Clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters broke out on Friday
Eleven Palestinians were rushed to hospital, in moderate and serious condition
Palestinians began hurling stones towards the Western Wall, considered the holiest site where Jews can pray, with Israeli forces dispersing the crowd
The Palestinian worshipers have been outraged by repeated visits by Israeli Jews to the Temple Mount, the third-holiest site in Islam and the holiest in Judaism “We’re the penultimate conquerers of Jerusalem. How dare the original owners and ultimate conquerers claim the same rights of conquest we are accustomed to! Allahu Snackbar, yahud!”
Violence has sparked fears of an escalation in clashes echoing the 11-day war
[Popular Mechanics] Scientists believe there could be an "anti-universe" somewhere out there that looks like the mirror image of our own universe, reciprocating almost everything we do. If this theory holds true, it could explain the presence of dark matter.
First, some background: the "Big Bang" is a collective term that includes a variety of theories studied by cosmologists, the scientists who try to rewind the clock as close to the very beginning of the universe as possible. Most agree that matter exploded forth, but there are different opinions on, for example, whether the temperature was extremely hot or absolute-zero cold at that initial moment.
There are also disagreements about what may have happened prior to the bang itself. Could it be that what we call the Big Bang was the inflection point of an even bigger bounce in progress? Think of the point when you bounce on the trampoline and your feet almost touch the ground beneath—then imagine only seeing the subsequent bounce upward; it’s meaningless without the first, downward half of the bounce!
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"What's Star Trek?"
"It's just Perry Mason,
Except they try cases in space
On a colorful screen--"
"Lookit, Della Street's green!"
"And Paul Drake's got fake ears..."
[they embrace]
"An' dat kiss starts my racist heart racin'!"
DETROIT (AP) — Thirteen sexual assault victims of Larry Nassar
....Lebanese-American doctor Lawrence Gerard Nassar will be imprisoned for the rest of his life for s3xually abusing over 265 girls in the U.S. gymnastics program, taking advantage of his access as team athletic trainer and team physician...
are seeking $10 million each from the FBI, claiming a bungled investigation by agents led to more abuse by the sports doctor, lawyers said Thursday.
It’s an effort to make the government responsible for assaults that occurred after July 2015. The Justice Department’s inspector general concluded that the FBI made fundamental errors when it became aware of allegations against Nassar that year.
Nassar was a Michigan State University sports doctor as well as a doctor at USA Gymnastics. He is serving decades in prison for assaulting female athletes, including medal-winning Olympic gymnasts.
"This was not a case involving fake 20 dollar bills or tax cheats," attorney Jamie White said. "These were allegations of a serial rapist who was known to the FBI as the Olympic U.S. doctor with unfettered access to young women." "Pay us me"
Nassar, he added, continued a "reign of terror for 17 unnecessary months."
Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics told local FBI agents in 2015 that three gymnasts said they were assaulted by Nassar. But the FBI did not open a formal investigation or inform federal or state authorities in Michigan, according to the inspector general’s report.
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Nassar, he added, continued a "reign of terror for 17 unnecessary months."
The 9/11 bombers, Nidal Hasan, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the Tsarnaev bros., the Trump-Russian hoax, Hunter Biden, Christine Fang, and subway shooter Frank R. James were known about for months as well, in some cases years.
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Question: Did you (US Citizen) have anything to do with the investigation and/or the crime?
Because when you sue the FBI you are suing yourself since it is your tax $$$ they are taking.
Because, I am willing to bet the FBI agents conducting the investigations were likely told by higher ups to back-off for PR, Political Agenda reasons.
So sue those that interfered / halted the investigation, thus violating these women's Civil Rights and placing them further in harms way. Also look into Criminal indictments and breech of Oath Of Office Violations for the Fed's.
If it hasn't already been done, sue the crap out of the Doctor and strip him of all his financial holdings and assets?
[AOL] During a town hall meeting with constituents on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned that something like the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot could happen again — and that the insurrection was thwarted only because Democrats controlled the House of Representatives.
"This is no joke. Jan. 6 was a trial run, and a lot of people don’t seem to understand that," Ocasio-Cortez said. "It was a trial run."
The storming of the Capitol by a violent mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters as Congress was in the process of certifying Joe Biden’s victory left multiple people dead and over 140 officers injured. More than 750 people have been charged by the Justice Department in connection with the riot.
"They’re going to come back," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And if [Republicans] take the House, then they have the votes to not authorize and legitimize the presidential election.
"The only reason it wasn’t worse was because Democrats had the House," she added. "And [Republicans] didn’t have the votes in the House."
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I can agree to the part where the Fed's planted 30+ people in the crowd to direct and steer vocal but peaceful protesters into committing illegal activities they would not have committed.
eg. Congressional Police opening doors and 5th column planted persons steering (entrapment) the curious into the house chambers.
[OneIndia] Seven Pakistain based bandidosbandidos murderous Moslems have been listed under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) by the Ministry of Home Affairs in the past 15 days.
Sajjad Gul, Ashiq Ahmed Nengroo, Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, Arjumand Gulzar Jan, Ali Kashif Jan, Mohiuddin Aurangzeb Alamgir, and Hafiz Talha Saeed, who are based in Pakistain were listed under the UAPA based on the recommendations of the CID, Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Police.
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Let’s see, Sunni or Shite ? “quora.comhttps://www.quora.com About 97% of Pakistanis are Muslim. Pakistan has the second largest number of Muslims in the world after Indonesia. The majority are Sunni (60%) While Shias make up between 30-35%. Smaller Muslim minorities in Pakistan include Quranists and non-denominational Muslims.” Does it make any difference? which sect killed Robert Kennedy and wars with Israel and which one bombed the twin towers? Murderers
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[OneIndia] One security personnel has died and 6 others were maimed in an encounter that broke out with gunnies at Sunjwan in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... A counter terror operation was launched in Sunjwan area of Jammy on Friday morning.
Mukesh Singh, ADGP, Jammu Zone said that the security forces had cordoned off the area and launched a search operation. The police had received credible information about the presence of two heavily armed terrorists.
The encounter in Sunjwan took place amid heightened security arrangements in Jammu and Kashmir, two days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled visit to Samba district, news agency PTI reported.
Additional Director General of Police of Jammu Mukesh Singh said the encounter started when the police's Special Operations Group and the CRPF launched a joint search operation in the area.
He said one security force personnel was killed and three more suffered injuries in the shootout. "The encounter is going on," he said.
A search operation was launched on a specific information about the presence of at least two heavily-armed terrorists, likely belonging to the Pakistain-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit, in a vicinity adjacent to the sprawling Sunjwan military station to carry out a major strike in the city, the officials said.
On February 10 in 2018, three JeM gunnies stormed the Sunjwan Army camp and in the subsequent shootout, seven persons, including six soldiers, were killed. All the three gunnies were also shot full of holes.
On National Panchayati Raj Day on April 24, the prime minister is scheduled to visit Pali village, 17 km from here, to address a gathering.
This will be Modi's first visit to Jammu and Kashmir other than borders since the abrogation of the special status of erstwhile state and its bifurcation in August 2019.
He had celebrated Diwali with Army jawans on October 27, 2019 in Rajouri and on November 3, 2021 in Nowshera sector in Jammu division.
[Dawn] At least five law enforcement personnel were martyred in two incidents in Khyber, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... and Nowshera districts on Thursday, while four bad boyz were potted in an intelligence-based operation in Bannu.
Unidentified attackers opened fire on a cop who was on duty at Akori Chowk in Nowshera district.
Three personnel of law enforcement agencies were martyred and a suspected terrorist was killed in a late-night attack on a security checkpost in the Bara area of Khyber.
According to police, some gunnies who were on foot shot up personnel of a security agency at a checkpost in Ajab Talab area of Meelward, in Akkakhel area of Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... , late on Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... a policeman was martyred in Sarband area, a locality on the outskirts of the bucolic provincial capital, when unidentified attackers shot up a checkpost.
A police official said ASI Rahim Shah was maimed in the attack. He later died in hospital. In Bannu, four bad boyz were potted in an intelligence-based operation in a mountainous area of Ping Omerzai late on Wednesday night, said an official on Thursday.
[Washington Examiner] The heated real estate market that has seen home prices across the country soar to record highs since the start of the pandemic is showing early signs of cooling, according to experts and recent data.
Sales of existing homes nationwide were down 2.7% between February and March, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales decreased 4.5%, and home showings fell 19% from the same time last year. According to the group's most recent data, pending home sales slipped by 4.1%, too.
"After two years of super-heated market conditions, home sales are retreating back to pre-Covid days," Dr. Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, told the Washington Examiner magazine by email.
Redfin, an online real estate brokerage, reported declines for March as well, finding that the number of home sales had dropped 3.7% since February and 8.1% since last year.
The early signs of a housing market cooldown follow the central bank’s decision last month to increase interest rates for the first time since 2018 to tamp down 40-year inflation highs across the board on goods and services. The Federal Reserve has signaled further interest rate hikes will come in the months ahead.
As a result, mortgage rates have surpassed 5% for the first time in more than a decade, increasing the financial burden of buying a home and pushing some homebuyers to reconsider their plans, experts said.
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House across the street sold the moment it went on the market. House being built up the street is going up slower than the Great Pyramid.
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New construction costs are exorbitant, due obviously to escalating material costs. This, along with high interest rates are beginning to have an impact on the housing market.
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I sold a couple of nice properties a couple years prior to the pandemic. They sold in hours or days of the listing. The market was tight for homes less than $300K. Nowadays builders can't build a decent hours for that price.
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A Duluth Ga 3/2 house that we purchased for $125,000 updated to 5/3 adding a finished basement suite and replaced the roof 10 years ago sold for $124,000 (after the Obama Housing Crash).
The same house was recently on the BIDEN market for $210,000 with no mentioned upgrades. It did not sell.
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Trying to buy a place in Texas. Interested in a new house...
Builders have resorted to setting options like color, flooring, siding and buyers can take it or leave it. No 'design centres'.
Builders have a waiting list of people waiting for a particular type of house.
Builders up their prices often. One said that they raise their prices after every 2-3 sales. Other than that prices go up every 2 weeks.
Builders don't contract a house until the build reaches a certain point (currently, I hear, when the electrical meter is attached) and even then not until they are _sure_ they can meet the schedule with the supply issues. As well as lender requirements.
Its Crazy.
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Back in 2016 existing house prices in the Plano suburb of Dallas were going up 1% a month, according to trailing daughter #2. She and her husband didn’t even try for new construction.
[Rudaw] For journalist Amer Matar, a decade-long search for his younger brother has defined him and changed the course of his life, now dedicated to researching and documenting crimes committed by 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.... group in Syria.
His brother, Mohammed Nour Matar, vanished in Syria’s northern city of Raqqa in 2013 while reporting on a kaboom that hit the headquarters of an bad boy group. His burnt camera was found at the scene of the blast, and his family soon after got word he was in an IS prison. But there has been no other sign of him since.
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[Rudaw] Two Iraqi courts issued death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s by hanging for eight people on Thursday, the country’s Supreme Judicial Council announced, for two separate crimes that resulted in serious injuries of at least six people and the killing of one police officer.
Four people were handed death sentences by hanging by Anbar Criminal Court on Thursday, accused of detonating a boom-mobile in the city of Ramadi, according to the statement from the council, adding that the men were working with 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).
The explosion occurred in September 2020, leading to serious injuries of three members of the security forces, as well as three civilians.
In a separate case, Najaf Criminal Court sentenced four people to death by hanging on Thursday, for the killing of a police officer from Dhi Qar province in January 2021. According to the Supreme Judicial Council, the officer had been trying to buy a car from the perpetrators, and was lured by the four from Dhi Qar to Najaf, where they shot and killed him, as well as stealing money and a personal gun in his possession..
Iraq is one of the world’s top four executioners after China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... , according to Amnesia Amnesty International.
Since the rise of ISIS in 2014, thousands of people have been detained across Iraq for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, while hundreds have been executed.
At least 17 people sentenced to death for terror charges were executed in 2021, reported AFP, while Amnesty recorded 100 executions in Iraq in 2019 - a number that dropped to 45 the following year.
In March, a man was sentenced to death by hanging by Misan Criminal Court, after admitting to kidnapping a civilian and stealing his phones and an amount of money.
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Yeah, seen that.
Unless you're the US gov, you use whatever components that are on the shelf, made by other people.
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The US Air Force just recently developed a new drone system called "Phoenix Ghost" which they are sending hundreds of to Ukraine so that they can continue to slaughter Putin's incompetent puppets.
[Breitbart] The Biden administration is trying to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for the country’s economic woes, but it is President Biden who is responsible for inflation and may plunge America into a recession, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Thursday.
Speaking at the Destin Harbor Boardwalk, where he announced the extension of the Sunshine State’s red snapper season, DeSantis provided a reality check to the Biden administration, which refuses to take responsibility for menacing economic issues — such as rampant inflation — plaguing the country during Biden’s presidency.
"If you look what he did when he came in, decided to print trillions and trillions of dollars, and the result of that has been the worst inflation that we’ve seen in this country in four decades," DeSantis said, emphasizing the toll it is placing on Americans.
"It’s killing people all across the board to have to pay so much for gasoline, have to pay so much for bills, have to pay so much for food ... and they say it’s 8.5 percent, but if you look at the things that matter, it’s gone up way more than that," he said of inflation, as the prices of key goods have gone up well over 8.5 percent.
#Mali: French army accuses Wagner Group of manipulation in the Sahel. Wagner Group tried to accuse Barkhane Forces of burying civilians outside their base. Unknown to them, the French forces had a drone overhead recording the Russians burying the bodies https://t.co/bQ8TxFrkZ4
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"Operation Barkhane is an ongoing anti-insurgent operation that started on 1 August 2014, and is led by the French military against Islamist groups in Africa's Sahel region. It consists of a roughly 5,000-strong French force, which is permanently headquartered in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad.' Then 'In late 2019, a so-called Wagner code of honor was revealed that lists ten commandments for Wagner's PMCs to follow. These include, among others, to protect the interests of Russia always and everywhere, to value the honor of a Russian soldier, to fight not for money, but from the principle of winning always and everywhere.'
The rest just sounds like an admission they're Russian pseudo-proxies.
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I have wondered if Russian pseudo Private MC's/SC's have drained the pool of trained career infantry in their army. That and Russia going "Transformational" by concentrating on armor/artillery/drones instead of classic Combined Arms structures -- you don't have what you don't support.
[AlAhram] EgyptAir carried 680 Egyptian Coptic pilgrims on Thursday evening to visit the holy sites in Jerusalem, after pilgrimage trips had been suspended for two years due to the pandemic, sources at EgyptAir said.
