[YouTube - WarthogDefennce] India has halted negotiations with Russia for the former to acquire 10 Kamov Ka-31 airborne early warning helicopters for $520 million, following uncertainties in arms supplies amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Part of our Russian Trolls new tripartite alliances? Oops
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Fundamentally, India is going to do what is in India's interest. China is going to do what is in China's interest. Russia is going to do what is in Russia's interest. Only in Washington, the Globalists don't care what's in America's interest.
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"Oh, Frankie, such news never troubles
Us Russians. Our sales force redoubles
Its efforts, aware
That what counts is, the Bear
Will insist on nonpayment in rubles."
ATLANTA (AP) — Several Black students who were suspended for trying to protest Confederate flag displays at their school in Georgia have filed a federal lawsuit against their school district and its board members, accusing them of allowing an extensive pattern of racism including "overt bigotry and animosity by some white students and teachers against African American students."
The students, joined by their mothers as plaintiffs, already made news when their protest at Coosa High School was stifled last fall.
Now, in their lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Floyd County school district and its board members, they allege an extensive pattern of racism, including white students reenacting the murder of George Floyd and posting it on social media, and a student who carried what appeared to be a whip and told a Black student "we used to whip you."
They also allege unfair punishment: Students are banned from wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, but Confederate flag apparel is acceptable under the school’s dress code, the lawsuit says.
The suit faults administrators for "deliberate indifference to acts of racial animosity toward Black students perpetrated by white students and teachers; as well as the school’s viewpoint discrimination in its dress code and the inconsistent administration of disciplinary policies to the detriment of Black students."
Joining the students as plaintiffs are their mothers, Lekisha Turner and Jessica Murray. Murray claims she was pulled over by a police officer after picking up the suspended children, and detained until school officials presented her with a letter threatening criminal trespassing charges if she was found again on school grounds.
Superintendent Glenn White on Tuesday said the district disputes the allegations but had been advised by lawyers to not get into specifics at this time. "The Floyd County school system looks forward to presenting the facts on this situation in court," White told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
Coosa High near Rome is in the heart of northwest Georgia’s conservative 14th Congressional District, which sent Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress. About 10% of the school’s more than 800 students in grades 8-12 are Black, state enrollment figures show. About 58% are white, while 26% are Hispanic and the the remainder are multiracial or some other race.
Could This Be the Reason Biden is Importing Unaccompanied Children?
Unaccompanied child illegal immigrants tend to be riddled with infections and parasites, and so would make terrible blood&body parts donors. A cure considerably worse than the disease of aging, in my opinion. Better — and much cheaper — to get an infusion of the intestinal fauna of some healthy old guy, whether in pill form or as an old-fashioned poop milkshake (fecal transplant, for those who prefer the Latin medicalese).
[InfoWars] No longer just a "trope in horror novels."
New scientific research by Stanford University reveals that "harvesting the blood and body parts of the young in the hope of achieving immortality" is no longer just a "trope in horror novels," but a feasible likelihood.
Yes, really.
According to a report by the Telegraph newspaper, research by Stanford shows that "infusing cerebrospinal fluid of young mice into old mice improves brain function," opening the door for similar applications to humans.
The Stanford team infused fluid from 10-week-old mice into the brains of 18-month-old mice over seven days, and found that older mice were better at remembering to associate a small electric shock with a noise and flashing light.
Closer examination showed the fluid had "woken up" processes which regenerate neurons and myelin — the fatty material that protects nerve cells within the hippocampus, the memory centre of the brain.
The study shows that the same process could be applied to anti-ageing research, and that, "Experiments are even showing that young blood itself can reverse the ageing process, perhaps even curing Alzheimer’s disease."
Elitists and transhumanists have long been interested in harvesting material from young people in a bid to pursue life-extension.
Former North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il routinely had himself injected with blood taken from young, healthy virgins in the belief that it would help him live longer.
The Telegraph report notes that, "Harvesting the blood and body parts of the young in the hope of achieving immortality has long been a familiar trope in horror novels and conspiracy theories."
Apparently, not for much longer.
"It may only be a few years before "youth transplants" finally move from the pages of gothic horror novels into the clinic," writes Sarah Knapton. Source is just as reliable as the DM. That’s certainly one perspective. Have you considered setting up your own blog to share it with the world?
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Mods, thanks for repairing the post. I can't seem to highlite properly. And no, I'm happy posting on the burg, I don't need a blog despite having numbers on my nick.
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:-) We all had to climb that learning curve, my dear Vespasian Ebboting9735. I made a point to check the reference links in the InfoWars article, and found them reasonably sound — the Telegraph, etc. Info Wars ranges between sensible and paranoid-nuts, which makes choosing articles from there more labour intensive.
Now, where did I hear this one before...
Nomad, in the 1920s they were keen on taking monkey gland extracts for the same rejuvenating purpose, and it has evolved from there.
[YouTube - Perun] This war has produced some truly interesting takes - so many that I'm already planning my next myth-busting video as we speak.
But one recent one stood out as as both particularly strange, and also as a good opportunity to discuss a serious topic. Recently a number of media organisations ran stories suggesting that the shipment of American missiles to Ukraine were dangerously depleting American supplies to the point where urgent measures are necessary or American security would be threatened.
So yes, I'm going to deal with the idea that sending Stingers to Ukraine is a danger to the USA, but I'm also going to talk about how deep American weapon stocks are, what it means to have your security threatened, and why America probably shouldn't rush to crash-manufacture Stingers just because they're finally using the ones that were in storage. Defence procurement decisions have lasting impacts, and while the decision to ramp up Javelin production is an obvious one, I think we should be wary of the idea that Stinger should be resurrected without other options being considered.
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What with all the talk about "ramping up production", I got a question: Do you wonder why Raytheon et al don't seem to have chip shortages and supply issues like everybody else?
Just thinking' out loud...
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...someone actually enforced the contract on buying only from 'secure' sources rather than subcontracted out to a third party source using 'unsecured' sources?
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Do you wonder why Raytheon et al don't seem to have chip shortages
Simple reason. Most of the high end chips are made in the US or Taiwan with US designs and the US gets first claim to them. Cheap chips that reside in IoT devices or cars come from China, and we don't put that shit in our weapons.
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...and cheaper. See the price on mil-spec stuff? It's not just a $100 hammer*
*btw, your Congresscritters are the ones that require DoD buy the $100 hammer through contracting regulations and then allow blame to fall on DoD. If local procurement went down to Home Depot or Lowes they could actual go to (reserved for little people) jail.
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Also tack on P2K if things need replaced in a SCIF, the contractors need to have the level of clearance necessary to go into a lot of the high level ones. (low level secret ones you just turn on the red light and lock the computer screens to let them in. No background clearance needed)
So yes, it can cost $200-400 per toilet seat. The military used to do all that themselves, but the Powers-That-Be™ decided it was easier and cheaper to have cleared civilians do it. Seems like more expensive to me but I'm just a grunt.
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Consumer products use cheap Chinese chips because nobody is going to pay $5000.00 for a TV or smartphone.
A guy said something to me last week in a discussion of parts sourcing that is sticking with me: "Not all crap is made in China, but everything made in China is crap."
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Unless Skynet and Chinanet determine the only way to guarantee their survival other than being ghosts in a toaster is to team up.
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Let's say NATO becomes drained of AMMO and WEAPONS.
Is Russia the threat, or will China become the threat given its manufacturing abilities we the US gave them?
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..unlikely. Russia is a land war. Any war with China will be largely naval with cutting all those overseas supply lines they are now dependent upon. Of course the Chinese could go to Siberia to make up some of those losses at the expense of someone who's exhausted his own stockpiles. Easier to simply become a good vassal like Alexander Nevsky.
[FoxNews] A Russian lawmaker is warning Friday that recent comments from Poland’s leaders are encouraging Moscow to "put it in first place in the queue for denazification after Ukraine."
Russian State Duma Deputy Oleg Morozov, using language Russia has sought to justify its bloody invasion of Ukraine, made the remark on his Telegram page, according to Russian state media.
"By its statements about Russia as a 'cancer tumor' and about the 'indemnity' that we must pay to Ukraine, Poland encourages us to put it in first place in the queue for denazification after Ukraine," Morozov reportedly wrote. I found Baghdad Bob! And boy is your mouth writing checks your body can't cash
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Russia is unlikely to invade more countries but they are not powerless. The best thing for all concerned would be peace at this point. Having everybody pour weapons into the conflict while Biden prints more money to pay the bill just fills body bags with young Russian men and a higher number of young and old Ukrainians of both genders. The only beneficiaries are Globalists, weapons makers and the CCP.
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Putin can always withdraw. He started it, he can end it.
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Hey, what am I, chopped Lithuania? I tell ya, I don't get no respect...
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And you shouldn't. You pretended to be neutral all the while acting as a marshalling yard and staging area for the invasion.
Republicans are slamming Biden for hypocrisy in visiting Buffalo, New York after a mass shooting but refusing to visit Waukesha, Wisconsin in November
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson noted the White House claimed it did not have the 'assets' or 'resources' to visit the site where six were killed and 60 injured
He told DailyMail.com: 'Within hours of the most recent senseless tragedy, the WH apparently found the resources to plan a presidential trip to Buffalo'
When asked about the trip on Tuesday and lack of trip in November, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre deflected, saying 'he's visited many communities'
Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron, 18, posted a racist manifesto and targeted black people with a firearm on Saturday
Waukesha attacker, 39-year-old Darrell Brooks, used a vehicle to carry out his attack and posted a slew of racist social media messages targeting white people
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Why would the Bidens go to Waukesha, or Chicago? For the Dems, those places are little more than abattoirs. They exist as a necessity, but why would anyone want to go there and watch that socialist sausage get made?
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...and watch that socialist sausage get made
For the record Rex, Waukesha is a pretty conservative city (as is the surrounding county). Mixed nationalities of residents, many who escaped the Milwaukee hellhole to the east but wanted to be close enough to work there.
The same situation exists in cites north of Milwaukee like Cedarburg, Mequon and Port Washington.
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Border Patrol has set up a new massive tent compound in Eagle Pass, Texas as they prepare for the possible end of Title 42 in one week
The structure is meant to speed up processing and expand housing capacity in the Del Rio sector, a popular area for migrants to attempt to cross the border
DOJ lawyers and attorneys representing a cadre of GOP-led states argued in court on Friday over the CDC health policy that allows for immediate expulsion
The Biden administration stressed that the CDC has the authority to end Title 42 because it is a public health order, not an immigration order
Mikhail Khodaryonok, a retired Soviet colonel, gave a dire assessment of Russia's war in Ukraine on state TV
He warned that myths of the Ukrainian army being demoralised and in disarray are 'to put it mildly, false'
Said Ukraine may soon have 1m troops armed with western weapons who are ready to 'fight to the last man'
Russia is in 'full geopolitical isolation' with 'virtually the entire world against us', Khodaryonok added, saying it is a situation that the country 'needs to get out of'
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Over/under on how long until he's found dead? I'm betting two weeks from now his entire family will be found dead and it will be ruled a murder/suicide. The suicide will involve four shots from a bolt action rifle.
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Over/under is 3:1 that Christopher Steele will be dead before Durham can put him on the witness stand
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I'm guessing it would be a hell of a lot easier to cross the Amur River than the Taiwan Strait.
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Better to know your enemy who's demonstrated a serious lack of quality equipment and operational acumen than one you really haven't tested yet but who is armed to the teeth knowingly awaiting you.
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If it makes you feel better, Russian troops also took up positions inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, even dug trenches and bunkers through the layers of sand and soil intended to cap off the radioactive debris.
They'll die young. People who come in contact with their gear will possibly die young. Their children may have all sorts of defects.
All because Putin has a teeny little peepee.
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More video game footage presented as war reportage. By a retired US general, I would add:
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Suppose we should be glad it wasn't from Star Wars: Squadrons.
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Russia committed so many troops to Ukraine they only have 25 BTGs left for all their borders - so yes, if China wanted to they could Cake Walk into Town.
"The surrender at Mariupol solidified the conquest of a once-thriving southeastern port, which unlocks a land corridor between Crimea and east Ukraine. This would give President Vladimir Putin a stronger position in any negotiated settlement to end the war, U.S. officials have said."
An enormous development. Russia has achieved the paramount goal of the invasion. The land bridge to Crimea is complete.
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Ukraine will sue for peace. The $40 billion package will be squandered or stolen by the Ukrainians the same way the Iraqis stole all the billions that we airlifted into Baghdad in the early days of the Iraq War.
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Vodka and laziness are much more likely causes than Ukrainian saboteurs. For one, those saboteurs would need INCREDIBLE infiltration skills to get all the way to the Sakhalin coal site.
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Could be some Russians who don't want to be cannon fodder or are just against the war also. Early on their was a vid going around of a Russian burning a recruitment center.
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Jirt-- reminds me of the Me262 in the collection at Wright-Patt. While restoring it, they found multiple instances of sabotage; it had been assembled by slave labor.
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Is the rate of industrial fires higher than normal, or are we just hearing about them more because of the extra attention to Russia?
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Rep. Kat Cammack took a trip to the southern border on Sunday and revealed more stock piles of infant formula, diapers, wipes and clothing
She claims there were several warehouses filled with supplies for migrants
Cammack says more supplies are headed to the border despite the nationwide shortage that has left American families struggling to find formula
The congresswoman was accused of lying about the stock pile last week
She hit back at her critics Monday night, sharing footage from the facility and branding members of the Biden Administration as liars
Meanwhile, Abbott Laboratories has reached a consent decree with the FDA, which is an important step towards reopening its Sturgis, Michigan plant
The company says it could reopen in as few as two weeks after it gets approval from the courts, which must now approve the consent decree
However, the FDA has yet to give them the authority to resume operations
[InformationLiberation] In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo, California Rep Ted Lieu (D)
...D-Beverly Hills since 2015, whip for the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, colonel in the Air Force Reserve Command, Taiwanese immigrant...
has been tweeting nonstop partisan attacks suggesting Republicans are to blame for the shooting for promoting "replacement theory."
"I looked through [Ted Lieu's] tweets and he is using the Buffalo mass shooting as a partisan attack against Republicans," Andy Ngo said Monday on Twitter. "He has said nothing about the mass shooting on the church in [southern] California (where he lives) by a suspect originally from China who allegedly targeted the Taiwanese."
Last year, Lieu boasted about what some call "replacement" migration in a tweet to Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry.
Perry expressed concerns about mass immigration during a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting in April 2021 by saying: "For many Americans, what seems to be happening or what they believe right now is happening is what appears to them is we're replacing national-born American -- native-born Americans to permanently transform the landscape of this very nation."
Lieu responded to Perry in a tweet boasting: "Native-born Americans like you are no more American, and no less American, than an immigrant like me. And with every passing year, there will be more people who look like me in the US. You can't stop it."
"So take your racist replacement theory and shove it," he added.
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UK Labour had internal memoes saying the wide-open immigration policies were specifically to make the UK "less British". The left has celebrated every prediction of a declining white population for the last 30+ years.
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But everyone knows 'replacement people' is an evil conspiracy theory.
[JustTheNews] A California law requiring publicly-held corporations to include women on their boards has been declared unconstitutional by a Los Angeles judge.
Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis said the law, which requires corporations with principal executive offices in California to include women on their boards, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the state’s Constitution.
The law was challenged by Judicial Watch, who argued that the law created an unconstitutional gender-based quota system. Judicial Watch represented three California taxpayers who brought forth the case. The judge issued the ruling on Friday.
“Thankfully, California courts have upheld the core American value of equal protection under the law,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement Monday.
The 2018 law at the center of the case, Senate Bill 826, required that publicly held foreign or domestic corporations with principal executive offices in California add at least one female director to its board by the end of 2019. By January 2022, the law required corporations to have at least three female directors on boards of six or more members and at least two female directors on boards of five members.
Corporations that failed to file board member information to the Secretary of State regarding these regulations would face a fine of $100,000 for the first violation and $300,000 for subsequent violations and for failing to have the required number of female board members.
During the trial, however, the state admitted that the Secretary of State “had no plans to and has not taken any steps to issue the regulations necessary to impose fines.” According to the latest report, fewer than half of the almost 650 corporations failed to file a required corporate disclosure statement last year.
When the law passed, supporters of the bill hailed the law as a step to increase gender representation on corporate boards. But opponents of the bill, including the California Chamber of Commerce, were concerned that the mandate’s exclusive focus on gender “potentially elevates it as a priority over other aspects of diversity” when companies were looking at “all classifications” of diversity, according to a bill analysis.
A legislative analysis of the bill had previously said the law had a “significant risk for legal challenges,” saying that if the law was enacted, it would “likely be challenged on equal protection grounds.” When signing the bill, former Gov. Jerry Brown said he was aware of the “serious legal concerns” that were raised surrounding the legislation, according to Judicial Watch's complaint.
The state defended the constitutionality of the law during trial by arguing that the law as necessary to “remedy discrimination” and increase gender diversity in the selection process for directors on publicly held corporate boards. The court, however, said that SB 826’s text does not “reference discrimination nor remedying discrimination.”
Several states have followed California’s model by introducing similar proposals in their states. Washington, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Hawaii have introduced or enacted similar bills, according to the Associated Press.
And how much in liabilities?
[FoxNews] The BLM Foundation has an operating budget of $4 million
According to 63-pages of tax documents acquired by the Associated Press, executives of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc. have nearly $42 million in assets, despite spending more than $37 million from July 2020 to June 2021.
The $37 million was spent on grants, real estate, consultants and other expenses.
BLM received $90 million in donations amid the 2020 protests and riots that were carried out in major cities across the U.S. following the death of George Floyd. The foundation reports it invested $32 million in stocks from the $90 million in donations, according to the tax documents.
Organizers tell the Associated Press that the investment is expected to become an endowment to ensure the foundation’s work continues in the future.
The foundation has an operating budget of $4 million, a board member told the Associated Press, but the tax filing showed the BLM Foundation spent nearly $6 million on a mansion in Los Angeles, according to the report.
The BLM Foundation has operated as a nonprofit sponsored by a charity before it became an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit in December 2020, requiring it to publicly disclose its finances.
"This 990 reveals that (the BLM foundation) is the largest Black abolitionist nonprofit organization that has ever existed in the nation’s history. What we’re doing has never been done before," said Shalomyah Bowers, the foundation’s board secretary.
Brian Mittendorf, Ph.D., an accounting professor at Ohio State University, said the disclosure will likely set up the foundation for criticism as its "huge windfall" has a "mismatch" and "gaps" in its data.
"It comes across as an early startup nonprofit, without substantial governance structure in place, that got a huge windfall," Mittendorf told the outlet.
"People are going to be quick to assume that mismatch reflects intent. Whether there’s anything improper here, that is another question," the professor continued. "But whether they set themselves up for being criticized, I think that certainly is the case because they didn’t plug a bunch of those gaps."
The BLM Foundation started in 2013 after the death of Trayvon Martin, 17, and grew following the death of Michael Brown, 18, the following year.
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It would seem given all the damages caused by their sponsored Riots, Looting, Arson's, Murders, shootings, assaults and General Mayhem. Some Lawyer will step forward and sue their A$$'es off in court for $$42M and them personally.
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...sort of makes sense with their logic of holding today's generations responsible for something that was ended over a 150 years ago that they had nothing to do with, hold BLM responsible for all that damage.
[FoxBusiness] Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose purchase of Twitter remains ongoing, slammed President Biden in a podcast interview Monday and warned that if the government continues printing money, inflation will get worse and the U.S. might follow the path of Venezuela.
Musk, who said he has voted "overwhelmingly for Democrats," slammed the Democratic Party and Biden in particular. He suggested that Biden is something of an empty suit.
"The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter," the Tesla CEO said. "The path to power is the path to the teleprompter."
"I do feel like if somebody were to accidentally lean on the teleprompter, it's going to be like Anchorman," the CEO added, referencing the 2004 film in which Ron Burgundy reads whatever is written on the teleprompter, even if it would ruin his career.
[FoxNews] Six people were arrested and an estimated $25 million worth of drugs were seized
U.S. authorities on Monday announced the discovery of a massive tunnel stretching under the U.S.-Mexico border that was likely used to transport drugs undetected.
The over 1,700-foot "fully operational" tunnel runs from Tijuana to an industrial warehouse in San Diego, California. Authorities said it contains a "sophisticated" structural system that was likely used to smuggle heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl into the U.S.
"It’s estimated to be about 1,744 feet long, 61 feet deep, with a diameter of about 4 feet at its widest point," said Randy Grossman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California. "It has reinforced walls, a rail system, and electricity for ventilation."
U.S. authorities did not say how long the tunnel had been operating but announced $25 million worth of drugs were seized from the tunnel and its operatives over the weekend. The drugs included 1,762 pounds of cocaine, 165 pounds of meth and 3.5 pounds of heroin.
Six Southern California residents were arrested and charged with conspiring to distribute cocaine, officials said.
The industrial warehouse where the tunnel lets out is near the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Otay Mesa Port of Entry, but U.S. authorities have not commented further on the discovery, Fox 5 reported.
The Department of Homeland Security is investigating the tunnel.
