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Could have happened under Obama/Biden, but Obama must have been too busy beachfront property shopping and trying to hook up with Interesting Italians who speak that dirty, dirty Austrian.
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Posturing. It would not have passed in the majority-Democrat House anyway, nor with enough votes in the Senate to override a presidential veto — which would assuredly have followed. Besides, the country is divided enough on the issue that establishing a national law on the subject would have caused as much dissent and disputation as Obamacare did.
[BrownstoneInstitute] In the last week, some of the top spokespeople for lockdowns, and all that is associated with that policy of pathogenic control, have come out to defend them plus threatening more now that we are seeing seasonal increases in cases.
It’s almost as if they have learned nothing.
They certainly haven’t admitted error – Bill Gates will never do that – despite all the carnage all around us. It includes not only destroyed businesses and educational losses but also inflation, goods shortages, weakened financial markets, broken supply chains, social and political conflict, and countless broken lives.
All of this traces to lockdowns, a policy advocated and enforced by specific people, mostly powerful and highly paid intellectuals, and amplified by the media.
They say that no one could have known. Not so. Drs. Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, Gupta, Atlas, Tenenbaum, Risch, McCullough, Urso, Dara, Wolf, Oskoui, Ladapo and other contrarians such as Jeffrey Tucker, Ivor Cummings, and Paul Joseph Watson, and many other writers at Brownstone, were right on the devastation and failures of COVID lockdowns.
We wrote nearly two years now clamoring against the devastation that would come from societal lockdowns and school closures. We wrote extensively on the ineffectiveness of masks (references 1, 2, 3, 4) and the accrued harms, especially for children, yet were ridiculed and dismissed by the media and the medical establishment. We reported on the catastrophic effects of COVID lockdowns on children, yet were dismissed and canceled.
We felt that it was lockdown lunacy when we could have used an age-risk stratified ‘focused’ protection approach (Great Barrington Declaration), with strong protections of the vulnerable high-risk in our societies first, while allowing the rest of the lower-risk healthy and well in society (younger persons) to live largely normal lives with unfettered tampering by governments. We even added the need for vitamin D supplementation, body weight control, and the use of early outpatient treatment, but were scoffed at and dismissed as heretics. We were ridiculed, slandered, and smeared, despite evidence of the vicious societal costs from lockdowns and the near 500 studies and pieces of evidence that show the failures and harms from lockdowns and school closures.
It was stupefying to us skeptics and contrarians as to why governments, whose primary roles are to protect their citizens, were taking such draconian and punitive actions despite the compelling evidence (that was available and accumulated one month after the pandemic onset) that the restrictive policies were misdirected and very harmful; causing palpable harm to human welfare on so many levels. It was tantamount to insanity what governments did to their populations and largely based on no scientific footing.
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And between increased demand due to deferred treatment and decreased supply due to early retirements it now takes 6 months for get most non-emergency medical care around here. Thanks, Covideers.
The new Hezbollah video shows a glance of what is likely an Abu-Mahdi anti-ship cruise missile launcher. That means Iran has armed Hezbollah with her longest range (reportedly 1000 km) AShM. pic.twitter.com/iVNbwQOrtb
[gaodawei] In a now-censored [article], Gao Yusheng, former PRC Ambassador to the Ukraine, explains why Russia is losing the war in Ukraine and the effect that may have on the international order.
[YouTube] Lend-lease was one of the pivotal factors in the second world war. It was a mechanism by which the United States shipped tremendous quantities of everything from boots to bullets in order to keep Britain, the USSR, and the other allies in the fight.
On May 9th, President Biden signed an Act bearing the lend-lease name into law, taking on the authority to loan defence articles (that's a fancy way of saying militarily useful stuff) to Ukraine.
Journalists across the internet have been quick to herald the Act as a game changer, one which will fundamentally transforms the flow of assistance to Kyiv.
I'm not so sure.
In this video, I look at what the modern lend-lease Act actually does, assess its significance, and then focus on some of the lesser known, and altogether less dramatic mechanisms that are being used to authorize the ever growing flow of US money and weapons supporting Ukraine. Great breakdown of the American aid packages to Ukraine
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An arsenal but not a democracy ….
They leave the dead bodies to leave the ukrainian families with ‘missing in action’, therefore unable these families to grieve the dead and overall in order not to pay the families for the ‘dead heroes’. That is the ukrainian way, canon folder for the fools and billions of dollars for the corrupted. Slava corrupted mafia state of Ukraine.
This is democracy for you Skidmark
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Eh? The article was posted by DarthVader, an entirely different gentleman.
[YouTube] How do we get to a world without Russian President Vladimir Putin?
The reality is that there's no easy path to get there, despite what some US Senators or leaders within the European Union might want. There has been a near constant stream of chatter from elected officials, talking heads, and regular citizens asking why (or, in some cases, pleading) Russia's cabal of oligarchs don't simply... eliminate Putin from the equation.
I'll save you from the messier details of how some plans would go, but history is rife with examples of palace coups that remove this or that blundering leader. Russia is not likely to be one of those places.
For one, Russia's oligarchs derive their legitimacy and ability to operate (read: plunder) directly from Putin. Oligarchs may have their own relatively small patronage systems, but they don't have the support of the Russian people. Which brings us to a more important point: the Russian military, intelligence services, and Russian people are still largely supportive of Putin.
While this may change, this is something we can't gloss over. There is still considerable institutional support around Putin. And while less critical, there is the very important fact that the current stock of oligarchs range from inept, to incredibly corrupt, to cowardly, to reviled. And these are their good points.
Whatever Putin is, he's not stupid. And none of the individuals he handpicked to develop (read: plunder) the Russian state's industries and resources was someone who could one day mount a reasonable challenge to his authority.
[IsraelTimes] Shelling reportedly targets area near Hader, north of Quneitra; unverified report claims 4 missiles launched from jet
A site in southern Syria was damaged in an Israeli missile attack in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, Syrian state media reported.
The attack targeted an area near the town of Hader, north of Quneitra in the Syrian Golan Heights, just across the border from Israel, according to the state-run SANA news agency.
There were no reports of injuries, but material damage was caused, SANA reported.
There was no immediate word on what sites were hit.
A Twitter account tracking Israeli military activity in Syria claimed four missiles were launched from a warplane, causing damage to the area.
Video purportedly from the strike shared by the same account and showed projectiles streaking through the sky, followed by loud explosions.
There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces, which does not normally comment on individual strikes.
Israel has carried out hundreds of sorties over Syria in the last decade, mostly to stymie attempts by Iranian forces to transfer weapons or establish a foothold. On Saturday, Syria said unidentified jets struck in Deir Ezzor, one of several areas where Iranian militiamen are thought to be deployed, though several local media reports said that strike was believed to have been conducted by the US-led coalition operating in the area, not Israel.
In the past, strikes on areas closer to the Israel border in the Syrian Golan have targeted specific individuals suspected of plotting attacks against Israel or in the midst of carrying them out.
In February, Israel allegedly bombed an observation post and “finance building” in the Quneitra area. The military also dropped leaflets over the area warning Syrian regulars that they would be targeted if they allowed Iranian proxy group Hezbollah to operate in the region.
The flyer directly named the Hezbollah official that the IDF believes is facilitating the relationship between the terror group and the Syrian military, Jawad Hasham, the son of Hajj Hasham, who leads Hezbollah’s efforts along the Syrian border.
The flyer said Syrian soldiers “repeatedly” allowed Hajj Jawad Hashem “to breach the infrastructure of the Syrian army, including… in the finance building and Rwihinah base,” where the overnight strikes took place.
“Those who cooperate with Hezbollah… are targets,” it warned.
Similar flyers were also reportedly found in the area last week; however, it was not clear when they were dropped.
Israeli strikes have continued in Syrian airspace, which is largely controlled by Russia, even as ties with Moscow have deteriorated in recent weeks. Israel has found itself at odds with Russia as it has increasingly supported Ukraine, while seeking to maintain freedom of movement in Syria’s skies.
[IsraelTimes] Israel has revoked the entry permits of over 1,100 Paleostinians whose relatives were involved in terror attacks, including several recent deadly assaults, security officials tell Hebrew media.
"Any Paleostinian who thinks of choosing the way of terror should know that the attack he commits will fatally harm his family," an official is quoted as saying.
[ToloNews] Acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... at a gathering for reconciliation between the Haqqani family and a tribe in the Garda-Serai district of Paktia called for the resolution of disputes through negotiation.
Many tribal elders gathered to reconcile a feud between the Haqqani family and Sori Khail tribe after more than 60 years of hostility.
"We made an agreement today in which we will turn such hostilities into friendships. After that we will go to Pashtun-infested Logar, Kabul, Shinwari, and eastern areas and will solve such hostilities," he said.
"Such steps will be taken in regard to the traditional taboos such as killing someone else instead of the killer," said Anas Haqqani, a senior member of the Islamic Emirate. "We will try to seek forgiveness for the killers but if it doesn’t happen, another person should not be killed instead of the killer. The old hostilities remain from the ancestors, it should not make trouble for the rest of the families."
According to the residents, several decades ago a member of the Sori Khail tribe was killed in a dispute with the family of Haqqani.
"My wish from the people and nation is to forgive each other as we did," said Ahmad Khan, a relative of the person who was killed several years ago by the Haqqani family.
Haqqani said he respects the outcome of the gathering made by the tribal elders.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... both sides reconciled and hugged each other after a decision made by the elders in the gathering.
"We urge all tribes to resolve all types of disputes that happened among them. It should be eliminated. We will launch the convoy of peace from here," said Mawlawi Abdullah, governor of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... .
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate said it will discuss with American officials the fate of helicopters designated for Afghanistan but given to the Ukraine by the US.
Earlier, SIGAR reported that 16 Mi-17 helicopters and 17 other pieces of military equipment which the US allocated for Afghanistan were given to Ukraine.
According to SIGAR, On January 19, DOD notified Congress that it intended to transfer five U.S.-procured former Afghan Mi-17 helicopters that had been undergoing maintenance in Ukraine to the Ukrainian government. Ukraine accepted these excess defense articles on March 11, 2022.
"In mid-April, President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...... announced a military assistance package to Ukraine that included an additional 11 Mi-17 helicopters that had been scheduled for Afghanistan," SIGAR said in a recent report. "DOD also transferred nearly 16 million rounds of varied nonstandard munitions, originally procured for Afghanistan, to Ukraine."
Analysts believe that the lack of recognition of the current Afghan government could be one of the obstacles for the US to hand over the aircraft to Afghanistan.
"There is a legal aspect--the Islamic Emirate has yet to be recognized by the US and other countries, therefore, the Americans believe that if they had a deal, it was with the former government. So, until the legitimacy of Islamic Emirate is solved, handing over Afghanistan’s property to the Islamic Emirate will face challenges," said Javid Javid, a political analyst.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the Islamic Emirate said it will negotiate with the US officials to retake the helicopters.
"First of all, the traitors are those who fled with these helicopters from Afghanistan. Second, we are talking about the fate of them with the Americans and with the country’s where our helicopters are present. We are trying to bring the Afghanistan property back to Afghanistan," Islamic Emirate’s front man, Zabiullah Mujahid, said.
Earlier, the Islamic Emirate said more than 40 aircraft had been flown to neighboring countries of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan after the fall of the former government. The Islamic Emirate called on the countries to hand over these aircrafts to Afghanistan.
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I laughed all the way through this article.
Watch Team Brandon send Mi refugees from Ukraine and replace them with something Ukrainians have no idea how to fly, but at 3 times the price, charged to the Covid-40Billion money transfer. Don't forget all of Cousin Mortimer's Transport Fees.
[KhaamaPress] A handful of women in Kabul have staged demonstrations in response to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ’s decision to "make hijab mandatory," with Talibs allegedly dispersing protesters and detaining journalists.
At the protest today on Tuesday, protesters chanted "The burqa is not our hijab" and "Afghan women in the Taliban’s grip — the Afghan people in need a mouthful of bread," three days after the Taliban decreed "the hijab mandatory."
They erupted into the streets with the slogan "Bread, Work, and Freedom," claiming that their rallies were a continuation of Afghan women’s protests.
The demonstration began at the Ansari square of Shahr-e-Naw and continued just outside of the Ministry of Interior, where the Taliban surrounded them and detained journalists, according to Zhulia Parsi, one of the protesting girls.
The journalists have been detained, according to Zhulia Parsi, and she has no idea where they are being held. "The Taliban snatched the girls’ smartphones and took them away," she claimed.
Taliban forces reportedly ripped down the banners and dispersed the protesters, according to Zhulia.
The Taliban wanted to take the women inside the ministry and force them to confess, Zhulia Parsi told the news hounds.
The Taliban released an order to make hijab mandatory three days ago, which sparked massive national and international outrage.
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With respect to “measure” I think we can rule out invasion. Maybe we tariff burka exports or block their imports of HUMVEE parts. I think we can rule out the most logical measure: don’t recognize them or give them any money.
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start calling Afghanistan the Shariah Paradise
Leftists want that here. Sexual abuse of women and children isn't against the law. It is the law.
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...until the next time it is destroyed, anyway. This is why Afghans don’t have nice things.
[KhaamaPress] Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) has announced that one of the power poles that was recently entirely demolished by unknown people has been repaired.
In a newsletter published on Tuesday, 10th May, DABS stated that work on repairing the second electricity pole is also progressing quickly.
Due to the demolition of two imported electrical outlets by unknown individuals in the Salang area of Parwan province two weeks ago, electricity was shut off in Kabul and 11 other provinces.
DABS is attempting to fix the power poles in Kabul and the regions for the second time because unidentified people blow them up.
Electricity will be supplied to Kabul and the provinces once the second power line is completed, and it is worth noting that the repair of these substations has cost more than a hundred thousand dollars.
[ToloNews] Thousands of children were provided with teachers and other educational resources in the province of Pashtun-infested Logar, the provincial educational department said.
Many children in the rural areas of the province are deprived of education.
"We have 400 classrooms and we have appointed 400 teachers in all provinces of Pashtun-infested Logar," said Mawlawi Janat Gul Aziz, head of the provincial department of education.
The classes are being supported by UNICEF in cooperation with IRC.
"The period of the classes taught in the villages is nine months each year and the period of quick classes is six months (twice each year)," said Mohammad Alam Ghalib, head of Wadan organization.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... the students are happy about their classes but called for further facilities in the education area.
The classes are being taught on the local level until grade three.
"Our teacher teaches Islamic lessons. He teaches us Pashto and math," said Marriam a student. A LOT of Islamic lessons, not so much Pashto and math
"I was not interested in the school. When the school began here, I became happy and thanked them," said Noorzia, a student.
The residents of Pashtun-infested Logar said that many children are deprived of schooling due to lack of access.
"There was war previously. Many children couldn’t go to school. All of them have been deprived of an education," said Mohammad Jamshid, Zarinzoi.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... the Resistance® Front claimed that many civilians have been targeted by the Islamic Emirate in Andarab district of Baghlan.
The Islamic Emirate denied the civilian casualties.
"50 forces of the opponents put down their weapons and surrendered to the Islamic Emirate in the mountains of Abshar district and also 60 other individuals in the mountains of Dara district of Panjshir surrendered to the Islamic Emirate," said Abubakar Sediqqi, a front man for the governor of Panjshir province.
Earlier, Panjshir officials said that at least 5 forces of the Islamic Emirate had been killed and two others maimed in festivities in Dara district of the province.
The Resistance® Front claimed Islamic Emirate forces targeted civilians in Qassan village in Andarab district of Baghlan province.
Salahuddin Rabbani, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, said he is concerned by the reports of civilian casualties in Panjshir province and Qasan village of Andarab district in Baghlan.
Analysts said that the parties involved in the fighting must uphold human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... "The involved parties in the war should consider human rights and prevent civilian casualties," said Hamid Azizi Mujadidi, a university instructor.