The Coptic pilgrims boarded two Boeing 777 planes, each with a capacity of more than 350 passengers.
EgyptAir will continue to operate its flights from Cairo Airport to Tel Aviv, which started on 17 April, to transport about 3,000 Coptic pilgrims until 24 April (Coptic Easter), according to a statement by the sources on Thursday.
The pilgrimage trip includes visits to several holy places, namely: Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Mount Zion, Via Dolorosa, Jericho, Monastery of Temptation, the Dead Sea and the Mount of Olives.
The trip will cost pilgrims between $990-1150.
Pilgrims must take a PCR test 72 hours before traveling, provided that they have not been vaccinated in six months. Upon arrival at the Israeli airport, pilgrims will be required to take another PCR test.
This time of year, many Copts wish to travel to the Holy Land, and Jerusalem in particular. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... a papal decree issued in 1979 by the late Pope Shenouda III prohibits them from travelling there.
The decree was issued to protest to the Israeli occupation of Paleostine.
Since the Camp David Accords signed between Egypt and Israel in 1978 there have been no official travel restrictions between the two countries.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... many Coptic Egyptians have defied the decree, choosing to make the pilgrimage.
In early October, a plane branded with the logo of Egypt’s national carrier landed in Israel for the first time. The flight was described as "historic" by the Israel Airport Authority.
Earlier this week, the first direct flight between the Israeli capital of Tel Aviv and Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh kicked off.
In mid-March, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office announced that Egypt and Israel agreed to expand direct flights between the two countries, and that a direct flight route between Tel Aviv and Sharm El-Sheikh would begin operating in April during the Jewish holiday of Passover.
[Rudaw] Four 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) members were killed in Salahaddin province on Thursday as a result of a calculated Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... that targeted strongholds belonging to the turban group, state media cited a statement from Iraq’s Intelligence Agency.
Iraq’s Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency announced on Thursday the killing of four ISIS members in Baraa district of Salahaddin’s Eith area, after infiltrating an ISIS platoon that was operating in the region, according to state media.
The bully boyz were killed as a result of an airstrike conducted by Iraqi F-16 fighter aircrafts that targeted ISIS dens in the form of deserted houses in an area far from Eith, the agency said.
The offensive was carried out in a joint-effort between the agency and the targeting cell of the Joint Operations Command.
"The Intelligence Agency continues its preemptive operations to strike the strongholds of terrorist gangs to exact retribution from them and dry up their sources," state media quoted the agency’s statement as saying.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 24 attacks in Iraq from April 7 to April 13, killing and injuring 31 people.
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Germany Reluctant Sending Weapons to Ukraine ? Why ? Poland Is the Answer !! Win Or Lose - Germany Goes along with this , DUH !! Remember World Cheered Germany Always Has Reunified Lands ? Wrong !! Anwer : 80 Years !! WW2 !! Outdaed Info - NATO -USA - & West Ignores !! Win Or Lose - Germany Must go -Along USA - Ignore West - DUH - NATO -as well !! Land Lost - Win Germany NATO - Ignore West- Hello ,USA - Lose Usual Germany - NATO - WEST Ignores - USA - Victor -Loser - Germany -Give Up Land !! see Poland eyeing THIS - Partnered With West Ignores - NATO & USA - DUH !!!????
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I suspect what we are seeing here is either automation + low-rent AI or some troll farm has outsourced to people who speak English even less than they do.
When I first encountered JOE-speak, I thought it was the output of a Markov Chain, a computer program. It took some practice to translate, but it was some insightful stuff. Insight being the magic ingredient missing here.
So much for President Recep Tayip Erdogan making up to the Saudis...
[Rudaw] A court in Ankara on Wednesday rejected an appeal filed against transferring the trial of slain journalist and Saudi critic beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi ......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal...... to Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... , reported media outlets.
Hatice Cengiz, Khashoggi's Ottoman Turkish fiancé, had appealed the court’s decision to hand Saudi Arabia a case involving dozens of suspects linked to his murder.
Ankara’s 14th Administrative Court rejected the appeal, reported Bianet media outlet, noting that another appeal filed about Khashoggi’s transfer case in Istanbul is yet to be decided on.
The 59-year-old journalist was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, in a gruesome murder that stroked the world. Khashoggi walked into the consulate building and never walked out, his body has not yet been found.
Earlier this month, a Ottoman Turkish court confirmed the transfer of Khashoggi's murder trial, which had begun in 2020, to Riyadh, upsetting his loved ones, lawyers, and rights groups.
Amnesia Amnesty International’s Milena Buyum called the decision "appalling and clearly political."
Five people were handed death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s by Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi's killing but a Saudi court in September 2020 overturned them while giving jail terms of up to 20 years to eight unnamed defendants following secretive legal proceedings.
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He's right. But they can't have their cake and eat it too - Section 230. They can't censor and at the same time claim protection from libel suits because they are not controlling content (censoring.)
"Former President Obama and his wife Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground, is ending its deal with streaming platform Spotify and reportedly exploring other options for a new podcast deal.
In a statement on Thursday, an Spotify spokesperson told The Hill that it has declined to extend its deal with the production company but said its content “i s expected to remain available on Spotify.”
The deal between High Ground and Spotify is expected to end this fall."
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So it is OK to censor, delete or ban commentary when a Social MEDIA Company supports a different Political Agenda or Party?
Also, by taking sides the Social MEDIA companies are no longer protected by the 1st either, as they are politically aligned,by publishing and controlling commentary to meet their agenda.
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^ Note the Yahoo headline seems like Obamas made the decision. Nope. Spotify thought the Zeros would be actually, ya know, doing something other than just getting paid. Big Mike apparently refused to do work, like actual podcasts.
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^ There's what's wrong with capitalism right there. Expecting value for your dollar is such a nazi / white supremacist stance.
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“The First Amendment is a check on the power of the state. It doesn’t apply to private companies like Facebook and Twitter,” he said, calling for more “value judgements” on content moderation and censorship on social media.
Companies have the right to continue or cease business with clients they do or do not agree with morally. Interesting take.
(takes a bit of cake)
“Our brains aren’t accustomed to taking in this much information this fast, and a lot of us are experiencing overload,” he said.
Sorry your heads are full of bong water and box wine.
As the greatest lawyer since Cicero, could I ask what your opinion is on "In the Spirit of the Law"?
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The problem with "content moderation" is who gets to do the moderating. Good luck if you trust Baraq to do it.
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A POS empty suit. He is not black, he is mullatto and why so many were fooled by him I cannot understand. Oh! he ran against McCain and Romney. A light goes on in my feeble brain.
[Twitter] Small plane crashes into a General Mills food processing plant in Georgia. This is just one of many food processing plants that has been caught on fire over the past month or two.
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There are LOTS of food processing plants in the US. Find the rate at which they have fires or other accidents in other years -- go back to 2018 to eliminate COVID as a factor -- and compare it to what's happening now.
Then you'll have something interesting.
Until that leg-work is done, this is just a new "church fire epidemic".
We live in the Age of Misleading Vividness. Don't fall for it.
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I blame Bill Gates.
He is buying farmland like crazy and now wants to crash the processing part and buy it on the cheap!!!
The soft jihad of the law expanding special privileges for the Muslim segment of the population.
[BenarNews] A court in Thailand’s Islamic-majority Deep South ruled Thursday that Moslem girls can wear hijabs at a Buddhist school housed within a temple where the principal had banned the religious headgear as part of the campus dress code.
In its decision, the Administrative Court in Yala province ruled in favor of parents who lodged a petition in 2018 after the head master at the Anuban Pattani School in Pattani province had enforced a policy requiring all students to wear school uniforms and banning hijabs, which he deemed as inappropriate on temple grounds.
"[The court] rules to revoke the Anuban Pattani School’s order ... and allow Moslem children to dress according to Moslem customs," a sheet from a court document stated.
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[Garowe] Somalia's special forces, Danab, killed more than ten al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... Lions of Islam and maimed several others during security operations carried out in the central part of the country, officials said on Thursday.
The military officials told SNA Radio that the special forces conducted a series of security operations against the holy warrior group in several villages in the Mudug region on Wednesday.
"The Danab forces launched operations against al-Shabaab in several villages including Qararow, Kalaxiran, Goryale, Dhumale, Caad, Gabdhale and Waable, among others, in the Mudug region," the military radio reported.
The government forces have intensified security operations against the al-Qaeda allied terror group to liberate regions still under the control of the group.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... 's main opposition leader said Thursday that his power supply had been cut at home after he stopped paying electricity bills in protest at sharp utility bill hikes. That was effective. And predictable. Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the secular Republican People's Party (CHP) has seized on Turkey's social and economic turmoil to try and mount a serious challenge to veteran President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... in elections due by June 2023.
The 73-year-old former civil servant announced in February that he would stop paying "inflated" bills that had shot up by at least half for most households as a result of inflation and a sharp currency depreciation.
Economists link Turkey's social problems to Erdogan's unconventional economic views.
The Ottoman Turkish leader has pushed the central bank to sharply cut interest rates in order to bring down soaring consumer prices -- the exact opposite of what policymakers usually do in similar situations.
Turkey's official annual inflation reading has soared to more than 60 percent as a result.
Some of those increases are linked to a lira collapse that has made imports such as oil and gas much more expensive.
Kilicdaroglu announced on Twitter on Thursday that he now had no lights on at home.
"I just got news from my wife -- they cut off our electricity today," Kilicdaroglu said in a video message recorded from his well-lit office.
"My actions are not a call to civil disobedience," he added. "My actions are meant to represent the voice of families and children of a country that has been left in the dark."
Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted party have accused Kilicdaroglu of trying to stir up street protests and social upheaval by refusing to pay his bills.
Next year's general election is turning into one of the most serious challenges yet to Erdogan's dominant 20-year rule. The 68-year-old leader has seen his once overwhelming support implode in the past year.
Russia's assault on Ukraine has shifted some of the focus away from Turkey's economic problems and onto Erdogan's efforts to try and mediate an end to the brutal conflict.
Turkey's chilly relations with Washington have also improved as a result.
But opinion polls -- while not always trustworthy in Turkey -- still show Erdogan trailing most potential presidential challengers.
[JustTheNews] new complaint to the Georgia State Election Board alleges that more than 300,000 ballots were unreliably recorded on unverified early voting poll closing tapes in Fulton County, Georgia in the 2020 election.
"Fulton County's Advance Voting poll closing tapes are a fraudulent, un-certified, unsigned, and un-checked false representation of over 311,000 ballots that no court could legally accept," the complaint alleges.
The December 2020 recount in Georgia determined that President Joe Biden won by just 11,779 votes over former President Donald Trump.
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Yours is certainly one opinion, Voldemort Groluling4088. And if you are indeed correct, the investigation will embarrass itself mightily by finding nothing, which will shut up those Trumpsters nicely. Let’s together loudly encourage them to waste their time and destroy their cause, hmm?
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BTW: What was the OFFICIAL outcome of the GBI / Fulton Co. Investigation of the 5,000 Illegally printed pre-voted absentee ballots, just needing a name applied?
Stacy Abram's campaign, it seems, had GA absentee ballots professionally printed.
These phony Absentee Ballots were found in a rental car at the Atlanta Airport, that was returned by a Stacy Abrams Campaign Worker returning home to NY.
Why are we still waiting on GA-GBI/Atlanta PD to FULLY release the findings.
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They can find all the irregularities they want but it is (and always was) impossible to prove fraud actually changed the election. It was however, possible for Congress to refuse to certify the election because of the irregularities, but of course asking them to do that is a 'coup' attempt.
Exposing the fraud, though, has been and would continue to be a win.
Slightly off topic, there has been some talk about Title 42, especially from the greatest politician in history, successor and surpasser of Cicero Obama, Monsenior Brandon de Tapioca, and of keeping it intact. I find it interesting this consideration comes on the heels of Latinos really, really not liking the government's current tack and the leftist embrace of destroying their culture, linguistic and religious.
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You should have to give just as much ID to vote as you do to buy a gun.
Driver's license is all the ID you need for that. But then there's a background check. I have no problem with those either. Could be a problem for illegal border-crossers who are issued DLs by lefty state gummints, though.
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And for all the imaginary people living in post office boxes and dead people, which is the point. And someplaces now demand a matching thumbprint to buy a gun, I don't mind that if we can apply it to voting.
But voter fraud is treason and should be punished by death. I don't care who does it, what party they belong to, or how 'important' they are. If you can do the fraud, you can splatter the wall.
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It's the first interview she's ever done, she said, and she decided to speak to make clear she was not forced out of the agency but left on her own terms.
Because it's all about her you see. Nothing she says here or writes about in the future will in any way, assist the efforts of the intelligence community today or in any future collection challenges.
Did I mention it was all about her and not about the people or country she was sworn to protect ?
"Departed on her own terms." And the "terms" of retirement for a gov't SES are indeed quite nice. The "terms" are however, afforded to all retirees.
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Every time I had to participate in Escape and Evasion training I was waterboarded
It really only works if you don’t know how to swim or you are afraid of water
Not a big deal except for getting my sinuses cleaned
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
The Russian president ordered not to risk the lives of Russian soldiers and officers in vain.
Azovstal will be blocked so that the “fly does not fly” and the militants remaining on the territory of the industrial zone will be asked to lay down their arms.
Siege is also an effective method of fighting. And one of the oldest. And by the way, the cancellation of the "frontal" assault on Azovstal is not at all the cancellation of air, missile and artillery strikes on Azovstal.
The dung workers are now eating their last horseradish without salt in the cellars of Azovstal. And stick your nose out of these cellars are not able to. The leadership of "Azov" - Prokopenko, Palamar, as well as Western instructors, it is desirable for us to take them alive. These are very interesting interlocutors for our investigating authorities.
At Azovstal, a silence regime is declared daily from 14:00 to 16:00, all hostilities are completely stopped and humanitarian corridors are opened for the exit of civilians, who allegedly may be on the territory of the plant. But somehow no one uses this mode. If none of the civilians leaves the territory during this time, then either they are not there, or they are held hostage.
Mariupol itself, with the exception of part of the plant's territory, has been taken under full control. Via Russia military journalist Boris Rozhin. Here is the text of the meeting between Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin and his defense minister, General Sergey Shoigu, where the news of the siege of Azovstal was announced. All in English.
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^ Ukraine forces stretched to the limit also. About now they must realize they are being ground down in every area of operations. This conflict was never a short term event. I revived conflict, a borrowed word from Vietnam days.
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The defense must be fiercer than the Putinists expected.
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It's a fortress designed and built by the Soviets and the defenders are trapped in it...neutralized if you will. Let them stay down in their nuke proof tunnels as long as they like. When they run out of food and water it will become a tomb.
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[RT] Israel has hit two targets, including a Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, weapons factory 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, in an apparent retaliation for an attack on the Israeli town of Sderot from the Paleostinian enclave.
