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Domestic baby formula production is one of the most regulated and subsidized products in America, distorting the market so grotesquely that it has centralized around just a few companies, essentially an oligopoly. This crony capitalist market concentration left the supply vulnerable when Abbott, one of the manufacturers, had to issue a recall due to a potential contamination issue. (Which the Food and Drug Administration was warned about months in advance and did nothing about).
Didn't realize it was so constrained. Almost like it is a prescription drug.
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What happened to 'wet nurses' or making your own formula, or pumping it up in advance?
Guess how people fed babies before Gerbers in a jar. Yes, the mom's chewed it up in their own mouths, carefully spit into a tiny spoon, or onto their finger, and fed it to the infants.
Poor bastard - his first big win in a Grand Tour and he hits himself in the eye with the cork from the celebration champagne bottle. First time I've ever heard something like that.
Biniam Girmay's celebrations on the podium after winning stage 10 of the Giro d'Italia have turned out to be race ending, with the Eritrean confirming on Wednesday morning that he won't be lining up for stage 11.
On Tuesday, Girmay was opening the traditional large bottle of sparkling wine during the podium ceremony when the cork flew out and hit his left eye. According to a statement from the Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux team, he has suffered a hemorrhage in the anterior chamber of the left eye.
Girmay was assessed on the scene in Jesi and taken to hospital for checks before returning to his team’s hotel to celebrate his victory, although a decision on his continued participation in the Giro was scheduled for the following morning.
[NYP] UFO sightings were a fringe thing in the ’60s, a fun mainstream pursuit in the ’70s (a friend of mine staged one with a frisbee and a camera that produced a suitably grainy black-and-white image that could have been used on "In Search Of" and probably was) and took a regrettable detour into an obsession with alien body-cavity exploration techniques in the ’80s.
At the moment when the public decided aliens from the Fleepgort Star System probably didn’t travel 11 million miles to rummage around in the bodily orifices of National Enquirer readers, the UFO industry went the way of the "Star Trek" convention, and became a laughingstock. Those among us who still cared in the ’90s continued to get information from a documentary series called "The X-Files," but otherwise things were pretty quiet on the spaceman beat.
On Tuesday, Congress held a hearing on UFOs, now known as Unexplained Aerial Phenomena so people won’t giggle as much, for the first time in 50 years: finally, a stimulus package for the imagination! (And one that didn’t cost anything much.) In opening statements, Congressmen assured us that this is a really serious subject, y’all, and there was to be no joking around, nor was anyone to call
[Reuters] London, May 18 - The pound fell against the dollar on Wednesday after data showed British inflation rising to 9%, the highest level in 40 years.
[SaharaReporters] The leader of the Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihad (JAS), popularly known as the Boko Haram ...not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorist group, Alhaji Ari-Difinoma, has reportedly surrendered to the Nigerian Army.
Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in Lake Chad, reported that the radical preacher surrendered to the troops of 21 Special Armoured Brigade Bama, Operation Hadin Kai, on Monday, May 16, 2022, after he was forced out of his hideout following sustained bombardment by troops of Operation Hadin Kai.
Daily Post also reports intensified infighting between Boko Haram and its rival faction, 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.... of the West African Province (ISWAP).
Zagazola noted that ISWAP holy warriors had launched a surprise attack against Boko Haram at Ukuba, a camp that had been repeatedly destroyed by the Nigerian troops but reoccupied by the terrorists, forcing Boko Haram fighters to flee.
Sources told Zagazola that Ari-Difinoma and others ran to hide in a small village located in Mantari village, within the axis of Bama Local Government Area, but were forced out of their hideout by hunger and unending artillery bombardments by the Nigerian troops.
"It was at that point that Mr Ari-Difinoma decided to abandon the rest of his colleagues and ran out to surrender himself," he said.
Alhaji Ari-Difinoma, who is an indigene of Monguno in Borno State, ran one of the radicalisation schools in Ukuba camp in Sambisa Forest under the Darul-Qur’an. He has reportedly recruited many children and youths through his teaching of turban ideologies in the past 10 years.
[SaharaReporters] At least, 30 passengers have been kidnapped by forces of Evil along the Abuja-Kaduna highway, SaharaReporters learnt.
An unspecified number of persons were said to have been shot during the attack.
The attack came barely two months after bandidos derailed a Kaduna-bound train, killing scores and kidnapping several persons including pregnant women, some of whom are still in captivity.
The attack reportedly happened around 4:30 pm on Tuesday, leaving many injured, including women and kiddies.
"The victims were writhing in pain by the roadside while cars were parked on the highway," a source said.
Passengers of a Zamfara State Transport Authority 18-seater bus, one Peugeot 406, two Toyota Corolla, a Golf car, and several other vehicles were attacked by the terrorists.
The forces of Evil had left the scene before the arrival of security operatives, a source informed.
[USA Today] Three men who left the safety of a viewing platform to wade into the river to photograph brown bears at the famous Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park in Alaska were sentenced to jail and each fined $3,000.
"These individuals behaved carelessly and put themselves at great risk," Mark Sturm, superintendent of Katmai National Park and Preserve, stated in a press release. "Brown bears are fierce, territorial predators, especially when concentrated in order to feed on migrating salmon. Things could have easily ended very badly."
Brooks Falls is located on the Brooks River and is a popular summer destination to view salmon leaping over the 6-foot falls as bears congregate and feed on them, sometimes catching the salmon in mid-air.
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Timothy Treadwell to the courtesy phone, please.
"Grizzly Man, a documentary film by Werner Herzog, lays out the story of Timothy Treadwell who decided to go live with grizzly bears and came to a predictable end. Herzog can tell a tale. The film is gruesome without being gory. I found the story fascinating.
[IsraelTimes] Robert Keith Packer told FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... agents he wore antisemitic sweatshirt "because he was cold,’ expressed no remorse for taking part in storming of US Capitol
Federal prosecutors on Monday recommended a prison sentence of more than two months for a Virginia man who stormed the US Capitol wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" sweatshirt.
Photographs of Robert Keith Packer wearing the sweatshirt with the antisemitic message went viral after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. When FBI agents asked him why he wore the sweatshirt, he "fatuously" replied "because I was cold," prosecutors said in their sentencing memo.
"Without expressing any remorse for being part of the rioting that day, Packer continually said it was ’hard to tell’ which side people were on," prosecutors wrote.
More than 100 copperswere maimed when a mob of Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... supporters attacked the Capitol while Congress was holding a joint session to certify President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.... ’s 2020 electoral victory.
