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Or is it another case of American black-robed mullahs telling the Feral Government that it can't just make up stuff. Gotta follow all those rules and procedures, man. Alinsky smiles.
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Good meme, wrong topic. Close though! This is a problem running a troll farm to post in foreign media - it is easy to misunderstand the sentiment.
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I feel like buying a plane ticket just to take in all the agita and tsuris.
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Side Note: Re: #1
Good meme, wrong topic. Close though! This is a problem running a troll farm to post in foreign media - it is easy to misunderstand the sentiment.
*BOOM*
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Why is Rantburg full of racist armchair tough guys?
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To be fair, Chuque Barnsmell6454, some here — not me, of course, I’m just a little civilian housewife — are real life tough guys of various races. I’m so much more interesting at dinner parties as a result.
Perhaps if you stick around for a while you will become so, too.
[FoxNews] Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received a stimulus check while in federal prison and nearly escaped a death sentence
As the city of Boston and survivors of the 2013 marathon bombing reflected on the ninth anniversary of the deadly terror attack last week, some spoke out about a federal criminal justice system that has allowed the convicted bomber to collect COVID-19 relief money and other funds as he appeals his death sentence.
Robert Wheeler, a participant in the Boston Marathon who was hailed as a hero for literally giving the shirt off his back to aid victims of the blast, told Fox News that April 15 "still remains as profound and mixed of emotions as the day of my first marathon in 2013."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of coordinating the attack with brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is locked up in a maximum federal prison in Florence, Colorado. The brothers planted two homemade pressure-cooker bombs that killed three people – two women and an 8-year-old boy — and injured over 260 others. Seventeen of those injured lost at least one limb in the attack.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on 30 terrorism charges and sentenced to death on six of them. A federal court later reversed the death sentence, but the U.S. Supreme Court in March reinstated the punishment in a 6-3 vote.
Tsarnaev was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. He was also ordered to pay $101 million in restitution to the victims.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police amid a days-long manhunt. A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer was shot and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was killed during the gunfight.
Despite the surviving Tsarnaev being ordered to pay millions of dollars in fines, victims have seen little in compensation. In addition, he received a $1,400 COVID relief payment while incarcerated in the summer of 2021.
In January, a federal judge ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to turn over Tsarnaev's stimulus check and funds in his inmate trust to pay victims.
On Friday, the ninth anniversary of the attack, elected officials and residents remembered those who died.
[BBC] More than 40 people have been arrested after violent clashes in Sweden between police and people angry at plans by a far-right group to burn copies of the Quran.
Three people were injured in Norrkoping on Sunday when officers fired warning shots at rioters, police said.
The violence was sparked by a series of rallies organised by the Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan.
He says he has burned a copy of Islam's holy book and wants to do so again.
Muslims consider the Quran the sacred word of God and view any intentional damage or show of disrespect towards it as deeply offensive.
Saudi Arabia has condemned what it called the "deliberate abuse of the holy Quran by some extremists in Sweden, and provocation and incitement against Muslims".
Iran and Iraq earlier summoned the Swedish ambassadors to lodge protests.
Sweden's national police chief, Anders Thornberg, said he had never seen such violent riots following Sunday's clashes in Norrkoping, which is about 160km (99 miles) south-west of Stockholm, and nearby Linkoping.
The two cites also witnessed riots on Friday, along with the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby and the western city of Orebro. On Saturday, there was a riot in the southern city of Malmo.
On Monday, police said 26 police officers and 14 members of the public had been injured in the violence and that more than 20 vehicles had been damaged or destroyed.
They said that around 200 people had been involved in the violence, adding they believed it was organised by networks of criminal gangs. Some of the individuals are already known to police and Sweden's security service, Sapo.
Sunday's violence in Norrkoping came after Rasmus Paludan said he planned to hold a rally there. However, he never showed up in the city.
In a statement posted by his far-right, anti-immigrant Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party, Paludan said he cancelled the rally because Swedish authorities had "shown that they are completely incapable of protecting themselves and me".
He had earlier appeared on Thursday in the central city of Jonkoping, but as he talked into a megaphone while holding a Quran, his words were drowned out by a priest ringing the bells of a local church in protest.
Protests against plans by Stram Kurs to burn the Quran have turned violent in Sweden before. In 2020, protesters set cars on fire and shop fronts were damaged in clashes in Malmö.
Paludan represented Stram Kurs party in the last Danish elections in 2019, where it received 1.8 % of the vote, failing to win a seat.
In 2020, he was jailed in Denmark for a month for a string of offences including racism.
He plans to stand in Swedish elections in September, but he reportedly does not yet have the necessary number of signatures to secure his candidature.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... launched a new ground and air cross-border operation against suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bases in Duhok province, the Ottoman Turkish defense minister announced early on Monday.
Ottoman Turkish jets and artillery struck PKK targets consisting of "shelters, bunkers, caves, tunnels, ammunition depots and a so-called headquarter belonging to the terrorist organization," Hulusi Akar said.
Dubbed Claw-Lock, the new operation is aimed at PKK hideouts in Metina, Zap and Avashin-Basyan areas, he added.
The PKK earlier on Monday claimed that "tens" of Ottoman Turkish helicopters targeted the PKK-entrenched Zap area as Ankara attempts "to land its troops there," reported media affiliated to the gang Roj News, adding that the helicopters were flying from bases within the Kurdistan Region.
"Until now, our operation continues successfully as planned. The targets set in the first phase have been achieved," Akar noted.
Ottoman Turkish warplanes heavily bombarded Kurdish villages in Duhok on Sunday, striking fear among the residents in the area. In a series of videos sent to Rudaw, jets can be heard flying over Shiladze town.
There are no reports of civilian casualties following the latest incursion.
Turkey has conducted numerous cross-border aerial and ground operations against the PKK over the past decade. In February, it launched the Winter Eagle operation against the gang in Shingal and Makhmour.
The latest offense came two days after Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani’s visit to Istanbul, where he met with the Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... on Friday.
Turkey has come under criticism from Baghdad, Erbil, Tehran, and the wider international community for violating Iraqi illusory sovereignty, but Ankara continues to establish increasing numbers of bases and outposts in the mountains of Erbil and Duhok provinces.
[Rudaw] One Iraqi soldier was injured in a suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) attack on the Iraqi army in Salahaddin province on Sunday, an official told Rudaw.
The terror group allegedly attacked the force in Tuz Khurmatu’s Bastamli village at around 6:45 pm, Kawa Shekhani, Sakahaddin governor’s security and military advisor told Rudaw.
Shekhani added that the maimed soldier had been transferred to a hospital, and the situation was under control.
No group has grabbed credit for the attack yet.
The disputed territory of Salahaddin is often targeted by ISIS Death Eaters, which 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 several provinces. The terror group’s remnants are particularly active in parts of northern Iraq that are disputed between Erbil and Baghdad.
Major General Qaraman Kamal, vice chief of staff of Peshmerga forces, told Rudaw on Thursday the terror group has launched about 33 attacks in the disputed areas in the first three months of the year, killing at least 24 people and injuring over 20 more.
The terror group grabbed credit for an attack on a village in southern Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... saying they have killed at least three civilians and injured four others.
Iraqi and Kurdish forces often launch joint security operations to arrest ISIS suspects.
The Kurdish security forces on Wednesday announced the arrest of an ISIS leader believed to have executed two Peshmerga fighters.
On Monday, the Iraqi forces arrested an ISIS leader and several suspects of the terror group across Iraq.
[IsraelTimes] Driver of bus attacked by Paleostinian stone-throwers in separate incident says it could have ended in tragedy, calls on transportation minister to protect drivers
A small group of ultra-Orthodox Jews was attacked on Sunday morning while walking through Jerusalem’s Old City.
Security camera footage showed the three men, wrapped in their prayer shawls (talliot), making their way to prayers at the Western Wall.
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[Korrespondent] 08:40 Kiev metro from April 18 will carry passengers from 06:30 to 20:00, ground transport - from 07:00 to 21:00, the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
08:36 The police of the Kiev region, while cleaning up the territories liberated from Russian invaders, found secret documents of the special forces of SOBR, OMON and the National Guard, among which was a detailed plan for the capture of Kiev.
Andrey Nebitov, head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Kiev region, said that the police also found chemical protection suits - apparently, the Russian military believed in the Kremlin's fakes about biological laboratories. According to Nebitov, the costumes were packed in World War II pouches, and the overalls consisted of "fishing boots" and a raincoat "from museums."
08:29 In the morning, the invaders launched missile attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region, 60% of the missiles were shot down by Ukrainian air defense, the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said.
08:05 The Russians fired at the building of the patrol police in Lisichansk, as a result, six employees were hospitalized, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Sergei Gaidai.
He also said that the occupiers hit the recently rebuilt Olimp sports complex in Kremennaya, where representatives of the Ukrainian Olympic team used to train. The fire area is 2400 sq. m. Rescuers are trying to localize the flame, near the forest.
Artillery shelling of Kremennaya continued on April 17 and became more frequent and powerful at night. Seven residential buildings, outbuildings, and forest litter caught fire. Residential areas in Rubizhne were also damaged - seven local residents were evacuated from the rubble of three houses, two injured were taken to the hospital.
07:44 More than 140 cases are being investigated in Germany to approve Russia's war against Ukraine - most of the open cases involve the use of the letter Z, DW reports, citing the Redaktionsnetzwerks Deutschland group of publications.