On Thursday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said one rocket was launched from Gaza the previous night.
"In response, fighter jets attacked an underground facility producing rocket engine components. This attack will cause significant damage to the rocket production process in the Gaza Strip," the forces said in a statement.
Attempts by the Hamas-controlled enclave to take down the planes have failed, according to an IDF front man, but prompted Israel to carry out a second strike, this time targeting "a military compound used by the Hamas terrorist organization."
During the second raid, the gunshots triggered the Israeli Iron Dome air defense system, with the malfunction currently being investigated, the IDF said.
The Times of Israel, citing a medics’ statement, reported that three people had received treatment for debris-related injuries following a strike from Gaza.
Hamas responded to last night’s events by saying that it would "increase the persistence" of the Paleostinians and their commitment "to continue the struggle."
The fire exchange has apparently marked a further escalation of tensions between Israel and Gaza. In a similar episode on Tuesday, the IDF struck several targets in the Gaza strip, claiming the move was in retaliation for the rocket fired at Israel from the Paleostinian enclave — the first one in almost four months.
The incidents follow several days of violent mostly peacefulfestivities at the Temple Mount complex (as referred to by the Jews) or the al-Aqsa compound (as referred by the Paleostinians), and a series of terrorist attacks in Israel in recent weeks. The compound is in east Jerusalem, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967, with the Jewish state responsible for security there.
Temple Mount is considered the holiest site in Judaism, while the al-Aqsa Mosque in the southern part of the complex is the third holiest site in Islam.
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[KavkazUzel] The head of Kabardino-Balkaria, Kazbek Kokov, ordered to increase the anti-terrorist protection of tourist, industrial and transport facilities in the region.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that members of cells of international terrorist organizations were preparing terrorist attacks in educational institutions in Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Stavropol, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee reported on February 8.
At social, tourist, industrial, transport facilities, as well as facilities of the fuel and industrial complex of Kabardino-Balkaria, additional anti-terrorist security measures are being introduced, head of the republic Kazbek Kokov said today in his Telegram channel.
According to Kokov, the responsibility of officials for the implementation of the decisions of the anti-terrorist commission to ensure the security of such facilities will be strengthened.
The "Caucasian Knot" keeps statistics on the victims of the armed conflict in the North Caucasus using its own materials and information from open sources. In recent years, no terrorist attacks and explosions have been recorded in the republic.
In the first quarter of this year, there were no reports of casualties in Kabardino-Balkaria. In 2021, in Kabardino-Balkaria, during a special operation, five people were killed, whom the National Anti-Terrorism Committee called militants.
On July 22, 2020, the FSB reported on a terrorist attack that had been prevented in Kabardino-Balkaria and reported that four members of a terrorist organization were killed while trying to detain people in the Chegemsky district.
On March 24, 2020, the security forces, having received information about the preparation of a terrorist attack, tried to detain three suspects near the village of Kremenchug-Konstantinovskoye in the Baksansky district. All three were killed during the skirmish.
From the Daily Mail... where GloboHomo spreads its propaganda to an unwitting universe. Save us, Batboy!
Plumes of smoke seen at the huge Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant outside Moscow
Cause of latest fire unknown, just hours after weapons facility blaze killed seven
Scientists seen jumping out of windows at research hub in Tver, also near capital
Defence Ministry site is where Iskander missiles were built before use in Ukraine.
A blaze broke out at Russia's largest chemical plant just hours after a huge fire at a military facility killed seven people.
Huge plumes of smoke were seen enveloping the Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant late this afternoon.
The cause of the fire remains unknown. Almost 150 plant workers were reportedly evacuated.
The facility in Kineshma, east of Moscow produces more industrial solvents than any other in Russia. Solvents. Like those used in preventative maintenance? Well, losing that won't have much impact, I guess.
Benzene, carbon tetrachloride, acetone, etc. — not healthy for children and other living things. To be fair, chemical plants are prone to catching fire, as they’re generally making highly flammable things under pressure. So this is not necessarily enemy action.
It is less than 1,000km from the border with Ukraine.
Anti-Putin racecar driver Igor Sushko tweeted footage of the latest fire and wrote: 'This is the largest Russian manufacturer of chemical solvents. Located 250 miles EAST of Moscow.
'We are beginning to see a pattern develop.'
Possibly. Or it could just be bad luck. Twice. It’s the third time that it’s enemy action, right? Though even lacking outside help, this kind of thing will not help Russia recover from the secondary effects of Putin’s little war in the Ukraine.
The Dmitrievsky blaze follows a deadly fire around lunchtime at a top secret Ministry of Defence research facility in Tver, west of the Russian capital.
Seven were killed and 25 were injured after the mysterious fire caused the roof to fall in.
Four military scientists were forced to jump out of windows from the burning institute in Tver which develops new space and weapons systems.
The cause was not clear but there were reports of 'poisonous bluish-black smoke' at the plant which produces Iskander missiles.
It was unclear if there were chemical releases before the fire or as a result of the raging inferno.
Iskander missiles have a range of 300 miles and are designed to confound missile defences by flying on a low trajectory. I suppose they spent everything on offensive systems like Iskander, as if no one would ever shoot back and they'd never need a CIWS to shoot down missiles or drones with. That would explain a lot of recent headlines.
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Kind of hope it's coincidental crappy Russian maintenance. The timing won't allow for that conclusion, so the investigation will have to go from one blind alley to the next, with suspects every ten yards.
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The left over from soviet times penchant for concentrating rather than dispersing this sort of work may become a problem just now.
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We, of course, do the same thing, but call it "merger and acquisition."
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Maybe, some UKRAINIAN Freedom Fighters are paying Russia a visit?
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Cost of damage to Ukraine's infrastructure rises to $60 billion, World Bank says. The damage to Ukraine's infrastructure has now hit $60 billion and will continue to rise as the war goes on, World Bank President David Malpass told a conference.
US, EU ON THE HOOK FOR $1 TRILLION+
That figure, which Malpass described as an early estimate of "narrow" damage costs, did not include the losses to Ukraine's economy. Analysts have estimated that the country's economy has been cut in half. Estimates are that rebuilding Ukraine will require approximately $5 for every dollar of lost GDP.
"Of course the war is still ongoing, so those costs are rising," Malpass said. The US hopes to prolong the war for years, thereby lifting the cost of rebuilding Ukraine into the trillion-dollar range.
PAY UP, SUCKERS
Zelenskyy told World Bank and IMF leaders on Thursday via video that Ukraine needs $7 billion monthly to prevent its economy from collapsing under the Russian invasion.
And why would that be? Just Putin-propaganda. The damages should all be laid at that sick Commie's feet
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Makes perfect sense. I'm already paying for the welfare, healthcare and God-knows whatelse for every illegal alien that invdes my homeland because my government isn't mine, its the globalists who just control its checkbook to enrich themselves, allies and China. SO of course I need to also pay for the salaries of a foreign government, its rebuilding and the cost of arming it in a war on another continent. Because that pesky Constitution and Oath, laws and the idea of sovereignty are all so white supremacist!
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#8 US, EU ON THE HOOK FOR $1 TRILLION+ And why would that be? Just Putin-propaganda. The damages should all be laid at that sick Commie's feet
^ Sucker. How many times do you have to be told the checks in the mail before you wake up and realize they're fucking lying to you? How many trillions will you allow them to scam out of your pockets?
Yeah, the US won't spend a penny on [Iraq's] [Afghanistan's] [Ukraine's] reconstruction! It'll pay for itself!
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"Iraq's oil will pay for it all!" NOT.
"Afghanistan's rare earth metal export revenues will pay for it all!" NOT.
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Within the first year of the Iraq clusterfuck $12 billion in cash was flown into Iraq in 21 separate flights in late 2003-May 2004, all of which disappeared.
An inspector general's report indicated that "'Severe inefficiencies and poor management' by the Coalition Provisional Authority would leave no guarantee that the money was properly used", said Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., director of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Bowen said the missing money may represent "the largest theft of funds in national history."
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Well, if you're trying to tell me that we shouldn't be giving thirty billion a month to Putin, I'd say I was convinced by your examples, but to tell you the truth I was already convinced.
Heck, I know you're not supposed to talk about it, it's what you're here to distract away from.
But the plain fact of the matter is, our administration and the other administrations of the West give Putin about a billion a day to obtain stuff we already have but won't get for ourselves because a) they're environmental/religious fanatics and b) they're at war with the working class. Putin's enabled by an extremist religion we really shouldn't have any more time for.
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FFS, this is the THIRD TIME that we're being played. We spent fucking trillions on Iraq and Afghanistan. TRILLIONS. Completely wasted.
By now, anyone who doesn't recognize what an obvious scam this is needs to STFU.
Same deal as with those other black holes: Keep this war going as long as possible. Keep sending billions to the MIC. Keep getting robbed by local kleptocrats posing as Saviors of Democracy. Keep the billions in graft flowing to our corrupt warmongers.
Fuck this shit. Twice fooled and trillions wasted... no more.
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"Don't respond to his argument! Redirect! Redirect! Your mimeograph says Trillions Wasted! DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE BILLION A DAY WE GET FROM THE WEST! YOU'RE A RED-BLOODED AMERICAN, NO SENATOR'S SON, AND YOU'RE UPSET ABOUT THE TRILLIONS BUT YOU HAVE TO BE MYSTERIOUSLY SILENT ABOUT THE DEINDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE BILLION DOLLARS A DAY WE GET FROM IT! DISTRACT! DISTRACT! DISTRACT!"
Sergey Protosenya, 55, is believed to have carried out the murder-suicide
He was found hanged in the courtyard of his holiday home in Spain, and his wife Natalia and their 18-year-old daughter were found murdered inside
Police are reportedly working to the assumption he killed them before taking his own life. However, reports suggest the evidence is not conclusive
It comes after another Russian businessman, Vladislav Avayev, 51, was found dead in Moscow with his wife Yelena, 47, and their younger daughter Maria
Both men, found just one day apart, had separate links to Russian gas companies
Protosenya, who had a fortune of over £330 million, was Deputy Chairman on the Board of Directors for natural gas company Novatek for seven years
Avayev was previously a vice president at Gazprombank - a bank that was created to work for Russian gas giant Gazprom - and had also been a Kremlin official
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I cannot recall a genuine case of murder suicide where the perp HACKED to death his family before doing himself. This is a signature killing by some very nasty people over a lot of stolen money and betrayal of profound trust.
[Breitbart] Police in Sterling Heights, Michigan, arrested two illegal immigrants following a vehicle pursuit. The officers found more than 20,000 fentanyl pills allegedly transported for a Mexican cartel.
Sterling Heights police attempted to stop a BMW on April 8. The driver refused to yield, Fox2 Michigan reported this week.
The chase ended when the driver pulled into a dead-end road and fled on foot. Officers arrested him not far from the vehicle.
During a search of the BMW, the officers found more than 20,000 fentanyl pills disguised as OxyContin. In addition, the officers found more than 500 grams of powdered fentanyl.
In addition to the driver, the officers also arrested a female passenger. Both allegedly told the officers they were Mexican nationals in the U.S. illegally and were working for an unidentified drug cartel, WDIV Detroit reported.
Officials estimated the street value of the drugs to be in excess of $350,000. They said there was enough fentanyl to kill “thousands of Michiganders.”
The CDC reports that fentanyl is now the leading cause of death between the ages of 18 and 45, according to Families Against Fentanyl.
In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott initiated Operation Lone Star to counter the influx of the deadly substance amid border policy shifts by the Biden Administration.
“When you look at the fact that we’ve apprehended enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in Texas, and the fact that fentanyl is the leading cause of death in the United States for people between the age of 18 and 45,” Abbott said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart in March. “In Texas, more than 1,300 people lost their lives last year because of fentanyl,” the governor added.
“The Texas Military Department said that from March 2021 through earlier this month, its troops near the border confiscated more than 1,200 pounds (540 kilograms) of fentanyl,” the governor said in an AP interview reported by Breitbart. “By comparison, federal authorities reported confiscating about 11,000 pounds (4,990 kilograms) in 2021 — still a fraction of what entered the country.”
[Breitbart] Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers found a group of migrants hidden in a cattle trailer. Human smugglers packed the migrants in an un-ventilated compartment under bales of hay.
Texas DPS troopers stopped a Dodge pickup truck towing a cattle trailer filled with bales of hay, according to information obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Troopers believed the trailer was equipped with a false compartment and contacted Border Patrol agents for assistance.
Border Patrol agents arrived and a K-9 alerted to the possible presence of drug or human cargo inside the trailer. A search of the trailer confirmed the presence of the hidden compartment and the presence of 13 migrants trapped inside the un-ventilated space.
The driver was allegedly bound for the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Highway 281 in Brooks County before being stopped. “This smuggling tactic placed the migrants’ lives at further risk due to the excessive heat in the compartment and approximately one-hour travel time to the checkpoint,” officials stated.
The photos tweeted by Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings show the grants inside the cramped space that forced them to sit with their knees to their chest and their heads bowed over and down.
“If not for the actions of authorities, the driver would have attempted smuggling the group through a border patrol checkpoint, more than an hr drive away,” Chief Hastings stated.
DPS took custody of the driver and two other passengers who are expected to be charged with alien smuggling, officials report. The migrants, identified as citizens of Central American nations, were taken by Border Patrol agents.
[REDSTATE] On Wednesday, the Florida Senate passed a bill to abolish the “Reedy Creek Improvement District." This "improvement district" was created to benefit the Disney corporation in 1967. Today, the Florida House of Representatives passed the bill and sent it to Governor Ron DeSantis ...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president... for signature.
The bill passed by the legislature on Thursday would eliminate the Reedy Creek Improvement District, as the Disney government is known, as well as a handful of other similar districts by June 2023. The measure does allow for the districts to be reestablished, leaving an avenue to renegotiate its future. It now moves to DeSantis’ office to be signed into law.
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It was never a "tax avoidance scam". It was a deal to support economic development in an area that was swamps and orange groves before Walt came looking.
Disney shareholders should be suing the board and executives for the stunts that cost the company the arrangement.
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It'll be interesting what the building inspectors find...
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Build the Wall, implement mandatory E-Verify, permit cross referencing the Social Security Database with IRS filings to identify duplicate and fraudulent entries, reinstate enforcement of Remain in Mexico Asylum Process, require ID verification of all remittances sent overseas via the US banking system, cease the family feeding programs at schools, ID verify use of EBT cards to issued recipients, and poof. The problem is solved and the vast extent of the illegal alien population and its impact on our nation will be exposed. Honest government would do this, liberal or conservative. Once the truth, the factual, no bullshit truth is revealed, ask the CITIZENS of this country what they want to do about it.