Authorities said the tunnel was discovered as officials began sweeping the area for drugs. They conducted drug raids on several homes where drugs were known to be stashed and then checked the warehouse, where they discovered the tunnel.
At least 15 of these sophisticated tunnels across the border have been discovered since 2006, officials said.
Authorities declined to link the latest tunnel to any specific cartel. By federal law, U.S. authorities must fill the U.S. side of tunnels with concrete after they are discovered.
Last week, Border Patrol agents apprehended multiple sex offenders and gang members who crossed the border into the U.S. amid a border crisis that has overwhelmed border security.
The arrests included 15 illegal immigrants convicted or wanted on sex offense charges and three members of the notoriously violent MS-13 gang.
For a guy and his girlfriend with two kids, all you have to do is follow these proven steps:
1. Don't marry her!
2. Always use your mom's address to get your mail.
3. The guy buys a house.
4. The guy rents out the house to his girlfriend with his two kids.
5. Section 8 will pay $900 a month for a 3 bedroom home.
6. Girlfriend signs up for Obamacare, so the guy doesn't have to pay for family insurance.
7. Girlfriend gets to go to college for free for being a single mother.
8. Girlfriend gets $600 a month for food stamps.
9. Girlfriend gets a free cell phone.
10 Girlfriend gets free utilities.
11. The guy moves into the home but continues to use mom's address for his mail.
12. Girlfriend claims one kid and guy claims the other kid on their tax forms. Now both get to claim head of household at $1800 credit.
13. Girlfriend gets $1800 a month disability for having a "bad back" and never has to work again.
This plan is perfectly legal and is being executed now by millions of people!
A married couple with a stay-at-home mom yields $0 dollars.
An unmarried couple with a stay-at-home mom nets $21,600 disability + $10,800 free housing + $6,000 free Obamacare + $6,000 free food+ $4,800 free utilities + $6,000 Pell grant money to spend + $12,000 a year in college tuition free from Pell grant + $8,800 tax benefit for being a single mother = $75,000 a year in benefits!
Any idea why our country is over $20 trillion in debt and half the population is sitting around letting the other half pay their way?
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It wouldn't be the first tunnel they've discovered at Otay Mesa.
Although surrounded by hills to the north and west, the actual crossing and adjacent areas are pretty flat with buildings right up to the border on both sides. Not sure if the soil conditions make for easy tunneling, but maybe Frank might know that.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Sladkov on figures from Azovstal.
1. In total, over 2,500 people were there at the time the commissioning began.
2. Of these, 804 people are "Azov".
3. Of the total number of wounded is 404, of which 55 are severe.
4. Over 200 frozen corpses.
5. Three are our prisoners (1 officer, 2 soldiers)
Video here https://t.me/boris_rozhin/49000
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 265 people surrendered yesterday, 55 of them were wounded. The wounded are all in Novoazovsk. The rest are in the Yelenovskaya colony.
From the Twitter account of Reports of Novorussia, a film of the evacuation of detainees from Azovstal:
#1
How pathetic that we can't even get straight news and basic facts from our own media outlets. China's state media, Indian media, even Russia Today provide more objective, balanced and accurate reporting than the American and British news outlets.
This is one of the most balanced and accurate brief summaries available:
"Azovstal serves as the last bastion of Ukrainian troops in Mariupol, a major port city that saw some of the most intense fighting during Russia’s offensive in Ukraine. The vast facility has an extensive network of underground tunnels and shelters, where Ukrainian fighters are holed up.
"Russia decided not to storm the site, saying it would take too many lives of its soldiers, and opted for a prolonged siege instead. Ukrainian troops stationed there, many of whom belong to the controversial nationalist Azov battalion, have been complaining about a shortage of food, medical supplies and ammunition for weeks.
"The German- and French-brokered Minsk protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force."
Russia Today is a Russian state-controlled international television network funded by the Russian government.
So yes, dreadfully balanced and accurate.
(No sarcasm when that last sentence is understood literally. Otherwise very heavily sarcastic indeed — both statements are true because words are fun.)
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I read through the text at #4 and found it to be exactly what the poster said: balanced and accurate. They presented the Russian view, and then presented the Ukrainian view, fairly and concisely, with no attempt to slant the story. It doesn't use any inflammatory language. It just recites facts; it's reporting the way it used to be done.
What exactly about those sentences Is not balanced or accurate?
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Now even The New York Slimes is admitting it -- using Tge 'S' word in a huge headline and making only weak efforts to spin it as other than a devastating loss for Ukraine:
"The surrender at Mariupol solidified the conquest of a once-thriving southeastern port, which unlocks a land corridor between Crimea and east Ukraine. This would give President Vladimir Putin a stronger position in any negotiated settlement to end the war, U.S. officials have said."
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give President Vladimir Putin a stronger position in any negotiated settlement to end the war, U.S. officials have said
Great news. Finally a lasting peace settlement is in sight.
This is the time to start serious talks and bring this foolishness to a conclusion. Putin has achieved what he wanted: Ukraine in ruins, the entire Azov Battalion exterminated or in Russian custody, and complete control of the southern land bridge to Crimea. Now his tanks and troops need to exit the rest of Ukraine.
This is the time to make the best bargain Ukraine can possibly hope for: withdrawal of all Russian troops in all areas West of the Donbas and not bordering the Black Sea or Azov in exchange for a guarantee of neutrality for Ukraine.
The US MIC can sell Ukraine $40 billion of hardware for its defense and keep the stolen Russian assets.
Russia will keep its possessions in the south and east.
[Times of San Diego] Whoops! Down the Memory Hole
The man who allegedly killed a doctor and injured five others at a Taiwanese church in Orange County was a U.S. citizen born in China who hated Taiwan and drove from Las Vegas armed with guns, chains and numerous Molotov cocktails, authorities said on Monday.
David Chou, 68, allegedly chained shut the doors where up to 40 people were attending a luncheon in honor of a former pastor of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church and began firing at congregants, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said Monday.
Barnes said the violent assault Sunday afternoon at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in the retirement community of Laguna Woods was motivated by Chou’s hatred of Taiwan and recent tensions between Taiwan and mainland China.
"This is a manifestation of the ugliest part of our humanity that exists in our country today," Barnes said at a news conference on Monday, also referencing the weekend’s racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
The FBI said it was opening a hate crime investigation in the case.
Dr. John Cheng, 52, a physician with South Bay Medical Group in Aliso Viejo, was killed when he charged the gunman and attempted to disarm him, Barnes said. Cheng is survived by his wife and two children.
"Dr. Cheng is a hero in this incident," Barnes said, adding that the doctor’s actions bought time for other parishioners to subdue the suspect and eventually hogtie him.
"Without the actions of Dr. Cheng, there is no doubt there would be additional victims in this crime," Barnes said.
Barnes said four incendiary devices, similar to Molotov cocktails, were placed inside the church, and investigators also found bags of additional ammunition.
The sheriff said investigators have determined the shooting was an isolated incident carried out solely by the suspect.
Four other men of Asian descent aged 66 to 92 and an 86-year-old woman of Asian descent were injured in the mass shooting. Their names have not yet been released.
[Hot Air] A Republican from Wyoming, Senator Cynthia Lummis was a keynote speaker during several University of Wyoming commencement ceremonies in Laramie during the weekend. One speech quickly went off the rails when she dared to speak truthfully about science and "two sexes". Some members of the audience loudly booed her, interrupting her speech for 25 seconds. She has since apologized.
Everything seemed to be going ok until Lummis, a graduate of the University of Wyoming, spoke about a scientific truth. That truth is that there are two sexes, male and female. After the interruption to her speech, she made a point to say, "I’m not making a comment about the fact that there are people who transition between two sexes."
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The origins of the leftest booing, rage, and denial are not found at the University of Wyoming or in biology, they are actually found in the Garden.
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I'll be glad to see anyone in the government grow a spine and quit apologizing everytime one of the mental cases is offended. They're always mad, offended, and crazy. Fuck em.
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Using the "SCIENCE" that the Liberal Democrats and others with Mental Appeasement Syndrome have demanded we always must use.
Has there been a NEWLY discovered pairing of sexual Chromosomes other than XX making a person female and XY making a person male?
If so what is it?
Simply stated Transgenderism is a Mental Illness, NOT a Physical or Medical Illness.
BLUF:
[CNN] Replacement pattern. That ad is part of a larger narrative.
Tucker Carlson, the Fox host, has pushed the idea that Democrats want to import new voters to dilute the votes of other Americans, presumably Whites like him. Finally, the evil Tucker Carlson is exposed !
Liberal/Progressive Democrats have been boasting for decades that young, Democrat-voting illegal immigrants are flooding in through our wide open borders, creating a permanent Democrat majority. But they pounce when Republicans/conservatives object.
Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio and City University of New York media studies professor James Cohen wrote a CNN opinion piece last year about how the concept of replacement theory has festered in US politics for decades, but has recently become easy to decode in segments on Carlson's show and in remarks by lawmakers. festering and decoding!
CNN's Chris Cillizza has documented how the concept of replacement theory has been mentioned by lawmakers like GOP Rep. Scott Perry, who said this at a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting in April of 2021:
"For many Americans, what seems to be happening or what they believe right now is happening is what appears to them is we're replacing national-born American — native-born Americans to permanently transform the landscape of this very nation," the Pennsylvania Republican said in reference to the number of people trying to enter the country at the United States' southern border. But, but, but what if everyone moves to Florida and Texas ?
Remember Hillary's emails from 2016? Their plan to increase (legal) immigration to 4 million a year? The phrase "permanent Democrat majority" was mentioned.
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But, but, but these people are not 'gender confused.' They copulate, multiply, and will work 10-12 hours per day for a pittance !
(Generally $200. per day in Ga.....oftentimes CASH. It's an informal, ad hoc union system where only brown people need apply. The landscape guy also lays brick, does sheetrock and roofing)
Teachers Unions and bloated local governments demand MORE! It's all in the numbers, the money simply follows.
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Seem to be some real questions about his paper too; stuff like multiple styles, overabundance of information only industry pros would care about, contradictions, and dates not lining up. Not going to get into it as I don't feel confident enough at the moment to put my name on anything, but it looks like the Sears December catalog with everything blamed and to be banned circled, and needing two markers to do so.
New York’s gun control laws, known collectively as the SAFE Act, are among the strictest in the nation. The gun used by the suspect, an automatic rifle known as an AR-15, is sold legally in New York. But the gun was modified with a high-capacity magazine that allows 30 shots per round.
[Brownstone] In his classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell famously wrote, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever." This striking image served as a potent symbol for totalitarianism in the 20th Century. But as Caylan Ford recently observed, with the advent of digital health passports in the emerging biomedical security state, the new symbol of totalitarian repression is "not a boot, but an algorithm in the cloud: emotionless, impervious to appeal, silently shaping the biomass." The new forms of repression will be no less real for being virtual rather than physical.
These new digital surveillance and control mechanisms will be no less oppressive for being virtual rather than physical. Contact tracing apps, for example, have proliferated with at least 120 different apps in used in 71 different states, and 60 other digital contact-tracing measures have been used across 38 countries. There is currently no evidence that contact tracing apps or other methods of digital surveillance have helped to slow the spread of covid; but as with so many of our pandemic policies, this does not seem to have deterred their use.
Other advanced technologies were deployed in what one writer has called, with a nod to Orwell, "the stomp reflex," to describe governments’ propensity to abuse emergency powers. Twenty-two countries used surveillance drones to monitor their populations for covid rule-breakers, others deployed facial recognition technologies, twenty-eight countries used internet censorship and thirteen countries resorted to internet shutdowns to manage populations during covid. A total of thirty-two countries have used militaries or military ordnances to enforce rules, which has included casualties. In Angola, for example, police shot and killed several citizens while imposing a lockdown.
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They are Zhang Hu(张虎), member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Zhou He (周河）
..Major General, Commander of Guangdong Military Region, and Wang Shouxin (王守信), standing committee member of the Guangdong Provincial Committee and a political commissar of the Guangdong Military Region.
5 major international sports events, "internal circulation" economic policy, the establishment of a unified national purchase and sale market, etc,
— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) May 16, 2022
Five persons have been killed and a district head kidnapped by bandidos, in coordinated attacks on two communities in Kano State, Northwest Nigeria.
SaharaReporters learnt that the bandidos stormed Karfi and Unguwar Tudun Makama communities under the Takai Local Government Area of the state. They reportedly killed five persons and kidnapped Abdulhayatu Ilu, the district head of Karfi.
A family source said the turbans stormed Karfi around 11:42 pm on Sunday, killing one person before forcibly whisking away the district head.
Similarly, four persons were shot full of holes and three others injured at Unguwar Tudun Makama, while attempting to repel the attackers.
The police responded to the attack, "but it was not timely", a local source informed.
"We have not heard from the bandidos yet, but we are hoping they will call so that we know what they are after," a relation of Ilu, the district head, said.
He added that efforts were ongoing to identify the button men but their whereabouts could not be ascertained yet.
The spokesperson for the police in the state, DSP Abdullahi Haduna Kiyawa, confirmed the incident saying three of the dear departed persons went titzup.
"The kidnappers came from across the border in Bauchi State. They took a district head in Karfi and killed three people on the spot," he said.
— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) May 16, 2022
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted at Dalori Internally Displaced Persons’ Camp in the Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State was successfully disabled by the police on Monday.
The Borno State Police Commissioner, Abdu Umar confirmed the discovery.
He said the bomb was planted by Boko Haram ...the name means Western education is forbidden, They're what you get as the result of a traditional African or Islamic education... and 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.... of the West African Province (ISWAP) holy warriors.
It was learnt that the bomb scare began at about 6:00 am when an item concealed in a sack was spotted causing the residents at the camp to abandon their shelters and flee.
About three hours later, a team of the EOD operatives came and discovered that the item was an explosive, planted in the camp to cause havoc.
[Washington Examiner] A homeowner in Indiana shot two intruders dead and detained two others at gunpoint while waiting for police to arrive after a gang of burglars broke into his home.
At least four individuals were armed when they broke into the homeowner's DeKalb County residence Sunday morning around 6:00 a.m., Indiana State Police said.
The homeowner greeted them with a firearm and began firing, according to a report.
Two intruders, identified as Rameica Moore, 36, and Dylan Morefield, 22, were killed.
Two others, identified as Tabitha Johnson, 42, and Shaun Kruse, 42, were held by the man at gunpoint until police arrived.
They were then taken into custody and booked into DeKalb County Jail on felony murder and burglary charges, the report noted.
Someone can be charged with murder if an individual dies while they are in the act of committing a felony, according to Indiana law, a report noted.
Autopsies are pending on the deceased intruders, and an investigation into the incident is ongoing.
Caution: Once seen, this cannot be unseen.
[Breitbart] Joining the ranks of Ashley Graham and Hunter McGrady, the 2022 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue will feature plus-sized model Yumi Nu on its front cover. Caution: Once seen, this cannot be unseen.
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We you sure this isn’t a Mad Magazibe parody issue? A tubby, a Kardasian, a granny and one typical model. The only thing missing is a guy using the tuck rule.
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That interesting black thing is a size too small on the bottom and two sizes too small on top. She would have looked a lot better in the right size — she looks striking in her other photos. Such an interesting face!
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Being fat causes heart problems, high blood pressure, diabetes, glocoma, cancer and you have to pay for two seats to fly, which is always a problem because they usually screw up by assigning you to seats 47 and 65.
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A far-left woman with a journalism degree is running the swimsuit issue. She sees her job as lecturing men, not entertaining them.
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Anybody even get Sports Illustrated anymore? I haven't see 1 in years.
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Circulation down from 3.2 million to 1.7 million over the past twelve years. The latest confirms the fixation of mocking traditional heterosexuality with cartoonish examples as virtue signaling demonstrations of inclusivity and tolerance. Fat and old are fine, just not the pinnacle of sensual femininity for traditional male preferences.
[KhaamaPress] An explosion in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province’s Kuz kanar district has killed one person and injured five others, according to Taliban ...Arabic for students... security officials.
The incident occurred yesterday, Sunday, May 15th, during a gathering held every week in this district.
The explosion was caused by a magnetic bomb embedded in a Suzuki vehicle, according to officials.
The injured were transferred to Nangarhar District Hospital for treatment, according to officials.
The event is being investigated, according to the Taliban police chief in Nangarhar province.
[ToloNews] More than 130,000 troops have been recruited, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said, adding that it is aiming toward 150,000.
Yes, but will they be taught to read, write, and do jumping jacks like the Coalition did? And whatever happened to East Point?
"More than 130,000 people have been registered and this process will continue. With the completion of registration, the Afghans will see an independent, well-formed and committed military who will provide security and defend the Afghan soil and borders," said Inayatullah Khwarazami, a front man for the MoD.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the uniform for the new troops has yet to be determined.
Khwarazami said all former female employees of the MoD are still being paid and some of them are still working within the ministry.
"The women who were working in the Ministry of Defense are still working, for example, they are in the health department and other departments. The leadership of the Islamic Emirate and Defense Ministry will make a decision about them. They are still receiving their salaries," Khwarazai said.
Veterans suggested that professional and experienced individuals should be included in the military.
"The important things are the education and professional training, capability, equipment and budget," said Asadullah Nadeem, a military veteran.
"A neutral, real, professional and independent army should be formed," said Samar Sadat, a military veteran.
The number of Afghan National Defense and Security Forces of the former government has reached more than 350,000.
After the former ANDSF collapsed, many soldiers of the foreign government are currently struggling with severe economic conditions.
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Seriously, do a search for videos of “afghan army jumping jacks”. There are loads of them, from adorable basic training in Afghanistan, ditto in Iraq, to Red Unit Taliban and Afghan Commandos training at a much higher level.
[OneIndia] In the wake of the assassinations in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... a lesser known group called as the Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It was headed by a former bus driver and eventually folded into the TTP... has threatened the Kashmir pandits to leave the Union Territory.
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[IsraelTimes] Grenoble municipal council plans to scrap bathing suit code that bans the full-body covering that critics see as example of creeping Islamism
The Alpine city of Grenoble is set to reignite one of La Belle France’s recurring summer debates on Monday when it votes to authorize the "burkini" in state-run swimming pools.
The all-in-one swimsuit, used by some Moslem women to cover their bodies and hair while bathing, has become almost as topical as ice cream and sun hats during the holiday season in recent years.
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[IsraelTimes] Suspect — a 22-year-old resident of al-Bireh — found with suicide note in his possession; security forces arrest nine Paleostinians in overnight West Bank raids
Israeli police arrested overnight Sunday a Paleostinian armed with an axe and carrying an apparent suicide letter stating that he was on his way to carry out a terror attack in the West Bank.
According to police, the suspect — a 22-year-old resident of the Paleostinian city of al-Bireh — was detained after driving around the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank for nearly an hour looking for Israelis standing alone in order to attack them.
The suspect was taken in for questioning.
"The vigilance of the police and the pursuit of contact apparently prevented a major attack, we will continue with determination and professionalism together with the other security forces to protect the security of Israeli citizens everywhere and at all times," said the police commander of the area, Haim Sargrof.
The incident came amid heightened tensions between Paleostinians and Israeli forces in the West Bank amid a terror wave that has killed 19 Israelis since mid-March.
A deadly attack in Elad earlier this month saw three Israelis killed and several others maimed by two Paleostinians carrying a knife and an axe.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... security forces arrested nine Paleostinians suspected of terrorist activity on Sunday night throughout the West Bank as part of ongoing anti-terror operations.
Suspects were arrested in Tulkarm, Beitunia, al-Bireh and Yamun, and were all taken into custody for further questioning. In Yamun, Paleostinian button men fired at Israeli soldiers. No soldiers were maimed.
Troops have been carrying out extensive raids in the West Bank in response to the attacks. According to the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry, 31 Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli troops since late March. Some committed violent mostly peaceful terror attacks, others participated in festivities with soldiers, while some appear to have been unarmed bystanders.
[Rudaw] Ten Kurdish female deminers, the first group of its kind in Iraq, have been clearing mines dispersed across the Kurdistan Region’s border areas for seven months, defusing active explosive ordnances that pose a threat to those residing in the area.
Five days a week, the deminers working for the Mine Advisory Group (MAG) work to defuse mines at the Lalomari minefield which is 22,000 square meters, situated in the mountainous areas of Sharbazehr, Sulaimani province, near the Iranian border. The group has been working in the Kurdistan Region since 1992.
"I have fallen off the ground many times, injuring my hands, and hitting my hands with a hammer. But, thankfully, all went well... When you detect a mine, you become very happy, because you save someone else's life from death," Shaniya Mariwan, a deminer, told Rudaw’s Nizar Jaza last week.
Prior to starting field work, the deminers had to undergo six weeks of training.
According to data from local authorities, a total of eight people and more than a hundred sheep have so far been killed by mines.
Jabar Fatih, in charge of MAG activities in Sulaimani and Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... told Rudaw that, "they perform very well. There is no difference in performance between them and the men. They do the very same job."
There are tens of millions of unwent kaboom! landmines and explosive ordnances across the Kurdistan Region’s borders with Iran, and the remnants date back to more than three decades ago, during the devastating Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988.