US District Judge Carl Nichols is scheduled to sentence Packer on May 23. He faces a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment after pleading guilty in January to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
Prosecutors asked Nichols to sentence Packer to 75 days of incarceration followed by three years of probation and 60 hours of community service.
The words "Camp Auschwitz" were above an image of a human skull on Packer’s sweatshirt. It also bore the phrase "Work Brings Freedom," a rough translation of the German words above the entrance gate to Auschwitz, the concentration camp in Poland where Nazis killed more than 1 million men, women and kiddies.
Packer, 57, of Newport News, Virginia, is a self-employed pipe fitter and a nonlicensed plumber. Prosecutors say he has a lengthy criminal record, with approximately 21 convictions, mostly for drunken driving and other motor vehicle violations.
Packer told the FBI that he was about 10 to 12 feet away from a rioter, Ashli Babbitt, when a police officer fatally shot her.
"He told the agents he heard the shot and saw her fall back from the window she was trying to climb through," prosecutors wrote.
FBI agents arrested Packer a week after the riot. He has remained free pending his sentencing hearing.
Packer was evasive and minimized his actions when FBI agents interviewed him, according to prosecutors.
"He was more interested in relaying how he received hate mail and how he was ’hounded’ by the media for interviews," they wrote.
[IsraelTimes] Military says air control units tracked the aircraft ’throughout the incident’; model appears to be commercially available Chinese-made quadcopter
Israeli troops downed a drone belonging to the Hezbollah terror group on Tuesday after it entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... , the Israel Defense Forces said.
The incident occurred as the military was holding a wide-scale monthlong drill called Chariots of Fire. During the past week, the exercise focused on training for fighting on Israel’s northern front, including against Hezbollah. On Tuesday, the military will be holding one such exercise in the northern city of Haifa.
A statement from the Israel Defense Forces said air control units tracked the unmanned aircraft "throughout the incident" before taking it down.
A picture of the drone released by the military showed a small quadcopter that appeared to be a commercially available model manufactured by Chinese company DJI.
It did not specify how it was brought down as it entered Israeli airspace.
"The IDF will continue to operate in order to prevent any attempt to violate Israeli illusory sovereignty," the statement said.
There was no immediate statement from Hezbollah or affiliated media outlets on the drone downing.
[MAIL] A decorated retired Army General and MSNBC contributor unknowingly shared footage of a video game and claimed it was a Russian plane being shot down by Ukraine before quickly deleting the Tweet when he was corrected.
Four-star general Barry R. McCaffrey's gaffe did not go unnoticed, with some pointing out at the mistake by the former Clinton advisor.
It was noted here, no doubt because some Rantburgers play the game.
'Russian aircraft getting nailed by UKR missile defense. Russians are losing large numbers of attack aircraft. UKR air defense becoming formidable,' McCaffrey wrote in a now-deleted Tweet.
The animation shared by McCaffrey was actually from Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) footage from the video game 'Arma 3.'
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I'll give Barry a pass on this one. Like me, he's an old fok who enjoys seeing the Russians getting their arses handed to them. Until I saw the video with the paratroopers, I too was fooled.
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Sorry, I don't buy it. Think of the footage of actual shoot downs that have been posted here: jerky handheld video with excited foreign speaking voices captured on what's usually a smart phone.
Too good to check will always make you look bad. As it should.
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[IsraelTimes] Shiite group and its allies lost their parliamentary majority, but Israel’s northern neighbor remains a dysfunctional state in which Nasrallah’s terror faction does what it pleases.
[IsraelTimes] Assailant ’neutralized’ near HQ of regional military brigade; no soldiers hurt, no word on attacker’s condition; video shows man approaching 2 soldiers, apparently with knife drawn
A Paleostinian tried to stab an Israeli soldier in the northern West Bank on Tuesday morning before being shot by troops on the scene, the military said.
The Israel Defense Forces said it received reports of a stabbing attempt near the headquarters of the Samaria Regional Brigade.
"A terrorist armed with a knife began running toward soldiers guarding the area, the fighters responded with gunfire," the military said in a statement, adding that the assailant had been "neutralized."
There was no immediate word on his condition.
No troops were hurt.
Surveillance footage appeared to show a man running toward two soldiers. Reports said he was holding a knife in his hand.
The man came within a few yards of the troops before they apparently shot him.
Images from the scene showed several soldiers standing around a person lying on the ground.
"The order is clear — strike the turbans wherever they are, with all types of weaponry," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said later in the day after meeting with IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi and other senior commanders at a military base in the West Bank.
"Whoever raises a hand against an Israeli citizen or soldier will have his blood on his head," the premier added.
[IsraelTimes] Defense Department rejects NYT report that military covered up deaths of civilians in attack on 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.... stronghold, says troops thought only fighters were in the area
An investigation into a 2019 strike by US forces in Syria that killed numerous civilians found no violations of policy or wanton negligence, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
The internal US Army investigation focused on an operation by a special US force operating in Syria which launched an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on an Islamic State bastion in Baghouz on March 18, 2019.
The investigation was sparked last year after the New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported that in the original strike the US military had covered up dozens of non-combatant deaths. The Times report said that 70 people, many of them women and kiddies, had been killed in the strike.
The Times report said a US legal officer "flagged the strike as a possible war crime" and that "at nearly every step, the military made moves that concealed the catastrophic strike."
But the final report of the investigation rejected that conclusion Tuesday. It said that the US ground force commander for the anti-Islamic State coalition received a request for airstrike support from Syrian Democratic Forces fighting the bully boys.
The commander "received confirmation that no civilians were in the strike area" and authorized the strike. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... they later found out there were civilians at the location.
"No Rules of Engagement or Law of War violations occurred," the investigation said.
In addition, the commander "did not deliberately or with wanton disregard cause civilian casualties," it said.
The report said that "administrative deficiencies" delayed US military reporting on the strike, giving the impression that it was being covered up.
The Times cited an initial assessment of the incident saying that about 70 civilians could have been killed. Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby said that 52 combatants were killed, 51 of them adult males and one child, while four civilians died, one woman and three children.
Another 15 civilians, 11 women and four children, were maimed, he said.
Asked if anyone was being punished for the civilian deaths, Kirby said the investigation did not find the need to hold any individuals accountable.The probe "did not find that anybody acted outside the law of war, that there was no malicious intent," Kirby said.
"While we don’t always get everything right, we do try to improve. We do try to be as transparent as we can about what we learn," he said.
More normalcy. thanks to the work of President Trump and despite the despite of President Biden.
[IsraelTimes] Renewal of ties comes after agreements in 2019 between former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the late Chadian president Idriss Deby Itno.