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How about we create a Border Emergency Task Force to deal with people trying to cross our borders illegally? They could be mounted on horses and use whips to beat back the miscreants. Think it would work?
Breaking: Far-left violent extremist Joseph Mahmoud Dibee has pleaded guilty in federal court in Portland to carrying out bombings. He evaded justice for more than 20 years by destroying evidence & fleeing to Cuba. His comrade Josephine S. Overaker is still wanted. pic.twitter.com/BOz3ibXZPi
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is a militant arm of the anarcho-communist Earth First ecology movement, part of the spectrum of Black Bloc front movements that most recently includes Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
[An Nahar] Judge Nicolas Mansour, first investigating judge at the Mount Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them... Court of Appeal, ordered on Thursday the seizure of all the assets of Riad Salameh ...Governor of Lebanon'scentral bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. Salameh was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Ministers for a renewable term of six years. He was reappointed for four consecutive terms; in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017. Salameh chairs the Banque du Liban Central Council, the Higher Banking Commission, the AML/CFT Special Investigation Commission and the Capital Markets Authority. Salameh is a member of the board of governors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and at the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF). Salameh is the longest-serving central bank governor in the world.... 's brother, Raja.The memo was sent to the ministry of finance through the public prosecution.
Raja was arrested after Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun charged him with "facilitating money laundering."
Earlier this month, the Mount Lebanon accusatory body approved a ruling to release Raja on bail, dismissing an appeal filed by Aoun.
The accusatory body also agreed to slash the bail value from LBP 500 billion to LBP 200 billion, based on an an appeal filed by Raja's lawyer.
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My photo interpretation skills are a bit lame so it is not clear to me what we are looking at. Which thingie exactly is the mass grave?
Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) thwarted an ISIS attack west of Kirkuk.
The PMF said in a statement that ISIS turbans attacked the PMF's patrol near Rubaida area, al-Rashad district, before the force responded and forced them to flee.
[SHAFAQ] A large military force has been deployed in the district of al-Shatra, northern Dhi Qar, a local officer revealed on Thursday.
The Commissioner of al-Shatra, Haidar Ghaleb, told Shafaq News Agency that a brigade of the Iraqi army was deployed in the city in the aftermath of the recent security turbulence.
"The army forces are heavily deployed at the entrances of the city," he added.
"The curfew is still in force," Ghaleb said, "a tight security plan has been devised to bring those who incited the conflict to justice."
[Khaama] It's not mass murder if they're Shia and it's Ramadamaladingdong Health officials in Abu Ali Sina hospital in the Mazar-e-Sharif city of the northern Balkh province said that 30 killed and 80 wounded have been dispatched to the hospital after an explosion hit "Se Dukan" mosque in the city.
Local residents said the blast that occurred in the mosque at 12:40 PM local time targeted a Shiite Muslims mosque in the northern city.
It is still not clear how the blast took place.
The health officials have said that the number of victims is feared to increase as the statistics are preliminary.
The Afghan capital Kabul has also witnessed two blats on Thursday, April 21, 2022, that wounded two children.
Spokesperson of Kabul police Khalid Zadran said that a bomb was planted by a road in Police District 5.
The northern Kunduz province was also hit by a planted bomb that resulted in the killing of four civilians and wounding of eight more while four Taliban members died after a bomb blasted in the Khugiani district of the eastern Nangarhar province.
It comes two days after three bomb blasts in a school and educational center in Kabul killed six students and wounded 24 more.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts yet.
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“According to R. Scott Appleby, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame,"Shiite Muslims, who are concentrated in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, [believe they] had suffered the loss of divinely guided political leadership" at the time of the Imam's disappearance. Not"until the ascendancy of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1978" did they believe that they had once again begun to live under the authority of a legitimate religious figure. “
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[KavkazUzel] A 35-year-old resident of Dagestan participated in a meeting of the banned religious association "Nurdzhular,"
...apparently the Russian rendering of the Turkish expression “Nurcular,” meaning “followers of Nursi.” The reference is to Turkish Sufi Muslim theologian Said Nursi (1877–1960), who was a fierce critic of atheism and secular humanism. Russia’s Supreme Court banned the group in 2008. Russian authorities supposedly believe the organization to be banned in Turkey, and to be a tool of Turkish and American intelligence...
investigators say.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that 1,967 residents of Dagestan are on the wanted list as members of international terrorist organizations, Interior Minister Abdurashid Magomedov said at a session of the People's Assembly on March 31.
A case was initiated against a 35-year-old resident of Dagestan under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The man is suspected of involvement in the activities of the international religious association "Nurdzhular" *, reported today the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Dagestan.
"Participation in the activities of an extremist organization" provides for up to six years deprivation freedom.
According to investigators, from 2016 to April 2017, a resident of Dagestan participated in the activities of the international religious association Nurcular,
...which has millions of followers around the globe, especially in Turkey, has been banned in Russia since 2008. They want a Turkic caliphate comprising those regions of the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Russia's North Caucasus and Volga regions...
which since April 10, 2008 has been banned by the Russian Supreme Court as extremist.
The suspect "participated in meetings to study the ideological sources of the specified extremist organization" in order to continue the illegal activities of the religious association, according to a message published today on the website of the Dagestan Department of the ICR.
Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" also reported that, according to investigators, a 38-year-old resident of Izberbash joined the ranks of the international religious association "Nurcular" and studied extremist ideology.
[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don found Magomed Ramazanov, a resident of Dagestan, guilty of preparing explosions and attacks on security forces in Makhachkala and sentenced him to 12 years in prison.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 25, four alleged members of a cell of the "Islamic State" terrorist organization, banned in Russia by a court, were detained in Dagestan, they were suspected of preparing an explosion and an attack on security officials. They found weapons, an explosive device and ammunition, and in their mobile phones - correspondence with coordinators from abroad. On December 28, 2020, the court decided to detain four detainees for two months.
Magomed Ramazanov, a resident of Dagestan, was accused of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization, organizing an illegal armed group and a terrorist community, preparing to commit a terrorist attack, the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported today.
According to the investigators and the court, on December 20, Magomed Ramazanov took the oath of allegiance to the head of the Islamic State * by recording a video message on his mobile phone. On December 25, 2020, Ramazanov, together with three members of the illegal armed group he created, purchased firearms, ammunition, explosive devices, knives, which were stored in caches in the village of Agachaul and in Makhachkala.
They also developed a plan to carry out explosions on December 31, 2020 in Makhachkala, photographed and videotaped approaches to administrative buildings, made maps, indicating the objects that were supposed to be blown up, escape routes, to carry out the plan, placed the detention, the message on the Telegram channel says. court.
Ramazanov was found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 350,000 rubles, the press service of the court said.
The date of sentencing was not specified in the message. The section "Courtwork" on the website of the Southern District Military Court is unavailable at 16.44 Moscow time. "The information is temporarily unavailable. We apologize. Try to apply later or go directly to the court," the court's website says.
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Trump is living rent-free in Voldemort Groluling4088's tiny head :-)
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Explain the moral difference, if any, between resigning because one does not agree with policy direction, and resigning because the team leader is insufferable.
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Don't you understand? She can't be bargained with. She can't be reasoned with. She doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And she absolutely will not stop... ever, until you get head!
⚡️EU committed to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine, says Michel.
President of the European Council Charles Michel told European Pravda that the EU had agreed to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine but there won’t be many announcements about it.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 21, 2022
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"Biden authorizes $1.3 billion more for Ukraine…" Then "There’s also a fresh $500 million in direct economic assistance to Ukraine for government salaries, pensions and other programs." Spend, spend, like a drunken sailor. Every week and I'd bet no way to tell where the money goes.
Ottoman Turkish warplanes bombed sites of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Duhok, north of the Kurdistan Region, a source revealed on Thursday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that Ottoman Turkish aircraft have been raining bombs on the PKK hideouts in the sub-district of Shiladze, Amedi.
Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of transborder operations against anti-Ankara parties in the Kurdistan Region and northeastern Syria: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019).
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Britain - Vote - Conservative - PM Johnson Party - For BREXIT BEST By - Conservatives - Vote Heavily In Numbers - Don't Shirk & Stay Home - Thinking Victory - Get Out - Vote - Victory - DO It - Soak - LABOUR - They (LABOUR ) Break Water & Sink U/K Cuz FUCK In Disaster On Economy & Worse Don't Know Much On BREXIT - LABOUR Worse On Lovemaking - Procreation - DUNN IN ASSES
Three ISIS attacks were thwarted in 72 hours, in al-Muqdadiyah and al-Udhaim districts, a security source in Diyala reported.
The Chief of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) in the northeastern bassin of the governorate, Ahmed al-Tamimi, told Shafaq News agency that the PMF, the operations commands, and the police thwarted three terrorist attacks in 72 hours, through several measures including adding security checkpoints on the Diyala and Saladin borders.
He added that ISIS murderous Moslems failed to infiltrate the Hamrin Bassin areas due to the strict security measures.
Al-Tamimi confirmed that due to its failure, the terrorist organization is planting bombs in remote areas, pointing out that huge differences have erupted between the organization's leaders, which hindered their plans to carry out attacks.
Every year, Diyala witnesses continuous terrorist attacks called the "Ramadan forays".
Garry Reid, the DoD's Director for Defense Intelligence, was recently dismissed from his duties after an Inspector General investigation into his misconduct
Complaints against Reid included claims he was having an affair with a subordinate, sexually harassed staff, and interfered with a secret UFO program
Former staffer Luis 'Lue' Elizondo claims in an exclusive interview that Reid was allegedly ousted for a spat over UFOs - and will be replaced by his alleged mistress, Tara Jones
Jones is named only as Employee 1 in an April 2020 IG report which found evidence of an 'inappropriate relationship and favoritism' but not a sexual affair
But Elizondo claims it wasn't until the IG investigated his complaints of Reid's alleged vendetta and smear campaign against him that Reid was dismissed
Last May Elizondo filed a separate 64-page complaint to the Department of Defense's Inspector General alleging a coordinated effort to discredit him
Elizondo shot to fame in 2017 after helping leak extraordinary videos from of tic tac-shaped UFOs moving with incredible speed and agility near aircraft carriers
⚡️World Bank estimates infrastructure damage to Ukraine at $60 billion.
The estimate only accounts for the damage so far, and will rise further as the war continues, said World Bank President David Malpass.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 22, 2022
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Effectively cutting off funds to Democrats and Soros scum.
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So, being China's wh*re isn't getting it anymore for the average swamp creature? Story in that somewhere.
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Economist David Malpass, head of the World Bank, notes that &60 billion doesn't cover the cost of replacing lost $GDP.
Ukraine's version of Hamid Karzai demands we pay him $7 billion a month just to grease the wheels.
The typical cost to rebuild is around 5x the lost GDP. Keeping the war going one more year will destroy $90 billion in Ukrainian GDP, so one year will cost us $450 billion to rebuild.
Let's be clear: "rebuild" means pour another $1 trillion of our money into ANOTHER overseas sinkhole brought to you by our liberal imperialist fools.
The THIRD time in a row that we've been suckered. Are we having fun yet?
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Let'sbe clear: "rebuild" means pour another $1 trillion of our money into ANOTHER overseas sinkhole brought to you by our liberal imperialist fools.
No worries. The US can always just do more "quantitative easing," right?
Or maybe not...
Jay Powell signals Fed is prepared to raise rates by a half-point in May
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At least a quarter of the Iraq rebuilding project funds was stolen. Ukraine will cost us a trillion at least, and Ukraine us even more corrupt than Iraq. Plus, this time the US presidency is held by an actual crime family. And they know all the players in the Ukraine swamp.
Not hard to see that Save Ukraine! is the Mother of All Grifts. Now do you understand why the Swamp is so determined to keep the war going? They've got their eyes on $300 billion in loot.
[RT] CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... ’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery has officially pulled the plug on the premium streaming service CNN+ after a mere three weeks. Thursday’s announcement came as a "total and utter shock" to employees of the service, which has reportedly already spent $300 million to hire top corporate media talent, launch and advertise, with another $700 million in investments planned.
Variety magazine broke the story on Thursday morning, saying the decision came from Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. By noon, CNN executives confirmed it to the staff at their offices in a New York City high-rise, saying the service would shut down on April 30.
The announcement was met with "total and utter shock" that "morphed into despair," an anonymous staffer told CNN’s Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy. Staffers were "freaking out" at first, then "turned to sadness" before breaking out whiskey and wine "to commiserate."
Officially, Zaslav wants to unite all of the company’s brands under one streaming service. CNN+ was commissioned by former WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, just weeks before Discovery acquired its parent company AT&T earlier this year.
CNN had planned to sink $1 billion into the venture, hiring executives, producers and on-air talent from other networks, and planning for CNN+ to break even after four years. The service attracted as many as 150,000 subscribers in the first couple weeks, according to some reports — though others said a mere 10,000 people tuned in on a daily basis.
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[Korrespondent] 23:06 The Pentagon said that Washington next week will organize consultations with the participation of other countries on strengthening the military potential of Ukraine. 23:04 As a result of the shelling of Nikolaev with cluster shells, three people were injured in a day, one of them died in the hospital, Mayor Alexander Senkevich said. He also said that on April 21, 72 people from the Nikolaev and Kherson regions were evacuated to Nikolaev. At the same time, 437 people were evacuated from Nikolaev itself to Odessa and Palanka today.
23:02 Ukrainians who went abroad without documents will be able to get an identity card for free, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.
23:01 The commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Igor Osipov, was removed from his post and arrested after the destruction of the missile cruiser Moskva, Defense Express reports citing its sources.
22:56 In recent weeks, Russian oil exports to unknown destinations have increased significantly - this has already happened to buy oil from Iran and Venezuela in circumvention of sanctions, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to the publication, the use of the "unknown destination" mark is a sign that oil is delivered to large ships at sea and shipped, and then mixed with the cargo of this ship, hiding its true origin.
22:54 Rocket strikes inflicted today on Zaporozhye fell on the island of Khortytsya, one of the strikes damaged the building of the sanatorium, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh.
22:52 Europe will provide Ukraine with heavy weapons, European Council President Charles Michel said in an interview with the UP. According to him, the agreement in principle of the EU on the supply of weapons to Ukraine was reached in February, although at the beginning of the negotiations he was not sure of success.
At the same time, the President of the European Council stressed that there is no need to wait for news about deliveries - only a few pieces of information will appear in the public space for security reasons.
22:48 Danilov said that Putin and Shoigu planned to create concentration camps for Ukrainians in Western Siberia. According to him, Russia's goal is "the destruction of our country, nation and colonization of Ukraine."
