Power, money and ideology. Power and money wins out over ideology (Leon Trotsky for example).
The welfare of the people...has always been the alibi of tyrants...giving the servants of tyranny a good conscious. Albert Camus (quoted by Peter Schweizer in "Red Handed."
I'm not even sure that tyrants care about whitewashing their conscience. It's just a sales pitch.
Not sure, should this actually be posted in.... 'Great Cultural Revolution?'
[Breitbart] Twenty-three people were shot, five fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
Yesterday, Breitbart News reported at least 15 people were shot Friday into Sunday morning alone in Chicago. The .victims included two fatalities, both of whom were killed on Saturday.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times notes the number of shooting victims for the entire weekend rose to 23 by Monday morning, and there were three additional shooting fatalities.
The first additional fatal shooting occurred Friday night around 7:45 p.m., when 37-year-old Michael Conrad was shot while sitting "in a white Chrysler in the 4400-block of North Hamlin Avenue." Conrad tried to drive from the scene but crashed. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.
The second additional fatal shooting occurred Sunday at 7:44 p.m., when a 20-year-old man "in the 1200-block of West 72nd Place" was shot in the head during a drive-by incident. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
The final fatal shooting of the weekend occurred at 9:35 p.m. Sunday, when another 20-year-old man was struck by gunfire while standing in this kitchen "in the 2100-block of West Maypole Avenue." The gunfire came from outside of his home. The man was taken to the hospital, where he died.
[IsraelTimes] Police say they arrested 314 Paleostinians who were illegally residing in Israel over the weekend in a crackdown following last week’s terror attack in Elad.
The suspects in that attack were a pair of Paleostinian workers who crossed into Israel from the West Bank illegally through a hole in the security barrier.
In addition to the 314, roughly 40 others were arrested for illegally employing, transporting and providing lodging to illegal workers, police say.
[IsraelTimes] Mahmoud Sami Khalil Aram sought to cross for unknown reasons near Tulkarem; army says he was shot by troops seeking to arrest him
Israeli troops opened fire and killed an unarmed Paleostinian man attempting to cross the security fence into central Israel on Sunday afternoon, the army said.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry confirmed the death of the man, identifying him as Mahmoud Sami Khalil Aram. Health officials called him a "young man," but did not immediately give his age.
According to the military, Aram sought to cross the security barrier illegally near Tulkarem in the northern West Bank.
"The troops shot toward him in accordance with the arrest procedure. The suspect was evacuated for medical treatment," the army said.
Under the rules of engagement, Israeli soldiers are allowed to open fire in order to arrest suspects. An Israeli army later spokesperson confirmed Aram was unarmed.
Tens of thousands of Paleostinians are estimated to cross the security barrier illegally to work in Israel. In recent weeks, several faceless myrmidons have also exploited gaps in the fence to arrive in Israeli cities and commit attacks.
[IsraelTimes] In worrying development for Israel, now-abandoned bases reportedly transferred to IRGC and Hezbollah; Moscow has been main force in Syria preventing Iranian expansion
Russia has begun the process of withdrawing some of its troops in Syria to help bolster its forces in Ukraine, the Moscow Times reported.
According to the Friday report in the independent, Dutch-based paper, several military units have been relocated from bases across the country to three unnamed Mediterranean airports, from where they will be transferred to Ukraine.
The report also said that the now-abandoned bases have been transferred to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards Corps, as well as the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
Damascus is a staunch ally of Moscow, which intervened in the Syrian civil war in 2015 by launching Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s to support Syrian President Bashas Assad’s struggling forces.
Russia’s intervention in Syria marked a turning point in the conflict.
It enabled pro-regime forces to wrest back lost territory in a series of victories against rebels and jihadists involving deadly bombardments and massive destruction.
More than 63,000 Russian military personnel have deployed to Syria, Moscow says.
The new development could be problematic for Israel, which has sought to prevent Iranian entrenchment in Syria.
In an op-ed for Israel’s Channel 12 news, Middle East pundit Ehud Ya’ari warned that without Russian influence in Damascus and on the ground, Tehran could more easily push its units into Syria, as well as influence the Assad regime.
"Israel has no way of truly influencing the considerations of the Russian deployment in Syria," Ya’ari said. "However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... as they lower their military presence in this country, Iran’s growing grip in the region is a development to worry about. It is worth remembering that Russia, even when cooperating with Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... in Syria, has always sought to limit and shrink Iran’s foothold there and the depth of Iran’s infiltration of Assad’s army and security services."
Jerusalem and Moscow have in recent years maintained a so-called deconfliction mechanism that works to prevent Israeli and Russian forces from clashing in Syria. Israel has waged a years-long campaign of airstrikes aimed at pro-Iranian fighters located there and at preventing the transfer of Iranian-supplied weaponry.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has avoided criticizing Russia directly for invading Ukraine as Israel seeks to maintain its freedom of movement in the skies of neighboring Syria, which are dominated by Russian forces.
Early on in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, launched at the end of February, Israel sought to walk a diplomatic tightrope between Moscow and Kyiv, preserving relations with both of its allies and offering to broker talks, while supplying Ukraine with humanitarian assistance.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... as reports have emerged of Russian atrocities in Ukraine, Israel has shifted its tone and become more outspoken in its criticism.
*The Israelis have been careful to not hit Russian units. They can be more direct now.
*The Russian units going to Ukraine are going to find out that there's a BIG difference between a fanatical, semi-literate goon screaming something about Allan's snackbar and the highly motivated, well-equipped, and well-trained Ukranians.
Mike
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This is going to get interesting. I doubt the Russians coming from Syria will be as amused once in the Ukraine as I will be watching it.
[Breitbart] The New York Times published a lead editorial on Sunday in which it warned that overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 abortion law, would mean ending interracial marriage, repeating an erroneous argument the left has spread for days.
As Breitbart News reported last week, some Democrats reacted to the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision by claiming that all other social rights were at risk if Roe were to be reversed, and states could even ban interracial marriage.
But Justice Alito specifically distinguished abortion from all other cases, because it involves a potential human life, adding: "Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion."
Nevertheless, in an editorial titled "America Is Not Ready for the End of Roe v. Wade," the Times argued:
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"America Is Not Ready for the End of Roe v. Wade,"
Oh, America is. You are just not part of America. Amazing how quickly they forget their unending hatred and ridicule of America and Americans aka deplorables.
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Simply put.
Roe Vs. Wade (RvW) was owned by many on both sides of DC Swamp in the early 1970s and the still then prevailing older generation racist atmosphere that America was finally putting behind itself.
However, as the abortion moral question evolved it became a Democrat vs. Republican Political agenda item.
Some argue that the Democrat Party and some elites adopted RvW and still champion RvW because it has been a very efficient tool in the Population Control of the Black or African American & other Minority community populations.
--------------------------- According to:
CURE POLICY REPORT
THE EFFECTS OF ABORTION
ON THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
Presented to Congress in 2015 urbancure.org - blackcommunitynews.com
Black women have the highest abortion ratio in the country, with more than 19 million Black or African American babies aborted since 1973.
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Note: 2020 US Census estimated the Black or African American alone population at about 41.1 million. Which accounted for about 12.4% of all people living in the United States. Given 49 years since Roe vs. Wade's "abortion on demand". It has reduced the potential Black Community growth by roughly 46.2%.
PARTING QUOTE
“The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.” -John Piper
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...A metric sh!t ton of chickens are coming back to roost with a vengeance, and PDQ at that.
One thing so many people seem to suddenly be noticing over the last week or so is that neither party, during any of the times they switched off control of Congress and the Presidency, ever bothered to either enshrine Roe into law (which, agree or disagree with it, they had/have the right to do) or completely ban it (ditto). They failed to do so because SCOTUS gave them a fig leaf that meant they wouldn't have to stand up and make a decision that, no matter which way it went, would end up sending a bunch of them home next election.
Well, they gotta make a stand now, one way or the other. If it wasn't for the cities that are going to burn, this would be fun to watch.
Mike
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He's be the only right wing justice that wouldn't.
There are GOP operators who have lamented the interacial marriage rules recently.
Marsha Blackburn wants to outlaw the pill as well.
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NYTs is pushing non sequiturs in addition to its usual garbage. Not suitable even for the bottom of the parrot cage. The Old Gray Lady ain't the lady she used to be. She has become a tarnished harpy.
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Ref #16: "Dysfunction" .....
as in telling the human body you are already preggy and in need of additional caloric intake to support the new person growing inside ?
What could this type of thing possibly result in ?
[RollingStone] DONBAS, Ukraine — Just outside the city limits of Slovyansk, an Eastern Ukrainian city not far from the frontlines, the driver in the lead van switches on the hazard lights and pulls over. "They’re going to put on their [bulletproof] vests," says Ihor Koval, pulling in behind them. Ihor is the driver of the van I’m in and the organizer of this trip to deliver supplies to the Ukrainian Army Forces, among them volunteers who have signed up to fight one of the largest armies in the world. It’s the last leg of a 20-hour drive across nearly the entire width of Ukraine, and we’ve long since entered the Donbas, the flashpoint region in the east.
Despite the billions in heavy weaponry and materiels pouring into Ukraine, many fighters tasked with holding the line are still lacking in necessary supplies like body armor, consumer drones, and nighttime optics. So-called volunteers and informal networks like those organized by Ihor have taken it upon themselves to raise donations and sort out these logistics, sourcing supplies from all over the world. And as Russian forces now regroup and focus their efforts here in the east, Ihor is feverishly trying to ensure that those fighting them, including his cousin, are not left wanting for anything that could give them an advantage or save their lives.
Right now, though, Ihor is dead-set on making sure the Ukrainian volunteers awaiting this push from Russian forces at the very least have their share of traditional sausages and pastries for Easter this weekend. "I don’t care, man. I feel like I owe these guys big time," Ihor leans over to me and says, referring to the fighters at the front. "And I don’t care what’s gonna happen to me. One way or the other I’m gonna die, why not die doing this?"
The last few weeks have seen the Russian invasion of Ukraine begin a shift to a new stage. After failing to encroach on multiple fronts and encircle Kyiv due to strong resistance from Ukrainian forces, the Russian military has pulled back to concentrate their shattered forces in an effort to fully capture and annex the Donbas region, where the initial invasion began eight years earlier. This is where many fear the war will enter a new, even more brutal phase as two entrenched armies fight a modern day war of attrition with tanks and artillery blitzing everything in their path. It will be grinding, and it will be bloody, and there will be destruction and death visited on these lands that will take generations to heal.
[IsraelTimes] Bennett, Gantz, top security officials huddle; PM said to favor targeting 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, while Gantz, backed by army and Shin Bet, wants broad arrest sweep in West Bank.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz were said to be divided over which of the two options to pursue, during a meeting with top security officials about the terror onslaught.
Jenin was highlighted because most of the Paleostinians who carried out recent terror attacks came from the city or its surroundings, including two men arrested earlier in the day after perpetrating an axe attack last Thursday in the Israeli town of Elad that killed three people and seriously injured several others.t
A broad military operation in Jenin would aim to arrest suspects and prevent further attacks. It would also include additional arrest operations in other towns and cities as well as a show of force across the West Bank, according to reports.
Alternatively, an operation in Gaza would target the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group, the ruler of the Paleostinian enclave, which is seen as inciting Paleostinians to stage attacks.
The unsourced reports did not specify what a potential Gaza operation would entail.
Gantz, backed by the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service, favored a Jenin operation, while Bennett pushed for taking on Gaza, Channel 13 news reported.
[IsraelTimes] Closures, initially imposed over Memorial and Independence Days, were extended after deadly Elad attack; IDF bars residents of Rummanah, hometown of attackers, from entering Israel
"Following an assessment of the security situation, it has been decided this evening (Sunday) to open the crossings in the Judea and Samaria area, except for residents of the village of Rummanah — where the Lions of Islam who committed the terror attack in Elad lived — in the Jenin district," said a statement from COGAT, Israel’s military liaison to the Paleostinians.
The statement said that "until further notice, the Erez Crossing will remain closed to passage for residents of 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."
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... it noted that "passage will be permitted only in humanitarian, medical, and exceptional cases and subject to approval from the head of COGAT."
The situation will be reassessed later in the week, the statement said.
The shutdown in the West Bank had only applied to Paleostinians. Checkpoints used by Israelis and foreign nationals to enter and exit the West Bank remained open as usual.
Most of the Paleostinians impacted are those who hold permits to work in Israel. About 140,000 West Bank Paleostinians work in Israel and in Israeli settlements. Another 20,000 Paleostinians from Gaza hold permits to work in Israel.
On Thursday, two Paleostinians hacked three Israelis to death with axes in Elad, a majority ultra-Orthodox city in central Israel, Israeli officials said. Police apprehended them earlier Sunday after a long manhunt.
[ZERO] The following is an abridged version of a talk delivered on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, during the question and answer portion of an OpenTheBooks.com virtual event. Videos, media, and other speeches are available at YouTube/OpenTheBooks.
Victor Davis Hanson, earned his B.A. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his Ph.D. in classics from Stanford University. He is the author of several books, including A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War and The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. Dr. Hanson is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of classics emeritus at California State University, Fresno.
QUESTON:
Dr. Hanson, You and I are both native Californians. So looking at California, do you think we've lost the state? Or do you have any strategy advice to reverse this current downward trend set up that we have, and bring some success to us? Just in the state of California.
ANSWER — VICTOR DAVIS HANSON:
California is sort of like a prodigal son. We've all had members of our family that we love, and we grew up with and we thought they were stable, and then they take drugs or they get wayward, they get in trouble, but we don't disown them. Well, we don't move away from them. We try to work with them and hope they can find redemption.
I think that's what we're doing in California.
So, there isn’t one Republican statewide officeholder. Republicans only have 11 of 53 Congressional seats. The rest are Democrats. Both houses of the state legislature have super majorities (Democrats). The ninth federal appellate court is the most liberal in the nation. So, they got what they wanted; the left did.
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Well, we don't move away from them. We try to work with them and hope they can find redemption.
Well, there sure have been a heck of a lot of them moving to other states. We can only hope they moved because they were fed up with the status quo. Similar movements have occurred in other blue states as well leaving benind high taxes, over-regulaion and corruptocrats.
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They came with far fewer skills, and they came in mass over the last 30 years.
Let's see 2022 - 30 = 1992. Wasn't 1992 the year that Bill Clinton won the presidential election? Yeah, it was. He may have been a pervert but he sure knew how to turn California blue. Biden is doing the same thing now to the rest of the country.
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So, upper middle class and working and middle class Hispanics (that are 40% of the CA population) are undergoing — I'm not even sure they're fully aware of it in the abstract — the most radical political shift in my lifetime.
The current chair of the California Republican Party is an Hispanic woman and one of the candidates for governor is Hispanic.
Some members of our Asian communities are shifting to the GOP as well, especially those who fled communism in places like China, Cambodia and Vietnam. They know what happens when communists take over and they get very emotional when they talk about it.
So I suppose there is hope. It's exactly the kind of shift that Democrats deserve. I just hope it's not too late.
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There are currently NO GOP folks occupying any statewide office positions in CA. None. Dems have super majorities in both houses of the legislature. This is not going to change. I wish it were otherwise but no. I'm born, raised CA. I've seen all that has gone down. Short of getting nuked, nothing is gonna change in CA, the Dems - with the fealty of the CA GOP, have seen to this. At best, we can hope for a blip, but nothing more. CA is nothing more than the Dem's Potemkin Village. None of it is based in reality.
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[NYP] History shows us that forced ideological conformity never ends well for Jews, but liberal Jewish institutions keep wanting to give it another go.
In a Wall Street Journal piece, Elliott Abrams and Eric Cohen, respectively chairman and CEO of Tikvah and co-chairmen of the Jewish Leadership Conference, reveal that Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage canceled a planned JLC event because Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was an invited speaker.
Write Abrams and Cohen: "We were working closely with the museum on the details for the June 12 event — until, out of the blue, we were told by the museum staff that Mr. DeSantis didn’t ’align with the museum’s values and its message of inclusivity.’ Either we disinvite the governor, they said, or our event was unwelcome."
The museum gingerly pushed back. On its Twitter account it said this wasn’t a "free speech or censorship issue" but "simply a contractual and logistical decision," which doesn’t actually contradict what Abrams and Cohen are alleging.
Yes, the museum made the "contractual and logistical decision" to deny rental space to Tikvah, an organization that has hosted many events at the museum, because DeSantis was to be a speaker. It’s not a "free speech or censorship issue" since that implies government is stopping the speech, and that is clearly not happening here.