There are around 3,000 minefields in the Kurdistan Region. Around 2,700 people have been killed by landmines and 10,800 others maimed or maimed since the 1990s, according to the KRG’s Mine Action Agency.
[Dawn] One person died and 11 were maimed in a blast near Iqbal Market and New Memon Mosque in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Kharadar area, according to Karachi Administrator Murtaza Wahab.
Wahab identified the dear departed as a woman named Sania, wife of Khalid.
As per footage shown on DawnNewsTV, cycle of violences and automobiles, including a police vehicle, suffered damage as people tried to put out fire.
A blurb from the Karachi police's media cell said an improvised bomb (IED) was responsible for the blast. It said that Assistant Sub-inspector Badaruddin was among the injured, adding that he was "out of danger".
"One police pick up and a few other vehicles are damaged in the incident. Crime scene unit has secured the place of incident. BD (bomb disposal) team is working to establish the nature of explosion," the blurb said.
The blast tonight is the second one to terrorise Karachi within the span of a week. Last Thursday, one passerby was killed and at least nine injured when an improvised bomb (IED) planted in a cycle of violence went off in Saddar.
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[REGNUM] In the south of the Syrian province of Hasakah, on May 16, a US military base located in the Al-Shaddadi region was fired from mortars. It is reported by Al Mayadeen TV channel.
According to him, the shelling was carried out from the side of the Syrian-Iraqi border, most of the mines exploded in the vicinity of the base. Currently, American unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are intensively loitering over Ash Shaddadi and the border area.
Recall that since the beginning of the year, American military installations and camps in Syria have been shelled at least six times.
As REGNUM reported , units of the US armed forces in Syria carried out the export of a batch of oil illegally produced at one of the Syrian fields.
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/\ Currently, American unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are intensively loitering over Ash Shaddadi and the border area.
Likely a Klingon UAV stationing, operations and retransmission (RETRANS) site. Might be some ad hoc 'host nation' training going on by the Army as a cover for action.
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It is a tripwire so that we end up in conflict with a random selected combatant. It is like the Outpost portion of the Korean Conflict without the underlying purpose.
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After we take Moscow, Syria will collapse due to the absence of a great power sponsor. This base is waiting for that day.
I learned a new word this weekend: menticide. It means "the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person's values and beliefs, as by the use of prolonged interrogation, drugs, torture, etc., and to induce radically different ideas."
In short, brainwashing.
Apply that word to American society and you realize that you don't need prolonged interrogation, drugs or torture to get a society to kill itself. All you need is 70 years of attacks on the core beliefs of a nation to bring it down.
Liberals have replaced common sense with mental illness. They tell us nonsense such as men can have babies, and the government now pretends it is true.
The erosion of what made America great began gradually. Playboy began the erasure of our sexual mores. Rock 'n' roll began the popularization of the recreational use of drugs. State lotteries began the acceptance of gambling instead of producing goods and services. We gave into our impulses. Americans no longer have a wonderful life. The Bedford Falls of the 1950s is now Pottersville with booze, gambling and hookers.
Look at where we are today. People poop in the streets of San Francisco without punishment. Stores are regularly looted in Democrat Party havens again without punishment. Criminals regularly knock little old ladies down and shove Asians into oncoming subway trains again without punishment. Gangbangers routinely shoot, maim and kill young black people again without punishment. Only 1 in 6 murders in Chicago is solved despite a police staff of more than 13,000 workers.
Rock 'n' roll began the popularization of the recreational use of drugs.
Never heard of jazz or swing, or even listened to popular radio shows from the 40s and 50s, either. The band on Jack Benny's show was the butt of jokes about their intemperance -- and not just of alcohol. Rochester was a gambler and womanizer (and it wasn't portrayed as a flaw in his character).
State lotteries began the acceptance of gambling
Lotteries date back to the first days of the Republic.
Did Surber write this? Is he really this ignorant? Has he honestly bought into a view of the 1950s as distorted as the left's?
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We traded Norman Rockwell for Andy Warhol. That's what you call degenerate. America today is degenerate. My memory still works and I remember the 1950's. I remember when America still looked more like a Rockwell painting than a Warhol...back in the days when people still went to church on Sunday. Things are different today. TV, radio and the movies became far more powerful after WWII. Cab Calloway may have smoked reefer but when John Lennon sang about Strawberry Fields everybody wanted to go there. Deny it at your own peril: Hugh Hefner played a part in the change. So did the Beatles. So did Lyndon Johnson if you want to be honest. It happened on his watch. We weren't going to hell with Eisenhower but with LBJ we did. Kennedy's assassination was the turning point. That's when things started getting weird. Listen to the recording of Jimi Hendrix playing The Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock. It was like flying the American flag upside down and shining a black light on it. Without any words, probably without even knowing it, he was telling the world that we have a problem.
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"If it feels good, do it" has gotten our society STDs, increasing numbers of financial swindles where the swindlers walked away clean while the little guy got skinned back, grade inflation, phony degrees that are worth nothing but cost six figures in borrowed money to obtain, and so on.
Now it's getting us CRT and grooming in schools.
It's getting us the freakshow in Portland and San Fransicko.
And it's not halftime yet...
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[AnNahar] Lebanese Democratic Party leader Talal Arslan, Arab Tawhid Party ... a Leb political party established by former minister, MP, and Syrian stooge Weaam Wahhab in 2006. Supporters of the party are mainly Druze and it is a part of the March 8 (Hezbollah) Alliance. A bomb exploded outside a party office in the Chouf in 2012. leader Wiam Wahhab, and Assaad Hardan of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party have lost in Sunday's parliamentary vote, according to early results.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding...... the LF said it won at least 20 seats, adding five members from the 2018 vote. This would make it the largest Christian bloc in parliament, replacing the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... The October 17 forces said they won at least seven seats, three in Beirut II, three in Chouf-Aley and one in South III, with a reported probability of a second breakthrough in the South III.
Hardan, a strong 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... ally in the third district in the South reportedly lost his seat to the independent candidate Elias Jradeh, while another independent, Mark Daou, running in the Mount Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... region of Aley against longtime Druze politician Talal Arslan, said he's "heading to a big victory."
In Beirut II, the list backed by ex-PM Fouad al-Saniora won one seat and the Hizbullah, Amal, FPM list won three seats, while the October 17 forces won at least two seats. The PSP candidate on Saniora's backed list, MP Faisal al-Sayegh, lost his seat to the Druze candidate who ran on MP Fouad Makhzoumi's list. The latter's list won two seats.
In Beirut I, the LF have won so far 3 seats, while independent candidate Paula Yaacoubian's list Li Watani won two seats, the FPM won two and the Kataeb two.
In Sidon-Jezzine, the LF won 2 seats and the Free Patriotic Movement and Amal lost in an unprecedented defeat in this district.
Ghada Ayyoub (LF), Abdel Rahman al-Bizri, Oussama Saad, Said al Asmar (LF) and independent candidate Charbel Massaad won the highest votes in the district.
In Batroun, FPM chief Jebran Bassil maintained his seat while the LF won the second seat by a higher number of votes.
In West Bekaa, according to early results, Hassan Murad, Wael Abou Faour, Qabalan Qabalan, Charbel Maroun, independent candidate Yassin Yassin, and Ghassan Skaf will likely win, while Deputy Speaker Elie Ferzli will likely lose.
In Akkar, the FPM won three seats while ex-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... affiliated, MP Hadi Hbeish, has lost.
In Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... -Minieh-Dinniyeh, Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi's list has won at least 3 seats, for the first time, with one seat to an allied LF candidate, while Faisal Karami's seat is not guaranteed yet.
In the Metn district, the Kataeb, the LF, and the FPM have won 2 seats each. Michel Murr and Hagop Pakradounian have also won.
In Baadba, the FPM lost one of its past seats to an LF-allied candidate Camille Chamoun of the National Libaral Party (al-Ahrar).
[AlAhram] Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group and its allies appear to have suffered some losses in this weekend's parliamentary elections, with their opponents gaining more seats and some of their traditional partners not making it into the legislature, early results showed Monday.
Despite the apparent setback, Hezbollah and its main Shiite ally, the Amal group of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, are likely to retain the 27 seats allocated to the sect. The unofficial results show that independents, including those from the 2019 protest movement, made some gains by removing longtime politicians from parliament.
The closely watched elections on Sunday were the first since a devastating economic crisis erupted in Lebanon in October 2019, triggering nationwide protests against the ruling class blamed for decades of corruption and mismanagement.
It was also the first election since the August 2020 Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people, injured thousands and destroyed parts of the Lebanese capital. The blast, widely blamed on negligence, was set off by hundreds of tons of poorly stored ammonium nitrate that ignited in a port warehouse.
The Saudi-backed Christian Lebanese Forces party, which has been among the most vocal critics of the Iran-armed Hezbollah, says it won at least 20 seats, adding five members from the 2018 vote. This would make it the largest Christian bloc in parliament, replacing the Free Patriotic Movement that was founded by President Michel Aoun and has been a Hezbollah ally since 2006.
Independents also appear to be making some significant gains, but they remain far from making changes as the main winners of the vote are likely to be mainstream political group.
A strong Hezbollah ally in south Lebanon reportedly lost his seat to an independent, while another independent, Mark Daou, says ``we are heading to a big victory.'' Daou is running in the Mount Lebanon region of Aley against longtime Druze politician Talal Arslan.
Official results were expected to be announced later Monday.
Lebanon holds elections every four years and the new parliament will elect a new president after Aoun's term ends in October.
[KhaamaPress] Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... security officials in Ghazni province have announced the arrest of three people in connection with weapons smuggling to Pakistain.
The Taliban had identified and wanted the men as they tried to transport weapons to Pakistain in a truck, according to the state-run Bakhtar news agency, quoting the Taliban Interior Ministry.
According to the ministry, Taliban forces launched an operation in Ghazni province’s Qarabagh district to arrest two smugglers.
The Taliban has previously reported the arrest of Pak weapons smugglers.
Following the fall of the Afghan government, military equipment is said to have been smuggled to neighboring countries, particularly Pakistain.
It was recently reported that US weapons used in Afghanistan had been transported to Indian 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.... via Pakistain. Indian officials are reported to have announced the discovery of the weapons.
[OneIndia] NIA officials tell OneIndia that the problem is a deep-rooted one. These persons are operating under the name of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... now.
A Tamil Nadu based organization, the Manitha Neethi Pasarai has come under the scanner of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
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[NEWS.YAHOO] The former British spy who wrote an infamous dossier about Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... 's dealings in Russia told Sky News on Sunday that sources had told him that Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... is seriously ill.RemingtonChristopher Steele, who led MI6's Russia desk and worked as a spy in Moscow for years, told Sky News: "Certainly, from what we're hearing from sources in Russia and elsewhere, is that Putin is, in fact, quite seriously ill." If you can't trust Christopher Steele who can you trust?
Claims about the 69-year-old leader's health have circulated for months. On Saturday, Ukraine's head of military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, told Sky that Putin is in a "very bad psychological and physical condition and he is very sick."
Budanov went on to suggest that the purported illness had incited plans within Russia for a coup.
In his interview with Sky, Steele suggested that Putin's health is "an element" of his decision-making in Ukraine.
"It's not clear exactly what this illness is — whether it's incurable or terminal, or whatever," he said. "But certainly, I think it's part of the equation."
On Thursday, New Lines Magazine said it had obtained a recording of a Russian oligarch saying Putin is "very ill with blood cancer." New Lines said it verified the oligarch's identity but was unable to authenticate the claims in the recording.
It is all but impossible to confirm rumors about Putin's health, which describe a panoply of ailments. The Russian investigative news outlet Proekt said in early April that the leader had received dozens of visits from a thyroid-cancer specialist.
In early May, a former KGB agent, Boris Karpichkov, told The Sun, without citing sources, that "there is a serious concern that Putin is suffering from" ailments including dementia and Parkinson's disease.
The Sun's report followed weeks of tabloid speculation over the leader's appearance, including images of him appearing to steady himself while seated in a meeting with his defense minister.
Like his psychopathic drinking partner and fellow piss-fabulist Danchenko.
Or self-described "hack," the liar-for-rent Glenn Simpson.
Or Clinton attack dogs Michael Sussman and Natc Elias.
Or Ham Operator Extraordinaire Nellie Ohr.
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He has no credibility but he is still talking. Put a wig on him and declare him a host of The View. He’ll fit right in. Probably, more attractive than most of them.
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Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
The blogger here is having great fun with the name and such, but the capture of New York is a bigger deal to the separatists that he lets on.
The capture of New York pushes the Ukrainian line back far enough that the near constant artillery attacks can stop after nearly seven years.
Yesterday, soldiers of the 1st DPR Mechanized Defense Battalion, with the support of the Russian army -- in particular artillery -- managed to destroy the fortified area on the outskirts of the urban-type settlement of New York, renamed by the Ukrainian side from Novgorodske several years ago.
The defense there was held by units of the 25th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which were later replaced by the defense units. Russian artillery literally plowed up the fortified area, forcing the Ukrainian Teroboronists to abandon their positions and retreat. Allied forces entered the settlement today. Teroboronists are local levies. Kiev prolly removed regular Ukrainian forces and nationalist militias to the lines elsewhere.
Now Americans will be able to hear on the news:
"Ukrainian military placed heavy weapons in a school in New York" or "Russian paratroopers kicked out the leaders of New York after taking the city" There's Russian humor, and there's dry Russian humor. The joke was neither.
It was not possible to sail away to the Turks with the last steamer
This is precisely the surrender. No one talks about any exchange, extradition and sending to Ukraine, etc.
Treatment => captivity. Transfer to hospitals on the territory of the DPR, where they will be under guard until they are cured. And after the cure, those guilty of war crimes will face charges. The rest will remain in the status of prisoners of war
Apparently, the whole ones will follow. The morale of the militants who have taken refuge in Azovstal is on the brink. Today, the first nine fighters voluntarily came out and surrendered.
Some are Jewish or of Jewish ethnicity, Whavise Glasing6836 — mostly the first wave, which escaped the Soviet Union via Israel. The second wave came after the Berlin Wall fell, which includes Moslems and Christians, among other labels.
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The second wave came after the Berlin Wall fell, which includes Moslems
To state it explicitly: among them were the Tsarnaev clan — Chechens from Kyrgyzstan — only two of whom went on to blow up the Boston Marathon with Al Qaeda-style pressure cooker bombs. And thus we circle back to the War on Terror.
Project Veritas have published a secretly recorded conversation with a Twitter engineer admitting the company has a left-wing bias
Siru Murugesan, described by Project Veritas as a senior engineer at the company, said it was 'commie as f***'
He said many employees were angry and worried about Elon Musk's takeover of the company, and 'did all we could, to like revolt against it'
Murugesan said that Twitter had operated an extremely left-wing, lax culture where people could take any time off they wanted and not worry about profit
He told the undercover operative that there was 'bias' against conservatives, and said: 'Twitter does not believe in free speech'
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"not worry about profit"
They been loosing money for years. Their money stream appears to be 'burn through cash, sell overpriced stock, repeat'. I kinda wondered why a successful billionare like Musk would want to get involved in it.
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...he hasn't forked over the $$$ yet. He may be playing with them, allowing them to destroy themselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte — 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.'
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The entire premise of the dotcom boom was "making money is no longer necessary." After the dotcom crash, the premise was refined to, "get funded and sell out before investors realize you have no plan to make money."
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I kinda wondered why a successful billionare like Musk would want to get involved in it.
Good question. Maybe it isn't about the money. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook have become the modern town square. Right now they are under the control of people who really do not have America's best interests at heart. Removing that control would be a noble thing, even more so than terraforming Mars.
He may be playing with them, allowing them to destroy themselves.
Could be. There does seem to be a meltdown in progress. Estimated bot count has gone up from 5% to 20%. At the very least, that is going to affect the sale price.
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The issue is whether you view management's job as maximizing returns to stockholders or maximizing benefits to "stakeholders". "Stakeholders" has no clear definition, but sort of means "people the right kind of people like". Or if you prefer, "Bullshit talks and money walks."
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:15 As a result of the shelling in the Petrovsky district, on the street. Shestakova, a man and a woman were wounded. They are currently receiving medical care. 21:10 Ukrainian nationalists opened fire on a school and residential buildings in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
Today, several residential apartment buildings and gymnasium number 107 were under fire from Kyiv punishers.
Miraculously, civilian casualties were avoided.
20:23 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of VFU shelling Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the address:
- st. Gavrilyuk, 26 - the private sector.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
18:50 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: eight 122mm shells were fired;
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: five missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
18:42 At the moment, it is known about 20 non-walking wounded "Azov" who were taken to the Novoazovsk hospital.
18:33 Ukrainian Nazis are shelling the urban-type settlement of Panteleymonovka in Gorlovka! Residents hear shell explosions in the park area, cemetery, highway. On the video - arrivals in the village. Vasilievka. Residents in the immediate vicinity of the shelling area are strongly advised to find shelter!
18:00 Advancing on the enemy grouping in the Avdievka area, a separate assault battalion "Somalia" with heavy fighting captured a key height on the eastern flank - the village of Velikaya Novoselka-2. This will ensure a comfortable advancement of the DPR forces in this direction. It was almost completely destroyed by the artillery of the retreating forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:50 The DPR army entrenched itself on the southern outskirts of New York. There are no battles in the village itself yet.
17:30 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: two missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Vasilyevka: two missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired four shells of 122mm.
17:21 Artyomovsk is powerful arrival in the positions of the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:56 In Mariupol, not only the wounded, but also several healthy "Azov" people are being taken prisoner from Azovstal* - a source from the scene.
16:50 Under the control of the Ministry of Transport of the DPR, since May 16, work has begun to provide temporary passage in the area of the bridge destroyed during the hostilities, located in the area of the settlement of Ilyichevskoye along the Ot / M-14 / - Shirokaya beam - Mariupol highway.
It is planned to restore traffic on the bridge within a week.
16:18 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU at the following addresses:
Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk:
- st. Lankaranskaya, 14, 15, 19 - multi-apartment residential buildings.
n.p. Yelenovka:
- st. Mayakovsky, 46 - private sector;
- st. Mayakovsky. 48 - direct hit on a private house, completely destroyed.
16:16 An agreement has been reached with the Ukrainian side on the removal of the wounded from Azovstal - Russian Defense
Ministry
16:10 As a result of the shelling of the Administrative "1 Ploshchadka" village of the Kuibyshev region, the glazing of windows in apartment buildings No. 12, 14, 15 and 19 on the street was damaged. Lankaran.
15:38 Water supply in Donetsk remains for about 20-25 days -- Vitaly Kizhaev, General Director of the State Unitary Enterprise of the DPR "Water of Donbass".
15:25 Advancing on the suburb of Avdievka, the fighters of the separate assault battalion "Somalia" took possession of American anti-tank weapons. They were abandoned by the retreating Ukrainian military. Shows the battalion commander with the call sign "Boycott".
15:12 The removal of the Ukrainian wounded from Azovstal has begun, they will be taken to hospitals on the territory of the DPR.
15:10 Fighting in the cities resumes again. Severodonetsk, ahead, obviously, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and others. And if the experience of Mariupol says something, then one of the main conclusions is the need for the troops to have specialized heavy engineering assault units designed to operate in fortified areas, in particular in urban areas.
They must have special weapons, including heavy infantry fighting vehicles and tanks for urban combat, obstacle and demining vehicles, heavy bulldozers and tractors, and, of course, infantry specially trained for operations in these conditions - with appropriate support, including a large number of drones that allow you to look and behind the house, and inside the house.
Such units would be useful in Mariupol, and in Severodnetsk-Lysichansk and in many other places. Of course, we must be aware that even if we start creating them now, they most likely will not have time for this operation. But the experience of urban battles that our army is now receiving at a high price should not disappear without a trace - especially since no one promised the absence of new wars in the future.
And yes, there have already been such units in our history. They were called ShISBR - assault engineer-sapper brigades. They fought in Stalingrad, broke through the German fortifications on the Dnieper and in Belarus, stormed the forts and fortresses of Posen, Breslau, Koenigsberg, Budapest, and finally Berlin. After the war, these units were disbanded, but now, apparently, it is time to remember them.
All the banners are in place, the regalia as a choice: the 6th assault engineer-sapper Rivne, or the 11th assault engineer-sapper Zaporozhye-Budapest that liberated Odessa, or the 12th assault engineer-sapper Melitopol, which fought in the Donbass, and others.
14:52 In the region of Kramatorsk, Ukrainian militants blew up another tank with chemicals. A little later, the Muscovites will once again be accused of using chemical weapons, and after some time their own administration will refute this. That was the case the previous three times.
14:50 Two kindergartens "Ivushka" and "Zvyozdochka" have resumed their work in the city of Shchastia of the LPR. They stopped working in February 2022 due to the outbreak of hostilities. In the nursery-garden "Ivushka", designed for 130 children, five groups are now opening, the institution will be attended by 86 children.
14:42 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded from the direction of the settlement. Vrubovka on n.p. Youth with the use of artillery guns 152mm (five shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
14:41 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four BM-21 Grad missiles were fired.
14:20 As a result of yesterday's artillery shelling of N. p. Zolote-5 damaged two apartment buildings - the representative office of the LPR in the JCCC.
