[FoxNews] New York City Mayor Eric Adams praised transit workers and first responders that stepped up as a subway train turned into a “war zone” during a violent attack on a subway car full of passengers Tuesday.
“Today was a difficult day for New York,” he said during a news briefing from another location as continues to isolate himself after testing positive for COVID-19. “We saw a quiet Tuesday morning turn the N train into a war zone as a smoke bomb was detonated and multiple shots rang out.”
“Thanks to the quick thinking of the MTA crew and the bravery and cooperation of passengers, lives were saved,” he added.
He said the attack was part of a surge of gun violence plaguing New York City and many other municipalities across the country.
“These relentless shooters are an American problem,” he said. “It is going to take all levels of government to solve. It is going to take the entire nation to speak out and push back against the cult of death that has taken hold in this nation.”
BROOKLYN SUBWAY ATTACK: $50G REWARD ANNOUNCED
Authorities announced a $50,000 reward regarding Tuesday’s subway attack in Brooklyn. Officials also named a person of interest in connection with the shooting and assault on a Manhattan-bound N train.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 put up $25,000 to match another $25,000 from the New York Police Foundation.
"We are doing everything we can to catch the man responsible for this heinous attack on our riders,” MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said in a statement. “New Yorkers know that if they see something, they should say something, especially in this case. Justice must be served.”
The Brooklyn Nets also announced they will donate $50,000 to help those injured. The team held a moment of silence before Tuesday’s play-in game against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The donation will come from the Nets and the New York Liberty Foundation.
Multiple people were injured, including 10 people who were shot when a gunman opened smoke grenades and began shooting on the train, the NYPD said.
“That’s the subway stop for our practice facility and for our office,” Nets coach Steve Nash said before the game. “My kids go to school not exceedingly far, so it does hit home and you just feel for all those affected and you recognize that we have a lot of growing to do as a society and a community, and you just feel for everybody in our community that was affected.”
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Looks like the shooter had a bag of mid-size fireworks and a roll of fuse that the PD found.
Shooter is/was driving a rental truck out of Pennsylvania and a newer law allows such firework purchases there.
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Talking heads on cable news talking about the fireworks and “extended mags” taking preparation and planning. One even said shooter was 5’5” so he probably had help. Those are stupid comments. A .380 and a bag of fireworks is something even a moron could concoct. An evil one nevertheless, but still quite rudimentary by planning and prep standards.
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You could use the fireworks two ways: To create a diversion while escaping in another direction, or to cause people to panic and run from what they think is gunfire but actually drive them into the line of fire.
Both are a step up from amateur hour.
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File under Sick Sarcastic humor but believable.
DC LSD's to call for a House investigation on why it was a .380 pistol used and not the EVIL AR-15 Ghost Gun.
Seriously Tho
Either way NY does not have a death penalty. Because back in July 2008, Governor David Paterson (LSD) issued an executive order shuting down Death Row. Then in August 2018, Governor Andrew Cuomo (Uber LSD) announced that he was advancing legislation to remove the death penalty statute from New York State.
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NextEra spokesperson Steven Stengel said the company didn’t seek permits because it believes the law didn’t require them for unintentional bird deaths.
So, you thought you were Above the Law, that eagles are Hard to Kill, or were they Marked for Death?
(I know, spelling, but that's a point in horseshoes)
[PJ via Insty] On Tuesday morning, New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin surrendered to authorities "to face fraud-related charges in connection with a previous political campaign," according to a report from The Daily Beast.
Benjamin was arrested on multiple charges, including bribery, over an alleged plot to get campaign contributions in exchange for a state grant.
Benjamin is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court Tuesday afternoon, and the U.S. Southern District of New York is scheduled to hold a press conference at noon.
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@#1 - Darth - US Atty in SD of NY?? Public corruption?? This is the A Team of federales. He may plead it down but I'd bet he's in for a change of clothes at some point. Likely a jump suit and some slippers.
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When the ‘arf-made recruity goes out to the East
‘E acts like a babe an’ ‘e drinks like a beast,
An’ ‘e wonders because ‘e is frequent deceased
Ere ‘e’s fit for to serve as a soldier.
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
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Sean Penn preps for Harvey Milk role each day by eating spicy chicken wings and jamming to The Weather Girl’s “It’s Raining Men” as he enters the Castro -- what he calls “homosexuality by musical hypnosis.”
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^ Method actor.
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Too late, Seanny. No chicken wings in Mariupol. It's raining men corpses. But "a pleasure" while it lasted.
Aslin said in a message posted via a contact on Twitter: 'It's been 48 days, we tried our best to defend Mariupol but we have no choice but to surrender to Russian forces.
'We have no food and no ammunition. It's been a pleasure everyone, I hope this war ends soon.'
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If Sean is going to save the world, let's hope he puts the drain plugs in first this time.
[JustTheNews] Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has been focused on foreigners illegally seeking to register or vote.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said he referred more than 1,600 cases of potential non-citizens attempting to register to vote in Georgia to local prosecutors and state investigators.
The secretary of state referred the cases to the State Election Board, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and local prosecutors. The announcement comes weeks after Raffensperger said the state completed the first citizenship audit of the state’s voter rolls.
According to a news release, the audit identified 1,634 non-citizens as having attempted to register to vote. The state could not verify the non-citizens through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program.
"Attempting to register to vote by an individual who knows he or she is ineligible is a violation of Georgia law," Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney Chris Arnt said in a news release.
Officials said that no non-citizens were allowed to register to vote. Instead, the would-be voters were placed in pending status and asked to provide proof of citizenship before casting a ballot.
Raffensperger, the subject of former President Donald Trump’s criticisms, is undoubtedly trying to use the case to strengthen his position as tough on election malfeasance. He used the state-issued news release to lambast Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for governor four years ago and is running again this year.
Fair Fight Action, a group Abrams started, is challenging Georgia’s rules, saying it violates federal law.
The audit uncovered attempted registrations by non-citizens in 88 counties across The Peach State. While the attempts occurred between 1997 and February 24, 2022, most of the attempted registrations — 80.7% or 1,319 — have occurred since 2016.
DeKalb County had the highest number of attempted non-citizen registrants with 345, followed by Fulton County (275) and Gwinnett County (221). Five metro Atlanta counties — Clayton (141), Cobb (143), Gwinnett, Fulton and DeKalb — represented 69% of the attempted non-citizen applicants, officials said.
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What did he do when the Fulton Co. Voter Scam was documented and uncovered?
What did he do when an investigation found over 24,000 multiple votes were determined to have been cast using Absentee, Fake IDs, Fake Addresses and/or illegally printed / photocopies of ballots?
What did he do to the Stacy A. NYC Staffer caught with 4,000+ blank absentee ballots at the Atlanta Airport when he left them in his rental car?
He CERTIFIED THE ELECTION
Thus this stunt is nothing more than a Mid-Term Media deflective CYA, with polls showing it is his butt headed out the door.
[Breitbart] A grand jury handed down felony indictments on Monday against three aides to Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, which stem from a Texas Ranger’s investigation into alleged improprieties about an $11 million contract for a COVID-19 vaccine advertising project. The awardee was a one-woman firm with a 19-month operational history specializing in Democrat candidate campaign work based in a residential apartment unit.
The grand jury in Houston indicted Hidalgo’s Chief of Staff Alex Triantaphyllis and two former high-level aides. Court records obtained by Fox 26 Houston reporter Greg Groogan show the grand jury indicted the trio on charges related to tampering with court records and misuse of official information. The two former staff members are reported to be Wallis Nader and Aaron Dunn.
In Texas, a county judge is the chief executive officer of the county’s government. Harris County is the largest county in Texas.
The indictments follow the award of an $11 million COVID-19 communications contract to a one-woman company, Elevated Strategies, Groogan reported in September 2021. The firm had a 19-month history at that time and was headquartered in a Montrose-area apartment in Houston.
The one-woman firm in question, Elevate, was selected over the lower-bidding University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston because “the firm’s background in political communications was exactly the skill set needed for the vaccine outreach campaign, which was to include digital ad buys and door-to-door canvassing,” according to the Texas Tribune.
“Y’all bring it on! Bring it on! Because there is nothing here,” Judge Hidalgo proclaimed at the August 24th meeting of Commissioners Court.
Texas Rangers executed a search warrant at the county’s administrative building on March 18. Investigators seized phones, laptops, and desktop computers from Judge Hidalgo’s deputy policy director, a senior advisor for public safety and emergency management, and the judge’s chief of staff.
All three face felony charges of Misuse of Official Information and Tampering with Records, according to court records obtained by Breitbart Texas from the Harris County District Clerk’s website.
The Harris County District Attorney’s Office confirmed they served the arrest warrants to the three defendants, the Texas Tribune reported. Prior to this investigation, Judge Hidalgo had been considered a rising star in the Texas Democratic Party as a possible candidate for statewide office.
Texas State Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) quickly tweeted the news about the six indictments against Hidalgo’s staff and praised Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg for “restoring public integrity by cleaning up the corrupt contract.”
[Breitbart] Residents in a Mexican border state torched the governor’s palace in Nuevo Leon as part of a protest against female kidnappings. Concerned citizens and activists alike are accusing state police of inaction on the problem. The latest demonstration led to a fire being set at the entrance.
Over the weekend, hundreds of activists gathered around downtown Monterrey and made their way to the governor’s palace — where they set fire to the entrance. Local police had brief clashes with protesters to keep them from causing more damage, and eventually, they dispersed.
The protests come as Nuevo Leon saw 18 women go missing in a little over 30 days and most recently, state authorities confirmed that the latest woman to be reported as missing, Maria Fernanda Contreras Ruiz, had in fact been killed.
While authorities have not publicly revealed a motive for the rise in missing women, the issue comes at a time when rival cartels are fighting for control of local drug distribution in Monterrey and reliable smuggling routes to Texas.
[Breitbart] On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that student loan borrowers would have to start paying their debt “sometime” while discussing the administration’s fourth extension on the monthly loan payments and interest.
Anchor Dana Perino said, “On December 11 of last year, you had said that getting loan rate payment back on track was the goal.”
She added, “We’ve got a lot of jobs open, wages are up, they are able to figure out a way to get to 3.6% unemployment. What changed between then and now?
Psaki said, “Well, this is something the Department of Education continues to assess. We continue to assess from a policy level. While the basics of the economy, all that data you mentioned and I’ve been talking about, Dana, is very strong, we also know and acknowledge that costs are too high for families across the country, and that’s something we need to redouble, continue to focus our efforts on. Certainly, while there isn’t everybody in the country who has student loans, a lot of people do, and this is a period microphone, but the president, Department of Education made the decision to continue the pause repayments, and we will continue to assess as we get closer to the next deadline in August.”
Perino said, “Do you think that if you hold student loan debt right now, that you will ever have to make a payment during the Biden administration?”
Psaki said, “I suspect that sometime you will, but again, we are going to continue to assess every month, every few months on where things stand, both looking, of course at COVID, but also economic data and where we need to continue to help give the American people some breathing room.”
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When someone misuses a gun its front page news pushing the usual agenda even though its an isolated incident. This is another story to be buries by the same bias lame stream media.
[Breitbart] The White House released a fact sheet Monday noting that President Joe Biden is nominating former President Barack Obama’s Harvard Law School classmate Steve Dettelbach to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
The White House described Dettelbach as “a highly respected former U.S. Attorney and career prosecutor who spent over two decades as a prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice.”
Additionally, the Hill pointed out that Dettelbach was Obama’s Harvard Law School classmate.
The Daily Mail observed that Dettelbach espoused support for various gun controls during an “unsuccessful” bid to become attorney general of Ohio in 2018.
The Mail explained that Dettelbach “has called for an assault weapons ban and universal background checks.”
During Dettelbach’s unsuccessful bid for attorney general of Ohio, WOSU reported that he also opposed allowing teachers and staff to be armed for classroom defense, even in situations when those teachers and/or staff were “former military or law enforcement.”
Biden’s previous nominee for the ATF, David Chipman, was also pro-gun control. Breitbart News noted that he was a Gabby Giffords’ gun control associate who supported an AR-15 ban.
[Babylon Bee] BERKELEY, CA—BLM leaders are calling for more nationwide protests this summer after discovering a fantastic home on Malibu Beach that they should easily afford if they begin riling people up now.
Co-founder Patrisse Cullors appeared as a guest on CNN's Don Lemon Tonight to get the word out about a need to protest something.
"BIPOCS are constantly marginalized and stuff like that," Cullors told a vigorously nodding Don Lemon. "For example, I bought a six million dollar home with BLM donations and was heavily criticized for it. I had to resign as executive director of BLM. That's racism at work! We need to hit the streets now!"
"You're absolutely right," said Lemon. "We need to call for justice and things like that. JUSTICE for Patrisse Cullors!"
"That and George Floyd. We can get more mileage out of him. Then I can finally get that Malibu beach house I've always wanted," replied Cullors while sipping champagne. "And if anyone criticizes it we'll just say we bought it as a 'BIPOC Creative Community Space' or something like that! Hahahahaha!"
Prominent black female Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked her opinion on why people incite peaceful protests to help greedy people make money off of worldwide outrage.
"I don't know, I'm not an anthropologist," she said.
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Te 72 Point Headline should be seeing.
CITIZENS CALL FOR MASSIVE ARRESTS OF VIOLENT PROTESTERS, LOOTERS, AND RIOTERS
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They're not gonna riot on Biden's watch, especially in the lead up to the mid term elections. Regardless of BLM leaders' avarice, this summer will be quiet.
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...with the kill rate in NYC how could they tell the difference?
[Breitbart] John O. Brennan, the former CIA director whose security clearance was revoked by President Donald Trump, has joined the WestExec Advisors, a "secretive consulting firm" whose alumni hold posts throughout President Joe Biden’s administration.
The firm, described as "Biden’s Cabinet in waiting" by Politico after the 2020 presidential election, employed Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, White House press secretary Jen Psaki, and many others. Politico noted: "WestExec is loaded with other former top Democratic national security and foreign policy officials who raised money for the Biden campaign, have joined his transition team, or have served as unofficial advisers."
In a press statement Monday, WestExec announced: "John O. Brennan has joined the firm’s distinguished and growing team as Principal. As Principal at WestExec, he will advise on strategy and geopolitical risk, and help clients capitalize on key business opportunities and navigate the world’s most pressing challenges." He is described as an "exceptional public servant."
Brennan, who voted for a communist presidential candidate in 1976, is one of the originators of the "Russia collusion" hoax, launching an investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016. CIA documents released by the Trump administration in 2020 suggested Brennan had briefed then-President Barack Obama about an apparent plot by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to tie Trump to Russian hacking. (The plot was allegedly suggested by Jake Sullivan, now Biden’s National Security Advisor.)
Throughout the Trump presidency, Brennan expressed outrage at the new administration, calling Trump’s press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018 "nothing short of treasonous" after Trump publicly doubted the U.S. intelligence committee’s conclusion that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election. He also demanded that Trump be impeached. Trump revoked his security clearance — citing, among other things, the CIA’s past spying on Democratic staffers.
In October 2020, Brennan joined a group of 50 former intelligence officials who wrote an open letter declaring that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely Russian disinformation, though they admitted they had no evidence to prove that it was
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His open presence, to say he has always been present around the Biden White House, may mean that something is happening with Iran. No surprise that he and Obama pop out of the shadows at the same time.
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Allans Snackbar returns to visibility in the Shadow Government behind the Puppet Show. Its clear that now the bum's rush is on for everything they can get before the Mid-Terms and the installation of the 118th Congress. Brennan will help ValJar, Rice and the Magic Kenyan serve up more concessions for Tehran.
[Breitbart] Violent clashes between Muslims and Hindus broke out across the Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Jharkhand on Sunday during local observances of a Hindu religious festival, prompting authorities in two of the three states to impose curfews or gathering bans later Sunday, the Times of India reported on Monday.
Communities across Hindu-majority India held celebrations on April 10 to honor the birth of the Hindu lord Ram, or the physical incarnation of the top Hindu deity Vishnu. In the Gujarat municipality of Himmatnagar, local Muslim residents reportedly began hurling stones at a Ram procession, triggering mass violence. The Indian news site OpIndia provided a detailed account of the events on April 10, writing:
A Ram Navami Shobha Yatra or procession … in Gujarat was targeted by some local Muslim goons and stones were pelted at it. Apart from stone-pelting, some vehicles were also vandalized in this incident.