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It's not the government doing it, but (to give another example) the possibility of someone not automatically mandarin-class aligned buying Twitter and loosening the speech codes is a light-your-neon-hair-on-fire-and-scream panic event...
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This is vile. Messers Abrams and Cohen should reschedule their event elsewhere, taking out ads in the New York Times and elsewhere to explain that they are doing so because the Museum of Jewish Heritage ha chosen to politicize what had heretofore been an apolitical event.
[Washington Examiner] The privilege of voting is precious to the people and is coveted around the world. Participating in elections is a hallmark of our citizenship. It is arguably the most consequential way that citizens can influence the direction of our republic. Lawmakers have an obligation to guard that privilege vigilantly, but the Biden administration has chosen instead to weaken the protections that ensure the integrity of the ballot.
Last year, President Joe Biden issued Executive Order 14019, "Promoting Access to Voting." This directed every federal agency, agencies that are staffed through partisan appointments, to create a plan to register and mobilize voters. It also orders these agencies to work with organizations such as activist groups to register and mobilize voters in whatever manner they see fit. In doing so, the Biden administration has politicized election processes that were uniquely guarded as a nonpartisan since the ratification of the Constitution in 1788.
There are few details about what the relationship between the federal bureaucrats and state election administrators would look like or where any oversight would occur. And the president has been even more opaque about who will decide which third parties will be selected to participate in these registration and mobilization schemes. As a result, the Foundation for Government Accountability filed a Freedom of Information Act request in July 2021 to obtain various documents pertaining to the executive order.
Nine months later, the Biden administration has yet to provide any meaningful, substantive response or produce any documents that would fulfill the public records request. This is in direct violation of the Department of Justice’s 20-day FOIA response rules. As such, the Foundation for Government Accountability has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida with the expectation that the court will obligate the Department of Justice to release the requested FOIA materials.
The Biden administration's silence should concern all citizens. Silence, a lack of transparency, and an unwillingness to answer reasonable questions foster doubt in our election processes and election results at every level of government.
Democrats in Washington, led by the president, have tried to maintain unnecessary pandemic-era election policies while creating frivolous new ones. Their efforts would do grave harm to the nation’s electoral process by expanding federal control over state voting norms. Using taxpayer funds to pay political activists to join with federal bureaucrats is an unprecedented seizure of power from voters.
In the meantime, we have no choice but to ask: What is the Biden administration trying to hide?
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I still say they lack the manpower. No workers everywhere. Lower standards but even then few takers. These current protests in DC will see low turnout(my opinion, I don't bother to look). Morale is low in the military. Wokeness abounds. So actual workers few and far between.
[American Thinker] Dinesh D’Souza is an effective filmmaker and he didn’t disappoint with 2000 Mules, a riveting documentary examining the way leftist organizations used activists to stuff ballots in the 2020 election (and the 2020 Georgia run-off election that handed the Senate to the Democrats). However, after watching it, I felt there were some unanswered questions that also deserve scrutiny so I hope D’Souza follows up on these issues.
2000 Mules begins with the premise that Trump voters have found it impossible to believe that Trump lost the election. When they contrast his campaign appearances (60,000 screaming fans) with Biden’s campaign appearances (6 vaguely animated lumps sitting in little circles); the bellwether counties states showing Trump winning by a large margin; the significant gains Trump made with Hispanics and Blacks; the millions of votes Trump gained over the four years of his presidency; and the mysterious overnight counting shut-down in the states that ultimately gave Biden his "victory," they know that something is wrong.
The folks at True the Vote also suspected that something was wrong, very wrong. The founder, Catherine Engelbrecht, working with Gregg Philips and a team of computer analysts, came up with a very clever way to determine whether there was fraud. They suspected as much, thanks to the way in which Democrats in key states used COVID as an excuse to increase absentee voting. That included states which allowed only absentee voting with drop boxes across cities and towns, where there had been massive ballot harvesting. That is, people, both real and fake, didn’t fill out their own ballots. Instead, they were collected, completed, and put into drop boxes by partisan and paid activists.
To prove this theory, True the Vote obtained geo-tracking information for major urban areas in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona, allowing them to follow cell phone signals. They marked all the drop boxes and all the facilities for left-wing non-profits. They then looked for cell phones that traveled between the non-profits and drop boxes at least ten times (to be sure to winnow out statistical noise). Through FOIA requests, they also obtained as many videos as they could showing people stuffing multiple ballots into the drop boxes, a completely illegal act.
Their data revealed 2,200 mules in just five cities, visiting between 20 and 45 drop boxes each, at which they dropped off an average of five ballots. When you do the math, the numbers are staggering:
[WashingtonExaminer] A political group funded exclusively by liberal financier George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... has dumped over $100,000 in support of a former public defender running to become a prosecuting attorney in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Soros is the only contributor to the Arkansas Justice and Public Safety PAC, which was founded in mid-April around the same time the financier donated $321,000 to the group. The PAC has since spent about $100,000 on research, polling, and consulting work, and in late April, the group purchased $40,000 worth of television advertisements in support of Alicia Walton's bid to serve as prosecuting attorney in Pulaski and Perry counties, the Arkansas Times reported.
Walton said during an interview in April she wants to empower victims while also providing a pathway for redemption for offenders.
"I have not only worked extensively within the criminal justice system, but I have also been a crime victim," Walton told Black Consumer News. "With that experience in mind, I will work to empower victims, dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, provide a pathway for offenders to seek redemption, and provide more diversionary programs for those with mental health and substance abuse challenges. It is time for the criminal justice system to work for all of us."
Soros's intervention in the lead-up to the May 24 primary provides a significant boon to Walton, who has raised less than $20,000 for her campaign, according to the Capital Research Center. Walton's opponent, Will Jones, has raised $144,000 for his campaign.
The Arkansas Justice and Public Safety PAC is led by Whitney Tymas, who is also listed as the director or treasurer for similarly named Soros-funded groups that support liberal prosecutors in at least 12 other states.
"What we're really doing is leveling the playing field," Tymas told the New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... in 2019, noting that district attorney races often have low voter engagement.
All candidates in the prosecuting attorney race run as nonpartisans, but the Republican Party of Arkansas expressed glee at Soros's intervention in Little Rock.
"Crime increases around the Nation where George Soros funded DAs and Prosecutors reign," the party said in a statement. "Now as crime is on the rise in Little Rock, Soros turns his attention and cash to the Central Arkansas Prosecuting Attorney's Race, supporting soft on crime Alicia Walton."
Soros has contributed more than $29 million in support of over 20 liberal district attorneys since 2016, according to the Capital Research Center.
Many of the prosecutors who won their elections thanks in part to contributions by Soros have presided over significant crime waves in their cities after assuming office.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... and Democratic mayors in blue cities across the country have signaled in recent months a reversal from the "defund the police" mantra championed by liberal politicians in 2020.
[Dawn] Sitting in an office lined with books overlooking a giant prayer hall, Mohammed Ashfaq Kazi, the main preacher at the largest mosque in Mumbai, checked a decibel meter attached to the loudspeakers before he gave the call to worship.
"The volume of our azaan (call to prayer) has become a political issue, but I don't want it to take a communal turn," said Kazi, one of the most influential Islamic scholars in the sprawling metropolis on India's western coast.
As he spoke he pointed to loudspeakers attached to the minarets of the ornate, sand-coloured Juma Masjid in Mumbai's old trading quarters.
Kazi and three other senior holy mans from Maharashtra where Mumbai is located said more than 900 mosques in the west of the state had agreed to turn the volume down on calls to prayer following complaints from a local Hindu politician.
Raj Thackeray, leader of a regional Hindu party, demanded in April that mosques and others places of worship kept within allowed noise limits. If they did not, he said his followers would chant Hindu prayers outside mosques in protest.
Thackeray, whose party has just one seat in the state's 288-member assembly, said he was merely insisting that court rulings on noise levels be enforced.
"If religion is a private matter then why are Moslems allowed to use loudspeakers all 365 days (of the year)?" Thackeray told news hounds in Mumbai, India's financial hub and capital of Maharashtra.
"My dear Hindu brothers, sisters and mothers come together; be one in bringing down these loudspeakers," he said.
Leaders of India's 200 million Moslems see the move, which coincided with the holy festival of Eid, as another attempt by hardline Hindus to undermine their rights to free worship and religious expression, with the tacit agreement of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In recent weeks, a senior BJP leader began pushing for swapping marriage and inheritance laws based on religion with a uniform civil code, taking aim at rules that allow Moslem men, for example, to have four wives.
The BJP did not respond to a request for comment on Thackeray's initiative. It denies targeting minorities, and says it wants progressive change that benefits all Indians.
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At the Juma Masjid, Kazi said he complied with Thackeray's demands in order to reduce the risk of violence between Moslems and Hindus.
Bloody festivities have erupted sporadically across India since independence, most recently in 2020 when dozens of people, mostly Moslems, were killed in Delhi following protests against a citizenship law that Moslems said discriminated against them.
While hardline Hindu leaders were seeking to undermine Islam, Kazi said, "we (Moslems) have to maintain calm and serenity." The state took Thackeray's initiative seriously.
Senior police officials met religious leaders including Kazi earlier this month to ensure microphones were turned down, as they feared festivities in Maharashtra, home to more than 10 million Moslems and 70 million Hindus.
On Saturday, police filed a criminal case against two men in Mumbai for using loudspeakers to recite the early morning azaan and warned workers of Thackeray's party from gathering around mosques.
"Under no circumstances will we allow anyone to create communal tension in the state and the court's order must be respected," said V.N. Patil, a senior Mumbai police official.
A bigwig for Thackeray's party said the initiative was not designed to single out Moslems but aimed to reduce "noise pollution" created by all places of worship.
"Our party does not appease the minority community," said Kirtikumar Shinde, adding that police had issued warnings to 20,000 party workers this month.
The issue of calls to prayer extends beyond Maharashtra. BJP politicians in three states asked local police to remove or limit the use of loudspeakers in places of worship.
The deputy chief minister of the country's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, said over 60,000 unauthorised loudspeakers had been removed from mosques and temples.
[OneIndia] Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur condemned the incident of raising 'Khalistan' flags on the main gate and boundary wall of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly in Dharamshala on Sunday morning.
"I condemn the cowardly incident of raising Khalistan flags at the gate of Dharamshala Assembly Complex in the dark of night. Only winter session is held here, so there is a need for more security arrangements only during that time," Thakur tweeted in Hindi.
He has ordered an immediate investigation into the matter and said that and strict action would be taken against the culprits. "Taking advantage of this, this cowardly incident has been carried out, but we will not tolerate it. This incident will be investigated immediately and strict action will be taken against the culprits. I would like to tell those people that if you have the courage, then come out in the light of day, not in the dark of night," he added further.
After the incident came to light, the cops flung into action and removed it from the gates and walls, Superintendent of police, Kangra, Khushal Sharma said.
Sharma suspected the hand of "some tourists from Punjab" behind the incident. "It might have happened late night or early morning today. We have removed the Khalistan flags from the Vidhan Sabha ...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft.... gate. It could be an act of some tourists from Punjab," the SP said.
The police will register a case into the matter today, he further informed.
[Dawn] Around 800 Pak Hindus in Rajasthan, who came to India seeking citizenship on the basis of alleged religious persecution, returned to the country in 2021, according to Seemant Lok Sangathan (SLS), a group that advocates for the rights of Pak minority migrants colonists in India, The Hindu said on Sunday.
It quoted SLS as saying that many of the returnees went home after finding no progress in their citizenship application.
Their return is said to be embarrassing for India where the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) initiated an online citizenship application process in 2018. It also made 16 Collectors in seven States to accept online applications to grant citizenship to Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, Jain and Buddhists from Pakistain, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
The religiously-based citizenship law has been challenged by India’s opposition groups. A bureaucratic red-tape is a hindrance. Though the entire process is online, The Hindu said, the portal does not accept Pak passports that have expired, forcing people seeking refuge to rush to the Pakistain High Commission in Delhi to get their passports renewed for a hefty sum.
"If it is a family of ten, then they end up spending more than Rs1 lakh at the Pakistain High Commission to get the passports renewed. These people come to India amid great financial hardships and to cough up such a high amount of money is not feasible," an SLS official was quoted as saying.
The MHA informed the Rajya Sabha ...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft.... on December 22, 2021, that according to the online module, as many as 10,635 applications for citizenship were pending with the Ministry as on December 14, of which 7,306 applicants were from Pakistain.
According to Mr Singh, there are 25,000 Pak Hindus in Rajasthan alone who have been awaiting citizenship, some for more than two decades. Many of them have applied in the offline mode.
In 2015, the MHA amended the Citizenship Rules and legalised the stay of foreign migrants colonists belonging to six communities, who had entered India on or before December 2014 due to persecution on grounds of religion, by exempting them from the provisions of the Passport Act and the Foreigners Act as their passports had expired.
[Dawn] THE danger is clear and present: militancy is on the upswing and matters could get worse before they get better.
As per statistics released by the Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies, April saw a 24pc increase in bully boy attacks as compared to the month before. There were 34 such attacks in April with a corpse count of 55. At least 25 people were maimed. In March, the attacks numbered 26, but the casualty figures were much higher — 77 dead and 288 injured — largely on account of the devastating suicide kaboom at a Shia mosque in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... on the fourth day of the month which was claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group’s Khorasan chapter.
The frequency of attacks in March was twice that in February, indicating a rapidly worsening security scenario. Most of the violence took place in the tribal districts, parts of which have become hotbeds of militancy once again, followed by the rest of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and then Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... The second coming of the Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... last year has had a negative fallout on Pakistain’s security landscape. In fact, Lions of Islam of all stripe seem to have been emboldened by the success of the Death Eater force in driving out the world’s sole superpower.
There is an eerily symbiotic connection between the new regime’s takeover of Kabul and the rise in militancy in this country. The year 2021 saw the highest number of bully boy attacks in Pakistain after a consistent decline of six years — with the maximum occurring in August, the very month the Afghan Taliban seized power next door.
It soon became clear that, contrary to their pledges to the international community, Kabul’s new rulers were not going to take any action against the banned TTP, or any other violent mostly peaceful Death Eater outfit for that matter, that are taking refuge on their soil. This was partly because they feared that such action could drive some from its own ranks towards other bully boy groups. But the situation also presented the Afghan Taliban with the opportunity to repay the TTP for giving them safe harbour in erstwhile Fata when they were fleeing the US forces invading Afghanistan. At most, they were willing to facilitate talks between their ideological brothers-in-arms and the Pak state.
After the failure of the short-lived truce that came about as a result, the TTP has not looked back. Pakistain needs to neutralise the threats emerging on its western flank without delay.
[DW] A device that was discovered Friday in the basement of Ria Novosti's office in Berlin's Steglitz district was "probably incendiary," according to police. An investigation into the "dangerous object" is still ongoing.
A device found in the building of a Russian news agency in Berlin was "probably" explosive, German police said Saturday.
Police had initially been called to the location on Friday afternoon after an empty beer bottle was thrown at the building's facade.
The device was discovered in the basement of a place "housing the office of a Russian press agency," Ria Novosti, in the city's Steglitz district, police said Saturday.
"Yesterday, emergency services found a dangerous object at the building of a Russian news agency in Steglitz, which was probably an incendiary device," Berlin police tweeted. "It was destroyed by specialists."
UNCLEAR INTENTIONS
Whether it was a deliberate attack was initially unclear, a police spokesperson told German news agency DPA.
"There are also offices of other companies in the building," the spokesperson said. "The background is not yet known, the investigation is ongoing."
RIA NOVOSTI CLAIMS 'POSSIBLE TERROR ATTACK'
The Russian state-owned news agency reacted on Telegram by saying that the placing of the device constituted "a possible terrorist attack against Russian journalists and their families" in Berlin.
The incident came as Russia prepares to hold traditional Victory Day festivities on Monday to mark the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany while tensions endure over its invasion of Ukraine.
Regarding the May 9 commemorations, domestic intelligence in Germany is expecting "car parades and demonstrations" in support of Russia, and possibly the invasion of Ukraine, to take place in Berlin and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti is headquartered in Moscow.
[BenarNews] Russia’s arms sales to Southeast Asia have plummeted because of international sanctions imposed since the start of the Ukraine crisis in 2014 and the ongoing war will likely lead to a further decline, creating market opportunities for China and other countries, a new report says.
