In their honeymoon suite in Pawtucket,
Xi shat in a cheap Chinese bucket.
Next morning: "That's funny...
I can't find my money."
But as for the bucket, she took it.
[PJMedia] America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and partly the poet Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters.
Nothing seems to be working. And no one in control seems to care.
The once secure border of 2020 vanished. Two-million people have crossed the southern border illegally in the last 12 months. Millions more are on the way.
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That's only a small part of the common denominator. The rest is this entire escapade is and has been intentional. They aren't incompetent, they are enemies.
Because how else would an enemy behave? Subvert and destroy trust in virtually every institution? Emasculate, sometimes literally the young men? Ruin the economy? Collapse oil and gas production? All while pouring billions of of non-audited, yea impossible to audit dollars into the Ukraine. Let's not forget the tax increases and their 21% pay raise.
Hubert Humphrey and Tip O'Neil aren't even vague memories, these people are the new commissariat. How many ways and times do they have to tell us what their plans are?
[WashingtonExaminer] Disney’s stock has lost nearly $50 billion in value since the start of March, when it took a political gamble to oppose Florida’s controversial new education law.
Disney’s stock was down more than 2% on Friday and by more than 8.5% over the past few days as Florida lawmakers work to punish the company for wading into the state’s politics. The stock’s market cap has declined by about $46.6 billion since March 1, just days before the company came out against the legislation.
Disney CEO Bob Chapek said his company would end political donations in the Sunshine State.
Now Republican lawmakers are exacting their revenge.
This week in a 23-16 vote, the GOP-led Senate passed the legislation that would dismantle the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which allows Disney to oversee its own zoning, infrastructure, laws, and policing in the area around its parks. The state House also voted to do so by a 70-38 vote.
So what this means is that most Americans are not on board with grooming infants and toddlers for rape.
[IsraelTimes] Gantz had vowed ’harsh response’ to continued rocket fire, but military doesn’t strike Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, sites overnight; Erez Crossing to reopen following assessment on Sunday.
Israel announced the temporary closure of its sole pedestrian crossing with 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 on Saturday, after three rockets were fired from the Hamas-run coastal enclave at southern Israel late Friday and overnight.
According to the military’s liaison to the Paleostinians, the crossing will not reopen for Paleostinian workers on Sunday after it had been shuttered since Thursday afternoon due to the Passover holiday.
"Following the rockets that were fired toward Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip last night, it was decided that crossings into Israel for Gazook merchants and workers through the Erez Crossing will not be permitted this upcoming Sunday," the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, known by its acronym COGAT, said in a statement.
"The re-opening of the crossing will be decided in accordance with a security situational assessment," COGAT added.
The crossing — along with crossings with the West Bank — was already closed since Thursday at 5 p.m., and was to remain in effect until Saturday at an hour yet to be determined.
Exceptions are made for humanitarian and other outstanding cases but require the approval of COGAT.
The number of Paleostinians in the Gaza Strip who can work in Israel was raised to 12,000 last month, and the government said it would raise it by an additional 8,000, to a total of 20,000.
[IsraelTimes] Samir Subhi Mahamed clears protesters from city street, says he supports ’legitimate protest, but not violence’.
The mayor of the Arab Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm
... home of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the militant arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel....
confronted city residents who were protesting against Israel over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Friday.
Mayor Samir Subhi Mahamed told off the young, masked men who were protesting Israeli actions at the Jerusalem holy site and trying to block traffic from entering Umm al-Fahm.
The protesters chanted "Israel is a terror state," attempted to damage property, lit tires on fire and shot off fireworks, the Kan public broadcaster reported. The demonstration took place at the end of a procession following Ramadan prayers.
A large police force was in the area in case of an escalation. Friday reports said dozens were seen chanting in Umm al-Fahm in support of the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group and protesters who confronted police on the Temple Mount earlier that day.
Video from the scene showed Mahamed shouting and gesturing at men on a city street.
Mahamed told Haaretz that he was trying to calm a tense situation.
"I’m in favor of legitimate protest, but not violence," Mahamed told Haaretz.
"There’s no place for a protest that disturbs public order. That doesn’t serve anyone, and definitely not the message we’re trying to send," he said.
He said it was important to protest Israeli actions at the al-Aqsa Mosque, "but in a legitimate way."
The protesters were from a group called al-Hirak al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... i ("The Youth Movement") that is not affiliated with any political party, and is known for taking Death Eater positions.
Police later said four minors were arrested over rioting in the city. "The riots included attempts to block the entrance to the city, firing fireworks, throwing stones at the [police] forces and burning tires in the middle of the road," police said in a statement.
Putin's regime is accused of 'covering-up' the death toll after a deadly fire at a weapons research facility
Blaze broke out at the Second Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defence in Tver That’s where they develop new space and weapons systems, specifically the Iskander missile.
Four military scientists were forced to jump out of windows from the building on Thursday
But local journalists claim that 'at least 25' were killed, not 'up to seven' like state media says
#4
How!! Everyone dislikes the dictator war criminal Putin..
Except the Russians people, the Russian military, plus the governments and the peoples of:
China, India, Brazil, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Venezuela, Sri Lanka, Cuba, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Belarus, North Korea, Uganda, Nicaragua, Senegal, Madagascar, Central Africa Republic, Iraq, Mongolia, Namibia, Azerbaijan, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Serbia, Iran, Bolivia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Congo, plus the majority of American conservatives, and American independents population…….that’s almost 90% of the world population…
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"Anybody who's popular is bound to be disliked."
- Yogi Berra
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^ Well, that does it for me! If Kyrgyrgyrgystan, Mongolia, and Burundi disapprove, I'm ummm...
/No, really? That's our best Sunday trolling?
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North Korea. Definitely a friendship to be proud of. Though to be fair, North Korea is equally a protectorate of Russia and Communist China, each hoping the other will take over when the music stops.
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We Rus are in love with our Tsar...
Whom we hate. Lenin's greater by far!
Okay, Djukashvili
Is better. Not really...
But Putin is perfect. Yay, war!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] So billed by those of the Left.
A big question now is how many of France's 48.7 million eligible voters won't cast ballots out of apathy
Choice between Macron
...center right, elitist, married to his school teacher, and once again the choice of those voting against Le Pen...
and Le Pen
...populist, nationalist, therefore labelled far right by those who despise such things...
often compared to deciding 'between the plague and cholera'
Le Pen, who was behind Macron in the latest opinion polls, was pictured casting her ballot Sunday morning
Macron has watered down a campaign pledge to progressively raise the retirement age in France to 65
Voting stations will close at 8:00 pm local time (1800 GMT), when preliminary results will be released that usually predict the final result with a high degree of accuracy
Update at 12:45 p.m.:
Turnout figures on Sunday showed a 63.23% participation rate by 5 p.m. (1500 GMT), the interior ministry said, below the 65.30% recorded at the same time in the 2017 election.
[Townhall] "This weekend marked the 61st Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion. We honor the memory of the freedom-fighters who bravely faced the communist Cuban regime. Their legacy lives on today." (Tweet by Fl Gov. Ron DeSantis April 17th.)
Outnumbered over ten to one by Soviet-led forces and betrayed by their sponsor, these mostly civilian volunteers fought till the last bullet. In three days of relentless close-quarter fighting they made monkeys of the Soviet commanders at the scene and cannon-fodder of their Cuban lackeys, inflicting losses of 20 to one.
Fidel, Raul, and Che were quite jittery there for awhile, urging caution in the counterattack. From the lethal fury of the attack and the horrendous casualties their troops and militia were taking, the two Soviets satraps assumed they faced at least 20,000 invading "mercenaries," as they called them.
Yet it was a band of mostly civilian volunteers they outnumbered laughably. But to hear Castro's echo chamber (the D.C. beltway media and leftist academics), Fidel was the plucky David and the invaders the bumbling Goliath.
In fact, if JFK wanted some genuine profiles in courage he might have looked at the men he betrayed on that heroic beachhead. Some of most jaw-dropping heroics, however, came after the shooting ended, after they’d spent their last bullets and knew no more were coming from their ally, the most powerful nation on earth. The same one that enforced a "no-fly zone" half a country wide on another continent (Iraq) with half the U.S. Air Force for a decade but refused to provide one three miles across, 90 miles away, for half a day with two planes.
At any rate, the battle was over in three days, but the heroism was not.
[OneIndia] The purported video of the the terrorist attack on Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) bus on Friday has gone viral on social media. News agency has posted the unverified clip of the incident on Twitter.
The bus carrying 15 personnel was attacked on the early hours of Friday, just two days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Samba district on Sunday to address panchayats across the country on 'Panchayati Raj Diwas'.
In the clip, the Death Eaters are seen attacking the bus.
The CISF, in a statement, said, all the CISF personnel came under heavy firing from the terrorists. "The CISF personnel immediately took position and retaliated. During the course of retaliation, Death Eaters lobbed grenades and by taking advantage of darkness managed to escape from the spot towards the nearby residential area," the CISF said as per the PTI.
In the attack, the Central Armed Police Force said, Assistant Sub Inspector S.P. Patel of CISF laid down his life while undergoing treatment in hospital, one personnel was grievously injured and six other personnel of the Force sustained minor injuries while valiantly retaliating against the terrorist attack.
All injured are undergoing treatment at Jammu Medical College and Hospital in Jammu. In the subsequent action, security forces succeeded to eliminate the two Death Eaters responsible for the attack. As per information from the sources, two fidayeens (Aatma ghati) Death Eaters of the Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... outfit were present in the area, said the CISF.
[Aljazeera] More than 100 people were killed overnight in an explosion at an illegal oil refining depot in Nigeria’s Rivers state, a local government official and an environmental group said.
"The fire outbreak occurred at an illegal bunkering site and it affected more than 100 people who were burned beyond recognition," the state commissioner for petroleum resources, Goodluck Opiah, said on Saturday.
Unemployment and poverty in the oil-producing Niger Delta have made illegal crude refining an attractive business but with deadly consequences. Crude oil is tapped from a web of pipelines owned by major oil companies and refined into products in makeshift tanks.
The hazardous process has led to many fatal accidents and has polluted a region already blighted by oil spills in farmland, creeks and lagoons.
The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre said several vehicles that were in a queue to buy illegal fuel were burned in the explosion.
Al Jazeera’s Fidelis Mbah said that there are dozens of illegal oil businesses scattered around southern Nigeria.
"The unemployed youth are trying to produce oil on their own in order to sell to survive," he said, speaking from Abuja. "The youths know that this is dangerous but because of the poverty levels, they have taken to [working in] illegal refineries."
"The government said the owner of the illegal refinery is presently on the run and they have declared him wanted," Mbah added. "They’re hoping that if he’s apprehended, they will find out exactly what happened."
At least 25 people, including some children, were killed in an explosion and fire at another illegal refinery in Rivers state in October.
In February, local authorities said they had started a crackdown to try to put a stop to the refining of stolen crude, but with little apparent success.
Rivers State is a diverse state that is home to many ethnic groups, the majority being Igbo or Igboid, but also including the Ogoni and Ijaw.
In 2019, Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike declared Rivers State to be a Christian state because it is made up of 90% Christians and 10% orthodox with few strangers practicing Islam unconventionally.
As I recall, Snowy Thing, the issue in that part of the world is that the oil companies are not sharing their wealth with the locals, supporting them in the style to which they feel keenly entitled.
#3
I was just reflecting upon the fact, a while back, that everyone I used to know who lived and worked in the area basically moved to the South African oilfield to get away from the various forms of repression.
[Rudaw] Iraqi armed forces on Saturday launched the second phase of a broad security operation in western provinces in an attempt to pursue and eliminate remnants of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in these areas, Iraqi Security Media Cell announced.
Dubbed Solid Will, the new phase of the operation is carried out under the supervision of the Joint Operations Command units and participated by the Border Guard Command, Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi), Iraqi Special Forces, the Counter-Terrorism Service, and the Rapid Response Division, according to the statement from the cell.
"These operations, carried out by the security forces, aims to dry up the sources of terrorism, pursue ISIS terrorist elements, and clear the lands from the taint of terrorism and crime in its various forms," it added.
The operation seeks to eliminate the threat of ISIS through setting specific targets in different areas in the western provinces, and will heavily rely on accurate information from the intelligence agencies and the support of Iraqi air forces.
Iraqi PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi arrived in Anbar province hours after the new phase started to closely monitor the campaign.
"I say to ISIS: You have tested us in various fields, militarily and security, praise be to God that we record victory after victory on a daily basis, and you are losing day after day," the PM’s office cited Kadhimi saying in a speech in Anbar.
The first phase of Solid Will, which sought to pursue ISIS remnants in Salahaddin, Anbar, and Nineveh, was conducted on March 29, lasting for three days. It resulted in the destruction of 19 ISIS dens and six tunnels, in addition to finding numerous explosive-laden vehicles, booby-trapped houses, an explosive lab, and a number of weapons and ammunition, including four Katyusha rockets, two RBG7 launchers, and 30 projectiles.
Iraq’s Intelligence Agency said on Thursday that it killed four ISIS members in Salahaddin province during an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... A base of Tribal Sunni forces in northern Diyala province was attacked by suspected ISIS members on Tuesday, killing four of the turbans in the festivities that ensued.
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[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish defence ministry announced on Friday the death of three soldiers during festivities with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Duhok province, Kurdistan Region.
The ministry said in a statement late Friday that the three soldiers, including a lieutenant, were killed by the PKK as part of Ankara’s fresh military operation, dubbed Operation Claw-Lock. This has raised Ottoman Turkish soldiers' official corpse count to five since the campaign began on Monday.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... claimed on Friday that 45 PKK fighters have been "neutralised" in the framework of his country’s latest offensive. Ottoman Turkish officials use the term "neutralise" to imply surrenders, killings or capturing.
The new operation targets PKK hideouts in the mountainous areas of Metina, Zap, Avashin and Basyan in Duhok province.
The PKK, which usually announces its casualties late, said on Friday that one of its fighters was killed in Duhok on Monday without clarifying how. The group has claimed the death of 127 Ottoman Turkish soldiers in Duhok since Monday.
Both sides often release exaggerated corpse counts of the other side.
Operation Claw-Lock is the fourth stage of Ankara’s Claw operations against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region, with the first stage starting in 2019.
Murat Karayilan, a top PKK commander, told his party’s media on Friday that the latest attacks are not an operation but a "major war''."
"Airdropping operations were conducted to launch a full-scale invasion attack. This is not an operation, but a major war," he said.
Erdogan has said that the anti-PKK operations will continue, claiming that soon there will be no place called Qandil, a mountainous area in the Kurdistan Region where the PKK headquarters is located.
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[Red State] I checked the Wikipedia entry for Rosemont Seneca Partners a couple of weeks ago when I was writing an article about Hunter Biden and referencing Eric Schwerin, the president of the investment company. Hunter was one of the co-founders of the company. Joe Biden has constantly maintained he knew nothing about his son’s business, but Schwerin acted as something like a business manager, in some respects, over Biden’s affairs, according to the emails on Hunter’s laptop.
As my colleague Mike Miller reported earlier, Schwerin also sat down with Joe Biden at the Obama White House, and visited the White House nearly 20 times — yet another instance of Joe Biden’s claim being proven false.
But, it sounds like another effort to obscure the facts and relationships might be underway in this matter.
That Wikipedia entry for Rosemont Seneca Partners that I had previously been able to check just got deleted earlier this week (Wednesday) — on the basis that it was "not notable," just as the investigation into Hunter Biden seems to be coming to a head. Talk about an effort to control information. They made clear that it was about stopping "conspiracy" theories about Hunter Biden.
[Rudaw] Locals of Duhok province’s Shiladze town struggle to bring herbal products to the markets because of the war between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... The Ottoman Turkish army’s bombardment has forbidden the citizens to get profits from their herbal products this year.
This has led to a surge in the price of herbs by around 300 percent.
"There is not a single day that they do not bombard us. People are afraid to go to these areas because there is a slight chance you come back from there. We received 400 to 500 kilos of mushrooms last year and the year before, but this year, we only received 60 kilos of mushrooms," Omed Hashim, herb seller told Rudaw.
Hundreds of people in the mountainous areas of Duhok make a living from selling herbs.
Khame Khazim has been selling herbs in the market for about 25 years. She had been paying for all of her household expenses by selling spring herbs.
This year, Khazim has not made any decent income to pay her expenses.
"We do not dare go to the border areas because of the fight. We are afraid to go there. The sound of guns and artillery continues and we do not want to go there," Khazim told Rudaw.
The Secretary of the Duhok Provincial Council, Said Nerwai, told Rudaw that "poverty and unemployment rate was an issue because of the Ottoman Turkish bombardment."
"The continued bombardment of the Ottoman Turkish army has had a major impact on the area in general and the lives of citizens in particular," he added.
According to people who sell herbal products, they used to bring a large portion of spring herbs to the mountainous areas, but this year, they were only able to bring between 300 and 500 kilos of herbs into the market.
Turkey announced a new phase of a series of military operations against the PKK in Duhok province on Monday. Dubbed Operation Claw-Lock, the air and ground campaign heavily focuses on mountainous areas on Turkey’s borders with the Kurdistan Region.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... claimed on Friday that 45 PKK fighters have been "neutralized" in the framework of his country’s latest offensive.
Ottoman Turkish officials use the term "neutralize" to imply surrenders, killings, or capturing.
The PKK has claimed the death of 127 Ottoman Turkish soldiers in Duhok since Monday.
Seven out of 92 villages are left inhabited for now. The rest have been abandoned because of the conflict between both the PKK and Turkey over the past decades, according to data from the Shiladze administration authorities.
More than 500 villages have been emptied in the Kurdistan Region over three decades of the Turkey-PKK conflict.
[Rudaw] Five alleged prominent 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 across numerous Iraqi provinces were arrested on Saturday and multiple stockpiles of equipment were seized, state media reported, citing a statement from Iraq's Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency.
The agency said that operations "to follow up on terrorist elements to punish them and dry up their sources" continue in the country, amid an ongoing operation to clear Iraq's western provinces of ISIS remnants.
Two of the arrestees worked in the province of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... while another two operated in Nineveh, with the fifth being arrested in Baghdad.
A cache of equipment belonging to the terror group was also seized in Tarmiyah district, located about 50 kilometers north of the capital. The agency reported that the stockpile "included Austrian projectiles, 486 explosive-laden lighters, and 2,000 bullets buried underground in plastic barrels."
The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) said on Saturday that they had thwarted an ISIS attack in the town of Jurf al-Nasr in Babil province.
The aforementioned developments come on the same day that Iraq launched the second phase of an operation, dubbed Solid Will, to eliminate ISIS from its west. 12,000 PMF fighters alongside several other forces have partaken in the operation.
ISIS seized control of swathes of Iraqi land in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 28 attacks in Iraq from April 14 to April 20, killing and injuring 51 people.
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[Rudaw] Prominent Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... on Saturday said that his bloc intends to introduce a bill criminalizing the normalization of relations with Israel, following a series of Trump administration-brokered talks that saw numerous Moslem countries normalize ties with the Jewish state.
Sadr said that the "issue of normalization and Israeli ambitions to dominate our beloved Iraq" was one of the core reasons that got the Sadrist Movement involved with the electoral process again.
"The Sadrist bloc and its allies ... will soon announce a draft project to criminalize normalization and dealing with the Zionist entity at all," he said in a tweet.
The normalization of ties with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords is a US-led joint Middle East peace initiative. Four countries — the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Bahrain, and Morocco — have announced normalization agreements with Israel, with America's support.
Sadr added that once his bloc proposes the bill, it will be passed to the parliament for voting. It is noteworthy that the holy man's bloc emerged as the largest party of the October elections, securing 73 parliamentary seats.
A conference advocating for Iraq to join the Abraham Accords was held in the Kurdistan Region's capital of Erbil in September and was attended by more than 300 Sunnis and Shiites from across the country.
Widespread condemnation from Baghdad and Erbil struck the conference, with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi calling it "illegal" and saying that the concept of normalization with Israel is illegal as per the Iraqi constitution.
Sadr also expressed staunch rejection of the conference. He said Erbil "must forbid such terrorist Zionist meetings" and called on the Iraqi government to arrest all who attended, otherwise threatening to take action himself.
"We shall take responsibility for what must be done according to Sharia," he tweeted at the time, referring to laws derived from Islamic teachings.
Days after, an Iraqi court issued arrest warrants for three people accused of participating in the conference.
A large population of Jews used to call Iraq home. In 1941, the Farhud, a violent mostly peaceful pogrom, marked the beginning of the end of one of Iraq's oldest communities. A decade after the anti-Semitic violence of the Farhud, more than 120,000 Jews were airlifted out of Iraq in Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... launched its first military operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the newly-established autonomous Kurdistan Region in the fall of 1992 with the involvement of thousands of troops, hoping to remove the Kurdish rebels on its borders with Iraq and Iran. Three decades on, Ankara launched the latest phase of its Operation Claw against the group in the Region last week. Some questions that emerge are why is the Ottoman Turkish army conducting a fresh campaign now? And what can it change on the ground?
A Kurdish politician who used to be close friends with the PKK’s jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan decades ago, said that Turkey’s latest operation is a preparation for its alleged full-scale operation, expected to commence in 2023, to regain control of Iraqi land which used to be part of the Ottoman Empire.
The PKK was formed in 1978, stating its goal of obtaining increased political and cultural rights for Kurds in Turkey. It spent the first six years fighting other Turkey-based Kurdish political parties, to pave the way for its dream of leading the Kurdish movement in the country. In 1984, the PKK began its armed struggle against Ankara inside the country while boosting its camps in what is now the Kurdistan Region, following an agreement with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Special counsel John Durham issued trial subpoenas for members of Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... ’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee as he pushed his theory of a "joint venture" in the case against Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann, who represented the Clinton campaign, and Rodney Joffe.
Clinton’s campaign, the DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points we hear as news stories originate... , the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and the Perkins Coie law firm are fighting Durham’s efforts to compel the submission of withheld documents, arguing their claims of attorney-client privilege should keep the records concealed. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... Durham is continuing his legal pressure as he insists those groups played a coordinated role in pushing false Trump-Russia collusion claims.
Fusion "was not primarily providing or supporting expertise relating to legal advice; instead, it appears that the investigative firm’s primary, if not sole, function was to generate opposition research materials that the firm then shared widely," Durham said this month.
"Meeting to agree on the express goal of a joint venture is precisely what happened here, on more than one occasion," the special counsel said early Saturday morning.
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New book by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future, claims that Jill Biden was opposed to selecting Kamala Harris as running mate
Harris lashed out at Joe Biden in primary debate over his opposition to busing
Biden was under fire at the time for praising the 'civility' of segregationists
The dispute was one of the biggest fireworks displays in Democratic primary
But Biden moved past the row to select Harris as his running mate
Biden reportedly also had concerns about Harris' romance with her mentor
#1
Bussing probably contributed to Detroit's collapse as much as stupid politicans. Note well the upper and middle class Black flight seeking better education for their children.
#2
Goes way back to the 1950's and 1960's with the creation of "consolidated" school districts. Blue Bird bus company and large bureaucratic school administrations did well. Everyone else, not so much.
Just my penny farthings worth.
"Government is not the solution. Government is the problem."
Good morning! Impatiently waiting for intel on the 🇷🇺 army level command post reported as destroyed by 🇺🇦 artillery in Kherson region yesterday. Up to 50 🇷🇺senior brass was in there including the army CoC, according to UA prez adviser.
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this is from militaryland.net another more or less neutral site is understandingwar.com both these have narrative and maps
livemap.com ukraine has interactive maps also
- Ukraine has counterattacked and taken some territory North of Kharkiv. If this continues it threatens part of the Russia supply lines.
- Russia continues to attack on numerous points along the front but has gained little today, although yesterday they had some 4 km advances
- Russia has broken off active battle against the Ukraine holdouts in Mariupol for the past two days. Russia admits it has taken heavy casualties in this sector. Russia says they will stave the defenders out (which also means starving civilians) and send some of the attacking forces there to other parts of the Ukraine.
- Lots of bombardment by both Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine claimed a major hit on a Russian command post in the south near Kherson.
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[BREITBART] Representative Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"... (D-CA) said Friday on MSNBC’s "The ReidOut" that the audio New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... news hounds Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin released of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy ...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's... (R-CA) telling Rep. Liz Cheney ...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as Republican royalty. A staunch Never Trumper, Liz supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Publicans dumped her from her leadership position in May 2021. Refusing to admit that she had trashed her own career, Cheney has said that she intends to be the leader... in a fight to help to restore our party and that she may be interested in a future presidential run.... (R-WY) that he would recommend to then-President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... he should resign revealed Cheney to be "a person of great courage and conviction."
Schiff said, "What is staggering about this, Joy, is Kevin McCarthy talks to Republican colleagues after the attack on the Capitol. He acknowledges the president bears responsibility. He talked to the president. The president admitted bearing some responsibility for the attack. He talked about calling on the president to resign, and then when he’s asked about this, he lies."
He added, "Liz Cheney is not the kind of person who leaks tapes and denies it. That is just not who she is. One thing this chapter of our history has revealed, and it’s something the historian Robert Carroll said, power doesn’t corrupt as much as it reveals. It doesn’t reveal us for our best but says who we are. Well, power revealed Liz Cheney to be a person of great courage and conviction. It revealed Kevin McCarthy to be utterly craven, and in fact, so many of the other members of his team, like Elise Stefanik — who, when Liz Cheney said I’m not telling a big lie that eats at the heart of our democracy, Elise Stefanik put up her hand and said I’ll tell the lie if I can have her job. I think those attacks suggesting Liz Cheney was the source of this for an effort to tear her down when Kevin McCarthy is being torn down by his own falsehoods."
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"Adam? Any comment on your friend, donor, and patron, Ed Buck? Any words for the gay homeless black men he killed for his kinks?"
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We need a realignment. Globalist like Cheney and McCarthy can admit it and either join the Democrats or form the Globalist Party. Leave the Republican Party to patriotic Americans.
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[Korrespondent] 23:20 In the east of Ukraine, the invaders captured international military observers from the OSCE. "The OSCE is extremely concerned that a number of members of the national SMM mission [Special Monitoring Mission] have been deprived of their liberty in Donetsk and Lugansk," the organization said. They also reported that they are using all available channels to release their employees.
23:16 US officials refuse to comment to the American media on Zelensky's statement about Blinken and Austin's visit to Ukraine, writes UP.
23:09 For the first time in history, the head of the National Bank of Ukraine was invited to a meeting of the General Council of the European Central Bank, the NBU hopes to participate in them regularly, the press service of the Ukrainian regulator said.
23:04 Russia wants to arrange a parade of Ukrainian prisoners on May 9th. This is a very serious violation of the Geneva Convention and all the rules of war, Arestovich said.
23:01 French Economy Minister Bruno Le Mer said on BFMTV that the EU member states will soon decide on a complete cessation of Russian oil imports.
22:11 Over the past day, the JFO forces in Donbass have successfully repelled 12 enemy attacks, the Ministry of Defense reports. In particular, four tanks, five artillery systems, 15 armored vehicles, one armored combat vehicle and four vehicles were destroyed.
Air defense units in the sky over the Ukrainian Donbas shot down one Su-25 aircraft, one cruise missile and three Orlan-10 UAVs.
22:02 On its own initiative, the Berlin division of the Polish Pilecki Institute has joined the collection of evidence of war crimes of Russians in Ukraine. This institution is engaged, in particular, in the study and preservation of the historical experience of the Poles in the era of totalitarianism. The institute is named after the Polish officer Witold Pilecki, who risked his life to document the events in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, writes Reuters.
21:56 Zelensky ended the press conference with the words: "We'll meet when we liberate Mariupol. I think soon."
21:54 Zelensky on Russia's plans: "Can a new Mariupol happen in Odessa? Yes, maybe they have thousands of tanks and equipment, they have plans for a corridor to Moldova. I don't believe they will stop."
21:52 Zelensky said that, according to preliminary data, the Russians have already deported to Russia about 500,000 Ukrainians, including about 5,000 children.
21:50 Ukraine and Poland will create a logistics railway center, Shmyhal said. According to him, this will allow "drastically increasing the volume of rail transportation of Ukrainian exports to the EU and to world markets through Europe."
21:47 Zelensky on weapons: "Now we see a change in relation to Western partners. I especially see changes in the speed of the United States. And if this speed is increased in the same way as we are promised, if the steps coincide with the words, like any decent person and a leader, we will de-occupy our territories faster."
21:44 Zelensky about Abramovich: "I know that he is a member of the Russian negotiating group. As far as I know, he was in Kiev. I am not ready to discuss the format of his meetings."
21:41 Zelensky on nuclear weapons: “I don’t think that an adequate person can use nuclear weapons. If the Russian leadership does not lose touch with reality, they will not use nuclear weapons. Could it be from Russia, it can. Do I believe I don't want to believe in it. If we had nuclear weapons, then Ukraine would never use them. Because we are adequate people. Any head of state who put his finger on the button would simply be demolished by society ... But the risks of starting a war on the part of Russia would be minimized."
21:30 Zelensky said that Britain agreed to help rebuild the Kyiv region after the war, Sweden - the Mykolaiv region.
21:24 In Odessa, during today's shelling, rockets hit one of the city cemeteries, more than 1000 square meters were destroyed. m of territory, said the mayor of the city Gennady Trukhanov.
21:16 Bloomberg writes that Abramovich did not live up to Washington's expectations as a mediator in the negotiations between Kiev and Moscow, and therefore the United States returned to the issue of imposing sanctions against him.
21:04 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the special services of Ukraine were preparing a provocation with the use of chemical substances in the area of the Odessa port of Yuzhny: "Kyiv can simulate a missile attack by the Russian Armed Forces on the base of the Ukrainian Navy, as a result of which the cold storage facility of the port in Odessa will be blown up."
20:57 Yermak on "security assurances" instead of guarantees: "Enough of "assurances". Ukraine needs real security guarantees. There will be no Budapest-2. Anyone who strives for this, despite Bucha, Odessa, Mariupol, despite the pain of other cities , despite the thousands of killed, tortured, raped people, children, has no mind or heart."
20:52 Kiev and Moscow already have a draft joint declaration, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
20:50 Zelensky said that seven rockets hit Odessa, killing eight people.
20:47 Zelensky about the tribunal for Putin: "I'm sure they will appear - everyone who gave these shameful orders to destroy people, children, everyone. I believe in it. We know how the international process, the international court is going. It lasts years. We will wait. And if people like me do not wait, then our children will definitely wait. Believe me, I am sure that there will be the last nail in the politics of this state."
20:44 Zelensky: "I do not consider the option that the partners will not give us the promised weapons. We will not give them this alternative. Because we have no other choice."
20:43 Zelensky called the absence of Ukraine in NATO a strategic mistake, as it would strengthen the alliance.
20:42 Zelensky said that the war in Ukraine is unlike any other: "This is a different war, this war cannot be compared with any in the 20th century, there has never been such a war."
"There has never been such a war. There has never been such destruction in any of the wars waged by the Russian Federation. There has never been such an amount of heavy equipment and such military rudeness, violence. So fate fell that Ukraine can stop it. But you you need to help us. They will finish with us, they will take care of you," the president told a journalist from Azerbaijan.
20:41 Zelensky reaffirmed that he wants to meet with Putin to stop the war in Ukraine: "I want to stop the war and end it. There is a diplomatic path, there is a military path. Any healthy person always chooses the diplomatic path."
20:40 Zelensky: "The most pressing issues are guarantees of security and neutrality, the fate of Donbass and Crimea. I believe that there are no more questions."
20:37 Zelensky announced that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin would arrive in Ukraine on April 24.
20:36 Zelensky said that Ukraine has already become like Israel: "Is Ukraine ready to be like Israel? Most Ukrainians are not just ready - we have no way out, we have already become such a state. When we win, we will be a state with the most powerful army" .
20:35 Zelensky on the situation in Mariupol: "We offer a humanitarian solution to the issue of Mariupol - the exchange of civilians, the wounded. We are also ready for the exchange of our military defending Mariupol. We have proposed any format for resolving this issue."
He also stressed that " Ukraine is not capable of a military deblockade of Mariupol now , and the Ukrainian military who are stationed there understand this."
20:34 Zelensky: "As soon as we have more weapons, we will go ahead and return our territories. Everything that they break through or temporarily occupy, we will return. And this will not be in decades."
20:33 Zelensky said that Ukraine will return the ambassador to Georgia when the leaders of this country become friendly with Ukraine.
20:32 Zelensky: "If our people are destroyed in Mariupol, if pseudo-referendums are held in the occupied territories, Ukraine will withdraw from the negotiations."
20:06 Zelensky gives a press conference for the Ukrainian media:
19:59 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "high-precision long-range air-launched missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces disabled the logistics terminal at a military airfield near Odessa, where a large batch of foreign weapons received from the United States and European countries was stored."
19:33 In the Mountain community of the Lugansk region (Zolotoye district), six civilians were killed today, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
19:32 Shelling continues in Kharkov and the region, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. According to him, Northern Saltovka and Saltovka suffered the most in the regional center. Streets, residential buildings, warehouses are being shelled. According to preliminary data, six people were wounded in Kharkiv, and one more was wounded in the Chuguevsky district. Three died - in the Chuguevsky and Dergachevsky districts.
19:26 Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said that his country would send scientific and forensic experts to Ukraine who would collect evidence and verify the facts of Russian war crimes in the de-occupied territories of the north for the International Criminal Court.
He also said that Italy, together with Turkey, is ready to act as a guarantor of an agreement on the security and neutrality of Ukraine.
The minister argues that from an economic point of view, the war in Ukraine has already become a world war, and Rome is participating in an important initiative to eliminate dependence on Russian gas. In his opinion, if the European "ceiling" of gas prices is not set, the problem of its cost will not be solved. The ceiling will stop financial speculation.
19:23 Turkey closed the skies for Russian military and civilian aircraft flying to Syria. The flight permit was issued for three months and expired in April, Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said.
19:18 Poland has provided Ukraine with military equipment worth over $1.6 billion, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.
19:16 The governor of the Kursk region said that the checkpoint on the border was fired from Ukraine, there were no casualties.
19:01 Zelensky and Johnson discussed new military assistance to Ukraine. It will include the provision of heavy weapons to Kyiv, Yermak said.
18:48 The Zaporizhzhya District Military District reported about the shelling of the city of Vasylivka at about 15:30 today. A rocket of the Hurricane system hit a residential building in the city center, but did not explode. There were no casualties, but the house was partially destroyed. The shelling was carried out from the side of the city of Burchak, which is under occupation.
18:41 In the Lugansk region, the invaders are trying to take control of Popasna, Rubizhne and are preparing for an attack on Severodonetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
18:35 During the shelling of Odessa, a rocket hit a 16-storey residential building, followed by the fire of apartments on the fourth and fifth floors. The fire was extinguished for more than two hours, the State Emergency Service said.
Currently, six people are known to have died, including one child, and 18 people were injured. Two people were rescued from the rubble, 86 people were evacuated.
17:47 Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine Yuriy Vitrenko said about the risk of losing a third of transit to the EU due to the actions of the invaders in the occupied territories: "According to our estimates, a third of the volume of gas exported from Russia to the EU through Ukraine will be lost if the occupying forces do not stop disrupting our stations in the recently occupied territories."
17:43 Deputy Mayor of Dnipro Mikhail Lysenko said that the authorities would confiscate "high-speed" cars from those who like to arrange races around the city: "I explain - the patrol police stopped you, wave your car. Perhaps you can see it in Donetsk or Lugansk region under control of our Armed Forces. You have all been warned. No one will help."
17:35 The occupants again disrupted the evacuation from Mariupol, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. At least 200 Mariupol residents came to the collection point, waiting for evacuation in Zaporozhye. Instead of the promised buses, the military of the Russian Federation drove up to them and ordered them to disperse, because now there will be shelling.
At the same time, the occupants moved buses to a point near the Metro shopping center (200 meters from the agreed evacuation point near Port City) and began loading. After loading, the residents of Mariupol were told that there would only be "evacuation" to Dokuchaevsk, that is, to the occupied territory. People were not allowed to get off the bus. In response to questions, the invaders said that "the nationalists fired at the evacuation point."
17:31 On April 22, the Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the forward command post of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Federation, which, "contrary to combat installations and common sense," was located at a slight distance from the line of combat clashes in the Kherson region, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports.
As a result, PPU 49A was destroyed, two generals of the invaders were eliminated , one was seriously wounded, and was evacuated in critical condition.
17:27 In Odessa, after today's shelling, there are already five dead , including a three-month-old child, and 18 wounded Ukrainian citizens. "These are only those who were found. And, most likely, there will be more," Yermak wrote.
17:25 The governor of the Sumy region Dmitry Zhivitsky reported on the shelling of border communities from the territory of Russia.
17:24 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a Russian rocket hit the outskirts of one of the villages and left behind a huge crater. No one was hurt, Governor Reznichenko said.
17:15 Air command Pivden reported that today from 14:00 to 15:00 Ukrainian air defense destroyed two enemy cruise missiles (preliminarily X555 or X101), which were fired at Odessa from TU-95 strategic aircraft of the Russian Federation from the Caspian Sea. Two UAVs of the operational-tactical level were also destroyed.
16:21 As a result of the shelling of the center of the city of Zolote, Luhansk region, two people were killed, two more were injured. It was possible to evacuate 15 local residents, including eight with disabilities. Artillery shells hit residential buildings, Gaidai said.
16:18 Kuleba commented on today's Russian missile strikes: "The only goal of Russian missile strikes on Odessa is terror. Russia must be recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism, and it must be treated accordingly. No business, no contacts, no cultural projects. We need a wall between civilization and barbarians who hit civilian cities with missiles."
16:09 Russian media report that on the evening of April 22, a train with 308 refugees from Mariupol arrived in Nakhodka (Primorsky Krai, southeastern Russia).
Andryushchenko also reports that on April 8, Russia deported 466 Mariupol residents to Cheboksary (Chuvashia), including 106 children.
16:00 Russian occupiers fired at least six cruise missiles at Odessa, several were shot down. At least one rocket fell and exploded, hitting residential buildings. It is already known for sure about one dead person - he burned to death in his car in the courtyard of the house, according to Anton Gerashchenko.
15:55 The invaders began forced mobilization, including doctors, in the occupied territories of Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in Volchansk, Kharkiv region, junior medical personnel are forcibly sent to the front line to provide assistance to Russian wounded. If they refuse, they are threatened with execution.
The mobilization of youth from among the local population in the occupied territories of Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions has also begun. To do this, the possibility of leaving the Kherson region to the territories controlled by Ukraine is almost completely blocked. Significantly limited the ability to travel in the direction of the Russian Federation.
In the Zaporozhye region, Russian military personnel and FSB officers are looking for people of military age - they must replenish the composition of the combat units of the Russian Federation in the most problematic areas.
15:53 In Kiev, metro trains for the duration of the air alert will suspend movement on the ground section on the red line, and on the green line they will not run across the South Bridge, the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
15:51 Information about Easter events from the OP:
15:21 A missile strike was inflicted on Odessa - it hit infrastructure facilities, Mayor Gennady Trukhanov said. He asked not to distribute photos and videos so as not to help the enemy.
14:50 A conference will be held in Germany on April 26 to discuss support for Ukraine. More than 20 countries out of about 40 invited have confirmed their participation, writes Bild. US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby said earlier that this is not only about NATO countries, and this meeting is not taking place under the auspices of the alliance.
14:36 IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi from April 26 will be at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant at the head of a mission of experts to control the supply of vital equipment and conduct radiological and other measurements at the de-occupied facility.
14:21 The World Bank will allocate $170 billion to countries indirectly affected by the war in Ukraine over the next 15 months. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said her country, together with partners, "secured the largest World Bank financial commitment in the history of low-income countries around the world - to support those facing economic hardship as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
13:59 The war in Ukraine has already affected about 25% of world grain trade and led to higher prices and reduced access to food in importing countries from Ukraine and Russia, First Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Vysotsky said in a blog on Forbes.
He notes that the supply of wheat from Ukraine is more than 10% of the annual consumption of wheat for 15 countries. For example, this is 28% of the needs of Indonesia, 21% - of Bangladesh, and Egypt imports almost 80% of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine.
13:38 Russian occupiers began to defiantly use Soviet symbols on their clothes and equipment:
13:33 France and Germany, after the annexation of Crimea by Russia, sold military equipment to Moscow for 230 million pounds. It was probably used during the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, writes The Daily Mail.
13:27 On Easter night, a curfew will be in effect in all regions of Ukraine. In most churches there will be no night liturgies, services will be held on Sunday morning. People are asked to avoid large gatherings. The authorities warn that on the eve of the Easter holidays, the Russians may arrange provocations in order to then shift the responsibility to Ukraine.
Easter service in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv can be watched on the air of the national all-Ukrainian telethon. It will last from 23:30 April 23 until approximately 03:00-03:30 April 24. The broadcast will also go on the Facebook page of the Primate of the OCU, Metropolitan Epiphanius.
13:20 In Mariupol, during internal filtration measures, occupiers announced the registration of housing stock. All real estate, the owners of which do not submit documents, will be "nationalized", said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko.
13:17 In the Chernihiv region last night, Ukrainian territory was fired from the territory of the Russian Federation at the site of the Gorsk department of the Chernihiv border detachment. About ten grenades fired from abroad from an automatic grenade launcher exploded near the border village of Senkovka, the State Border Service of Ukraine reports.
This is the fourth shelling of Chernihiv region from Russian territory recorded by the border guards after the Ukrainian Defense Forces ousted the invaders from the region.
13:13 Zaluzhny urged not to disseminate information that can be used by the enemy against the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “I urge everyone, especially bloggers with large audiences, to refrain from public assessments of military operations, logistics, support and decisions of commanders. Only the military leadership owns all the information and uses it to repel aggression. The key to the successful destruction of the enemy is the non-dissemination of this information."
13:05 Arakhamia said that Ukraine has problems with replenishing the exchange fund: “I see a lot of comments from angry Ukrainians about why take prisoners. I understand emotions, I myself recently had the same position, but we all must understand that every captured enemy - this is the potential life of our hero for exchange. And with modern artillery battles at long distances, it has become much more difficult to take prisoners, so we have problems with replenishing the exchange fund."
12:34 There are practically no "people's policemen" left in the "DPR" - most of them died in the battles near Mariupol. According to Ukrainian intelligence, in the battles in the Mariupol direction, the invaders involved the entire personnel of the so-called "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR", including servicemen of the "internal troops of the DPR" and cadets of the "Donetsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs".
During the participation in hostilities only in the Mariupol direction, irretrievable losses amounted to up to a thousand people, incl. 26 cadets; sanitary losses exceeded 2800 people. In other directions, irretrievable losses amounted to about 500 people, sanitary - about 2100 people.
The lack of "law enforcement officers" led to a deterioration in the situation with the support of "public law and order" and greatly complicated further forced mobilization. The "Minister of Internal Affairs of the DPR" ordered a special internal investigation against the head of the "Donetsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs" and the chiefs of the apparatus of the "VV MVD" on the fact of losses among the personnel.
12:23 In Britain, supermarkets are beginning to limit the sale of butter to one person - because of the war in Ukraine, butter stocks are declining, writes the BBC. Most sunflower oil in the UK comes from Ukraine, and export disruptions have led to a certain shortage and increased demand. The British Retail Consortium says the restrictions are temporary and meant to ensure equal access.
12:14 Podolyak said that it would be possible to rescue people from Mariupol in an exchange format - such an agreement can be reached during a meeting of the negotiating delegations of Ukraine and Russia in the blocked city. At the same time, the defenders of Mariupol will not lay down their arms when leaving. "That is, we give away a certain number of prisoners, but we take our people away. They [the defenders of Mariupol] will definitely not hand over their weapons," the adviser to the head of the OP emphasized.
12:03 Belgium will provide a new batch of military aid to Ukraine, and will also help investigate Russian war crimes, writes RTBF. Brussels has estimated all its deliveries to Ukraine since the beginning of the war at 76 million euros. The Belgian authorities will transfer to Ukraine 5,000 FN Herstal assault rifles, which are decommissioned from the Belgian army, 200 anti-tank weapons, 3,800 tons of fuel and protective equipment.
In addition, the head of the Belgian Ministry of Justice, Vincent Van Kuickenborn, announced the possibility of sending to Ukraine a group of experts on the identification of DVI victims, which had already cooperated with Dutch colleagues in Ukraine after the MH-17 crash.
11:50 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the United States is preparing provocations to accuse the Russian military of using chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Ukraine. In particular, "the most likely option is a provocation at the chemical and biological facilities in Kharkov and Kyiv, and a provocation at the Zaporozhye NPP is not ruled out."
In addition, as stated by the Russian Defense Ministry, Kyiv "seriously considers the issue of strikes on the storage of radioactive waste in the village of Kamenskoye."
11:42 In Melitopol, Russians are hollowing out copper wire from the walls to be scrapped in Russia, the Defense Forces of the Zaporozhye Territory report.
11:18 Vereshchuk warned that the invaders may try today to organize their own corridor for evacuation from Mariupol to Russia. She stressed that the corridor, organized by the Ukrainian side, works exclusively in the direction of Zaporozhye.
11:10 In the Lviv region, they changed their minds about canceling the curfew for Easter - it will operate, as in the future, from 23:00 to 05:00. Governor Maxim Kozitsky explained this decision by saying that information had been received about the possible activities of sabotage groups. He stressed that the church leadership of the region is in solidarity with this decision, in all churches night services are transferred to the morning hours.
11:07 US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland explained that Washington is negotiating with Ukraine on "security assurances", not guarantees. "Security assurances" is a term in the Budapest Memorandum that provides for no fixed guarantees of protection or collective defence.
11:03 Russian invaders de-energized the pumping station in the Lugansk region with their projectile, as a result, the center of Lisichansk, as well as the cities of Novodruzhesk and Privolye, were left without water, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
10:58 Podolyak said that the main discussion in the negotiating groups is now around security guarantees, issues of territorial structure are taken out of brackets: "Here, Ukraine's position is clear, it was formulated by President Zelensky: ORDLO and Crimea are Ukrainian territories. Now the negotiating groups are working out the text of the basic agreement on security guarantees. It is this document that the guarantor countries will subsequently consider and sign. The Security Guarantee Treaty provides a mechanism for getting out of the war."
10:56 The curfew in Nikolaev on Easter night will operate from 19:00 to 5:00, Governor Vitaly Kim said. Previously, it operated from 21:00 to 6:00.
10:54 The EU is considering three options for restricting Russian oil imports: a complete embargo, the introduction of a cap price, or a mechanism to withhold revenues from the sale of raw materials, writes Bloomberg.
10:52 In the Kharkiv region, the occupiers inflicted 56 strikes in a day, as a result of which two people were killed, 19 more were injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. He said that the Ukrainian defenders continue to hold defensive lines in the region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made a successful counteroffensive. Fierce fighting continued throughout the day.
Ukrainian units drove the enemy troops out of the settlements of Bezruki, Slatino, Prudyanka in the Dergachev region and entrenched themselves in positions.
10:51 Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics explained the importance of NATO expansion: "For those who believe that NATO expansion was a mistake, keep in mind: where NATO is, there is peace, where Russia is, there is war."
10:49 The Wall Street Journal writes about the scheme for circumventing sanctions by Russia on the example of oil supplies. So, the Russian Federation is loading raw materials onto tankers at the address "destination unknown." Further, Russian oil is mixed with other oil, turning into a "Latvian mixture" and "Turkmen mixture" on the market. Since the invasion of Ukraine, 11 million barrels have already been loaded under this scheme.
10:40 Andryushchenko reports on the increased filtration of men in the private sector of the Kalmius and Left Bank districts of Mariupol. The first confirmations of forced mobilization into the "army of the DPR" have been received. Mostly these are young men under 40 years old, they are sent towards Donetsk. Information about their number and further fate is being specified.
10:27 The invaders continue to cover up the traces of their crimes in the center of Mariupol: the rubble of the Drama Theater is currently being cleared. According to the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko, in the process of cleaning they pack the found bodies of the dead in plastic bags, move them by tractors and trucks to the storage facility in the industrial zone near Nikolskoye Highway, and then, as they fill up, they take them to the village. Mangush, where they dump it in an embankment into a 300-meter trench.
Only seconded workers of the so-called "Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR" were involved in cleaning up the bodies of the dead Mariupol residents because of the refusal of local residents to participate in such work.
Andryushchenko recalled that the territory of the square under the Drama Theater was used as a cemetery for soldiers of Nazi Germany, whose bodies were exhumed and reburied only in 2018-2019 during the reconstruction. Now the Russians have once again turned the center of Mariupol into a cemetery.
10:22 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of April 23:
personnel - about 21,600 people were liquidated,
tanks - 854,
armored combat vehicles - 2205,
artillery systems - 403,
MLRS - 143,
air defense systems - 69,
aircraft - 177,
helicopters - 154,
automotive technology - 1543,
ships/boats - 8,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 182,
special equipment - 27,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
10:19 Vereshchuk said that at 12:00 the evacuation of women, children and the elderly would begin in Mariupol. The meeting point is on the roundabout near the Port City Mall.
09:52 In Bucha, the collection and exhumation of the bodies of civilians who died at the hands of the invaders is coming to an end, the mayor of the city Anatoly Fedoruk said: "The figure that we have today is 412. This means that every third person who died in the Kiev region is from Bucha ."
09:50 Podolyak on Russia's new plans: "Moscow's appetite continues to grow. Now they say that their goal in southern Ukraine is access to Transnistria, where Russians are allegedly also oppressed. It is obvious that the next target of the army of looters and rapists will be Moldova. What again proves that Ukraine today is fighting for the security of Europe."
09:42 The American Institute does not believe in the resumption of negotiations between Kiev and Moscow in the coming weeks, as both sides await the outcome of the ongoing Russian offensive in the Donbas.
Analysts note that the Kremlin is increasingly describing the war in Ukraine as a war with NATO for domestic Russian audiences to explain slower-than-imagined operations and mounting casualties. At the same time, Moscow will not be able to contain NATO expansion and is not in a position to disrupt Ukraine's military cooperation with the West.
Experts also consider it unlikely that the Kremlin will use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine at this stage of the war.
09:36 Russian troops are finishing their regrouping and preparing for a large-scale offensive , Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, said. According to him, all BTG, which were previously concentrated on the territory of Belarus, are now being transferred to the east of Ukraine.
The attacks of the Russians in the east in all directions are attempts to determine the most vulnerable places of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to launch a large-scale offensive.
08:50 G20 cannot function effectively as long as Russia remains a member, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said.
08:49 The head of the Sumy OVA Dmitry Zhyvitsky said that on April 22, the railway communication between Sumy and Kiev was resumed, temporarily with a change in Nizhyn.
08:48 New York will allocate $2 million from the city budget to help Ukrainian migrants.
08:46 Austria supports all sanctions against the Russian Federation, with the exception of the gas embargo, Finance Minister Magnus Brunner said. According to him, Austrian industry is so dependent on Russian gas that they "have no choice."
08:44 The Czech Republic has applied for the intention to take Russia's place in the UN Human Rights Council, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
08:40 British intelligence notes that, despite increased activity, Russian troops have not made significant progress over the past 24 hours. Ukrainian counterattacks continue to hinder their efforts.
The Russian air and sea forces have not established control in any of the areas due to the effectiveness of Ukrainian air and sea defense.
Intense fighting continues in Mariupol, thwarting Russian attempts to take the city and further slowing down their desired advance in Donbas.
08:38 The Times writes that after the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, the Russian fleet has become more cautious and is increasing missile launches in Ukraine from submarines.
08:35 The UN Secretary General said that after visiting Moscow on April 28, he would arrive in Kiev and hold a meeting with Zelensky: "We need urgent steps to save lives, end human suffering and establish peace in Ukraine."
08:31 British military intelligence commented on Shoigu's statement that "the introduction of new methods of warfare will make it possible to better adapt troops to modern conditions of armed confrontation." In London, they believe that these words are an implicit recognition that the Russian advance is not going the way the Russian leadership expected. It may also indicate the realization that the war is not going according to plan, but it will take time to adapt "tactics, techniques and procedures" and then implement them into operational practice.
This is especially true of mobile ground warfare. In the meantime, the "new methods" have not been introduced, the Russian army will rely on the old ones - primarily on artillery. As a result, it is likely that Russian troops will not be able to quickly break the Ukrainian defense, British intelligence notes.
08:22 Canada has delivered a batch of long-range M777 howitzers to Ukraine, Anita Anand, Minister of National Defense of the country, said. According to CBC News, we are talking about four 155-mm howitzers (range up to 30 km).
Ukraine was also provided with additional ammunition for Carl Gustaf anti-tank grenade launchers. In addition, Anand announced the supply of armored vehicles.
08:20 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, said that the evacuation of Mariupol residents to Zaporozhye will take place today. Only children, women and the elderly are taken out. The column will move out of the city at 11:00.
08:13 The Pentagon is looking for new opportunities for US industry to accelerate the production of "proven, effective weapons" that require minimal training of military personnel and can be quickly exported to Ukraine, writes Reuters.
07:49 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, units of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade, which took an active part in the massacres, torture and violence of the civilian population in the city of Bucha, are operating in the area of Izyum and have already suffered losses.
07:47 In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is conducting offensive operations along the entire line of collision, the General Staff reports in the morning report . The enemy is concentrating his main efforts on offensive operations in the Severodonetsk direction, exerting intense fire pressure on our troops in order to drive them out and create conditions for the development of an offensive against Slavyansk. The offensive continues in the direction of Novotoshkovsky and assault operations in the areas of Rubizhnoye, Popasnaya and Maryinka.
07:18 The Russians could use tear gas with chemicals in Mariupol, said US Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter. He said that at the moment experts are studying the information.
05:54 In the Kherson region, Ukrainian defenders destroyed a Russian army-level command post with about 50 senior Russian officers, Arestovich said.
Diamond Alvarez, 16, was shot 22 times on January 11 as she walked the family dog, Peanut, near their Houston home
Her on-off boyfriend Frank DeLeon, 17, was arrested and charged with her murder, and freed on a $250,000 bond
DeLeon was taken into custody on Monday after the ankle monitor he wore reported that he had left his home, where he is under house arrest
On Thursday DeLeon was back in court and freed again after a judge accepted that the ankle monitor was likely faulty
Alvarez's brother Abel lunged at DeLeon in court, and Judge Hazel Jones hit the panic button to call for security to escort Abel out of the courtroom
Alvarez's mother, Anna Machado, said she was frightened for the safety of the family because DeLeon lives two minutes away: 'He's laughing at us,’ she said
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This is in Harris County, home to the concentration of Democrats outside of Austin and San Antonio. During the BLM/Antifa riots, the only reason Harris County cracked down on them was they were terrified they'd do something outside of it, where they'd be met with instant and massive violence as humans defended themselves and their homes. Even on the highways, I'd say 30% of people driving are armed and a BLM car party would end in gunshots from multiple vehicles.
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About those judges: how many of them are Democrats, and possibly chosen by Democrats because they are young and female and — mostly — persons of a visibly minority persuasion?
[IsraelTimes] Bodyguard killed near checkpoint in Sistan-Balochistan province; attackers arrested, says Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... state TV
An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general is said to have survived a deadly attack that killed a bodyguard, according to a report on Iranian state TV Saturday.
Brigadier General Hossein Almassi,
...also not in our archives under Hossein Almasi...
a Guards commander in the restive Sistan-Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province, was traveling in a vehicle near a checkpoint in the lovely provincial capital Zahedan when it came under fire by button men, Rooters reported Saturday, citing Iranian TV.
The general sustained no injuries, the report said.
The bodyguard who was slain was identified as Mahmoud Absalom, the son of a senior IRGC commander in the region, according to a report by the Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
Authorities have arrested some suspects but did not identify them, the report added.
Sistan-Balochistan is the site of occasional festivities between Iranian forces and various holy warrior groups. The relationship between the predominantly Sunni residents of the region and Iran’s Shiite theocracy has long been fraught.
The province, bordering Pakistain and Afghanistan, is a base for a Sunni separatist group affiliated with al-Qaeda and known as Jeish al-Adl, or Army of Justice.
Security forces have also clashed with narcos in the province, located along a major smuggling route for Afghan opium and heroin.
In January, IRGC forces said they killed an unidentified gunman who attacked its intelligence office in the town of Saravan in Sistan-Balochistan, about 1,360 kilometers (850 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran.
In late December, the IRGC said it killed six "armed bandidos" in a shootout in the region that also left three of its members dead.
Imagery from yesterday (April 21) shows 21 Flanker variants and 5 Su-24s present at the Russian airbase in Morozovsk. Given the base's proximity to eastern Ukraine it is likely that the fighters at this base are aiding Russian operations. pic.twitter.com/maxmcvlAm5
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. has assured Hausas and other non-indigenes residing in the South-East of their safety.
Emma Powerful, Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday.
Powerful assured that members of the group would never harm Hausas residing across the South-East region.
He said IPOB and its militia arm, the Eastern Security Network, would protect Hausas against the Jihadists attacking the people of the South-East.
The statement reads, "Following the incessant abduction, killing and burning down of properties belonging to Biafrans and Igbos, we the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra under the command and leadership of our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to state unequivocally that those behind these atrocities are not IPOB member nor are they Eastern Security Network operatives.
"The perpetrators are criminals recruited by our enemies to demonise us. No member of IPOB will engage in acts inimical to the people we are struggling to liberate. We are not turbans and we cannot suddenly resort to terrorism.
"These agents of darkness behind these senseless and barbaric acts are the ones who don't want our detained leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to be released. Their intension is to create the false impression that his followers are violent mostly peaceful but they are wrong.
"We want to make it categorically clear to all and sundry that anybody committing any atrocity in Biafraland in the name of IPOB or ESN operative doesn't want Biafra to come. Those behind this madness are working with the Nigeria security to criminalise IPOB. They must also be prepared to pay for their sins because we will not allow anyone who inflicts pains and sorrow on our people to go free.
"We want to also very strongly condemn any attack on non-Biafran nationals living in our land. These agents of sorrow may be targeting them to further rope us into genocidal attacks which we have always stood against. Our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had predicted what is happening during his numerous prophetic radio broadcasts. During those broadcasts, he had also spoken against attacks on non indigenes.
"Mazi Nnamdi Kanu made holistic announcement during those days that Hausas are facing the same predicaments Igbo people are facing in Nigeria and should be allowed to do business anywhere they like in Biafraland. Biafrans shall never try to harm any Hausa man or woman in Biafra land for any reason. IPOB will ensure the protection of all persons living in Biafra land including non indigenes. We will continue to protect them against our common enemy —the jihadists and their sponsors."
[AlAhram] A boat carrying 60 migrants colonists capsized Saturday night off the Lebanese coast, the Lebanese Red Thingy said. It was not immediately clear if there were any deaths.
The Red Thingy said it sent ambulances to the port of the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... in case there were casualties.
Prime Minister Najib Mikati's office said the boast capsized shortly after leaving the northern coastal town of Qalamoun near Tripoli, Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective.... 's second largest city.
Mikati's office said the Lebanese army and authorities were on high alert following the case.
For many years Lebanon was a country that took in refugees, but since the country's economic meltdown began in October 2019, thousands of people have left on boats heading to Europe.
Lebanon, a small Mediterranean nation of 6 million people, including 1 million Syrian refugees, is in the grip of the worst economic crisis in the country's modern history. The economic meltdown has put more three-quarters of the country's population into poverty.
First thing that popped into my mind was "What would Caesar do?"
Suspected kidnappers operating along the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari axis have killed another Kano businessman, Umar Sani, after collecting ransom from his relatives, Daily Trust reports.
The businessman, also called Magaji, was kidnapped two weeks ago alongside five others on the highway en route Buruku but was later confirmed killed by his co-abductees despite collecting ransom for their release.
The dear departed hailed from Fagge Local Government Area in Kano metropolis.
An elder brother of the dear departed, Hussaini Sani, who confirmed the death, said the kidnappers had called back on Thursday demanding another N20million from them despite killing the businessman.
"Nine of them were kidnapped along the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari Road while on their way to Buruku. They later released three of them but withheld six.
"After some time, negotiation started with the families of the six people, and we later agreed to pay them collectively, only for us to see five of them coming back.
"When we asked them about the whereabouts of our brother, they confirmed to us that he was killed by the abductors. We called them (abductors) using the number they used for the negotiation and they insisted that our brother was still alive, and even went ahead to demand another ransom before they would release him.
"When we insisted that we must hear our brother’s voice before paying something again, they opened up to us that he was really killed, saying he was trying to escape. But his colleagues that were released said he was killed intentionally," Hussain added.
Magaji is survived by his wife and four children, who presently reside in the Bichi Local Government Area of the state.
His death is coming barely 10 days after the family of another businessman’s corpse was discovered after payment of N6million ransom to his abductors in the same Birnin Gwari.
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Long and dense with details that answer the many questions we had at the time. More at the link, so grab your stimulating beverage of choice and get comfortable.
[PoliticalInsider] The road to Al Qaeda’s control of the Syrian province of Idlib actually started hundreds of miles across the Mediterranean in Libya.
In March 2011, after heavy lobbying from bigwigs including Secretary Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... , President Obama authorized a bombing campaign in support of the jihadist insurgency fighting the government of Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy
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If AQ is on your side, well then, you need to switch sides...That said...
This is thought provoking on a couple of levels.
Since 2011 we have had almost no trouble out of AQ and we don't seem to have continued the targeting of their leadership...nor are we diligently pursuing the prosecution of the 9/11 planners in GTMO.
Did we make a deal with the AQ devil? And what did we get in return? Did AQ offer OBL up as a martyr as their part of the bargain?
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IIRC Islamic State stepped up as #1 Boogie man, at least until Oblahblah called them the "JV Team". AQ seemed happy to let IS take the hits while AQ did R&R/Hudna?
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[THEHILL] If you don’t believe the Republicans can blow their chances of winning majorities in the House and Senate midterms this year, then you have not paid attention to the past five years of U.S. politics.
At least three factors could reverse the predicted fortune for the GOP. The first would be voter apathy by traditional Republicans, conservatives and people of faith. The second would be — drum roll, please — potential fallout from anything Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... says, does or hints. And the third would be a full-court press by Democrats, aided by some in the mainstream media, to come across as suddenly moderate while metaphorically throwing Joe The Big Guy Biden
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A fourth factor - do the Republicans want to win? Or would they rather sit back and collect benefits while saying 'not our fault...'
In the south, Russian forces had been tied down in Mariupol. Putin’s announcement that they are going to avoid storming Azovstal probably reflects that they can’t afford to lose further manpower and need those units for the Donbas offensive. 7/
Inside the Azovstal steel plant in #Mariupol, where more than 1,000 civilians (children, women, elderly) were hiding in the basement for almost two months.
Children are playing and keeping each other company but they are saying they want to go home, go outside in the sun 💔 pic.twitter.com/W108b6nNZY
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Putin’s announcement that they are going to avoid storming Azovstal probably reflects that they can’t afford to lose further manpower and need those units for the Donbas offensive.
Plus the fact that storming an underground fortress is a bad idea. Fighting a war is about managing your resources, which include time and people. Pissing either one away for no gain is both foolish and fatal.
At least 100 people have died after an illegal refinery went kaboom! at Abaezi Forest in the Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State.
The community is at the boundary between Rivers and Imo states.
Many vehicles were also razed during the incident, which had thrown the community into panic.
A source told SaharaReporters that the fire was ignited by a machine used to pump spilled crude into containers waiting to be loaded into their pots.
Commissioner for Petroleum Resources, Goodluck Opiah, who was at the scene of the incident, said that the state government had declared the owner of the illegal refinery, Okenze Onyenwoke, wanted.
He advised the suspect whom he said was on the run to turn himself in at the nearest cop shoppe.
The commissioner said, "This is a sad development. The Imo State Government has declared wanted, Okenze Onyenwoke, who owns this illegal refinery. I advise him to hand himself over to the police or any security agency."
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Boko Haram ...the name means Western education is forbidden, They're what you get as the result of a traditional African or Islamic education... and 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.... West Africa Province turbans have clashed, resulting in the killing of two commanders and 32 fighters in Sambisa Forest in Borno State.
A counter insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, disclosed this in a series of tweet on Friday. He stated that separate festivities of the terror groups occurred at Yale in Damboa and Gargash Village in Bama Council.
He added that the 32 casualties were from both sides of the terror groups.
"Two ISWAP Khaids were killed along with four other fighters in an ambush by the rival Boko Haram faction in Yale village," he said.
He disclosed that the bad boyz were potted on April 19, 2022, while moving at night to a newly established ISWAP camp in the forest.
Besides, he revealed that four other ISWAP fighters were caught alive, disarmed and slaughtered by the rival terror group.
According to him, three trucks belonging to ISWAP were also seized by Boko Haram.
Makama further revealed that a top Boko Haram leader, Ambu Mairamiri, had on April 20, 2022, led large numbers of heavily armed Boko Haram gunnies to invade an ISWAP settlement near Ngurosoye.
He said that the invasion led to a heavy shootout, which lasted for over two hours and claimed many lives.
A military source in Maiduguri also told The Guardian that the mutually destructive fight led to the death of about 18 ISWAP turbans while six Boko Haram fighters were also killed.
It was gathered that Mairamiri, who vowed to eliminate all ISWAP terrorists, ordered his men to set ablaze four gun trucks belonging to ISWAP as well as their newly erected makeshift tents in the forest.
