Henry Richard, 20, completed the race for the first time since his brother's death
Martin Richard was only eight-years-old when he was killed nine years ago - the youngest of three people killed in the Boston terror attack
Henry and Martin's sister Jane also lost her leg in the terror attack
Two other people and another 263 participants were injured from the incident
'I did it for both of us, and my sister, and the rest of my family…I love this city…This is Boston Strong.' Henry said after completing the race in four hours
Among 28,000 other participants, the Pace University student ran the marathon with his siblings' names written on each side of his arms
Martin would have been 18-years-old in June this year and has a park named after him in Boston
[HUFFPOST] Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov on Monday explained what may lead to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ouster by his inner circle in a "palace coup."
CNN’s Paula Reid asked the longtime Putin critic and political activist if he expected to see more anti-Kremlin sentiment building in Russia as its invasion of Ukraine falters.
"Eventually, yes," replied Kasparov, a chess grandmaster for the former Soviet Union and Russia.
Kasparov then laid out "the order of moves that cannot be reversed."
"First, the Russian public and Russian elite, they have to recognize the war is lost," he said. "The bad news coming from Ukraine will inspire more people to rise because economic hardship will increase."
"So, military defeat in Ukraine, social-economic revolt and then you will have conditions, the right conditions, for a palace coup," Kasparov predicted. "Because many of Putin’s inner circle will be looking for a scapegoat and it’s always a dictator who should be blamed for all the failures."
Putin knows losing the war on Ukraine "is not an option for him," said Kasparov.
"It’s a matter of political survival and in many cases ... of physical survival," he added. "That’s why he has to pretend he is winning the war."
#2
Russia will probably win but it will be a Pyrrhic victory, especially for Putin. (And we have been seeing suggestions for a while now that Putin has Parkinson’s- which can have mental illness/irrationality elements, which could explain some of the Ukraine actions.)
#5
Not a "nuclear wasteland," just a Gaza style shithole that the West's grifters will spend $1 trillion or more of their people's money trying to "reconstruct"... just like the Iraq boondoggle and the Afghan sinkhole
#6
Meanwhile, Russia destroys Ukraine's ability to export anything (except needy refugees), takes over that country's share of the global wheat market and grabs all its natural gas reserves in the Donbas.
All while the US destroys the reserve currency status of the dollar, the West becomes significantly poorer, China gains power and influence and the non-western world orients itself toward Russia and China.
[FoxNews] BLUF: Having no SALT cap allowed blue states to force red states to subsidize their high blue state taxes
The Supreme Court Monday rejected an appeal from several states challenging Congress's cap on state and local taxes that can be deducted from federal taxable income.
New York led a group including Connecticut, New Jersey, and Maryland in trying to strike down the 2017 limit known as the SALT cap, which limits people to $10,000 of their state and local property and income taxes that can be deducted. The states argued that the cap improperly encroached on states' taxing ability.
"Congress’s taxing authority (as set forth in Article I, Section 8 and the Sixteenth Amendment) is cabined by the structural requirements of federalism, which prevent the federal government from directly interfering with the States’ ability to generate revenue to sustain their operations," the states said in a March court filing. "The long history of federal income taxation demonstrates that Congress and the States equally understood that a deduction for all or nearly all state and local property and income taxes was constitutionally required to preserve state sovereign taxing authority."
The Supreme Court did not provide any explanation for declining to hear the case.
The SALT cap was passed by Congress during former President Donald Trump's administration, and the Biden administration continued to defend it as this case went on.
The current Democrat-controlled House passed a bill in 2021 that would temporarily raise the cap to $80,000 until 2031, when it would go back to $10,000. The Senate has yet to take action on the bill, although a separate plan in the Senate led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., would cap the tax break by income, making it unlimited for individuals earning about $400,000 and phasing it down above that amount,. Republicans have criticized the bill, saying it would disproportionately benefit ultra-wealthy Americans in blue states.
#1
U.S. foreign policy and the conventional wisdom of the elite class was that if the West engaged with the CCP, it would become more liberal and less repressive of its own people, and it was this thinking that allowed the CCP to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the end of 2001.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall it should have been apparent that the best way to deal with China was the same way we dealt the the Soviet Union. But it seems a number of senators and corporate leaders were smelling money.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/19/2022 12:43
Comments ||
Top||
[ZeroHedge] It appears that somehow the definition of emergency now includes making a profit at the expense of American consumers because sooner or later a real emergency will hit and then it will be too late, while easing the true energy emergency over in Europe.
According to Matt Smith, oil analyst at commodity data firm Kpler, this is the first export of SPR crude since last November. Which means the oil was apportioned from Biden's shock SPR release.
One wonders what is behind Biden's decision to make US emergency SPR oil available across the Atlantic; one can only hope that it doesn't mean that in the coming midterms mail in ballots will also be made available to Europeans...
Posted by: Skidmark ||
04/19/2022
06:24 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11133 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
#1
Either the SPR will eventually run dry as a metaphor for this entire administration or they are continuously replenishing the supply and the releases are just empty and false gestures … which would be another metaphor for this administration. If they are discovered to be simultaneously filling and emptying the reserve, the administration will argue that the policy is effective in lowering gas prices. Brian Stelter will back them up,
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/19/2022 12:29
Comments ||
Top||
#2
Oil is fungible. So the net effect of 1) sending oil to Europe, and 2) releasing oil from the SPR — or the other way round — gives rise to the shocking Zero Hedge headline. But I suspect the White House team has not made the connection between their two actions, as they aren’t nearly as intelligent as they fondly imagine.
[Right Scoop] A BLM protester in Pennsylvania yesterday got laid out by a black cop in Wilkinsburg after the radical group refused to comply with officers and began fighting with them.
These BLMers were trying to protest in the middle of the street, which is absolutely unlawful.
The one officer made that clear but the loud mouth girl in the video suggested to officers that BLMers had a right to protest anywhere they wanted.
The officers began to remove them by force and that’s when the protesters began resisting and fighting.
That’s when the magical moment happened and one of the black officers went all Will Smith and laid out the big girl with a punch to the face.
Couldn’t have happened to a more worthy perp. Watch the video for more...
#13
I noticed the person at the end is shrieking "You're Hurting Them". I was thinking that's just one person, and then I remembered, some people choose to go by "them" as their personal pronoun. My daughters have explained this to me but it's very confusing and they get annoyed when I smirk.
[Breitbart] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) launched and quickly won his border battle with four Mexican state governors – and the D.C. establishment is pretending the victory never happened.
“The governor [of Tamaulipas] will provide enhanced border security enforcement measures on the Mexico side of the border, both in ports of entry as well as along the Rio Grande River to prevent illegal immigration from Mexico into Texas,” Abbott said Friday as he ended the trade-blocking safety inspections of Mexican trucks into Texas.
“If those crossings resumed — or increase — it will signal the cartel-supported crossings have increased and that Texas must reinstate the more stringent vehicle-inspection standard,” he said.
“We are showing how border governors can lead the way on solving border problems,” Abbott said after using the threat of trade blockades to forge deals with four Mexican state governors.
“It remains to be seen how successful this effort of his will be, but clearly it’s an initial success,” responded Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “It’s perplexing why there hasn’t been more real coverage of it … I’m not familiar with something of this scale happening before,” he added.
The Biden administration said little during Abbott’s border war, Krikorian noted.
Mexico’s federal government also said little.
“It is rather astonishing that a Mexican Prez … (who says to care a great deal about sovereignty) allowed Abbott to bully up individual Mexican state governors (by choking the US/MX supply chain) & forcing them to implement security measures,” said in a Friday tweet by a D.C.-based Mexican journalist, José Díaz Briseño.
On Monday, Mexico’s president briefly commented on the deals won by Texas. “Legally they can do it, but it’s a very despicable way to act,” said Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Abbott’s coup “has received surprisingly little mass media coverage for being a state governor directly interfering with international trade policy,” a pro-migration media site said on Friday. “It’s no secret to anyone that Abbott’s got broader political ambitions,” the Border/Lines site added.
The U.S. corporate-run media reported Abbott’s win as an Abbott defeat — and played up business claims of massive economic damage in the United States — despite four Mexican governors signing anti-migration deals in exchange for easier truck traffic into Texas.
But Abbott played up his win on Friday, knowing that he helped himself in his gubernatorial re-election campaign and also boosted his national profile before the 2024 race:
Texas will not tolerate the endless stream of illegal immigrants crossing the border and we will increase our border security in light of President Biden’s decision to eliminate Title 42 expulsions. The ultimate way to end the clogged border is for President Biden to do his job and secure it. Until then, Texas will use its own strategies to secure the border.
“If there is not a slowdown in illegal immigration, there will be a reimplementation of 100 percent inspection of all commercial vehicles,” Abbott said, adding:
A consequence of that is financial pain, and that financial pain is necessary to get the public to insist that their government leaders — such as the presidents of the two countries involved — take the action that is needed to solve this problem.
[Breitbart] China’s ruling Communist Party strategically labeled expanding nationwide Chinese coronavirus restrictions over the weekend as “temporary controls of social activities” after some residents in certain affected cities, such as Xi’an, reportedly “panicked” after first learning of the restrictions, China’s state-run Global Times acknowledged Saturday.
The government of central China’s Xi’an on April 15 ordered all 13 million-plus residents of the city to observe “temporary controls of social activities” from April 16 through April 19 to contain a fresh local outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus. Xian’s municipal “anti-epidemic command center” issued a press release announcing the lockdown on the night of April 15, or mere hours before the restrictions went into effect starting at 12:01 am on April 16. The last-minute notice shocked many Xi’an residents and caused some to “panic,” according to the Global Times. The edict detailed how the city would assign local Communist Party monitors to stand guard outside Xi’an residential compounds during the lockdown and ensure no one escaped the buildings.
“[R]esidents are encouraged not to go outside their residential communities, with volunteers being deployed to register and take the temperature of those who come in and out,” the statement read.
Xi’an’s latest movement restrictions came as a surprise to many of the city’s residents, in part because the community had only just emerged from the admittedly “tough days” of a month-long Chinese coronavirus lockdown from December 2021 to January 2022, as acknowledged by the Communist Party-run Global Times on April 16.
Outside of Xi’an, at least eight other Chinese cities and counties have entered new Chinese coronavirus lockdowns over the past month. A separate article by the Global Times on April 17 attempted to paint the nationwide lockdowns as anything but, carefully categorizing affected residents as “under static management.”
“[U]nlike city lockdowns that cause massive standstills of work and life, the measures are specified and targeted at different local situations, trying to minimize the impact on people’s daily activities,” the newspaper claimed.
The publication named several Chinese communities that imposed lockdowns on their populaces in recent days, writing:
On Sunday [April 17], the main city of Wuhu, East China’s Anhui Province, temporarily implemented static management and launched nucleic acid testing for all residents in the city after one positive case was found on Saturday [April 16].
Shanghai’s Pudong and Jiading districts also issued notices on Friday [April 15] and Saturday [April 16] respectively to adopt the prevention and control measures of “static management of the whole region and nucleic acid testing of all personnel.
Also, cities and counties in Northwest China’s Qinghai Province, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, and East China’s Jiangsu Province have issued the similar notice against the Omicron in recent days.
A Chinese coronavirus lockdown of all of Shanghai — which is China’s most densely-populated metropolis and home to nearly 26 million inhabitants — launched on April 5 and continued unabated at press time on Monday, April 18. The global financial hub’s movement restrictions have caused dire food shortages among the city’s residents, all of whom have been sealed off inside their homes for nearly two weeks.
[FoxNews] CBP detained most of the Ukrainians at the U.S.-Mexico border
U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained more than 5,000 Ukrainians at U.S. land, sea and air borders in March, according to new data released Monday.
CBP reported a total of 5,071 Ukrainians detained last month. That represents a significant increase from the 1,146 who were detained in February. CBP detained most of the Ukrainians at the U.S.-Mexico border. The data shows that a total of 3,274 were detained at the southwest border, another major increase from the just 272 Ukrainians who were detained there in February.
The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that the Biden administration is extending temporary protected status for Ukrainians for another 18 months. DHS said the designation will allow eligible Ukrainians to stay in the U.S. and apply for employment authorization.
President Biden has previously said the U.S. will welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and others fleeing the war with Russia.
The United Nations reports that more than 4.9 million people have fled Ukraine since the war began on February 24. Most of the Ukrainians have sought refuge in neighboring countries including Poland, Romania, Hungary and Moldova. The vast majority, nearly 2.8 million Ukrainian refugees, have sought safety in Poland.
[FOX] A retired Army Ranger said the military was a melting pot that already stamped out racist tendencies even before the Pentagon started launching initiatives.
The Department of Defense under Secretary Lloyd Austin has taken several steps aimed at eliminating extremism from the service and expanding equity. But extremism and racism aren’t issues within the ranks, since such beliefs are incompatible with unit cohesion – a necessary element for combat victory, the former Ranger, Jariko Denman, told Fox News.
"You as an individual are not important," he said. "The mission is important, and your teammates are important."
"You always put your teammate before yourself," Denman, who served 20 years in the Army, added.
#2
I would think racism takes a back burner when you're on the battlefield and the guys shooting back with you is a different race.
Posted by: Chris ||
04/19/2022 9:44
Comments ||
Top||
#3
Regarding Skidmark's link.
"The charges faced by the seven soldiers are not directly related to the homicide. And nobody has been charged with Roman-Martinez's death."
#4
When I was in 30 years ago the only "racism" I saw was tongue in cheek jokes regarding the stereotypes regarding races. We all just joked and laughed at it and there wasn't any hate to it.
#6
In a military organization, you and your team mates protect each other from dying. On subs, if you were not respected by your mates you were made to leave the boat by non physical means, “You will find your girl friend just like you left her, Freshly F. You were not allowed to qualify. One mistake or failure to do your duty could sink your boat and kill the crew.
Posted by: Papa Cooky ||
04/19/2022 20:58
Comments ||
Top||
#7
Well I received the "Undetected Crime Ribbon",,,,
[Rolling Stone] A Trump-appointed Federal judge in Florida has voided a national mask mandate for airplanes and other transportation. "Wearing a mask cleans nothing," U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle wrote in her decision on Monday. "At most, it traps virus droplets. But it neither ’sanitizes’ the person wearing the mask nor ’sanitizes’ the conveyance."
Mizelle, 35, was only eight years out of law school at University of Florida when Trump appointed her to the lifetime position in 2020. The Daily Beast noted at the time that her only trial experience was as an intern, and that she held four clerkships, including one for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Mizelle was rated "not qualified" by the American Bar Association prior to her appointment, citing her lack of experience.
The transportation mandate case on which Mizelle ruled was filed on behalf of a group known as Health Freedom Defense Fund, as well as airline passengers. Mizelle said that the Centers for Disease Control had exceeded its legal authority, that it had failed to justify its decision and follow comment protocols, and that the mandate was "arbitrary and capricious," according to The Washington Post. The CDC had announced earlier this month that it extended its mask mandate to May 3.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it will no longer enforce the mask mandate in light of Mizelle’s decision, according to CNN.
The Biden administration was dismayed by the ruling. "This is obviously a disappointing decision," Press Secretary Jen Psaki said at a press briefing on Monday. "The CDC continues recommending wearing a mask in public transit."
#1
Airlines are dropping the mandate like a hot potato.
Posted by: Bobby ||
04/19/2022 8:27
Comments ||
Top||
#2
Mizelle was rated "not qualified" by the American Bar Association prior to her appointment
"And we haven't even looked at her high school yearbooks yet!"
Posted by: Matt ||
04/19/2022 9:20
Comments ||
Top||
#3
There was story on the local news saying the stewardesses were going to stop complying with the mask mandate anyway. I would honestly love to see the shit show that would create.
