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Turkey is just preventing Russian ships from getting sunk in stormy weather.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
04/15/2022 9:08
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I thought this happened back in February.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
04/15/2022 10:19
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My comment from the article below on Russian nukes on the Slava class sinking:
#7 ^^^^^Ref the above, is this connected to the Turks suddenly re-stating a limit on Russian Naval access? It looks like the depth might be 1000 to 1500 meters from a quick map recon, but the middle quickly drops off to 2500 meters. Someone in Istanbul might be very interested in poking around the wreck.
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I hope the counter move is an invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula. We will wave the NATO mandatory response and just watch. Turkey has left the NATO sphere long ago anyway.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/15/2022 14:18
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Turkish drones eat Russian soldiers for breakfast.
#1
Still one of the most fascinating stories of WWII. Very much looking forward to the movie next month.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
04/15/2022 8:53
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There's a newish book about it that has more details. Apparently it helped that the Nazi intelligence officer assigned to it was eager for a big catch and that the senior analyst who Hitler trusted to assess the documents had soured on Nazism.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
04/15/2022 14:03
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Over the course of a weekend Montagu wrote The Man Who Never Was (1953), which sold two million copies and formed the basis for a 1956 film.
and, btw, the Modern Monetary Theory devotees are not conceding anything --- blaming inflation on 'unique and unforeseeable circumstances.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
04/15/2022 7:19
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Bad Luck™
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/15/2022 7:26
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Shade from the Bath House regime. No honor among thieves?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/15/2022 8:13
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Reminds me when Barney Frank went up in front of committee and 'testified against the bank bailouts' even though he was right in the middle of it, to be in front of the story.
#5
Allowing Biden to take office was the extraordinary policy mistake of American history -- one the USA may not survive. Many once respected US institutions had their hand in that mistake of all mistakes.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
04/15/2022 10:16
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Spend, spend, spend,"President Biden approves $800M in artillery, helicopters for Ukraine". Every week and where is he getting all this money. I wonder how Biden trickle down economics will work.
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News for you Bubba, the old republic died decades ago. The concentration of power has far exceeded the point where it can be saved. We're at the point where the Founders wrote Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
We might get a second republic but only through blood and tears cause those with the power will not go willingly.
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I have seen clusters of this sort in the past. Cancer in Sparrows Point area and brain cancer about paper mill in Westernport Maryland. Then at that later location hilltops barren. No tress would grow for years.Now tress are growing after plant closure. Curiously oral and lung cancer among people who never smoked or chewed tobacco. Just my casual observations as a layman. Lung cancer especially among women I blame on shower inhalation of aerosol particulates. Then oral cancers from processed water. In areas as far I can tell not from chewing tobacco or smoking.
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Since about 1880 Western populations have been marinating themselves in what could be called a "chemical soup" -- the ever increasing number and amount of manmade materials, usually side effects of industrial processes, dumped into the environment for everyone to ingest, inhale, absorb and mix with the DNA they hand down to the next generation. Add to that the scarcely researched side effects of the many forms electromagnetic radiation, also increasing in variety and intensity over the same time frame. Mysteries like this cited one have been popping up for over a century now and will only get worse given the trend.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
04/15/2022 9:34
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Traumaville
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/15/2022 14:22
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In 1880 people died a lot younger and of diseases that we have since tamed. Particulate matter? Back then nearly everyone cooked and/or heated their homes with coal or wood. There were no 'white' Christmases in cities. Move about any significant distance, you traveled by train. Again, surrounded by coal and wood burning.
Now they live longer to discover newer means of dying of conditions that would never had arose if they had the life span of that time. Statistical medical analysis didn't even exist as a practice back then. If there were unusual clusters outside of the observed natural contagions, there was no one to figure it out.
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I agree with alignment of USA, India and Russia but I also added Israel. Now we have a NATO of Asia forming and we are the odd man out. Canada, Latin America, Arab areas, Africa, and even Australia are poor friends at this time. I should think South Korea, Vietnam and particularly Japan must be very concerned. I see Israel will drift towards Russia as India is now doing. Russia offers balance whereas China represents absorption. Frankly Europe is a no show. A bureaucratic nightmare of self absorbed elites.
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Burns is a career diplomat, American diplomat and career ambassador. That says it all to me. Wine parties and dinner socials. Highly paid body doing nothing.
#6
China is the enemy of all that exist about it. Russia will work with China at arms length. History of their relationships over time shows Russia has a healthy well deserved distrust of China.
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Seems lies all along even covid,"The officials say the Biden administration has been rapidly pushing out “intelligence” about Russia’s plans in Ukraine that is “low-confidence” or “based more on analysis than hard evidence”, or even just plain false, in order to fight an information war against Putin."Direct war on America thru media from our own government. .
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I suspect we'll see Director Burns retiring soon.
What's the Chinese equivalent of dacha?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/15/2022 8:15
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China is taking a big hit from the Russia invasion of Ukraine
- price of oil is way way up and China imports over 10 million barrels per day
- price and availability of other products including for example, wheat, copper and electrical equipment are also major problems
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
04/15/2022 9:03
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Mearsheimer predicted this war would result from America's foolish encouragement of Ukraine to seek to join NATO and create "a western bulwark" within striking distance of Moscow.
An intelligent approach according to Mearsheimer would be to ensure Ukrainian neutrality and distance from the US. Ukraine should have been nuclear-armed and independent.
Instead of this sensible solution we have the worst of all possible worlds: a perpetual proxy war which neither Russia nor the US can afford to be seen to lose. It is a recipe for escalation into a nuclear war.
Instead of the US, Russia and India aligned against China, now the Russians, Chinese and Indians -- along with the OPEC nations and nearly all of the global South - are united against the foolish, self-destructive US sanctions.
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^ So obviously Putin will not demand that the sanctions be lifted as part of any negotiated resolution with Ukraine.
Posted by: Matt ||
04/15/2022 9:38
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^ What are you talking about? Sanctions hurt people everywhere around the world, including the American public. The only people benefiting from sanctions are private traders and corrupt American politicians such as the president and his family.
The biggest losers from the sanctions are two groups: the half a billion desperately poor people in Asia, the Middke East and Africa who depend on Russian wheat and other exports for survival, and millions of Americans who are now becoming poor. Of course the sanctions must be lifted as part of any settlement. They are a foolish and counterproductive, blunt instrument that never should have been wielded in the first place.
Posted by: Matt ||
04/15/2022 10:08
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Putin has entered your head. You are so obsessed with him that you cannot even see what is before your eyes. Again: sanctions are hurting the American public and will cause at least 10 million people to starve across the global South.
The world outside of America and Europe doesn't care about Putin or Zelensky. They care intensely about evading or breaking the foolish US sanctions. For scores of governments and billions of people, overcoming these sanctions is a matter of survival.
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#14 You didn't answer my question, but never mind. What about the sanctions is preventing Russia from selling wheat and fertilizer to China and from there to points south?
Posted by: Matt ||
04/15/2022 10:31
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It never ceases to astonish me how ignorant so many Americans - including US policymakers - are regarding how US sanctions backfire on America again and again.
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Ridiculous crazy talk. China is a trusted trading partner. [sarc off]
Everything we hear Biden accusing Putin of doing, Xi has done even more. But Xi is rich and powerful while Putin is poor and weak and Biden is chickenshit.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/15/2022 11:49
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China is so awful they basically declared war on their own city, Shanghai, which will lead to extraordinary suffering.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
04/15/2022 12:13
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The tectonic plates of the Old World Order (Post WWII Cold War) are drift, as the American bulwark has become suicidal internally, and dead broke as it consumes itself with lunatic cultural BS, delusional, profligate spending, and compromised, inept leadership. New and emergent foreign power centers are casting about for a new web of alliances that offer benefit and security. Astride all this the Middle Kingdom seems ascendant (if vulnerable to food, energy and foreign markets) and focused on massive expansion.
In contrast, Washington seems run by cloaked Marxist fools, the gay lobby, minority/union stakeholders and the Obama minions for whom every decision must be corrosive to Traditional America.
India, Brazil, and other historic non-aligned nations and perhaps the sane Middle Eastern players are considering realignment even as Iran and Pakistan collude, and Putin is driving Russian into fealty with China and isolation in his maniacal determination to finish somehow a massive mistake (witness the Stalinesque decapitation of the FSB and now his Army leadership) in Ukraine.
At this moment of turmoil and global leadership opportunity the US is economically crippled, invaded, culturally conflicted and led by the most inept, corrupt, cowardly concentration of clueless politicians in our modern history. I cannot see the horizon but there is a damn big set of icebergs out there and Jojo has the bridge...
#23
US will leave NATO. Its death has been artificially postponed, and we all know how that ends.
USA needs: Prompt Global Strike, more Block (latest) Virginias, Columbias (more than 12) GBSD, LRSO and a shock collar program for the DoS kids and their think tank enablers. Tightly controlled borders (not just south) and repurpose USAID into an agency charged with paying down the US National Debt.
Thus endeth the Rantlet.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/15/2022 12:45
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#21 Lord Garth, Xi's recent actions on Shanghai, most likely due to the ‘Shanghai Gang’ seeking Xi’s ouster rather than COVID, right? Anticipating/hopeful to see the Chinese people rise up against Xi, if the CCP army ever turns on Xi having family in Shanghai.
Watching very closely as it is hard to continue seeing these atrocities occur without any ramifications.
Posted by: Jan ||
04/15/2022 14:04
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Never read any Mearshimer. The trolls' drooling infatuation insures I never will.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/15/2022 14:44
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I’ve been arguing that China is about to crash into demographic and financial walls. Lawrence Person at Battleswarm Blog makes the argument better and with more data. Some of his many points:
They were going shrink in half by 2100. “Then they realized that they had been overcounting people for some time.” Then new data moved the date moved up to 2070. And now they’re saying it will be 2050. “For that to be true, the Chinese would have overcounted the population by 100 million.” And all of those missing people are of childbearing age.
Their population actually peaked 15 years ago.
“China isn’t getting rich, it’s getting old.” They’re facing demographic collapse within a decade.
“All of the economic growth we have seen in China since 2006 is because of debt.”
Corporate debt is 350% of GDP, “making China the most indebted country in human history in both absolute and relative terms.” Every country that’s come within half of this has collapsed under the debt load.
Russia is the world’s second largest oil exporter, and it can’t export more to China because the pipes that go east don’t interconnect with the ones that go west. “The rail lines are already beyond capacity.”
To get more oil to China: “You would have to build a fundamentally new infrastructure from the fields in northwest Siberia to Chinese population centers that is greater than the distance from Miami to Anchorage, most of which is through virgin territory that is very rugged. That’s a 10-year program minimum even with the Chinese building it.”
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Reality is never allowed to conflict with The Beautiful Story.
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04/15/2022 15:06
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^ Good post, tw. And another reason why our recent visitors' theory that "Russia doesn't need the West because it can just do business with China instead" is delusional misinformed.
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04/15/2022 15:12
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[Dawn] A Pakistain Army soldier was martyred on Wednesday in an exchange of fire between troops and murderous Moslems in North Wazoo's Isham area, according to a statement issued by the military's media wing.
The statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) identified the soldier as Sepoy Asmatullah Khan, 28, who was a resident of Mianwali. The statement said he fought "gallantly".
"Sanitisation of the area is being carried out to eliminate any murderous Moslems found in the area. Pakistain Army is determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve," the ISPR statement said.
On Tuesday, an army major and a soldier were martyred and two bad boyz were potted during an exchange of fire between members of security forces and a group of murderous Moslems in the Birmal area of South Waziristan tribal district.
[Dawn] Eight soldiers were martyred in two terrorist attacks in North Wazoo on Thursday, security sources said.
In one incident, seven soldiers were martyred when murderous Moslems ambushed a vehicle of security forces in Datakhel tehsil of North Waziristan tribal district. In the second incident, which took place in Isham area of the district, a solider was martyred in a clash between security forces and terrorists.
As for the first attack, officials said the murderous Moslems attacked a moving vehicle of the security forces in Datakhel near the Afghan border. Sources said the snuffies used a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and assault guns in the attack.
Seven soldiers embraced martyrdom in the attack, officials told the media in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , the district headquarters of North Waziristan.
The martyred soldiers have been identified as Havaldar Tariq, Sepoy Arshad, Sepoy Kashif, Sepoy Junaid, Sepoy Ijaz Ali, Sepoy Waqas and Sepoy Jawad Mir. Their bodies were shifted in a military helicopter to Miranshah.
Sources said that a search operation in the area was in progress. According to reports, security personnel also retaliated but casualties on the holy warrior side could not be ascertained.
The ISPR has yet to confirm the attack or issue a formal statement.
This major attack comes at the heels of a deadly attack in the southern district of Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... three days ago which left five coppers dead and four maimed.
Unlike other areas of North Waziristan, Datakhel is considered a relatively safe sanctuary for terrorist groups. Security forces have yet to clear the area and hundreds of displaced families are still waiting to return to their homes.
In the second attack, a fire exchange took place between troops and murderous Moslems in the Isham area of North Waziristan district, in which 28-year-old Sepoy Asmatullah Khan of Mianwali embraced martyrdom, military media wing ISPR said.
Sanitisation of the area is being carried out to eliminate any murderous Moslems found in the area.
Pakistain Army is determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve, said the security sources.
The incidents on Thursday have raised the tally of terrorist attacks on security forces to three this week in the Waziristan region of erstwhile Fata.
On Monday, a check-post of security forces came under attack in the South Waziristan district, in which an army major and a soldier were martyred while two personnel were maimed. Two murderous Moslems were also killed during the exchange of fire with the security forces in that attack.
The DG ISPR told a presser on Thursday that 97 officers and soldiers had embraced martyrdom in the first three months of this year. With eight more embracing martyred on Thursday, the tally goes up to 105.
He said 128 turbans had been killed in the corresponding period, while 270 had been arrested.
[Rudaw] All groups, whether local or international, who fund the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) and its activities will be held responsible and punished accordingly, the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) coordinator for international advocacy told Rudaw's Sangar Abdulrahman on Wednesday.
A delegation from the Kurdistan Region in Berlin revealed the prevalence of entities that financially support the terror group, despite it having been devoid of all territorial control for around three years. In the meeting, light was also shed on the existence of groups in Erbil that fund the organization.
"We have arrested some groups in Erbil and the Kurdistan Region in the past who transferred funds to ISIS-controlled areas and funded ISIS through offices based in the Region," said Dindar Zebari.
"The UN [United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... ] Security Council has decided to punish those who supported ISIS financially," he said, adding that a UN team in Iraq has launched investigations on the case to be handed over to international courts.
According to Zebari, citing a UN report, ISIS receives up to $100 million annually from external funding.
The US-led coalition stated that ISIS "continued to raise funds via various means, including oil smuggling ... kidnapping for ransom, extortion, looting, and the possible operation of front companies," in their 2021 report.
The aforementioned report noted The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... as a significant intermediary in ISIS's transfer of money between Iraq and Syria, saying that the group uses its trusted partners in Turkey as agents.
Private banks have also delivered funds to ISIS, Zebari noted.
Zebari stressed the issue of vast amounts of money being transferred from Gulf countries "in the name of charity, and the money has reached ISIS-controlled areas."
As the terror group's grasp on the region continues to decline, it resorts to other means to generate funds, including drug smuggling and kidnapping to collect ransom money.
ISIS seized control of swathes of land in Iraq in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across the country's provinces.
In January, Iraqi security forces arrested four civilians who were financing ISIS by means of collecting royalties.
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[IsraelTimes] Officers enter flashpoint holy site after morning prayers as Moslem worshipers throw stones at Western Wall; 59 reported injured
Clashes broke out between Paleostinians and Israeli police at the Temple Mount early Friday morning, as spiking tensions, threats of terror and the observance of major holidays all converge around the flashpoint holy site. Skirmishes between police and worshipers at the site were reported around 6:30 a.m., with officers entering the compound and clashing with people barricaded inside.
