The people of Shanghai, and Hong Kong, and likely soon Beijing are facing extraordinary pressures as hunger and surveillance and fear and censorship take their toll. And the cult of personality that Chinese President Xi Jinping has worked to build over the past decade is squarely in the crosshairs.
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I think he's vastly overestimating the effectiveness of western vaccines.
I think this round of lockdown stuff is because they don't know what variant of the ACE-inhibitor-receptor-genes the virus is going to target after the next mutation.
[NTD] At least 20 FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives "assets" were embedded around the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a defense attorney wrote in a court filing on April 12.
The disclosure was made in a motion seeking to dismiss seditious conspiracy and obstruction charges against 10 Oath Keepers defendants in one of the most prominent Jan. 6 criminal cases.
David W. Fischer, attorney for Thomas E. Caldwell of Berryville, Virginia, filed a 41-page motion to dismiss four counts on behalf of all Oath Keepers case defendants before U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta in Washington, D.C.
Caldwell is charged in the indictment, but is not a member of the Oath Keepers, he told The Epoch Times in March.
“At least 20 FBI and ATF assets were embedded around the Capitol on J6,” read a footnote on Page 6 of the motion. No other details were provided in the document.
The footnote said defense attorneys “combed through a mountain of discovery,” including FBI form 302 summaries of interviews conducted by FBI agents.
In addition to the information about law-enforcement assets on the ground at the Capitol, the footnote says, the Oath Keepers “were being monitored and recorded prior to J6.”
Poring over evidence turned over in discovery by prosecutors in two major Oath Keepers cases has “not found one iota of proof” that defendants “had any plan, intention, design, or scheme to specifically enter the Capitol Building on J6,” the motion said.
Fischer told The Epoch Times he could not comment on the motion or provide more details on the footnote.
Since the first arrests of Jan. 6 defendants in early 2021, there has been extensive speculation and questions from attorneys, defendants, case observers, and members of Congress about the role law enforcement played that day.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Jan. 11, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) grilled top FBI officials on the subject.
“How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of Jan. 6?” Cruz asked Jill Sanborn, executive assistant director of the FBI’s national security branch.
“Sir, I’m sure you can appreciate that I can’t go into the specifics of sources and methods,” Sanborn said.
Cruz replied, “Did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of Jan. 6, yes or no?”
“Sir, I can’t answer that,” Sanborn said.
“Did any FBI agents or confidential informants commit crimes of violence on Jan. 6?” Cruz asked.
“I can’t answer that, sir,” Sanborn replied.
Jeremy M. Brown, an Oath Keepers member from Florida who was charged with two Jan. 6-related counts but is not part of either major Oath Keepers conspiracy case, told The Epoch Times earlier this year that the FBI unsuccessfully tried to recruit him in 2020 to spy on the group.
Brown said the same agents who later arrested him for alleged Jan. 6 crimes tried to recruit him on Dec. 11, 2020, to become a confidential informant. He refused. He was arrested on Sept. 30, 2021, when dozens of federal agents swarmed his Florida property.
“When asked by me and my girlfriend to produce the warrants at the time of arrest, they refused to produce them,” Brown said. “One agent was even recorded stating, ‘We don’t know what we are looking for yet.’ They should look for a copy of the Constitution and read it.”
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Were those the guys moving the barriers out of the way and using megaphones to urge the crowd onto "restricted property"?
[FoxNews] A bus from Texas arrived in Washington, D.C. Wednesday morning, transporting dozens of illegal immigrants as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s new plan to counter federal immigration policies during an ongoing border crisis.
Abbott announced last week that he was directing the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to transport migrants released from federal custody in Texas to the nation’s capital and other locations outside his state.
The bus pulled up at approximately 8 a.m. local time, blocks away from the U.S. Capitol building. Fox News has learned that they came from the Del Rio sector in Texas, after coming to the U.S. from Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Upon the bus's arrival in Washington, D.C., individuals disembarked one by one except for family units who exited together. They checked in with officials and had wristbands they were wearing cut off before being told they could go.
The agency told Fox News on Monday that many of the communities that originally reached out for support – from the Rio Grande Valley to Terrell County – say the federal government stopped dropping immigrants in their towns since Abbott's announcement on April 6.
According to TDEM, Abbott’s plan is already working. The agency told Fox News on Monday that many of the communities that originally reached out for support – from the Rio Grande Valley to Terrell County – say the federal government stopped dropping immigrants in their towns since Abbott's announcement on April 6.
Some had questioned whether Abbott’s plan to bus migrants was genuine. The White House dismissed it as a "publicity stunt." Even Texas state Rep. Matt Schaefer, a Republican, called it a "gimmick."
TDEM said it dispatched buses over the weekend to border communities where it coordinated with officials to identify these immigrants. The agency added that each bus has the capacity and supplies necessary to carry up to 40 migrants released in Texas communities and transport them to Washington, D.C.
Still, the governor's legal authority to transport busloads of migrants to the U.S. Capitol remains in question. The 2012 Supreme Court case, Arizona v. the United States, prevents states from making their own immigration policies.
Abbott insists that the federal government is failing to adequately address the situation. President Biden recently announced that he would be rescinding Title 42, which was used to expel migrants swiftly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Texans demand and deserve an aggressive, comprehensive strategy to secure our border—not President Biden's lackluster leadership," Abbott said in a statement. "As the federal government continues to roll back commonsense policies that once kept our communities safe, our local law enforcement has stepped up to protect Texans from dangerous criminals, deadly drugs, and illegal contraband flooding into the Lone Star State."
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Couldn't find the clip anywhere, but more than one movie has used the trope of a cop smashing a tail light and then saying "you have a tail light out..."
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Surprised Beto wasn't on-board to prove his authenticity.
[The Atlantic] This friday, as Passover begins, my thoughts will turn to my late grandmother. Born in Ukraine, she survived the Nazis, the only one in her immediate family to escape the guns of the génocidaires. Each year, at the beginning of the seder, she would stand from her chair, if she could, and recount the story of her flight, never explicitly drawing comparisons to the exodus from Egypt. As she finished her testimony—which, like the seder itself, entailed the ritualistic repetition of details and phrases—she would stare across the table and tell us, "You are my revenge against Hitler."
This year, I began to think about those words long before the holiday season. They returned to me on the night of February 25, the second day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In the darkness of Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stepped into the empty streets, trailed by a coterie of advisers. A rumor, nefariously spread, held that Zelensky had fled for his life, a decision that would have arguably made rational sense. After all, sources in U.S. intelligence were telling reporters that his government would likely be toppled in a week’s time. To counteract the sense of doom descending on Ukraine, he recorded a video on a phone. Using the gentlest version of his gravelly voice, he told his people, "We are still here."
Like my grandmother’s admonition, Zelensky’s words were a prayer and a defiant rallying cry. I felt as if they had been uttered, unconsciously, in the spirit of Passover.
Abigail Pogrebin: Why is this year different from all other years?
The Haggadah instructs its readers to tell the story of the exodus as if they were themselves slaves in Egypt. It demands an imaginative leap that places those at the table in a chain of events, asking them to vicariously conjure the terror of fleeing the Egyptians, but also the jubilation of liberation. Like the subtext of my grandmother’s conclusion, the seder not-so-subtly imposes a burden on its participants. Because their ancestors persisted through the worst, the present generation can’t be the ones who give up. In other words, the ritualistic retelling of the story of Jewish survival becomes the basis for Jewish survival.
Zelensky, a performer by trade, has been telling a story about his own people, in the hopes that it can help carry his nation through its own struggle against a pharaoh. Among the hopeful words in his story is we. His daily video messages to his people repeat flourishes like, "We are all Ukrainians. We are all Europeans. We are all free people of the free world." But that description of national sentiment wasn’t always an objective description of political reality. Ever since Ukraine became an independent nation, in 1991, its politics have been divided along linguistic and geographic lines. Political parties representing the Ukrainian-speaking west vied for power against factions representing the Russian-speaking east. Clearly, Vladimir Putin hoped that this divide would bolster his invasion, that denizens of eastern cities would greet the Russian army as liberators.
In Putin’s analysis of the world, a nation’s military strength is an outgrowth of its national character. The mightiest states have traditionalist foundations, a sense of nationhood grounded in religion and patriarchal values, the affection that comes from blood and soil. That’s another weakness he identified in Ukraine: its cosmopolitanism. Ukraine aspires to align with the European Union and its dream of transcending national borders. Its president has espoused tolerance for LGBTQ people; he was an entertainer who once pretended to play the piano with his penis. Ukraine is weak because it is decadence incarnate.
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Ukrainians aren't the new Jews fighting Nazis. They're Europe's Palestinians fighting a vastly more powerful and ruthless neighbor. Donbas is like the West Bank. Zelensky is like Arafat, except he can play Chopin with his dick
Palestine's backers think they have the moral high ground and cheer every time those nefarious Israelis get killed by a Pal warrior. But the result will be the same: a frozen conflict and an endless financial drain on the West
Or they’re literally the Cossacks that for centuries guarded Russia’s western frontier in exchange for self-rule. And now 100,000 of their women, children, and elderly are reported exiled to Siberia and points north, according to one of badanov’s translations today. Do you think they’ll be inclined to stay where Russia put them?
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And while I've never been a huge fan of Errol Flynn, there're worse entertainers for a two-bit Ukrainian comedian to be compared to. Couldn't stand the guy... but y'all have just about turned me around. Keep up the good work!
[C4ISRnet] "GPS is an enormous bargaining chip for Vladimir Putin" — George Beebe, former Chief Russia Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency
On November 15, 2021 a missile streaked into space from Russia, destroying a retired Russian satellite. The remnant debris endangered other satellites and the International Space Station crew that included Russian cosmonauts.
Russia’s anti-satellite test was meant as a clear message to the U.S.; Russia can destroy American satellites. Two weeks later a Russian news media personality bragged that Russia could bring down all 32 GPS satellites, a move that would affect nearly every facet of American life. The demonstration and subsequent threat would become a prelude to Russia’s next major act.
As Russia shot down a satellite, they were also massing troops at their border with Ukraine. When they invaded in February, the threat to American satellites became a particularly ominous deterrent to U.S. support for Ukraine.
U.S. critical infrastructure relies on precise timing and navigation signals from GPS satellites. A member of the National Security Council acknowledged this at a December public meeting saying "GPS is still a single point of failure" for America.
If GPS signals suddenly disappeared, transportation systems would immediately suffer. Everything would slow down, carry less capacity and be more dangerous. Air travel would be less efficient and safe. Delivery services would be hamstrung. Uber and Lyft would be out of business.
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Oh my god there is so much stupid in this article.
First, the satellite that the Russians shot down was in very low earth orbit. Less than 2,000km. Most of the GPS satellites are in mid-earth orbit at 20,000-26,000km. Even the US does not have a system in place to kill satellites at this altitude.
The satellites are orbiting all over the earth's surface so Russia can't get all of them. If they could reach up that high, maybe they could cause some issues over Europe and Asia and that is about it. The US also has 15 GPS satellites as backups and with newer private space companies can get them back up pretty quick.
Lastly, attacking a system like this would be a full act of war and doubtful the US and the rest of the world would just go "Oh well. We give up". It would be WWIII and the western world would start hitting Russian targets so Putie-pie might as well go full nuclear at that point.
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I think destroying commercial satellites would also be legally actionable (I know) and open the door to the US dropping any treaties it has in place preventing us from doing likewise in the future.
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Now a US spy satellite at low earth orbit that Russia knows is passing on real time information to the Ukraine... that is a different story. I'd knock that sucker out of orbit.
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I'm not in favor of the level of help we are providing now, but if we are going to, why not give them stuff that can pick up GLONASS signals and let the Russians figure out how to deal with that.
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We could, but it seems the Russians just aren't using that much "smart" munitions. Most is dumb bombs and rockets currently. Doesn't seem worth the cost. I would rather just more MANPADs and Soviet medium-altitude SAMs to deal with air power and drones.
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I think GPS is becoming less and less useful. I think smart phones triangulate between cell towers for positioning.
For an Android phone, put it in airplane mode and pull up maps. It still finds you. That is GPS.
And it isn't just phones. Pretty much everything that can be tracked now relies on GPS. If GPS went offline tomorrow, most ships, planes and anything that needs to know where it is on the planet is, in the technical term, fucked.
GPS is more and more becoming something modern society just can't do without. Just like the internet and electricity.
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Most people can't even use a shadow and the time of day to get a rough idea of direction.
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FBMs used the precursor to “GPS” to keep track of the subs position for obvious reasons. I imagine that misses that change position use something like that also.
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ICBMs (ours anyway) use inertial and celestial guidance to accomplish their course. The system is refined enough that it includes adjustments for the variations in the Earth's magnetic field. Of course, an actual ICBM course is all about flying to a point deploying the bus and then the individual warheads from the bus. It's one of those things that is at once very simple and in the sense that it works at all a miracle.
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This is interesting input about war and its changes. The competition between offensive technology and defensive technology goes back for millenia. Offenensve technology jumps, like the invention of the tank or war aircraft, then defensive technology reacts with the invention of bazookas, Panzerfaust, etc, and AA guns and AA rockets. Every now and then one side really outstrips the other and then for a while one side has a major advantage. Will tanks become a thing of the past, will aircraft carriers become just huge targets? If so, what happens after that?
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Closing paragraphs, though the rest is well worth the time to read:
Napoleon, who fought many battles in this part of the world, observed that “the moral is to the physical as three is to one.” I was thinking of this maxim as Jed and I finished our tea.
In Ukraine—at least in this first chapter of the war—Napoleon’s words have held true, proving in many ways decisive. In my earlier conversation with Zagorodnyuk, as he and I went through the many reforms and technologies that had given the Ukrainian military its edge, he was quick to point out the one variable he believed trumped all others. “Our motivation—it is the most important factor, more important than anything. We’re fighting for the lives of our families, for our people, and for our homes. The Russians don’t have any of that, and there’s nowhere they can go to get it.”
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Chinese investors cut a secret deal with DRCF officials increasing their profit share of mining revenues while falling behind on promised infrastructure agreements.
[Breitbart] A Swedish police operation conducted in March bust 38 men seeking to purchase sex from prostitutes and found that 30 of them had bought sexual favours from exploited Ukrainian women.
Swedish police conducted “Operation Cod” in March and arrested a total of 38 men by the end of the month who were accused of purchasing sex from prostitutes and found that 30 of them had bought sex from Ukrainian women, some of whom have recently fled the ongoing conflict with Russia.
“It’s startling. It can be clear from the ads that the women have recently come from Ukraine, but these men do not care,” police inspector Simon Häggström told broadcaster SVT.
“More or less all the women we spoke to say that it is the war that has led to prostitution. You have no choice but to sell your body to help your families who are in Ukraine or who are on the run,” Häggström added.
According to SVT, many of the women have been lured by sex traffickers through the internet and are promised accommodation and cash in exchange for becoming prostitutes.
“The traffickers attract [women] with package solutions where they pay for travel and accommodation. Then there are so-called operators who act as intermediaries between the women and the sex buyers. Everything is very organized,” inspector Häggström said.
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[Breitbart] Male-to-female transgender police in the UK are fully permitted to strip-search biologically female suspects according to newly-seen police guidelines.
According to police guidelines quietly put into place late last year, male-to-female transgender police officers in the UK are allowed to conduct strip searches on biologically female suspects.
Women who try to refuse such strip searches could find themselves being reprimanded with a so-called “non-crime hate incident“, an entry on an individual’s police record which can sometimes jeopardise a person’s future job prospects.
According to a report by the Daily Mail, the new policing guidelines were put in place in December of last year, but have only recently come to light for the public thanks to a recently retired officer making them available to the British publication.
While strip searches must reportedly be conducted by an officer of the same sex as the subject, the new guidelines are reported to state that, once an officer is recognised as having transitioned by “present[ing] in the gender with which they identify”, they are permitted to conduct strip-searches on the gender they have transitioned to.
“Thus, once a Transgender colleague has transitioned, they will search persons of the same gender as their own lived gender,” the document reportedly says.
The guidelines also go into detail regarding a person’s refusal to be strip-searched by a transgender individual, saying that “‘If the refusal is based on discriminatory views, consideration should be given for the incident [to] be recorded as a non-crime hate incident unless the circumstances amount to a recordable crime.”
“The more I read it, the more shocked I was,” said Superintendent Cathy Larkman, who passed on the guidelines after retiring from service. “This is a devastating blow to women’s trust in the police.”
“Women are not even an afterthought in this guidance — they are completely non-existent,” the recently retired officer claimed. “Everything is geared towards the sensitivities of the officer doing the searching.”
Conservative Party politicians have previously promised to roll back the use of the “non-crime hate incident” since a court ruling last year shed light on the nature of the measure, with the country’s Home Secretary pledging to protect freedom of speech.
