything and shitting up the place again. This time the non western nations will go their own way and create their own non-dollar trading mechanisms... end of an era
#12
Russia’s new customers are not as free spending as the old ones, and Russia is somewhat constrained by Western sanctions, so the new contracts will be less profitable than the old ones.
Russia would have a much smaller surplus if the government actually put in good roads and properly equipped their army, though overall they are to be congratulated on being much more sensible about spending than the Americans have been since Newt Gingrich retired. President Trump was keen to balance the budget, but unfortunately the senior Republicans in Congress at the time were not. It will be very interesting to see what happens on that front if the Republicans get veto-proof majorities in both Houses of Congress in November, or even just simple majorities.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 31, 2022
Ottoman Turkish-held areas of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tel-Abyad, northeast Syria, witnessed a state of security chaos and violations that claimed the lives of civilians, in addition to cases of killing, the bulldozing of houses and rape during the fourth week of March.
Ottoman Turkish forces and opposition factions bombed the villages of Sayda, Mu’allaq, in addition to the vicinity of the M4 highway in the countryside of Ain Issa town, north of Raqqa, twice during the past week, local sources told North Press.
The shelling that targeted that area with dozens of artillery shells on the 25 and 30 of this March, caused large material damage to private and public property.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... the Ottoman Turkish forces bombed several villages in the countryside of Zarkan (Abu Rasin) north of Hasakah, on March 27, which displaced residents from their villages.
It is worth noting that the Ottoman Turkish forces and opposition factions have controlled the city of Sere Kaniye and its countryside in addition to Tel-Abyad, since 2019 following an invasion that displaced about 300 thousand of the indigenous population, according to human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... reports.
CONFLICT AND INSECURITY
The state of security chaos continues in the areas of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tel-Abyad.
On March 18, well-informed sources told North Press that two leaders of Ottoman Turkish-backed armed factions were killed in a landmine went kaboom! near the village of Ranin in the countryside of Tel-Abyad.
The two leaders were Abu Ali al-Dar’awi of Levant Front ( al-Jabha al-Shamiya) faction, who led the Suluk area, and Yasin al-Hamad of al-Majd Corps, according to the source.
Yesterday, Wednesday, social media reported the outbreak of heavy festivities between the Ottoman Turkish-backed Hamzat and 20th Division factions, in the Church neighborhood in the center of Sere Kaniye.
According to the information circulated, the festivities, the causes of which were not known, resulted in deaths and injuries, without confirming the number.
Infighting and liquidation among the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed factions in their areas of control in northeast Syria have been increasing as a result of the disputes over the places of control and the seizure of property.
BULLDOZING CIVILIAN HOUSES AND ORCHARDS
Amid the escalating disputes between the factions, local media outlets reported that the Ottoman Turkish forces and the opposition factions destroyed the house of a displaced civilian named Abdulrazzaq al-Omar from the village of Talil al- Dala’ in the Tel- Abyad countryside.
Cross-checked sources previously reported to North Press that a Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition faction bulldozed several houses in Ain Hisan village south of the Ottoman Turkish-controlled Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain).
Mazlom Hamo Kor, one of the owners of the houses that were bulldozed in the village, said that an armed faction bulldozed 12 houses in Abu Mazloum’s farm, in the village owned by his family.
In the same context, the Sere Kaniye IDPs Committee posted on its Facebook account that al-Hamzah Division bulldozed the houses, at the behest of the Ottoman Turkish state.
The committee indicated that the aim of bulldozing houses and uprooting trees is to establish military headquarters for the Ottoman Turkish army and armed factions.
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[KavkazUzel] A total of 1,967 residents of Dagestan are on the wanted list as members of international terrorist organizations, Abdurashid Magomedov, the republic's interior minister, said at a session of the People's Assembly.
Good to know. If only they would admit which specific organizations, that would be even more helpful.
"Last year, 104 Dagestanis who left for Syria to participate in international terrorist organizations were put on the wanted list, and 23 were detained upon their return from there. In total, there are currently 1,967 people on the wanted list of Dagestanis who took part in terrorist organizations abroad, " quoted the TASS minister.
Over the past year, the number of registered crimes of a terrorist nature in the republic has decreased by almost a third and amounted to 493 cases, while about 85% of such crimes were committed outside of Russia. "These are criminal cases initiated against citizens of Dagestan in the course of operational and other activities, their participation in the period 2015-2016 as part of armed gangs in the territories of Syria and Iraq was revealed. Currently, according to operational data, this category of persons has moved to the northern regions of Uzbekistan, " said Abdurashid Magomedov.