Posted by: Chris ||
04/19/2022 9:47
Comments ||
Top||
#4
Good for her. The administrative state has often over-stepped its authority and assumed powers not granted.
[Right Scoop] Ilhan Omar whined about a video of Christians singing worship songs on an airplane yesterday on the biggest holy day in all of Christendom.
She did it by suggesting that her Muslim family would never be allowed to do the same thing:
Some were quick to point out that this is no ordinary airline flight, but a chartered flight, which means the comparison is stupid and unfair. And bigoted.
#4
Christians singing songs to celebrate Easter is not the equivalent to the call to prayer. Based on the news, the Ramadan equivalent seems to be throwing rocks at police or burning a mile of cars.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/19/2022 12:35
Comments ||
Top||
#5
Omar faces a rough race in the 5th district. She may get primaried out. If she doesn't get primaried out, she would face a tough general election. Minnesota District 5.
[Aljazeera] Johannesburg, South Africa — A group of climate change organisations have filed criminal complaints against the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and a number of prominent cabinet ministers, accusing the government officials of "unlawful negligence" by failing to take "practical action to address the climate crisis."
The move comes as nearly 400 people have been reported dead in KwaZulu Natal province, where a subtropical storm, Issa, also destroyed buildings, highways and infrastructure.
In documents submitted to the South African Police Services on Thursday, the Climate Justice Charter Movement (CJCM) wants the government to be found guilty of "culpable homicide" for its acts of omission to "prevent further emissions and to protect the vulnerable from increased inequality and poverty."
CJCM, a coalition of several climate change activists and lobby groups from across the country, is arguing that the South African government is directly responsible for the deaths in KwaZulu Natal.
"We filed a criminal complaint in order to test the strength of our criminal justice system and our democracy," said Vishwas Satgar, the board chairperson of Co-operative and Policy Alternative Centre, a member of the CJCM alliance. "It is the cheaper route than a civil case, and we have galvanised support from legal persons all over the country who agree that it is time to link the climate crisis to the rule of the justice system."
#1
This must be brought under control at the global level. International courts and governance are obviously the key. Under-represented nations and peoples will suffer.
BLUF:
[PJ] If there is any strategy here at all, it is really to render the vice president herself "under noticed." The more time she spends in Greenville, Miss. and Sunset, La., which Politico names as one of her other stops, the less opportunity she has to remind the watching world that she really isn’t very bright. The more time she spends busying herself with working on "increasing investments in underserved communities," the less time she can devote to inquiring about racist trees, expatiating upon the passage of time, or informing us that prices have gone up.
#5
Historically, most VPs are treated as irrelevant. The fact that they tried to make her relevant, discovered that she was irredeemably terrible and now consider irrelevance to be a better path for her speaks to just how bad Joe is cognitively. Having operatives dressed as Easter Bunnies shepherding him away from children and reporters is farcical like an outtake from Grosse Point Blank or a Pink Panther movie.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/19/2022 12:06
Comments ||
Top||
[Guardian] People of color and low-income communities are at disproportionate risk of pesticide exposure, a new study has found.
Roughly 90% of pesticide use in the US is in agriculture, making farmworkers — 83% of whom identify as Hispanic — more vulnerable to the synthetic chemicals intended to kill, repel or control pests.
"These workers somehow are seen as expendable," said Robert Bullard, a co-author of the report and the director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University. "This study shows the systemic neglect that [led to] a whole workforce being an underclass and not given the same weight when it comes to health and safety."
The study reviewed CDC and EPA data, along with existing pesticide research, and found that structural injustices, gaps in regulation and weak farmworker protections have led to disproportionate exposure to pesticides among people of color. It was conducted by the Center for Biological Diversity; researchers from Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and advocates from farmworker, racial justice and conservation groups.
Twelve out of 14 markers for harmful pesticides, tracked over the past 20 years, were found in the blood and urine of Black and Mexican Americans at levels up to five times higher than those found in white Americans.
Pesticide safety laws in place today by the Environmental Protection Agency set standards for pesticide exposure among consumers through food, but they specifically exclude farmworker protection from occupational exposure. "Laws and regulatory practices that we have in place right now are really perpetuating this," said Nathan Donley, environmental health science director at the Center for Biological Diversity and co-author of the report. Center for Biological Diversity is a leftist whackjob outfit.
Jeannie Economos, pesticide safety and environmental health project coordinator at the Farmworker Association of Florida, said: "We need to get rid of these pesticides and find alternatives. They’re not only poisoning farmworkers, they are in our groundwater, on our food, and depleting our soil."
Marginalized communities are at a higher rate of exposure both in the workplace and at home, whether due to proximity to a pesticide manufacturing plant or from use inside residences.
#1
"These workers somehow are seen as expendable," said Robert Bullard
Disposable people? Gold watch, Social Security not an option? Who knew? They're arriving this country in record numbers. Surely someone will tell them. Obviously more studies are needed.
#4
Perhaps we need to create people of obvious color who are more pesticide resistant. We could do this by building giant dunes of pesticides along our southern border. Illegal immigrants that make it across the dunes will be fitter than average and the ones that don't die from chemical exposure will be more resistant to pesticides. Sure, it would work. It is the same mechanism we use to create antibiotic-resistant microbes.
[IsraelTimes] Semi-annual priestly blessing event draws only a few thousand Jewish worshipers to Old City, as police face ongoing threat of Palestinian violence in capital.
[IsraelTimes] Two men said seriously maimed; military says they hurled explosives at soldiers amid festivities in town of Yamoun, near Jenin; gunfire also reported in area
Two Paleostinians were shot and seriously maimed during festivities with Israeli troops in the northern West Bank on Monday morning, Paleostinian health officials said.
A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told The Times of Israel that the two men attempted to hurl bombs at troops who were conducting arrests in the town of Yamoun.
"Dozens of Paleostinians gathered in the area, hurled stones and threw explosives at the forces. The troops fired at suspects who tried to hurl explosives at them. Hits were identified," the spokesperson said.
Footage posted to social media purported to show the two men sprawled on the ground, as Israeli soldiers were seen in the background.
According to the Paleostinian Authority’s health ministry, the two men were taken to a hospital in the nearby city of Jenin.
No Israeli troops were hurt in the operation, the military spokesperson said.
The IDF later said in a statement that troops detained 11 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank overnight Sunday, including four who were suspected of attacking an Israeli man in the town of Husan last week.
Recent weeks have seen an uptick in military activity in the northern West Bank amid a spate of deadly attacks in Israel, some of whose perpetrators came from the area.
[ZERO] During the COVID-19 pandemic, stringent measures such as mandatory masking, vaccination, and "quarantining healthy populations" have turned the United States into a "Biomedical Security State," Dr. Aaron Kheriaty told EpochTV’s "American Thought Leaders" program on April 9.
"This welding of public health with digital technologies of surveillance and control and the police powers of the state allows for intrusions on our privacy, on our bodily autonomy, that are unprecedented in history," said Kheriaty, a psychiatrist and medical ethicist.
Kheriaty, chief of medical ethics at the Unity Project and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, added that a "probably north of 70 percent of Americans still got COVID in spite of almost a year of lockdowns," and that the lockdowns have essentially brought on "massive collateral damage" in the form of a mental health crisis.
He cited the pre-pandemic opioid crisis accounting for a total of 70,630 drug overdose deaths in 2019 in the United States, according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) The lockdown has only "poured gasoline on [the] fire" of the existing drug overdose crisis, resulting in the skyrocketing of drug overdose deaths to over 100,000 last year, said Kheriaty.
An August 2021 study published on Pub Med found that "state lockdown policies precede greater mental health symptoms," and that many "non-heavy drinkers" turned to alcohol during lockdowns as a coping mechanism for "anxiety and depressive symptoms."
#4
Anyone else get a notice that in the near future you can no longer 7 digit dial someone, but must 10 digit dial "In order to support a Suicide Hotline."?
Why would that be; last I smelled bullshit this thick was downwind of a feed yard with 1" of rain followed quickly by a slight breeze with 110F.
Local use land lines having to connect to The Big Hub?
#6
Thank you Beavis. I still don't understand the in order to give access to the Suicide Hotline; guess it could be some wank trying to tie new policy to hot topic.
I have noted that tradition and digital medias are really starting to roll out depression counseling ads of many different colors. I believe Rantburg called this about week 8 of 2 weeks to flatten the curve, if taken as long-term policy. Wonder how many edge-walking teens who just needed a couple years to grow up, were pushed off the edge and are now long term damaged.
#8
We are anticipating a rather large population increase over the next few years; suppose a mental health hotline sounds better than Last's Month's Border Jumpers.
(and if you think the local 1st gen Immigrants are happy, whoa now. Nevermind the 2nd and especially 3rd.)
#9
In the Cincinnati tri-state area (SW Ohio - Northern Kentucky- Eastern Indiana) they added another area code for new users and required us to dial ten digit numbers about two decades ago. Apparently there’s been talk about a national suicide hotline in recent months, but I completely missed it. But given that it’s 988, analogous to 911 for local fire and police, I don’t see why the area code matters.
[IsraelTimes] Military reportedly doesn’t believe terror group launched rocket but says it holds enclave’s rulers responsible; no immediate reports of injuries or damages
The Israeli military struck targets in 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... Strip after midnight on Tuesday in response to a rocket fired from the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-controlled enclave hours earlier.
The rocket attack was the first in nearly four months, ending one of the longest periods of quiet on the Gaza border in years.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it bombed a number of targets, including a site used by Hamas to manufacture weapons. Hamas-affiliated media reported that the Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeted a site operated by Paleostinian factions west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Witnesses and security sources in the Gaza Strip reported no injuries from the air raid.
"The IDF considers Hamas responsible for what unfolds in the Gaza Strip," the army said.
Hamas front man Hazem Qassem sought to downplay the strikes."The Zionist bombing of some empty sites [is] a failed attempt ...Curses! Foiled again!... to prevent our Paleostinian people from defending the city of Jerusalem," he said.
"Congratulations to the men of the resistance who confronted the fighter jets with our anti-aircraft defense," Qassem added, saying it had been the first time that Hamas had used the surface-to-air missile.
The pro-Hezbollah television network al-Mayadeen said Hamas used a SA-7 shoulder-fired missile, also known as a Strella.
The IDF did not mention any damage to its own aircraft during the strike.
An unnamed security source told the Kan public broadcaster the air force operates under the assumption that Hamas has anti-aircraft missiles and that the terror group has previously deployed them during Israeli strikes.
The rocket fired at southern Israel on Monday evening was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system. There were no reports of injuries as a result of the attack. The Eshkol regional council said there was no change in instructions for residents.
Following the rocket firing, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, and military chief Aviv Kohavi held a meeting to discuss a potential response, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
The attack came amid escalating Israeli-Paleostinian tensions, following festivities and violence in the Old City of Jerusalem, a series of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks and stepped up IDF activity against terror groups in the West Bank.
There was no immediate claim by any of the Gaza-based terror groups for the rocket fire. Paleostinian sources cited by the Kan public broadcaster and the Ynet news site said the 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... was believed to be behind the attack.
After the rocket fire, Hamas reached out to Israel through Egyptian mediators in order to stress that it wasn’t interested in further escalation and had not been behind the attack, according to Kan.
In the past, Israel has responded with airstrikes against sites belonging to Gaza’s rulers, Hamas, regardless of the group launching the attack. More rarely, it has directed its response at Islamic Jihad, if the terror group grabbed credit. It is largely believed that Hamas has enough of a stronghold in the enclave that no rival group would fire at Israel without the ruling group’s tacit approval, at the very least.
The last time rockets were fired from the coastal enclave toward Israel was on January 1, 2022. At the time, no sirens sounded as the two rockets landed in the sea off the coast of Tel Aviv. Still, the IDF responded with a series of airstrikes against Hamas targets.
On Sunday afternoon, sirens sounded in the town of Nahal Oz, in what the IDF said was a false alarm.
The last few days have seen violent mostly peacefulfestivities between Paleostinians and police on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, leading to the injury of dozens of Paleostinians and several coppers.
Hamas and other Gaza-based terror groups have repeatedly invoked the flashpoint holy site as a red line. Police actions to quell riots there last year were among the triggers of an 11-day war in Gaza last May.
[Dawn] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... on Monday said it has launched a new air and ground offensive against outlawed Kurdish bandidosgunnies in northern Iraq involving special forces and combat drones.
Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said commando units, unmanned aerial vehicles and attack helicopters were pounding Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hideouts in three restive regions near the Ottoman Turkish border.
Designated as a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies, the PKK has been waging an insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state since 1984 that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Turkey routinely carries out attacks in Iraq, where the PKK has bases and training camps in the Sinjar region and on the mountainous border with Turkey.
"Our heroic pilots successfully struck shelters, caves, tunnels and ammunition depots belonging to the terrorist organization," Akar said.
"A large number of bully boyz were neutralised," he said, adding that the scale of the operation will "further increase in the coming hours and days".
Akar would not say how many troops were involved in the operation, which he said started on Sunday night.
Asked to comment on Turkey’s operation, a PKK front man in Iraq said on condition of anonymity: "The occupation army, which tried to land troops by helicopters, also wanted to advance by land.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
04/19/2022
02:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
[Dawn] THE inevitable has happened. Pakistain on Sunday condemned "Lions of Islam operating with impunity from Afghan soil to carry out activities in Pakistain".
This is the strongest possible public statement from Islamabad and a rebuke to the hard-line regime in Kabul, that has been conveniently looking the other way as the outlawed TTP continue to carry out ferocious attacks on Pak soil.
Pakistain’s demand for "stern’ Afghan action against the TTP comes amid reports of a significant increase in cross-border attacks. In the past week alone, the TTP carried out multiple attacks in North and South Wazoo districts and Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... , resulting in the martyrdom of several soldiers and coppers. There were also reports, originating from Kabul, that spoke of Pakistain launching retaliatory strikes on suspected TTP bases in Khost and Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... s, though neither the ISPR nor the Foreign Office has confirmed them. One report from Kabul, however, did mention Pakistain’s ambassador to Afghanistan having been summoned on the matter and given a démarche.
Islamabad’s condemnation of the increase in terrorist activities from across the border and Kabul’s protest over the alleged air strikes expose the friction between the two countries. Pakistain has been exercising maximum restraint since the Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... took control of Kabul last August.
Contrary to their claims and Pakistain’s optimism that the new regime would not allow Afghan soil to be used against any country, there has been a sharp uptick in attacks, all originating from Afghanistan. According to official figures, 119 Pak officers and soldiers laid down their lives while battling the scourge from mid-August till last month. This is simply shocking.
For too long, the US-led Western bloc considered the Afghan Taliban to be proxies furthering Islamabad’s interests in Afghanistan. Indeed, there were many in Pakistain too who celebrated the ’Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s’ second ascension to power, including those who distanced themselves from the war on terror, saying it was not Pakistain’s war. This was despite warnings that the TTP and the Islamic Emirate were, in fact, two faces of the same coin.
With Pakistain’s casualties mounting in the renewed war against terrorism, that narrative has died down, or so it seems at the moment. Pakistain’s open and blunt condemnation, and its demand that the Afghan Taliban contain the TTP, is one such indication. There is, however, no sign from across the border that Kabul is paying heed.
It is time that Pakistain used all available diplomatic and economic resources at its disposal to make it absolutely plain to Kabul that it cannot get away with allowing Afghanistan’s territory to be used by bully boyz to spread terrorism in the region. The pressure on the Afghan Taliban must be increased. Afghanistan’s rulers must also be made to realise that they cannot absolve themselves of the responsibility of the attacks by asking Islamabad to engage with the Pak bully boyz based in Afghanistan.
As of 12:55 a.m. ET, Garowe Online had nothing on this story. Perhaps there will be something later.