5 Islamic Emirate Troops Killed in Panjshir Clash: Local Official 9 May
[ToloNws] At least five members of Islamic Emirate forces were killed and two were wounded in a clash that took place on Friday in Dara district of central Panjshir province, local officials said on Monday.
A spokesman for the provincial governor’s office, Abubakar Sedeqqi, said that 5,000 troops are stationed in Panjshir following the clash.
Earlier, the provincial governor's spokesman told TOLOnews that six Islamic Emirate Force troops had died in the clashes.
“Less than five people were killed and two others were wounded. They were evacuated to the hospital and the martyrs were sent to their provinces. The claims made by the opponents of the Islamic Emirate are absolutely untrue,” he said.
Reports of clashes between the forces of the Islamic Emirate and the Resistance Front have been posted on social media over the past several days.
The Panjshir governor’s spokesman said at least 10 fighters of the Resistance Front were killed in the clash.
He also said the situation is under control.
“We are present in many areas of Dara, and Abshar and as well as in many areas of Andarab,” said Sibghatullah Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Resistance Front.
Meanwhile, the Resistance Front also confirmed six of its fighters were killed and claimed it has control over some parts of Dara and Abshar districts of Panjshir.
However, the Resistance Front claimed it had inflicted heavy casualties on the Islamic Emirate’s forces.
“These claims are untrue. There was some gunfire from the mountains. We have taken steps to suppress them,” said Abdul Hameed Khurasani, commander of the Nasir Badri troops.
This comes as videos are circulating on social media apparently showing members of the Resistance Front detained by the Islamic Emirate as well as forces of the Islamic Emirate detained by the Resistance Front in Panshir, but the videos have yet to be confirmed.
“Hostilities had grown in Dara district, but a small-scale damage had been done to Taliban troops, including the destruction of three vehicles and the injury of three members,” Abu Bakr Siddiqui, spokesman for the Taliban governor in Panjshir province, told the media today, 9th May.
Six Taliban were captured and seven Taliban tanks were entirely destroyed, according to the spokesperson for NRF.
While the spokesman for the NRF claims that the Taliban are under pressure in Panjshir and have suffered casualties, a Taliban spokesman for the province claims that their “operation” to clear members of the NRF in the AbdullahKhel village has forced them to flee to the mountains.
However, public sources in Panjshir province state that two military helicopters evacuated all Taliban bodies and wounded to Kabul yesterday.
The bodies taken to Kabul were also said to have been returned to the provinces, according to the media.
Videos have also surfaced on social media saying that the Taliban abused residents after defeating the National Resistance Front and inflicted high fatalities.
The Taliban have yet to respond, and tensions in Panjshir appear to have escalated.
[Dawn] "MUSLIM women are not worried," according to a spokesperson of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. This characterisation of Moslem women’s feelings stems from the new rules issued by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... regime on Saturday mandating a face covering for all Afghan women. Afghan women must now wear the burqa that covers them entirely, with only their eyes exposed, or they can wear an abaya, along with a hijab, and a face veil.
The Taliban’s latest edict on the burqa could be a last-ditch effort to create a controversy and get some international attention.
Warnings will be issued to the male guardians of those who do not comply, after which they could face jail time if their women relations still refuse to submit to the Taliban’s diktat. Women babus government employees not wearing the face covering would be sacked, while male employees with women family members who defied the injunction would be suspended from their jobs, if they actually have one.
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[ToloNews] Even though women's driving licenses have been suspended in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, some women and girls are driving freely in Herat city.
Shiama Wafa is one of dozens of female drivers in Herat. she is a journalist and it has been over ten years that she has been driving. She says that she goes out of her house every day with her car and there are no restrictions for her.
"It is very pleasing and helpful for me that I have the talent and ability to take care of my work and go to work in my own car," Shiama Wafa told TOLOnews.
According to Wafa, driving in a traditional city like Herat has not been easy for women and girls.
"It has been many years since we have been allowed to do the same as men who drive and solve their problems," Shima added.
Since the political change in the country, driving education and the distribution of driving licenses to women and girls in Herat have stopped. Herat Traffic Management said it is waiting for the order of the General Directorate of Traffic to resume driving licenses for women.
"In the early days, we distributed several licenses (driver's licenses) to those who applied for in the previous government, But in this government, we did not have any courses for women, and this is suspended until the next order," said Omid Muntaqem, the director of Herat Traffic Management.
But local officials in Herat said there are still no restrictions on women and girls driving in the province.
"If sometimes some issues arise due to lack of information, no high-level official letter has been sent about it and nothing has been said about this issue so far," said Naeem al-Haq Haqqani, Herat's director of information and culture.
The presence of women drivers in recent years in the city of Herat has become more prominent. Although Herat is a traditional city, there has been no serious opposition to the driving of women and girls.
[Breitbart] CLAIM: Tucker Carlson’s claim that white South African farmers are being singled out is a "far-right" conspiracy theory.
VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. While Carlson exaggerated, the New York Times’ attempted debunking is simply wrong.
In 2018, Tucker Carlson devoted a segment of his show on Fox News to reporting on the murders of white farmers in South Africa. Some of his reporting was alarmist, but the underlying problem is a real one, as many South Africans acknowledge.
Carlson’s report provoked then-President Donald Trump to tweet in response, creating one of his customary news cycles, with establishment media outlets accusing Carlson of fanning the flames of racial outrage. But as Breitbart News reported at the time, Julius Malema, the head of South Africa’s radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), responded that Trump was right about his intention, and that of others in South Africa, to expropriate land without compensation from white farmers.
There are essentially two land issues in South Africa. One concerns the restitution of land seized from black South Africans under apartheid. The other concerns the unequal racial distribution of land overall, including land owned by white farmers.
These two issues have been handled separately. While few black South Africans have shown an active interest in becoming commercial farmers, the unequal distribution of land remains a political flashpoint and a reminder of lingering inequalities.
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There are essentially two land issues in South Africa. One concerns the restitution of land seized from black South Africans under apartheid. The other concerns the unequal racial distribution of land overall, including land owned by white farmers.
A false issue supporting a desired outcome.
The problem goes far beyond land and property ownership. Notice how politics, the courts, education, employment, and the military are conveniently not mentioned. Sound at all familiar ?
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White farmers are bailing with the expectation of their farms and equipment being seized without compensation. Once the farms are seized they are redistributed to family members of people in power without regard to farming experience. Food production usually ceases on those farms. With the engineered food shortage on the horizon the most likely forecast is dead people - a lot of them.
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Evolving back into Bad Luck™. As Francisco D'Anconia said in Atlas Shrugged, "You asked for it, brother..."
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I found it very interesting there as absolutely no follow-up to those riots.
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[Korrespondent] 23:17 The European Commission is ready to offer Hungary compensation for the embargo on Russian oil, writes Politico.
23:16 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, at least three thousand people have died due to lack of access to treatment for chronic diseases, said the head of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Hans Kluge.
23:12 Kalush Orchestra performed in the first semi-final of Eurovision-2022:
22:58 Minsk announced a threat to territorial integrity and began exercises. Experts say Putin is once again trying to drag Lukashenka directly into the war. More about this in the material Belarus is pulling forces to Ukraine .
22:55 Zelensky: "The armed forces of our state have provided everyone with good news from the Kharkiv region. They are gradually pushing the invaders away from Kharkiv."
22:51 Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal will present a resolution calling on US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, Arakhamia said.
22:47 In the war against Ukraine, Russia is trying to destroy the Ukrainian railway infrastructure more and more. After all, the railway has become one of Kyiv's most important logistical tools - and a symbol of Ukrainian resistance. More about this in the material The fate of the war is decided by the railway .
22:42 The government continues to simplify the delivery of fuel to Ukraine, in particular from the countries of the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and Azerbaijan, Shmyhal said: "We are working to ensure that fuel appears in sufficient quantities and at the same time its price remains adequate to current realities."
22:39 Germany intends to completely and forever abandon Russian energy carriers, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said during a visit to Kiev: "We have more than clearly understood that economic dependence cannot bring security if the fate of their people is absolutely indifferent to the aggressor. And just need to reduce dependence on Russian energy carriers to zero and forever. Burbock added that all EU countries will move towards this.
22:30 Western partners of Ukraine plan to hold an online meeting of defense ministers by the end of May to speed up and coordinate the supply of weapons, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
22:27 The House of Representatives of the US Congress intends to soon approve an updated package of assistance to Ukraine for $39.8 billion, Arakhamia said, citing information "from US allies."
22:24 There are no civilians on Azovstal, Lieutenant Ilya Samoilenko from the Azov Regiment told Sky News. However, he said that the remaining Ukrainian defense forces are suffering heavy losses as the Russians continue their offensive: "The number of wounded and dead soldiers is very high, and these people deserve due care."
Samoylenko added that the defenders at the plant have "extremely limited resources" and believe that "every day could be our last."
22:19 The US state of Mississippi has recognized the Khmelnytsky region as a sister region. The head of the Khmelnytsky OVA, Serhiy Gamaly, said that for the first time in history, a US state has made such a decision.
21:53 Russia used 10 to 12 hypersonic weapons during the war in Ukraine, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
21:50 Orban explained the difficulties of Hungary with the rejection of Russian oil by the fact that it does not have access to the sea, as before the Trianon peace treaty. Croatia then reminded Budapest of the inadmissibility of territorial claims.
21:47 On the evening of May 10, the border areas of the Sumy and Chernihiv regions came under fire, the State Border Service reports. Russian planes twice launched unguided missiles at the border areas of the Sumy region. There were also two shellings from mortars of the territory of the Chernihiv region from the Russian village of Novye Yurkovichi.
21:45 Mayor of Berlin Franziska Giffay admitted that the partial ban on Ukrainian flags on May 8 and 9 in the city was a mistake. According to her, the police really poorly formulated their requirements and were wrong to compare the flags of Ukraine and Russia, putting them separated by commas in one sentence.
The burgomaster explained the ban on the use of symbols on 15 World War II memorials for security reasons - the city was trying to avoid provocations and clashes. Giffay also stressed that the city authorities of Berlin express their support and solidarity to Ukraine.
21:42 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation again claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are allegedly using "hospitals, churches, kindergartens to shelter combat units" in Mogilev-Podolsky, Vinnitsa region, in Lisichansk, in the Kharkov village of Slobozhanskoe.
21:37 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declares that on the section of the road between the settlements of Stary and Novy Saltov, the Armed Forces of Ukraine "shot six civilian cars with white flags." Also, from the area of private houses in Belaya Krinitsa, Kherson region, Ukrainian troops allegedly launched several artillery strikes on the positions of the RF Armed Forces, "in order to cause return fire on residential buildings with civilians."
"Moscow warns that in the near future the materials fabricated by Kyiv about the alleged "atrocities of the Russians" are planned to be widely distributed through the Western and Ukrainian media," the Russian Defense Ministry said.
21:27 Civilians may remain at Azovstal, and the UN is ready to organize a new evacuation operation if this information is confirmed, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary General, said.
21:08 The head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai reports that the Luhansk region lives without communications at all: in free settlements there is no electricity, water, gas and mobile communications.
21:06 The EU, the US, the UK and Canada accused Russia of a cyber attack against Ukraine during the start of the military invasion on February 24, 2022. A press release from the British Foreign Office clarifies that the main target was the Ukrainian military, but wind farms in Central Europe were damaged. According to Viasat, tens of thousands of terminals were damaged, disabled and beyond repair.
21:04 Russia in its attack on the Donbass and southern Ukraine is behind schedule "by two weeks, or even more," a senior Pentagon official said on condition of anonymity, writes The Guardian. According to him, the United States believes that the Russian Federation has not yet achieved any of its strategic goals in the Donbas.
20:58 The war in Ukraine has reached a dead end, Lieutenant General, head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency Scott Berrier told the Senate Committee on the Armed Forces. "The Russians don't win, the Ukrainians don't win, and here we are in a stalemate," he said.
20:54 At the moment, there is neither a diplomatic nor a military opportunity to withdraw the Ukrainian military from Mariupol , Zelensky said during an appeal to the Maltese authorities. According to him, Ukraine is taking all available steps to evacuate servicemen from Azovstal, but "Russia does not agree to any of the proposed options."
20:35 Macron and Xi Jinping discussed the war in Ukraine by phone. According to the Elysee Palace, the leaders agreed that an immediate ceasefire was needed. In addition, they reaffirmed their commitment to respecting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, as well as their support for all humanitarian assistance efforts. The conversation between the two leaders lasted an hour and a half.
20:30 Putin is expected to take some action in the war against Ukraine. His offensive has finally loaded, there are no successes. About what to expect next - in the material, the West is wondering about the future of the war .
20:28 All assets of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine will become the property of the state , Shmyhal said.
19:59 Biden, speaking about rising prices in the US and in the world, said that they will fall after 20 million tons of grain can be taken out of Ukraine, which remain in storage due to ports blocked by Russia.
19:57 The office of the Prosecutor General announced the opening of criminal proceedings on the fact of the abduction by the Russian military of the collection of Scythian gold from the Melitopol Museum of Local Lore, discovered by archaeologists in the 50s of the last century, as well as other valuables.
Earlier, Russian media reported that the invaders in Melitopol allegedly "saved" museum exhibits, including Scythian gold, which the "intruders" were going to take to Western Ukraine. In turn, the head of the Zaporizhia OVA Oleksandr Starukh said that all the most valuable exhibits were taken out of the museums of the Zaporozhye region in March 2022 to other regions of Ukraine.
19:50 Gazprom confirmed receipt of a notification from the operator of the GTS of Ukraine about the termination of transit through the GIS Sokhranivka from May 11 due to force majeure. At the same time, the Russian monopolist stressed that it is fulfilling its obligations to European consumers, delivering gas in accordance with the contract, and transit services have been paid for.
Gazprom also said that transferring volumes to the Sudzha station is technologically impossible, the distribution of volumes is specified in the cooperation agreement. According to the Russian company, Naftogaz said that if Russian gas continues to be supplied to Sokhranivka, the volumes at the points of exit from the Ukrainian GTS will be reduced accordingly.
19:44 Several strong explosions were heard in the Sumy region. According to the head of the OVA, Dmitry Zhivitsky, the Russians are hitting the Shostka district.
19:39 Eight to ten Russian generals have been killed in Ukraine, Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Senate Armed Services Committee, CNN reports.
19:36 In Kharkiv, they plan to launch ground public transport, including trams, from next week, the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov, said.
19:28 In Kiev, by the end of the summer, they plan to restore all the houses affected by Russian shelling, Klitschko said. According to him, the survey showed that all damaged houses can be restored.
19:20 Due to the demonstration actions to "ready for the offensive" and the activation of the Russian troops from Pridnestrovie, another two thousand volunteers are being trained, who will defend the Odessa region if necessary, OK Pivden reported.
19:17 In Ukraine, they plan to freeze tariffs for utilities for the period of the war. The Cabinet of Ministers will send the relevant proposal to the Rada for consideration, Shmyhal said.
19:04 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, units of the 138th separate mechanized brigade of the 6th combined arms army of the Western Military District of the Russian Federation were withdrawn from the territory of Ukraine to the Belgorod region due to significant losses in the Kharkiv region. A significant part of the remaining personnel of the military service under the contract wrote reports for dismissal.
18:59 Putin is likely to declare martial law in Russia against the backdrop of an unsuccessful "special operation" in Ukraine, according to the head of the US National Intelligence Avril Haynes. According to her, the head of the Kremlin is ready to use "more radical means", up to and including martial law. The goal is to free up the resources necessary for successful operations in the war. Also, Putin can provoke a war in Transnistria.
18:50 Zelensky addressed the Parliament and the people of Malta: "Just as the fate of Europe depended on the steadfastness and courage of Malta in 1940-1942, today it depends on the stamina and courage of Ukrainians whether freedom wins on our continent. Because we are again opposed tyranny, and it has very far-reaching ambitions. By attacking Ukraine, Russia has just begun its aggression against a united Europe."