14:14 They took Novoselovka Second. Regarding the talk about the Avdievka cauldron. De facto, of course, it is not surrounded, since there is a possibility of supply through Orlovka, although the enemy lost the opportunity to use the Konstantinovka-Avdievka road with the loss of Novobakhmutovka and Novoselovka-2.
However, since the road from Orlovka is periodically blocked by artillery, this allows us to talk about the type of operational environment of Avdievka, since there are problems with the safe supply of the group defending the Avdievka fortification. It seems that the real cauldron will begin there when permanent fire control is established over the Avdievka-Orlovka road.
14:00 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian born in 1955. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Novoselovka at st. Artem, 23. The victim was hospitalized in the Yasinovatsky central district hospital.
13:51 In Volnovakha, the monument to the Soldiers-Liberators and the memorial to the "Victims of Fascism" have been restored. Residents of Volnovakha, with the assistance of the All-Russian People's Front, restored the monument to the Liberator Soldiers and the memorial to the Victims of Fascism, erected during the Soviet Union.
13:30 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Vasilievka: four missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: four missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
12:49 Information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU in Donetsk at the following addresses:
Petrovsky district:
- st. Architects, 21 - MBOU "Gymnasium No. 107 of the city of Donetsk No. 107";
- st. Petrovsky, 189, apt. 1 - multi-apartment residential building.
Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Lenkoranskaya, 12 - apartment building.
12:10 Daily summary of the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on May 16, 2022.
In the course of the joint operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, the group of DPR troops continues to liberate the settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic, which were previously under the control of the VFU.
Currently, 184 settlements are under our control.
The enemy opened fire on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic using 122mm Grad MLRS, 122mm cannon artillery and 120mm mortars. The areas of 10 settlements of the Republic fell under the shelling of the VFU, reports the UNM DPR.
According to the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC, 21 housing construction and four civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. The total number of ammunition used by Ukrainian militants is 200 units.
On the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, previously liberated by the DPR group of troops, one civilian, wounded as a result of shelling of the VFU, received medical assistance. In total, for the specified period, medical assistance was provided to two wounded civilians throughout the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, reports Ministry of Health of the DPR.
11:10 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuybyshevsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
10:51 Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR found nine grenade launchers, shots for them and other ammunition, including more than 40,000 rounds of ammunition, in the forest near the village of Krymsky, Slavyanoserbsky district.
10:25 Over 3,100 subscribers remain without power supply in DPR
As a result of shelling of the VFU in the Donetsk People's Republic, 57 transformer substations, one hospital, three educational institutions and over 3,100 household subscribers were de-energized, the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.
10:03 At the site of the fighting in Rubizhne (LPR)discovered facts of the presence of foreign instructors.
09:52 AFU attacked Yasinovataya from positions in Avdievka. War criminals continue to use BM-21 Grad MLRS against civilians
09:27 I plan to restore power supply throughout Volnovakha by the end of May. Now there is light in a school, a kindergarten, a hospital, the buildings of the police, the prosecutor's office, and justice.
09:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:11 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Vasilievka: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:05 Soldiers of the operational-combat tactical formation of the DPR with the support of the Russian Aerospace Forces clean up Azovstal.
09:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Leninsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:41 The DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Leninsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
08:10 A source in the OP said that the technologists of the Office of the President launched an anti-crisis for Azovstal in order to shift the focus from the Azov regiment to the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, border guards, and police officers.
Bankovaya is well aware that no one will allow even the wounded to change the soldiers of AZOV, but the rest have a chance to shift the focus from the future “zrada”, now messages are being launched that Azovstal is not only national battalions.
08:00 The total number of recorded victims in the liberated territories of the DPR is 1,362 people, incl. 71 children.
[FreeBeacon] Steve Schmidt's abasement makes public what we've known for a long time
No Books. No Money. Just the Truth. That's the title of the meandering Substack post Steve Schmidt threw up last week at the tail end of a two-day Twitter bender. In that time, he didn't take more than an hour away from the keyboard, tapping out stilted and overwrought attacks against the late war hero John McCain and his daughter, Meghan.
Since then, he's widened the aperture, lashing out at the living, from Republican lawmakers (New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts) to journalists (Maggie Haberman, Matt Lewis, Jonah Goldberg) and another subset of former colleagues (sorry, Lincoln Project).
Schmidt, in what is obviously a mental unraveling, denies any responsibility for McCain's decision to tap Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008. He claims he didn't even sit down with Palin until after McCain had made his choice and that, in the end, he didn't even vote for the old man.
"This was a lapse in John's judgment, not mine," he writes. "My mistake was leaving John McCain alone in a room with her." Schmidt elaborated days later in an interview with the Kyiv Post. "The first time I had a conversation with her was after the decision had been made," he said of Palin, adding that he went "bananaramas" over the decision—whatever that means.
Well, there was a book! It was called Game Change, and Schmidt and his fellow turncoat Nicolle Wallace were the primary sources for it. The book eventually earned Schmidt a red-carpet appearance with Woody Harrelson, who played him on the big screen.
According to Game Change, Palin's vetting was hardly outsourced. The authors describe an hours-long conversation between Schmidt, Palin, and McCain aide Mark Salter that took place before her selection at the Flagstaff, Ariz., home of McCain supporter Bob Delgado. Schmidt "wanted to be sure Palin was ready for what she'd face and would toe the line."
But he and Salter, by their own account, dropped the ball. "They asked her nothing to plumb the depths of her knowledge about foreign or domestic policy," the book recounts. "They didn't explore her preparedness to be vice president. They assumed she knew as much as the average governor, and that what she didn't know, she would pick up on the fly. They weren't searching for problems. They were looking for a last-second solution." Read the rest at the link
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[Korrespondent] 23:59 The entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO after decades of neutrality is a clear statement that Russia's invasion of Ukraine ended the era of European illusions about Moscow. Read more in the material What does NATO expansion mean .
23:44 Putin has become so personally involved in the war in Ukraine that he makes operational and tactical decisions "at the level of a colonel or brigadier general," The Guardian reports, citing Western military sources. According to sources, the President of the Russian Federation helps to manage the movement of troops in the Donbass.
The sources also claim that Putin still works closely with Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces: "We believe that Putin and Gerasimov take part in tactical decision-making at the level that we usually expect from a colonel or brigadier general."
23:35 Reuters reports that buses with Ukrainian servicemen from Azovstal arrived in Novoazovsk "DPR".
23:29 Kuleba asked the EU countries not to stop hard pressure on Putin in order to stop the war in Ukraine. He emphasized that with his means of propaganda, Putin can end the war at any time - for this it is enough for him to declare victory to the people of the Russian Federation.
23:11 On the border of Belarus and Ukraine, the activity of the Belarusian military is observed. According to the leadership of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus, we are talking about "protection from Ukrainians and NATO troops," Radio Svaboda writes. "Ukraine has concentrated about 10 thousand military against the Republic of Belarus in the direction of Rivne. All are armed, all with military weapons, so there may be some kind of provocation," the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Belarus explained.
23:08 In the occupied Energodar, the Russians were instructed to prepare the city for the so-called "referendum". Propagandists want to create a picture about the alleged desire of the locals to join Russia and seize the city and the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the Zaporozhye OVA reports.
23:03 In the Kharkiv region, there remains a small area where Russian troops are stationed - there is a confrontation, and soon the Ukrainian troops will reach the border, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said. According to her, the front line is now very wide, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine should actually strengthen along this huge line.
22:48 According to unconfirmed reports, about ten buses with the Ukrainian military left the Azovstal plant, Reuters writes.
22:14 The Pentagon at a closed briefing for journalists said that Ukraine is already using 74 out of 90 American M777 howitzers in combat. It also became known that the United States sent ten aircraft with military assistance to Ukraine within a day. According to the US Department of Defense, Ukrainian troops pushed the Russians back from Kharkiv to a distance of several kilometers from the border.
21:53 Three Mi-17 helicopters arrived in Ukraine from the United States, Jack Detsch, a correspondent for the American Foreign Policy magazine, said. According to him, a total of 11 Mi-8 and Mi-17 helicopters are scheduled to be delivered as part of an $800 million US military aid package.
21:44 In the Donetsk region, nine civilians were killed today: three in Liman, two in Avdeevka, one each in Maryinka, Klinovoe, Drobyshevo and Yekaterinovka. Another six were injured, said the head of the OVA, Pavel Kirilenko.
21:32 Russian media show footage of allegedly transporting wounded Ukrainian soldiers from Azovstal to a hospital in the "DNR". Earlier today, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced an agreement reached, according to which the wounded defenders of Azovstal will be taken to hospitals in the "DPR". The Ukrainian side did not comment on this.
Later, the commander of the Azov regiment, Denis Prokopenko, recorded a video message in which he stated that "in order to save lives, the entire Mariupol garrison is following the decision of the high military command." What kind of decision, he did not specify.
Arestovich said that he could not comment on the situation, "in the evening the president will make a statement on this subject."
21:16 UN Secretary General António Guterres called for the return of potash fertilizers from Russia and Belarus to world markets in exchange for the passage of ships with grain from Ukraine: "Let me be clear: a serious solution to global food security threats requires the reintegration of Ukrainian agricultural production and the production of food and fertilizers in Russia and Belarus to world markets".
21:13 Borrell said that the EU does not recognize "not a single square kilometer seized by the Russians" in Ukraine: "We are defending the territorial integrity of Ukraine. And when we say this, we hope that Ukraine will win this war. This means that it will reject invaders beyond their borders."
21:10 The US Army ordered Javelin anti-tank systems and related equipment and services for $ 309 million, Lockheed Martin, which produces these weapons in conjunction with Raytheon Missiles & Defense, said.
The contract provides for the production of 1,300 Javelin missiles, some of which are intended for Ukraine and will be financed under the US military aid package, and some for international customers, including Norway, Albania, Latvia and Thailand. Lockheed Martin noted that the demand for these systems is now growing due to their ease of use and efficiency.
20:59 In Mariupol, the fourth mass grave site has already been recorded - it is located near the central cemetery. According to journalists from Schemes (Radio Liberty), the mass grave appeared in early March, as evidenced by satellite images from Maxar. The mass grave site consists of two trenches, one of which reaches more than 30 meters in length. The photographs of March 9 already show that two trenches where people were buried en masse are buried.
20:43 Erdogan will not give his consent to the admission of Finland and Sweden to NATO , since they have imposed sanctions against Turkey, and also support "Kurdish terrorists." The President of Turkey stated this at a briefing today, Anadolu reports.
Earlier, Sweden announced the visit of diplomats to Ankara, where they will try to convince the Turkish authorities of the expediency of membership of both Scandinavian countries in the alliance. Erdogan said they could "not bother with trips to Turkey."
20:34 As expected, today the EU foreign ministers failed to agree on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, Borrell said following the talks. At the same time, the EU approved the allocation of another 500 million euros to Ukraine for the purchase of weapons, bringing the total amount to 2 billion euros. Borrell also announced the need to start negotiations on the admission of Albania and North Macedonia to the EU as soon as possible, since the delay harms the European Union and strengthens Russia's position.
20:12 Ukraine has already identified 45 Russians who committed war crimes in the country, said Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova. A trial is already underway against three people - one accused of killing a civilian and two more - Russian servicemen who fired at civilian infrastructure in the Kharkiv region.
20:05 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a large stock of Russian ammunition in Izyum, as well as an enemy field ammunition depot near the village of Davydov Brod, Kherson region, the General Staff said.
20:03 Kuleba told reporters in Brussels that he had not received a promise from EU foreign ministers to give Ukraine candidate status at the EU leaders' summit at the end of June, but no member state has openly opposed this. "I know countries that are extremely supportive of this decision, and I know those who are following the developments and will make their decision closer to the date," the Foreign Minister explained.
The summit of EU leaders, where they will discuss the further European integration of Ukraine, will be held on June 25-26.
19:59 Italian energy giant Eni SpA will open ruble and euro accounts with Gazprombank no later than May 18, Bloomberg reports. The company decided to go along with Gazprom after the European Union eased the requirements for energy companies in the issue of gas payments.
The updated recommendations allow European companies to open accounts in dollars or euros with Gazprombank, while not mentioning the issue of a ruble account (a ruble account is opened by default, as this is the requirement of Gazprom).
Bloomberg reports that Germany's Uniper SE and Austria's OMV AG are on hold to see how the situation with Eni develops, but look forward to continued cooperation with Gazprom.
19:47 After 30 years of operation in Russia, the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants McDonald's has announced that it has made the final decision to leave the country. This is a significant event, more about which is in the material Mittens instead of Big Mac .
19:32 Yesterday, 340 people were deported to Russia from Mariupol, including 52 children, Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city, said. From the filtration point in the village. Nikolskoe, 42 people were deported, including nine children.
19:08 Zelensky said that today he discussed with IMF Director Kristalina Georgieva the need for financial support for Ukraine.
19:01 As a result of the shelling of the village of Pechenegy, Chuguevsky district, Kharkiv region, one person was killed, another was injured, the State Emergency Service reported.
18:59 Russia has already involved 80% of the BTG in the war against Ukraine, American reporter Jack Detch said, citing his sources in the Pentagon. An employee of the US Department of Defense said that now about 106 Russian battalion-tactical groups are fighting on the territory of Ukraine, while the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation planned to use 140 BTGs in the invasion of Ukraine. According to the official, Putin has little resource left to continue the fighting.
18:54 As a result of today's shelling of Severodonetsk, at least ten people were killed, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the shelling of the city continues all day long, houses, the city hospital, the medical campus and the research and production enterprise are damaged.
18:47 Anton Gerashchenko said that the Kremlin's plans included creating a group of 10,000 militants in Ukraine. According to him, Medvedchuk can tell a lot about how the fifth column was built in Ukraine. "But Medvedchuk is greedy, and Kiva is a bastard, they stole this money. There was a plan - to gather 10,000 militants around the country, but they stole the money, and nothing happened," Gerashchenko added.
18:41 About 600 thousand people have returned to Kharkiv in recent weeks. More than 2,000 people return to the city by train alone every day, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
18:39 Orban believes that Russia's "special operation" in Ukraine will last a long time, will have extremely serious consequences for the situation throughout Europe, and the world has entered a "decade of wars." He mentioned this in his speech on the occasion of his appointment as Prime Minister of Hungary for the fifth time in a row - today the country's parliament voted for it.
18:37 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said that the appetites of the Russian Federation are unlimited, so everything must be done so that Ukraine wins: "I think if Putin is lucky, he can come to us. And this is not only about Lithuania, the next target could be Moldova, Romania, the Baltic States, Poland. This empire has an unlimited appetite."
18:35 Near Kiev, 200 corpses of Russians lie in a refrigerator, but the Russian Federation does not want to take them away, Anton Gerashchenko told Gordon on air. He added that "they were still lucky - many corpses were burned and left in the fields."
18:30 Borrell said that 500 million euros, which the European Union will additionally allocate for military assistance to Ukraine, will go "for heavy weapons." "Now we are providing armored vehicles, tanks, heavy artillery, ammunition - everything that is needed for such a war," Borrell said.
18:04 In Ukraine, the assets of the Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman in Alfa-Bank for more than 12.4 billion hryvnias have been arrested, Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said. According to her, we are talking about securities of Cypriot companies affiliated with the businessman, as well as 469 million hryvnias of funds from accounts in Alfa-Bank, which were already being prepared for withdrawal to Russia, were arrested.
According to the Prosecutor General, the movement of funds in the Russian direction began a couple of weeks before the war and intensified after February 24. The money was withdrawn through Cypriot companies, "however, they were caught by the hand during the legalization of assets for 1.1 billion."
17:59 Ukrainian servicemen won the battle for Kharkiv and launched a counteroffensive in the Izyum direction. Despite the loss of positions in the region, the invaders are preparing for a new offensive in the Izyum region. However, the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be unstoppable, the government says. Details about the situation in the region - in the material Went to the border .
17:54 Norway, Denmark and Iceland have promised to support "all necessary means" to Finland and Sweden if these countries are attacked before they join NATO, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stere said: "The security of Finland and Sweden is important to our security. Together with Denmark and Iceland, Norway is ready to help its northern neighbors."
17:50 The Russians launched artillery strikes on Severodonetsk and Lisichansk this afternoon, the head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said. According to him, Severodonetsk withstood very strong blows, the number of damaged houses is being specified. Rescuers extinguished the fire in the warehouse building of the local research and production association. In Lisichansk, as a result of shelling, a fire broke out in the housing stock, the State Emergency Service is working on the spot.
17:45 The war in Ukraine showed the inability of NATO to prove itself as an alliance in a critical situation, Kuleba said in an interview with Bloomberg: "This is NATO as an alliance, as an institution, it can do very little, if anything. The participants helped a lot, but NATO as the union has done nothing. From the EU - sanctions, strong political statements, economic aid, financing of military aid to Ukraine. The EU is back on the right track."
17:43 The European Commission will present a new financial assistance package to Ukraine on May 18 - it will include an obligation to provide Kiev with long-term loans to restore and ensure liquidity, Reuters reports citing European officials. As expected, the amount should cover the needs of Ukraine for two months.
17:41 Kuleba excludes concessions to Russia on Donbass and Crimea for a ceasefire. The Foreign Minister also said in an interview with Bloomberg Television that the EU would face a "moral collapse" if it did not approve Ukraine's candidacy for membership in June: "Looking for ways to save Putin's face is simply a false approach. Let Putin himself find a way to save face."
17:35 CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said that the issue of involving the CSTO in the "special operation" in Ukraine was "not raised or discussed" at the organization's summit in Moscow.
17:18 Water in the territory controlled by the "DPR" is left for about three weeks, said the general director of the "republican" enterprise Water of Donbass Vitaly Kizhaev. According to him, the only source of water supply for settlements controlled by the "DPR" is the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal, but its equipment was damaged at the beginning of hostilities in February.
A stable water supply can be resumed only after gaining access to the sources of this canal in the Slovyansk region. In the meantime, residents of the part of the Donetsk region not controlled by Ukraine receive water every few days according to the schedule.
16:59 Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced his desire to receive 15-18 billion euros for the rejection of Russian oil: "The European Commission has created a problem with the proposal, so Hungary quite reasonably expects the EU to offer a solution: to finance investments and compensate for price increases, which requires a complete modernization of the energy structure of Hungary in the amount of 15-18 billion euros."
A few days ago, Szijjarto was hinting at a price of 700-750 million euros, which Budapest would like to receive for agreeing to the embargo.
16:50 In Belogorovka, Luhansk region, trying to cross the Seversky Donets, the Russians lost almost a thousand soldiers and about 100 pieces of equipment, said the head of the OVA Sergey Gaidai: "The shameful operation that they carried out in Belogorovka will go down in history of this war between Russia and Ukraine as their defeat in the Lugansk region. Because almost 100 units of equipment were defeated there by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two battalions died there, and this is almost a thousand soldiers. Also, several pontoons were destroyed. All attempts to cross and create a bridgehead in Belogorovka, they all were shattered."
Earlier, the American Institute for the Study of War reported that about 500 Russian soldiers died while trying to cross the Seversky Donets, and Anton Gerashchenko called the figure 1,500.
16:39 Kuleba said that he went to Brussels, where he will promote the sixth package of EU sanctions, including the oil embargo. "I will also focus on further arms supplies and granting Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership. We believe that Ukraine deserves an individual assessment for its virtues," the Foreign Minister wrote.
16:37 The Ukrainian military is already being trained on the Slovak Zuzana 2 self-propelled guns, despite the fact that the agreement on their sale has not yet been signed, Slovak Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy said: "I can confirm that Ukrainians are already being trained on this technique, therefore there is a serious and very intense interest."
16:24 Prime Minister of Sweden Magdalena Andersson confirmed that the country has made a formal decision on NATO membership. The ruling party announced this yesterday.
16:22 In the village of Leventsovka, Poltava region, a monument to Gorky was demolished and a museum in honor of him was closed. The bust of Maxim Gorky was moved to the Soviet Period Park in Putivl.
16:20 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that with the Ukrainian military blocked at Azovstal, "an agreement was reached on the removal of the wounded, a silence regime was introduced and a humanitarian corridor was opened through which the wounded Ukrainian soldiers were taken to the hospital in Novoazovsk ("DPR")."
16:18 In their statement, the CSTO leaders stressed the importance of "reducing tensions on the continent" and reaffirmed "the readiness to establish practical cooperation with NATO."
16:14 Sanctions against Russia will probably have to be maintained for years, and Europe must be ready for this, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock. She stressed that the rejection of Russian oil would be a difficult step for Europe, because some countries are really heavily dependent on it.
"This step should be prepared in the best possible way. We are approving sanctions packages, which, depending on the circumstances, will be in effect for years," Burbock said. Therefore, according to her, the restrictions should not become unbearable for the EU countries. She also predicted that an agreement with Hungary on an oil embargo would be possible in the coming days.
16:07 The Russians are trying to pass off their dead on Zmeiny Island as the losses of Ukrainians. Kyle Glen, co-founder of the Conflict News project and co-host of The OSINT Bunker Podcast, drew attention to this. He published a photo, which, according to Russian media, allegedly shows a dead Ukrainian soldier:
"Russian media claims that this is a picture of a Ukrainian soldier killed on Zmeiny Island during a recent successful assault, but there is a small problem. This Ukrainian soldier seems to be wearing a belt that Russian sailors wear."