An article in the bulletin ISEAS Perspective published by the ISEAS —Yusof Ishak Institute, a Singapore-based research institution, has found that Russia’s defense industry has been hit hard, with export values reduced from U.S. $1.2 billion in 2014 to just $89 million in 2021.
Cumulatively Russia has been on top of the list of arms suppliers to Southeast Asia over the last two decades but the sales are likely to fall further and regional countries will look to divert their weapons contracts to other countries, the report says.
Data provided by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) show that in 2021 alone, Russia slipped behind the United States and China.
According to the ISEAS Perspective article’s author, academic Ian Storey, the biggest reason behind the fall is sanctions and export controls that the U.S. and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... imposed on Russia’s defense industry since its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Those restrictions haven’t necessarily prevented Southeast Asian nations from buying Russian arms, but there is less on offer as Russian manufacturers face difficulties in conducting financial transactions and accessing technologies and critical components.
"The conflict brought to an abrupt end longstanding and extensive cooperation between Ukrainian and Russian defense companies, especially in the production of engines for surface ships, helicopters and aircraft," Storey said.
Another factor is a pause in the military modernization program in Vietnam, Russia’s biggest customer in Southeast Asia. Hanoi began the program in the late 1990s and in the period 1995-2021, it bought weapons and military equipment valued at $7.4 billion from Russia. That accounted for more than 80 percent of Vietnam’s total arms imports.
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Another wishful article…Not sure the writer realize that after this so called special operation in Ukraine, Russia will hit a jackpot selling missile technology to south east Asia, India, Iran, Gulf countries etc.
Every one of them is in line and publicly interested
Ps:
For peoples interested on an alternative to the American and British fake news the daily news … “good” YouTube channel hosted by an analyst from Singapore named “Defense Politics Asia” does good daily analysis of what is really going on in the Ukraine war,
Maps paired with geolocation movies and graphics on daily basis
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A bigger factor than sanctions is the poor performance of the Russian military. If the originating country can't get decent performance from their weapons...
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The old argument was that 'others' had been operating the equipment and that the problem was in the users implementation not the product. Now the manufacturer is actually using the goods and its still below contemporary standards in the field. Well, its still good enough to keep the peasants down and cheaper than the competition as long as you're not going to engage in first world warfare.
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The SU-35 sales have been tanking for a while after Egypt got their hands on some and found they were shit and canceled the orders. Same with the S-300 after Israel bombed the shit out Syria at will.
Russia will still be able to sell missiles, guns and anti-tank weapons like usual but their "high tech" stuff is taking hits as the world sees it as the crap it is.
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The principal selling point of Russian arms is "no questions asked". That's a pretty big deal, given all the political conditions imposed by Western arms manufacturers.
The other selling point is kickbacks/commissions to the people the purchasing country has deputized to acquire weaponry. The Russians will gladly tack on the cost of these add-ons to the final price tag. Western arms sales people might provide non-cash incentives, but cash on the barrelhead to purchasing reps is generally a no-no, and risks prison terms for the sales team, thanks to the FCPA.
Buying agents don't really care if the weaponry works - only that they get their commissions/kickbacks. As long as palm-greasing continues to be standard practice in the Russian arms industry, Russian weaponry will continue to have a market.
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"It killed an infidel, last time it was used"
"I'll take ten"
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The principal selling point of Russian arms is "no questions asked". That's a pretty big deal, given all the political conditions imposed by Western arms manufacturers.
China is trying to fill that role. However, they can't find many buyers for their J-11 and J-16 fighters either as they are crappier than the Russian jets.
[AlAhram] Ami Sana hangs a tattered tarp for a bit of shade where she can rest on a break from pounding stones under the scorching sun.
"The work is hard. It makes my body weak, but what else can I do?'' she asked.
The mother of six is one of 2 million people displaced by Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... 's rapidly rising Islamic holy warrior violence, according to the UN.
Amid the clamor of clanging pickaxes and falling rocks, Sana has found work in the Pissy granite mine on the outskirts of Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou.
Lifting heavy rocks and hammering them into gravel to sell to construction companies is tough work that doesn't earn her enough to adequately feed or educate her children, Sana said. But it's the best work that she could find.
The rush of civilians from rural villages plagued by holy warrior violence has put pressure on Burkina Faso's cities.
"Some of the host cities have doubled or tripled in size in the past three years, and their infrastructures are often stretched to a breaking point,'' said Hassane Hamadou, country director for the Norwegian Refugee Council.
"Schools can't absorb all the new children, water points can't provide enough for all. Hundreds of thousands are left without access to an education, clean water or healthcare as a result,'' he said.
The influx of displaced people is causing competition among the approximately 3,000 people working at the granite mine. At least 500 displaced people started working at the mine last year making it harder for the original miners to earn a living, said Abiba Tiemtore, head of the site.
"With more people, it's hard to collect as many rocks and it's impacting our daily income,'' she said. Miners who used to make approximately $1 a day say they are now lucky if they make 80 cents.
When it seized power in January, Burkina Faso's ruling junta vowed to stamp out holy warrior violence but it has done little about the swelling numbers of displaced.
The government has a responsibility to provide the swelling numbers of displaced with those social services, said Alexandra Lamarche, senior advocate for West and Central Africa for Refugees International.
The minister of humanitarian affairs did not respond to a request for comment on the situation.
So far the junta has not succeeded in stemming the holy warrior violence. In January, 160,000 people were newly displaced, the second-largest monthly increase in three years, according to a report by international aid groups. Hard-hit areas like the Center North region, which hosts Burkina Faso's largest displaced population, are buckling under the pressure.
"The impact of people moving from their farms into big cities is disorientation (and) the increase of poverty (and) fear,'' said Abdoulaye Pafadnam, former mayor of Barsalogho, one of the main towns in the Center North region.
The violence is cutting off access for aid groups to reach people in need. Roads that were safe to travel six months ago are lined with explosives and the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... had only one helicopter until recently to transport people and aid across the country.
The pressure on cities has also started creating rifts between some host and displaced communities. In the northern town of Ouahigouya, people sheltering in a crowded displacement camp said locals chase them from the forest if they try to chop wood for cooking, accusing them of trying to destroy it.
With no end to the jihadi violence in sight, the numbers of Burkina Faso's displaced are expected to continue flooding urban centers where they'll be hunting for jobs.
"I worry that I have no means to take care of my children,'' said Fati Ouedraogo, a displaced mother of 10 in Ouahigouya. "When the children are crying I don't know what to
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[REGNUM] Cossacks of the Terek Cossack Army will take part in the Victory Parade on Red Square for the first time. Together with them, the Cossacks of the Kuban Cossack Army will march on May 9. This was reported to IA REGNUM by the press service of the All-Russian Cossack Society.
On Victory Day, 105 Kuban and the same number of Terek Cossacks will walk along the cobblestones of Red Square, representing the Russian Cossacks. The ataman of the All-Russian Cossack Society Nikolai Doluda will lead the procession of the Cossacks .
"Two months of training at the Alabino training ground were not in vain. At the dress rehearsal, the Cossack ceremonial calculations demonstrated combat coherence and a sense of shoulder. For the Cossack brotherhood, this is a genetic feeling. It is acquired not only by sports training, but also by the unity of spirit," said the Cossack general.
The Cossacks will march in memory of the Cossack heroes of the Great Patriotic War, as well as in honor of compatriots participating in Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.
Recall that the triumph of the Cossack Guards was the Victory Parade in Moscow on June 24, 1945. For courage and heroism shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders, about 100,000 Cossack cavalrymen were awarded orders and medals.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:11 NM DPR captured one 122-mm multiple launch rocket system BM-21 "Grad", three 120-mm mortars and four enemy cargo vehicles.
21:14 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about another injured civilian as a result ofshellingVFU n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye - to a woman born in 1957Previouslya man born in 1954 was wounded in this locality.
Information was also received about the wounding of a civilian born in 1946. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Novobokhmutovka, Yasinovatsky district, at the address: st. Forest, 30.
Thus, the number of civilian casualties for May 8, 2022 is 7 people (1 killed and 6 injured).
20:25 VFUshellingcivilians of Donetsk
Ukrainian militants continue to fire on residential areas of Donetsk. So, as a result of terrorist shelling, a residential sector in the Petrovsky district was damaged. One civilian was killed.
19:35 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian born in 1954. as a resultshellingVFU n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye at the address: st. Red, 48.
There were also reports of damage as a result ofshellingVFU n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye at the addresses:
- st. Red, 48, 50.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
19:12 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the injured civilian, born in 1971. on st. Arkhipova, 14, as a resultshellingVFU Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
There were also reports of damage as a result ofshellingVFU in Donetsk at the following addresses:
Quiet neighborhood:
- st. Arkhipova, 14/10 - apartment building.
Vostochny microdistrict:
- st. Revyakina, 33 - Boarding school No. 28.
18:30 Decree of the Head of the DPR No. 196 dated May 8, 2022 amended Decree No. 45 dated March 3, 2022. The liberated settlements, previously temporarily under the control of Ukraine, are included in the zone of influence and responsibility of the regions of the Donetsk People's Republic. According to the changes, included in the zone of influence and responsibility:
- The administration of the city of Yasinovataya:
- The village of Troitskoye.
Also temporarily included in the zone of influence and responsibility:
- Administration of the Novoazovsky district:
- The village of Radyanskaya Ukraine.
– Telmanovsky district administrations:
– Valeryanovka village;
- The village of Blagoveshchenka;
- Egorovka village;
- Kirillovka village;
- Zachatovka village;
- Lidino village;
- The village of Lazarevka;
- Novonikolaevka village;
- The village of Shevchenko (Volnovakha district).
– Administration of the city of Donetsk:
- The village of Evgenovka;
- The village of Staromlynovka;
- The village of Novopetrikovka;
- The village of Krasnaya Polyana.
18:22 According to preliminary data, the Russian Army has liberated the village of Nizhne in the LPR. Ukrainian fighters fled.
18:10 The village of Nizhne in the LPR has been taken, an exit to Lisichansk has been opened for our troops, - Kadyrov. Together with the fighters of the LPR, our soldiers took complete control of the urban-type settlement of Nizhnee. The Russian troops got a lot of trophies, which the Bandera people left in a hurry in their headquarters.
18:08 AFU fires at civilians in Donetsk. Ukrainian militants continue to fire on residential areas of Donetsk. So, as a result of terrorist shelling, a residential sector in the Petrovsky district was damaged. One civilian was killed.
18:00 Destructionfrom ATGM firing positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Peski. The Nazis use the abandoned houses of civilians to fire at the positions of the NM DNR.
17:35 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Staromikhailivka: 5 LNG grenades fired.
17:22 A strong fire in Gorlovka - houses and a kindergarten are on fire. Local residents believe that incendiary shells from Ukraine may be to blame. The burning area of the city is shelled all day long. On the ground, hexagonal bars with a pronounced smell are found.
17:02 Prikhodko: Ukrainian nationalist gangs shelled the Gorlovsky village of the Gagarin mine. As a result of the aggression of the VFU, many fires were recorded in housing construction in the lane. Makeevsky, 2, on the street. 40 years of October, 3, Grechko, 11, Longitudinal, 14, Aktobe, 7, Pereyaslavskaya. Emergencies Ministry brigades went to the scene of incidents. Information about fires continues to arrive.
16:15 The operational line of the DPR JCCC receivedinformationabout damage resulting fromshellingVFU of the mine village named after Gagarin N. p. Gorlovka at the following addresses:
- per. Makeevsky, 2 - fire of a private house was recorded;
- st. 40 years of October, 3 - fire of a private house was recorded.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
15:43 In Kherson, a photo exhibition of the history of Donbass over the past 8 years "Truth from Donbass" was held.
15:40 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC that as a resultshellingVFU n.p. Gorlovka de-energized the upper and lower pumping stations of the water supply unit No. 2.
Without water supply, the microdistrict "Kvartal 88", settlements: mines named after. V. I. Lenin, Ruduch, Maisky, Nizhny Khutor, New Quarter, Bessarabka, Nikitovka, Zaitsevo, Mashzavod im. Kirov, Kochegarka (from Internatsionalnaya St. to Pilipenko St.), the Solnechny array lived.
There was also information about damage to an apartment building as a result ofshellingVFU of the village "Administrative" of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk at the address: st. Miner's Glory, 10, apt. 45.
15:30 The first products from the DPR will be shipped through the port of Mariupol in May - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
15:20 An inconvenient truth for the Ukrainian authorities from the deputy commander of the Azov regiment, captain Svyatoslav "Kalina":
➖our government failed to protect Mariupol, failed to prepare the defense of Mariupol
➖we received neither air, nor ground, nor artillery support
➖we are actually left to the mercy of fate.
15:04 Deputy commander of the Azov regiment says they have many wounded soldiers, begs them to be evacuated - Reuters.
15:02 Head of the DPRvisitedin Mariupol with the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin visited Azovmash, as well as the Mariupol commercial port. Work is in full swing there - more than 400 employees have already been hired.
14:40 Kuibyshevsky district was subjected to a daytime strike:
- st. Luzina, 12 (settlement "Oktyabrsky mine") - the glazing is damaged;
- st. Stepnaya, 97 (settlement "Administrative") - the roof burned down;
- st. Stepnaya, 75 and 98 (settlement "Administrative") - the glazing is damaged.
14:20 A woman was wounded in Gorlovka. As a result of the shelling of the VFU on the street. Oleko Dundich was injured by a woman. She is currently receiving medical attention.
14:10 On the eve of the holiday "Victory Day" in the Great Patriotic War, the servicemen of the NM LNR in the village. Muratovo, Trekhizbenka and Grechishkino organizedfilm screeningpatriotic materials and distribution of treats to civilians and refugees.
14:00 Information was received via the operational line of the JCCC of the DPR about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU in Donetsk at the following addresses:
settlement "Administrative": st. Stepnaya, 75, 98 - private residential buildings.
13:50 Storycaptured soldiers of the 36th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine about a breakthrough from Mariupol. Since February 25, the Ukrainian military have been sitting in the basements of Azovmash, covering neo-Nazis who have settled on the neighboring Azovstal. On April 15, the marines decided to break out of Mariupol so as not to "be nannies" for the colonels. They were blocked by Russian special forces, who quickly defeated the group. Part of the Ukrainian servicemen laid down their arms.
13:45 According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about a fire as a result of a direct hit of VFU ammunition in a private residential building at the address: st. Stepnaya, d. 97, the village "Administrative" of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
13:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired 6 shells of 122 mm caliber.
12:47 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka: 40 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
12:46 As a result of the shelling from the positions of the VFU, the village of Maisky, in the Central City district of Gorlovka, was left without electricity.
Also on st. Lemesheva, 3, a Ukrainian shell hit a farm building. Good without sacrifice.
12:45 As of May 8, 2022, on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, a group of DPR troops, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, liberated and established full control over 184 settlements, including Komsomolsky and Lesnoye (Volnovahsky district). Mariupol is under full operational control.
12:34 As a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district:
- Vostochny microdistrict, st. Worsted, 89 - the gates and glazing of 4 windows of a private house were damaged;
- st. Velikoanadolskaya, 17/7 - the roof of a 2-storey building was damaged.
12:06 Candidate for US SenatevisitedFrontier.
12:05 Over 3,300 subscribers remain without power supply in DPR
As a result of the shelling of the VFU in the Donetsk People's Republic, 44 transformer substations, 1 hospital, 2 educational institutions and over 3,300 household subscribers were de-energized, the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.
Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter.
12:00 “People were shelled, killed, houses were destroyed. What for?". Residents of the village of Yelenovka, Donetsk regiontoldon the behavior of the APU militants during the retreat from the settlement.
“Here and there they robbed, robbed shops, smashed everything. It's all very scary."
11:55 According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district, Vostochny microdistrict): st. Worsted, 89 - a private residential building.
n.p. Gorlovka (village of the Gagarin mine): Kindergarten No. 51.
11:50 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): 7 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
11:45 Activists of the Young Guard of United Russia and the "Volunteer Company" handed out 100 thousand St. George ribbons in Mariupol. For the first time, United Russia is holding the St. George Ribbon campaign in the Donbass and in the liberated territories.
11:40 Over the past day, our servicemen destroyed 32 Ukrainian nationalists, 1 firing position of a 152-mm self-propelled gun 2S3 "Acacia", 1 firing position of a 122-mm self-propelled gun 2S1 "Gvozdika", 4 armored personnel carriers and 2 field warehouses with ammunition. 1 towed 152-mm howitzer gun, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and 1 truck were captured - Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the department of the NM of the DPR.
11:36 According to updated information, as a result of the shelling of the Gorlovsky village of the Gagarin mine from the positions of the VFU, the glazing of the house building on the street was damaged. Stozhka, 142, 14. The roof of the garage near the house was also damaged. The shelling of the village continues. A convincing request to the residents of the village to leave the streets and go to shelters - Prikhodko.
11:03 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): 7 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (microdistrict "Builders"): 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
10:48 As a result of the barbaric shelling of the Gorlovka village of the Gagarin mine, the building of kindergarten No. 51 was damaged by the VFU. Fortunately, no casualties were reported. Once again, one can be convinced that Ukrainian nationalists are fighting against the civilian population of Donbass, against children. War criminals will suffer their well-deserved punishment - Prikhodko.
10:47 AFU attacked the street. Worsted, on the border of the Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, a civilian born in 1974 died.
10:15 For all the time, 182 people were evacuated from the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. This was reported at the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DNR.
10:12 445 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe per day, including 67 children - the headquarters of the DPR's territorial defense.
10:10 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation as of 05/08/2022. During the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:
➖6 personnel;
➖1 armored personnel carrier;
➖2 vehicles.
➖2 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made the right decision, laid down their arms and thus saved their lives.
10:07 Javelin is useless in urban battles, constantly "something interferes", follows from the testimony of the captured commander of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Vladimir Baranyuk, a video of which was filmed in one of the settlements of the DPR.
09:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): heavy machine guns were used.
09:36 AFU attack Horlivka again. Explosions of Ukrainian shells are recorded in the fields near the Galaktika shopping center, which is in the Stroitel residential area. Residents of this housing estate are urged to be extremely careful and limit movement along the streets as much as possible.
09:34 Russia and Ukraine announced the completion of the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal plant. According to the DPR, a total of 176 civilians were withdrawn, in Kyiv they say that more than 300.
09:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Balka: 8 LNG grenades and 29 AGS grenades fired.
09:20 Armed formations of Ukraine struck in the direction: N of the item. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka: 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
09:10 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Iron Beam: fired 40 mines in 120 mm caliber.
08:57 AFU fired from the settlement Novomikhailovka - n.p. Lugansk: fired 10 mines with 120 mm caliber and 12 mines with 82 mm caliber, fired 8 LNG grenades.
08:45 Our military in Popasna, the Armed Forces of Ukraine went to Bakhmut. Now the troops of Russia and the LPR will go to Lisichansk, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are, encircling the group located there. Yesterday was a very successful day. Glory to the Russian army and the LPR militia.
08:40 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Metalworker - n.p. Golmovsky: fired 5 mines in 120 mm caliber;
n.p. Sands - Donetsk: 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 4 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
[KhaamaPress] According to the developer company, the receivers will be able to manage the computer merely with their thoughts thanks to the technology.
According to Bloomberg, the American company Synchron, the major competitor of Elon Musk’s Neuralink, has begun testing its brain implant in humans.
The paperclip-sized implant will be put in six patients with acute paralysis in New York and Pittsburgh. The device should assist people in managing digital devices simply through the power of thinking.
The stentrode implant (named after the terms stent and electrode) is a type of brain-computer interface. A stent is a malleable metal frame containing electrodes that record neural signals in the brain.
The prosthesis is placed through a puncture in the jugular vein in a minimally invasive operation that does not necessitate accessing the skull. Once in a blood artery above the motor cortex — the portion of the brain responsible for movement — it stretches, the electrodes are close to the walls of the blood vessel close to the brain, and it could record neural signals.
Signals are transferred from the brain to a device placed beneath the skin in the chest. Hands-free activities such as texting, email, online shopping, and accessing medical services are possible thanks to the translation of brain activity into a standardized digital language.
A clinical trial should be conducted to determine how efficacious and useful the implant is. The Stentrode could be commercially available if the trials are successful.
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s business, is also working on a small device that can connect the human brain to a machine interface. Musk claims that an implant for patients with severe traumatic brain damage will be available in four years, and that the technology would be accessible to anybody in ten years.
People will be able to boost their productivity by multiple times, command the digital world with the power of thought, connect with the dead, and so on, Musk claims.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] Gunmen killed three people in an attack on a youth football team in South Darfur’s Kalma camp on Saturday.
Kalma is home to over 100,000 displaced people who fled their areas and villages during the counterinsurgency campaign launched by Sudanese government bully boyz in 2003.
In a statement to the Sudan Tribune, the general coordinator of the displaced people camps in Darfur Yagoub Fori accused a government force without indicating their affiliation of attacking a training of the youth football team, organized by the junior team in Kalma camp.
"The perpetrators shot at the young men, killing three of them on the spot and wounding four others," he said."
"The assailants belong to a well-known regular force as it is confirmed by the license plate number of their vehicle," he stressed.
Speaking about the circumstances of the incident, Ezaldin Musa, a resident of the camp, told Sudan Tribune that the football team objected to the intrusion of the button men into the training field.
"In response, the gunnies fired several rounds of bullets at the youth before fleeing," he added.
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[GatewayPundit] A state-owned public transport operator in Gay Paree, La Belle France, the Régie Autonome des Transports Gay Pareeiens, has pulled out 149 electric buses from its fleet after two of them spontaneously went kaboom! within the same month.
The RATP decided to temporarily retire the electric vehicles after the second explosion occurred around 9 a.m. on April 29 near the Francois Mitterrand Library, according to reporting from the local newspaper Le Gay Pareeien and a RATP news release.
Footage of the bus engulfed in flames in Gay Paree’s 13th arrondissement was widely circulated on social media.
A video by VIXX compiling the viral videos showed smoke emanating from the top of the bus, where the battery is located. The smoke gave way to a kaboom and a shower of sparks that covered the vehicle’s mid-section and nearby areas.
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In the video there was a *pop* in the roof mounted battery pack and within 5-to-6 seconds it had burned through to the cabin. It was a *cough* Energetic Reaction *cough* that looked like a thermite burn -- made me a believer that the technology isn't viable yet, truly.
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We don't call 'environmentalists' watermelons for no reason. Green on the outside and red inside when they spontaneously combust. The buses were just doing their part to cull as the greenies want to do.
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My son works at a Large Southeastern Metro Fire Station.
They are fighting more and more Electric Vehicle Fires. Thermal Runaway makes fighting the fire really a surround and control process to reduce spreading.
Some places have even put signs up forbidding Electric Vehicle parking near their buildings.
Take a few seconds. Now, after the combustion you see what most people would think to do when unprepared and ignorant - something I believe we can agree on over the last 2 years - go get some water ASAP and douse the flame..dude was lucky he slipped. Watch how quickly fumes fill that room, and these ain't old campfire smells, this is the same aisle as mtth production fumes. Lucky it wasn't raining.
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Maybe the bus driver can give us a little egress safety spiel before engaging the clutch. Something like: “Hail Mary full of grace…”
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If SNL was funny they might do a skit about this.
Have a 'stewardess' go thru the two-minute safety, drop-down-oxygen, and exit protocol with every stop. And of course the oxygen for the drop-down masks is stored in the ceiling panels close to the batteries... perfectly safe.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] The Paleostinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, has on Saturday warned the Zionist occupation entity against carrying out further liquidations against its leaders, threatening they wil burn down Tel Aviv if this Zionist policy continues.
Hamas, through mediators in Egypt warned that the return of Zionist liquidation policy would mean the return of bombing operations in Zionist-controlled cities.
Informed sources told al-Mayadeen TV channel that recent contacts between Hamas and Egypt, through mediators, focused on stopping the attacks on al-Aqsa Mosque.
"Hamas demanded that the occupation stops its the incursions into al-Aqsa and restore the situation to what it was in 2000," mediators said.
According to the sources, the movement conveyed to the Egyptians a message that it "is not indifferent to the occupation’s threats to assassinate its leaders," and that "the price of such foolishness is known to the enemy."
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[AyPee] Afghanistan’s Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public — a sharp, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound to further complicate Taliban dealings with an already distrustful international community.The decree says that women should leave the home only when necessary, and that male relatives would face punishment — starting with a summons and escalating up to court hearings and jail time — for women’s dress code violations.
It was the latest in a series of repressive edicts issued by the Taliban leadership, not all of which have been implemented. Last month, for example, the Taliban forbade women to travel alone, but after a day of opposition, that has since been silently ignored.
On Sunday in the capital, Kabul, many women on the street were wearing the same large shawls as before. Women also arrived unaccompanied at Kabul International Airport, while in the city women boarded small buses alone.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said it was deeply concerned with what appeared to be a formal directive that would be implemented and enforced, adding that it would seek clarifications from the Taliban about the decision.
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Clarification: they lied like the CCP did, but incidentally, they would like to keep receiving money.
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[Korrespondent] 23:22 Canada has lifted all trade barriers for Ukraine for a year, Zelensky said.
23:19 Zelensky: "I'm sure today in Ukraine has shown that we are already a full part of the free world and a united Europe. This is an obvious contrast against the backdrop of Moscow's loneliness in evil and the hatred that everyone will see tomorrow."
"Russia has forgotten everything that was important for the victors in World War II. But Ukraine and the entire free world will be reminded. So that later no one will forget. So that the really important words "never again", which are repeated throughout the free world, regain their weight. world every year in the days of memory of the victims of World War II. I am grateful to all our defenders and defenders who hold the defense and save Ukraine from the modern offspring of that old evil."
23:12 The first minute of peace for Ukraine will certainly come.
23:09 Arestovich said that the situation at the front “now you can’t really turn around”: “Lend-lease, at such a pace, until weapons reach us, the Russian Federation will have time to mobilize, and then a second offensive is quite possible, including an attack on Kiev, Sumy, Kharkiv. Covert mobilization is already underway."
23:07 In Berlin, the police detained a man who was handing out Ukrainian paper flags, writes Bild. The publication also reports that several people unfurled the 25-meter flag of Ukraine, the police rolled it up.
22:46 Evacuation from the Lugansk region is not yet possible, the invaders are shelling the "road of life", the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
22:41 The Mariupol City Council reported that another 173 people arrived on ten buses from Azovstal and Mariupol to the territory controlled by Ukraine today.
22:36 The Azov Regiment declares that during the last evacuation from Azov, the invaders separated the woman and her four-year-old daughter Alice. The mother remained in the filtration camp on the territory of the “DPR”, and only her daughter arrived at her destination in Zaporozhye today, the mother’s whereabouts are unknown. Azov asks the world community to intervene and return the mother to the child.
22:20 Arestovich said that Popasnaya is already "virtually out of our hands." According to him, the Ukrainian troops withdrew and occupied the lines to the west. "There is nothing left to take in Popasna, there is practically no city left," the adviser to the head of the Office of the President explained.
22:18 YouTube removed all videos featuring Rogozin from the Roscosmos Media channel, the Russian state corporation reported. In total, 20 videos were removed from the channel with a total number of views of about 5 million.
22:14 Arestovich believes that there will be no nuclear strike on Kiev - American diplomats answered this question with their return to the Ukrainian capital. "You don't have to fall for these horror stories," the adviser to the head of the OP said.
22:11 Zelensky, in an address to the leaders of the G7 countries, again stated that Ukraine needs three things to win: weapons, anti-Russian sanctions and financial support for recovery.
22:09 The G7 countries in today's statement demanded that Putin end the naval blockade of Ukraine - "failure to comply with this requirement will be considered as an attack on food throughout the world." Ukraine will be helped to export grain by alternative routes.
21:51 Zelensky, during a joint press conference with Trudeau, said that it is still impossible to unblock Mariupol by military means due to the lack of heavy weapons: "It is impossible today. These are not opinions, these are the conclusions of the leadership of our army. Russia changes the military only if they are prisoners "on prisoners. This is the situation. This is the answer that we have from the Russian Federation. There are no other answers."
Unblocking Mariupol by military means, according to the president, is possible only with heavier weapons. Zelensky assured that Ukraine will return all its temporarily occupied territories when there is such a possibility from a military point of view.
21:46 The United States has made it clear that it is ready for sanctions that could stop the trade in Russian gas, writes Reuters. For example, Washington imposed sanctions on top managers of Gazprombank, thereby demonstrating that it no longer intends to avoid restrictions that could stop Russian gas supplies to Europe. Sanctions have been imposed on some of Gazprombank's top executives as the US wants to create a deterrent effect.
21:41 Scholz, after a meeting of the leaders of the G7 countries, said that peace cannot be accepted on Russia's terms: "There should be no dictate of peace from Russia. Ukrainians will not accept it, and we will not accept it either." According to the chancellor, he does not know how much longer the hostilities in Ukraine will last, but he is confident that "Ukraine will stand."
21:39 In Berlin today, at a demonstration in honor of the end of World War II, the police took away the Ukrainian flag and rolled it up. Earlier, the city authorities warned that in 15 locations of the German capital on May 8 and 9, there is a ban on any flags. The goal is to prevent clashes between Russians and Ukrainians.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk called such a move "a huge shame for Berlin," and Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that "this is an attack on everyone who is now defending Europe and Germany with this flag in their hands from Russian aggression."
21:36 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that in Kramatorsk "Ukrainian units have equipped firing positions in a school and a kindergarten, civilians are being held in basements, all approaches to buildings are mined." In Kharkiv, "right in the building of a children's hospital," the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly equipped an ammunition depot, and in Sloviansk, "they mined the railway and road bridges, they plan to blow it up and blame the Russian forces for this."
21:29 State Duma Speaker Volodin believes that the statement of the G7 countries about their intention to prevent the victory of the Russian Federation in Ukraine "can be regarded as their recognition of the success of the special operation." In his opinion, "Russia has destroyed the plans of the West to expand NATO to the east."
21:27 Biden on today's G7 meeting: "Today I spoke with the leaders of the G7 and President Zelensky about our unwavering unity and desire to continue to strengthen Ukraine and increase Putin's pain."
21:24 Zelensky, in the presence of Justin Trudeau, awarded Ukrainian sappers who mastered Canadian mine clearance technologies. Among them is the famous dog Patron.
20:51 The head of the UOC, Metropolitan Onuphry, asked Putin to give the opportunity to leave Mariupol to everyone who wants it, both civilians and the military. He reminded the President of the Russian Federation that his parents survived the siege of Leningrad, and said that "the inhabitants of Mariupol and its defenders are in the same position today."
“We hope that you will agree in a Christian way to the Extraction procedure for the Ukrainian garrison in Mariupol and give the encircled civilians, policemen, border guards and military an opportunity to enter the territory controlled by Ukraine or the territory of third countries,” the metropolitan urged. He also invited the Kremlin to choose any of the intermediary countries for this mission.
20:23 For the duration of the long curfew, all trains in Zaporozhye have been canceled, Ukrzaliznytsia reported.
20:22 The head of the Odesa OVA Maxim Marchenko said that four rockets were shot down in Odessa today, but there was a hit in a residential building, a girl was wounded. A substation was destroyed in the Bolgradsky district, there is no electricity in six settlements. Damaged civilian facilities and infrastructure.
20:17 The White House released a statement following the G7 summit, in which Zelensky took part. The leaders of the G7 countries assured the president of their full solidarity and support for Ukraine. The G7 countries will continue military and defense assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and will protect Ukrainian networks from cyber incidents.
Zelensky said that the main goals of Ukraine remain the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from the entire territory of the state and ensuring the ability to defend itself in the future. The G7 countries promised Ukraine to help bring Putin and Lukashenko to justice, as well as all those involved in war crimes.
In addition, the G7 countries have pledged to phase out or embargo Russian oil imports, impose sanctions on pro-Putin financial elites, step up measures against Russian banks, and “in memory of all those who fought for freedom in World War II.” continue to fight for it today, for the people of Ukraine, Europe and the world community."
20:13 Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Marat Khusnullin arrived in Mariupol together with Pushilin today, they "inspected" Azovmash and the Sea Port. As Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said, citing his sources, the main announced goal is to take an inventory of what can be taken to Russia. So, Azovmash left equipment that can be used as scrap metal, and metal belonging to the metallurgical enterprises of Mariupol remained in the port. All this is planned for export.
20:07 The Cannes Film Festival has refused accreditation to Russian journalists. This was reported by the media workers themselves, who filed relevant requests. The head of the press service of the film festival, Agnès Leroy, said that the organizers waited until the last moment for an improvement in the situation in the Russian-Ukrainian war, but it did not happen, so all Russian journalists were denied.
20:05 The Kremlin has no reason to celebrate May 9, says US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield: "They have nothing to celebrate tomorrow. They failed to defeat the Ukrainians, they failed to divide the world or divide NATO."
The diplomat also recalled the numerous war crimes committed by the Russians in Ukraine. And she promised that the United States would facilitate the collection of relevant evidence and its transfer to international courts.
20:00 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are making extra efforts so that the possibility of a military deblockade of Mariupol appears in the visible future, but so far there is none, Podolyak said at a briefing. He stressed that the authorities are doing everything possible to save the Ukrainian military from Azovstal:
"In my opinion, the energy of society today should be directed not to appealing to the military-political leadership within the country, because we are focused as much as possible on finding solutions, but to the societies of Western countries, world leaders and international organizations. So that they also put pressure on Russian side. Especially those who have had excellent business and lobbying relations with them for years. Stand next to us. Become mediators. Prove to the Russians that reputation, humanism matter."
19:55 Ukrzaliznytsia has canceled all trains to Odessa for the curfew period, which will last from 22:00 Sunday, May 8, until 05:00 Tuesday, May 10. The train station in the city will also be closed.
19:53 Today, Russia continued to launch missile attacks on the Odessa region. According to OK Pivden, at 16:20 three rockets fired from aircraft from the Black Sea were directed at Odessa. One was shot down by air defense, the other two hit a residential area, destroying recreation areas. A 15 sq. m, it was eliminated. There were no casualties.
19:47 The Pivden operational command reported that on May 7, the Russians fired rockets at the Odessa airport.
19:44 The US Treasury ordered American companies to complete accounting and consulting work with Russia from July, audit services - from August.
19:23 Russian troops destroyed the Georgievsky Skete of the Svyatogorsk Lavra in the Donetsk region with an aimed strike, Yuriy Kochevenko from the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
19:19 Kuleba said that he discussed with Blinken steps to bring Ukraine's victory closer, ways to unblock Ukrainian food exports and ensure global food security. "New tough US sanctions against Russia are on the way," the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry wrote.
19:12 The G7 countries are going to cut or ban oil imports from Russia, the White House said.
19:11 The US has imposed new sanctions against Russia. In particular, visa restrictions have been introduced against the leadership of Gazprombank. The sanctions will also affect the Moscow Industrial Bank and its subsidiaries.
In addition, sanctions have been imposed on TV channels First, Russia 1 and NTV. The United States also banned the export of nuclear materials, industrial equipment and bulldozers to Russia. Accounting, advertising, management and consulting services fell under the new sanctions.
19:05 The fate of the Crimean bridge has already been decided - it will definitely be destroyed, it's only a matter of time, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Andrusiv said in an interview with Channel 24: "We don't have such weapons for this yet. More precisely, we have, but we need to move much closer to coast of the Sea of Azov.
19:02 In the Sumy region, the Russians launched rocket attacks on the territory of the Shostka region, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
18:59 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the main efforts of the enemy focused on the destruction of the airfield infrastructure in order to prevent the actions of Ukrainian aviation, including the Bayraktar UAV, support the actions of air units in the zone of responsibility of the Joint Forces group and in the Black Sea operational zone.
There is still a possibility that units of the RF Armed Forces will carry out missile and bomb strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure facilities from the territory and airspace of Belarus.
18:53 Russian troops are regrouping, building up air defense systems and material support in order to intensify hostilities in the areas of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. Unsuccessful attempts continue to capture Rubizhne, and the enemy is also trying to take positions in Popasnaya and take control of the Popasnaya-Bakhmut road section.
In the Mariupol direction, the intensity of hostilities has been reduced.
18:49 The Russians once again fired at an oil refinery in Lisichansk, said the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. As a result of the impact of shells, the production facilities of the plant caught fire, namely the sulfur recovery unit and the substance mixing station. Fire area - 360 sq. m, there is a threat of an explosion of a neighboring group of tanks. It is impossible to put out the fire, because the shelling does not subside.
18:45 In the Kharkiv region, as a result of today's attacks by the occupiers, five people were injured, three were killed, the OVA reported. In particular, in the city of Bogodukhiv and the Bogodukhovsky district, three people were injured, two died, in the Kharkiv region two people were injured, one died.
18:39 Zelensky has been invited to today's G7 summit. According to Yermak, as a result of the meeting, "a very powerful joint statement will be adopted, which will contain not only general phrases about supporting Ukraine's right to self-defense, but also the announcement of very specific actions."
18:28 The Russian war in Ukraine will be one of the reasons for the worst famine since the Second World War, said German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Svenja Schulze.
18:05 The US Embassy announced the return to Kiev of Chargé d'Affaires Christina Quinn and other American diplomats.
18:04 The Embassy of Canada has resumed work in Kiev. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took part in the raising of the Canadian flag outside the embassy today. According to journalist Paul Workman, Trudeau spent most of today with Zelensky.
17:58 The occupying "authorities" of the Kherson region "allowed" local residents to temporarily not pay for housing and communal services, because "payments still go to Ukrainian banks." Prices will be recalculated in the future.
17:56 Russia's general offensive in the Donbass has not yet begun, and so far the Russian army is using a limited number of available troops, Stoltenberg said in an interview with Welt am Sonntag. According to him, in the coming weeks, Ukraine should be ready for a major Russian offensive and an increase in the intensity of hostilities and new destruction of critical infrastructure.
17:50 Johnson, in his congratulations on Victory Day in Europe, compared the feat of those who liberated the world from Nazism with the feat of Ukrainians: "On Victory Day in Europe, when we remember those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom and our future, we also "Thinking of those killed or injured by the Russian illegal invasion of Ukraine. Our respect and gratitude for those who fought in previous conflicts strengthens our determination to support the people of Ukraine in their struggle. We will not forget the sacrifices made by generations to ensure peace and freedom in Europe" .
17:47 The Berlin police will severely suppress all attempts on May 8 and 9 to glorify Russia's war against Ukraine, Interior Minister Nancy Fraser said. “Especially in these days, we are carefully monitoring that Russian military propaganda does not leak out,” the minister stressed and added that the Kremlin’s allegations of “growing Russophobia” in Germany are lies and part of Russian disinformation.
17:45 Zelensky held meetings in Kiev with the head of the Bundestag, Berbel Bas, and with the President of the Norwegian Storting, Masoud Garakhani.
17:43 In the village of Borovaya, Kharkiv region, the invaders are conducting a "census" of household appliances in individual houses, the village council said. Why is unknown.
Also, the village council said that, despite the absence of hostilities, the occupiers are losing heavy equipment. So, in the village of Boguslavka, the Russians decided to check whether they could cross the shallowed Oskol on tanks. As a result, they could not even reach the riverbed - two enemy tanks were so mired in silt that they could not be pulled out.
17:36 Gas reserves in the Black Sea will be enough for the whole world for 45 years, said the deputy head of the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey, former Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim: "The Black Sea reserves in natural gas are now estimated at 540 billion cubic meters. This is just the beginning will be continued. The Black Sea is able to cover the world's gas needs for 45 years."
17:32 The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, addressed the Europeans: "The invasion of Ukraine reminds us why we celebrate Europe Day tomorrow. The birth of a peaceful and prosperous Europe. After 72 years, Europe is united with our Ukrainian friends who strive for a free future. European future."
17:19 In the Zaporozhye direction, the invaders, using the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system, used it against their positions and "actually burned the Russians out of the Ukrainian land," the 97th Infantry Battalion of the 60th Separate Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
17:13 Russian invaders in Melitopol are preparing provocations during the May 9 celebrations with the execution of people in order to accuse the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.
17:11 British Foreign Secretary Liz Thrus condemned the airstrike on a school in Belogorivka and said that the Putin regime will be held accountable: "Horrified by the latest Russian attack on a school in Luhansk, which killed innocent people hiding from Russian shelling. Deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure amount to war crimes. We will ensure that the Putin regime is held accountable."
16:52 U2 soloist Bono wrote on Twitter after a concert in the Kiev metro that Zelensky personally invited him to perform in Kiev as a sign of solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
16:43 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Irpin.
16:29 EU Permanent Representatives on Sunday, May 8, did not reach an agreement on sanctions against Russia, in particular, because of the position of Hungary, which opposes the oil embargo. The discussion will continue in the coming days, writes Bloomberg.
15:46 The Russian invaders are engaged in racketeering in the Kherson region, and in their "free time from work" they drink heavily, after which they arrange shootouts and "stabbing" among themselves, the occupants say in a telephone conversation that the SBU managed to intercept.
15:45 The Embassy of Croatia in Ukraine resumes work in Kiev, the ambassador has already returned to the capital, Prime Minister Andrei Plenkovich said during a visit to Kiev.
15:42 Ilya Samoilenko, intelligence officer of the Azov Regiment, said that the military at Azovstal received an order to hold the line. The fighters will "stand for as long as necessary ," he assured.
15:40 US First Lady Jill Biden visited Uzhgorod, where she visited a center for evacuees and met with Olena Zelenska, Transcarpathian journalist Vitaliy Glagola said. By now, she has already left the territory of Ukraine.
15:37 Commander of the Azov Regiment Denis Prokopenko, in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda, told details about how the commander of the 36th brigade of Ukrainian marines Volodymyr Baranyuk decided to escape from the encircled Mariupol and as a result was captured:
“Suddenly, the commander of the 36th brigade decided, without warning anyone, to simply go to a breakthrough in an unknown direction and thereby lost many people. Also, many were left to their own devices, and they were simply captured. If this had not happened, With this brigade, we could have kept the defense on the right bank for a long time, but the flank was exposed, and after the completion of the clearing of the Ilyich plant, the enemy threw all his forces into our direction - this gave him the opportunity to attack us from the flank and rear.
15:29 In Mariupol, the occupiers opened "republican employment centers of the DPR", where people are offered to get temporary jobs: "information support, city improvement, removal of rubble and collection of bodies of the dead (wages - from 10 to 32 thousand rubles. "As the adviser said Mayor Pyotr Andryushchenko, earlier people were recruited to work for food, but due to the massive refusal of local residents to participate in the removal of rubble, the occupiers changed tactics and now promise money.
15:22 The famous dog Patron fell asleep at a briefing held in his honor by Chernihiv rescuers:
15:20 As a result of the shelling of the Russian army, the capacities of the Popasnyansky water utility were damaged, a million residents of the Luhansk region were left without water, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
15:18 A cruise missile launched by a Russian SU-35 fighter and a Forpost drone were shot down in the Odessa region today, the Pivden operational command reports.
15:16 Soldiers of the Azov Regiment cannot surrender, because for Russians and propaganda of the Russian Federation this "will be a gift," Ilya Samoylenko, intelligence officer of the Azov Regiment, said. He said that on April 25, the Russians captured one Azov man with the call sign Deng. He was used in propaganda, and then strangled. The mother of this fighter received a photo of her dead son from the Russians.
15:14 Deputy commander of the Azov regiment, Captain Svyatoslav Palamar, said that the commander of the Marines of the 36th brigade was trying to escape from the city with a small group in armored vehicles, trying to break through. Today, the Russian media reported that he was a prisoner of the "DNR".
Palamar called several options for the development of events for people at the blocked plant: “The first is to lay down their arms and just wait for death from a bomb or from starvation. The second is to run away like a coward, thinking only of yourself, forgetting about the duty, the oath that you took. This happened with the commander of the Marines of the 36th Brigade - he tried to escape from the city with a small group in armored vehicles, trying to break through. Third, lay down their arms and surrender. Fourth, prolong your life, stand and fight."
15:07 There is no certainty that all civilians were evacuated from Azovstal , Deputy Commander of the Azov Regiment Svyatoslav Palamar Kalina said: “Over the past three days, civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal plant. an international organization or a power structure, our Ukrainian politicians did not come here, to the territory of Azovstal. There is no special equipment to sort out all the rubble."
14:53 In the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, a 12-year-old boy found ammunition from a Russian cluster projectile and brought it home. The explosives detonated, the child died, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. This is the sixth death in the region due to such ammunition.
14:51 Intelligence officer of the Azov Regiment Ilya Samoilenko said that Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol killed 2.5 thousand Russians and wounded another 5,000 - and all this without the support of aviation and artillery. In Mariupol, the Russians lost 15% of the troops that invaded Ukraine.
14:50 In Mariupol, 25 thousand people, mostly civilians, were killed, said the deputy commander of the Azov regiment, Captain Svyatoslav Palamar.
14:48 Zelensky met with Croatian Prime Minister Andriy Plenkovic, discussed increasing sanctions pressure on Russia, protecting Europe's energy freedom and Ukraine's integration into the EU.
14:46 Anton Gerashchenko reports that, according to preliminary estimates, about 300 servicemen from the 64th brigade of the Russian army, which committed atrocities in Bucha, have already been destroyed near Izyum, where they were transferred by the Russian command. "That's how the orcs think they'll cover their tracks," said an adviser to the interior minister.
14:43 An investigation by the British edition of iNews has revealed at least 66 camps in remote parts of Russia, where citizens of Ukraine were forcibly taken from the occupied territories. They were scattered throughout the country: Siberia, the Caucasus, the Arctic Circle and the Far East.
While Moscow claims that "liberated" Ukrainians have "chosen" life in the Far East, those who want to get out of there face an almost impossible task: they have no belongings, no phones, no money, no documents.
14:41 Bono from U2 performed at the metro station in Kiev .
14:35 Occupants in the occupied territories of the Kherson region are looking for candidates for "service in the people's militia" among convicts serving sentences in penitentiary institutions of the region to "replenish the ranks of personnel," the IS group said.
14:30 In Mariupol, the Russian invaders are using the silence regime in order to strengthen their positions and continue the assault on Azovstal. Mayor's adviser Pyotr Andryushchenko said that the Russians had set up a point on Slag Mountain in order to correct the shelling.
14:28 Defenders of Mariupol give a press conference with Azovstal:
14:07 As a result of rocket attacks on Odessa on May 7, 252 apartments were damaged, the City Council reported. Utilities clean up areas of broken glass and frames. 1800 square meters were spent on tightening the windows. m of film. As of the morning of May 8, work has been completed in 75% of homes.
13:49 The invaders are taking out sunflower oil from the Zaporozhye region, the press service of the Defense Forces of the Zaporozhye Territory reports. The finished products that Russian soldiers seized from the Slavia plant in Pologi were destined for shipment abroad, where there is already a shortage of oil.
13:40 Attempts to build a common European home with Russia's participation have failed, Steinmeier said: "We all supported Mikhail Gorbachev's great 1980s concept of building a common European home. However, today we must state that these efforts have failed."
The German President stressed that this does not mean that attempts to participate in the construction were wrong. But what really was a mistake, according to him, was the political support that he provided for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
13:32 Adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadym Denisenko, in a commentary to the Country, called misform information that Russia is allegedly transferring troops from Syria to Ukraine. According to him, these rumors are as much a myth as the past news that 16,000 Syrian mercenaries arrived in Kyiv: “Remember the rumor from a month ago? But in fact, only 300 arrived. Imagine that they are withdrawing all troops from Syria, - this is nonsense, because they received these bases on lease for 49 years. It makes no sense to leave these places.<...> There are two thousand real soldiers there, at best. The maximum that they can do is to transfer a thousand people And that's it. No need to panic and fan a far-fetched myth."
13:19 Russia is pulling anti-aircraft missile forces to the north of Crimea. The satellite recorded the pulling together of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian army in the village of Filatovka, located near the Kherson region, Schemes (Radio Liberty) report. The images show a cluster of Russian military equipment, including anti-aircraft and missile systems.
12:52 The head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that due to an air strike by the Russian army, the light went out first in Lisichansk, and then in Severodonetsk.
12:34 Putin, in his message addressed to the veterans of the "Great Patriotic War" and the citizens of Ukraine, stressed "the inadmissibility of revenge on the ideological heirs of those who were defeated in the Great Patriotic War." He also "sincerely" wished the Ukrainian veterans "mental fortitude, good health and longevity", and all the inhabitants of Ukraine - "a peaceful and just future."
At the same time, he declared that "as in 1945, victory will be ours."
12:18 Ukraine is completing questionnaires on the status of a candidate for EU membership. How the consideration of her application will proceed, what the conclusion of the European Commission may be and why the EU summit in June is important - in the material Ukraine's accession to the EU .
12:06 The war unleashed by Russia also affects the Ukrainian oligarchs. How and what they are doing to help Ukraine - in the material How the war affects the Ukrainian oligarchs and what role they play .
11:46 Rogozin threatened Elon Musk that he would "have to answer in an adult way" for supplying the Ukrainian forces with military communications: "According to our information, the Pentagon delivered and transferred Internet transmission and reception boxes to the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Starlink. The mask will have to answer like an adult."
11:40 The American Institute for the Study of War notes that the Ukrainian counter-offensive northeast of Kharkov has made significant progress and is likely to move towards the border with Russia in the coming days or weeks. And the bridges blown up by the Russians mean that in the near future the occupiers are unlikely to start operations to return the north-eastern outskirts of Kharkov liberated by Ukrainian troops.
This Ukrainian offensive is likely aimed at pushing Russian troops out of range of artillery fire for Kharkov and towards the border of Russia's Belgorod region, analysts say. The Ukrainian counter-offensive is thus forcing Russian units intended for deployment elsewhere to redeploy to the Kharkov Front. The Ukrainian counter-offensive demonstrates "promising opportunities" and may create conditions for further offensive operations in the north-east of the Kharkiv region.
11:19 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the approximate losses of the invaders on the morning of May 8. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Novopavlovsk direction.
personnel - about 25,500 (+400) people liquidated,
tanks - 1130 (+8),
armored combat vehicles - 2741 (+28),
artillery systems - 509 (+0),
MLRS - 179 (+7),
air defense systems - 86 (+2),
aircraft - 199 (+0),
helicopters - 156 (+1),
automotive equipment and tankers - 1961 (+27),
ships/boats - 12 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 360 (+19),
special equipment - 39 (+1),
cruise missiles - 92 (+2).
11:14 Every fourth migrant of working age from Ukraine found a legal job in Poland, said the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland, the authorized government for Ukrainian refugees Pavel Shefernaker. According to him, 400,000 people of working age from Ukraine are registered in the PESEL database (identification number); more than 100 thousand of them managed to find work.
Shefernaker also said that Ukrainian migrants are trying to be as independent as possible, in particular, they are looking for separate housing for rent.
11:10 Kuleba announced the need to create a special tribunal: "We need a special tribunal for aggression against Ukraine to call the Russian leadership to account. Yesterday I spoke at the first International Conference on this issue in Vilnius. I thank the organizers and repeat my call to support the creation of the tribunal ".
11:03 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the Aerospace Forces during the night destroyed the command post of the Ukrainian mechanized brigade in the Kharkiv region and the communications center of the military airfield Chervonoglinskoe near the village of Artsyz. Also, a project 1241 corvette of the Ukrainian Navy was allegedly destroyed in the Odessa region, and two more Ukrainian Su-24 bombers and one Mi-24 helicopter were destroyed over Zmeiny Island.
10:58 The head of the German Bundestag, Berbel Bas, has arrived in Kyiv , said Enrico Brissa, head of the Bundestag secretariat. She will commemorate the victims of World War II and National Socialist tyranny and hold political talks.
10:54 Taiwan after Russia has limited the export of high-tech goods to Belarus. The export control list contains equipment for the production of semiconductors, as well as lasers and navigation systems.
10:27 The Russians are suffering huge losses, the hospital in Luhansk is crammed with the bodies of the liquidated occupiers and the seriously wounded, the head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said during a telethon. According to him, due to the lack of medicines, "the wounded have a high chance of becoming 200." Gaidai noted that each attack of the RF Armed Forces ends with dozens of liquidated occupiers.
10:24 Zelensky said in an interview with Fox News that Kiev is aware of individual countries that have shown interest in Russia's proposals to sell them grain stolen from Ukraine, and will "respond properly" if they conclude such agreements.
10:22 Ukrainian fighters retreated from Popasna to take stronger positions, the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said on the air of the telethon: "Unfortunately, our military really retreated a little from Popasna. Because the city was shelled for more than two months, as long as the invasion has been going on, constantly shelled, everything was destroyed there. Therefore, ours retreated to stronger positions that were prepared in advance. "
Earlier today, the Russian media reported, citing Kadyrov, that "most of the city of Popasnaya has been taken under the control of the Russian armed forces."
10:17 AFU showed how they destroyed an enemy helicopter with a landing force on Snake Island:
10:15 Biden and Trudeau had a telephone conversation in which the central topic was Russia's war against Ukraine.
10:08 Germany will increase the volume of emergency humanitarian aid to Ukraine from 122 to 185 million euros, said Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Svenja Schulze. The increased funding will allow for the supply of drinking water, as well as the restoration of destroyed apartments, schools and kindergartens. "Where bombs no longer fall, Germany will invest billions in reconstruction," Schulze promised.
10:04 British intelligence notes that Russia is transferring high-ranking commanders to the battlefield, but this is unlikely to help her. Difficulties with command and control, as well as the poor performance of the Russians on the front line, dragged senior commanders onto the battlefield, who presumably took personal control of operations. Russian commanders rarely delegate operational authority to their subordinates, who in turn do not gain vital command experience.
However, it is not clear whether the presence of these commanders on the battlefield led to an improvement or change in the operational concept. Planning errors and failures continue to undermine RF progress.
Placing commanders on the front line exposes them to significant risk, resulting in a disproportionately high loss of Russian officers in this war. Accordingly, forces react slowly to setbacks and cannot change their approach on the battlefield. These challenges are likely to remain unchanged given the relative lack of operational command experience among assigned officers.
09:47 Zelensky: "This year we say 'Never again' differently. We hear 'Never again' differently. It sounds painful, cruel. Without an exclamation, but with a question mark. You say: never again? Tell Ukraine about it" .
09:26 On the night of May 8, two more cruise missiles were fired at Odessa, both were shot down, OK Pivden reports.
09:24 The invaders fired at Shipilovo at night in the Luhansk region, 11 people were under the rubble, said the head of the Luhansk regional military administration, Sergei Gaidai. He also added that the group of occupying troops continues offensive operations in the Popasnyansky and Severodonetsk directions.
09:13 In Poland, almost 57% of the population is in favor of sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine. These are the results of an IBRiS survey commissioned by the newspaper Rzeczpospolita. 32.5% of Poles were against.
08:56 The "DNR" stated that they captured the highest command staff of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian troops. The brigade commander, Hero of Ukraine Colonel Volodymyr Baranyuk and Chief of Staff Colonel Dmitry Kormyankov were captured after they tried to leave the Azovmash plant.
The fact that Baranyuk was taken prisoner was confirmed by the interlocutors of Ukrainska Pravda among the Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol.
08:54 Zaporozhye was closed for exits, the OVA reported. Such measures were introduced in connection with the tense security situation. The entrance to the city remains open.
08:35 Russians are trying to create a "picture" of celebrations on May 9 in the Zaporozhye region by deceit: in Energodar, documents are taken away from the locals and they promise to give it back on May 9, and in Kamenka-Dniprovska they are forced to come to work on Monday and take part in the parade, reports Zaporozhskaya OVA.
08:20 Bayraktars near Zmeiny Island destroyed a Russian landing boat of the Serna type and two landing assault boats of the Raptor type, the Pivden Operational Command reported.
08:11 Zelensky, in an interview with FoxNews, commented on Putin's possible declaration of war against Ukraine on May 9: "This will not change anything for us. For us, the war has been going on for eight years, a full-scale war has been more than 70 days."
According to the president, the victory that the Russians are striving for is the defeat of the civilized world. Zelensky added that May 9 may be remembered by the world as a tragedy, a bloody day and as a day that should not be forgotten.
07:50 From an air strike on a school in Belogorovka, 60 people were previously killed , said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. The Russians launched an airstrike on a school where people were hiding on May 7 at 16:37. As a result, a fire broke out in the school building on an area of about 300 square meters. m and in the house of culture.
The fire was extinguished for almost four hours, then during the analysis of the rubble, the bodies of two dead were found. Evacuated from the rubble 30 people, seven of whom were injured. Most likely, all 60 people who remained under the rubble of buildings died.
07:42 In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy is trying to stop the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine towards the state border of Ukraine to the north and northeast of Kharkov, the General Staff said. The Russians shelled the settlements of Prudyanka, Slatino and Tsirkuny.
Russia is also preparing a continuation of the offensive on the Izyum-Barvenkovo and Izyum-Slavyansk directions. For this, two battalion tactical groups from the 35th army of invaders were additionally deployed from the territory of Russia.
In the Donetsk region, the invaders are advancing in the Limansky, Popasnyansky, Severodonetsky and Avdeevsky directions. In the Kurakhovsky direction, they are trying to resume offensive operations towards the settlement of Novomikhailovka. In the Liman direction, as a result of assault operations, the enemy captured the northern outskirts of Shandrigolovo.
The troops in Transnistria are in full combat readiness, the situation in the Bessarabian direction is tense.
07:03 Great Britain will provide additional military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 1.6 billion dollars. This is almost double Britain's previous spending commitments to Ukraine. Additional funds will come from the reserve in case of emergencies after agreement with the Treasury, reports The Guardian, citing Johnson's statement.
In particular, the package includes counter-battery radar systems, GPS jamming equipment and night vision devices. This is the highest level of military spending in Britain since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the newspaper notes.
06:20 The Russian authorities do not abandon their plans to destroy Ukraine as a state and openly declare their military aggression - this is how Podolyak, on the air of Ukraine 24, commented on the words of the Vice Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Pyotr Tolstoy about their intentions to continue the war until the troops reach the Polish border.
“In my opinion, this is a brilliant statement. It is on the same line as Mr. Lavrov’s statement regarding the state of Israel. All this really shows what the political elite of the Russian Federation is thinking about. Putin is not just thinking about this, they are thinking about it, they live in this, they boil in it. These are their blood vessels, through which these infectious bacteria travel, the desire to destroy everyone," the adviser to the head of the OP said.
05:04 Supporting a full-scale invasion of Ukraine at this stage could cost Russia about $900 million a day. Such an assessment in an interview with Newsweek was expressed by Sean Spunts, editor-in-chief of the military publication SOFREP.
01:30 In occupied Berdyansk, Russians abducted ambulance volunteer Alexei Poddubny, and a week ago, the head of the ambulance station, Olga Savvon, disappeared, the press service of the City Council reports.
[NYPOST] Gov. Kathy Hochul said she hasn’t lost any sleep about her disgraced predecessor Andrew SonnyCuomo potentially launching an independent bid to oust her.
During an interview on ABC that aired Sunday, Hochul declined to weigh in when asked about her "message" to the scandal-scarred fellow Democrat — following the release of a poll that showed Cuomo could play spoiler if mounts a longshot independent bid.
"I have no message," the governor said. "Everyone will do what they choose to do."
Hochul told anchor Bill Ritter she was "proud" to lead the Empire State, and will "continue being focused on delivering for New Yorkers."
"We certainly already have at least six people running for the seat," she noted, adding, "I’m working hard. No one will ever outwork me, and I’m very passionate about the word I do."
A poll of registered voters conducted by Emerson College/The Hill released Wednesday showed that Cuomo getting on the ballot as an independent could give a Republican contender a better shot in the November’s contest.
In the hypothetical matchup, 33% of voters said they would support a generic Democratic nominee, 33% would back the Republican, and 16 percent would vote for the disgraced former governor, while 18% were unsure.
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[RIA Novosti] Captured Croatian citizen Vekoslav Prebek, who fought in the ranks of the Ukrainian security forces, said that he had an order not to let civilians out of Mariupol, according to the Telegram channel of the People's Militia of the DPR.
As the Croatian national television channel HRT reported on Saturday, the Croatian Foreign Ministry confirmed the detention by the Russian Armed Forces of a Croatian citizen in Mariupol .
According to the People's Militia of the DPR, a Croatian mercenary told how the security forces took up positions on the territory of the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. According to him, besides him, there were also foreigners in the unit - three British citizens , they deserted.
"When we were standing at the plant, we had an order not to let civilians out of Mariupol. The order to this was given by the battalion commander, Yevgeny Petrovich Bova. The reason? Like, we don't know who is coming out and what information can be passed on to the enemy," Prebek said.
Earlier, Croatian media, on condition of anonymity, repeatedly reported on the participation of "volunteers" from the republic in the armed conflict on the side of Kiev.
#3
Blaming civilian casualties on Putin plays well in American main stream media.
If only they would open the American public's eyes to the fact that it was Zelensky who invaded Russia, seeking lebensraum after a long history of Russian invasions of Ukraine.
[NPASYRIA] One Syrian soldier was maimed in an attack lunched by forces of Evil in Idlib countryside, northwest Syria, the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria announced on Saturday.
"Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... ) shelled the de-escalation zone in Idlib during the past 24 hours," Oleg Zhuravlev, deputy chief of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria, announced.
"One Syrian soldier was maimed as a result of the artillery shelling carried out by bandidossnuffies from al-Fatir area on government forces’ positions in the Khazari area," Zhuravlev added.
Early this month, the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria announced that three Syrian soldiers were maimed in different attacks lunched by forces of Evil in Aleppo and Latakia.
Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent bombardment despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.
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[ALGHADEERTV] The Federal Intelligence agency announced arresting three ISIS leaders in Baghdad.
The Agency said in a statement that the agency had been planning for the operation, in which the holy warriors were arrested, for several days.
According to the statement, the perpetrators are wanted per article 4/Terrorism.
The holy warriors confessed to carrying out terrorist attacks in the al-Anbar governorate and participated in others against the security forces and civilians in Raqqa, Syria.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:31 970 evacuated from dangerous areas of the Donetsk, Luhansk People's Republics and Ukraine to the territory of the Russian Federation.
22:09 The Russian Ka-52 demilitarizes the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Izyum direction from a roll-up.
18:20 Air raid sirens sound in the central and eastern regions of Ukraine. Local sources also reported the possible launch of cruise missiles from the Black Sea.
17:17 Several explosions sounded in the town of Bogodukhov northwest of Kharkov. There is a railway junction in the village, through which supplies of weapons and equipment of NATO countries for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine go.
15:51 In the Kharkiv region, the Russian military congratulated veterans and "children of the war" on the eve of Victory Day.
15:50 The Russian military discovered and seized a cache with weapons and ammunition left by Ukrainian saboteurs in one of the forest belts on the outskirts of Berdyansk.
15:33 In the city of Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, a peaceful life is being established. Small business is being restored in the city, there is electricity, two currencies are in use - hryvnia and rubles. There was fuel at the gas station. Residents of the city are actively preparing for the celebration of Victory Day, which they have been waiting for 8 years to freely celebrate it, proudly carrying the St. George ribbon in their hands.
13:53 Shoigu presented the gold stars of the Hero of Russia to the participants in the operation in Ukraine: the commander of the attack air regiment Litvinov and the navigator of the air regiment Dudin, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
13:20 The soldiers of the National Guard destroyed the caches with mines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 120mm mortar rounds were found at an abandoned Ukrainian military unit in the Zaporozhye region.
13:01 Russian Defense Ministry: A corvette of the Ukrainian Navy was destroyed by high-precision airborne missiles of the Aerospace Forces near Odessa.
12:42 Vladimir Putin sent congratulatory messages to foreign peoples and leaders on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War:
— Today, the common duty is to prevent the revival of Nazism, which brought so much suffering to people from different countries.
- In messages to the leaders of the DPR and LPR: today our servicemen, like their ancestors, are fighting shoulder to shoulder for the liberation of their native land from Nazi filth. As in 1945, victory will be ours.
— In his message to veterans of the Great Patriotic War and citizens of Ukraine, the president emphasized the inadmissibility of revenge on the ideological heirs of those who were defeated in the Great Patriotic War.
12:40 MelitopolreadySee you on May 9th! Fountains are working, billboards with congratulations, St. George ribbons and banners are everywhere) But the most important thing is that people on the streets are smiling!
11:51 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine. In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
156 aircraft;
116 helicopters;
765 unmanned aerial vehicles;
297 anti-aircraft missile systems;
2927 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles;
335 rocket launchers;
1393 field artillery and mortar guns;
2746 units of special military vehicles.
11:40 in Melitopolwill passmarch of the Immortal Regiment.
11:05 High-precision missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a corvette of the Ukrainian Navy in the Odessa region - the Russian Defense Ministry. Highlights from the briefing:
In total, 4 Ukrainian aircraft, 3 UAVs and 4 helicopters were destroyed in the Odessa area in a day, including those with troops on board.
Rocket troops and artillery hit 56 command posts, 32 artillery firing positions, 415 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The command post of a mechanized brigade in the Pyatikhatka area of the Kharkiv region and the communications center of the Chervonoglinskoye military airfield were also destroyed.
10:49 Two more Ukrainian Su-24 bombers and one Mi-24 helicopter were destroyed over Snake Island - the Russian Defense Ministry.
10:30 Konstantin Knyrik on the Walk of Fame in Kherson, which is decorated with portraits of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War from the Kherson region. The posters were made in Crimea by order of News Front. The EU flag came in handy as a cleaning cloth. For the last 8 years, portraits of the "heavenly hundred" have been hanging here.
10:10 EffectsAPU strike on the city of Naked Pristan in the Kherson region. The servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a criminal missile strike with the Tochka-U tactical missile system, endangering civilians. One house, where a family with a child lived, was completely destroyed. Ten more buildings were damaged, including the home of a labor veteran. Local residents suffered. Currently, the municipal services of the city have begun to eliminate the consequences of the missile attack.
10:02 For the second day in a row, the RF Armed Forces have been attacking air defense position areas in Odessa and its environs. Along the perimeter of the city there are four stationary batteries of the S-125 Pechora-2D air defense system. By May 7, three batteries had three launchers each, and another had four launchers. As a result of yesterday's strikes, two launchers were destroyed. The loss of personnel of the Ukrainian air defense forces amounted to 11 people killed and 18 people wounded. Today, Novaya Dofinovka and another air defense position area were struck, this time to the east of Odessa.
10:00 Losses of the Ukrainian side as a result of a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces on May 8, 2022:
During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 425 people killed, wounded and captured. The total losses in killed, wounded and captured in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, NGU and State Border Service are over 52 thousand people.
10 tanks, 22 armored vehicles, 25 field artillery and mortar guns, 1 MLRS, 31 vehicles and special equipment, 3 aircraft, 3 helicopters, 11 UAVs and 1 boat were lost.
09:43 Zaporozhye was closed for exits. The administration reports that such a measure was introduced in connection with the tense security situation.
09:04 Ukrainian troops launched a missile attack on civilians in the city of Golaya Pristan in the Kherson region. As a result, there are victims - the Russian Ministry of Defense.
08:20 Yesterday in Konstantinovka, the headquarters of the nationalists was destroyed by a missile strike. Command staff died.
08:12 An air raid alert is sounding almost throughout Ukraine.
Some weeks back, there was a pic of a low-level diplomatic meeting between Rus and Ukr . The Russians, all dressed in business suits, looked like accountants and gangsters. Or gangster accountants. The Ukrainians were dressed in hoodies and track suits, and looked like a bunch of gopniks.
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Maybe Badanov can assist the putrid Russian Army to retrieve all these dead, rotting corpses of the Russian Red Army so Ukraine can find more time to kill the delusional robots??
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#6 Maybe Badanov can assist the putrid Russian Army to retrieve all these dead, rotting corpses of the Russian Red Army so Ukraine can find more time to kill the delusional robots??
A response to the Russian story a few days ago saying the same thing: that Ukrainians don't take their dead from the Russians in corpse exchanges so they don't have to acknowledge them.
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/\ Yes, the real tragedy. Young men and women on both sides who absolutely have no interest in war. Old people and children caught in the shredder. All because of some lunatic, power hungry politician. Absolutely sickening.
[PJMEDIA] To hear Democrats today, outrage over the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade will cause a blue wave this November. It’s an amusing theory that doesn’t quite hold up under scrutiny. Even Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) pointed out earlier this week that child sacrifice abortion is by no means the number one issue in his state. "Inflation is the number one driving factor I believe in my state. Right now, it’s hurting everybody, not just at the pump, but at the grocery store, at the drug store, at the pharmaceutical. Everything they do," he explained.
Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... ’s cheerleaders at CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... seem to agree. On Thursday, the left-wing network acknowledged that, according to their latest poll, Biden is near "the point of no return with Americans on the economy" and dangerously close to an "irreversible severing of public confidence in his capacity to deliver prosperity and financial security."
And Biden is taking his entire party down with him.
CNN surprisingly acknowledged the Democrats’ "looming political disaster" in the upcoming midterms because "the White House initially underestimated and has failed to tame" inflation.
"The party seems stuck in a dangerous political position of insisting the economy is doing well while voters think it’s in the tank," the analysis reads.
While the poll was taken before the leak of the draft majority opinion in Dobbs, CNN concedes that the numbers for Biden are so bad, that it won’t be enough to turn things around for them. "The depth of voter disquiet about the economy also suggests that a potential backlash against the Supreme Court possibly overturning the nationwide right to child sacrifice abortion may not save Democrats in November."
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Government forces’ shelling of Turkish-backed opposition factions in northwest #Syria killed 5 members and wounded some others. #SNA#HTShttps://t.co/wJqVcn4LVT
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 8, 2022
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Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated Sunday in a show of support for President Kais Saied and a series of extraordinary measures he took since last July that critics have slammed as a “coup”.https://t.co/gfnNOBWLqu
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[BIZPACREVIEW] U.S. Rep. Eric I farted on national television Swalwell ... U.S. Representative-for-Life from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s 15th congressional district since 2013. Naturally he's a Dem. His district covers most of eastern Alameda County and part of central Contra Costa County. He was rapidly eliminated from the 2020 Dem nomination pool. He looks a lot like Greg Marmelard, and has the distinction of being one of the few politicians to ever fart on national teevee... has once again made a complete fool of himself, this time with a defense of child sacrifice abortion in which he brought up the completely unrelated issue of school shootings to blame Republicans for mass murder as justification for his support for the killing of the unborn.
Drawing on President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... ’s recent demonizing of nearly half of the American electorate whom he accused of being the "most extreme political organization" in the nation’s history, the California Democrat upped the ante with his latest unhinged Twitter outburst.
"You know who had a heartbeat? Every child murdered in their school because Republicans are the party of mass shooters. This isn’t about heartbeats. This is about criminalizing women," wrote Swalwell.
Democrats and their allies have been more hyperactive on Twitter than usual this week following the shocking leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion suggesting that the landmark child sacrifice abortion ruling Roe v. Wade may be struck down, sending leftists into a frenzy with the crazed rantings of leading party members including Senator Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... egging on those who are emotionally fragile, with some activists going so far as to put out maps with the approximate addresses to the homes of conservative justices.
Swalwell’s conflating of mass shootings and child sacrifice abortion rights is utterly ridiculous to anyone who is capable of rational thinking, unfortunately, that does not include the vast majority of the party’s base of "woke" mouth breathers who, having already faced no consequences for violence, rioting and political intimidation during the summer of 2020, wouldn’t need much to push them to act out against Republican targets this year when tempers rise along with the temperatures.
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[FoxNews] Alleged subway shooter Frank James has been indicted after authorities say he shot multiple people on a Brooklyn train station last month.
According to the indictment from the United States District Court Eastern District of New York, a grand jury indicted James with carrying out a terror attack against a mass transit system as well as discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
New York City Police, left, and law enforcement officials lead subway shooting suspect Frank R. James, 62, center, away from a cop shoppe, in New York, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. The man accused of shooting multiple people on a Brooklyn subway train was arrested Wednesday and charged with a federal terrorism offense.
If convicted on the first count, James faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. If convicted on the second count, James faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison with a maximum of life in prison.
No date has been set for the arraignment.
James is accused of injuring 29 people in a Sunset Park, Brooklyn, subway station around 8:25 a.m. on the morning of April 12. James was allegedly aboard a Manhattan-bound N train during morning rush-hour when he placed a gas mask on his face, activated a smoke canister and opened fire inside the train and on the platform of the 36th Street subway station.
Supporters of Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... and the Amal Movement on Sunday turned out heavily in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s expat parliamentary elections in Germany.
"O Nabih be at ease, Berlin has become Shiyyah," Berri supporters are seen chanting in videos and on live television, referring to the Beirut southern suburb of Shiyyah, which is a stronghold of Berri and his Amal Movement.
The Amal Movement also enjoys a strong presence in Germany, especially in the capital Berlin.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
A bit of background:
The Ukrainian 36th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade was the main component defending at Shirokino on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, starting from about March, 2015. In Rantburg's archives are several stories about this unit, ending with how they successfully forced the separatists out of Shirokino after many weeks of fighting.
Accompanying the 36th was the Azov Battalion, with its bases being Mariupol.
[ColonelCassad] The commander of the 36th separate marine brigade, Colonel Baranyuk, was not killed during an unsuccessful attempt to break through from the territory of the Ilyich plant.
In fact, Colonel Baranyuk was taken prisoner.
It is obvious that misinformation was launched about the death of Baranyuk while his interrogations were going on + perhaps Baranyuk himself was used to speed up the surrender of the remaining forces of the 36th brigade at the plant named after Ilyich.
One way or another, this is the first captured brigade commander since the beginning of the NWO.
Another video (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/47583?single) with the captured brigade commander of the 36th infantry regiment Baranyuk and his chief of staff lieutenant colonel Kormyakov, who was also captured during an unsuccessful attempt to break out from the territory of the Ilyich plant.
Valuable catch for military intelligence.
Here is a video of part of Col. Baranyuk's interrogation, in which he discusses the different command structures, his infantry brigade under the Ukrainian ministry of defense and navy, and the Azov Battalion under the Ukrainian interior ministry.
The translation itself is not very good, but the video is translatable.
Adds Russian Spring:
The brigade commander, Hero of Ukraine, Colonel Volodymyr Baranyuk and Chief of Staff Colonel Dmitry Kormyankov were captured after an attempt to leave the Azovmash plant and have already testified about the circumstances of their capture and their conduct of hostilities in Mariupol.
They say that the Marines and the command of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not hesitate to fight side by side with the Azov National Battalion, according to a video recording of the testimony of the brigade commander and the brigade chief of staff, made at one of the points on the territory of the DPR.
"I went to the headquarters of Azov. We saw the literature, the pictures that are there. And the flags that are Nazi, Germany. Were with them... I'm not interested in literature that talks about Nazism and fascist symbols. I’m not interested in this," says Chief of Staff Colonel Dmitry Kormyankov.
Of course, in captivity, he quickly turned into an anti-fascist who fought side by side with the neo-Nazis exclusively "as part of the order."
"To fight not shoulder to shoulder, but to fight within the framework of a combat order received from a senior commander. Within the boundaries that are determined for you by the senior commander," he answers the question of whether he is interested in fighting together with the Azov people.
The same story with the brigade commander Baranyuk: interesting things are revealed in captivity.
Once in captivity, he declared that he was "a categorical opponent of all sorts of Nazi moments like these."
"These were not my colleagues. So by the will of fate it turned out that they were my neighbors at that moment. During the defense of Mariupol. It could be like any other unit… At least I didn’t see people with UPA* books and, let’s say, with Nazi symbols," said Baranyuk.
During the defense, he claims to have received "a certain sector of defense." “Both to my right and to my left were units of the Azov battalion,” he added.
Azov brands Colonel Baranyuk as a coward:
"Azov" began to brand the commander of the marines of the 36th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladimir Baranyuk, who was taken prisoner.
A member of a neo-Nazi gang today, during a press conference broadcast from the Azovstal plant, said that Baranyuk "ran away like a coward, thinking only of himself, forgetting about his duty."
“He refused to obey the order (of the Nazis from Azov,” RV note) and tried to flee the city with a small group in armored vehicles, trying to break through, ”said a gang member.
Recall that video evidence appeared today that brigade commander Baranyuk and chief of staff of the 36th brigade Dmitry Kormyankov were captured, and not killed, as previously thought.
As Russkaya Vesna reported, Kormyankov sharply turned into an anti-fascist in captivity , saying that “all these neo-Nazi things” were never close to him personally. He spoke extremely negatively about "Azov" and "Azov", saying that the marines were subordinated to "Azov", whose commanders led the defense of the city. Thus, trying to remove at least part of the responsibility for war crimes.
[NYPOST] Sen. Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, said national child sacrifice abortion legislation is "possible" if the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade.
"If the leaked opinion became the final opinion, legislative bodies — not only at the state level but at the federal level — certainly could legislate in that area," the Kentucky Republican told USA Today.
"And if this were the final decision, that was the point that it should be resolved one way or another in the legislative process. So yeah, it’s possible," McConnell said.
The debate over child sacrifice abortion rights has taken on new emphasis since the revelation last week of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that shows the court is poised to strike down the 1973 landmark decision as early as June.
In the opinion, Alito wrote that "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start" and argued that states should decide on whether to restrict child sacrifice abortion rights.
Some Republicans have been more critical of the leaking of the document than what’s in the decision, fearing a potential backlash at the polls during November’s 2022 midterm elections.
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No kidding. It wasn't a constitutional federal issue in the first place. NY and CA can practice full worshipers of Baal infanticide while America actually goes back to the basics.
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/\ NY and CA can practice full worshipers of Baal infanticide
Then there's always the packing seniors into the crowded nursing home strategy. Of course this technique is dependent upon a pandemic and the availability of and refrigeration trailers.
How can we finally get rid of these disgusting deplorables ?
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] At least 11 members of the Egyptian military, including an officer, have been killed in an armed attack on the Sinai Peninsula, an army front man said.
Five security personnel were also injured in the attack, the army front man has said, adding that the security forces "foiled a terrorist attack" on a water-lifting station east of the Suez Canal.
"The terrorist elements are being chased and besieged in one of the isolated areas in Sinai," the front man added in a statement on Saturday, AlJazeera reported.
The military gave no further details or the attack’s precise location, but two northern Sinai residents told News Agency that Dare Not be Named the attack took place in the town of Qantara in the province of Ismailia, which stretches eastwards from the Suez Canal.
No group grabbed credit for Saturday’s ambush, one of the deadliest attacks against Egyptian security forces in recent years.
Last week, suspected fighters blew up a natural gas pipeline in northern Sinai’s town of Bir al-Abd, causing a fire but no casualties.
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at least a decade of these kinds of attacks have taken place in Sinai
various groups, e.g., salafist, al q, ISIS, etc have been involved
in 2021, most of the attacks against Egypt were ISIS or ISIS allies. One group, the Army of Islam, works with Hamas to train fighters in Gaza then sends them to carry out attacks against Egypt in the Sinai under ISIS instruction
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[NYPOST] As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday.
Governor Serhiy Gaidai said Russian forces dropped a bomb on Saturday afternoon on the school in Bilohorivka where about 90 people were sheltering, causing a fire that engulfed the building.
"The fire was extinguished after nearly four hours, then the rubble was cleared, and, unfortunately, the bodies of two people were found," Gaidai wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
"Thirty people were evacuated from the rubble, seven of whom were maimed. Sixty people were likely to have died under the rubble of buildings."
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[GatewayPundit] The virtual premiere for the movie ’2000 Mules’ was held last night live from Las Vegas.
In the film, Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote provide answers and evidence on the stolen 2020 Election. The explosive documentary was released on Tuesday at select theaters across the nation.
According to the evidence discussed in the movie, if you factor in just the Mule ballot traffickers: Trump won with 305 electoral votes. That does not even count all the other fraud that occurred during the election like the mysterious ballot drops at 3 in the morning or the questionable machines.
In April, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk went on with Joe Hoft on 93.3 FM to discuss the movie. Kirk, who is featured in the film, said this about the evidence collected for the film, "They saw that some of these mules would visit these drop boxes every night. And then go to Stacey Abrams ...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Now she wants to be somebody's vice president so she can sour grape about that too... ’ headquarters and then go back to the drop boxes.
The movie discusses the Democrat-linked stash houses but does not mention any names or locations.
Last night Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips announced they will be releasing ALL of the addresses of the ballot stash houses.
Stecey Abrams may want to find a good lawyer.
On Saturday night political columnist Brian Cates posted this on the stash houses:
Tonight during the virtual premiere of 2000 Mules, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips announced they will be releasing ALL the addresses of the stash houses run by the NGO’s that were orchestrating this massive criminal racketeering operation in multiple states.
This also helps explain how a radical Marxist candidate like Rafael Warnock can win in Georgia.
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They saw that some of these mules would visit these drop boxes every night. And then go to Stacey Abrams’ headquarters and then go back to the drop boxes.
Can you say "chain of control"? Sure you can.
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Remember the Stacy Abrams Campaign worker who turned in his rental as he was flying back to NYC?
The Rental Agency Car Cleaners found 1,000's of illegally printed ballots left in the car trunk and called the GBI/GSP/APD.
I seemed to have missed the GBI/GSP/FBI investigation results, and the name of the Stacy Abrams campaign worker indicted for voter fraud?
OH!!!!! that's right, there never was an arrest?
OH! a google search fails to show it ever happened now? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm! I wonder how that happened?
[NYPOST] Of course the ink is barely dry on the Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and a draft is not quite a ruling, but it’s been refreshing to finally be hearing nothing from business leaders on this contentious cultural issue.
Maybe our corporate elite has finally woken up to the notion that it’s bad business to piss off more than half the country with virtue-signaling on progressive issues. Or maybe they’re ignoring the political noise and keeping busy doing what they get paid to do — trying to run profitable companies that provide returns for their shareholders.
Either way, silence is golden, and we can thank Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for making it happen.
DeSantis did something that would have made movie character Jimmy Malone proud. Malone, played by Sean Connery in the 1987 flick "The Untouchables," is the tough, veteran cop who explained to Eliot Ness how to beat Al Capone and his criminal gang: "They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue."
For the record: I’m NOT advocating violence in defeating the corporate wokesters, or anyone for that matter.
But there is something to be said about following Jimmy Malone’s logic and taking the battle to corporate woke gangsters if they choose to become an arm of the AOC-Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... wing of the Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... . And that’s exactly what DeSantis did in his battle and convincing victory over the virtue-signaling of the Disney theme-park and entertainment corporate empire.
According to my sources, the C-suite types weren’t just closely watching but also learning something about a new brand of GOP politics after DeSantis counter-punched Disney CEO Bob Chapek.
Chapek thought it was a smart idea to follow the lead of some of his far-left employees who demanded he speak out against a Florida law they inaccurately and libelously dubbed "Don’t Say Gay."
Keep in mind, the law doesn’t say that all; it merely states that kids from kindergarten through the third grade don’t need sex-ed lessons or gender-identity preaching when they’re supposed to be learning the ABCs and how to add.
LEFTY RALLYING CRY
The cultural left doesn’t really care about the truth when it comes to advancing its agenda. Left-wingers and their friends in the media created the fake meme as part of a rallying cry hoping to generate public and corporate pressure to get the state to back down. And it worked at least for awhile. After keeping his mouth shut (Smart!), Chapek gave in to the woke heat (Dumb!), and publicly attacked the law.
Disney’s corporate headquarters are in Burbank, Calif. But, it’s fair to say, Florida is its second home. It’s among Florida’s largest employers. The Disney World theme park is a cultural landmark of the state, so much so that the company has received corporate welfare writ large for decades and its complex near Orlando operates as a de facto independent local government.
No longer. DeSantis did what politicians should have done when all those corporate CEOs decided to give in to the woke mobs in the streets and on Twitter by attacking Georgia’s voting law as racist when it merely checks for ID: He fought back.
He didn’t just criticize Disney and Chapek for political grandstanding, he pushed through the Florida legislature a law that rescinds the company’s corporate-welfare goodies, which includes tax breaks, access to the low-cost municipal bond market, and other privileges.
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Now repeal the Bono copyright act and return to the original 14 year with one 14 year extension copyright.
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In addition to everything Groomer+, I'd love to hear the pitch meeting remaking Cinderella to star a young black man who makes magic basketball shoes. Can't think of the last thing so accidentally racist.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Taliban ...Arabic for students... security authorities in Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province say they have rescued a minor girl from kidnappers in Sharana, the central district of province.
The girl was kidnapped in Mutakhan district, according to the Bakhtar news agency, citing the security chief of the Taliban police headquarters in Paktika.
According to him, the kidnappers clothed the girl in boys clothes and cut her hair short.
The girl was rescued in Sharana, the placid provincial capital, according to a front man for the Taliban’s Paktika police chief, but no arrests were made.
The incidence of kidnappings has recently surged in the country’s southeastern areas. The majority of kidnappings in these provinces are perpetrated for extortion and ransom.
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[BIZPACREVIEW] In a display of mudslinging disguised as journalism, one NPR news hound maintained her track record of laying unsubstantiated claims related to the Supreme Court when she dismissed any other possible origin for the SCOTUS leak other then a "conservative clerk who was afraid."
NPR’s legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg appeared on ABC’s "This Week" Sunday where she was asked to assess the situation surrounding the release of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion for the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Host Martha Raddatz brought her guest into the segment by commenting on the lengthy duration for which Totenberg has covered SCOTUS.
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Suppose the leak *was* from a 'conservative clerk'... assuming such a thing exists. What if it was a false flag op to drive the progressive Dems, which is to say all of them, into a collective frenzy of violent lunatic activity that would make America realize these people are fuggen' nuts and should be nowhere near the levers of power. Or maybe they were crazy to start with. It's hard to say.
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If that 'makes sense', then why did one Twitter account ID one of Sotomayor's clerks as the primary suspect within two or three hours, and laid down some compelling evidence about her pro-abortion background?
It only 'makes sense' if you ignore that angle. Then again, I wouldn't put it past Roberts to be the leaker.
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Everyone, justices included, should have been ordered to turn in their cellies for forensic examination. Discovery should not have taken more than a day or so.
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Based on my 40+ years experience in the workplace, "it makes sense" is what you say when you have zero support for your position. No facts, no data, no research, no work at all in fact. That is when you say, "It just makes sense."
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I continue to enjoy the tin-foil hat conspiracy mind games, so consider this:
The leak is not in fact from anyone in the court, liberal or conservative, but rather from an IT hacker with world class tools, experience and access. Motive being the further disruption and internecine hatred rending the fabric of American society. Deep state or ChiCOM, Iranian or Ruskie, I suspect all of them have opportunity, motive and means.
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I suspect the leaker is some low level employee in the printing office that happened to read the first few pages and realized what they were printing.
[GatewayPundit] Florida just got a massive win for election integrity.
A federal appeals court just reversed a lower court’s decision to overturn Florida’s newest election integrity laws.
The laws established Election Crimes and Security and worked to strengthen voting rules in the state. This includes signature verification on mail-in ballots.
Epoch Times reported:
On Friday, May 6, a federal appeals court granted Florida’s request to reinstate portions of the state’s election laws, struck down by a district court judge who ruled the measures unconstitutional and discriminatory.
On May 1, 2021, the Republican-controlled state Senate approved SB 90 (pdf), which overhauled Florida election law ahead of the 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential election. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law May 6, 2021, with immediate effect, strengthening voting rules in the state and establishing the nation’s first Office of Election Crimes and Security at the Department of State.
The law requires vote-by-mail ballot signatures to match the most recent signature on file to be counted. The measure also dictates that political parties and candidates cannot be shut out from observing the signature matching process.
The court also dealt a massive blow to the lower court’s claim that the law was attempting to suppress the black vote.
The Tallahassee Democrat:
The ruling also took issue with Walker’s scathing finding that the legislation, championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican politicians, was part of a pattern of Black voter suppression. Walker took the extraordinary step of putting Florida under federal supervision for future voting laws that deal with certain topics.The district judge "failed to properly account for what might be called the presumption of legislative good faith" in his analysis, the appellate court said.
"For starters, in its 288-page opinion, the district court never once mentioned the presumption," the ruling says. "And while we do not require courts to incant magic words, it does not appear to us that the district court here meaningfully accounted for the presumption at all."
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[RIA Novosti] The commander of the special purpose company of the main department of the national police of the Kherson region, Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Salamakha, after meeting with Russian security forces on the eve of Victory Day, voluntarily handed over a disguised warehouse with dozens of Kalashnikov assault rifles, machine guns, hundreds of grenades, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
After inspecting the base of the special forces of the Kherson police on Sretenskaya Street (the former "Berkut"), Russian security forces found 120 boxes of ammunition (80 boxes of 7.62 caliber cartridges, 40 boxes of RGD-5, F-1, RGM grenades) and 50 small arms AK-74 , AKSU, Ukrainian-made police shotguns, 2 NSV "Utes" machine guns with a hundred boxes of rounds.
As Russian security officials told RIA Novosti, Salamakha also said that, at the direction of the Kiev authorities, he was to lead a special unit to carry out "sabotage operations" on the territory of the Kherson region.
At the same time, he stated that "being the heir of a WWII veteran who honors the memory of his ancestor," he voluntarily shared "the plans of his leadership against his Russian brothers and the civilian population of Kherson."
In addition to what was said, Salamakha named the names of former employees who were responsible for the safety of the warehouse: Gennady Ivanenko, Andriy Gladkiy and Yuriy Turchenko, as well as Artem Redchem and Vitaly Chaika, Ukrainian intelligence liaison officers.
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Stick this up your bird dog ass, Badanov. Not many remain ignorant enough to believe a Russian can speak without lying, not since the rape of Ukraine.
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Stick this up your bird dog ass, Badanov. Not many remain ignorant enough to believe a Russian can speak without lying, not since the rape of Ukraine.
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." ― Sun Tzu
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Despite being a connoisseur of linguistic idioms, 'bird dog ass' is a new one. Is that something uniquely Ukrainian? Or possibly speech-to-text gone wild?
[NYPOST] Sen. Ron Johnson ripped Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the administration’s immigration policies, saying he is abetting "some of the most evil people on the planet" by failing to secure the southern border.
"He had no idea on the numbers of all the human depredations caused by his administration facilitating the business model of some of the most evil people on the planet: The human trafficking. The sex trafficking. The drug trafficking," Johnson (R-Wisc.) told host John Catsimatidis on his WABC 770 AM radio show in an interview that aired Sunday.
"He is completely oblivious to it," the senator said.
Johnson said the first thing President Biden and Mayorkas must do is acknowledge there is a problem at the border.
"It is enormously frustrating. [Biden and Mayorkas] will never solve the problem if they won’t first admit they have one ... and if they won’t acknowledge the root cause. And ... the root cause of the problem is President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... and Secretary Mayorkas," he said.
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There's beaucoup bucks to be made in drugs, human trafficking and money laundering. Besides, there are those who have exotic and unusual sexual tastes to be satisfied via trafficking (sarc) (See Epstine and Ghislaine for more).
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[UnserstandingWar] Russian forces did not make any significant advances on any axis of advance on May 8. The Ukrainian counteroffensive northeast of Kharkiv City has likely forced Russian troops to redeploy to Kharkiv instead of reinforcing stalled Russian offensive operations elsewhere in eastern Ukraine. Russian forces are continuing their attempt to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts but have not made substantial territorial gains since securing Popasna on May 7.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Russian forces are likely amassing in Belgorod to reinforce Russian efforts in northern Kharkiv to prevent the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive from pushing closer to the Ukraine-Russia border.
Russian forces near Izyum focused on regrouping, replenishing, and reconnoitering Ukrainian positions in order to continue advances to the southwest and southeast of Izyum.
Russian forces continued their ground attacks to drive to the borders of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts but did not make any territorial gains
Russian troops continued to assault the Azovstal Steel Plant and advanced efforts to economically integrate occupied Mariupol into the wider Russian economy.
Russian troops may be preparing for a renewed offensive on the Southern Axis but are unlikely to be successful in this endeavor.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council ( STC) militia mourned two of its military commanders, who were killed along with a number of its Death Eaters in an attack by al-Qaeda operatives in Dhalea province, southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... The commander of counter-terrorism in the STC, Mohammed al-Shubji, and the deputy commander of the Security Belt in Dhalea were killed on Friday evening in armed festivities with elements believed to be affiliated with the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP), the STC said in a statement .
"There is a plot to export terrorism to the south again, by releasing dozens of terrorist elements from the prisons of the Islah Party in the first military region in the city of Seiyun of Hadhramaut province," the statement read.
The STC vowed to continue the battle in order to "eradicate terrorism and all those behind it."
On Friday, elements believed to be affiliated with al-Qaeda infiltrated the border governorate of Bayda with the A Shu’ayb district, and were arrested in the city of al-Awabel, before a military force arrived and took them to Dhalea and without verifying their identities, STC media reported.
According to the sources, upon their arrival at the Security Belt headquarters in the city, the armed elements began firing at the security forces headquarters, resulting in several deaths and injuries on both sides.
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[REGNUM] Armament and military equipment from the United States and Western countries were destroyed by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the settlement of Soledar on May 8, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov told reporters.
During the special operation in Ukraine, "the weapons and military equipment delivered to the Sol railway station from the United States and Western countries, as well as the personnel of the reserve units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were destroyed," a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry noted.
He also added that the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 19 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
They also destroyed a pontoon crossing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Chuguev region and six depots of rocket and artillery weapons in the DPR (in the regions of Krasnaya Gora, Verkhnekamenka, Mayaki), in the LPR (Novodruzhevsk), in the Kharkov region (Reznikovo and Nikolaevka).
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Maybe someone at the pentagon or whitehouse should gloat over how many weapons they sent again. Then, tell once again how much more you are sending. Idiots, every GD 1 of them.
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/\ Restrained golf claps and knowing smiles from the MIC crowd.
#8
My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
#11
The modern context is drawn from the shifting support of the English for the French Revolution, which seemed to change with the emergency of that pesky affinity the French had for industrial-style decapitation of the nobility by the dozens daily.
"Perfidious signifies one who does not keep his faith or word (from the Latin word perfidia), while Albion is an ancient and now poetic name for Great Britain."
#14
Planes loaded with military equipment loaded on aircraft and sent over the weekend. I was told Monday but happened Saturday and Sunday at Dulles. One vet said old equipment but I don't believe that. So oil from National reserves to three countries and all this equipment most likely given away leads me to believe no restocking of National reserve or military hardware.
[BREITBART] A left-wing political advertising agency has reportedly begun promoting Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) to Democrats in the Wyoming Republican primary.
The agency’s name is People First but was previously known as "Main Street One," according to the agency CEO’s LinkedIn page. The agency’s website indicates it is affiliated with far-left Democrat organizations, such as President Biden’s campaign arm, Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party... , and Black Lives Matter.
Under the agency’s former name, the pro-leftist group has received disbursements of hundreds of thousands of dollars from radical organizations, Federal Election Commission records show. Among those organizations are "Biden for President" and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
#3
Access to the neocon system and lionizing her cross-aisle foil play are worth an R in the seating arrangement and a couple dollars. Plus, it blocks a potential adversary coming out of Wyoming.
May 8 (UPI) -- Two men accused of killing three people in an attack in the Israeli city of Elad were arrested by Israeli forces Sunday, security officials said.
The two suspects, 19-year-old As'ad Yousef As'ad al-Rifa'i and 20-year-old Subhi Emad Sbeihat, were arrested in a forested area near Elad, Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet security agency and Israel police said in a joint statement.
"A joint team spotted the two suspicious figures near a quarry," the joint statement said.
The men were unarmed at the time of the arrest but axes used in the attack were later found by security forces nearby.
They were arrested about a kilometer from the scene of the attack.
Al-Rifa’i confessed to security forces that he committed the axe attack with Sbeihat, killing Oren Ben Yiftah, a 35-year-old driver from Lod, and Elad residents Yonatan Havakuk and Boaz Gol, both in their 40s.
The Israeli military said Sunday that troops were operating in Rummanah, the hometown of two suspects, in order to map out their residences ahead of a potential demolition.
Israel regularly demolishes the homes of Paleostinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks as a matter of policy.
Still more from the Times of Israel at 8:00 a.m. ET:
Oren Ben Yiftah, who drove a pair of Paleostinian turbans to Elad before they murdered him and proceeded to kill two others, was part of a WhatsApp group that organized the ferrying of illegal Paleostinian workers, Channel 12 reports.
Tens of thousands of Paleostinians are estimated to cross the security barrier illegally to work in Israel. The IDF has sought to crack down on the phenomenon during the recent wave of attacks, after long turning a blind eye due to the belief that there was a joint Israeli and Paleostinian interest in allowing in cheap labor.
Yiftah received a message on the day of the attack updating him that two Paleostinians had crossed illegally from the West Bank and were waiting for a ride, Channel 12 says.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hezbollah
...The nation is noted for 
[Breitbart] The New York Times published a lead editorial on Sunday in which it warned that overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 abortion law, would mean ending interracial marriage, repeating an erroneous argument the left has spread for days.
...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...
...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft....
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Gunmen killed three people in an attack on a youth football team in South Darfur’s Kalma camp on Saturday.
A state-owned public transport operator in 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
To hear Democrats today, outrage over the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade will cause a blue wave this November. It’s an amusing theory that doesn’t quite hold up under scrutiny. Even Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) pointed out earlier this week that 
...46th president of the U.S. S 
Alleged subway shooter 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
Sen. 
[NYPOST] As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday.
...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Now she wants to be somebody's vice president so she can sour grape about that too...
Of course the ink is barely dry on the Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and a draft is not quite a ruling, but it’s been refreshing to finally be hearing nothing from business leaders on this contentious cultural issue.
...every time you hear the phrase 
...Arabic for 
Florida just got a massive win for election integrity.
/\ Restrained golf claps and knowing smiles from the MIC crowd. 
...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party...