18:48 Ukraine is forced from May 11 to stop gas transit through the Sokhranivka gas metering station and the Novopskov border compressor station in the Luhansk region, which ended up in the territory occupied by Russia. Through this point, a third of the gas is supplied to Europe, said the Operator of the State Customs Service.
Moreover, the intervention of the occupiers in technological processes, changes in the operating modes of GTS facilities, including unauthorized gas extraction, jeopardized the stability and safety of the entire Ukrainian gas transmission system, the OGTS stressed.
In order to fulfill transit obligations to European partners, it is possible to temporarily transfer inaccessible capacities from the physical point of Sokhrovka to the Sudzha point, which is located on the territory controlled by Ukraine.
18:26 According to the UN, due to the war, more than 8 million Ukrainians have become internally displaced persons. In total, almost 13.7 million Ukrainians left their homes. More than 5.6 million people have left Ukraine, 2.7 million have returned from abroad since the beginning of the war. Compared to data for March 17, the number of internally displaced persons has increased by 24%.
18:18 The Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region liberated the settlements of Cherkasy Tishki, Russian Tishki, Rubizhne and Bayrak , the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
17:49 Burbock said that the future of Ukraine is in the EU: "It is now clear to me that Ukraine is clearly a part of Europe, and therefore I understand very well Ukraine's application for EU membership - full membership. We insist on Ukraine's full membership in the European Union ".
The head of the German Foreign Ministry also said that after Russia's open attack on Ukraine, compromises and mutual understanding with the current Russian Federation are impossible.
17:46 The General Assembly elected the Czech Republic to the UN Human Rights Council after Russia was expelled from the HRC.
17:39 Inflation in Ukraine in April amounted to 3.1%, and since the beginning of the year prices have risen by 10.9%. The annual rate is 16.4%, the State Statistics Service reported. Foodstuffs in April rose in price by 4.2%, alcohol and tobacco - by 4.8%.
17:30 The occupiers continued to clear the rubble of the Drama Theater in Mariupol. In connection with the mass refusal of Mariupol residents to take part in this, workers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation were involved in the analysis, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. According to local residents, packages with the bodies of the dead continue to be taken out by tractor carriages.
"The worst thing is that we will never know the true number of dead. Russia hides the traces of its own crimes very quickly," Andryushchenko wrote.
17:24 Zelensky held a meeting with German Foreign Ministers Annalena Berbock and the Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra.
17:18 In Kiev, as a result of Russian aggression, a total of 390 buildings were damaged, of which 222 were apartment buildings, Klitschko said. According to him, 20 houses have already been identified, where it is necessary to start restoration work first of all, so that people can return faster. The approximate cost of these works will be 5.8 million euros.
The mayor also said that as a result of shelling and bombing, 75 educational institutions were damaged in the capital, of which 30 were preschool, 17 healthcare institutions, and 11 cultural institutions. The estimated cost of restoring all buildings in the capital is more than 70 million euros.
17:13 The Azov Regiment showed the conditions in which the wounded Ukrainian military are located at Azovstal, and called for urgent organization of their evacuation:
17:08 The Russians for the fourth time hit the railway bridge across the Dniester estuary in the Odessa region, the Pivden operational command reported.
17:07 The Russian Foreign Ministry is again threatening Finland because of its intention to join NATO. Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Alexander Grushko said that the Russian military will react to the country's entry into the alliance: "It is clear that from the point of view of security, we will not remain indifferent. Our military will consider all necessary measures that will be required to ensure the legitimate interests of defense."
16:59 American intelligence believes that Putin is preparing for a protracted conflict in Ukraine, said the Director of National Intelligence of the United States, Avril Haynes. According to her, even a Russian victory in the Donbass will not end the war, and there are signs that the Russian Federation wants to expand the land bridge in Transnistria.
Haynes noted that Washington now does not see a "viable negotiating path" to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, moreover, in the next few months, a "more unpredictable and potentially escalatory trajectory" could be observed on the territory of Ukraine.
16:53 Germany is gradually resuming the work of the embassy in Kiev, Annalena Burbock said. She clarified that the embassy will open with a minimal presence of diplomats and will work in a limited format, but headed by Ambassador Anka Feldhusen.
16:49 A telegram bot has been launched in Ukraine to collect information about Russian assets. This is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and People's Deputy, member of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Galina Yanchenko. With the help of the @RuAssetsBot bot, anyone who has information about the assets of sanctioned Russians in Ukraine can report them to the competent authorities. In the future, this will help confiscate assets to restore the economy and compensate for losses to citizens and businesses.
16:36 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock said that Bucha has become a symbol of atrocities, and the world must do everything to ensure that those responsible are justly punished. The minister shared on Twitter that the tragedy of Buchi seems far away until you find yourself in the middle of this ordinary peaceful town, in the place of which any other could be: "It could be my family, my neighbors. The lawlessness is overwhelming."
Burbock also promised that Germany would provide all the support necessary for the investigation - financial, political and professional.
16:33 Germany plans to supply Ukraine with modern tanks and howitzers, and in parallel will begin training the Ukrainian military, Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock said during a visit to Kiev.
16:12 Prices for meat and eggs in many countries of the world may grow by 20-30% in the near future, Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Mykola Solsky has warned. According to him, this will be caused by a shortage of Ukrainian grain on world markets.
16:10 German citizens collected a record 752 million euros to help Ukraine, according to the Central Institute for Social Problems at the end of April. The previous record was 670 million euros. Then the Germans collected aid for the victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia in 2004.
16:06 Governors are leaving en masse in Russia. The media only today reported on the resignation of their powers by the heads of the Saratov, Kirov and Tomsk regions. Also, the decision to leave his post was announced by the head of the Republic of Mari El.
16:04 The occupiers are going to launch a repair base for military equipment at the Mariupol Iron and Steel Works named after Ilyich. According to the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, for this they urge the plant workers to come to the enterprise on May 12. However, there are not many people in the city who want to work for the invaders.
16:00 In the liberated settlements of the Kharkiv region, dozens of corpses of Russian soldiers are found, which their colleagues did not take with them. Bodies lie on the streets, in houses and in landfills, said the head of the Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov.
15:59 Russian troops are firing at Odessa every day, but on May 9 there were much more missile strikes. About what this may be connected with - in the material Revenge of the invaders .
15:48 The General Staff of Belarus stated that "the creation of a 20,000-strong group of Ukrainian troops requires a reaction," Minsk is deploying special operations forces as part of the check.
15:47 The curfew has been reduced in the Dnipropetrovsk region. According to the head of the regional administration Valentin Reznichenko, from today it will operate from 23:00 to 5:00.
15:46 In Mariupol, another 100,000 people who remain in the city are waiting for evacuation, Mayor Vadim Boychenko said.
15:44 The ban on the transportation of Russian oil is no longer included in the sixth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, writes DPA, citing a source.
15:39 Severodonetsk was left without gas - the Russian military killed the main gas pipeline, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
15:37 In Kiev, public transport fares will be returned, Klitschko said. He promised that the pay would remain at pre-war levels.
15:12 More than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers are now at Azovstal, hundreds of them are wounded, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said in a comment to AFP.
15:10 Investigators of the State Bureau of Investigation completed the investigation into the case of Ilya Kiva. He was put on the international wanted list, and the case should be considered by the court. Kivu is accused of high treason, propaganda of war, calls for the seizure of power and distribution of communist symbols.
15:08 Zelensky, in an address to the people and politicians of Slovakia, stressed the need to increase pressure on Russia - "until we see that victory has been achieved." He also said that a donor conference to mobilize assistance to Ukraine will be held in Bratislava in June, and thanked the organizers.
15:04 During May 9, the invaders deported 400 people from Mariupol, including 70 children, said Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko.
14:53 In Pologi, Zaporozhye region, grain and sunflower seeds, which are in storage, are being prepared for transportation to the Russian Federation. Also, for this purpose, the harvest is withdrawn. From Energodar in the direction of Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, under the protection of the military, a convoy of Russian KAMAZ and DAF trucks loaded with grain left. The final destination of the column is Crimea, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
In the village of Volokhov Yar, Kharkiv region, collaborators help the occupiers to take grain out of the hangars. Grain carriers are sent to the Russian border. From Malaya Lepetikha, Kherson region, 1,500 tons of grain were transported by grain carriers to the Crimea. There is also information that, in addition to grain, the occupiers are exporting to Crimea large volumes of vegetables stolen in Ukraine - beets, potatoes, cabbage.
It is known that a significant part of the grain stolen in Ukraine is on dry cargo ships under the Russian flag in the Mediterranean Sea. The most likely destination country is Syria. From there, grain can be smuggled to other countries in the Middle East.
14:46 Putin is forcing Lukashenko to strike in the direction of Lutsk-Lviv in order to cut off the supply of weapons from the West, military expert Oleg Zhdanov said. Another meeting of the two dictators is expected to take place soon.
14:32 Hungarian Ambassador to Ukraine Istvan Iydjarto assured that Budapest will not block Ukraine's membership in the EU.
14:21 As a result of Russian shelling of Azovstal, there are seriously wounded, the deputy commander of the Azov regiment, captain Svyatoslav Palamar, told the UE. He said that aviation was working on the hospital, for a while the defenders lost contact with him. Now communication has been restored, there are many wounded, they urgently need evacuation.
14:07 The head of the Sumy OVA, Dmitry Zhivitsky, said that the Belopolsky bulk was fired from multiple rocket launchers located on the territory of Russia. There are no losses, damage is specified.
13:54 Belarus has announced the second stage of checking the rapid reaction forces. As Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said, this is a response to NATO exercises.
13:38 The command of the National Guard of Ukraine declares that the president and the leadership of the state are working on applying the extraction procedure to the Ukrainian military in Azovstal - that is, export to a third country. It is not yet possible to voice the details, clarified at NSU.
13:31 In Ukraine, gasoline can be bought at 40 hryvnia per liter, and diesel - no more than 43 hryvnia, the team of First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko promises.
13:22 US urges to prevent a frozen conflict in Ukraine, senior adviser to the US Congress Paul Massaro said: "Putin seems to want to turn his genocidal war into a frozen conflict in Ukraine. We cannot allow this. Do not lose focus. The goal is total victory Ukrainians".
13:15 Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra is on a visit to Ukraine and has already visited Irpin. In his Twitter, he said that today he and Foreign Minister Germanni Annalena Berbock are scheduled to meet with members of the Ukrainian government. Burbock, in turn, has already visited Bucha.
13:07 The National Bank allowed Ukrainians from May 10 to transfer funds abroad to pay alimony. At the same time, it is temporarily prohibited to make settlements abroad in order to purchase securities and pay for brokerage services.
13:06 The occupiers are taking equipment out of Kremennaya hospitals and schools to Russia or Luhansk, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Russians are shocked by the equipment of Ukrainian hospitals, so in the very first days of the occupation they began to dismantle and remove the equipment.
12:55 Kindergarten teachers and bankers from Donetsk are forced to go to Mariupol. According to Ukrainian intelligence, the heads of kindergartens in Donetsk received an order to select personnel to be sent to Mariupol and nearby settlements - Mangush, Nikolskoye, Yalta. Bank personnel are selected in a similar way.
This movement of personnel is connected with the distrust of the occupation administrations towards the local population. The mass departure of personnel to the territory controlled by Ukraine and the refusal to cooperate with the occupying authorities also affect. It is known that the personnel who are being prepared for transfer to other regions strongly oppose such a decision. Some are threatening to be fired.
12:28 The Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera showed a refrigerated car with the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine. The footage shows the remains of Russian uniforms and labels from bulletproof vests made in the Russian Federation. Officially, the Russian side did not turn to Ukraine to take the bodies of their dead.
12:20 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock arrived in Kiev on the morning of May 10, Süddeutsche Zeitung writes.
12:18 The US issued two $1 silver bullion coins with Ukrainian symbols. According to the NBU Museum of Money, the coins depict Ukrainian national symbols, perpetuating the courageous resistance against the Russian occupiers and the desire to defend their independence.
12:09 The bodies of the killed invaders are being taken to a landfill near Donetsk, where there are already so many of them that the mountains of corpses reach two meters in height. This is evidenced by new telephone conversations of the invaders, which the SBU managed to intercept. According to the occupant, the landfill is fenced, no one is allowed in there. And the guards earn a lot of money because they help relatives find the bodies of the dead there.
12:07 The Seimas of Lithuania has unanimously recognized Russia as a terrorist state. The decision was made in connection with the numerous war crimes of the Russian invaders in Ukraine. The atrocities of the invaders have all the signs of an organized genocide, the adopted resolution says.
11:48 The McFaul-Yermak international expert group has developed a roadmap for energy sanctions against Russia. The document contains recommendations for policy actions that will allow Russia to deprive Russia of this income, while minimizing disruptions to markets and the global economy, Yermak said.
11:42 The people of Kiev have chosen new names for metro stations. More than 170 thousand people expressed their position. In the near future, documents will be prepared for consideration of the decision on renaming by deputies of the Kyiv City Council. According to citizens:
Beresteyskaya station should become Buchanskaya,
station Leo Tolstoy Square should be renamed Vasily Stus,
Heroes of the Dnieper - in Heroes of Ukraine,
Minsk should become Warsaw,
Friendship of Peoples - Botanical.
11:26 Greece resumed the work of the embassy in Kiev.
11:23 The Azov Regiment reports that over the past day, 34 sorties of aircraft were made to the territory of the Azovstal plant, including eight sorties of strategic bombers. Enemy ship and cannon artillery, MLRS, UR-77, tanks, etc. also do not stop working. The enemy does not stop trying to capture the plant and continues to make daily assaults with the support of infantry.
11:07 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the "LPR People's Militia" with the support of the Russian military, "having completed the cleansing of Popasna and breaking through the enemy's defense in depth, reached the administrative border of the" LPR ".
11:06 The EU is considering a plan for the long-term recovery of Ukraine, which provides for hundreds of billions of euros, writes Bloomberg. Kyiv's financial needs package is to be considered in May.
11:05 If Ukraine does not receive the status of a candidate for EU membership, this means that Europe is trying to deceive us, Kuleba said in an interview with the Financial Times. "And we are not going to tolerate it," the Foreign Minister added.
11:01 Dissatisfaction with the new "authority" is growing in Mariupol. As Petr Andryushchenko said, Mariupol residents, accustomed to democracy, are increasingly openly expressing dissatisfaction and leaving complaints about the actions of Ivashchenko and Kharmyshev in Pushilin's office.
In particular, residents of the city are outraged by the exchange rate of the ruble, which in Mariupol is 1.7-1.8 hryvnia per ruble (in Donetsk - 2.2). "Apparently, the budgets received from Russia to finance the occupational propaganda have already been 'used' without result, with a big failure. And this is already getting to someone in Russia," writes an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
He also spoke about the unexpectedly low level of collaboration, in particular in the field of education. Despite the announced opening of a second school, kindergarten and gymnasium No. 2, the occupation authorities still cannot find teachers.
10:51 In Mariupol, the "celebration" on May 9 was moved to the Primorsky district due to the fact that the invaders could not cope with the blockages in the center - because of the refusal of Mariupol residents to work for food, Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko said. Promptly launched advertising from the "mayor" Ivashchenko to work for a salary did not work.
He also said that Russian journalists and bloggers were forced to radically crop the video and overlay music to show at least something. Even the "restoration of the Komsolets" on the memorial and the return of the Soviet names of the Liberators' Warriors Square and st. Grushevsky did not give the expected effect of euphoria. There were practically no people at the "celebration".
10:32 Russia, under the influence of military failures, is changing its propaganda. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, the heads of the Kremlin TV channels, Internet media and the pro-Putin army of bots are already being instructed to move to a new information policy.
In order to change the perception of Russians about military "invincibility" and prepare society for possible defeat, the Russian media were ordered to talk about the Russian-Ukrainian war as an armed confrontation between Russia and all EU and NATO countries. According to Kremlin political technologists, this will reduce the shame of losing to a stronger opponent. The propagandists of the occupying country will now tell the Russians about the need to unite for the sake of their own survival and blind trust in the policies of the Kremlin.