[DW] A mortar attack interrupted a parliamentary session in Somalia as the newly elected politicians were meeting in the heavily fortified compound. Somalia is trying to complete the process of choosing a new president.
Newly elected deputies attend oath-taking ceremony after the parliamentary elections in Mogadishu, Somalia on April 14
Several people were left injured after a mortar attack struck the area around Somalia's parliamentary building on Monday just as newly elected politicians convened for only the second time.
Officials and witnesses reported that shells landed inside the heavily fortified compound, but that no politicians were hurt. The explosions were also heard over the live stream of Monday's lower house parliamentary session.
Al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... , an Islamist murderous Moslem group with connections to al-Qaeda, grabbed credit for the attack. The group has been waging an insurgency against the government in Mogadishu for over a decade.
UN CONDEMNS ATTACK
"We have no details yet but these explosions were caused by mortar fire; the politicians were safe and unharmed inside the building when the incident occurred," a security officer who asked not to be named told the AFP news agency.
"I was in the area when the mortar shells landed outside the building where the parliamentarians were meeting; several people were maimed lightly in one of the blasts," another witness said.
The UN's mission to Somalia, UNSOM, tweeted its condemnation of Monday's mortar attack, saying it "wishes a speedy recovery for the injured, and stands firm with Somalis in their efforts to complete the electoral process and progress on national priorities."
SOMALIA'S COMPLEX ELECTORAL SYSTEM
The newly elected members of the Senate and the House of the People were sworn in on Thursday following elections that had been postponed for over a year.
Only 297 out of 329 seats were filled, but politicians pledged to move ahead with the electoral process that has been marred by a power struggle between the sitting president and prime minister.
The two houses of parliament will vote on their speakers later in the month, a necessary step before proceeding to the election of the country's new president.
Somalian elections follow a complex indirect mandate system where state legislatures and clan delegates choose politicians, who then choose the president.
Al-Shabaab claimed three attacks carried out last month that killed over 50 people, including Somali politician and outspoken government critic Amina Mohammed Abdi. They also claimed an attack last week onMogadishu's airport during a ceremony in which the new politicians officially took their seats in parliament. Nobody was injured, according to Europa Press.
[RT] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... has begun a major cross-border military offensive, targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) snuffies in the northern part of Iraq, according to the Defense Ministry, in Ankara.
The operation involves an extensive Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... campaign using jets, helicopters, and drones, as well as a ground incursion by commando troops, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced in a video address on Monday morning.
Ankara claims it successfully destroyed multiple bunkers, tunnels, and ammunition depots, as well as military headquarters of the PKK in northern Iraq’s border areas of Metina, Zap, and Avashin-Basyan, before ground forces moved into the neighboring state. It is unclear how many troops and military hardware are involved in the operation.
"Our operation is continuing successfully, as planned. The targets that were set for the first phase have been achieved," Akar said, as cited by AP.
Ottoman Turkish forces are only targeting "terrorists," taking extra precautions to avoid the loss of civilian lives and damage to cultural heritage sites, the minister claimed.
"Our struggle will continue until the last terrorist is neutralized," he said. "We are determined to save our noble nation from the terror misfortune that has plagued our country for 40 years."
Posted by: Fred ||
04/19/2022
00:52 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
[Rudaw] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) on Sunday vowed to seek "Dire Revenge" over the killing of its former leader and called on supporters to make the most of the war in Ukraine to resume attacks in Europe.
In an audio message believed to be by the group and circulated on Telegram channels affiliated to them, a new military campaign was announced to avenge the deaths of former leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quryishi and the group’s former spokesperson.
"We announce, relying on God, a blessed campaign to take Dire Revenge," AFP cited the group’s new front man, Abu Omar al-Muhajir as saying after offering supporters Ramadan greetings.
Muhajir then proceeded to talk about the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict, wishing for losses to be inflicted on both sides. He called on supporters to take advantage of "the opportunity available" of "crusaders fighting each other" and to stage attacks in Europe.
The audio message was the first communication by Muhajir since March 10 when he confirmed the death of al-Qurayshi, and named Abu Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi as the new leader, about whom little information is known. Muhajir himself is also a figure followers of the group are not familiar with.
Former ISIS leader Qurayshi went kaboom! during an overnight US special operations raid in the early hours of February 3 in Idlib, northwest Syria.
ISIS typically sends messages to followers during Ramadan to garner support.
The message came shortly after an Iraqi soldier was injured in a suspected ISIS attack in Salahaddin province.
Last week, Iraqi forces arrested an ISIS leader and several suspected members of the group. On Wednesday, Kurdish security forces announced the arrest of an ISIS leader believed to have executed two Peshmerga fighters.
Recent attacks have not been limited to Iraq and Syria. ISIS grabbed credit for a shooting attack in Hadera, north of Tel Aviv, killing two people and injuring six. The incident marked the group’s first claim of responsibility for an attack in Israel since 2017.
The group was declared territorially defeated in Iraq and Syria in 2017 and 2019 respectively, 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. In Syria, the terror group continues to launch deadly attacks from the Syrian desert, which extends from Damascus to the Iraqi border.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) released their conflicting number of fatalities on Monday afternoon, hours after Ankara announced a new military operation targeting the mountainous regions of northern Duhok, sparking renewed fear among locals.
The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry claimed that 19 PKK fighters were neutralized in the first phase of the newly-launched operation, dubbed Claw-Lock, adding that four Ottoman Turkish soldiers were also injured.
The People’s Defense Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the PKK, stated that 28 Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed and nine others were maimed, reported media affiliated to the group, Roj News.
The new aerial and ground operation against suspected PKK positions in northern Duhok province was announced early on Monday, hours after Ottoman Turkish bombardment targeted Shiladze.
The fresh bombardment has sparked concern among locals that this could start a new wave of displacement.
"People are trying to abandon this region because they can see that bombs drop just one kilometer or two kilometers from their homes," Iqbal Omer, a resident of Shiladze, told Rudaw’s Ayub Nasri on Sunday.
According to data from the Shiladze administration authorities, only seven out of 92 villages are still inhabited. The rest have been abandoned due to the conflict between the PKK and Turkey over the past decades.
The constant state of conflict has caused fear among local civilians, particularly children. "I am a Peshmerga soldier, I can bear the noise and sound of bombs, but a 10-year-old child cannot bear the sound of these bombings," said Jaafar Ramazan, a Peshmerga soldier from Shiladze.
According to the International Crisis Group, 1,047 fatalities have been incurred in Iraq, including civilians, PKK fighters, and state security forces since 2015.
More than 500 villages have been emptied in the Kurdistan Region over three decades of the Turkey-PKK conflict.
For a given value of ready that means not any time soon. But all that training keeps otherwise unemployed fighters busy and out of trouble, and goodness knows most of them can use more training. Besides, it sounds totally scary to threaten their imminent arrival in the Ukraine...
[Rudaw] During a visit to Syria in 2017, Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... lavished praise on a Syrian general whose division played an instrumental role in defeating bandidos krazed killers in the country’s long-running civil war. The Russian president told him his cooperation with Russian troops "will lead to great successes in the future."
Now members of Brig. Gen. Suheil al-Hassan’s division are among hundreds of Russian-trained Syrian fighters who have reportedly signed up to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, including Syrian soldiers, former rebels and experienced fighters who fought for years against the Islamic State
Continued on Page 49
[Rudaw] Fresh festivities erupted between the Iraqi army and an gang affiliated to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Shingal over control of the area, reported PKK media which linked the incident to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s new military operation against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Footage, shared by the PKK-affiliated Denge Chira Shengale news outlet, purportedly shows a group of Iraqi soldiers surrounding a checkpoint in Sinune subdistrict controlled by the PKK-affiliated Ezidkhan Asayish.
Rojnews, another PKK-affiliated news outlet, claimed that the Iraqi army asked Ezidkhan Asayish to hand over the checkpoint but they refused, leading to armed festivities. Two civilians as well as a number of the members of both forces were maimed but their identities remain unclear.
The festivities took place late afternoon and lasted for a couple of hours. However, ars longa, vita brevis... the dispute has not been resolved, according to Rojnews.
Shingal fell under the control of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in 2014, leading to the death, abduction or displacement of its mostly-Yazidi population. The town has been controlled by a number of forces after ISIS holy warriors were defeated. The forces are affiliated to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Iraqi government, pro-Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... Shiite paramilitary groups, or the PKK.
Clashes between the Iraqi army and PKK-affiliated forces in Shingal have taken place several times. The Iraqi government and the KRG signed an agreement in 2020 to "normalise" the situation which includes the withdrawal of all PKK-affiliated forces in the city. The agreement has been rejected by the PKK and its proxies.
The Iraqi army has yet to comment on the fresh festivities.
Turkey launched a new military offensive against the PKK positions in the Kurdistan Region late last night. The PKK media claimed that the Iraqi army is supporting the operation by attacking PKK-affiliated forces in Shingal.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy ...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's... said the Russian invasion of Ukraine should serve as a "lesson" for a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan, arguing President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....... needs to act sooner on beefing up Taiwan’s military so it can have a better chance of defending itself.
During an Easter morning appearance on "Fox News Sunday," McCarthy, R-Calif., slammed the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... for being too slow to provide arms to Ukraine ahead of the invasion.
"This is going to get stronger and rougher," McCarthy said. "And what really needs to happen is, Ukraine is not asking for American men and women to fight. All they're asking for is the weapons to defend themselves. If we would have taken those actions earlier, instead of waiting until after Russia invaded, they probably never would have invaded had we done that sooner."
[FoxNews] The protester was arrested and later released
Black Lives Matter protesters got into an altercation with police in Pittsburgh that ended with a black officer striking one of the protesters, according to images captured at the scene.
By doing so he made himself functionally white, according to the left wing of the Democratic Party and their totalitarian fellow travellers, regardless of actual melanin content or life experience.
A group of roughly 20 activists gathered to protest the death of Jim Rogers
...some homeless guy who got himself killed by the police, giving Antifa/BLM another excuse to run riot...
who died in the hospital after being tasered by eight police officers in October. Several officers from the Wilkinsburg Police Department and others soon arrived on the scene and declared the event an unlawful assembly, ordering the group to stop blocking the street.
When the group continued to ignore police orders, officers attempted to arrest one of the protesters. Another activist stepped between the arresting officer and the protester, leading to a violent scuffle in which the officer punched the intervening protester, who then fell to the ground.
Another officer with a police dog pushed protesters away as the first officer held the activist down.
It took less than five minutes from the moment police exited their vehicles for the scene to deteriorate. Police arrested both the first protester and the activist who attempted to intervene, though that individual was released later Saturday.
Pittsburg fired five of the eight officers who used tasers on Rogers, the city announced at the end of March. Rogers' death was ruled an accident, however, and the other three officers will remain in their posts.
The Wilkinsburg Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
[NYPOST] A far-right Danish politician’s threat to burn the Koran and pour "pork blood" on it gave rise to riots in Sweden over the past few days.
Anti-Moslem and far-right political party Stram Kurs planned to hold a demonstration in the town of Landskrona, but announced a change of venue to the city of Malmo after protesters threw stones and set fires to cars, tires and garbage cans.
Kim Hild, a spokesperson for the police in southern Sweden, said that authorities would not revoke permission for the anti-Moslem demonstrations since they had not breached the threshold to deny free speech.
Kim Hild, a spokesperson for the police in southern Sweden, said that authorities would not revoke permission for the anti-Moslem demonstrations since they had not breached the threshold to deny free speech.
[NYPOST] A 22-year-old Michigan man has been found guilty of shooting an 18-year-old woman — and then recording himself kicking her for almost 11 minutes until she died.
Andrew Lafey shot Gracyn Brickley several times with a .22-caliber rifle behind a house on Guy Road in Maple Grove Township on Feb. 16, 2021, WILX reported.
The monster then used his phone to record a nearly 11-minute-long video of himself kicking and taunting her until she died.
He then buried Brickley’s body in snow and showed the brutal footage to his friends and his father — who turned him in to the police, according to the news outlet.
Lafey was convicted Friday of a slew of charges, including first-degree murder, which carries a maximum of life in prison without the possibility of parole, felony firearm possession and torture.
"We are pleased with the verdict and that justice for Grace Brickley and her family was served," the Barry County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
Prosecutor Julie Nakfoor Pratt described the horrific crime.
"The Defendant video taped himself stomping on and taunting Grace Brickley for close to 11 minutes. The torture seen in the video came after Lafey shot Grace Brickley twice and inflicted multiple injuries to her face and breaking her jaw," she said, according to the outlet.
"Justice for Grace Brickley and her family was served," she added.
The sadistic killer is slated to be sentenced June 9.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11134 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Explain to me again why the death penalty is "inhumane"?
#4
Since DNA can identify perpetrators of capital crimes, the death penalty should be instated in all states.
“In the 1800s, many people in America and Europe began to oppose the death penalty. Michigan abolished it in 1845 and Wisconsin entered the Union in 1848 without a death penalty in its statutes. The movement against the death penalty grew stronger after World War II, especially in Europe, where many were weary of so much killing during the war.”
Posted by: Papa Cooky ||
04/19/2022 21:10
Comments ||
Top||
[NYPOST] A man went on an apparent drug-fueled rampage on the Upper East Side on Monday morning, randomly attacking four people, cops said.
The 32-year-old suspect began his violent mostly peaceful spree just after 8 a.m., when he punched a man at East 96th Street and Second Avenue without provocation, authorities said.
The assailant then moved three blocks north to East 99th Street and Second Avenue, where he hit a man over the head with a bottle, shattering it, police said.
The suspect then used the bottle fragments to cut a woman at the same intersection, cops said.
His spree ended around 8:30 a.m. on East 92nd Street near York Avenue after he allegedly assaulted another man. Cops did not provide details on that attack.
The unidentified suspect was taken into custody at the scene of the fourth assault and brought to Metropolitan Hospital, apparently because of his intoxication, cops said.
Charges were still pending against him.
All of the male victims were also taken to Metropolitan Hospital and the female to Harlem Hospital. The victims were all reported to be in stable, pH balanced condition, police said.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Mob Rule
[NYPOST] Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president... wants to take feelings out of the equation.
DeSantis on Monday defended his education department’s rejection of math textbooks as part of an effort to eliminate social-emotional learning, a teaching philosophy that helps kids manage their feelings and show empathy for others, from the subject curriculum.
"Math is about getting the right answer. We want kids to learn to think so they get the right answer," DeSantis said at a presser in Jacksonville.
"It’s not about how you feel about the problem or to introduce some of these other things. There’s a right answer and there’s a wrong answer. And we want our students getting the right answer."
DeSantis said objective subjects like math should remain uncluttered by "political" content, such as social-emotional learning and Critical Race Theory
...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense... .
Posted by: Fred ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
[BenarNews] The leader of a separatist group sidelined from Deep South peace talks said Monday it would not take part in negotiations with Bangkok if independence is off the table.
The comments came days after the Patani United Liberation Organization carried out twin bombings that killed a villager and injured three police, disrupting a Ramadan-time truce agreed between the Thai government and Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), the region’s main Death Eater group.
"PULO is ready to talk, but not under the framework of the Thai constitution," Kasturi Mahkota, the group’s leader, told BenarNews via text messages.
Continued on Page 49
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RusOnline] The nationalists who settled at the Azovstal plant will be destroyed by thermobaric charges. This was reported by the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" with reference to its sources.
“As it became known, ground troops will not storm cellars with militants. The corridors there are narrow, they are stuffed with mines and are well shot through. Therefore, the entire area of the plant will first be smashed with FAB-3000 high-explosive aerial bombs, which will be dropped by Tu-22M3 long-range supersonic bombers. Someone in Russia is gonna be in big trouble over this bit of legerdemain.
Such bombs will violate the integrity of the basement. And then they will start burning the enemy with thermobaric charges from the TOS-1A Solntsepek,” Komsomolskaya Pravda writes. It is noted that the system works on the principle of a flamethrower.
First, the projectile breaks through the ceiling and explodes in the room, which leads to the spraying of the thermobaric mixture.
After this, a second explosion occurs, from which the mixture ignites.
Posted by: badanov ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
#1
I have seen videos of the Azov fighters. They are very spread out and are constantly infiltrating Russian lines wreaking havoc.
For example:
https://funker530.com/video/nsfw-azov-battalion-brutally-ambushes-russian-troops/
#6
and now Russian terror, torture, rape and murder?
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/19/2022 6:30
Comments ||
Top||
#7
This is coming from Komsomolskaya Pravda which used to be an 'official' paper. Makes me wonder if this intimate discussion of future plans is meant to encourage the Ukr troops to surrender.
The fighting is in a bombed-out, post-apocalyptic factory complex - a great place to defend from. The defenders are surrounded with no hope of relief or resupply. A ground attack is suicidal. More shelling just makes more wreckage to hide behind. It would be convenient if the defenders surrendered. Better press for the Russians, too.
#8
Kreminna has fallen:
"Russian invading forces have taken control of the city of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine and Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the city," the regional governor said on Tuesday
Slovyansk will fall next
Mariupol's steel factory will be bombed to rubble with bunker busters
The armed forces of the Russian Federation on April 19 at 14:00 opened a humanitarian corridor for the withdrawal of Ukrainian soldiers and militants who voluntarily laid down their arms from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
[Fox13Memphis] Columbia police arrested Marquise Love Robinson, 20, on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and battery, and unlawfully carrying a pistol, the department said in a news conference Monday...
The update came one day after police arrested Jewayne M. Price, 22, on a charge of unlawfully carrying a pistol following the shooting, which occurred about 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Columbiana Centre...
Police are still searching for a third suspect in connection with the incident. Amari Sincere-Jamal Smith, 19, remains at large and faces the same charges as Robinson, at this point it seems Gang related
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
..That part of town has been in flux for a while - we used to live about a mile or so from Columbiana Centre, and the shopping district around it has been up to now pretty safe.
But the ferals are creeping ever outward.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
04/19/2022 6:53
Comments ||
Top||
#2
Last time I passed through Columbia, SC, I said "never again."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/19/2022 7:16
Comments ||
Top||
#3
Obviously White supremacists
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/19/2022 7:27
Comments ||
Top||
#4
Where Whites involved in any of the weekend’s mass shootings?
Carlson, 52, is currently gearing up to release a series of new documentaries for season two of his show, Tucker Carlson Originals
One of the episodes, entitled The End of Men, is set to focus on the 'total collapse of testosterone levels in American men'
But when the political commentator suggested that guys tan their private parts as a way to feel more manly, it left many people on the internet bewildered
He shared a preview for the upcoming docuseries last week - which showed a bunch of shirtless men participating in 'bizarre' activities
It contained a montage of half-naked guys wrestling, milking cows, shooting guns, chopping wood, taking an ice bath, and 'testicle tanning'
The video quickly went viral, and many people took to Twitter to troll Carlson - mocking him for the 'homoerotic' and 'outright weird' preview
Even though Carlson refers to it as 'testicle tanning' in the clip, the process that he is referring to is actually red light therapy Is that the same as infrared?
Red light therapy is not about making your body tan, but rather, 'improving the skin's appearance' and 'reducing wrinkles, scars, redness, and acne'
#2
After the event, Megan Hays, a special herder assistant to the president and director of message planning, revealed on social media that she was wearing the costume
"I had the taser, but I didn't wanna use it"
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/19/2022 7:10
Comments ||
Top||
#3
He's still sharp enough to realize the minute he steps from office, the long knives will devour his worthless, deranged, POS spawn as well as the rest of the Biden crime family.
#11
They should have used an Iron Tail costume to keep the kids at a safe no grope distance.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/19/2022 12:18
Comments ||
Top||
#12
"The Masked Winger"
I had changed by bet back when to three months thinking he was one who would 'forget' to breathe or have his heart beat. I didn't factor in they probably have him wear a soccer bra overnight. Money Pool, IIRC, was after midterms, only 6 months out.
I imagine whoever said they could have Kamela ready in 2 years is avoiding windows, stairs, and late night walks around DC.
#4
^ Exactly. Neocons are salivating at the thought of another ten-year overseas war they can lose. Why restrict yourself to fucking up in Iraq Afghanistan and Libya when you can add Ukraine to the list?
#7
We started in Vietnam with "advisors" and "trainers" around 1960, too. And we all know how that turned out.
Posted by: Tom ||
04/19/2022 13:24
Comments ||
Top||
#8
#7: I believe Kennedy was going to get us out. Johnson kept us in on the pretext of he wouldn't be the first us president to lose a war. Nixon got us out. Meanwhile exellent military training.
Western Lviv has been spared much of the fighting since February 24 invasion, but was struck on Monday
Attacks also rocked towns near Donetsk and Kharkiv, killing more civilians, and a military target near Kyiv
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of wanting to 'destroy' the entire eastern region of Donbas as Russia prepares assault, and vowed that his forces would fight on to defend Mariupol
Ukraine's forces are preparing for a final defence of the besieged, strategically vital southern port city
Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces were reported to have mounted a counter-attack in eastern city of Izyum
Russian forces are said to be building in the region, preparing to mount their assault on Donbas
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin sent up his nuclear-capable bombers in the skies over Western Russia today
The planes, believed to be Russian Tu-95s, appeared to be flying in striking distance of Ukraine
Also today, the first images of Russia's sunken Black Sea flagship Moskva - after it was blown up by Ukrainian missiles last week - have emerged on social media. Footage also appeared to show the vessel sinking
Posted by: Skidmark ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
#1
Kreminna has fallen:
"Russian invading forces have taken control of the city of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine and Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the city," the regional governor said on Tuesday
[FoxNews] The agents have been cleared of wrongdoing but remain on desk duty
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday refused to apologize for the White House’s now-debunked claim that Border Patrol agents were whipping Haitian migrants during a confrontation near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Images emerged in September of Border Patrol agents in Del Rio, Texas, showing agents on horseback blocking migrants from entering the U.S. and, in one case, grabbing onto a migrant’s shirt.
Many Democrats and media outlets falsely described the agents’ long reins, which they use to control their horses, as "whips."
Psaki at the time slammed what she called "brutal and inappropriate" behavior by Border Patrol agents.
"We understand and agree that this has been an incredibly heart-wrenching issue," Psaki said. "We’ve watched the photos of Haitians gathering under a bridge, many with families, and the horrific video of the CBP officers on horses using brutal and inappropriate measures against innocent people."
President Biden weighed in on the controversy, saying "those people will pay."
"There will be an investigation underway now and there will be consequences," Biden said at the time. "There will be consequences."
The agents have since been cleared in the investigation but have been on desk duty since the incident.
Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Psaki Monday afternoon when the president would apologize to the Border Patrol agents.
Psaki evaded the question, saying that the matter is being handled by the Department of Homeland Security and she could not provide any more updates.
When Doocy asked Psaki whether she would apologize, she said the investigation into the matter "would play out."
"Whenever it’s going to be announced, the Department of Homeland Security will announce that," Psaki said. "And then, I’m sure we’ll have a comment on it after that."
[NYPOST] Disgraced ex-Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin showed up in court Monday with ex-Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserved him... ’s former defense lawyer — who immediately floated the same theory that helped get de Blasio off the hook in a "pay-to-play" corruption probe.
Barry Berke appeared to telegraph his planned strategy on behalf of Benjamin, who resigned last week following his indictment in an alleged bribery scheme involving more than $50,000 in illegal donations to his campaign committees.
"This is a very unusual political corruption case because the charges are based solely on political contributions and no personal benefits," Berke said during an appearance in Manhattan federal court.
in 2016, de Blasio was referred for investigation by the state Board of Elections, sparking state and federal probes into fundraising for his 2013 mayoral campaign, his controversial Campaign for One New York nonprofit and the 2014 state Senate elections.
The following year, then-acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim said he’d decided not to file charges against de Blasio in part because of "the particular difficulty in proving criminal intent in corruption schemes where there is no evidence of personal profit."
Also during Tuesday’s court session, Judge Paul Oetken gave Benjamin permission to travel to New Jersey after Berke said that "he has family there" and prosecutors didn’t object.
#1
I think there will be plenty of criticism after the 2022 wipeout. That will be the exclamation point for her career. Her eunuchs already seem to be limbering up to defenestrate her.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/19/2022 12:41
Comments ||
Top||
#2
^ The big question is whether she still is the gateway to all the Silicon Valley money. I think that was the way she survived the last challenge to her leadership.
Posted by: Tom ||
04/19/2022 13:36
Comments ||
Top||
#3
To me it seems like Pelosi and McConnell both run their fiefdoms like The Firm. They facilitate corruption through earmarks, assignments and other stuff until they have support from the majority of the caucus. The few outsiders left are isolated and powerless. It is interesting to watch McConnell rotate his minions through votes that support Schumer’s priorities in a way that leaves each one’s voting record with a conservative looking percentage.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/19/2022 15:41
Comments ||
Top||
#4
Well, the (5) peeps who still watch PBS got a "treat."
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 23:06 The next US anti-Russian sanctions will be directed against the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation, said US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wall Adeyem. 23:04 Zelensky acknowledged that in the east and south of Ukraine, Russian troops are attacking "a little more thoughtfully than before" - they are looking for weak points to enter with the main forces. "But let them not hope that it will help them. The liberation of our entire territory is only a matter of time," the president assured.
22:56 After the Russian attack, the President of Ukraine has become in the eyes of the West an icon of the struggle for freedom. Zelensky won sympathy for his emotionality and straightforwardness. Read more about this in the material Zelensky's Speech: how the whole world listens to the president .
22:52 Zelensky said that Russian troops have begun the battle for Donbass, which they have been preparing for so long. According to him, a significant part of the Russian troops is concentrated there for the offensive. "No matter how many soldiers are driven there, we will defend ourselves. We will fight. We will not give up anything Ukrainian," the president stressed.
22:49 Macron said his dialogue with Putin stalled after massacres were discovered in Ukraine: "After the massacres that we found in Bucha and other cities, the war took a different turn, so I have not spoken since then with him directly, but I do not rule out doing so in the future."
22:22 Yermak said that now a lot of fakes are spreading about the Russian offensive: "The second phase of the war has begun, but I will tell you that the Armed Forces of Ukraine - everything is reliable. Believe in our army, we have it very strong."
22:19 The commander of the Azov regiment, lieutenant colonel Denis Prokopenko, said in an address to international leaders that right now hundreds of civilians are hiding from the "Russian world" at the Azovstal metallurgical plant.
"The Russian-occupation troops and their proxies from the 'LNR/DNR' know this, they know about civilians and willingly fire at the plant. They use free-fall bombs, rockets, bunker bombs, all types of artillery - both ground and naval , for indiscriminate attacks," Prokopenko said.
He called on politicians from all over the civilized world to organize a proper green corridor, ensure its safety and immediate evacuation and protection of civilians, wounded soldiers and the bodies of dead soldiers, and bury them with honors.
22:13 The Central Bank of Russia admitted that it is no longer able to contain the economic consequences of the sanctions imposed because of the war against Ukraine. More about this - in the material of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, a crisis in the economy awaits .
22:11 In the Donetsk and Lugansk directions, the JFO soldiers repulsed seven enemy attacks, destroyed ten tanks, one artillery system, 18 armored units, eight vehicles and one enemy mortar along with the calculation.
Air defense units in the sky of the Ukrainian Donbass shot down one enemy Su-30 fighter and four Orlan-10 drones.
21:42 Yermak said that the Temporary Protected Status announced in early March for Ukrainian citizens who were physically in the United States has been officially introduced from today. The status of temporary protection will allow Ukrainians to stay in the United States for up to 18 months with the possibility of applying for a work permit in the country.
21:33 The rector of the church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Novograd-Volynsky district will stand trial for calling on parishioners to support the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Zhytomyr regional prosecutor's office said.
The suspect tried to convince the community that the Russian authorities had sent troops "to liberate Ukrainians from the Nazis and Bandera, to protect the Russian-speaking population of the fraternal people."
21:28 The US military plans to begin training the Ukrainian military in the handling of howitzer artillery in the coming days, a senior Pentagon official said, Reuters writes. The exercises will take place outside of Ukraine.
21:25 The Mariupol City Council reports that the Russian invaders are attacking Azovstal with super-heavy air bombs. There are at least a thousand civilians in the underground shelters of the metallurgical plant - mostly women with children and the elderly.
21:18 Russian troops set themselves the task of completely getting the Donetsk and Luhansk regions before Easter, said NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov.
21:09 Near Balakleya, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down a Russian plane, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA, said.
21:07 The EU condemns the ongoing "indiscriminate and illegal" shelling of civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine by the Russian armed forces, Borrell said.
21:03 The US and Romanian defense ministers discussed the need for urgent assistance to Kiev against the backdrop of a possible Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine, the US department said. Also discussed was the formation of a multinational NATO battle group in Romania under the leadership of France.
20:59 In the Kharkiv region, 13 civilians were killed today as a result of shelling by Russian troops, the National Police reported.
20:32 In the Zaporozhye region, 155 facts of the abduction of civilians by Russian occupiers were registered, the OVA reported. Of these, 86 hostages were released, 69 people are in captivity.
Of the total number of abducted - 34 representatives of local authorities (24 were released), 14 entrepreneurs (six were released), 12 heads of enterprises, institutions, organizations (five were released), three lawyers (two were released), two journalists (both were released). Also on the list is one teenager - the 16-year-old son of the head of the Zaporizhzhya regional state administration Oleg Buryak. Now his whereabouts are unknown.
20:27 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov said that in the morning the Russian invaders began the second phase of the offensive: "Our troops are holding out. Only in two places they managed to break through - this is Kremennaya and another small town. Fighting continues. We do not surrender our territories."
20:15 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "a high-precision strike in the Lviv region struck a joint center for providing rear services to Ukrainian troops, and large batches of foreign weapons from the United States and European countries were destroyed."
Also, in the area of the settlement of Vasilkov, Kiev region, a "large ammunition depot" was allegedly destroyed. And in the Dnieper, a factory for the repair of warheads of Tochka-U tactical missiles was allegedly destroyed. In total, according to Moscow, "operational-tactical aviation of the Aerospace Forces carried out strikes on 84 military targets of Ukraine in a day."
20:07 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said that Putin has not canceled the task of destroying the top political leadership of Ukraine.
20:00 Washington and Beijing are closer than ever to an armed conflict over a strategic island. Details - in the material Factor of Ukraine: Taiwan is preparing for war with China .
19:57 The Russian Federation has strengthened its presence in the east and south of Ukraine, a senior Pentagon official said, CNN reports. Since the end of last week, Russia has added 11 battalion tactical groups to its forces in eastern and southern Ukraine, according to US estimates, bringing the total number of Russian BTGs to 76.
19:50 During the war with Ukraine, Alexander Chirva, the commander of a large landing ship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, Caesar Kunikov, died. The "head" of the administration of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that Chirva died from wounds received in battle on the mainland of Ukraine. He did not provide other details.
The commander of the 49th anti-aircraft missile brigade of the tactical air defense unit of the Russian Ground Forces, Colonel Ivan Grishin, also died.
19:28 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that his country would help Ukraine with weapons - this decision was almost unanimously approved by the country's parliament.
19:17 The grouping of the occupying forces of the Russian Federation in eastern Ukraine continues to focus its main efforts on capturing the settlements of Liman, Kremennaya, Popasna and Rubizhne, as well as on establishing full control over Mariupol, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
The enemy stepped up offensive operations in the Severodonetsk, Popasnyansky, Kurakhovsky and Zaporozhye directions. To build up efforts, the enemy continues to concentrate additional tank and artillery subunits. The fighting for Mariupol continues, the Russian Federation is trying to storm in the seaport area.
19:08 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced "signs of the beginning" of an offensive operation in the Eastern Operational Zone. Thus, in the Slobozhansky and Donetsk operational regions, the aggressor intensified offensive and assault operations in certain areas. It is expected to continue attempts to advance on the Izyum-Slavyansk and Izyum-Barvenkovo directions.
The goals of the Russian Federation are the occupation of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and the retention of control over the occupied territories.
In order to strengthen their offensive capabilities, the invaders continue to form additional units on the territory of the Rostov region and in the Crimea. According to available information, the approximate date of formation is until April 24. Also, provocative actions and the use of army aviation by the enemy in the regions of the Russian Federation bordering Ukraine with Ukraine, including strikes against civilian objects, are not ruled out.
18:53 The World Bank lowered its global economic growth forecast for 2022 from 4.1% to 3.2%.
18:36 The detention of Medvedchuk, who escaped from custody, stirred up Ukraine. The ex-people's deputy and godfather of Putin is suspected of treason and assistance to the activities of a terrorist organization. Everything that is known at the moment is in the material Medvedchuk's Exchange: a new way to help Mariupol .
18:18 The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine plans within a few weeks to return the possibility of conducting transactions for the purchase and sale of real estate in territories where hostilities are not ongoing, said the head of the department, Denis Malyuska.
18:03 In Mariupol, the invaders are inciting the local population to cooperate, promising to pay compensation for destroyed housing in rubles. According to the Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council, in this way the enemy is trying to carry out a ruble occupation of the occupied territories in order to isolate the population later, following the example of ORDLO. They promise to pay compensation only to those who receive fake documents from the invaders. The next step is the forced renunciation of Ukrainian citizenship.
17:56 Russia is carrying out the militarization of children in the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. According to the Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova, it is planned to open the largest Cossack cadet corps in the Lugansk region for 400 seats in Starobelsk. In addition, the occupying authorities plan to open cadet corps and classes in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk.
As of the end of 2021, there were 62 cadet classes in the occupied territory of the Luhansk region, with more than 1,200 children, and two cadet corps, with 417 children.
There are already dead among the graduates of the cadet corps. In particular, in early April 2022, Andrei Degtyarenko, a graduate of the Republican Cossack Cadet Corps named after Air Marshal Alexander Efimov (Lugansk), a graduate of 2017, died while performing "combat missions" of the invaders.
17:42 Zelensky handed over the completed questionnaire to the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine to obtain the status of a candidate for membership in the European Union.
Zelensky handed over a questionnaire to the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine to obtain the status of a candidate for EU membership
17:39 Putin awarded the 64th motorized rifle brigade, which was located in Bucha, the title of guards - "for mass heroism and courage, fortitude and courage shown by personnel in combat operations to protect the Fatherland and state interests."
17:28 Le Pen said that "Russia is a great power," and she would not want Russia to "finally enter into an alliance with China."
"As Emmanuel Macron said, the rapprochement between Russia and Europe is an important condition for ensuring the security of our continent and our country. Imagine: the largest country in the world will unite with the country with the largest population. The first producer of raw materials in the world, Russia, with the first world plant, China, in order to create, let's say, the first military force in the world. I think this is a great danger. Therefore, it is necessary by diplomatic measures, until the war is over, until the agreement is signed, to avoid this merger, which risks becoming a great danger of the 21st century for us" , - considers the candidate for the presidency of France.
17:25 Russian invaders have stepped up the activities of their sabotage groups in Ukraine. Terrorist attacks are possible on Easter, and not only in war zones, First Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Yenin warned: “Unfortunately, DRGs do not walk with parachutes behind their backs and do not have other characteristic differences. That is why we call on our conscious citizens to be vigilant.” .
Earlier today, saboteurs were detained in Zhuliany near Kyiv. And in Moscow they said that the Ukrainians for Easter are preparing "sophisticated monstrous provocations with numerous victims in the Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkov regions."
17:00 Two British fighters captured by the Russian military appeared on Russian state television. Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin asked Johnson to trade them for Medvedchuk, reports Sky News.
16:51 Russia has concentrated carriers of at least 36 cruise missiles in the Black Sea, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said: "Over the past day, the number of sorties of Russian operational-tactical aircraft has increased by more than one and a half times, and there are five Russian carriers in the Black Sea sea-based cruise missiles of the Caliber type. Their potential total salvo is at least 36 missiles."
16:49 Belgium most effectively applies sanctions against the Russian Federation - they froze Russian assets worth about 200 billion euros. At the same time, Portugal blocked one account for 242 euros, and Spain arrested three yachts, said Daniil Getmantsev, head of the BP Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy.
16:43 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated several settlements in the vicinity of Izyum , said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Motuzyanyk.
16:24 Denisova said that on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, which the invaders are going to storm, there are at least a thousand civilians, including women, children and the elderly. They hide in the premises and basements of the plant, as their houses are destroyed and they do not want to be sent to filtration camps and the Russian Federation.
16:19 Monobank stopped serving customers who were before the war and still have not left the territories of Russia, Belarus, Crimea, LDNR, North Korea, Siri and Eritrea. According to the head of the bank, Oleg Gorokhovsky, there are a total of 11,251 people. Their accounts will be closed.
16:14 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said that a total of about 50,000 civilians from settlements controlled by Ukraine remain in the region. In the occupied cities, Russian mercenaries are looking for men, they are immediately seized and sent to fight against Ukraine.
Gaidai also said that the bulk of the local authorities either left for controlled territories or do not cooperate with the occupiers, although there are several collaborators.
16:11 The Azov Regiment reported that, despite the superior forces of the enemy, the defense of Mariupol continues, the Ukrainian defenders are conducting a counterattack.
16:08 The number of official refuseniks is growing among the Russian military. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, among contract soldiers in units of the 150th motorized rifle division of the 8th army of the southern military district of the RF Armed Forces, the number of refusals reached 60-70% of the total number of personnel.
The deputies of division commanders for military-political work and FSB officers "work" with refuseniks. In case of repeated refusal, they threaten reprisals against relatives. Those who have not been convinced, who have not yet participated in the war against Ukraine, but remained in the so-called strategic reserve, as well as those who arrived in the unit during the rotation, but refused to participate in hostilities, are put on a military ID corresponding stamps.
Also, Russian servicemen are promised a payment for a wound or concussion in the amount of 3 million rubles, but it can only be received if the serviceman returns to the unit for further participation in hostilities. Otherwise, there are critical problems with paperwork and even obtaining proper medical services and certificates of the very presence of an injury.
15:57 Ukraine has sent the first part of the completed questionnaire to the European Commission to obtain the status of a candidate member of the EU and is already working on the second part, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanyshina said.
15:54 In the Chernihiv region liberated from the Russians, the bodies of 71 people were removed from the rubble of houses, 41 people were saved, the rescuers said. Since the beginning of hostilities in the region, 14,553 explosive items have been seized.
15:42 In the occupied Genichesk, a monument to Lenin was restored on the central square, local residents report. The monument was dismantled in July 2015 as part of decommunization.
15:33 Vereshchuk appealed to the military-political leadership of Russia in connection with the situation in Mariupol: "We demand the opening of a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol to Berdyansk for civilians. Separately, we demand an urgent humanitarian corridor from the territory of the Azovstal plant for women, children and other civilians Your refusal to open these humanitarian corridors will in the future be the basis for bringing all those involved to criminal liability for war crimes."
15:28 In Russia, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the website of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch was blocked because of an article about events in Ukraine.
15:22 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, believes that after the capture of Kremennaya, the Russians will try to take Rubizhne and Popasnaya. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have a very powerful line of defense in Zolote, and Russian troops will not be able to pass this city. But around Popasnaya and Rubezhnoye they have accumulated enough equipment and manpower.
He said that in the Kremennaya Armed Forces of Ukraine they would retreat to new positions, since those that were were well known to the Russians. Gaidai also added that about four thousand people remain in the city.
There is also a risk that Russian troops will move towards the Luhansk region from Izyum. It is not safe for them to move towards Kharkov, since the Ukrainian defense of the city is very powerful, "but if they go down from Izyum, then there is a possibility that they will cut off the Luhansk region completely."
15:16 Austria plans to start its own investigation of war crimes committed in Ukraine. Currently, the Ministry of Justice of the country is sorting out the legal side of the issue so that work can begin, writes Euractiv.
15:04 Among the victims of the shelling of Lviv is a three-year-old boy who, along with his mother, came from Kharkov to escape the war. Nothing threatens his life, Lviv Mayor Andrey Sadovy said. Three other victims are in critical condition in intensive care.
14:55 In Kharkiv today, around noon, the Russians fired at the Osnovyansky district. According to the regional prosecutor's office, shells fell on the territory of playgrounds near residential buildings. As a result of the shelling, a man and a woman were killed, residential buildings were damaged.
14:37 There will be no additional days off in April and May due to martial law in Ukraine. According to the State Labor Service, April 25, May 2 and May 9 will be working days, which will be paid in the usual way.
14:21 The police have completed all the necessary investigative actions in Irpin to fix the war crimes of the Russian military and handed over the bodies of 269 dead local residents for examination.
14:19 According to the UN, more than 4.9 million people have left Ukraine since the beginning of the war. Of these, over 2.7 million people crossed the border with Poland, more than 743 thousand - to Romania, about 522.4 thousand - to Russia, more than 461 thousand - to Hungary, 423.8 thousand - to Slovakia.
14:14 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the country's embassy in Kiev will soon resume work "as a sign of the commitment of the government and Spanish society to the Ukrainian people."
14:06 Google Maps opened all the military and strategic facilities of Russia - they became available in the maximum resolution (up to 0.5 meters per pixel). Any user can view Russian airfields, naval bases, intercontinental ballistic missile launch silos, training grounds, command posts, etc. Previously, all these objects were displayed in much worse quality, according to ArmyInform.
14:00 The commander of the 36th separate marine brigade, Major Sergei Volyn, wrote a letter to Pope Francis to help save people from Mariupol: "I have little time to describe all the horrors that I see here every day. People live in bunkers at the plant women with children, babies.In hunger and cold.Every day at the sight of enemy aircraft.Every day the wounded die, because there is no medicine, no water, no food.I turn to you for help.Because the time has come when not by united prayers .Help save them."
13:54 Members of the crews of three cargo ships remain in captivity of the invaders - Azburg under the flag of Dominica, Smarta and Blue Star-1 under the flag of Liberia. According to the Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova, 42 crew members and the wife of the captain of the Smarta ship were taken hostage on the territory of the Mariupol Commercial Sea Port.
According to the captain of the ship Azburg, Sergey Dzysyak, the crews were "checked" in the filtration camp in Mangush. Now they are in Donetsk under the constant supervision of the armed Russian military.
13:38 Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić accused Ukraine of alleged involvement in the mass mining of Serbian aircraft flying to Moscow. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry categorically denied these accusations.
He also stressed that Kyiv is disappointed that Belgrade has not yet joined the sanctions against Russia because of the war against Ukraine.
13:27 The National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting reported that 30 European countries have already supported the call to turn off Russian propaganda channels, ten of them began broadcasting Ukrainian channels.
13:22 As a result of yesterday's shelling of the Kharkiv region, nine civilians were killed and another 25 were injured, the IVA reported.
13:19 In Russia, preparations have begun for the Victory Parade on May 9 on Red Square in Moscow. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that more than 11,000 servicemen, 131 units of "modern weapons and military equipment", 77 aircraft and helicopters were involved in the rehearsals.
13:18 Peskov said that "the Ukrainian side does not demonstrate constancy in the agreements reached in the negotiations with the Russian Federation, it is changing its position." According to him, the dynamics of the progress of the negotiation process "leaves much to be desired."
13:16 As a result of today's shelling, fires broke out in Lviv, which have already been completely extinguished, said the head of the OVA Maksim Kozitsky. There were hits in military warehouses that were not used, and a tire shop, both objects were completely destroyed.
The death toll has increased to seven people - these are the first deaths as a result of a hit in Lviv. It is also known about 11 victims, including one child.
Lvov was hit by four air-launched cruise missiles. According to preliminary information, they were released from the Caspian region.
13:11 Medvedchuk turned to Zelensky and Putin with a request to exchange him for the defenders and residents of Mariupol. The video with the appeal was published by the SBU.
12:58 Peskov once again stated that the "special operation" of the Russian Federation in Ukraine "is going according to plan."
12:55 Ukrposhta reported that half of the millionth edition of the stamp Russian warship, go ...! sold out in the first five days. No more stamps with this design will be produced. In connection with speculations, Ukrposhta imposes restrictions on the stamp - no more than five sheets in one hand (six stamps in one sheet).
12:51 Since February 24, a little more than a million citizens have entered Ukraine, spokesman of the State Border Service Andriy Demchenko said. According to him, this week on the eve of Easter, the number of Ukrainians wishing to return home will grow. He also confirmed the information voiced earlier by Polish border guards that last Saturday, for the first time since the start of a full-scale war, border guards recorded more of those who enter Ukraine than those who leave.
12:48 More and more cities around the world are placing banners and billboards with the phrase Be Brave Like Ukraine - Be brave like Ukraine . One of the latest examples is Times Square in New York, said Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development.
12:44 The National Police are investigating almost 900 cases of missing Ukrainians, more than 500 cases of abductions of civilians, as well as more than 2,500 cases of the death of Ukrainian citizens. We are talking about the territories that were and are still under occupation, said the first deputy head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police Sergei Panteleev.
12:40 The Cabinet of Ministers approved the National Bank's proposal to nationalize 26 billion hryvnias of assets of Russian banks withdrawn from the market. The decision must be approved by the National Security and Defense Council and the president, director of the Deposit Guarantee Fund Svetlana Rekrut said in an interview with Economic Truth.
12:37 In Bucha, during the occupation by Russian troops, every fifth inhabitant was killed , the mayor of the city Anatoly Fedoruk said: "We calculated: every fifth of those who remained in the city under the occupiers were killed. And I personally, like thousands of my fellow citizens, I feel hatred for those who tortured and killed peaceful Buchanians."
12:34 In Kharkiv, a point for issuing humanitarian aid was fired upon. According to the director of the Center for Emergency Medical Assistance and Disaster Medicine Viktor Zabashta, according to preliminary data, one person died and six were injured.
12:22 In Bucha, Kiev region, liberated from invaders, the police detained a group of marauders. Four criminals, including two women, robbed one of the construction supermarkets destroyed by shelling. Marauders stole tools and equipment worth five million hryvnias.
12:09 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said that even without humanitarian corridors and a regime of silence, more than a hundred people were evacuated from the region today. Together with the patrol police, the State Emergency Service and volunteers, 49 residents of Lisichansk, 18 residents of Severodonetsk, 23 people from the Mountain Community, 14 from Rubizhne and four from Popasna were able to take out.
For the rest, food, medicines and hygiene products have been delivered, they are already being transported to bomb shelters. Tomorrow the evacuation will continue.
12:06 The RF Ministry of Defense stated that "the Kiev regime, with the support of the West, is completing the preparation of sophisticated monstrous provocations with numerous victims in the Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkiv regions."
"For this purpose, more than 70 mobile groups were formed from among the nationalist battalions in vehicles equipped with mortars (the so-called wandering mortars), with the task of shelling Orthodox churches and churches on Easter night (from April 23 to 24) and then blaming the Russian military," - the message says.
12:02 According to updated data today, the occupiers are holding at least 20 thousand people in filtration camps along the Mangush-Nikolskoye-Yalta line, not allowing them to evacuate due to the deliberate delay in the filtration procedure, Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said. Also, at least 5-7 thousand people are in the filtration camp in the village. Nameless at the stage of preparation for deportation.
11:58 In Mariupol, the invaders were not going to release Ukrainian defenders, despite the official offer to surrender and promises to save lives. According to the mayor's adviser Pyotr Andryushchenko, the occupiers' plans are clear: "According to their report, the corridor for a safe exit should have been marked with red flags, but no mark was made. This once again confirms only the trap prepared for our defenders."
11:47 The State Border Service confirmed that citizens of Ukraine must have a passport to cross the border. At the beginning of the war, citizens were also allowed to pass on other documents, since then service centers were not working, and people could not draw up the proper documents, but now there is no such "emergency situation", the State Border Guard Service explained.
At the same time, in relation to persons leaving the regions where hostilities are taking place, border guards can make a separate decision.
11:38 The Department of Civil Protection of Kharkiv urged residents of the city not to leave their shelters all day today, as Russian troops continue to continuously shell sleeping areas. They ask to be in shelters all the time, even despite the absence of air raid alerts.
11:26 The deputy of the Lviv City Council Andrian Gutnik said that the guided missiles that hit the infrastructure of Lviv were sent to the Ivano-Frankivsk region, but changed direction at the last moment.
11:23 Vereshchuk said that humanitarian corridors would not work again today, because the occupiers did not observe the silence regime.
11:20 The occupiers took control of Kremennaya , said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, fighting in the city continues, evacuation is no longer possible. People are being taken out of Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Popasnaya, Gorny and Rubizhny.
He also said that in Kremennaya, the invaders fired at a civilian car, according to preliminary information, four people were killed, one was wounded. People tried to leave the city on their own, but the Russians opened fire on them. Gaidai urged not to leave the shelters and not to try to leave the city on their own.
11:16 Residential quarters of Kramatorsk were subjected to rocket fire, said the mayor of the city Alexander Goncharenko.
11:13 The representative of the Azov Regiment Vladislav Sobolevsky said on the air of the telethon that the Russians would probably hit the military on Azov with heavy high-explosive bombs, dropping them from strategic bombers.
He called on the authorities to carry out an operation to unblock the city: "If Mariupol falls, it will be worse than Ilovaisk and other tragedies."
11:07 The number of wounded after the attack on Lviv has grown to 11, six people died, said the mayor of the city Andriy Sadovy. According to him, one of the rockets hit a civilian facility - a tire shop, about 40 cars were damaged or destroyed. Also from the shock wave, the windows in the hotel where the evacuated Ukrainians live are broken.
11:02 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 18:
personnel - about 20,600 people liquidated,
tanks - 790,
armored combat vehicles - 2041,
artillery systems - 381,
MLRS - 130,
air defense systems - 67,
aircraft - 167,
helicopters - 147,
automotive technology - 1487,
ships/boats - 8,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 155,
special equipment - 27,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4
10:54 Russian occupiers continue to force mobilization in the so-called "LDNR". Men are caught on the streets, taken from work, from apartments and simply removed from buses. "Recruits" are dressed in unmarked uniforms, all documents are taken away and sent to the front line. They are transported in closed railway cars, according to the SBU, based on the results of interrogations of one of the prisoners.
10:46 In the village of Stoyanka near Kyiv, on the Kyiv-Chop highway, Ukravtodor opened a temporary crossing over the Irpin River. The first overpass on the Kyiv-Chop highway was previously destroyed. It was on this bridge that the Russians planned to get to Kyiv, which is seven kilometers from here, but it was blown up.
10:27 The State Bureau of Investigation, during the investigation of the treason case of Ilya Kiva, discovered the property of the Russian general. The property was registered in the name of Kiva's business partners - relatives of the Russian Colonel General, head of the Federal Directorate for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons under the Russian Munitions Agency Valery Kapashin.
Among the identified property are hotels, restaurants, land plots, etc., through which the general laundered funds in Ukraine.
10:14 The head of the Lviv OVA, Maxim Kozitsky, announced four missile strikes on Lviv: three - on military infrastructure facilities, and one more - on tire fitting. So far , six dead and eight injured are known , with one child among the injured.
10:03 As a result of a missile attack on Lviv, there was a hit "next to railway facilities," Alexander Kamyshin, head of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia, said. There were no casualties.
10:01 Podolyak announced five powerful strikes on the civilian infrastructure of Lviv.
09:58 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that the hottest spot now is Kremennaya, where there is a lot of Russian equipment, evacuation is no longer possible.
09:51 Ukrzaliznytsia announced the delay of trains as a result of attacks on Lviv: “The situation at the Lviv railway station is under control, passengers were placed in safe shelters. Disembarkation and boarding of trains resumed after the end of the alarm signal. Trains that still reach Lviv were delayed at the entrance to the city until the end of the alarm, traffic has now been resumed.
09:45 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that at night the enemy managed to break into Kremennaya, but could not gain a foothold. Fighting continues in the city itself. Due to the failure to go deep into the cities, the Russians began to shoot them remotely.
09:32 The Russian command will be concerned about how long it will take to capture Mariupol, according to British intelligence. The concerted Ukrainian resistance put Russian forces to a severe test and distracted men and equipment, slowing the Russian advance elsewhere.
The British Ministry of Defense also notes that the strikes on settlements in the Mariupol region are in line with Russia's approach to Chechnya in 1999 and Syria in 2016. And this is despite the statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense on February 24, 2022 that Russia will not strike at cities and threaten the population of Ukraine.
09:10 In the Lviv region, according to preliminary information, the enemy launched four missile strikes, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky. At the same time, the mayor of Lvov, Andriy Sadovy, reports five targeted missile attacks on the city.
09:04 A morning missile attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region was carried out on an infrastructure facility in the Sinelnikovsky district, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. Two people were hurt.
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."
Posted by: badanov ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11136 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
[REDSTATE] There’s been a lot of big news over the last several months regarding John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. The trial of Michael Sussman, who recently lost a bid to dismiss the case, is coming up shortly, and the most recent filing points to a wide range of targets for Durham.
Yet, there’s also something else buried in those revelations: It looks like RemingtonChristopher Steele, the author of the infamous Trump Dossier, is going to get off scot-free.
In the filing, Durham has Steele listed as a witness. There is no indication Steele has taken the 5th Amendment nor that he has gotten an immunity deal. That would likely mean he’s a cooperating witness. Given Steele’s exposure, he wouldn’t agree to such an arrangement if the special counsel hadn’t told him that he will not be prosecuted.
What would being a stool pigeon do to his ability to sell such services in the future?
And as McAdoo Gordon points out in her subsequent commentary, the government can’t just falsely promise not to prosecute someone, garner testimony, and then change its mind. That’s how the Bill Cosby conviction got thrown out.
There is another possible explanation, but it doesn’t appear to fully add up. That is that Durham is looking to use old testimony from a lawsuit involving Steele in his current case. Yet, a prosecutor can’t just take testimony from another case and use it because they feel like it. Durham would need to show that Steele is unavailable now to testify on the specific matter, and there’s been no filing to that effect. In short, it’s possible (perhaps even probable) that Steele himself isn’t going to be called in the Sussmann case. But it’s unlikely even past testimony is used without Steele being assured he’s in the clear.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11140 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Bringing Steele into the fray would likely highlight the potential involvement of MI6 and other intelligence entities. Appears Mr. Durham got the memo.
#3
I could be wrong but it seems that all Steele did was some creative writing. It was those that passed it along, claiming it was real, that really broke the law.
#4
I think the MI6 alibi is accurate, and as Sundance at CTH has written, the Puppet Show, Obama 3.0, is happy to do Hillary and the Clinton Network underlings who don't have the Fail-Safe notebook protection. Second tier players who worked both sides of the demokrat sewage flow are probably safe.
Lesser Clinton apparatchiks and low-cash donors should be looking at travel, just not to Arkansas...
Christopher Steele told a US justice official before the 2016 election that he was “passionate” about stopping Mr Trump winning, according to a newly released memo.
Republicans held up the comment as proof the former MI6 agent had “ideological motivations” against Mr Trump that throw into question the reliability of his evidence.
#6
I have doubts about Steele's "ideological" motivations. He was a businessman and espionage agent. His motivation was likely
related to future contracts and money making.
#7
I don't care about his motives. Stephen King hates Trump, that wouldn't make a novel about Trump being a monster illegal. It's what was done with the dossier that was actually illegal.
#8
Novels are supposed to be untrue, ruprecht. What Mr. Steele was claiming to sell was verified true facts about Mr. Trump and members of his team that would be useful to his opponents: Hillary Clinton and the Deep State. Mr. Steele engaged in blatant fraud; and while possibly that fraud is not Mr. Durham’s concern as a special prosecutor, that fraud was the basis of everything that followed.
And the Secret Service does investigate the writers of novels, plays, etc. about Democratic presidents like Barack Obama being monsters or being assassinated, while ignoring those written about Republican presidents. I agree with the principle of freedom of speech, but it should be applied equally to both parties.
[NYPOST] Most Twitter employees don’t think Elon Musk has the company’s best interests in mind, with some calling him an "a—hole" and questioning whether he is "pumping and dumping" the company’s stock, according to a new survey.
A whopping 68% of Twitter employees disapprove of Musk’s Musk’s tweets about company strategy, which have included musings about potentially eliminating ads and making Twitter a paid service, the poll shows.
An even greater 78% say he doesn’t have "the best interests of Twitter and its shareholders" in mind when he makes such posts, according to a survey of verified Twitter employees conducted by corporate message board Blind and shared with The Post on Monday.
"Don’t want him as CEO," one employee wrote. "He has no compassion."
"I’m not convinced he’s in the best place mentally," another employee said.
A third labeled him a "dangerously insane oligarch."
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... a slim majority — 52% — say it’s better that Musk isn’t joining the company’s board, the poll shows. More than two-thirds of the 232 Twitter employees surveyed also said they disapprove of Musk’s tweets about company strategy, which have included musings about potentially eliminating ads and making Twitter a paid service.
"Elon’s vision and Twitter don’t align," one employee wrote.
Others questioned whether Musk’s purchase of a 9.2% stake in Twitter, which contributed to its stock surging about 25% earlier this month, was all part of a "pump and dump scheme" that could see the mogul make billions by selling his shares at a premium.
"He’s either just pumping and dumping or [has] no plan," another Twitter employee said.
Despite the fury toward Musk, Twitter employees also appear to be unhappy with the company’s board and Parag Agrawal, who succeeded founder Jack Dorsey as CEO in November.
Agrawal initially said Musk would join Twitter’s board, saying he would bring "great value" to the boardroom. Days later, Agrawal said Musk was not joining Twitter’s board after all. Then Musk mounted a bid for Twitter, prompting the company’s board to fight back with a "poison pill" defensive maneuver on Friday.
A whopping 69% of surveyed employees said the CEO and board have done a "poor" job handling the confrontations with Musk.
#7
Best thing Musk could do would be to effectively shut Twitter down as hopeless. Second best, take names and fire all those who show lack of confidence in his management.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] During This Week’s "Powerhouse Roundtable" discussion on the soaring crime rates in major American cities and what should be done about it, there seemed to be agreement that the Democrats’ "defund the police" agenda is dead. Anchor George Stephanopoulos then turned to panelist and ABC congressional correspondent Rachel Scott and asked: "you don't hear defund the police too much on Capitol Hill, anymore?"
Scott confidently replied, "No, not at all, actually" and aside from the "handful of progressives over in the House" that want to defund the police, there hasn’t been a peep from Democrat politicians about that wildly unpopular agenda.
She also observed that both President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan... and House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... (D-CA) have admitted defunding the police isn’t a message they even believe, and "Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 46.36754 years, or 324.57277999999997 years in dog years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... has come out and said this is not our message. This is not what we're campaigning on ahead of the midterms."
To make matters worse for the leftists who support defunding the police, Scott pointed out that even New York City "Mayor [Eric] Adams just pointed out there was funding within that Build Back Better plan to actually help coppers."
#2
Muriel Bowser denying that she was for defunding the police is hysterical. The pictures of her overlooking the pavement painted with “Defund The Police,” is sort of inconvenient. Not even the media Ministry of Truth can airbrush that one.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/19/2022 12:47
Comments ||
Top||
#3
At least ABC's Scott is semi-admitting DEMS did talk about Defund the police because a lot of DEMS are denying that despite footage of them doing so.
[GlobalTimes] The J-20, China's most powerful, domestically developed stealth fighter jet, has started to patrol the East China Sea and the South China Sea in routine training sessions, and experts said on Wednesday that the move will enable the advanced warplane to better safeguard China's airspace security and maritime interests.
With the J-20 switching to use domestically developed engines, it has become a training routine that this type of aircraft conducts combat patrols in the East China Sea and alert patrols in the South China Sea, Ren Yukun, head of the discipline inspection and supervision team and a member of the leading Party group at state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) (the J-20's manufacturer), said at a presser on Tuesday.
Ren's announcement came after General Kenneth Wilsbach, Commander of the US Pacific Air Forces, said in mid-March that US F-35 stealth fighter jets recently had a close contact with China's J-20 stealth fighter jets over the East China Sea.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force shoulders the sacred duty of defending national security in China's airspace. It must be emphasized that when it comes to defending national illusory sovereignty and security, the PLA will always be ready and capable of wielding its sword, said Senior Colonel Wu Qian, a spokesperson at China's Ministry of National Defense, at a regular presser on March 31, when asked to comment on Wilsbach's remarks.
#3
It is by Caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the Beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
It is by Caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:59 In Gorlovka, on the street. Likhachev, 35, a direct hit of a Ukrainian shell on the veranda of the house was recorded, fortunately, no one was injured.
In Gorlovka as a result of damage to the power cable on the street. Belgorodskaya, 117 de-energized microdistrict "Quarter 88", stopped the upper and lower pumping stations. Gorlovsky RES is reconnecting. According to the Eastern RES, the 6 kV line has been de-energized in the area of the State Enterprise Stirol. Employees of the enterprise eliminate the accident. 22:35 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received that as a result of today's shelling, three more civilians were injured:
n.p. Gorlovka: - man born in 1969;
n.p. Yasinovataya: - woman born in 1966;
n.p. Makeevka (settlement of Zemlyanka): - a woman born in 1968.
The injured were provided with the necessary medical assistance.
In total, during April 18, seven civilians suffered from shelling by armed formations.
22:10 Has it begun? In Donetsk and Lugansk, there is a terrible roar of powerful strikes, volleys of the largest calibers are hitting towards the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
.
“I hear the work of something very heavy salvo,” they transmit from Luhansk.
21:40 More than 12,000 were evacuated to Russia from dangerous regions of Ukraine, the LPR and the DPR.
21:00 Today, VFU once again struck from the MLRS "Hurricane" in the village. Novoaydar.
As a result of the shelling, several rockets hit the playground on the street. Oktyabrskaya, where the child, born in 2012, received a shrapnel wound to the lower extremities. Currently, the victim is receiving medical assistance.
20:00 The Ministry of Internal Affairs published a video of the execution of the Ukrainian convoy, which broke through to Azovstal. The subdivisions of the operational-combat tactical formation of the DPR recorded about 400 servicemen of the armed formations of Ukraine and 65 units of automobile and armored vehicles lining up in a column. Then the militants advanced in the direction of the Azovstal steel plant.
19:10 Assault units of the DPR and the Russian Federation took under CONTROL the northern sector of the industrial zone of the Azovstal plant and are currently cleaning up there, including underground utilities.
The offensive of our forces is actively supported by the Russian Aerospace Forces, which strike at enemy strongholds, not only fighters are involved, but the famous White Swans bombers.
18:51 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): two shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Georgievka - n.p. Kremenets: five missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
18:31 Three Georgian mercenaries were liquidated in Rubezhnoye: Arkady K*****, Alika T****, Zaza B*****.
17:52 “I've only been here for five minutes, and they tell me that the first five bodies found are five severed heads. These are civilians." American journalist George Elison shows the grave, which is located near Lugansk. Mostly civilians, brutally murdered by the military-political leadership of Ukraine, are buried here.
17:28 The People's Front, farmers and agricultural enterprises from various regions of Russia have launched a campaign to provide Donbass with seeds. The composition of the humanitarian cargo from the Popular Front included seeds: pumpkin, cucumber, flowers, peas, dill, zucchini, pepper, radish, eggplant, basil, squash, carrots, tomato, parsley, beets, radishes, cabbage, cauliflower, corn, strawberries , watermelon, melon. A successful sowing campaign is a guarantee of stability and food security of the Republic.
17:15 AFU fired from the settlement Novoselovka - n.p. Panteleymonovka: 10 122mm shells were fired.
17:05 As a result of artillery shelling of the settlement Pervomaisk damaged 7 objects of urban infrastructure:
➖art school;
➖children's sports complex "Youth";
➖Administration of Pervomaisk;
➖Pension Fund Office in Pervomaisk;
➖branch of the State Bank of the LPR;
➖cinema "Zarya";
➖shop "Katyusha"
Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
17:02 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian born in 1945. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Red Partizan at the address: st. Selskokhozyaystvennaya, 30. The victim was taken to the Yasinovatsky Central District Hospital, where she is receiving the necessary medical care.
16:45 On the territory of Azovstal there may be mercenaries from the USA, Romania, Canada - Pushilin.
16:40 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of two civilians born in 1935. and born in 1961 as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Lugansk at the address: st. Komsomolskaya, garden partnership "Ugolek". Also, information was received that as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district, the settlement. Makeevka on the street. Shevchenko, two civilians were injured - passengers of the route taxi No. 34 "Makeevka - Yasinovataya".
One of the wounded was a woman born in 1965. The data of the second are specified. All the victims were taken to healthcare facilities, where they are receiving the necessary medical care. Information was also received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the following settlements:
settlement "Zastantsionny" (Donetsk): st. Lugovaya, 40 - a private residential building.
village Zemlyanki (n. p. Makeevka):
- st. Frunze, 83 - a fire was recorded in a private residential building;
- st. Frunze, 12, 35, 85 - private residential buildings;
- st. Komsomolskaya, 11 - a private residential building.
Molochny village (n.p. Gorlovka):
- st. Meretskova, 4a, 6 - private residential buildings;
- st. Cossack, 32 - a private residential building;
16:35 Not far from the checkpoint of Azovstal, a lot of corpses of civilians were found. They are dumped under the wall of one of the buildings of hospital No. 4. - It is still impossible to approach them on the ground: Ukrainian snipers are shooting through this territory. We show what could be filmed through a hole in the wall, - Andrei Guselnikov, @urallive correspondent, reports. Some victims have their hands tied. Judging by the traces of the shelling, the hospital was fired from the side of Azovstal, the last neo-Nazi lair.
16:26 Kyiv really does not want certain persons hiding on Azovstal to enter our territory. According to the testimonies of Ukrainian servicemen who surrendered, up to 400 foreign mercenaries are surrounded at the enterprise - Denis Pushilin.
16:21 The demining of the power line feeding the filtering station near Mariupol, the Starokrymsky reservoir, which will be further used to supply water to the city - Denis Pushilin, is coming to an end.
16:16 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of Trudovskaya mine): two shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:33 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Lastochkino - n.p. Makiivka (village dugout): 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
15:07 In the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, as a result of shelling from the APU, two people were injured.
15:01 According to updated data, in the village of Molochnoe, as a result of today's attack by Ukrainian nationalist formations, significant damage to housing construction was revealed along the streets: Meretskova, 4a, 6, Kazatskaya, 32 (the outermost streets near the rate). Fixed shrapnel damage to glazing on the street. Fruit, 33, 36, 41, 44 - Prikho
15:00 More than 119 km of streets have been cleared in Mariupol, over 5,000 tons of municipal solid waste have been removed - Alexey Kostrubitsky.
14:12 VFU shelled Yasinovataya. As a result of the shelling, an apartment building on the street was damaged. Leningradskaya.
13:54 Units of the NM DPR freed 450 people who were blocked in the Nikolo-Vasilyevsky Monastery.
13:52 Kindergarten No. 38 has resumed work in Mariupol. “Two nurseries and six garden groups have been opened. Now the issue of organizing hot meals and payment is being resolved, ”an employee of the children's institution said.
13:45 Containers (850 liters) with technical water for the population are being installed in Yasinovataya. Barrel access will be permanent (excluding curfews). Water will be replenished as needed. Tanks already installed:
- br im. Lenina V.I.;
- st. School (Supermarket);
- st. School (Tax).
During the week, it is planned to install at least 10-15 pieces throughout the city. At the same time, water supply will continue to be carried out according to the schedule.
13:39 In Avdiyevka, a steel structure plant was struck, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repairing their equipment.
13:32 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
13:07 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): three missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad".
13:02 Local resident told why in Mariupol they never liked Azov.
12:33 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of Molochnoe): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired. As a result of the shelling, the village is de-energized.
12:32 DPR units, with the support of the RF Armed Forces, inflicted blows according to the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, heading from the seaport of Mariupol to Azovstal. About 400 Ukrainian soldiers and 65 pieces of equipment, lined up in a column, planned to cross to the Left Bank and reunite with the Azov national battalion. As a result of the artillery strike, up to 150 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed and wounded.
12:31 In Avdievka, a blow was struck at the Nazi repair base. “In the shops of the metalwork plant, the “ukrops” repaired their equipment. Yesterday, something very serious flew into this enterprise. “Pravoseks* settled in the premises of the former incubator, and there are a lot of enemy vehicles in the communications depots and mechanized convoys,” explains a local resident
12:14 In the village of Markino, Novoazovsky district, a military bakery (Russian Defense Ministry) has started working, with a capacity of eight tons of bread per day. The manufactured products will be delivered by servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR to residents of Mariupol.
11:21 Information was received through the operational line of the JCCC of the DPR about the wounding of a civilian born in 1958 on April 17, 2022. in n.p. Zaitsevo at the address: st. Geroichnaya, 48. According to the victim, the incident occurred as a result of the dropping of a VU from an UAV that arrived from the side of the positions of the VFU. The victim independently turned to the otorhinolaryngological department of the City Hospital No. 2, where he received the necessary medical assistance. Also, information was received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU: n.p. Gorlovka, pos. sh-you im. Gagarin: - st. Stozhka, 65, 67, 69: apartment buildings;
11:20 As a result of the morning shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district of the city in the garage cooperative "Magistral" on the street. Tekstilshchikov,5a a car was damaged by shell fragments, plastic boxes also caught fire - Kulemzin.
11:17 Rocket troops strike with Iskander high-precision ground-based missiles. Four depots of weapons and Ukrainian military equipment were destroyed, as well as three areas of concentration of enemy manpower near the settlements of Popasnaya, Yampol and Kramatorsk.
11:16 The city of Kremennaya came under the control of the RF Armed Forces. Now for sure. In mid-March, the capture of Kremennaya was announced, but prematurely. Now the information is confirmed by Ukrainian sources.
11:06 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 20 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
n.p. Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
n.p. Novoselovka - n.p. Panteleymonovka: eight 122 mm rounds were fired.
10:08 NM LPR: During the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely: 12 personnel; four armored personnel carriers; two vehicles.
09:35 LPR artillery inflicts strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Pervomaisky area. To avoid return fire, units are forced to constantly change their deployment. With the help of spotters, it is possible to avoid hitting residential buildings.
09:32 Units of the NM of the LPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation entered Kremennaya. There are street fights.
09:31 Reservists captured 25 Marines. According to sources @wargonzo, a group of 25 Ukrainian marines surrendered in the village of Volodarskoe, which is located near Mariupol.
09:30 VFU shelled the village of the mine named after. Gagarin. As a result of a mine explosion, damage was recorded to a house and a car on the street. Stozhka, 65 - head of the Gorlovka administration.
09:25 Over the past day, 421 people, including 59 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol to the Bezymennoe of the Novoazovsky district.
09:21 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Gagarin): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:10 As a result of hostilities, nine transformer substations, 1,771 household subscribers of Yasinovataya have been de-energized. Power engineers have already left for the site to inspect and repair the damage.
09:00 "All vehicles of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were taken away by the Armed Forces of Ukraine." Resident of Mariupol told that the Ukrainian military placed mortars right in residential buildings. Rescue services did not work, because even fire engines were placed at the disposal of the nationalists.
08:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): two shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:23 When trying breakthrough encircled enemy forces from the territory of the Primorsky district to "Azovstal" on April 15, 43 pieces of equipment were destroyed and damaged, up to 150 people were killed and wounded - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR.
08:21 AFU fired from the settlement Novoselovka - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:08 Head of the LPR handed overawards to the soldiers of the Russian Army, saving the inhabitants of Donbass from the deadly "gifts" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Sappers of the International Mine Action Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were awarded.
07:37 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
Posted by: badanov ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
[FoxNews] The Florida Department of Education rejected textbooks, saying they include language that violates the state standards.
The Florida Department of Education is rejecting more than 40% of the mathematics textbooks submitted to be used in the upcoming school year, citing critical race theory, Common Core and other language included in them that violate the state's new standards.
"Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics," the department said in a news release.
After reviewing 132 submitted textbooks, the department found 54 of them – 41% – were in violation of the state's standards.
"The highest number of books rejected were for grade levels K-5, where an alarming 71 percent were not appropriately aligned with Florida standards or included prohibited topics and unsolicited strategies," the department said.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a statement that the rejected books included language that attempts to indoctrinate students.
“It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students,” DeSantis said. “I’m grateful that Commissioner [Richard] Corcoran and his team at the Department have conducted such a thorough vetting of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law.”
In 2021, the department sought bids for mathematics instructional materials to be included on the state’s adopted list.
"Florida has been clear that instructional materials must first and foremost be aligned to Florida’s new B.E.S.T. Standards," the department announcement said. The department "proactively informed publishers in June 2021 that textbooks must align to the B.E.S.T. Standards, state laws regarding required instruction, and that they should not incorporate unsolicited strategies such as SEL in their instructional materials."
In 2019, DeSantis signed an executive order to eliminate Common Core standards in the state. This year, he signed legislation that bans classroom curriculum that includes teaching gender identity or sexual orientation to students in grades K-3.
"Despite rejecting 41 percent of materials submitted, every core mathematics course and grade is covered with at least one textbook," the department said.
#3
Just in the sands hills does CRT have do with math?
Does it teach kids how math and statistics discriminate when applied to adding BLACK CRIMES vs. Other races per 1000 or what?
[FoxNews] The Democratic Socialists of America chapter argues 'police presence neither prevented nor deterred' the Brooklyn subway shooting
They’re the political arm of the communists. Of course they want to reduce the number of bourgeois, law-abiding, law-enforcing police in service of the status quo, removing a key barrier to their militant arm overthrowing the government.
The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America slammed Mayor Eric Adams for the "bloated" police presence within the city’s subway system that did not stop the Tuesday shooting in Brooklyn.
"Since Mayor Adams assumed office, police have maintained a bloated presence in our subways — including at the 36th Street Station where yesterday’s shooting took place: and now, he is cynically doubling down on this policy," NYC-DSA said in a statement Wednesday.
"That police presence neither prevented nor deterred the attack, and failed to prevent the perpetrator from fleeing the scene. The solution to a violent society is a peaceful society, and peace requires material security," the statement from NYC-DSA’s spokeswoman Sumathy Kumar continued.
The statement was released shortly after Adams confirmed the arrest of Frank James, the man accused of opening fire on a busy Brooklyn subway Tuesday morning, the New York Post reported. He injured 29 people, including 10 who suffered gunshot wounds, according to police.
Subway assaults peaked to the highest levels in 25 years in 2021. Adams unveiled plans earlier this year to curb the crimes within the subway system, including increasing police presence and preventing homeless people from sheltering in the system.
#1
It would be interesting to see polling data from people who use the subway with regard to reducing police coverage. Also does the proposed holistic approach include essential oils, because there is nothing that reduces sociopathic behavior like a mix of aromatic scents and dukey.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/19/2022 11:57
Comments ||
Top||
#2
I'd rather have any NYPD officer on my train thana professed white people hating black man. But that's just me, your opinion is your own.
Don't defund the police, defund the crazy violent people being let back on the street every day.
#1
The main problem? Politicians want their boondoggle projects regardless of how it affects military efficiency and capability. Case in point: SLS, The Senate Launch System, A.K.A. Sen Shelby's Rocket.
#3
Have you heard of the Iron Law of Budgeting? To avoid bureaucratic infighting erupting into messy public squabbles the bean counters divided the Budget Pie into thirds -- the Air Force gets a third, the Army gets a third and the Navy gets a third (roughly). It may not win wars but it makes it safer from career ending turf fights.
More than 25k Russian troops have been mustered and attacks have begun at several points along the Donbas front. No breakthrough at last report, midnight local time.
Ukraine believes main Russian effort will try to push south from Russian held Izium toward Ukraine held Slovyansk along a major highway (into what some people call the Ukraine held Donbas Salient).
Some Ukraine elements in Mariupol still holding out.
Russian forces attempted to take Oleksandrivka in the south but were repelled.
Otherwise considerable shelling but little movement.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11131 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
#3
Day 54 of Putin's strategic taking Ukraine in 2 days with regime change. Hope he's loving being adored by his countrymen as Russia's new Stalin idol.
[BenarNews] A group known as the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Indonesia (NII) was plotting to overthrow the government before the next general election, police claimed Monday, saying they obtained documents related to the alleged conspiracy by interrogating 16 suspects arrested in West Sumatra last month.
Members of the group, founded seven decades ago, had drawn up plans, acquired weapons and undergone training to create chaos and establish a caliphate system of government, officials said, but declined to give more information or say whether the plot was still active.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11131 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[FOXBUSINESS] SpaceX successfully launched a spy satellite into orbit on Sunday, a process that aided the National Reconnaissance Office after previous attempts were postponed.
The Hawthorne-based company conducted the launch out of the Vandenberg Air Force Base Sunday afternoon after its initially scheduled launch on Friday was delayed twice over
Colonel Rob Long, Space Launch Delta 30 commander, said in a statement that the NROL-85 launch sent "critical" equipment that would aid in securing "vital intelligence data."
"Today the Western Range teamed with the National Reconnaissance Office to deliver a critical national security payload, which will provide our warfighters and decision-makers with vital intelligence data," Long said Sunday, according to the report.
[NYPOST] Iran’s president warned on Monday that the "slightest move" by Israel against the Islamic Theocratic Republic would prompt a strike against the "heart of the Zionist regime."President Ebrahim Raisi made the remarks at a National Army Day celebration, during which the Iranian military showed off its weapons and defensive systems in the capital, Tehran.
"Our message to the Zionist regime is that if you are after normalizing relations with some countries in the region, you must know that not even your smallest movements are hidden from our intelligence, security and armed forces," Raisi said in a televised speech.
"And you must know that if you make the smallest movement against the Iranian nation, the destination of our armed forces will be the heart of the Zionist regime," he added.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
After an intense bombardment, the cleansing of Azovstal began. The cleansing is also continuing in the Primorsky region, where individual groups of the enemy are still resisting. Plant them. Ilyich is completely cleared. In fact, it remains to clean up Azovstal.
2. Nikolaev.
Fights of medium intensity in the countryside between Nikolaev and Kherson, the parties are not conducting large-scale offensive operations. On both sides, there is an accumulation of forces for subsequent actions.
3. Odessa.
No significant changes. The enemy continues to announce the threat of landing, but the Black Sea Fleet rather prefers to create such a threat than to implement it, keeping part of the enemy forces near Odessa.
4. Zaporozhye.
On the front line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole without changes. To the east of Gulyaipol, according to the statements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there has been an advance of the RF Armed Forces, bypassing Gulyaipol. AFU lost the village of Malinovka.
5. Novomikhailovka—Ugledar—Velikaya Novoselka.
Significant progress of the RF Armed Forces and the DPR army was not reported. Basically, there is a fire defeat of enemy forces.
6. Marinka.
No significant changes. So far, it has not been possible to go beyond the waste heap of the DPR army.
7. Avdievka.
In the industrial complex of Avdiivka itself, there are no changes. To the north of Avdievka, fighting continues in the area of Novobakhmutovka and in the area of Troitsky. Promotion to New York has not yet been noted.
8. LPR.
The city of Kremennaya was taken. There is also a promotion in Popasna and its environs. In Frontier fighting on the southern outskirts of the city. Severodonetsk and Lysichansk are unchanged.
9. Izyum.
The RF Armed Forces are fighting in the direction of Barvenkovo and Slavyansk. Part of the territory to the northeast of Oskol has been cleared. The enemy is trying to counterattack the Izyum grouping in order to tie down its offensive activity. The combat here is super intense. The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer heavy losses in people and equipment.
10. Kharkov.
No significant changes. As before, fighting north of the city and large-scale artillery duels that destroy the villages north of Kharkov and the northern outskirts of Kharkov. Also, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to be active in the Chuguev area in order to try to strain the flank of the Izyum group.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine declare that the RF Armed Forces have begun the 2nd phase of the operation in Donbas. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have not yet officially announced this. However, today there has been a certain movement, plus the attacks on the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the military infrastructure of Ukraine are on the rise.
Posted by: badanov ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11137 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
#2
Nukes, nukes, nukes. Notice how the Russians are enjoying the fact they can unleash nukes all over the world? Putin has gone rogue, he needs to betaken out by his own countrymen before he goes completely off the rails.
[NYPOST] In the near week since Frank James’ alleged Brooklyn subway attack, it’s become accepted wisdom that New York City’s or America’s social services system failed him — and us. Yet no one has shown any way in which social services could have stopped this attack. What we have is what it looks like: a bad guy who intelligently planned and executed a bad thing.
After the mass shooting, City Councilwoman Alexa Avilés and Assemblywoman Marcela Mitaynes, who represent Sunset Park, said that it showed how "we need investments in social services — housing, healthcare and education." Politico wondered "What Brooklyn’s subway shooting reveals about the state of mental health care."
[Jpost] The Kaman-22 is a long-range and strategic multi-functional combat drone with an operational range of over 3,000 kilometers.
Is it real or is it the usual Iranian vapourware?
The Kaman-22 is a long-range and strategic multi-functional combat drone with an operational range of over 3,000 kms., capable of flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters for more than 24 hours.
According to Iran’s Fars News, the drone is capable of carrying several types of cargo as well as four guided missiles, two unguided bombs and other munitions. It can be used for a range of missions, including patrol, reconnaissance, data gathering, imaging, and aerial combat with a payload of smart weapons.
The drone is similar to the American Predator MQ-1 and Reaper MQ-9 and was first unveiled last February. It’s an upgrade to Iran’s Kaman-12 drone that was first introduced in September 2020.
The upgraded drone has new combat, optical and electronic warfare systems.
Posted by: Skidmark ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11131 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
[NYPOST] The Bronx teen accused of killing a 16-year-old girl with a "ghost gun" will be tried in supreme court, not in family court as a juvenile, a judge has ruled — ensuring more prison time if there’s a conviction.
Jeremiah Ryan, 17 — who is facing murder, attempted-murder and gun charges in the April 8 bystander shooting of Angellyh Yambo near University Prep Charter HS — would have faced up to only five years in prison if convicted in family court.
But Bronx Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Justice Naita Semaj ruled Thursday that Ryan will be tried in grown-up court — although as an adolescent offender as required by law because of his age.
That means Ryan, who had no prior criminal record, will still get more lenient treatment if convicted — but at least he’ll face a maximum of 15 years to life in prison on just the second-degree murder charge if found guilty. If he were 18, he could have faced 25 years to life behind bars.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11131 views]
Top|| File under: Mob Rule
#1
It seems the LSD's newest agenda heading the next questionable election / new vius strain panic. Will be eliminating the threat of a well armed populous to socialism.
[Jpost] Sanctions have stopped production of the T-14 Armata, Russia's widely anticipated next-generation tank, which was expected to start serial production and delivery this year.
Russia is struggling to produce more tanks for its military due to crippling financial sanctions and import restrictions imposed on Moscow due to the invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate (GUR) claimed on Friday.
The Russian firm UralVagonZavod, located in Nizhny Tagil in the Sverdlovsk Oblast, is the world's largest main battle tank manufacturer and has a long history dating back to Josef Stalin's second five-year plan. Since then, it continues to produce tanks, such as the T-90, T-72 and T-14 Armata.
Despite having revenue in the billions of dollars, sanctions have crippled the company's ability to produce tanks. This is due to rising interest rates on loans, lack of funds for foreign currency loans and rising material prices, including for steel.
According to the GUR, production of T-72s has significantly slowed while production of T-90s and T-14 Armatas has completely stopped.
This latter stoppage is particularly significant, as the T-14 Armatas are Russia's next-generation tank and were expected to begin serial production and delivery this year, according to TASS. This tank also sparked concerns among the West due to its technological advances, such as heavier armor; unmanned turret; touchscreen controls and built-in instant messaging system linked to other T-14 Armatas and newer T-90 models; and software aimed to cover Russian tanks' traditional weakness of night fighting by autonomously tracking several targets.
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider, NATO commanders feared it could jeopardize their standing in Eastern Europe and threaten the security of the Baltics. It even inspired Germany and France to work together to develop a new main ground combat system to combat the advanced T-14 Armata.
This struggle also further compounds the losses Russia has suffered in its invasion of Ukraine, which has seen them lose 773 tanks so far, according to the Ukrainian military.
Reports of Russia struggling with production issues due to sanctions is not new since the invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.
Earlier in April, the GUR reported that some Russian shipyards are unable to construct warships or conduct maintenance on vessels due to financial hardships and a lack of foreign components.
In particular, a Vladivostok shipyard was allegedly unable to meet 25 billion rubles worth of government orders to build two tankers, two missile boasts, and to maintain and repair other vessels.
"It is obvious that the Russian military-industrial complex remains dependent on imported high technologies," wrote GUR at the time "Without the supply of which Russia is unable to continue production of modern weapons."
Despite these setbacks, however, Russia by far still has a massive army with considerable supplies of vehicles, with a 2021 Global Firepower annual ranking pointing at them having the largest number of tanks in the world by far.
Further, a recent Russian Defense Ministry report claims that Russian troops are actually capturing Ukrainian tanks and restoring them to fighting condition.
Posted by: Skidmark ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
#1
Sanctions have stopped production of the T-14 Armata, Russia's widely anticipated next-generation tank, which was expected to start serial production and delivery this year.
...Production never really got started on the Armata. At BEST, fewer than a hundred have been built, and the best way to describe them is hand-built prototypes, not production vehicles. None have been reported in Ukraine yet, which, given the supposed capabilities of the tank, is a little...curious.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
04/19/2022 10:34
Comments ||
Top||
#2
a little...curious
Destined for other realms,
or effects of GPS jamming?
#4
I'm pretty sure Russia's tank industry is loving this war. They can't get enough of it I'm sure. The cost of replacement parts alone should fund their kids' college tuitions for years to come.
What's more like a sitting duck than a Russian tank vin Ukraine? I don't know you tell me.
[NYPOST] Boston University’s controversial "antiracist" professor, Ibram X. Kendi, has bluntly branded Republicans "the party of white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... The "How to Be an Antiracist" author insisted in an op-ed for The Atlantic that the GOP has used "dog whistles" to brand itself as the "party of parents," dismissing that as a "myth, a great myth."
"The foundational assumption of this great myth is that Republican politicians care about white children," claimed Kendi, who runs Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research.
"But if they did, then they would not be ignoring or downplaying or defending or bolstering the principal racial threat facing white youth today" — that of "white children being indoctrinated" into white supremacy online, "causing them to hate," he wrote in Saturday’s op-ed.
Kendi described white supremacist ideology as "the toxic blend of racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic ideas that is harmful to all minds."
"Which group is the prime target of white supremacists? White youth," he wrote.
The woke professor then plugged his upcoming book, "How to Raise an Antiracist," while insisting that such anti-racist education "protects white children — all children — against the growing threat of white supremacists."
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:44 Kiev authorities are blocking 76 foreign ships in seaports.
21:42 Nationalists are holding hostage 6,208 foreign citizens from nine countries. 21:41 Since March 2, Russia has delivered over 12.9 thousand tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
21:35 Humanitarian aid from Russia was brought to the Izyumsky district of the Kharkiv region.
18:41 Ukrainian forces probably used cluster munitions during the shelling of the village of Gusarovka, Balakleysky district, Kharkiv region in March - New York Times.
15:38 In the liberated Genichesk, Kherson region, a monument to V.I. Lenin.
15:22 For a week in the southern regions of Ukraine, the National Guard ensured the issuance of over 520 tons of food. More than 50 thousand residents of Kherson, Berdyansk, Genichesk, Melitopol and other settlements received essentials, canned food, cereals, pasta and other durable products.
15:15 Putin has established payments of five million rubles in the event of the death of Russian border guards on the borders with Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR.
14:00 At this moment, the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is conducting a powerful artillery shelling of Izyum and its suburbs. Shells are exploding in a residential area. Shelling, including cluster munitions, has been going on since 0500 hrs with different intervals.
13:19 SBU publishes a video, in which Medvedchuk asks Putin and Zelensky to exchange him for military personnel and residents of Mariupol.
13:01 The Russian Aerospace Forces are striking at positions, locations and military facilities of the enemy in the area of the settlement. Dnepropetrovsk and regions.
12:56 Two British prisoners who surrendered in Mariupol asked the British Prime Minister to exchange them for Medvedchuk.
12:48 The Cossack squad will be involved in ensuring the safety of students in Melitopol schools. Currently, there are five schools in the city: the fourth, seventh, ninth, thirteenth and fifteenth.
12:42 The special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine is going according to plan. The Ukrainian side does not demonstrate constancy in the agreements reached in the negotiations with the Russian Federation, changes its position - Peskov.
12:05 Kyiv, with the support of the West, is completing the preparation of a provocation with the shelling of churches in a number of regions of Ukraine on Easter night - the Russian Defense Ministry.
11:50 The Russian Ministry of Defense for the first time published the lists of the dead Ukrainian soldiers and fighters of the banned "Azov. According to the agency, the irretrievable losses of the Ukrainian side are 23,367 people. Also at the disposal of the ministry there are documents about a large number of deserters, wounded and missing in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:49 In the Kharkiv region, a special unit of anti-tank guided missiles of the 95th air assault brigade was captured, which shot down two Russian Ka-52 helicopters.
11:46 Over the Eternal Flame in Kherson again the Banner of Victory! It was raised by Crimean Konstantin Knyrik and Kherson Kirill Stremousov. “May 9 will be celebrated in Kherson with heads held high, the Banner of Victory and St. George ribbons! Just like all over the country."
11:27 The village of Malinovka near Gulyaypole came under the control of the RF Armed Forces.
11:19 Russian artillery units during the night attacked 315 objects of the Ukrainian troops. The following were hit: 18 command posts, 22 artillery batteries, the OSA-AKM anti-aircraft missile system, as well as 275 enemy strongholds and areas of concentration of manpower. Russian air defense systems shot down three Ukrainian combat aircraft in the air: two MiG-29 fighters in the area of the IZYUM settlement and one Su-25 in the Avdiivka area.
11:02 In Melitopol resumed work kindergarten №38. The team went to work and today the first pupils have come to the kindergarten. Now the issue of organizing hot meals for children is being worked out. It will be organized shortly.
11:00 A number of Ukrainian sources report the start of an offensive by the Russian Armed Forces and the DPR in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions. The movement of troops goes towards Gulyai Polye and Velikaya Novoselka. There is also information on movements in several sectors of the front in the Kharkov region.
10:53 Nikolaev is waiting for the fate of Mariupol. According to sources, the Ukrainian command is pulling military equipment into the city, which is placed in many urban infrastructure facilities and in residential areas. There is a mining of objects of the city. Western curators, following their usual military tactics, believe that the most important points of defense are coastal cities, writes the Southern Bridgehead telegram channel.
10:38 A Ukrainian MIG-29 was shot down near Izyum. The Russian calculation of the Buk-M2 air defense system destroyed the enemy aircraft.
09:52 According to preliminary data, during the night attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region, a military facility in the Sinelnikovsky region and the railway infrastructure in the Pavlograd region were hit.
09:37 Five missile attacks on Lvov are reported.
09:02 It is reported that an explosion occurred in Vasilkov near Kyiv.
08:42 Media reports about explosions in Kyiv and Lvov.
08:07 AP Uhit "Point-U" in the Zaporozhye region. The impact damaged the Tokmak farm, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
08:05 In Berdyansk, the coat of arms of Ukraine was removed from the building of the city executive committee.
07:56 In social networks they write that powerful explosions thundered in Kyiv.
Posted by: badanov ||
04/19/2022
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11133 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
[ConservativeTreehouse] While no media have a good track record of outlining the conflict in Ukraine, retired Col. Douglas Macgregor has the most consistent perspective that reconciles what little factual information is visible with the reality on the ground.
In this recent interview, Macgregor notes the Russian operation is currently focused on securing the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, where fighting has been taking place since 2014. During an earlier interview on CNN, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy noted the largest and most experienced elements of the Ukrainian army are located in this region. According to Zelenskyy, approximately 44,000 Ukrainian troops are there; oddly, Zelenskyy seemed to concede that he has no control over what’s happening there.
During this segment, Macgregor notes the current Russian objective is to encircle those eastern Ukraine forces, cut them off from western supply lines, and then slowly and methodically eliminate them – while separating them from Russian speaking citizens in the region. Macgregor notes a particular concern once those Ukraine forces are eliminated. WATCH:
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.
[HUFFPOST] Russian chess legend 
[Rolling Stone] A Trump-appointed Federal judge in Florida has voided a national mask mandate for airplanes and other transportation. "Wearing a mask cleans nothing," U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle wrote in her decision on Monday. "At most, it traps virus droplets. But it neither ’sanitizes’ the person wearing the mask nor ’sanitizes’ the conveyance."
/\ No additional explanation should be necessary. 
[ZERO] During the COVID-19 pandemic, stringent measures such as mandatory masking, vaccination, and "quarantining healthy populations" have turned the United States into a "Biomedical Security State," Dr. Aaron Kheriaty told EpochTV’s "American Thought Leaders" program on April 9.
"Medical ethics"...? Will someone define this in layman's terms please? I believe I've missed something. 
...
Hezbollah
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
...Arabic for 
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...
...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 
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed 
[FoxNews] The protester was arrested and later released
[NYPOST] A 22-year-old Michigan man has been found guilty of shooting an 18-year-old woman — and then recording himself kicking her for almost 11 minutes until she died.
[NYPOST] A man went on an apparent drug-fueled rampage on the Upper East Side on Monday morning, randomly attacking four people, cops said. 
...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
[BenarNews] The leader of a separatist group sidelined from Deep South peace talks said Monday it would not take part in negotiations with Bangkok if independence is off the table. 
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserved him...
nt filing points to a wide range of targets for Durham.
[NYPOST] Most 
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan...
[FoxNews] The 
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts 