07:13 The General Staff expects that the enemy will continue to conduct hostilities to reach the administrative borders of the Kherson region. In total, 87 enemy BTGs were involved in the groupings to carry out combat missions on the territory of Ukraine.
07:11 In the East, the enemy is restoring combat capability and replenishing supplies. He is trying to improve the tactical position of his units and intensify the fighting. Russian occupiers continue shelling N. p. Seversk and Pokrovskoye, according to the General Staff.
The main efforts of the enemy were concentrated in the areas of the settlement. Liman, Kremennaya, Popasnaya and Rubizhne, tried to establish full control over Mariupol. He carried out offensive operations in the Severodonetsk, Popasnyansky and Zaporozhye directions.
Also, the Russians unsuccessfully tried to gain a foothold in the areas of the settlement. Kremennaya and Rubezhnoye. They tried to storm in the areas of the settlement. Novotoshkovskoe, Popasnaya, Avdeevka and Maryinka. There was also no success.
07:06 In order to expand the bridgehead on the left bank of the Seversky Donets River and create conditions for the operational deployment of troops, the Russians conducted reconnaissance in combat in the areas of the settlement. Factories, Dmitrovka and Dibrovnoe. They had no luck, they suffered losses and retreated, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
06:50 OSINTtechnical researchers released the first photos of the cruiser Moskva after the shell hit. The author of the public admits that he cannot confirm the authenticity, "but this is a Glory-class cruiser, and I do not think that any of them were destroyed in this way."
06:17 Civilians, including women and children, are hiding on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. People are hiding from shelling in the plant's storage facilities, they have no medicine, food or water, said Mikhail Vershinin, head of the city's patrol police.
06:01 At night, the Russians fired at the outskirts of the Krivoy Rog district from the territory of the Kherson region, one person died, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council Nikolai Lukashuk.
03:44 The Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt another blow to the invaders in Chernobaevka, Arestovich said.
02:40 Arestovich said that Medvedchuk was already giving evidence to law enforcement officers. In addition to him, people who were detained together with Medvedchuk began to be interrogated. When asked about the possibility of exchanging Medvedchuk, Arestovich replied that he "hadn't told everything yet."
02:12 Ukrzaliznytsia said that to cross the border with the EU countries, you must have a passport. Exceptions are possible at the discretion of the border guards in the presence of other identification documents and the presence of hostilities in the region from which the passenger left.
UZ reported that it had not received warnings from the State Border Service about changes in the rules for crossing the border by citizens of Ukraine and expected "more clear explanations from colleagues to prevent refugees without international passports."
#2
There are two Falcon Heavy and two Delta IV Heavy NROL launches scheduled this year. Incompetence in DC aside, there's some heavy intel recon infrastructure going up.
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Good thing once again the "analyst" will let everyone in the world know what it is.
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the "analyst" will let everyone in the world know what it is.
Well. They will claim to know...
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The analyst probably got his info from the Chinese.
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SpaceX has launched so many satellites for NRO the hobbyist watchers know the process by heart. Basically SpaceX will provide live data about the launch up until first stage separation, then they just follow the boosters to their landing. Supposedly the timing and duration of the second stage burn would give away the satellites orbit.
But let's be honest -- China and Russia likely have radars watching and know the satellites orbit when the second stage cuts off.
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Hell, I bet the Kerbals know before end of 1st stage.
[IsraelTimes] Move coordinated with Bennett and will last two weeks, in bid to ease pressure on the Arab party while preventing permanent break with government
The Islamist Ra’am party
...the political party of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel. The militant arm is cleverly called the Northern Branch, because it’s based in Umm al Fahm in the Galilee...
on Sunday decided to temporarily freeze its membership in both the Knesset and the coalition amid mounting pressure in the wake of festivities between Paleostinians and police on the Temple Mount.
The decision is largely declarative at this stage, because parliament is in recess, though opposition sources said they saw it as a further opportunity to weaken the coalition, encourage defections, and bring down the government.
According to sources quoted in Hebrew media Sunday, the measure — which will last for two weeks and is coordinated with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid — is aimed to ease the pressure on the party, as well as prevent a permanent break with the government.
Ra’am denounced Israeli security forces over the violence at the Jerusalem holy site, and one of the Islamist party’s politicians threatened to quit the coalition. Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas, however, has downplayed such a prospect and issued repeated calls for calm.
The decision on the temporary freeze was reached during a Sunday meeting of the Shura council of the Southern Islamic Movement — Ra’am’s umbrella organization — to address the violence at the Jerusalem holy site.
The council can make decisions regarding the party and also has the authority to order Knesset members to resign from the coalition.
Founded in the 1980s, the Islamic Movement has been thrust into the spotlight over the past year after Ra’am, which has four Knesset seats, joined the coalition government, the first Arab party to do so in decades.
The movement is informally divided between its more radical "northern" branch and the "southern" leadership, which is considered more moderate. Israel banned the northern branch for alleged terror ties in 2015.
In contrast to some of his firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... predecessors, Abbas has adopted a pragmatic approach.
Earlier on Sunday, a senior religious figure in the Southern Islamic Movement called on Ra’am to bolt the coalition over the festivities.
The sources said that since the tensions surrounding the Temple Mount have risen as the Knesset is in the midst of its spring recess, Ra’am officials are hoping that by the time parliament reconvenes on May 9, the situation will calm down.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... some suggested that the opposition will use the freeze in Ra’am’s membership to intensify its efforts to topple the government.
And Ra’am MK Walid Taha said shortly before the decision was announced that the coalition was "apparently" headed for collapse. "We thought this government would behave differently," he said, citing what he called "provocative" visits by Jews to Temple Mount as the cause of the latest violence. The government, he charged, "allowed a few hundred fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... s" to stir up trouble.
The current government has been brought to the brink of collapse in recent days after MK Idit Silman, a member of Bennett’s Yamina party, quit the coalition, causing it to lose its razor-thin majority. The 120-member Knesset is now deadlocked, with both the coalition and opposition holding 60 seats apiece.
Some have suggested that the opposition’s Joint List, a majority-Arab party that is separate from Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition bloc, could help the coalition pass some votes and prevent its fall in a no-confidence vote. The party itself has issued conflicting messages on the matter.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] At least 19 Paleostinians have been injured in festivities as Israeli settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds under the protection of Israeli military forces, in the latest act of provocation against the sacred site.
The settlers entered the compound on Sunday morning amid a heavy military deployment of Israeli soldiers to mark the Passover holiday and perform Talmudic prayers.
The Jewish religious occasion coincides with the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan at a time when thousands of Moslems, predominantly Paleostinians, usually stay at the holy site for worship day and night.
Videos circulating online showed Paleostinians throwing rocks and firecrackers and Israeli forces firing tear gas and stun grenades.
The Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy Society (PRCS) said its medics treated at least 17 injuries following the Israeli raid on the holy site, of whom three were admitted to hospital.
The official Paleostinian Wafa news agency reported that the attacking Israeli forces chased the worshipers and fired stun grenades and teargas randomly to empty the holy site of its Moslem worshipers in order to allow the entry of settlers wishing to celebrate Passover inside the courtyards of the al-Aqsa Mosque.
At least three arrests were reported among the Paleostinian worshipers.
Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, issues strongly worded statement in support of al-Aqsa Mosque
In a statement, the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -based Hamas resistance movement warned Israel against the repercussions of its atrocities in al-Aqsa Mosque.
"Al-Aqsa Mosque is a red line and the occupying Israeli regime is responsible for assaults on worshipers and allowing occupiers to desecrate the site. We hold Israel responsible for attacks against worshipers inside al-Aqsa Mosque and the inevitable consequences," Hamas also said in a statement.
The statement noted that the Tel Aviv regime’s decision to give Israeli settlers a free hand to attack the al-Aqsa Mosque and desecrate its shrines will unavoidably hurt the feelings of all Paleostinians, Arabs as well as Moslems, and will provoke their wrath.
Just look at their feet: The ‘defenders’ of Al-Aqsa are desecrating it
Tens of thousands of Palestinians dispersed peacefully on Friday afternoon after prayers in Jerusalem. The hundreds who clashed with police earlier, by contrast, had come to fight.
[IsraelTimes] Tens of thousands of Paleostinians dispersed peacefully on Friday afternoon after prayers in Jerusalem. The hundreds who clashed with police earlier, by contrast, had come to fight.
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Four Turks and a Georgian? Sounds like a really bad 80s sitcom.
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With all that coke, it could be.
Four Turks and a Georgian...but which Georgian?! Watch as our favorite fall guy with the imaginary talking car changes which Georgian he is at any second!
[AlAhram] A migrant was killed by gunfire at the Greece-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... border while she and several others attempted to cross a river separating the two countries, Greek police said Sunday.
It wasn't immediately clear who fired the shot that killed the woman on Saturday night. An autopsy showed that the victim was shot in the back with a small-caliber weapon.
Greek police were patrolling the area where the Evros River, which is called Meric in Ottoman Turkish, narrows to about 60 to 70 meters (around 200 feet) wide and through which many migrants colonists attempt to cross, according to a police statement and additional information provided to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named by a police officer on condition of anonymity. The officers spotted numerous migrants colonists on the Ottoman Turkish side shortly before 9 p.m.
Police said 11 people embarked on an inflatable dinghy, and officers directed flashlights at the boat and started shouting ``Police. Go back.'' In response, said the police officer, a ``barrage'' of shots erupted from the Ottoman Turkish side. The Greek police patrol couldn't detect the source of the shots in the darkness and fell to the ground to protect themselves, shooting warning shots in the air, according to the statement which the officer corroborated.