22:46 Arestovich said that Putin lost the battle for Mariupol. According to him, the Russians withdrew troops from there, and now it will be easier for the Ukrainian defenders to kill them daily. In addition, the enemy does not have such a number of troops to surround Azovstal - for this you need 2-3 times more. The threat of losing Mariupol receded, the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office assured.
"They were afraid of Zelensky's ultimatum that Ukraine would withdraw from the negotiations if our soldiers were killed there. They are afraid that Ukraine will withdraw from the negotiation process," Arestovich explained.
22:23 The United States does not plan to participate in the possible evacuation of civilians from Mariupol, the Pentagon said.
22:22 As a result of a missile attack on the Novomoskovsky district, five people were injured, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, Nikolai Lukashuk, said.
22:21 The White House reports that it sees signs that the People's Liberation Army of China is supporting the Russian army "directly and indirectly."
22:18 Western media, including Reuters and The Times, write that Russia is gathering "volunteers" for the war against Ukraine not only in Ethiopia, as previously reported by the local press, but also in neighboring Eritrea, where they plan to recruit 5,000 for this purpose Human.
22:13 During the full-scale war, Zelensky held 294 video calls and more than 230 telephone conversations with leaders and heads of governments of foreign states, and also addressed the parliaments of other countries and international organizations 26 times, nine visits of foreign leaders to Ukraine took place, said the deputy head of the Presidential Office Andrey Sibiga.
21:55 Vereshchuk on the evacuation from Mariupol: "Everything is going very hard. On the part of the Russians, everything is very difficult, chaotic, slow and, of course, dishonest. It gives hope that yesterday people left Mariupol for the first time directly (we are talking about about the four buses that left Mariupol yesterday). We apologize to the Mariupol residents who did not wait for the evacuation today. Shelling began near the collection point, which forced the corridor to be closed."
21:51 The operational-tactical group Skhid reported that on April 21, Russian troops carried out three attacks, Ukrainian defenders destroyed up to 200 personnel, five tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, one armored personnel carrier, one artillery system, one aircraft and three UAVs.
21:49 The satellite recorded a mass grave in the occupied village of Mangush, Donetsk region, which is located less than 20 km from Mariupol. Up to 9,000 Mariupol residents can be buried in this grave.
21:47 The UK will provide financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $500 million in loan guarantees.
21:45 Zelensky created the National Council for the Reconstruction of Ukraine after the war.
21:41 Denmark will help restore Nikolaev after the war, the country's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen promised.
21:18 Ukraine now has more tanks than the Russian Federation, writes The Washington Post. Thus, following the results of 57 days of the war, the Russian invaders lost hundreds of pieces of equipment, while the Armed Forces of Ukraine regularly receive assistance from allied countries. This has led to the fact that now the Ukrainian military has more combat-ready tanks and armored vehicles at its disposal than the enemy.
21:13 The Office of the Prosecutor General reported that as a result of a missile attack on Zaporozhye, eight people were injured today. Also, windows in four carriages of the Zaporozhye-Lviv evacuation train were damaged by the blast, according to preliminary data, there were no casualties among the passengers.
21:10 The mass grave for Mariupol residents in Mangush is 300 meters long, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said: "If you do not take into account the depth, then the Mangush grave for Mariupol residents is prepared for 3,000 people. Minimum. Three thousand nameless and unidentified Mariupol residents killed by Russians. Minimum ".
21:04 The Yermak-McFaul group presented the Action Plan to increase sanctions pressure on the Russian Federation:
a complete embargo on Russian gas, oil and oil blends;
total sanctions against all banking institutions in Russia and Belarus, with freezing of assets;
Russia and Belarus should be recognized as state sponsors of terrorism, and the Russian army and political parties should be recognized as terrorist organizations;
the inclusion of the Russian Federation in the FATF black list along with Iran and North Korea;
expansion of personal sanctions against officials and their families, leading members of political parties, management of state corporations, Kremlin propagandists, as well as sanctions against state corporations themselves;
secondary sanctions against individuals and legal entities that will provide Russia and Belarus with services to circumvent restrictive measures.
20:56 Over the past 24 hours, Russia has introduced three more BTGs to eastern Ukraine, bringing their total number in the country to 85, US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby said. The total number of BTG administered over the past week has reached 20, most of them "go to the Donbass region."
20:54 Zelensky appealed to the Parliament and the people of Portugal with a request to transfer Leopard tanks, armored personnel carriers and Harpoon anti-ship missiles to Ukraine to protect against Russian aggression.
20:51 The UN will allocate $50 million to Ukraine - this is a record amount for the organization, said Osnat Lubrani, coordinator of the UN system in Ukraine.
Details: The money will go to non-governmental organization partners of the UN to provide assistance to Ukrainians affected by the war.
20:47 President of the European Council Charles Michel said that the EU agreed to purchase heavy weapons for donation to Ukraine.
20:45 In Kharkov, during the shelling of the Kiev region, a Russian shell hit a car, killing two civilians, local authorities reported.
20:43 Heating season 2022/2023 Ukraine will pass without any Russian energy carriers , Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said.
20:41 Kadyrov said that Mariupol was taken "finally and irrevocably, the entire territory was systematically cleared of nationalists."
20:39 Ukraine and the civilized world will never recognize the results of "referendums" in the occupied territories of the south of the country, the Foreign Ministry said: "The Russian Federation is actually following the same path as in 2014 in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions."
20:36 From Monday, April 25, the movement of minibuses from Irpin and Bucha to Kiev is resumed.
20:34 The head of the UOC-MP Onufriy proposed to hold a peaceful religious procession for Easter - from April 22 to April 24 from Orekhov, Zaporozhye region, to the blocked Mariupol. Onufry said that this procession could take civilians, the wounded and the military, as well as the bodies of the dead, from Mariupol and return back to the territory controlled by Ukraine.
20:32 The governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region, Valentin Reznichenko, announced three missile strikes in the Novomoskovsky district. The railway track and the contact network were destroyed, there were no casualties. It is not yet clear whether it will be possible to resume movement, he added.
20:26 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that Madrid sent Kiev 200 tons of ammunition, 20 armored vehicles "and other military materials."
20:18 Ukraine has become the number one topic even in the presidential elections in France. Incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and oppositionist Marine Le Pen entered the second round of the race. In their only debate of the entire campaign, Ukraine became one of the central issues. Details - in the material, Disputes Macron and Le Pen.
20:01 Danish Prime Minister Matte Frederiksen announced an increase in military assistance to Ukraine by $90 million.
19:38 Shmygal met with Biden in Washington, handed him the Ukrainian flag, signed by Zelensky, and a limited postage stamp indicating the direction for the "Russian warship".
19:36 In Popasnaya, the enemy has captured individual high-rise buildings and police buildings and is gradually moving deeper into the city. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are fighting back, but they need support, Nikolai Khanatov, head of the city military administration , said in an interview with Radio Liberty . According to him, between two and 3,000 people remain in the city. People die even in shelters - a hundred people died from shelling in shelters.
19:26 A total of 79 Ukrainians arrived from Mariupol to Zaporozhye, who were taken out yesterday along the humanitarian corridor.
19:22 The US Air Force has developed a system of unmanned aerial vehicles Phoenix Ghost specifically for the requirements of Ukraine, said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.
19:15 The Russian Foreign Ministry again stated that Moscow has the right to consider the transport of the United States and NATO with weapons as a legitimate goal, if it follows Ukrainian territory - "we talk about it directly."
18:57 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the commander of the 1st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 2nd Motorized Rifle Division of the 1st Tank Army of the western military district of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant Colonel Denis Mezhuev, has been eliminated. Also, two representatives of the leadership of the same unit, Colonel Kharitonov and Lieutenant Colonel Smirnov, were seriously injured and are being treated in Moscow.
18:55 In the Kherson region, the invaders announced the mobilization of men. A so-called "referendum" is scheduled for May 1 in the part of Kherson occupied by the Russian Federation, and a "population census" from May 2 to 10, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
18:51 Partial blocking of Kharkiv and the destruction of the city's infrastructure by artillery continues, the General Staff reports. In the occupied territory of the Kharkiv region, the invaders prohibit the movement of the local population towards the territory controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the delivery of humanitarian aid from the Ukrainian side is blocked.
18:46 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine registers a significant reduction in the intensity of movement of columns of Russian military equipment across the territory of Belarus. Separate units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions.
18:28 The humanitarian corridor agreed at the government level from the Kherson region did not work - the Russians did not let the buses to take people out, continued shelling. Also, the invaders captured the coordinator of the evacuation column, said the mayor of Krivoy Rog Alexander Vilkul.
18:25 Zelensky admitted that the de-blockade of Mariupol could happen by military means, but this requires more strength: "There is a military way. We need to prepare for it, and we are preparing to be powerful, and here we need the help of our partners. It is difficult for us ourselves."
The second way, according to the president, is diplomatic and humanitarian, which could be implemented quickly, but Russia even refused the offer of an exchange in Mariupol according to the "wounded for the wounded" formula.
18:23 Russia imposed sanctions against 29 Americans "from among top leaders, businessmen, experts and journalists who form the Russophobic agenda." Mark Zuckerberg was among them. Sanctions have also been imposed on 61 Canadian citizens.
18:21 A new package of US military assistance to Ukraine for $800 million includes 72 155mm howitzers and 144,000 shells for them; 72 tactical vehicles for slipping these howitzers; over 120 Phoenix Ghost drones; field equipment and spare parts for it, the Pentagon said.
18:19 Deputies of the City Council of Mariupol from the Opposition Platform for Life of Life directed artillery and corrected enemy fire on the city, Mayor of the city Vadym Boychenko said. According to him, we are talking about Yevgeny Kharmyshev and Konstantin Ivashchenko.
18:12 Biden said that the United States has the military ability to support Ukraine "for a long time."
18:06 Zelensky said that the Russians captured most of Mariupol, but there is a part of the city where the Ukrainian military is located. He also added that Ukraine is preparing to unblock Mariupol by military means, but hopes that it will be possible to carry out the evacuation peacefully.
17:55 The invaders in Mariupol are shelling the territory of Azovstal right now. There are also fighting in the area of the tram depot, located at a considerable distance from the territory of Azovstal, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. He is convinced that "the invaders will not stop until the complete annihilation of everyone inside Azovstal, neither our defenders nor civilians."
17:53 In Drohobych, Lviv region, local authorities assigned new names to the streets that bore the names of Russian figures, and also dismantled the eternal flame memorial in the park.
17:45 Project Belaruska Gayun reports that Russian troops have removed 85 percent of the equipment from the territory of Belarus, which was recorded during the retreat from the Kiev region.
17:30 The United States will continue to provide support to Ukraine in the field of intelligence transfer, Biden said. Also, according to him, next week he will submit a request to Congress for additional funds for military assistance to Kiev.
17:27 Biden called on Russia to ensure the exit of the civilian population from Mariupol and from Azovstal. At the same time, he expressed doubts that "Putin really controls Mariupol."
17:26 Biden announced the Unite for Ukraine program , which will allow Ukrainian refugees to emigrate from Europe directly to the United States under an accelerated procedure. The US Department of Homeland Security said that Ukrainian refugees will be allowed to stay in the country for up to two years if they can prove the presence of a person who is ready to provide them with financial support.
17:24 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, at a meeting with Zelensky, said that Madrid would send Ukraine 200 tons of military materials. And Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen promised to do everything "to help with weapons in the future." Both countries supported holding an international trial for war criminals who committed crimes in Ukraine.
17:22 The EU will not lift sanctions from Russia as long as the Russian troops remain on the territory of Ukraine, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock.
17:20 Russian ships are now prohibited from entering American ports, Biden said during an address on the situation in Ukraine.
17:18 An air defense unit of the National Guard in the Zaporozhye region, based on MANPADS, destroyed an enemy K-52 Alligator helicopter, the NSU reported.
17:16 In the Kherson region, the invaders take ownership of agricultural enterprises, take out products from warehouses and threaten employees to work, reports the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council.
17:13 Biden announced the provision of a new $800 million military assistance package to Ukraine , which includes, in particular, howitzers, tactical drones and artillery systems.
17:10 Biden said that the United States will provide $500 million in direct economic assistance to Ukraine.
17:07 Britain, in a new package of sanctions, has imposed a ban on the import of silver, wood products and high-quality products, including caviar, from Russia. Taizhe increased tariffs on imports from the Russian Federation and Belarus of a number of goods, including diamonds and rubber.
17:05 The Rada has simplified the procedure for confiscation of assets of Russians who fell under sanctions.
16:47 The invaders are shelling along the entire front line in the Donetsk region, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, Russian invaders tried to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian military in the Avdiivka direction, but failed. Also, over the past 24 hours, the enemy has been shelling civilians. The most active - in the Maryinsky, Avdeevsky, Ocheretinsky and Toretsky directions.
16:38 The invaders stole the unique collection of Efim Kharabet from the Mariupol Museum of Medal Art and took it to Donetsk, the city council said. The museum had more than 700 exhibits placed on 16 stands. All works were donated to the museum by the artist's wife, People's Artist of Ukraine Svetlana Otchenashenko-Kharabet. She died in the besieged Mariupol in April 2022.
16:31 The Rada has increased the military spending of the state budget by 200 billion hryvnias.
15:55 The Governor of the Kharkiv region Oleg Sinegubov confirmed that the Ukrainian Su-34 was shot down by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Izyum region.
Also, servicemen of the 25th Separate Airborne Secheslav Brigade shot down a Russian SU-25 aircraft. The brigade's Facebook page states that the plane was shot down by a Stinger MANPADS in the Donetsk region.
15:43 In Chernivtsi, two monuments associated with Russia were demolished - a monument to Red Army soldiers in battle and a monument to communist Sergei Galitsky.
15:36 The Rada has significantly simplified obtaining the status of the unemployed and the appointment of unemployment benefits during the war. Now there is no need to collect a lot of documents and certificates, everything will be done in one day in accordance with the adopted bill No. 7269.
15:33 The Rada has extended martial law in Ukraine until May 25.
15:28 Instead of HLE, the Rada will have the Platform for Life and Peace group . Yuriy Boyko was elected its head, and included 25 deputies from the former Opposition Platform for Life faction.
15:17 Another exchange of prisoners took place: 19 people are returning to Ukraine, of which ten are military (including two officers) and nine civilians, Vereshchuk said.
15:15 Turkey begins to diversify its natural gas supplies, writes Bloomberg. State-run Botas, a longtime partner of Gazprom, is finalizing talks with Deutsche Bank, which will provide a $1 billion loan to purchase liquefied natural gas from the United States.
Also, the Austrian oil and gas company OMV stopped importing and refining Russian oil. At the same time, Russia accounted for no more than 8% of the total oil imports to Austria.