Ben Bourgel, the non-resident ambassador to a host of African nations including Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... and Guinea, presented his credentials to Chad President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.
"This marks an important benchmark in the deepening of the relations between Chad and Israel since their resumption in 2019," tweeted the Israeli Embassy in Senegal. "Ambassador Bourgel and his team will work to strengthen the cooperation between the two countries in areas of common interest such as climate change, agriculture, water management and health."
Israel and Chad announced the reestablishment of diplomatic relations in January 2019, after Chad severed ties with Israel in 1972 due to pressure from Libyan strongman Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... . Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with former Chad president Idriss Deby Itno to agree on increasing bilateral cooperation as well.
The following year, there were mixed reports on whether Chad would establish a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem. Israel said that a bigwig from Chad had indicated his country was willing to open an official diplomatic mission in Jerusalem. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the Al Jazeera Arabic news network quoted the Chad Foreign Ministry as denying the move.
Deby, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, was killed last year on the battlefield in a fight against rebels. His son replaced him as Chad’s president.
[Townhall] Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas assured the American people on Tuesday during a visit to the Rio Grande Valley that his agency is preparing for the expected influx of illegal immigrants if Title 42 officially goes away next Monday.
While still slated to end on May 23, a judge will make a determination whether Title 42 stays or goes as part of a lawsuit that was filed to keep it in place.
"We are preparing for the end of Title 42 based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decision. That does not mean that the border is open beginning on May 23. We continue to enforce the laws of this country. We continue to remove individuals who do not qualify for relief under the laws of this country," Mayorkas explained.
Mayorkas said once Title 42 is removed, they will be able to put punishments on individuals who illegally cross the southern border and do not qualify for asylum, instead of rapid expulsion that does not carry any penalties.
When a reporter asked what message he hoped to send to migrants with the day's event, Mayorkas said the message is to not trust the smugglers.
[Free Beacon] Senate Democrats abruptly canceled a hearing at which President Joe Biden's new disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz was expected to testify, a decision made after embarrassing videos posted by the self-proclaimed "Mary Poppins of disinformation" sparked a political firestorm.
Senate Democrats planned to hold a May 10 hearing on "disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation," just a couple of weeks after Biden tapped Jankowicz to head his administration's newly created Disinformation Governance Board. Democratic leaders were reluctant to have Jankowicz face Republican questioning, however, prompting them to nix the hearing, three Senate offices told the Washington Free Beacon.
"They yanked it when the entire ’disinformation board' blew up," one senior aide told the Free Beacon. "They realized there's no way they could reschedule without Nina Jankowicz being called to testify."
The Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee had the hearing scheduled since April, but the optics of the hearing in light of Jankowicz's negative press led to its abrupt cancellation. Such hearings are normally sleepy events on Capitol Hill, but the controversy surrounding Jankowicz would have made the hearing a spectacle. The hearing would have been an opportunity for Republicans to question not only Jankowicz but also the creation of the board in the first place. The administration has refused to answer questions about its decision to give the disinformation post to Jankowicz, who has drawn criticism for falsely labeling Hunter Biden's laptop a "Russian influence op" and for her flamboyant TikTok videos.
Canceling Senate hearings on such short notice is out of the ordinary and typically does not happen unless a witness or expert falls ill or has a last-minute scheduling conflict. The disinformation hearing, according to multiple Senate offices, had been scheduled since early April and was planned for May 10.
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Embarassing and worse crazy are those who thought the position up in the first place and were like, "Yeah, ask Nina, she would be perfect for the job."
[WIRE] Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk issued a warning on Monday about the rising economic power of China — and how the United States can remain competitive.
During an interview with the "All In" podcast, the world’s richest man said that Americans must "stop the infighting" amid the growing hegemony of China.
"What we’re going to see with China, for the first time that anyone can remember who is alive, is an economy that is twice the size of the U.S., possibly three times the size of the U.S., and it’s going to be very weird living in that world," Musk explained, as reported by Fox Business. "So, we better stop the infighting in the U.S. and stop punching ourselves in the face. There’s way too much of America punching itself in the damn face, it’s just dumb, and think about, hey, ’We gotta be competitive here.’"
With $23 trillion in economic output last year, the United States presently boasts the world’s largest economy. However, China — which boasts a $17.7 trillion economy and has averaged 10% annual GDP growth since 1978 — continues to expand its consumer sector and draw attention from businesses in the Western world.
"There’s a new kid on the block that’s going to be two to three times our size," Musk warned. "We better step up our game and stop infighting."
Amid the rise of China, Musk urged American businesses to stand down from political controversies. "The point of a company is to produce useful products and services for your fellow human beings," Musk said. "It is not some political gathering place."
[PJ] In the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. on Saturday, the political left (and several RINOs) rushed to blame conservatives, Fox News, and even Tucker Carlson specifically for radicalizing the shooter.
This, of course, goes against the shooter’s alleged manifesto, in which he describes himself as a former communist who now falls in the "mild-moderate authoritarian left category."
But that hasn’t stopped the radical left and its allies from playing the "Blame Fox News" and "Blame Tucker Carlson" cards.
And Carlson responded Monday evening on his show.
"You’ve probably heard this document described as a racist manifesto, but that’s not quite right," Carlson noted. "It’s definitely racist, bitterly so. Gendron reduces people to their skin color. That’s the essence of racism, and it’s immoral. But what he wrote does not add up to a manifesto. It is not a blueprint for a new extremist political movement, much less the potential inspiration for a racist revolution. Anyone who claims that it is is lying or hasn’t read it. Instead, Gendron’s letter is a rambling pastiche of slogans and internet memes, some of which flatly contradict one another."
"The document is not recognizably left-wing or right-wing. It’s not really political at all. The document is crazy," Carlson correctly observed. "It’s the product of a diseased and organized mind. At one point Gendron suggests that Fox News is part of some global conspiracy against him. He writes like the mental patient he is. Disjointed. Irrational. Paranoid."
[IsraelTimes] Dubbed Ababil-2, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... says aircraft can carry out attacks from a range of 200 kilometers; move seen as effort to balance power in the region
Iran said Tuesday it inaugurated a production line for manufacturing a new military drone in Tajikistan, a first for both nations.
A report by the official IRNA news agency said the ceremony took place during a visit to the Central Asian nation by Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces.
The move is seen as an effort by Iran to address the balance of power in the region: Afghanistan under its Sunni MoslemTaliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... rulers poses a threat to its two neighbors, predominantly Shiite Iran and secular Tajikistan.
The report said the drone is dubbed the Ababil-2 after a bird in the Koran. It is capable of carrying out attacks as well as surveillance missions from a range of 200 kilometers (124 miles), the report said.
It did not reveal other details such as the capacity of the production line.
The announcement marks the first time that Iran has launched a military production line abroad.
Iran’s drone fleet is believed to have taken a serious blow in mid-February following an attack on an airbase near Kermanshah, in Western Iran, that destroyed hundreds of drones. Tehran officials have blamed Israel for the attack.
Israel has repeatedly warned that Iranian drones are a significant threat to the region — especially as Tehran arms proxies stationed along Israel’s borders.
In March, Israeli military officials said that Iran’s "UAV terror" is a new and global issue, accusing Tehran of directly attacking both military and civilian targets in the Middle East.
The IDF believes Iran is attempting to arm all of its proxies in the region — in Syria, Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... , Iraq, and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... — with hundreds and even thousands of UAVs, in addition to providing military training.
Great example of a typical Radical Islamic Leadership willing to let its citizens STARVE, so that it can build nukes, weapon drones and export Islamic Terrorism.
[Guardian] The US Department of Justice on Tuesday sued Steve Wynn, the billionaire former casino mogul and senior Republican fund raiser, to compel him to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act as an agent of China.
The department said Wynn, 80, had contacted then-US president Donald Trump and members of his Republican administration in 2017 to convey China’s request to cancel the visa of or otherwise remove a Chinese businessperson who had sought political asylum in the United States.
In a statement the Department of Justice said it was seeking to compel Wynn to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (Fara) as the agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and a senior official of the PRC’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS).
"The filing of this suit — the first affirmative civil lawsuit under Fara in more than three decades — demonstrates the department’s commitment to ensuring transparency in our democratic system," said assistant attorney general Matthew Olsen of the justice department’s national security division. "Where a foreign government uses an American as its agent to influence policy decisions in the United States, Fara gives the American people a right to know."
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When is Biden gonna register as 1?
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Selective enforcement yet again as a method of political intimidation and suppression. Why does it overwhelmingly seem to affect only one side of the political divide?
[Free Beacon] A Democratic consulting firm linked to Hunter Biden registered with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
The founders of Blue Star Strategies said in filings under the Foreign Agents Registration Act that they arranged two meetings in 2016 between State Department officials and an attorney of Burisma owner Nikolai Zlochevsky. The founders of the firm, Sally Painter and Karen Tramontano, sought to assess the government's position towards Zlochevsky, who was under an international bribery investigation. They began working for Burisma in late 2015 after an introduction from Hunter Biden. Biden's work for the scandal-plagued Burisma drew scrutiny at the time because his father served as the United States' government's chief liaison to Ukraine.
The filing could mark a significant development in a federal investigation into Biden and his cronies' foreign business dealings. Federal prosecutors are reportedly probing Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine and China. Prosecutors have also reportedly investigated whether Painter and Tramontano, who served in the Clinton administration, violated foreign agent laws by failing to disclose their work for Burisma.
Biden, who joined Burisma's board in April 2014, has claimed his job was to advise the company on international energy deals. But emails from his abandoned laptop show he played a key role in Burisma's public relations efforts in the West. Biden served as the middleman between Burisma and Blue Star for a consulting deal to burnish Burisma's reputation in the eyes of U.S. government officials.
Blue Star's retroactive foreign agent disclosure could be related to the looming federal investigation, or even be part of a settlement deal with prosecutors. The firm said it is registering its work for Burisma "pursuant to guidance from Department of Justice personnel."
According to the foreign agent filing, Blue Star Strategies set up meetings for Zlochevsky's lawyer and State Department officials Amos Hochstein and Catherine Novelli to discuss the United States government's position towards Zlochevsky.
Painter and Tramontano later helped Burisma's public relations efforts by arranging a partnership with Atlantic Council, one of Washington's top foreign policy think tanks. Burisma paid Atlantic Council $300,000 beginning in 2017 to host policy events for the energy company. The think tank entered the partnership despite warnings from State Department officials regarding Burisma's negative reputation.
Former Clinton lowlifes and DC Swamp Rats. Hillary's little girls, making small fortunes out of whoring for every little East European shithole to gain NATO membership
[NYPOST] Billionaire Elon Musk praised Netflix after the streaming giant updated its corporate culture memo with a clear message for employees: embrace working on content from all viewpoints or find another job.
Netflix added a section dubbed "artistic freedom" in what was the first major update to its company mission statement since 2017. The section notes that Billionaire Elon Musk praised Netflix after the streaming giant updated its corporate culture memo with a clear message for employees: embrace working on content from all viewpoints or find another job.
Netflix added a section dubbed "artistic freedom" in what was the first major update to its company mission statement since 2017. The section notes that Netflix publishes content by letting viewers decide "what’s appropriate for them, versus having Netflix censor specific artists or voice."
"Good move by @netflix," Musk tweeted in response to a Wall Street Journal article on the change.
Netflix updated the memo — which is publicly viewable on its job site — following a lengthy episode in which the company faced criticism for backing comedian Dave Chapelle.
t Netflix publishes content by letting viewers decide "what’s appropriate for them, versus having Netflix censor specific artists or voice."
"Good move by @netflix," Musk tweeted in response to a Wall Street Journal article on the change.
Netflix updated the memo — which is publicly viewable on its job site — following a lengthy episode in which the company faced criticism for backing comedian Dave Chapelle.
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Asperger’s Syndrome couples autism with an IQ range between brilliant and genius.
Twitter's choice: admit Musk is right and it has a huge fake userbase, opening up existing management to countless shareholder lawsuits, or kill the deal and be sued for record shareholder value destruction.
I don’t hang out on Twitter, but the seen tweets below that — related or something as calculated by the algorithm — point out that an audit revealed half of President Biden’s followers are fake, that Elon Musk is switching to vote exclusively Republican, and a Project Veritas hidden video of of a Twitter executive explaining their secret anti-free speech evil plan.
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[Korrespondent] 23:10 Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are not currently being conducted in any format, said a member of the Russian delegation, Leonid Slutsky.
23:08 Arestovich on the evacuation from Azovstal: "There is a solution, which is that while the operation is underway, we do not comment. Everything is too fragile there, and one careless word can bring everything down. We will not substitute the guys and girls. When they Those who are involved in the evacuation will say yes, we will comment."
23:05 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin visited the occupied Kherson region and said that it "has great prospects, the region will take its rightful place in the Russian family."
23:02 The Russian army went on the defensive along the entire section from Kherson to Kharkov. The only place where they still do not do this is the Izyum and Lugansk directions, Arestovich said. According to him, the occupants are trying to reach areas that are more convenient to defend - mainly hills, settlements and natural boundaries such as rivers, ravines. They began to dig very actively, added the adviser to the head of the OP.
22:57 Elizabeth II in a yellow and blue outfit opened a new line of London Station
22:24 Zelensky today delivered a speech via video link at the Cannes Film Festival. "I am sure that the dictator will lose. We will win this war," the president said.
21:56 The Russians are trying to make a breakthrough in the Popasnaya area and in the Severodonetsk direction, said the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. According to him, Severodonetsk, Gorskaya hromada and the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway are under constant shelling. However, the evacuation along this route continues.
Gaidai also said that new attempts by the Russians are expected to cross the Seversky Donets near Belogorovka and cut the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway at this point, which is the only route connecting the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk agglomeration with the Donetsk region.
21:51 The founder of the Azov Regiment, the leader of the National Corps party, Andriy Beletsky, said that he was in contact with the Ukrainian defenders of Azovstal, and asked not to comment on their evacuation: “The main thing now is not to harm with your conjectures, ideas, any insiders of the rescue operation itself Therefore, I have a big request to everyone who wants to share their thoughts about what is happening at Azovstal, or to those who have some kind of "secrets", "insiders" and want to share these "insiders" with the whole world, - keep them to yourself, as well as your opinions. In two or three days, I think that the garrison itself will prove it, make it clear how everything went."
21:37 Russia can beat the world record for the loss of an army that invaded the territory of another country, Borrell said at a briefing after a meeting of the EU Council.
21:33 Despite the ongoing war, the EU is already developing a plan for the restoration of Ukraine, writes Sueddeutsche Zeitung. According to the draft document, the allocation of funds will be strictly monitored for corruption and the efforts of the Ukrainian government to carry out reforms. Such reforms should bring the country closer to the EU. According to the document, the reconstruction of Ukraine may take more than ten years. At the same time, the principle of "doing better than it was" should be applied, which will include concern for the climate.
21:26 Because of the destroyed water supply system, Mariupol is threatened with the spread of infectious diseases, including cholera, said Dorit Nitzan, Regional Director for Emergency Situations of the WHO. According to her, WHO is preparing cholera kits and vaccines, and is also collaborating with other non-governmental organizations to help residents in the occupied territory.
According to her, the water supply in Mariupol has been "partially restored", but many pipelines have been destroyed: "It's just a swamp on the streets, and sewage water is mixed with drinking water. This is a huge danger of the spread of many infections, including cholera. We remember that before 2011 there were cases of cholera in Mariupol, and we are getting ready."
21:18 The Cabinet of Ministers has expanded the list of citizens who can qualify for monthly payments of 2,200-2,500 hryvnias from international humanitarian organizations, Shmyhal said. Previously, such payments were provided only to internally displaced persons from among the most vulnerable social categories, and now Ukrainians from the de-occupied territories, settlements located in the zone of active hostilities, as well as citizens in the temporarily occupied territory will be able to receive them.
21:09 Budapest is ready to be a mediator in peace talks between Kiev and Moscow, Hungarian President Katalina Novak said: "This is not our war, but it is also being waged against Hungarians who love peace, strive for security, mutual respect and well-being. We demand an investigation of the military crimes and punishment of the guilty. Novak also stressed that Hungary supports Ukraine's accession to the European community.
21:06 Germany will expand military cooperation with Finland and Sweden, Scholz said: "We will intensify our military cooperation, especially in the Baltic Sea region and through joint exercises." He also stressed that Berlin would seek "very fast" ratification of the entry of European partners into NATO.
21:00 Russian Transneft has restricted access to the monthly schedule of oil shipments from seaports in an attempt to save the Russian oil market, writes Reuters.
20:58 The Russian army uses the Belgorod airport, which previously served only civilian flights, Schemes (Radio Liberty) report, citing satellite images and data from military analysts. So, Planet Labs recorded eight helicopters and several cars on the territory of the civil airport on May 14. The military expert identified the helicopters as Mi-8s.
This explains the fact that, according to the Russians, all flights at the Belgorod airport and a number of other airports in central and southern Russia are "limited." One of the assumptions about the purpose of such a "schedule" is the reception of transport aircraft and helicopters for the transportation of military cargo and personnel, urgent medical evacuation of the wounded.
20:47 The Cabinet of Ministers will temporarily suspend the regulation of prices for gasoline and diesel fuel in order for operators to saturate the market. According to First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko, such an agreement was reached today with market operators. The government expects prices to be up to UAH 58 for diesel fuel and UAH 52 for gasoline.
Sanctions will be applied against market participants abusing the market situation, "the situation will be monitored daily," Sviridenko warned.
20:41 Macron, in a conversation with Zelensky, said that arms supplies to Ukraine would increase in the coming weeks, the press service of the French president said. He also noted that the issue of grain export from Ukraine was discussed.
The heads of state also spoke about post-war security guarantees for Kyiv. Macron also confirmed that the Ukrainian application for EU membership will be considered in June, and reiterated his idea of creating some kind of "European political community" for countries that are not members of the European Union. Earlier, Kyiv categorically rejected the possibility of replacing EU membership with other entities. For Ukraine, the proposal on "alternative options for European integration" is unacceptable, Yermak said.
20:39 Seven buses with Ukrainian defenders of Azovstal arrived at a former penal colony in the DPR-controlled city of Yelenovka near Donetsk, Reuters reports.
20:32 The war is moving into a protracted phase, Reznikov said in an address to the EU Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Secretary General. According to him, in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the invaders are carrying out engineering and fortification work in order to go on the defensive. At the same time, the minister stressed that the war is destroying the Ukrainian economy, and its prolongation entails the risk of a global food crisis, as well as another migration crisis.
Reznikov noted that Belarusian troops are actively maneuvering near the border with Ukraine, so Ukraine reserves forces in case Moscow nevertheless forces Minsk to invade.
The head of the Defense Ministry is convinced that Russia can be defeated on the battlefield - this will free the world from tyranny, and Europe from a constant threat.
In connection with the upcoming NATO summit in Madrid, Reznikov wants the alliance to answer the question - what future does he see for Ukraine: "The NATO Strategic Concept for the next ten years will be adopted. What place will Europe see for Ukraine in the interests of protecting its eastern borders? All of us present here are thinking about updating the security architecture of Europe, at least."
20:13 The NATO leadership says that they will accept Sweden and Finland as soon as possible, but the President of Turkey was on the way. To expand the alliance, the votes of all members are needed. What the international press writes about this is in the article Why Erdogan is against Finland and Sweden in NATO .
20:07 Investigators will interrogate the Ukrainian military from Azovstal, the RF IC said.
20:06 The Coca-Cola plant in Bolshaya Dymerka, Kiev region, will resume work. The company said it plans to restore 100% capacity by the end of May.
19:50 Washington sees no systemic attempts by China to circumvent Western measures to tighten export controls on Russia, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said.
19:48 Slovakia will send a payment for the supply of Russian gas in euros to an account with Gazprombank, which, in turn, will convert the funds into rubles and credit them to Gazprom's ruble account, Deputy Prime Minister, Economy Minister Richard Sulik said. "We will have nothing to do with the second part of the operation. What is important for us is that we pay in euros to Gazprombank," he explained.
19:36 Zelensky reported on a "long and intense" telephone conversation with Macron: "He spoke about the course of hostilities, the operation to rescue the military from Azovstal and the vision of the prospects for the negotiation process. He touched on the issue of fuel supplies to Ukraine. It was also about defense support from France, the preparation of the sixth package of sanctions, possible ways of exporting Ukrainian agricultural products. We discussed in detail the consideration of our application for obtaining the status of an EU candidate."
19:23 In all regions of Ukraine, mobile teams have been created to monitor chemical, radiation and biological threats, Igor Kuzin, chief medical officer, said. He said that mobile groups would respond quickly to emergencies if the Russians use new banned weapons.
In addition, the teams are engaged in epidemiological well-being in the de-occupied territories - they test drinking water, carry out disinsection, disinfection and deratization, examine the soil, etc. Such work has already been completed 100% in the Kyiv region, 70% in the Chernihiv region and 40% in the Sumy region.
18:58 Putin accused the West of what is happening around Ukraine: "Everything that is happening today, including, unfortunately, around Ukraine, is connected with the ill-conceived policy of the so-called collective West, which for decades has ignored Russia's absolutely legitimate concerns in the field of security his security and encouraged the nationalist neo-fascist elements in the Kiev leadership in every possible way.
Also, according to him, the West allegedly "disregarded the problems that developed in the south-east of Ukraine and, in fact, contributed to the continuation of hostilities initiated by the Kyiv regime for eight years."
18:56 In the Donetsk direction, the Russians are trying to conduct offensive operations along the entire line of collision, shelling settlements from artillery, rocket and bomb strikes from Su-35 aircraft, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. In the Severodonetsk direction, with the support of artillery, the occupiers are trying to launch an offensive in the direction of the settlements of Borovenki and Severodonetsk.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy tried to break through the defense of the Ukrainian troops, but had no success, retreated. In the Avdeevka direction, the enemy carried out assault operations in order to take control of the section of the Novobakhmutovka-Novoselovka Second road, but was not successful. In the Kurakhovsky direction, with the support of artillery and aviation fire, he is advancing on Novomikhailovka, the fighting continues. Also, the units of the invaders made an unsuccessful attempt to attack in the direction of the settlement of Maryinka.
Enemy ship groupings in the waters of the Black and Azov Seas carry out the tasks of isolating combat areas and blocking civilian navigation. In Crimea, measures are being taken to restore the combat capability of Russian units that have suffered significant losses.
18:48 Dmitry Polyansky, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said that the Ukrainian military from Azovstal "surrendered without any conditions."
18:39 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, confirmed the blow to the Knauf building materials plant in Bakhmut. According to him, rescuers are still putting out the fire, no one was injured.
18:31 Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto signed an application for the country's accession to NATO.
18:16 At least seven buses with the Ukrainian military left Azovstal on Tuesday, accompanied by Russian armored vehicles, Reuters reports, citing eyewitnesses.
18:00 The Tverskoy Court of Moscow fined Radio Liberty 18 million rubles for refusing to remove materials about the war in Ukraine and the number of civilians and Russian soldiers killed.
17:57 Russia used long-range missiles from a submarine in the Black Sea to bomb Lviv. The American publication Defense One cites the opinion of military experts who believe that the use of long-range missiles from submarines in the Black Sea may indicate that the Russian Federation is running out of precision-guided missiles.
17:53 The evacuation bus from Lisichansk and Severodonetsk was fired upon by the Russians with Gradami, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, patrol officers took 36 people from Severodonetsk and Lisichansk. Near the oil refinery and in the Vladimirovka area, the bus came under fire. "Everyone is alive. They got through. The armored truck is working. Everyone is already safe," he said.
17:49 The representative of the US Treasury at the G7 meeting will propose the EU to impose duties on Russian oil as a faster alternative to a direct oil embargo, writes Reuters. Funds from the payment of the fee can be directed to the Fund for the Reconstruction of Ukraine.
17:47 In Mariupol, the occupiers are imitating Ukrainian military attacks on civilians to shoot propaganda videos. So, near the 33rd school, a checkpoint "disguised" in the form of the Armed Forces of Russia of Russians was set up, the City Council reports. The reburial of the bodies of Mariupol residents killed by the Russian army is taking place nearby, a lot of equipment and cleansing brigades are working. Residents report that the occupiers can arrange provocations with real attacks on the local population.
17:41 Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said that Finland and Sweden will jointly apply to NATO on Wednesday, May 18.
17:38 On May 18, the State Duma of the Russian Federation will consider a draft resolution banning the exchange of "Nazi criminals".
17:37 The Ministry of Justice of Russia asked the Supreme Court to recognize the Ukrainian association of Azov as a terrorist organization. The meeting will take place on May 26, 2022.
17:34 Ukraine for the first time received two important awards in the field of cybersecurity CYBERSEC Award - for the heroic resistance to Russian aggression and the protection of the digital borders of the democratic world. The ceremony was held today at one of the largest cybersecurity events in Europe, the CYBERSEC European Cybersecurity Forum, Fedorov said.
17:22 The Russians launched a missile attack on Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, as a result of which a five-story building was completely destroyed and caught fire, said the head of the OVA, Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, at least one person died, and a nine-year-old child was also seriously injured. It is possible that there are other people under the rubble.
Earlier today, local publics reported a severe fire at the Knauf dry building mix plant in Soledar near Bakhmut.
17:06 The Italian Eni has officially announced that it has begun the procedure for opening a double account with Gazprombank to pay for Russian gas in rubles.
16:48 In Kharkov, the only bank of plants in Ukraine and one of the largest in the world burned down. The seeds of many species have been destroyed, some of which can no longer be restored, said the doctor of agricultural sciences, a leading researcher at the Institute of Plant Industry. Yuryev Sergey Avramenko. According to him, more than 160 thousand samples were kept in the bank for hundreds of years and even survived the Nazi occupation.
16:44 G7 finance ministers plan to meet in Bonn this week to agree on the allocation of 15 billion euros to help Ukraine, Reuters reports citing a senior German official. The package will cover three months with short-term funding primarily in the form of grants, which, unlike loans, do not need to be repaid.
16:35 In the Luhansk region, there is electricity only in one settlement out of 42 controlled by Ukraine, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. 818 transformer substations were destroyed or disconnected, 41 settlements are completely de-energized.
In addition, after the occupiers got into the main gas pipeline near Severodonetsk, gas supply remained only approximately in five settlements, in two of them there is gas only in certain areas.
16:27 The "Ministry of Emergency Situations" of the so-called "DPR", referring to the reports of the Ministry of Units of the Russian Federation, working in Mariupol, stated that 12 people were killed during the bombing of the Drama Theater. Even according to the minimum scenario, more than 300 people died there, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. “We also understand where the bodies of the rest have gone. They are hidden under numbers in the unmarked mass graves of Mangush,” he wrote.
16:04 Serbia plans to reduce its dependence on Russian gas by 40% in the second half of 2023, the country's Energy Minister Szopan Mihajlovic said. Now Serbia receives all gas only from Russia.
15:59 Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar said that the Russians no longer have advantages in the air: "The possibility of air strikes throughout Ukraine remains. If until February 24 it was believed that there was almost no Ukrainian air defense, now we state that the enemy has no advantages in air. It is thanks to the work of air defense. And these are hundreds of thousands of saved lives. "
15:40 The Finnish state energy company Gasum refused to pay for gas in rubles and is filing a lawsuit against Gazprom in International Arbitration because of this requirement.
15:37 Biden on Thursday, May 19, will receive the leaders of Sweden and Finland at the White House to discuss their desire to join NATO.
15:30 The Parliament of Finland voted with 188 votes out of 200 for the country's entry into NATO.
15:16 Russian troops attacked the bridge across the Dniester estuary in the Odessa region for the fifth time, this time they fired two rockets. Repair work will require a long time, but so far they are impossible, as well as the operation of the bridge, the Pivden operational command reports.
15:12 Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar said at a briefing that the proposal of the State Duma of the Russian Federation to ban the possible exchange of Azov fighters for Russian prisoners of war is designed for the Russian audience: "This is a political statement designed for internal propaganda and internal political processes in the Russian Federation. From our side we can say that the negotiation process is ongoing and the rescue operation itself is also ongoing."
14:32 Russia is trying to attract foreign media to create fakes. According to the military intelligence of Ukraine, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry is urgently preparing a "press tour" of foreign journalists to the occupied territories of Ukraine. From May 18 to May 21, the invaders plan to show the destroyed areas of Mariupol to the media representatives.
In order to accuse Ukraine of the destruction of the city and the massacres of civilians, Russian propagandists have already brought fragments of Ukrainian ammunition collected from all the occupied regions of the Donetsk region to Mariupol, and they are preparing "local eyewitnesses" brought from Donetsk and Gorlovka who will tell reporters about the "crimes" Ukrainian military in Mariupol.
The so-called "press tour" also includes the departure of the group from Rostov-on-Don and visits by journalists to Kherson, Nova Kakhovka, Skadovsk, Armyansk and Donetsk, where a meeting with Pushilin is scheduled. Moscow is trying to attract media representatives from France, the United States, Germany, Japan, Greece, China, Belarus, India, Venezuela, Bulgaria and the United Arab Emirates to participate in the "press tour".
14:13 The Ukrainian military are advancing in the northern and northeastern direction of the Kharkiv region. Active hostilities are going on in the Volchansk direction, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA.
13:59 In the Kharkiv region, since May 17, the sale of strong alcoholic beverages has been banned until the end of martial law. The ban does not apply to low-alcohol drinks, the sale of which is allowed from 9:00 to 15:00. In catering establishments, the sale of low-alcohol drinks is allowed until 21:00.
13:42 Podolyak confirmed that the negotiation process between Ukraine and Russia has been suspended. "However, it will be restored, and, it seems to me, Zelensky will be the moderator," said the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office. He also stressed that Ukraine is not going to give anything to "save Putin's face".
13:39 From an air strike on the village of Desna in the Chernihiv region, eight people were killed, 12 were injured , the State Emergency Service reported. The enemy fired on the village with four rockets from aircraft on May 17 at about 5:00.
13:37 Minister of Culture Oleksandr Tkachenko assured that Eurovision 2023 will definitely be held in Ukraine, no spare venues will be looked for.
13:29 In Ukraine, 363 people who have expressed a desire to go to the front have been released under the pardon procedure. According to Minister of Justice Denys Malyuska, they are not going to return them back to prison: “We released only those where we were convinced that such persons did not pose a danger to society. <...> As a rule, this concerned those persons whose sentence was served was in the final stages.
13:25 The massacre in Bucha was carried out by fighters from Rubtsovsk, a city in the Altai Territory, "where there is nothing but zones," said Olga Romanova , a Russian human rights activist and head of the Rus Foundation. Commenting on the information that Russian "volunteers" with serious convictions have been seen in Ukraine, she did not rule out that those who, according to documents, are serving sentences, may also end up in Ukraine. These people can be entrusted with the dirtiest work.
“Many were lured by parole. I wouldn’t be surprised if special, special tasks in this so-called army will be performed by people who have this criminal record and according to the documents they are in prison, this has already happened,” said Romanova in air channel Air .
And although the convicts have the option to refuse such an offer, they are unlikely to want to use it, the human rights activist notes: “The Russian prison is now very pro-Putin, Putin is his boy for the Russian prison, he is a godfather, he speaks this language. this violence. The massacre in Bucha was carried out by fighters from Rubtsovsk, a city in the Altai Territory where there is nothing but zones."
13:14 Mariupol was given under the "patronage" of the Kadyrovites, said the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko. According to him, the first working meeting was held today with the participation of the occupation "administration", State Duma deputy Dmitry Sablin (curator of the occupation of Mariupol since 2014), Adam Delimkhanov and Akhmed Dolgaev, who are, in fact, part of the political power of Chechnya.
The meeting participants discussed plans to "restore Mariupol", while the Kadyrovites behaved like masters, and the meeting itself was more like an assessment and inventory of what was left.
13:06 The Embassy of Israel has resumed work in Kiev.