The incident happened in the afternoon when the Ram Navami procession was passing through a Muslim majority locality named Chhapariya. The procession … was attacked when the Hindu religious procession reached the Muslim dominated area. Several vehicles, which were part of the Ram Navami procession, were damaged in the attack, and one open Jeep was burnt by the attackers.
A local government official in Himmatnagar named Hitesh Koya imposed a gathering ban on Sunday evening in response to the violence. The order prohibits groups greater than five people from gathering in public and will remain in force through April 13.
A separate but similar incident occurred in the Gujarat city of Khambhat (located roughly 100 miles south of Himmatnagar) on April 10. Khambhat Muslims attacked a local Ram procession with stones and incited violence that killed at least one person, according to local reports. Police in Khambhat confirmed on April 11 that they had arrested nine people involved in the unrest, including Hindu priests.
More than 35 people were wounded in yet another Muslim attack on a Ram procession in the state of Madhya Pradesh on April 10.
The Times of India reported on the situation in the central Indian state on Monday, writing:
Curfew was clamped in the entire Khargone city of Madhya Pradesh after stones hurled at a Ram Navami procession here triggered arson and torching of some vehicles and houses, a senior official said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday when devotees were celebrating Ram Navami. Police had to fire tear gas shells to control the situation.
Following the incident, curfew was clamped in the entire Khargone city on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, Khargone Collector [District Magistrat] Anugrah P said.
Citizens have been asked to step out of home only for medical emergency, she said, adding that the situation is under control.
At least half a dozen people were wounded through stone-pelting incidents in Jharkand state’s Hirahi-Hendlaso village on April 10 during another tragic Muslim attack on a Hindu Ram festival. Two of the people injured in the assault remained in the hospital as of Monday listed in “critical condition,” according to the Times of India.
“As per the information, some people started pelting stone on crowd during Ram Navami procession in the area. This led to a stampede and more than half a dozen people were injured [sic],” the newspaper relayed.
“Later people from both sides started pelting stones. As tension escalated, more than a dozen motorcycles and a pickup van were set on fire at the fair. Two houses have also been set ablaze near Bhogta Garden,” according to the publication.
[Jerusalem Post] Thermal mugs given to Israeli government offices by the Chinese embassy may have contained a listening device, government sources said on Tuesday.
Then Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) began investigating the matter after finding a suspicious device in mugs the embassy sent to the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry and Transportation Ministry. The suspicions were first reported on Tuesday morning by Army Radio's diplomatic correspondent Moriah Asraf-Walberg.
The mug arrived at the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry earlier this week without any prior announcement from the embassy, and security found the device before it reached Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen.
Other ministries received text messages from the embassy: “On April 12, my colleague will deliver the Passover gift for you and the Minister at your Ministry entrance. Can you please ask someone to receive [it]?”
On Sunday, the Shin Bet told ministries that any gifts from China must be scanned. Existing security instructions already required all gifts be checked by security before going to the ministers. They also must be authorized by a gifts committee before use by a minister.
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It is a testament to modern bureaucratic pig headedness that any gifts whatsoever from the Chinese embassy are not destroyed with the packaging immediately upon arrival.
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Follow Mexico's logic here.
If I make something.
then someone illegally acquires it, (Federal Gun Control Laws)
then when that someone uses it to commit a crime.
I am to blame????????
Using Mexico's logic for placing blame.
Every grieving or injured US citizen could sue Mexico for drug cartel, gang, and/or Mexican national illegally in the USA, that caused a crime adversely impacting a US Citizen.
BTW: Shouldn't Mexico be suing Obama & Holder for the Fast and The Furioussham? Which was an illegally conducted attempt to justify increased gun control? Using a federally ran INTERNATIONAL Gun Running operation?
[Hot Air] Michelle Irwin, the principal of San Diego’s largest high school, has decided to cut many of the school’s honors classes. In an email sent to parents, Irwin explained she was doing this for equity.
Irwin cut the courses for equity reasons, according to an email she wrote to parents. She told parents she wanted to move away from "stratifying" classes and remove the stigma from non-honors courses. She has also cited racial disparities in honors course enrollment — a problem that is mirrored nationwide...
Latino students made up 54 percent of California’s public school students in 2017 but they represented only 43 percent of students who were enrolled in at least one AP course, according to the U.S. Civil Rights Data Collection. Black students made up 6 percent of the state’s enrollment but just 4 percent of students who were enrolled in at least one AP course.
A similar trend is happening at Patrick Henry, according to limited data presented by Irwin at a school council meeting earlier this year. White and Vietnamese students made up a disproportionately higher percentage of enrollment in Honors American Literature and Honors U.S. History, while Latino students were disproportionately lower, according to Irwin’s data.
The underrepresentation is a problem because enrollment in advanced courses is associated with a host of academic benefits, such as better attendance, fewer suspensions and higher graduation rates. Participation and success in honors and AP courses are also key factors considered in college admissions.
The last paragraph is a bit confusing. The way it’s written it almost sounds as if the author is suggesting honors classes make kids into better students, thus inequity in who joins the classes is denying them that chance.
I guess that’s possible but, intuitively, it seems more likely this runs the other way. The students who already care about things like challenging classes, a higher GPA and getting into a good college (likely because their parents care about them) are the ones who will gravitate toward honors classes. The cycle of good behavior doesn’t start with the classes, rather enrollment in the classes is one more example of good students acting like good students. Getting rid of the honors classes won’t improve student behavior for the kids who aren’t interested in those things, it will just take an option away from the students who do care.
Principal Irwin’s biography does note her commitment to equity.
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More like - if group A and group B parents are active in their children's education and group C and group D are not, we'll undermine group A and B. - Public Education
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I have a better idea - cut out high school altogether. Nobody except the leeches who work there will ever miss it. Send the smart kids to college after junior high school and give the rest of the kids vocational training.
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"Michelle"
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Patrick Henry High School in San Carlos if anyone else is curious which High School is San Diego's largest.
[Victory Girls] White House press secretary Jen Psaki must know the inflation numbers are going to be catastrophically bad.
If they weren’t going to be bad, then Psaki (who must be marking time with daily margaritas until she can leave for her own MSNBC show) wouldn’t have mentioned the upcoming report on consumer inflation.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday will issue its March update to the consumer price index, or CPI. The CPI is the department’s tool for measuring inflation in a basket of goods and services that the average American would buy — ranging from eggs and milk to cell phones and unleaded gasoline."
Economists consider two versions of the CPI data: The headline print that includes all prices consumers face, and a so-called core CPI that excludes often volatile food and energy price fluctuations."
The White House says it anticipates a wider-than-normal disparity between the headline and core CPI readings because of an abnormal increase in gasoline prices that occurred in March. The price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline hit a record high of $4.33 on March 11, according to the American Automobile Association."
That price has since slid to $4.11 a gallon, according to AAA."
So, the report is going to be bad. Very, very bad. The kind of bad that’s going to test just where the floor is on Biden’s approval numbers. So Jen Psaki is trying to get ahead of just how bad these numbers will be by assigning the blame, pre-emptively.
Seven women and one man had to be escorted out, some in tears, on Monday
Eventually, Judge Elizabeth Scherer dismissed the entire pool of potential jurors
The judge had already screened two 60-person panels in court that day
The jury selection process for the sentencing of Nikolas Cruz
...diagnoses of autism, anxiety, depression and significant psychological problems, described as a troubled kid obsessed with guns — the police came to the family home frequently to deal with him. Mr. Cruz was adopted at birth, then his adoptive father died when he was young, followed into the grave by his adoptive mother a few months before he ran amok. So really he was a classic school shooter. Interestingly, his biological sister Danielle Woodard, a decade older, also has a long rap sheet and is classified as a habitual violent offender...
has been marred with emotional outbursts
Cruz, 23, confessed to killing 17 people at a South Florida high school in 2018
A jury will soon decide whether he gets life in prison or the death penalty
Under Florida law, a jury must be unanimous in its decision to recommend that a judge sentence Cruz to be executed.
If any of the 12 jurors objects, Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Among the mitigating factors the defense will ask the jury to consider are Cruz's brain damage from his mother's drug and alcohol abuse during pregnancy, his long history of mental-health disorders, and allegations he was sexually abused and bullied.
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So this happened over 4 years ago in February 2018 and this Piece of Excrement is still alive and WAS just now getting to the Death Penalty sentencing phase?
Where is the justice in this?
NOTE:Families awarded 127.5 million by the Federal Gov.
It seems the families sued and won after accusing the FBI of dropping the ball.
The families proved the FBI received tips about Cruz, his cache of weapons, and his openly stated desire to shoot up a school. But for some reason, the agents failed to intervene and prevent the violence.
It is documented that almost a month before the shooting, a tipster told the FBI that Cruz was "going to explode," and that he "was going to slip into a school and start shooting the place up."
QUESTION: Some are openly wondering ... If the failure to act was deliberate and actually part of a Bigger Gun Control Agenda? Given the well-documented FBI/DOJ Obama (5th Column) holdovers and Anti-Trump DC leadership?
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SARCASM SWITCH ON
Wow! it only took the DC Politicians 12 Months, to figure out what the consumers knew back on Fed. 2020 after Biden signed a pile of new LSD reg's and laws.
That has to be record time for Congress and the White House?
The Center for Technology and Civic Life donated grants in 2020 to election offices, mostly in Democrat-backed counties
The non-profit back then financed 2,500 election sites, including buying new ballot counting equipment and pickup trucks to haul voting machines
Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, along with two supporting groups, received $220,000 from Facebook’s top employees
Former President Donald Trump's campaigns have never been approached by Facebook executives or received any money from the tech giant
Facebook has sparked outrage and criticism from conservatives, with many referring to the CEO's donations as 'Zuckerbucks'
Instead, the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) announced on Monday that it is launching a different program.
Dubbed the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, the $80-million, five-year effort is aimed to create a network for the nation's thousands of local election officials, who can apply for aid to improve their technology and processes.
'Unfortunately, years of underinvestment means many local election departments often have limited capacity and training. The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is bringing together world-class partners so that local election officials no longer have to go it alone,' said Tiana Epps-Johnson, CTCL's executive director, who announced the new program at the TED2022 conference.
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The Chinese bureaucrats are going to kill more people than the disease. Then again they do have the numbers to waste. Let's see if they can get the numbers up to what Stalin achieved in the Ukraine.
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Check your owner’s manual: several car makers and lots of small engine makers warn against E15 as it will cause internal damage. More of Bidet’s well thought out planning
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This might p*ss off many indigenous folks too as they tend to believe that corn is spiritually food and not fuel.
Besides, E15 reduces my newer truck's MPG substantially. It would kill my older vehicles.
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Cheap insurance for the dems against a Senate Judiciary Committee headed by the Hon. Chas Grassley, (R)-Corn.
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But I thought there was going to be a food shortage? Taking food off the plates of the disadvantaged to fuel the hydrocarbon-guzzling SUV's of Global Warming Denialists?
Maybe I should write headlines for MSNBC...
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I've had several people explain to me over the years that corn grown for ethanol is not corn I'd want to eat. I have no idea if that's true, but I've heard it from multiple parties. Of course, there's still the issue that turning corn into ethanol uses lots of water and energy, so it's not a "all gain, no pain" proposition. Then there's the fertilizer issue. Then there's the "this isn't going to happen in the next 60 days, let alone before the end of the summer.
The administration is just flailing. They will probably lose both houses of congress to the Pubs, but the GOPe will assure that's no big improvement.
We would probably be better off if every American was just shipped a 55 gallon drum of potable grain ethanol ASAP.
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IMPORTANT: Not all UNLEADED Fueled vehicles can handle E1-5.
According to US DOT statements "...90 percent of all vehicles on the road today fall into this 2001-and-up category, so chances are that's your vehicle."
In plain English, 10% of the US vehicles on the road cannot.
Question: Will this damage my lawnmower, boat, jet ski, snowmobile, or four-wheeler? Answer:It sure will if you don't pay attention. Generally, small engines are not designed to deal with the more corrosive E15 blend.
PLUS: Producers will use about 1/3 MORE energy (BTU's) in producing E-15 fuels than is generated by the fuel itself.
PLUS: How long does E-15 gas last? Well E10 Ethanol-blended gas lasts up to three months. Expert Sources are saying E15 will last less than 2 months in the summer heat, as Ethanol evaporation is quicker with E-15 vs E-10.
Better stock up on Gas Stabilizer, and/or pay the extra 50 to 70 cents for real Gas per gallon.
BTW: there is sure to be a run to the pumps to get E-10... another Toilet Paper shortage in the making.
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M. Murcek corn grown for E-15 is the same corn used for animal feed. Less corn for feed the higher the price. Beef, chicken, and pork prices will continue to rise. Blame Big Meet (sarc).
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Thanks, DB. I figured it was something like that, the actual details are all searchable on the internet but it's just not on my plate today. So I appreciate hearing it from you.
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Use of Corn to produce Ethanol has improved a lot in the past 30 years or so.
The process is far more energy efficient than it used to be and markets have developed for many of the byproducts.
The US produces far, far more corn than needed for animal feed and human use. Furthermore, in 2021 about 15 billion bushels were produced compared to only about 10 billion bushels per year in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
At $40/gal for oil, ethanol added doesn't save much but at $100/gal it does.
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I meant $40/barrel not per gallon - sorry
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Off the "increasingly tenuous connections" pile...
The open society! Pr0n
And yesterday's kernels of cr0n,
Though quite as banal
As a crane or canal,
Are for some much more thrilling,
Eh, Popper? "Fulfilling
And wholesome as dew in the mr0n!"
#21
By Allah, one delicate petal
Survives amidst dust, meat, and metal!
Is aught like the bloom
When a rose goes kaboom?
[rising moon over sun-blasted nettle]
#22
"Wife grudging and sullen... again."
How tragic for Japanese men!
No one to feel close to
For Tojo or Ozu...
"Who knows where those noses have been?"
[sun rises behind imperial palace]
"I am taking these Britons to tea
For they're selling their Typhoo to me,
But though I shall take it,
The Brits will still make it,
Since tea's their chapati and ghee."
Cool to learn in light of an ancestor's supposed fondness for the stuff.
#2
Replacement FSB Agents for Putin. Send them over immediately.
What proof did they have? By their own admission, none. “We do not know if the emails . . . are genuine or not,” the letter said. They’re just “suspicious.” Why? Because they hurt Biden’s campaign, that’s evidence enough.
Keep in mind this was written Oct. 19, 2020, five days after The Post published its first story. Neither Joe Biden nor Hunter Biden had denied the story, they simply deflected questions. Didn’t these security experts think that if this was disinformation, the Biden campaign would have yelled to the heavens that the story was false?
#7
The brave Russian generals all saluted.
Success of the Plan undisputed!
In voina or mir,
If it failed, never fear:
It would be, nonetheless... executed.
[IsraelTimes] Mohammad Ali Ghneim, 21, is the third Paleostinian killed by Israeli troops on Sunday, as tensions spike following wave of deadly terror attacks in Israel
The Israel Defense Forces shot and killed a Paleostinian who was allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at an Israeli car on Road 60 near the Paleostinian town of al-Khader in the West Bank on Sunday, the army and Paleostinian officials said. The 21-year-old was the third Paleostinian killed by Israeli forces in a day.
According to the Israeli army, soldiers who were carrying out an ambush near al-Khader identified a person throwing Molotov cocktails at an Israeli vehicle on the road that links the Etzion Bloc of settlements with Jerusalem.
"The soldiers shot at the suspect. A hit was identified," the Israeli military said, adding that the Molotov cocktails endangered the occupants of the vehicle.
Ahmad Salah, a local activist in al-Khader, identified the dead Paleostinian as Mohammad Ali Ghneim, 21. F*cked around and found out
The Bethlehem branch of the Fatah movement declared a strike in protest of Ghneim’s death.
Ghneim was shot and killed near the security barrier where it winds past the West Bank village, just south of Bethlehem, separating it from the bustling Road 60 highway, Salah said, claiming that Ghneim was too far away from the road to endanger cars.
The Rescuers Without Borders emergency service, however, reported that Paleostinians hurled a molotov cocktail at an Israeli ambulance on Route 60 in the area around the same time.
No injuries were reported to the occupants.
Ghneim was the third Paleostinian killed by Israeli forces on Sunday as tensions continued to spike across Israel and the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli defense officials believe that they are stopping an average of two terror attacks every day that troops crack down on the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its surrounding area, Channel 13 news reports, citing an unnamed bigwig.
The channel says that the military claims they are preventing attacks in which weapons or snuffies are already ready to go.