15:12 On February 3, Putin agreed on a plan to eliminate Zelensky, Kadyrov was responsible for this, Danilov said: "Regarding the liquidation of our top leadership. The plan was received on February 3 by Kadyrov when visiting Putin. At this meeting, a plan was agreed on the liquidation of our president, and Kadyrov took undertaking that his group will do it."
15:09 Italy imposes a 25°C limit on air conditioning as the Ukrainian crisis forces energy rationing, writes The Guardian.
15:06 Johnson said that the UK reserves the right to strike back on its own, without consulting with other NATO countries, if Russia uses weapons of mass destruction.
15:00 In Kharkov, as a result of Russian night shelling, two markets were destroyed, a direct hit on a residential building was recorded, the mayor of the city of Terekhov said. According to him, the situation in the city is tense, there were very massive attacks at night. The people left without housing are moved to kindergartens, schools, boarding schools. In total, about 1 million people remain in the city.
14:46 After today's missile attack on Zaporozhye, windows in four carriages of train No. 119/120 Zaporozhye-Lviv were shattered by an explosive wave and debris, Ukrzaliznytsia reported. There were no casualties.
14:38 Great Britain has expanded sanctions against Russia. Restrictions were imposed on four Russian commanders who are considered responsible for war crimes, the Ukrainian ex-deputy Kivu, the wife of the oligarch German Khan Anzhelika, the general director of Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov, and the first deputy director of the FSB, Sergei Korolyov.
Four companies also fell under the sanctions: the Kalashnikov concern, the Arzamas machine-building plant, the Military Industrial Company holding and the State Transport Leasing Company of Russia.
14:29 More than 30 streets have been renamed in Dnipro, the names of which were associated with Russia. Now the streets of Azovstal, Ukrainian soldiers, Avdeevskaya, Volonterskaya, Chernobaevskaya and others have appeared in the city.
14:05 The Russians control about half of Popasna, said the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. He also said that more than 100 people have died in the city since the beginning of the fighting, and more than 2,500 residents remain in bomb shelters. Street fighting goes on non-stop, people live in bomb shelters, they cannot go outside.
14:02 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council warns that the Russian Federation may plan to shell the railway infrastructure of the western regions of Ukraine. So, in several pro-Russian Telegram channels, information appeared about the receipt by the Russians of "a complete and accurate list of the coordinates of the railway bridges in Western Ukraine." It is also noted that "to be a bridge-breaker".
At the same time, the CPD does not exclude that such stuffing may be part of a hostile information-psychological operation aimed at fomenting panic. In addition, information about the location of railway infrastructure facilities has never been a state secret and is freely available. On the other hand, the possibility of implementing such a plan cannot be completely ruled out.
13:53 The Latvian Seimas unanimously recognized Russia's actions in Ukraine as genocide. The country's parliament also calls on the EU to immediately suspend imports of Russian oil and gas.
13:51 Virgin Group founder billionaire Richard Branson called on entrepreneurs and governments to limit car speeds and turn off heating to reduce dependence on Russian energy and end the war in Ukraine.
"If we can reduce the West's dependence on fuel by, say, just 10%, that would free up about three billion barrels of fuel. That would be enough to ensure that countries like Germany no longer have to import Russian energy," he was quoted as saying. CNBC.
13:47 Arestovich reported that the main efforts of the enemy were concentrated on Izyum, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, but during the day he failed to advance in any direction.
According to the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, the statements of Putin and Shoigu that Azovstal does not need to be stormed mean that the Russian troops are unable to take it, they suffered huge losses there. Arestovich noted that part of the troops from Mariupol were probably transferred to the north in order to try to reach the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Russia will also fail, he is convinced.
Arestovich believes that a positional war awaits us next: the Russian Federation will try to declare a truce, negotiate, create humanitarian corridors and accumulate forces for the next phase, but these forces are conscripts. While the Russian Federation will prepare them, Russia will be broken by sanctions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:41 Ukrainians have already registered in Dії more than 96,000 statements about houses and apartments destroyed by the occupiers. More than 270,000 citizens were left without a roof over their heads. Most of the apartments and houses were destroyed in the Donetsk, Kiev, Kharkov and Chernihiv regions, writes Anton Gerashchenko.
13:36 Spiegel writes that dissatisfaction is growing in Germany with the position of Scholz, who is blocking the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine. The opposition can take advantage of this and express no confidence in him by raising the issue of additional armament of Ukraine in the Bundestag, the newspaper notes.
At the same time, Scholz's position regarding Ukraine raises questions not only among the opposition: even representatives of coalition parties are increasingly expressing their dissatisfaction with the course of the chancellor. In fact, this determines the issue of confidence in Scholz of the majority in the Bundestag, which means that the Ukrainian issue may lead to his resignation, the publication indicates.
13:34 The Estonian Parliament recognized the actions of the Russian Armed Forces and the military-political leadership of Russia as genocide against the Ukrainian people and calls for support in the investigation of these crimes.
13:31 At about 12:50 Russians launched two missile attacks on Zarorozhye. According to the OVA, there were no casualties. The enemy once again tried to damage the infrastructure of the city.
13:28 Russian publics are publishing a video of columns of DPR military equipment leaving Mariupol. They report that after the "capture of the city" announced by Shoigu, the units are being transferred to other sectors of the front.
13:25 Russia closes the Consulate General of Latvia in St. Petersburg and Pskov, as well as the Consulate General of Estonia and Lithuania in St. Petersburg.
13:23 Peskov called Danilov's statement about his readiness to strike at the Crimean bridge "the announcement of a terrorist attack."
13:01 The Kherson regional prosecutor's office announced a suspicion of treason to a deputy of the Kherson city council from the mayor's party We live here . According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, he handed over to the Russian curator documents on pro-Ukrainian figures, representatives of law enforcement agencies and combatants, and also called on local officials to cooperate with the occupiers, organized the deployment of personnel of the Russian military and contributed to the repair of their equipment.
12:55 The economy of Ukraine has already adapted to the state of war, said the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Daniil Getmantsev. He also stressed that spending on the army and the military-industrial complex should be substantially increased.
12:38 Commander of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Brigadier General Yuri Galushkin said that in the regions liberated from the invaders, "it's time to concentrate weapons in certain storage areas."
He addressed the soldiers of the TRO: "You will take care of weapons, take them to training and, if necessary, receive them to complete tasks. We will keep gunpowder dry. Proper storage of weapons is very important so that at a critical moment they can be quickly used and used against our enemy - Russian troops.
12:20 Italy plans to completely abandon Russian gas in the second half of 2023, "including for ethical reasons," said the country's Minister of Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani. He called the heavy dependence on Russian fuel that Europe has fallen into "a serious geopolitical mistake of the last 20 years, which is pointless to resolve in a month."
12:16 Gaidai said that Russia has announced the capture of Rubizhne for the third time, but this information is not true.
12:11 The archive of Vyacheslav Chornovol has been destroyed in Bucha, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine reported.
12:08 In the Nikolaev region, south of Snigirevka, about 20 villages have been occupied, governor Vitaly Kim said in an interview with NV. According to him, supplies to some villages come from the territory of the Kherson region, part of the humanitarian cargo goes through the corridors, which the Ukrainian authorities negotiate with the occupiers.
12:03 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports that today all the occupied settlements of the Veliko Burluksky district of the Kharkiv region are blocked. Departure is possible only in the Russian Federation.
There is an absolute ban on the delivery of humanitarian cargo from Ukrainian-controlled territory. Local residents were warned that volunteers trying to deliver aid would be shot. Recently it became known about the execution of volunteers who were traveling from the village of Shevchenkove.
There is no mobile communication in the region, many settlements were left without electricity. ATMs do not work, and products are sold at inflated prices. It is impossible to get medical help, as well as to buy medicines. All roads, including dirt roads, are mined.
12:00 Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic announced that he is cutting off all contact with pro-Russian President Zoran Milanovic: "I don't know if he is their agent or not, but the damage he has done to Croatia in foreign affairs over the past two months is enormous."
11:58 Near Mariupol, a new mass grave was discovered, into which the invaders are transporting the bodies of the dead civilians by trucks. As mayor Vadim Boychenko said, Russian invaders carry out mass graves near the village of Mangush, 20 kilometers from Mariupol.
11:56 Germany is negotiating with the EU and NATO countries, which can provide Ukraine with Soviet-made heavy weapons in exchange for German equipment, Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said.
11:54 Podolyak said that in the next week and a half it will become clear how events will develop further. He admitted that the war in Ukraine could be ended by direct negotiations between Zelensky and Putin, but in this case, the position of Ukraine should be "strong and thoughtful." And for this you need to wait for the development of the battle for the Donbass.
"They have enough resources, enough missiles, they, unfortunately, continue to bomb our cities. They still have manpower and equipment that they do not mind destroying on our fields. Therefore, let's wait a while, and then we can already judge positions of the parties, primarily the President of Ukraine, at the upcoming bilateral meetings," the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office explained.
11:45 The NBU introduced additional restrictions on cross-border transactions of citizens in order to prevent an unproductive outflow of capital from the country under martial law. According to the innovations, individuals will be able to make quasi cash transactions (quasi-cash), using only their own foreign currency, within the limit of UAH 100,000 per month (equivalent).
11:43 The Parliament of Latvia in the second and final reading adopted amendments to the legislation providing for the deprivation of citizenship of persons who support the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
11:41 Ukraine has applied to the IMF for support in covering the financial deficit to keep the economy functioning in the amount of $5 billion a month for the next three months, and the IMF will help raise this $15 billion , said Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the fund.
11:36 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the Russian Armed Forces and the "LPR" have taken Kremennaya, Lugansk region, under full control. According to the invaders, the city "managed to avoid serious destruction of urban infrastructure and residential buildings."
11:30 The head of the Lviv OVA, Maxim Kozitsky, said that today a missile strike from the Black Sea was prevented in the Lviv region.
11:27 The Azov regiment reported that, despite the extremely difficult situation, over the past two days it had destroyed three enemy tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles and an armored personnel carrier.
11:12 Ukraine requires the Russians to urgently open a humanitarian corridor to Azovstal, where, as Vereshchuk said, there are 1,000 civilians and 500 wounded soldiers.
11:01 The Russian army is already preparing to use outdated Soviet military equipment. According to Ukrainian intelligence, in order to restore their combat capabilities, the Russian Armed Forces are increasingly resorting to the use of Soviet-made equipment, which has been in storage bases since the 1970s. Considerable attention is being paid to increasing the capabilities of artillery and missile units for continuous shelling of Ukrainian cities.
10:39 AFU completely destroyed a small detachment of Syrian and Libyan mercenaries in the Donbass, which included about 20-25 people, Danilov said. In total, according to him, no more than 500 mercenaries from Libya and Syria are fighting on the territory of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
10:34 Putin called the completion of combat work on Mariupol a success and congratulated Shoigu.
10:32 Prime Ministers of Denmark Matte Frederiksen and Spain Pedro Sanchez arrived in Kyiv.
10:28 Crypto exchange Binance will restrict access to users from Russia. User accounts with a total value of crypto assets exceeding 10,000 euros will be limited - only the withdrawal function can be used. The accounts of Russians living outside the Russian Federation and the accounts of Russian citizens whose total value of crypto assets does not exceed 10,000 euros will remain active.
10:19 Shoigu, at a meeting with Putin, called Mariupol "the capital of the nationalist Azov" and assured that "the city itself has been liberated, but militants remain in Azovstal." According to him, we are talking about "more than 2,000 militants" who are "securely blocked." It will take three or four days to complete the operation on Azovstal, Shoigu said.
In turn, Putin ordered the storming of Azovstal to be canceled, since it was "inexpedient" : "We need to protect the lives of our soldiers. We don't need to climb into the catacombs, we need to block the industrial zone in Azovstal so that a fly does not fly."
09:55 In the territories of the Kharkiv region occupied by the invaders, "after the stabilization of the situation," a "referendum or a survey of citizens on the political future of the region" may be held, said Vitaly Ganchev, the so-called "head of the temporary civil administration of the liberated territory of the Kharkiv region."
09:53 Vereshchuk said that today there will also be an attempt to organize a humanitarian corridor in the Kherson region. We are talking about three settlements: the village of Vysokopolye, the village of Novovoznesenskoye and the village of Mirolyubovka.
09:42 The German Ministry of Defense has crossed out all heavy weapons from the list sent by Ukraine, although the German industry is ready to supply them in the short and medium term, writes Bild.
09:40 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 21:
personnel - about 21,000 people liquidated,
tanks - 829,
armored combat vehicles - 2118,
artillery systems - 393,
MLRS - 136,
air defense systems - 67,
aircraft - 172,
helicopters - 151,
automotive technology - 1508,
ships/boats - 8,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 166,
special equipment - 27,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
09:35 Lithuania handed over heavy mortars to Ukraine, Defense Minister Arvydas Anushauskas said: "I won't name the number, but we handed over a lot."
09:33 Russian troops continue to storm Popasna, said the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. Also, according to him, the enemy tried to gain a foothold in the western and northwestern parts of Rubizhne, but failed. He made unsuccessful assault actions in the direction of Novotoshkovsky.
09:07 In Nikolaev as a result of night attacks one person was lost, the head of the region Vitaly Kim reported.
09:05 Russia insists that Belarus be one of the guarantor countries of the future agreement with Ukraine, said Aleksey Polishchuk, Director of the Second CIS Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. He also expressed the opinion that the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Russia, China, Great Britain, the USA, France) can form the basis of guarantor states.
09:02 In Kiev, traffic on the red metro line has been resumed, according to the Kyiv City State Administration. Trains run non-stop at the stations Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Khreshchatyk, Dnipro, Hydropark, Klovskaya. The transfer hub Khreshchatyk - Maidan Nezalezhnosti remains closed. On all lines, the interval between trains will be reduced to 10-15 minutes, while underground stations continue to receive people around the clock as shelter.
08:53 Vereshchuk said that four evacuation buses managed to leave Mariupol along yesterday's humanitarian corridor - they spent the night in Berdyansk and are now heading to Vasilyevka, they should soon arrive in Zaporozhye.
Today, the evacuation of women, children and the elderly continues. Boarding buses on Shevchenko Boulevard on the ring near the Port City shopping center at 14:00. At the same time, the minister stressed that the security situation is difficult, changes are possible.
08:47 Johnson said that dealing with Putin is like bargaining with "a crocodile that holds your leg in its jaws." The British premier suggests that Putin will only want to participate in the negotiations if he gets a strong position in Ukraine - but then he can launch a new offensive against Kyiv.
08:45 Finance ministers of the G7 countries announced additional support for Ukraine in the amount of more than $24 billion for 2022 and are ready to increase it if necessary, writes Reuters.
They also again condemned the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and stressed that because of this, it is impossible to continue normal cooperation with Russia.