The dinghy came close to the Greek shore and five people disembarked _ four made it to the shore while a fifth person was seen floating in the water. Police reached the body with some difficulty, according to the statement, and when they pulled it to the shore they determined that it belonged to a woman and that she was dead.
Police questioned the four survivors _ three Pak males, one of them a minor (17 years old), and a woman from Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... . It wasn't known what happened to the other six people who tried to cross, but authorities don't believe they entered Greece.
Coroner Pavlos Pavlidis, who performed the autopsy on the woman in the northeastern city of Alexandroupolis, told the AP that the victim was between the ages of 20 and 25 and that she was most likely from one of the Horn of Africa countries.
She had a wound ``in the upper right (back) area. She was shot from close distance and died almost instantly from post-hemorrhagic (blood loss) shock,`` Pavlidis said.
[NATION.PK] Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... supervised the test-firing of a new guided weapons system to improve North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... ’s "tactical nukes", state media said Sunday, capping days of celebrations surrounding the birthday of the country’s founding leader.
The launch was the latest in an unprecedented blitz of sanctions-busting weapons-tests this year, which included firing an intercontinental ballistic missile at full range for the first time since 2017.
It also came just ahead of US-South Korea military training exercises — which have always infuriated Pyongyang — that were due to begin on Monday.
The "new-type tactical guided weapon... is of great significance in drastically improving the firepower of the frontline long-range artillery units and enhancing the efficiency in the operation of tactical nukes," the North’s official KCNA news agency reported.
It said the test was successful, but did not specify when or where it took place.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected two projectiles fired late on Saturday, which flew 110 kilometres (68 miles) at an altitude of 25 kilometres, travelling at speeds of around Mach 4. The United States was "aware of the North Korean statement that they conducted a test of a long range artillery system", a Pentagon spokesperson said, adding it was monitoring.
Analysts had widely expected Pyongyang could conduct a nuclear test as part of events to celebrate Friday’s anniversary of the 110th birthday of North Korea’s founding leader — and Kim’s grandfather — Kim Il Sung.
Expectations were heightened because of indications that Pyongyang had restarted work at one of its known nuclear testing sites. Analysts said the weapon tested over the weekend appeared to be a new short-range ballistic missile — but no less significant.
"This is North Korea’s first tactical nuclear weapon delivery system, it would seem," said Ankit Panda, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "You don’t have to be particularly imaginative to put this two and two together."
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[TOLONEWS] Tehran has sought protection of its diplomatic missions in Afghanistan and "necessary guarantees" for the safe operation of its diplomatic offices in the country following rallies held by Afghans in various provinces in reaction to reported incidents of harassment of Afghan migrants colonists in Iran. "The Sovereignty of our Diplomatic Missions MUST be protected *Irony Alert!*"
The call was made by the Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... Foreign Ministry’s front man, Saeed Khatibzadeh, at a presser, according to a statement by Iranian Foreign Ministry.
"Referring to the deep historical and multi-layered relations between Iranian and Afghan nations and the decades of respectful hospitality of the Iranian people and government to the people of Afghanistan, he warned against the plans of conspirators and ill-wishers between Iran and Afghanistan," the statement read.
"Unfortunately, some clips and comments are being published with the aim of creating phobia of Iran or Afghanistan, which targets the emotions of the people and demands more vigilance from the people and officials of the two countries," the statement added.
This comes as the Afghans set rallies in several provinces where they criticized the reported incidents of Iranian forces mistreatment with Afghan migrants colonists in Iran.
A number of Kabul residents held a rally on Tuesday morning at Sehat Ama Roundabout in reaction to the issue, calling for an end to misconducts towards Afghan migrants colonists in the neighboring country.
"They should stop their bad treatment of Afghans. We Afghans today came out to call on our government and the international community to stop these actions against Afghans," a protestor said.
On Monday, dozens of people erupted into the streets of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... city to protest the issue. The protestors threw stones at the embassy and set fire to the embassy gate.
"They are torturing our brothers. What we have done? Did we steal anything? No. We just go there because of poverty," said a protestor in Kabul.
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he warned against the plans of conspirators and ill-wishers between Iran and Afghanistan," the statement read.
"I mean, it's not like Iran's ever done anything wrong! Aside maybe from the subversion...and the bombings...and the fatwas...oh, and the mining...waitaminnit...let me try again."
Mike
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I happened to see the first group of hostages coming back in 1980. So this pegs my irony meter.
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Case #9,999 of "It's wrong if it happens to us!"
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[RIA Novosti] Representatives of the Donetsk People's Republic in the JCCC and employees of the investigative committee of the Russian Federation visited the hospital in Mariupol at the forefront, where several dozen civilians were killed, Major General Ruslan Yakubov, head of the DPR representative office in the JCCC, told RIA Novosti.
"The JCCC , together with the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, is recording the crimes of the Ukrainian regime against civilians. We are located near the city hospital number four of the city of Mariupol . At the moment, we have already recorded more than twenty corpses, there may be more - work continues," he said.
According to him, the main task now is to collect as much evidence as possible in order to then conduct an investigation.
The representative office clarified that they are directly cooperating with the Military Prosecutor's Office and the Investigative Committee of Donbass , in particular, joint "field" work of military experts of the JCCC and investigators of the TFR has been organized.
Russia shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29s over the Kharkiv region
Investigators of the UK used a quadcopter to survey the area near the city hospital and search for bodies. Due to the close proximity to the front line, it was necessary to notify the units of the armies of the DPR and Russia so that the drone would not be shot down, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine . President Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and have already completed the main tasks of the first stage - they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the military department was called the liberation of Donbass .
A British ‘mercenary’ captured in Mariupol has been told by the Russians that his Ukrainian commanders wanted him to be killed as he fled a factory hideout - so he would be seen as an anti-Putin hero by the outside world.
There was “not much time to think,” said Pinner.
After this, his words were subtitled in Russian but his original speech was not audible.
According to the subtitles, Pinner said: “It was very dark. We took the injured with us.
“Mortar and artillery shelling began, military aviation worked. Panic began.
“Everyone started running in different directions.
“My commander seems to have disappeared.
“I still don’t know what happened to those who were there with me.”
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Not so Happy Days: 2nd British War Tourist surrenders in Mariupol - 'Yep that's 'I'm! I know those tattoos!' says disconsolate Mum
Aiden Aslin, professional moron / veteran war tourist (Syria, Mariupol), one of about 400 foreign war tourists, surrenders with Ukraine's Nazi Azov Battalion in Mariupol
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Lib media: "Why couldn't he be the guy who did the last 10 mass shootings here?"
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Mariupol is the home base of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. The dead Enders in the stell factory are the last few Azov Battalion remaining in Mariupol; the Russians have killed many thousands of Azov already. They will exterminate the remaining vermin in short order.
"One of the most instrumental groups for the recapture of Mariupol was the Azov Battalion, an Ukrainian neonazi volunteer militia.[49] By September 2014 Azov was integrated into the National Guard of Ukraine, and set Mariupol as their headquarters.[50] As one of Vladimir Putin's stated goals for the war is the "denazification" of Ukraine, Mariupol represents an important ideological target for the Russian forces.[51][52]
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Re #8: I believe it was the Brits who bombed Dresden. And the Red Army only took half of Germany. Of course, if Ike had let Patton do what he wanted, the US would have taken more.
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The assumption is that Patton could have done what he said. If he'd been allowed and failed, history would have been a lot different.
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Imagine Truman as Boosh democratizing the bolsheviks. Who would have been his Paul Bremer?
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About 3,500 Azov Battalion vermin have been exterminated. The remaining 500 or so (plus about 590 Ukrainian Marines) are scurrying about, rat-like, in the rathskelleren network of tunnels beneath the AzovStal Steelworks.
Firebombing AzovStal will accomplish three goals at once: cripple Ukraine's steel industry, destroy oligarch Rinat Akhmerov's wealth, and incinerate the last remaining outpost of the Mariupol base of Ukraine's Nazi Azov Battalion.
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Firebombing AzovStal will accomplish three goals at once: cripple Ukraine's steel industry, destroy oligarch Rinat Akhmerov's wealth, and incinerate the last remaining outpost of the Mariupol base of Ukraine's Nazi Azov Battalion.
More in common with the strategic firebombing of Hamburg in 1943.
True that AzovStal with its Azov "dead-enders" (nice!) is a fat juicy strategic target. Won't be hard to level it.
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I believe it was the Brits who bombed Dresden.
We know it was not the Germans. They were too busy bombing Pearl Harbor.
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Leadership Team For "Build Back Better - East," a $1.5 trillion joint initiative of the Biden Administration, the EU, the EBRD, and the World Bank, with embezzlement funds management conducted by George Soros, the Clinton Foundation and Bill Browder:
Jimmy Biden - will supervise the $50 billion reconstruction of Ukraine's iron ore and steel industries
Hunter Biden - will spearhead natural gas exploration efforts with a focus on prospecting in various Odessa bars and nightclubs
Dr Jill Biden - will head up a new $10 billion Mental Health Initiative patterned on Charlene McCray's stunningly successful initiative in Bill DeBlaio's NY City
Ashley Biden - Influencer At Large helping wayward Ukrainian girls to achieve wellness, attain sobriety and adopt positive body images
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About 3,500 Azov Battalion vermin have been exterminated. The remaining 500 or so (plus about 590 Ukrainian Marines) are scurrying about, rat-like, in the rathskelleren network of tunnels beneath the AzovStal Steelworks.