However, the ostensibly conservative government has seemingly instead doubled down on supporting trans-ideology with positive platitudes and hate speech laws, with one senior government official even failing to define the term “woman” during an interview in what appears to be a concession to the hardline leftist lobby.
[All on Georgia] Norma Precision Ammunition, a subsidiary of the leading European ammunition manufacturer RUAG Ammotec, has established its U.S. headquarters, manufacturing site, and warehousing and distribution operations in Chatham County. The company is currently hiring.
"With their facilities in close proximity to the Port of Savannah — the top port for U.S. exports — and our highly-skilled pool of talent, I’m confident that RUAG Ammotec will be very pleased with their decision to invest in the Peach State," said Governor Kemp. "I’m grateful to Norma Precision Ammunition for their job-stimulating investments, and I look forward to seeing the opportunities this creates for hardworking Georgians in the region."
With operations in 12 different countries, Swiss-based RUAG Ammotec develops and produces high-end ammunition for sports shooters, special operations forces, and peace officers worldwide, serving key markets in the military, law enforcement, hunting, and sporting goods sectors. In 2021, Norma Precision Ammunition imported over 400 containers of ammunition from RUAG Ammotec factories in Europe, while also delivering over 30 million cartridges of ammunition made in the U.S.
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Congrats to Georgia on joining the Constitutional carry club. Please send some of that spine-building water the Georgia statehouse members were drinking to my state government here in Florida.
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Good news
IF the Biden/LSD's EPA doesn't pull Fast One and use an Environment reg. to shut it down.
Or contract (like Obama) to purchase most of the civilian ammo and store it in the open weather in Pueblo Co.
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Or contract (like Obama) to purchase most of the civilian ammo and store it in the open weather in Pueblo Co.
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We discussed at the time where all those bullets might be going. There were concerns because of reports that odd departments like Health, Education, and Welfare were arming departmental police.
[TK News By Mike Taibbi] More and more, we're told outright war isn't just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve America's existential problems.
Robert Kagan, neoconservative writer and husband to Deputy Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, wrote a piece called "The Price of Hegemony" in Foreign Affairs last week that was fascinating. If I’d written his opening, people would denounce me as a Putin-concubine:
Although it is obscene to blame the United States for Putin’s inhumane attack on Ukraine, to insist that the invasion was entirely unprovoked is misleading.
Just as Pearl Harbor was the consequence of U.S. efforts to blunt Japanese expansion on the Asian mainland, and just as the 9/11 attacks were partly a response to the United States’ dominant presence in the Middle East after the first Gulf War, so Russian decisions have been a response to the expanding post–Cold War hegemony of the United States and its allies in Europe.
Kagan went on to make an argument straight out of Dr. Strangelove. Instead of doing what some critics want and focusing on “improving the well-being of Americans,” the U.S. government is instead properly recognizing the responsibility that comes with being a superpower. So, while Russia’s invasion may indeed have been a foreseeable consequence of a decision to expand our hegemonic reach, now that we’re here, there’s only one option left. Total commitment:
It is better for the United States to risk confrontation with belligerent powers when they are in the early stages of ambition and expansion, not after they have already consolidated substantial gains. Russia may possess a fearful nuclear arsenal, but the risk of Moscow using it is not higher now than it would have been in 2008 or 2014, if the West had intervened then. And it has always been extraordinarily small…
About the author: Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Washington Post. Kagan is an American neoconservative scholar, and critic of U.S. foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal interventionism. A co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, he is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Wikipedia
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Was a time when one of the things a judge would sentence a vandal to was to clean off the graffiti they sprayed or pay to repair the vandalism they had done. Wouldn't it be great to see these people convicted of their war-mongering ways and sentenced to spending the rest of their lives cleaning up the messes they have made?
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He's f**king out of his mind, but it's nice to see Nuland's husband finally admit the obvious -- that his wife and her bosses bear the ultimate blame for this mess
[Real Clear Policy] Three of the largest for-profit hospital chains in the U.S. made a combined $120 billion in 2021, while violating federal transparency laws, according to an investigation by Patient Rights Advocate.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2021, the Affordable Care Act required hospitals to be transparent about what they charge patients.
The Hospital Price Transparency Rule requires providers to post prices for their medical services online in a "machine-readable standard charges list for all items and services for all payers and plans" as well as a "standard charges list or price estimator tool for the 300 most common shoppable services," according to the report.
The idea was to promote competition between hospitals, thereby lowering prices.
The Patient Rights Advocate report found that only 14 percent of the 1,000 hospitals reviewed were compliant with these regulations, and only 0.5 percent of hospitals owned by the three largest U.S. hospital systems — HCA Healthcare, CommonSpirit Health, and Ascension — were compliant.
None of the HCA Healthcare system’s 118 hospitals were compliant, the report found, and those three large systems made a combined $120 billion (page 3).
Open The Books studied the largest non-profit health care providers in the country in 2019 and found that their revenues and assets continued to grow as consumer prices skyrocketed, all while receiving tax breaks for their "non-profit" status.
Patient Rights Advocate found that the cost to companies to comply with these transparency regulations would be $12,000 per hospital.
Why are hospitals so reluctant to post their prices? Fear of competition may play a role. If hospitals followed the law, consumers might shop around to find the best deals on their medical procedures.
The U.S. needs to enforce its laws to ensure hospitals are being transparent in their pricing, since they won’t voluntarily obey the law.
[NYPost] A troubled man who railed against Mayor Adams and made bizarre threatening rants on YouTube has been identified as a person of interest in the savage Brooklyn subway attack that injured at least 23 people Tuesday morning, officials said.
Frank James — who warned last month that he was "entering the danger zone" — rented a U-Haul van tied to the N train attack in Sunset Park and is being sought for questioning, police said at an evening briefing.
"Mr. Mayor, I’m a victim of your mental health program," James said in one lengthy video.
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Preliminary details are always sketchy but something doesn't add up. He blasts 33 rounds (presumably with an extended mag stick) and then his gl17 reportedly "jammed up".
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"They shot up the N train!"
"Dude! Who?"
"It better not, white boy, be you,
For to murder and maim
On a train with that name
Is some shit only Black folks should do!"
[IsraelTimes] Iranian-backed militias in Iraq are smuggling weapons to arm Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, The Guardian reports.
RPGs, anti-tank missiles and Brazilian-designed rocket launcher systems have made their way from Iraq to Ukraine, according to the report, which cites members of the Iranian-backed militias as well as regional intelligence services familiar with the matter.
An Iranian-made Bavar 373 missile system was also donated to Moscow by Iranian authorities, a source who helped organize the transfer is quoted as saying.
RPGs and anti-tank missiles belonging to the Hashd al-Shaabi Shia militia group were transported on March 26 from Iraq to Iran, where they were collected by Russian authorities, who then shipped them to Russia by sea, a commander of the militia branch that controls the crossing tells the British daily.
Hashd al-Shaabi also dismantled Brazilian-designed Astros II rocket launcher systems on April 1 for shipment to Russian forces.
"We don’t care where the heavy weapons go [because we don’t need them at the moment]," one Hashd al-Shaabi source tells the Guardian. "Whatever is anti-US makes us happy."
[HOT AIR] It’s not the first time that Joe Manchin has gotten crosswise with the White House on messaging, but it might be the most dramatic example yet. The Biden team started off their record-inflation day by helpfully reminding everyone that criticism of Joe Biden amounted to lèse majesté, and maybe even treason:
It’s been a long, strange trip from "dissent is patriotic" and "the resistance" on the Left to "criticizing our Dear Leader is treasonous," eh? The criticism in this case is well earned, especially for the gaslighting attempts to claim that inflation only became a problem when Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. As the above chart shows, annualized inflation went above the 2% target used by the Federal Reserve immediately after the passage of Biden’s bloated American Rescue Act in March 2021, and with the exception of a short pause in the late spring has been accelerating ever since.
No lesser figure than Barack Obama’s lead economic adviser made the same point in much more granularity. Jason Furman’s Twitter thread pointed out some reasons for limited optimism, but also emphasized that inflation in the US has not just been accelerating for a year, but that it’s outpaced EU inflation to boot:
But I feel it is the way the LSD's Coup and the RINO's used the Pandemic to go all out in Pork Spending, donor paybacks which all further bankrupt the USA, that has caused the inflation.
Because while FJB is a good figurehead to blame.
We all know his Happy Meal isn't just a few fries short and it is his handlers handing him what to sign.
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Economics 101. Wildly expansionist fiscal and monetary policies lead to inflation. For the econ majors among us, remember MV = PQ.
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Nah - according to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT, aka Magical Monetary Theory) the government can spend, spend, spend FOREVER with no adverse effects. What could possibly go wrong?
[Rudaw] Iraqi forces on Monday arrested an 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) leader along with several suspects in Iraq, a military official said as the terror group continues to pose a threat across the country.
Iraqi counter-terrorism services arrested three ISIS suspects in Anbar and caught two others in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Iraq’s top military spokesperson Yehia Rasool said.
The forces also "brought in" two other suspects affiliated to the group with the assistance of the Kurdistan Region’s counter-terrorism directorate, Rasool added, without disclosing further details.
The counter-terror forces have also arrested a prominent ISIS leader, according to Rasool, saying the forces would share more information regarding the figure in the near future.
ISIS remnants are particularly active in parts of northern Iraq that are disputed by Erbil and Baghdad, including in the provinces of Kirkuk, Diyala, and Salahaddin.
The terror group grabbed credit for an attack on a village in southern Kirkuk, saying they have killed at least three civilians and injured four others.
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[AlMonitor] Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against an alleged member of the notorious 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.... kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles."
El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, declined the opportunity to testify in his own defense at his trial in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
Asked by Judge T.S. Ellis if he wanted to take the stand, Elsheikh said "No," the first time his voice had been heard during the two-week trial.
Elsheikh is charged with the murders of American freelance journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and suspected of the kidnapping of nearly 20 other Westerners in Syria.
Ten European journalists, relief workers and Syrians held hostage by the "Beatles" have testified over the past few days of their brutal treatment at their captors' hands.
Elsheikh's lawyers declined to cross-examine any of the witnesses and presented only 20 minutes of excerpts from interviews he gave to media outlets as his defense.
The interviews were conducted after Elsheikh and another alleged "Beatle," Alexanda Amon Kotey, were captured in January 2018 by a Kurdish militia in Syria.
Unlike now, Elsheikh acknowledged in the interviews that he had interactions with the Western hostages, who dubbed the hostage-takers the "Beatles" because of their British accents.
Elsheikh's lawyers contend that he lied about being a "Beatle" in the interviews so he would be transferred to the United States instead of being put on trial in Iraq, where he would have faced a certain death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... The final former hostage to testify was Danish photographer Daniel Rye Ottosen, who recounted how he was given 25 blows for his 25th anniversary.
He also recalled having a knife placed against his throat and a gun thrust into his mouth.
The prosecution and defense are to deliver their closing arguments on Wednesday, and the case will go to the jury.
Elsheikh and Kotey were turned over to US forces in Iraq following their capture. They were flown to Virginia in 2020 to face charges of hostage-taking, conspiracy to murder US citizens and supporting a terrorist organization.
Kotey pleaded guilty in September 2021 and is facing life in prison.
The other "Beatle," Mohammed Emwazi, the notorious executioner known as "Jihadi John," was killed by a US dronezap in Syria in 2015.
A young Yazidi woman testified on Monday that American aid worker Kayla Mueller told her she was raped by former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and threatened with death if she tried to escape.
Lia Mulla, who was captured by Islamic State (IS) members in August 2014 as she tried to flee Iraq's Mount Sinjar with her family, testified through a translator on Monday at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, who was allegedly one of Mueller's IS jailers.
Mueller, an aid worker from Arizona, was captured by IS in August 2013 while accompanying her Syrian boyfriend on a trip to a hospital in Aleppo, where he was contracted to repair a satellite dish. She was initially held by the "Beatles" but then was allegedly turned over to Baghdadi, the IS leader who died during a US special forces raid in 2019.
Mulla said she was taken by IS to various locations with other young women after being captured. Eventually, she ended up in a prison where Mueller was being detained. They communicated "mostly with their hands," she said, and a few words of Arabic.
"One day they took her and when they brought her back she was really afraid," Mulla said. "They had told her that IS wanted to marry us off, and if we were to try to run away they would kill us."
A couple of days later, Mulla said she was taken along with Mueller and another Yazidi girl to the home of Abu Sayyaf, a top Baghdadi lieutenant, where they would "treat us like slaves."
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After a week there, she said they were taken to the "dirty house... the place were they took maiden of tender yearss and raped them."
She said Baghdadi came one night and took Mueller away.
When Mueller returned the next morning, "she was very sad, she was very nervous, she was crying," Mulla said. "She had been raped and threatened that if she tried to run away he would kill her."
Mulla said she decided to try to escape and asked Mueller to join her but she declined. "She was afraid that if she was captured, she would be beheaded," she said.
But Mueller asked Mulla to "tell the world" about her if she managed to make it to freedom. Mulla said she slipped out a window, climbed on a generator to get over a wall and ran for a long time. After her escape, she said her brother put her in touch with a friend who was a translator for the Americans and she told them about Mueller.
IS announced Mueller's death in February 2015 and said she was killed in a Jordanian Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... , a claim that was disputed by US authorities.
Foley, Sotloff and Kassig were murdered by IS and videos of their deaths released by the group for propaganda purposes.
Elsheikh and another "Beatle," Alexanda Amon Kotey, were captured in January 2018 by a Kurdish militia in Syria and turned over to US forces in Iraq. They were flown to Virginia in 2020 to face charges of hostage-taking, conspiracy to murder US citizens and supporting a terrorist organization.
Kotey pleaded guilty in September 2021 and is facing life in prison.
"Beatles" executioner Mohammed Emwazi was killed by a US drone in Syria in 2015.
Elsheikh has denied the charges and his lawyers claim his arrest is a case of mistaken identity.
A former Islamic State group member turned cooperating witness has told a US court that an ex-jihadist on federal trial was clearly "more important" than other fighters.
Omer Kuzu testified on Monday that he met El Shafee Elsheikh on at least five occasions. He said while they did not talk much, Mr Elsheikh had an air of importance. Mr Elsheikh, 33, is the highest profile IS fighter to face trial in the US.
Mr Kuzu, who spent four-and-a-half years as an IS member, testified at Mr Elsheikh's trial as part of a plea deal with the US government.
The 26-year-old left his home in Dallas, Texas at age 18 in October 2014, flew to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and was later smuggled into Syria. He joined the telecommunications office in Raqqa, Syria, then "the capital of IS". He told the court he did "typical IT work" to support the group's battlefield operations.
He was captured by Syrian forces in 2019, and handed over to the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... . He pleaded guilty in Texas in September 2020 to conspiracy to provide material support to IS.
On the stand on Monday, Mr Kuzu said that while other guards wore traditional Afghan clothes, Mr Elsheikh wore a green military uniform and always carried a Glock pistol. Having a Glock was uncommon, he said, calling it "a symbol of Isis aristocracy".
He said Mr Elsheikh was also "quiet, reserved, almost secretive", which he believed indicated he didn't want to be a target of foreign intelligence agencies.
Mr Kuzu appeared in court in a teal prison jumpsuit. He spoke clearly, often leaning forward into the microphone and saying "yes sir" in response to questions. Asked to identify Mr Elsheikh, he pointed at the defendant and described his clothing. The defendant, always wearing a disposable black face mask, pulled it down during the identification process.
Identification is a key part of the trial. The defence argue Mr Elsheikh was a "simple Isis fighter" not one of the so-called Beatles, and therefore should not be held responsible for what that turban cell did.
Under cross-examination, Mr Kuzu admitted that Mr Elsheikh had never explicitly told him about himself or what he did for IS. But he said "his work was right in front of my eyes".
He also described Mr Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey - believed to be another "Beatle" who in September pleaded guilty to multiple charges relating to the murder of four American hostages in Syria - as "some sort of a duo or tag team".
[Garowe] Somali National Army (SNA) backed by the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) killed seven al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... snuffies in a foiled attack on Monday in the southern part of the country.
The SNA commanders who led the operation told Radio Mogadishu that the gunnies had attempted to launch an attack on an army base in Dinsoor, a town in the southern region of Bay.
"Somali National Army and ATMIS forces in Dinsoor town of Bay region on Monday repulsed an attack on Army base by al-Shabaab and killed seven terrorists," the state-owned radio reported.
The gunnies often carry out attacks against government and AU bases in southern and central Somalia despite heavy security and army presence in those areas.