10:27 Russia now mainly uses X-22 missiles - an old Soviet product from the 60s, as well as Daggers - a modern hypersonic missile from MiG-31 aircraft. The use of the most ancient (and dangerous) and the most modern missiles at the same time shows that the Russian Federation has begun to save high-precision missiles, Arestovich said.
According to the adviser to the head of the OP, this means that there will be more misses and, accordingly, hits on residential areas (X-22), and there will also be more hits on selected targets (Dagger) without the ability to intercept (hypersonic missiles are not intercepted).
"The combination of accurate hits on the one hand and more frequent cases of destruction of residential areas on the other will give a media, and therefore a psychological picture of mass missile terror. It, in turn, will give rise to the effect of the inability of the ZSU to resist the enemy in this regard and will push hysterical breakdowns in the public mind ", - Arestovich writes and urges not to succumb to "zrada", since the effect of a missile war is designed precisely for this.
10:21 The US House of Representatives may pass a financial aid plan for Ukraine today, its amount has increased from $33 to $40 billion, Reuters reports, citing two congressional sources.
10:20 In Izyum, the bodies of 44 dead civilians were removed from under the rubble of a five-story building, the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov said. The house collapsed in early March, when fighting was going on outside the city. Now Izyum is under Russian control.
10:14 According to the EBRD forecast, the fall in Ukraine's GDP in 2022 could be 30%, which is much worse than the bank's March expectations (a drop of 20%).
10:12 Ukraine is changing its idea of victory in the current war , Kuleba said in an interview with the Financial Times . Now it is presented not as a withdrawal of Russian troops to positions until February 24, 2022, but as a complete liberation of all Ukrainian territories.
10:11 In Kiev this morning, there has been a deterioration in air quality, in particular in Svyatoshinsky, Obolonsky and Podolsky districts. Klitschko said that this is due to the ongoing elimination of fires in the ecosystems of the Kyiv region. In particular, peat bogs are smoldering in the Buchansk region.
10:09 Explosions will be heard in Poltava on May 10-13. The head of the OVA, Dmitry Lunin, warned that practice firing was planned these days from 08:00 to 14:00, and urged local residents not to panic.
10:07 The head of the Luhansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said that in Belogorivka, the territory is being cleared of the invaders who crossed the river: the pontoons and all their equipment have already been destroyed, about 80 Russians have ended up on the shore, "the hunt continues, a little bit remains."
There are also battles in the villages of the Mountain Community, the line of defense is stable, there are no breakthroughs. Voevodka is completely under Ukrainian control. In Rubezhnoye, the Russians also did not advance. Rescuers are waiting for silence to finally get people out of the rubble in Belogorovka and Shipilovo. Mobile communications in the area are intermittent.
According to Gaidai, the goal of the Russians remains the same - to cut off the Luhansk region from other regions, to close the road along which evacuation takes place and humanitarian supplies are brought in.
09:50 In Odessa, as a result of a rocket fire, the Riviera shopping center was destroyed, people's deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak said.
09:41 Germany and Qatar cannot agree on key conditions for the supply of liquefied gas. Disputes are ongoing about the timing of contacts and the possibility of transferring the supplied gas to other countries, Reuters reports, citing three informed sources.
09:29 Ex-commander of the Azov Regiment Maxim Zhorin told Channel 24 that the military is preparing an operation to de-blockade Mariupol: "In addition to the diplomatic process, there is still a process to prepare a military operation to de-blockade the city. liberated by other cities, regrouping".
True, according to him, a lot of time is needed to prepare for this operation, and it is not a fact that "those who are now on the territory of Azovstal have this time."
09:26 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 10. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Avdiivka direction.
personnel - about 26,000 (+350) people liquidated,
tanks - 1170 (+25),
armored combat vehicles - 2808 (+44),
artillery systems - 519 (+6),
MLRS - 185 (+0),
air defense systems - 87 (+0),
aircraft - 199 (+0),
helicopters - 158 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 380 (+3),
cruise missiles - 94 (+0),
ships/boats - 12 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 1980 (+10),
special equipment - 41 (+0).
09:21 Media reports that Rutube video hosting cannot be restored. According to a source close to the Rutube team at The Village, the attack began yesterday around 5 am, as a result of the actions of the hackers, the site's code was "completely removed."
09:16 Sanctions against Russia are beginning to work for their main purpose and harm the military-industrial base, the Pentagon said: "We saw that they used a lot of precision weapons. They continue to hit Mariupol with a bunch of unguided bombs. Therefore, they have problems with precision-guided munitions. We believe that sanctions and export controls, especially when it comes to electronic components, have had an impact."
08:45 British intelligence notes that Russia's underestimation of Ukraine's resistance and its "best-case" planning led to apparent operational errors, preventing Putin from declaring a significant military success in Ukraine at the May 9 parade.
Analysts believe the Russian invasion plan was based on the mistaken assumption that it would meet limited resistance and be able to quickly encircle and bypass populated areas. This assumption prompted RF forces to attempt to conduct the initial phase of the operation in a manner designed to achieve a quick victory at minimal cost. This miscalculation led to exorbitant losses and the subsequent weakening of Russia's operational concentration.
08:28 The American Institute for the Study of War reports that between Liman and Severodonetsk, Russia has expanded the zone of control in the Yampol-Kremennaya-Belogorovka triangle. Belogorivka goes to the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway - the only road that allows you to leave the Lugansk region and supply the APU grouping in the Severodonetsk agglomeration.
The Russians plan to surround Severodonetsk and Rubizhne from the west and continue to move towards the border of the Donetsk region. It is also confirmed that the Russians moved closer to Azovstal north of the plant.
08:20 The authorities of the South Bohemian city of Ceske Budejovice have deprived the status of an honorary citizen of the city of the USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova because of her support for the war in Ukraine, local media reported.
08:14 Borrell said that the EU is not fighting against Russia, but protecting Ukraine: “I don’t like the story of“ the West against Russia ”or“ the West against the rest ”at all ... This is a question about the UN Charter. We are talking about the sovereignty of states, respect for borders and not using force to suppress our neighbor. We are not at war against Russia. We are defending Ukraine. And defending Ukraine means defending the rules-based international order. Otherwise, it will be the law of the jungle."
07:42 In the Izyum direction, the Russian army replenishes ammunition, fuel and is preparing for an attack on Liman and Severodonetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . Over the past day, the villages of Bolshaya Pisarevka, Belopolye, Krasnopolye and Yunakovka of the Sumy region were fired from MLRS.
The possibility of carrying out sabotage at the facilities of the chemical industry of Ukraine with the subsequent accusation of subdivisions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not ruled out.
07:28 The first plane with refugees from Ukraine, paid by the government, arrived in Canada. 165 people arrived on the island of Newfoundland from Poland, including 55 children. This is the first air bridge flight that Canada has opened for Ukrainians. Canada adopted the program for the reception of Ukrainian refugees in mid-April, according to which 19 thousand people have already moved to the country.
07:11 Biden believes that Putin has become a hostage of the war, he can no longer get out of the war with Ukraine.
06:39 Japan has imposed new sanctions against Russia - 133 people and 70 companies have been added to the list. In particular, restrictions were imposed on the Russian Prime Minister Mishustin, the leaders of the "LDNR" and others. Also under the sanctions were companies associated with the Russian defense sector, among them the Almaz-Antey concern.
04:31 The White House called Putin's speech at the May 9 parade to Moscow "a lie and an absurdity."
03:42 Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko announced that Poland is ready to ensure the delivery of more than 200 thousand tons of fuel per month from its ports. We are talking about deliveries from the ports of Gdansk or Swinoujscie. Over the past month, according to Sviridenko, Ukraine imported 60,000 tons of fuel.
01:57 On the evening of May 9, Russia fired seven missiles at Odessa using aviation. As a result, one person died, five wounded were taken to the hospital, said Natalya Gumenyuk, spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces. The rockets hit the shopping center and the warehouse of finished products.
Turkish shelling of a village in # Syria’s #Manbij injures a civilian in addition to causing material damage to some other civilians’ property.https://t.co/LBqL32sMGG
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[Aljazeera] Russian President Vladimir Putin is still looking to achieve military objectives beyond eastern Ukraine after failing to capture Kyiv in the early stages of the war, the US intelligence chief has said.
Speaking to US lawmakers on Tuesday, Avril Haines, the US director of national intelligence, said the shifting of Russian military operations to Ukraine’s Donbas region in the east is only temporary.
"We assess President Putin is preparing for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine during which he still intends to achieve goals beyond the Donbas," Haines said.
"We assess that Putin’s strategic goals have probably not changed, suggesting he regards the decision in late March to refocus Russian forces on the Donbas is only a temporary shift to regain the initiative after the Russian military’s failure to capture Kyiv."
Haines said US intelligence has assessed that Putin wants to expand territory across the Black Sea coast possibly to Transnistria, a breakaway region of Moldova backed by Russia. Such a move would help Russia secure water supplies to Crimea, which it captured and annexed in 2014, and potentially deny Ukraine access to the sea.
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No shit, Sherlock. The prize has always been the land bridge connecting the South with the East. Which Russia now has.
Any intelligent policy would entail forcing the US puppet regime to go back to Minsk II... Except now Russia controls Azov and the Black Sea coast.
Had the Biden Administration not goaded this little prick into reversing his pro-peace position -- the one that got him ejected in the first place -- this whole mess could have been avoided. So now we're on the brink of WWIII, Ukraine has been trashed, and Russia has achieved its #1 strategic objective. Brilliant.
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correction: "the one that got him elected in the first place"
(It was Right Sector and the other fascists who tried to "eject" Zelensky. This is one reason he did a 180 and began provoking Russia with insane talk about "taking back" Crimea and joining NATO.)
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The war was Putin's choice. I dislike Biden as well, but stop trying to make him into a puppet master.
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Biden is an ass puppet. And Putie-pie has been playing rope-a-dope with our presidents since W and closing those invasion corridors. Ukraine was supposed to be easy and he could really build up to take the Baltics.
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At the rate he's going, Pootie will be lucky to hang onto the Donbas puppet states. And the RuAF are going to wrecked for a decade, regardless of the outcome.
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From a practical standpoint, we shouldn't care if Putin makes Russia the perfect fortress, beyond anything we can learn about doing the same here.
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My current understanding is:
1- Anything Putin succeeds at was a critical part of the original plan.
2- Anything Putin fails at -- like this genius river crossing -- was a feint, a diversion, or never part of the original plan.
So Putin remains a master strategist regardless of events. It's sort of like a new math test in which any answer is acceptable.
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^^^ I think that makes great sense. America is a dumpster fire economically and culturally. Enemies foreign and domestic are wreaking havoc on norms and institutions they haven't infiltrated, and the Covid passivity taught many of our fellow citizens is paralyzing the natural American urge to stand up, confront the BS and say "Enough!" across a wide spectrum of American daily life.
Retrenchment, re-industrialization, economic and monetary stability, political/cultural/media realignment to traditional American values and policies, a hemispheric re-look at the Value of Monroe Doctrine 2.0, and realigning our entire educational/cultural focus to assimilation, not diversity as a normative process to blend the enormous shadow presence of illegals here now. Separation from the foreign messes that are consuming our federal government might be a good thing for all. The children who play at world leadership and are profligate with borrowed money to pose as world police while the house burns down has got to stop.
Let the Chinese burn themselves out as the world sees their Sino-centricity as cancerous, and the Russians find a way back to membership in Western civilization post-Putin. We have nearly broken th greatest experiment in human political history. Our unique successes in the 20th century have grow generations of those so accustomed to plenty, privilege and power they have no idea how fragile a gift they inherited or how quickly it is breaking from lack of maintenance or even understanding it's genius.
[IsraelTimes] Report says Internal Security Minister Barlev and police have no objection to adding 50 new members, but want those who expressed support for Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, to be fired.
The Prime Minister’s Office denied on Tuesday that Israel has agreed to a demand from Jordan that it be allowed to increase the staff of the Waqf, the Islamic religious trust responsible for day-to-day administration of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
"There is no change or new development in the situation on the Temple Mount — Israel’s illusory sovereignty is preserved," the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
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[OneIndia] Following the incident, all inter-state borders have been sealed. Security has also been heightened at dams, railway stations, bus stands and other vital installations.
A probe has been ordered after Khalistan flags appeared at the main entrance to the Himachal Pradesh assembly complex on Sunday.
The district administration has set up a probe by the SIT to look into the intrusion and preliminary reports indicate that the incident could have taken place last in the night or early morning.
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[PJMEDIA] INews, an independent news source in the UK, is reporting that a network of former Soviet sanatoriums and other sites in regions including Siberia, the Caucasus, the Arctic Circle, and the Far East, are housing Ukrainians forcibly removed from their homeland. Some of the camps are up to 5,500 miles from Ukraine.
The sites are known as Temporary Accommodation Points (TAP). The Russians call them fil’tratsiia, or filtration camps.
Moscow had ordered towns and cities across Russia to prepare for the arrival of nearly 100,000 "refugees." The Russian government now claims it has "evacuated" one million people from the war zone. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in April that 500,000 Ukrainians had been sent to Russia.
It seems clear that there are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians from areas occupied by the Russian army who aren’t in Ukraine anymore.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Egyptian boys practicing to be that extra special kind of Egyptian man.
A video surfaced on social media showing teenagers harassing female tourists
The young women were visiting the Giza Pyramids in the Egyptian capital Cairo
The boys jeer at the women and some press close to them as they try to get away
According to a statement from the prosecutor's office, the arrested boys are between 13 and 15 years old. The statement did not provide any details on the women tourists.
If charged, the boys will be tried before a juvenile court.
Visitors to the Pyramids at Giza and other famous archaeological sites in Egypt are routinely approached and followed by young men offering tours, souvenirs, carriage or camel rides.
The problem of sexual harassment in Egypt gained worldwide attention during and after the 2011 uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak, when women were harassed, groped - and in some cases, beaten and sexually assaulted - during mass anti-government protests.
In recent years, women inspired by the #MeToo movement have spoken out on social media about the problem.
Authorities have increased penalties for sexual harassment, which is now punishable with up to five years in prison.
They have also intensified efforts to combat harassment and aggressive touts at tourist sites.
[NYPOST] Every time I think Prince Harry couldn’t possibly make himself look more cringeworthy, up he pops to prove me spectacularly, eye-rollingly wrong.The renegade royal’s latest howler is a laugh-out-loud tourism commercial he’s made for New Zealand television to promote his sustainable eco-travel nonprofit organization, Travalyst.
Sadly, the laughter was once again at him, not with him.
Wearing a "Girl Dad" T-shirt, Harry is seen jogging through the woods before he’s stopped by eco-tourist "rating agents" and berated about a lollipop wrapper he supposedly dropped there during a 2018 royal tour trip with wife Meghan, but praised for turning off running tap water while he brushes his teeth.
That revelation prompted a bewildered Harry to exclaim: "How do you know that? That’s really weird."
Because, of course, he’s such a private guy and that’s secret personal information that could only be known if he’d turned into a Kardashian with 24/7 cameras recording his every ablution and tooth-cleansing.
Oh, wait, he has!
Harry and Meghan have become the royal Kardashians, only a slightly trashier version if that was even possible: a pair of shameless chancers whose only thought each day is how to fleece and exploit their royal titles ever more cynically, while simultaneously trashing the royal family and monarchy to which they owe their status — and playing the downtrodden, oppressed victims from their $11 million Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, mansion.
The hypocrisy in everything they do is breathtaking, and never better illustrated than with Harry’s latest preaching about "sustainable eco-travel."
He loves self-righteously barking at us all about the urgent need to save the planet by reducing our carbon footprint, as he uses private jets like we use taxis.