Police said in a statement that at around 4 a.m., dozens of young people began marching in the area, carrying flags of both the Paleostinian Liberation Organization and the Gazoo
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[IsraelTimes] Military says officials will reconvene Saturday night to decide whether to maintain closure for entire holiday, following several recent deadly terror attacks
[USAWatchDog] Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong thinks the New World Order’s so-called "Great Reset" plan for humanity now needs war to try and make it work. It could happen in the next few weeks. Armstrong explains, "What they are trying to do is deliberately poke the bear. . . . They are increasing the pressure on just about everything under the sun. The West needs World War III. They just need it. The real problem here is they went to negative interest rates in 2014 in Europe. They have been unable to stimulate the economy, and Keynesian economics have completely failed. . . . I would say this is mismanagement of government on a global scale. The problem is that central banks have no control over the economy. Add to this, this type of inflation is substantially different than a speculative boom.
This inflation is based upon shortages. These morons with covid . . . with lockdowns, ended up destroying the supply chains. . . . Things that are there, I buy extra of because next time it might be gone. So, everybody is increasing their hoarding. . . . So, what we have with Europe, with its negative interest rates, they have wiped out all the pension funds. They need 8% to break even, not negative rates. There is not a pension fund in Europe that is solvent at this stage of the game. . . . The European government is collapsing. If they end up defaulting, you are going to have millions of people down there with pitch forks storming the parliament. So, to avoid that, they need war. . . . The Biden Administration has deliberately destroyed the world economy."
[PJ] Those wacky, right-wing, tinfoil-hat people (like myself) are correct yet again.
After defense attorneys "combed through a mountain of discovery," they added a footnote to their 41-page motion to dismiss charges related to Jan. 6.
Attorneys added a note that "At least 20 FBI and ATF assets were embedded around the Capitol on J6," to page 6 of the motion, which they filed to dismiss charges of seditious conspiracy and obstruction charges against 10 members of the "Oath Keepers," a right-leaning, pro-Constitution group of Americans.
The "mountain of discovery" included FD-302 forms, which FBI agents fill out after they interview people.
The motion to dismiss, filed by defense attorney David W. Fischer, also stated that defense attorneys had "not found one iota of proof" that the ten Oath Keepers "had any plan, intention, design, or scheme to specifically enter the Capitol Building on J6."
Many Americans, especially J6 defendants and their lawyers, have long maintained that undercover feds were involved in the Jan. 6 protest-turned-melee.
FACT-O-RAMA! If 300,000 Americans descend upon Washington D.C. and only 200 get violent, that would be the true meaning of "mostly peaceful."
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) ripped Jill Sanborn, executive assistant director of the FBI’s national security division, about this very topic on Jan. 11, 2022, in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
"How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of Jan. 6," Cruz asked Sanborn.
"Sir, I’m sure you can appreciate that I can’t go into the specifics of sources and methods," Sanborn answered.
"Did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of Jan. 6, yes or no" Cruz continued.
"Sir, I can’t answer that," Sanborn responded.
"Did any FBI agents or confidential informants commit crimes of violence on Jan. 6?" Cruz asked.
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/\ Yes, a bit more than the 20 game drivers and bush beaters. Those dressed in mufti, wearing red MAGA caps out in the crowd.
The total element likely included a nearby Command & Control cell, communications and logistics package, Full Motion Video back to Main. In addition, a Quick Reaction Force (QRF) ....appearing by the way, out of nowhere (see graphic), all kitted out in camo, kevlar, M4's, and med support element, escorting pols and staffers to designated safe areas and manning blocking positions for the Capital Police.
There appeared to be pre-designated channeling routes with "no-go" corridors and egress points. The young lady that was fatally shot may have attempted access to a "no-go" area.
This was something a bit more than a "hey Lenny, take a few guys and go see what those foks are up to." They had a plan. They obviously worked the plan.
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04/15/2022 9:57
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I wonder if the full set of videos collected by the gubmint will ever see the light of day.
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I think they have a class of non-feds that work for the feds as informant or whatever. I suspect there were a large number of these slithering around the capital that day.
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Ref #5: No, I dom't look for full video disclosure to happen. If you had video disclosure (along with audio) reporting, the herding and channeling plan might become quite obvious.
This was a carefully and professionally managed Federal Law Enforcement and media event which exploited a large number of naive US citizens. Like the Waco siege, it will likely not happen again. People now know that this gov't is capable of anything.
[Breitbart] Atlanta rapper Archie Eversole has died from wounds suffered when his brother, Alexander Kraus, shot him late last month.
Dekalb County, Georgia, police confirmed this week that Eversole was shot on March 25 on Golf Vista Circle, according to the New York Post.
He died of his wounds in a hospital on April 3.
Officers say that Eversole was found shot at a Chevron station and later determined that Kraus was involved in the incident. Kraus was arrested and charged with the shooting.
Kraus was arrested before the rapper died of his wounds and his charged were upgraded to murder when Eversole died.
The German-born "We Ready" rapper was well known among athletes and several paid tribute to him upon his passing.
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04/15/2022 7:28
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only 1.5 million rappers left in ATL now, what shall we do?
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04/15/2022 9:44
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Oh, I thought this was the guy whose corps hosted the dance party. That must have been the weirdest receiving line in recent memory. Hopefully they cut his fingernails and shellacked his underarms with some quality Old Spice.
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04/15/2022 14:27
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04/15/2022 8:34
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In a video yesterday he turned his back to the microphone and mumbled something unintelligable. His mental state is at near 0.
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04/15/2022 8:40
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After Biden finished his speech, he turned around and tried to shake hands with thin air and then wandered around looking confused pic.twitter.com/ZN00TLdUUo
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” ― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
Just for a second, say the 25th is used and Biden is ushered out.
VP Harris becomes President and the Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi) become VP.
This is an example of the Peter Principle in Politics.
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.*
*note that when the VP becomes the Prez, there is no VP to cast a tie vote breaker.
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Looks like the script, or an ear piece, told him to turn to his right and shake hands with somebody. Whoever that was supposed to be wasn't there and Biden was unable to switch gears fast enough to keep from looking like the idiot that he is.
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04/15/2022 11:37
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Nice to live to the times that Stars and Stripes Forever is circus music. Bravo. Bravo.
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Nominatin’ be easy, it will be the confirmin’ that’s gonna be rough.
Kackles cantcast tie breaker ; if mittens were the nominee and he had any honor, he wouldn’t vote for himself…..( yeah about that honor thing…. )
[An Nahar] Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi warned neighboring Iraq on Thursday not to allow its soil to be used for activities that disrupt the Islamic republic's security, his office said.His comments follow accusations by Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... last month that Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region had hosted a "strategic center" used by Tehran's arch enemy Israel.
"The president emphasized that Iran strongly expects neighboring countries, especially Iraq, not to allow any presence that is disruptive to the security of the Islamic republic," a statement by Raisi's office said.
The president accused Iraq's Kurdistan region of "negligence", adding that Iran is closely monitoring the movements of Israel and will not allow it to endanger the security of the region through any country, including Iraq.
The Iranian president made the remarks in Tehran during a meeting with visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.
Iraq's top diplomat pledged that his country will not be a base for actions against Iran's security, the statement added.
"We are ready for extensive cooperation, including in the field of security, to prevent any threat to the interests of Iran," Fuad said, according to Raisi's office.
Last month, Iran targeted the northern Iraqi city of Arbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, with a dozen ballistic missiles that lightly maimed two civilians.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of the country's military, confirmed at the time that they fired the projectiles and targeted a "strategic center" used by Israel.
Arbil governor Oumid Khouchnaw dismissed as "baseless" any notion of Israeli sites in and around Arbil, saying "there are no Israeli sites in the region."
The Iraqi foreign ministry condemned the attack and summoned Iran's ambassador to protest the strikes.
Iran holds considerable influence over the federal government in Baghdad.
"Iraq considers itself not only a neighbor but also an ally and a friend of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran," the Iranian presidency further quoted Baghdad's top diplomat as saying on Thursday.
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[MilitaryLand] Russia has made some advance in the Donbas area.
Ukraine has made some advance in the south near Kherson
but both movements have been minor
Russia lost their Black Sea flagship but this will have little effect on the landside situation.
Ukraine expects a major Russian attack soon in the Donbas.
more info at the link
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Institute for the study of wars reports:
"Russian forces will likely continue ongoing offensive operations in the Donbas region, feeding reinforcements into the fight as they become available rather than gathering reinforcements and replacements for a more coordinated and coherent offensive."
In other words the Great Donbas Offensive may not come, largely because the Russians can't manage it.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:31 In Svetlodarsk of the Donetsk People's Republic, militants of the Ukrainian armed formations mined the dam of the reservoir of the Uglegorsk thermal power plant (the Lugan River). 21:43 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Katovitska, 116 "a" - a direct hit of ammunition in the garage, the car was destroyed;
- st. Katovitskaya, 105 - damage to the gas pipe was recorded;
- st. Katovitskaya, 114 - a private residential building.
21:30 Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR: power engineers restored power supply to six TS, 981 consumers of Yasinovataya, supplying them with a backup scheme. There are still 50 subscribers without electricity.
21:09 Another member of the Luhansk OSCE team was detained on suspicion of treason - the Ministry of State Security of the LPR.
20:55 In the LPR, the second employee of the OSCE SMM was detained on suspicion of treason - the MGB.
20:30 According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Murmanskaya, 5, 6 - residential private houses;
- st. Petrovsky, 2 - residential private house.
Also, as a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, an electric cable was broken at the address: st. Katowice.
50 private sector houses without power supply.
18:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction from the settlement. Novgorodskoe according to the settlement Gorlovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
18:21 Information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC (https://t.me/kulemzin_donetsk/4249) about a direct hit of VFU ammunition on the roof of an apartment building at the address: st. Udachnaya, 68, Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
18:05 Mariupol will be completely liberated from day to day. They give up. They ran out of ammunition and provisions - Akhra Avidzba.
17:48 People's militia of the LPR delivered more than five tons of humanitarian cargo to Kirovsk.
17:43 Consequences of the shelling of the settlement Yasinovataya 04/14/2022. Military experts of the operational group of the JCCC DPR confirmed the fact of the use of VFU multiple launch rocket systems BM-21 "Grad" from positions in the area of the settlement. Avdievka. As a result of the shelling, one person was killed and two were injured.
- st. Dachnaya, 87 - a direct hit in a residential private house (completely burned down);
- st. Karl Marx, 57, 59, 63, 71, 78, 80, 90, 92 - residential private houses;
- st. Chernyshevsky, 76, 77, 79 - residential private houses;
- st. School, 7 "a" - hospital, emergency room.
17:40 “The Russian military treats well. They even apologize,told to RT Russia producer Ekaterina Gabel, a resident of Mariupol. Gradually, the war rolls back from the many thousands of Mariupol. People are trying to improve their lives.
At the well near the infamous drama theater, we met a woman who suffered at the hands of the Nazis. She spoke about how the nationalists of the Azov Battalion set up firing positions in residential buildings. They broke into apartments, brought them into the living quarters of the BC and drove the owners out into the street. Also, a resident of Mariupol noted that before leaving, the nationalists took the documents of the men living in the apartments, apparently in order to escape from the city using these passports.
17:30 Due to the current tense situation related to the extreme lack of drinking water from centralized water supply, the lack of backup sources of drinking water supply, today, as a temporary measure, technical water is being delivered to the population. Industrial water is strictly prohibited for drinking, cooking, bathing, washing, brushing teeth, handling dishes and food. Its use is possible only for technical needs and flushing of liquid household waste in bathrooms.
16:50 Another humanitarian convoy from the Russian Emergencies Ministry arrived in the DPR.
The humanitarian cargo included bottled water and food. The total weight of the humanitarian cargo amounted to more than 85 tons.
16:40 An anonymous message was received about the mining of 11 infrastructure facilities of Makeyevka - healthcare, culture and recreation institutions, trade enterprises - city administration
Experts are checking this message. Measures are being taken to ensure the safety of the population.
16:32 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
16:28 Another 167 people, including 19 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye.
15:51 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:30 Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine set up the sale of armored vehicles and other weapons to the DPR militias. The sale took place in the area of N. p. Snegirevka, Mykolaiv region. At the same time, it is significant that the Ukrainian military is happy to accept Russian rubles as payment, obviously assuming that this currency will soon become their main one.
15:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:16 The JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:05 Damaged in Yasinovataya school as a result of Ukrainian shelling.
15:01 AFU fired from the settlement Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.
14:25 There are reports of explosions at the Kramatorsk plant "Conditioner", where units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are deployed.
13:50 A group of foreign sailors who were evacuated from the port of Mariupol left for their countries through Russia, the DPR Foreign Ministry reported. Earlier it was reported that 47 crew members could not leave the combat zone due to mines planted by nationalists. These are citizens of Russia, Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ukraine.
13:43 "People all went out into the street, hugged, we had a real holiday!". Residents of Mariupol about how they met DNR fighters.
13:40 Residents of the liberated settlements of the DPR will be able to apply for pensions and benefits on overdue Ukrainian documents - GKO Resolution No. 5 of 04/12/2022.
13:33 Humanitarian aid to Russia arrived in the city of Rubizhne.
13:28 DPR boarding houses will accept evacuated elderly and disabled people without documents - order of the State Defense Committee.
13:24 A resident of Mariupol said that the Nazis of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down a car with civilians. “They shot a white Mazda in the evening at the intersection of Prospekt Mira and Zelinsky. Turned left. All bullet holes are from the Ukrainian side. And from house number 21, the Nazis did not let people out of the basement, they did not let them cook and leave, ”told local resident Artur..
13:07 VFU attacked the Yasinovatsky machine-building plant. According to the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC, during the shelling of Yasynuvata, Ukrainian militants used the BM-21 Grad MLRS. Details are being specified.
13:04 A new Ukrainian fake is circulating on the net - about the protest actions "Stop, mobilization", scheduled for Saturday, April 16 at 12:00.
To do this, the Ukrainian special services used the “Breeg Time” Telegram channel “hijacked” as a result of hacker attacks, which previously belonged to one of the public figures. Please note that this fake is a provocation by the Ukrainian Nazis. Previously, similar "invitations" to rallies were sent out on March 14 - and it all ended with a blow to Donetsk by the Ukrainian "Tochka-U".
12:57 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
12:56 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
12:36 A member of a Ukrainian illegal armed formation from Mariupol was detained while trying to enter the Russian Federation through Crimea.
12:01 "If the mothers of these children came, you would not even have time to ask for forgiveness." Ukrainian military personnel kneeled at the cemetery of victims of Ukrainian aggression in Lugansk. "You are used to kneeling in front of Europe, in front of the United States, so crawl," added one of the affected women.
11:56 “Citizens of Mariupol thank God that Russia saved them.” One of the rare ones for Western media reports about Mariupol, in which they refer not to rumors and lies, but to what they saw and heard personally.
11:44 Basurin about the situation with shelling DPR: The Ukrainian Armed Forces are using more and more MLRS, more than 60 destroyed houses, one person died, twenty-two civilians were injured. And then screams in social networks: “the baby was bombed”!
11:31 The first flights of the new intercity route departed from Donetsk to Volnovakha. In order to meet the needs of the population of the liberated settlements of the Republic in passenger transportation, the specialists of the Ministry of Transport of the DPR carried out work on the selection of a carrier and the organization of a new intercity bus route "T. Donetsk (AV "Yuzhny") - Volnovakha (OA) "through the settlements of Yelenovka, Dokuchaevsk, Nikolaevka, Bugas.
11:16 In Mariupol, the Nazi Gritsaneko (call sign "Gogol"), who was the deputy commander of the Azov regiment for combat and special training, was eliminated.
11:13 Mariupol will fall within a few hours - Sky News.
11:11 AFU fired from the settlement Avdievka and Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
11:02 During the day, 1,160 Ukrainian servicemen of the 36th Marine Brigade voluntarily surrendered. Among them, 176 officers.