The latest onslaught against the terror group comes as government forces have intensified operations against al-Shabaab snuffies across the country during the electioneering period, but the gunnies are still hiding in the rural areas of those regions, conducting ambushes and planting land mines.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has warned passengers not to be 'jerks'
...Well, that ought to do it. Thanks, Pete.
Mike
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A middle seat will do that to you.
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Only placed on American Airlines' no-fly list.
Hell the judge should have locked her up for 10 years for endangering the other 100+ passengers.
Then placed her on a Total Airline ban list for life.
The Mega Karen's & Daren's of this world need to be sent a message.
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Why should they, people committing REAL crimes are being slapped on the wrist and let go. Not to mention the stewardesses seem to have gone the way of the teacher, go against their little bit of authority and they go overboard.
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Note: 10 cents not 10 percent
Please pray tell what the $%^& can you buy with 10 cents nowadays? With a 15 gallon car tank the $1.50 won't even buy a Diet Coke in many stores
Some off-the-cuff Math.
Trump's
Drill Here, Drill Now. Pipeline delivery.
American with surplus Oil and even exporting.
87 (90/10) Octane Gas $2.17+/- (4-year avg).
Biden/LSD Coup
No Drilling Here, No Pipeline get it somewhere else that takes 2+ X more fuel to deliver it to the USA from overseas.
87 (90/10) Octane Gas $3.59+/- (18 monthavg).
87 (85/15) Octane Gas Estimate cost $3.29+/-.
As I see it JB and the LSD coup owes us $1 per Gallon, not a 10 cent rebate.
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Blow up gas 500 cents, cast some spell which won't work, and get people excited about a potential 490 cent increase instead, and that is a win.
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the North Korean government has repeatedly insulted him, famously describing him in 2019 as a “rabid dog” that should “be beaten to death with a stick.”
Well that's just the classics revisited. The following propaganda conclusions....well...
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Lower prices by using more ethanol:
1. Use food for a potentially starving world/nation to make ethanol.
2. My vehicle which gets 40mpg cannot use 15% ethanol.
3. Bitexone is an idiot!
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[AlAhram] Two Illinois men who helped bomb a Minnesota mosque in 2017 were sentenced Tuesday to about 16 years and roughly 14 years in prison, far below the 35-year mandatory minimum that each man faced, after victims and prosecutors asked for leniency because the men cooperated and testified against the criminal mastermind of the attack.
Michael McWhorter, 33, was sentenced to just under 16 years in prison and Joe Morris, 26, was sentenced to about 14 years in prison. Both testified in the 2020 trial against Emily Claire Hari,
...now 51 and “female”, at the time of the events in question went by his birth name of Michael Hari, and promised his henchmen the moon and stars to help him bomb that Somali mosque ...
the leader of a small Illinois militia group called the ``White Rabbits.''
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) April 12, 2022
An Iraqi security expert revealed on Tuesday that the Iraqi judiciary has resolved the cases of more than 1,500 people who came from Hawl Camp.
The families returning from Hawl Camp undergo rehabilitation programs with the support of international organizations, and some of these families, who were undergone rehabilitation programmes, were returned to their original areas in Iraq in coordination with the notables and the concerned authorities in the regions inside Iraq.
"The National Security Advisory succeeded in receiving more than 450 families, an average of nearly more than 1,700 people from Hawl Camp," explaining that "the Iraqi judiciary has resolved the cases of more than 1,550 people."
United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... has called for the resolution of the situation of Hawl Camp in northeast Syria, warning that it is a "ticking time bomb".
Last Saturday, a conference was held under the title (Hawl Camp and the obligations of the international community), in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The security expert said that al-Jada’a camp in Nineveh Governorate, in the west of the country, is currently ready to receive the returnees.
Hawl Camp, the most dangerous camp worldwide, houses no less than 30,000 Iraqi nationals who are either ISIS members or ISIS families.
Hawl Camp is full of Iraqis, and solutions and subsequent steps must be taken to embrace them and restore the contact of children and women with society, since their fathers or husbands were killed or arrested outside Iraq," Abu Raghef said.
During the previous periods, Iraq formed a committee to visit the camp and meet with Iraqi families, in coordination with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) according to Ali Abbas, a front man for the Iraqi Ministry of Immigration, in a previous statement to North Press.
Abu Raghef stressed "The need for civil society organizations, Media and holy mans to work on this issue with international, local and regional support."
Iraq calls the international community to dismantle Hawl Camp, repatriate the citizens and prosecute "terrorists" in their own countries to achieve a sustainable security in the region and in the world, al-Araji said on the sideline of the conference.
[BREITBART] Restaurants across the nation are cutting specific promotions and reworking menu specials amid record inflation levels.
Food prices were up 7.9 percent in February compared to one year ago, and March’s numbers are expected to continue the upward trend when they are released Tuesday.
After one year’s worth of rising inflation, consumers across the country are swapping expensive items for cheaper counterparts, causing retail stores and restaurants to rethink their sales and menu deals.
In January, Beef ’O’ Brady’s CEO Chris Elliott removed the restaurant’s renowned surf and turf special from the menu after seeing signs that consumers were being impacted by rising inflation.
"People are looking for deals; they’re getting hammered everywhere — at the gas station, at the grocery store," Elliot said.
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A friend of mine owns a bar and he pointed out that he cut out "prime rib night" because the cost of the dinner just got past what people would pay. OTOH, he had to keep wings on the menu, even though they are up to $25.00 / dozen. Some stuff, if people want it, they'll pay no matter what and complain bitterly if they can't order it.
Oh, and then they do complain about the price while they chew.
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Middle Eastern GA.
Average 2-person Franchise dining out costs $45-50.
Area buffets $16 to $19 per person.
Mom & Pop diners $16+ per person.
The Wahoo's/Hippo's at buffets are having to stay longer to fill up and keep the 350+ LBS on.
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Some stuff, if people want it, they'll pay no matter what and complain bitterly if they can't order it.
Oh, and then they do complain about the price while they chew.
Not too long ago, customer:
"I simply cannot find this size of thing, can you try for me?"
Spend some 60minutes work time, find the leprechaun. Literally do not mark it up even for time spent.
"Gagh, not at that price!"
So I mark it up and eat it until it is a good price. Not a big deal, but would be on a big order; that instance literally changed my special order policy.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] US and international law enforcement agencies have seized control of a popular website where hackers have advertised data stolen from American consumers and corporations.
This is the latest in a long-running effort to crack down on forums where cybercriminals congregate.
Tagged TOURNIQUET, the operation was said to have been carried out by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Secret Service.
"This domain has been seized" by the FBI, US Secret Service and Justice Department, read a notice Tuesday on the home page of RaidForums, a website known more for advertising hacked data in English rather than in Russian, the preferred language of other criminal forums.
Law enforcement agencies from the United Kingdom, Sweden and elsewhere were involved in the seizure, according to the statement, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... reports.
With over 530,000 registered members, according to threat intelligence firm Recorded Future, RaidForums had great reach and influence among low to mid-level cybercriminals.
RaidForums' 21-year-old alleged founder, Diogo Santos Coelho, was arrested in the United Kingdom on January 31, and remains in jug pending "the resolution of his extradition proceedings," the Justice Department said.
It's the latest move in a sustained international law enforcement effort to upend the marketplaces where cybercrime flourishes.
German police last week seized the computer servers of Hydra, a popular Russian dark web market connected to $5 billion in transactions since 2015.
"The takedown of this online market for the resale of hacked or stolen data disrupts one of the major ways cybercriminals profit from the large-scale theft of sensitive personal and financial information," Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department's Criminal Division in a written statement.
US authorities had access to RaidForums' computer infrastructure for several months before the seizure was announced, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the matter.
That likely gave authorities valuable insight into who bought and sold hacked data during that time.
The seizure of RaidForums is a blow to crooks looking for an easy way to profit from data breaches. But the underground market for stolen financial and personal data will likely continue to flourish, analysts said, because there are numerous other online bazaars for trading that data.
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"This domain has been seized"
They compromised a hub used by .5m cyber cryminals.
They could have used it covertly to identify, track and apprehend many more cryminal transaction buyers and sellers.
[IJR] Elon Musk, CEO of Space X and Tesla, bought a huge share of Twitter but has turned down a seat on the social media giant’s board.
This has everyone asking, is Musk positioning himself to take over Twitter?
Elon Musk bought 9.2 percent of Twitter, which makes him the largest shareholder in the social media company, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... reported.
Many then assumed that his next move would be to join the Twitter board. But he has opted out of taking a seat, ABC News reported.
"Elon’s appointment to the board was to become officially effective on April 9, but Elon shared that same morning that he would not be joining the board. I believe this is for the best," Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced.
Many assumed Musk would be joining the board since he tweeted over the weekend several suggestions for changes to Twitter, such as making it ad free, even though 90 percent of Twitter’s 2021 revenue came from advertisement, ABC News reported.
Agrawal said that Twitter’s board understood the risks of having Musk as a member. But the board "believed having Elon as a fiduciary of the company, where he, like all board members, has to act in the best interests of the company and all our shareholders, was the best path forward," Agrawal wrote.
Having Musk on the board would have been in the board’s best interest because, though he is already the largest shareholder, the board was offering him a seat on the condition that he not own more than 14.9 percent of the company’s outstanding stock, ABC News reported.
A German woman who allegedly abused a Yazidi slave while in 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.... -held territory in Syria has been charged with crimes against humanity and other offenses, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
The woman, identified only as Jalda A. in keeping with German privacy laws, was arrested upon her arrival back in Germany on Oct. 7. Before her repatriation, she had been held captive by Kurdish forces since late 2017.
She was charged with membership in a foreign terrorist organization, crimes against humanity, war crimes and being an accessory to genocide, prosecutors said in a statement.
The suspect traveled in April 2014 via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... to Syria, according to prosecutors, where she quickly married an IS fighter and gave birth to a son the following year. When her first husband died, she married two other men in succession.
She lived with the third man in and near the Syrian city of Mayadin from September to October 2017, prosecutors said, adding that the husband kept a Yazidi woman as a slave and regularly raped her with the suspect's knowledge.
The suspect also physically abused the woman "almost every day," according to prosecutors. She allegedly punched and kicked the woman, pulled her hair, and slammed her head against the wall, and on one occasion hit the woman in the head with a flashlight.
In addition, prosecutors said, the suspect constantly watched the woman and repeatedly told her to pray according to Islamic custom, an act that "served the stated goal of the IS, to eradicate the Yazidi faith."
The indictment was filed last month at the state court in Hamburg, which will have to decide whether and when to open a trial.
[An Nahar] The Mount Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... accusatory body led by Judge Pierre Francis on Tuesday approved a ruling to release Raja Salameh from jail, dismissing an appeal filed by Mt. Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun.
The accusatory body also agreed to slash the bail value from LBP 500 billion to LBP 200 billion.
Salameh's lawyer had recently said that the LBP 500 billion bail that Investigative Judge Nicolas Mansour had ordered for the release of Salameh was "unprecedented" in the history of the Lebanese Justice Palace.
"The amount is unreasonable and illogical," lawyer Marwan al-Khoury said, after having filed an appeal demanding that the bail amount be slashed.
Mansour had ordered the release of Raja Salameh, Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh's brother, on a bail of LBP 500 billion, but Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun appealed against the decision and demanded that he be kept in jug.
Aoun had charged Raja with "facilitating money laundering" after he was arrested over financial misconduct.
The same charge was filed against Ukrainian national Anna Kosakova, who jointly owns a company with Raja Salameh.
The judge is also overseeing several legal cases against Riad Salameh, who has repeatedly failed to show up at hearings.
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[THEBLUESTATECONSERVATIVE] But then after the election, the narrative began to unravel. The lead FBI agent, Richard Trask, who signed the charging documents under oath, was fired from the FBI. He had been arrested for assaulting his wife after a drunken swinger’s party.
A few months later, two more agents were removed from the witness list. Special Agent Jayson Chambers was removed from the case because it was discovered that he was attempting to profit from the case. He was launching a private security firm, which would benefit from his work on the Whitmer case.
Special Agent Henrik Impola was also removed from the case after he had been accused of perjuring himself on another case. Apparently, the FBI found it easier to remove him than defend him.
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They threw it at the wall and it didn't stick. I doubt they will pick it up and try again, but they will learn from their "mistakes" in future such orchestrated miscarriages of justice.
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See 6 January "Washington insurrection" for expanded, full scale example.
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I think the difference between the two is that the feebs spent a lot of time creating their case here. On Jan 6, they opportunistically grabbed up a bunch of hapless, ill-advised poeple and are letting the injustice department create the crime after the fact in court, the wall where ultimately that which is flung must stick.
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BTW, I am glad I visited Washington DC for the dedication of the WW II memorial. Huge crowds and no indictments. I think the only way I will ever go back is on a walker to watch them put pretty much every politician from the Clinton era onward up against a wall.
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Can we still such proceedings, "Kangaroo Courts"
or is that insulting Kangaroos too much?
Either way, if the Mid-Term outcomes are honest, this time. Maybe Congress will hold DOJ personnel investigation hearings.
With the goal of flushing out those that use Political Agenda to make arrests, prosecution and sentencing thus violating the Bill Of Rights and US Constitutionally based Laws.
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^ Two impediments to that: GOPe will never do it and who, besides a justice dept employee, knows more about not leaving / deleting / altering a paper trail that might harm them later?
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Re#5, If the mid term elections come out like the last shit show, I don't think some people are going to give a shit about the DOJ, FBI or any of the rest of the governments bullshit orgs. When you can't eat, work, and have to sit at home and hear the nonsense on the news everyday, what do you have to lose?
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The Weirdos had this called fairly quickly, but credit because The Narrative current was strong.
[NewsOn6] TULSA, Oklahoma - Comedy icon Gilbert Gottfried died at the age of 67 on Tuesday according to a message from his family.
In a tweet from Gottfried's account, his family wrote that he passed away after a long illness.
"In addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful husband, brother, friend, and father to his two young children. Although today is a sad for all of us, please keep laughing as loud as possible in Gilbert's honor," wrote the family. More at the link
Some button men believed to be bully boyz have attacked a mosque in Maisamari town in the Sardauna Local Government Area of Taraba State, killing a district head.
The victim has been identified as Alhaji Abdulkadir Maisamari. He has been buried in accordance with Islamic rites.
According to eyewitnesses, Maisamari was killed during Ishai prayers on Monday night. The button men reportedly opened fire on worshippers immediately after they stormed the mosque.
Residents were said to have confronted the button men and forced them to flee into a mountain close to the town.
A resident, Musa Sale, told Daily Trust that some courageous persons confronted the button men and forced them to flee.
He, however, said nobody was kidnapped during the attack.
The latest incident brings to three the mosques that have been attacked in the state in recent weeks.
The spokesperson for the state police command, DSP Usman Abdullahi, confirmed the incident but did not give details.
[PJMEDIA] Don’t you love a Sunday afternoon feel-good story about the Second Amendment?A Dale County, Ala. man called the police a little after 6 a.m. on Wednesday to report that a person was trying to break into his home.
When police arrived, they found a broken window through which the thug had tried to enter. They also found the thug on the ground, weighing roughly 25 grams more than he did when he arrived, having been shot once in the head by the homeowner. The would-be intruder was transported to the hospital, where he was admitted at death's door.
Pro-tip: The best way to get your head ventilated is to go after a gun owner’s child.
The villain had apparently tried to enter the residence at several points before breaking the window. "The suspect attempted several ways to gain entry into the back of the home, including entering through a child’s bedroom window," Chief Deputy Mason Bynum told news hounds.
Dale County deputies confirmed that the homeowner and the now-horizontal hooligan do not know each other.
No charges have been filed against the homeowner.
This is a textbook example of how to handle an attempted break-in. The homeowner didn’t leave the house to investigate; he called the police and then kept an eye on the scumbag. When the dimwitted freebooter broke a window to enter a child’s room, the homeowner was ready and stopped the invasion with a single shot to the noggin. That tells me someone has been practicing.
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If your fighting for your life (Russian Soldier) a little bit of “paradise” before you go would seem to be OK!
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How can rape be paradise, Papa Cooky? And if the Russian soldiers are indeed fighting for their lives, stopping for a bit of rape strikes me as horribly counterproductive — especially approaching a population whose daughters compete at dancing with swords.
A repentant bandit popularly known as Smally in the Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State has led some courageous locals to the enclaves of bandidos where the criminals were engaged, leaving scores dead and freeing about 38 kidnapped victims.
According to DAILY POST, Smally who was not happy with the killings and kidnapping of innocent citizens in the state decided to lead the operation against his former colleagues in their hideouts.
Umaru Usman, a resident of the community said, "The repentant bandit first killed some of the bandidos and freed 16 kidnapped victims and took them to a nearby bush around Sakajiki village from where they were evacuated by security operatives.
"After some time, another 22 were also freed and brought out to the same spot and also evacuated by security operatives and moved to Gusau."
Umaru Usman explained that the operation which took place around Dajin Yamma forest in the Kaura Namoda Local Government Area brought jubilation among residents of the area.
On Monday, April 11, 2022, the state police commissioner, Ayuba Elkanan, in a press briefing in Gusau, said 39 kidnapped victims were rescued after a gun duel with bandidos.
But according to some residents of Kaura Namoda Local Government Area, the kidnapped victims were released by Smally and his group and not any security operative in the state, pointing out that the police are always looking for cheap publicity.
"The axis had been in total control of the recalcitrant bandidos before Smally and his group courageously confronted the deadly murderous Moslems in their enclaves and neutralised scores of them (bandidos) while others escaped with various degrees of injuries," one of the residents said.
Deadly attacks have raged across Zamfara state where bandidos have thrived.
Farming and herding communities in the state have long been terrorised by gangs who raid villages, steal cattle and kidnap residents for ransom.
Dozens of farmers have been killed as hundreds of hectares of farmland remain uncultivated.
Most of the slain victims were trapped on their farms and killed.
In 2019, the state government entered a peace agreement with the button men.
About 15 brand new Hilux vehicles and cash gifts were also given to leaders of different 'repentant' gangs of bandidos by the governor in 2020.
Governor Bello Matawalle also approved millions of naira to be given to the 'repentant' bandidos as compensation.
"Those bandidos have different groups, so if they say they repent, the governor will give them a Hilux vehicle; unfortunately they are now using the vehicles to carry out attacks," a military source had told SaharaReporters.
"It's so sad, he called it a peace and reconciliation programme, but all you need to be rich now in Zamfara is to take up arms against the people."
The bandit leaders who got the vehicles include Na Shama, Sani Shaidan, Mohammadu Bello Halilu and Bage Waye.
Other beneficiaries were identified as Kachalla, Ado, Busniya, Dunbulu and Gajere.
[Breitbart] Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is choking truck traffic across the U.S.-Mexico border to get Mexico’s government to help block the migrant flood invited by President Joe Biden’s border chief, says Todd Bensman, a Texas-based expert at the Center for Immigration Studies.
“If Texas wants to back those trucks up severely, they can do it as much as they want,” Bensman told Breitbart News.
The point is to get governors and mayors in northern Mexico where the maquiladoras [oursourced U .S outsourcing factories] are, to start complaining to [Mexican President Andrés Manuel López] Obrador, and Obrador is then going to complain to the American ambassador. Then it’s going to go to the State Department, and then Biden is going to have to do something.
Bensman posted a video of the resulting cross-border traffic jams on Friday afternoon:
Abbot signed the safety directive on April 6, telling the Texas Department of Public Safety:
As you have explained, the cartels that smuggle illicit contraband and people across our southern border do not care about the condition of the vehicles they send into Texas any more than they care who overdoses from the deadly fentanyl on board. In response to this threat, which is projected to grow in the coming months, I hereby direct the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to conduct enhanced safety inspections of vehicles as they cross international ports of entry into Texas. These inspections should begin immediately to help ensure that Texans are not endangered by unsafe vehicles and their unsafe drivers.
Cross-border traffic is falling fast. Frieghtwaves.com reported Friday:
At the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge, 2,516 commercial trucks crossed on Thursday, a 35% decline compared to the same day last week before Abbott’s measures were announced, according to CBP data.
Commercial truck traffic at Laredo’s Colombia-Solidarity Bridge was 2,233 on Thursday, an 11% decline compared to last Thursday.
Texas’ decision to carefully check the cross-border trucks for drugs will quickly get the angry attention of powerful U.S. business groups, said Bensman. Those groups have outsourced their supply of critical food and manufacturing components to Mexican farms and factories, known as maquiladoras.
Trucks can bypass the traffic jams on the Texas border, but only by taking a 1,250-mile detour through Mexico to reach the entry at Nogales, Arizona.
[An Nahar] An explosion destroyed a building in southern Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... early on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding several others, a Lebanese security official said.
The blast in the town of Banaafoul, near the port city of Sidon, demolished the two-floor building that had served as the local municipality headquarters and a scout center for the Amal Movement headed by Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... According to the security official, the dead person was the son of the town’s mayor, both of whom belong to Amal. Five people were maimed, the official said, revising his earlier figure of seven maimed.
Citing "preliminary information," the Amal Movement said in an official statement that an "electric short circuit" led to a fire that resulted in the earth-shattering kaboom of oxygen canisters that had been stored in the building during the Covid-19 crisis.
The blast also caused material damage to nearby buildings and cars.
The security official had said that the earth-shattering kaboom may have been caused by diesel fuel stored inside the building.
Other unconfirmed reports said the building contained a weapons cache. Army personnel sealed off the building as they searched through the rubble for clues and casualties. MTV meanwhile reported an altercation between army troops and Amal members in the wake of the blast.
Online videos showed a fire ripping through the building prior to the earth-shattering kaboom. Witnesses also confirmed that they saw flames and heard sounds resembling fireworks before the blast.
Samira Mustafa, whose nearby house received some damage, said she saw smoke and the sound of popping before the earth-shattering kaboom.
"I ran as stones fell on my head," she said as she sat with neighbors on Tuesday morning, discussing the incident.
Troops of 271 Nigeria Air Force Detachment in Birnin Gwari, and troops of the Nigerian Army FOB in Gwaska, during a coordinated operation, have intercepted a ’huge’ amount of ransom meant to secure the freedom of some captives in the custody of bandidos in Kaduna State.
The couriers of the ransom payment, according to a report by PR Nigeria, were suspected to be security personnel.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.
Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... about dozens of the kidnapped victims were rescued including some women and kiddies.
The operations, simultaneously undertaken by ground troops of the Nigerian Army, as well as special forces of the Nigerian Air Forces (NAF), resulted in the elimination of some bandit-terrorists.
An intelligence operative told the newspaper: "The sum of N60,000,000 in cash, petroleum products and sophisticated weapons, were recovered during the operations.
"Other items recovered by the troops from the suspects include vehicles, AK-47 rifles, magazines, various kinds of ammunition and mobile phones.
"Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.
Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... we will refer the case of the arrested couriers who mostly have identifications with security agencies to the Department of State Service (DSS) and Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) for further investigation."
About a thousand Ukrainian marines surrender in Mariupol - media
[REGNUM] About a thousand Ukrainian soldiers from the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Naval Forces of Ukraine are surrendering in Mariupol to units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of State Security of the DPR, military commander Alexander Sladkov said on the evening of April 12 in his Telegram channel.
According to him, we are talking about detachments of Ukronazis who defended themselves at the Metallurgical Plant named after.
Among those surrendering are about 400 wounded, some of whom cannot move independently. In addition, it is reported that at least 800 more fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been taken prisoner.
According to Alexander Sladkov, the count of prisoners has not yet been completed.
There has been no official information about this yet.
Timonin said that on the morning of April 12, he fled from the territory of Azovstal in the city of Mariupol (DPR) and that he was caught by the fighters of the People's Militia of the Republic.
When asked if the Russians used chemical weapons, he replied:
"This is a complete lie. There has never been any use of chemical weapons since February 24. Why do they say something? Most likely, to "raise" the world community. Our commanders are trying so hard to throw mud at the Russian soldiers."
From "Azov" * do not leave alive - who fled from the battalion
[REGNUM] Many who are in Azov (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in the city of Mariupol (DPR) would like to flee, but the battalion command ordered them to be shot, said former Ukrainian military man Nikita Timonin, who fled from Azovstal.
Talking about the situation inside the regiment, he said that the people there were completely demoralized.
“Many people want to surrender or run away. They are afraid to run away, because, as I heard, there was an order that everyone they see "in civilian life" should be shot immediately on the spot," said Nikita Timonin.
When asked if there was an option to "move away", Timonin replied: "Move away, I think who will try, if they see him, they will kill him . " He himself was able to escape, he says that he was “lucky, probably” : “I completely changed my clothes: uniform, weapons, I left everything there.”
Talking about the situation inside the regiment, he said that the people there were completely demoralized.
"Many people want to surrender or run away. They are afraid to run away, because, as I heard, there was an order that everyone they see "in civilian life" should be shot immediately on the spot," said Nikita Timonin
When asked if there was an option to "move away", Timonin replied: "Move away, I think who will try, if they see him, they will kill him."
He himself was able to escape, he says that he was “lucky, probably” : "I completely changed my clothes: uniform, weapons, I left everything there."
There are many wounded and killed in "Azov" in Mariupol
[REGNUM] Among those Ukrainian militants who are on the territory of Azovtali in the city of Mariupol (DPR), there are many wounded, many killed, Nikita Timonin, who fled from Azov (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), said on April 12.
“Many wounded, many “two hundred[s],” said Nikita Timonin. "200" is the Russian cargo code for dead, i.e. coffins
Speaking about the behavior of the commanders, he called it "ambiguous," explaining:
"They are trying to tell that some kind of help is coming to us. At one time they try to raise morale, but at the same time, as I said, they say that if someone leaves, we will shoot."
He added that, in his opinion, the commanders "do not care" because they are "sitting in a bunker" and do not risk anything. They don't "run the streets."
"More than a thousand marines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered today in Mariupol. Among them, hundreds of wounded. This is the right choice," Kadyrov wrote.
According to the head of Chechnya, only small groups remained with the enemy, they do not know what to do with the wounded, where to turn, and for some reason they are afraid to go out with a white flag to the Russian troops.
As the head of Chechnya clarifies, there are about 200 wounded in the depths of Azovstal who cannot receive medical care, and for whom it would be better to end the resistance and return home.
"I appeal to those who are still holed up in the basements and tunnels of the plant: you know that we treat prisoners like human beings. Come out! Think about your own and other people's families, as more than a thousand marines did today," Kadyrov called on the Ukrainian military.
Earlier , REGNUM reported about a thousand Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered, according to the military correspondent Oleksandr Sladkov, in Mariupol. Official confirmation of this information has not yet been received.
[Breitbart] Migrants Surge to Typically Quiet Texas Border Sector
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 2,900 migrants in a single week. The apprehensions appear to show the migrant surge spreading into the fourth-busiest of the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors.
Laredo Sector Chief Patrol Agent Carl Landrum tweeted photos from the apprehension of more than 2,900 migrants during a single week. In addition, the agents stopped another 560 migrants from crossing the border illegally from Mexico.
During the month of February, the most recent statistics available from CBP, Laredo Sector agents apprehended 9,498 migrants. This was up nearly 12 percent from the year before.
The March Southwest Land Border Encounters report from CBP is expected to be out this week and, according to unofficial numbers obtained by Breitbart Texas, will reveal the apprehension of more than 200,000 migrants — a record for the Biden-era.
Border Patrol agents are now apprehending between 5,000 and 8,000 migrants per day along the southwest border. With the announcement of the end of the Title 42 coronavirus protection protocol in May, that number is expected to jump to as high as 18,000 migrants per day, according to a leaked document obtained and reviewed by Breitbart.
In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced plans to beef up the state’s Operation Lone Star border security operation and bus released migrants to Washington, D.C.
“Texans have a backbone and the will to secure our border,” Gov. Abbott stated in an April 6 press conference. “Two things that Joe Biden does not have.”
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or an outdoor camp like andersonville with on exit to the south.
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It can be assumed that at least twice that number are just getting though to overwhelmed or un-patrolled sections. In round number, that approximately 5.8 MILLION illegals a year, added to the 2-3 million already let in this past year, and it won't take long until 10+ percent of the population is here illegally. Now imagine the impact on every part of the social safety net, emergency care, law enforcement, crime, and the massive decline in our overall standard of living.
Now imagine how this is amplified as the growing food crisis impacts Mexico and Central America.
Build the Fence and put the Army on the Border, or kiss our country as we know it good-bye.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two Ukrainian Caritas staff and five of their relatives have been killed in Mariupol, the Catholic charity said Tuesday, adding they likely died a month ago.
"The tragic attack probably took place on March 15, when a tank fired shots at the building of the Caritas center in Mariupol, killing the two staff members and five of their relatives," it said in a statement.
A report on the Vatican's news portal, Vatican News, said the tank was Russian, citing unnamed "local Caritas sources."
Russian troops have been battling for weeks to take control of strategically located Mariupol, ahead of an anticipated massive onslaught across eastern Ukraine, as defending forces try desperately to hold them back.
Difficulties in communicating with those inside the besieged city have meant details of civilian casualties have been scarce and hard to verify.
Caritas said it was not able to definitively say what had happened, but it believed the two female staff members "and their family took refuge in the center during the shelling."
"This dramatic news leaves the Caritas family horrified and shocked," said Aloysius John, secretary general of Caritas Internationalis, slamming "the indiscriminate massacre of civilians."
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[YouTube] Since the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) a lot of statements about the "end of the tank" came up. Most of these statements are old, very old and they show up every few decades, particularly if a new technology is invented and/or some factions suffers - for whatever reason - a certain amount of tank losses. This video discusses the various factors about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and a lot of the previous arguments that often have not changed for decades and generally still invalid, since people forget combined arms warfare. "Modern times: aircraft carriersA-10 Warthogs, infantry are all obsolete"
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And the log tail. Anyone seen any pictures of Russian recovery and repair units? I've seen pics of Ukrainians doing recovery and salvaging but little of the other side. That infantry is needed for security for things like that along with the loggies just behind the front lines for refuel and repair and hauling PLL. It appears to be 'use and throw away' or 'burn it up' institutional mentality.
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I would go so far as saying the current "modern warfare" solutions currently deployed will soon be a thing of the past.
Battle Drones and remote control attack weapons cost far less, are easier to produce, require less support personnel to maintain, and can be single or multi-used.
But, Technical Logistics and Rare Earth Raw Materials will be the Achilles Tendon for many nations.
But there will always be a citizenry with firearms scaring the hell out of, or "retiring" a few field officers during any battle.
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...Part of the problem here is that the Russians don't have anything resembling a functioning modern air force over Ukraine - they have a poorly supplied, disorganized, and unscheduled airline that drops bombs at the end of its runs.
If there was coordinated, properly employed air power from the Russian side, the Ukranians would be having a much, MUCH tougher time of it, even allowing for the extraordinary bravery they've shown.
Overall, though, the basic point stands - the tank is much like Samuel Clemens; "the rumors of (its) death are greatly exaggerated."
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I want to see the article discussing airpower on the battlefield since the Russian airpower has been mostly absent (presumably because of anti-aircraft weapons?).
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As a retired 12A (Armor/Cavalry) Officer, i find this amusing. The rumors of the end of armor as a combat dominant force are premature as always. Like all things, context is everything when predicting major turning points from afar.
In the case of the Russian armor performance in Ukraine. one wonders about the motives for linear, road-bound convoys, and the apparent absence of significant flanking security out at least to ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided Munitions)ranges? All the more puzzling if terrain mobility problems made keeping to the hardstand critical. Given that possibility you encounter the sniper-countersniper dynamic, and the MANPAD threat to aviation as flank security, but this is all about creeping advance movement with good IPB (Intel Prep of the Battlespace) and drones to neutralize that threat. All this argues as others here have observed that the paucity of infantry and lack of combat power density on the flanks made movement of heavy armor and the log tail prone to easy kills. Even arty prep on flanking dominant terrain seemed lacking. It seemed like it was just a shooting gallery and the conscripts were apt to bail quickly as morale plummeted?
(Just an old guys musings from the safety of my little corner of heaven in the Carson Valley)
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Tanks will go away when Mechs come online. Japan is probably way ahead of the rest of us on that.
Oh... they will still be around. RCTs (Regimental Combat Teams) like the ones the Federated Suns ran were 5 regiments of infantry, 3 of armor and 1 BattleMech regiment.
I can see something like that in our world if 'Mechs ever get developed. Just don't get stepped on if you are a tank.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] From today's statements by Putin on the subject of NWO in Ukraine.
1. The operation is progressing according to plan. All goals set at the very beginning will be achieved.
2. The timing of the operation is determined by the intensity of hostilities and the desire to minimize their own losses.
3. Negotiations with Ukraine reached a dead end, as Ukraine violated the agreements concluded in Istanbul.
4. The decision to start the operation was correct and timely, and the conflict itself was inevitable - Russia was left no choice.
5. The sanctions blitzkrieg against Russia failed, but Russia does not plan to close, and it will not be possible to close it.
6. The USSR, being in sanctions isolation, achieved great success in the space program. Russia will also be able to follow this path.
7. The US plans to fight in Ukraine to the last Ukrainian. Ukraine is a means to an end for the West.
8. The provocation in Bucha is just as fake as the staged chemical attacks in Syria.
9. Russia in previous decades was addicted to Western technology, and now it is facing the consequences.
10. Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are a triune people, part of which is now trying to use the West in their own interests.
We are waiting for the start of the 2nd phase of the operation in Ukraine, which was previously announced by Shoigu.
It is reported that the enemy forces that defended Ilyich's plant capitulated.
On the night of 10 to 11, they tried to break through, but after suffering heavy losses, they retreated to the factory or scattered around the district (where some of them were killed or captured.
Since they already felt a critical shortage of ammunition and other supplies, they decided to surrender.
The process has already begun.
Sladkov reports that about 1,000 people surrendered, of which 300 were wounded (of which 90 were severe).
Pegov writes about two capitulated battalions and 200 wounded. (The 501st battalion capitulated earlier)
In general, this looks like the largest surrender since the beginning of the war.
That they are expected in the area of Zachatovka (this is in the 30-kilometer rear of the allied forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR, and Zachatovka itself is 50 km from Mariupol).
But there was no help, they were deceived. The fact that another battalion of Marines surrendered a week ago, they also did not know. If such information had reached them, they would have laid down their arms after their colleagues.
By the way, these interviews show that leaflets are not such an outdated propaganda tool. An oversight that needs to be taken into account for the future.
P.S:
Judging by the interrogations of prisoners, 90% of "Azov" is a "support platoon", staffed exclusively by cooks and drivers, with a rank no higher than a sergeant. And as you dig, all eight years in the ATO, awards and gratitude for the killing of civilians.
Defend Yourselves, We’re Freeborn Nigerians, Not Fulani Slaves, Governor Ortom Charges Benue Residents After Killing Of 23 By Suspected Herdsmen | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/HdjvIjT71Epic.twitter.com/p24WoW2NjV
Samuel Ortom, Benue State Governor has again lamented the gruesome murder of 23 persons in fresh attacks on two communities by the suspected Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... herdsmen on Monday night.
Subsequently, the governor directed his people to rise up to defend themselves forthwith, a statement by Nathaniel Ikyur, Chief Press Secretary to the governor on Tuesday, said.
No fewer than 8 persons were mowed down on Monday night by suspected Fulani herdsmen who invaded Mbadwem in the Guma local government area and 15 in Tiortyu in the Tarka local government area of the state.
Scores of others were maimed and are receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital in the state.
Ortom, who was reportedly visibly angry, said, "It is becoming increasingly glaring every day that my people are now an endangered species and so we can no longer wait for help from anywhere.
"My people will have to rise up to the occasion to defend themselves and their heritage against the Fulani army of occupation."
"We are law-abiding citizens. We have cried for help against these invaders but nothing is forthcoming. We are left alone and it looks like it is a deliberate strategy. Now we have only one option; to defend ourselves or get extinct. This is a case for our survival.
"We have been accommodating of other people in our land but our hospitality is misconstrued as weakness. We are not a conquered people. We will never be. We are freeborn citizens of Nigeria," the governor added.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:14 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced the detention of the leader of the Opposition Platform For Life, Viktor Medvedchuk. 21:08 Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 38 military facilities of Ukraine.
21:07 Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 38 military facilities of Ukraine.
21:01 Since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, the RF Armed Forces have destroyed 445 drones, 2,153 tanks and armored vehicles.
20:57 Russian air defense systems shot down two unmanned aerial vehicles in the air.
20:14 The military wounded in Mariupol are evacuated by helicopters to the "mainland" from Novoazovsk, after they are assisted by doctors.
19:18 Local residents are almost not taken to the defense in the cities of Eastern Ukraine, mostly people from the western regions of the country serve there. Probably, the fact is that the Ukrainian authorities do not consider residents from the east of the country to be trustworthy.
19:03 A fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who surrendered in Severodonetsk, said that the soldiers were not told exactly where they were being taken, and after that they were completely abandoned to the mercy of fate.
18:04 The United States is ready to consider the possibility of supplying Ukraine with longer-range weapons than they are currently transmitting - the Pentagon.
17:57 Russian special forces destroyed the Ukrainian launcher of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system in the Kiev region.
16:50 The operation in Ukraine will continue until it is fully completed and the goals set at the very beginning are achieved, Putin said.
16:48 Kyiv has moved away from the agreements reached at the talks of the parties in Istanbul, and returned to a deadlock, Putin said.
16:46 Putin said that Lukashenka handed over to him documents relating to the provocation in Bucha.
16:43 For the West, Ukraine is a means to achieve goals that have nothing to do with the interests of the Ukrainian people, Putin said.
16:01 It became possible to start a dialogue with Ukraine largely thanks to Lukashenka - Putin.
15:47 Today's undermining of the railway overpass near Shebekino (Belgorod region) is nothing more than a continuation of the information war in order to intimidate the population of Russian front-line regions.
15:10 In addition to the old T-72Ms, the Poles handed over to Ukraine no less old BWP-1s also of their production back in Poland.
13:56 The Commander of the Central District of the Russian Guard presented state awards to employees who showed courage and heroism during a special operation in Ukraine.
13:54 Kyiv publicly refused to comply with the Minsk agreements, it was impossible to continue to endure the genocide - Putin.
13:50 A local resident was arrested in Crimea for desecrating the grave of a military man who died during a special operation in Ukraine.
13:10 NATO's secret group for monitoring the ships of the Russian Navy began to work in Odessa, it includes employees of the Romanian PMC - RIA Novosti
11:57 The purpose of the special operation is to help people in the Donbass, Russia was forced to do this - Putin.
11:56 A clash with anti-Russian forces growing in Ukraine was inevitable, it was a matter of time - Putin.
11:49 Authorities in the city of Stryi in the Lviv region in western Ukraine have demolished a monument to Soviet soldiers who liberated the city from the Nazis.
11:36 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 130 aircraft, 99 helicopters, 244 anti-aircraft missile systems, 443 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2139 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 241 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 917 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2046 units of special military vehicles.
11:29 Frigate "Admiral Essen" destroyed the Ukrainian drone "Bayraktar" off the coast of Crimea - Russian Defense Ministry
11:25 Near Shebekino (Belgorod region) near the border, the Ukrainian DRG blew up the railway tracks.
10:33 Russian air defense systems shot down two unmanned aerial vehicles in the air in the areas of the settlements of Berdyansk and Melitopol.
10:31 Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 32 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: in the Novomikhailovka area, the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system, in the Zolotarevka area, a radar for illumination and guidance of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, as well as one command post and 18 areas of concentration of Ukrainian military equipment.
10:00 During the night, high-precision air and sea-based missiles destroyed: an ammunition depot and a protected hangar with Ukrainian aircraft at the Starokonstantinov military airfield in the Khmelnytsky region, as well as an ammunition depot near the village of Gavrilovka, Kiev region.
09:05 Russian Emergencies Ministry units delivered almost 1,100 tons of humanitarian cargo to the Donbass and Ukraine, it included all essential products.
Police on Tuesday identified the two Jaish faceless myrmidons killed in an overnight firefight with security forces in Kulgam district 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.... as Jameel Pasha alias Usman Chachu, a Pak and Sameer Sofi son of Farooq Ahmad Sofi of Amshipora, Shopian. Two cops were maimed in the shootout.
Quoting sources, news agency GNS reported that Pasha was active since five years in Kulgam-Shopian belt and had a history of cases including attacks on police and security forces, abduction of forces personnel, IED attacks and weapon looting against him.
Besides, he was also instrumental in recruitment of youth into holy warrior folds, sources said.
As per sources, the slain faceless myrmidons were part of the group that escaped after a brief shootout in Chaki Samad area of Kulgam on April 9.
The encounter broke out on Monday evening on a specific input regarding movement of faceless myrmidons in a vehicle on Manzgam-Aharbal axis after which a special joint team of Kulgam Police and Army’s 9 & 34 RR was constituted and at about 17:50 hours, a police spokesperson said, adding, "a three-wheeler vehicle (tempo) was spotted near Khur-Batpora moving in suspicious condition and was chased and challenged."
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the faceless myrmidons travelling in the vehicle jumped out and resorted to "indiscriminate firing towards the joint team," the front man said adding the fire was effectively retaliated. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... in the initial firefight, two of the Police personnel got critically maimed and were evacuated amidst the heavy firing to 92 Base Hospital (BB Cant Srinagar) where their condition is stable now.
He said the encounter which started at twilight lasted for the whole night and ended up with the killing of the two holy warriors.
Police said a large cache of arms and ammunition including one AK47 rifle, 3 AK47 Magazine, 36 AK 47 rounds, one Pistol, one Pistol Magazine, five Pistol rounds, one Grenade, one BP Pouch, and weapon Oil Bottle was recovered from the site of the encounter.
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Well they're both inactive now.
Jameel Pasha alias Usman 'Chacha' [uncle] was Paki. His known name may be an alias too, you never know with ISI. The other dead 'un is a Sameer Ahmed Sofi, local, skipped for training to POK then returned.
'Active for years' because of the liberal administrations, Islamist legislators and legals covering for cross border traders etc. All that changed when our hands were untied in Kashmir.
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[REGNUM] At the beginning of 1919, in the Urals, the command of the Red Army tried to regain the lost initiative. Immediately after the defeat of the 3rd Army of the Soviet Eastern Front, Stalin and Dzerzhinsky arrived in Vyatka, where the red units had withdrawn, in order to clarify the situation. Stalin immediately drew the right conclusions from what had happened - the exhaustion of the troops by continuous six-month battles, poor supplies, the lack of reserves behind the extended front line, the headquarters being too far from the battlefield. He informed Moscow that if urgent measures were not taken to restore the combat capability of the 3rd Army, Vyatka might also fall.
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All kidding aside, a Russian miniseries about Admiral Kolchak was shown in Russia.
The film is quite good and showed Kolchak as a sympathetic character, which is a very hard thing to do given 70+ years of Soviets characterizing him as evil.
Ukrainian prosecutors say that six people have been found shot dead in the basement of a building outside #Kyiv, the latest discovery fueling allegations of Russian atrocities.https://t.co/UfHnm2jbmU
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#Russia’s President Vladimir #Putin says peace talks with #Ukraine have hit a dead end, using his first public comments on the conflict in more than a week to vow that his troops would win.https://t.co/NXZgswIQC9
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The Ukrainians want now more so the peace price has gone up.
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As long as the Ukrainians have supplies from the west, its a unending war. It's like the part Pakistan played with Afghanistan, a base of operation and supply.
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Given how poorly the Russians have performed, keeping them there and bleeding is the best thing for the rest of the NATO countries the Russians want to grab.
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Yes. Feeding the war will bleed the West financially and destroy the dollar.
The next crisis will be bigger than 2008. The PBoC will clean up the mess and a commodities-backed renminbi will become the basis for a new world financial order.
Keep the war going as long as possible. Destroy the dollar.
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The next crisis will be bigger than 2008.
Or 1973. Except 1973's meltdown was driven by a suppliers' strike. This is a demand-side strike. The US is strangling itself this time. Instead of sovereigns jumping to stabilize demand, the US and western sovereigns are doing everything they can to throttle demand - for all commodities. Unbelievable
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^ Nations have no friends, only shared interests.
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The PBoC will clean up the mess and a commodities-backed renminbi will become the basis for a new world financial order.
Good call. The Fed jumped in and 'cleaned up the mess' after Lehman and Bear Stearns fell. This time the PBiC will jump in and lease enough ships to absorb all of Russia's commodities so the market can stabilize.
Russia dominates the Black Sea ports. Chinese container ships can store Russian grain and so forth indefinitely. Trade will be done in renminbi backed by Russian oil and gold.
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#8 ^ Nations have no friends, only shared interests
True. This explains why the non-western world is now coming together to support alternatives to the dollar and dollar blackmail. If the US is determined to destroy the trading and payments regime that it created and upheld for 49 years, then China, India and Russia will be more than happy to help. Commodities rule.
Keep the war going, the longer the better ... for China.
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Classic msm brainwashed American moron thinking that’s the way to show his American patriotism.
Disgusting American exceptionalism filthies at is best
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Hardly. Putin has been arming the enemies of the US for as long as I can remember. Before that the Soviets and China. Turn about is fair play Katsap. It's a shame Putin is outwitted by a fool like Biden.
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Russia dominates the Black Sea ports. Chinese container ships can store Russian grain and so forth indefinitely. Trade will be done in renminbi backed by Russian oil and gold.
In other words, Russia's winning the economic war.
Russia can keep selling its oil, wheat, coal, fertilizer, and metals while Ukraine's infrastructure is wiped out, it's landlocked and has no way to ship anything even if it's factories farms and distribution were not in ruins, and the West now has to pick up the $100 billion rebuilding tab.
Why was the US so quick to adopt the tactics and strategies of the Chinese Communist Party?
To what extent did Fauci & Co's “joint mission” to several cities in China in mid-February 2020 influence that decision to mimic China's disastrous approach?
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If we can keep the war going another 6 months the reconstruction bill will total $500 billion.
People in Washington want the war to go on for at least a year. By then Ukraine will look like Germany in 1945. Reconstruction will cost the US and the West over $1 trillion.
Along with sanctions, the debt explosion to fund Ukraine is another reason the dollar is going to be blown out. Goodbye reserve currency status.
Is Biden getting ready to profit personally from Ukraine reconstruction? Certainly a much bigger opportunity for graft than Burisma.
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Our anonymous trolls are very busy. The check's must've cleared
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check's checks must've cleared for the Biden family. If you think Jimmy got rich off Iraq "reconstruction," wait til you see how much $$$ he makes off of Ukraine's "reconstruction." Build Back Pocket.
"Frank G" is a fool. (As if first name plus initial isn't anonymous.) Anyone can see the Biden family's corruption and Joe's stupidity and incompetence. It doesn't make you a troll to point out how Biden's self-destructive policy of prolonging the war and pushing these futile and foolish sanctions are just screwing Americans and helping China
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#23 "Frank G" is a fool
Probably a Chinese troll. Could be a Biden supporter.
I don't understand why so many Americans support Biden. He's obviously running America into the ground.
Why are they so butt hurt about Russia? Prolonging the war is just going to ruin the US economy and make Americans poorer. Aside from Japan no one outside Europe supports these sanctions. Everyone's trading with Russia, even the Europeans. Why are Americans letting Biden do this? It's crazy
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...for China.
I don't care. America doesn't have an extensive border with China.
Don't worry about the dollar. America can become a 'hermit kingdom', it has all the resources to do so, only prevented in using them by internal enemies. American's have a habit of exhausting all options before doing the right thing.
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> #23 "Frank G" is a foolProbably a Chinese troll. Could be a Biden supporter.
Frank G is known around here. Whereas you are an anon Chekist troll. Pick up an AK and get yourself to Donbas, the world needs more crispy fried Russians.
Had no problem taking aid when the Germans attacked in 1941. Same issue, it just different who the invaders are (no matter what rationale you use to justify it).
It matters if a nation's policies are based on global trade flows that leave the nation with enormous trade deficits and 30 trillion in debt.
Hermit kingdoms can't rely on other nations to pay their bills and fund their profligate spending. Shrink the trade deficit and the debt to zero before that even becomes more than a pipe dream.
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#28 Don't the Bidens have a cousin named Frank? Just sayin'...
Frank is Joe's little brother.
Joe Biden’s brother, Francis ‘Frank’ Biden, 66, won the prize for the most bizarre Biden family bust when he allegedly stuffed two DVDs from a Florida Blockbuster down his pants in October 2003, cops said. He was 49 at the time. He never showed up for a scheduled court hearing on the attempted theft and the state attorney declined to prosecute, according to records obtained by the Miami New Times.
He had more serious scrapes with the law. He was pinched in August 2003 for drunk driving in Fort Lauderdale, earning six months probation. He was arrested a year later for driving with a suspended license but avoided jail again by spending three months in rehab.
In 1999, Biden was a passenger in a car involved in a fatal drunk-driving accident. He was found partially liable for the death of 38-year-old William Albano, and owes his family almost $1 million dollars, according to the Daily Mail.
Today, Frank Biden works as a senior advisor to the Berman Law Group. He did not respond to request for comment, but has said previously that he has been “sober for a long time.”
^ Rantburg has that effect on people. Doing the Lord's work, saving one soul at a time.
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*shrug* Rantburg has watched the G kids grow up, just as they watched the trailing daughters. While I’m sure it was very rewarding for someone to help rehabilitate the younger Mr. Biden, we here did not have that pleasure. Though we have indeed converted an idiot or two to delightful sensibility over the years, to our mutual benefit.
I don't understand why so many Americans support Biden. He's obviously running America into the ground.
Obviously, indeed. According to the polls, it’s just that the decreasing number who support President Biden is increasingly loud. Also, the original number of his supporters was inflated by all those imaginary Americans who voted in key states, and key precincts in those states in 2020. Millions of them have been removed from the voter rolls since then, and in a number of states the registration and voting procedures tightened up since then.