In 2021, 217 criminal cases were initiated in Dagestan against residents of the republic who had previously left for Syria to participate in illegal armed groups, Chernovik reported today with reference to the report of the minister.
114 people were put on the international wanted list, 23 were detained after their return. Among those wanted are those who went to Syria back in 2013-2016. Also, seven channels for the supply of firearms to the region, including from Ukraine, were blocked, nine workshops for the manufacture and conversion of civilian weapons into a military analogue were liquidated, 458 firearms were seized from illegal circulation, the publication reported.
The report of Police Lieutenant General Abdurashid Magomedov was also published today on the website of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan.
The police eliminated six sleeping terrorist cells in Makhachkala, Derbent and Buynaksk regions, as well as in the penal colony of the Federal Penitentiary Service. In the republic, six accomplices of illegal armed groups were forced to confess, 53 members of the underground and two members of international terrorist organizations in Syria were detained. During the provision of armed resistance, four people were liquidated, the report said.
"[A total of]246 firearms, 15 IEDs, 96 grenades, over 22,700 rounds of ammunition, other ammunition and explosives were seized from the terrorists' arsenal," the minister's report said.
In the republic, 230 Internet users were brought to administrative responsibility for posting extremist materials in public access, as well as calls for participation in unauthorized mass actions. Roskomnadzor has blocked 1,096 websites and pages on the Internet that contain materials of an extremist nature, the agency reported.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that, according to investigators, a 38-year-old resident of Izberbash joined the ranks of the international religious association "Nurcular"
...it has millions of followers around the globe, especially in Turkey, and has been banned in Russia since 2008. They want a Turkic caliphate comprising those regions of the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Russia's North Caucasus and Volga regions...
[NYPOST] Several hundred Russian troops have been withdrawn from the Chernobyl nuclear facility in Ukraine after suffering from "acute radiation sickness" and are being treated in Belarus, according to reports.
The Pentagon confirmed earlier that the Russian forces began to pull out from the defunct facility, which was taken on the first day of the invasion, after a pledge by the Kremlin to scale back its offensive.
But an employee at the Public Council at the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone management said the soldiers had fled while "irradiated" and bused to a medical facility in Gomel, Belarus, the Mirror reported.
"Another batch of irradiated bully boyz who seized the Chernobyl zone was brought to the Belarusian Radiation Medicine Center in Gomel today," Yaroslav Yemelianenko wrote on Facebook.
"Have you dug trenches in the Red Forest, b—hes? Now live the rest of your short life with this. There are rules for handling this area. They are mandatory because radiation is physics — it works regardless of status or shoulder ranks," he wrote.
"With minimal intelligence in command or soldiers, these consequences could have been avoided," Yemelianenko added.
Word about the sickness came soon after Ukrainian officials claimed that Russian troops "looted and destroyed" a specialist laboratory containing "highly active" radioactive samples from the decommissioned nuclear plant.
The lab contained "highly active samples and samples of radionuclides that are now in the hands of the enemy," the stage agency said in a Facebook post, referring to unstable atoms that release radiation.
The Ukrainian agency had said it hoped Russian troops "will harm [themselves] and not the civilized world."
President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of using the exclusion zone around Chernobyl to prepare new attacks.
A US official told Agence La Belle France-Presse this week that Russian troops were "walking away from the Chernobyl facility and moving into Belarus. Chernobyl is (an) area where they are beginning to reposition some of their troops — leaving, walking away from the Chernobyl facility and moving into Belarus.
"We think that they are leaving. I can’t tell you that they’re all gone," the official added.
As @CherylRofer and others have pointed out, it’s almost certain no Russian soldiers who’ve been in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone’s Red Forest have received a dose large enough for severe radiation sickness https://t.co/6Apicf4wMF
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Russian troops "looted and destroyed" a specialist laboratory
Reminds me of the Iraqis in Kuwait eating jars of face cream thinking it was goat cheese.
#2
Driving lots of heavy military equipment and vehicle, turning up the dust and dirt, probably was not a good idea no matter what the circumstance in and around the place.
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My thought was they captured the location to 1) reduce the Ukrainians chances of building a dirty bomb and 2) prevent Ukrainian artillery from being located there. Withdrawal would allow either of those options to the Ukies. Difficult to execute counter-battery fire on an artillery battery sited amongst a reactor complex
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
Street fighting. The ring continues to shrink, but the task of completely blocking Azovstal has not yet been solved. The enemy also holds a piece of the Left-Berzhny region, the western Primorsky part of the city, the port and the factory of Ilyich. Over the past 2 days, the wounded have been evacuated from the port. Out of 6 Mi-8s and 1 Mi-24, 3 Mi-8s were shot down. The rest of the vehicles were able to deliver a certain amount of cargo to Mariupol and take out up to 30 wounded.
The remnants of the enemy forces in Mariupol hysterically demand a deblockade, stating that without it, the defeat in Mariupol will be the greatest shame of Ukraine.
2. Marinka.
A little progress in the village itself. Fights in the slag heap area. Fighting also continues south of Maryinka in the area of Novomikhailovka and Slavny.
3. Ugledar.
Fighting continues north of Zolotaya Niva and in the area of Velikaya Novoselka. So far, it has not been possible to get to the Maryinka-Kurakhovo highway.
4. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole without changes. To the east of Gulyaipol, fighting was noted in the region of Malinovka and settlements to the east.
5. Nikolaev.
Attempts to be active in this direction cost the Armed Forces dearly, and, having suffered heavy losses, the enemy again went on the defensive. The RF Armed Forces continue to accumulate forces in the Kherson region. To the north, near Krivoy Rog and Nikopol, no significant changes were noted.
6. LPR.
Fighting continued in Popasnaya, the southern part of Rubizhne and on the outskirts of Severodonetsk. In general, there are no major developments.
7. Avdievka.
Avdievka itself is unchanged. To the north, the troops managed to break through the defenses at Novobakhmutovka and start fighting for the capture of the village, which should help the efforts associated with cutting the rocky road at Novobakhmutovka and Novoselka-2, as well as ensure advancement through Troitskoye to New York and further to Dzerzhinsk.
8. Izyum.
Limited fighting south and southeast of Izyum. Both sides are actively pulling up reserves in this direction, expecting the imminent start of active operations by the grouping of the RF Armed Forces in the Kharkov-Izyum direction. The enemy has created certain reserves in the Artemovsk area, and is also preparing Slavyansk and Kramatorsk for defense. There is also an accumulation of forces in the Pavlograd region, which will act as a strategic reserve in the upcoming battle. Kharkov - battles of local importance.
9. Sumy-Chernihiv.
There is a transfer of significant contingents of the RF Armed Forces to the east. It is not yet clear for what purposes they will be used - for the assault on Sumy or for moving to Akhtyrka and further to Kharkov. There is also the option of transferring part of the forces to the Kharkov-Izyum direction. The pressure on Brovary is currently decreasing. In Chernihiv - no significant changes.
10. Kyiv.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine declare that they were able to restore control over the city of Irpen, but at the same time confirm that Bucha, Vorzel and Gostomel are under the RF Armed Forces. Again they came up with a victory about the capture of Vyshgorod, which was already controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to the Pentagon and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the RF Armed Forces are on the defensive here, and part of the forces are being transferred through Belarus to Kharkov and Izyum.
In general, despite the active battles in different directions, we are now witnessing a kind of operational pause, which is associated with the need to regroup troops and pull up reserves. The main events will soon unfold in Left-Bank Ukraine, where the RF Armed Forces will strive to defeat the main grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also, I would not rule out operations in the Nikolaev direction.
#1
Retire. Offer population to leave then attack from afar followed by physical efforts to conclude. Energy has been secured so needed by Europe. Putin is enjoying increased popularity and unity at home.
"If Russian palladium stopped flowing to market, there would be serious problems, especially for the global auto and computer chip industries. And the same, to a lesser extent, goes for Russian platinum supplies" So no blocks imposed.
So who really has miscalculated.
The Iraqi Security Media Cell revealed the "Strong Will" operation's final results against ISIS in the governorates of Nineveh, Saladin, and Al-Anbar.
In a statement, the Cell said that the security forces and the Popular Mobilization Forces destroyed 19 dens and six tunnels and seized six booby-trapped houses, 25 explosive devices, 250 detonators, four Katyusha rockets, and two RBG7, 12 kg of C4, various medical supplies and other materials.
"The security forces would launch other operations to pursue the terrorists," the statement added.
On Tuesday, 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."
An explosive device blew up during the operation, targeting a vehicle belonging to the 16th Division of the Nineveh Operations Command of the Iraqi army, wounding two soldiers.
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[NYPOST] Two 15-year-old boys were shot in the leg during a dispute outside of an East Harlem public housing complex on Wednesday night, police said.
A third teen was injured by broken glass from the shooting on the grounds of NYCHA’s East River Houses on East 105th Street at about 8:50 p.m., sources and cops said.
All three victims sustained non-life threatening injuries, police and sources said. The two gunshot victims were taken to Harlem Hospital.
Witnesses told police the shooter may have been a female, sources said.
The suspect fled after the shooting and no arrests were immediately made.
Investigators recovered nine shell casings from the scene, sources said. "Don't litter. Police up yer brass!"
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Initially, I am leaning 60/40 in the direction of 3 thugs and a Female Citizen defending herself. "A woman with blonde hair and a blue shirt was seen fleeing the location."
Given the numerous NEWS reports of shootings, murders, and killings over the last 10 years. I would call this an Urban War zone.
A Snide Question to chew on:
How is this possible given NYC's strict Gun Control laws? ☺ ☻
Compromised, senile, corrupt, and not terribly bright. But those who wanted him in the White House were willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get him there, so here we are.
[NewsMax] Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Newsmax that as more information comes to light about Hunter Biden's laptop, he has grown "suspicious" President Joe Biden could be compromised.
While speaking to "Stinchfield," Johnson said, "I don't know it for certain" that the information on Hunter's laptop would compromise the president, "but I'm sure suspicious of it."
Why did Biden "waive all these sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?" Johnson asked. "Why did he cancel the China initiative? There was the Department of Justice investigation initiative into China's stealing our intellectual property at universities; why did he take these actions?"
"So we have no idea," the congressman continued, "what Russia, what China, these other intelligence services, know about President Biden. And we have no idea how that might be affecting his policy decisions.
"But I agree with Tony Bobulinski [Hunter Biden's former business partner] who said that Joe Biden is 'compromised.' I think it's pretty obvious he must be," the senator concluded.
#9
That's right. We're seeing swarms of them in Arizona and elsewhere, in the hundreds. It's unreal. Truly an invasion.
This is a fucking disaster in the making. I can't believe this administration is screwing around with stuff halfway across the world while this is happening on our border.
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But they want that to happen on our border, Boss Poodle5407. They think it A Good Thing.
The Nigerian Army has reacted to a viral video of a soldier identified as Musa M. who claimed he was abandoned in the bush by his colleagues in a forest in Niger State during an operation.
A video which circulated the social media on Wednesday evening showed Musa solely running in a bush.
But in a statement signed by Onyema Nwachukwu, the Director of Public Relations, the Nigerian Army described the soldier as a "coward."
Nwachukwu noted that the soldier was part of troops that had carried out a clearance operation at the Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State.
The soldier was said to have fled the operation and had sent out the video in a deliberate attempt to shield himself from being accused of cowardice.
The army said, "The attention of the Nigerian Army(NA) has been drawn to a viral video making the rounds on the social media, where a soldier on Wednesday, 30 March 2022 claimed to have been abandoned by his colleagues during operations.
"Contrary to the claims and impression created by the soldier in the video footage, preliminary investigations have revealed that the video footage was a deliberate attempt to shield himself from being accused of cowardice, having abandoned his colleagues during an ongoing clearance operation in Gurara, Niger State.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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April 1 (Reuters) - Russia accused Ukraine of carrying out an air strike against a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod on Friday, an incident the Kremlin said set an unfavourable tone for peace talks with Kyiv.
Been seeking less East & West Pravda type news and more actual facts. As they say "Seeing is believing", so I started looking at Ukrainian Live Webcams that are still up and running in the major cities.
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Indian Islamic preacher, founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation, which doesn't rely very heavily on the scientific method. He is also the founder of the oxymoronic Peace TV channel through which he reaches 200 million viewers. He has been called an 
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...the name means 
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival al-Khoei assassinated shortly after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
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...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
[Frontpage] Marvel's movie sausage factory has scored over $25 billion worldwide.
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[MAIL] Kamala Harris is facing increased criticism for continued gaffes and inappropriate laughter during public appearances, with one former Trump-era speech writer saying her rhetoric 'undermines American diplomacy' on the world stage.
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[NYPOST] Two 15-year-old boys were shot in the leg during a dispute outside of an East Harlem public housing complex on Wednesday night, police said.