13:05 Podolyak about the defenders of Mariupol: "The 83 days of the defense of Mariupol will go down in history as Thermopylae of the 21st century. The defenders of Azovstal broke the enemy's operational plans to seize the east of Ukraine, pulled back the huge forces of the enemy and proved to the whole world the real "combat capability" of the Russians. This is completely changed the course of the war.
13:02 Zelensky said that he had "productive talks" with Scholz: "We discussed the situation at the front, continued pressure on the Russian Federation, tougher sanctions, prospects for achieving peace. We appreciate Germany's support, including defense support. We count on Germany's further assistance on the path of Ukraine to full EU membership.
12:59 The State Duma of the Russian Federation intends to ban the exchange of Azov military for captured Russians. "Nazi criminals should not be exchanged. They are war criminals, and we must do everything to bring them to justice," said State Duma head Vyacheslav Volodin in response to the proposal of deputy Anatoly Wasserman to ban the exchange of Azov people.
12:54 In the Kharkov region on May 16, the enemy opened fire on the settlements of the Kharkov and Chuguev regions. According to the OVA, ten people were injured in just 24 hours, two died. Fighting continues in the Izyum direction, the invaders are trying to hold their positions and prevent the advance of Ukrainian troops.
12:49 Russians on May 16 fired at one of the districts of Nikolaev with prohibited cluster munitions, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported. As a result of the shelling, one man received shrapnel wounds, residential buildings, cars and urban infrastructure were damaged.
12:23 Law enforcement officers have identified another occupant who raped women in the Kiev region - he turned out to be a 20-year-old radio operator of the 30th separate motorized rifle brigade Bulat Fassakhov, Venediktova said. According to her, this is the second exposed Russian rapist.
12:18 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that there are no negotiations with Ukraine , Kiev has actually withdrawn from this process. According to Lavrov, "Russia has information that the Ukrainian negotiators are being 'led' by Washington and London," and they "want to drag out negotiations with Moscow, hoping to inflict damage and wear down Russia."
12:13 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that Ukrainian reserves were destroyed by missiles, "completing combat coordination in training centers near Akhtyrka in the Sumy region and Desna in the Chernihiv region."
12:03 Thousands of cars got stuck at the exit from the Kherson region. People who want to leave for the territory controlled by Ukraine have been standing in a multi-kilometer column near Berislav in the direction of Krivoy Rog for four days. Occupiers at Russian checkpoints do not let them through. Videos are published by Telegram channels .
11:59 Vereshchuk said that "in the interests of saving lives, 52 seriously wounded of our servicemen were evacuated yesterday, after their condition is stabilized, we will exchange them for Russian prisoners of war." Work continues on the next stages of the humanitarian operation.
11:57 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed strikes on the Lviv region: sea-based Kalibr missiles near the Starichi station allegedly destroyed "personnel of Ukrainian reserve formations, as well as parties of foreign weapons and military equipment from the United States and European countries, prepared for shipment to Donbass."
11:54 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that on May 16 "surrender began" of the soldiers of the Azov regiment and the Ukrainian military, blocked at Azovstal in Mariupol. According to Moscow, during the day "265 militants laid down their arms and surrendered, including 51 seriously wounded, all those in need of medical care were sent to the Novoazovsk hospital in the DPR."
In turn, Lavrov said that Russia is ready "to continue to resolve humanitarian issues" in Ukraine, "as it was earlier with the removal of the wounded from Azovstal."
11:41 The enemy has been shelling the border settlements of the Sumy region from the Russian side all morning, the Pivnich Operational Command reports. So, today, at about 8:45 a.m., observers recorded five shots from Russia in the Esmani region, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. - 70 explosions in the direction of Boyaro-Lyazhachy, and at about 10:10 a.m. six explosions were recorded in the area of Sopich. There are no losses among personnel and equipment.
11:37 On May 18, residents of Simferopol will take to a peaceful rally against the genocide of the Ukrainian people. The action was initiated by the public organization Zhovta strіchka . Crimeans will take to the streets to condemn the Russian invasion, to honor the memory of the Ukrainian heroes who died in this war, to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine in order to return home - to Ukraine.
11:32 The Kremlin authorities are exponentially punishing the commanders of units and formations of the Russian army for defeats in Ukraine. So, for the loss of the cruiser Moscow, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Igor Osipov, was removed from his post and arrested. Investigative actions were also launched against his first deputy, Vice Admiral Sergei Pinchuk, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Also, Vladislav Ershov, who led the 6th Army of the RF Armed Forces, was removed from his post for unprecedented losses of personnel, weapons and military equipment. For the same reasons, the commander of the 1st Tank Army of the Western Military District, Lieutenant General Sergei Kisel, was removed. "Contrary to the order of the top leadership," the general sent conscripts to carry out punitive operations in Ukraine.
In connection with the unsatisfactory fulfillment of the assigned tasks, the commander of the 22nd Army Corps of the Southern Military District in Crimea, Major General Arkady Marzoev, was removed from his post. The commander of the 103rd separate logistics brigade, Colonel Mikhail Ponomarev, was also removed from his post.
All these demonstrative punishments only contribute to the spread of distrust among Russians in their commanders, Ukrainian military intelligence notes.
11:24 Ukraine has already agreed with the EU countries on building alternative routes for the supply of Ukrainian food exports to world markets, Kuleba said.
11:18 Ukraine is opening a Diya.Business center in Warsaw - the first abroad, said Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development. He said that he went with the team to a series of international meetings and events in Europe, and the main point of the trip was "Let's lead the delegation of Ukraine at the World Economic Forum in Davos, present to the whole world a digital Ukraine, which is without unnecessary bureaucracy and all in two clicks."
11:13 Scholz sees no signs of a quick end to the war in Ukraine. Moreover, he is concerned about a possible escalation. In an interview with RTL, the chancellor said that he personally asked Putin how long the war would last. So far, the Russian side has not taken steps to reach a peace agreement, he added.
"We must be able to make smart, very conscious, and also very courageous decisions. And we made them," Scholz said and promised further arms supplies to Ukraine, in particular Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.
11:09 Peskov denied Turkish media reports about Putin's upcoming visit to Ankara.
11:07 Canada is ready to send cargo ships to transport Ukrainian grain, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said. She clarified that many routes are being discussed with European, American and Canadian agencies. "We are also in contact with other jurisdictions - from Poland to Romania, the Baltic countries and Turkey," the Foreign Minister added.
11:04 Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde signed an application for the country's entry into NATO.
10:57 American M777 howitzers are helping Ukrainians to strengthen their counteroffensive, