[Breitbart] Fifteen members of one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to helping smuggle tons quantities of drugs into Texas. The cartel members will be sentenced later this year.
The convicted drug smugglers are all part of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, a criminal organization based in Nuevo Laredo The cartel is responsible for a large part of the violence in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas and for several violent crimes in South Texas.
This week, Gustavo Alberto Duenes-Perez, went before a U.S. District Judge and pleaded guilty to various drug conspiracy charges. Duenes-Perez is the fifteenth member of the CDN-Los Zetas to plead guilty in recent days. All fifteen members will be sentenced in June. The cartel members along with several other individuals who remain unnamed in a multicount criminal indictment are all accused of working for the CDN-Los Zetas cartel.
According to information released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, the case began in March 2019 when agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration learned that the CDN-Los Zetas provided Duenes-Perez and his associates with funds to purchase a utility truck that would be used to transport drugs to a warehouse located in Laredo, Texas.
Authorities monitored the vehicle and through surveillance operations learned that Duenez-Perez regularly drove the vehicle. The drug smuggling cell that operated in Texas used personal vehicles and utility trucks to move drugs within Laredo from various stash houses and onto a ranch.
In April of that year, authorities followed Duenes-Perez as he and his group moved a load of drugs from a ranch to a stash house in Laredo.
Authorities raided the ranch and stash house, seizing a total of 11,240 kilograms (approximately 12 tons) of marijuana with an approximate value of $11.6 million.
[Breitbart] Cold case expert Paul Holes, who played an instrumental role in identifying Joseph James DeAngelo, better known as the “Golden State Killer,” said there could be as many as 2,000 bloodthirsty serial killers living in the United States.
“I’ve seen statistics that some two thousand serial killers are operating in the United States today,” Holes wrote in his new book Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases, the New York Post reported.
Holes, who Los Angeles Magazine notes served as a forensics chief in California’s Contra Costa County, told the Post that the number is “realistic,” though it is an approximation.
Holes explained that serial killers tend to prey on those who are on the fringes of society, including homeless individuals, drug addicts, and prostitutes. The former forensics chief said killers target such people, considering that they often fall out of communication with family, who may be accustomed to them disappearing for long periods.
“Often these predators are preying on people whose lives have spiraled down, so when they go missing, no one is really paying attention,” he told the Post. “Killers are hiding behind the opioid crisis.”
Holes went on to detail that murderers use the crisis as a camouflage, as less violence is required to strangle someone high on opioids as opposed to a sober victim. Pathologists may attribute the cause of death to drug use, not noticing a small bruise around a victim’s neck, or another subtle indicator that foul play was involved due to less violence being used, Holes said.
He referenced Samuel Little, a serial killer who admittedly strangled 93 women over four decades, according to the Post. Little would demand his victims swallow while choking them, which subdued the physical evidence to their bodies and made investigative efforts more difficult for experts, Holes explained.
The former forensics chief went on to chronicle the differences in how serial killers operate today as opposed to four to five decades ago.
Holes explained that while in the 1970s, a predator may have forced entry into someone’s home to commit a murder or targeted a hitchhiker, surveillance systems and other public safety efforts have deterred them from such brazen murders. Instead, they attempt to meet individuals, such as prostitutes, online and get them alone.
Holes used “genetic genealogy” and DNA mapping to help identify DeAngelo as the “Golden State Killer,” leading to his 2018 arrest, according to the Post and L.A. Magazine. DeAngelo pleaded guilty to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges in June 2020 and was sentenced to life in prison without parole in August 2020, NPR reported.
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Honestly I'm not sure most congress critters have the competence to be serial killers. Pretty sure they couldn't get away with one, much less more than 4.
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/\ Trevor 'Wise arse kaffir' Noah. How about going back to Johannesburg and the Cape and helping those poor foks out of their misery. Langa would be a great place to start.
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I remember how in 2006 Pelosi did everything possible to crap all over al-Maliki** and help scuttle any future agreements with the government of Iraq. (**not that al-Maliki is a saint but the Speaker playing in US foreign politics with a manure spreader was petty ...and blatantly partisan at the time.)
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Pelosi wanted a military jet that could fly non-stop from Washington DC to Sacramento nonstop -- like the POTUS and VP. Having a jet that had to stop and refuel was "harshing her mellow" and besides she couldn't carry as my flunkies and hangers-on with her. What. A. Pretentious. Twat.
[FoxNews] Stan Pulliam says Portland police took 20 minutes to respond to calls from rallygoers.
Sandy, Oregon mayor and Republican gubernatorial candidate Stan Pulliam is devastated after an alleged Antifa group disrupted his "Fund the Police" rally in Portland on Saturday.
Prepared to throw firecrackers at attendees and deface campaign materials, the group brought a reminder of its "anti-fascist" message that often finds itself on the opposing end of free speech supporters.
During a Monday interview with "Fox & Friends First" guest host Joey Jones, Pulliam described the developments as "unbelievable."
"The city of Portland – from roses to riots. As a statewide candidate for governor, we should be able to go to the largest metropolitan community of our state and have a peaceful campaign rally," he said.
"Of course, less than 15 minutes in, we're greeted by Antifa, showing up with firecrackers that they're throwing at us, paint, feces all over our campaign [signs], our campaign bus completely destroyed…"
Pulliam used the instance to illustrate the state of Portland and to remind viewers that he would act as a fighter for the people of his state.
He also weighed in on claims that Antifa is fictitious, saying that certain naysayers denied that the development took place.
Antifa rioters clash with anti-mask protesters in bloody confrontationVideo
"It's unbelievable. We have video footage evidence that's all over Twitter, all over social media, the local news has picked it up, and just like you say, they're claiming it didn't even happen," he said.
Pulliam pointed to the wave of violent crime, including riots and homicides, and to a shortage of law enforcement which prompted a 20-minute wait for a 911 operator after attendees attempted to call the police.
Pulliam added these examples in stressing the need for change.
"That's why we're running for governor," he said. "Republicans are looking for a fighter, and we're going to take this fight all the way to the governor's office."
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In urban American cities, there is an emergent parallel to 1930's Germany that gives one pause. Conservatives, labeled falsely as fascists/nazi/white supremacists, are becoming the new Jews. Abuse, lies, and public intimidation are increasingly tolerated, even encouraged. (The "push-back on them" Maxine Waters comment for example). This Alinsky playbook strategy linked to tolerant city administrations and pliant media is creating a two-reality national consciousness along our main political divide.
And for the demokrat Puppet Show and profligate Congress, the fear of the looming backlash justifies last minute insanity and even suspect election irregularities.
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The group that "CLAIMS" to fight Fascism uses the same abusive disruptive tactics as the National Socialist party of NAZI-Germany & Fascist Italy, did to silence it political opponents.
[FoxNews] DHS secretary says the board tackles 'disinformation that presents a security threat to the homeland'.
We’re the government, and we’re here to help.
Mayorkas announced that DHS created a Disinformation Governance Board to combat online disinformation during his testimony Wednesday before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
"The goal is to bring the resources of [DHS] together to address this threat," he said during the hearing, adding that the department is focused on the spread of disinformation in minority communities ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
So not just totalitarian, but racist as well? Goody.
Mayorkas explained Sunday that the board specifically addresses "disinformation that presents a security threat to the homeland."
"Disinformation from Russia, from China, from Iran, from the cartels," he said.
Right. Either only minorities care about that stuff, or only minorities are stupid enough to not be able to distinguish fact from fiction on those subjects. Do you choose the devil, Secretary Mayorkas, or the deep blue sea?
"This is a working group that takes best practices to make sure that, in addressing disinformation that presents a threat to the homeland, our work does not infringe on free speech, does not infringe on civil rights, civil liberties," he continued. "It's not about speech, it's about the connectivity to violence. That is what we need to address. You know, an individual has the free speech right to spew anti-Semitic rhetoric. What they don't have the right to do is take hostages in a synagogue, and that's where we get involved."
[BBC] In late 2011, Saifullah Mohammad Zahed was working as an interpreter for Canadian troops in Afghanistan's Kandahar province when he received a letter from the Taliban.
"They said they knew I was working for 'infidels' and told me to stop," he remembers. "They said they would kill me and my family if I didn't."
Soon after, Mr Zahed was able to move to Canada after six years working with Canadian and Nato forces in Kandahar, a province considered to be the birthplace of the Taliban.
It wasn't an idle threat.
"My dad was shot and killed by the Taliban," he told the BBC from his home in Calgary. "Since then, my family has been moving around, going from province to province. We've all been Taliban targets for a long time."
Mr Zahed is one of hundreds of Afghans who worked for Canadian forces as interpreters and in other jobs. Many are hoping to get their families out of Afghanistan - where they are at risk of retribution from the victorious Taliban - and bring them to Canada.
After the fall of Kabul last August, Canada's federal government vowed to welcome as many as 40,000 refugees and vulnerable Afghans to the country. As of 21 April, more than 11,300 Afghans had arrived in Canada.
As part of that effort, the government in November announced a pathway to permanent residency for extended family members of Afghan interpreters already in Canada.
But critics of the extended family programme have accused the government of burdening family members with unreasonable and often redundant bureaucratic hurdles - including documentation and biometrics - that result in delays.
Several Afghan interpreters in Canada described dozens of pages worth of necessary documents and few, if any, possibilities of family members leaving Afghanistan to complete the required steps in safety.
To date, not a single Afghan has made it to Canada through that programme.
Jenny Kwan is the opposition New Democratic Party's immigration critic, and has been advocating on behalf of at least 300 Afghan families - about 5,000 people in total.
She said that a primary problem is that many families still in Afghanistan are unable to safely travel to a third country where they can do the biometrics and submit the paperwork necessary to get to Canada.
"They're going to have to go to an office that's run by the Taliban right now and ask for passports," she said. "As you can imagine, red flags and alarm bells go off when the entire family shows up saying they need a passport to go to Canada."
Mr Zahed, for his part, said that the lives of family members still in Afghanistan are at risk each day they remain in the country.
While one of his two brothers was successfully smuggled out of the country to Turkey, another - who stayed in Afghanistan - has gone missing. His fate is unknown.
"The Taliban have been searching houses," he added. "I've got two other colleague that live here [in Canada] One has lost 11 [family members]since the Taliban took over. The other's sister was killed in a school. It's been really, really dangerous."
Another former interpreter, Ottawa-based Ghulam Faizi, told the BBC he has 18 members of his extended family left in Afghanistan, where they are living in hiding.
Three other family members have made it to Pakistan, where they have been waiting in vain for permission to travel to Canada.
"They've been there three months and now their Pakistani visas have expired," he said, saying some have never received a response from Canadian officials.
Many of the interpreters and those working on their behalf are frustrated by the treatment of Afghan allies when they look at how Canada is handling the process for Ukrainians fleeing war.
[YouTube] Is China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) dying? In this episode of China Uncensored, we look at how China has used the BRI to gain influence, what's blocking China's Belt and Road in Europe, and why Chinese investment is no longer welcome on many places.
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I love the idea of a lot of ageing US pols wondering what happened when their chinese retirement plans go insolvent. I really do think that's going to happen with fall-of-the-soviet-union unexpected rapidity.
Really hope to live to see it with my own eyes.
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[legalInsurrection] Israel’s Mossad Foils Iranian Plot to Assassinate Israeli Diplomat, U.S. General. Three high-profile assassinations in Germany, France and Turkey were planned by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Israel has foiled an Iranian plot to assassinated an Israeli diplomat and a U.S. general. The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad thwarted the plan to kill the high-profile targets by detaining an operative of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Israeli media reported Saturday.
The hitjob planned by the IRGC included three targets in multiple countries: an Israeli diplomat in Turkey, a U.S. general stationed in Germany, and a journalist reporting from France, the Israeli sources confirm.
[Right Scoop] Dinesh D’Souza was on Fox Business last night talking about his new 2020 election film that comes out next week, making clear that it does show the heist did happen, not simply that it could’ve happened. Watch:
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With due respect to Dinesh, if you are a resident of George, you don't need to go see a documentary or read a book to know you got fok'd at the polls.
[Washington Examiner] Newt Gingrich is forecasting what could be a historic red wave this November.
The former House speaker predicts Republicans could pick up as many as 70 seats in the House in the midterm elections, as well as four in the Senate, returning control of both chambers of Congress to the GOP.
"I think we’ll pick up between 25 and 70 seats in the House. We'll probably pick up about four seats in the Senate," Gingrich told Maria Bartiromo on her Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures.
In the House, that would top the 63-seat gain by Republicans in 2010, the height of the Tea Party movement and the highest gain for both parties since 1948, notes the Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard. Democrats currently have a dozen more seats in the House than the Republicans. In the Senate, Democrats and two independents have control, with Vice President Kamala Harris as a tiebreaker.
A commander of the Tribal Mobilization in the western governorate of al-Anbar has been apprehended, another senior officer said early on Sunday.
The leading figure in the Tribal Mobilization, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i al-Obaidi, told Shafaq News Agency, "the SWAT force arrested the Tribal Mobilization's commander in al-Heet district in Western al-Anbar, Saddam al-Obaidi, and two members of his personal protection team."
"The force that made the arrest did not reveal the motive," he said, "but I do not believe it has something to do with the rocket attack on the Ayn al-Asad base."
The Security Media Cell (SMC) said on Saturday evening that two rockets had landed in the vicinity of the Ayn al-Asad base, causing no considerable damage.
Iraqi security forces have disarmed 24 Kurdish villages in the vicinity of Khanaqin, an officer of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) revealed on Sunday, warning of a backlash on the security of the district.
In a statement to Shafaq News Agency, the media officer of the KDP's Organizations bureau/15, Sherko Tawfiq, said that forces from Diyala's Operations Command, the Police, and al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) raided 24 villages to pursue wanted persons.
"As we support and endorse this quest, we do not approve seizing 200 weapons," he said, "these weapons are those people's means of defense against the threat of ISIS in the villages that lack a security presence."
Tawfiq called on the security forces to strike the roots of terrorism in the northern territories of Jalawla and Qara Tappa that nestle active ISIS cells.
"Why would the security forces seize those simple arms that protect the lives of the locals here, while to turns a blind eye to the heavy arms owned by the tribes that disturb the society's security even though it is relatively safe from security breaches?"
A civilian was killed and two others were maimed in an ISIS attack north of Diyala, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that ISIS murderous Moslems attacked in al-Butraz village, northeast of al-Udhaim district, a displaced family that returned to its home, killing one of its members and injuring two others.
A security force rushed to the scene of the incident and clashed with the terrorists, forcing them to flee.
Areas on the outskirts of al-Udhaim district are continuously subjected to terrorist attacks, due to their proximity to the borders of Saladin that lack security presence and suffer from security gaps.
A member of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) was injured on Sunday in a failed attack on a military site in the west of al-Udhaim district, northeastern Diyala.
The media officer of the PMF's 23rd brigade, Hussein al-Husseini, said that a group of militants affiliated with the extremist ISIS group attacked with rifles sites of the brigade's 4th regiment in al-Udhaim basin near the borders with Saladin.
The stationing force managed to deter the attack and force the attackers to flee into the outskirts of Saladin, the officer said.
"The clashes resulted in injuring a fighter of the regiment," Husseini concluded.
Two personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and two other villagers have been killed in separate attacks in Benue State by terrorists.
Witnesses said that the security personnel were killed while on duty on Friday at a waterside vicinity in Wadata axis of Makurdi Local Government Area while the villagers were hacked to death in Logo LGA of the state.
A resident told Daily Trust that the NSCDC personnel encountered some armed invaders, who opened fire on them.
The other two deceased, according to a community leader, who pleaded anonymity, were attacked on Thursday evening at Tse Tume in Turan council ward of Logo while they were working on their farm.
The community leader gave their names as Terkende Injarwua and Mfaiga Ukor, adding that their corpses had been recovered and buried on Friday.
No fewer than five passengers, including a vigilante, were killed along the Sabon Gari-Kampani Road in the Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State.
The victims were killed by suspected terrorists, locally dubbed bandidos, operating in the area, according to Daily Trust.
According to Abdullahi Usman, a resident of Wase town, the vigilante and one other person were ambushed, while the remaining three were killed during a stop-and-search operation by the bandidos.
Usman added that more than 20 passengers were kidnapped in the incident.
He said, "The vigilante and one other person were on a cycle of violence from Sabon- Gari to Kampani when the bandidos attacked them. They killed them and went away with the cycle of violence.
"Later, when the villagers were returning after market hours, they were stopped and kidnapped. Three of them were killed."
When contacted, the spokesperson for Operation Safe Haven, Major Ishaku Takwa, said he had not been informed about the incident, but promised to get back.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:27 A total of 80 civilians were rescued from the territory of Azovstal in Mariupol thanks to the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation. 21:37 Kyiv continues the war with everything Russian. The sign "Glory to Russian weapons" was removed from the monument of 1904 in Odessa.
It was removed from a captured cannon from a British warship during the Crimean War of 1854-1855.
The day before, local neo-Nazis and part-time "terrorists" proposed to demolish the monument to Catherine II in Odessa.!
20:05 Ukrainian propaganda in the morning threw in a fake about “the wounding of the head of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces near Izyum”, and in the evening they themselves denied their own fake. Peremoga from the category of "ghost of Kyiv" with an instant transformation into evil. And all by themselves.
18:15 The Armed Forces of Ukraine use the mobilized as cannon fodder. About ittoldserviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Volodymyr Mamchuk.
“The mobilized were sent to the front lines, placed like a shield so that the high command could withdraw to the rear,” he said.
17:03 May 1 is celebrated in Melitopol.
17:00 The Russian Aerospace Forces disabled the logistics terminal at the military airport, where a large number of NATO weapons were stored.
15:17 In Kherson, they found a warehouse full of weapons and documents from the local police. In addition, among the documents there were materials of cases against residents for Soviet symbols and St. George ribbons.
15:01 In Melitopol raised the Banner of Victory on the main flagpole of the city.
15:00 Report about "claps" and "fire" in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine.
11:53 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed the previously received information that two Su-24s of the Ukrainian Air Force were shot down in the Kharkiv direction. The vehicles were destroyed by air defenses.
11:51 Today, a May Day demonstration took place in Melitopol. In recent years, Melitopol residents have been deprived of the opportunity to publicly demonstrate the unity and friendship of peoples, but this year the communists came out without fear.
11:50 Russian Defense Ministry confirmed yesterday's attacks on the airfield in Odessa, pointing to the destruction of a warehouse with NATO supplies, as well as damage to the runway. The blow was delivered by Onyx missiles.
11:44 Russian aviation destroyed two Ukrainian S-300 complexes in the area of Artyomovsk and Zaporozhye - Russian Defense Ministry.
11:42 The Russian Ministry of Defense published frames of destruction of Ukrainian military facilities and equipment by helicopters.
11:36 From May 1, Novaya Kakhovka switches to the ruble. The return of Ukraine to these territories is not planned.
11:05 Hundreds of weapons and ammunition have been seized in Berdyansk. According to the city police department, hundreds of weapons were identified and seized from circulation in Berdyansk in April.
🔹PM pistols seized 207
🔹Nagant pistols — 8
🔹traumatic weapons 35
🔹gas pistols — 2
🔹50 AK submachine guns
🔹161 rifled hunting and sporting weapons
🔹76 hunting weapons
🔹in addition to weapons, more than 3,000 rounds of 9 caliber were seized mm, over 10,000 rounds for the AK assault rifle, almost 400 rounds for the SVD rifle
08:19 Subdivisions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine subjected to fire the liberated settlements of Kiselevka and Shirokaya Balka of the Kherson region. The fire was directed at purely civilian targets. A school and a kindergarten were subjected to artillery shelling. Also, artillery fire was purposefully fired at the cemetery, where people were at that moment. As a result of the shelling, there are injured and dead among civilians.
08:03 Russia has paid more than 70 million rubles to Ukrainian pensioners and state employees. More than 7,000 people received payments of 10,000 rubles each, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation reported.
One person was injured in a fire on a Russian defense ministry facility in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, Belgorod region governor said on Sunday.
Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a local resident suffered minor injuries and his life was not in danger. There were no immediate comments from the defense ministry.
Images posted to social media showed a large funnel of smoke rising above the ground. Rooters could not verify the reports.
Separately, governor of the Kursk region which also shares a border with Ukraine said that a railway bridge had been damaged on a line used by freight trains.
Speaking in a video posted on his Telegram channel, governor Roman Starovoit called the incident an act of sabotage.
Russia last month accused Ukraine of a helizap on a fuel depot in Belgorod, for which Kyiv denied responsibility, as well as shelling villages and firing missiles at an ammunition depot.
Other Russian regions that share a border with Ukraine have also reported cross-border shelling incidents since Moscow sent thousands of troops into Ukraine on February 24 in what it called a "special military operation."
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Doesn't take mucho start a fire. Two issues, though; getting away with it, and does it really make a difference?
Sabotage the finance office will annoy a lot of people but it's not going to slow down the artillery any time soon. But the artillery ammo dump....
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Agreed. Better than nothing. But if you have a choice....
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If accurate, here's a fire near Moscow. To really get a handle on this you'd have to have a baseline number of "how much stuff blows up in Russia during an average year".
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Well, did a Russian defense ministry facility in the southern Belgorod region catch fire or not?
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"Your beloved Obama" *snort*
Idiot hasn't been here but a minute and he's already shown he's a fool
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Frank, they think they're being "clever" because we're supposed to suddnely support Putin because the corrupt assholes Biden and Obama are pretending to oppose him all the way to their bank accounts. The mere fact that they pay lip service while they've given Putin 300 billion or so over the past year with their energy policies is supposed to be enough, I guess.
(I thought Obama was the one who wanted it transmitted to Vladimir that he'd be more flexible for him after the election. I don't wanna know what that means, but it sounds too kinky for me.)
Turkish riot police detain dozens of protesters trying to reach #Istanbul’s main Taksim Square for May Day demonstrations against economic hardship caused by raging inflation.https://t.co/HMXpVvYKA4
⚡️ Governor: Russian shelling kills 4, injures 11 in Donetsk Oblast on May 1.
Governor of Donetsk Oblast Pavlo Kyrylenko reminded that any reports about victims in the region don't include the casualties in Mariupol and Volnovakha, where Ukrainian authorities don't have access.
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[IsraelTimes] Terror group says Abu Omar al-Ansari
...one of the ISIS local big turbans in Iraq was called Abu Omar al-Ansari. His real name was Muntasir al-Haradani, but he was reported killed in 2015. Another Abu Omar al-Ansari was mentioned in an article in 2006 — he was emir of Jeish al-Taiifa al-Mansoura (Army of the Victorious Sect) in Iraq. So either our man gets around or there are a bunch of Abu Omar al-Ansaris...
killed as Egyptian army launches new campaign in northern part of desert, with Israeli air support
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.... terror organization claimed Thursday the Israeli Air Force helped assassinate a local jihadist group leader in Egypt’s Sinai Desert in April.
In its weekly al-Naba newspaper, Islamic State said Abu Omar al-Ansari, a military leader in the terror group’s so-called Sinai Province, was killed by "Jewish planes" as the Egyptian army launched a new campaign against the group.
The report said Israeli jets and drones have intensified their air support for the Egyptian army in the past month, in its fight against jihadist group members in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, close to the border 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.
"This greatly limits the ability of the Mujahideen to move and maneuver," a security source was quoted as saying in the Islamic State publication.
It was not clear exactly when or where al-Ansari was killed.
Egypt is battling an Islamic State-led insurgency in the Sinai that intensified after the military overthrew an elected but divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... Islamist president in 2013. The murderous Moslems have carried out scores of attacks, mainly targeting Egyptian security forces and Christians.
On Saturday, suspected Islamic State murderous Moslems blew up a natural gas pipeline in northern Sinai.
In 2018, it was reported that Israeli drones, fighter jets, and helicopter gunships carried out more than 100 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against Islamic State-affiliated murderous Moslems over a two-year period in the area, close to Israel’s border.
While security coordination between Jerusalem and Cairo is known to be close, the ties are unpopular in Egypt, despite nearly three decades of official peace. In order to keep the cooperation under wraps, the Israeli aircraft are often unmarked and sometimes use indirect routes in a bid to cover up the origin of the strikes, The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported at the time.
Israeli and Egyptian officials have refused to confirm or comment on the reports.
[Rudaw] Two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed during the ongoing military operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s defense ministry announced.
A Ottoman Turkish soldier was killed in a bombing blamed on the PKK, the ministry said on Sunday.
Another soldier, who was severely injured during festivities with the PKK earlier in April, departed this vale of tears and was reported dead on Saturday.
The PKK is an armed Kurdish group fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization and a threat to its national security. Ottoman Turkish forces regularly pursue the PKK within the Kurdistan Region’s borders.
Turkey has launched a series of operations against the PKK in recent years, with the most recent beginning on April 18. Dubbed Claw-Lock, the new operation is aimed at PKK hideouts in Duhok’s Metina, Zap, Avashin, and Basyan areas.
The PKK said that at least 270 Ottoman Turkish soldiers have been "punished" since the start of the incursion, and around 57 others were maimed.
It also acknowledged 11 deaths in its own ranks during the latest operation.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... Turkey has confirmed the death of 13 of its soldiers, while claiming that it has "neutralized" 57 PKK fighters. Turkey’s army often use the term neutralize to refer to combatants killed or injured on the battlefield.
Both the PKK and Ankara often release exaggerated corpse counts of the other side.
The conflict is devastating local populations and the environment, with villagers fleeing their homes.
Iraqi officials have condemned the Ottoman Turkish breach of Iraqi illusory sovereignty, but Ankara continues its military operation.
Turkey has come under criticism from Baghdad, Erbil, Tehran, and the wider international community for violating Iraqi illusory sovereignty, but Ankara continues to establish increasing numbers of bases and outposts in the mountains of Erbil and Duhok provinces.
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#Mexican authorities capture a suspected leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the navy and the Morelos state prosecutor’s office say.https://t.co/u90k36K5QS
Mexican authorities have captured a suspected leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the navy and the Morelos state prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.
Francisco Javier Rodriguez Hernandez, known as “El Senoron” or “XL,” was apprehended on Friday in the tourist city of Mazatlan, in the northwest state of Sinaloa, in an operation carried out by navy agents.
Rodriguez Hernandez, who allegedly heads the CJNG in the central state of Morelos, is wanted for aggravated homicide, including the murder of three doctors in April 2020, according to the Morelos Attorney General’s Office.
“In addition to the above, Francisco Javier Rodriguez Hernandez is wanted for the crime of criminal association, and is one of the main generators of violence in the state of Morelos,” it added in a statement, referring to the state neighboring the capital Mexico City.
“El Senoron” is also accused of controlling several laboratories for the production of synthetic drugs, according to the navy.
In July last year, authorities offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
The head of CJNG, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, is one of the most wanted drug lords in the world, with the US Drug Enforcement Administration offering $10 million for his arrest.
CJNG emerged in 2010 after the death of the regional leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexico’s biggest criminal group.
Mexico has been trapped in a spiral of cartel-related violence that has left more than 340,000 dead since 2006, when the government launched a controversial anti-drug operation with federal troops.
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The troll farms really need a QC program. E.g., yesterday one of our new-found friends advsied us that "the rubble is the strongest currency in the world".
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If troll farms are the future, then Rantburg is well ahead of the curve.
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Ironically, in an honest world, most Burg regulars would be better at the Ministry of Truth's job than they are. But we have day jobs and wouldn't stoop to that.
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There's something ironically repetitive about a dictator in the east, pointing west and shouting "Release the Trolls!"
(Of course, if Larry Corriea is correct, some of them may literally be trolls. You'd have to read the 'Monster Hunter" books to get that.)
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Though, if the bennies included getting to go around putting ball g@gs on people like Crapper and Brennan, I'd consider it.
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/\ Clapper and Brennan should be in a Super Max.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] This is tears of his enemies as they are driven before him stuff.
Twitter staff lashed out during 'impromptu' all-hands meeting on Friday
Many vented fury over Musk's deal to buy the company for $44 billion
One staffer accused Musk of being an 'open homophobe and transphobe'
Others expressed fears of mass layoffs once the acquisition deal closes
CEO Parag Agrawal was described as appearing tired and at times annoyed If you strike at the king you must kill him — and he failed. Now he has the distinct displeasure of presiding over mock-worthy revelations and unravellings that he had planned to keep hidden from the light of day, while knowing even that will soon be taken from him.
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You'll note that Agrawal and the board have said nothing negative about Musk, and Elon has been very circumspect in his comments about Twitter.
Turns out there's "disparagement clause" in the buyout deal. Nobody gets to call names. The penalty? $1Billion, against either side.
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That's how business works. Lots of lawsuits have a clause like that too. Whatever gets it closed is fine with me. The lefty tech press is down to a story a day about how Musk already violated the deal or can't pay for the deal, or whatever. It isn't whistling past the graveyard, it's bawling hysterically on hands and knees past the graveyard and I'm enjoying every minute of it.
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Musk participates in many employee interviews looking for tell-tale traits of genius. (His IQ is 155).
Doubt he's going to find much intelligent life in this playground
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[NYPost] Kathy Boudin, who spent decades in prison for her part in the deadly 1981 Brink’s armored truck heist as a member of the radical militant group Weather Underground, died of cancer at the age of 78 in New York on Sunday.
In October, 1981, Boudin and members of the group teamed up with the Black Liberation Army for the robbery to help fund their anti-government campaigns. They targeted a Brink’s armored truck, which they held up in Rockland County, making out with $1.6 million. More at the link
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I do like Mondays. When they start with good news like this.
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Robbing a Brinks armored truck was so old school. Fentanyl and human trafficking across the Mexican border really are the modern methods of political fund raising.
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An example of what liberal colleges hire to teach students and others.
Quoting NY Post "After jail, she was hired by Columbia School of Social Work Associate as an adjunct professor in 2008. She was hired as a full-time professor in 2013, lecturing about issues facing convicts and their families when a person is released from prison."
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You don't cheat the Reaper. Some would say it should have happened sooner.
#2 Robbing a Frank's truck is old school. Setting up phony charities is another method for stealing millions. Stealing elections and getting installed in office is another method.
[ConservativeTreehouse] Skipping past the discussion of the DHS “disinformation board,”….. While appearing on an ironically named CNN broadcast “The State of Our Union”, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tells John King’s ex-wife, that for several months DHS has been preparing to start handling and processing 18,000 illegal aliens per day (540,000/mo) as soon as CDC Title 42 is lifted.
If DHS estimates are accurate, between now and the November mid-term election, DHS will import an additional 3,000,000 illegal aliens from various nations around the world, through the U.S-Mexico border.
Cumulatively, this arrival estimate will put the number of illegal aliens arriving in the United States during Joe Biden’s first two years in office somewhere north of 10 million people. For scale, that’s an imported group of illegal aliens three times the size of the population of Mississippi. WATCH:
If his own estimates are correct, in combination with prior arrivals, the aggregate number of illegal aliens will easily exceed 50 million by the end of the year; more than twice the population of Pennsylvania and Ohio combined. Illegal aliens living in the U.S. will exceed 15% of the total population.
Approximately one-third of the United States workforce will be illegal aliens.
What do you think that scale of illegal labor does to wages?
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DHS has a budget to protect us. If they have a budget to facilitate onboarding 3 million people entering our country illegally, who approved that budget? There is no department of our government in charge of facilitating our invasion.
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Going forward, charge ALL the imports costs to the DHS budget. But don't increase it to match.
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After packing next door Libya with Syrian mercenaries and claiming the eastern half of the Med for itself.
The Ottoman empire won’t rebuild itself, you know. It will take concentrated effort by both the future sultan and his future subjects to make the inevitable happen.
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More than 50 civilians have been evacuated from #Mariupol’s Azovstal steel works in a convoy with vehicles bearing UN symbols, signaling a deal had been struck to ease the ordeal of the most destructive siege in the #Russia-#Ukraine conflict.https://t.co/ENdk10m3Ml
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#India should replace marriage and inheritance laws that are based on religion with a uniform civil code, the chief minister of a northeastern state says, taking aim at rules that allow Muslim men, for example, to have four wives.https://t.co/Tf9fihHO4Z
[Breitbart] Former Obama-Biden administration aide Francis “Fran” Person visited the Obama White House at least seven times after leaving the administration and joining a Chinese Communist Party-linked firm, according to a report.
Person, according to the report from Fox News Digital, served in the Obama-Biden administration from 2009 through 2014 and was close to the Biden family, traveling with Biden on 49 of 50 trips during his time there.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden called Person his “go to” guy, and First Lady Jill Biden called him “like a son to me” and said he would “always be a part of our family,” according to a Politico piece on Person leaving the White House in 2014.
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“like a son to me”
Hunter?
That doesn't bode well.
#Ukraine's army says that #Russia's offensive along a broad front in the country’s east has been stalling amid human and material losses inflicted by Kyiv’s forces.https://t.co/u2Zn0ksTdA
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You know you can't trust British tabloids like... ...Al Arabiya? Hmm
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"The Arab world’s leading source of global news and opinion". Sounds like opinion. News today is mostly psyops. Strategically Influence and Deceive.
#ISIS claims responsibility for an attack on a mosque in the Afghan capital #Kabul a day earlier that killed at least 10 worshippers.https://t.co/9h3Fz172MX
The usual ISIS-mosque-bomb story.
ISIS on Saturday grabbed credit for an attack on a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul a day earlier that killed at least 10 worshippers.
They had detonated an bomb placed near a bus in Kabul’s Sector 6, the group said in a message posted on its Telegram account.
The group said the attack had killed 10 people, the same toll announced by Afghanistan’s interior ministry. Kabul police said another 30 were maimed.
Afghan officials have said the attack appeared to have targeted members of the minority Sufi community
...ISIS in the Khorasan seems to have a thing for offing Sufis as well as Shiites...
performing rituals after completing Friday prayers.
Thousands of opposition supporters rally in the #Armenia-n capital Yerevan to warn the government against concessions to arch-foe #Azerbaijan over the long-disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.https://t.co/QlrLQRR7us
Fourteen Ukrainians including a pregnant soldier have been freed in the latest prisoner exchange with #Russia’s forces, #Ukraine says.https://t.co/d6j8CIVUbC
Fourteen Ukrainians including a pregnant soldier have been freed in the latest prisoner exchange with Russian forces, Ukraine said on Saturday, without revealing the number of Russians returned to Moscow.
"Today, we carried out a new exchange of prisoners. Fourteen of ours are coming home, seven military and seven civilians. One of the military women is five months pregnant," Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Telegram.
In an interview with the BBC on Friday, Vereshchuk accused Russian forces of deporting large numbers of civilians into Russia and using them as "hostages."
"That’s why they captured all these hostages - civilians, women, employees of local councils, to try and use them," she was quoted as saying.
"We know there are more than a thousand hostages there - including almost 500 women," she said, adding that they were being held in prisons and pre-trial detention centers.
She emphasized the difficulty of securing the liberation of women in the exchanges.
"Now we refuse to hold an exchange with no women in the list. That is how we try to somehow rescue our women and civilians," she said.
Several exchanges between Moscow and Kyiv have taken place since Russia invaded on February 24.
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Pregnant soldier? Male? Female? I'm not a biologist...
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[IsraelTimes] The two suspected shooters packed flammable materials in their vehicle ahead of attack, father of one has been arrested, reports say.
The two suspects in Friday’s deadly shooting in Ariel planned in advance to torch the car they used in the attack, and set out with flammable materials in the vehicle, according to Sunday reports.
New details from the investigation raised suspicions that the father of one of the suspects came to pick the two up after they burned the car, and helped them escape, the reports said.
Israel demolishes, as a matter of policy, the homes of Paleostinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks. The efficacy of the policy is controversial within the Israeli security establishment, and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activists have denounced it as unfair collective punishment.
Sunday reports said the weapons used in the attack were hidden in a bag in one of the suspects’ homes.
Earlier reports said the suspects had scoped out the site of the attack ahead of time, and had identified it as a vulnerable point in Israel’s West Bank security.
The father has been arrested as a key accessory.
Security officials believe that after the attack, the suspects drove for around 15 minutes, then stopped the car in an open area and burned it.
They remained on foot in the area for several hours, before making contact with one of their fathers, who picked them up in his vehicle and brought them home, Channel 13 reported.
The attackers planned the shooting for weeks, including by acquiring a stolen vehicle and firearms, and by scouting the area for potential targets, Sherlocks believe.
Vyacheslav Golev, 23, was shot full of holes inside a guard booth at the gate to the settlement on Friday night.
Earlier Sunday the military said Israeli forces raided the West Bank hometown of the two Paleostinian suspects.
During the operation in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, the homes of Youssef Sameeh Assi and Yahya Marei were measured and prepared for eventual demolition, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The IDF released video of troops preparing the home for demolition on Sunday.
#Iraq’s security forces say they have broken up a drug trafficking ring and seized more than six million pills of the amphetamine-type stimulant #Captagon, making several arrests.https://t.co/lJOZOXKnV5
Iraqi security forces said Saturday they had broken up a drug trafficking ring and seized more than six million pills of the amphetamine-type stimulant Captagon, making several arrests.
Iraq’s northwestern neighbor Syria is the Middle East’s main Captagon producer.
Iraqi forces seized "around 6.2 million pills" from a warehouse in the southwest of the capital, the national security agency said in a statement, adding that the drugs were set for distribution "in areas of Baghdad and other provinces."
Three Iraqis and four suspects from other Arab countries were arrested in connection with the trafficking network, it added.
The statement said security forces broke up a second drug ring after an Arab national was arrested "in possession of six kilograms [13 pounds] of hashish," while two accomplices were also detained.
All 10 accused "admitted to links with international drug trafficking networks," it said.
Drug trafficking convictions can be punishable by the death penalty in Iraq.
Trade in Captagon in the Middle East grew exponentially in 2021 to top $5 billion, posing an increasing health and security risk to the region, a report said earlier this month.
Captagon was the trade name of a drug initially patented in Germany in the early 1960s that contained an amphetamine-type stimulant called fenethylline used to treat attention deficit and narcolepsy among other conditions.
It was later banned and became an illicit drug almost exclusively produced and consumed in the Middle East.
The sale and use of drugs in Iraq has soared in recent years. Security forces have stepped up operations and make almost daily announcements of seizures or arrests.
In the first three months of this year, Iraqi security forces detained 18 suspected narcos in the largely desert province of Anbar, which shares a long border with Syria, according to an official source.
More than three million Captagon pills were seized in the same period.
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[IsraelTimes] Egypt’s Suez Canal says its monthly revenues hit an all-time record, raking in $629 million in April.
The unprecedented income came as the Suez Canal in March increased transit fees for ships passing through the waterway.
Adm. Ossama Rabei, head of the Suez Canal Authority, says in a statement that 1,929 vessels sailed through the Suez Canal last month, compared to 1,814 in April 2021.
He says the revenues rose by 13.9% compared to April last year, when the crucial waterway received $553.6 million.
About 10% of global trade, including 7% of the world’s oil, flows through the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean and Red seas.
The canal, which opened in 1869, is a major source of foreign currency to Egypt.
The annual revenues of the canal reached $6.3 billion in 2021, the highest in its history. The Canal said 20,649 vessels passed through the waterway last year, a 10% increase compared to 18,830 vessels in 2020.
The shipping industry is still under pressure from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic and Russia’s war on Ukraine has already added to global economic concerns.
Jizya, big time. At least that's what it looks like to the Taliban and their fellows, regardless how the givers intended it.
[ToloNews] Da Afghanistan Bank (Central Bank of Afghanistan) says that more than $ 760 million has been delivered to Afghanistan so far from the international community.
Central Bank officials said the money that the world donated to Afghanistan is beneficial in maintaining the value of the Afghan currency.
"In total, $761,600,000 has been delivered. This aid preserves the value of the Afghani," said Saber Momand, front man for the Central Bank of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... the Ministry of Economy, called on the international community to provide humanitarian assistance in coordination with the institutions of the Islamic Emirate.
"Humanitarian aid provided through the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... should be done in coordination with ministries and government departments so that aid reaches the vulnerable families in a transparent manner and with accountability and reporting," said Abdul Rahman Habib, front man for the Ministry of Economy.
One of the reasons for the internationally-provided cash aid to Afghanistan is to prevent widespread poverty and food shortages. But Afghans say the aid is not being distributed in a fair way.
Seventy-year-old Mirajan is the father of a family of six who spends his days with his cart on the streets of Kabul trying to find a piece of bread for his family. He complains about the lack of humanitarian aid.
"Donations come but they do not give it to us. There are representatives of the people in our area who say that if you share fifty percent of the aid with us, I will put your name on the list. If you do not, I will not take your name," said Mirajan, the worker.
After the fall of the previous government, with the freezing of Afghanistan's assets by the United States, the international community pledged millions of dollars to prevent economic collapse in Afghanistan.
The UN Secretary-General has warned of a liquidity crisis in Afghanistan and stressed that the UN is working with the US Treasury Department and the Bank of Afghanistan to release frozen assets in Afghanistan.
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The big question whether the girls are going back to school.
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The big question whether the girls are going back to school.
Not really a question, Chris. If they were going to be allowed school, it would have happened immediately. Since it hasn’t, it won’t — same as when the Talibs were running things last time.
[IsraelTimes] Ubai Aboudi is head of Bisan, one of six Paleostinian groups that Israel last year designated terrorist organizations; groups deny terror ties and continue to operate
Israel has prevented the director of a Paleostinian civil-society group from traveling abroad to attend a professional conference in Mexico, the activist said.
Ubai Aboudi is the head of Bisan, one of six Paleostinian groups that Israel last year designated a terrorist organization. Israeli officials declined to comment on the travel ban.
In an interview, Aboudi said he tried to exit the occupied West Bank last week in order to travel to the World Social Forum, an annual gathering of civil society groups that this year is taking place in Mexico. But he said he was stopped by Israeli officials at the crossing into Jordan.
"I was informed that I am banned from traveling. I asked why I am banned from traveling. They said they did not want to inform me," he said. Aboudi, who is a US citizen, said that just a month earlier, he traveled to Jordan without any problems.
The Bisan Center for Research and Development is a nonprofit that says it is committed to promoting a Paleostinian society based on "freedom, justice, equality and dignity." Aboudi has been arrested in the past by both Israel and the Paleostinian Authority, which administers autonomous areas of the West Bank, for his political activities.
Bisan is among six Paleostinian human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups that Israel last year effectively outlawed after designating them terrorist organizations.
Israel says the groups have ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine — a small Paleostinian faction with an armed wing that has carried out deadly attacks on Israelis. The PFLP is considered a terrorist group by Israel and its Western allies.
But Israel has provided little evidence backing up its claims against the six groups. The groups all continue to operate, though the Israeli crackdown has concerned international donors and caused some to cut ties.
Aboudi says he has no ties to the PFLP. The activists have said the Israeli move is an attempt to silence groups that have documented alleged harsh treatment against Paleostinians over the years.
"There is no explanation for what happened to me except that this was an attempt to silence the Paleostinian voice," Aboudi said.
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[Korrespondent] 22:52 Arestovich said that as a result of attacks on Russian headquarters, almost 200 people were killed within five days - "this is what has been established, but in fact there are more of them." Among them are at least 30 senior officers: "The senior officer who commanded the command post died, the elite Russian special forces were liquidated, who were guarding someone serious, many were killed. Whether Gerasimov was there - it's impossible to say for sure yet."
22:49 Arestovich said that the Russian army really has a lot of volunteers, "but they are only manpower, this is also not for long." According to him, of all those "who came in the last two weeks," no more than 30% survived.
22:47 The British edition of The Times reports, citing Ukrainian intelligence, that Russia has developed "clear plans" for an invasion of Moldova.
22:43 The Russians captured the driver of the evacuation bus in Popasna and recorded a propaganda interview with him, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai: "The invaders forced him to say that the Ukrainian authorities are not engaged in evacuating people, that we left our own to their fate. Lies, which the Russians only live on. They kill, lie and destroy. I understand that Mikhail had no other option."
22:41 Scholz said that he is trying to change the position of several states that still remain "neutral" in relation to Russia after its attack on Ukraine. In particular, the chancellor plans to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a special guest to the group's summit to be held in the Bavarian Alps from 26 to 28 June.
22:39 Russian invaders are shelling settlements 50 kilometers from Krivoy Rog from the occupied territory of the Kherson region, said Alexander Vilkul, chairman of the Krivoy Rog VA.
22:37 Lavrov said that Moscow "does not aim to change the Kiev regime - only the United States is doing this."
He also commented on the possibility of completing the "operation" of the Russian Federation by May 9: "Our military will not adjust their actions to any date, including Victory Day."
22:35 Biden insists on the inevitability of punishing Russia for military aggression against Ukraine: "Just as Putin decided to launch this brutal invasion, he could decide to end it. Russia is the aggressor, and the world must and will hold Russia accountable."
22:33 Finland plans to strengthen the defenses on the border with Russia, said the commander of the border service of North Karelia, Marko Turunen. He said that now only thin barbed wire fences separate Finland from the aggressor country, which can only hold animals.
22:17 At the end of the evacuation from Azovstal, the Russians again opened fire on the city, said the commander of the 12th operational brigade of the National Guard Denis Shlega.
22:03 Zelensky: "Today, Russian troops continued to strike at the territory of our state. The fact that they choose their targets proves once again that the war against Ukraine for the Russian army is a war of extermination. They hit the warehouses of agricultural enterprises. They destroyed the warehouse with grain. They also shelled a warehouse with fertilizers. They continued to hit residential areas in the Kharkiv region, the Donbass, etc. They are pulling up forces to the south of the country to try to attack our cities and communities in the Dnipropetrovsk region."
21:16 Japan's largest oil refinery Eneos Holdings Inc announced that it has no plans to buy Russian oil. The Japanese say they will not resume buying oil from Russia until "all the problems associated with Russia's invasion of Ukraine are resolved." The company organized alternative supplies from the Middle East.
21:14 The Azov Regiment provided unique footage of the rescue operation in Mariupol:
21:10 Zelensky is convinced that the war in Ukraine will not give Russia anything, but will only increase the number of states that will work to isolate the Russian Federation: "What can be Russia's strategic success in this war? Honestly, I don't know. Destroyed lives of people, burned or the stolen property of Russia will not give anything, it will only increase the toxicity of the Russian state and the number of those who will work to isolate Russia."
20:43 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, published a video of the evacuation from Azovstal:
20:38 Zelensky spoke about the evacuation from Azovstal: "Today we finally managed to start the evacuation of people from Azovstal. After many weeks of negotiations, after many attempts, various meetings, calls and proposals. There was not a day that we did not try to find such a solution that will ensure the salvation of our people.Today, for the first time in all the days of the war, this vital corridor began to work.For the first time there was two days of a real ceasefire.
It was possible to take out more than a hundred civilians - women, children, who were fleeing the hostilities exactly there, precisely at Azovstal. Given all the complexity of the process, the first evacuees will arrive in Zaporozhye tomorrow morning. Our team will meet them there. I hope that tomorrow all the necessary conditions will also be met in order to continue the removal of people from Mariupol. We plan to start at eight in the morning."
20:27 Residents of Transnistria began to flee from there even to Odessa, said the speaker of the Odessa OVA Sergey Bratchuk: "They admit that we are safer, because there is a guarantor - the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They understand that what is happening there is preparation for a certain springboard for, possibly, armed provocations against Ukraine."
Bratchuk says that, in particular, "plans" for landings are being voiced: "If Russia really wants to land troops in Transnistria, they will fly over the territory of Ukraine, our Armed Forces will shoot down military aircraft."
20:25 Representative of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko trolled colleagues from the Russian Foreign Ministry after the comment of the press secretary of the Russian department Maria Zakharova about Angelina Jolie's visit to Ukraine: "I like it, I don't like it - but Moscow will have to come to terms with the new reality: Ukraine can call" the hyped representative of everything of the world" (as Zakharova called Jolie), but Russia is not. Even marginal stars of foreign show business are now denying the Russian regime."
20:14 Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Vadim Denisenko does not exclude that on May 9 a statement will be made about the accession of the "LDNR" to Russia: "I think that somewhere in this direction they will move." According to him, it is customary in Russia to demonstrate new "achievements" by "big dates", and since it will not be possible to boast of military victories, Putin can take such a step.
19:25 Congressman Adam Kinzinger announced the submission of a draft joint resolution that would allow the use of US military forces to protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine if Putin intensifies the war against Ukraine, Arakhamia said.
19:16 In the occupied territories, the Russians are destroying medical infrastructure, taking out equipment and leaving the population without medical care, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
19:11 The Mariupol City Council reported that with the support of the UN and the Red Cross, the evacuation of civilians from the territory of Azovstal began, and for security reasons, the evacuation of the civilian population of Mariupol, located in other parts of the city, was postponed to Monday, May 2. Meeting at 08:00 near the Port City shopping center.
19:00 Sanctions against Russia should be strengthened, and Finland is ready for more decisive action in this direction, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said: "Finland is ready to impose increasingly tough sanctions against Russia in order to end the war in Ukraine. Ukraine will also be provided support in the war and help in its restoration".
She also recalled that the purchase of Russian energy carriers is the financing of the war. In addition, the prime minister said that a decision on Finland's accession to NATO is expected before May 12.
18:54 Kuleba spoke with Borrell, discussed the next package of sanctions against Russia, which should include an oil embargo. "I also stressed that there can be no alternative to granting Ukraine the status of a candidate member of the EU. We paid special attention to further safe evacuation from the besieged Mariupol," the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry wrote.
18:51 The number of criminal cases on the facts of war crimes of Russians in Ukraine has exceeded 9,000, Venediktova said. They concern, in particular, the death of civilians, the bombing or the deportation of people. Every day there are more such cases.
18:44 Poland became the first country among the potential guarantor states that publicly announced that it would not participate in such a peace agreement, which would provide for the surrender of part of the territory of Ukraine.
18:38 The first photos of the evacuees from Azovstal appeared:
18:32 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "thanks to Putin's initiative" 80 civilians were taken out of the territory of Azovstal, all of them were evacuated to Bezymennoye. And the civilians "evacuated by the Russian military" who wished to leave for the territory controlled by Ukraine were "handed over to representatives of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross."
18:27 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, about 1 million people have returned from Poland to Ukraine, and about 3 million have left in the opposite direction, according to Polish border guards. At the same time, more people have been returning to Ukraine in recent days than leaving it. So, on April 30, 26,800 Ukrainians returned across the Polish border, 23,500 left.
18:24 The President of Brazil is ready, together with the leaders of a number of countries, including Erdogan, to visit Moscow to resolve the situation in Ukraine, the Turkish Foreign Minister said.
18:08 Arsen Avakov said that the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov was wounded near Izyum - he received a shrapnel wound to the right shin without a bone fracture.
At the same time, the Conflict Intelligence Team investigators reported that in Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine, aircraft of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Russian Guard were noticed, and soon two Mi-8 transport helicopters accompanied by Ka-52 attack helicopters arrived. One of the helicopters brought Gerasimov, who soon flew to Moscow. According to investigators, "Gerasimov was alive and well."
"This may be an indirect confirmation of the rumors that Gerasimov was present in the occupied Izyum," CIT said.
17:59 Kursk governor Roman Starovoit called the collapse of a railway bridge in the region a diversion, a criminal case was initiated.
17:57 Ukrzaliznytsia reports that its online services are down again due to enemy hacker attacks.
17:48 The potential of Russian hackers in cyber attacks on Ukraine has probably reached its maximum. According to the State Service for Special Communications, they have already demonstrated all available tools and technologies. Thanks to the sanctions, Russian hackers "will not be able to develop as they did before," the service said.
17:39 Zelensky confirmed that the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal has begun: the first group of about 100 people is already heading to the controlled territory , tomorrow they will be in Zaporozhye.
"Thank you to our team! They are currently working with UN representatives to evacuate the remaining civilians from the plant," the president wrote.
16:36 In the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, a fire broke out near one of the facilities of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
16:08 Operational command Pivden clarified information about the explosion in the Nikolaev region with a huge column of smoke: the enemy got into an agricultural warehouse with fertilizers during the shelling. About 600 kg of fertilizer exploded, a fire broke out. Rescue services worked quickly, there is no chemical threat to the environment and people.
16:05 Russian publics write that in Belgorod, after a series of "claps", the bridge over the Seversky Donets was blocked. It is reported that the reason for the smoke seen by local residents is the explosion of an ammunition depot in Tomarovka, Belgorod Region. Also, local residents write that they saw helicopters in the sky before the “pops”.
16:01 Anton Gerashchenko writes that yesterday, as a result of an explosion in Izyum near the headquarters of the 2nd Army of the Russian Federation, a "large number" of Russian military officers were killed. We are talking about the headquarters where the headquarters of the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Gerasimov, who personally came to lead the attack on Slavyansk, is located.
15:58 A conference of donors to help Ukraine will be held on May 5 in Warsaw. According to the Office of the Polish Prime Minister, the initiators were the Prime Ministers of Poland and Sweden Mateusz Morawiecki and Magdalena Andersson, and the President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will become partners of the event.
15:55 Russian media reported that a group of buses with about 40 refugees left the territory of Azovstal and the quarters adjacent to the plant in the direction of Novoazovsk. There are allegedly 18 men, 14 women, eight children on the buses.
15:54 In the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, a railway bridge partially collapsed, there were no casualties, the causes of the emergency are being investigated, the governor said.
15:49 In the Black Sea, the activation of the forces of the enemy fleet was recorded, in the Odessa region, the invaders continue to conduct reconnaissance using drones, OK Pivden reported.
15:45 On May 1, the NATO military exercises Defender of Europe and Rapid Response started . In total, 18,000 soldiers from more than 20 countries, including about 7,000 soldiers and 3,000 pieces of equipment in Poland, will take part in the exercises, which will take place on the territory of Poland and eight other countries, the Ministry of National Defense of Poland said.
15:34 The Russian Embassy in Germany is spreading lies about the war in Ukraine, and this may have consequences for the so-called "diplomats", German Interior Minister Nancy Feser said in an interview with Handelsblatt: "Some platforms on the Internet create ideal conditions for disinformation campaigns and war propaganda. The Russian embassy also uses this."
She also recalled that the government had already expelled 40 "diplomats" suspected of espionage from the country, and warned that lying on social networks could have additional consequences for the Russian embassy - Germany has "other options."
15:32 Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, after a visit to Kiev, answered the question of whether Putin would provoke an increase in the supply of American weapons to Ukraine for something "significantly worse": "Let me express only my personal opinion. Do not allow hooligans to intimidate you "If they threaten, you can't back down. We're here to fight, and you can't give in to a bully."
15:30 The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in honor of Labor Day, reminded Ukrainian migrants in the EU about the opportunity to get a job: "On this Labor Day, I express my respect to the people who are fleeing the war in Ukraine and are rebuilding their lives in the EU. In Europe, they can access labor markets and be recognized for their skills. Thank you to all EU countries and Europeans who help them integrate."
15:28 The consequences of two months of hostilities for the environment are comparable to the annual emissions of a metallurgical enterprise, the Ministry of Ecology reported.
15:03 Ambassador Andriy Melnyk proposes that Germany adopt a law on lend-lease for Ukraine, following the example of the United States. He stated this in an interview with Bild am Sonntag.
14:40 The Pope called the war in Ukraine "a terrible regression of humanity." In his Sunday sermon, he said he was "suffering and weeping" because of the war. Francis called the bombardment and destruction of Mariupol barbaric and called for a humanitarian corridor for the people at Azovstal.
13:57 In the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, a rocket hit the warehouses of agricultural enterprises - one was empty, the other with grain. Now both are destroyed, people were not injured, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
13:19 The city council of Mariupol reports that the evacuation of the civilian population in Zaporozhye is possible today. Gathering of people at 16:00 near the Port City shopping center.
12:32 How the course of the war in Ukraine has changed since February 24:
12:30 Russia deployed an air defense system at the Belarusian airfield in Zyabrovka, Gomel region. According to the Belaruska Gayun monitoring group, despite the withdrawal of most of the Russian forces and equipment from the territory of Belarus, at least eight units of the S-400 air defense system, the Pantsir air defense missile system, several types of radar systems and other military equipment are based at the airfield. It is visible on satellite images of the object.
12:28 Ukrainian Ambassador to Berlin Andriy Melnik in an interview with Bild am Sonntag: "The fear of becoming a participant in the war by supplying weapons is complete nonsense. For Putin, Germany has long been a party to the war. Anyone who wants to prevent the escalation of their war should help us now put Putin in his place. A Russian victory in Ukraine would be the worst thing that could happen to Germany."
12:26 Counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region can reduce the pressure of Russian troops on residential areas of the regional center, analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War say. According to them, over the past three days, Ukrainian troops have removed the danger of cordoning off the suburbs east of Kharkov.
Counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can also force the Russian invaders to transfer their units to the Izyum direction.
12:24 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that Onyx missiles in the Odessa region at a military airfield destroyed a hangar "with weapons delivered to Ukraine from the West." Also, Russian aviation allegedly destroyed two Ukrainian S-300 complexes in the area of Artemovsk and Zaporozhye, and two Tochka-U missiles were shot down over Tokmok.
12:23 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that on April 30, two groups of civilians, a total of 46 people, left residential buildings nearby Azovstal, "they were provided with accommodation and food."
12:22 The SBU neutralized the enemy DRG, which was preparing a terrorist attack - it was going to shoot down a passenger plane over the territory of Russia or Belarus, in order to later blame Ukraine for this.
12:16 Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin proposes to confiscate business assets from unfriendly countries located on its territory in response to a possible confiscation of Russian assets in the West with their subsequent transfer to Ukraine.
12:14 A Wall of Remembrance in honor of the Ukrainians who died in the war appeared on Galician Square in Lviv. It was created by American Leo Soto from Miami.
12:09 Finland is preparing to cut off gas supplies from Russia, local newspaper Helsingin Sanomat writes. The government of the country does not agree with the condition of paying for gas in rubles. State-owned Gasum must notify Russia of its decision by May 20.
12:00 During the day, the Russian occupiers delivered three blows to Kharkov: Saltovka, Pyatikhatki and the airport area suffered, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Also, according to him, in the morning the invaders again fired at the Dergachev community, there is one victim.
Due to heavy shelling, the Kharkiv OVA is urging residents of the northern and eastern districts of Kharkiv not to come out of hiding during the day, even if there is no air raid alert.
11:48 In Kakhovka, Kherson region, Russian invaders kidnapped deputy Igor Protokovilo, the city council said.
11:39 Russia is using a troll factory to spread disinformation about the war in Ukraine on social networks around the world, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said: “We cannot allow the Kremlin and its shadow troll farms to invade our online spaces with their lies about an illegal war Putin".
The British government has warned international partners of the danger and will continue to work closely with allies and media platforms to undermine Russian intelligence operations, she added.
11:27 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 1:
personnel - about 23,500 (+300) people liquidated,
tanks - 1026 (+18),
armored fighting vehicles - 2471 (+26),
artillery systems - 451 (+15),
MLRS - 151 (+0),
air defense systems - 80 (+3),
aircraft - 192 (+2),
helicopters - 155 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 1796 (+20),
ships/boats - 8 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 245 (+13),
special equipment - 32 (+0),
cruise missiles - 84.
11:12 The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, said that Russian troops were hit with saltpeter, the air in the region is clean.
11:03 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reports that a large circulation of a newspaper dated May 2, 2022 has been published in Pridnestrovie. The central material of the newspaper is "Official appeal of the inhabitants of the "PMR" to the President of Russia Putin."
The text contains a request "to involve the armed forces of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the actions of the Russian army." To do this, "mobilization points" are being opened on the territory of Russia itself to recruit volunteers to fight in the army of Transnistria.
Intelligence notes that the Kremlin is thus trying to legalize thousands of its military, who will arrange provocations from the territory of the "MRT".
10:41 The Ministry of Infrastructure has decided to close the occupied ports of Berdyansk, Mariupol, Skadovsk and Kherson until the territories are liberated.
10:39 Zelensky awarded the Order of Princess Olga of the III degree to the speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi. The presidential decree says that Pelosi was awarded the order for "a significant personal contribution to strengthening Ukrainian-American interstate cooperation, support for a sovereign, independent and democratic Ukraine."
10:38 Japan and Vietnam call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, and also oppose strikes on civilians. This was stated by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida following the talks held in Hanoi with his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Min Chin.
10:37 Arestovich on the prospects for the Russian army: "Before our eyes, the professionalism of the armed forces is growing. It is being added by leaps and bounds. This means one thing - the forecast for the Russian army is unfavorable in Ukraine. The defeat could come exactly by May 9."
10:32 Ukraine has established daily grain exports to Germany. From March to April, ÖBB's Rail Cargo Group (RCG) already transported 60 thousand tons of grain by rail, which ran every other day. Now this route will become daily for at least three months, according to RailFreight.
The RCG grain train runs from Ukraine via Cerna (Slovakia) to Brak in northern Germany. Of the 30 trains, five will remain in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, while 25 trains will go to Germany.
10:31 Italian humanitarian organization Cesvi allocates the first 500 thousand euros for the restoration of the Ukrainian Bucha and plans to raise more thanks to charitable contributions.
10:07 The sounds of explosions in Odessa are the result of the work of air defense, said the speaker of the Odessa OVA Sergey Bratchuk. An enemy reconnaissance drone was working over Odessa, it was destroyed by a hit by Ukrainian air defense.
10:00 The occupiers cut off communications and the Internet in the Kherson and part of the Zaporozhye regions, according to the State Service for Communications. The reasons for the lack of communication were breaks in the fiber-optic trunk lines and disconnection from the power supply of the equipment of operators in these regions.
In parallel with the disconnection of Ukrainian operators, fake messages began to spread on enemy information resources that the Ukrainian authorities had given the order to disconnect communications. The department emphasizes that this is not true.
Russian media write with reference to the "Crimean authorities" that "Ukraine has disconnected the Kherson region from mobile communications and the Internet, thereby defiantly abandoning these territories."
09:53 On May 1, evacuation is planned from Severodonetsk, Lysichansk and Rubizhne, as well as from the Mountain community in the Luhansk region. The head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai, urges people to evacuate while it is possible.
09:51 Russia must withdraw all its troops from the territory of Ukraine, only after that it will be possible to talk about establishing peace in Europe and lifting sanctions, said German Defense Minister Annalen Berbock.
"A ceasefire can only be the first step. Peace on terms dictated by Russia will not bring the desired security to either Ukraine or Europe," Burbock said. She also predicted that there would be no return to the days before February 24: "We will never again be able to rely only on Putin's promises."
09:48 Russia is trying to attract third countries in order to minimize the devastating consequences of sanctions, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate reports. According to military intelligence, Russia wants to organize the production of components for its military products in the CSTO countries, and is also negotiating with Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to re-export Russian products to international markets.
09:46 Ukraine plans to complete work on the second part of the questionnaire to obtain the status of a candidate for admission by the end of next week, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna said.
09:43 Russian saboteurs can penetrate into Britain. MI5 officers informed Home Secretary Priti Patel of the high-level threat, the Express reported. It was instructed to strengthen the monitoring of tourists.
09:37 Zaluzhny phoned U.S. Chief of Staff Mark Milley and discussed the transition of the Ukrainian army to NATO-style weapons, the logistics of delivering weapons to Ukraine and control over supplies, and the difficult situation in the Izyum-Slavic direction.
09:29 Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi arrived in Kiev, they have already met with Zelensky.
08:45 British intelligence notes in its daily report that Russia is trying to "legitimize" its administrative power in Kherson and the surrounding area. The new "authorities" declare the impossibility of returning the region to Ukraine and introduce ruble circulation from May 1. This speaks to the Kremlin's plans to establish its political and economic influence in Kherson on a long-term basis.
Strong control over the Kherson region will increase Russia's ability to move north and west. It will also increase the security of Russia's positions in Crimea.
08:43 After a hunger strike in Bucha, Lyubov Panchenko, a sixties artist, died at the age of 85, Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk said: “She is one of the sixties patriots who, despite pressure from the Kremlin, developed Ukrainian culture during the Soviet censorship. She could not break in the KGB, but the artist suffered greatly during the new Russian invasion."
08:40 The leader of the German opposition, the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz is going to Kiev. According to Bild sources, he is going to visit the capital of Ukraine on Monday, May 2.
08:28 There are stubborn street battles in Orekhovo near Lisichansk, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the enemy tried to storm Zolote-4, but the enemy groups, which entered under the cover of tanks, were driven back.
08:20 Blinken phoned Kuleba, discussed plans for the return of American diplomats to Ukraine, "including the first visits to Lviv this week and plans to return to Kiev as soon as possible," as well as providing $ 33 billion for security, economic and humanitarian aid "to give Ukraine the opportunity to win the Kremlin's shameless war."
07:57 To increase the pace of the offensive operation, the command of the armed forces of the Russian Federation continues to take measures to strengthen the strike potential of its troops, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . Armaments and military equipment removed from storage in the Western, Central, Eastern military districts and the Northern Fleet are transferred by rail to the regions bordering Ukraine.
A difficult situation is noted in the Slobozhansky direction: the enemy grouping continues to inflict air strikes and fire artillery on Kharkov. The occupiers are carrying out offensive operations in the directions of Izyum - Barvenkovo and Izyum - Slavyansk. The strengthening of the enemy strike force continues. Up to 300 units of weapons and military equipment were moved to certain areas, and about a thousand mobilized people from ORDLO arrived.
For the purpose of air defense of the advancing troops in four areas, the enemy deployed two anti-aircraft missile divisions armed with the Buk-M2 air defense system and the Tor-M air defense system.
02:55 Johnson after phone conversations with Zelensky: "I spoke with President Volodymyr Zelensky to determine how the UK will continue to provide military and humanitarian assistance to provide Ukrainians with the equipment they need to protect. I am more than ever committed to strengthening Ukraine and ensure Putin's failure."
02:33 In the Kherson region, artillery fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the enemy electronic warfare station Reppelent-1. According to OK Pivden, another attack on enemy targets on Zmeiny destroyed three anti-aircraft installations, an anti-aircraft missile system Strela-10, as well as a communication machine - a server room with telecommunications equipment. In addition, 42 Russian invaders were destroyed.
02:12 The invaders kidnapped the head of the village of Zmievka, Kherson region, Nikolai Kurivchak. Before that, the invaders carried out searches throughout the village, said the deputy of the regional council, Igor Iosipenko.
01:56 The speaker of the Odessa military administration, Sergei Bratchuk, said that the Odessa air defense "works very well": "The score on enemy aircraft is 7:0 in favor of Odessa."
00:37 Zelensky addressed the Russian soldiers: “We know that the Russian command is preparing for new big losses. New people are recruited into those units whose personnel was almost completely destroyed or significantly weakened in March-April. With weak motivation. weak combat experience. They just want to get the right amount. So that they can throw these units on the offensive ... But why do Russian soldiers themselves? Why do their relatives? Russian commanders lie to their soldiers when they say that some kind of serious responsibility for refusing to fight. And at the same time they do not tell, for example, about the preparation by the Russian army of additional refrigerators for storing corpses. They do not tell what new "planned" losses the generals are expecting."
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli army announces it is imposing a closure on border crossings between Israel and the West Bank and 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 during Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzma’ut.
The closure will begin Tuesday at 3 p.m., and last until midnight between Thursday and Friday, May 6.
The Israel Defense Forces says the border crossings for Paleostinians will reopen "subject to a situational assessment."
Such closures are standard practice during festivals and holidays, in what the military says is a preventative measure against attacks at those times, which are seen as periods of increased tension.
A closure was imposed during the first and last days of Passover but was not extended over the entire holiday. During the holiday of Purim in March, the military skipped it all together for the first time in five years.
When Germany does something, they do it thoroughly.
[IsraelTimes] Germany says it has made progress in sharply reducing its reliance on Russian energy, a strategic shift Europe’s biggest economy has embarked on since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Russian supplies now make up 12 percent of Germany’s oil imports compared to 35 percent previously, the economy ministry says in a statement.
Coal from Russia has also been slashed to eight percent compared to 45 percent of Germany’s purchases previously.
Dependence on gas remains substantial, but Europe’s biggest economy had also reduced its Russian sources to 35 percent of the total compared to 55 percent before Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.
The government had in March laid out plans to halve oil imports from Russia by June and to end coal deliveries by the autumn.
Germany is also expected to be able to largely wean itself off Russian gas in mid-2024.
"All these steps that we have taken require an enormous effect from all players and they also mean costs that are being felt by the economy and consumers," says Economy Minister Robert Habeck.
"But they are necessary if we no longer want to be blackmailed by Russia," he stresses.
The reliance of Europe’s biggest economy on Russian energy has been exposed as an Achilles’ heel as Western allies scramble to penalize Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... for his attack on Ukraine.
The export giant has since been racing to find alternative energy suppliers to replace Russian contracts.
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[IsraelTimes] Residents of East Jerusalem and Qalqilya set to be indicted in the coming days, report says.
Police in Jerusalem over the weekend arrested five suspects for attacking buses and cars headed to the Western Wall during Passover last month.
The suspects are from East Jerusalem and Qalqilya, Ynet reported.
Prosecutors are expected to indict them in the coming days.
The alleged attack took place on the morning of April 17, when a group of rioters gathered and attacked the vehicles outside the Old City.
The assailants smashed the windows of the bus and did other damage by hurling stones at the vehicle.
A collaborator in a private car helped hold up traffic by stopping in the road, allowing the attackers to target the vehicles.
Several buses were heavily damaged in the assault, and some passengers were lightly injured.
The attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after, but at least two were apprehended soon after in East Jerusalem.
Last month, police detained 20 suspects for riots in the Old City at the time, including some who allegedly threw stones at buses.
Other suspects were detained for throwing rocks and firecrackers at police from Old City rooftops, and for assaulting Orthodox Jews headed to pray at the Western Wall.
The attacks took place amid sky-high tensions in Jerusalem between Israel and the Paleostinians.
The Moslem holy month of Ramadan, typically a period of friction, saw regular festivities at the flashpoint Temple Mount.
The Old City compound is the holiest site to Jews, and the al-Aqsa Mosque, which sits atop the Temple Mount, is the third-holiest shrine for Moslems.
This year, Ramadan coincided with the week-long Jewish Passover holiday, which brought thousands of Jews to the Old City, including to the Western Wall, which is located beneath the Temple Mount.
Ramadan comes to an end this week, but tensions remain high. The head of the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... threatened Israel and synagogues worldwide on Saturday, and Paleostinian Lions of Islam killed an Israeli guard in the West Bank on Friday.
[LI] During congressional hearings focused on the Biden border disaster, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas indicated that the Biden administration was considering diverting resources from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help illegal immigrants if and when the Title 42 controls ended.
Title 42 expulsions are removals by the U.S. government of persons who have recently been in a country where a communicable disease was present. Biden has slated to end them on May 23.
Republicans are slamming the administration for this proposal.
...{S]everal representatives have sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas about the ’mishandling’ of the border and called the possible usage of VA personnel at the border ’deeply troubling’ as it is already hard for veterans to see doctors.
’Moving VA medical staff away from our veteran’s healthcare needs to examine illegal immigrants is a recipe for disaster,’ the letter, written by Georgia Representative Jody Hice, said. ’Wait times for a veteran to see their doctor can average 22 days and reach as high as 42 days. This is unacceptable mismanagement of federal government resources by the Biden administration.
’Biden’s failed open border policies are no excuse to funnel resources away from our veterans. Our men and women who put their lives on the line to protect our liberties and our country’s sovereignty deserve the best resources for their health care needs.
’The Biden Administration must provide the American people answers. Even the thought of abandoning our veterans’ care for the needs of illegal aliens is disgraceful.’
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says he still hasn’t received an answer from Biden on these plans.
In his letter, Cruz urged the president "to secure our Southern border and immediately renew Title 42," a public health authority that’s allowed federal agents to quickly expel illegal immigrants during a public health emergency. The Biden administration announced it was ending it May 23. Unless halted by the courts, border officials say ending Title 42 will result in roughly 18,000 people rushing the southern border a day, overwhelming Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement as a result.
"[T]he Department of Homeland Security has been considering potential strategies for dealing with the anticipated influx of migrants when CBP’s Title 42 authority is revoked," Cruz said in a statement. "Reportedly, one such strategy, according to a source from within CBP, includes diverting VA medical personnel and deploying them to the border. The CBP source went on to say ’[w]e’re going to take medical services away from people ... [w]ho went to combat ... to give free medical attention to illegal migrants.’"
This "is completely unacceptable," Cruz said.
Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL) sent a letter yo Biden’s Veterans Affairs Secretary asking if any resources from the VA will be diverted from serving our nation’s veterans to deal with the crisis Biden has created on our southern border.
"We need to ensure that no money that was set aside to help our veterans is being diverted to the southern border," Miller said. "VA resources should be used for our veterans, not to manage President Biden’s self-created crisis at the southern border. Instead of depriving our nation’s heroes of resources, the Biden administration should reinstate the effective border security policies of the Trump administration and complete construction of the border wall."
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I commented this earlier, My wifes tax return was mostly taken to pay back VA bills that we never got a bill for. Yet these assholes are sending the Va resources to help these cockroaches. I hope everyone of the cocksuckers in Washington D.C. die a horrible death.
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The Puppet Show is acting like an Imperial state, all the parts of government are available for re-driection by Imperial Edict (Executive Order). The flaw is that the very agency that should be stopping these actions as unconstitutional is the most infested with the Magic Kenyans followers, the risible Department of Justice. And since no one has gone to jail for the theft or diversion of public monies to purposes for which they were not appropriated since the beginning of Obama 1.0, the pattern of acceptance is set even for the weak-kneed GOP leadership. Veterans could literally be dying for lack of treatment earned by their service, while illegal aliens are treated for free . YJCMTSU!
[FoxNews] According to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, deadly overdoses among adolescents nearly doubled from 492 in 2019 to 954 in 2020. They jumped another 20% in 2021.
George Youngblood, who has worked with Teen and Family Services in Houston, said the COVID-19 pandemic affected hundreds of children across the country in the same way that it did Lydia.
"The more we isolated our kids without being able to do all the social-emotional learning that they needed to do, I think that the mental health crisis became so acute. They experienced anxiety and depression," Youngblood said.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has found that drugs are becoming deadlier.
"There has been a huge rise in illicitly manufactured prescription pills that contain fentanyl, at least 30% of which have doses that can kill someone," the institute's director, Dr. Nora D. Volkow, said. "We believe this may be one of the factors that’s putting teenagers at a higher risk for overdose mortality."
I seem to recall that fentanyl comes from China...
Last year, the El Paso sector of Customs and Border Protection alone seized more than six times the amount of fentanyl it did in 2018.
Last week, President Biden released the first National Drug Control Strategy focused on untreated addiction and drug trafficking. Federal officials said about two-thirds of drug overdoses over the last year were related to fentanyl.
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"Presently, Mexico is the largest source of illegally manufactured fentanyl entering the United States.". See https://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP68838.html
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The thing about fentanyl is that the peddlers put it in everything they sell now. Even high-tolerance, careful users are in for a nasty surprise when they least expect it.
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When the dope boys on Hollowell in Atlanta told me they stopped selling certain things because so many people were dying I wisened up.
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[Breitbart] U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh protected records that showed the Boston Police union knew about a top official’s history of child sexual abuse during his tenure as Boston mayor.
Patrick Rose, former president of Boston’s police union, pled guilty to 21 child rape and sexual assault counts on Monday. Walsh’s successor as mayor released records that showed the police conducted an internal investigation into Rose after he allegedly sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy.
After the Boston Globe requested records of a 1995 police department investigation into sexual assault allegations against Rose following his 2020 arrest for child rape, Walsh cited the victim’s identity as a reason for not releasing the records.
However, the records ultimately released by Walsh’s successor redacted the victim’s identity. The records showed the police department’s internal investigation concluded Rose likely sexually assaulted the young boy. The documents also revealed that the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association and the Boston police union advocated for Rose to be taken off desk duty following the 1995 investigation into his sexual assault.
Despite the investigation’s conclusion, Rose continued to work as an officer until his retirement in 2018. Rose even served as president of the police union from 2014 to 2017.
After Rose’s conviction, he was sentenced to 10-13 years in prison and ten years on probation.
In addition to Rose, Walsh also withheld information about domestic abuse allegations against former police commissioner Dennis White. The Washington Free Beacon reported that a Boston police officer swore in an affidavit that Walsh knew about the domestic abuse allegations against White when he appointed White to be the city’s police commissioner.
Walsh ultimately suspended White after the Boston Globe reported on the accusations against him. After suspending White, Walsh claimed to be unaware of the allegations against him.
Again, Walsh refused to release White’s alleged abuse records after the Boston Globe requested them. Walsh also reportedly delayed an investigation into White while the U.S. Senate considered his confirmation as Labor Secretary.
Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine told NPR in a recent interview that 'there is no argument among medical professionals' about gender-affirming care
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, gender-affirming care includes puberty blockers and hormone therapy
Several European countries, though, have moved to ban the use of puberty blockers for children and adolescents
In Sweden, a television investigation found that 13 adolescents who were given puberty blockers started having adverse reactions
American doctors have also spoken out against the use of the medication
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Shortly doctor's licenses will be dependent on them following the official narrative. We already saw it in the wuflu, where some were deemed 'unqualified' because they colored outside the lines, had the wrong opinions, and said the wrong things.
It will shortly be an official offense. Watch for it.
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Looking for the inevitable trials for crimes against humanity. Lots of "trans" activists will be following Danny Deever.
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so now we can compete with the moslems in the genital mutilation olympics
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I don't think the muzzies would go for this shit
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Continued Ukraine efforts to erode Russia positions in north near Kharkiv but little actual change in territory.
Russia apparently discontinued its offensive NE of Slovyansk and started a new offensive NW of Slovyansk. Perhaps this was because Ukraine moved troops in to defend against the former. The new offensive area is actually riskier for Russia as the logistic chain is longer and more exposed but there may be strategy behind it that is not readily discernible.
Russia also advanced by some 5 km south of Slovyansk near Velyka Novosilka but met Ukraine resistance and stopped.
Russia is moving to require the use of Russian currency in areas they hold in the south so this may be added to their Donbass war aims.
Ukraine forces still hold on to part of Mariupol, although Russia declared victory back on April 21.
Both sides are bombarding the other. Ukraine apparently hit another Russian command post near Izyum yesterday.
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[KavkazUzel] The case of a resident of Novorossiysk, accused of deliberately false reporting of an act of terrorism, has been brought to court.
According to investigators, a 45-year-old resident of Novorossiysk, out of hooligan motives, reported an existing threat to the building at her place of work. She was charged with Part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
For the period of the preliminary investigation, the accused was chosen a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave the place and proper behavior.
According to Part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, a knowingly false report about an act of terrorism committed against social infrastructure facilities or causing major damage is punishable by a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison.
The criminal case with the approved indictment was sent to court for consideration on the merits, according to today's message on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory.
Previously, the "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that at the end of March, a court in Stavropol found a local resident guilty of knowingly falsely reporting an explosive device planted in the office of one of the banks and sentenced him to two years of probation.
At the end of December 2021, a resident of Volgograd was sentenced to three years and six months in a penal colony for calling with a message about a bus station being mined.
[Rudaw] At least six rockets landed in Erbil province’s Khabat district on Sunday night, with the rockets originating from Nineveh province, according to the Kurdistan Region’s Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD).
The rockets caused no casualties or material damages, the Region’s counter-terrorism directorate added, and were fired from the proximity of al-Hamdaniya district. The Iran-linked Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) have a strong presence in al-Hamdaniya.
Erbil Governor Omed Koshnaw confirmed to Rudaw that the attack caused no civilian or material damage.
Hadi Salimi, Rudaw’s news hound on the ground, said that the rockets were likely targeting the Kawergosk oil refinery, which was the target of last month’s attack.
According to the Peshmerga ministry, the site of the attack has previously been targeted "several times by Katyusha rockets."
A number of Katyusha rockets landed in the Khabat district of Erbil near the Kawergosk oil refinery on April 6, without causing any casualties or material damage.
The oil refinery is one of the largest refineries in the Kurdistan Region and is operated by the Iraqi-Kurdish oil company KAR Group, the owner of whom's residence was targeted by Iranian missiles in March.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps grabbed credit for the March 13 missile attack on Erbil which caused extensive damage. At least four of the missiles landed on a property belonging to the CEO and founder of KAR Group, Baz Karim Barzinji in the early hours of March 13.
Earlier on Sunday, Karim in a statement said that there were no justifications for the Iranian missile strikes on his property in March, and thanked an Iraqi parliamentary fact-finding committee after it found no evidence for Iran’s accusations.
Six missiles targeted the KAR Group oil refinery in Iraq's northern city of Erbil on Sunday, leading to fire erupting in on of the man oil tanks, Iraq’s security forces said.
The fire was brought under control, the security forces added.
[Rudaw] A Kurdish businessman whose house bore the largest brunt of the Iranian missiles that targeted Erbil in March expressed his regards on Sunday towards a parliamentary fact-finding committee after its report last week discredited the validity of the strikes.
The report confirmed that "the justifications for the attack were invalid and based on misleading information," Baz Karim Barzinji said on his Twitter, adding that "a serious error in assessment and information occurred," on the side of the perpetrators.
Investigations into the missile attack in a report by the Iraqi parliament's fact-finding committee found no evidence to support the Iranian accusations and concluded that Karim's residence was neither an Israeli base nor was he involved in any form of political activity or movement.
Under the pretext of striking an Israeli base, Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... fired a dozen ballistic missiles targeting areas surrounding the US consulate building in Erbil in the early hours of March 13, injuring two civilians and causing severe material damage to houses. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) grabbed credit for targeting "the strategic center of the Zionist conspiracy and evil by point-to-point missile," an accusation vehemently rejected by Kurdish authorities.
At least four missiles landed on the residence of Karim, the CEO and founder of the Iraqi-Kurdish oil company KAR group, an individual whose house Iran claimed harbored a secret Mossad (Israeli intelligence) base in Erbil.
A loaded rocket launchpad was seized in Nineveh plane, an hour after a missile attack targeted an oil tank in Khabat district, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the security forces launched a search campaign following the Khabat attack, during which they found a rocket launchpad loaded with three rockets.
The rockets were possibly prepared to be launched on Zlikan base or Khabat district, according to the source.
A source who works at the Khabat oil refinery, Erbil, revealed to Shafaq News agency that the recent attack targeted an oil tank.
The source noted that the special teams managed to control the fire.
One person sustained minor injuries in the attack, according to the source.
Earlier today six rockets landed in the vicinity of the Khabat district, west of Erbil, Kurdistan's Counter-Terrorism Agency said in a statement on Sunday evening.
The statement said that the rockets landed near the Bahdinan river, causing no damage.
"The rockets were launched from al-Hamdaniyah, a sub-district of Nineveh's Bartala district," he continued.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:15 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 8 civilians as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the previously liberated territories of the Republic: Volnovakha district: - a man born in 1978. n.p. Mariupol: - men: 1966, 1947, 1974, 1966; - women: born in 1959, 1965, 1973.
Thus, the total number of recorded victims in the liberated territories of the DPR is 1309 people, incl. 67 children.
21:52 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of eight civilians as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territories of the Republic by the AFU:
Volnovakha district:
— male, born in 1978.
n.p. Mariupol:
- men: 1966, 1947, 1974, 1966;
- women: born in 1959, 1965, 1973.
21:25 DPR Prosecutor General Alexei Spivak: “The investigation into two British mercenaries, Sean Pinner and Aiden Eslin, has been completed. The case has been taken to court. The maximum penalty for their crimes is the death penalty.”
20:36 A monument to the famous grandmother, who went out with the Soviet flag to the Ukrainian militants and refused to exchange the red flag for food, will be erected in the center of Mariupol, the mayor of the city.
19:50 “We tried how many times to leave, but they returned us back and did not let us in. They swore at us that you are a pro-Russian city.”
More than 80 civilians left the territory of Azovstal in Mariupol today. Some told their stories.
19:41 Additional information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU of the settlement. Gorlovka:
settlement sh-you im. Gagarin:
- st. Chernikova, 1 - residential building;
- st. Yaroshenko, 6, 47, 49 - residential buildings.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
19:29 Today, as a result of the shelling of the VFU in the city of Yasinovataya, 16 houses of the private sector were destroyed. The shelling continues. The city's power supply has been restored.
19:10 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the death of a civilian - a man born in 1983. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Yelenovka at st. Shevchenko, 19.
Also, as a result of this shelling, residential buildings at the addresses of the street were damaged. Queen, 19, 20.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
18:13 Shells of Ukrainian punishers damaged the houses of the private sector in the village of Olenivka. As a result of the shelling, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
- st. Shevchenko, 11: damaged window glazing;
- st. Koroleva, 20: glass windows and roof damaged. There were no casualties.
17:01 On the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about the wounding of a civilian - a man born in 1939. as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk at the address st. Savrasov, 15.
The victim was hospitalized in the central city clinical hospital No. 24. As a result of the shelling of the VFU, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
Kirovsky district of Donetsk:
- st. Sintsova, 32 - a shell hit a car;
- st. Sintsova, 39a - hit in a residential building;
- st. Savrasova, 19 - the gas pipeline is damaged;
- st. Savrasova, 15 - a direct hit in the apartment.
- st. Shaposhnikova, 17, 19 - residential buildings;
- st. Korchagina, 28/33, 28/47 - residential buildings;
- st. Sokolovsky, 17, 19, 19a - residential buildings;
- st. Medical, 15 - the building of the polyclinic was damaged;
- st. Medical, 9, 24a - the buildings of two boiler houses were damaged.
The buildings of kindergarten No. 32 and the House of Children's Art were also damaged.
n.p. Elenovka:
- st. Shevchenko, 11 - residential building.
17:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: 4 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
16:45 Sources report that the SBU and the GUR are massively recruiting residents of Russia and even the PMR to organize various special operations. For example, mass arson of cars, night pogroms, arson of crops and other “special actions”, as they call it in the GUR and SBU. Yesterday, for example, a man was detained in Moldova, who, on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services, printed and distributed on behalf of the military registration and enlistment office summons for the mobilization of those liable for military service.
16:10 Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR Alexei Kostrubitsky awarded the wounded sapper of the pyrotechnic detachment of the RRC of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR Igor Cholanyuk with the medal "For Courage".
15:21 According to updated information, as a result of the shelling of the settlement. Stakhanov, a man born in 1982 died, and four residential buildings were also damaged. Thus, two people became victims of yesterday's shelling - the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC.
15:20 As a result of the aggression of Ukrainian militants, damage to civilian infrastructure in the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka was recorded. In particular, damage to varying degrees was received by residential buildings along the streets: Shaposhnikova, 17, 19, Korchagin, 28/33, 28/47, Sokolovsky, 17 19, 19a, the building of the clinic at Medicinskaya Street, 15, school buildings No. 49, No. 50 , boiler houses on the street. Medical, 24a, Medical, 9 - Prikhodko.
Also, damage to the building of kindergarten No. 82 and the House of Children's Art.
15:19 An OSCE car was found, in which the militants were moving around Mariupol. The car was found in a shopping center, from which the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned into a military facility.
15:11 The Kirovsky district was again shelled by the VFU. A man was injured as a result of a direct hit in the apartment. The data is being specified. The following damage was also recorded:
- Sentsova st., 32: a direct hit in a car;
- st. Sentsova, 39a: hit in a residential building without subsequent burning;
- st. Savrasova, 19: broken gas pipe and electrical wires;
- st. Savrasova, 15: getting into the apartment.
15:07 Another child who was injured during the shelling of Makeevka on April 28 died - the administration of the city of Makeevka. Today, May 1, in the Clinical Mine Hospital of the city of Makeevka, a girl born in 2017 died from injuries sustained as a result of shelling of the Central City district of the city on April 28.
14:30 Fixed damage to the gas pipeline on the street. Enegels in Yasinovataya. The shelling of the VFU continues. Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter. As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Yasinovataya on the street. Orekhov, a house-building fire was recorded. The shelling continues. Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter.
VFU again struck at the street. Yaroshenko in Gorlovka, the gas pipeline was broken in several sections. The gas pipeline along the street was also damaged. Cherkasov.
15:06 TASS: A total of 40 more people, including eight children, were evacuated from the territory of the Azovstal plant. According to some estimates, about 300 civilians may still remain in underground bunkers.
13:55 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded:
n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Kalinin): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 3 rockets fired from BM21 Grad.
13:05 About 16 houses along the streets of Yaroshenko and Cherkasov, in the Gorlovsky village of the mine named after. Gagarin was damaged as a result of daytime shelling by the VFU.
11:49 Gorlovka resident Yu. T. A., who suffered as a result of today's shelling from the VFU, was hospitalized in the ophthalmological department of the city hospital No. 2 in Gorlovka in a state of moderate severity. According to updated information, as a result of the shelling of the Gorlovsky village of the mine named after. Gagarin also recorded damage to housing construction on the street. Yaroshenko, 27, 29, 37, 39 - Prikhodko.
11:33 On April 30, as a result of the establishment of a regime of silence and the opening of a humanitarian corridor, two groups of civilians came out from residential buildings adjacent to the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant. During the day, 25 local residents came out. With the onset of the dark time of the day, the second group of 21 people left, who were taken to the settlement. Nameless. All civilians were provided with accommodation, food and the necessary medical assistance.
10:34 AFU attacked Horlivka. As a result of the shelling by Ukrainian militants of the village of the mine named after. Gagarin damaged a number of residential buildings along the streets of Yaroshenko and Cherkasov. A civilian was injured. The subscribers of the village of the Gagarin mine and partly of the Komsomolets residential area remain without electricity.
10:22 According to official data of the DPR JCCC, in the territory within the borders before the start of the NWO from 17.02.22 as of 09:30 01.05.22
During the 74 days of the escalation, 94 civilians were killed, incl. two children.
Wounds of varying severity were received by 428 civilians, incl. 37 children.*
Damage:
— 2846 residential buildings;
— 629 civil infrastructure facilities, including 37 medical institutions, 100 educational institutions, 165 social security facilities, 26 critical infrastructure facilities, 301 electricity, water and gas supply facilities. VFU is under attackKirovskyiPetrovskydistricts of Donetsk,snowy, Debaltseve.
- 319 vehicles.
During the 74 days of the escalation of the DPR JCCC, 2386 facts of firing were recorded, of which 2149 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 24,159 rounds of various calibers, including 27 missiles fromOTRK "Point-U", four MLRS missiles BM-30 "Smerch", nine MLRS missiles BM-27 "Hurricane"and MLRS missiles BM-21 «City».
*Information about civilian casualties in the liberated territories of the DPR is published by the JCCC in the evening information report.
10:20 April 30, the Ministry of Health of the DPR provided medical assistance to 1,232 patients in the liberated territory:
in the liberated settlements of the Novoazovsky district:
➖25 people were examined in Bezymenny;
➖in Krasnoarmeisky - 14.
in the liberated settlements of the Telmanovsky district:
➖in Granitny, Mirny, Stepanovka, Andreevka, Chermalyk, Staroignatievka, Novoselovka and Kamenka, 62 people were examined.
in the liberated settlements of the Starobeshevsky district:
➖15 people were examined in Bugas, Nikolaevka, Novotroitsky and Olginka.
in the liberated settlements of Volnovakha district:
➖106 people were examined in the Volnovakha Central District Hospital. Restored power supply on the 1st floor and in the surgeon's office on the 2nd floor;
➖in the Volnovakha Center for Primary Health Care, five outpatient clinics and 7 feldsher-obstetric stations continue to operate, 33 patients have been received;
➖18 people were admitted to the Volnovakha city hospital.
in the liberated settlements of the Volodarsky district:
➖State Budgetary Institution "Volodarsk Central District Hospital": 152 people were examined, 108 of them were on inpatient treatment;
➖GBU "Center for Primary Health Care of the Volodarsky District": 140 people, 19 of them in temporary accommodation centers.
in the liberated settlements of the Mangush region:
➖146 people were treated as outpatients at the Mangush Central District Hospital. 91 patients are hospitalized, 14 of them are children. 9 surgical interventions were performed. 54 women are registered for pregnancy;
➖220 patients were examined at the Mangush Center for Primary Health Care, including 51 children.
in Mariupol:
➖outpatient reception of patients by a traumatologist and a family doctor continues, 210 people were examined.
08:50 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three rockets fired from BM21 Grad.
08:34 MGB DPR detained Ukrainian citizen Roman Alexandrovich Tutov, born in 1989
08:27 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 8 civilians as a result of shelling by the AFU of the previously liberated territories of the Republic: N. p. Olginka:
- a man born in 1960.
n.p. Pavlovka:
- a woman born in 1956.
n.p. Novotroitskoye:
- a woman born in 1964.
n.p. Mariupol:
- women: born in 1971, 1965, 1971, 1956, 1966.
Thus, the total number of recorded victims in the liberated territories of the DPR is 1301 people, incl. 67 children.
[IsraelTimes] Pakistain and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... say they will discuss extending the term of a $3 billion loan to help Islamabad’s faltering economy.
The Gulf nation has long been an intelligence partner of Pakistain as well as a regular source of financial relief for successive governments.
The latest sign of support follows a visit to Saudi Arabia by new Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... , who has inherited a crippling national debt, galloping inflation and a feeble rupee.
A joint statement says the kingdom would continue to support the Pak economy and had discussed "augmenting the $3 billion deposit with the central bank through term extension or otherwise."
Saudi Arabia also pledged "to further enhance the financing of petroleum products" at a time when the South Asian country is suffering from frequent power cuts.
The statement comes after recent talks between Pakistain and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the release of funds under an existing $6 billion aid program that had stalled due to concerns about the pace of reforms.
The cash-strapped nation’s foreign exchange reserves plunged below $11 billion last month.
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Any likelyhood they discussed the purchase of a few more nucs?
The #US homeland security chief #AlejandroMayorkas acknowledges that the nation faces an “extraordinary strain” as it braces for surges of immigrants crossing the #Mexico border once pandemic-related entry curbs are dropped.https://t.co/dc5kU65TB2
#Indian security forces have killed 62 militants, including 15 foreigners, in the disputed Jammu & #Kashmir region this year, a senior police official says.https://t.co/dqBKgyFhhK
In case you've lost count...
Indian security forces have killed 62 murderous Moslems, including 15 foreigners, in the disputed Jammu & Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... region this year, a senior police official said on Sunday.
Kashmir, claimed by India and Pakistain but ruled in parts by each country, has long been the site of an armed insurrection against New Delhi. Two of the three wars between India and Pakistain have been fought over Kashmir.
India, which says it seeks to keep bad boy murderous Moslem groups from expanding their base, accuses Pakistain of funding murderous Moslem groups who want independence for Indian-administered Kashmir, a claim Islamabad denies.
The state’s police chief, Vijay Kumar, said some of the faceless myrmidons killed this year had links with Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , a murderous Moslem group that has in recent years allegedly recruited and trained men to fight Indian authority in Kashmir.
A hallmark of the group is to conduct "fedayeen" attacks where men are willing to fight to the death but are not jacket wallahs.
Kumar said 15 faceless myrmidons linked with the Pakistain-based murderous Moslem group 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... - which took responsibility for one of the deadliest attacks on security forces in Indian Kashmir in 2019 - were among those killed in a series of operations.
"The surviving rate of faceless myrmidons has drastically decreased due to enhanced human, technical intelligence and focused operations," Kumar told Rooters.
Members of Hizbul Mujahideen ...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003... , one of the largest anti-Indian Kashmiri murderous Moslem groups, were also among those killed, he said. He said 193 faceless myrmidons were killed in 2021 and 232 in 2020.
Broad search and detention operations by Indian forces are common in the region, which has had an armed resistance movement since 1989.
Rights groups say arbitrary detentions and killings by Indian troops are leading to a range of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019 withdrew Indian-ruled Kashmir’s autonomy in order to tighten his grip over the territory, provoking outrage in Pakistain.
The decision, the most far-reaching political move in one of the world’s most militarized regions in nearly seven decades, polarized opinion, with Kashmiri leaders calling it aggression against the state’s people.
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...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
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[LI] During congressional hearings focused on the Biden border disaster, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas indicated that the Biden administration was considering diverting resources from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help illegal immigrants if and when the Title 42 controls ended.
[FoxNews] According to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