Aside from mass casualty assaults, which Israel has seen a rash of in recent weeks, defense officials also classify stone-throwing attacks and certain actions during festivities between Paleostinians and troops as terror attacks.
In the towns of Burqa and Kafr Qallil, troops confiscated four vehicles and seized two firearms, the military says. Dozens of Paleostinians hurled stones at soldiers, and gunfire was heard in the area, the IDF says. No troops were hurt.
Among the detainees are two Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, members from Hebron, the army adds.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian youth who was maimed during an Israel Defense Forces arrest operation near Jenin departed this vale of tears on Monday, according to the Paleostinian Health Ministry.
He was identified as 17-year-old Mohammad Zakarneh. The Paleostinian Health Ministry said he was maimed in his pelvis during Sunday’s incident. According to Paleostinian health officials, Zakarneh was struck by an expanding bullet — a particularly lethal type of round — and eventually died of severe blood loss.
According to the IDF, the soldiers entered the area, in the northern West Bank, in order to arrest two brothers of Ra’ad Hazem, the terrorist who killed three Israelis in a terror attack in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
The military said it shot Zakarneh after he fired at the soldiers from a passing cycle of violence.
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Short answer to #1: No. Most bullets expand, but there are things you can do to make them expand more effectively. Sometimes you really don't want a bullet to expand (dangerous game hunting, armor-piercing) and then you go to lengths to design that behavior.
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Low velocity JSP. Very surgical. And a fast, reliable body bag team. Never fails.
[IsraelTimes] Video of man throwing rocks circulates hours after 2 Israelis shot in unclear circumstances while trying to reach site
For the second day in a row, Paleostinians reportedly broke into Joseph’s Tomb near the West Bank city of Nablus and vandalized the shrine.
Video circulating on social media showed a man throwing rocks inside the site. The already-vandalized tomb can be seen in the footage. The date and time of the video could not be immediately verified, but it appeared to have been filmed during the daytime. In the video, a man is heard saying in Arabic: "There is no Joseph’s Tomb anymore, you traitors."
The comment was apparently a reference to the Paleostinian Authority, after the Nablus regional governor pledged to restore the site following its vandalization on Sunday, and reaffirmed that the shrine was under the PA’s protection. Ibrahim Ramadan also said that Nablus was a "city of three religions."
According to Paleostinian media reports, PA security forces were working Monday morning to restore order in the area surrounding the shrine.
Joseph’s Tomb is located inside Area A of the West Bank, which is officially under complete Paleostinian Authority control, though the Israeli military conducts activities there. The IDF bars Israeli citizens from entering Area A without prior authorization.
The tomb is venerated by Jews, Christians and Moslems, and has often been a flashpoint for violence. Some Jews believe the biblical Joseph is buried in the tomb, while Moslems say a sheikh is buried there.
Jewish pilgrims are usually only allowed to visit the tomb once a month under heavy armed guard. During these visits, Paleostinians routinely throw rocks at the troops, and sometimes attack them with Molotov cocktails and gunfire.
The latest vandalism came a day after approximately 100 Paleostinians broke into the site, rioted and smashed objects inside, and set it ablaze, before they were dispersed by Paleostinian security forces, IDF front man Brig. Gen. Ran Kochav said. Images on social media showed parts of the tomb inside the shrine broken and charred, and footage showed dozens of Paleostinians entering the site and smashing objects inside.
The rioting came amid festivities between Paleostinian button men and IDF soldiers, who had entered the nearby Balata refugee camp in the Jenin area as part of counter-terror operations in the wake of a number of deadly attacks.
Monday’s apparent vandalism came hours after the Israel Defense Forces said two Jews were shot and maimed while trying to reach Joseph’s Tomb. The two men, part of the Bratslav community, were attempting to get to the shrine without having coordinated with the military, which usually oversees visits by Jewish worshipers.
The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear. The army said the men went through an unmanned roadblock at the entrance to Nablus. According to Channel 12 news, the two said they had wanted to help restore the shrine after it was vandalized. The two men were lightly to moderately injured and the IDF was investigating the circumstances of their injuries.
The shooting and vandalism came during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan — often a period of high tension in Israel and the West Bank.
Israel has seen four deadly terror attacks in recent weeks and has ramped up security measures in response, as well as carrying out a number of raids in the West Bank.
#2
If you are starving to death and some Iranian offers you money, why not shoot the Jews and destroy their monuments. A man has to feed his family or he is not a man.
[Dawn] Five coppers were martyred and four others injured, including a senior officer, in a terrorist attack in the Kulachi area here on Monday night.
Dera Ismail Khan is the name of a city and its surrounding district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. It is home to Balochi and Pashtun tribesmen, so the terrorists are likely to be Balochs or Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Gandapur group).
District police front man said Kulachi DSP Fazal Subhan and his squad were patrolling Chowk Yaadgar on a police van when they were attacked by unknown bandidosforces of Evil with rocket launchers.
He said five constables, including the driver of the van, were martyred in the attack, while DSP Subhan was injured. The police personnel martyred in the attack were identified as Elite Force head constable Kamran, Niaz Ali, Munawar, Jamshed and driver Abdul Rehman. The injured included Imran, Jamshed and Yahya bin Akbar.
There was also an exchange of fire between the police and terrorists, but the latter took advantage of the darkness and managed to escape.
D.I. Khan regional police chief Shaukat Abbas, while confirming the incident, said the van was destroyed in the attack.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has learnt that a Bangladeshi national who entered Assam illegally was trying to set up an Al Qaeda module in eastern India.
On Sunday, the NIA conducted raids at 11 locations in Barpeta and Bongaigaon districts of Assam in a case linked to a module of the Al Qaeda in the Sub-Continent (AQIS).
On the radar of the NIA was one Saiful Islam who had entered illegally into Assam. He was working as an Arabic teacher at the Dhakaliapara Masjid. Under the garb of working as an Arabic teacher, he was actively motivating the youth to join the outfit and work for the sleeper cells, the NIA learnt.
An Intelligence Bureau official tells OneIndia that they have been witnessing enhanced activity by the Bangladesh based terrorists. Their primary intention is to recruit, radicalise and try and destabilise the BJP government in the state.
With the BJO government assuming office for a second term, there are intelligence inputs suggesting that Jihadi forces are trying to destabilise the state. Over the past couple of weeks, both the state and central agencies have stepped up operations in the state to keep a check on such elements.
In March the Madhya Pradesh police arrested four members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. in connection with the Bodhgaya blasts case. In this case it was found that they had entered India through Bengal.
In recent times there have been several arrests of illegal immigrants colonists from Bangladesh who have entered the country through West Bengal and Assam. There have also been instances of bully boyz entering through Bengal and then making their way into Assam.
Back in 2012, the Intelligence Bureau had reported that the issue was catching up like wildfire in the states of West Bengal, Kerala, Telangana (then AP) and Karnataka. The report stated that there are all sorts of people. Many are here in search of a livelihood, but then there are many who indulge in illegal activities such as smuggling as drugs and sometimes arms.
Karnataka girl who defied hijab ban gets honourable mention, a poem from Al Qaeda chiefKarnataka girl who defied hijab ban gets honourable mention, a poem from Al Qaeda chief
They come into the country through West Bengal and gradually move into other parts of the country.
While touts and middlemen help them with documents, there are others who take advantage of their poor living conditions and lure them with money in order to carry out illegal activities.
[Dawn] WHEN a political leader makes a doubtful claim about a foreign conspiracy to oust him one is hardly surprised. Most politicians have a tenuous relationship with the truth. But what is astonishing is that an overwhelming majority of people in Pakistain have long believed such claims, focusing largely on the US.
Here is how the argument goes. Historically, the US has preferred a certain kind of government in Pakistain, such as a military regime, to serve its security and strategic interests. As the lifespan of such governments has begun and ended with the US connection, Washington must have brought them to power and removed them when they were no longer needed, it is argued.
The reality is that political dynamics in Pakistain have nearly always functioned fairly autonomously, and the primary, though not always the sole, stimulus for the rise and fall of governments has been domestic, and not external. Zia ul Haq
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[Rudaw] Several members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were detained in a police raid at the party’s office in Sirnak province in the Kurdish region (Bakur) of eastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... on Monday, said media outlets and officials from the bloc.
The police raided HDP’s office in Sirnak’s Cizre town in the early hours of the day, arresting five party members, including HDP’s district co-chair Mesut Nart, and district manager Yasamine Cikmaz, reported the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya Agency.
The reason for their detention is yet to be known, it added.
HDP’s Sirnak deputy Nuran Imir expressed her anger regarding the incident on Facebook, saying the doors of the office were broken, the windows were smashed and the office belongings were scattered on the floor.
The pro-Kurdish party’s offices are often attacked in Turkey.
An assailant attacked HDP’s Istanbul office with a knife and a gun in December.
The party’s Marmaris office was stormed by button men in July.
The daughter of an HDP member, whose photo was thrown to the floor in the recent attack, was killed in another offense on the party’s Izmir office in June.
The HDP has been under pressure for years, accused of being the political wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a charge the party denies. Members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have called for the party's closure.
Hundreds of its members and supporters are under investigation or in jail, including Selahattin Demirtas, the HDP's former leader, along with his co-chair Figen Yuksekdag.
"We will not bow down to your despicable attacks," wrote Imir.
[Rudaw] Several Iranian-backed holy warriors were killed and injured in a suspected 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) attack on the force in the Syrian desert, a conflict monitor reported early Monday.
Four members of the Iran-backed militia were killed and two others were maimed in an alleged ISIS offensive on a military site near al-Sukhna city in the eastern countryside of Homs, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
The desert, also known as Badia, is a strategically valuable area as it contains Syria’s crucial gas fields and the east-west highway, which connects Deir ez-Zor to both Homs and Damascus.
No group has grabbed credit for the attack.
Security forces in Badia have arrested at least three members of the National Defense Forces for their suspected affiliation with ISIS, SOHR noted.
The recent attack comes a month after dozens of soldiers were killed and injured in an attack on a military bus in the Badia. ISIS was blamed for the offense at the time as well.
ISIS seized control of swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, declaring a so-called caliphate in 2014, but the terror group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 and 2019 respectively. The terror group continues to launch deadly attacks from the Syrian desert, which extends from Syria’s capital of Damascus to the Iraqi border.
Sixty-one pro-regime soldiers and Iran-affiliated holy warriors were killed in alleged ISIS attacks in the desert since the beginning of the year, the monitor said last month, with 69 members of the terror group reported dead.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted two attacks in Syria from March 31 to April 6, killing and injuring four people.
Iranian-backed paramilitary groups and Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them... 's Hezbollah are fighting on the side of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... ’s forces in the Syrian war, which started after a military crackdown on Arab Spring-inspired protests calling for his ousting. Tehran has been a strong supporter of Bashir al-Assad's government in Damascus.
[AlAhram] Gunmen who carried out a high-profile attack on a train in northwest Nigeria last month have released a video showing about two dozen of the hostages they kidnapped in the assault.
The images were the first indicator of how many passengers may have been kidnapped in the brazen raid, in which eight people were killed.
In the two-minute video, around two dozen people are seen sitting in a forest area, including men and women. At least one man appears to be from Southeast Asia while at least one another appears Caucasian.
Behind them a group of button men stand in a line.
"We are the passengers who left Abuja for Kaduna on Monday on March 28, 2022. We were seized on our way," one man says in Hausa language in the video.
"Since then it is only us that knows the dire situation we are in, there are women and kiddies, there are aged people with health challenges."
AFP could not independently verify the video, which was disseminated on social media.
But the CEO of Nigeria's Bank of Agriculture, Alwan Ali-Hassan, appears in the recording.
He appeared in a previous video before he was later released in what his captors said was a goodwill gesture for the Moslem Holy month of Ramadan.
Ali-Hassan's family confirmed last week it was him in the first video and that he had been freed by his captors.
The sophisticated attack saw button men blow up the tracks to halt a train from the capital Abuja to Kaduna , Nigeria's flagship rail service.
They then opened fire on the coaches before seizing an unknown number of passengers from the train's so-called VIP section.
There has been no claim of responsibility, although the finger of blame swiftly pointed at heavily armed criminal gangs known as bandidos who have ravaged parts of northwest and central Nigeria.
But analysts said the propaganda-style format of the first video, some of the language and the use of explosives in the attack have raised worries that jihadists may have participated in the attack.
Bandit gangs go after financial gain and ransom payments and usually have no ideological or religious motives. But there is concern among local authorities and analysts over alliances with Islamist bully boys.
Nigeria's security forces are battling a 12-year jihadist insurgency in the country's northeast where Boko Haram ...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth?, or maybe just I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again! ... and 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.... West Africa Province (ISWAP) operate.
#1
Translation: "It be Muslims! Give us more money to fight them!"
When in reality the bandits are created when the government steals money intended for its people. But hey, more money means more to steal! It's a government official's dream!
[Daily Reckoning] One reason American movies are so bad these days is they have forgotten how to tell a story. Stuff just happens to characters. Cause, effect and consequence no longer exist in the workshops of Hollywood.
And one might sense that these imperatives are likewise missing from what used to be known as real life in the USA, with all its stories and narratives. Stuff just happens to the people in this country now. And then sometimes, stuff un-happens.
With the Russian operation in Ukraine alarming the populace, you might have forgotten the late COVID-19 epidemic that provoked so much public hysteria and government policy overreach.
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[AlAhram] President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi congratulated Egyptians on the anniversary of the victory of 10 Ramadan, 1393 AH — the day in the Islamic calendar that corresponded to the 6 October War against Israel in 1973.
"On this day in the blessed month of Ramadan every year, we mark the anniversary of the victories of 10 Ramadan, which remind us of the greatest meanings of redemption, sacrifice, and patriotism," El-Sisi wrote on Facebook on Monday.
"I extend my warmest congratulations and greetings to the Egyptian people on the occasion of this glorious anniversary," he added.
"I pray to God to keep Egypt proud, strong, and capable of overcoming difficulties, and to guide its people to the paths of love and peace," the president wrote.
First Lady Entissar El-Sisi also congratulated the people, saying the Armed Forces' victory on that day "will remain an inspiring lesson that reflects the Egyptian military’s genius in conquering the impossible."
Egypt won the 6 October 1973 War against Israel. The victory paved the way for the return of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt after the Camp David Peace Accords were signed with Israel in 1979.
While the state celebrates the anniversary of the war on both the Hijri and Gregorian calendars, citizens only take the annual Gregorian anniversary of the war on 6 October as a national holiday.
[BRCC] Four teams from the 75th Ranger Regiment posted a sweep of the top four places in the 38th annual David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition at Fort Benning, Georgia. A fifth team representing the 75th came in sixth.
The team of Joshua Corson and Tymothy Boyle, both captains in the 75th, took first place, ahead of Sgt. Nathan Buck and Sgt. Enrique Caballero, who were second. Staff Sgt. John Goldsmith and Spc. Kory Fogarty were third. Sgt. Jonathan Deguzman and Sgt. Alex Mauch placed fourth.
A team from Training and Doctrine Command took fifth to break up a full sweep.
[Red State] What’s going on in Shanghai, China as I write this may be one of the most disturbing stories in modern history. That’s not because great atrocities haven’t occurred before. No doubt, they have (and in China, no less), but it’s rare to have such a stark look behind the curtain of an authoritarian regime.
Because of advances in cell phone technology and the existence of VPNs, videos are coming out of Shanghai that will make your skin crawl.
[Breitbart] When the original Henry rifle by New Haven Arms Company came out in 1860, it was the high-tech weapon to have. Twice the magazine capacity of the Spencer, it was also less ammo-sensitive and faster in use. For the first time, cycling a rifle also cocked the hammer. Only two factors kept the 1860 model from becoming the standard: a weaker cartridge than the Spencer and the inability to mount a bayonet. The unsealed magazine with an external follower went away in the following decade. Once ammunition advanced from rimfire to drawn brass centerfire, the Henry served as a basis for further development of the Winchester line with a side-loading gate.
By the end of the 19th century, stronger actions chambered cartridges like 45-90 Sharps. By then, the Henry brand was history and looked to stay that way until Louis Imperato and his son Anthony revived the name in 1996. This wasn’t the first gun-related business for the family, but it was to be more durable than those before it. "I wanted Henry to be the best long gun company in the firearms business. Period," said Anthony, "At that time, cities were suing gun companies that made handguns, and getting into the handgun business wasn’t going to be an option. In short, being the best meant manufacturing a quality product, at a value to the consumer, backed by the best customer service in the industry."