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Also, it's human nature to be loath to admit an obvious mistake, and nobody is more human (in their own mind) than a liberal. My staunch democrat neighbor is reduced to grinding his teeth anytime the discussion comes around to gas, food prices or world affairs and I cheerfully drawl, "Well, you voted for that..."
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#31 Don't worry about the dollar It matters if a nation's policies are based on global trade flows that leave the nation with enormous trade deficits and 30 trillion in debt.
US imports from China are now twice what they were under Trump: about $700 billion annually. The US trade deficit was out of control before Biden. Now it's astronomical.
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For a minute I thought the troll that talked about Frank G was a longtimer not using their normal name because it was pretty funny take-down of the idiot trolls that have been squirming about since the Ukraine thing started.
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[Korrespondent] 22:51 Arestovich called Medvedchuk "very valuable" because he "is related to Putin, to Russia, to the war, to the preparation of this war, to the organization of the pro-Russian movement in Ukraine." 22:26 Macron said in an interview with Le Point that Putin's decision to attack Ukraine was dictated by "anti-Western indignation and paranoia." According to Macron, the pandemic has increased the isolation of the Russian president.
“He ended up in Sochi for months, locked himself up, he has less contact with other thinking,” Macron explained. At the same time, the French president expressed his conviction that Putin would not stop his attacks, and he needed a military victory before May 9th.
At the same time, Macron stressed that he intends to continue to negotiate with his Russian counterpart in order to warn him of the danger of continued violence.
22:20 Blinken said the US cannot confirm the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, but Washington "has credible information that Russian forces may use various means of riot control", which include "tear gas mixed with chemical agents capable of cause more severe symptoms to weaken and incapacitate the Ukrainian military and civilians as part of an aggressive campaign to take Mariupol."
"We're having a direct conversation with partners to try to determine what really happened," Blinken said at the State Department.
22:10 Podolyak on Medvedchuk's detention: "Today, in order to survive, Medvedchuk needs to hide in a Ukrainian prison. With a guaranteed long-term prison term. In the Russian Federation, he will definitely be liquidated as a person who regularly lied about the mood in Ukraine, stole money and eventually became one from the initiators of the war.
21:54 The head of the Poltava OVA, Dmitry Lunin, announced two new strikes on the infrastructure of Mirgorod, information about the victims and the consequences is being specified.
21:50 Head of the SBU Ivan Bakanov on the detention of Medvedchuk: "I thank all the employees of the SBU, in particular counterintelligence officers and investigators, who, following the instructions of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, proved their professionalism and carried out this lightning-fast and dangerous multi-level special operation to detain the still People's Deputy Medvedchuk "Not a single traitor will escape punishment and will be held accountable under the Law of Ukraine. To the fullest extent, for all the crimes that his personal actions led to, including."
21:37 The first suspicion in Ukraine of public calls for the genocide of the Ukrainian people was brought against Russian publicist Armen Gasparyan, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. The suspect, who is the author of the book Denazification of Ukraine. The country of unlearned lessons , systematically promoted the statement about the insolvency of the Ukrainian state to the further existence, inferiority and second-rateness of the Ukrainian nation.
21:31 In Mariupol the division of the Nikolaev 36th separate brigade of marines as a result of special operation could leave an encirclement of the enemy and unite with the Azov regiment.
"I can't tell you the details, but I can say that now we have connected with the Azov regiment. Several hundred marines, including the wounded, managed to get out," the brigade officer said in a commentary to Crime.NO.
21:27 British intelligence reacted to Moscow's statements that the war in Ukraine "goes according to plan":
at least six Russian generals killed;
Russian soldiers refuse to fight and attack their commanders;
more than 2,000 units of Russian equipment were damaged, destroyed, abandoned or captured;
Russian units, which suffered heavy losses, were forced to return to Belarus and Russia to regroup and resupply;
Russian soldiers accidentally shot down their own plane.
"Is this really the plan?" - summed up in the intelligence of the British Ministry of Defense.
21:15 Zelensky was informed about the detention of Medvedchuk:
21:12 The Cabinet of Ministers allocated 200 million hryvnias for compensation to employers who employed migrants. For each of them will pay 6500 hryvnia per month.
21:07 The Russians on the territory of the Mariupol Commercial Seaport captured the crew of another ship - the Blue Star-1 dry cargo ship flying the flag of Liberia, Denisova said. 18 sailors - citizens of Ukraine, they were taken to Donetsk. It is known that the cargo ship entered the port of Mariupol at the end of February and was blocked by the Russians. Communication with the crew was lost on 25 March.
According to preliminary information, about 200 crew members of several ships blocked by Russian invaders in the port of Mariupol may already be in captivity of the invaders.
21:04 The United States is working on the transfer of artillery to Kiev, a Biden aide held a two-hour conversation with Ukrainian officials about military assistance, the White House said.
21:01 Steinmeier would be happy to visit Kiev, but Zelensky does not want to see him. About difficult relations with the President of Germany - in the material Ban on Steinmeier: why he is not welcome in Kiev .
20:58 The Embassy of Ukraine to the Holy See is seeking the abolition of the joint participation in the Friday Cross Procession of a Ukrainian woman together with a Russian woman. This was announced by the head of the embassy Andrei Yurash.
20:49 Negotiations with Moscow on security guarantees for Ukraine continue online, the Ukrainian side adheres to the Istanbul Communiqué and has not changed its position, Arakhamia said.
The only difference, he said, is that Kyiv does not take into account all the additional issues that were not included in the Istanbul Communiqué. "Perhaps this caused a misinterpretation of the current state of the negotiation process," the head of the Ukrainian delegation commented on the Kremlin's statement that Ukraine had changed its position in the negotiations.
20:33 The Russian Defense Ministry has updated the text of the contract for military personnel, adding a provision that establishes criminal liability for refusing to participate in the so-called "special operation" on the territory of Ukraine, said Alexander Danilyuk, head of the Center for Defense Reforms.
20:22 Stormy weather persists in the Black Sea, and it will worsen, which makes the landing of Russian troops in the Odessa region impossible, the Pivden operational command reports.
At the same time, the threat of missile attacks both from the sea and from the territory of Crimea remains in the region. In addition, the Russian occupiers continue to hide behind civilians, settle in their homes and place military equipment. They are also trying to create the impression that Kherson residents are opposed to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
20:20 Yermak said that the rescue ship Sapphire, freed from Russian invaders, is already in Ukraine - it was moored in the port of Izmail, Odessa region.
20:18 The restoration of the entire infrastructure of Mariupol will require 12.5 billion dollars, said the mayor of the city Vadim Boychenko. According to him, 40% of multi-storey buildings were destroyed in the city, 84,000 families were left without apartments. The construction of new homes, according to the mayor, will require $2.3 billion.
20:15 The curfew has been reduced in the Lviv region - now it will last from 23:00 hrs to 06:00 hrs, the regional administration reported.
20:12 Erdogan is convinced that Turkey is the only country capable of ensuring progress in the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
19:57 Journalist Yuri Butusov said that in the Izyum direction in the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian defenders completely defeated the column of the "elite" 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division of the RF Armed Forces, capturing two T-80s as trophies. According to the journalist, the military equipment was ambushed due to a story on Russian television, which showed in which direction it was moving.
19:49 In Melitopol, Zaporozhye region, Russian invaders kidnap entrepreneurs and then demand a ransom for them, Denisova said: "Entrepreneurs are detained en masse, and they are released only after the payment of" compensation ". They are searched in their offices and homes."
Also, according to her, the occupiers are trying to impose "taxes and fees" on entrepreneurs in favor of Russia - in cash and goods or products.
19:45 Podolyak admitted that the Ukrainian military remains blocked in Mariupol and has problems with supplies. At the same time, he assured that the military-political leadership of the country is aware of the problem, monitors the situation in real time and has more information than is known in social networks.
"The President and the leadership of the Armed Forces are doing everything possible (and impossible) to find a solution and help our soldiers. But we cannot communicate our plans and actions publicly so as not to inform the enemy. Please treat this with understanding," wrote the adviser to the head OP.
19:36 From 20,000 to 22,000 people died in Mariupol, head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko told CNN. He added that the situation in the city is difficult and it is difficult to clarify the number of victims.
Earlier, the mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boychenko, said that the death toll in the city definitely exceeded 10,000 people and could reach 20,000.
19:34 Steinmeier said that Germany will supply weapons to Ukraine.
19:32 Deputy mayor of Mariupol Sergey Orlov told the Air Force that the city council confirmed the "chemical poisoning" from the Russian drone: "We cannot provide more detailed information, but we have confirmation from the military that this happened.
19:28 Denisova said that at Volnovakha School No. 5, children were forced to resume their studies. At the same time, training is in Russian and according to the program of the Russian Federation. The school has 823 students and 45 teachers.
19:26 Le Pen opposes the ban on oil and gas supplies from Russia, but generally supports the rest of the sanctions against the Russian Federation. She explained that she did not want the people of France to suffer the consequences of the rejection of Russian energy.
19:24 Macron said that he is not planning a visit to Kiev yet, as he does not believe that this will bring concrete results, and does not want to "follow fashion's lead."
19:20 In the Luhansk region, the morgues are overflowing with the bodies of civilians - it is impossible to store them, therefore, in between shelling, people are buried in mass graves and in the courtyards of high-rise buildings, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
19:19 India plans to increase exports to Russia by another two billion dollars in order to block the supply of products banned from export to Russia by Western sanctions, writes Bloomberg.
19:15 Today, 2,671 people have been evacuated, Vereshchuk said. From Mariupol and Berdyansk, 2,343 people arrived in Zaporozhye on their own transport, of which 208 were from Mariupol.
Columns of buses that left Zaporozhye to evacuate people from Berdyansk, Tokmak and Energodar, the Russians continue to block at the checkpoint in Vasilyevka.
A total of 328 people were evacuated from Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Kremennaya and Popasna Luhansk regions.
19:09 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine explained why a high level of "terrorist threat" was declared in the regions of Russia bordering Ukraine: the administrative-police regime has been strengthened to prevent local residents from fixing the movement of columns of weapons and military equipment moving towards Donbass.
19:05 In major cities of Europe and the United States, Ukrainian mothers take to the streets in memory of the children who died at the hands of the Russian occupiers. The most large-scale actions were held in Krakow, Bratislava, Chisinau, Munich and Atlanta.
The main attribute of such marches are dolls in bloody sheets, symbolizing the children killed by the Russian military in Bucha, Kramatorsk, Mariupol, Irpen and other cities of Ukraine.
18:59 Russia began to pull troops to the border with Finland, writes the Daily Mail. In particular, heavy weapons, including missile systems, were spotted hours after the Kremlin warned Helsinki against joining NATO.
The Finnish authorities, in turn, said that they would not listen to Moscow's threats and would decide for themselves whether to join the alliance.
18:55 Venediktova said that the French experts, who arrived in Ukraine the day before to assist in the investigation of Russian war crimes, will work in Ukraine for 15 days. The mission arrived with a DNA laboratory and the necessary equipment for the examination of the bodies and identification. The collected evidence will be used in national investigations and may also be turned over to the International Criminal Court.
According to the Prosecutor General, the exhumation of 49 bodies from a large mass grave near the local church has already been completed in Bucha. Three more burials with six bodies were found nearby. In one of them, according to preliminary data, a mother and two children - four and 11 years old. They burned to death in a car that was fired upon by the Russians.
Also on Wednesday, April 13, the excavation of another large burial near the church in Bucha will begin. According to preliminary data, there are from 40 to 60 bodies of the dead.
18:33 It is still too early for people who left their homes due to hostilities to return, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar: "It is too early to return to the Kyiv region, because difficult times are still ahead of us. I mean all of Ukraine. And this may change daily, because this is a dynamic situation. Today it is too early to return, even to Kiev."
18:28 Germany is ready to withdraw India's invitation to the G7 summit due to the fact that it did not condemn Russian aggression against Ukraine, writes Bloomberg.
18:23 The OP reported that the restoration of settlements has begun in seven regions of Ukraine, where hostilities have been completely or partially stopped.
In particular, according to him, there is an opportunity to start restoration work on the territory of Zhytomyr, Zaporozhye, Kiev, Nikolaev, Sumy, Kharkov and Chernihiv regions. Of the 6,000 settlements in these regions, almost 1,500 have been under occupation.
18:20 Teachers who approve of Russian aggression in Ukraine cannot work in schools, the Vilnius municipality said.
18:18 Negotiations between Kiev and Moscow "are extremely difficult, online in working subgroups, but they are taking place," Podolyak said in a commentary to the UP. According to him, Russia adheres to its traditional tactics - publicly putting pressure on the negotiation process, including through "certain public statements."
18:16 German President Steinmeier said that "a return to normality with Russia under Putin is impossible." He also confirmed that he was ready to go to Kyiv with colleagues from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, but the Ukrainian authorities considered his presence undesirable.
18:13 Eight Russian companies and banks officially announced that they were unable to pay Eurobonds in foreign currency due to sanctions, as foreign banks freeze money - these are Nordgold, Severstal, Russian Railways, Alrosa, RusHydro, SUEK, ChTPZ and Sovcombank.
18:06 Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan Korchok said that Bratislava is preparing the return of its diplomats to Kiev. In the coming days, an inspection team of diplomats will arrive in Ukraine to assess the security situation on the ground.
18:03 Irpin City Council allocated 100,000 hryvnias to the families of Ukrainian servicemen who died defending the city.
"We are well aware that this is nothing compared to the loss suffered by parents, wives, children, relatives ... But let this be the smallest support that we can now provide to the families of the fallen defenders of Irpen," said the mayor of the city Alexander Markushin .
17:59 The United States is ready to consider the possibility of supplying Ukraine with longer-range weapons than they are currently transmitting, the Pentagon said.
17:38 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, confirmed that three people were injured in Mariupol as a result of exposure to an unknown substance dropped from a Russian drone. At the same time, according to him, it is too early to say what kind of substance it was and whether the attack can be classified as a chemical attack.
17:30 Bild writes, citing sources in Ukrainian government circles, that German President Steinmeier planned to visit Kiev along with delegations from other EU countries on Wednesday, April 12, but Zelensky did not want to. Other European politicians are allowed to come.
The reason is Steinmeier's close ties with Russia in recent years. As head of the Foreign Ministry, he maintained contacts, in particular with Lavrov, and was also an active supporter of Nord Stream 2 and is considered the architect of the federal government's Russia-friendly policy.
17:28 According to Bild from Ukrainian government circles, German President Steinmeier planned to visit Ukraine together with other government delegations from other EU countries tomorrow, Wednesday.
“But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is standing in the way. At the moment, he does not want to meet with Steinmeier in Kyiv. Other EU politicians are allowed to come,” writes Bild
The reason is Steinmeier's close ties with Russia in recent years. As Minister of Foreign Affairs, he maintained contacts, in particular, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Steinmeier has also been a vocal supporter of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and is considered the architect of the federal government's Russia-friendly policy, writes Bild.
17:26 If Russia stops gas supplies to Europe, Germany will have enough of its reserves until at least late summer or early autumn, said the head of the Federal Network Agency Klaus Müller.
17:15 Briton Aidin Aislin, who has been serving in Ukraine since 2018 and as part of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine takes part in the defense of Mariupol, told his friends and family that they would lay down their arms and surrender to the Russian occupiers. The BBC and Atlas News write about this, citing family members and friends of Aislin.
"48 days have passed, we have tried everything possible to protect Mariupol, but we have no choice but to surrender to Russian troops. We have no food and ammunition left," he said.
The day before, on the Facebook page of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, a post appeared in Russian (although before that all messages were written in Ukrainian) that April 11 could be the last battle for the defenders of Mariupol.
17:06 Investigative journalist Khristro Grozev from Bellingcat writes that the substance that the occupiers in Mariupol could have used yesterday is similar in its mode of action to an aerosol chemical weapon that was developed by the 33rd Institute of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Grozev’s Bellingcat colleague Eliot Giggins noted that it would be very difficult to prove the use of chemical weapons by the Russians on April 11 in Mariupol, since under the current conditions it is almost impossible to collect the samples necessary for testing and save them. Perhaps the only way to obtain evidence of a chemical attack, he said, is to collect fragments of the ammunition used the day before.
17:04 In New York, in Brooklyn, a shooting occurred at the Sunset Park subway station, eyewitnesses report more than ten wounded, there are also dead. The suspect fled, wearing a gas mask during the attack.
17:02 The Vatican announced that on April 15, Good Friday, the procession will be held in the Colosseum, which will be led by the Pope. The cross will be held by a Ukrainian and a Russian woman who work together in the hospice.
"It is during these reflections and prayers that the cross will be in the hands of Irina and Albina, who will be under it along with their families. They arrived in Italy two decades ago, and today they work in the palliative care department, serving patients who are in severe stages of the disease" , Vatican Radio reported.
16:59 A total of 403 bodies of killed and tortured people who died during the occupation of the city by the Russian army were found in Bucha , mayor Anatoly Fedoruk said: "They were brutally tortured, killed. The procedures are being carried out, respectively, their competent authorities are carrying out under the close attention of the media" .
16:55 The British organization Airwars has published a report on the use of cluster munitions by Russia in Kharkiv. Investigators documented a total of 26 impact sites spanning 350 meters.
Experts believe that the widespread damage in Kharkiv may indicate that the Russian Federation is detonating cluster munitions at a higher altitude than usual. They also suggest that the strike was carried out by a single missile.
16:52 Shmyhal spoke with Swiss President Ignazio Cassis and agreed to hold a conference on the restoration of Ukraine in the Swiss city of Lugano on July 4-5.
16:48 British Minister of the Armed Forces James Hippie said that 120 armored vehicles are "preparing" for the Ukrainian military, and this week the Ukrainian military will arrive in the UK to learn how to use them.
16:40 Podolyak on Putin's speech: "Russia says its goal in Ukraine is to 'protect the people in Donbas.' Right at this moment, Russian mobile crematoria are burning the bodies of thousands of civilians in Mariupol, the second largest city in the Donetsk region. Survivors are starving to death "What are you protecting them from? From life?"
16:37 Barack Obama believes that the threat from Putin has always existed, but his "reckless" manner of invading Ukraine ten years ago could not be predicted: "He was always seized by this distorted sense of ethnic nationalism."
16:25 The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) excluded from its latest tender several grades of oil with a high sulfur content, including Russian Urals. Previously, this company bought large volumes of Russian oil, writes Reuters.
16:23 Putin said that "Kyiv has moved away from the Istanbul agreements, returned to a deadlock."
16:18 Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian invaders, 20 media workers have died, including representatives of foreign media. The list of the dead was published by the National Union of Journalists .
16:10 "In Ukrainian Bucha - the same fake as it was with chemical weapons in Syria," Putin said.
15:59 In Ukraine, out of 3.2 million children left in their homes, about 1.6 million are at risk of living on the brink of starvation and face the risk of food shortages due to the war, Denisova said.
15:57 Putin on the war: "What is happening in Ukraine is a tragedy, but Russia had no choice."
He also believes that the Belarusian platform is suitable for negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow.
15:55 Putin, speaking about the impact of Western sanctions, said that "the blitzkrieg that the West was counting on did not take place, the Russian economy and financial system are quite firmly on their feet." However, he did not rule out that in the medium and long term, the risks may increase.
15:54 On the road in the village of Krasnoe, Chernihiv region, a civilian passenger car was blown up on an anti-tank mine, the driver died.
15:52 Putin said that it became possible to start a dialogue with Ukraine "largely thanks to Lukashenka."
15:50 The Russian army is fighting today, focusing on the combat situation. The enemy command has no strategy, planning is situational. The interests of the enemy today are the east and south of Ukraine, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar.
15:48 EU countries will receive an additional 3.5 billion euros this year to finance the accommodation of Ukrainian refugees, the Council of the European Union announced. Funds will be allocated proportionally depending on the number of settled Ukrainians.
15:43 Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko said in an interview with the Financial Times that the state budget deficit is expected to rise to $5-7 billion in April-May. And infrastructure losses due to the Russian invasion have already risen to $270 billion.
He also said that the Cabinet of Ministers cut government spending by $6 billion, but revenues are only slightly more than half of pre-war revenues. At the same time, the minister assured that Ukraine would continue to make payments on the public debt in order to avoid default.
15:35 The World Bank is preparing a $1.5 billion aid package for Ukraine to support the provision of public services to the population.
15:31 Putin said that he discussed with Lukashenka the formation of a single defense space and security issues, and also clarified the plans for the exercises. Lukashenka, in turn, said that he had discussed Bucha with Putin, calling it a "British special operation."
15:17 A large convoy of Russian military equipment is heading towards the Lugansk and Donetsk regions. Their technique was noticed in the Rostov region, writes CNN.
15:12 Investigative journalist from Bellingcat Hristo Grozev is convinced that the battle for Donbass, which is being prepared by the Russian army, risks becoming a record in terms of casualties on both sides. He predicts that it will begin this week.
"I expect the conflict to be more active, more professional on both sides. It will be a clash with huge casualties for both Russia and Ukraine, perhaps a modern version of World War II," Grozev said.
15:07 There is no official confirmation from the Ukrainian authorities about the use of chemical weapons in Mariupol yet. But such an attack has long been expected. Everything that is known about this at the moment is in the material of Himataka RF in Mariupol .
15:02 The Ministry of Internal Affairs received equipment worth four million dollars to digitize Russia's war crimes. The body cameras were provided by two private companies, AXON and Benish GPS. The equipment will allow Ukrainian law enforcement officers to effectively collect and digitize evidence of Russian war crimes, and the data will be transferred to a single archive.
14:52 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council warns of the disinformation campaign of the Russian Federation about the alleged "victory" in the war against Ukraine. To do this, Kremlin propaganda, in addition to its own pseudo-experts, uses a supporter of the Putin regime - former US Marine Brian Berletic.
This "expert" in the English-language and Russian-language information segments talks about the "Syrian scenario" - allegedly "the Ukrainian military is killing its own population in order to frame Russia." Berletik claims that "this is how the Ukrainians are trying to slow down the pace of advancement of the Russian army."
14:47 The mayor's office of Russian Belgorod calls on citizens to join "people's squads" to patrol the streets in the evening and at night, as well as help the police in law enforcement.
14:44 Russian servicemen from the 47th Panzer Division, who participated in the battles against Ukraine, did not receive the promised additional payments. The last surcharge they received was 2% of their tuition salary before the start of the war, Ukrainian intelligence said. As a result, military personnel have neither the desire nor the incentive to return to the war zone.
In addition, more and more bodies of the dead are coming to Russia, so the command ordered them to be transported in small batches so as not to sow panic.
And in order to prevent mass layoffs, the military contract of the Russian army includes a provision on consent to the performance of tasks in areas of military operations, regardless of their location.
14:39 The State Border Service reported that security measures have been strengthened on the border with Belarus and in the area with unrecognized Transnistria.
14:31 The line of military clashes has been moved away from the Dnipropetrovsk region and now passes through the territories of Kherson, said the head of the military administration of Krivoy Rog Alexander Vilkul. According to him, more than 15 settlements have returned under the control of Ukraine, and now infrastructure is being restored there, primarily power lines.
14:28 Ukrposhta put into circulation postage stamps Russian warship, go...! The ceremony was attended by the author of the cult phrase Roman Gribov.
14:22 According to the UN, more than 4.6 million Ukrainians have left the country since the beginning of the Russian invasion. During the day, this number increased by 68,000 people.
14:20 More than 335,000 refugees from Ukraine have officially registered in Germany, the country's Interior Ministry said. During the day, the number of Ukrainian refugees increased by 3936 people.
14:18 The village of Novoyakovlevka, Zaporozhye region, was fired upon by Russians with phosphorus bombs at night. According to the Kamyshevakhskaya UTC, due to rainy weather, the fire did not start, there were no wounded or dead, but there were damaged houses.
14:13 Arestovich reported that there are 16 enemy BTGs in the Izyum direction, and about 14 more BTGs in the Ugledar-Marinka direction. That is, only about 30 enemy BTGs are in the JFO area.
14:05 NATO predicts a new, larger stage of hostilities in Ukraine. As NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana said, "everything indicates that we will soon enter the second stage of this war, very bloody, more complex, different in character from the first stage, on a much wider territory - both in the east, in the Donbass, and in the south, towards the Crimea and Mariupol.
NATO hopes that the confrontation will not drag on, but admits that there is little chance of this. Probably, there will be new losses among the civilian population.
14:03 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said that the number and intensity of shelling of residential areas of the city have increased since yesterday. To date, 1,644 residential multi-storey buildings have been destroyed; in total, about 2,000 buildings and structures have been damaged in the city. There are civilian casualties, including a child.
13:59 NACP and the Movement honestly entered the first hundred people into the register of state traitors, including 73 politicians, 13 representatives of law enforcement agencies, 13 media workers and one judge.
13:57 The headman of Staraya Zburyevka, Kherson region, Viktor Marunyak, who was captured by Russian invaders on March 21, got in touch and is returning home, the Golopristan City Council reports.
13:42 The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaliy Kim, told that the Ukrainians began to read the Russian communities and the enemy uses this to reveal the positions of the Ukrainian military. In particular, they make statements that there are Ukrainian military personnel in such and such a building, and then they wait for a refutation to appear in the comments from local residents. Kim urges not to leave comments in Russian publics.
13:30 The National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of Poland signed a memorandum on assistance during the war. The document will facilitate the exchange of information and mutual support between the two regulators.
13:26 The Polish authorities announced the detention of two Belarusians who were carrying out espionage activities on the instructions of the Belarusian special services. They identified "objects of critical and strategic importance for the defense of Poland."
A Russian was also detained, who collected data on the combat readiness of the Polish armed forces and NATO troops at the request of the Russian special services.
13:23 There is no need to evacuate from the Sumy region at the moment - it is better to return to work for everyone who has such an opportunity, Governor Dmitry Zhivitsky said. He said that although the Russian army had not completely withdrawn from the borders of the region, there was no enemy strike force there now.
The head of the region also called the preliminary amount of damage from military operations - more than 10 billion hryvnia. The Cabinet of Ministers has already allocated UAH 250 million for the priority restoration of infrastructure and residential buildings, which they plan to spend on the restoration of facilities that do not require major repairs.
13:18 The SBU exposed a group that was supposed to create "people's republics" in the western regions of Ukraine. According to one of the participants, the group began work to overthrow the constitutional order in the summer of 2021.
The plan was such that if the current government does not resign itself, the group will move on to a military scenario. To seize power, the group had to recruit 500 militants, preferably from former ATO soldiers, and supply them with weapons. The implementation of the plan was to coincide with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
13:07 The Russians are resettling Ukrainians in Siberia and beyond the Arctic Circle, about 100,000 refugees found themselves thousands of kilometers from home, writes The Independent. According to official documents, 11,000 people were distributed to Siberia, 7,000 to the Far East, and another 7,000 to the North Caucasus. Also, the Ukrainians were to be sent to Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.
Residents of Mariupol were asked to sign documents stating that Ukrainian troops had shelled their city. The signatories were told that they could not return to Ukraine because they would face persecution, the newspaper notes.
12:55 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 20.8% of Ukrainians have changed their place of residence - this is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the company Operational Sociology commissioned by the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Studies (NIBR) and Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet).
At the same time, 81.6% of Ukrainians do not plan to change their location in the next four weeks, and 59.6% of those who have left or are planning to go abroad want to return home as soon as possible.
12:46 Russia has extended the ban on flights in the south of the country until April 19 in connection with the war against Ukraine.
12:32 Zelensky in an address to the Lithuanian parliament: "The European Union is already discussing the sixth package of sanctions against Russia and it is still unknown whether oil will be subject to sanctions. Even after seeing the massacres in Bucha and other cities, some EU countries cannot decide when "They will at least significantly limit the purchase of Russian energy resources. Hundreds of European companies and banks not only have not yet refused to work on the Russian market, but are also demonstrating blatant disdain in response to demands to stop financing the military machine of the Russian Federation with their taxes, their excises."
12:17 Senior adviser to the US Congress Paul Massaro said that "all free peoples are in a huge debt to Ukraine." "We can start paying off this debt now with arms and sanctions," he added.
12:14 Putin said that "the goals of the operation to protect the Donbass will be achieved, they are noble - assistance to the Donbass." According to him, Kyiv "publicly refused" to comply with the Minsk agreements, and "it was impossible to continue to tolerate the genocide."
"The Russian Armed Forces act courageously, competently, efficiently and effectively, they use the most modern types of weapons," Putin is convinced.
He also stressed that Russia is not going to isolate itself, and "it is impossible to isolate it from the whole world."
12:12 British Minister of the Armed Forces James Hippie said that the British government has not yet been able to verify reports of a chemical attack in Mariupol. But Putin must know that all possible responses from the West are on the table, he stressed.
12:10 The British Foreign Office recommends that its citizens leave Russia, and if this is not possible, limit movement around the country.
12:08 The "DPR" claims that they did not use chemical weapons in Mariupol yesterday. This was stated by the representative of the "People's Militia of the DPR" Eduard Basurin, who spoke yesterday afternoon about the need to "turn to the chemical troops, who will find a way to smoke moles out of their holes," referring to the Ukrainian military at Azovstal.
12:03 Putin said that "there is no doubt that the goals and objectives of the operation in Ukraine will be fulfilled." "A clash with anti-Russian forces growing in Ukraine was inevitable, it was a matter of time," he added.
11:57 Zelensky said in an address to the Lithuanian parliament that he managed to identify the Russian military who raped children in the Kiev region: "Even this person [of the Russian military who raped a baby] has been established - Russian military Bychkov from Pskov, a paratrooper or special forces. He sent comrades, a video of what he does with a baby, how he mocks a baby.Here is such a Russian military "protector of children."
11:55 Yermak said, citing Borrell, that all 27 EU countries supported the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
11:54 Ukravtodor is building a temporary crossing on the Kyiv-Zhytomyr highway near the village of Stoyanka. It is scheduled to open early next week.
11:52 The offensive of Russian troops in the Lugansk region is slowed down due to prolonged rain, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
11:49 On the road near the village of Gavronshchina, Buchansky district, Kiev region, police officers found a car shot by the Russian military, in which were the bodies of three women and two children.
11:41 The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that from now on, private soldiers can be appointed to officer positions if they have combat experience. To do this, you no longer need to receive training at the appropriate level in educational institutions.
11:35 In the Zaporozhye region, Russian invaders are looking for men of military age and forcibly send them to the military registration and enlistment offices, and from the Ukrainian police, by intimidation and pressure on their families, the Russians create detachments of the so-called "people's militia", the regional military administration said.
11:32 The Azov Regiment reported that the victims of the spread of a poisonous substance of unknown origin by the enemy in Mariupol are in "relatively satisfactory condition." One of the servicemen is in a "moderate condition", the other two are under constant medical supervision. Among the injured civilians, an elderly woman is in the worst condition.
The main symptoms are flushing of the face, increased blood pressure, dryness and irritation in the oropharynx, mucous membranes of the eyes.
According to the Azov Regiment, the enemy used poisonous substances or potent poisonous substances with a predominantly asphyxiating effect. However, due to the complete blockade, their toxicological analysis is not possible.
11:24 Despite the death of four million chickens at Europe's largest poultry farm in Chernobaevka, there will be no shortage of eggs and chicken in Ukraine, assured Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotsky. He explained that before the Russian invasion, Ukraine exported up to 40% of the eggs. He is also convinced that there will be no shortage of milk and vegetables.
11:19 Klitschko said that in Kiev for the period of martial law, car parking on the streets is free, but scammers who are trying to charge a fee have become more active. The mayor urged to immediately call the police if someone demands money for parking.
11:17 Most residents of the Donetsk region have left the region, but the evacuation should be more efficient, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
11:10 Karl Nehammer became the first European leader to visit the Russian president after the invasion of Ukraine began. More about this in the material Controversial visit: why did Putin visit the Austrian chancellor .
11:07 Russia is planning terrorist attacks on its territory to whip up "anti-Ukrainian hysteria," said the head of Ukrainian intelligence, Kirill Budanov. According to him, the Russian special services are planning to mine and blow up residential buildings, hospitals and schools in Russian settlements, as well as launch rocket and bomb attacks on the city of Belgorod or one of the cities of Crimea.
The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense explained that the failure of the plan to mobilize in the Russian Federation is forcing the Putin regime to use dirty scenarios in order to further turn the Russians against the Ukrainians. It is quite possible that these attacks will be filed as a revenge of the Ukrainians for Bucha and Kramatorsk.
11:04 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said that information about the possible use of chemical weapons by the invaders in Mariupol is being checked, but there is an assumption that these were most likely phosphorus munitions. At the same time, she stressed that "the risk of using chemical weapons does exist, and it is quite high."
10:58 Severodonetsk and Gorskoye of the Luhansk region were left without electricity, water and gas, all communications were destroyed by night shelling, Governor Sergei Gaidai said. Also, residents of Rubizhne, Popasnaya, and partially Lisichansk have no water.
A total of 146,500 consumers remain without electricity in the combat zone in the Lugansk region, and there is no gas in 38 settlements.
10:52 Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova announced mass sexual violence in Bucha. In an interview with The New York Times and the BBC, she said that during the occupation of Bucha, Russian soldiers kept about 25 women and girls aged 14 to 24 in one of the basements and raped them regularly. Nine of them are now pregnant.
10:38 Residents of the settlements of the Kiev region affected by the fighting will be able to return to their homes at the end of May, a more exact date will be known by the end of April, said the head of the Kiev OVA Alexander Pavlyuk.
He said that they plan to restore power supply in the region by May 31. There is still no gas in 85 settlements, and its supply is also being gradually resumed. Pavlyuk stressed that it is still dangerous to return to these areas: there are still many mines and ammunition, mine clearance is underway.
10:27 Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation, with the assistance of the Marine Guard of the State Border Service, prevented the withdrawal of eight Russian cargo ships and two tankers from Ukraine, which were in the waters of the port of Odesa region on preventive maintenance. The ships were involved in the logistics operations of the Russian Federation in the Black Sea and the Danube.
10:24 Mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko told AP that the death toll in the city could exceed 20,000 people , as the bodies of the dead "litter the streets." According to him, the death toll reaches more than 10,000. He also accused the Russians of blocking convoys with humanitarian aid, as the occupiers are trying to hide what is happening in Mariupol from the outside world.
10:21 Charitable organization Caritas announced the destruction of its center in Mariupol. The Russians fired into the building from a tank. At that time, there were people inside, seven of them died, including two employees of the organization.
10:19 Russians are trying to sow panic among the residents of Chernihiv by spreading rumors about an attack on the city. The head of the OVA, Vyacheslav Chaus, urged residents of the city and the region not to believe unverified panic rumors.
He also asks the residents of Chernihiv not to return to the city without a critical need yet: "We are obliged to restore critical infrastructure, and the more people return, the more resources the city will consume, give us a little more time."
10:17 In Severodonetsk, the invaders destroyed a humanitarian aid center that fed 300 people daily. As one of the organizers of the network of such centers in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, the chairman of the Luhansk Association of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities, Mykola Nadulichny, said, on April 11, the center was subjected to massive shelling. There are no victims.
10:01 In the city of Stryi, Lviv region, a stele-monument to a Soviet soldier was dismantled.
09:49 In the Khmelnitsky region, the Russians launched a missile attack on an infrastructure facility, the OVA reported. As a result, a fire broke out, which has already been extinguished. There are no victims.
09:41 In the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, in the Shebekinsky urban district, which borders on the Kharkov region, local authorities recorded damage to the railway tracks, the governor said.
09:37 British intelligence believes that the fighting in eastern Ukraine will intensify over the next two to three weeks, as Russia continues to redirect its efforts there.
"Russian attacks remain focused on Ukrainian positions near Donetsk and Luhansk, fighting continues around Kherson and Nikolaev, and the offensive against Kramatorsk is resumed," the British Defense Ministry said in a report. It is also reported that the Russian Federation continues to withdraw troops from Belarus in order to redeploy them to support operations in eastern Ukraine.
09:33 In Zhytomyr, they may stop teaching Russian in schools as early as the next academic year, the mayor of the city Sergey Sukhomlin said: “I still want us to no longer recruit classes in our schools for the study of the Russian language from September 1. We see that our children won’t need this language for another 20-30 years.”
09:30 Putin and Lukashenko will hold a meeting today at the Vostochny cosmodrome, following which they will give a press conference, Russian media report.
09:27 The General Staff named the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of April 12:
personnel - about 19,600 people,
tanks - 732,
armored combat vehicles - 1946,
artillery systems - 349,
MLRS - 111,
air defense systems - 63,
aircraft - 157,
helicopters - 140,
automotive equipment - 1406,
ships/boats - 7,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 124,
special equipment - 25,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
09:20 Religious leaders will visit Ukraine with a "mission of friendship and solidarity." The delegation will include former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Thyatira (Patriarchate of Constantinople) Nikita Lulias, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Minister General of the Franciscan Order Massimo Fusarelli, representatives of Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist communities from different countries. The visit was organized by the international coalition Religions for Peace.
According to The Church Times, the delegation will arrive in Chernivtsi on Tuesday, April 12.
09:12 Nine humanitarian corridors agreed on April 12:
Mariupol, Berdyansk, Tokmak, Energodar - Zaporozhye. Evacuation from the cities of the Zaporozhye region will take place on our own transport. Also, at the checkpoint in Vasilyevka, buses sent from Zaporozhye are waiting for a pass.
Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Popasnaya, with. Gornoye, Rubizhnoye - Bakhmut.
09:06 Russia receives ammunition and military equipment from Iraq for military operations in Ukraine with the help of Iranian arms smuggling networks, writes The Guardian.
According to the publication, RPGs and anti-tank missiles, as well as Brazilian-designed multiple launch rocket systems, were sent to Russia from Iraq after Moscow's unsuccessful campaign in Ukraine in March. In addition, the Iranian-made Bavar 373 missile system, similar to the Russian S-300, was donated to Moscow by the Tehran authorities.
09:03 Ukraine offers international partners to apply the "Iranian model" of sanctions against Gazprom - when Russian gas will be supplied to the EU, but the funds for it will be transferred not to Russia, but to special deposit accounts, said Deputy Energy Minister Yaroslav Demchenkov.
08:45 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russians attacked an old mill in the Sinelnikovsky district at night. People were not injured, said the head of the region, Valentin Reznichenko.
07:57 Japan has imposed sanctions on 398 individuals and 28 organizations of the Russian Federation.
07:24 The Russian army is trying to complete the regrouping and movement of units to the areas of concentration in the Belgorod and Voronezh regions, as well as the redeployment of the aviation of the aerospace forces to airfields that are in close proximity to the eastern borders of Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
05:15 Out of about 1,700 prisoners held by Russia and pro-Russian separatists, 500 are women , Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk told Reuters.
According to her, captured women are forced to stand, they are not allowed to sit down. They shave their heads, make them undress every day for examinations. They degrade human dignity. "I know the facts of rape, I saw beaten backs ... They want us to be scared. They want us to cry and be victims. But we are not them," Vereshchuk said.
04:49 The Pentagon cannot yet confirm the report that Russian troops used chemical weapons in Mariupol, spokesman John Kirby said, writes CNN. The Pentagon is aware of the reports and will be monitoring the situation closely, Kirby said.
The British Foreign Office also promised to monitor the situation.
03:07 Europol launched Operation Oscar - it will search for criminal assets belonging to individuals or companies under sanctions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
02:12 Bulgaria has refused to exchange classified information with Russia - the corresponding decision was made by the country's government.
01:26 In the Nikolaev region, disguised Russian saboteurs tried to impersonate a group of lost evacuees local. In three civilian vehicles, they drove up to the Ukrainian positions and tried to attack them, according to OK Pivden. Ukrainian fighters destroyed five of them, the rest fled.
00:58 Zelensky said that due to the actions of the Russian army, Ukraine is now one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world. According to him, mining should also be considered a war crime.
00:40 In the Black Sea operational zone, stormy weather has significantly complicated the maneuvers of Russian ships, OK Pivden reported. Also, due to stormy wind and rain, the enemy cannot use drones for reconnaissance and fire adjustment.
00:33 Zelensky said that any new sanctions package against Russia that does not affect oil will be received in Moscow with a smile. He called on the EU to impose a total embargo on Russian oil.
The President also said that Ukraine does not receive "as many weapons as necessary to end this war as soon as possible."
00:25 Zelensky said that the invaders are preparing a new stage of terror against Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine - they threaten to use chemical weapons against the defenders of Mariupol.
“We are considering this very seriously. I want to remind world leaders that the possible use of chemical weapons by the Russian military has already been discussed. And by that time it meant that it was necessary to respond to Russian aggression much harder and faster,” the president stressed.
00:11 According to the World Trade Organization, a war in Ukraine could almost halve global trade growth this year, from a projected 4.7% in October 2021 to 2.4-3%. In addition, the crisis may reduce global GDP growth by 0.7-1.3 percentage points.
00:05 Andrey Biletsky, the leader of the Azov Regiment, said that a chemical attack had taken place at Azovstal, three people were injured. It was this plant that was previously discussed in the "DPR", announcing the possibility of a chemical attack on Ukrainians.
"A chemical attack on Mariupol means only one thing: the Russians cannot take Mariupol and the Ukrainian defenders. And they have no choice but to use indiscriminate prohibited weapons," Biletsky said.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The head of the National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs in Sana’a, Abdul Qadir al-Murtadha, on Monday announced the success of a prisoner exchange deal with the other party on Ma’rib front.In a tweet on his account on Twitter, Al-Murtadha confirmed the liberation of six captives of the army and the popular committees in a local in a local exchange deal in Ma’rib.
This deal comes less than five days after a similar exchange deal with the other party in the Ma’rib front, under which 26 prisoners from the Yemeni army forces were released.
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I wonder if there was a sort of useless prisoner that somebody added in to make the numbers even or whether they considered salary cap implications.
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Not as crazy as the inline suggests. If Joe does run again, I predict he the people running the show will select a VP who will be sold as a "centrist uniter." Needless to say, that would not be a balck ghey womyn.
Willard would be the plastic prototype of that. I think back in the day, the political term was doughface.
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The RINO in Chief. should have retired ages ago.
With his constant selling out of America he should be Mega $$$$$$ rich by now.
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He has made an excellent plan. Unfortunately, no one will vote for him. Mitt is timing his final retirement based on when Al Gore and John Kerry tap out so he be assured of a first ballot election into the Irrelevant HOF.
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I propose Romney as next ambassador to Afghanistan.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:44 Nationalists and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are placing heavy weapons in the schools of Kharkov, the DPR and the LPR. 21:16 In the city of Yasinovataya today alone, as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 47 houses were destroyed, two people were killed.
21:13 The LPR reported that a group of journalists came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:05 Basurin reported five dead DPR servicemen today, 26 were injured.
19:00 Since the beginning of the day, Kiev militants have fired more than a hundred shells with a caliber of 152, 122 and 120 mm at the DPR. Eight settlements came under fire, in which 27 residential buildings and three civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.
19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army, have destroyed 67 Ukrainian nationalists, two 122-mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts, two armored and one cargo vehicle. Captured two infantry fighting vehicles, four 120-mm mortars and three trucks with ammunition
17:23 In Irmino (LPR), one civilian was injured as a result of shelling by Kiev militants.
16:25 A total of 212 people, including 41 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye in the DPR
15:07 In Yasinovataya, two civilians were killed under shelling by Ukrainian Nazis.
15:00 Mariupol: In the Primorsky district, the railway station and the coast are fully occupied. The 1st settlement towards the port is under fire. The front goes further towards the park area. The port is completely free.
14:32 Kiev Nazis opened fire on Yasinovataya in the DPR. They fired five rockets from the Grad MLRS into the city. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:32 Ukrainian militants fired at the village of Ozeryanovka in the DPR, firing four shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:34 During the cleansing of Mariupol, the military of the DPR army captured the Major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Rostislav Lomtev. Lomtev served as political officer of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:09 Kiev Nazis opened fire on Pervomaisk in the LPR. They fired four 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:08 Ukrainian punishers fired at Irmino in the LPR. Ten shells from the Grad MLRS were fired at the village. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:03 Military officers Medvedev, Yevtushenko and Steshin came under fire in Mariupol. A Ukrainian nationalist sniper opened fire on the military enlisted men.
12:02 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the Central City district of Gorlovka. Shell explosions are reported between the village of Ozeryanovka and the village of Korolenko, along the street. Ocheretinsky dead end and st. Boyko. The shelling continues, people are in shelters.
11:13 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Trudovskaya mine in the suburbs of Donetsk. Four shells of 122mm caliber were fired at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:00 There was an attempt to break through in Mariupol. The number of those who tried to leave the city was about 1,500 people. The attempt was blocked, part of the Ukrainian military were destroyed, part surrendered.
10:54 Another large party (a little over 100 people) of Ukrainian marines of the 36th Brigade voluntarily surrendered in Mariupol.
10:00 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army, destroyed 68 Ukrainian nationalists, two tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, four armored vehicles and two trucks, two firing positions of 120mm mortar crews. Two armored vehicles and one tank were captured.
10:00 During the day, 27 Ukrainian soldiers of the 56th, 54th and 25th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily laid down their arms and crossed over to the DPR.
09:39 Channel One correspondent Irina Kuksenova came under fire from Ukrainian Nazis in Mariupol. She got injured. The information is being specified.
09:34 Kiev militants opened fire on Pervomaisk in the LPR. They fired six 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:31 During the day, 587 people, including 96 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe in the DPR.
09:12 Kiev troops opened fire on the territory of the DPR 34 times in a day, firing 189 shells. Two civilians were killed and seven injured.
09:09 Activists of the "Young Guard of United Russia" found more than a hundred missing residents of Mariupol.
09:08 Ukrainian Nazis fired six shells of 122mm caliber at Yasinovataya in the DPR. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:08 The OSCE SMM will have to stop its activities on the territory of the DPR until April 30.
09:07 Kiev militants fired at Yelenovka in the DPR, using the Grad MLRS and firing eight missiles at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:06 Ukrainian Nazis fired on Zolote-5 in the LPR. Ten mines with a caliber of 120mm were fired at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:05 Russian Emergencies Ministry units delivered almost 1,100 tons of humanitarian cargo to the Donbass and Ukraine, it included all essential products.
08:30 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis opened fire five times on the territory of the LPR. Four settlements came under fire. Residential buildings in Frunze were damaged and a civilian was injured.
08:27 Kiev militants fired at Panteleymonovka, Ozeryanovka and Yasinovataya in the DPR. They fired 16 shells with a caliber of 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
[WWW-FOXBUSINESS-COM.CDN.AMPPROJECT.ORG] Economists expected consumer prices to rise by 8.4%, the fastest since January 1982
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so at least a few more months of numbers
the Republicans should be calling for resignation of Biden's econ policy team:
Yellin at Treasury
Young at OMB
Rouse at the Council of Economic advisors along with Bernstein and Bousey
could add
Walsh at labor
Fudge at HUD
Buttigieg at Transporation
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[An Nahar] Some bakeries had already closed their doors when others threatened of closing on Monday night, as bakeries announced they do not have sufficient quantities of wheat to produce bread, urging officials for a fast solution.
General Confederation of Lebanese Workers head Bechara al-Asmar warned Tuesday that there is a scarce quantity of wheat in the bakeries that can barely last for 10 days, urging officials to act swiftly and not to lift subsidies on wheat.
A person had been reportedly injured in a shooting in front of a bakery in the southern suburbs of Beirut, as people queued on Monday to secure their bread, amid promises that the crisis will soon ease.
Economy Minister Amin Salam had promised that a solution will be reached by today, Tuesday, as the central Bank failed to secure funds for the imported subsidized wheat.
He said the funds will be secured.
"Cabinet has decided in its latest session to dedicate $15 million for wheat but the Central Bank hasn't paid the sum yet," al-Asmar said.
LBCI meanwhile said it has learned that Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Minister of Finance Youssef al-Khalil have signed a decision to exceptionally withdraw $15 million from Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's Special Drawing Rights (SDR) to cover the emergency need for wheat.
Agriculture Minister Abbas Haj Hassan denied the withdrawal, saying that Cabinet will convene in the upcoming hours.
He assured that wheat subsidies won't be lifted any time soon.
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Arab "Spring," part deux. Wars and revolutions to follow across the Arab world
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.
The people of Shanghai, and Hong Kong, and likely soon Beijing are facing extraordinary pressures as hunger and surveillance and fear and censorship take their toll. And the cult of personality that Chinese President Xi Jinping has worked to build over the past decade is squarely in the crosshairs.
[NTD] At least 20 FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives "assets" were embedded around the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a defense attorney wrote in a court filing on April 12.
[All on Georgia] Norma Precision Ammunition, a subsidiary of the leading European ammunition manufacturer RUAG Ammotec, has established its U.S. headquarters, manufacturing site, and warehousing and distribution operations in Chatham County. The company is currently hiring.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
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...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...... Somalia's version of the 
[SAHARAREPORTERS] US and international law enforcement agencies have seized control of a popular website where hackers have advertised data stolen from American consumers and corporations.
[IJR] 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[PJMEDIA] Don’t you love a Sunday afternoon feel-good story about the Second Amendment?A Dale County, Ala. man called the police a little after 6 a.m. on Wednesday to report that a person was trying to break into his home.
[Breitbart] Migrants Surge to Typically Quiet Texas Border Sector
[YouTube] Since the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) a lot of statements about the "end of the tank" came up. Most of these statements are old, very old and they show up every few decades, particularly if a new technology is invented and/or some factions suffers - for whatever reason - a certain amount of tank losses. This video discusses the various factors about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and a lot of the previous arguments that often have not changed for decades and generally still invalid, since people forget combined arms warfare.
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
Najib Miqati