Take a page out of the IDF playbook and collapse the tunnel exits. The Russians must have a good map of the AzovStal tunnel network.
Wouldn't take more than an hour or two of bombing to seal the rats inside their crypt.
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^ They've learned a ton about advanced urban warfare techniques in Syria. MITRE concluded in 2020:
"The fighting in Syria has allowed Russia to test
a range of new weapons and new concepts and has trained a number of leaders in contemporary warfare outside its borders, making it much different than the earlier, more localized fight in Chechnya. New methods of employing Spetsnaz forces and new ways of utilizing private military companies were explored.
"The Syrian experience has refocused Russia’s military on urban warfare and the difficulty of extracting enemy fighters from buildings while trying simultaneously not to harm the local population and to find humanitarian corridors for their extraction from the combat zone.
Russia’s use of robotics and unmanned vehicles in urban operations, learning ways to use radio-electronic equipment or information technologies to disorganize enemy signals, and defending bases from UAV attacks were other lessons learned.
"Finally, the Russian military is in the process of incorporating these lessons learned through conferences, round tables, and new manuals. Russia’s military will undoubtedly be a stronger adversary after their Syrian experience than before it."
- from " RUSSIAN LESSONS LEARNED IN SYRIA: AN ASSESSMENT" by Timothy Thomas, MITRE Center for Technology and National Security, June 2020
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There's great admiration for Israel in Russia. Netanyahu and Putin developed a strong relationship. Israel is seen as an honest broker. Netanyahu to Putin in 2018:
“Mr. President, we are wholeheartedly grateful to you for your personal friendship, for your position and for the position of Russia, which shares these values with Israel,” Netanyahu told Putin in response. “We would like to express our gratitude to the Russian Defense Ministry and the Russian army. We will never forget their contribution, which will go down in history."
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Russia has learned an enormous amount from both the Syrian war and the Russo-Ukrainian War. This experience will spur reform and modernization of the Russian Army, clear out the hacks and incompetents in the senior officer ranks, and enable promotion of a new class of young, tough, battle-tested junior officers.
Same kind of reform and strengthening that happened in the US military after the Vietnam War debacle. Also happened in China with the reform of the PLA after the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979.
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#26 "Russia’s military will undoubtedly be a stronger adversary after their Syrian experience than before it."
Exactly. Same is true of the current war. Russia’s military will undoubtedly be a stronger adversary after their Ukrainian experience than before it.
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All over but the shouting
Bunker busters will bring this to a conclusion
Russians Drop Bunker-Busters on Holdout Mariupol Steel Plant
Published 27 mins ago on April 18, 2022
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#20 Dozens of people died in the hospital of Mariupol
Sounds like my local hospital.
Statistically speaking, it's rather odd how many people die in hospitals compared to any randomly chosen building in the city. It's like they are all cursed or built over Indian burial grounds or something.
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The Ukes will be so grateful the attrition to Putin's invading Commie Troops will make Afghanistan seem like a walk in the park
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Putin loves the Juice. Right.
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#30 Russia has learned an enormous amount from both the Syrian war and the Russo-Ukrainian War. This experience will spur reform and modernization of the Russian Army, clear out the hacks and incompetents in the senior officer ranks, and enable promotion of a new class of young, tough, battle-tested junior officers.
Orrrrr..as is usual in a Communist dictatorship, they'll execute the ones who were bad along with the ones who were good but were inadequately supplied, like our trolls
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The resident moron's getting agitated. Yes, Putin is the most pro-Israel leader Russia's ever had. Also the leader who has done more than any in Russian history to overcome tgat nation's traditional suspicions of and hostility toward its Jewish citizens. Ties between Israel and Russia are closer under Putin even than the historic ties between Russia and the Arabs. Putin has gone out of his way to encourage religious tolerance in Russia and has been praised repeatedly by Israeli and American Jewish leaders for his consistent efforts over two decades inthis regard.
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Yes, Putin is the most pro-Israel leader Russia's ever had.
Oh, it’s true, although there was a brief period when Socialist USSR was happy to support brand new, labour socialist Israel to annoy America, allowing Czechoslovakia to arm the new country. Nowadays, like many Western nationalists, President Putin admires Israel’s willingness to fight for its existence as its people’s nation state against both the Muslim world and Progressive ire. And of course there’s Israel’s technological cleverness — everybody wants a piece of that — and so many of Israel’s new technologists are former Soviet Jews he hopes have sentimental ties that will benefit the Ould Sod.
Poor Mother Russia finds herself trying to balance as long as possible between her traditional regional client, Syria; her partner in confounding America, Iran; and Israel. But RealPolitik suggests that in the end it won’t be Israel Russia stands with, no matter President Putin’s fellow feeling.
[FoxNews] Jewayne Price was charged with unlawful carrying of a pistol
A South Carolina judge set a $25,000 bond for a suspect in a mall shooting on Saturday that left 14 people injured, according to the Columbia Police Department. So, name the judge, the prosecutor, and their respective political parties
Jewayne Price, 22, will be on house arrest but allowed to travel to and from work while wearing an ankle monitor if he posts bond.
He was charged with unlawful carrying of a pistol and could face additional charges after the prosecutor reviews evidence.
Price is one of three people who were detained by law enforcement following the shooting. The other two adults males were released after police determined they weren't involved.
"We don’t believe this was random," Columbia Police Chief W.H. "Skip" Holbrook said at a news conference. "We believe they knew each other and something led to the gunfire."
Evidence collected at the scene indicates at least three people displayed guns and two firearms were used, according to police.
Price was previously arrested in June 2018 and charged with accessory before the fact following the shooting death of 17-year-old Amon Rice in Hopkins, South Carolina. The outcome of that is unclear.
"We catch people, they serve a little bit of time, they get out and they get right back doing what they normally do and that’s commit crimes," Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said at a recent press conference. "The criminal justice system needs to do better."
Price's attorney, South Carolina state Rep. Todd Rutherford, claims that his client acted in self-defense.
"It was unprovoked by him. He called the police, turned himself in, turned over the firearm that was used in this, and gave a statement to the Columbia Police Department," Rutherford said after the bond hearing, according to WIS. "That is why he got a $25,000 bond."
The 14 victims range in age from 15 to 73. At least nine of them suffered gunshot wounds, while the other five were injured while trying to flee the chaos.
The 73-year-old victim is still being treated at a local hospital, while the other 13 victims have been released.
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Glad we kept the guy who stole a Capitol coat rack and everybody else who walked into Pelosiland under lock and key for a year while this guy turns a lounge into a 1st person shooter game and bonds out with an ankle bracelet. I anticipate some awkwardness at work: “So, how was your Easter?”
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"We catch people, they serve a little bit of time, they get out and they get right back doing what they normally do and that’s commit crimes,"
Crime seems to be one of those things with a Pareto distribution - roughly speaking, 20% of the criminals commit 80% of the crime. Yes, locking someone up in prison is mean, but it does take them out of circulation for a while.
TW: Big difference between Thug vs Thug and Thug shooting innocent bystanders in my and many others books.
But I should also state I am NOT suggesting Vigilante justice.
As ALL persons are innocent until convicted.
But 14 counts of Aggravated Assault with a deadly weapon should get him at least 20 years. Which the taxpayers will cover his room, feeding, dental, clothing, TV, medical, education and etc.. Likely costing SC Taxpayers $750K to $1.2 Million over that period.
A series of strikes in #Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv in the north-east of the war-scarred country have left at least five dead and 13 injured, a regional health official says.https://t.co/dbGcxOPxZi
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Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer says that #Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has his “own war logic” and believes he is winning the war he launched against #Ukraine.https://t.co/kroXsDDczz
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#Ukraine is not prepared to give up its territories and is ready, if needed, to fight with #Russia “for ten years,” the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said.https://t.co/OygJyghPss
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Zelensky wants to hold onto this gig in a big way.
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Now Putin's done it! Bloody wanker's pissed off the English mum of Aiden Aslin, winner of latest round of Britain's Got Idiots. Mum identifies junior by his tattoos and says, "I now hold Putin to terms of the Geneva War Convention!"
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Lib media: "Why couldn't he be the guy who did the last 10 mass shootings here?"
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Let's not be too hard on Zel. He is the star of his own movie.
One one hand, it is a fish-out-of-water comedy about an actor/comedian who becomes president of a corrupt Eastern European country.
On the other, it is the story of the plucky, handsome leader of a small country under attack who flies around the world pleading for help against his larger foe. His moving speeches have been well-received except in Israel where his references to the Holocaust bombed. (no pun intended)
With the right backers, this could be a long-running hit show.
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Karzai Arcanum went twelve seasons. Even got a cameo as "Potential Talibanistan President" in Neocon: Generations Episode 1: Transitions - "In this episode the loose ends of closing the Afghanistan Campaign get cut while an emerging threat in the Ukraine Banking System makes itself visible.
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Tamarian allegories should be all the rage on twitter someday.
Don't know if the current folks there could handle it, though. That might be considered “cultural appropriation” and that would be icky.
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I suspect he'll give up certain areas in order to get a peace treaty. I also suspect, like the Palestinians, he'll support constant agitation to reclaim the areas 'eventually'.
[NATION.PK] Myanmar’s junta said it will release more than 1,600 prisoners from jails across the country on Sunday to mark the Buddhist new year, without specifying whether those being pardoned were protesters or common criminals.
The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government was ousted last year in a military coup, which sparked huge protests and a deadly crackdown.
State television announced that 1,619 prisoners, including 42 foreigners had been “pardoned” and will be released to mark the new year.
It was unclear whether anti-junta protesters or journalists jailed for covering the coup will be among those freed.
On Sunday morning, more than 100 people gathered outside Yangon’s Insein prison hoping to be reunited with loved ones, AFP correspondents said.
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Excerpted from a much longer post, but something I’ve been pondering.
[AccordingToHoyt] However remember most of these people aren’t coming here because they’re mad in love with the US or freedom. Some come because they hate us. Some because they’re indoctrinated communists who think we’re richer because we stole from their country/race. (The whole la raza bullshit.)
Most of them, however — trust me — come because the streets are paved with gold; they can make more in a week than they make back home in a year, and our welfare system is a seemingly infinite cash cow.
I estimate that in normal times a good quarter of immigrants goes back home. In normal times, when we’re begging for workers, and the streets really are paved with gold.
Is it that high? Don’t know. No one keeps good track of this. Heck, our immigration system is so loose most illegality is “overstaying visas.”
This is anedacta and observation. The US is WEIRD in the world, so even in normal times a lot of people decide we’re too weird for them and bugger off back where they came from. Now that’s easier if you just came across the Southern border, as opposed to flying halfway across the world.
I do know that under Obama’s stellar economy ALMOST everyone who came in buggered back “home” within a year. It had a name, “La grande Salida” and it was noted. Heck, people were buggering “home” who had been born here, because back South of the border they had extended family and other help.
We had some articles about that here at the time, though I don’t recall that term for it. Might be a secret Latino password...
Obama’s economy was a walk in the park, compared to what we’re entering. Yes, I know part of flying immigrants around is the left’s clever-fool system for making sure no one notices the spreading disaster, and/or to spread vote fraud. But I do wonder how much of it is to make sure that these people can’t just run back over the border when they realize how hard things are about to get. It really reminds me a lot of Kenya’s resettlement of the Masai, known as “first you catch a Masai.”
So, while the numbers coming in are staggering, I think a large number will — if they aren’t already — go the other way at speed.
The backwash will still be gang activity, crime and disorder, but I don’t think on the scale anticipated.
I actually think the “salida” will gain turbo speed in the next couple of months, because most of the people coming in KNOW unstable systems. They can sniff coming trouble in the air. And heck, guys, the air is thick with it. I’m starting to get the need to dive under parked cars when I hear a backfire. And that’s me. And I’ve been here for years.
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Good snark, Thing! Of course the Rooshuns were only game hunting when they crossed the border, of course. (Be vewwy, vewwy qwiet. I am hunting Nazis! --Elmer Fudd voice)
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Actually they have killed thousands of Azov Battalion neonazis and are in process of exterminating the 1,000 or so remaining Azov neonazis cowering in the steel factory in Mariupol
[TOLONEWS] Afghanistan's ambassador to Islamabad called the Durand Line a national issue, saying that the decision over its fate should be referred to the nation.
Sardar Ahmad Khan Shikib, the newly appointed ambassador of the Islamic Emirate to Pakistain, also called on Islamabad to be the first nation to recognize the ruling Afghan government.
"The Durand problem [is] an issue between [our] two countries, it is a type of national issue and we need to refer to the nation, to the Afghans. We cannot decide about the Durand Line," he told Arab News.
Some Pak sources told TOLOnews that efforts are underway to resolve rising tensions over the Durand Line, which is a disputed, de facto border between Pakistain and the Islamic Emirate.
"Efforts are underway from both sides to solve the tension over fencing the Durand Line. Every day, the delegation of the two sides makes contact," said Tahir Khan, a Pak journalist.
Ambassador Shikib urged the international community to recognize the Afghan government.
"This is the natural right of Afghans to be recognized. We call on the international community to recognize us and let us enter a new era," he said.
This comes as tension over the Durand Line fencing has recently escalated between Kabul and Islamabad.
[Aljazeera] Ukraine has surprised the world by bringing Russia’s invasion to a standstill. Most of the world was aghast when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military to attack its neighbour in late February. The new professional Russian army was expected to make sweeping advances, its reputation for effectiveness not yet earned but assumed.
However, Ukrainian resistance was much stronger than anticipated and Russian armoured columns were not only halted but in many cases destroyed as Ukraine leveraged what weapons it had to the greatest effect, its commitment to defend itself with great energy, surprising Russia and the world. Since then, Ukraine has seen a flood of arms as weapons pour in from Europe and the United States.
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I watched a youtube video of an upgraded A-10. I think that the Ukrainians would make good use of some of the older 'warthogs' since our Air Force doesn't want them. I bet we could get pilots to fly them too. shades of Gen Chenault.
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Congress has ground USAF's nose in the A-10 for so long that anything short of scrapping is not going to make the brass happy. They might like the idea of seeing them shot down. More importantly, we have no business supplying this war. At all.
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[NATION.PK] Plans by a far-right group to publicly burn copies of the Koran sparked violent mostly peacefulfestivities with counter-demonstrators for the third day running in Sweden, police said on Sunday.
Litter bins, a bus and a car were all set on fire in a series of incidents in the southern city of Malmo overnight, police said in a statement.
"The situation calmed down towards 3:00 am (0100 GMT)," police spokeswoman Kim Hild told SR public radio, adding that no officers were hurt, but a number of members of the public were slightly injured. Nearly 20 complaints had been filed, including for vandalism.
There have been similar festivities in recent days over plans by the anti-immigration and anti-Islamic Stram Kurs (Hard Line) movement led by Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan to burn copies of the Koran in public.
The festivities on Saturday broke out after a rally by the group’s supporters on Saturday. Three coppers had to be taken to hospital after a riot broke out in the city of Linkoping in eastern Sweden on Thursday. Two people were arrested at that protest.
And on Friday, nine copperswere maimed in similar festivities in Orebro in central Sweden.
In the wake of the string of incidents, Iraq’s foreign ministry said that it had summoned the Swedish charge d’affaires in Baghdad on Sunday.
Why Iraq instead of any of the other Muslim countries in the world?
It warned that the affair could have "serious repercussions" on "relations between Sweden and Moslems in general, both Moslem and Arab countries and Moslem communities in Europe."
Paludan plans to hold further rallies at two other cities in Sweden, but the demonstrations have not received the go-ahead by police.
[AlAhram] A Cairo Criminal court sentenced acting Moslem Brüderbund leader Mahmoud Ezzat on Sunday to life in prison in the ’Storming of the Borders Trial’, which has been ongoing since 2011.
The process being as much a punishment as the punishment itself is.
Sunday’s verdict is considered a first degree ruling that can be appealed. A life sentence in Egypt carries 25 years in jail.
The Public Prosecution accused Ezzat and other defendants of storming Egyptian prisons and collaborating with Paleostinian Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, the Moslem Brüderbund’s international leadership, and the Lebanese Hezbollah to create chaos and topple the Egyptian state as well as its institutions. He is also charged with receiving military training from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to launch military attacks in Egypt in the trial that goes back to 2011.
Ezzat, who was arrested in 2020, was first handed a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... in absentia in June 2015 in the same case when 20 other defendants received life prison sentences.
Under Egyptian law, in absentia convictions must be re-tried once the defendant is apprehended.
Mahmoud Ezzat was also sentenced in April 2021 to life in prison over charges of murder and terrorism in a case known in the media as the "Guidance Bureau Case."
He was also sentenced in December to life in prison for collaborating with the Paleostinian group Hamas and other foreign organizations and disclosing information pertaining to Egypt’s national security.
The Moslem Brüderbund was designated by the government as a terrorist organization in Egypt in 2013.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:18 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 25 civilians as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territories of the Republic by the AFU:
n.p. Mariupol: - men: 1984, 1977, 1997, 1956, 1982, 1950, 1954, 1939, 1970, 1962, 1958, 1955, 1995, 1966, 1977 years of birth;
- women: born in 1946, 1991, 1973, 1956, 1980, 1939.
n.p. Vladimirovka: - a child, a boy born in 2017.
n.p. Dawn: - a woman born in 1959.
n.p. Evgenovka: - male born in 1975.
n.p. Ukrainian: - man born in 1964.
21:35 Two servicemen of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic died over the past day, more than ten were injured, Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR, said in a statement. 20:44 On the night of April 11-12, a group of servicemen of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to break out of the blocked plant named after. Ilyich, Mariupol.
The special purpose unit of the Donetsk People's Republic prevented this breakthrough. During the battle, up to 50 servicemen were destroyed, of which five were senior officers of the brigade, another 42 surrendered. During the inspection of the site of the clash, the body of the commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, Colonel Vladimir Anatolyevich Baranyuk, his personal belongings and weapons were found among the dead.
19:25 Under the shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, five employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR were injured by the Ukrainian Nazis.
19:24 Kiev militants fired on Horlivka and Shirokaya Balka in the DPR. They fired 14 mines at them with a caliber of 120mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
19:23 The air defense forces of the DPR intercepted a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile over Khartsyzsk. Its wreckage damaged 20 houses.
18:28 Ukrainian militants in Mariupol refused to lay down their arms. The Russian Defense Ministry offered them from 0600 hrs on April 17 to cease fire and save their lives.
18:27 Kiev Nazis fired at the village of Donetsk in the LPR from the Grad MLRS and 152mm artillery. Information about the victims and destruction continues.
18:26 Ukrainian punishers fired at Staromikhaylovka in the DPR. They fired five 120mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:37 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, using artillery with a caliber of 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:36 Kiev militants fired ten shells of 122mm caliber at Gorlovka and Ozeryanovka (DPR). Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:35 Russian sappers announced the completion of the demining of the thermal power plant in Shchastya (LPR).
16:12 Ukrainian punishers fired three rockets at Yasinovataya from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
16:11 Under the fire of Ukrainian punishers, two residents of Pervomaisk (LPR) were injured.
15:15 Ukrainian Nazis fired on Yasinovataya in the DPR, firing eight shells at her from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:14 Kiev militants fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing six shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:13 The village of Donetsk in the LPR again came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They fired eight 152mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:07 Ukrainian troops fired five more rockets from the Grad MLRS at Yasinovataya in the DPR.
13:02 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Panteleymonovka in the DPR, firing eight shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:01 Kiev militants fired on Dolya and Yasinovataya from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:01 A civilian from Khartsyzsk (DPR) was wounded under fire from the Kiev Nazis.
13:00 Ukrainian punishers fired seven shells of 152mm caliber at Pervomaisk (LPR). Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:07 Kiev Nazis fired at Golmovsky in the DPR, firing six 82mm bullets at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:06 AFU fired on Yasinovataya in the DPR, firing ten rockets from the Grad MLRS into the city. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:05 Ukrainian punishers opened fire on Gorlovka in the DPR, firing eight shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:02 Kiev Nazis fired at Donetsk twice in the LPR in the morning. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:02 Ukrainian fighters fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Six shells were fired at him, caliber 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:01 Kyiv banned the Nazis from Azov, blocked at Azovstal in Mariupol, from negotiating surrender. Anyone wishing to surrender was ordered to be shot.
11:01 About 400 foreign mercenaries were surrounded in Azovstal in Mariupol.
10:23 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR destroyed 30 Ukrainian Nazis, so, two armored personnel carriers, five cars.
09:41 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of Russian troops, destroyed 61 Ukrainian nationalists, one 122mm self-propelled artillery mount 2S1 "Gvozdika," one infantry fighting vehicle, two armored personnel carriers and a truck. One tank and two infantry fighting vehicles were captured.
09:41 During the day, 526 people, including 64 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe in the DPR.
09:14 Kiev Nazis opened fire on the territory of the DPR 42 times in a day, firing 338 shells at it. A total of 11 civilians were injured under shelling.
08:48 A peaceful resident of Yasinovataya (DPR) is wounded under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis.
08:29 Ukrainian security forces opened fire on the territory of the LPR twice in a day. Under fire were Pervomaisk and the village of Donetsk. The militants used artillery guns with a caliber of 122mm and 152mm.
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^ I'm sure your country would've done a much better job assimilating and pacifying proportional hordes of immigrants -- many penniless, ignorant, traumatized -- from three continents... while winning three world wars and containing five monstruous totalitarianisms, each of which would've happily nuked or otherwise wrecked half the planet if we hadn't stood in their way, and each of which made a pretty good run at doing so anyhow. [big green lady rolls eyes]
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From a foreigners perspective this seems like just another day in the USA.
I like to call the USA a 'first world third world country'.
America is the better part of a continent, and the population is not homogenous throughout. Some areas/communities/neighbourhoods choose to be less orderly and prosperous than others. But we see that elsewhere, too: there are so-called No Go areas throughout the EU and Britain, where the residents hew to a different culture, and firemen, for instance, can only go in with an armed police escort. The French suburbs, Molenbeek in Brussels, Malmo in Sweden... the list is long.
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/\ We are instructed to celebrate the diversity of those who have strayed from their assigned pens, but deny certain DNA and genetic realities related to former pen survival.
Although highly advertised and applauded by academia and media, cultural assimilation through cross-breeding has met with limited success, as has the legalization of mind altering drugs. One of the more recent solutions of government and science appears to be Genetically modification, or treating humans as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) such as plants.
We appear to have deviated from the intent of nature. Will the Muruwari people of New South Wales become the new diamond cutters of Antwerp? Will flooding the troubled, crime ridden urban zones with millions of more compliant migrants be the answer? Can assimilation and human harmony be achieved through artificially produced 'Gain of Function?'
Yesterday's celebration is very likely the intended solution, but we are in denial there as well. I am not hopeful. I reckon we'll just have to see how it goes.
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Our local rag had it as: It is likely Saturday’s shooting was an isolated incident and was a result of an on-going conflict, police said.
So, gangs
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Ain't it funny. Here's a tribe that feels maximum force is the appropriate response to the mildest slight, down to an imaginary one. But, OTOH, they don't feel any po-lice should ever stop them from driving erratically in a stolen car, put a hand on them during an arrest, etc.
Swillary says "it takes a village." Well, many of these were raised much more by a village than by their single parent, and here's what the village raised up.
But don't you go judgin' it, whitey...
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Some areas/communities/neighbourhoods choose to be less orderly and prosperous than others.
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Since the start of Obama 3.0 (the current Puppet Show) there has been an endless effort to appease in financial, social and media terms the sense of victim-hood among minorities. Creating class/racial divides and defining mainstream societal structure and norms as "white supremacist", they create the perception in ignorant minds of permission and justification. Until we abandon terms like African-American and People of Color and just describe all of us as American, this continues. America is hugely successful because of the genius of our founders and the wealth of what they created. It is our heritage and beliefs that are superior to other systems in the history of the world, not because they are "white" but because they are inspired by an understanding of fundamental human character and freedom.
The massive inundation of our nation, abetted by one political party as a means to power, has swamped our ability to assimilate and educate those who come here to the heritage, expectations and obligations they receive. Coming here illegally abrogates all of that, sadly by design of those holding the doors open.
Divide and conquer has been a known tactic for millennia, and serves an enemy well. The cabal running the White House has allegiances, motives and objectives that serve those elsewhere....
Ready for a second round, Nero? Or would you prefer to stay on the canvas?
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So, gangs
I believe it is Aspiring Troubadours in the parlance of Daily Mail Hypesters. You can tell by the usage of "a ta" as Middle English premature spellcheckulation. Diversity!
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:26 The head of Chechnya Kadyrov announced the start of a "concrete" special operation in Ukraine. “Now a specific special operation is starting, now there will be a specific result, they themselves asked for it, so to speak, the Ukrainians. If suddenly someone could not escape - run, leave your positions. Run to where the federal troops are: you will be received, fed and watered,” Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel. 21:07 Operational-tactical aviation destroyed 44 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: in the Avdiivka area, two command posts and a locator for illumination and targeting of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system; in the areas of Zavgorodnee and Protopopovka, three depots of rocket and artillery weapons were destroyed; in the districts of Krasny Liman, Novoselovka, Rubizhne, Vuhledar, Popasnaya, Prishib and Gusarovka there are 23 places of concentration of personnel and Ukrainian military equipment.
21:05 Missile troops and artillery defeated 113 objects, including: four command posts, four artillery batteries, two depots of fuel and lubricants and 103 strongholds and areas of concentration of enemy manpower.
21:03 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 136 aircraft, 471 unmanned aerial vehicles, 249 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,308 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 254 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 998 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,171 units of special military vehicles.
20:01 Russian air defense systems in the area of the settlements of Fedorovka and Plants in the Kharkiv region shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft in the air.
20:01 A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down near the village of Preobrazhenskoye, Pavlograd region.
20:00 During the day, high-precision air-based missiles in the area of the settlements of Barvenkovo and Dobropolye destroyed storages of fuels and lubricants and ammunition.
19:41 APU will fight for Donbass - Zelensky. The President of Ukraine, in an interview with CNN, said that Ukraine does not want to give up its territories in the eastern part of the country in order to end the war with Russia.
19:41 The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, expressed the opinion that now in Ukraine there is no one to negotiate with, it is necessary to form a new vertical of power.
18:56 In the Kherson region, a referendum is being prepared on the creation of the "Kherson People's Republic" - Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Lyudmila Denisova: "According to witnesses, the printing house of the city of Novaya Kakhovka is already printing ballots for the referendum," she said. According to her, the referendum will be held in early May.
18:55 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a case on the demolition of the monument to Marshal Zhukov in Kharkov.
17:43 Today, the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the building of a slate plant in Kramatorsk.
16:51 A group of British journalists has been working in the vicinity of Chernihiv and nearby settlements for a week now. After a not very successful propaganda campaign about the deaths of civilians in Bucha and Kramatorsk, the leadership of British news agencies demanded "quality material" from their employees. In the future, it is planned to submit it to the UK Parliament and the UN. For this reason, the journalists went to the Chernihiv region, where units of the RF Armed Forces were operating.
16:09 In Lviv, the symbols of the Great Patriotic War are being dismantled on the territory of the Hill of Glory memorial complex.
16:09 The Indian Air Force refused to buy Mi-17V5 helicopters from Russia.
16:07 In Bulgaria, a ban on the entry of Russian ships into the ports of the country has come into force.
15:26 According to the UN, 4.8 million people have left Ukraine since February 24.
14:11 Russia sees risks of unintended clashes with NATO in Arctic latitudes - Russian Foreign Ministry.
13:06 A bust of Marshal Zhukov was dismantled in Kharkiv.
13:03 Kyiv City Hall reduced the curfew by two hours. Now it will last from 22:00 to 05:00.
12:15 Russian aviation destroyed more than 50 Ukrainian soldiers overnight.
12:11 Kyiv has attracted about 7,000 foreign mercenaries to Ukraine.
11:58 In Kyiv, they decided not to open humanitarian corridors on Sunday.
11:55 Foreign mercenaries are waiting for a long term in prison, the Defense Ministry said.
11:05 Russian Defense Ministry: Air-launched high-precision missiles destroyed an ammunition factory in the Kiev region.
10:57 Up to 400 foreign mercenaries are blocked on the territory of Azovstal.
10:56 The Russian Armed Forces released the hostages held by the militants in the mosque of Mariupol.
10:29 Russian forces destroyed 68 Ukrainian military facilities.
10:23 Russian military destroyed 1,035 mercenaries in Ukraine.
10:10 Russian air defense systems shot down ten more Ukrainian drones.
08:53 The Security Service of Ukraine left a sabotage group in Kherson to carry out provocations in the territories liberated by Russia.
[IsraelTimes] In Ramadan address, jihadist group criticizes ’secular terrorists’ of Fatah and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , says Jerusalem can only be liberated through return of the caliphate
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.... on Sunday urged its supporters in Israel to launch additional terror attacks, the first such call since two deadly terror attacks were carried out last month by Arab Israelis thought to have been inspired by the jihadist group.
Islamic State grabbed credit for both attacks, though it did not appear the forces of Evil had been instructed by it to commit them.
In a long address for the holy month of Ramadan, the jihadist group’s new spokesperson Abu-Omar al-Muhajjir called for a new "global offensive" in retaliation for the death of its leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurayshi, last February. al-Qurayshi died when he detonated a bomb to avoid capture during a US raid in northwest Syria, the White House and US defense officials said.
"Fight them all and Allah will answer and punish them at your hands," al-Muhajjir said, referring to "heathen states."
The Ramadan address came as Israel has moved to crack down on Islamic State, after six Israelis were killed in a pair of terror attacks in Beersheba and Hadera by Arab Israeli supporters of the jihadist group.
Last week, meanwhile, Israeli authorities announced the arrest of an Islamic state-linked Paleostinian in connection to three murders, including of an elderly Jerusalem couple in their home in 2019.
Al-Muhajjir commented on last month’s two terror attacks in Israel, calling on the group’s supporters to "arm themselves with weapons and carry out further attacks."
At the same time, he argued that Jerusalem could be liberated from the Jews only through the return of the caliphate — and not through a Paleostinian uprising or with the help of "those who have values that change according to the interests of their Roman masters (the West)."
Al-Muhajjir hailed the Arab Israeli attackers as "those who fought and were killed for the sake of Allah and religion," and criticized the "secular terrorists" of Fatah and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, who are fighting for the land and the homeland.
He also called on all Moslems in the Arab world to oppose all leaders who have relations with Israel and want to make peace with it.
"Modern Moslem politicians trying to liberate Jerusalem are nothing more than puppets in the hands of Israel and the West," he said.
Al-Muhajjir also called on supporters to resume attacks in Europe, taking advantage of the "available opportunity" of "the crusaders fighting each other" — in reference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] April 12, 2022 (KHARTOUM) — A racist comment against the sacked TV director Lugman Ahmed by the defence team of the defendants in the trial of the June 1989 coup caused a national uproar on Tuesday, amid calls to sue these lawyers in court.
On Sunday, the head of the Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan sacked Lugman Ahmed from his post as director of the Radio and Television Corporation. His media advisor justified the dismissal by saying he ignored the head of the state’s news and covered anti-coup protests.
The mic of a video camera of the official news agency SUNA covering the trial broadcast a conversation between two lawyers Abu Bakr Abdel Razek and Mohammed Shawkat, members of the defence team for the leaders of the former regime in the courtroom.
The two Islamists talked about the reasons for dismissing the TV director from his position.
One of them uttered a racist expression towards Lugman Ahmed, describing him as a "slave" and mocking his big nose.
The Sudan News Agency quickly deleted the video posted on its platform.
The Darfur Lawyers Association condemned the racist comment and confirmed they are in contact with the Sudanese journalist to consult on the legal action that could be taken against them.
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[SHAFAQ] The Security Media Cell revealed that the Iraqi Special Forces carried out an airdrop in an area hosting bully boyz in Kirkuk today.
The Cell said in a statement that the operation took place in al-Jal area, south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... noting that the forces are currently locating the bully boyz to arrest them.
Entering al-Jal's rugged, remote areas by the security forces is very challenging, which prompted them to go with the airdrop option, according to the statement.
Russia has material in place but has not organized battalions into attack configuration.
Ukraine has made some small advances near Kharkiv. If the Russian occupation north of Donbas collapses, it would threaten the logistics of future Russian efforts.
Russia has only a few dozen city blocks from completing the conquest of Mariupol (which they surrounded on 2 March and in which they have a lot of troops working and a lot of troops dying).
Russia will claim the conquest of Mariupol as a victory but it will likely go down as a hollow victory for Russia and a symbol of Russian brutality.
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The main event has not started but there seems to be a lot of practice fighting going on.
Mariupol may be a hollow victory in the media wars, but it is a necessary part of the land corridor to Crimea.
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Mariupol may have chewed up some valuable Russian infantry but it (1) cleared the land route to Sevastapol, and (2) frees up the rear of any subsequent northern push in the Donbas.
I am expecting a Pincer Attack on the Donbas Salient with the supporting attack coming from the south at Donetsk (troops that were fighting at Mariupol) and a strong northern thrust from Izium (troops that were concentrated from the abortive Kiev attacks). Mostly the Russians waiting for the ground to get better and concentrating things for a good, old fashioned "stop us if you can" WW2 Soviet armor and artillery thrust from Izium. It has taken them, so far, from Day 33 to rearrange their troops and get their logistical house in order -- one central push at a time may be all they can efficiently supply.
The #1 stated objective of the war was to prevent NATO from using Ukraine as a bulwark ("demilitarize"). The completion of the land bridge to Crimea has extinguished that possibility.
The #2 objective was to destroy the Azov Battalion and other neonazis regiments that had terrified the Russian-speaking Donbas for 8 years. That too is about to be completed in Mariupol.
The third (unstated) objective has been to devastate Ukraine and make it even poorer than it was before the war -- to reduce it to subsistence status so that it will be dependent on foreign aid for another 30-40 years. In process.
A joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon says it has killed more than 100 insurgents, including 10 commanders, in the past few weeks, as it intensifies a ground and air offensive in the Lake Chad region.https://t.co/H4fBDGvjMy
A joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... said on Sunday it had killed more than 100 Death Eaters, including 10 commanders, in the past few weeks, as it intensifies a ground and air offensive in the Lake Chad region.
Boko Haram ...not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters and its splinter Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... West Africa Province (ISWAP) group have for more than a decade battled the Nigerian army in a conflict that has sucked in neighboring states.
Multinational Joint Task Force front man Colonel Muhammad Dole said troops had ventured deep into enclaves controlled by hard boyz in the Lake Chad area and recovered several weapons, food and illicit drugs.
"Within the period of this operation, well over a hundred faceless myrmidons have been neutralized, including over 10 top commanders ... following intelligence-driven lethal air strikes in the Lake Chad islands by the combined air task-forces," Dole said.
Dole did not give the period covered by the operation or number of troops killed but said 18 soldiers were maimed by improvised bombs planted by retreating Death Eaters.
The insurgency is concentrated in the northeast of Nigeria and has left thousands dead while driving millions from their homes into camps for internally displaced persons.
Nigeria received a boost after the United States last week approved a nearly $1 billion weapons sale. US politicians had put a hold on the deal over concerns about possible human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... abuses by the Nigerian government.
Boko Haram has been on the back foot since the death of its leader, Abubakar Shekau ...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka... , last year in May during a battle with rival ISWAP. Nigeria says thousands of Boko Haram fighters and their families have surrendered since last year.
The #Nigerian air force says it has killed more than 70 ISIL (#ISIS)-affiliated fighters in the north of the country, at the border with #Niger, in an air raid.https://t.co/JH4pjWX45y
Militants gave the slip to a joint team of police and army during a shootout in which a soldier was killed in south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ’s Anantnag district, a report said on Sunday.
The Army soldier of 19 RR was killed in the initial phase of the encounter which broke out in Watnar Kokernag area of district on Saturday afternoon.
Quoting officials, news agency GNS reported that a joint team of Police and army had launched a cordon and search operation in the area following inputs about the presence of holy warriors.
As the joint team approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding holy warriors fired upon them, triggering off the shootout, an official said.
After initial exchange of the fire, no fresh contact with holy warriors was established even as searches continued till early this morning, the official said.
A police officer told GNS that the operation has now been called off as holy warriors managed to flee "either initially or when the night took full effect."
The Security Media Cell revealed that Iraqi F-16 targeted ISIS hideouts in Diyala today.
The Cell said in a statement that three Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeted Nareen area, according to accurate intelligence information provided by the National Security Agency.
[GREATERKASHMIR] The State Investigation Agency (SIA), assigned with the duty of investigation and prosecution of terror related cases in Union Territory of 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.... , conducted searches at several locations in Srinagar on Sunday, officials said.
In a statement, a front man of the SIA said the searches were conducted in connection with FIR No. 01/2022 u/s 13, 18 UA(P) Act read with sections 121, 124, 153 B and 120-B IPC of Police Station JIC (SIA) Jammu, against the author of seditious article Abdul Aala Fazili and the Editor and other associates of monthly digital Magazine "The Kashmir Wala".
The article titled "The shackles of slavery will break" written by Abdul Aala Fazili and published in the Monthly Digital Magazine "The Kashmir Wala" on the one hand is highly provocative, seditious and intended to create unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, written with the purpose of abetting the youth to take the path of violence by glorifying terrorism, he said. "...and on the other the write-up promoted and propagated the false narrative, which is essential to sustain secessionist cum terrorist campaign aimed at breaking the territorial integrity of India."
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Factions loyal to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) on Sunday have surrounded the city of Aden, ahead of a planned return of officials of the Saudi-formed presidential council.
According to security sources, various formations of the STC have increased their deployment at the level of the province’s directorates, set up checkpoints and deployed anti-aircraft missiles and snipers on rooftops and mountain heights.
The deployment came amid reports of a Saudi decision to return officials from the exiled puppet government and parliament in the coming hours.
According to the sources, the factions refuse to hand over control of Aden, and their movements are a blow to the security efforts concluded in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, which included the formation of a presidential council to replace Abdrabbuh Hadi
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This photo set at the link have been making the rounds in Russian socialist media purportedly showing the aftermath of the attack on the RFS Moskva.
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Приблизно так від удару української крилатої ракети загинув крейсер «Москва», саме так під ударами української армії загине російська імперія! pic.twitter.com/UZildWVdg7
I don't think that's Moskva in the twitter video, at least not all the way through. If you freeze-frame it at the 0:13 mark, that's a former USN DDG (missile destroyer) on the wrong end of a SINKEX. If you look from left to right where the water is coming up the deck, you see an armored box launcher for USN's ASROC anti-sub missile, and aft of the deckouse is unmistakably a USN Mk42 'frog eye' 5" gun turret.
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Looks like a hit aft of the missile launchers. I don’t think a cruise middle hit into the launcher would have ended as well unless the launcher box is all armor.
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Says Russian military correspondent Boris Rozhin: Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited:
Damage is visible in the central part of the ship and the ongoing fire in the interior.
To the versions - anti-ship missiles, mines, safety violations, today there was also added a version of the spontaneous launch of one of the S-300 air defense missiles, which led to the detonation of a part of the BC in the central part of the ship.
We are waiting for the conclusions of the commission on the reasons for the death of the ship.
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I spent a lot of time looking at the actual photos and I think one of the missiles hit the forward superstructure, probably at the aft end of it, and that's why it looked like a lot of the electronics were blown off of it.
'How the hell did you allow the Moskva to be sunk?': TV anchor dubbed 'Putin's voice' rages at Russian navy over flagship's loss as Kremlin still refuses to say how many sailors died
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Concur w/#5&6: another fun fact; early on in thevideo a part of the aircraft filming the sinkex is visible and it sure looks loe theaft end of the landing gear sponson of a SH-3H helicopter. Dont think we exported any of those to Russia or Ukraine.
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It's sunk. I leave it to those tasked / interested to sort the details. I like the bottom line.
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For comparison, and since we haven't had many cruiser sinkings lately, here is the pretty well-known photo of the IJN Mikuma after getting pasted by US carrier planes at Midway. 5 or 6 bomb hits.
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Yes, everything is bad news for the US. Russia's failure is especially bad news for the nation that has ruled the oceans since WWII.
(Never mind that Russia has never really been a naval power.)
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This brings the question: Which is worse, Arab "ensha'Allah and sell the parts via my uncle" maintenance or Russian "divert funds to buy my own dacha and stock it with booze and mistress" maintenance?
They asked, was I proud? I said, nyet!
I drank and I whored and I bet...
But small portion I spend
On munitions and men...
And this waste I sincerely regret.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] April 16, 2022 (KHARTOUM) — Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n government presented Saturday an initiative to the Chairman of the Sovereign Council in Sudan aimed at ending the political strife in the neighbouring country.
Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan received, for the second time in six days, an Eritrean delegation including Foreign Minister Osman Saleh, and Presidential Adviser Yemane Gebreab.
The same delegation met al-Burhan on April 11 to discuss the political situation in Sudan and expressed the Eritrean government’s solidarity with al-Burhan in his efforts to overcome the ongoing crisis.
According to a statement issued by the Sovereign Council following the meeting, the delegation handed al-Burhan a message from Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki.
"The delegation came bearing a vision that aims to bridge the views of the Sudanese parties to resolve the political crisis in the country," further reads the statement.
The initiative was made out of Eritrea’s keenness and desire to establish security and stability in Sudan and the region, further said the Sovereign Council.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... it did not elaborate on the Eritrean initiative.
Eritrea had hosted peace talks to end the conflict in eastern Sudan, and a peace agreement was signed that ended an armed rebellion by the East Front in October 2006.
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[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] The corpse count from Pak military Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the eastern Afghanistan provinces of Khost and Kunar has risen to at least 47, officials said on Sunday.
"Forty-one civilians, mainly women, and children, were killed and 22 others were maimed in airstrikes by Pak forces near the Durand line in Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... ," Shabir Ahmad Osmani, director of information and culture in Khost told AFP about the strikes that took place on Saturday.
Two other officials confirmed the corpse count in Khost, while an Afghan official said on Saturday six people were killed in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... The Pak military has so far not offered any comment on the strikes, but on Sunday the foreign ministry in Islamabad urged the Taliban ...Arabic for students... authorities in Kabul to take "stern actions" against holy warriors launching attacks against Pakistain from Afghan soil.
Border tensions between Pakistain and Afghanistan have risen since the Taliban seized power last year, with Islamabad claiming turban groups are carrying out regular attacks from Afghan soil.
The Taliban deny harboring Pak holy warriors but are also infuriated by a fence Islamabad is erecting along their 2,700-kilometre (1,600-mile) border.
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#Taliban authorities warned #Pakistan on Saturday after five children and a woman were killed in #Afghanistan in alleged rocket attacks by the Pakistani forces in a pre-dawn assault along the border.https://t.co/u3XMRTeDMP
Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... authorities warned Pakistain on Saturday after five children and a woman were killed in Afghanistan in alleged rocket attacks by the Pak forces in a pre-dawn assault along the border.
"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan condemns in the strongest possible terms the bombardment and attack that has taken place from the Pakistain side on the soil of Afghanistan," government front man Zabihullah Mujahid told news hounds in an audio message.
"This is a cruelty and it is paving the way for enmity between Afghanistan and Pakistain ... We are using all options to prevent repetitions (of such attacks) and calling for our illusory sovereignty to be respected," he said.
"The Pak side should know that if a war starts it will not be in the interest of any side. It will cause instability in the region."
Pak military officials were not immediately available for comment.
Would these be the same Pak military officials who officered the Talib Reconquista last year, as the Americans withdrew?
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POPCORN, GET YOUR POPCORN HERE!
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04/18/2022 12:42
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Nobody hates a n*ggah like other n*ggahs.
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04/18/2022 12:53
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Let's you and him fight
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[NPASYRIA] On Sunday evening, the Ottoman Turkish forces renewed targeting the countryside of Tel Tamr, north of Hasakah, northeast Syria, with heavy weapons.
"The Ottoman Turkish forces bombed the Assyrian villages of Tel Shanan, al-Dardara, and Qubour al-Qarajneh, east and north of Tel Tamr town, with artillery and mortar shells," a source in the Tel Tamr Military Council said.
Several shells fell near the Russian base, north of the town, according to the source.
The bombing resulted in only material damage to the residents’ property, the source added.
The countryside of Tel Tamr has been hit with heavy weapons by the Ottoman Turkish forces and the affiliated opposition factions for days.
[NATION.PK] Intelligence agencies and Pakistain army conducted a joint operation on Sunday and killed two most wanted faceless myrmidons of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) in Kolachi area of Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... According to credible reports, the terrorists, identified as Khalil and Ehsan alias Deva were killed. Khalil was an expert in making suicide jackets and improvised bombs.
In addition, the killed terrorist were involved in in various acts of terrorism, including the April 11 martyrdom of five coppers, attacks on a polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... team, IED attacks, and extortion.
Two machine guns used by the faceless myrmidons and four grenades were also recovered from the possession of killed terrorists.
[Bloomberg] Author says we are underestimating the economic consequences of China's zero covid policy but that Xi's rule is probably not in danger of serious challenge.
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Shipping at a standstill. Severe shortages here soon to follow. But the biggest irritation is to impose fines and perhaps jail time for non compliance of medical dictates. This is being proposed at this time. So you don't get vaxed and then you are denied service but now new penalties will be imposed. Government is gearing up with new health viruses to impose upon the populations here. The new germophobic nation.
Was watching and listening to videos claiming to be made in Shanghai and smuggled out.
If real, it has 100's of people at night screaming and crying for help from the windows of their 20+ floor apartment complex jails.
It tends to make you think the way the CCP is handling the lockdown is more like a collection of Communist Gulag detention centers. Where they'll just send cleanup crews to retrieve the bodies.
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Slowing down shipping and processing of financial transactions (Shanghai is the banking capitol) has a ripple effect on the global economy. While there are apparently pandemic issues in play the negative impact on US -China trade has secondary grey economic warfare effects - deliberate or not
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The de-coupling of the world economy will not be a top-down thing. Businesses that can't get by without Chinese imports will cease. Other's will find a way to operate without Chinese imports. Ditto the financial angle.
The gummint won't be able to control it.
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All the hysteria over something that is fairly mild everywhere else suggests something special is going on. Whether biological or political is open to speculation.
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.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...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 
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
...The word 
Hezbollah
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
...not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
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...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
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