Just as he and Meghan pleaded for us to think about poverty on Twitter on the very same day she was throwing a $500,000 baby shower in New York (and hopping back to London on George Clooney’s plane).
But it’s their constant bleating about privacy that most sticks in the craw given their decision to accept a reported $115 million payment from Netflix to trail around after them with cameras, capturing their most "private" moments for the delectation of the public.
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At least the Kardashian's know they are whores.
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Wanna bet nobody is as hard on a carpetbagger than a Hollywierd lib?
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The media really thinks we give a shit about these 2 .
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"praised for turning off running tap water while he brushes his teeth."
Is New Zealand running out of water? Running water goes into the ocean and returns to the water cycle. I've never understood the environmentalists concern over this.
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#3 The media really thinks we give a shit about these 2 .
We, the great unwashed, the hoi polloi, need to be reminded of why we must look up to our betters and hang on to every utterance that comes out of their perfect mouths.
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She was a D-List actress on USA network's "Suits"
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It's really too bad about Harry. I used to admire him - he was in combat in Afghanistan, and then became an attach helicopter pilot. Sure he was a little wild - but if you're good looking, filthy rich, and a royal - who wouldn't be?
Then Meghan got ahold of him.
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As its been said, it ain't the first time a soldier ruined his life by marrying a stripper.
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There’s at least one in every generation of the British royal family. In the previous generation it was Prince Andrew. When Queen Victoria was merely the princess royal it was all of the royal dukes, as I recall.
[BenarNews] Recent satellite imagery shows that China is continuing to actively develop its facilities on the disputed Subi Reef in the South China Sea, two months after a top U.S. commander said Beijing had "fully militarized" it.
Simularity Inc., a U.S. geospatial intelligence company, said that an analysis of satellite imagery from May 5 has revealed new structures and seven active construction sites on Subi, the coral reef occupied by China since 1988 but also claimed by the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.
In March, the U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Adm. John C. Aquilino said that the construction of missile arsenals, aircraft hangars, radar systems and other military facilities at Subi Reef, as well as Mischief Reef and Fiery Cross "appeared to have been completed."
Subi is one of several major bases that China built during a massive dredging and artificial island-building campaign in the Spratlys that began in 2013, creating 3,200 acres of new land and giving it a new strategic foothold in the South China Sea.
In its natural state, Subi is what is known as a low-tide elevation and an international tribunal in 2016 ruled that as it is submerged at high tide, Subi is not an island but considered "sea bed" and the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) constructions on the reef are illegal. China rejected the ruling.
Until now, China has reclaimed 976 acres on Subi, according to the Asia Maritime Initiative (AMTI) at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The seven active construction sites are located in the northern and southern parts of the reef, with visible presence of trucks, construction equipment and material, Simularity said.
"A significant amount of sand" is seen at the sites, indicating new roads and structures are being built. At one site in the south, there are new walls and parking lots, Simularity said, without drawing further conclusions about the possible function of the sites under construction.
EXTENSIVE DEVELOPMENT
Subi (Zamora in the Philippines) Reef lies just 12 nautical miles from the Philippine-administered Thitu Island, which is the second largest natural feature in the Spratlys after Taiping (Itu Aba) Island, occupied by Taiwan.
China has developed it into a military base that can accommodate a garrison of 200 troops and a helipad, according to Philippine officials.
AMTI says there are a number of important structures on Subi, including a large lighthouse, five hangers that each can accommodate 20 combat aircraft, and an over 3,000-meter airstrip, completed in early 2016.
Aquilino said in March that the function of China’s artificial islands is "to expand the offensive capability of the PRC ... They can fly fighters, bombers plus all those offensive capabilities of missile systems."
"They threaten all nations who operate in the vicinity and all the international sea and airspace," he added.
China’s Civil Aviation Authority said it successfully tested a civilian flight on Subi in July 2016, using a Boeing 737 airplane, "further enhancing its capability to provide public services as a responsible player in the region."
The Philippines and Vietnam both protested against the test flight which is not known to have become regularly scheduled.
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Can you say Olonga-Po in Chinese? 12 miles to Philippine-administered Thitu Island.
The island serves as the town proper to the municipality of Kalayaan. Only Island, among all Philippine-occupied Spratly islands, currently inhabited by 300 Filipino civilians. a significant number of structures, including a municipal hall, multi-purpose hall, health center, school, police station, coast guard station, marine research station, water-filtration plant, engineering building, marina, communication tower, and military barracks.
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China is turning inward. it has the critical mass for a self sustaining domestic economy as long as Russia is their partner for energy. The trio with India makes the entire region from the Mediterranean Sea to the Solomon Islands (and Australia if they want to turn chinese, LOL ) the perfect world for an economy. That's why the original silk road developed organically thousands of years ago. The need for resources to build stuff makes the even more sense for the new silk road. The Subi Reef it’s a sort of an air-carrier and hyper sonic base to protect their business from AUKUS interference and piratery. As the anglos and USA show the real intention that the Davos pirates had in mind regarding Russia.
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^ Absolutely. The Chinese Communists are your friend
I liked this: The Subi Reef it’s a sort of an air-carrier and hyper sonic base to protect their business from AUKUS interference and piratery. As the anglos and USA show the real intention that the Davos pirates had in mind regarding Russia.
Hey, Joe! Might you not actually be from, say, Acapulco?
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Aca joe was a famous apparel brand in the 70 and 80s. I was involved with until 2007, and yes I lived there great memories. Baby o’. La Huerta Rebecca , El Campanario.
I’m in Malibu, retired now
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ACA JOE[1] is a clothing line for men, women, boys and girls that originated in Acapulco in the 1970s.[2] By. 1978, ACA JOE was well established as a clothing retailer, with over 75 stores in various cities throughout Mexico, including: Acapulco, Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán, and Mexico City.[3] ACA JOE specializes in well-designed cotton clothing inspired by the beach lifestyle of Acapulco.[4]
Joseph Rank, a Los Angeles clothing designer, is the founder and owner of ACA JOE. The company's major growth came after Rank teamed with Harry R. Kraatz and William A. Meyer, in the early 1980s to take over the Inmar Corporation. Inmar's retail outlets were transformed into ACA JOE stores and the company name was changed to ACA JOE INTERNATIONAL.
In the mid-1980s, there were more than 100 ACA JOE stores around the U.S., and the company's stock was the fastest rising stock on Nasdaq in 1985. The company's stock was deleted from the Nasdaq over-the-counter trading system on April 1, 1988, because of the company's failure to meet Nasdaq's capital and surplus requirements.[5]
In the 1990s, ACA JOE focused on its market in Mexico and was sold in over 35 shopping center and beach stores and featured in the Palacio de Hierro department stores. In the 2000s (decade), ACA JOE was sold in the Liverpool department stores and Costco in Mexico.
Since 2007, ACA JOE has been exclusively sold through La Comercial Mexicana and Soriana in Mexico. The logo was designed by Mexican American artist Joe Vera.[6]
A regional success story that survived the fad phase, as most do not. Well done!
[Rudaw] A Belgian court on Tuesday dismissed the appeals of three Iranians accused of plotting a thwarted kaboom in Gay Paree in 2018 and sentenced one of them to an extra three years in prison, according to Belgian media.
Assadollah Assadi, 50, Mehrdad Arefani, 58, Amir Saadouni, 41, and Nasimeh Naami, 37, were arrested in June 2018, accused of being involved in an attempted bombing at an anti-Iranian regime rally in Gay Paree. The four were handed judgements of varying prison sentences by a Belgian court in 2021.
Arefani, Saadouni, and Naami filed appeals, claiming to have been coerced and threatened into participating in the attack; Assadi has not yet filed an appeal. They previously identified Assadi as their "longtime handler," while the latter claimed not to know them.
Their appeal was rejected by the court, keeping Naami’s sentence at 18 years, Arefani’s at 17, and increasing Saadouni’s sentence from 15 to 18. All three also had their Belgian citizenship revoked, Belgian media reported.
"The court finds the allegation by Saadouni and Naami that they assumed that the explosives would only cause noise and fireworks to be implausible," the Antwerp-based Dutch newspaper De Morgen cited the court as saying. "Everything was meticulously prepared beforehand and the modus operandi to be used was also discussed in detail," it continued.
Assadi, sentenced to 20 years in prison, is an Iranian diplomat widely believed to be the criminal mastermind behind the thwarted attack. Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has condemned the verdict, and made efforts to secure his release.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the announcement by a court in Antwerp, Belgium, according to which Mr. Assadollah Assadi... was sentenced to 20 years in prison," foreign ministry front man Saeed Khatibzadeh commented after Assadi’s verdict was announced in February 2021.
Iran had warned even before the conviction that it would not recognise the trial or the verdict, denying any official role in the plot and insisting Assadi ought to have enjoyed immunity from prosecution.
Ahmed Reza Jalali, 50, a Swedish-Iranian doctor who was arrested in Iran on charges of alleged spying for the Israeli government is expected to be executed later this month.
Zabihollah Khodayian, the spokesperson for Iran’s judiciary, on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of exchanging the dual national with Hamid Noury, 61, a former Iranian official on trial for war crimes in Sweden, in a move that will see Iranian and European relations further strained.
[IsraelTimes] Questioned on fires at Russian factories and fuel depots, Zelensky adviser notes Israel doesn’t acknowledge covert attacks and liquidations.
A deadly fire at an aerospace research institute in Tver, northwest of Moscow. Another blaze at a munitions factory in Perm, more than 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the east. And fires in two separate oil depots in Bryansk, near Belarus.
Coincidences, or a sign that Ukrainians or their supporters are mounting a campaign of sabotage inside Russia to punish Moscow for invading their country?
Since the blaze at the Central Research Institute of the Aerospace Defense Forces in Tver on April 21, which killed at least 17 people, social media has leapt on every report of a fire somewhere in Russia — especially at a sensitive location — as a sign that the country is under covert attack.
No one is claiming responsibility, but analysts say at least some of the incidents, particularly those in Bryansk, point to a possible effort by Kyiv to bring the war to the invaders.
In a post on Telegram, Mykhaylo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, called the fires "divine intervention."
"Large fuel depots periodically burn... for different reasons," he wrote. "Karma is a cruel thing."
‘WE DON’T DENY’
In a massive country such as Russia, a fire at a remote factory or building would normally not be particularly eyebrow-raising.
But since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24, more than a dozen blazes noted by people who document the war have drawn huge attention on social media, amid fears there is a concerted campaign of arson terror by the Ukrainians.
Even fires late last month in Russia’s far east — at an airbase north of Vladivostok and at a coal plant on Sakhalin — raised suspicions.
And on Wednesday, a massive conflagration struck a chemical plant in Dzerzhinsk, east of Moscow.
"Russian saboteurs against Putin continue their heroic work," said Igor Sushko, a Ukrainian racecar driver who regularly posts photos and videos on Twitter of alleged acts of sabotage inside Russia — but offers no proof they were deliberate.
Another Zelensky adviser, Oleksei Arestovych, was equally opaque to The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , noting that Israel never admits its covert attacks and liquidations.
"We don’t confirm, and we don’t deny," he said.
PART OF THE STRATEGY?
War analysts believe the infernos in Bryansk, which hit facilities sending oil to Europe, were deliberate and tied to the war.
The anonymous analysts behind "Ukraine Weapons Tracker," a Twitter account that posts detailed accounts with supporting videos of attacks by both sides, said they had received "reliable" information that the Bryansk fires were the result of attacks by Ukrainian Bayraktar drones.
"If accurate, then this story again shows the ability of Ukrainian forces to conduct strikes in Russian territory using long-range assets," they wrote.
"I think it was probably a Ukrainian attack, but we cannot be certain," Rob Lee, another war analyst, told The Guardian.
Added to that have been a number of apparent shellings by helicopters and drones and evident acts of sabotage against infrastructure in Kursk and Belgorod Oblast on the Ukrainian border, close to the fighting.
The governors of Belgorod and Kursk have both blamed the fires and destruction of infrastructure such as railway bridges on saboteurs and attackers from Ukraine.
An April 1 attack on a Belgorod fuel depot, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his Telegram channel, was the result of "an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... from two helicopters of the armed forces of Ukraine, which entered the territory of Russia at a low altitude."
"Nothing that would confirm Ukrainian sabotage, except for the fact that many of the fires seemed to hit strategic/military targets," said Phillips O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Such attacks "certainly seem to be a part of their strategy," he said.
Pentagon officials have said that Russian forces inside Ukraine are hobbled by weak supply chains, and attacks on their infrastructure would further affect their war effort.
But US officials would not comment on whether, deeper inside Russia, there is an active campaign of sabotage hitting targets not-so-directly related to the invasion.
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The poor bastards are scouring the internet looking for any accident that they can call Ukraine attack against Russia.
Pathetic propaganda
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Just scouting negative fake news to attribute to Russia
April 19, 22. Barksdale Air Force Base. Explosion
April 21 22 Dyess Air Force BaseTexas Fire B-1B bomber Sabotage
April 27 Fort Bragg U.S. Army soldier killed accident
April 28 fires burning at Fort Carson Arson
April 7 22 attack on USA base in Syria. Explosion
May 9 22 soldier died at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Bear attack?
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March 26 22 Ukrainian Security Service officer defects to Russia with a USB thumb drive an entire collection of nato/USA documents copied files.
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More in here:
Here's a good firsthand testimony from a Quebecois-french canadian soldier who was fighting with sniper Wali. Very instructive for those wondering what's really happening on the ground. The Ukrainian armed forces are retreating everywhere and getting obliterated. I quote: "hell, KIA's and shitload of WIA daily"... They were in the east before the Russians picking up tempo and starting phase 2.
https://youtu.be/zN2NdiFJFh0
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The poor bastards are scouring the internet looking for any accident that they can call Ukraine attack against Russia.
That could be — we’ve discussed it here. Bad habits when storing things that can explode or catch fire too often leads to things exploding or catching fire spontaneously, a problem throughout the Muslim Middle East as well as Russia. Just think of the damage to the port of Beirut and the city beyond, just because they stored 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate incorrectly for some half decade.
But as Napoléon said, in war the morale to the matériel is as three to one (or possibly ten to one — I’ve seen it quoted both ways). If silly people are willing to ascribe all sorts of accidents to the actions of annoyed Ukrainians, merely because the Ukrainians say neither yay nor nay, perhaps it will hurry all parties toward ceasing warlike actions before more harm is done to all involved.
Mazloum Abdi, Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said on Tuesday that the current political atmosphere is not in favor of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , and that "We will witness major political changes in the upcoming period."
This came during a panel discussion on Afrin which was held in Aleppo northern countryside under the title "Afrin between the Ottoman Turkish Occupation and International Interests" on Tuesday and will last for two days.
The panel was attended by 90 representatives of organizations and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), as well as independent personalities, most of who participated virtually via Zoom Platform.
On May 3, the Ottoman Turkish President revealed preparations for a new project that would allow the "voluntary return" of one million Syrian refugees to the Ottoman Turkish-controlled areas in northern Syria.
Accordingly, Abdi expressed the need to stand against the Ottoman Turkish plan and work to stop its project, as well as stop its "crimes" in Afrin.
The SDF Commander-in-Chief considered that Afrin was occupied as a result of an "international conspiracy", and the political circumstances did not help to make any successful steps to liberate it.
In 2018, Ottoman Turkish military and its affiliated Syrian National Army (SNA) launched an offensive on Afrin region and occupied it following two months of battles with the Kurdish People’s Protections Units (YPG).
He pointed out that they have in mind the liberation of the occupied areas, like Sere Kaniye and Afrin, calling on the Kurds to unite for that.
"The indigenous people of Afrin are resisting inside and outside their region. In Shahba region [Aleppo northern countryside], they are steadfast in the face of difficult life conditions. Those people are overlooked by Turkey," Abdi noted.
The panel discussion will last over three sessions that include different topics, and will be concluded with a statement and a presser.
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[AnNahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... on Tuesday stressed that his party should be represented in any future government, as he emphasized that Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective.... cannot be ruled in a unilateral manner regardless of who wins the parliamentary majority.
"We will keep insisting on being present in any government, regardless of its nature, structure and program, in order to protect the resistance's back," Nasrallah told an electoral rally via video link.
"Lebanon cannot bear a leading sect nor a leading party, no matter how much this party may enjoy strength and popular support," Nasrallah added.
"Elimination and exclusion under the slogans of majority and minority would plunge Lebanon into adventures, and I stress that we are with national partnership in order to pull Lebanon out of its crises," the Hizbullah leader went on to say.
Emphasizing that the country is "built on partnership and non-elimination," Nasrallah added that everyone must be represented in parliament according to their "natural sizes."
"Under a sectarian system like the Lebanese one, any talk of majorities and minorities is not realistic," he underlined.
Separately, Nasrallah emphasized that Lebanon "cannot bear a new civil war, even for changing the political system."
"Civil war should be a prohibited red line," Nasrallah added.
"There are problems and flaws in this system that must be addressed through reform," he said.
In an apparent jab at the rival Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... party, Nasrallah said the Lebanese are asked to choose between "those who call for civil peace and cling to it despite being killed on the roads of Tayyouneh" and those who "offer their services to foreign forces and are ready to make a civil war in Lebanon."
He added that his party and its Amal Movement allies "carried their deaders and maimed and insisted on civil peace despite having the ability to take Dire Revenge."
Denying that his party is subordinate to Iran, Nasrallah said: "We are neither tools nor agents nor chess pieces. The Islamic Theocratic Republic does not interfere in Lebanon, neither in politics nor in elections, and you have seen which ambassadors are touring Lebanon."
[NPASYRIA] The mutual shelling between the Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition factions and the government forces continued on Tuesday in several areas in northwest Syria.
"The Syrian government forces intensified bombing the posts of the opposition in the villages and towns of al-Fatira, Kafr Aweed, Sufuhn, Kansafra, Fleifel and Deir Sunbul Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib," military sources told North Press.
The government bombing also struck the villages and towns of Kafr Noran, Sheikh Suleiman, Makalbis, Kafr Ta’al and Taqad in the western countryside of Aleppo, according to the source.
Meanwhile , al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room struck the government forces’ posts in the 46th Regiment and the town of Urm al-Soghra, west of Aleppo, with heavy artillery," military sources in the opposition told North Press.
The opposition also bombed the government forces’ posts in the city of Kafr Nabl and the town of Hazarin, south of Idlib, with heavy artillery shells and rockets, according to the same sources.
Areas in the de-escalation zone in the northwest of Syria continue to witness daily exchange of bombardment between the Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition factions and the government forces.
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[BenarNews] Five Indonesian nationals who had their assets frozen by the United States are suspected of being involved in financing 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.... murderous Moslem group’s efforts to recruit teens to fight in Syria and other countries, Indonesia’s counter-terrorism agency confirmed Tuesday.
Two of the suspects are in Indonesia while the other three are at Camp al-Hol in Syria near the Ottoman Turkish border, the BNPT agency said. On Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department named five Indonesian suspects, saying the United States had frozen their U.S. assets and was prohibiting people from engaging in certain transactions with them.
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[IsraelTimes] Former Tel Aviv District Court vice president sworn into post alongside 81 other judges appointed to various judicial positions; will replace retiring justice Neal Hendel.
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Sounds more like a trade show than a 'summit'. And while certain parties have been dis-invited from the main event, I'm sure private showings can be arranged. Gentlemen, there is money to be made!
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Fighter planes are for establishing and maintaining control of the air so the bombers can get into the fight. You don't operate bombers without fighters around.
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[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem reportedly tells allies that hits on terror leaders are planned in retaliation for attacks; UK Times newspaper names Saleh al-Arouri, Zaher Jabarin as potential targets.
Israel has reportedly told foreign allies that it is readying teams to carry out the assassination of leaders of the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terrorist group who live abroad in retaliation for a wave of deadly terror attacks.
Unnamed intelligence sources told Britannia’s The Times newspaper in an article published Monday that a "clear message" needed to be sent to the terror organization.
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[NYPOST] CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... ’s fact checker Daniel Dale pushed back on President Biden’s recent claim that his policies had helped to reduce the federal deficit — revealing that one expert told him that the Democrat’s assertion was "almost bizarro world" in its misrepresentation of the situation.
"Let me remind you again: I reduced the federal deficit," Biden said a speech last Wednesday. "All the talk about the deficit from my Republican friends, I love it. I’ve reduced $350 billion in my first year in office."
Biden made the claim while touting his administration’s economic track record — despite fierce criticism from Republican politicians who argue his policies have contributed to rampant inflation and led the US economy to the brink of a recession.
During a Monday appearance on CNN’s "New Day" and in a separate article, Dale noted that the federal deficit had indeed declined during fiscal 2021. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the deficit decline was originally expected to be even larger than the figure Biden referenced.
Dale added that economic experts "still scoffed at the idea that President Biden is personally responsible for having reduced the deficit."
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Seriously does anyone still think Biden is running the White House?
I quit blaming Biden after it was abundantly clear he had advanced mental clarity issues brought on by his age.
SO LET US PLACE BLAME, WHERE BLAME IS DUE.
The handlers, congressional controllers, and King Whispers lurking in the shadows.
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I blame every damn one of them in Washington DC.
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/\ THIS.
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Run every one of them out and let a two year contract with five year renewable to the Musk team. Musk hires people from each state and levies achievable performance objectives in key areas.
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1) Fed gummint budget should be limited to stuff the Constitution says fed gummint is actually responsible for.
2) Fed gummint budget should be constitutionally capped at some percentage of what they actually took in 2 years previous with a safety margin.
No borrow and spend except (maybe) in a true national emergency.
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Before you fawn over Musk I had a friend who worked on building the Tesla plant in Austin and the Tesla culture was not big on lessons learned. They'd rather repeat known errors and incrementally improve them over time.
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My info is strictly about Tesla Austin. The lessons ignored that I remember was about how many bathrooms per worker are required. how they had too few in the Oakland plant and people urinated in dark corners because they couldn't be away from the assembly line for long. Then when building the Austin plant they seemed to fight to maintain the original numbers instead of adding the new numbers that were determined as necessary.
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Shouldn't have happened the first time, definitely not repeated.
Traffic analysis has been a science since I'd guess Sim City, before then a refined art, and before that a pretty damn good guess.
The factory designers are boobs, and the approval committee is full of boobs who didn't have the info independently double-checked.
The defects were known, but the boobs involved are connected, so it was all overlooked.
Boobs involved in the selection of the factory approval committee did not/could not rotate out the boobs in the approval and/or design process.
Traffic analysis is full of boobs who didn't update their software to include employees using the shitter as PED screen time.
The employee pool is full of boobs who spend 30-45 minutes on the shitter past allotted/planned for bathroom usage using their phones.
Employee pool is full of boobs who'd take a piss in the corner to get the extra 10 minutes screen time.
The employee pool is full of boobs who found the best way to black cat the factory is to take obnoxious unquestionable breaks and contaminate the facility with feces until it has to be shut down and sandblasted clean.
The head of that branch has decided it is easier to be a boob and go along as these sorts of things are built into and expected of government projects and to do otherwise would gain unwanted attention.
Then there is, yes, Musk at the top there giving the go/no go on ROI vs. goals.
If they use a simplified formula, furthest worker in the furthest shift break from restroom at reasonable travel pace, there and back again, with 10 minutes in restroom, 25% taking a dump determines number of toilets/urinals. Of course women's restroom is all toilets, so that considered at say 50/50 work population. Fine and well if that formula was gathered after smoking was made illegal and before screentime; may be legitimate OSHA/Union formula. Now, with the screen time and vaping, the older formula of transit time including 2 cigarettes and a beer would be more accurate.
Of course more data is needed, and that data exists especially clock in/clock out and internet data usage especially during said breaks.
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In any design for commercial/industrial buildings there are national standards for how many bathrooms and how many urinals, toilets, sinks there are depending on the number of people who will be working there. If those don't meet standards it's the designer's and/or the building inspector that is letting them slide.
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Ha, Kansas doing me stream of consciousness there... which inexplicably lapsed, halfway through, into Bobby and the priest Downfall-style.
A second holy warrior was killed in an ongoing shootout in Kreeri Dooru area of south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Anantnag district on Tuesday, police said.
The encounter broke out after security forces cordoned the area following a tip off about the presence of gunnies there.
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The current generation’s version of bread and circuses — or circuses, anyway.
[FoxNews] Biden touted his bipartisan infrastructure law that provided $65B for access to broadband
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday announced a deal with more than a dozen U.S. internet service providers to give high-speed internet to Americans living in low-income areas, stressing that access is "not a luxury" but a "necessity."
Internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and others agreed to provide "high-speed" internet access for $30 per month. The Biden administration also announced Monday a federal subsidy for low-income households that will pay up to $30 for internet access, effectively making the plan free for qualifying households.
Americans can apply for access to the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) at a new government website that launched Monday.
The president, during a White House Rose Garden event Monday afternoon, said internet is "pretty consequential."
"High-speed internet is not a luxury any longer, it is a necessity," Biden said. "That’s why the bipartisan infrastructure law included $65 billion to make sure we expand access to broadband internet in every region of the country – urban, suburban, rural, everywhere."
Biden, on Monday, thanked the internet service providers, calling the agreement a "big deal," and saying it is a "great example of what we can achieve when the federal government and the private sector work together to solve serious problems."
Americans qualify for the program if their income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. They can also qualify if a member of their household uses any of a number of other federal programs, such as Medicaid, SNAP food stamps, or a veterans pension, according to the White House.
The ACP plan allows for download speeds of 100 Megabits per second, but qualifies that those speeds will only be available where "the provider’s infrastructure is capable of it."
"The Biden-Harris administration is grateful for the efforts of these companies, and encourages additional internet service providers to join this effort to close the digital divide by offering high-speed, low-cost plans," the White House said in a statement.
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The Joe Bidet regime - bringing their high speed train expertise to the internet.
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In other words we get to pay for their internet access also.
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Because brown people never invented electricity, racial equity demands that we pay for their internet service. Plus it channels huge piles of money to the telecom companies.
A future Supreme Court will discover a right to broadband internet service previously hidden under a penumbra.
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Sure wish I had access to broadband; fiber 200’ away but “more than $20,000 build-out fee” to connect. Satellite is data limited and hasn’t worked at all for two months, with no fix in sight. Cell service is ok (if not on ATT) but slow and erratic. But when the apocalypse comes it will take a while to find me...
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:55 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received over the current day about the death of two civilians: men born in 1955. and women born in 1937, during the shelling of the Kyiv region of Donetsk.
Nine civilians received injuries of varying severity:
Donetsk, Kirovsky district:
- men: 1969, 1967, 1973;
- a woman born in 1951.
Donetsk, Kievsky district:
— girl born in 2013;
- men: born in 1954, 1983, 1972;
is a woman born in 1958.
Thus, the total number of victims among civilians from the attacks of the VFU on May 10, 2022 is 11 people: two dead and nine injured.
In addition, a civilian born in 1973 applied for medical help to the Yasinovatskaya Central District Hospital. injured during the shelling of the city on May 8, 2022. 21:08 The UN is ready to organize further evacuation from the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol if the presence of civilians there is confirmed, but there is no information on specific plans yet. This was stated on Tuesday at a briefing by Deputy Representative of the UN Secretary General Farhan Haq.
“[UN-Ukraine] humanitarian coordinator Osnat Lubrani said yesterday [Monday] that there could still be civilians at the plant,” he said. — We made every effort to evacuate people from the territory of Azovstal. About 600 people have been evacuated in recent days. If we find out that there are still people at the plant, we will do our best to evacuate them.”
19:53 Consequences of the shelling of the Kievsky district of Donetsk 10.05.2022
Military experts of the operational group of the DPR JCCC confirmed the fact of use by the enemy of multiple launch rocket systems BM-27 "Hurricane" with cluster munitions 9M27K in the residential area of the Kievsky district of the capital from the direction of their positions located in the area of the settlement. Avdievka. The area of responsibility of the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade (commander - Colonel Kurash Evgeny Yurievich; commander of the jet division - Uralev Alexander Vladimirovich).
As a result of shelling by the VFU of the Kyiv region, two people died and five, incl. girl born in 2013, were injured.
Also fixeddamageat the addresses:
- st. Levitsky, 5, 9 - multi-apartment residential buildings;
- st. Artema, 102 "a", 108 - multi-apartment residential buildings;
- st. Panfilova, 1 "a" - an apartment building;
- st. Zoya Kosmodemyanskoy, 1 - apartment building;
- st. Chelyuskintsev, 204 - apartment building;
- st. Artema, 106 - republican trauma center;
- st. Universitetskaya, 94 - boarding school No. 11;
- st. Universitetskaya, 87 - filling station "Dontoplivo";
- st. Universitetskaya, 87 "a" - Central Republican Bank of the DPR.
19:28 Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation help the services of Mariupol to dismantle the rubble of destroyed high-rise buildings.
Several departments operate throughout the city. Garbage and collapsed structures on trucks are taken out of Mariupol for disposal.
19:14 The Leningrad region of the Russian Federation will help the authorities of Yenakiyevo in restoring the city.
"The Leningrad region took patronage over Yenakiyevo. Now a delegation from the region is in the city, they have almost finished familiarizing themselves with all areas of the city's activities: culture, education, housing and communal services - everything that concerns the life of our city. We made a plan of priority steps, what we need to do in the city now, and what can be postponed for the long term," said Roman Khramenkov, head of the city administration.
18:54 Ukrainian punishers fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk
Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine treacherously fired at apartment buildings, as well as shopping malls in the Tekstilshchik microdistrict in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
As a result of the shelling, three civilians were injured
17:14 Consequences of the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk on 05/09/2022.
According to the clarified data of military experts of the operational group of the DPR JCCC shelling in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, it was carried out using multiple launch rocket systems BM-21 "Grad", from the direction of the positions of the VFU located in the area of the settlement. Nevelskoe. Responsibility area of the 54th Sseparate Mechanized Brigade (commander - Colonel Maistrenko Alexei Sergeevich; commander of the jet division - Lieutenant Colonel Popov Denis Vladimirovich).
As a result of shelling by VFU in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk on the street. Petrovsky, 126 "D",diedteenager born in 2006 Morenine civilians, including a girl born in 2007, were injured.
Fixed damage to the addresses:
- st. Petrovsky, d. 126 "D" - an apartment building;
- per. Stasovoy, d. 3 "B" - medical laboratory;
- st. Flotskaya, 32 - a private residential building;
- st. Afanasiev, d. 2 - a private residential building;
- st. Seregina, d. 1 "A" - a private residential building;
In addition, containers No. 37, No. 40, No. 38-partially, No. 39 were completely destroyed by shrapnel at the Mercury market.
16:30 The operational line of the DPR JCCC received refined information about the death of three civilians as a result of shelling by the VFU Kievsky district of Donetsk: a woman born in 1937 and two men whose personal details are being established.
Also, at the moment, information has been received about the wounding of three civilians: girls born in 2013, men born in 1954. and a woman whose year of birth is being established.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
16:07 To date, 13 fire and rescue units have been created in Mariupol, Volnovakha, Khlebodarovka, Novotroitsky, Mangush, Yalta, Volodarsky and Talakovka - DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations
Only in Mariupol there are already six fire and rescue units. The personnel performs the tasks for their intended purpose in full.
More than 400 rescuers from eight liberated settlements have already transferred to serve in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
16:04 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
Donetsk (Lidievka settlement):
- st. Ashkhabadskaya, 2/1, 2 - a direct hit on the roof of a private residential building.
Donetsk (Kyiv region):
- st. Chelyuskintsev, 204 - apartment building;
- st. Levitskogo 7/10 - apartment building
n.p. Alexandrovka:
- st. Kirova, 90 - a private residential building;
- st. Lenina, 187 - store "Bogdan".
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
15:25 Humanitarian aid delivered to Novoazovsk from Volgograd
For residents of the Republic, as well as refugees, they brought food packages, personal hygiene items and building materials to restore the destruction.
14:10 As a result of shelling of the VFU in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, the number of victims increased to seven people: two people died and five were injured, including a child.
13:22 Information was received through the operational line of the JCCC of the DPR about the wounding of another civilian, born in 1951. as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
Thus, at the moment, the number of victims among civilians in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk is 3 people.
Information about damage was also received at the following addresses:
- st. Petrovsky, 109, apt. 118 - multi-apartment residential building;
- st. Tekstilshchikov, 7, apt. 37 - an apartment building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
13:03 Another massive strike on the Kirovsky district.
Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
11:00 — n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kirov district): five missiles were fired from the BM27 "Hurricane".
Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
12:35 — n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 5 shells of 152 mm caliber were fired.
12:43 VFU attacked Vasilievka
As a result of the shelling on the street. Central house building caught fire.
Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter.
12:42 DPR servicemen inspect abandoned weapons at the broken positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdievka - machine guns, machine guns with Ukrainian symbols, as well as American shells.
"During the assault on the position, a small fraction of what was found was American. Again, we are lucky to have for American utensils," one of the fighters said.
12:10 Information was received through the operational line of the JCCC of the DPR about the wounding of two civilians - men born in 1969. and born in 1967 as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
There were also reports of damage as a result ofshellingVFU Kirovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Petrovsky, 132 - apartment building;
- st. Leninabadskaya, 21, 46 - private residential buildings;
- st. Makharadze, 12 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
11:44 Units of the NM LPR during a special military operation continue advancement deep into the territories of the Republic occupied by neo-Nazi formations of Ukraine.
Denazification and demilitarization continues.
11:30 Information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU Kirovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Petrovsky, 107 - a direct hit in an apartment building;
- st. Petrovsky 107, 107 "in", 113, 134, 136 - a fire was recorded in apartment buildings.
Also recorded the ignition of trade containers on the street. Petrovsky.
According to preliminary information, there are victims.
Information was received about the damage to the boiler house as a result of the night shelling of the VFU in Donetsk at the address: st. air, 1.
According to the clarified data of military experts of the operation group of the JCCC of the DPR, who were at the site of the shelling of the Kirovsky district of the capital, the enemy used multiple launch rocket systems of the MLRS BM-27 "Hurricane".
11:09 Ukrainian militants fired at the Tekstilshchik microdistrict in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. Damage was received to apartment buildings on the street. Petrovsky, they report a fire.
11:07 AFU fired again at the Nikitovsky district of Horlivka. Fixed damage to buildings on the street. Novozavodskaya.
10:55 The people's militia of the LPR, with the support of the RF Armed Forces, having completed the cleansing of Popasnaya, entered the administrative border of the LPR, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
10:21 A square named after Hero of the Russian Federation Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov will appear in Donetsk
This was stated by the Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on the air of the Russia-24 TV channel.
10:20 In the DPR, about 5,000 subscribers remain without power supply
As a result of the shelling of the VFU in the Donetsk People's Republic, 58 transformer substations and about 5,000 household subscribers were de-energized, the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.
09:50 Ukrainian fighters from the positions in Krasnogorovka launched an artillery strike on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Detailed information is being specified.
09:49 A total of 400 people evacuated from Mariupol in a day
Over the past day, from 08:00 on May 9 to 08:00 on May 10, 400 people, including 70 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky district.
Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
In total, for the period from March 5 to 08:00 on May 10, 29,962 people were evacuated to the Bezymennoye PPN.
09:37 According to the official data of the JCCC DPR in the territory within the borders before the start of the NWO from 17.02.22 as of 09:30 10.05.22
During the 83 days of the escalation, 108 civilians were killed, including four children.
Wounds of varying severity were received by 488 civilians, incl. 40 children.
Damage:
— 3273 residential housing construction;
— 690 civil infrastructure facilities, including 41 medical institutions, 116 educational institutions, 188 social security facilities, 27 critical infrastructure facilities, 318 electricity, water and gas supply facilities. VFU is under attack Kirovsk, Kuibyshev, Leninsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka, and Dokuchaevsk.
- 351 vehicles.
During the 83 days of the escalation of the DPR JCCC, 2,633 cases of firing were recorded, of which 2,376 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 26,160 ammunition of various calibers, including 27 rockets from OTRK "Tochka-U", five MLRS missiles BM-30 "Smerch", 10 MLRS missilesBM-27 "Hurricane" and 3,726 MLRS missiles BM-21 "Grad".
[NYPOST] CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... ’s fact checker Daniel Dale pushed back on President Biden’s recent claim that his policies had helped to reduce the federal deficit — revealing that one expert told him that the Democrat’s assertion was "almost bizarro world" in its misrepresentation of the situation.
"Let me remind you again: I reduced the federal deficit," Biden said a speech last Wednesday. "All the talk about the deficit from my Republican friends, I love it. I’ve reduced $350 billion in my first year in office."
Biden made the claim while touting his administration’s economic track record — despite fierce criticism from Republican politicians who argue his policies have contributed to rampant inflation and led the US economy to the brink of a recession.
During a Monday appearance on CNN’s "New Day" and in a separate article, Dale noted that the federal deficit had indeed declined during fiscal 2021. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the deficit decline was originally expected to be even larger than the figure Biden referenced.
Dale added that economic experts "still scoffed at the idea that President Biden is personally responsible for having reduced the deficit."
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[PJMedia] A long-time Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... activist and Leftist video chronicler of the Portland ...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others... protest movement has been arrested for a string of attacks on synagogues and mosques, and the local media seem to be very eager to erase his one-sided, radical ties.
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Portland AG will charge any ANTIFA member that confesses to a news organization and demands to be charged.
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Maybe he was losing his street cred with his homies or maybe it's his way to get away from a street assassin. Otherwise, like we use to say in the Navy, same $#!+, different day.
...clearly a nickname, In the video she is also called something like T’laiah...
was taking part in a 200m running race when she lost her shoe
Just one second into the race she turned around and went to put it back on
The delay cost her precious seconds but she still carried on running
In what was the race of her life, she quickly caught up with her competitors
In the final straight she could be seen powering ahead before ultimately winning
Some have commented on social media how Lay Lay is the daughter of professional boxer Terrence Crawford who has held multiple world championships, including the WBO welterweight title since 2018.
Crawford has three sons and three daughters one of whom is indeed named Lay Lay.
[Daily Beast] Nearly three months after Vladimir Putin unleashed his "special military operation" against Ukraine and a day after his less-than-triumphant Victory Day speech, a series of intercepted phone calls and radio traffic suggest the "idiocy" of his war is finally becoming too much to bear for even his own troops.
In perhaps the most dramatic audio to emerge, Russian crew members onboard a Raptor-class landing assault boat near Snake Island in the Black Sea appear to have been caught in radio transmissions desperately lamenting their lack of air support as Ukrainian forces bombarded them from an armed Bayraktar drone.
The audio, released on Telegram by the investigative news outlet InformNapalm, purportedly comes from open radio traffic during battles in the Black Sea that took place over the weekend, when Ukraine’s military said it had destroyed three "enemy" boats that subsequently wound up "on the bottom of the sea."
"Where is air support? Where is air support?" a man, identified as a Russian crew member, can be heard saying frantically amid what sounds like sirens in the background.
"This Bayraktar is already pissing me the fuck off," the man says, before apparently becoming more desperate as he says, "They have fired a fourth missile at us! A fourth missile!"
Despite the man’s pleas, the Russian service member on the other end simply promises to "pass along" the information to military leadership. It was not immediately clear if the man in the recording was on any of the three boats that Ukrainian authorities say they sank.
But the frustration in the recording has been echoed in other intercepted communications that purportedly capture Russian service members serving in other parts of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Security Service released a minute-long recording Tuesday that it said was an intercepted phone call between a Russian soldier based in the Kharkiv region and his father back home. The soldier could not hold back his anger at his own commander, who he claimed had abandoned the fight to let the men in his unit serve as cannon fodder.
"They’re standing there, they’re under fire, and the commander just goes, ’Don’t back down!’ While he’s somewhere sitting on a couch, drinking, probably," the young man says.
"They can fuck off with this war," the soldier’s father replies, unleashing a stream of curse words over the "idiocy" of the war and the propaganda shown on Russian state TV.
"I can’t wrap my head around it," he says, adding, "They tell us every morning on TV about these new weapons that all of Ukraine supposedly saw and got scared of."
Advising his son to refuse to take part in the war any further, he rails against the "worthless rat" and "fucking scum" of a commander before the conversation ends.
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^#5 my comment was not a hit piece but real world contacts with several active and retired military. Some with 20 year experience. They mentioned some actively seeking dishonorable discharge to escape these woke services. I don't need to make this up. It is hard enough to believe as it actually is.
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[RIA Novosti] In the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian military staged a provocation by shooting six civilian vehicles, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center.
"According to the available reliable information, in the Kharkiv region, the Kyiv regime carried out another bloody action according to the Bucha scenario. On the section of the road between the settlements of Stary and Novy Saltov, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot six civilian vehicles with white flags mounted on them," Mizintsev said.
According to him, the photo and video recording was carried out by the specialists of the Center for Information and Psychological Operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In addition, the general noted, from the area of private households in Belaya Krinitsa ( Kherson region ), Ukrainian artillery launched several attacks on the positions of Russian troops in order to cause return fire on houses with civilians, whom the terrorist defense militants did not let out of the blockaded settlement, keeping them in as a human shield.
He added that representatives of the Norwegian media were there to film the aftermath.
“We warn in advance that in the near future these and other materials fabricated by the Kyiv regime about the alleged “Russian atrocities” are planned to be widely distributed through Western and Ukrainian media, as well as Internet resources,” Mizintsev said.
Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for "bloody crimes against civilians" in Donbass.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the armed forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and have already completed the main tasks of the first stage - they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
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So reading between the lines, the Russian forces shot up a bunch of civilian cars, and are rushing a Katyn Forest story out ahead of Ukrainian reporting.
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[REGNUM] The first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, died after a long illness at the age of 88. This was reported on May 10 by Ukrainian News.
Kravchuk is the first president of Ukraine, who held this post from December 5, 1991 to July 19, 1994. In 1992, he signed the Lisbon Protocol, pledging to abandon Ukraine's nuclear arsenal.
The following is a technical analysis of Russian tanks by a British military think tank
[RUSI] The war in Ukraine does not reveal anything fundamentally new about the tank. It confirms old lessons and reflects the challenges of armoured warfare.
Some of the very first images to emerge from the war in Ukraine, apart from the devastation caused by Russia’s long-range missile strikes, were of burning Russian armoured vehicles. As the conflict has progressed, these images have come to include some of the more advanced tanks in Russia’s arsenal: the T-80BVM and T-72B3M. Images of these tanks left as nothing more than burnt hulls, their turrets separated from the rest of the vehicle and thrown violently into a nearby ditch, may appear shocking. They give the impression that Ukraine has found the antidote to tank warfare. However, if we consider the design of Russian main battle tanks – and this also applies to the Ukrainian, Polish, Chinese, Indian and many other tank fleets – these images are both less shocking, and less useful in analysing Russian armour. Read the rest at the link
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It is a nice "layman's first overview" article. A thing to consider is that the Soviet perspective from WW2 was that armor is massed for the attack and engagement ranges typically were 250 meters or less. Many of the T-72's design features exemplify this focus.
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/\ Yes, obviously 'side shot' vulnerability is greatly decreased when the mass attack (on line assault) is employed. Channeling armor, single-file through city streets (urban warfare) or down paved highways thus exposing sides is deadly. Adding to this vulnerability are new families of highly effective Anti Tank Missiles such as the Lockheed Martin Javelin and British NLAW Anti-tank weapon.
The Ukraine army has also used anti-tank mines very effectively to enforce the channeling of tanks and trucks into established Anti-tank missile kill zones.
While this vintage Russian T-34 tank on-line attack graphic does not depict screening infantry, dismounted infantry would have likely been used to destroy or expose anti-tank teams. The extended ranges and accuracy of the newer anti-armor weapons makes screening by infantry very costly and labor intense.
As magpie stated in #2, weapons systems and tactics have changes since WWII. It would appear Russian systems and tactics have not kept up with current warfighting tactics and technologies.
[BBC] Finland and Sweden could apply for Nato membership within days - a monumental shift for two nations with a long history of wartime neutrality and staying out of military alliances.
Russia strongly opposes the two states joining and uses the expansion of the West's defensive military alliance as a pretext for its war in Ukraine.
Doing so would end over 200 years of Swedish non-alignment. Finland adopted neutrality following a bitter defeat by the Soviet Union during World War Two.
Finnish public support for joining Nato was for years at around 20-25%. But since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it has shot up to a record high of 76%, according to the latest opinion poll. In Sweden, 57% of the population want to join, again far higher than before the war.
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Finland and Sweden will joint a military and political partnership with England as a face safe
They will not be able to join NATO
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They will not be able to join NATO
NATO is the only thing standing between Western Europe and the mighty Soviet Army streaming thru the Fulda Gap. NATO and the fact that the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore.
[GREATERKASHMIR] Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested four "hybrid" Lions of Islam and recovered as many pistols from the possession in Bemina area of Srinagar.
A police front man said the the accused were apprehended by Srinagar Police and Army's 2RR.
The identity of the alleged Lions of Islam was not immediately known.
"Srinagar Police and Army (2RR) arrested 04 #hybrid #hard boyz along with 04 pistols from #Bemina area. Case registered and investigation started, " a police front man said.
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[GREATERKASHMIR] Separatist leader Mohammad Yasin Malik on Tuesday pleaded guilty to all the charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), before a Delhi court in a case related to alleged terrorism and secessionist activities that disturbed the Kashmir valley in 2017, court sources said.
They said Malik told the court that he was not contesting the charges levelled against him including section 16 (terrorist act), 17 (raising funds for the terrorist act), 18 (conspiracy to commit terrorist act), and 20 (being member of terrorist gang or organisation) of the UAPA and sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 124-A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code.
Special Judge Praveen Singh will hear on May 19 the arguments regarding the quantum of sentence for the offences levelled against Malik in which the maximum punishment is life imprisonment.
The court, meanwhile, formally framed the charges against other Kashmiri separatist leaders including Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate, Shabbir Shah, Masarat Alam, Md Yusuf Shah, Aftab Ahmad Shah, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Khan, Md Akbar Khanday, Raja Mehrajuddin Kalwal, Bashir Ahmad Bhat, Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Abdul Rashid Sheikh, and Naval Kishore Kapoor.
The charge sheet was also filed against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, who have been declared proclaimed offenders (PO) in the case.
#5
The PI people are very sentimental. They are incredibly forgiving in nature. While we like to mock Imelda for her shoes, the people loved her. Her 3,000 shoes would not have fed many people for very long. The poverty issues are a lot more complicated than that. While, from the outside, this looks a lot like the Marcos dictatorship taking hold again, I would wait and see. The last president was a nut job authorizing the police killing of undesirables. Before that was and actor that lived for corruption and then there was GMA who sold the Philippines to China. We will see. And for the love of God the Philippinos need to rethink how they name their kids. Most common names for girls is Apple, baby, honey, or Cherry. Bing, ping, and bong are common names for men. Its a bit insane.
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Heh. Who did "Cory" Aquino endorse? Heh...
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#7
Humans certainly love dynasties, no matter what form of government is in place.
#8
Pardon, I am a bit confused as how Duterte fits into this, as DM seems fascinated on other things.
I will say about the masks, I do love the photos of masked people with captions like "beaming". It reminds me of a photo of like three gals in burkas standing in front of a famous landmark, "Really enjoying ourselves." or "Enjoying bowl of spaghetti." as it is slurped under the hood.
Link to the article via Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Some of the translations are confused and sometimes flat wrong, so I have tried to correct it as best I could.
[SchneiderKrieg] May 10th, 7:56
I didn't write yesterday. Yesterday was a Great holiday, and therefore did not hammer this bright day with his tedious reflections.
All - with the past!
Actually, the essence of this post:
• There is often a delusion on the Internet that in Ukraine, 150,000 Russian and Donetsk-Luhansk troops are fighting with 600,000 Ukrainian forces. At the same time, there is no mobilization in Russia, as a fact.
Strictly speaking, it is not. In particular, the number of only land "active bayonets" from our side and the total number (including civilian personnel) from Ukraine are compared.
• It is also necessary to assess the scale of mobilization in Russia and Ukraine today, to compare the actual potential.
So:
1. UKRAINE:
By the beginning of the NMD, its troops numbered 209,000 people in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 102 thousand - the defense, up to 120-130,000 (in total) - NSU, GPSU, Special Communications, Special Transport Service, etc. On the circle - 430-444,0000 people.
It is worth noting that this value included civilian personnel (up to 100,000 people). That is, in general, everyone.
Until April 2022, inclusive, three waves of mobilization - for 60,000, 6,000 and 70,000 people - 190,000 people were called up (officially). At the same time, the losses of Ukrainian troops today amount to at least 40-50,000 military personnel (killed, wounded and captured). They also have a high percentage of desertion: at least 20-30,000 people.
That is, according to the results of the mob events, they had up to 550.000 people in the ranks. Including, it is worth repeating again, all. Including numerous rather civilian personnel.
In addition, from May 15, a fourth wave of mobilization is expected, with the help of which it is planned to clean up, according to various sources, another 70 to 100,000 unlucky people (in total, mobilization will affect 260-290 thousand people by the summer). According to the results, there will be up to 620-650,000 people in the ranks. In general, everyone.
Of these, active bayonets (that is, those who directly conduct combat operations) will amount to 150,000 people (25 percent). Including more or less trained active bayonets as part of well-coordinated units - 60-70,000 people (10 percent).
As it was in Russia during the Civil War. Especially at the final stage, when 100,000 of the five million Red Army actually fought, being transferred from front to front.
Accordingly, a high percentage of losses for them, especially among "active bayonets", is fraught with a loss of combat capability.
2. RUSSIA (with LDNR):
Covert mobilization in Russia began, according to some sources, at the beginning of the year. By January 30, at least 85,000 reservists ("partisans") were called up for training. Reservists were also announced in February. A recruitment of contract soldiers to the troops and PMCs was carried out. Starting from mid-April, according to some sources, at least 60,000 people were recruited.
In total, according to certain estimates, up to 200-250,000 people were mobilized today, without the LDNR (quite comparable to Ukraine).
Your obedient servant at one time assumed that Russia needed a million fighters for the campaign in Ukraine. Without mobilization at home, subject to mobilization in the LDNR (which we consider), it was possible for us to field up to 700-800,000 people. Considering everyone in general (as in the case of Ukraine, a single method of calculation is needed).
I'll expand on the thesis. By the time the NWO began, Russia had concentrated 190-200,000 people on the borders with Ukraine, according to Western estimates. Including mobilized reservists.
The rear - the same civilian personnel, because much was transferred to outsourcing - amounted to 170-200,000 people. This, it seems, is without the potential of the Aerospace Forces and the Navy: another 70-80,000 people per circle (without rears). The National Guard numbered up to 60-70,000 people (without rears), LDNR (after mobilization) - at least 100,000 (together with rears). Plus the border troops of the FSB.
For a circle, all this amounted - together with the rear and civilian personnel, of course - the notorious 700-800,000 people. Don't be put off by this huge value. The number of "active bayonets" among these significant digital expressions did not really exceed 120-150,000 people (half - LDNR).
Additional covert mobilization from February to May, and the accompanying growth in the rear, turned out to be able to bring the number of Russian and LDNR forces on the border to almost a million people. At the same time, the number of "active bayonets" is unlikely to have grown significantly: no more than 150-200,000 people today.
It should be noted that today growth is in the line of building up the capacity of existing OShS (organizational staff structures). Presumably, it may include the following successive stages (thanks to https://maximlubyanov.livejournal.com/ for the tip):
• Increase in the number of people in the departments (from 6-7 to 11-13 people), the introduction of the fourth department in platoons. It is capable of leading, taking into account the shortage that took place by the beginning of the SVO, to no less than doubling the number of "active bayonets" (that is, by 150,000 people compared to the initial values);
• Introduction of the fourth platoon into companies (taking into account the previous stage, the number of companies is increased to 200-250 people). Able to give another 70-80,000 people (only active bayonets);
• The introduction of the fourth company into the battalion (growth of the battalion to 1000 people), the disbandment of the BTG (withdrawal of artillery and tanks back to regimental-brigade-divisional subordination), the introduction of the third battalion (meaning, directly operating forces on the theater of operations). Able to give another 70-80,000 people. At the same time, brigades again become brigades (for 5-6,000 people), divisions - divisions (depending on the composition of the division - 15-25,000 people).
Taking into account the recruitment of civilian personnel and others, it seems possible, after passing through the indicated stages, to increase the potential of the RF Armed Forces to 1.5 million people. Including 400-500,000 - active bayonets.
Taking into account the estimated potential for creating an army of Greater Novorossiya of half a million people, it is seen the possibility of forming a two-million-strong detachment of forces from Russia for operations in Ukraine. More than enough, given the existing balance of power.
True, given the pace, this is probably good if by the fall.
A reader responds to the remark about the disbandment of the Battalion Tactical Group (BTG):
I already expressed ideas at the VIF that the management of artillery, air defense systems and UAVs should be centralized at the army level in order to organize the ROC to combat artillery, air defense and enemy control centers (for which you need to lay down communications everywhere, and not just near line of contact). ROC is a mistranslation for line of contact, or possibly forward line our troops (FLOT)
https://vif2ne.org/nvk/forum/0/co/2992748.htm
https://vif2ne.org/nvk/forum/0/co/2992801.htm
https://vif2ne.org/nvk/forum/ 0/co/2992841.htm
Second:
In fact, we have very different BTGs.
Airborne Forces and DShV - Nonas or D-30 - limited range, little artillery itself, weak means of artillery reconnaissance. Nona is the 2S9 armored 120mm tracked mortar vehicle
Marines also have weak artillery, probably a platoon rather than an artillery control battery, and weak artillery reconnaissance capabilities.
Motorized rifle brigades - according to the division of 152mm artillery on the BTG - towed or self propelled, often modernized with a short reaction time and capable of operating according to the maneuver-fire scheme, also counting on the BTG a lot of air defense means are the most powerful guys.
Divisions
Since we had formed armored personnel carriers in peacetime long before, then:
In divisions we had BTR units with an attachment of regimental self propelled 122mm and a BTR unit with an attachment from an artillery regiment.
And AAA weapons, which are not many times more than in brigades, smeared as a thin layer on 5-6 BTGs.
In reality, it is very likely that the artillery regiments of the divisions are not pulled apart by the motorized rifle units, but act independently.
UAV is also very uneven.
In divisions (MSD VDD DSHD), probably a UAV company (where available) of 6-8-9 operators per division - for 5-6 armored infantry units.
In brigades (where available), probably the same UAV company of 6-8-9 operators for 2 armored infantry units.
Total: a combined hodgepodge of very different BTG strengths.
All this will also apply to regiments/brigades if they are not pulled apart by the BTGr.
Conclusion: at the army level, it is necessary to redistribute artillery and reconnaissance equipment not only in order to organize counter-battery combat in the operational direction, but also in order to equalize the combat capabilities of the existing armored infantry units, regiments or divisions.
Next.
We traditionally have a weak battalion command and control unit, both in terms of the number of officers and their status and level.
The role of the battalion link in civilian life is crushed: from above everything is driven by a lump. From below, the company steers all the life and combat training of grassroots units.
It is difficult for independent battalion commanders to appear in such a system.
This leads to the fact that the control of a reinforced battalion (regardless of whether it operates as part of a brigade / regiment or in isolation as a BTG) needs to be strengthened by pulling units to this control.
That is, if we want to put full-fledged, albeit two-battalion, regiments and brigades on the battlefield, we need to strengthen their command and control.
That is, IMHO, to raise retirees to the service.
Why so many letters:
1) regiments and brigades instead of armored personnel carriers - needed
2) regiments and brigades, if wisely, are needed with UAV companies and artillery expropriated to the army with its AIR, and then given back down from the army in some other composition for the task
3) so as not to pull the entire command staff of regiments and brigades for BTG it needs to be strengthened, preferably by sensible retirees - IMHO
In short, this is not done with one order - a set of measures is needed.
#2
In the film Blade Runner 2049, flying cars navigate among skyscrapers Runaway, Gene Simmons whallops targets using drones, which utilize multiple detection systems.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:17 US Congress intends to approve $39.8 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine today - Tuesday - The New York Times
21:47 According to the available reliable information, in the Kharkiv region, the Kyiv regime carried out another bloody action according to the "Buchin" scenario. On the section of the road between the settlements of Stary and Novy Saltov, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down six civilian vehicles with white flags mounted on them. Photo and video filming of this monstrous crime was carried out by specialists of the Center for Information and Psychological Operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported. 21:46 The first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, has died. This was reported by the Ukrainian News agency, citing a source close to the politician's family.
"Today, May 10, 2022, at 17:00 Kyiv time, after a long illness, Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk, the first president of independent Ukraine, passed away," the message said.
21:45 The supply of electricity to the Kharkiv region of Ukraine from the territory of the Belgorod region began. This was reported by the press service of the government of the Russian region.
20:50 Rocket troops and artillery of the Russian Federation hit 223 areas of concentration of manpower and equipment, more than 100 nationalists were destroyed.
20:49 Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and a Mi-8 helicopter in the Kherson region.
20:49 Aviation of the RF Armed Forces hit two warehouses of missile and artillery weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and more than 70 objects in a day.
20:48 The mindless PR campaign of the Kyiv regime to seize the Zmeiny Island on the eve of Victory Day ended in disaster for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:48 In the area of Snake Island, three Ukrainian assault boats "Centaur" with amphibious assault troops on board were destroyed.
20:47 Bodies of 27 militants of Ukrainian special forces and nationalists remain on Zmeiny Island.
19:59 Ukraine's attempt to seize Serpent's Island was pointless from a military point of view.
19:58 In three days, the Kyiv regime lost 30 military drones near Zmeiny Island, nine of them were Bayraktar-TB2 attack drones.
19:58 Another Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle "Bayraktar-TB2" was shot down by means of air defense of the Russian Federation in the area of Snake Island this afternoon.
19:56 Another Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle "Bayraktar-TB2" was destroyed by Russian air defense systems this afternoon in the area of Snake Island. Thus, over the past three days, the Kyiv regime has lost 30 military unmanned aerial vehicles in the area.
18:34 Russian mobile operators will work in the Kherson region. Kirill Stremousov, deputy chairman of the region's CAA, said: "Mobile operators are now negotiating and in the coming months, cellular operators in Russia and other regions are also ready to enter the territory of Kherson and the Kherson region and fully set up communications." According to him, a Crimean Internet provider is already operating in the region.
18:33 Army aviation of the "O" group inflicts massive strikes on Ukrainian militants during the attack on Kramatorsk.
17:35 Berlin will supply Ukraine with modern tanks and howitzers, and will also begin training Ukrainian military - German Foreign Minister Burbock .
“We are now trying to find shells from those countries that can supply them for the Cheetahs. The next step will be the supply of tanks and howitzers,” Burbock said.
17:33 Belarus expects to keep the Russian S-400 air defense systems and the Iskander-Lukashenko complexes.
17:32 Russia's victory in Donbas will not put an end to the special operation - head of US National Intelligence.
16:49 Russia appreciates the balanced, objective, balanced position taken by Algeria on Ukrainian issues - Lavrov
16:45 Belarus urgently deploys special operations forces on the border with Ukraine - General Staff of the country's Ministry of Defense
“The grouping created by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the southern direction, numbering up to 20,000 people, requires a reaction from Belarus,” the department noted.
At the second stage of the Armed Forces of Belarus, battalion tactical groups are moving forward to the western and northwestern directions, the Ministry of Defense specified.
15:26 Residents of the northern regions of Crimea are asked not to worry about the sounds of explosions in the liberated territories of the Kherson region. This is the detonation of Ukrainian shells and mines, which were collected by Russian sappers at the sites of clashes or found in trophy military depots, as well as in various caches.
15:24 On Victory Alley on the street. Pionerskaya in Melitopol organized regular watering of young seedlings. A total of 40 young trees were brought from Crimea and planted on the eve of Victory Day.
15:23 Municipal services of Melitopol putting the city in order after the holiday. Kirov Street and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Avenue, squares and Gorky Park are being cleaned.
15:23 NATO summit in July will consider measures to strengthen security in the light of the situation in Ukraine, said Scholz.
14:30 An explosion thundered in Ochakovo, smoke is rising over the place of the explosion. In this city in the Nikolaev region, a rocket is expected to arrive. Also explosions have thundered in the Nikolaev.
13:41 Russia will help Belarus to produce new missiles for the rearmament of the Belarusian Army. Including the Belarusian military will receive Iskanders.
13:36 New arrivals in Nikolaev and Ochakov have been recorded.
12:54 German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday morning, the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported. According to Focus Online, upon arrival she visited Bucha.
12:52 Head of UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine Says She Has Credible Allegations of Torture and Executions by Ukrainian Security Forces, Although Russia's Violations are 'Much Higher' - Reuters.
12:46 The Seimas of Lithuania recognized the Russian Federation as a “terrorist state”.
11:22 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 163 aircraft, 124 helicopters, 793 unmanned aerial vehicles, 300 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,979 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 351 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 1,440 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,789 units of special military vehicles.
11:21 Russian air defense systems destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during the night in the areas of the settlements of Mospino, Yunokommunarsk of the Donetsk People's Republic and the city of Odessa. A Ukrainian Tochka-U missile and a Smerch multiple rocket launcher were intercepted over the settlement of Khartsyzsk in the Donetsk People's Republic. Two more rockets of the Smerch multiple launch rocket system were shot down in the areas of Malaya Kamyshevakhi and Izyum in the Kharkiv region.
11:20 On the evening of May 9, during an air battle near the village of Novaya Dmitrovka, Kharkiv region, a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down.
11:20 Rocket troops and artillery units hit 33 command posts, 407 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, as well as five ammunition and fuel depots in the areas of Nikolaev and Mirny of the Nikolaev region. As a result of the strikes, up to 380 nationalists were destroyed, 53 units of military equipment were disabled.
11:20 Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 16 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine overnight.
10:26 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are shelling the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zelenodolsk.
10:24 Russian sappers have completed demining the village of Kamenka, Izyumsky district, Kharkiv region, mined by Ukrainian troops before retreating. This was reported on Tuesday to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
“Russian sappers conducted engineering reconnaissance and cleared the area of explosive objects in the area of the village of Kamenka, Izyumsky district, Kharkiv region,” the military department said.
The ministry said that before the retreat, the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine mined the streets and roads in the vicinity of the village.
“In the course of humanitarian demining, Russian sappers found artillery and tank shells, anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, including foreign-made ones. At the same time, military engineers cleared the farmland. Agricultural machinery can go into the fields without fear of being blown up by a mine "barrier," the Defense Ministry added.
09:32 In the morning, the Dnipropetrovsk region was shelled by Ukronazis. There were no casualties.
#4
Why is Fred allowing idiots to link to this obvious disinformation effort?
Heck he allows the posting time to time of birdcage liner quality material from the NYT aka Pravda on the Hudson and WP aka Izvestia on the Potomac. Readers are allowed to adjudge the quality or lack thereof in materials and sources.
#5
Get the feeling sometimes that our overseas trolls reveal their nature by being unfamiliar with basic Americana - like all the sensationalist tabloids that stack the checkout counter at the local supermarket.
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