08:42 British intelligence reports that Russia is likely looking to demonstrate significant gains in the run-up to May 9, and this could affect how quickly and vigorously Russian troops will try to conduct operations. Currently, Russian forces are advancing from the bridgeheads in the Donbass towards Kramatorsk, which continues to be subjected to constant rocket attacks.
Intelligence also notes that a high level of Russian aviation activity remains, as the Russian Federation seeks to provide close air support for its offensive in eastern Ukraine, to suppress and destroy its air defense systems.
08:35 The American Institute for the Study of War believes that Russia has not yet launched a large-scale offensive in eastern Ukraine. As before, there is an assault on individual settlements, there is an advance of the Russian Federation in Rubizhny, Popasnaya and Severodonetsk. At the same time, in the Zaporozhye region, a local offensive towards Gulyaipol and Temirovka was not successful.
"Russian forces continue to build the logistics and command infrastructure necessary for a major offensive. They have not achieved any major breakthroughs and do not demonstrate the ability to simultaneously and successfully attack in many directions," the Institute's analysts say.
08:03 Five more planes with military assistance arrived in Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
07:59 The United States does not allow Poland to transfer fighter jets to Ukraine, writes Reuters. According to the publication, Washington rejected an offer from Warsaw to transfer its Russian-made MiG-29 fighters to an American base in Germany to replenish the Ukrainian Air Force. The prospect of transferring combat aircraft from NATO territory to the war zone "raises serious concerns for the entire NATO alliance," the Pentagon said.
07:58 Russia refused the "Easter humanitarian pause" and does not intend to stop hostilities, Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN Serhiy Kislitsa said.
07:32 In Balakliya, Kharkiv region, wounded Russian servicemen began to be placed in the city clinic, despite the fact that the hospital for the military of the Russian Federation is equipped in the building of a local music school. The placement of the invaders in the city clinic indicates a significant increase in the number of wounded and problems with their subsequent medical evacuation, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
07:30 In the Kherson region, the invaders plan to organize a forced mobilization of the population, and also intend to completely stop humanitarian support for the region from the Ukrainian authorities, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning summary .
The terror continues as well. Thus, in the village of Zolotaya Balka, Kherson region, representatives of the Russian occupation troops held a meeting with the local population, where they announced that there would be no more "green corridors" and forbade people to leave the village. In addition, they warned that in the event of shelling of their positions by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they would begin shelling the settlement. The occupiers continue to bypass the premises, conduct searches.
07:02 Biden will make an address today on the situation in Ukraine. The performance is scheduled for 16:45 Kyiv time, the White House reported.
06:38 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov said that as soon as Kiev has a chance to hit the Kerch, or Crimean, bridge, this will be done.
06:16 In Borodyanka, Kiev region, two mass graves were found, in which were the bodies of nine civilians shot dead by the invaders. Some of the dead have signs of torture, the National Police said.
05:53 Due to the supply of spare parts from other countries, Ukraine received about 20 combat-ready aircraft, CNN reports with reference to a high-ranking official in the Pentagon.
04:56 Turkey is ready to become a guarantor of Ukraine's security, but first you need to understand what this role implies, said Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. "Everyone approves security guarantees in the 5+1 format," he said and added that Ankara is against acting as a guarantor following the example of paragraph 5 of the NATO charter on collective defense.
02:57 The invaders in the Kherson region have scheduled the so-called "referendum" for April 27, the operational command Pivden reported.
02:23 Arestovich believes that the Russian army, heavily exhausted by clashes with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, will have enough forces for active operations in Donbas for two weeks or less. He also noted that during the three days of the "big offensive" in eastern Ukraine, the Russian troops did not advance anywhere.
[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief Jebran Bassil on Thursday slammed the rival Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... party as a "militia" that wants to "impose its conditions on the Foreign Ministry" in the distribution of polling stations abroad.
"Everyone knows and acknowledges the effort that the Foreign Ministry has exerted to facilitate expat voting, from increasing the number of polling centers from 116 to 205 and polling stations from 232 to 598, in conjunction with putting a unified standard for all countries, which turned every polling center into a megacenter comprising polling stations for all of Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... ’s electoral districts," Bassil said in a tweet.
"The LF wants to impose its conditions on the ministry, especially in Australia’s Sydney, in a manner that differs from the entire world. It wants to issue threats unless every polling center is turned into one dedicated to a single electoral district," the FPM chief added.
"This is a militia-like approach in imposing and endless lying. The LF has called for withdrawing confidence from the minister and we would file an appeal against any change to the unified standards in favor of the militia," Bassil went on to say.
The LF-led Strong Republic bloc had earlier on Thursday filed a request for holding a parliamentary session aimed at voting on withdrawing confidence from Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib over "violations" related to expat voting.
It said such violations include "distributing voters from the same area, village and family on several polling stations that are very distant from each other, which makes the voting process more difficult."
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 The Russian army delivered to the Zaporozhye region and handed over to representatives of the Ukrainian authorities 79 civilians who want to evacuate to the territory controlled by Kiev. 23:24 A battalion tactical exercise with servicemen of a separate Arctic motorized rifle brigade of the army corps of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation took place at a military training ground near the village of Alakurtti, Murmansk region.
22:04 Russian air defense systems in the area of the settlement of Yasnoye of the Donetsk People's Republic destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle.
21:58 A Ukrainian tactical missile "Tochka-U" was shot down over Izyum, Kharkiv region.
21:41 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the shipment of 200 tons of ammunition and other equipment for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during his visit to Kyiv on April 21.
21:20 The Russian humanitarian mission and the international public organization "Grandchildren" sent about 7.5 tons of humanitarian aid from Moscow to the Kharkiv region, said the mission's director general Sergei Shevchuk.
21:18 There are strong explosions in Nikolaev.
21:18 Russian missile troops and artillery hit 450 objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the day.
21:18 Since the start of the special operation, the RF Armed Forces have destroyed 2,422 armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:18 The RF Armed Forces launched a strike with high-precision missiles at 14 objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, up to 120 nationalists were destroyed.
21:17 Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces during the day hit 64 military facilities of Ukraine, including two depots of rocket and artillery weapons.
20:16 An air raid alert is roaring in most regions of Ukraine.
20:15 The head of the Dnepropetrovsk administration reports that three missile strikes were carried out on the railway infrastructure of Dnepropetrovsk.
20:13 The possibility of holding a referendum on the further political status of the Kharkiv region is not ruled out, but the residents have not yet shown the appropriate initiative - Vitaly Ganchev, head of the temporary civil administration of the liberated territory of the Kharkiv region.
20:12 The Ukrainian Armed Forces in Zaporozhye hit a private poultry farm with a Tochka-U strike. Several cars in the city of Tokmak were burned to the ground, and residential buildings closest to the factory were damaged, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
20:12 Every night from 23.00 to 5.00, the Lviv bypass highway is filled with columns of military equipment supplied by Ukraine's partners from abroad.
20:11 In the passport offices of Ukrainian cities, the crush of those wishing to obtain foreign passports continues. Among them are a large number of men who do not want to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine and fight for Zelensky.
20:11 In Drohobych (Lviv region), the Memorial of Glory and the eternal flame are being dismantled at the burial place of Soviet soldiers. It is planned to build a park on this site. In addition, by the decision of the City Council, the streets named after Sakharov, Chekhov, Glinka, Pushkin, Nekrasov and Tolstoy will be renamed.
19:03 Moscow has the right to consider US and NATO transport with weapons as a legitimate target if it follows Ukrainian territory, we are talking about this directly - Russian Foreign Ministry
19:03 Russia has expanded the sanctions list against US citizens.
19:02 The RF Armed Forces struck with precision-guided munitions on the railway bridge in Zaporozhye.
18:19 The United States is able to maintain the current level of military supplies to Ukraine for a long time.
18:18 The United States will allocate $500 million in economic assistance to Ukraine.
17:20 While peaceful life is being established in Kherson, artillery duels and insane digging of ditches continue in Nikolaev, in the Odessa region they are feverishly preparing for the offensive of the RF Armed Forces. The main forces have been transferred to the Nikolaev region, so they use recently mobilized, ideological nationalists and territorial defense units.
US to provide Ukraine with dozens of howitzers and tactical drones worth $800 million - Biden
17:20 In Kherson, the voluntary surrender of weapons continues. The inhabitants of Kherson, to whom the Kyiv regime uncontrollably distributed weapons allegedly for the defense, now they understand that there is no one to defend themselves from and voluntarily hand over weapons and ammunition.
17:20 Zelensky said that the West is still supplying insufficiently heavy weapons to the country.
16:31 More than 30 streets have been renamed in Dnipro, whose names were previously somehow connected with Russia. Now the city has the streets of Azovstal, Ukrainian soldiers, Avdeevskaya, Chernobaevskaya and others.
16:30 Another exchange of prisoners took place between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. 19 people are returning to Ukraine, of which 10 are military (including 2 officers) and 9 civilians, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.
16:25 The Verkhovna Rada extended martial law in Ukraine from 5:30 on April 25 for another 30 days.
15:25 The command of the 8th Special Purpose Regiment of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces demonstrated the blowing up of their bridge during the retreat. Russian troops will not stop it. But it will now be more difficult for Ukrainian propagandists to convince the population that it is the “evil” Russians who undermine bridges and drive residents into a trap, and not their own military.
15:15 Terodefense fighters, in the territories that have returned under the control of Ukraine, are asked to hand over their weapons for storage. With such an appeal, the commander of the Sea Troop, Yuri Galushkin, addressed them.
15:04 A popular telegram channel controlled by the presidential administration of Ukraine published a monstrous Nazi post.
In the photo, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya is hanged, and under it is the caption: “The monument to the communist whore Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was finally demolished in Chernigov. The photo shows what our allies did with it 80 years ago.” If someone still had doubts about Nazism in Ukraine, we pay attention to the word "allies".
14:04 In Chernihiv, Bandera, led by the leader of the 119th brigade of Teroborona Dmitry Skrypka, demolished the monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, which was installed in the courtyard of secondary school No. 10.
14:02 In Melitopol, the teaching staff of kindergarten No. 24 "Swallow" was given humanitarian kits. According to the head of the kindergarten, the application submitted to the city administration was responded to very promptly. The educational process has been restored in the preschool institution: teachers are working, and there are more and more kindergarten students every day.
14:02 From Zaporozhye, they report two very accurate arrivals at the object of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
14:00 In the village of Dneprorudne, Zaporozhye region, eight Russian digital channels and three radio stations have been broadcast. Radio "Mayak" was launched at a frequency of 104.7 MHz. Now the residents of Dniprorudny have the opportunity to find out the truth, and not be subjected to total zombification by the media controlled by Kiev.
12:56 In the Nikolaev region, the Russian army occupied about 20 villages, the governor of the Nikolaev region Kim said.
12:55 A significant part of the Moldovan society believes that its President Vladimir Zelensky, NATO and the West as a whole are guilty of the war in Ukraine. This is stated in the results of the IMAS study.
11:54 In the liberated Kakhovka, Kherson region, on the Labor Glory Square, residents raised the Russian flag.
11:54 Yesterday, in the center of the liberated city of Tokmak, the Eternal Flame was lit at the memorial "Book of Memory", where the names of almost 4,500 dead liberators are carved.
11:54 Russia is ready for meetings on Ukraine at any level, but they must be meaningful - Russian Foreign Ministry.
11:49 Nazis from Azov shot dead a civilian for trying to drive them away from the house where women and children were hiding. The murder took place at Mariupol, Pervomayskaya, 21.
11:05 Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces during the night struck 20 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment.
11:05 Russian air defense systems destroyed 13 drones and shot down a Ukrainian tactical missile "Tochka-U" in the Donetsk region.
11:03 Troops of the Russian Federation and the LPR have taken full control of the settlement of Kremennaya, which was turned into a fortified area by Ukrainian nationalists.
10:54 Russia has attacked 1,001 military targets in Ukraine in a day.
10:53 Investigative Committee will study data on punitive raids of Ukrainian nationalists in Nikolaev.
09:55 In Nikolaev, a blow was struck at a military facility of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at night.
09:53 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Danilov threatens that "the Armed Forces of Ukraine will hit the Crimean bridge as soon as they have such an opportunity." Probably, by "opportunity" they mean the supply of new weapons from the West.
09:52 During the night, three Points U were shot down over Izyum. One of them was heading towards Russian Valuyki.
08:40 Ukrainian troops attacked a poultry farm in the city of Tokmak in the Zaporozhye region with a Tochka-U rocket.
08:39 The districts of the Kharkiv region de-energized by Ukraine will be powered from a thermal power plant in the city of Schastiye in the LPR.
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[ColonelCassad] A natural barrier in Ukraine is the Dnieper River, which divides the country into 2 parts. The main hostilities (with the exception of the Nikolaev-Kherson front) take place on the territory of eastern Ukraine (left-bank).
Accordingly, the most active grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is located on the left bank, and the transport infrastructure (bridges) laid across the Dnieper River is used to supply it.
To date, the Dnieper River is crossed by 25 bridges:
▪️ 9 road bridges (2 of which are also used as a metro bridge);
▪️ 6 bridges are affiliated with hydroelectric power plants (some bridges have railway tracks);
▪️ 4 railway bridges;
▪️ 7 combined bridges (road and rail);
▪️ 1 pedestrian bridge.
Of these, only three are controlled by the RF Armed Forces.
Transport routes passing through the hydroelectric power station must be disabled by strikes on crossings above the locks where necessary (a bridge departs from the Dnieper hydroelectric power station, which simply needs to be destroyed).
Although the Podolsko-Voskresensky bridge in Kyiv has not been completed yet, the photographs show that its technical condition makes it possible to transport equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine across it.
A separate question about the pedestrian bridge in Kyiv: it is definitely impossible to transport equipment through it, only personnel. You can consider the expediency of preserving it for the needs of the inhabitants of Kyiv. Or not think and also destroy.
It is necessary to take the most responsible approach to protecting the bridges that are controlled by the RF Armed Forces: the destruction of these bridges will actually cut off supplies to our group of troops on the right bank of the Dnieper and create threats to the capture of Kherson. And it takes time to build pontoon crossings.
▪️Sovmeschennye bridges:
➖Amursky bridge - 48.485541, 35.025935
➖Vantovy bridge - 47.842485, 35.085464
➖Darnitsky bridge - 50.415142, 30.583059
➖Kaydaksky bridge - 48.497858, 34.965484
➖Kryukovskiy bridge — 49.051567, 33.424058
➖Preobrazhensky Bridge - 47.845719, 35.084378 (hit on April 21, technical condition unknown. This is a big nut for the Russians to crack, so I am not so certain they can do it. Destroying bridges only inconveniences a modern army. Both sides have plenty of bridging elements at their disposal.