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[REGNUM] One of the most discussed topics recently is the question of when and where to complete the Special Military Operation? As usual, there are a lot of experts, connoisseurs and, most importantly, advisers. However, there are basically only two positions.
One is to complete at the western borders of Ukraine.
Second, we don't need Galicia, it will be an eternal and aching headache, so don't release it. Therefore, stop at the borders of Western Ukraine.
I consider it possible to combine both positions. This means completing a special military operation near the western borders of Ukraine. And then start real negotiations, but not with Ukraine, but with its owners in the face of the collective West.
Since the special military operation will be difficult to complete until the channels for the delivery of military aid and mercenaries from the West to Ukraine are blocked, Russia, and maybe Belarus, should close the western border of Ukraine and complete the second part of the special military operation. As we know, the first part of the operation is the liberation of Donbass and the liquidation of a significant grouping of Ukrainian troops trapped in the cauldron.
And somehow it became a shame for the state when we kind of unblocked Kiev, and there freely arrived on the night of April 8, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen , and the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell . They did not just express words of support to V. Zelensky . They named the amounts of financial and military assistance to the Nazis, which, according to the plan of the operation, must be eradicated. Moreover, Josep Borrell, like a diplomat, declared that only a collective military victory over Russia could be a favorable outcome.
It became even more ashamed of the state when the possessed Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev . He held a planning meeting with V. Zelenskiy, promised military assistance, loans, and also spoke out against negotiations with Russia.
The possibility of combining both positions noted above was prompted by the opinion of the same Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. He is often confused with the US oil barrel, a unit of oil equal to 158.988 liters, or 42 gallons, but at times he has interesting thoughts.
So, Josep Borrell said that, in his opinion, Russia will not stop at Ukraine and NATO countries, among other things, may fall victim to it. A very promising idea!
After M. S. Gorbachev and four other members of the State Council of the USSR fulfilled the wishes of the United States and recognized the independence of the Baltic republics on September 6, 1991, the USSR ceased to exist in its former composition and within its former borders. Then independent Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia became members of the European Union and members of NATO. Since then, these three NATO countries, on the one hand, and Poland, also a NATO country, have come to represent the most violent Russophobic wing in the collective West.
Not only are they the most barking Tabaki, they have completely surrounded the Kaliningrad region. Thus, part of the territory of Russia was completely surrounded by NATO countries.
For some time, the Baltic states allowed Russia to exercise the right to public easement established by the Roman law, that is, the right to use the territory of another state in order to meet state or municipal needs. For some time, trains carrying goods and passengers to Kaliningrad followed through the territory of the Baltic states, and planes from Russia to Kaliningrad flew over the airspace of the Baltic states.
But then the Baltic countries became insolent and forbade Russia to use their land territory and airspace. Russia had to build sea ferries to deliver goods to Kaliningrad that were previously delivered by rail, and planes now fly to Kaliningrad over neutral airspace, which is more than an hour longer and, of course, more expensive.
There are certain technical difficulties in supplying the Kaliningrad region with gas and electricity from the mainland of Russia. So, in order to supply liquefied gas through the gas receiving terminal, it was necessary to build a floating regasification platform "Marshal Vasilevsky". There were certain technical problems with the supply of electricity from the mainland to the Kaliningrad region.
The union state of Belarus, which previously exported and imported significant volumes of goods through the ports of the Baltic states, also faced difficulties. I had to negotiate with Russia on the construction of a separate port near St. Petersburg for Belarusian cargo. According to preliminary estimates, the cost of building such a port could cost about $2 billion.
We return to the topic of combining two positions, suggested by Josep Borrell, which is as follows.
Since the US and NATO have not responded to Russia's just diplomatic demands for security guarantees, including the withdrawal of NATO's borders to the 1997 borders, Russia will have to solve this problem itself. Russia has warned the US and NATO that if they do not accept proposals to meet our demands through diplomatic means, then military-political and military-technical methods will be used. The third stage of a special military operation could be the unblocking of the Kaliningrad region, which is currently surrounded by NATO countries, and the provision of a neutral and demilitarized status for Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
The railway and air links with Kaliningrad will start working again, it will probably be easier to return to gas supplies through the main gas pipeline Minsk-Vilnius-Kaunas-Kaliningrad, it will also be possible to loop power transmission lines, as was the case in the USSR.
It is likely that such an operation could be even cheaper than building a new port for Belarusian cargo.
It seems that this will not meet with much military resistance, since NATO made sure that the “cartoons” of 2018 have already become a reality - Onyxes, Zircons and Daggers fly far and hit right on target. It is unlikely that the local population will fiercely resist the troops of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, since the descendants of the Baltic SS and policemen have long moved to Europe. In fact, the majority of the Russian-speaking population remained on the territory of these states, deprived of their rights, including the right to citizenship. Now they can easily obtain citizenship of the Russian Federation.
But then real negotiations on concluding a barter agreement can begin - they give us Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. We are, as it were, eliminating the consequences of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. We return Galicia to Poland, let them deal with the remnants of Bandera themselves. We return Transcarpathia and Bukovina to Hungary and congratulate Viktor Orban on his victory in the elections. We return the Chernivtsi region to Romania, let them sing beautiful songs together with the Ukrainians and dance colorful and incendiary dances.
We can’t give up southern Bessarabia in any way - these territories returned to the Russian Empire, when Romania was not even in the project. Izmail, Reni, Vilkovo, Bolgrad, Belgorod-Dnestrovsky will take their rightful place in the Novorossiya.
Undoubtedly, for that part of the people of the former Ukrainian SSR who consider themselves original Ukrainians, Ukraine should be preserved within its original borders and the territory that was previously called Little Russia.
It also seems that the DPR and LPR should not rush to a referendum on joining the Russian Federation. We should wait a bit until the Kherson People's Republic, perhaps, is revived, since these territories, including the southern part of Transnistria, were previously part of the Kherson province of the Russian Empire.
And, perhaps, the Odessa People's Republic will be proclaimed as the legal successor of the Odessa Soviet Republic, the beginning of which was laid by the formation of the military revolutionary committee (MRC) of Rumcherod, which began on January 13 (26), 1918, an armed uprising in Odessa. On the evening of January 18 (31), the Council of People's Commissars of the Odessa Soviet Republic was elected, which recognized the supreme authority in the person of the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Russia and the Soviet government in Kharkov.
The fate of the Odessa Soviet Republic was sealed on December 4, 1917, when the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which included the Kherson province.
The countries of the Quadruple Alliance at that time were at war with Russia. They also recognized the UNR and signed a separate peace treaty with the UNR on February 8, 1918:
“Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, on the one hand, and the Ukrainian People's Republic, on the other, declare that the state of war between them has ended. The parties signing the treaty decided from now on to live in peace and friendship.
From March 1918, the Odessa Soviet Republic tried to resist the troops of Austria-Hungary and Germany, who entered Ukraine by agreement with the Ukrainian Central Rada. On March 13, 1918, the Odessa Soviet Republic ceased to exist due to the occupation of Odessa by the Austro-German troops.
There will probably be no problems with Russia's recognition of the independence of the Odessa People's Republic.
After that, the Donetsk People's Republic, the Lugansk People's Republic and the Odessa People's Republic will be able to hold referendums on joining the Russian Federation. The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic held such a referendum back in 2006. That's when these four republics, having called the Republic of Moldova with them, together holding hands, will return to their ancestral territory, the assignee and successor of which today is the Russian Federation.
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^ The article also contains a large number of egregiously stupid statements, therefore it seems to me to have ben written by a recent journalism graduate - like maybe last week.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Thousands of supporters of former Prime Minister of Pakistain Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... erupted into the streets of late on Sunday, one day after the incumbent leader lost a no-confidence vote in parliament.
Supporters of Khan staged mass rallies in several cities across the country to protest the Prime Minister’s ouster.
On Sunday, Imran Khan said that his country is under a "foreign conspiracy to change the regime."
"Pakistain became an independent state in 1947; but the freedom struggle begins again today against a foreign conspiracy of regime change. It is always the people of the country who defend their illusory sovereignty and democracy," Imran Khan wrote on his Twitter account
Pakistain’s parliament voted Saturday in favour of a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government, while the Speaker resigned ahead of the decision. Parliament is expected to vote on a new prime minister on Monday.
Imran Khan called on Paks to against what he described as "an attempt to undermine the country’s illusory sovereignty," stressing that "the efforts to isolate him reflect Washington’s indignation at its opposition to its policies in the region."
Imran Khan is known for his support for a multipolar world and his criticism of US policies in Pakistain and the wider region.
The plot to remove Imran Khan from power was hatched under US pressure, after Islamabad refused to join NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... efforts against Russia and instead signed a major economic deal with Moscow. Khan himself had furiously responded to US attempts to influence Pakistain’s foreign policy, condemning Washington and the West for trying to treat Paks as their slaves.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least two citizens were killed on Monday as a result of the earth-shattering kaboom of a mine left by the Saudi-led coalition in Hodeidah province, western Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... A security source confirmed that the earth-shattering kaboom took place in the al-Faza area of al-Tuhita district.
The same source pointed out that the area is still contaminated by large numbers of mines and cluster bombs.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A fire has broken out on a ship near Yemen’s port of Aden on Monday, causing a number of casualties, while the fate for its the crew still unknown.
According to the local sources, the ship was floating off the coast of the city of Tawahi near the port of Aden when it caught on fire, but its cause was not immediately clear.
The sources explained that six workers were killed due to the fire. No official comments have been made by the Saudi-backed authorities nor the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) that are occupying Aden.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:05 Another large party of Ukrainian marines of the 36th brigade voluntarily surrendered in Mariupol, military commander Oleksandr Sladkov said. He noted that the decision to lay down their arms was made by another 160 Ukrainian marines in Mariupol. 21:44 A three-day curfew has been announced in Irpin. It starts tomorrow, April 12 at 6 am and ends at 9 am on April 15. All this time, entry into the city will be prohibited. It is noted that travel to Bucha is allowed, bypassing Irpen - through Dmitrovka and Zabuchie.
20:50 Russian air defense systems shot down a Su-27 fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Sinelnikovo region of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
20:36 Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 42 military facilities of Ukraine.
19:20 In Melitopol continues issuance of targeted humanitarian aid.
17:00 Canada trained representatives of the Azov Regiment* as part of the UNIFIER training mission in Ukraine - Radio-Canada. “Canada has spent nearly a billion dollars training Ukrainian forces since 2014. The fighters of the Azov Regiment have benefited from this training.
16:29 The authorities of the Voronezh region have raised the level of terrorist threat to medium in two areas bordering Ukraine.
16:15 Special forces of the Russian Guard discovered and neutralized more than 400 kg of TNT in the Kharkiv region - department.
15:38 In Greece, activists blocked the railroad, which carried NATO equipment to the borders of Ukraine. The demonstrators stood in the way of the train, which was heading towards Romania and Poland. The Greeks came out with a banner "NATO assassins, go home."
15:14 Destroy themselves myself (AKA: Friendly fire).
A Ukrainian tank hit a group of Ukrainian soldiers point-blank. Earlier, a video was circulated on the network, in which, according to some reports, a Russian T-72B3 tank fired point-blank at a cluster of Ukrainian infantry. It turned out that the tank was Ukrainian and mistook its own soldiers standing near the BMP with the letter “V” for Russians.
13:36 A Russian tank at point-blank range destroys a crowd of infantrymen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Apparently, the Ukrainians at the checkpoint thought that these were their own tankers and, as a result, minus 15 military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense. After the first shot, the operator runs and after 10 seconds the second is heard.
13:16 Kherson activists dismantled the memorial "Glory to Ukraine!" Citizens take an active part in cleansing the city. Residents of the city tore up the flag of the European Union, installed on the memorial, broke the panel with photographs of the Heavenly Hundred and “ATO soldiers”.
13:14 The Russian Armed Forces have captured the village of Kamenka, one of the most fortified defense lines in the Izyumsky district, - the Russian Defense Ministry.
13:13 In Genichesk, Kherson region, a peaceful life. The flags have been changed.
13:05 Ukrainian nationalists have established production mortars at the Melitopol Automotive Spare Parts Plant in the village of Obilnoye, where parts for agricultural machinery were previously manufactured. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stamped spare parts for guns with a caliber of 60 and 80 millimeters. They also planned to produce 120mm mortars, but did not have time. The structural parts of the guns still remain at the plant.
13:00 It is reported that the Kharkiv authorities received instructions from Kyiv to turn the city into a similarity to Mariupol. In each residential building, it was ordered to equip firing positions for snipers, ATGM and MANPADS crews. All civilian infrastructure facilities must be prepared for complete destruction. Minimize as much as possible, and from April 10 completely stop the evacuation of civilians.
12:35 Ukrainian "actors" TsIPSO in Bucha found themselves in staged scenes. The story of the "resident of Bucha", about which the channel "Ukraine 24" told, turned out to be the game of a certain Lera Salogub. The clip from an eyewitness from Bucha "Where I was and what I saw" also turned out to be an actor's improvisation by Stanislav Karpenko. Both "actors" are employees of the 72nd CIPSO. Bucha and fakes, the investigation continues.
10:40 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 129 aircraft, 99 helicopters, 243 S-300, Buk-M1, Osa AKM anti-aircraft missile systems, 441 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2079 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 239 multiple rocket launchers, 909 field artillery and mortars, and 2,003 special military vehicles.
10:39 Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 78 military facilities of Ukraine.
Among them: three command posts, a radar for illumination and guidance, three positions for short-range anti-aircraft missile systems, four ammunition depots, as well as 58 strongholds and areas of concentration of Ukrainian military equipment.
10:38 In the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Posad-Pokrovskoye, Kherson region, a Ukrainian military helicopter Mi-24 was shot down in the air by concentrated fire from small arms.
10:37 In addition, three unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the Balakleya districts of the Kharkiv region, Gulyai Pole and Volnovakha, as well as one unmanned aerial vehicle of the Valkyrie type in the area of the settlement of Kalininskoe, Nikolaev region.
10:36 Russian air defense systems shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the air near the village of Izium.
10:35 As a result of high-precision strikes in the areas of the settlements of Vozdvizhenka-2 and Ivanovka, Donetsk region, nine tanks, five self-propelled artillery mounts 2S3 "Acacia", five multiple launch rocket systems BM-21 "Grad" and more than 60 nationalists were destroyed.
10:32 Also, in the areas of the settlements of Nikolaev and Zhovtneve, two ammunition depots were destroyed, and in the Uspenovka area, a radar for illumination and guidance of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system.
10:30 On Sunday, April 10, Caliber high-precision sea-based missiles on the southern outskirts of the city of Dnepropetrovsk destroyed equipment of an anti-aircraft missile division hidden in a hangar
S-300 delivered to the Kiev regime of one of the European countries.
Four S-300 launchers and up to 25 personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces were hit.
09:32 Under n.p. Raisin special forces of the RF Armed Forces sent to Bandera 21-year-old Georgian mercenary Nika Shanava. As part of a group of foreigners, he arrived in Ukraine on March 16 with his 19-year-old brother. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation advises Georgians to stay at home - it is good for life.
09:20 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed personnel the launch of the Iskander missile at the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Precise strikes disable and destroy command posts, warehouses with weapons, ammunition and fuel and lubricants, communication centers, air defense and other important targets.
09:17 The RF Armed Forces are fighting with the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Topolskoye in the Kharkiv region.
08:21 In the north of Crimea - near the village of Tavrichesky - a Ukrainian drone was shot down by Russian air defense forces, the military is inspecting the crash site.
[BBC] Russia has warned Finland and Sweden against joining NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... , arguing the move would not bring stability to Europe.
Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov told news hounds that "the alliance remains a tool geared towards confrontation".
It comes as US defence officials said Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has been a "massive strategic blunder" which is likely to bring NATO enlargement.
US officials expect the Nordic neighbours to bid for membership of the alliance, potentially as early as June.
Washington is believed to support the move which would see the Western alliance grow to 32 members. US State Department officials said last week that discussions had taken place between NATO leaders and foreign ministers from Helsinki and Stockholm.
Before it launched its invasion, Russia demanded that the alliance agree to halt any future enlargement, but the war has led to the deployment of more NATO troops on its eastern flank and a rise in public support for Swedish and Finnish membership.
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Yes, say nothing, stand back and watch with a finger on your safety. Russia never misses an opportunity to re-open old wounds or alienate neighbors. Their MO has seldom changed.
[FOXBUSINESS] A radical environmental group raised a few eyebrows on Twitter after encouraging people to let the tires out of SUVs in an apparent bid to combat climate change.
The group, Adbusters,
...a Vancouver, British Columbia-based global network of anti-capitalist activists founded in 1989. Naturally, Jew-hating and Israel-hating are integral to their message. One of their big projects was Occupy Wall Street, making them yet another Black Bloc front of the century-old Antifa — the Stalinist-anarcho-communist syndicate that got its start brawling with Nazi Brownshirts in the streets of Germany...
tweeted step-by-step instructions for the provocation on Wednesday, calling it a "gentle escalation" or ramping up the urgency about climate change.
"Wedge gravel in the tire valves, leaflet the SUV to let them know the tires are flat and why it was done, and walk away. It’s that simple," the group tweeted. "If we organize, we can hit enough SUVs in particular neighborhoods to spark reporting and spread the metameme."
The group said climate change was the "biggest crisis we’ve faced as a species, and we are failing the test at every step," adding: "it’s time for us to carefully escalate our methods in a non-violent mostly peaceful manner to convey the seriousness of this crisis in tangible ways."
They argued that targeting SUVs — which they said were playing a big role in carbon emissions — was a good way to "hurt the automotive industry where it hurts."
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Environmental group calls for getting shot deflating tires of SUVs to combat climate change while attempting to mess with people's SUVs.
Getting shot and dying will end their contribution to the carbon scam.
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In what state is deadly force authorized to deal with someone messing with your tires? Jesus what's wrong with you people and your constant fantasies of killing?
Call the freaking cops and turn over the footage from your surveillance cameras.
Of course nobody bothers to call out the real villains of the story: those who publicize it. The whole point of this is to get visibility and inspire copycats. Which not only Fox has done, but whoever posted this here. Good job, everyone is doing Adbusters' work for it!
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but whoever posted this here. Good job, everyone is doing Adbusters' work for it!
No worries. If any Rantburgers were prone to joining Black Bloc LARPing, they would have been arrested at some of the Antifa/Black Lives Matter actions posted here over the past few years, and their name and police photo would have shown up in our pages in turn.
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#2 In what state is deadly force authorized to deal with someone messing with your tires?
Texas.
Now I'm not saying I would it do that, cause I wouldn't. But believe me when I say that there are many of my neighbors who will happily light someone up for messing with their stuff, on their property after dark. Funnily enough, quite a few of them were not born in the US, but now that they are citizens and living in Texas, they have gone FULL Texan.
SUBCHAPTER D. PROTECTION OF PROPERTY
Sec. 9.41. PROTECTION OF ONE'S OWN PROPERTY. (a) A person in lawful possession of land or tangible, movable property is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate the other's trespass on the land or unlawful interference with the property.
(b) A person unlawfully dispossessed of land or tangible, movable property by another is justified in using force against the other when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to reenter the land or recover the property if the actor uses the force immediately or in fresh pursuit after the dispossession and:
(1) the actor reasonably believes the other had no claim of right when he dispossessed the actor; or
(2) the other accomplished the dispossession by using force, threat, or fraud against the actor.
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
Sec. 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:
(1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41; and
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:
(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.
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Good morning Skid! I get to go home and go to sleep in 15 minutes....well, after driving for an hour. TWO more nights and I have two weeks off and next hitch is daytime:)
Bought the boy a simple recurve so he can start learning archery. He'll get a kick out of that.
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And #2, I am COMPLETELY SERIOUS about this. People can and DO get shot for crap like that in this state. It almost never goes to trial either. Daytime is one thing, after dark in Texas, a lot of crime suddenly has a very real death penalty if you get caught in the act.
Admittedly, there are many people like me that would call the cops and have them facedown on the pavement while we wait for the law. I'm not going to shoot someone for something like that. Break in my house though and it's a different ball game. That brings in a potential threat to my family.
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It falls under criminal mischief. It's the same as vandalizing a car.
(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
Who didn't read what now? And we give them no publicity, some fool gets shot in Texas because they did something illegal at night doesn't make the national news. It barely makes the local news sometimes.
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Someone doesn't understand the 'right to trial by a jury of one's peers'. DA's with common sense don't waste resources on trials they know they're going to lose.
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My wife called the cops once for suspecting someone was in the back yard. We lived in Harris County so after 45 minutes a single deputy shows up. Nobody there when he checked so he asked the wife, "Do you have protection?" She said, "Yes we have an alarm." He shook his head and said "A firearm." She nodded and said, "Yes, we have plenty." He smiled and said, "Well, just call us for cleanup." That is a direct quotation. Harris County is the democrat bastion in Houston but even the cops realize reality here in Texas.
Azov Regiment claims Russian forces have dropped a “poisonous substance of unknown origin” from a drone causing respiratory failure among victims in Mariupol.
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Ukrainian AZOV marines are out of ammunition.
Ukrainian marines defending Mariupol under siege published an appeal, in which they stated that they were running out of supplies and hope for help. "Today we'll have the last battle. After that, it will be a hand-to-hand fight," the statement reads.
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"We're very aware of the situation. It's alarming and we're dealing with it. I have an hour of anxiety counseling scheduled this very evening in fact."
The UK has warned Vladimir Putin "all options are on the table" if Russia is found to have used chemical weapons in Ukraine.
Defence minister James Heappey also appeared to refuse to rule out "direct Nato involvement" in the conflict, a move that would represent a significant escalation in tensions between Russia and the West.
On Monday, Ukrainian officials said they were checking unverified reports that Russia had used chemical weapons - possibly phosphorous munitions - in the southern port city of Mariupol, causing soldiers and civilians to show signs of respiratory illnesses.
“Russian occupation forces used a poisonous substance of unknown origin against Ukrainian military and civilians in the city of Mariupol, which was dropped from an enemy [unmanned aerial vehicle],” the Azoz Regiment, a unit of the National Guard of Ukraine, said in a post on Telegram.
“The victims have respiratory failure, vestibulo-atactic syndrome.”
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, armed forces minister James Heappey said: “I think it’s important that everybody is clear that the reports overnight haven’t been verified.
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"Men (and women) shall come to be employed in the news business, that shall push information to get ratings for their masters. And they shall push stories so far up the arse of kings and drag queens in uniform, that the world will see a fiery war. Basically fake news shall kill everybody. Deal thou unfortunates with it." - Nostradamus
BREAKING - Chechen chief Kadyrov says Russian forces will eventually take Kyiv - Reuters News
"Luhansk and Donetsk - we will fully liberate in the first place ... and then take Kyiv and all other cities” - Ramzan Kadyrov, the powerful head of Russia's republic of Chechnya
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A Pak was among two murderous Moslems killed while two copperswere maimed in an ongoing shootout with security forces in Khurbatpora area of south 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.... 's Kulgam district on Monday police said.As per IGP Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, the slain Pak bad boy with code name Chacha has been killed along with a "hybrid" bad boy in the shootout while the two injured cops are being evacuated to the hospital..
The encounter broke out this evening after security forces cordoned the area following a tip off about the presence of murderous Moslems there.
Ukrainian SSO claims they destroyed a BTG from the 70th Motorized Rifle Regiment (42nd Motorized Rifle Division) in Donetsk Oblast, including killing the battalion commander and chief of staff in their BMP-3.https://t.co/K720SntwK3pic.twitter.com/YgotOS6HPI
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A Special NIA Court on Monday said that it will frame formal charges against Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... and others on April 18 in connection with a terror funding case.
I s’pose funding terrorists is peaceful in the sense that Mr. Malik himself is not raising his hand against others...
On the last date of hearing on March 19, the court had ordered framing of charges against Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go.... , 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... chief Syed Salahuddin ...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating.... and others for hatching criminal conspiracy, waging war against the country and other unlawful activities.
Kashmiri separatist leaders, including Yasin Malik, Shabbir Shah, Masarat Alam, former MLA Rashid Engineer, businessman Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, Bitta Karate, Aftab Ahmad Shah, Avatar Ahmad Shah, Naeem Khan, Bashir Ahmed Bhat, alias Peer Saifullah and several others have also been framed under charges for criminal conspiracy, waging war against the country and other unlawful activities.
In the order dated March 16, the NIA special Judge Praveen Singh had said: "The above analysis reflects that the statements of witnesses and documentary evidence have connected almost all the accused with each other and to a common object of secession, to the commonality of means they were to use, their close association to terrorist/terrorist organizations under the guiding hand and funding of Pak establishment."
Notably, the court has discharged three, namely Kamran Yusuf, Javed Ahmad Bhatt and Syedah Aasiya Firdous Andrabi.
The case related to the various terrorist outfits Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hizbul-Mujahideen (HM), 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.... Liberation Front (JKLF) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) backed by 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.... were perpetrating terrorist and secessionist activities to disturb Jammu and Kashmir.
[SPECTATOR.ORG] It is now impossible to ignore our president’s cognitive decline. Public opinion polls indicate that most voters doubt his mental capacity to carry out his duties, and his public effusions confirm the accuracy of that assessment. Since his bizarre State of the Union address, Biden’s utterances have become less and less lucid and his few coherent statements are terrifying. He has called for regime change in a country with a huge nuclear arsenal and denounced its president as a war criminal. Yet the corporate media are generally sanguine about Biden’s verbal incontinence. Indeed, they have applauded it.
So, what would frighten the Fourth Estate? Elon Musk on Twitter’s board of directors.
Musk was invited to join the Twitter board after he bought a 9.2 percent stake in the company, making him its largest shareholder. He was initially welcomed by co-founder Jack Dorsey and CEO Parag Agrawal, but this did not allay media fears. At NBC’s "Think," Kara Alaimo fretted, "As we head into another election cycle and are still dealing with Covid, his record of spreading misinformation on the social media platform is worrisome." At the Washington Post, Ellen K. Pao revealed the actual issue in a column titled, "Elon Musk’s vision of ’free speech’ will be bad for Twitter." Take note that she invariably encloses free speech in scare quotes. "Spreading dis and misinformation is OUR job!" She huffed.
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He can purchase more Twitter Stock than the 14?% cap I have heard was for Board members.
Currently, he has declared 9.2%.
As it stands today, if he were on the board he could be overruled by the other 2 big shareholders on any motion. Twitter got to be where it is at by the allowances of the existing Twitter Board member's directions.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
The Azov militants reported that they dropped bombs with a chemical substance on Mariupol, which, in terms of symptoms, is similar to Zarin.
Azov almost won, but then the cunning Russians, out of desperation, "used" chemical weapons. Chronology
A) Eduard Basurin, who was not previously one of the great minds of our time, blurted out something about using the chemical troops to smoke out the inmates of the Azovstal cellars. One of the tasks of the chemical troops, in addition to protection against chemical, radiation and biological hazards, is "inflicting losses on the enemy using incendiary weapons. I remind you that the famous "Sun" is also a chemical troops.
B) For some reason, RIA Novosti put this in the news feed.
C) On the basis of this foolishness, the Nazis from the Azovstal catacombs made an absurd and unsubstantiated Internet stuffing about a poisonous substance from a drone.
D) Khodorkovsky and his gay company immediately began to disperse this game. Twitter is now in uniform chemical attack. From the abundance of hysterics, you can really suffocate. You read and go nuts, what stubborn and crazy personalities are now fighting in fits there.
Back in 2017, Russia completely destroyed all of its stockpiles of chemical weapons, including sarin. This was confirmed by Hamid Ali Rao, Deputy Director General of the Technical Secretariat of the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Slovakia will consider providing Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to #Ukraine if alternative protection of its own air space can be arranged, Prime Minister Eduard Heger says.https://t.co/oT6aWJdFS4
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[Korrespndent] 23:21 InformNapalm recalls that back in late March, intelligence received data, the totality of which may indicate the intentions of the Russian Federation to use chemical warfare agents against Ukrainian military or civilians. At the time, it was reported that Russia was likely planning to use sarin to achieve its goals in critical areas for the possibility of breaking through the Ukrainian defenses.
"Mariupol, Kyiv, or other cities of Ukraine, where Russian troops fail to break through the defenses of Ukrainian defenders, can become a field for such an experiment," the volunteers warned.
22:47 Denmark will buy two million iodine tablets, which will be used in the event of a nuclear disaster - this decision was made on the basis of the recommendations of the Danish emergency agency.
22:33 Most of the civilian population of the Donetsk region was evacuated before the onset of the Russian troops, said the chairman of the UVA Pavel Kirilenko. At the same time, according to him, "hard work still needs to be done in some places."
22:29 The defenders of Mariupol criticized the political and military leadership. Zaluzny replied that "everything possible and impossible" is being done. About what is happening in the city - in the material Defenders of Mariupol now .
22:27 The Azov Regiment reports that Russian troops tonight used an unknown poisonous substance dropped from a drone against Ukrainian military and civilians in Mariupol. As a result, the victims have respiratory failure and vestibulo-atactic syndrome.
22:25 Forbes calculated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed Russian equipment with a total weight of about 85 thousand tons of metal. Its total cost is 45 million dollars. At the same time, the publication notes that it is not easy to dispose of scrap metal, since different departments are involved in this, and the metal itself needs to be sorted and completely cleaned.
22:17 Six Russian diplomats have been declared persona non grata in France, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
22:15 Today, 4,354 people were taken out through humanitarian corridors, Vereshchuk said. According to her, the Russian military has not let a convoy of buses from Zaporozhye through for the evacuation of Berdyansk, Tokmak and Energodar for the third day.
22:13 In Kharkiv, as a result of today's shelling, eight people were killed, including a child of 13 years old, said the head of the Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov. Another 19 people were injured, including two children. The Kholodnaya Gora area was shelled, as well as Saltovka, where a shell hit a 16-storey building.
Sinegubov reported that the use of delayed action mines by the enemy was recorded. They were found in different districts of Kharkov - Industrial, Kiev, Nemyshlyansky and others. Rescuers eliminated them all day, managed to destroy more than 80 mines.
22:05 Warsaw seized a residential complex along Sobieskogo Street, 100 from the property of Russia and plans to transfer it to the needs of Ukrainians. The mayor of the city Rafal Tshaskovsky wrote about this on his Twitter.
21:51 Over the next few months, it will be difficult for Russian troops to find a sufficient resource to succeed in the Donbass, CNN reports with reference to the Institute for the Study of War. Experts believe that Russia is likely to continue to throw heavily damaged and partially regrouped units into the offensive.
21:49 Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Geger did not rule out the transfer of MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine. He also said that the country is negotiating with partners on the protection of the airspace of Slovakia.
21:44 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar: "We should not underestimate the enemy, the Russian army. In the end, it prevails in numbers, it is armed in large quantities with military equipment and weapons. And this must be realized. They have enough missiles, taking into account the fact that that they have already released more than a thousand here. And we must understand this. Therefore, we are ready for any scenario, and there is a threat of these scenarios. This is a very difficult, exhausting struggle."
21:42 In Irpen, the curfew will last from 6:00 Tuesday, April 12, to 9:00 Friday, April 15. According to local authorities, all this time entry into the city will be prohibited. Travel to Bucha is allowed, bypassing Irpin - through Dmitrovka and Zabuchie.
21:38 Macron said that he would come to Kiev only if it helped organize a meeting between Zelensky and Putin. The White House also reported that Biden is not going to Ukraine yet.
21:36 Bloomberg writes that, despite the intensifying sanctions, Russia's offshore oil supplies are recovering. Thus, weekly deliveries reached almost four million barrels per day in the first week of April, which is the highest figure this year. Russia's income from export duties on oil also reached its highest level since the beginning of the year - $230 million per week.
21:30 The head of the Zaporozhye military administration, Ivan Arefiev, warned local residents that sounds similar to thunder are the work of multiple rocket launchers. "Our gunners are real gods," he wrote and urged to remain calm, since the situation is completely under control.
21:28 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said that the intensity of shelling in the city has increased. The enemy bombed residential areas, Gorky Park, and urban infrastructure facilities. There are dead and wounded, including a child.
21:26 In Ukraine, due to the war, about 1.6 million children are malnourished, Manuel Fontaine, director of UNICEF's emergency programs department, said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
21:16 Zelenskiy spoke with the Prime Minister of Norway and announced increased cooperation, including in the energy sector.
21:14 Borrell said that both Hungary and Bulgaria are helping Ukraine, as they are participating in the financing of arms supplies carried out by the European Union.
21:10 The SBU detained an agent of the Russian special services, who, according to the UP, was a low-ranking employee in the Presidential Administration of Poroshenko. Since 2014, the detainee has been collecting state-level secret information and compromising information about officials, security forces, weapons and military equipment in Ukraine.
20:53 Lithuania will help Ukraine with the export of agricultural products, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine reported. In the near future, Lithuania plans to send a test train with 2,000 tons of raw materials from Ukraine to Lithuanian seaports.
20:40 The battle for Donbass is the key battle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Zelenskiy says Russian troops will move into even larger operations in eastern Ukraine this week. According to him, the occupiers can use even more rockets and even more air bombs against us. Details of what is known at the moment are in the article How the Russian Federation will attack .
20:29 The Pentagon does not yet see signs of a new escalation in the Donbass. According to CNN, citing an unnamed representative of the US Department of Defense, Russian troops are trying to strengthen their positions in the Donbass, but there are no signs of a new escalation of hostilities in eastern Ukraine yet.
20:16 Former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev reported, citing his sources, the arrest in Russia of Vladislav Surkov, an ex-assistant to Putin, who was the Kremlin's curator of the so-called "LDNR".
20:12 The yellow level of terrorist danger is also introduced in the Yeisk and Shcherbinovsky districts of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation. Aksyonov also announced the introduction of a yellow level of terrorist threat in the north of Crimea.
20:08 The EU countries have agreed to increase the supply of weapons to Ukraine, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock. "As the European Union, as friends of Ukraine, we will intensify the supply of weapons in the future," she said.
20:00 Borrell said that in the issue of imposing sanctions on Russian energy supplies, oil will be the first in line.
19:52 Polish border guards, whom Belarus accused earlier today of shelling its checkpoint, reported an attempt by illegal migrants to get out of the territory of Belarus and an attack by the Belarusian military.
19:49 Sources of journalists in Western intelligence agencies claim that almost a third of the forces that Russia concentrated in mid-February to invade Ukraine have lost their combat capability, writes UP with reference to and CNN.
19:35 Manuel Fontaine, Director of the UNICEF Emergency Programs Department, made a presentation at the UN following his visit to Ukraine. He stated that in his 31 years of service in humanitarian missions, he had very rarely seen so much damage done in such a short period of time. He was especially horrified by the attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk.
19:31 Borrell said that Russia could launch a new large-scale attack in eastern Ukraine, while the EU understands that the sanctions already applied will not be able to immediately stop the Kremlin, although they significantly reduce its resources.
19:27 Sir Geoffrey Nice, who led the trial of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Court, called for Russia's expulsion from the UN Security Council or its veto power. This is necessary for the trial of Russian war criminals, writes The Guardian.
19:18 Ukraine will be able to repel the armed aggression of the Russian Federation if it is provided with the necessary weapons as soon as possible, Yermak said in an interview with CBS.
19:15 Washington confirmed the transfer of tanks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by a group of countries led by the Czech Republic. According to a Pentagon official, a number of countries have sent tanks, and several other states are exploring this possibility. He clarified that it is mainly T-72.
19:11 The General Staff reports that the Russians tried to storm Severodonetsk, but to no avail. During the shelling of Popasnaya, the Tochka-U tactical missile system was used. Attempts to move deep into the territory of Ukraine to improve the tactical situation were also unsuccessful.
19:07 In Borodyanka, during the analysis of the rubble of two multi-storey residential buildings, the bodies of seven people were found today, the State Emergency Service reports. Since the beginning of the work, the bodies of 19 people have been removed from under the rubble. Work continues.
19:04 The Russians are trying to improve their tactical position and gain a foothold along the administrative borders of the Kherson region. At the same time, rumors are spreading among the Russian troops that the Armed Forces of Ukraine may go on the offensive against Kherson with a subsequent entry into the territory of Crimea, the General Staff reports.
18:59 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after virtual talks with Biden, said he offered Moscow direct talks between Zelensky and Putin. At the same time, Modi said that the news about the killing of civilians in Bucha was "very disturbing."
18:47 Weapons are delivered to Ukraine by 8-10 flights a day and an "almost constant" flow of ground convoys, the Pentagon said.
18:45 Belarusian border guards said that the Polish security forces fired at the Belarusian checkpoint Peschatka.
18:36 The occupants caused damage to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant for at least 18.3 billion hryvnias, Energoatom said.
18:33 Since the beginning of the war, 33,000 local residents have been deported from Mariupol - they were taken to Russia and to the occupied territories of the Donetsk region, Denisova said.
18:29 The state starts building housing for Ukrainians who lost it because of the war. As Kirill Timoshenko, deputy head of the Presidential Office, said, they will build in ten regions and select projects that can be completed in 3-4 months.
Within the next month, the state will begin to buy ready-made residential buildings that have not yet been put into operation. All these apartments should be immediately renovated, furnished, with household appliances. This is not about modular towns, but about stationary housing.
18:21 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock said that the EU should start negotiations on the accession of Albania and North Macedonia in the current half of the year.
18:19 Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte visited Borodyanka, Kiev region, and said that "the consequences of the occupation by Russian barbarians are horrifying."
18:17 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, following today's talks with Putin, said that it was not a friendly visit, but that the conversation was "very tough and open." He called for an end to this war and promised that sanctions against Russia would remain in place and be tightened.
18:12 The Russians are building Grads near Novoukrainka along the banks of the Dnieper, in close proximity to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Energoatom reports.
18:07 In Ukraine, the TiKhto application has been launched to check suspicious persons. The application was created with the support of cyber experts of the Security Service of Ukraine. Its main purpose is to simplify the procedure for checking suspicious persons at roadblocks, on the streets during curfews, at the entrance to a hideout, or in other situations.
18:03 The number of civilians killed by Russian invaders in Bucha, Kiev region, exceeded 400 people , said the secretary of the Buchansk City Council Taras Shapravsky, writes Strana.
18:00 Podolyak said in an interview with Ukraine 24 that after Europe and the world saw the terrible crimes of Russian troops against civilians in the Kiev region and Donbass, they began to "more resolutely" provide assistance to Ukraine to repel Russian aggression.
17:55 Borrell said that the EU Foreign Ministers decided to send a mission to Ukraine to collect evidence of war crimes and provide financial assistance for this work.
17:53 The EU Foreign Ministers again did not make decisions on sanctions against Russian oil and gas, they agreed to continue the discussion, Borrell said.
17:49 After the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, which earlier today declared a yellow level of terrorist threat, a similar decision was made in the Bryansk region, bordering the Chernihiv and Sumy regions of Ukraine, as well as in two regions of the Voronezh region bordering the Lugansk region - Rossosh and Kantemirov.
17:47 The State Emergency Service reports that in just six days more than eight thousand Ukrainians have expressed a desire to become volunteer rescuers. More than half - Kyiv and Kyiv region.
17:40 The first Russian company to default is the Russian Railways, writes Bloomberg. We are talking about eurobonds in Swiss francs with a payment date of March 14. Russian Railways tried and failed to make the payment due to sanctions imposed on it.
17:37 The invaders are stepping up anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western propaganda in Russian military medical facilities. For this, the military-political department of the eastern military district of the Russian Federation demands to organize "military-political informing about the progress of the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine using a special issue of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper," according to Ukrainian intelligence.
In the Russian Federation, hospitals are overcrowded with servicemen who participated in hostilities in Ukraine and do not want to return there. Therefore, Russian propagandists are trying to convince them with the help of a special issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda, which contains staged photographs of supposedly "happy liberated Ukrainians" and so on.
17:29 The speaker of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Motuzyanyk says that Russia will decide on the resumption of the offensive against Kiev, depending on the development of events in the Donbass.
17:27 The National Police opened a round-the-clock hotline for relatives of those killed as a result of hostilities: 0 894 201 867
17:25 Ukrposhta announced the cessation of issuance of postage stamps with the letter values Z and V.
17:21 The unexpected military successes of Ukraine - the defense of Kiev and most other large cities - are the merit of Zaluzhny, a 48-year-old general who was born in a military family. Details about him can be found in the Politico article about General Zaluzhny .
17:17 According to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russians who participated in war crimes against Ukrainians in Borodyanka, Kiev region, are servicemen of the 234th Airborne Assault Regiment of the Russian Federation.
17:10 About 3.5 million students of Ukrainian schools have returned to education, said Minister of Education and Science Serhiy Shkarlet.
17:06 Russian invaders in Mariupol captured the crew of the cargo ship SMARTA under the flag of Liberia. The sailors were taken to an unknown destination, Denisova said.
17:02 The European Union has prepared a plan for reverse gas supplies to Ukraine in case of interruptions in supplies from Russia, said European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson. According to her, the EU in the current situation cannot consider Russia a trustworthy partner, and therefore interruptions are not ruled out.
16:57 The occupiers are planning to attack the Dnepropetrovsk region from the city of Izyum, where they are gathering new forces, experts say. More about this - in the material , the Pentagon is waiting for an offensive on the Dnieper .
16:49 Podolyak said that the world knew about Russia's plans for many months, but when Ukraine asked for weapons and sanctions, it was offered "evacuation and the government on Zoom." And when she asked to break business ties with the Russian Federation, "we were told that Kiev had three days left."
"Putin turned out to be partially right in his calculations: by that time, some politicians had already made a decision for themselves to surrender Ukraine. They were ready to express concern, introduce semi-sanctions and continue life. But some were against it. The President and the people of Ukraine," he wrote in his Twitter adviser to the head of the OP.
"Sometimes one person can change everything simply by making the right choice. Do not listen to analysts, but listen to the heart. It is not too late for politicians in Europe to make this choice. It's time to take responsibility for the future of Europe and abandon Russian oil and gas," Podolyak said.
16:38 Ukraine, in negotiations with Moscow, will do everything to end the war, taking into account its national interests and receive reliable international guarantees to prevent such wars in the future, Podolyak said in an interview with Ukraine 24.
16:25 In the Lugansk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down an enemy plane, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. He also said that today there was shelling of Lisichansk, as a result of which one person died, shelling of Severodonetsk, where a "strategic" building was destroyed.
The hottest places are in Kremennaya, Rubizhnoye and Popasnaya, where the Russians are trying to make breakthroughs. The fighting continues, the enemy suffers losses.
16:19 In Rivne, a woman was sentenced to 13 years in prison with confiscation of property for treason. According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, a resident of Donetsk in 2017 created and maintained a network of informants who transmitted data to the Russian Federation on the movement of units and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:16 Borrell called on the EU countries to immediately provide Ukraine with all the weapons it asks for. According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, after a trip to Kyiv, the head of European diplomacy appealed to EU countries to provide weapons to Ukraine as it prepares to intensify the Russian military campaign. In particular, Borrell said that the decision must be made in the coming days, not weeks.
16:05 Zaluzhny said that the defense of Mariupol continues, communication with the units is maintained constantly.
"I emphasize that the conduct of defense operations is not a topic of public discussion.
We are doing everything possible and impossible to win and save the lives of personnel and civilians in all directions," the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine emphasized.
16:00 Zelenskiy, in an interview with CBS, said that a new, most difficult stage of the war is now beginning in the east and south of Ukraine: "We do not know how much equipment there will be, and we understand that there will be many times more than now. We see the accumulation of the military We understand almost all the corridors where the enemy will go We understand what he is going to do, and we understand that the speed of how they will help us, and above all, by the way, the United States, from that speed, how they can hand over weapons to us, I’ll tell you honestly, it depends on whether we stand or not,” he said.
15:55 Russia has almost completed preparations for an offensive in the Donbass, hostilities may begin in the near future , said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Motuzyanyk. However, he assured that the Ukrainian army is ready for this. He also said that recently in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions along the line of demarcation, the number of Russian troops has increased significantly and will continue to increase.
15:47 Georgia and Moldova, following Ukraine, received questionnaires from the EU on candidate status.
15:39 The representative of the "DPR" Eduard Basurin suggested using chemical weapons against the Ukrainian military, who are defending themselves at Azovstal. According to him, it makes no sense to storm the underground fortifications of the plant in Mariupol, so you need to "turn to the chemical troops."
15:35 Canada has imposed sanctions against 33 Russian defense companies. "Canada has always been and will always support Ukraine. Today's measures are the latest example of our unwavering support for Ukraine and its people," Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said.
15:33 Zelensky about the battle for Kiev: "I think this is not the final victory. I'm not sure that it is the last one. I'm sure that you can't say that we won the battle for Kiev, then lose something, I can't do that I will be able to say about this only when we win this war and liberate our territories. Because Bucha is part of a large Kiev. If people were exterminated in Bucha, Gostomel and Irpen, did we win this battle? I'm not sure. We held on and did not give up, I can confirm this. And whether we won, I'm not ready to talk about it."
15:27 Zelenskiy is convinced that Putin could have prevented war crimes as part of the invasion, since a rigid power vertical has been built in Russia.
"Whether he wanted it or not, whether he likes me or doesn't like me, whether he hates me as a person - I don't know. But this is not about personalities, this is about a war between two states. And that's why I'm talking about a dialogue between the leaders of the two countries. He could have prevented it, and therefore a lot depended on him, as now. You can’t close your eyes and say “we didn’t do it.” Even if you think that you didn’t do it, you have to say it to my eyes, you have to say this is in the eyes of the whole world," Zelensky said in an interview with CBS.
He also criticized the Russian position, which is that if Ukraine is destroyed, then no one will remember the war crimes.
"It is impossible to destroy the entire Ukrainian people and the whole world. You are no longer shaking hands, the whole world will not forget this. And we live in a modern technological world, so everything is there - video, audio, there will be books, memories," Zelensky added.
15:19 The head of the Kiev city military administration, Nikolai Zhirnov, said that the danger for Kiev remains: "As long as there is no peace, Kiev must be ready for defense. Considering that the capital is the political and economic center of Ukraine, today many are returning, the city is coming to life. KGVA takes measures to ensure that, without violating the general system of defense, it is possible to improve traffic in the city.
15:13 The SBU said that the Russians are using Ukrainian children for reconnaissance of military positions, and therefore urge parents to carefully monitor the correspondence and contacts of children.
15:06 The European Commission blacklisted 21 Russian airlines, including Aeroflot, Russia, Pobeda, UTair, S7. They are banned from flying within the EU due to "non-compliance with international safety standards."
15:04 In Bucha, the Russians killed the ex-people's deputy, the head of the All-Ukrainian political association Yedin Rodin Alexander Rzhavsky, the family of the deceased said. He was killed on March 27th. Rzhavsky, a native of Kramatorsk, recently turned 63 years old. In 1999 and 2004 he ran for president.
14:58 Ukraine begins to resume control over the state border in the Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, said Andriy Demchenko, spokesman for the State Border Service.
14:52 The Croatian Foreign Ministry announced that it was expelling 18 diplomats from the Russian embassy in Zagreb, along with whom six administrative and technical personnel would leave the country.
14:44 Ukraine's accession to NATO is one of the components of the right of sovereign choice, which the Ukrainian side defends during the war with Russia, Zelensky said in an interview with CBS. At the same time, according to him, the Ukrainian people are fighting not for Western values, but for universal ones.
14:30 Lavrov said that "the special operation of the Russian Federation is designed to put an end to the US course of dominance in the world." He stressed that "the EU sees Kyiv as a springboard for the suppression of the Russian Federation," and Russia will never submit to pressure.
14:23 Ukrainian intelligence reports that the Russians are preparing for a guerrilla war on their territory. Thus, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation obliges to ensure the interaction of the Russian railway with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB. Increased security measures are associated with "the threat of interference in the operation of transport infrastructure facilities located on the borders of the Rostov Region and the Krasnodar Territory."
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine notes that the recent explosions in Belgorod sowed panic in neighboring Russian regions, which marked the beginning of a guerrilla war and the transfer of hostilities to the territory of the Russian Federation.
14:18 The State Emergency Service reported that 300 thousand square kilometers of Ukrainian territories should be examined for mines and may need humanitarian demining.
14:16 The German defense concern Rheinmetall has announced that it is ready to supply Ukraine with up to 50 Leopard 1 tanks and up to 60 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, reports Handelsblatt.
14:13 The American newspaper Politico writes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine used the "hit-and-run" tactics in the war with Russia, which turned out to be extremely effective. And this is the merit of Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny, whom the publication called "an iron general" and "a hero, not a star."
Zaluzhny, according to the newspaper, "largely avoided the publicity of the commander, giving this role to Zelensky." But military successes were made possible by the modern way of warfare.
13:54 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine warns of possible provocations from the Russian Federation. Thus, in order to discredit Ukraine in the world, the Russian media report on provocations allegedly prepared by "the Ukrainian government with the support of Western countries."
In particular, Ukraine is allegedly going to organize "an action with the mass destruction of civilians in ORDLO," namely, "preparing to film a provocation with shelling of ambulances in the Severodonetsk region," and also plans to "blow up chlorine tanks in the Popasnyansk region."
13:43 The Lychakiv court of Lviv handed over the arrested Royal Romance yacht of Viktor Medvedchuk to the Agency for Tracing and Asset Management (ARMA). The yacht was in the port of Croatia.
13:40 Zelenskiy called on South Korea to provide military assistance: he asked for air defense systems, aircraft, tanks, other armored vehicles, artillery systems and ammunition.
13:35 Finland suspends postal communication with Russia and Belarus.
13:26 Peskov said that the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO will not bring security to Europe: "The alliance itself is rather a tool sharpened for confrontation. This is not an alliance that ensures peace and stability. Further expansion of the alliance will not bring additional security to the European continent."
13:12 The EU has imposed the first direct sanctions against the Russian gas industry, banning the supply of LNG production equipment to the Russian Federation. The fifth package of sanctions establishes a ban on the sale, supply, transfer or export to Russia, directly or indirectly, of goods and technologies necessary for gas liquefaction, regardless of whether such goods or technologies originate from the EU or not.
Previously, Russia hoped to become one of the world's largest LNG producers.
12:57 Ukrainians have filed more than 66,000 applications for property damaged as a result of the war in the Diya application, said Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov.
12:55 According to Polish customs officers, 2.66 million people have arrived from Ukraine since the beginning of the war. The record figure was on March 6 - 142,300 people. On Sunday, April 10, 28,500 Ukrainians entered Poland, and 19,400 left.
12:52 The office of the Prosecutor General reported on suspicion of collaborationism to the former mayor of the city of Rubizhne, Lugansk region, Sergei Hortiv.
12:47 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that Russian special forces, five kilometers south of Izyum, eliminated one of the leaders of the Right Sector, Taras Bobanich.
12:45 Pushilin said that the "operation to liberate" the territory of the "DPR" will be "intensified".
12:39 Taras Kremin, Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, announced the need to rename settlements whose names are in Russian.
12:27 Zelensky said that tens of thousands of Ukrainians have already died in Mariupol. According to him, the Russians want to make it a "demonstratively destroyed city."
12:25 A special camp is being created for Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine, Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said in an interview with LB.ua. Since there are a lot of prisoners, the issue is currently being resolved in order to reopen and transfer to the Ministry of Defense one of the abandoned colonies.
Denisova does not name the exact number of prisoners, as this will damage negotiations with Moscow on the exchange. However, she said that in Kyiv she personally communicated with 34 Russian prisoners of war, 24 of which were officers, 10 were soldiers.
12:22 In Ukraine, the process of examining buildings and structures destroyed and damaged as a result of the Russian invasion has begun to determine the possibility of their further operation, restoration work or dismantling, said Natalya Kozlovskaya, Deputy Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories. According to her, the first group of experts has already left for the Kiev region.
12:20 The European Union should increase military support to Ukraine, especially the supply of heavy weapons, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock before the EU Council meeting. She stressed that "there is no more time for excuses."
12:18 In the Kiev region, 220.57 hectares of territory have already been checked, 11,241 units of explosive objects have been neutralized, said the head of the Regional State Administration Oleksandr Pavlyuk.
Over the past 24 hours, rescuers have examined Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpen, Belogorodka, Stoyanka, Gostomel, Velikaya Dymerka, Nemeshaevo, Dmitrovka, Novy Korogod, Lyutezh - this is 34.61 hectares of territory and 72 infrastructure facilities. Specialists of the State Emergency Service neutralized 675 explosive objects.
12:14 In Kharkov, in different parts of the city, rescuers find time bombs. These are ammunition with a plastic case, small in size, weighing about one and a half kilograms, which are scattered around the yards of residential buildings and streets.
Local residents are asked not to pick up such ammunition under any circumstances, not to approach them and not to try to eliminate them on their own, but to immediately call rescuers by calling 101.
11:52 Law enforcement officers have blocked operations to withdraw the assets of almost seven thousand pro-Russian companies that could be used in support of military operations in Ukraine, the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police reported.
11:47 Macron took first place in the first round of the presidential election following the processing of 100% of the protocols - he scored 27.6% of the vote. Le Pen received 23.41% of the popular vote.
11:45 A detachment of technical and scientific gendarmes from France arrived in Ukraine to investigate war crimes committed around Kiev, French Ambassador to Ukraine Etienne de Ponsin said.
11:40 In the Kiev region today, a temporary bulk bridge was opened in Romanovka, connecting Irpin, Bucha, Gostomel and Vorzel with the capital, said Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Kirill Tymoshenko.
11:37 In Mukachevo, by decision of the executive committee of the city council, the Soviet tank-monument T-34 was dismantled. The tank was dismantled by public utilities, it will be transferred to "responsible storage".
11:29 Ukraine will join the European Union "in the coming years" - this process will definitely not take a "five-year period", said Zelensky's diplomatic adviser responsible for European integration, deputy head of the Presidential Office Igor Zhovkva. He also said that Kyiv has not yet received signals from Budapest about Orban's intention to block Ukraine's movement to the EU.
11:26 Russia is ready to go to court in case of default due to non-fulfillment of obligations on Eurobonds and to prove that it has done everything to make payments, said Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. According to him, Western countries are artificially creating a "man-made default."
11:10 In the Kharkiv region, the invaders fired at settlements about 66 times with rockets, Grads and Tornadoes. According to the head of the Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov, 11 people died, including a seven-year-old child. In total, more than two thousand residential buildings were destroyed in the region, there are traces of violent deaths of Ukrainians at the hands of the invaders.
Sinegubov also said that in spite of everything, the sowing campaign has begun actively in the region: they plan to sow about 60-80% of arable land.
10:58 Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said that the Russian invaders are forcing children in the occupied territories to return to educational institutions. In particular, this applies to Volnovakha, Donetsk region. According to her, such actions of the Russians are likely to complicate the operation for the upcoming liberation of the city, and provocations with victims are also possible in order to discredit and accuse the Ukrainian side. In this case, the children will actually become hostages and human shields for the aggressor troops, Denisova stressed.
10:42 The head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry announced that the EU countries have begun work on the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions with the "oil option".
10:33 The liberated Olkhovka of the Kharkiv region has been almost completely destroyed by the invaders, the prosecutor's office said.
10:18 Kuleba warned of the impending large-scale information campaign of the Kremlin: “Russia knows that arms supplies are necessary for Ukraine and is mobilizing all forces to undermine them. Moscow has prepared a large-scale information campaign aimed at foreign media and politicians. Their troll factory can spam emails and flood the comments with disinformation about Ukraine. Don't fall for it."
10:11 Arestovich again stated that it is impossible to deblock Mariupol now, since the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not pass the steppe under air strikes from Rostov and Crimea. According to him, the siege can be removed and facilitated indirectly.
The adviser to the head of the OP also spoke about what is being done in relation to Mariupol:
the supply of Russian troops was interrupted by damage to the Crimea-Melitopol railway;
attacks were made on the port of Berdyansk;
Ukrainian helicopters flew to Mariupol, took out the wounded and brought in ammunition and equipment. Later, one of the helicopters was shot down, and the fighters fell into a shroud, after which the route became known and was no longer feasible;
the Ukrainian command "makes any possible movements" in the Zaporozhye region, so that part of the troops that could go to Mariupol went to the flank in the Zaporozhye region. The military is doing everything they can.
09:57 Ukraine is likely to receive the status of a candidate for EU membership in June, said the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Matti Maasikas.
09:55 EU foreign ministers will discuss further steps on the situation in Ukraine today, including new sanctions against the Russian Federation, Borrell said.
09:53 First Lady Olena Zelenskaya and the children were forbidden to stay with the President on the premises of the Presidential Office. Since the beginning of the war, Zelensky has been in contact with his family only by phone, his wife said in an interview with Vogue.
09:50 The governor of the Nikolaev area Vitaly Kim reported that rocket attack in the regional center last night fell on the enterprise belonging to Qatar, there are no victims.
Recall that in December last year, the port of Olvia in Nikolaev was finally transferred to the concession of the Qatari QTerminals . It was planned that the largest international company would invest in Ukraine for 35 years.
09:47 In Kiev, the South Bridge is open for passage, which has worked for more than a month only for special and public transport, Klitschko said. Now communication between the left and right banks in the capital is carried out through three bridges - the North, Darnitsky and South.
09:42 As of today, nine humanitarian corridors have been agreed:
09:35 In Ukraine, 183 children were killed at the hands of Russian invaders, another 342 were injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
09:27 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a warehouse with Russian ammunition near the occupied settlement of the Lugansk region. "We have a small victory - for two and a half hours something that could have killed our people was on fire," said Sergey Gaidai, head of the UVA.
09:05 Russian media wrote that the Slovak S-300 air defense system was allegedly destroyed near Nikolaev. But Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger denied this: "Slovakia categorically denies Russian propaganda that the S-300 defense system in Ukraine was destroyed. This is a hoax. Officially confirmed by Ukraine."
09:02 Kadyrov said that after the offensive in the Donbass, "we will continue to take Kiev and other cities."
08:59 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 11:
personnel - about 19,500 people,
tanks - 725,
armored fighting vehicles - 1923,
artillery systems - 347,
MLRS - 111,
air defense systems - 55,
aircraft - 154,
helicopters - 137,
automotive equipment - 1387,
ships/boats - 7,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 119,
special equipment - 25,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
08:53 Russians fired at one more railway station in the east of Ukraine. Five locomotives, track and contact network were damaged, no one was injured, Ukrzaliznytsia reported.
08:42 Arestovich said that Ukraine will not sign a peace agreement if Russia seizes Donbass within its administrative borders. In this case, the war will continue.
“Only a war on the conditions that we are armed, and Russia has nowhere to take it from. And this advantage is very long, we will implement it,” the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office specified. “It will be a lot of blood on our part, additional efforts, grandiose problems for the economy."
Arestovich believes that Ukraine will fight with Russia until 2035, probably, it will be several wars.
08:37 In France, according to the results of counting almost 100 percent of the ballots, the current President Macron received 27.6 percent of the vote, Le Pen - 23.41 percent. The second round of elections will take place on 24 April.
08:35 Russia has assembled at least 32 Su-27 fighter jets, as well as several Il-76 and other aircraft at a military airfield in Voronezh, as seen in Planet Labs satellite imagery from 9 April. Probably, this airfield will become the main one for attacks on Ukraine, Orion Intel analysts say.
08:33 British intelligence reports that Russian troops continue to shell Donbass, the risk of civilian casualties is increasing. It also increases the likelihood of the occupiers using phosphorus munitions in Mariupol.
In addition, Russia's use of unguided bombs reduces the ability to distinguish targets when aiming and striking, while at the same time greatly increasing the risk of further civilian casualties.
08:30 A total of 42 countries have already applied to the Hague court because of war crimes of the Russian Federation, said Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska.
08:28 Ukraine may become a testing ground for US Switchblade kamikaze drones in combat, as it is not clear how often the US military has used killer drones on the battlefield, CNBC reports.
According to the channel, a group of Ukrainians, who just recently left the United States, have been trained in the handling of these drones for many weeks. They were trained at the Special Forces Training Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. Moreover, the Ukrainian military were in this special school even before the start of the Russian invasion.
08:25 Finland and Sweden may join NATO this summer, the Times writes. The membership of these countries in NATO was discussed during the talks of the foreign ministers of the alliance last week. Sweden and Finland were also present, US officials told the paper.
08:10 Bellingcat investigative journalist Hristo Grozev says that Putin purged the FSB: 150 officers involved in the "Ukrainian issue" were either fired or arrested.
07:59 In the Lugansk region, the entire infrastructure was destroyed as a result of shelling by the Russian invaders, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
07:52 UOC-MP priests are collecting signatures under an appeal to the Cathedral of the Primates of the Ancient Eastern Churches "with a lawsuit against Patriarch Kirill."
"Today, when Patriarch Kirill of Moscow frankly supports Russia's war of conquest against Ukraine, we, the priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, have decided to appeal to the Council of Primates of the Ancient Eastern Churches with a lawsuit against Patriarch Kirill," Archpriest Andriy Pinchuk of the UOC-MP wrote on Facebook.
07:34 Russia in the war with Ukraine is acting unpredictably, and its next strike may be directed at Odessa and the Dnieper in order to capture them, said the captain of the first rank of the US Navy, retired Harry Tabah.
07:30 The offensive of the Russian Federation in the east is likely to resume in the coming days, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
07:22 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not rule out provocative actions by the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of the Transnistrian region of Moldova in order to accuse Ukraine of aggression against a neighboring state.
00:03 According to the World Bank, output in Ukraine is likely to decline this year "by a staggering 45.1 percent," writes Reuters. While the Russian economy will fall by 11.2 percent in 2022, the World Bank predicts. The total GDP of Eastern Europe (including both EU countries and the former USSR) will fall by 30.7 percent this year.
More on this story from yesterday. Excerpted from the liveblog.
[USATODAY] Russia is resupplying and reinforcing its invasion force in eastern Ukraine with a long convoy of vehicles heading to the region, indicating a new phase of the war is likely to occur there, according to a Pentagon brasshat.The convoy, exposed in commercial satellite imagery, stretches an estimated eight miles. It appears to contain vehicles to command and supply infantry units and possibly helicopters, said the official, who provided intelligence assessments on condition of anonymity.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of an impending Russian offensive in his country's east and has urged civilians to flee the region.
"The occupiers have sent dozens of thousands of soldiers and colossal numbers of equipment to prepare new attacks," he warned in a speech to South Korean politicians translated by NBC News. Josep Borrell, EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, issued a similar warning Monday.
The Pentagon official said some of the Russian forces involved in the failed attempt ...Curses! Foiled again!... to seize the capital of Kyiv appear headed toward the eastern region. There are about 60 Russian battalion tactical groups in eastern and southern Ukraine — 48,000 to 60,000 troops — the official said.
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What about all those cheap Chinese flat tires? They seemed to move from the north to east ok.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
April 11, 19:01
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According to the Pentagon, Russia has 55 battalion tactical groups in the south, almost all of them deployed to Ukraine. There are 20 BTGs in the north, of which about half are in Ukraine. Two BTGs have recently appeared north of Luhansk and east of Kharkov. Follow the links to see the main map and others.
According to the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, the Russian army is completing preparations for the transition to new active actions, building up the control system and logistics in the Izyum and Donetsk directions.
The main goals, according to the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the RF Armed Forces at this stage are as follows:
- Preparation for the defeat of the group participating in the operation of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass;
- Establishing full control over the Donetsk and Lugansk regions;
- Ensuring a sustainable land corridor with Crimea.
P.S:
According to Ukrainian sources, Mi-6s have provided Zelensky's office with new data on the second phase of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine. Now the Kremlin is not going to stop at the recognition of the LDNR and Crimea, but they want to occupy the entire left-bank Ukraine. For this, Russia is preparing a big cauldron for Ukrainian troops in the Donbass.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have created a large strike force of about 90,000 people, which is constantly growing, with military equipment now all the roads in the second echelon - in the Voronezh region are clogged. The Armed Forces of Ukraine also collects all reserves. To counteract the Ukrainian side, a grouping was formed in the Dnepropetrovsk region, numbering about 80,000 people.
The group created by the Armed Forces of Ukraine has many mobilized, but it has a lot of modern weapons that are supplied to Ukraine by the West. The contour of the encirclement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass is expected along the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region - 40-50 km east of Pavlograd. This will allow the Russian army to quickly surround the group in the Donbass and methodically clean it up, as was already done with ISIS in Syria.
The strengths of the Russian Federation now are: air superiority, motivated units of the L/DPR, strategic initiative, the ability to continuously launch missile strikes.
The downside for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is that there are 170-180 km between Kramatorsk and the nearest large city of Pavlograd, and only small towns remain between them, which will not become a big obstacle for the Russian army. This will not allow the Ukrainian side to use its traditional tactics - to use artillery behind the civilian population of large cities, as the Armed Forces of Ukraine used to do in the vicinity of Kyiv, Kharkov and Nikolaev.
The beginning of the active phase can be expected after the active phase of cleaning up the city from the remnants of Ukrainian units in Mariupol, some of which, in all likelihood, will simply be docked at Azovstal.
[BREITBART] Eighteen people were shot, three of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway... ’s (D) reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reports the first fatal shooting occurred around 8 p.m. during a fight Friday night. The deadly exchange was "in the 1500 block of East 61st Street" and a 29-year-old man was shot in the head and killed.
The weekend’s second fatal shooting was occurred around 2:20 a.m. Saturday "in the driveway of a home in the 9500 block of South Sangamon Street." A 17-year-old was standing in the driveway and was shot in the chest. He was transported to a hospital where he died.
A 40-year-old man was shot and killed during a drive-by shooting Sunday morning "in the 300 block of South Kilbourn Avenue." The shooting occurred just before 3:30 p.m.
Nineteen people were shot last weekend in Chicago and one of those shooting victims shuffled off the mortal coil.
The Sun-Times reports 143 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2022, through April 10, 2022.
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[Bee] Justice Clarence Thomas walked out to get his mail this morning and found a surprise in his mailbox. According to sources, he was lucky enough to receive an invitation to celebrate Kentanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation as the nation’s first black Supreme Court Justice.
"Yippee! I feel so honored to have been invited to such a historic celebration!" said the longtime originalist justice appointed by George H.W. Bush. "Wow—the first black Supreme Court Justice. Who would have thought I'd see such a day?"
Justice Thomas then dropped the rest of the mail and jumped up and down while clutching the RSVP made of pink, lacy stationery.
Several critics have opposed Thomas's invitation to KBJ's barrier-breaking confirmation party. "This day is a victory for black people, not white people like Clarence Thomas," said Betina McSwan, an activist for the group Demand Justice. "He opposed reparations and affirmative action just because it violates the Constitution. Then he voted for Trump, so he ain't black!"
Others were confused by the invitation, saying that Thurgood Marshall deserves to be honored as the first black Supreme Court Justice due to his being the first black Supreme Court Justice.
"That's ridiculous," said McSwan. "Blackness isn't skin color, but is more of an idea, like Antifa, gender, and the Constitution."
At publishing time, Thomas decided not to attend after finding he was only invited so the January 6 committee could bug his house.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:35 — The shelling of the VFU in the direction of the settlement was recorded. Novoselovka - n.p. Panteleimonovka: 7 122 mm rounds fired 23:05 As a result of the shelling of the VFU, two civilians of the settlement were wounded. Staromikhailivka: woman born in 1975, men born in 1970 The place and circumstances of the injury are being specified, according to the DPR JCCC. Damage was also recorded in the settlement. Yelenovka at st. Krupskaya, 90. Information about the consequences of the shelling continues to arrive.
21:42 The city of Pervomaisk in the LPR is considered a local Stalingrad because of the ongoing eight years of shelling by the Ukrainian security forces, said Miroshnik, adviser to the head of the LPR.
21:26 In Mariupol (near Azovstal), another 160 soldiers and officers of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have surrendered.
21:03 VFU shelled the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk. On April 11, militants of the armed formations of Ukraine fired from Grad multiple launch rocket systems at the Tekstilshchik microdistrict, located in the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk. As a result of this terrorist act, residential multi-storey buildings were damaged, as well as a bakery - part of the roof collapsed with a direct hit on the building. Fortunately, none of the bakery workers who were in the shops at the time of the hit were injured.
20:37 In the areas of the settlements of Popasnaya, Novozvanovka and Zolote, two company groups of the Ukrainian 24th Mechanized Brigade and the territorial defense brigade were destroyed.
20:30 In the Selidovo area of the Donetsk region, Tochka-U, 2 MLRS in an underground shelter and up to 40 Ukrainian nationalists were destroyed.
20:29 In the area of Novogrodovka, Donetsk region, the base camp of the Nazis of the Right Sector terrorist organization * (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) was destroyed.
20:28 In the afternoon, near Chasov Yar, Donetsk region, a well-defended command post of a grouping of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass was destroyed by a “Dagger”.
18:38 Assault groups with flamethrowers prepared to clean up Azovstal in Mariupol - UNM
Earlier, the effectiveness of this approach was proven during the assault on ground and underground structures of the Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works.
18:16 LLC "South Mining and Metallurgical Complex" can provide jobs for former employees of giant factories in Mariupol.
“In order to find work for metallurgists and coke chemists, there is no need to leave Donbass” — Evgeniy Yurchenko
18:08 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about a wound in the head of a civilian born in 1978. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Alexandrovka at the address: st. Chelyuskintsev, 40 "a". The victim was taken to the DOKTMO in critical condition, where he is receiving the necessary medical assistance.
Also, information was received through the operational line of the JCCC of the DPR about damage to a residential private house as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Alexandrovka at the address: st. Kirov, 167.
17:56 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Novotoshkovskoe along the settlement Frunze with the use of MLRS BM-21 Grad (20 shells) - STsKK LPR.
17:54 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Vodyanoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight shells of 122 mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
17:45 Ukrainian militants blew up a dam in the Donetsk region - Basurin.
17:27 Pockets of resistance by Ukrainian militants remained only on the territory of Mariupol factories, decisions will be made on how to "smoke" them - Basurin.
17:12 Fire from the VFU in the direction of Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district) was recorded: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
17:11 Pushilin: the port of Mariupol came under the control of the DPR.
17:00 As a result of the shelling of the VFU Aleksandrovka, a civilian was wounded - a man born in 1978. With a diagnosis of mine-explosive injury, open craniocerebral injury, a bullet wound to the head with a foreign body, the victim was hospitalized in the DoKTMO.
16:51 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:24 And now, briefly, what is happening in the territory controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On April 1, in the village of Razdolnoye in the former Donetsk region, an Aidar patrol stopped two locals. One of them was Alexander Afendikov (01/06/1987). The Aidarovtsy demanded that they kneel down and shout “glory to Ukraine”. Afendikov refused and was instantly shot by the bastards.
15:17 Ukrainian nationalists continues helling the monastery in the village of Nikolskoye. About 300 civilians are hiding on the territory of the Holy Dormition Nikolo-Vasilyevsky Monastery. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, having left the settlement, opened fire on the temple several times.
14:30 The soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who voluntarily surrendered to the military of the LPR told how they were put in a pit for several days for refusing to shoot at civilians.
The Ukrainian military miracle managed to escape and reach the LPR military.
14:10 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of three more civilians as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the settlement. Yasinovataya:
- two women born in 1995 and 1970
- man born in 1951
13:55 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the death of a civilian - a man born in 1963. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Yasinovataya. Another civilian was injured - a man born in 1957. (traumatic amputation of the leg). As a result of the shelling of the VFU, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
n.p. Yasinovataya:
- st. Pervomayskaya, 58a (garage);
- st. Levanevsky, 53, 56 - the private sector;
- st. Gorky, 25 - the private sector;
- st. Nakhimova, 10, 11, 12 - the private sector.
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
st. Alyabyeva, 21 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of the shelling continues to arrive.
13:41 Just now, as a result of the shelling of the VFU in the city of Yasinovataya, seven private houses were damaged. There was a fire. One person died, one was injured. The shelling continues - Head of the Yasinovataya Administration Dmitry Shevchenko.
12:27 Pushilin said that the special operation in Donbass will be intensified.
12:26 The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin: the number of civilians in Mariupol who died due to the actions of Ukrainian militants may exceed 5,000.
12:25 NM DPR took control of the asphalt plant in Mariupol.
12:24 Nikolskoye under Ugledaris. The temple in the village is daily shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. About 300 people, including babies from all the surrounding villages, are forced to hide from the terrorist actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the basements of the temple.
12:23 "They said, if we retreat, we will wipe out the city from the face of the earth." A resident of the liberated Mariupol said that the nationalists never cared about civilians
12:22 There are up to 3,000 Ukrainian nationalists in the Azovstal area - Pushilin.
12:10 Information was received that today in Mariupol there was an attempt to break through the enemy from the territory of the Ilyich plant in a northerly direction. The Volnovakha-Mariupol highway is blocked for traffic.
11:40 Over the past day, 415 people, including 76 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, Novoazovsky District.
11:25 The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the Kievsky Donetsk region with Grad MLRS.
11:15 NM DPR took control of the asphalt plant in Mariupol. This is reported by the sources of the project.@wargonzoon the Donbas front line. The asphalt concrete plant is part of a large conglomeration of industrial zones in the north of Mariupol and is adjacent directly to the territory of the Ilyich plant.
11:08 Russian Ministry of Defense: Kyiv, with the support of the West, is preparing actions with the mass destruction of civilians in the LPR in order to blame the Russian armed forces.
11:05 Information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage caused by shelling in the VFU microdistrict. "Tekstilshchik" of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Petrovsky, 113, 113 "a", 113 "b", 113 "c", 117 - residential apartment buildings;
- Zharikov street, 23 - residential apartment building;
- st. Petrovsky, 113 "g" - a hit in the roof of the Sokol market was recorded.
11:00 Work units of the NM DPR with the support of the Russian Army for the destruction of nationalists in Mariupol continues.
10:44 The shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk from the positions of the VFU damaged the tramway and the contact network in the area of the Sokol market. The city administration announced a reduction in the movement of routes No. 8 and No. 16 to the station. Rutchenkovo.
10:43 A total of 60 transformer substations and 5,994 household subscribers are de-energized in the Donetsk People's Republic. Repair and restoration work will begin as soon as the situation allows, the Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR reported.
10:06 The Armed Forces of Ukraine with Azov terrorized an entire microdistrict in Mariupol for two weeks. “They moved along the perimeter of four streets: Zelinsky, Bakhchivandzhi, Stroiteley, Mir. They probably fired mortars. A shot was heard and two seconds later an arrival," told a local.
09:54 In the village of Novoaidar, nine houses were destroyed after a missile attack from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the LPR reported.
09:47 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:35 In Donetsk, the rewarding of the servicemen of the NM of the DPR, who distinguished themselves during the liberation of Donbass, took place. Well-deserved awards were presented to more than a hundred servicemen. Russian performer Yulia Chicherina presented the fighters with a number of her works.
09:25 Interview with a girl evacuated from Mariupol.
She calls the Russian military, who protected children from getting into dangerous areas, “cute”: “come up - don’t worry, everything will be fine, just don’t go there, it’s dangerous there. They didn’t let us in, there are still snipers sitting on the houses.”
09:23 Shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction of:
n.p. Vodyane - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: eight shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
09:20 In Sloviansk, near boarding school No. 2, the Armed Forces of Ukraine mined a site near residential buildings, women tried to disperse them.
09:07 Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk is in the high-risk zone. Oktyabrsky, Stationary, Topaz, Slovak, Dock, Trunk, etc.
09:05 In Mariupol there was an orphanage "Pilgrim", children from which Azov supervised for eight years. The curatorship consisted in the fact that girls were made into snipers, and boys were taught the art of war. So, after the start of the NMD, these teenagers, besides the fact that they fought together with Azov, they, of course, on the orders of their curators, set fire to peaceful houses.
09:02 LPR fighters lead fire on Ukrainian troops from the AGS in Popasna.
09:00 Port near the Azovstal plant - under controlof Russian forces. The Azovstal plant is one of the last refuges for Nazi criminals on the territory of Mariupol. Despite the fact that the enemy is well prepared for the defense, units of the NM of the DPR and the RF Armed Forces are already operating on the outskirts of the industrial zone, confidently moving forward.
08:15 Today, a massive shelling of Donetsk has been going on since four in the morning! More than 40 arrivals of artillery shells have already been recorded:
04:20 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of the mine "Trudovskoy"): 15 shells fired with a caliber of 122mm
04:40 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
06:00 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
06:15 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of Trudovskaya mine): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:00 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the death of a civilian born in 1981. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Staromikhaylovka at st. Kirov, 64 "a".
[An Nahar] A London jury on Monday unanimously found 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.... follower Ali Harbi Ali
...Somali-Brit university drop-out and son of a former Somali high government official. After going through the government Islamic radicalization prevention program Prevent at the age of 18, followed by the more intensive Channel counter-terrorism program, he decided to murder a British politician in the name of ISIS, then settled on Sir David...
guilty of murdering UK politician David Amess in a ferocious knife attack in October last year.
Good.
"It cannot have been easy to listen to the evidence you have listened to," judge Nigel Sweeney told jurors, saying he would sentence Ali, 26, on Wednesday.
Ali had told the trial that he had no regrets about murdering father-of-five Amess after he voted in parliament for air strikes in Syria in 2014.
The court at London's Old Bailey heard that Ali stabbed Amess more than 20 times with a foot-long carving knife in Leigh-on-Sea, southeast England.
Members of Amess's family were in court as the verdict was read out, during which Ali refused to stand on religious grounds.
Ali, from north London, arranged an appointment with Amess, 69, by telling the politician's office that he was a healthcare worker and wished to talk about local issues.
Knife-wielding Ali was apprehended at the scene of the murder in a church by two coppers armed only with batons and spray.
He had sent a manifesto to family and friends to try to justify his actions around the time of the attack.
[NYPOST] Angellyh Yambo had just turned 16 when she got caught in gangsta crossfire outside a Bronx high school, torn from this world far too soon. Yet her accused killer, Jeremiah Ryan, might have escaped jail pending trial under New York’s insane laws, merely because he himself is a teen.
This is justice according to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and his all-too-many allies in the Legislature.
Ryan even had a perfect score to qualify for release, according the city Criminal Justice Agency, because he has no priors. Happily, Judge Vidya Pappachan agreed to hold Ryan, 17, without bail, explaining: "Based on the charges that are before this court," he did "not believe that any monetary bail will be appropriate as the least restrictive condition to ensure the defendant’s return to court."
Even then, Pappachan said he’d have to reconsider bail after the discovery phase, where prosecutors must share all the evidence with defense within a couple of weeks.
[FoxNews] The official was engaged in a scheme to steal proprietary software from the US government.
A former branch chief with the Department of Homeland Security has been convicted of theft of government property and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Murali Y. Venkata,
...more formally Murali Yamuzala Venkata, an interesting name...
a 56-year-old former Acting Inspector General of DHS-OIG, was convicted of the charges in addition to convictions for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and obstruction, according a Monday Justice Department announcement.
The DOJ said that Venkata, along with Charles K. Edwards and Sonal Patel, was engaged in a scheme to steal proprietary software from the U.S. government and the personal information of hundreds of thousands of federal employees.
"Edwards pleaded guilty in January 2022 and Patel pleaded guilty in April 2019 to stealing property from the U.S. government for the purpose of developing a commercial version of a case management system to be offered for sale to government agencies," the DoJ release said.
Venkata's role in the scheme was to ex-filtrate the proprietary source code from DHS facilities and help set up computer servers in Edwards' home that were remotely accessed by developers in India who were tasked with making the commercial version of the software.
Venkata worked at DHS from June 2010 until October 2017, when he was placed on paid administrative leave following charges in the case. He was also an employee of the U.S. Postal Service's Office of the Inspector General, another role in which he had access to sensitive information about federal employees and proprietary software systems.
[REDSTATE] Yesterday, a ’freelance journalist’ with the epic porn name of Thor Benson, and a Twitter bio of "Writer. Featured in @TheDailyBeast, @TheAtlantic, @RollingStone, @NBCNews, @businessinsider and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and science," tried to up his street cred with the most stupid and goonish members of society.
First off, the real garbage person in this scenario is Benson. Any person who would walk up to a private citizen in a restaurant and berate them over their politics just to get a few "likes" on Twitter has given up the right to any claim of manhood, maturity, or common sense...and they’ve given up the right to complain if they get their ass kicked.
But then, we had the most outrageous plot twist available.
.@thedailybeast tech & science contributor Thor Benson claimed he confronted me at a New Orleans bar & made me so uncomfortable that I left. It never happened—he racially profiled & harassed another Asian man. #StopAsianHate cc: @TracyConnorhttps://t.co/FYqrRGDMl0
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Babylon Bee] BERKELEY, CA—BLM leaders are calling for more nationwide protests this summer after discovering a fantastic home on Malibu Beach that they should easily afford if they begin riling people up now.
[Breitbart] 
[Hot Air] Michelle Irwin, the principal of San Diego’s largest high school, has decided to cut many of the school’s honors classes. In an email sent to parents, Irwin explained she was doing this for equity.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
Hezbollah
...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves 
...aka 
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway...
[Bee] Justice Clarence Thomas walked out to get his mail this morning and found a surprise in his mailbox. According to sources, he was lucky enough to receive an invitation to celebrate Kentanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation as the nation’s first black Supreme Court Justice.