15:48 The US and the EU have agreed to work more closely to counter disruptions in the supply of industrial goods and food to Ukraine and fight disinformation from Moscow. The decision was made by senior officials who gathered in Paris for the second Trade and Technology Council, a forum that was originally seen as a transatlantic counterweight to China, but now with a clear focus on Russia as well.
15:46 The SBU blocked the work of the sanctioned plant in Dnipro, which was going to resume supplies for the Russian military-industrial complex. The plant produced components for aircraft, missile systems and submarines, as well as dual-use goods.
The enterprise came under the NSDC sanctions last year, and now, in order to circumvent the restrictions, the Russian side wanted to rewrite the plant to a Ukrainian legal entity and continue its work. The SBU blocked the work of the enterprise.
15:43 The invaders fired at the border settlements in the Chernihiv region. According to the Pivnich Operational Command, at about 12:00 shelling was recorded from the territory of the Russian Federation in the direction of the settlement of Nikolaevka. In total, from 9:20 to 12:10 there were about 30 explosions.
Approximately at 12:20 from the Russian side, seven explosions were recorded in the area of the settlement of Gremyach, previously a mortar was working. There are no casualties among personnel.
15:41 Podolyak commented on the proposal of Western politicians to "save face to Putin" by ceding their territories to Ukraine: "Some Western politicians want to end the war with the opportunity for Russia to save face by giving it part of the territories. Save face after Bucha and Mariupol? Amazing logic, but if these politicians want to give Russia part of their territories, this is up to their voters."
15:39 Singer Ruslana Lyzhychko and the wives of the Ukrainian military blocked at Azovstal called on Erdogan to involve Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the operation to rescue the defenders of Mariupol. "Find, please, opportunities to carry out extraction and evacuation. People there are in terrible conditions," Ruslana said.
15:37 In the north of the Donetsk region, local residents today saw a column of red smoke. According to Pavel Kirilenko, the head of the OVA, the reason was the hit of a Russian shell in a warehouse with ammonium nitrate in the Kharkiv region. There is no reason to panic, the situation is under control.
15:35 At the CSTO meeting, Lukashenko again accused Poland of intending to seize part of Ukraine: "The most dangerous trend in Ukraine today is attempts to dismember Ukraine. Thousands of units have already been created to enter Ukraine under the guise of peacekeepers and" protect it ".
15:31 Putin said that Russia has no problems with Finland and Sweden, their accession to NATO "does not pose a direct threat to us." At the same time, according to him, "the expansion of the military infrastructure to this territory will cause our response, what it will be - we will decide based on what threats we will be created."
Putin also said that a "whole series" of joint military exercises of the CSTO was planned for the fall, and "their number will expand." He suggested granting the CIS an observer status in the CSTO.
15:10 Japan has allocated a $100 million loan to Ukraine on favorable terms, the Ministry of Finance announced. Thus, the loan repayment period will be 30 years, including a grace period - ten years, the rate - 1% per annum. The funds will be used to cover priority social and humanitarian expenses - healthcare, support for migrants, etc.
14:59 Speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk is convinced that Zmiyiny Island will be liberated in the near future: “I won’t comment, but I hope that in the near future we will see a few highlights. Because this island is strategic, the enemy understands this. But this Ukrainian land, and why not repeat what happened in the Kharkiv region".
14:53 Lukashenka at a CSTO meeting: "Without the speedy rallying of the CSTO, we may not exist tomorrow. If we immediately acted as a united front, there would not be these hellish sanctions. Russia should not fight the attempt to expand NATO alone." According to him, in order to strengthen the CSTO, it is necessary to strengthen political interaction, improve the mechanism of consultations, since "positions must be united."
Lukashenka also suggested that the CSTO countries use China's experience in the field of information security and disconnect countries from the external Internet, make their own, where there will be only "correct" information.
14:40 The company commander of the Belarusian battalion Kastus Kalinovsky Pavel "Volat" died in the war in Ukraine, the battalion said. He was wounded during the operation to liberate the Ukrainian village, they tried to take him to the hospital in critical condition, but did not have time.
14:36 Russian rocket artillery deliberately destroyed multi-storey buildings in Kharkiv, the SBU reports with reference to the interrogation of the captured occupier. The commander of the 25th artillery brigade from the Russian Federation admitted that the main target of the Russian rocket divisions were the Kharkov houses.
14:19 The European Union has received all of Ukraine's answers to the questionnaire for joining the EU. Now the European Commission is preparing a conclusion for the European Council, said European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Oliver Vargelyi following a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Brussels.
14:13 Today, around noon, over the Odessa region, the Ukrainian military air command Pivden destroyed an X-type cruise missile, Natalia Gumenyuk, head of the press center of the Defense and Security Forces of the South, said. The missile was fired by a Russian fighter in the direction of Odessa.
14:08 Russian hackers from Killnet declared cyber war on the governments of ten countries: the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine. The hackers said that nothing threatens citizens, but governments must be destroyed.
13:39 Estonian Prime Minister Kaia Kallas urged Western leaders to stop calling Putin: "It seems to me that if everyone constantly calls him, he does not understand that he is in isolation. Therefore, if we want to convey to him the idea that" you are isolated "Don't call him - it doesn't make sense."
13:33 In Edinburgh, Scotland, they supported Ukraine by renaming one of the streets in honor of Volodymyr Zelensky, British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons said and published a photo:
13:26 Russia is preparing in Mariupol the most large-scale forgery of "testimony of witnesses" that the city was destroyed by the Ukrainian military. Testimonies will be prepared in writing by the residents of Mariupol, who remained in the city, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko.
He said that for this, the invaders announced registration for compensation for destroyed housing and / or the loss of a family member. For housing - 500,000 rubles (about $6,000), for a deceased family member - 3 million rubles (about $33,000). But when submitting an application, residents of Mariupol must necessarily indicate that the property "was destroyed by the Ukrainian military", and relatives "were killed by the Ukrainian army." Given the psychological pressure and information blockade, Mariupol residents, hoping for a miracle, submit applications with appropriate notes.
All these "testimonies" will be used to influence international opinion, incl. with wide publicity through propaganda media abroad. In reality, such compensation is impossible: Russia must spend at least $2.5 billion just to fulfill these promises to the people of Mariupol, Andryushchenko notes.
13:21 The United States intends to ratify Finland's accession to NATO before the fall, said the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate Mitch McConnell at a briefing with the Finnish president.
13:20 McDonald's announces permanent withdrawal from the Russian market and begins the process of selling its Russian business: "The humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine and the accelerated unpredictable operating environment have led McDonald's to conclude that continuing to own a business in Russia is no longer appropriate and not in line with the values McDonald's".
13:17 The decision to impose an embargo on Russian oil can be made by the EU at the summit on May 30-31, Reuters reports citing European diplomats. Probably, an agreement will be adopted on a phased ban on Russian oil within six months. For Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, the transition period will be extended.
13:12 Peskov said that the issue of Sweden and Finland joining NATO is serious, "causes concern": "We will closely monitor what will be the consequences of Finland and Sweden joining NATO in practical terms in terms of our security, which must be ensured in absolutely unconditionally."
At the same time, he added that Russia has no territorial disputes with either Finland or Sweden, while Ukraine "could potentially become a NATO member, and then Russia would have a territorial dispute with a state that participates in the alliance, which bears huge "huge risks for the entire continent."
13:09 Lend-lease for Ukraine will not lead to a large debt to the United States, US Chargé d'Affaires Christina Quinn said in an interview with European Pravda. Now, according to her, there is no talk that Ukraine should return everything that it receives under Lend-Lease. The purpose of Lend-Lease is to bypass export procedures and shorten the approval process: "It's just a procedure to speed up the delivery of weapons. Therefore, of course, Lend-Lease will not lead to any crazy debt for Ukraine after the war."
12:38 The Russians are accumulating forces for the next big offensive in the Lugansk region, said the head of the UVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the enemy pulled up more than 2,500 pieces of equipment - most likely, these forces will be distributed to force the Seversky Donets River, to Popasnaya towards the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway and to capture Severodonetsk.
At the same time, the Russians abandoned the plan to enter the administrative borders of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, now it is only about Lugansk. "The situation in the Lugansk region is escalating, but the received Western long-range artillery will force the Russians to stop and retreat, and then we will be able to start the process of de-occupation of the territories," Gaidai said.
12:35 As a result of today's strike on Odessa, four people were injured, including one child, a car was damaged, the State Emergency Service reported.
12:33 The decision on the sixth package of European sanctions against the Russian Federation will be found in the coming days, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg is convinced: "I am sure that in the coming days we will be able to implement the sixth package of sanctions. It is clear that there is still a certain need for discussion , but I believe that we should strive to ensure that these discussions are held where they should be, in council, so as not to create a public image of disagreement. Russia is watching us."
12:29 If the war lasts longer than another three to four months, the Ukrainian government will have to take "painful measures" - cut budget spending, including salaries, pensions and social benefits, as well as raise taxes, the finance minister said in an interview with The Economist Sergei Marchenko.
He said that the Cabinet of Ministers was engaged in the issuance and sale of military bonds, external borrowing, additional printing of the money supply, but all these methods may be exhausted by the fall.
12:25 US Chargé d'Affaires in Ukraine Christina Quinn said in an interview with European Pravda that Ukraine has a chance to become a NATO member without the Membership Action Plan stage: "As for the possibility of Finland joining without a MAP, the Membership Action Plan has never been a legal requirement to join NATO, which means that Ukraine can also join the alliance without a MAP. However, I would not call it a short cut procedure."
12:14 Arestovich predicts the arrival of "sufficient volumes" of heavy weapons from partners "not earlier than July." Thus, according to him, the Ukrainian army will be ready for an active counteroffensive on the positions of the Russian Federation around mid-July.
12:09 The occupiers in Mariupol are trying to resume the work of the port, since this is the only way to export the stolen metal and provide minimal logistics for the Russian military. According to the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko, romination was almost completed today, and yesterday a sunken boat of border guards was raised from the bottom of the Old Gate. "But for now, the flooded Meotida with our flag proudly holds the entrance to the New Gate, which is the main one for the resumption of maritime traffic," he wrote.
Andryushchenko also said that the occupiers began clearing the rubble in hospital No. 3, where at the beginning of the war an aerial bomb hit the maternity ward: “Surprisingly, the plan for clearing the rubble completely coincides with the places of the largest destruction and the demonstrative cynicism of the Russian army. hospital".
12:00 In Mariupol, fires do not stop in the 20th microdistrict, where the invaders tried to restore power supply. The supply of electricity is limited to this housing estate, because the office of the "administration" of the occupiers is located there, and there is no question of any concern for the inhabitants, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko.
In the meantime, Russian propaganda media write today that in Mariupol "they gave light, and water supply is also being restored."
11:52 The wives of those mobilized in Lugansk staged a riot and demanded from the "Minister of Foreign Affairs of the LPR" Vladislav Deinego to help them return the men from the Kharkiv region home. They say that there are many dead, wounded and captured in the 206th regiment, and those who remained in the Kharkov region are not allowed into the territory of Russia.
11:48 The European Commission will give a conclusion on Ukraine's application for EU membership on June 8 or 15, journalist Rikard Jozwiak said. According to him, the status of a "potential candidate" for Ukraine is more likely and acceptable for some EU member states, "which puts the country in the same "basket" with Bosnia and Kosovo."
11:46 A humanitarian crisis is growing in the Kherson region, Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said. According to her, residents do not have the opportunity to travel to the territory controlled by Ukraine and the ability to move around the region is almost completely limited. The occupiers do not allow volunteers with humanitarian aid to pass and rob humanitarian supplies. Even in the first days of the seizure, the Russians plundered most of the shops and pharmacies, Ukrainian goods were taken to the Crimea and the Russian Federation.
The mayor of Kherson, Igor Kolykhaev, says that the medicines in the city will run out in two weeks, many drugs are already lacking. Russians are handing out expired medicines and five-year-old food as "humanitarian aid". In exchange, they demand passport data, lists of pensioners, social workers and just people living in a particular community. In total, about 500 thousand people remain in the region, about the same number left after the start of the war.
11:34 Podolyak on Moscow's plans: "First, the Kremlin dreamed of capturing Kiev, then Kharkiv and Odessa, then at least ORDLO. Now Russian troops are concentrating in the Luhansk region - there are not enough forces for other areas. We continue the treatment of imperial megalomania - it's tough" meeting "Moscow fantasies with reality".
11:29 In the Sumy region this morning, the Russians tried to break through the state border. According to the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky, the enemy opened fire on the border area of the Shostka region from mortars, grenade launchers, machine guns and machine guns. Under cover of fire, enemy DRGs tried to enter the territory of the region. The border guards gave battle to the Russians, who retreated beyond the border line.
11:27 In the incomplete first three weeks of the war, as of March 15, the total losses of the 1st Tank Army of the Russian Federation amounted to 409 people, of which 61 were liquidated, 209 invaders were wounded. In addition, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine with reference to the documents received, 44 Russian tankers went missing during this period, another 96 surrendered. During the same time, the defenders of Ukraine destroyed and seized 308 units of military equipment from the specified army of invaders.
11:21 Austria respects the decision of Finland and Sweden to join NATO, but will remain a neutral country itself, Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said.
11:18 The Russians are trying to organize the supply of equipment to Zmeiny Island, OK Pivden reports. The invaders also continue lifting and rescue operations at the site of the destruction of a landing craft of the Serna type near the island.
As of May 16, there are two Russian ships with cruise missiles on board, as well as six large landing ships in the Black Sea. The threat of missile strikes and the likelihood of landings remain relevant.
11:05 Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solsky announced the aggravation of the shortage of diesel fuel needed by farmers: "In late April - early May, the situation with diesel fuel in Ukraine worsened ... Now it is more acute than a few weeks ago."
According to him, the market was not ready to carry diesel fuel from Poland or Romania in such a volume after the cessation of supplies from Russia and Belarus. In particular, "there is no required number of tanks, there are no transshipment capacities and other things," which "leaves its mark and leads to a shortage of fuel."
11:01 In Kiev, from May 16, the sale of alcohol in public catering establishments is allowed from 11:00 to 22:00, the Kyiv City State Administration reported. The sale of alcohol in stores is still possible from 11:00 to 16:00.
10:57 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 16. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Bakhmut and Zaporozhye directions.
personnel - about 27,700 (+300) people liquidated,
tanks - 1228 (+8),
armored combat vehicles - 2974 (+16),
artillery systems - 577 (+22),
MLRS - 195 (+0),
air defense systems - 89 (+0),
aircraft - 200 (+0),
helicopters - 165 (+1),
UAVs of the operational-tactical level - 427 (+11),
cruise missiles - 97 (+2),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2101 (+14),
special equipment - 42 (+0).
10:43 Borrell doubts that the EU will be able to agree today on the issue of an oil embargo against Russia: "Of course, we will discuss this, and we will try to unblock the situation, but I cannot guarantee this, because the opposition is very strong."
10:26 The process of Sweden's accession to NATO may take about a year, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said. She stressed that on this path, Sweden is ready to engage in dialogue with all 30 member countries of the alliance, including Turkey.
10:22 A missile attack on the Odessa region was carried out by strategic aircraft, OK Pivden reported. The object of tourist infrastructure was hit, buildings were destroyed, a fire broke out. Also, the enemy continues to attack the damaged and inoperative bridge across the Dniester Estuary. Previously, two adults were injured and a small child was seriously injured.
10:19 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO "would be a mistake with far-reaching consequences," and "no one should have any illusions that Russia will simply put up with it." At the same time, Moscow's reaction "will depend on specific steps taken by Stockholm and Helsinki."
10:17 The New York Times writes that the complete failure of the Russian military operation to cross the Seversky Donets River was one of the deadliest episodes of the war. Russian losses could reach up to 485 people, more than 80 pieces of equipment were also destroyed.
10:11 In Kiev, public transport fares have been resumed today, the Klovska metro station has also been opened, the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
09:55 Ukrainian forces blew up the railway bridges between Rubizhne and Severodonetsk in order to contain Russian troops, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the invaders suffer losses and retreat on the outskirts of Severodonetsk, but do not stop.
09:43 In Odessa, Russian troops hit the recreation center, people's deputy Alexei Goncharenko said.
09:24 The Ingulsky district of Nikolaev underwent enemy fire in the morning, reports Suspіlne. Because of the shelling, a fire broke out in a furniture store, a car parked next to the store caught fire. Not far from the scene, the remains of a cluster warhead of a multiple rocket launcher were found.
09:15 Russia has de facto terminated the cooperation agreement with NATO, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said: "The Russian government has made it clear that the Founding Act between NATO and Russia is worth nothing more. Therefore, we should now recognize that this basic act was unilaterally torn apart by Russia, not NATO."
09:13 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, denied the information of the Russian media that Ukrainian defenders with white flags came out of Azovstal: "If you trust the sources of the invaders, they have already taken everyone prisoner three times in Mariupol." According to him, now the Russians do not stop trying to enter or block the exit from the bunkers. All ground operations are carried out only on the perimeter of the plant, no global approximation occurs, which is why the density of shelling is growing.
09:00 The head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov said that the fighters of the 227th battalion of the 127th brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ousted the Russians and restored the border sign on the state border section.
08:58 Blinken is convinced that Ukraine will survive the war: "President Putin unleashed this brutal and unprovoked war, thinking that he could destroy Ukraine as an independent country and divide NATO. Instead, he only strengthened the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. NATO is stronger, more combat-ready, more united than ever."
08:56 InformNapalm reported that Russia is preparing provocations in Mariupol with the participation of captured Ukrainian servicemen and civilians abducted by Russians. According to the publication, the invaders intend to bring up to 2,000 captured people to Mariupol, send reconnaissance troops to the city, who were ordered to take gas masks without fail, and six tank trucks, the contents of which are unknown.
InformNapalm analysts suggest that the Russian command may use the prisoners to create a picture in the Russian propaganda media that the defenders of Azovstal allegedly surrendered, and then try to use the contents of the tanks (possibly chemicals) to “smoke out” the real defenders from their positions.
Today, Russian propaganda media are already reporting that a group of ten Ukrainian soldiers allegedly came out of the cellars of Azovstal with white flags.
08:49 British intelligence reports that the deployment of Belarusian special operations forces along the border with Ukraine is likely to delay Ukrainian troops in the area, so they will not be able to be transferred to support operations in the Donbass.
08:45 The Russian military satellite, which on the night of April 30 was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome into a near-polar orbit on the Angara-1.2 rocket, could not stay there and will burn up in the atmosphere. The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, “advertised” this launch in social networks with a message that the letter Z was depicted on the rocket body.
US astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted: "A Russian rocket with a Z on its side launched a military satellite that failed. It appears that the Z symbol representing war crimes has now also become synonymous with epic failure."
08:36 Russia announced the nationalization of the Russian assets of the Renault Group. Moscow Mayor Sobyanin announced that he had decided to take the Renault plant to the balance of the city and resume the production of cars "under the historical Moskvich brand."
08:24 The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, said that he spoke on the phone with Reznikov, among other things, they discussed the needs of Ukraine on the battlefield. Austin also informed Reznikov about the results of his recent conversation with Shoigu.
08:10 In the Lugansk region, the Russians fired at Severodonetsk yesterday, two people died on the spot, another one was hospitalized, said the head of the OVA Sergey Gaidai.
07:35 The enemy is trying to restrain the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine north of Kharkov and prevent them from reaching the state border of Ukraine, and is also preparing offensive operations by forces of units concentrated in the Izyum region, the General Staff reports in the morning summary .
06:31 Mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich reports explosions in the city and asks to remain in shelters or to observe the rule of two walls.
06:20 In Ukraine, 90% of people will fall below the poverty line if the war lasts more than a year, the UN says. As a result of the Russian invasion, half of Ukrainian enterprises have been closed, the other half are experiencing difficulties. The UN believes that if the war drags on for more than a year, the economic achievements of the past two decades may be lost.
05:17 The American Institute for the Study of War believes that the Russians are likely to focus on the capture of Severodonetsk, and not on reaching the administrative borders of the Donetsk region. Russian troops have likely given up on the goal of completing a large-scale cordon of Ukrainian units from Donetsk to Izyum to capture the Luhansk region.
Analysts note that Russian troops are likely to try to hold the line west of Volchansk in order to protect their land lines from Belgorod to Izyum. It is unclear whether they will succeed. Russian troops did not advance in the Slavic direction due to an unsuccessful offensive in the Izyum region.
Failed attempts by the Russians to cross the Seversky Donets at Kremennaya could push Russian operations further east. According to the ISW forecast, the Russians will finally leave their positions near Kharkov and in the near future, most likely, a Ukrainian counteroffensive will begin in the Izyum region.
At the same time, Russian forces are fortifying the occupied settlements in the south, which indicates that the occupying troops seek to establish permanent control in the region.
04:51 Germany will refuse to import oil from Russia until the end of the year, even if the EU does not reach an agreement on this issue as part of a new package of sanctions, Bloomberg writes, citing government sources. Work on concluding deals with alternative suppliers is underway, the German authorities are confident that they will be able to resolve logistical issues within 6-7 months.
[IsraelTimes] TV says incident came as IAF fighters departed area after alleged strike last week and they were not in danger; move could signal a significant shift in Moscow’s ties with Israel
Russian forces opened fire on Israeli jets with advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles as they allegedly attacked targets in northwestern Syria last week, Channel 13 news reported Monday, in what could signal a significant shift in Moscow’s attitude to Israel.
According to the unsourced report, the incident occurred on Friday as the Israeli air force bombed several targets near the city of Masyaf in northwestern Syria.
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were responding to an Israeli strike over Syrian airspace. Russia has blamed Israel for the incident, which killed 15 Russian crew members.
Wait. What? Syrians fire a missile that downs a Russian plane and Russia blames Israel? Is everyone in Russia a whiny bully?
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yes it was whiny
Per reports, the Israeli jet positioned itself so that a Russian plane was between the S-300 battery and the Israeli jet. The S-300 radar, operated by Syrians, locked onto the Russian plane by mistake.
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The Israeli pilot should get credit for the kill. It was an own-goal but skillfully done.
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They got tired of keeping their mouths shut. Now they’re fighting to take back the Democratic Party in New York State, ink blotting one race at a time.
[NYTIMES] The organization, the New York Solidarity Network, views itself as a counterweight to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and the Democratic Socialists of America.
In the past year, the left-wing effort to boycott Israel over its treatment of Palestinians has won over The Harvard Crimson and the Irish novelist Sally Rooney. It’s even affected ice cream: Ben & Jerry’s has refused to sell its confections in the occupied territories.
It has also made inroads in New York, home to the world’s second-largest Jewish community, where the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has gotten support from the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, the influential far-left political group.
But now a new group, backed by a billionaire hedge fund manager,
Lots of those around nowadays. Which bankster Jooooo is it?
is seeking to counter that movement by creating a political action network to support candidates in state legislative and local races who embrace Israel, and oppose candidates who do not.
The group, the New York Solidarity Network, will act something like a local American Israel Public Affairs Committee, commonly known as Aipac,
...AIPAC, actually, which looks ever so much more substantial. No doubt the New York Times editor mistook the acronym for a simple name, like George...
according to several individuals who have spoken with its organizers. Like Aipac, the New York network is set up as a membership organization whose leaders will encourage donors to give to candidates they regard as being pro-Israel. It has not ruled out the idea of creating its own political action committee.
The organization will oppose candidates aligned with initiatives like the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which encourages the shunning of Israeli businesses to end “Israel’s apartheid regime.”
Appearing to be among the first Israel-focused organizations in the nation to seek to influence elections at the local level, the group has hired Moonshot Strategies, a lobbying firm with close ties to the administration of Mayor Eric Adams, to help it choose which races to focus on. (Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the mayor, said Mr. Adams has no knowledge of the group.)
Corey Johnson, the former City Council speaker, has signed on as a consultant. The board also has the backing of Daniel S. Loeb, the billionaire hedge fund manager,
...a typically lefty of his profession, Columbia classmate and Friend of Obama, with a penchant for sending caustically evaluatory letters to his target executives explaining what they are doing wrong. His Wikipedia page is a delight...
according to three people briefed on the organization.
New York Times journalists love basing reports on unnamed people who claim to have been told about things, as opposed to actual witnesses.
Mr. Loeb declined to comment.
The creation of the network highlights the growing fissure between the left-leaning and younger flank of the Democratic Party, which often aligns with the policies of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the party’s more traditional, centrist flank, which has long considered support for Israel an inviolable foreign policy plank. Its rise also points to the growing role that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict plays in state and local elections in the United States, where pro-boycott activists increasingly tussle with politicians who implement anti-boycott laws.
“I’m not aware of any similar organization on the state level — untethered from a national one — that has launched an effort to affect legislative elections by supporting (or not) candidates based on a litmus test of their pro-Israeli credentials,” Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote in an email.
The group charges $1,000 for an individual membership and asks members to pledge at least $5,000 to a slate of “candidates, causes and projects aligned with our mission.” Its 501(c)(4) structure allows donors to remain anonymous.
The group is joining a growing field of well-funded entities, including a PAC allied with Mr. Adams, aiming to sway the New York State Legislature — whose entire body is up for re-election this year — toward more centrist politics.
Not that Hizzoner is that much more centrist — but he does find it profitable to campaign as pro-police, as far as I can tell.
The New York Solidarity Network held a kickoff cocktail party in March at the Greenwich Village townhouse of its chairman, Gary Ginsberg, a former SoftBank senior vice president.
The New York Times journalist does not mention his financial worth, so presumably he is a mere deci- or centi-millionaire. Mr. Ginsberg is a Clinton supporter...
Ritchie Torres, a congressman from the Bronx, spoke, as did Mr. Johnson, the former City Council speaker. Both declined to comment for this story.
No respect for The Old Grey Lady, it appears.
The group has cast itself as an explicit counterweight not just to the B.D.S. movement, but also to the Democratic Socialists of America, the anticapitalism group that counts Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a member.
“This is in response to rising political challenges from far-left D.S.A.-aligned candidates supporting B.D.S. and other anti-Israel positions,” Tyler Deaton, a Republican L.G.B.T.Q. activist serving as the group’s senior adviser,
... more specifically he’s been a gay marriage advocate, both within the Republican garden and reaching across the aisle...
wrote in an email, shared with The Times, that was distributed before a group event. “Anti-Israel candidates and elected leaders are on the rise, emerging from the extreme political margins on both sides.”
Mr. Deaton promised to update attendees on “recruitment of pro-Israel candidates and efforts to defeat anti-Israel candidates across New York.” He declined to share those details with The New York Times.
Quite right, too.
Jeremy Cohan, a co-chairman of the D.S.A. of New York City, took the group’s formation as a sign of his own movement’s strength.
“There is a thriving and deepening support by American Jews for Palestinian rights, and opposition to carte blanche support for Israeli policy in violating those rights,” Mr. Cohan said.
The question of Israel, its right to exist, and its treatment of Palestinians has percolated through state politics for years.
...greatly helped by the New York Times, as it happens, which objected to Israel’s existence from the beginning.
In 2016, Andrew M. Cuomo, then New York’s governor, signed an executive order barring the state from doing business with companies aligned with the B.D.S. movement. The executive order was renewed by his successor, Kathy Hochul, and remains in effect.
In 2020, the D.S.A. caused a local firestorm when it asked City Council candidates seeking its endorsement to “pledge not to travel to Israel if elected to City Council in solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation,” in a questionnaire.
“We know there’s a long tradition of boycotts and sanctions being used against persecutory regimes,” Mr. Cohan said last week. “The U.S. is sanctioning Russia right now for the crimes it’s committing, and so we think this is a perfectly legitimate and important tool in applying pressure on the Israeli state to change its political behavior.”
The Jewish community is, of course, not monolithic; Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of J Street,
...Mr. Soro’s bespoke tool for undermining support of the Jewish state, like all his other tools pretending to be a grassroots movement...
described it as “a disputatious people.” And several Jewish activists noted the presence of other New York organizations with less Israel-specific aims.
But Jessica Haller, a former City Council candidate from the Bronx, said she was drawn to join the New York Solidarity Network because she felt ostracized from progressive circles as an environmentalist who also identifies as a Zionist and supports the existence of Israel. She argued it is imperative for activists like her to ensure there is a space for progressive supporters of Israel.
Ms. Haller still smarts when she recalls the backlash she experienced on an environmental justice email chain, when fellow members discovered she identified as a supporter of Israel.
“The conversation went something like this: ‘We’ve discovered she’s a Zionist so therefore she can’t possibly take racial justice seriously,’” Ms. Haller said. “I was really shaken to my core.”
[Rudaw] Several alleged Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) members were killed when an Iraqi Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... targeted their location in southwestern Erbil province on Monday following a fresh operation conducted to eliminate remnants of the group.
Iraqi warplanes launched an airstrike in the mountains of Makhmour in Erbil province on Monday, resulting in the deaths of six suspected ISIS members, Iraq's top military spokesperson Yehia Rasool said in a tweet.
The Peshmerga and Iraqi army conducted a joint operation against ISIS hideouts in Mount Qarachogh on Sunday, an area synonymous with ISIS activity situated in the security vacuum between Erbil and Baghdad.
The aforementioned operation led to the deaths of two ISIS members after caves and tunnels that the organization sheltered in were destroyed.
Rasool said the strikes "came in conjunction with the heroes of the Peshmerga, and this operation is a continuation of the series of joint efforts undertaken by the Iraqi forces to combat the remains of terrorism."
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Vladlen Tatarsky https://t.me/boris_rozhin/48861 for the evening reports on today's surrendered at Azovstal.
1. 20 seriously wounded, 31 relatively healthy surrendered at Azovstal.
2. One of the resistance groups surrendered, which actually broke away from the main group.
3. Surrendered under guarantees of saving lives.
4. No one promised to exchange them.
5. "Kalina" is just a mouthpiece.
PS. Regarding all the talk about the exchange of characters with Azovstal, it is important to understand that this exchange is physically impossible.
According to Ukraine, after all the exchanges, Ukraine is holding about 500 prisoners of war soldiers and officers of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR.
At the disposal of the Russian Federation, DPR and LPR up to 4,500-5,000 prisoners of war soldiers and officers. Plus, up to 1.5-2,000 people are still sitting on Azovstal itself, of which up to 600-650 are wounded. It is impossible to physically exchange such a number according to the 1 to 1 scheme, Ukraine simply has no one to exchange them for.
Nevertheless, rumors are circulating about possible exchanges of wounded UAF soldiers for Russian prisoners of war. No one has officially confirmed this yet.
The leader of the Nazis at Azovstal recorded a pitiful video, where he seemed to justify himself before surrendering.
We are waiting for the development of events - there is a feeling that there is not long left.
Text from the tweet following:
Apparently, the Azov militants received Zelensky's order to stop senseless resistance.
Видимо боевики "Азова" получили приказ Зеленского на прекращение бессмысленного сопротивления. https://t.co/DPpgTVGaQ9
— Сводки Новороссии (@myrevolutionrus) May 16, 2022
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According to preliminary information, about 300 militants left Azovstal. About 50 of them were wounded. They are now being taken to the Central Regional Hospital of Novoazovsk, where they will be provided with the necessary medical care. The rest were taken away by buses in the direction of Yelenovka.
По предварительной информации, около 300 боевиков вышли из "Азовстали". Порядка 50 из них раненые. Их сейчас везут в ЦРБ Новоазовска, где им будет оказана необходимая медицинская помощь. Остальных увезли на автобусах в сторону Еленовки. pic.twitter.com/1IguRkdKJM
— Сводки Новороссии (@myrevolutionrus) May 16, 2022
Photos from the first stage of the surrender of the remnants of the Mariupol grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at Azovstal.
The wounded are taken to the Novoazovsk hospital (where, according to plans that have become known, "Azov" was supposed to attack in the spring of this year).
The prisoners are taken to the colony in Yelenovka, where a large number of Ukrainian prisoners of war are kept, including those who capitulated at the plant named after Ilyich. Photos at the link
[AlAhram] Around 40 people, many of them civilian volunteers with the army, have been killed in suspected jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , local sources and security officials said on Monday.
In the northern region of Sahel, around 25 people were killed in two assaults on Saturday, including 13 members of the VDP volunteers, a leader of the force told AFP.
In Kompienga, near Burkina's southeastern border with Togo and Benin, about 15 non-combatants were killed on Saturday when their convoy was attacked while under VDP escort, a security source in the region said.
A local inhabitant said three VDP volunteers also died in this attack, and called for help for the maimed, which he said numbered nearly a dozen.
In another raid overnight Saturday, assailants carried out a coordinated attack on police and gendarmes' posts in Faramana, near the frontier with Mali, causing two maimed, a security source said.
One of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso has been battered by jihadist raids since 2015, when holy warriors began mounting cross-border attacks from Mali.
More than 2,000 people have died and almost two million fled their homes.
Mutinous troops, angered at mounting losses, ousted elected president Roch Marc Christian Kabore in January.
The new strongman, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, says tackling the violence and restoring security is his top priority.
After several weeks of relative calm after the coup, jihadist attacks resumed, and scores of civilians and members of the security forces have died.
Some of the heaviest losses have been suffered by the Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP), a civilian auxiliary force set up in December 2019 to take over some basic security duties from the army.
Recruits are given two weeks' military training and then work alongside the military, typically carrying out surveillance, information-gathering or escort duties.
A security source said there had been a "series of attacks which have mainly targeted Volunteers."
Of the two latest assaults in the north, one occurred at Guessel, where "around 20 people, including eight VDP" were killed, while the other took place at Markoye, where five volunteers and one civilian died, the VDP officer said.
The latest attack came a week after an ambush in the north in which 10 volunteers were killed, along with two civilians.
[twitter] KAMALA: "We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues, to tackle these challenges, and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together...We will work together"
She forgot, “Shoulder to shoulder we march into the glorious future,” but I suppose it was implied.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Heavy breathing modifiers deleted — I’m sure you have no problem imagining them for yourself, dear Reader, or you could just click on the headline to check that while looking at the photos and video.
Video shows Russians firing thermobaric missiles on Ukraine-controlled land
Thermobaric weapons release a flammable vapour before igniting it
That causes a ripple-like explosion capable of vaporizing bodies close to the explosion and demolishing buildings or rupturing human organs in the blast
Yet unlike cluster bombs, their use is not banned under international law
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Never served in the military myself, but I saw nothing out of the ordinary in the video. Hyperventilating?
BTW, DM, 'Generals try TO save Russian'...
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We got all that elsewhere, my dear Deadeye Thrang5605. Do calm yourself and read the other articles — the really, really long ones with all the words. It’s all there and more. And some even reported from the Russian side, just like you keep demanding with your shockingly naughty words.
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Daily Mail is a complete joke. Their 'reporting' on Ukraine is nothing but MI6 disinformation and planted stories. This has been public knowledge for decades.
It's bizarre that Fred Pruitt would allow clowns to post such obvious Info Ops lies and bullshit on Rantburg.
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imagine the BS headline these buffoons would have published on May 9, 1945: "Germany ends combat mission in Berlin"
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NYT, August 1945: "JAPAN ENDS COMBAT MISSIONS IN HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI"
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Hilarious: "Putin's soldiers have so far failed to achieve their military objectives in eastern Ukraine..."
This, on the day of total capitulation by the most ferocious of Ukraine's Nazi shock troops, the Azov Battalion fuckers who started the whole mess in 2014.
Mariupol is FINALLY rid of these vermin -- all but a few dozen mutilated wrecks shuttled off to hospitals. The biggest story of the war so far, and this gutter tabloid, on orders from MI6, not only ignores it, they blatantly lie about it. Lovely.
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"You'll pay no attention to them..."
Growled Judy. "Okay, Auntie M."
"Just little guys hurtin'
Behind the Iron Curtain."
"Hmm... '83 Chateau d'Yquem?"
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Our new trolls are very unfamiliar with years and years of sarcasm at the Rant. It's deep and long and its compounding. Going on the fourth month, they're still behind the curve.
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Trolls aside, If the Russians are using their thermobaric weapons, this is an escalation, not unlike they did in Georgia. They seem to be following the same model they used in Georgia. Attacking cities, then leaving them in the rubble with no real intent to occupy. They are going to be here a while, regardless of the misinformation. They know we dont have the stomach for a battalion size loss. We will stay out.
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Love the pathetic attempts to spin the complete and total surrender by the Nazi Azov Battalion in the biggest and most important battle of the war so far.
Look at the press in the US and U.K. and compare it to coverage by publications in the rest of the world.
In Australia, Singapore, India, China, Greece, South Africa etc the leading media companies all use the correct term, "surrender." You can see photos of these battered, mutikated, thoroughly defeated scum, similar to the photos of the Nazi soldiers who surrendered at Stalingrad.
But in the propaganda-fueled USA and U.K. we get the following:
the brave "rescue" of "heroes"
an "end of their combat mission"
an "evacuation" of "heroes" after weeks of "successful Ukrainian counter-attacks"
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Such obvious fucking liars.
So pathetic that the only way for us to get objective and reliable coverage is to seek foreign media outlets in countries like China or India. This is how you steal $60 billion with lies and misdirection.
were almost certainly concocted to cover up the announcement of the complete surrender of the last remnants of nazi #AzovBattalion i
How us giving $60 billion to known Nazis "staying out"? Or maybe your "we" doesn't refer to Americans?
Biden and about 90% of Congress are plunging us Americans into this mess, head first.
So foolish. In Iraq we destroyed a third world country's entire infrastructure before we put any troops on the ground. Here we're sending some surplus junk to a fight in the front yard of a nuclear-armed Russia that hasn't even begun to use any of its awesome firepower against Ukraine. This is the world-beating stupidity of Biden and his Freakshow on display. Unbelievable.
But hey, it's early days. Let's see how much damage they can do when we add recession to hyperinflation and the price of unleaded hits $10 a gallon.
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Dude, the Russian clown government is calling EVERYONE "Nazi". Finns worry about Russian invasion -- NAZIS! Poles take in Ukrainian refugees and get supplies to the Ukrainian defenders -- NAZIS! Girl scouts insist on payment in advance for cookies -- NAZIS!
Sane people don't care anymore. It's just a word leftists and the Russian government (BIRM?) toss around thinking it has emotional weight. Except it has been used so much it just doesn't.
Stop crying wolf. Or just STFU.
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Glenn Greenwald has catalogued all examples of US and IK news outlets that correctly called Azov Battalion neo-Nazis for years suddenly adopting Newspeak and scrubbing all references to their fascist ideology and racist terrorizing.
@ggreenwald: "Western media spent years warning the Azov Battalion and related militias were not just neo-Nazis but were the most powerful neo-Nazi force in Europe given their integration into the military and state.
"That's now not only taboo to say but these same outlets have renounced this."
TIME magazine, Jan. 2021:
Like, share, recruit: How Ukraine's white-supremacist militia uses Facebook to radicalize and train new members https://ti.me/3qr2Oqn
"Back in 2015, when James Clapper wanted Obama to flood Ukraine with lethal arms -- something Obama opposed because, he said, Ukraine wasn't vital enough to the US -- I detailed the power of Azov using mainstream media sources. This is all now erased:
theintercept.com
Clapper Calls for Arming Ukrainian Forces: Who Would That Actually Empower?
"Azov's power doesn't justify a Russian invasion of Ukraine. But that doesn't make it irrelevant.
"At the very least, efforts should be made to prevent the massive amount of lethal arms flooding Ukraine ending up in their hands. And we shouldn't make stars of their adherents.
"Among so many examples, a Guardian article headlined: "Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat." It describes the "neo-Nazi leanings of many of its members."
You can't just re-write history when convenient.
theguardian.com
Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat
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Stop crying wolf. Or just STFU.
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So typical of you to desperately deny what every American and British outlet has reported for nearly ten years and what our own government and every human rights organization recognized.
The New York Times called them neo-Nazis. The Guardian did so. So did the Telegraph, Washington Post, ABC News, TIME magazine and nearly every other major news organization.
Fascist, far-right, racist, Nazi... use whatever term for racist and etho-nationalist organized terror you prefer.
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Winkey, Not sure if your serious or just a trolling. Thermobarics kept us, I'll clarify--Troops, out of Georgia. Thermobarics dont burn all the bodies, its an over pressure system. Shatter the body at a cellular level. Second, calling the Ukrainians Nazis is nothing but propaganda that has stuck here in the US. The government is no more or less corrupt than the rest of the Eastern European countries.Stopping Russian expansion is important, if we can help by sending equipment, I'm in. there was a 300 million dollar contract with LockMart to make more Javelins. This is a good example of the money spend. We dont send much cash to Ukraine, we send equipment made in America, so the funding is pumped back into our economy. When we send troops, the cash flow starts.
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Flinging around the Neo-Nazi and Nazi labels to justify your own ill-mannered behavior doesn't work, Comrade Wimpy
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Well, to make it clearer: I don't care. The people they're fighting are also socialist racist ethno-supremacists. Putin funded (and sent troops to create) the "break-away republics", and some Ukrainians took up arms -- and unpleasant ideas -- while resisting.
Don't care. Putin made the mess. He created "Nazis" by reviving memories of the Holodomor. His invasion gave them an opportunity to be more than local thugs. He can end the invasion, stop supporting the terrorists in Eastern Ukraine, and the Azovs would just be local thugs again.
(And for that matter, he's sent Russian neo-Nazis to the Ukraine. Why aren't you condemning Russia for them?)
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Just learned that the rumor about the Russian capture of a retired USN Admiral was FALSE.
You are a darling, Besoeker. Thank you!
For those who missed it yesterday, Besoeker is referring to Acapulco Joe’s triumphant comment yesterday:
We're talking about the biggest boondoggle ever, presided over by a corrupt US administration whose president actually intervened in Ukrainian politics in order to protect his and his son's million dollar per year payoff by Ukrainian thieves. YJCMTSU.
Again, this isn't $300 million. It's SIXTY BILLION.
This mind-bending lunacy is occurring while this same administration is iiterally destroying our economy.
Every single top economist now says what these assholes have done is a catastrophic mistake. Larry Summers, Ken Rogoff and all the other Democrat economists are saying we can't afford this shit. Jesus, even Ben Nernanke just came out and said we're now going to have stagflation.
Do the math. Face reality. This is the most insane policy that this demented Freakshow has come up with so far -- and they're just getting started.
The only rational response to which is, FUCK NO. Not with our money.
You guys are such saps. Biden and his freaks, Pelosi, McConnell and the rest of our incompetent and lying Congress is so obviously trying to distract us from their across-the-board failures with this pointless war.
"Russian expansionism" - LOL
This is just a civil war in a corner of SE Europe that doesn't remotely affect you and me. We have no vital interest, none, in that shithole. There is literally nothing that justifies us getting involved.
If anything we should be helping Russia. We need them against China. Instead we've created a Chinese-Russian-Indian alliance -- against us. Unbelievably stupid.
Stop being so naive. You're just being played by the stupidest, most corrupt and incompetent US administration in our history.
#27
After near a century of facing off COMMIES they are seen as way more bad than NAZIs who were only around from 1933-1945 along with another decade or 2 hiding in jungles in South America.
The hunt and execution of Che is still something we're proud off.
Perhaps a tune from the past might clue you in:
Sing a song of quetzals, pockets full of peace! The junta's in the palace, they've taken out a lease. The Commies are in hiding, just across the street; To the embassy of Mexico they beat a quick retreat. And pistol-packing Peurifoy looks mighty optimistic For the land of Guatemala is no longer Communistic.
#28
Winky, you really are a flaming moron if you think we wouldn't have stagflation regardless of the Ukraine or not. I'd much rather spend money blowing up Russians and their minions than see it going to some craptastic program like midnight basketball. Compared to all the money we waste in this country in government boondoggles, getting our weapons combat tested without blood is a bargain. If the Azov crew is killing russians, good for them. They're far less scummy than all the African and Middle Eastern vermin we've showered with money for decades.
I'm bored of these trolls, Putin needs to flush these turds and hire new ones.
#29
Troll, I used the Javlins as an example. Not the whole think, dont let your anger and desire to show me, control your conversation. With that said I do agree out administration is a mess.
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Putin
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Here's your best argument - a fake choice and a reference to ... the Clinton Administration! I'd much rather spend money blowing up Russians and their minions than see it going to some craptastic program like midnight basketball.
Think, people, THINK. It's not 1995. Clinton is not president and our deficit is not measured in the millions. It's 32 fucking TRILLION you goofs. We don't have $60 billion to piss away on another wag the dog adventure by another corrupt failed Democrat administration.
The threat is 1) this insane administration and 2) China. Putin doesn't threaten us in the slightest.
Put aside your Cold War-era blinders and face the reality of where we are in 2022.
#35
Trolls gotta troll, or Pootie will decide they'd be better used down in the Donbas, clutching a quality AK recycled Mosin-Nagant while waiting for an M777 to blow them to shit.
#36
You're so obsessed with Putin, you don't even see how Biden and his freaks are destroying your country. You care more about fourth world Ukraine than you care about your own homeland. No wonder the Chinese own you.
#37
what a good idea to bring home from E. Ukraine
#Russia: Why it is unwise to take items from the battlefield: Today, a Swedish Pansarskott 86 (AT-4) launcher exploded in the truck of a civilian car- not in UA, but in Mytishchi, Russia.
It was taken from the battlefields of E. Ukraine- perhaps as a souvenir or for sale. pic.twitter.com/OohtR3ExeJ
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 17, 2022
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so obsessed with Putin, you don't even see how Biden and his freaks are destroying your country.
What's new? Every few years since the end of the Cold War, a US administration has to create another faux-threat to justify another pointless intervention that wastes American money, completely trashes the foreign country and ends in failure. Saddam! Assad! Khadaffi! Putin!
Same old shit designed to dupe the rubes. Pay no attention to our failures!
Even Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are laughing out loud at this administration's pathetic attempts to redirect. Bezos yesterday: "Look! A squirrel!"
#45
No, WE'RE being robbed by a shitty fourth world regime's kleptocrats in cahoots with our own politicians who are destroying everything here at home.
Why can't you admit that this is a con job? We don't have any vital interest in that shithole. Russia does. It's their patch, and none of our business.
Go ahead, put aside your stupid insults and tell us: What is our vital interest there? Why does it justify destroying our own economy?
Why the hell are we prolonging a stupid, pointless, totally irrelevant war whose only winner is China?
Are you just shilling for the Chinese? Is that what this is all about?
I'm genuinely curious. What has invaded your brains?
#46
What's new? Every few years since the end of the Cold War, a US administration has to create another faux-threat to justify another pointless intervention that wastes American money, completely trashes the foreign country and ends in failure. Saddam! Assad! Khadaffi! Putin!
Obviously, you can't articulate any vital US interest in Ukraine because there is none. It's a brutal and savage civil war that no more concerns us than the civil wars in Libya, Yemen, Somalia or any number of 4th world shitholes.
Except this one if it lasts much longer will increase China's power and influence while greatly diminishing ours.
Try again. Describe our vital interests at stake in this war.
Obviously, you can't articulate any vital US interest in Ukraine because there is none. It's a brutal and savage civil war that no more concerns us than the civil wars in Libya, Yemen, Somalia or any number of 4th world shitholes.
Except this one if it lasts much longer will increase China's power and influence while greatly diminishing ours.
Try again. Describe our vital interests at stake in this war.
It wasn't an insult, but my impression of how you sound.
I suggest you dial your shrillness back some, start listening more, and learn to STFU when time is ripe.
#52
Circling back, because I’ve been away from the internet dealing with Real Life. Or real life, because it wasn’t anything major, just something that required my presence and attention.
WTF does this attempt at sarcasm even mean?
For our anonymous visitor, I refer you to those funny things called emoticons, used eons-long in internet conversations to replace visible facial expressions, and also the typed equivalents like LOL. If I’d meant to be sarcastic, I would have added /sarc at the end, because it isn’t
fair to expect the subtler emotions to be correctly intuited, especially for those dealing in a language not their native tongue.
You obviously can't define any vital US interest that's worth building up China and destroying our and the world's economy.
Each discussion to its own thread. We’ve covered China and the deliberate impoverishment of the U.S. by the Democrats with the aid of too many Republicans — the Biden administration being only the latest example — in innumerable discussions over the past two decades. Just because you weren’t around to participate at the time does not mean we must respect your rude demand that we repeat all that in each thread about the current Russia-Ukraine unpleasantness.
It occurs to me that something of that unpleasantness results from the fact that President Putin must be at least as determined to keep Russia’s financial connections to the Bidens out of the public eye as the Bidens are to protect their Ukrainian connections. The record clearly shows that the Bidens profited massively from Russia as well as China and the Ukraine. So, dear anonymous troll, be aware that each time you reference the Bidens’ corrupt dealings in that part of the world, you threaten Russia’s interests as much as Ukraine’s.
#54
Late to the thread, I am struck by the depth, quantity and increasingly strident tone of guest Winky.Clearly A-team level and by volume, skilled at repetitive-theme argumentation as a sales technique. Given that, he fails to get that you go for the close and STOP talking. That he can't suggests ongoing oversight of his efforts, which suggests this as an assignment, not mere passion.
#55
I would also add, most sales training seminars pretty early on teach that beginning your sales pitch "You c*cks*ckers..." is not an effective approach.
Just sayin...
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Depends on the audience, Murcek. At a Baptist convention, no. But at the Adult Video Awards?
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^ Also, the Folsom Street Fair in SF would seem to be the appropriate audience.
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I think we need to rename trolls on assignment to Winkeys...
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#59
You sound like a drunk teacher who hasn't settled on the subject of his lecture.
#61
I'm getting to the point that I ignore almost anyone whose nym ends in 4 digits. There are a few exceptions - those who have been around for a while.
Then there's Acapulco Joe - so maybe the trolls are getting smarter.
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Except no one answered the poster's reasonable question. What vital American interest is at stake in Ukraine?
#63
Bogging down Putin's New Russian Empire is a vital interest.
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Except no one answered the poster's reasonable question. What vital American interest is at stake in Ukraine?
One I can see.
Bleed Russia dry and grind their capability down so they can't keep invading and going after NATO members. Russia would be humiliated and have a choice between a long and very public retreat or nukes.
What are you talking about? There is no "Empire." There's just Russia, the Donbas and Ossetia. None of the latter two regions has anything to do with NATO or the West.
keepinvading and going after NATO members.
Ukraine was never a "NATO member." Biden and Zelensky both said it will never be a NATO member. Russia did not invade any NATO member state; it invaded Ukraine, a war torn country bitterly divided between a Russian-leaning eastern part and an EU-leaning western part.
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ref # 65
Actually no, they are valid strategic options. If you reckon that the next decade, and perhaps one thereafter, will remain the chessboard for three superpowers and several emergent regional hegemons, then grinding down and exposing the limited conventional abilities of one (Russia) serves quite well. It limits Russian economic and political alliances for years, places increasing strain on the second superpower (China) to support the decimated Russian economy and morale of the depleted partner in triangulation against the West, and chills the hegemons (India/Brazil/?) from making the wrong choice about the supposed "cleaving" of the East-West factions. Further, it allows the Third Superpower(s) (NATO/USA/Japan/Korea) to focus almost exclusively on the Pacific threat, re-industrialization, energy dominance, and economic distancing from the Chinese soft-warfare and elite-capture strategy that has so deeply damaged the West. Said distancing will weaken the over-extended Chinese economy as the West increasingly spends it money at home or elsewhere, impoverishing the growth-or-die Chinese ponsi-style business model.
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Speaking in very approximate terms, the Chinese economic issue is "Who can we sell our stuff to?" And in those oversimplified terms, this what the world looks like to China:
China’s Top Trading Partners (Chinese Exports, 2021):
#71
Russia looks better in 2021 projected GDP terms, but even then it doesn't crack the top ten. To put it harshly, 50 million South Koreans outproduce 140 million Russians.
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50 million South Koreans outproduce 140 million Russians
Well to be fair, the Koreans aren't drunk on Vodka most of the time.
#74
^ I may be misinterpreting the numbers or my sources may be in error, so if you have numbers that show Russis to be an economic powerhouse -- from China's perspective-- I'll certainly look at them.
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Except no one answered the poster's reasonable question. What vital American interest is at stake in Ukraine?
Testing all sorts of weapons against Russian/Soviet ones as China's weapons are based on them and also NKor's. It's also a good time to see strategy that works against Russian/Soviet styles over time and how Russian styles adapt.
I am well aware that Taiwan is doing so in full detail likely even embedding with Ukrainian troops.
I've seen evidence that Taiwan is placing lots of stingers and older M-60 tanks in strange places to surprise potential invaders. After all in INTERESTING TIMES life can be interesting.
Also, I know US weapons developers are watching everything with immense curiosity. I expect all sorts of new toys to appear.
Although I can't keep from mumbling "Bright Pebbles" and "Rods from God".
#76
There is no "Empire." There's just Russia, the Donbas and Ossetia.
Off the top of my head:
Georgia in 2008: Russia occupied the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions.
Moldova in the 1990s: Russia occupied Transnistria.
Crimea in 2014: Russia annexed it as a prelude to starting the first round of Donbas nonsense.
And then there are the recent hysterical threats to attack former Warsaw pact countries next if they continue to support the Ukraine.
For the romantics in President Putin’s circle, the break up of the Soviet Union, the successor state to the Russian empire, is unnatural and fated to be reversed. For the pragmatists, the break up leaves the Russian rump dangerously exposed and must be reversed.
#77
Almost everything asserted in #67 is false, to the point of being delusional.
grinding down and exposing the limited conventional abilities of one (Russia) serves quite well. It limits Russian economic and political alliances for years
This is the exact opposite of what is happening. Russia is bulking up its alliances with India and China. This is standard balancing behavior. When a super power becomes more aggressive and seeks to dominate, all the other powers seek to balance it. When the US stupidly invaded Iraq, Germany and Russia joined forces to oppose the US diplomatically and politically. The Germans and Russians and the French sought to offset what they saw as an out of control hyperpower.
The USA should be rallying all of China's powerful neighbors -- especially India and Russia -- against China. This is what Trump was trying to do. Instead, China India and Russia are drawing closer together to offset an aggressive and put of control, reckless, foolish Biden administration.
Thanks for this, though: you've shown clearly how myopic and upside down the current elite American understanding of global realities is.
#84
from the South China Morning Post: China-Russia relations in 2022: an alliance by any other name?
"2021 saw the two countries draw closer together than ever in recent years, with bilateral trade surpassing pre-pandemic levels and cooperation on the energy front
Most outstanding, however, was military collaboration, which could deepen next year"
from the New York Post: China and Russia forming a new axis to challenge the West
By Harry J. Kazianis
March 8, 2022
from the Georgetown Journal of Strategic Affairs The Logic behind China and Russia’s Strategic Alliance-like Partnership
Author: Min Ye
Published: April 14, 2022
"Beijing and Moscow’s new-era strategic partnership of coordination reflects their shared insecurity and vulnerability in the U.S.-led global order. Their partnership is a declaration of joint counterbalancing on the global stage and an explicit commitment to support each other’s security concerns."
from the Jerusalem Post: Russia-China ties: analysis of the decade's big story
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
Published: JANUARY 1, 2022
#85
India's already on Russia's side. From The American Conservative:
America Should Be Realistic About India
"America and most Western countries cannot fill the void that would be left by Russia if India were to toe the line of the Western alliance and sever its relationship with Russia. Russia is India’s largest arms supplier, its partner for the development of its supersonic missile “Brahmos,” supplier of crude at discounted rates, and an old friend. America is none of those things. The U.S. will not supply India with the much-needed arms and ammunition, even as it supplies Pakistan -- at least, not until Henry Kissinger’s doctrines are discarded by the wayside. It is not going to jointly develop supersonic missiles with India, and in fact sanctioned India for nuclear tests.
"The difference between India and America’s foreign policy approaches lies in their visions of the world. India sees a multipolar global order. America under Biden is still living the unipolar dream. As Elbridge Colby puts it 'a moralistic foreign policy turns into hypocrisy when it inevitably meets reality'."
#86
#84, #85 -- Thanks for the tangible references. So far I've only looked at the NY Post article, which says in part:
"Over time, the Russian people — who will still feel the bite of sanctions — will surely grow to understand that China will soon become a sort of imperial overlord. Chinese merchants, traders and labor will come to Russia in droves, doing what they have done to countless African nations: trade Chinese cash to prop up an evil regime in exchange for the looting of the country.
"In some respects, the coming Chinese-Russian axis is perhaps the greatest political-science experiment of all time. No nation has fallen so far, so fast, that it will need to be saved in such a manner. And knowing that China and Russia have been many times rivals in the past — they nearly went to war in 1969; so much for communist solidarity — such an arrangement may not last the test of time."
I'm not sure that's the argument you want to make, but your call.
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And here's a link to the JPost story. The article is bylined January 1, and the actual title is: "Russia-China ties will be the big story of 2022 - analysis". The key graf seems to me to be:
“In 2021, Russia and south and east Asian powers pushed ahead with bilateral cooperation. At the beginning of December, Putin paid a visit to India. It was his second foreign visit for the entire year,” it says.
"The report also discusses close ties with China. “By and large, the situation on the world stage during the outgoing year often gave Putin a chance to cite Chinese wisdom. ‘One proverb, as you may know, says, “God forbid living in a time of change.” However, we are there already, whether we like it or not, and these changes are becoming deeper and more fundamental,’ Putin said while speaking at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club think tank in October.”
"The report appears to indicate that Russia sees the recent global crisis as an opportunity. It will use this to work more closely with China, and Beijing also looks to exploit the opportunity."
Which sounds good for Russia-China-India cooperation but isn't helpfully specific. And was written before the recent events in Ukraine.
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You're welcome. Read them all. Don't rely on any one view. Thee are dozens of others. The Russia-China alliance is the biggest story of the decade.
#89
#62 Except no one answered the poster's reasonable question. What vital American interest is at stake in Ukraine?
Posted by: Crump Clolurong2658 2022-05-17 15:19
Answer: Can a small non-NATO, non-Western, former USSR country defeat the Russian Army using western military technology? i.e. Star-Link Satellite network vs Russia's walkie talkies. Foot soldier held laser guided rockets verses tanks/heavy armor. Unmanned drones vs manned aircraft. US artillery accurate at 30 miles against Russian artillery with effective range of 20 miles. Can the West's Intelligence gathering listen to every form of Russian army communication and then some (listen in on phone conversations of soldiers families)? This is a rare golden opportunity to beta test many things.
#91
The Russia-China alliance is the biggest story of the decade.
The last time I checked they were tied at the Marxist waist since Mao consolidated his power in post WW2 China. It's been rocky at times, but I don't recall them being in aligned otherwise no matter the delusions of the West. The Chinese will do what's in China's interest. If that means exploiting the nativity of westerners, so be it.
#92
While you get to beta-test your toys, the cost of your fun to America is:
- The nightmare (for the USA) alliance of China + Russia, with India refusing to follow America or join America
- a sharp divide between the West and the pro-Russia, pro-China "Rest" of the world -- with the former comprising about two dozen nations with less than half the world's GDP and the latter comprising most of the world's GDP and about 80% of its population and natural resources
- a sharp decline in usage of the dollar as the Rest of the World turns away from the US toward China and Russia
- Devastating inflation and recession aka "stagflation" that will cause America's growth rate to fall even further behind China's and India's growth rates, accelerating America's relative decline
- thanks to stagflation, a sharp decline in living standards for American workers, leading to even greater political division and social unrest
.... that's one hell of a price tag for America to pay for your little Starlink beta test.
Accelerated American decline so a few geeks can play with their toys: Unbelievably foolish.
#93
I am amazed by the Russian Troll commitment to our little site? Paid and lockstep in message. It must cost the Soviet Putin Government at least $15/hr with minimum wages kicking in. Memorial Day is a holiday, requiring double time, so I predict it'll be a troll-free day. Cheap bastards Heroes of the Proletariat!
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"troll"
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Just a patriot who's sick of your mindless shilling for Shit-For-Brains Biden, Pelosi, McConnell and their retarded Freakshow's wag the dog adventures overseas
#96
I am amazed by the Russian Troll commitment to our little site
Curious indeed that a little news aggregator for the WOT attracts so much attention. Kinda makes you think there is something more going on under the covers, eh?
#97
Just a patriot who's sick of your mindless shilling for Shit-For-Brains Biden, Pelosi, McConnell and their retarded Freakshow's wag the dog adventures overseas
Do we need further proof they don't /read/ ANYTHING posted here?
#98
I'm impressed. Remember here at Rantburg we try to refrain from feeding the trolls. It seems we have not played well in a while. Where is .com when we need him. For you trolling this site, he was a troll slayer...
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I like the part where India and China are on the same team.
No doubt they've set aside their recent dust-up and no longer have any border disputes.
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As for India -- there are 14,000 Indian citizens in Russia.
There are 2.7 million Indian citizens in the US, and another 1.8 million US citizens of Indian ancestry.
Which country has a bigger impact on the Indian economy?
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just an amused observer from Asia China?
A Chinese Doctor can't find a job in a Hospital in the US, so he opens his own clinic and puts a sign outside reading 'GET TREATMENT FOR $20 - IF NOT CURED GET BACK $100.'
An American lawyer thinks this is a great opportunity to earn $100 and goes to the clinic.
Lawyer: "I have lost my sense of taste."
Chinese: "Nurse, bring medicine from box No. 14 and put 3 drops in patient's mouth."
Lawyer: "Ugh. this is kerosene."
Chinese: "Congrats, your sense of taste is restored. Give me my $20."
The annoyed lawyer goes back after a few days to try to recover his money.
Lawyer: "I have lost my memory. I can’t remember anything."
Chinese: "Nurse, bring medicine from box no. 14 and put 3 drops in his mouth."
Lawyer (annoyed): "This is kerosene. You gave this to me last time for restoring my taste."
Chinese: "Congrats. You got your memory back. Give me $20."
The fuming lawyer pays him, then comes back a week later determined to get back $100.
Lawyer: "My eyesight has become very weak I cannot see at all."
Chinese: "Well, I don't have any medicine for that, so take this $100."
Lawyer (staring at the note): "But this is $20, not $100!”
Chinese: "Congrats, your eyesight is restored. Give me $20"
[IsraelTimes] An Arab Israeli was among button men who engaged in intense festivities with Israeli forces in the Jenin area on Friday, Channel 12 news reports.
The network says the 18-year-old, whom it does not name, was hospitalized in Israel alongside Daoud Zubeidi, after they were maimed in the battle. Zubeidi, whose brother is an imprisoned terror chief, later died of his wounds.
The report, which does not cite a source, says the man was born to a Paleostinian father and Israeli mother, and lives in Jenin.
[KhaamaPress] Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... has been asked to attend the Afghan Assembly, according to a Taliban diplomat.
The Taliban ambassador to Moscow, Jamal Nasser Gharwal, was reported by Russia’s Sputnik news agency as stating that the group had organized an “Afghan Assembly” conference and that Ashraf Ghani had been invited to visit Kabul.
Before the Taliban captured Kabul on August 15, 2021, Ashraf Ghani and his wife fled from the presidential palace, and there are claims that he carried about $21 million from the central bank’s reserves.
Political figures who had sought asylum outside of Afghanistan, according to Nasser Gharwal, are asked to attend.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid had previously told the media that the meeting would take place soon.
The Taliban ambassador to Moscow, Jamal Nasser Gharwal, was reported by Russia’s Sputnik news agency as stating that the group had organized an "Afghan Assembly" conference and that Ashraf Ghani had been invited to visit Kabul.
Before the Taliban captured Kabul on August 15, 2021, Ashraf Ghani and his wife fled from the presidential palace, and there are claims that he carried about $21 million from the central bank’s reserves.
Political figures who had sought asylum outside of Afghanistan, according to Nasser Gharwal, are asked to attend.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid had previously told the media that the meeting would take place soon.
According to reports, members of different sections society will be invited to the meeting, which is expected to be comprehensive. The Taliban will discuss two issues at the meeting, the first of which is Afghanistan’s frozen assets, and the second of these is the Taliban’s political legitimacy.
According to recent reports, the gathering would focus on Afghanistan’s future political structure and the formation of an inclusive government.
Ashraf Ghani has been invited to the meeting, and every time he appears on social media, he receives negative reactions and makes headlines.
Ashraf Ghani’s current residence is unknown. Ashraf Ghani returned to Afghanistan this week, according to the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... News Agency, to ease tensions between the Ghaljai and Durrani tribes.
The news agency backed up this assertion by claiming that Taliban Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Stanekzai remained in Abu Dhabi awaiting Ashraf Ghani’s return.
[IsraelTimes] Police say 6 cops lightly injured, at least 15 Paleostinians arrested; Red Islamic Thingy says 71 maimed as a funeral procession deteriorates into violence for second time in a week.
Paleostinians and coppers clashed fiercely in East Jerusalem on Monday night during the funeral procession of a Paleostinian man who died after being critically maimed during festivities on the Temple Mount last month.
Six officers were lightly injured by stones hurled at them by hundreds of rioters at a cemetery near Jerusalem’s Old City. Two of the officers were taken to a nearby hospital for further medical treatment, police said.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy rescue service said 71 Paleostinians were maimed from rubber bullets, stun grenades and beatings. Thirteen people required hospitalization, including two with eye injuries, it said.
Police said officers arrested 15 people, though Paleostinian media put the figure at 50.
Footage showed rocks raining on the officers at several locations throughout the funeral procession. Other clips showed fireworks being set off in the direction of police, who responded with riot dispersal measures. Police said the rioting took place both during the procession and at the gravesite, as well on Salah a-Din street. Paleostinians also damaged several vehicles during the festivities and struck a number of passers-by, according to police.
Toward the beginning of the funeral, a car accelerated toward Border Police officers securing the procession, Israeli law enforcement said. The officers fired at the vehicle’s wheels until it came to a stop. The five Paleostinians inside were then arrested. No one was harmed in the incident.
Thousands of Paleostinians participated in the funeral procession for 21-year-old Walid a-Sharif. Paleostinians said he died after being hit by a sponge-tipped bullet during the festivities on April 22. Police said he fell and hit his head while throwing rocks.
Israeli authorities returned a-Sharif’s body to his family earlier Monday evening and the latter immediately began a procession that reached the Temple Mount where a handful of participants were seen waving Paleostinian flags. "With our souls and blood, we will redeem you, martyr," the crowd chanted.
Photos from the scene showed the ambulance that transferred the body of a-Sharif with its windows broken and tires slashed. Paleostinian media claimed this was a result of the police’s riot dispersal measures.
This was the second East Jerusalem funeral in days that deteriorated into violence. Friday’s procession for Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh drew international headlines after police were filmed rushing at and beating mourners, including pallbearers when the casket was brought out of a Jerusalem hospital en route to burial, almost causing it to fall to the ground. The Israel Police has offered a series of explanations for its use of force on the day of the funeral, including claiming that a mob of "300 rioters" had seized the casket at the hospital. This was denied by Shireen Abu Akleh’s brother in an interview with The Times of Israel on Sunday.
Clashes and unrest had been breaking out at the al-Aqsa Mosque that sits atop the Temple Mount nearly every day during the holy Moslem month of Ramadan in April.
Police said a-Sharif was one of the masked youths hurling rocks when he fell over and hit his head on the stone floor. His family disputed this, saying he was hit by a sponge-tipped bullet, used by police that morning.
Police published footage of what they said was a-Sharif, his face covered in a black and white checked keffiyeh, repeatedly throwing stones and rocks at Israeli security forces.
Hours after his death, Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, said a-Sharif was a member of the terror group.
The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group issued a statement threatening Israel in the wake of a-Sharif’s death.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:33 Channel One military commander Irina Kuksenkova reports on the current situation around Azovstal:
“Today everything is over - the wounded who were taken from Azov were under guard in the hospital in Novoazovsk, the rest were taken to Yelenovka, the interrogation will begin in the morning.
Tomorrow, from four in the morning, ours will again continue to take prisoner the rest of the inmates from Azovstal. In total, as I was told, 2,227 people are blocked there. There are even pregnant servicemen (women). The intrigue of tomorrow is the fate of Kalina and Volyn ... "
22:38 According to preliminary information, about 300 militants left Azovstal. About 50 of them were wounded. They are now being taken to the Central Regional Hospital of Novoazovsk, where they will be provided with the necessary medical care. The rest were taken away by buses in the direction of Yelenovka.
17:40 The curfew has been reduced in Melitopol. Now it starts at 21:00 pm and ends at 5:00 am.
17:25 Putin informed his colleagues in the CSTO in detail about the course of the special operation in Ukraine, the issue of using the CSTO forces in Ukraine was not raised at the summit, the Secretary General said.
17:02 During the shelling of the outskirts of Kherson from the Smerch MLRS, an 84-year-old local resident was killed. The shelling was carried out from the side of the Nikolaev region, they hit with cluster munitions.
Thus, the Armed Forces of Ukraine once again signaled that they do not consider Kherson a part of Ukraine; that for them it is an enemy city with a hostile population, to which they will take revenge for the fact that they failed to arrange a “second Mariupol” there.
13:19 In Odessa, a former camp site was destroyed by a missile strike. Most likely, the Ukrainian servicemen converted it into a barracks.
11:35 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published personnel combat work of Russian mortars. Crews reconnoiter enemy positions using drones, after which they open fire almost immediately. 120mm ammunition allows you to destroy firing positions and strongholds at a distance of more than seven kilometers.
11:31 Another Belarusian Nazi named Pavel “Volat”, who arrived in Ukraine to kill Russians, was destroyed.
11:12 Washington deliberately "clouds" its military-biological activities in Ukraine - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
11:04 Briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defense (05/16/2022) The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
During the day, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit two command posts, including the command post of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade in the Tsapovka region of the Kharkov region, 16 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, eight long-term firing points and five warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons in areas of the settlements Krasny Liman of the Kharkiv region, Vladimirovka and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as Berestovoye of the Luhansk People's Republic.
As a result of the strikes, more than 360 nationalists were killed, 78 units of military equipment were disabled.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit three command posts, 104 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, as well as two fuel depots.
Rocket troops and artillery hit 325 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, 14 command posts and 24 artillery batteries in firing positions.
Russian air defense systems in the areas of the settlements of Evgenovka, Mykolaiv region and Velyka Kamyshevakha, shot down two Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the air.
In addition, one Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft was shot down near Zmeiny Island. Ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over the settlements of Novosvetlovka in the Luhansk People's Republic, Dementievka, Izyum and Malye Prohody in the Kharkiv region, Donetsk, Vysokoye and Kalinovskoe in the Donetsk People's Republic, including two Soviet-made Tu-143 Reis jet aircraft.
In addition, in the areas of Malaya Kamyshevakha, Snezhkovka, Shpakovka, Ivanovka, Kharkiv region and Chernobaevka, Kherson region, 18 rockets of the Smerch multiple launch rocket system were intercepted.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 168 aircraft, 125 helicopters, 889 unmanned aerial vehicles, 307 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,108 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 381 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 1,529 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,949 units of special military vehicles.
11:00 In Rubezhnoye, seven Americans who participated in the battles on the side of Kyiv were killed, Alaudinov, assistant to the head of Chechnya, said.
10:52 Air defense went off in Kherson. Seven missiles "Hurricane" were shot down.
10:04 Departure (loading on S-17) from the USA of the next batch of 155mm / 39 light towed howitzers M-777 of the BAE Systems company to Ukraine.
09:38 The Russian Armed Forces delivered another blow near Zatoka in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district of the Odessa region. According to local residents, another tourist center favored by foreign "tourists" has been calibrated.
09:30 The main results of the SVO in Ukraine for May 15, 2022:
The Russian Armed Forces attacked a warehouse with foreign weapons near Lvov.
The offensive near Izyum continues from the side of Pashkovka to Gusarovka, battles are being waged for the Slavyansk-Barvenkovo road.
Under Severodonetsk, the zone of control is expanding, the battles for Voronovo have begun.
The cleansing of Toshkovka continues, as well as the attack on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the New York area. In Avdeevka, Novobakhmutovka, Sands and Novomikhailovka positional battles.
A counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was thwarted in the Gulyai-Pole area.
09:15 In the morning, the Russian Armed Forces struck near Ochakov: one of the barges that blocked the entrance to the Dnieper estuary in the section Ochakov - Pervomaisky Island - Kinburn Spit was hit. The last time the barges were hit was on May 10.
09:05 Economic convoys for sending goods began to form in the Kherson region. - Deputy head of the military-civilian administration Kirill Stremousov.
08:31 TASS: in Ukraine, they began to initiate criminal cases against Kherson doctors and teachers, who continued to work after the region was liberated by the Russian Armed Forces.
08:22 Kherson region has tuned in to full-fledged cooperation with the regions of the Russian Federation on agricultural products.
[Garowe] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan... on Monday signed an order to deploy U.S. troops to Somalia amid heightened concerns about the country’s Islamic bad boy rebels, Ohfergawdsake!
known as al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... The move is a reversal of President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s decision last year to remove nearly all 700 special operations forces that had been operating there.
Biden’s decision, confirmed by a senior administration official, comes after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin requested the deployment "to reestablish a persistent U.S. military presence in Somalia to enable a more effective fight against al-Shabaab, which has increased in strength and poses a heightened threat."
The official, who requested anonymity to discuss a decision that has not been formally announced, said American forces already in the region would be repositioned.
U.S. military commanders have been deploying U.S. forces into Somalia for short rotations since Trump ordered American troops out during his final days in office in 2021.
But Pentagon officials did not see that as an "effective long-term strategy" and had been considering recommending the redeployment for some time, according to a U.S. military official who was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoken on the condition of anonymity.
Biden’s decision to sign the order was first reported by The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Al-Shabaab, which has ties with al-Qaeda, has made territorial gains against Somalia’s federal government in recent months, reversing the gains of African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeepers who once had pushed the holy warriors into remote areas of the country.
Word of the deployment decision came after Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who served as Somalia’s president between 2012 and 2017, was announced on Sunday as the winner of a protracted election.
#3
He's not inept. He really and truly is bent on destroying this country - and lining his family's and friends' pockets while he does so.
No one who cares about this country would be plunging us BACK into a worthless shithole like Somalia.
No American patriot would trash our economy, create hyperinflation, bring us to the brink of a recession - and then spend SIXTY BILLION on a totally worthless adventure in a shithole like Ukraine.
Last time, (1993) a Democrat President on the skids deployed troops to Somalia, was to cover his declining poll numbers. The group I worked with lost 3 very good people.
One of which was a good friend that I worked with for 4 years. Rest in Peace "Griz".
You didn't see the vid/pics from the other day when he arrived at the White House and his fan club and the staff ah'ed and oo'd around him while the puppet wandered aimlessly in the background?
#10
He doesn't have the continence to destroy his underpants; he's just along for the ride at this point. Dr. Jill may have a heckler's veto, but the trust fund machine is well in place.
[IsraelTimes] Authorities in Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... have arrested a university professor on security charges and "suspicious foreign links," Iranian media reports today.
The semiofficial Mehr news agency identifies the professor as Saeed Madani, but doesn’t provide details or say when and where he was taken into custody. The report says the academic had met with allegedly suspicious foreign citizens and carried messages from them to local activists in Iran.
Madani, a sociology professor at Tehran’s government-run Allameh University, was also an activist, says Mehr. He was summoned by the courts several times in the past, and was once, in 2019, banned from traveling abroad.
A representative for Madani can’t immediately be reached for comment.
Iran has in recent weeks intensified its crackdown on dissent, including with raids on activists. Over the weekend, a statement from award-wining filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and others said authorities recently raided offices and homes of several filmmakers and other industry professionals, arresting some of them.
Iran’s conservative authorities, many with religious sensibilities, control all the levers of power in Iran. They have long viewed many activities as part of a "soft war" by the West against the Islamic Theocratic Republic. They say Westernization is attempting to tarnish the country’s Islamic beliefs.
State media reported last Friday that authorities had arrested at least 22 demonstrators protesting sudden price hikes of subsidized staple foods. And on Saturday, Ahmad Avaei, a member of parliament from the city of Dezful in southwestern Khuzestan province, said one person was killed during the unrest.
The unrests follow Iran’s announcement earlier in the week that the cost of cooking oil, chicken, eggs and milk would rise by as much as 300%, as food prices surge across the Middle East due to global supply chain snarls and Russia’s invasion of major food exporter Ukraine.
[Western Journal] Throughout the tenure of former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy made a habit of asking her tough questions, which she often struggled to answer.
On her first day, new White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
...lipstick lesbian married to a CNN political reporter, Israel-hating former national spokesperson for Soros-backed MoveOn.org, senior Biden2020 campaign advisor — she ticks all the Biden administration’s boxes independent of ability, for which she is no doubt properly grateful...
signaled this trend will not end anytime soon.
"The president’s Twitter account posted the other day, ’You want to bring down inflation? Let’s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share,'" Doocy began.
#2
Sounds like she stole most of Kamala's word salad...
Reminds me of a beautiful song.."When you say nothing at all..."
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#3
How about better Federal Spending.
"President Joe Biden released a $6.011 trillion federal budget proposal in May 2021 for fiscal year (FY) 2022. The U.S. government estimates it will receive $4.174 trillion in revenue through Sept. 30, 2022, creating a $1.837 trillion deficit for Oct. 1, 2022."
In simpler financial terms.
The 2022 Federal Operations & Admin Overhead for the Federal Government is 144.01% MORE than Collected Revenues.
OF WHICH $3.478 Trillion is just to keep the lights on and pay everyone. Which is about 83.32% of collected revenues,
leaving 16.68% of our actual collected Tax $$$$ to do things. This in part is why THEY run $Trillion dollar deficits.
#14
Oh, come on now. She (It) was absolutely THE most qualified for the job. Surely the vetting process was quite rigorous...well, until they saw she/it checked the appropriate demographic blocks, et voila!
[YouTube - Sky News] The Russian Defense Ministry has said it has reached a deal to evacuate wounded Ukrainian fighters from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
Ukraine's defense ministry says 264 fighters have now left the plant.
[REGNUM] An agreement was reached on the removal of wounded Ukrainian Nazis blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol to the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on May 16.
As part of this agreement, a regime of silence has been declared in the area of the plant.
"On May 16, as a result of negotiations with representatives of Ukrainian military personnel blocked on the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol, an agreement was reached on the removal of the wounded," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
"Currently, a silence regime has been introduced in the area of the enterprise and a humanitarian corridor has been opened, along which wounded Ukrainian servicemen are delivered to a medical facility in Novoazovsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic to provide them with all the necessary assistance," the Russian military specified.
Recall that the Nazis from the Azov Regiment (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), as well as other Ukrainian security forces, are blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant.
According to some reports, among them there may be about 600 wounded of varying severity.
[AlAhram] The US is set to remove five inactive turban groups from its foreign terrorist organizations list, including al-Jamaa al-Islamiya
... the State Department at the moment prefers to spell it Gama’a al-Islamiyya...
...The Islamic Group. Sunni Islamist alignment in Lebanon. The group was founded in 1952 as the Leb branch of the Moslem Brüderbund. Its current leader is Faisal Mawlawi. The party has a military wing known as the al-Fajr Forces. Currently they have 1 seat in the Lebanese Parliament... , which is blamed for terrorist attacks that have killed hundreds of coppers, civilians and tourists in Egypt.
Active since the late 1970s, the group has been blamed for a campaign of violence in Egypt, especially in the 1990s, and is designated by the country as a terrorist group.
The five groups are expected to be formally removed from the US blacklist next week, the US State Department said in notices to politicians, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya has been on the US foreign terrorist organizations list over the past 25 years, since 1997. This was the same year that saw a massacre by Islamist bully boyz of 71 people, including tourists, outside the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor.
Although investigations have proved the group members were behind the massacre, the group denied in 2013 its involvement in the attack.
MAJOR ATTACKS
The Egyptian Islamist movement surfaced in the eighties and nineties with a spate of terrorist attacks aimed at overthrowing the regimes of Presidents Anwar El-Sadat and Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... The group is believed to have been involved in the liquidation of President Anwar El-Sadat in 1981 during the commemoration ceremony of the 1973 victory over Israel in the October War.
The group is also believed to have been involved in the liquidation attempt against President Hosni Mubarak in 1995, along with the Islamist group Egyptian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , and the liquidation of parliament speaker Rifaat El-Mahgoub in 1990.
Other terrorist operations have also been blamed on the group, including the murder of well-known columnist Farag Foda in 1992. In 1996, the group killed several Greek tourists mistaken for Israelis outside the Europa Hotel in Cairo.
Following years of confrontations with security forces, the Islamist group's presence has been barely felt over the past decades.
In the late nineties, the group launched a non-violence initiative, where its members formally renounced violence and bloodshed.
Following the 2011 revolution, the group took the political route, establishing El-Benaa Wel Tanmia (Building and Development) political party. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the Supreme Administrative Court issued a final ruling in 2020 to dissolve the party and confiscate its funds for funding terrorist groups.
[YouTube] Vladimir Putin claims that Russia invaded Ukraine to halt the eastward expansion of the NATO alliance. Three months into the war, Putin has misplayed his hand right into his alleged fear, as Finland and Sweden look set to join it.
This video examines Putin's execution of "domino theory" doctrine---the idea that failing to stop one threat leads to more threats down the line. Often absent from domino theory discussions is the fact that fighting wars weakens your military capacity to win other conflicts later. Thus, fighting for reputation creates a dilemma, and perhaps one that Putin poorly navigated this time around.
I am an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, I was a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. I received a PhD in political science from the University of Rochester in 2015, and I am also the author of Game Theory 101: The Complete Textbook. Check out all my material at gametheory101.com
[KhaamaPress] Local sources in Kunduz province reported festivities between Tajik border guards and Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... forces on the border between the two countries.
According to a resident of Kunduz province’s Imam Sahib district, whose name was omitted due to the sensitivity of the matter, the clash occurred near Sher Khan Bandar
...which always makes me think of the tiger in The Mowgli Stories...
on Monday, May 16, and lasted for four hours.
He continued by stating that the border guard festivities began after a verbal confrontation, with the Taliban firing the first shot.
.The clash happens between as the Russian President Vladimir Putin ..President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon met three days ago to discuss bilateral security issues.
Previous skirmishes have also occurred on the Afghan-Pak border, as well as the Islam Qala border with Iran.
Local Taliban officials have denied the border festivities, but prominent Taliban officials have remained silent.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[YouTube - Perun] This war has produced some truly interesting takes - so many that I'm already planning my next myth-busting video as we speak.
[FoxNews] A Russian lawmaker is warning Friday that recent comments from Poland’s leaders are encouraging Moscow to "put it in first place in the queue for denazification after Ukraine." 
[Hot Air] A Republican from Wyoming, Senator 
[Brownstone] In his classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell famously wrote, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever." This striking image served as a potent symbol for totalitarianism in the 20th Century. But as Caylan Ford recently observed, with the advent of digital health passports in the emerging biomedical security state, the new symbol of totalitarian repression is "not a boot, but an algorithm in the cloud: emotionless, impervious to appeal, silently shaping the biomass." The new forms of repression will be no less real for being virtual rather than physical.
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...Arabic for 
[ToloNews] More than 130,000 troops have been recruited, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said, adding that it is aiming toward 150,000.
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[IsraelTimes] 
[Rudaw] Ten Kurdish female deminers, the first group of its kind in Iraq, have been clearing mines dispersed across the Kurdistan Region’s border areas for seven months, defusing active explosive ordnances that pose a threat to those residing in the area.
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...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 
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat 
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
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[twitter] KAMALA: "We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues, to tackle these challenges, and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together...We will work together"
...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury...
...The nation is noted for 
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan...
...They hate 
The Russian Defense Ministry has said it has reached a deal to evacuate wounded Ukrainian fighters from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
.The clash happens between as the Russian President 