A good strategy in my personal opinion would have been for the Russian air assault brigades to capture all the river crossings. But, alas, not enough forces, and too many crossings.
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Question for the more tactically experienced Rantburgers. Would it be better to destroy a bridge:
(a) Before invaders could use it at all
(b) When half a column had crossed, cutting invaders in two
(c) After most of a column had crossed, cutting them off from logistics.
I would have thought (b) but the recent Russian columns stalling out had me wondering if having a columns worth of vehicles in the way of bridge repair might be a good thing.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:06 Another humanitarian convoy from Russia has arrived in Donetsk. A lot of medicines, food, hygiene items, a large amount of drinking water, as well as many other things necessary for a normal life, were delivered to the residents of the DPR. 21:43 “The administrative building of the Azovstal metallurgical plant, which is of particular strategic importance, has been taken under control, and the entire surrounding territory has been cleared. The remnants of the Nazis are blocked under the thickness of concrete and iron on the territory of the plant, and I am sure that these walls are the last thing they will see in their lives,” Ramzan Kadyrov
21:13 Mariupol is ours - Kadyrov.
21:12 The United States will supply Kiev with drones designed specifically for Ukraine - Pentagon.
20:28 In the liberated cities of Starobelsk and Svatovo, the replacement of Ukrainian car numbers with new numbers of the Luhansk People's Republic has begun.
20:27 At the highest point in Mariupol - a television tower, the state flag of the Donetsk People's Republic is raised.
The city is under the control of the Armed Forces of Russia and the DPR.
20:26 The US does not plan to participate in the possible evacuation of civilians from Mariupol - Pentagon.
19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian militants have fired more than a hundred shells at six settlements in the DPR. A total of 17 residential buildings and three infrastructure facilities were damaged. Three civilians were injured.
19:00 The People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army, destroyed 46 Ukrainian nationalists, one 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system and one armored personnel carrier. Two 120mm mortars, one armored vehicle and one cargo vehicle were captured.
18:15 In Gorlovka today, three local residents were injured under fire from Ukrainian Nazis.
17:00 The Russian army destroyed the Azov militant Taras Lavriev.
16:11 Kiev punishers fired at Yasinovataya in the DPR. They fired 30 rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:19 Four parishioners of the Donetsk diocese died from the impact of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the evacuation from Mariupol. According to the priest of the St. Nicholas Naval Church Father George, on April 11, a group of refugees tried to leave the city by car. Large crosses were painted on the windows.
From the explosion of an anti-tank grenade, the car was ruined. People were thrown to the curb. The wounded and burned priest and parishioner reached Berdyansk, where they received medical and humanitarian assistance. Father George organizes the delivery of 2,500 Easter cakes to the parishioners of Mariupol for the Easter holiday.
14:35 In Gorlovka (DPR), a civilian was injured under fire from Kiev militants.
14:32 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing ten shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:32 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Golmovsky in the DPR, firing ten mines with a caliber of 120mm at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:45 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Yasinovataya in the DPR, firing 15 rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:45 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Gorlovka in the DPR, fired three 122mm shells at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:45 A resident of Rubizhne told how Ukrainian Nazis kicked him out of his own apartment at gunpoint and took up defense there. People had to live in basements to escape the incessant shelling of the city. And only when the military of the LPR entered the territory of the city, the residents were helped to evacuate and provided them with food and clothing.
12:54 A civilian from Donetsk suffered under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis.
12:54 The Armed Forces of Ukraine used the children's rehabilitation center in Mariupol as a firing position.
12:54 Kiev militants fired on Zheleznaya Balka in the DPR. Three grenades were fired at the village. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:10 Over the past day, the People's Militia of the DPR destroyed 57 Ukrainian nationalists, one firing position of a 120-mm mortar, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle and two armored personnel carriers. One infantry fighting vehicle and two armored personnel carriers were captured.
11:44 Zelensky about the impossibility of unlocking the Nazis at Azovstal:
“The question that we are talking about watches is true, because we do not know how many hours or days they can last there. As for our army, today we are not allowed to pass these occupied 120 km by the equipment of the Russian Federation in order to reach the military unblocking of the city of Mariupol. We cannot do this today."
10:46 The forces of the NM of the LPR have established control over the city of Kremennaya.
10:45 A Ukrainian missile "Tochka-U" was shot down near the village of Donetsk (LPR).
10:44 During the day, the LPR forces destroyed 17 Ukrainian militants, three armored personnel carriers and eight cars.
10:44 Ukrainian punishers fired at Donetsk in the LPR, firing eight shells of 152mm caliber at the village. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
10:15 It will take three or four days to complete the operation on Azovstal - Shoigu.
10:15 Putin confirmed that all those who surrendered in Mariupol are guaranteed life
10:15 Putin explained the cancellation of the assault on Azovstal by the considerations of saving the lives of the Russian military.
10:11 Putin said that he did not consider it expedient to storm the Azovstal industrial zone, ordered it to be canceled.
10:10 Militants in Mariupol four times covered themselves with civilians when they retreated, driving them out of the basements of houses. More than 142,000 civilians have been evacuated from Mariupol.
10:05 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Mariupol was taken under control. More than 2,000 militants are now blocked in Azovstal, 1,478 have already surrendered.
09:54 The Ukrainian Armed Forces are preparing for a retreat in the Rubizhne-Lysichansk-Severodonetsk triangle. Most likely, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine understands the futility of attempts to hold the territory of the LPR and is preparing a “tactical maneuver” with a retreat across the Seversky Donets River.
09:33 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on the DPR 21 times. One child was killed and four civilians were injured.
08:30 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Yelenovka in the DPR. They fired ten 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:29 Under fire of the Ukrainian punishers the civilian of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk suffered.
08:28 In the hospital in Mariupol, they found 26 civilians who died during shelling from the side of Azov *.
08:27 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. They fired five 12 mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:26 During the day, Kiev militants opened fire twice on the territory of the LPR. They fired from artillery with a caliber of 152mm and 122mm the villages of Zolote-5 and Donetsk. Two houses and a kindergarten were damaged.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] EWWWW!! That'll turn them all into Azov NAZIs!!
⚡️Russian lawmaker proposes to force Ukrainian POWs to donate blood to injured Russian soldiers.
Sergey Leonov proposed the move while speaking with reporters on April 21.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 21, 2022
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Just another war crime to add to Putie's list.
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Russia has long been a pariah state. Perhaps now the feckless world community will take note and treat them as they deserve to be treated. Ostracize and ignore the worthless communist SOB's.
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Otherwise a bunch of literature scolds will say it's not accurate.
Is there anything more pedantic than pedantic nerds?
File this one under Stupid Politicians. Now that Zirinovsky is gone, somebody has to take up the slack. It's not like we ain't got them. Pols in one of those little New England states want to double the income tax on anyone unvaccinated because if you can't use the power of the State to punish your enemies, then what is the point?
[SHAFAQ] A senior officer in the Iranian Ministry of Oil expressed his country's readiness to help Iraq develop the "technical experience" required to "nationalize the oil industry".
Iran's official news agency, IRNA, quoted Taher Saeedi as saying, "per our recent agreement, 400 to 500 Iraqi students will be admitted to faculties relevant to oil studies."
The member of the Iraqi-Iranian committee said that channeling the knowledge and technical expertise is a priority for this committee.
"Oil production and extraction have become exclusive to the foreign companies, especially the US, French, Chinese, and Italian," he said, "Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... has not engaged in the Iraqi oil industry so far."
"Iran enjoys a high level of knowledge in drilling wells and producing oil. We will try to transfer this knowledge to the Iraqi side," he added.
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[Breitbart] Border Patrol agents working the border near Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday arrested four military-age Syrian migrants, a source within CBP told Breitbart Texas under the condition of anonymity. The four men attempted to sneak into the U.S. after illegally crossing the border from Coahuila, Mexico.
Human smugglers frequently move what Border Patrol calls Special Interest Aliens, migrants from nations with ties to terrorism, across the border away from large migrant group crossings, officials previously told Breitbart Texas. The large migrant groups serve as a distraction to agents who must use all available resources to process and document their apprehensions. This enables smugglers to move higher-value migrants or drugs across the unpatrolled border areas while agents are occupied.
The source told Breitbart the four Syrian men were not only of military age but are suspected to have military backgrounds.
Since the ensuing border crisis at the beginning of the Biden administration, more than 40 migrants who are listed on the terrorist watch list have been arrested as they attempted to enter the United States, according to a Fox News report. This number includes Border Patrol arrests and encounters at border crossings and other locations with CBP officers.
These numbers do not include migrants who illegally cross the border without being apprehended — what Border Patrol refers to as got-aways. In March alone, more than 62,000 migrants escaped apprehension, the Fox News report adds.
During the month of March, Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 210,000 migrants, according to the latest Southwest Land Border Encounters Report from CBP, Breitbart reported. This includes nearly 129,000 who entered through the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors.
At least 16 people were killed in two Afghan cities on Thursday by kabooms that were claimed by 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.... group (IS).
Since Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters seized control of Afghanistan last year after ousting the US-backed government, the number of bombings has fallen but the jihadist and Sunni IS has continued with attacks — often against Shiite targets.
Earlier this week, at least six people were killed in twin blasts that hit a boys’ school in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul.
On Thursday, 12 worshippers were killed in a blast at a Shiite mosque in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, said Ahmad Zia Zindani, front man for the provincial public health department in Balkh.
He added that 58 people were maimed, including 32 at death's door.
Grisly images posted to social media showed victims of the attack being carried to hospital from Seh Dokan mosque.
"Blood and fear are everywhere," Zindani told AFP, adding "people were screaming" while seeking news of their relatives at the hospital.
"Many residents were also coming to donate blood," he said.
The blast occurred as worshippers were offering midday prayers during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.
In a statement, IS said "the soldiers of the caliphate managed to get a booby-trapped bag" inside the mosque, detonating it from afar.
In a separate blast on Thursday in the city of Kunduz, at least four people were killed and 18 maimed. Police front man Obaidullah Abedi told AFP that a bicycle bomb went kaboom! near a vehicle carrying mechanics working for the Taliban.
Late on Thursday, IS claimed that attack too but said its fighters set off an bomb on a bus carrying Kunduz airport employees.
Counselors are available for any air(wo)man that couldn't get to their designated safespace
[FoxNews] The Air Force grounded its B-1 bomber fleet for a few weeks last year while investigating a fuel system issue.
Responding to this story from yesterday [SHAFAQ] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... on Thursday dismissed what it described as "Iraq’s baseless objections" to Operation Claw Lock, Ankara’s latest cross-border operation against the PKK terrorist group. Baghdad’s charge d’affaires was summoned to the Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry and told in clear terms that Turkey is well within its rights to act against a designated terrorist organization that "has been targeting our country from its bases in northern Iraq for nearly 40 years," ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgic said in a statement.
Turkey launched Operation Claw-Lock this week to target PKK hideouts in the Metina, Zap, and Avasin-Basyan areas.
Iraq, however, raised concerns over the offensive and called on Ankara to withdraw its forces.
Bilgic stressed that Iraqi authorities have "failed to act decisively against the group despite Turkey’s repeated requests."
He said Ankara is determined to "root out the PKK, which has been designated as a terrorist organization by several countries and international organizations and is also a threat to Iraq’s illusory sovereignty and stability."
"Turkey is always ready to cooperate closely with Iraq in the fight against the PKK terrorist organization on the basis of common interests," he added.
"As long as Iraqi authorities do not take solid and effective steps against this threat, Turkey will continue to take all necessary measures for self-defense, a right enshrined in Article 51 of the UN Charter", Bilgic asserted.
[BREITBART] The Walt Disney Co. is the worst performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the past year, plummeting 31 percent in the last 12 months. Of the 30 companies that comprise the Dow, Disney has seen its stock drop the most on a percentage basis, followed by 3M, which is down 25 percent, and Home Depot, down 23 percent.
Disney shares were down more than 5 percent Wednesday as investors remained skittish on streaming entertainment companies following Netflix’s disastrous first quarter results. Disney+ subscription results recently disappointed Wall Street when the company reported quarterly results in November, causing the stock to tumble.
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This is what is meant by the states being "laboratories of federalism." I don't think DeSantis would have done this (and make no mistake, he's the architect here) unless his inside polling was good on it. The left is going, as Gen. Turgidson said "absolutely ape." Count on huge amounts of outside money coming into the FL election this fall. Some was coming anyway but it will be a huge flood now. Again, I don't think DeSantis would have chanced it if the numbers didn't look very good for him. The beauty thing, should he have decided correctly, is that's money sucked out of other dem races elsewhere and money that will remain in Florida either way. Assuming DeSantis wins, that's all wind at his back going forward.
If the voters toss him out, well, where do I sign up for "let it burn?"
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Perhaps a hero cartoon starring a mouse from the Levant who comes to America to teach gymnastics?
[RT] Washington will follow the lead of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and ban all Russian-affiliated ships from docking at US ports, President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan... announced on Thursday. This applies to all vessels flying the Russian flag, owned, or operated by entities from the country.
"No ship, no ship that sails under the Russian flag, or that is owned or operated by a Russian interest, will be allowed to dock in a US port or access our shores. None," Biden said on Thursday morning at the White House, after meeting with the Ukrainian prime minister.
The EU banned Russian ships from its ports on April 6. Biden said the move intends to "deny Russia the benefits of [the] international economic system that they so enjoyed in the past."
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So what about the RUSSIAN Oil that we were told a few weeks ago by Biden handlers that the US was accepting?
⚡️CNN: Russia replenishes forces on the front line.
According to a senior U.S. defense official quoted by CNN, Russia continues to bolster its forces in eastern Ukraine, bringing the total number of its battalion tactical groups to 85. Most of them are deployed to the Donbas.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 21, 2022
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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.
[Popular Mechanics] Scientists believe there could be an "anti-universe" somewhere out there that looks like the mirror image of our own universe, reciprocating almost everything we do. If this theory holds true, it could explain the presence of dark matter.
[AOL] During a town hall meeting with constituents on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned that something like the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot could happen again — and that the insurrection was thwarted only because Democrats controlled the House of Representatives..png)
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
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...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
[Twitter] Small plane crashes into a General Mills food processing plant in Georgia. This is just one of many food processing plants that has been caught on fire over the past month or two.
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
[JustTheNews] new complaint to the Georgia State Election Board alleges that more than 300,000 ballots were unreliably recorded on unverified early voting poll closing tapes in 
[RT] Israel has hit two targets, including a 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
[THEEPOCHTIMES] 
...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them...
[SHAFAQ] A large military force has been deployed in the district of 
[Khaama] 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[RT] 
...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
[Breitbart] Border Patrol agents working the border near 
...Arabic for 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...