10:49 An extremely difficult situation has developed in the city of Yasinovataya in the DPR, correspondent Stanislav Bernwald said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to hit residential areas, the school building was damaged. “Over the past 24 hours, 50 private sector houses have been destroyed. We have two dead and four wounded,” the mayor of the city said.
10:45 During the operation to liberate Mariupol, 134 more Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily laid down their arms overnight and surrendered, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
10:24 Employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation recorded the consequences of the shelling from the side of the VFU in the settlement. Irmino using MLRS BM-21 Grad.
10:22 An extremely difficult situation has developed in the city of Yasinovataya in the DPR, correspondent Stanislav Bernwald said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to hit residential areas, the school building was damaged. “Over the past 24 hours, 50 private sector houses have been destroyed. We have two dead and four wounded,” the mayor of the city said.
10:10 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation on 14.04.2022:
During the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:
➖25 personnel;
➖4 tanks;
➖5 armored personnel carriers;
➖2 vehicles.
The enemy continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, shelling the civilian infrastructure of the front-line settlements of the LPR, which do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military facilities. Over the past day, Ukrainian armed formations fired SEVENTEEN shells from artillery pieces of 152mm and 122mm caliber at the settlements of DONETSKIY and ZOLOTOE-5.
In order to suppress the enemy’s fire activity against civilians of the Republic, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from which the fire was fired were promptly detected and destroyed by the on-duty firepower of the units of the NM LPR. Employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation recorded the consequences of the shelling from the side of the VFU in the settlement. Irmino using MLRS BM-21 Grad. The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with volunteer organizations, continue to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of the liberated territories.
09:07 The left-bank district of Mariupol is almost completely destroyed APU.
09:01 Soldiers of the Armed Forces of the DPR continues attacks on Maryinka.
08:40 According to the Order of the Head of the DPR, in the liberated territories, from April 11, the educational process has been organized in preschool and general educational organizations.
08:38 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian born in 1957. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Yasinovataya at the address: st. Ordzhonikidze, 83.
08:36 As of the evening of April 13, 1,350 Ukrainian marines have surrendered.
08:16 Ukrainian security forces fired at a convoy of cars with refugees from the LPR. Two people were killed, three more were injured, the Prosecutor General's Office of the LPR reported.
07:15 Shelling of the settlement was recorded. Avdiivka - n.p. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): four shells of 122mm were fired; n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad; n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Donetsk (Kievsky district ): four shells of 122mm were fired - JCCC DPR.
05:45 AFU shelled the settlement Avdievka - n.p. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
[NYPOST] Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano was sentenced to 12 years behind bars Thursday for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from a Queens restaurateur.
His wife Linda — who was convicted of helping to cover up the corrupt arrangement — was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment.
Judge Joan Azrack, who handed down the prison terms to the Bethpage couple in two separate hearings in Central Islip federal court, also ordered Mangano, 60, to pay a $20,000 fine.
Mangano was convicted in 2019 of accepting bribes and kickbacks from the restaurateur, Harendra Singh, including five paid vacations, a pricey watch, hardwood flooring for his home, a $3,600 vibrating chair and a $100,000 per year no-show job for Linda, 59.
In exchange, the once-powerful politician — who served in his position from 2010 to 2017 — pressured local officials to guarantee $20 million in loans for Singh.
The scheme lasted for five years beginning in 2010 and continuing through 2015, prosecutors said at trial.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] At least 106 bodies were buried on Monday following the recent attacks on communities in Plateau State.
Chairman of Kanam Local Government Area of the state, Dayabu Garga, gave the update in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday.
The fresh attacks were carried out on Sunday by button men on some communities in the adjoining Kanam and Wase local government areas of the state.
The affected communities are Kukawa, Gyambawu, Dungur, Kyaram, Yelwa, Dadda, Wanka, Shuwaka, Gwammadaji, and Dadin Kowa.
"I was present on Monday morning where we did mass burial of 106 killed and we are still picking more dead bodies in the farmlands because when they meet you on the farm, they will shoot you and move to another farm.
"And we are still picking more bodies. Even till today, we are still finding dead bodies on the farmlands. In the hospital we have more than 16 people hospitalised; someone right now has a bullet in the head, maybe they will do an operation either today or tomorrow to remove the bullet.
"I think the issue is so much devastating; until when you go there, you will almost shed tears. It happened on Sunday, on Monday, we moved in there to help them gather the dead bodies and bury (them).
"We buried 106 bodies that day but before leaving, they were still getting more bodies on the farmlands. These people require protection, we need to have security outfits, either army or MOPOL (Mobile police). We need food items, we have sent some food items but they are not enough."
[NYPOST] Prince Harry ...That guy who married Meghan Markle. You know. The ones that didn't get invited to Michelle Obama's party?... and Princess Meghan Markle ...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions and not many brains, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Once married, she was too classy for the Royals and she and Harry decamped to Beverly Hills, kind of like the Clampetts did, because she was so much classier than the Winsdors.... dropped in to visit the Queen in a secret rendezvous But don't tell nobody. It was a secret.
at Windsor Castle on their way to a sporting event for maimed veterans, reports said.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also met with Prince Charles while stopping in the UK on their way to The Hague for the Invictus Games, according to the BBC.
The visit by Harry and Meghan comes two years after their high-profile split from the Royal Family and move to the Hollywood Hills and pursue entertainment ventures.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... has announced that his party wants a "national unity" government to be formed after the upcoming parliamentary elections.
"Our project is partnership with everyone and a national unity government," Qassem said in an interview with Hizbullah’s al-Nour radio station.
"We don’t have any plan to change the (political) system and we don’t propose any modifications. As for those who have changes that they consider to be appropriate, there are legal mechanisms for that," Hizbullah’s number two added.
Commenting on the latest return of the Saudi and Gulf ambassadors to Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... , Qassem said the envoys who returned "realized that their absence would not put pressure on Hizbullah but would rather deprive them of the possibility of" making use of their presence in the country.
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[DAILYCALLER] The Republican National Committee (RNC) unanimously voted Thursday to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) and is pledging to find another venue to hold debates.
CPD has hosted general presidential election debates since 1988 and was originally a joint venture of the Republican and Democratic Parties. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... in recent years, Republican candidates and their allies have complained that the commission is biased towards Democrats. They have cited the campaign donations and personal ties of members of the commission, as well as the treatment of GOP nominees.
"Debates are an important part of the democratic process, and the RNC is committed to free and fair debates. The Commission on Presidential Debates is biased and has refused to enact simple and common sense reforms to help ensure fair debates including hosting debates before voting begins and selecting moderators who have never worked for candidates on the debate stage," RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement.
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Agree to a long discussion format with Joe Rogan as moderator. Each side can film it and edit how they like. Raw footage can then be released later to ensure some honesty in the editing.
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I haven't bothered to watch any debates since Kennedy vs Nixon in 1960. The TV is good for fire and smoke, and worthless for substance. Let the candidates post writings, commented on by the other candidates, to which replies are made by other candidates. No other contributors allowed. Might make for interesting reading this way.
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I seem to have awoken in an alternate time-line where the Republicans have a spine.
Hey, what if we have a more traditional style of debate? Let the candidates contend one-on-one in single combat. People would pay to watch that!
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The debate between Trump and Biden was good for one thing. That was when Biden straight up lied about Hunter's laptop being Russian disinformation. That kind of indisputable proof that he is a liar might be useful at some point in the future.
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[THEEPOCHTIMES] Elon Musk’s ambitious bid to take Twitter private under his ownership has hit a roadblock as Saudi investors are rejecting the Tesla CEO’s offer, causing Twitter shares to drop and setting the stage for a bitter struggle for control of the social media giant.
On Thursday, several hours after Musk announced his "final offer" to buy Twitter outright, the Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... n Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud responded that the offer was not acceptable to him. Al Waleed purchased a 5.2 percent stake in the company in 2015, and if it is assumed that he has retained these shares, he would count among Twitter’s largest shareholders (it has been reported that Al Waleed sold many of his shares in the subsequent years).
"I don’t believe that the proposed offer by @elonmusk ($54.20) comes close to the intrinsic value of @Twitter given its growth prospects," said Al Waleed in a tweet. "Being one of the largest & long-term shareholders of Twitter @Kingdom_KHC & I reject this offer."
Musk retorted on Twitter, implicitly criticizing the Saudi Arabian government and alleging that Waleed’s rejection was political in nature.
"Interesting. Just two questions, if I may," said Musk in response. "How much of Twitter does the Kingdom own, directly & indirectly? What are the Kingdom’s views on journalistic freedom of speech?"
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"I don't like the proposal because I think the shares should and will be worth more."
[An Nahar] Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh ...Governor of Lebanon'scentral bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. Salameh was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Ministers for a renewable term of six years. He was reappointed for four consecutive terms; in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017. Salameh chairs the Banque du Liban Central Council, the Higher Banking Commission, the AML/CFT Special Investigation Commission and the Capital Markets Authority. Salameh is a member of the board of governors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and at the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF). Salameh is the longest-serving central bank governor in the world.... has said that he is willing to meet with Swiss prosecutors over a money-laundering investigation.
"I have already informed the Swiss justice that I am ready to go," he told Swiss television SRF.
"Because they asked the question in February 2020 whether they can (interview) me in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... or in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... . I said I am ready to go to Switzerland... I am waiting for them to call for me," Salameh added.
Asked about properties he owns in Switzerland, Salameh said he used investment advisers and bank loans to buy property, adding: "I don't see where is the crime in that."
Lebanon opened a local probe into Salameh's wealth last year, after the Swiss top prosecutor's office requested assistance in an investigation into more than $300 million which he allegedly embezzled out of the central bank with the help of his brother.
Salameh also faces lawsuits in other European countries, including La Belle France and Britannia.
Lebanon's top banker of three decades is blamed for policies that contributed to the country's financial collapse, a charge he has repeatedly denied.
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[An Nahar] Cabinet on Thursday agreed to demolish the blast-hit silos at Beirut’s port, which according to a technical report are facing the threat of collapse, as it approved the use of funds from the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights for importing wheat and incurable disease medicines.
"The banking secrecy law will be re-discussed at the next Cabinet session," Information Minister Ziad Makari said after the meeting.
"The Council for Reconstruction and Development has been tasked with overseeing the demolition of wheat silos at Beirut’s port," Makari added.
Al-Jadeed TV meanwhile reported that Cabinet agreed that Special Drawing Rights funds can only be used for urgent matters and that any such move would require a Cabinet decision
Makari said the government's decision to demolish the silos was based on a report by Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... 's Khatib and Alami Engineering Company, which warned that the silos could collapse within months.
"Repairing them will cost a lot," Makari said.
Last year, Swiss company Amann Engineering also called for their demolition, saying the most damaged of the silos were tilting at a rate of two millimeters per day.
Once boasting a capacity of more than 100,000 tons, the imposing 48-meter-high structure has become emblematic of the catastrophic August 4 port blast, that killed around 231 people, injured 7,000 and damaged swathes of the capital in 2020.
The silos absorbed much of the blast's impact, shielding large swaths of west Beirut from its ravaging effects.
Activists and some relatives of blast victims have called for the grain silos to be preserved as a memorial site.
"The silos are a witness to the massacre you committed against us," said a statement last month by the victims' families, referring to authorities.
"They will not be demolished, no matter how hard you try."
To assuage potential anger over the decision, the Cabinet on Thursday tasked the interior and culture ministries with erecting a monument commemorating the victims of the earth-shattering kaboom.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:41 In Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk district, neo-Nazis mined a car overpass across the railway track, which they plan to destroy in the near future and accuse the RF Armed Forces of destroying critical civilian infrastructure.
21:11 The city of Alyoshki, Kherson region, came under Russian administration, with a Russian banner over the building, - the mayor of the city Yevgeny Ryshchuk.
20:11 During the day, Russian aviation hit seven military facilities of Ukraine, including a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons, areas of accumulation of manpower and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian 54th Separate Mechanized and 128th Mountain Assault brigades.
20:00 Ministry of Defense: 132 military facilities were hit in Ukraine, including eight command posts.
18:28 Armed Forces of Ukraine began to create call centers for telephone terrorism in Russia - the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
17:59 Merchants in Melitopol receive legal places in the market. The work of the city administration is being restored, spontaneous trade is being liquidated, life goes on as usual.
17:57 The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted a law legalizing the service of foreigners in Ukrainian intelligence and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In fact, this is the construction of the occupation of Ukraine into the law, the legalization of mercenarism and direct participation in hostilities against the Russian Federation by military personnel of NATO countries.
17:22 The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has suspended the activities of the Opposition Platform - For Life faction in the Ukrainian Parliament.
17:06 The Pentagon confirms that the Moskva cruiser is afloat, and admits that it can reach Sevastopol on its own.
15:57 In laboratories in Ukraine, they studied the possibility of spreading cholera, typhoid fever and hepatitis through waterways - Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the RF Armed Forces.
15:55 The Ukrainian side announced another exchange of prisoners: 30 Ukrainians are going home, of which: five officers, 17 privates and eight civilians. We are waiting for information from Moskalkova on ours.
15:53 The Investigative Committee stated that the shelling of a village in the Bryansk region was an airstrike.
"Using two combat helicopters equipped with heavy offensive weapons, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine illegally entered the airspace of the Russian Federation. Moving at low altitude, acting deliberately, they carried out at least six air strikes on residential buildings in the village of Klimovo, Klimovsky district, Bryansk region," the agency said.
As a result, six houses were damaged and seven people were injured. SC opened a criminal case.
15:36 Confirmation received from source from the Dnepropetrovsk region: on April 10, precision weapons of the Russian Federation destroyed: a repair plant, a fuel depot, an ammunition depot and the parking lot of the first squadron. Two planes are still standing, but they are not taking off. Thanks to our partisans that contribute to the destruction of the Nazis in Ukraine.
15:28 Russian Ministry of Defense: Three drones with 30-liter containers and spraying equipment were found near Kharkov. According to the agency, even before the Russian special operation, Ukraine purchased more than 50 devices for spraying substances from UAVs, which can be used to distribute bioagents.
15:03 List of victims of shelling Armed Forces of Ukraine Klimovo, Bryansk region. Previously, the blow was from the "Grad":
- Evgeny Kh. (born 2020) - shrapnel wound to the head (severe);
- Maxim E. (born 1987) - shrapnel wound to the thigh;
- Larisa S. (born 1960) - shrapnel wound to the head;
— Elena P. (b. 1974) — shell shock, body burns (severe);
— Valentina Z. (b. 1948) — potential amputation of the left leg (severe);
- Tatyana G. (born 1978) - shrapnel wound;
— Raisa H. (b. 1997) — no information yet.
13:30 FSB of Russia confirms shelling border checkpoint near the village. Klimovo in the Bryansk region. According to the ministry, the cars of the refugees were damaged, but no one was injured.
13:17 The Armed Forces of Ukraine use old Soviet weapons systems, but these systems have undergone a rather serious modernization - they are equipped with Western guns and sights. In general, now all the successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be explained by the huge investments of the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance - Evgeny Poddubny on Solovyov Live.
13:15 Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov: There is no understanding yet on the continuation of face-to-face negotiations with Kiev. The Kremlin will let you know if the conversation between Putin and Zelensky takes place. Putin has never fundamentally refused to meet with Zelensky, but the text of the document needs to be prepared for it.
11:58 Russian servicemen delivered more than 30 tons of humanitarian aid to residents of the Kharkiv region.Videodistribution of medicines is published by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
11:51 To Berdyans kdelivered Russian humanitarian aid. Local residents are grateful for their support and say that it is better with Russia.
11:35 A monument to Soviet pilots was demolished in Ternopil. The mayor said that the monument was “emergency”, and now in its place there will be a monument to the “heroes of Ukraine”.
11:32 Source: it is known about 169 soldiers of the National Guard of Ukraine from Chernobyl who voluntarily handed over their weapons. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Monastyrsky, said that Ukraine is negotiating the exchange of 169 National Guardsmen at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
11:21 In Nikolaev there is an object: "Toyota-Center-Nikolaev" to the address Kherson highway 109. Firing positions are equipped near the building, and inside the point of ammunition supply and an ammunition depot is created. BC is delivered almost daily.
11:15 Residents of the Kharkiv region greet the RF Armed Forces with Russian tricolors, informs military @sashakots.
11:03 During the night of April 14, 12 enemy targets were destroyed by high-precision weapons. Including:
in the settlements of VELIKAYA MYKHAILOVKA and BOGATYR two warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons of Ukrainian troops;
A Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet, a Mi-8 helicopter and a Bayraktar TB-2 unmanned aerial vehicle were destroyed at the DNEPR airfield.
Operational-tactical aircraft hit 48 military facilities of Ukraine in a day. Among them: two command posts, a radar station, two positions of a multiple launch rocket system, an artillery battery, six depots of missile and artillery weapons, as well as 48 areas of concentration of Ukrainian military equipment.
Rocket troops and artillery hit 770 objects, including nine command posts, 101 strongholds, 548 areas of accumulation of manpower and firepower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 110 artillery firing positions, the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system and an ammunition depot.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 131 aircraft, 104 helicopters, 245 anti-aircraft missile systems, 448 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,179 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 248 multiple rocket launchers, 944 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 2,088 units of special military vehicles.
10:30 State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus said that there is a risk of provocation from Ukraine in the border area in order to draw Minsk into the conflict.
09:00 Russian military, who distinguished themselves during a special operation in Ukraine, awarded Orders of Courage, medals of Zhukov and "For Courage". The state awards were presented by the commander of the Central Military District, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin.
08:56 Ministry of Defense publishes personnel the work of the Russian Ka-52. Helicopters destroy equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, disguised in the forest.
08:20 Russian Ministry of Defense: In Kharkiv, the formation of three Ukrainian national battalions manned by prisoners to block the city and fire on the retreating is being completed.
08:19 Ukrainian neo-Nazis blocked 450 civilians in the Nikolo Vasilyevsky Monastery, located in the village of Nikolskoye, Volnovakhsky District of the DPR - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
07:40 More and more information is coming in about the appearance of new green identification armbands in Ukraine. Before that, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had yellow ones and blue ones worn by the National Guard, National Battalions, mercenaries and the defense.
It is reported that people in uniform with green tape have been seen in big cities. In Kyiv, green ribbon fighters were seen at the crime scene. One of the capital's video surveillance cameras recorded how "defenders" with green ribbons took away a civilian car. Also, the “green ribbons” were photographed at the five-star Premier Palace Hotel, who demanded that the hotel administration allocate rooms for free to stay.
[WLBT] LAUREL, Miss. An umpire is recovering Monday after she was punched in the face following a softball game.
Moments after that confrontation, a Laurel mother was arrested and charged with simple assault.
Saturday night. Kristie Moore says she was filling in, calling a 12-year-old softball game after one of her umpires got sick. She’s been calling games for 10 years.
One of the moms was allegedly cursing so badly during the game that she was asked her to leave.
Eventually the coach made the mom leave, but instead of going home, Kiara Thomas allegedly waited for Moore after the game. That’s when, Moore says, Thomas confronted her, punched her, and then fled.
She was quickly arrested.
Moore says parents are out of control and are making it harder and harder for umpires to do their jobs.
"It’s ridiculous," she said. "The verbal abuse. And even now, the physical abuse now, at this point, and enough is enough. I also staff every USFA tournament in the state of Mississippi with umpires and it gets harder and harder to staff these tournaments because no one wants to listen to the verbal abuse and run the risk of what happened to me happening to them."
Keep in mind, these umpires get paid at most $40 a game. They do the job mostly because they love the game and the kids, not for the money.
Kiara Thomas is scheduled to be in court Wednesday. Her charge is a misdemeanor and she will be banned from all recreational facilities in Laurel.
This year, a bill was introduced in the legislature that would make assaulting a referee or umpire a felony. It would be aggravated assault. That bill died on the calendar.
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I think she just needed her house fixed up by the towns most current famous residents
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Referees may start wearing helmets and face guards from the time they leave home until the time they return. Sap gloves might also come in handy.
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That’s when, Moore says, Thomas confronted her, punched her, and then fled.
She was quickly arrested.
Yeah...I don't see her fleeing expeditiously on foot
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I think Holy Water might do the trick in most cases - a clove of garlic, a mirror and keep a stake handy for the persistent cases. Just make sure it is not Tourette Syndrome before you mallet the stake home.
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There's no passing out from momma's BO in baseball...
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Many hunters would put the deer out of its “misery” and let it lie. If a hunter did harvest it I seriously doubt it would be eaten upon closer inspection. A commercial deer butcher wouldn’t want it in his shop.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Frank James, 62, was taken into custody on Wednesday, nearly 30 hours after the shooting in Brooklyn
He has now been charged with federal terrorism charges and is due to be arraigned
His criminal record includes multiple charges in New York and New Jersey including charges for possessing burglary tools, criminal sex act, criminal tampering, trespassing, larceny and disorderly conduct
James was arrested outside a McDonald's on First Avenue in the East Village after security worker Zach Tahhan, 21, recognized him and alerted nearby cops
The New York Post also cites sources saying James called cops himself saying: 'I think you're looking for me'
Eric Adams claimed on Wednesday 'we got him!' and Commissioner Keechant Sewell claimed the NYPD left him 'nowhere to hide' and 'shrank his world'
They were slammed by New Yorkers who pointed out how James had been able to evade the entire city's law enforcement and FBI for nearly 30 hours
Breon S. Peace, the U.S. attorney for New York's Eastern District, which brought the charges, said James could face life in prison if convicted: he is due in federal court on Thursday
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A few things the media is avoiding or lightly mentioning.
* Frank R. James, A Black Nationalist.
* Posted a meme “O black Jesus, please kill all the whiteys.”
* Had BLM materials in his residence.
* Repeatedly posted on social media Racist based black identity extremist ideologies materials, including the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, Black Liberation Army, BLM and supported the actions of black nationalist cop-killer Micah Johnson.
* It seems, despite massive censorship of Conservative social media postings and videos, he had "Black" immunity and had a YouTube channel under “prophetoftruth88” also.
* James, help promote CNN, as many of his videos had CNN tuned in the background while making his Racist Rant videos.
Quoting The NY Post "...the FBI refuted reports that James was on any watch list, saying agents had not previously investigated him. Maybe if the FBI didn’t waste so much effort chasing down white-supremacy hoaxes, entrapping Trump supporters and investigating bogus reports of nooses in NASCAR garages, it might have been better placed to notice James’ years of hate-filled rants on social media."
.the criminal organization known by its acronym FBI refuted reports that James was on any watch list, saying agents had not previously investigated him.
FIFY
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The very obvious suppression, misdirection and concealment of identifying information that might have assisted the general public in giving assistance to law enforcement was so obvious from the very beginning of this story. Anyone else remember the Twitter post someone put up here the day of the shootings that included a photo and name of the suspect, which without a few minutes had its photo deleted from Twitter?
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Federal Charges of Terrorism, making sure to avoid all that messy NYC no bail nonsense, let alone the media circus and expense of prosecution.
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Couldn't they have just pinged his cell phone? I thought that they were tracking all of us. Can they not back-burner the Deep State stuff for 5 minutes so that they can cease looking incompetent? Col Klink could have found the guy.
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Well, they knew who they were looking for and hoped he would not be found.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least two Paleostinians were killed and six others were maimed during fierce festivities that broke out between the Paleostinians and the Zionist occupation forces on Thursday in Jenin, bringing the number of deaders to five in 24 hours.
The forces of occupation attacked the two districts al-Yamoun and Kafardan in Jenin this morning and clashed with Paleostinian youths in the area, killing two Paleostinians and injuring six others, local sources said.
Local sources reported that the Zionist forces also detained several Paleostinian citizens in Jenin.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... Paleostinian Resistance® in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... sent a message to Israel through mediators a few days ago, declaring that any attack on the Jenin camp in the West Bank is considered a red line and the Resistance® would enter the front line in case any attack is launched in there.
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) April 14, 2022
The Department of Foreign Relations of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) handed over, on Thursday, 10 ISIS children of Russian nationality to an official delegation of Russia.
The Russian delegation was headed by Elena Alexandrov, assistant to the office of Maria Lvova Belova, the office of the Children’s Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation.
The Russian delegation was received by the front man of the AANES Department of Foreign Relations, Kamal Akef.
During a presser held in the Department of Foreign Relations, Akaf said, "today we hand over 10 Russian children of ISIS members’ families to their country."
The new batch brings total toll of the repatriated Russian children to 254, according to Akef.
Akef stressed the AANES’ continuity in cooperation with Russia and all other countries which have national children of ISIS families in northeast Syria.
For its part, the Russian delegation expressed gratefulness to AANES for the cooperation in the children repatriation process.
In regard to the repatriation of the Russian children in a collective way, Alexandrov said "this issue is difficult and needs measures. Therefore, Russia will repatriate their citizens on batches."
The number of Russian children in Roj camp alone is about 100, according to the camp management.
There are more than 7,000 foreign children of ISIS orphans, with more than 50 nationalities, in addition to approximately 18,000 Iraqi children in the camps of northeastern Syria.
In July 2021, the AANES handed over 20 ISIS children to Russia, and in April 2021, it repatriated 34.
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[Chernovec] The Russian military released an official report on the situation with the cruiser
- The source of ignition on the cruiser "Moskva" is localized.
- There is no open burning.
- Explosions of ammunition are stopped.
- Cruiser "Moskva" remains afloat.
- The main missile weapons were not damaged
- The crew was evacuated to the ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the area.
- Currently, measures are being taken to tow the cruiser to the port. (Sevastopol)
[ColonelCassad] The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the cruiser "Moskva" sank. They were not able to drag them to Sevastopol:
During the towing of the cruiser "Moskva" to the port of destination due to damage to the hull received during the fire from the detonation of ammunition, the ship lost stability. The ship sank in a stormy sea.
The crew was evacuated on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet.
#4
If anyone noticed, not one article about the Moskva being hit by antiship missiles was from neither the Russian Ministry of Defense, nor the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, nor the Ukrainian general staff.
All the sources for the missile strike stories have come from unnamed Ukrainian politicians, or from sources outside the Ukrainian military.
In the Ukrainian roundup article originally posted by korrespondent.net, the Moskva is mentioned 13 times, and in none of those mentons are sourced from the Ukrainian military.
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Either way badanov, the Russians have to go with either they can't defend their own flagship from a country that has almost no navy, or they lost their own flagship due to incompetence.
Neither are a good look for projecting military power and strength.
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they can't defend their own flagship from a country that has almost no navy
BLUF: You do not need a navy to kill a ship
The "almost no navy" meme is quickly becoming popular despite being nonsense. There is an old naval axiom, "A ship's a fool that fights a fort" referring to the advantages that accrue to the land-based side in a battle.
Nowadays, serious ship-killing is done with missiles instead of guns. In addition to being launched from warships, missiles can launched from planes, from land by fixed installations or mobile launchers, or even by hand. There are reports of ships hit by infantry anti-tank missiles. No navy required. "Missiles - they blow stuff up good!"
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Drone swarms are so easy to launch. A squad of infantrymen would be very hard pressed to quickly distinguish a swarm of dirt cheap drones bought at a DIY store from drones that could kill all of them. I wonder if this ploy won't become popular in war zones.
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The "almost no navy" meme is quickly becoming popular despite being nonsense. There is an old naval axiom, "A ship's a fool that fights a fort" referring to the advantages that accrue to the land-based side in a battle.
IIRC some backwater Houthis hit a number of *cough* Saudi ships.
Silkworms in the Suez?
Syracuse held off Rome "without almost no Navy", and what was they had, was latched and reefed to prevent port entry.
How many ships did the Allies lose trying to force the Dardanelles in WWI? That's, WW1 for you Tiktokrs.
Rhodes? Constantinople? Baltimore? History is nearly completely on the side of adequate coastal defense vs. Navy.
As the weapons systems have become more portable, more accurate, and more range, coastal operations become dicier and dicier; if and how much is true, what raises my eyebrows would be the defeat of detection and CIWS systems defenses.
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#12 The Daily Mail links do not report a source.
The British tabloids' usual source for tendentious rumors, lies and unconfirmed bullshit about foreign affairs is the British intelligence community (MI6 or MI5).
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After the Ukrainian defenders knocked out the missile cruiser Moskva, the total number of cruise missiles of the Russian Black Sea Fleet ships in the Black Sea decreased from 72 to 56, BlackSeaNews reports.
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The RFS Kerch, a 9,800 ton Kara class missile cruiser in Sevastopol was damaged by fire in 2014. It never returned to service. It was scrapped in 2020.
The Russians have a problem with fires aboard their vessels and with damage control practices.
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The problem with the "it wuz an accident" scenario is that the first item I saw this week re: the Moskva was Wednesday afternoon, with a report that the Ukranians had severly damaged it with a missile, with all the "we had an ammo fire accident" reports coming afterwards.
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Badanov, why did the Ukranian hoaxers know to put out that the Ukranians launched a missile strike coincidentally the morning of the day it turns out later that the mine or the fire-they-set-to-kill-the-spider got out of hand and away from their damage control and sunk the ship? Isn't that kind of a big coincidence?
They haven't been claiming they sunk the Moskva every day for the past three weeks and finally got it right by coincidence.
[An Nahar] Russian officials on Thursday accused Ukraine of sending helicopters to bomb a town in the southern Bryansk region about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the border, after reporting seven injured in shelling.
"Using two military helicopters carrying heavy weaponry, Ukrainian armed forces illegally entered Russian air space," Russia's Investigative Committee -- which probes major crimes -- said in a statement.
"Flying low, acting deliberately, they carried out at least six air strikes on residential buildings in the settlement of Klimovo," Sherlocks said.
As a result, they said, "at least six residential buildings were damaged... and seven people received injuries of varying severity including one small child born in 2020."
This appeared to be the first time that Moscow has officially accused Ukrainian armed forces of flying helicopters into Russia to carry out an attack.
Previously the governor of Belgorod region in southern Russia, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said two Ukrainian military helicopters had carried out a strike on a fuel depot on April 1, while this was not directly confirmed by Ukraine or Moscow.
Thursday's shelling was announced earlier by governor Alexander Bogomaz, who said on Telegram that "two residential buildings were damaged and some of the residents were maimed".
A Russian health ministry official, Alexei Kuznetsov, told the RIA Novosti news agency that the seven injured were in hospital, adding that two were at death's door and required surgery.
The governor of Russia's Belgorod region, Gladkov, later said on Telegram that the village of Spodaryushino close to the border "came under shelling from the Ukrainian side" and residents from this and a nearby village had been evacuated as a precaution.
Also on Thursday, Russia's security agency the FSB told TASS news agency that Ukraine fired at border checkpoint where over 30 Ukrainian refugees were crossing into Russia.
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[GREATERKASHMIR] Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar alias 'Mushtaq Latram' has been designated as a "terrorist" under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA, a move which enables the security agencies to attach his or associates' properties believed to be purchased from proceeds of crime.
With this, anyone staying in touch with him becomes an offender under the law, reported news agency PTI.
Zargar was one of the Death Eaters released in exchange for passengers of hijacked Indian Airlines plane IC-814 in 1999 besides Maulana Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... , the chief of banned group Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Sheikh Omar, who killed American journalist Daniel Pearl who was working for The Wall Street Journal.
Zargar is the fourth individual to have been designated as a terrorist by the Centre in the last one week and the 35th individual to have been declared a designated terrorist by the government.
In a notification, the Union Home Ministry said, Zargar alias Latram, 52, belongs to Nowhatta in Srinagar and is the "founder and chief commander of terror group al-Umar-Mujahideen and had been affiliated with the Jammu-Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Liberation Front."
Zargar is currently based in Pakistain where he had gone in the late 1980s to receive arms training.
The home ministry said Zargar has been running an incessant campaign from Pakistain to fuel terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
He has been involved in various terror crimes, including murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, planning and execution of terrorist attacks and terror funding, it noted.
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After the Moskva sank, there are rumors that a couple of Russian nukes are now sleeping with the fishes in the Black Sea.
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^^^^^Ref the above, is this connected to the Turks suddenly re-stating a limit on Russian Naval access? It looks like the depth might be 1000 to 1500 meters from a quick map recon, but the middle quickly drops off to 2500 meters. Someone in Istanbul might be very interested in poking around the wreck.
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I thought they already had nukes in Kaliningrad - so whats the difference?
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This fiery rhetoric is kind of Class A ball stuff when compared to NK regular fare. I am disappointed n the lack of metaphors and spittle. Maye a 3 at best.
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Throw in a "stomachs roasting in a sea of fire" or "Russo Songun" and you've got me
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In the small print:
The ports in the Black sea are in a war zone. The other ports are shallow water ports where tankers can't go.
So you have to hire a bunch of small ships to pick up the oil and take it out to sea and do a sea transfer, which is expensive and dangerous. Then sail the supertankers around Europe, through the Mediterranean, through the Indian ocean to where ever you want it.
[JPost] The strike on Thursday night was the second alleged Israeli airstrike to hit Syria in the past week.
An alleged Israeli airstrike targeted sites near Damascus on Thursday night, in the second Israeli strike in Syria in a week, according to Syrian reports.
Syrian air defenses responded to the strike, with only material damage being caused by the strike, according to Syrian state news agency SANA. The strike was carried out from over the Golan Heights.
The strike targeted sites near the towns of Rakhlah and Qatana, southwest of Damascus, according to the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen TV. The Scientific Studies and Research Center in Jamraya was also targeted, according to the Step News Agency.
The Scientific Studies and Research Center in Jamraya was last targeted by an alleged Israeli airstrike in February, according to the Syrian Capital Voice news site. A Syrian soldier and five civilians were killed in that strike.
The strike on Thursday night was the second alleged Israeli airstrike to hit Syria in the past week.
Israel has fired several missiles toward Syrian military positions near Damascus, causing material damage, Syria’s military said Friday.
State media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the attack occurred shortly before midnight Thursday, adding that some of the Israeli missiles were shot down by Syrian air defenses.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the missiles struck positions of Iran-backed fighters southwest of the capital, near the suburb of Qatana.
[NYPOST] The threat-laced ramblings of alleged subway shooter Frank James, now in jug, have a disturbingly familiar ring, don’t they? Sure, they’re on YouTube — but bitter mumblings of the same sort are heard all day, every day in New York’s increasingly untenable subway system.
So the question of the moment is this: How long will the city accommodate — indeed, encourage — aggressive mental illness in its public spaces? Will it ever push back?
How many shootings, how many slashings, how many fatal shovings and — disgustingly — how many demented excrement smearings will it take before the penny drops?
How many subway cars, train and bus terminals and public parks must fill to the brim with pitiful, helpless and obviously self-destructive people before New York’s leaders have had enough?
This is not a new problem, of course — not by any means.
Once upon a time, decades ago, there was a police captain who got it. He had very little patience with a then-novel notion that therapy must always trump coercion when the violent mostly peaceful mentally ill act out in public.
"If you knew so much about mental cases," he’d bark at social workers, "the police wouldn’t need to be called. The reason we’re here is because you failed."
Certainly the new policy was failing, badly. It assumed the insane were fit masters of their own destiny, regardless of circumstances and consequences — which was, well, nuts. But it had become the law.
Presently New York’s mental hospitals emptied, its public spaces grew forbidding — and decades of often lethal chaos ensued.
Kendra’s Law, a ’90s response to a fatal subway shoving, allowed judges limited authority to order involuntary confinement for the mentally ill — until then, cops and the courts were virtually powerless before the violent mostly peacefully insane.
That was the theory, anyway. In practice, as that old-timey police captain well knew, coercion — jail — was applied because "therapy" was non-existent and, anyway, a prescription for continued mayhem.
Then came the progressive "reforms" of 2019. Now hardly anyone goes to jail for anything — and the thoroughly predictable result has been a sharp rise in seemingly motiveless violent mostly peaceful crime.
Except they’re usually not motiveless at all — but rather driven by demons that defy reason, let alone compassionate understanding. They’re just invisible.
None of this makes any difference to the city’s growing league of random victims — babies in strollers, wide-eyed tourists, elderly straphangers and, Tuesday morning, Brooklyn commuters.
Who speaks for them? Who acts for them?
Nobody with the power to help them, that’s for sure.
Kendra’s Law is a well-intentioned half-measure that takes fully into account the interests of the state’s violent mostly peacefully insane — but only nominally those of other New Yorkers.
This presumption needs to be flipped on its head. Where interests collide, those of the innocent must prevail — and this, ironically enough, would include those too addled to protect themselves.
Why is this so complicated?
That old cop recognized failure when he saw it. After five decades, you’d think New York would, too.
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They either fix it or New York City goes the way of Detroit, Seattle and San Francisco.
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To be fair fricking Reagan.
Under President Ronald Reagan, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act repeals Carter's community health legislation and establishes block grants for the states, ending the federal government's role in providing services to the mentally ill. Federal mental-health spending decreases by 30 percent.
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^ sorry, can't seem to find the federal government's responsibility in that area anywhere in the Constitution. However, I do see the 10th as saying if you can't find it here, it belongs to the states.
#4
I demand that all male prisons also get nurseries and that prisoners there have access to Lamaz classes.
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Slightly off topic:
There is a shoe commercial out, starts with A, "celebrate competing as a man....as a woman...as a trans woman."
The video cut of the trans-woman part is some dude just absolutely volleyball dunking on two gals.
[CNBC] The Department of Justice charged a high-ranking Russian legislator and two of his staffers with running a yearslong scheme to influence U.S. officials by peddling disinformation to advance the Kremlin’s interests, according to court documents made public Thursday.
The three Russians, who have previously been sanctioned by the U.S., worked to undermine America’s international alliances and policies and “promote Russia’s illicit actions designed to destroy the sovereignty of Ukraine,” alleged an indictment filed in federal court in Manhattan.
Their scheme included “staged events, paid propaganda, and the recruitment of at least one American citizen to do their bidding in unofficial capacities,” the indictment alleged.
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Babakov, 59, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Vorobev, 52, and Mikhail Alekseyevich Plisyuk, 58, are charged with conspiring to act as Russian agents in the U.S. without notifying the attorney general and conspiring to commit visa fraud. Those counts each carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
The three men also are charged with one count each of conspiring to violate and evade U.S. sanctions in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a crime with a 20-year maximum prison sentence.
“Today’s indictment demonstrates that Russia’s illegitimate actions against Ukraine extend beyond the battlefield, as political influencers under Russia’s control allegedly plotted to steer geopolitical change in Russia’s favor through surreptitious and illegal means in the United States and elsewhere in the West,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a press release from the Justice Department.
“Such malign foreign interference will be exposed, and we will pursue justice against its perpetrators,” Williams said.
The indictment, filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and unsealed Thursday afternoon, alleges the operation spanned from January 2012 through at least June 2017.
Babakov, a former Russian senator and currently the deputy chairman of the State Duma, has become a leader in the “For Truth” party, which backs Russian President Vladimir Putin, the DOJ said. Vorobev is Babakov’s longtime chief of staff and Plisyuk is a staffer for Babakov.
The three men used a Russian nonprofit called the Institute for International Integration Studies as a front for their global influence campaign, the indictment alleged.
Through that group, and with the help of the American they recruited to their cause, the defendants allegedly tried to contact and secure meetings with members of the U.S. Congress. They offered free travel to at least one member of Congress on Babakov’s behalf, with the American associate dangling an “all expenses paid” trip to meet with European politicians and receive “an award,” according to the Justice Department.
All of the Congress members solicited for meetings rebuffed those offers, according to the indictment.
The Treasury Department sanctioned Babakov, Vorobev and Plisyuk in June 2017. Their visa applications were denied in January 2018.
[YouTube] Ukrainian defense force Operator Starsky, "Unbox" a captured Orlan which Russia claims is fully Russian made and is reportedly between USD $87,000 to USD $120,000.
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[Korrespondent] 23:07 As of April 13, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the UN has recorded 4,577 civilian casualties, including 1,964 killed (among them 161 children) and 2,613 wounded (among them 252 children). At the same time, the organization recognizes that the real losses are much higher.
23:06 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation clarified that the crew from the sunken cruiser Moscow was evacuated to the ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the area. 23:02 Zelensky said that he had held talks with Macron: "We discussed the investigation of Russian crimes, the resistance of the Ukrainian people to the invader. We appreciate the significant support of France. We also discussed the negotiation process. We strive for peace in Ukraine, in Europe!"
22:56 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports that the cruiser Moskva sank. According to the agency, when the ship was towed to the port of destination, due to damage to the hull received during the fire from the detonation of ammunition, the ship lost stability and sank in the conditions of stormy seas.
22:54 Moody's reported that payments on Eurobonds in rubles, which Russia began to make, can be equated to a default, since such payments are not provided for by contracts.
22:52 Speakers of the Senates of Poland and the Czech Republic visited Irpin, Bucha and Borodyanka in the Kiev region.
22:50 The US is in no hurry to return the embassy to Kiev - until it becomes "safe and practical," the State Department said.
22:44 The EU will not discuss a ban on the purchase of Russian oil until the end of the presidential elections in France, the second round of which will be held on April 24. According to The New York Times, the discussion of the embargo could cause a new round of price increases in France, which will add points to Macron's rival Marine Le Pen.
22:41 Google has disabled payments from Russia - you can not pay with any type of Russian cards. The subscription with mobile payments has also been canceled, Fedorov said, citing company information.
22:19 In Bucha, the police found 20 cards with the personal data of Russian soldiers, Anton Gerashchenko said.
22:16 The Russian invaders, who fled from Chernobyl, robbed the police station where radioactive items seized from citizens were stored, Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky said.
22:12 About a thousand foreign sailors are stuck in Ukraine, who, due to hostilities or a naval blockade, cannot leave their ships or ports, the UN reports. The sailors are running out of food and supplies.
22:08 The Defense Express publication writes, citing experts - designers and naval officers, that the Moscow cruiser could have nuclear weapons, because the ship is a carrier of nuclear weapons. We are talking about anti-ship missiles P-1000 Vulkan in the amount of 16 units, each of which can be equipped with a nuclear warhead with a capacity of 350 kt or a conventional high-explosive-cumulative 500 kg.
However, the proportions between conventional and nuclear munitions currently used to arm missile cruisers in Russia are unknown. And despite the fact that nuclear weapons may be on board Moscow, experts agree that there is no threat of their possible presence in the short term.
22:03 Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that any attempts by the Russians to interfere with the supply of weapons to Ukraine could lead to an escalation of confrontation with the West: "The United States does not operate on the territory of Ukraine, so if the Russians, obviously, strike at NATO territory, where the military technique, it will trigger Article 5 and will be a game changer."
21:57 Zelensky commented in an interview with BBC News on the explosion on the Russian missile cruiser Moskva: “To be honest, what is happening in the army of the Russian Federation that attacked us, which is an occupier, which blocks, by the way, the Black Sea, is indifferent to me. If it decreases, that's good."
21:55 Ukraine will play instead of Russia at the 2022 Volleyball World Championship, the Ukrainian Volleyball Federation has announced.
21:53 The deputy commander of the Azov regiment, Svyatoslav Palamar, said in a video message that the deblockade of Mariupol is possible, only appropriate decisive actions are needed on the part of the military-political leadership of the country.
21:45 Officially, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that Russia has lost seven ships and boats in the war against Ukraine. About famous wrecked ships - in the article From Moscow to Saratov: how the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroy the Russian fleet .
21:40 Biden said he would like to visit Ukraine. He also confirmed media reports that his administration was going to send a high-ranking US official to Kyiv.
21:27 Reuters, citing US authorities, reports that the fire on the missile cruiser Moskva continues, while the ship is still afloat and heading for Sevastopol.
21:19 The head of the Odesa OVA, Maxim Marchenko, claims that the cruiser Moskva is "burning out in the Black Sea."
21:15 As a result of the Russian invasion, almost 220,000 Ukrainians lost their homes - this is 37,500 unique addresses throughout the country, said Olena Shulyak , head of the Servant of the People party. According to her, almost 77,000 applications for the destruction and damage to the property of Ukrainians were received through Diya. The total area of damage exceeds 5.3 million square meters.
20:59 The Rada introduced criminal liability in the form of up to 12 years in prison for complicity with the aggressor state.
20:57 The French Embassy in Ukraine is returning from Lviv to Kiev, said the country's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
20:54 The NBU allowed banks to sell cash foreign currency to the population from April 14. At the same time, the regulator decided that the selling rate of the currency should be no more than 10% higher or lower than the official NBU rate, and the buying rate should not be lower than the official one. Non-cash sale of currency by banks to individuals is prohibited.
20:49 Zelensky, in an interview with BBC News, said that Russia's immediate goal is "to encircle 44,000 Ukrainian troops in a full-scale battle for the Donbass and take it away."
20:47 The United States admits the possibility of Russia using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, as Moscow continues to face difficulties on the battlefield, said CIA director Bill Burns. At the same time, he added that the CIA "is following this very closely," but so far sees no signs that Russia is preparing to take such a step.
20:43 In Bucha, 73 bodies have already been recovered from a mass grave near the church of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, the mayor of the city Anatoly Fedoruk said.
20:41 The Pentagon says that the Russian troops that left northern Ukraine began to appear in the northern part of Donbass in preparation for a major offensive, writes CNN. The US Department of Defense estimates that there are 65 combat-ready battalion tactical groups in eastern and southern parts of Ukraine, and Russia will try to deliver additional BTGs in the coming days.
20:38 In Oleshki, Kherson region, the occupiers hung out the Russian flag on the administration building. The mayor of the city, Yevgeny Ryshuk, said that "they are completely entering the city."
20:35 Zelensky, in an interview with BBC News, accused European countries that continue to buy Russian oil of "making money on someone else's blood." He also accused Germany and Hungary of blocking attempts to impose an embargo on Russian energy resources.
The President also reiterated his call for more weapons to Ukraine and said Ukraine was not receiving them quickly enough to repel a Russian attack.
20:29 Zelensky said in an interview with BBC News that tens of thousands of people could have been killed in Mariupol, in addition, many were missing. "We know that their documents were replaced, they were given Russian passports and taken deep into Russia - some to camps, some to other cities. Nobody knows what happens to these people. Nobody knows how many were killed," the head of state said.
At the same time, he noted that the east now represents "the most difficult situation" for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, "but it is here that our most powerful units are concentrated."
"They can destroy us, but we will respond; they can kill, but they will also die," Zelensky stressed.
20:26 War crimes in Mariupol and in the Kiev region have further narrowed the possibility of peace talks with Moscow, Zelensky said in an interview with BBC News: "It's not about me - it's about Russia. They will not have any more chances to talk to us."
20:23 Danilov said in an interview with the BBC that Russia, in the event of a successful invasion and overthrow of Zelensky, was going to put some "people in uniform" - citizens of Ukraine - at the head of Ukraine.
At the same time, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council denied rumors that the puppet government that the Russians wanted to create in Kyiv should have been headed by Yanukovych, Muraev, Tsarev or Medvedchuk: "I understand who they were preparing for this post ... The only thing I can say is people in uniform. In large uniforms."
20:20 According to the OP, 2557 people have been evacuated today. Including 2,332 people from Mariupol and Berdyansk on their own transport to Zaporizhia (of which 289 are from Mariupol, the rest are residents of the cities of the Zaporizhia region), from the Luhansk region - 225 people. Silence on the part of the occupying troops was again not ensured.
20:17 In the Kiev region, a curfew in the settlements of the Gostomel village council will be in effect from 18:00 on April 14 to 6:00 on April 20, the regional administration reports. On the territory of the Ivankovsky settlement council - daily from 20:00 to 6:00 from April 13 to 18, and in Irpin, the previously introduced curfew will last until 9:00 on April 15.
20:03 The United Arab Emirates sent a plane with 50 tons of humanitarian cargo and equipped ambulances to Ukraine, the Ukrainian embassy in the UAE said.
19:45 The State Border Service of Ukraine denied the information of the Russian Federation that Ukraine fired at the border checkpoint in the Bryansk region: "Russia massively spreads fake messages that their border regions are being fired from the territory of Ukraine. Allegedly, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a missile attack on the Bryansk region and fired mortars at the checkpoint New Yurkovichi and the border settlement of Klimovo. But all these are provocations."
19:42 The Pentagon reports that Russian ships that were in the north of the Black Sea in the area of the cruiser Moskva moved south further than the Ukrainian coast, writes CNN.
19:39 The Rada freed students and teachers of vocational schools from mobilization.
19:37 CIA director William Burns called China the only and main geopolitical challenge for the US in the 21st century. But as far as Russia is concerned, Putin, in his words, "was mired in resentment, ambition and insecurity."
19:24 Ankara continues to work on organizing a meeting between Zelensky and Putin, but the recent events in Bucha "had a negative impact on the process," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
"Inhuman images from regions such as Bucha and Irpen, which we also condemn, changed the atmosphere. This created a negative atmosphere on the Ukrainian side. Although there were various statements from the Russian Federation on this matter, in the end it had a negative impact on the negotiation process" - he explained and added that Zelensky is still ready for negotiations, and now it's up to Putin.
19:20 In Russian Belgorod, the enemy deployed a unit of information and psychological operations of the RF Armed Forces in order to intensify measures of psychological impact on the defense forces of Ukraine and the civilian population of the Kharkiv region. The goal is demoralization and cessation of resistance, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
19:18 According to the General Staff, the invaders continue to prepare for active operations in the areas of Slavyansk and Barvenkovo. In the Donetsk direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation and artillery, continues the offensive in separate directions. The main efforts are focused on establishing control over Popasna, Rubizhne, Severodonetsk and Slavyansk.
19:16 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the 126th separate coastal defense brigade (Perevalnoye, Crimea) and the 127th separate reconnaissance brigade (Sevastopol), the losses are more than 50% of the personnel.
19:14 The command of the Russian army fails to fulfill plans for mobilization in the North Caucasus region to participate in the war against Ukraine, the main reason is the unwillingness of the population to participate in hostilities, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
Also, in connection with the critical situation that has developed with the recruitment of combat units, the command of the RF Armed Forces plans to start a new process of mobilization at the national level. According to the plan, mobilization for the purpose of hiding it will be carried out in parallel with the planned conscription for military service.
19:12 Zelensky announced that the Ukrainian team will take part in the international sports competitions of the Invictus Games. Among the members of the team are current servicemen who defend Ukraine.
19:10 The governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation again announced shelling from the side of Ukraine - this time the village of Zhuravlevka. According to him, there is damage to residential buildings, there is no information about victims and victims.
19:08 The head of the Krivoy Rog OVA Alexander Vilkul said that the front line was moved away from Krivoy Rog by 40-50 kilometers.
19:01 The cruiser Moskva became the most expensive military loss of Russia in the war with Ukraine. Forbes compared the ship to a cruiser of the same class called the Ukraine , which cost $720 million in 1995.
18:59 The US Embassy in Ukraine said that the new $800 million military aid package for Ukraine is not the last, and there will be more in the future.
18:57 Deputies from the Opposition Platform for Life faction, whose activities were suspended today, will create a new deputy group, Boyko said.
18:52 Anonymous hackers reported that they leaked 728 GB of data to the network of Gazprom Linde Engineering, which specializes in the design of gas and petrochemical processing facilities and oil refineries.
18:48 Google stops monetization of content that spreads fakes about Russia's war against Ukraine, denies or justifies it. This also applies to materials that deny the tragic events. Such a decision will hit Russian propagandists hard, the Ministry of Digital Development of Ukraine notes.
18:33 A Soviet military monument, a self-propelled gun mount, was dismantled in Rivne. According to the secretary of the City Council Viktor Shakirzyan, Ukrainian equipment that defended Ukraine from Russian invaders will stand at this place. It is also planned to dismantle the monument to Bogomolov in the park of Volunteers.
18:28 Russia in its war against Ukraine violated all conventions of 1949, Denisova said: "The aggressor violates all four Geneva Conventions of 1949, international humanitarian law, the Convention for the Protection against Genocide and destroys our population - uses non-conventional weapons, thermobaric bombs, slow fall , phosphorus and cluster mines. Non-conventional weapons have irremediable consequences, they are prohibited, so this is a crime against humanity."
18:26 Danilov said that in the first days of the war there was a lot of shooting near the President’s Office: “Don’t think that they were unprepared. government quarter, and to all our military."
18:24 Macron in Russia's war against Ukraine is trying not to completely destroy the bridges with Moscow. For the sake of this, he refused to call Putin a war criminal, the actions of the Russians in Ukraine - genocide, and now, in the spirit of Kremlin propaganda, he began to talk about the "brotherhood" of Ukrainians and Russians. More details in the material Putin's Syndrome .
18:10 For the first time in ten days, the Russians fired at the border settlements of the Sumy region from their territory, Governor Dmitry Zhivitsky said. According to him, several border settlements were fired from artillery and mortars.
18:08 Moldova accused the Russian army of trying to recruit its citizens for the war in Ukraine, writes Reuters. It comes just days after British intelligence said Moscow was trying to replenish its forces in Ukraine by recruiting people from the unrecognized Transnistria.
18:07 In Borodyanka, Kiev region, when clearing the rubble of a multi-storey residential building, the bodies of two people were found, Anton Gerashchenko said. In total, four bodies have been found today, and since the beginning of work - 26 dead.
18:05 Turkey and its ships did not help the Russian military evacuate from the Moskva cruiser, the BBC reports, citing an unnamed Turkish official. The fact that it was Turkish sailors who helped the Russian military was previously announced by Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas.
18:03 The Rada allowed foreign citizens to work in Ukrainian intelligence and serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine from three to five years.
18:00 As a result of the Russian invasion, the real GDP of Ukraine in 2022 will fall by at least a third, the National Bank predicts.
17:55 Danilov said that the Ukrainian authorities knew about the preparation of a full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine and expected the beginning of the invasion of Russian troops on February 22. “The only thing we did not expect was that the territory of Belarus would be involved. There were discussions about this, but in the end we thought that it would be different. But it happened as it happened,” he added.
17:50 Verkhovna Rada recognized Russia's war against Ukraine as genocide. A bill was also passed to ban the symbols Z and V as symbols of Russian aggression.
17:46 From today, Uber has resumed work in Kiev. According to the regional manager of the taxi service Anabel Diaz, the company will not take commissions for trips, that is, the full fare paid by passengers will go directly to the drivers. The company also promised to provide 10,000 free rides to civil servants and critical infrastructure workers in the capital.
17:40 Lithuania responded to Medvedev's threats to deploy Russian nuclear weapons in the Baltic. Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said such threats were "not new" and recalled that the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad has long been a highly militarized zone.
In turn, the country's Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas drew attention to the fact that nuclear weapons appeared in the same Kaliningrad even before the war with Ukraine: "Today's Russian threats seem rather strange, because we know that even without taking into account the current security situation, they keep weapons in a hundred kilometers from the Lithuanian border.
17:35 Biden's national security aide Jake Sullivan said the United States does not intend to return seized assets to Russian businessmen: "Our goal is not to return them. Our goal is to use them better than in this way."
17:33 Kuleba on the situation in Mariupol: "Mariupol is in a desperate situation. It is extremely painful to receive news from there. We are doing everything possible to support the civilian population and the defenders of Mariupol. But in order to unblock Mariupol and save them, we need more weapons and we are working with partners to get them."
17:32 Today, the Verkhovna Rada announced the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to suspend the activities of the Opposition Platform for Life and the activities of the Opposition Platform for Life faction in parliament, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said. In addition, according to him, people's deputies Isaenko and Burmich left the Opposition Platform for Life. Boyko was elected head of the OPF, and Rabinovich was recalled as co-chairman.
17:17 The Parliament of Moldova in the third, final reading adopted a bill that introduces liability for the use of symbols of military aggression, in particular, the St. George ribbon, symbols Z and V.
17:16 The German government and the Dortmund club are ready to help restore the Chernihiv football stadium, which suffered from Russian bombing, said the Minister of Culture and Information Policy Alexander Tkachenko.
17:12 In Kramatorsk, one of the workshops of the Energomashspetssvyaz plant was destroyed, the owner of the enterprise, People's Deputy Maxim Yefimov, said. According to him, there were no military personnel on the territory, a workshop technologically important for production was broken up. The number of victims and destruction are specified.
17:01 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine received data on Russian war criminals belonging to the highest command staff. These are Alexander Sanchik and Andrey Serdyukov.
The first is in command of the units of the 35th Army, allocated to the group of troops Vostok. In the period from February to April 2022, he led the actions of subordinate forces during the operation to capture Kyiv from the west.
The second one commands a group of airborne troops, led the units of the Southern Military District during the annexation of Crimea in February 2014 during the fighting in the Donbass. For participation in the Russian aggression in the Donbass, he received the military rank of Colonel General.
16:48 Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that the explosion on board the cruiser Moskva caused significant damage to the ship, but the US military is "not quite sure what happened" - an accident or a Ukrainian missile hit.
"We assess that the ship is able to break through its own path, and it does. We think that it is moving to the east and that it will probably be taken to Sevastopol for repairs. But we do not know what exactly caused this," he said. Kirby.
16:36 Both Poland and NATO are ready to respond to Russia's aggression against the member countries of the alliance, Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina said in an interview with TSN: "We are always ready for this. And not only we, but also our allies. All NATO members are ready "Article 5 of the Washington Treaty says that aggression against any NATO country is aggression against the entire alliance. And if Putin starts some kind of aggression against Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia or Finland, if she is in NATO, this is a red line for all of us".
16:28 Ukrainian intelligence reports that Russian servicemen, at the expense of which the units most affected in the war against Ukraine are understaffed, receive decommissioned uniforms as equipment.
So, on March 12, the Russian railway delivered a cargo with 5006 pieces of body armor to the "recruits". Upon arrival of the cargo, it turned out that the fabric of the body armor was almost completely rotted, and the metal armor plates were rusted.
The bulletproof vests were removed from "long-term storage", where they lay in conditions of high humidity for many years. Such "protection" is physically incapable of protecting anyone, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Moscow Region notes.
16:25 The US State Department has appointed a new sanctions coordinator - Ambassador James O'Brien, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said. "Jim will play a critical role in shaping our sanctions policy to hold corruption and human rights violations accountable, and deter actions that threaten our national security," he said.
16:22 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council announced that the Russian special services have begun to implement a plan for carrying out terrorist attacks to whip up anti-Ukrainian hysteria.
As of April 14, several “terrorist attacks” had already taken place in the regions of the Russian borders, for which the leadership of the Russian Federation accuses Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups. Earlier, the CPD under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine warned about the corresponding intentions of the enemy to consolidate the Russians against the Ukrainians.
16:13 The Belgorod governor announced the shelling of the village of Spodaryushino in the Grayvoron district. According to him, there are no victims and casualties among the civilian population, there are no destructions of residential and social facilities either.
16:09 Inflation in Ukraine by the end of 2022 may exceed 20%, the National Bank said.
16:06 The White House did not rule out that Washington would be ready to explore the possibility of lifting a number of sanctions against Russia if agreements were reached between Kiev and Moscow.
15:57 Putin said that "unfriendly" countries are delaying payment for gas under a new scheme that provides for the transfer of euros with subsequent conversion into rubles through accounts at Gazprombank.
"Unfriendly countries recognize that they cannot do without Russian energy resources, including gas, supplies from the United States to Europe will cost many times more than Russian ones," Putin stressed and instructed to speed up the process of switching the foreign exchange market to settlements in national currencies.
15:49 Ireland supports the imposition of an embargo on oil and gas from Russia, said Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense of the country Simon Coveney during a visit to Kiev. Ireland will also contribute to Ukraine's accession to the EU.
15:47 Zelensky told the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen during her visit to Kiev last week that Ukraine needs seven billion dollars a month in the form of urgent financial assistance to cover social benefits and salaries, writes Bloomberg.
15:45 As a result of the shelling of the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, seven people were injured, including a pregnant woman and a child, Russian media write. Two adults are in serious condition, three more are in average condition. In Russia, Ukraine was accused of shelling the Bryansk region.
Ukrainian intelligence has previously warned that the Russian Federation was preparing such provocations.
15:43 Greece will no longer supply weapons to Ukraine, Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos said. According to him, the supply of a large number of weapons can reduce the defense of Greece, especially on the islands.
Earlier, Greece sent Ukraine two S-130 transport aircraft with military assistance, including Kalashnikov assault rifles and MANPADS.
15:38 The EU blocked a scheme that allowed European governments to export weapons worth tens of millions of euros to Russia last year alone, despite the embargo that came into force in 2014, writes Reuters. According to the publication, the EU countries sold arms and ammunition to the Russian Federation in the amount of 39 million euros in 2021, which is more than 50% more than in 2020.
15:36 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that two Ukrainian pilots, Ivan Pepelyashko and Aleksey Chizh, were released from Russian captivity. They were taken prisoner on March 8 near the village of Novaya Basan, Chernihiv region.
15:34 Kuleba said that Ukraine respects the institution of the Federal President of Germany and is not interested in aggravating relations with Germany.
"We do not always agree with German policy in everything, but we respect Germany as a state as a partner. It is absolutely obvious to us that the head of state, the President of Germany, is one of the symbols of this state," Kuleba said.
15:31 Macron said that he explained to Zelensky in a telephone conversation in the morning why he is against the use of the term "genocide".
Also in an interview with the weekly Le Point, he said that he prefers to be "careful with the terms", and expressed confidence that in order to end the war, it is useless to engage in "verbal escalation".
15:20 Ukraine and Russia held the fourth exchange of prisoners. As a result, 30 people were returned, Vereshchuk said. Five officers and 17 privates were exchanged. Eight civilians have also been released.
15:17 The head of the State Border Service, Sergei Deineko, said that the Russians on Wednesday opened fire in the area of the state border in the area where the Chernihiv region of Ukraine borders on the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation.
15:13 The command of the air assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Lviv paratroopers liberated several Ukrainian settlements in southern Ukraine from occupation.
15:08 Men of military age will be involved in the restoration of cities, while they will not be subject to mobilization, Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov said in an interview with NV.
14:47 The 25th World Energy Congress, which was supposed to be held in St. Petersburg in October 2022, has been officially cancelled. The event will not take place this year.
14:32 UN Secretary General António Guterres said that due to the war in Ukraine, about 1.7 billion people around the world are waiting for poverty, destitution and hunger - on a scale that has not been seen for decades.
14:29 Peskov announced a lack of understanding about the prospects for continuing negotiations with Kiev in person. He added that Moscow is in favor of holding the meeting in Belarus.
14:26 Turkey may join the sanctions against Russia in the future, but only if they are approved at the UN level, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
14:24 The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the enemy missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. The strike was carried out by Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles. All the details that are currently known are in the article How the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation .
14:04 The mayor of Buchi said that water and gas have already appeared in the city, and they promise to restore the supply of electricity by April 17.
13:59 Lavrov said that "without universal agreements in the field of Internet regulation, the world risks plunging into a state of cyberanarchy, and the consequences can be, without exaggeration, catastrophic for the global economy, international security and simply for the elementary comfort and well-being of hundreds of millions of citizens."
13:46 In the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, the Novye Yurkovichi checkpoint was fired from the territory of Ukraine, cars belonging to refugees were damaged, the FSB said.
13:31 In the units of the Russian army that have already fought against Ukraine, 20% to 40% of contract soldiers refuse to return to the war, according to the estimates of the investigative group Conflict Intelligence Team. At the same time, not a single objector in Russia has been prosecuted to date.
13:29 Trump called the crimes of Russia in Ukraine a genocide.
13:28 In Odessa, signs of Russian cities - Volgograd, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg and Taganrog - will be removed from the memorial sign of twin cities and partner cities on Dumskaya Square. Their places will be taken by "our friendly cities, with the support of which we will definitely win this war," said Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov.
13:26 Erdogan plans to hold telephone conversations with Zelensky and Putin in the coming days, the Turkish Foreign Minister said.
13:25 In Ternopil, a Soviet plane was dismantled - a monument to Soviet pilots. According to the mayor of the city Serhiy Nadal, this place will be a monument to the heroes of Ukraine.
13:23 Peskov said that Putin does not refuse to meet with Zelensky, but the ground needs to be prepared, and the text of the document is not yet available.
13:22 Mayor of Tavriysk Nikolai Rizak, who has been in captivity of the Russians since April 1, wrote a letter of resignation "due to the deterioration of health."
13:13 The Lviv Regional Prosecutor's Office announced the suspicion of a Lviv woman on the fact of unauthorized dissemination of information about the placement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the investigation, the woman posted a message on her personal Facebook page, allowing to identify the location of the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the ground.
13:06 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the fire on the cruiser Moskva was localized, there was no open burning, and ammunition explosions were stopped. The agency assures that the cruiser "retains buoyancy, the main missile armament is not damaged."
Also, the Russian Defense Ministry reports that the crew was evacuated to the Russian Black Sea Fleet ships in the area, the cruiser will be towed to the port. Causes of the fire in Russia are not known.
At the same time, the Turkish and Romanian media write that the cruiser Moscow sank, 54 sailors were rescued by a Turkish ship. There were 510 people on board.
12:58 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who recently held meetings with Zelensky and Putin, believes that there is still a "small chance" for negotiations between the countries. According to him, the Istanbul meeting showed that not all doors are closed for a solution through negotiations.
The chancellor also said that Putin had assured him that gas would be supplied under the terms of already concluded contracts, payment would be made in euros.
12:47 The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine does not expect a cessation of hostilities by Russia after May 9, Anna Malyar said. According to her, Russia continues to accumulate military force for an offensive against Ukraine, Kyiv remains a target of the enemy, and threats remain for the entire country.
12:39 SBU neutralized a powerful criminal group in Odessa, which wanted to join the occupying "power" if the Russians captured the city. During a large-scale special operation, leaders and members of criminal groups were detained, among them Emil Varshavsky and Paizulaev, well-known in criminal circles.
Some members of the group joined the ranks of the terrorist defense to collect information about the Ukrainian military in the Odessa region. They also had to hunt law enforcement officers and patriotic activists.
12:36 Podolyak: "Russia declares that it started the war to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. After the entry of Sweden and Finland, the Kremlin will receive NATO half an hour from St. Petersburg. 20,000+ dead Russian soldiers. Destroyed economy. Complete isolation. But a special operation still "goes according to plan. What was that plan?"
12:32 According to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the United States has sent so many of its Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine that their stocks are running out for possible use even on their own, writes CNN.
12:27 It's too early to return to Kiev, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said: "Wait a bit. As of today, there is a constant threat of the enemy using missile weapons throughout Ukraine. The dynamics of events in the coming weeks will be indicative."
12:25 The State Bureau of Investigation reported that it had detained and handed over to the SBU the head of the Mariupol faction of the Opposition Platform for Life. As Anton Gerashchenko clarified, Vladimir Klimenko, Poklonskaya's ex-husband, was hiding in Odessa.
12:18 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine appealed to the UN because of the illegal export and adoption of Ukrainian children by Russian citizens. Such actions of the Russian Federation violate the norms of international law. In particular, the Russian military in the occupied territories illegally exports, among other things, orphans and children whose parents died from the Russian invasion.
There is a threat of adoption of children by Russian citizens without following all the necessary procedures. To this end, the Russian authorities are seeking to sign so-called "agreements" with the "LDNR" for the transfer of illegally deported orphans to Russian families, the Foreign Ministry reports.
12:13 In Mariupol, the Russian occupiers encourage civilians to put on a white ribbon, allegedly as a mark "our", which is a symbol hostile to Ukraine. Thus, they want to make people a bait for Ukrainian snipers, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor.
Also, according to him, information began to come in about the introduction by the occupiers of separate passes - permits for movement around the city. “Combined with special marks “ours”, all this resembles segregation and the transformation of Mariupol into a real ghetto for Ukrainians on the basis of Nazi tracing paper in Lvov and Poland,” Andryushchenko added.
12:08 Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said that Russia should be held accountable for the killing of civilians in Ukraine. According to him, the actions of the Russian Federation are unacceptable and violate international humanitarian law.
11:55 Ukrainian intelligence received documents indicating the intentions of the occupiers to capture Kiev. In particular, the grouping of Russian troops Center, operating in the Chernihiv and Sumy directions, was given the task of capturing the left-bank part of the capital.
This is discussed in the combat order of the commander of the 96th separate reconnaissance brigade, which he received from the headquarters of the 1st tank army of the western military district. The document defines the stages of the offensive and the tasks of the personnel of the brigade.
11:39 Ex-co-owner of Yukos Leonid Nevzlin said, citing his sources in Moscow, that Shoigu has a massive heart attack, he is in intensive care. Also, according to him, 20 Russian generals were arrested for embezzlement of funds: since 2014, about $10 billion allocated by Putin for the seizure of Ukraine has been stolen. Surkov was arrested in the same case of stealing money, he is under house arrest.
11:37 Police detained a traitor from Bucha: a resident of Krivoy Rog came to the Kiev region to visit relatives, patrolled along with Russian invaders, psychologically put pressure on the inhabitants of Bucha, threatened them with murder, intimidated them with weapons, and tortured supporters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For such actions, the defendant faces life imprisonment.
11:31 Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev said that the EU "goes beyond the limits of its competence" in relation to Russia, and therefore Moscow may break off relations with Brussels.
11:29 Two heads of territorial communities in the Lugansk region - Melovskaya and Markovskaya - are suspected of high treason, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported. According to the investigation, the suspects went over to the side of the Russian Federation and, under martial law, provided the invaders with assistance in carrying out subversive activities against Ukraine.
11:23 The Russians have not let people out of Mariupol for several days, and the bodies of the dead are being taken to Khartsyzsk to be burned in a crematorium, said the mayor of the city, Vadim Boychenko. According to him, 90 percent of the infrastructure was destroyed, 60 percent with a direct hit by artillery or aircraft, 40 percent cannot be restored.
He also spoke about forced deportation: to date, 33,500 residents of Mariupol have been deported to the Russian Federation (where the able-bodied are sent to work) or to the "DPR" (where the elderly are sent).
11:21 The message that Zelensky did not want to meet the federal president of Germany in Kiev caused a wave of indignation in Germany. More about this - in the material Steinmeier did not go to Kiev: what they say in Berlin .
11:16 For the first time in history, Ukraine was elected to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples, the Foreign Ministry said. Ukraine was also elected to the Commission on the Status of Women and the Commission on Social Development for the period 2023-2027, which are important platforms, in particular for countering Russia's crimes.
At the same time, Russia was not admitted to the Permanent Forum of Indigenous Peoples, as well as to the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations and the Executive Bureau of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UN Women.
11:14 In the village of Novaya Basan, Nizhyn district, Chernihiv region, a mini-tractor with a trailer came across an anti-tank mine, the driver died on the spot, Suspilne reports with reference to the National Police.
11:10 The head of WHO Tedros Ghebreis said that the world does not pay equal attention to emergencies involving blacks and whites. He cited the example of Ukraine: only a fraction of the aid provided to Kiev was given to other humanitarian crises. At the same time, he acknowledged that assistance to Ukraine is "very important" because it "affects the whole world."
11:06 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 14:
personnel - about 19,900 people,
tanks - 753,
armored combat vehicles - 1968,
artillery systems - 366,
MLRS - 122,
air defense systems - 64,
aircraft - 160,
helicopters - 144,
automotive equipment - 1437,
ships/boats - 7,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 134,
special equipment - 25,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
10:57 Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said that 403 people were killed in Bucha, 16 people are considered missing , the bodies of 163 dead have already been identified. 22 high-rise buildings were destroyed, two of which cannot be restored. 243 private houses were also destroyed, which also cannot be restored.
10:45 After the start of the war, Ukrainian customs revenues fell to 20 percent, and tax revenues to 50 percent. The budget is mainly filled with loans and bonds, Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko said.
10:37 German Vice Chancellor Robert Habek criticized Ukraine for canceling Steinmeier's visit: "Unfortunately, I have to say this: the Ukrainian side made a diplomatic mistake... The federal president is Germany. And therefore, the rejection of President Zelensky is a rejection for Germany" .
10:35 British intelligence notes that during the Russian military operations in Ukraine, urban centers have repeatedly faced indiscriminate attacks from the Russian Federation. Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka are likely to "become a target for the Russian authorities of a similar level of violence."
Intelligence also believes that the combination of massive rocket and artillery strikes to concentrate forces for the offensive represents a return to traditional Russian military doctrine. "However, this will require significant forces. The ongoing defense of Mariupol by Ukraine is currently shackling a significant number of Russian troops and equipment," the report says.
10:32 Medvedev said that Russia will begin to increase the grouping of troops and weapons, including nuclear weapons, in the Baltic, if Finland and Sweden join NATO. At the same time, he added that Russia has a different attitude to the entry into NATO of Ukraine and Sweden with Finland: "We do not have territorial disputes with these countries, as with Ukraine. And therefore the price of such membership is different for us."
10:28 Reuters reports that global oil traders are planning to reduce the purchase of oil and fuel from Russian state oil companies as early as May 15. The reason is the EU sanctions, which exclude work with Rosneft or Gazpromneft.
“But that’s definitely not all,” Yermak commented. “Ukraine’s sanctions plan, which we are preparing and will develop together with allies, contains more restrictions. Sanctions against the Russian state company Transneft will definitely complicate any sales. Because this Russian company owns key pipelines and ports. A total embargo on energy is our goal of anti-Russian sanctions."
10:25 Heads of the Parliaments of the Czech Republic and Poland Milos Vystrchil and Tomasz Grodsky arrived in Ukraine.
10:19 Germany arrested in Hamburg the world's largest superyacht Dilbar - it belongs to the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, writes Bloomberg.
10:15 Arestovich said that Ukraine will strike back if Moscow hits Kiev: "We have excellent opportunities in Russia."
09:54 On April 13, the Lychakovsky District Court of Lviv arrested another 154 objects of movable and immovable property of Medvedchuk and his wife Oksana Marchenko. Among those arrested are 26 cars, 30 land plots, 23 houses, 32 apartments, 17 parking spaces and a motor yacht, the State Bureau of Investigation reports. Shares in charter capitals in 25 companies were also arrested.
Earlier, the court had already arrested Medvedchuk's yacht and other real estate.
09:51 Kiev metro trains will resume traffic on both tracks on the blue and green lines from tomorrow. The traffic interval on all lines will be reduced to 30 minutes, according to the Kyiv City State Administration. On the red line, traffic on both tracks will be between the stations Akademgorodok and Shulyavskaya, one each - between Shulyavskaya and Teatralnaya.
09:49 Arestovich reported on "Chernobaevka-15": ammunition depots of the 22nd Army Corps of the Russian Federation were destroyed yesterday near Kherson.
09:47 At the hands of the Russian invaders, 197 Ukrainian children have already died, more than 351 were injured of varying severity, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
Including two more children died in the hospital, who suffered from the explosion in Kramatorsk. Thus, as a result of a missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station, 59 people were killed, including seven children.
09:43 As of today, nine humanitarian corridors have been agreed:
from Mariupol, Berdyansk, Tokmak and Energodar to Zaporozhye (by own transport)
from Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Popasnaya, Rubezhnoye and Gorny to Bakhmut (in case the shelling by the Russian military ceases)
09:28 After the Ukrainian defenders knocked out the missile cruiser Moskva, the total number of cruise missiles of the Russian Black Sea Fleet ships in the Black Sea decreased from 72 to 56, BlackSeaNews reports.
09:10 Colombian President Ivan Duque said that his country is ready to help European countries if they decide to abandon Russian energy resources.
09:08 In the Kharkiv region, a group of SSOs of Ukraine blew up a bridge with enemy equipment heading to Izyum. These were the Tigr armored car, KAMAZ and three Urals, moving to reinforce their grouping.
09:05 Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky confirmed that 169 servicemen of the National Guard were captured from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: “Unfortunately, I can’t say what their fate is. Negotiations are underway on their exchange. But we understand that this will be, perhaps, only after end of the active phase of hostilities.
09:02 In Ukraine, you can again take a practical exam to obtain category B rights - this service has been resumed by service centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
08:59 Anton Gerashchenko writes that the cruiser Moskva sank.
08:57 Arestovich admitted that some of the marines in Mariupol were captured, however, we are not talking about a thousand fighters, as the Russian Defense Ministry said, but about a "much smaller" number of people. According to him, this happened during an attempt to break through to the Azov regiment in Mariupol.
"In general, the breakthrough operation was successful. The military have already regrouped and are ready to continue to carry out combat missions," the adviser to the head of the OP added.
08:48 Switzerland has approved the latest package of EU sanctions against Russia and Belarus. The Swiss government also approved the imposition of sanctions against 200 individuals and legal entities, including two of Putin's daughters. The list of Swiss sanctions is now fully consistent with EU sanctions, Yermak said.
08:40 American media writes that US investigators should get access to Medvedchuk, since he is a defendant in an investigation into Moscow's interference in the American elections.
08:22 Russian forces are likely to capture Mariupol next week, analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) say. According to them, Russian troops continue to "increase successes" around Mariupol.
At the same time, ISW notes that the reports about the mass surrender of Ukrainians, which were written about by the Russian media, do not correspond to reality.
07:57 The EU warned member states that paying for Russian gas in rubles would violate the sanctions imposed against Russia, Bloomberg reports.
07:36 The General Staff reported on the fighting in the areas of Slavyansk, Popasnaya and Kurakhovo and the enemy's attempts to storm Mariupol.
07:33 In the Belarusian settlement Kholmich at the checkpoints, the military police from the Russian Federation and Belarus check the phones. Civilians are informed that Ukrainian units can attack Belarus at any time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine notes.
07:30 According to the Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia continues to build up an aviation group near the eastern border of Ukraine, strengthens artillery units, optimizes existing control, intelligence and medical support systems.
06:54 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed the information about the fire on the cruiser Moskva, but did not report the reasons, mentioning only that "the ammunition detonated."
06:27 US officials held internal preliminary talks about a visit to Ukraine by a high-ranking official - Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin or Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, writes CNN.
06:07 Australia introduced another package of sanctions against Russia, 13 companies were blacklisted, including Gazprom, Transneft, Rostelecom and Alrosa, writes The Guardian.
05:15 Colombian President Ivan Duque recognized Russia's actions in Ukraine as genocide: "What is happening in Ukraine is genocide. And this must stop ... This is madness."
02:35 Ukrainian intelligence intercepted a conversation between a Russian soldier fighting in Ukraine and his relatives, in which he reports that " Putin said to level everything with the ground " if there are no successes before May 10.
02:13 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Russian aggression against Ukraine is "correct" to call genocide.
00:48 Ukrzaliznytsia received 15 devices for access to Starlink satellite Internet.
Armed forces of Ukraine shelled Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and Makeevka
[REGNUM] The cities of the DPR Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and Makeevka were shelled from artillery shells by Ukrainian armed forces on the evening of April 14, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire.
Ukrainian militants opened fire on Gorlovka at 18:30 Moscow time from the direction of Novgorodskoye settlement: eight shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
Yasinovataya Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from the direction of Avdiivka at 19:02 Moscow time, at 19:10 Moscow time, 19:25 Moscow time and at 22:10 Moscow time. In the first and third cases, five were fired, and in the second and fourth cases, three shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
Ukrainian militants fired at the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeyevka at 19:20 Moscow time: three shells of 122 mm caliber were fired from the village of Opytnoye.
Ukrainian militants shell Donetsk using artillery
[REGNUM] The capital of the DPR was shelled from artillery on the evening of April 14 by Ukrainian armed forces, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
So, Ukrainian militants fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at 16:28 Moscow time and at 19:00 Moscow time. In the first case, he was attacked from the settlement of Novomikhailovka, firing three shells of 152 mm caliber.
In the second case, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired from the direction of the settlement of Krasnogorovka, firing four shells of 122 mm caliber at the capital of the DPR. That evening, a number of other settlements of the DPR were subjected to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
APU fired almost 60 more rounds of ammunition across the territory of the DPR
[REGNUM] Eight times Ukrainian security forces have shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic since the beginning of the day on April 14, including with the use of Grad systems. This was reported by the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).
It is specified that as of 11:30 Moscow time, the Kievsky district of Donetsk was shelled five times, 16 shells of 122 mm caliber and three shells of the Grad multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) were fired at it.
Yasinovataya was fired three times, 40 Grad shells were fired at this city. A total of 59 rounds were fired across the DPR.
Ukrainian militants shelled the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk
[REGNUM] The shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of the city of Donetsk was carried out by armed formations of Ukraine, on April 14, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports in its telegram channel.
The fire was fired from the side of the city of Avdievka (DPR). As a result of shelling in the direction of the settlement, six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
As REGNUM reported , on April 14, Ukrainian militants shelled the Leninsky district of Donetsk using a Grad multiple launch rocket launcher.
Ukrainian Nazis plan to flood three villages in Donbass - Ministry of Defense
[REGNUM] Ukrainian Nazis mined a dam in the Donbass, the explosion of which threatens to flood three settlements, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev , head of the National Center for Defense Control of Russia, said at a briefing on April 14 .
He clarified that this is a dam that forms the reservoir of the Uglegorsk thermal power plant on the Lugan River in the Svetlodarsk region.
“In the event of an explosion, the city of Svetlodarsk, the villages of Mironovsky, Luganskoye and a number of others with a total population of more than 15 thousand people will be in the zone of possible flooding ,” Mizintsev said.
In addition, in this case, the entire life support system will be damaged throughout the territory, including sewerage, water supply, water treatment facilities and tanks with chemicals. This will lead to a sharp deterioration in the sanitary and epidemiological situation and provoke infectious diseases.
“Such actions of the Ukrainian authorities once again testify to their inhuman attitude towards the fate of civilians and complete disregard for all norms of morality and international humanitarian law,” Mizintsev stressed.
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#1
US sanctions and US policy are making everything a hundred times worse. They are dragging the nonwestern world into one of the West's civil wars - and ensuring that the war, and the world's pain, lasts as long and are as harsh as possible.
This policy is nothing short of sadistic.
Instead of ending the war and ensuring the flow of wheat, fertilizer, gas and oil to the 60% of the world that depends upon Russian exports to feed itself, the US is determined to prolong the war for years or even decades.
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So Putin is willing to allow Ukrainian wheat to be exported through the Black Sea, and only the US is stopping him?
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Why are you obsessed with Putin? It's your own country's senile and corrupt leader who is causing millions of innocents around the world to starve.
Americans do not have any idea of the havoc and ruin that their stupid sanctions cause. US sanctions do nothing to change the leaders' behavior or calculations and only end up causing the general public to hate America.
Indians have not forgotten the brutal and punitive US sanctions that the Clinton Administration imposed on us - for the crime of wanting to develop our own independent foreign policy with our own nukes.
Now America is doing it again, ensuring that another generation of Indians will bitterly resent America and that India will remain neutral whenever the US comes begging for support in its crusade against Russia.
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Again, you didn't answer my simple and direct question. As a humanitarian gesture to the third world why not let Ukraine export wheat through the Black Sea? Is Putin Russia willing to allow that?
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The global South doesn't need your "humanitarian gestures." The nations of the South are willing and able to pay for Russian wheat. If the senile American elephant would just get out of our way and stop hammering us with its foolish sanctions and ruinous trade policies, we could easily feed our people.
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To clarify - for the non-trolls - "the senile American elephant" comment refers to stupid US policymakers. We are eternally grateful to Norman Borlaug, the brilliant American agronomist whose breakthroughs enabled us to more than double our food production in the 1960s. We wish there were more Americans like Borlaug and fewer like Biden and Clinton.
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I could care less others think is in 'our' interests.
You mean you couldn't care less? This helps explain why US policy makers keep getting away with policies that are so obviously against US interests. When other nations tell you that invading Iraq or meddling all over the world will only lead to trillions of your money wasted and hundreds of thousands of people killed - including 10,000 or more US boys - you don't listen to them.
The same goes for your stupid, reflexive sanctions policy. Your sanctions will blow back and crush your economy. Your own economists are now predicting that the dollar will probably lose its reserve currency status over the next decade or so. When it does you will lose your economic warfare stick with which you threaten other nations.
If you were trying to shrink your influence in the world, you could not do a better job than with these self-destructive policies.
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My concern is for India. I just find it astonishing how willing Americans are to support Biden's policies. He's clearly destroying American wealth and influence in the world. Why do Americans support this?
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We wish there were more Americans like Borlaug and fewer like Biden and Clinton.
Don't we all?
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Guess the sanctions must be working, the trolls are squealing. If you want to see one small reason why, look at the Orlan-10 drone teardown elsewhere on the 'burg.
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I just find it astonishing how willing Americans are to support Biden's policies. He's clearly destroying American wealth and influence in the world. Why do Americans support this?
It's called the Main Stream Media. It's kind of like a mushroom factory. They keep us in the dark and feed us bullshit.
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He's clearly destroying American wealth and influence in the world. Why do Americans support this?
Biden is destroying everyone's wealth (except his family's). That blithering idiot created hyperinflation and now he's going to cause a global recession.
I agree with the American congressman who said there should be regime change in Washington.
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However, for the record, Biden's ratings are down to something like 35 percent favorability. Also remember that many irregularities were reported in the 2020 election which is why many Americans call him President *. And then there is the centerpiece of his agenda, the Build Back Better legislation, that went down in flames in the US Senate. So the claim that Americans support Biden's policies is not strictly true. It's more like we're stuck with his policies until we get rid of him either with impeachment, the 25th Amendment or the 2024 election.
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This place is crawling with Biden trolls. No one who sees what a shithead the US has in the White House would support his policies.
Least of all Trump supporters... if Trump were still in the White House this war would never have happened. Trump is a rational businessman who never would have dreamed of trying to shut down an economy that supplies most of the world with its essential commodities.
Either you're being deliberately obtuse, or an idiot. There's not a single real poster here defending Biden
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That's laughable. You support his stupid foreign policies to the letter. He's deliberately prolonging the war so he can grind down the US economy and impose more control on you. Only a troll would be so stupid as to fail to see what he's doing.
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Now America is doing it again, ensuring that another generation of Indians will bitterly resent America and that India will remain neutral...
Maybe you Indians will stay home then and stop coming here.
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^There are those of us who want nothing more. Leftists here call us nazis.
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^ By that I meant us Americans staying home.
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Oddly enough, India appears to have the world's highest tariffs on agricultural products. And is a wheat exporter. But I stand to be corrected on either point.
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Putin doesn't care what the world thinks. Xi doesn't care what the world thinks. That is the attitude America needs to take. They're never going to love you, quit wasting your resources and money.
#27
if Trump were still in the White House this war would never have happened.
Exactly. Trump's policies would have kept oil prices low and would have threatened Putin with nukes if he invaded while working with Putin to expand Russian influence in Asia to help contain the Chinese and combat Islamists and the Taliban. What a missed opportunity that was.
#28
^ This is essentially what John Mearsheimer has been arguing for - a policy based on realism instead of wishful thinking and liberal imperialist nonsense.
Russia would have been a key part of Trump's containment strategy for China. Instead the Biden people are spouting all the old Obama and Clinton bullshit about how "the democracies" are fighting "authoritarian" regimes... as if Ukraine's one-party dictator is a "democrat."
No one outside Washington or London takes this rhetoric seriously.
#29
To those of us who have been suffering from Obama and his puppet Biden for a lot longer than the last two years, the concern troll shit here is laughable. The Obambiden Collective has been the one who's been exporting American industry to, among others, Putin's oligarghy, which uses the resulting wealth to make war and fund trolls who blame Biden for... some pissant sanctions.
They're concerned about India? Here, take a hint: Sri Lanka is now bankrupt not because of Biden but because the local Chinese-appointed puppet decided to destroy agriculture there. They slept through it while having a wet dream about Putin. Same situation wrt Lebanon. Hezbollah, who's Putin's and Iran's proxies, have bankrupted the country and blown up a major part of Beiruit along the way.
Biden pretends to fight Putin and Putin and his trolls pretend to fight Biden, but it's all kayfabe. Meanwhile, Putin's the one who's wearing down the Russian military when he should have been spending his 200 billion dollar personal fortune on new tires. He's good at manipulating his western puppets while pretending to fight them and paying trolls to blame them for the consequences but not good at _actual military operations_.
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I could care less others think is in 'our' interests.
You mean you couldn't care less?
Idiomatically, both mean exactly the same thing. Like our spelling and irregular grammar, designed to trip up non-native speakers into trying to parse the unparseable.
ensuring that another generation of Indians will bitterly resent America and that India will remain neutral...
Neutral would be lovely after all those decades of Socialist India siding with the Soviet Union while claiming to be neutral. Much as I love India —between all my parents’ Indian friends, Rudyard Kipling (sorry, I know y’all hate that, but I fell in love with India while reading Kim), and Mr. Wife’s wonderful experience working over there in 1990-‘91 — India will ever be only for India. Which is fine — as Rabbi Hillel said, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?”, but it would be nice if other countries accorded us the same rather than threatening to stop liking us if we don’t do their bidding' even as so many of their best and brightest so eagerly emigrate to our shoes.
#31
John Mearsheimer is the only US foreign policy expert left (except Kissinger) who still talks sense. He says the US goals were to create a western "bulwark" next to Russia's capital by incorporating Ukraine into NATO and to make InrIne into an EU liberal democracy. Mearsheimer has said that Putin's goals all along have been to thwart the above -- by "wrecking" (Mearsheimer's term) Ukraine.
This is exactly what has happened. At least 1/4 of Ukraine's infrastructure has been obiterated. By end of summer 3/4 of Ukraine (outside of Donbas) will be obliterated. As to the other goals, NATO membership is out of the question and Ukraine is now a one-party dictatorship.
It's a pity that John Mearsheimer is not advising US policy. The world would have been spared a great deal. Ukraine would be neutral and at peace. The US would still be prosperous and free, and would have gained an extremely valuable partner with which to completely encircle and contain the only real threat to the US... which, as Mearsheimer tried to remind the Washington lunatics, is Chjna.
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@trailingwife - thank you for this courteous reminiscence.
I fell in love with India while reading Kim
A lovely and cruel country that has broken many hearts.
wonderful experience working over there in 1990-‘91
A time of great hope - expectations of change for the better... most of them unrealized (see above)
India will ever be only for India. Which is fine
As any sensible human ought to be
Kipling...
"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!"
#33
Re. Kim, if you'd like a glimpse of how beautiful India was before it was industrialized, see the 1950s Hollywood version of Kim with (I think) Errol Flynn as Mahbub Ali the undercover English spy / horse trader. The colors oddly seem right.
Flynn or whoever plays Mahbub Ali very well. The whole thing is nicely done. India was astonishingly beautiful back then.
[REDSTATE] A jury in Alexandria, Virginia, Thursday convicted a member of the brutal ISIS terror cell known as "The Beatles." The group was particularly savage, even by terrorists’ standards, and reportedly beheaded three hostages while subjecting a fourth to unimaginable cruelty.
The group was dubbed "The Beatles" because of their British accents. The charges included lethal hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit murder.
According to Rooters, the convicted terrorist, whose name I don’t care enough to type, could have faced a possible death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... . Prosecutors, however, have indicated they will only seek life in prison. Why?!
RedState’s Bonchie in a 2019 article described how the two surviving members of the group angled to get extradited to the United States instead of facing a judge in Iraq, where they doubtless would have been treated more harshly. (A third member, known as "Jihadi John," was blown away in a Hellfire missile dronezap in Syria in 2015. Another was caught by Ottoman Turkish security and sent to prison.)
The remaining pair refused to accept responsibility for their crimes. CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... interviewed them in 2018:
Confronted by CNN with the fact several of their former hostages and alleged victims had said they recognized their faces and voices from previous interviews, Elsheikh declined to comment on what he said would be a legal matter. "It’s just an accusation, legally speaking. You know, if Britannia said ’we are going to deal with you by barbaric law, or with law from the medieval ages,’ then hang, draw and quarter me. But that’s not the case. I’m just merely pointing that out." Kotey offered a similarly veiled denial and refused to be drawn on specific allegations.
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Re #1: Frank G, IIRC, I don't think prisoners in a supermax prison have much contact with other inmates, so chances of him getting shanked should be low.
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[FOXLA] A former Democratic political donor who supplied drugs to two men who overdosed in his West Hollywood apartment was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in federal prison.
Ed Buck ...Big time Dem donor accused of being a homosexual predator. By the time the third party boy corpse is found OD'd in your house you need a really good lawyer really bad... , who was found guilty last year of nine felony counts, faced between 20 years and life in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
In a sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors said he lured young Black men who were often experiencing homelessness, addiction, and/or poverty to his apartment for sexually charged sessions in which he would inject them with methamphetamine and drug them with sedatives, with and without their consent.
"Buck's insatiable appetite for injecting people turned lethal twice," according to the memo, which recommends a life sentence.
"He will be a danger to the community until the day he dies," Assistant U.S. Attorney Chelsea Norell told the court.
Before he was sentenced, Buck spoke briefly to U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder, and apologized "for my part in the tragic deaths of Gemmel and Timothy."
"These are men I cared for and loved," Buck said. "I did not cause their deaths."
He asked Snyder to "look at the good in my life," saying he is not the caricature of a "meth-fueled ax killer" that the government portrayed him to be.
Snyder called the case "one of the most difficult and tragic" she has ever presided over.
"These lives mattered," she said. "What happened here was reprehensible conduct."
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He's nearly 70 and will likely be pardoned soon due to medical necessity. The Washington D.C. community sticks together, just ask any of the visitors to Little St James Island.
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.
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...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
/\ Yes, a bit more than the 20 game drivers and bush beaters. Those dressed in mufti, wearing red MAGA caps out in the crowd. 
...The nation is noted for 
...That guy who married Meghan Markle. You know. The ones that didn't get invited to Michelle Obama's party?...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
[WLBT] LAUREL, Miss. An umpire is recovering Monday after she was punched in the face following a softball game.
"It’s ridiculous," she said. "The verbal abuse. And even now, the physical abuse now, at this point, and enough is enough. I also staff every USFA tournament in the state of Mississippi with umpires and it gets harder and harder to staff these tournaments because no one wants to listen to the verbal abuse and run the risk of what happened to me happening to them."
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[JPost] The strike on Thursday night was the second alleged Israeli airstrike to hit Syria in the past week.
[YouTube] Ukrainian defense force Operator Starsky, "Unbox" a captured Orlan which Russia claims is fully Russian made and is reportedly between USD $87,000 to USD $120,000.
...Big time Dem donor accused of being a homosexual predator. By the time the third party boy corpse is found OD'd in your house you need a really good lawyer really bad...