The source also stated that the infighting between the two terror groups has taken a new dimension as Boko Haram continues to hunt for ISWAP turbans at night.
He noted that Boko Haram turbans were familiar with forest terrains while ISWAP coordinates reprisal attacks during the daytime.
"The source added that the intensified Operation Desert and Lake Sanity had forced many ISWAP turbans and their families to relocate to safer locations in Mandara Mountain.
"Other hideouts, according to him, include Gargash, Izza, Bula Bakakai and Gobara as well as the rock of Ngulde in Chibok council.
"The risk of exposure and battlefield elimination could increase the rate of surrender among the turbans in the forest and Lake Chad region," he said.
[Fox News] Boiling mad. Mayorkas and Biden need to be on trial
Two illegal migrants who a now-missing Texas National Guard soldier tried to save from a river were involved in "illicit transnational narcotics trafficking," officials said Saturday as the search for the missing service member resumed.
The soldier went missing on Friday after entering a river in Eagle Pass to help two migrants who officials say "appeared to be drowning as they illegally crossed the river from Mexico to the United States."
In a statement, the Texas Military Dept. said that initial reports from Texas Rangers "have determined that the two migrants were involved in illicit transnational narcotics trafficking." They are both in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody.
The search continued until late Friday, with sources telling Fox News that the incident being treated as a drowning, with dive teams searching the water since the service member was not seen resurfacing from the river. The strength of the river’s current forced the Search and Rescue Teams to cease dive operations late Friday, but the search resumed on Saturday.
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Water rescues can be dangerous for the would be rescuer. I've seen children put adults under the water in their desperate attempts to stay afloat. Did the guardsman make contact with the individuals? Given what now know about the activities of the illegals involved, there needs to be more info before there is any assumption that this was an accident
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[PJMEDIA] These are rough times for the Democrats. Everywhere they look, November’s midterm elections are like a freight train rushing down a mountain with no brakes, hurtling toward them as they struggle helplessly while tied to the tracks.
They have been losing Latino voters since Trump was president. Now the youth vote — a usually reliable demographic for the Dems — has decidedly soured on the septuagenarian disaster that’s occupying the Oval Office.
It’s plain for all to see that Biden’s puppet masters and the Democrats in Congress don’t have any ideas that will cause a major course correction before the midterms. That can only mean one thing: the shadowy shenanigans that Democrats are known for will probably be worse than ever this year.
If they can get away with it, that is.
The fact that the Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu pandemic showed up during a presidential election year made 2020 a truly magical time for the soulless cretins who are in charge of the political apparatus in the Democratic Party. Sure, they may have pretended to care about people getting sick and dying, but behind those masks, they were snickering with delight at the opportunity the panic provided them.
Prior to the pandemic, Democrats had to concoct elaborate justifications for their election "modifications," like lying and insisting that it’s nigh on impossible for minorities to get a legal ID in 21st-century America.
Along came COVID and suddenly they could shift election laws on the fly and, laughably, do it all in the name of public health. We saw it all: universal vote-by-mail, extended early voting periods, last-minute voter registration — the full Democrat hit list for killing election integrity.
They can pretend all they want that the 2020 election was error-free, but that’s a narrative that’s been cut out of whole cloth.
Myriad "irregularities" have been — and are still being — discovered. There is no way to have more vote-by-mail and less fraud.
The embarrassing meltdown we’ve seen from the leftists over mask mandates going away is rooted in two things and — surprise! — neither of them has the slightest thing to do with public health.
The first, which Paula wrote about on Wednesday, is about the Democrats’ unholy lust for federal control over the lives of United States citizens:
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The problem has never been solved, only discussed.
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picture of the rifles in Daily Mail article shows a portrait of Yakub, the scientist believed by the Nation of Islam to have created the white race some 6k years ago
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Sounds like they accidentally let a clue to his identity and motive slip, Garth.
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We should expect to see more shootings as we get closer to Mid-Terms.
It's like, as IF some mass shootings are stage, planned and or happen on cue for run up to elections.
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One pic of a black dude handcuffed and the caption reads: "Metropolitan and Secret Service Police lead a man in handcuffs away from a shooting. Police Chief Stuart Emerman said that they were merely detaining witnesses and had no suspects in custody"
Uh huh
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Does anyone know what the red and white flag on his posts represents?
[Garowe] The Æthiopia National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), Æthiopia's main intelligence body announced on Saturday that 34 suspected members of the terror group al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... have been arrested and accused of terror plots during the holiday season.
In a press statement, NISS said the suspects were arrested during security operations carried out jointly with Somali and Oromia region's security forces.
"The suspects were secretly conspiring and preparing to conduct severe terror attacks in Æthiopia's capital Addis Ababa, Oromia, and Somali regional states at the time of their arrest," the statement said.
"Al-Shabaab had chosen the ongoing Islamic Ramadan and Orthodox Christian Easter fasting seasons to destabilize Æthiopia through terror attacks, but the plot has been foiled by the careful monitoring and operations of the security and intelligence bodies," the statement further said.
The NISS statement also said various types of small and heavy-sized weapons, as well as bank account documents, were seized from the home of the suspects.
Al-Shabaab is a bully boy Islamic rebel group mainly operating in conflict-wracked Somalia but has also been implicated in terrorist attacks in several other east African countries.
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Of course Frank G is an asshole. That’s baked into the cake for engineers and management types — a willingness to rub others the wrong way if that’s necessary to get the right job done right — and Frank G is both. Fred and the moderators knew this about him when we asked him to join the team.
I married an engineer/manager, though both were some years in the future when we met, back at my freshman orientation — in fact he was still technically pre-med at the time. And even then Mr. Wife was being called an arrogant asshole by those whose opinion didn’t matter to him. Not because he thought they were wrong but because as far as he was concerned they were fixating on the wrong thing: he cared about quickly getting the right answers to the important questions, not about whether anyone’s feelings were hurt by the process or the result.
So, dear Xyz, you need to decide whether you are going to continue fighting a battle you will not win, or choose to turn your attention to more satisfying pursuits.
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Note that in all the above I didn’t mention that in pursuing your vendetta against Frank G you are acting the asshole yourself, which clearly thus far has not bothered you at all.
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If someone tries to insult me I must first value their opinion otherwise I'm not insulted.
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If you aren't sure yesterday was a garbage day, "but I thought this was Civil and Well Reasoned Discord?!" was played, and Herb was cited as a more capable commentor.
For the newer visitors, Lesser Herb: "Trump's State Department is going to incorporate Venezuela into The American Empire, and if you can't admit authentic Chinese food is superior to Panda Garden you are a dull stone for dullards and I would tell you so if I could put out the J and roll off the couch."
[KYIVINDEPENDENT] On April 23, two months into Russia’s all-out-war against Ukraine, one metro station in Kyiv got crowded again.President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an unusual presser for Ukrainian and foreign journalists on the platform of the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) metro station in the heart of Ukraine’s capital.
The most emotional moment of his two-hour-long talk came when Zelensky addressed Russian attack on Odesa hours earlier. It killed eight people, including a 3-month-old child.
"Stinking bastards," Zelensky repeatedly called the Russians over the Odesa attack, adding that Moscow slid into Nazism.
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Zelensky the great peace maker. He will survive this but in a country such as USA to wage his verbals for eternity. No bunker for this showman. The show must go on, perhaps on Netflix. Stay tuned after this commercial break.
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Remember when "empire" was a bad thing, and "American Empire" was the worst as far as the left was concerned?
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We've been bitching for decades about how woeful our alllies in various wars have been both militarily and politically -- South Korea at the beginning, then the South Vietnamese, then the post-Saddam Iraqis, then the Afghans. Now, for a real change of pace, we're watching a quasi-allied (???) army beating the snot -- so far -- out of the mighty Red Army. The Ukrainians are going to provide the next generation of instructors at Ranger School and the War College. "Drone Tactics 101"
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One thing I noticed -- refugees from the Ukraine tend to be women, children, and the elderly. While those from Muslim nations tend to be military-age males.
They're not men, because clearly if they are actually fleeing danger, they've left the women, children, and elderly to suffer.
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Many of those young men consider themselves "too pretty for prison, too good to work."
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Migrants: woman with child and reference admit. male, no admittance.
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refugees from the Ukraine tend to be women, children, and the elderly
The fighting age men are being stopped at the border, issued a rifle, and sent to the front lines. The rest are being sent off to safety. Thus far about five million have been sent out of country, with about a million returning in recent days.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A violent mostly peaceful explosion rocked the southern port city of Aden, local sources said on Saturday. Has there ever been an explosion that wasn't "violent?" C'mon, Fred. You've been to Taco Bell, right?
According to local sources, a gunman threw bomb at a group of passengers near a station in the Cairo neighbourhood between the districts of Mansoura and Sheikh Othman, killing the attacker and injuring others.
The explosion caused material damage in the surroundings, while the UAE-backed Southern Traditional Council (STC) militias were deployed in the area following the attack.
No further details about the earth-shattering kaboom were available so far.
Aden and other southern provinces have been witnessing liquidations and security disorder since United Arab Emirates occupation forces took control over the city years ago.
Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in finding that Congress had the power to exclude Puerto Rico from access to the same benefits as other Americans It overturns a lower court's decision that the difference was unconstitutional
Campaigners in Puerto Rico expressed outrage at the outcome
And Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez expressed her anger in a tweet
'2022 Imperialist Neo-colony Vibes,' she wrote as she outlined the disparity
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My wife a PR indian from the Junta (sp) mountain area. Her comment was... Why not just turn PR loose and let it be its own nation? It would save US taxpayers and butt load of money each year.
#11
"Imperialist"! Wow--haven't heard that particular epithet since aboaut 1969. Are we resurrecting it again since all the other insults have lost their meaning from overrepetition?
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Yeah, AOC, come back to us once PR residents being to pay federal taxes.
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^ This was a different Unwise Latina: Occasional-Cortex
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I used to think that Sotomayor was a just a believer in a "Living Constitution". Now, I think she's a believer in a "Hypothetical Future Constitution".
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I think the Wise Latina™'s name came up because she was the 1 in 8-1.
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This was a different Unwise Latina
Wait! Are you suggesting that all Unwise Latinas look alike?
Personally, I consider them all interchangeable, differing only in their degree of uselessness.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A rare celestial event is taking place. Four planets: Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn are visible in the heavens.
This unusual alignment of planets has been taking form over the past few days, with the arched line-up enjoying its best visibility between 5am and sunrise in the eastern sky tomorrow morning. They can be seen without a telescope, but will ‘disappear’ as soon as the Sun edges over the horizon, obscuring the view.
The Moon today joins the line-up to lead the parade of planets across the pre-dawn sky, becoming most prominent on Monday and Tuesday about one hour before sunrise. And later in June, Mercury will appear as a fifth planet in the parade.
The key moment to watch out for will be the Black Moon Eclipse next weekend. Like a ‘Blue Moon’ denoting a second Full Moon in one month, the equally unusual ‘Black Moon’ is the same phenomenon, but it occurs with New Moons. As the Moon disappears from the night sky, it allows the rest of the heavens to shine brighter.
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Living in balance with nature/Gaia, but also the warm blood and beating hearts of your captives, which is kinda a downside for the losers
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Circle of Life, man!
At one time, those guys were the pinnacle of civilization. We've come a long way, Babies!
Although, I am willing to debate Civil Service job protection vs beating hearts of the losers.
[Khaama] In the lasted violence to rattle the volatile region, sources reported that Militant in Afghanistan fired heavy weapons across the border into a Pakistani military post overnight, killing at least three security personnel.
This came at a time Afghanistan is reeling from a series of explosions in recent days, including the bombing of a mosque in northern Balkh province that killed 33 people, as well as the multiple blast that rocked Shia Hazara neighborhood in western Kabul city.
"A firefight ensued with the militants firing toward the army post in Pakistan’s rugged North Waziristan region, and several were killed," the statement said, as Arab News reported. "There was no immediate way to independently confirm details of the attack."
The target killings and increasing bombings in Afghanistan, as well as in neighboring Pakistan, highlight the growing insecurity amid claims of freedom by the Islamic Emirate government, who gained control of the country last August in the closing days of foreign troops withdrawal.
While the Islamic Emirate government has vowed no militant group would use its soil as a base to attack another country, the Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has stepped up its assault on Pakistan’s military outposts from its Afghan hideouts.
According to the United Nations, the TTP militant numbers around 10,000 in Afghanistan.
Good to know.
The Islamic State affiliate known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (IS-K) has taken responsibility for some of the recent attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, rising tension between the two countries.
"Pakistan strongly condemns the use of Afghan soil by terrorists for activities against Pakistan and expects that the Afghan Government will not allow conduct of such activities, in future," said the Pakistan military statement, as ABC News quoted.
On April 16, Pakistan retaliated with bombing raids in Afghanistan’s border provinces of Khost and Kunar that, according to the United Nations Education Fund (UNICEF), killed at least 20 children.
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lasted violence to rattle the volatile region
This blasted violence [boom]
that rattles the volatile!
Pashtun killing Punjabi,
Punjabi killing Baloch [rat tat tat]
Aaagh! Before I die, biraadars...
something I have to tell you [bbboooda-a-am!]
No, I'm not trying to sell you
the desert joke divine.
I think maybe Mohmmad was
Y'know... quite possibly lyin'?
Gunmen on Saturday attacked the Ogaminana Police Station in Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State, killing three officers on duty.
The attack was said to have been carried out around 2:00am on Saturday.
The button men were said to have attacked the cop shoppe from different directions.
Spokesperson for the police in the state, William Aya, confirmed the incident in a statement.
He said, "Today 23/4/2022, the command received report of the unfortunate incident at Adavi Police Division where some hoodlums attacked the station from the opposite direction shooting sporadically, but were repelled by the men on duty and operatives of the Quick Response Unit who were on special operations at the local government.
"However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the command lost three of it’s officers during the gun duel, while the hoodlums fled with gun shot wounds as they could not get access to the station.
"The Commissioner of Police, Edward Egbuka, immediately deployed team of tactical operatives to the area and restored normality while trailing the hoodlums with a view to apprehend and bring them to book.
"The Commissioner of Police use this medium to call on the people of Adavi and the adjoining communities to be on the lookout and report any body seen with bullet wounds to the police or any other security forces nearest to them. He directs the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Investigation, to commence investigation into the incident."
Yuriy Ignat, a Ukrainian air force spokesman, said Ukraine shot down three Russian planes (according to preliminary estimates those are Su-25, Su-34 and Su-35 aircraft), five missiles and 9 UAVs over the past 24 hours.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 24, 2022
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"You really should think more, ideally
Like me, Dr. Jim al-Khalili!
Your eyeballs are vital,
For minds that are idle
Might not fund the Beeb quite so freely."
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Critical thinking is not taught in gummint schools. Doing actual background research in a subject is not taught in gummint schools. Many people around me think my ability to observe things going on around me (learned as a reporter) and draw conclusions from the observations is some kind of parlor trick or super-human power.
I spend a lot of time trying to nudge people around me in the right direction without acquiring the reputation of being a pedant or "know it all."
And I'm a guy whose personal intellectual strength is that I know how much I don't know.
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/\ ....strength is that I know how much I don't know.
First step in the road to Humility. I continue to visit there often.
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Criticalthinking is not taught in gummint schools.
Hell, reading, writing and arithmetic are not taught in gummint schools. Just look at the high school graduation rate and standardized test scores for any of our big city school districts. The percentage of kids below grade level is appalling.
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The glazed over expression on my kids faces and "TMI" when something more complex than small-talk requires context and history is increasingly common. The grand-kids just avoid whole ranges of topics, because they literally have a very short attention span for complex stuff. They aren't stupid, far from it, but they are very ignorant and don't know it.
HG Wells and the mindless surface dwellers (Eloi) sadly seems more prescient than I imagined years ago. Worse, the Chinese as Morlocks is increasingly worrisome.
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Many people around me think my ability to observe things going on around me (learned as a reporter) and draw conclusions from the observations is some kind of parlor trick or super-human power.
I've noticed this in my own life as well. An increasing number of people *can't* have an interesting conversation with you about (for example) the modern historical roots of the current conflict in Ukraine because they lack the skills necessary to know that they should consciously have a worldview with which to organize the information in the world around them. In fact, I encounter many who find the idea of thinking hard about what one should believe to be innately offensive.
Say what you will about the old communists: they didn't have this problem. They even read books and quaint things like that.
[RedState] It's mostly background on both the oligarchy itself and its members. (thinks) Clarifying: the Russian oligarchy and its members. It's at Redstate but links to Newsweek. No Daily Mail cooties if that concerns you.
List of Russian oligarchs who have been found dead in mysterious circumstance since Jan, per Newsweek
The Soviets were the best at it.
[RIA Novosti] Ukrainian security forces are actively using barrage detachments to prevent desertion, said senior sergeant of the reconnaissance company of the 57th brigade of Ukrainian troops Mikhail Yankovsky, who laid down his arms.
According to the prisoner, the morale of his 57th motorized infantry brigade "was not very good, it got worse and worse over time."
“Since February, no money has been paid, supplies have been bad, food is generally tight. First they stopped delivering hot food, then allowances rarely came at all. The wounded were no longer evacuated,” Yankovsky told reporters.
He added that the command did not find a better way to boost morale than to send barrage detachments, especially after many military men began to lay down their arms and go over to the side of the LPR .
"A group of about 10 people arrived from the center. Our commander presented them as a psychological support group. In fact, this group was like a barrage detachment," the prisoner of war said.
During each battle, they made sure that no one left their positions, "they shot at anyone suspicious without warning."
The leader in the group was a Right Sector activist by the name of Vuiko, the military man said. "A very cruel man, he even had the call sign Punisher," he said.
Also in the group was a sniper with the call sign "Raven".
“During the battle, he took a position in the rear and warned that he would “wet” everyone who was running in the wrong direction,” Yankovsky said.
Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out "demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine", to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for "bloody crimes against civilians" in Donbass.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage - they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
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One key to success in a large organization is getting other groups to do your work. Here the cops are off-loading part of their job onto the coroner's office. I don't see a problem.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:41 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 5 civilians as a result of shelling by the AFU of the previously liberated territories of the Republic:
n.p. Mariupol:
- men: born in 1977, 1970;
- women: 1945, born in 1954.
n.p. Talakovka:
- a man born in 1951.
21:01 “Ukraine is not capable of a military deblockade of Mariupol now. And the Ukrainian military who are there understand this. It's a reality" - Zelensky. 20:35 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU at the following addresses:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
st. Kastalsky, 4 - the private sector.
n.p. Staromikhaylovka:
- st. Artem, 15 - a direct hit in a private house.
19:40 From under the rubble of the destroyed drama theater in Mariupol, the bodies of 11 dead residents were removed.
The analysis has been going on for the fourth day, a member of the Ministry of Emergency Situations involved in this told TASS. It is noted that work has not yet begun in that part of the building where, judging by the nature of the destruction, the epicenter of the explosion was located.
19:12 Information about the death of a civilian born in 1956 was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC. as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the village "Administrative" of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
Information was also received about the wounding of a civilian born in 1970. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Yelenovka at the address: st. Moscow, 28.
Damage was recorded as a result of shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
- st. Druzhnaya, 4/1 - a private residential building.
n.p. Yelenovka:
st. Krupskaya, 23, 108 - private houses;
- st. Pushkina, 39 - a private residential building;
- st. Postal, 57 - a private residential building.
n.p. Luhansk:
st. Lazo, 13 - a private residential building.
18:50 Volunteers of Berdyansk with the support of Russian Guard soldiers handed out humanitarian aid to residents of Primorsk, Berdyansk region. Each family received two food packages. During the distribution of food, at the request of local residents, the participants of the humanitarian convoy removed the Ukrainian flag from the main flagpole of the city.
The procedure itself did not surprise the audience at all, and applause was even heard in the distance. At the same time, the townspeople complained to the National Guard about the threats from the adherents of the Kyiv authorities taking place in the small town. As part of the denazification operation, Russian law enforcement officers will check all complaints received.
18:46 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Makeevka (village of Zemlyanka): four missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
18:41 Information from the field: today, around 12-15 hours over the village of Kremennaya, using the Strela-10 air defense system, twp Ukrainian reconnaissance UAVs Furiya were shot down.
18:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
18:35 The forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR and volunteers from local residents continue to take apart the ruins of the drama theater in Mariupol. In four days, 11 bodies of civilians were found, and the dead still remain under the rubble.
18:24 In the battles in the Severodonetsk direction, the Russian army destroyed a large number of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:17 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Staromikhaylovka: fired 5 mines in 120 mm caliber.
n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 3 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
17:53 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120 mm.
17:52 As a result of the shelling by Ukrainian militants of the village "Administrative" of the Kuibyshev region, a man born in 1956, who lives on the street, died. Miner's Glory, 14 - death occurred before the arrival of an ambulance.
A civilian resident of Olenivka, a woman born in 1970, received a shrapnel wound. Also in the village along the streets of Pushkin and Pochtovaya, private houses were damaged.
17:51 Former employees of the Mariupol city council report a provocation with a humanitarian corridor organized by a former mayor who fled to Western Ukraine. It was only by a lucky chance and thanks to the competent actions of the RF Armed Forces that civilian casualties were avoided. Please pay maximum attention to this!
17:37 For the successful completion of the combat mission, D. Pushilin awarded 55 fighters of the separate assault battalion "Somalia" named after the Hero of the DPR Guards Colonel Mikhail Tolstykh (call sign Givi). This unit once again proved not in word, but in deed that it rightfully bears the definition of "legendary".
17:09 Local residents report a missile attack on units of the national battalions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the Kramatorsk airfield.
17:07 As a result of the shelling of the VFU of the village of Luhanske on the street. Lazo, 13 damaged the roof of a residential building, glazing, garage and car.
17:05 04/23/2022, the formation of the 1st Army Corps of the DPR, with the support of the Russian special operations forces, achieved a major tactical advantage in the area of the temporarily occupied city of Dzerzhinsk of the Donetsk People's Republic. With a precise and well-balanced strike by the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation, the Nazi fortified area on the territory of the pumping station of the third lift of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal was destroyed, and this site was completely taken under control by a mechanized formation of our armed forces.
According to military experts, this is a turning point in our liberation war - DONBASS is ours! Civilians were not injured during the destruction of the defense line of the pumping station of the third lift, the infrastructure water supply facility will be restored by the specialists of the Republic in the near future, the water supply will also be restored as soon as possible.
16:57 VFU shelled Yelenovka. As a result of the shelling on the street. Krupskaya suffered housing construction.
16:55 Employees of the Petrovsky Eastern Distribution Zone have restored power supply to all consumers.
16:37 During the day on April 23, from 08:00 to 16:00, 167 people, including 23 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky district.
Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
16:20 Nationalists in Mariupol opened fire on civilians who were about to evacuate along the gum corridor. The gathering place was in the west of the city. The humanitarian corridor was organized by the Russian side at the request of Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk.
16:19 In the liberated Mariupol, law enforcement agencies will soon start working - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR.
15:53 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - st. Safonova, 38, 44 - private residential buildings.
n.p. Yasinovataya: - st. Lesnaya, 51, 53, 57, 118 - private residential buildings.
n.p. Yakovlevka: - st. Yasinovatskaya, 68 - a private residential building.
15:51 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 5 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:27 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Zolote-4 by settlement Zolote-5 with the use of 120mm mortars ( four mines) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
15:15 Russian military landscaped memorial to soldiers-liberators in a liberated village in the LPR. This was asked by the local residents themselves, according to the defense department. The military brought paint, brushes and gas equipment with them to light the Eternal Flame. “We immediately coordinated everything and quickly arrived. There were a lot of people who wanted to help, but you can’t take everyone, ”said the platoon commander Maxim.
14:40 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the fact of "shelling by Ukrainian military personnel of Shakhtyorsk" in the Donetsk region.
14:36 Detachments of the NM of the DPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation blocked Ukrainian militants in Mariupol
14:34 VFU again fired on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. As a result of the shelling on the street. Safonov house building was damaged.
14:33 VFU shelled Yakovlevka. As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Yakovlevka, Yasinovatsky district, housing construction on the street was damaged. Yasinovatskaya.
13:36 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the injured civilian born in 1962. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Gorlovka (village Pobeda) at st. Nevsky, 180. The victim was taken to the city hospital №2. Damage was also recorded as a result of shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
n.p. Yasinovataya: - st. Lesnaya, 53 - a private residential building.
n.p. Gorlovka (pos. Pobedy): - st. Nevsky, 175, 177, 178, 180 - private residential buildings.
13:23 Russian tanks fire at Azov's positions in Mariupol.
13:20 Twenty children from the DPR, LPR and Ukraine with mine-explosive injuries are being treated in Moscow hospitals. This was announced by the Minister of Health of Russia Mikhail Murashko.
13:08 VFU shelled Makiivka and Yasinovataya. As a result of the shelling of the village of Zemlyanka in Makiivka, housing construction on the street was damaged. Chelyuskintsev. In Yasinovataya, a house on the street was damaged. Forest.
13:02 Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR brought first humanitarian aid to the liberated city of Kremennaya.
13:00 The Russian Ministry of Defense has information about the preparation by the United States of America of provocations with the aim of accusing the Russian Armed Forces of using chemical, biological or tactical nuclear weapons. This plan has already been developed and is a reaction to Russia's success in conducting a special military operation.
12:40 More than 860 servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine refused to carry out the criminal orders of their command and deserted from units in March, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
12:16 On April 21, a container with ampoules was dropped from a Ukrainian UAV onto Russian positions, which were supposed to explode when they fall. At the moment, experts are studying their contents. It is possible that we are talking about an attempt by the Ukrainian side to use chemical / biological weapons.
12:14 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that there is a "realistic possibility" of the victory of Russian troops in Ukraine.
11:55 The cancellation of the assault on Azovstal thwarted the provocation of the West with weapons of mass destruction. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, one of the scenarios of provocations that the United States and NATO countries were preparing to accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine implied “covert use” to solve an operational task at the plant in Mariupol.
11:51 The commander of the sapper department, Alexander, told how the demining takes place during the special operation and what dangers it is associated with.
11:47 The first 27 orphans from the DPR, among whom there are disabled people, found new families in the Moscow region. These are the first children taken under guardianship by Russian citizens during the conflict in Donbass.
11:46 The introductory gas pipeline to the house on the street was damaged by the shelling of the VFU. Nevsky, 178 in the village. Victory. Glazing in the house is damaged - Prikhodko.
11:44 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:34 As a result of the morning shelling of the Petrovsky district by Ukrainian punishers, a 13-year-old teenager living down Udaltsova Street, 48 was wounded in the leg. Avtodorozhnaya and st. Starogornyatskaya.
In addition, due to the shelling of the Petrovsky Machine-Building Plant microdistrict, 500 private sector houses along Kosminsky, Zonalnaya, Velyaminov, Fedorovsky, and Udaltsov streets were left without electricity. Information about the destruction is being specified - Kulemzin.
11:03 In Mariupol, they started restoring the seaport. According to the project@wargonzoalready today, the first employees will arrive at the Mariupol seaport, who will begin to restore order, organize administrative work and subsequent restoration.
11:02 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Katerynivka Pervomaisk with the use of 122mm artillery guns (six shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
10:35 Information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the settlement. Share at the addresses: st. Pobedy, 63, 70 - the private sector, the facade, glazing of houses, as well as the gas pipeline were damaged.
As a result of the shelling of the micro-district "Petrovsky mashzavod" in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, about 500 subscribers are currently deprived of power supply.
10:23 Servicemen of the NM DPR are repairing abandoned equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
09:44 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:03 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Experimental - Donetsk (Kyiv district): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:00 As a result of the shelling of the settlement. Novoaidar in the LPR, a man born in 1986 was wounded, and three residential buildings were damaged - The LPR representation in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
08:46 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
n.p. Codema - n.p. Zaitsevo South: 10 122mm shells fired;
n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:44 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the night shelling of the AFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Avtodorozhnaya, 45, 47 - private sector;
- st. Starogornyatskaya, 62 - the private sector.
As a result of the shelling of N. p. Zaitsevo (southern) recorded damage to the house at:
- st. Kondratenko, 64, 68.
08:40 During the night shelling of the VFU Gorlovsky settlement. Zaitsevo, houses on the street were destroyed. Kondratenko, 64, 68. No casualties - Prikhodko.
08:32 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of Izotov sh-ty): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Volvo - Center): fired five mines with a caliber of 120mm.
n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Share: 10 122 mm shells were fired.
07:58 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: - n.p. Codema - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): 10 shells fired caliber 122mm.
07:55 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: - n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
Visitor logs from the Obama administration revealed that Joe Biden had met with his son Hunter's top business partner in 2010
Eric Schwerin, former president of Hunter's now-dissolved firm Rosemont Seneca, made 19 trips to the White House from 2009 to 2015
Nine trips included meetings with Biden, his staff and the staff of Jill Biden
Republicans blasted the meetings as yet another example of Hunter using his father to secure business deals and called on investigations into the Bidens
It comes as Hunter faces federal prosecution for alleged tax fraud, money laundering and illegal foreign lobbying
[ZH] For many years now I have been pointing out that there is a false public perception of the relationship between governments and corporations. In the past the belief has been that government is supposed to keep private business in check while private business is supposed to limit government intrusion through the assertion of property rights. But when it comes to major corporations there is no such game of balance.
In reality, international conglomerates like Disney generally do whatever they please because they are PARTNERS with government.
For whatever reason, certain companies are afforded special treatment by state and federal institutions and what this does is create problems. This is not a free market system, rather, it is socialist and monopolistic. Subsidies and incentives can sometimes be used to encourage business growth, but when they are afforded to only a tiny handful of mega-corporations the result is the opposite; the growth of competition is stifled and small to medium businesses will never be able to compete with the giants that have already garnered government protection.
It’s interesting to me that the political left, which was once supposedly anti-big business, is now suddenly so enamored with corporate oligarchy to the point that they rabidly defend it as long as those companies espouse woke rhetoric. What this confirms is something that conservatives have always known — That leftists don’t have any concrete principles or morals, they only care about winning no matter the cost.
I 2020 I published an article suggesting a potential solution to Big Tech and woke corporate censorship of conservative ideas: That solution would be for conservative state governments to take away the very incentives and subsidies that they often use to entice these businesses into setting up shop within their borders. That is to say, all they have to do is take away the special goodies that these corporations never should have been handed in the first place.
At the time, I thought that no state government would actually have the guts to carry out such a strategy, but things have changed. Corporations like Disney have now crossed the line into the realm of open indoctrination; asserting that they will upend any Florida law that prevent the sexualization and indoctrination of children into the leftist fold. Disney picked a fight; they strutted around as if they owned the state, and now they are paying the price by losing the very subsidies that made them successful.
This in itself is not the overt use of government power as a means to oppress the rights of businesses. These corporations have no right to such subsidies and they are not entitled to special treatment. Taking it away is not a violation of any business’ rights or of private property rights. Subsidies are something that certain corporations have come to expect, and maybe that should change.
In my recent article on Elon Musk’s ongoing plan to buy out the leftist hive mind known as Twitter, I made this argument: The rest at the link
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My suggestion to Businesses.
Stick to Business and leave the Social, Political BS to the radicals. They are just trying to stir the pot and divide us during elections and/or for Blackmail $$$$$$.
Exxon is a good example of how businesses should handle the inciteful for profit radicals.
I’ve been traveling and not writing much these past two weeks. Some brief thoughts about the second phase of the war, Russia’s offensive to retake the Donbas, and implications. Thread. (map from Nathan below). 1/ pic.twitter.com/CLGRZimeLx
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[FoxNews] Social media giant Twitter slapped a warning on links to firearms news outlet The Reload, before removing the label several hours later Saturday.
Stephen Gutowski, founder of The Reload, said Saturday his website was being unfairly labeled "unsafe" by Twitter. Gutowski, and others offered screenshots showing a pop-up warning about the site when clicked.
"Why is Twitter blocking The Reload? We were just cited by nearly every news outlet in the country for breaking news on President Biden's handling of the ATF," Gutowski wrote on social media Saturday morning. "The site is operating normally. What is going on?"
Around 11 a.m. ET, Gutowski began telling social media followers that Twitter had fixed the issue and The Reload was no longer being labeled as a potentially "unsafe" site. Users reported the ability to access the site without the pop-up message.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:05 AFU fired at the village of Tyotkino in the Kursk region. The customs house, the mill and the railway bridge were damaged. The shelling was carried out from the territory of the Sumy region of Ukraine.
The border checkpoint in this village was already shelled by Ukrainian militants on March 29.
21:00 It turns out that the other day Zelensky (apparently during his regular night marathon with substances) accidentally liked a post on the Instagram of the Russian Defense Ministry. Or not by chance? When you see the launches of our Sarmat rocket, it's hard not to like it. One such missile can completely destroy, for example, Britain. 10 - USA.
20:10 during the day, the Russian Aerospace Forces disabled the logistics terminal at a military airfield near Odessa, where a large batch of foreign weapons received from the United States and European countries was stored.
17:30 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed video destruction of Ukrainian warehouses with ammunition and weapons.
16:06 A rocket attack was launched on Odessa, hit infrastructure facilities - the Ukrainian operational command "South".
16:02 The Russian flag is hoisted over the administration building in Primorsk, Zaporozhye region.
The Russian flag is hoisted over the administration building of the city of Primorsk, Zaporozhye region.
15:35 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the demining of villages in the Kharkiv region from ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
After determining the degree of danger, the detected ammunition, if possible, is loaded into vehicles equipped for safe transportation with sand flooring and armored plates.
15:34 The Russian military will have enough forces and means to prevent provocations by the West using weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine - Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev.
15:23 Several hits near Odessa. Judging by the video, some oil depot is on fire again. Strong strikes near Nikolaev continue. Ukrainian sources also report strikes in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
15:14 Flight cruise missile over Odessa. There are also reports of powerful explosions in the city. Demilitarization of Ukrainian military facilities continues...
13:38 Air raid in the central and eastern part of Ukraine.
13:15 From the administration of the city of Dniprorudne in the Zaporozhye region, controlled by the Russian armed forces, cut downU krainian trident.
12:40 More than 860 servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine refused to carry out the criminal orders of their command and deserted from units in March, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
12:16 On April 21, a container with ampoules was dropped from a Ukrainian UAV onto Russian positions, which were supposed to explode when they fall. At the moment, experts are studying their contents. It is possible that we are talking about an attempt by the Ukrainian side to use chemical / biological weapons.
12:14 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that there is a "realistic possibility" of the victory of Russian troops in Ukraine.
11:08 Russian air defense shot down two Tochka-U, one Bayraktar and a Ukrainian Su-25.
According to the Ministry of Defense, Russian aircraft hit over 60 Ukrainian military facilities overnight, including three command posts, 58 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, as well as three warehouses with missiles and other weapons.
11:05 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the opening of humanitarian corridors in Ukraine in seven directions. Servicemen of the Russian army took 79 civilians to the Zaporozhye region and handed them over to Ukrainian representatives, who expressed a desire to evacuate to Ukrainian territory.
11:00 Losses of the Ukrainian side as a result of a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces on April 23, 2022:
During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 538 people killed, wounded and captured. The total losses in killed, wounded and captured in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, NSU and State Border Service are over 44,000 people.
According to the internal report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, five tanks, 18 armored vehicles, eight field artillery guns and mortars, two MLRS, one short-range air defense system, 23 vehicles and special equipment, one aircraft and nine UAVs were lost.
09:01 Ukrainian authorities threw residents of the Kharkiv region without medicines. People are deficient in insulin and other essential drugs. Responsibility for the health of citizens in the cities liberated from nationalists was assumed by the Russian military. According to them, from next week the supply of medicines, food and humanitarian aid will be resumed.
08:31 In the liberated territories restore monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
08:30 "Russia does not abandon its own." Residents of the Kharkov region surrender their weapons and gradually return to civilian life in the settlements liberated by the RF Armed Forces. Our military is helping to restore infrastructure, bringing food and medicine, so the locals have full confidence in the Russian armed forces and are willing to cooperate.
08:17 Walks in the catacombs of Balakleya. Hundreds of thousands of tons of ammunition of various calibers abandoned by Ukrainians.
08:13 In the Kherson region, the fortified area of Ukrainian nationalists, located in the school building, was destroyed.
[AlAhram] Explosives planted at a bar in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... injured 11 people, police said Saturday, the second attack in days targeting drinking spots in Taraba state and claimed by affiliates of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
The blast went off at a moonshine bar in Nukkai, outside state capital Jalingo around 1900 GMT on Friday, police front man Usman Abdullahi, told AFP.
"The explosive concealed in a polythene bag was left at the bar by an unknown person during a power outage," he said.
"Eleven people were maimed in the blast, including 10 men and a woman."
On Saturday, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) grabbed credit.
"The soldiers of the caliphate detonated an bomb... inside a bar in Nukkai," the group said on Telegram, claiming the attack maimed 10 people.
On Tuesday, a kaboom at a bar in the nearby town of Iware killed six people and injured 16 others, police said.
ISWAP claimed that blast in a statement posted on IS propaganda channels monitored by SITE Intelligence.
That was the first indication that ISWAP is operating in Taraba, outside its habitual area of operations in the Lake Chad region.
Taraba is one of several northern states where criminal gangs, branded bandidos, raid villages, kill residents, loot and burn homes and kidnap for ransom.
There have been increasing concerns about growing ties between jihadists and bandidos who are motivated by financial motives with no ideological leaning.
ISWAP and rival Boko Haram ...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth?, or maybe just I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again! ... are known to step up attacks during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.
On Wednesday, ISWAP killed 11 people, including nine, at a bar in northeast Nigeria's Yobe state.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[PJMedia] America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and partly the poet Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters.
[IsraelTimes] Gantz had vowed ’harsh response’ to continued rocket fire, but military doesn’t strike 
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
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The future looks pretty good for offshore drilling. 
[Rudaw] Iraqi armed forces on Saturday launched the second phase of a broad security operation in western provinces in an attempt to pursue and eliminate remnants of the 
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...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...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points we hear as news stories originate...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[BREITBART] Representative 
...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as 
"What is staggering about this, Joy, is Kevin McCarthy talks to Republican colleagues after the attack on the Capitol. He acknowledges the president bears responsibility. He talked to the president. The president admitted bearing some responsibility for the attack. He talked about calling on the president to resign, and then when he’s asked about this, he lies."
[JPost] The administration made a similar announcement last year when the site was closed to Jews for about a week.
hannels to release their employees. 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
...the name means 
[Fox News] 
[PJMEDIA] These are rough times for the Democrats. Everywhere they look, November’s midterm elections are like a freight train rushing down a mountain with no brakes, hurtling toward them as they struggle helplessly while tied to the tracks.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
[KYIVINDEPENDENT] On April 23, two months into Russia’s all-out-war against Ukraine, one metro station in Kyiv got crowded again.President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an unusual 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
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[Khaama] In the lasted violence to rattle the volatile region, sources reported that Militant in Afghanistan fired heavy weapons across the border into a Pakistani military post overnight, killing at least three security personnel.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
Some things appear to change very little indeed. 
[FoxNews] Social media giant Twitter slapped a warning on links to firearms news outlet The Reload, before removing the label several hours later Saturday.
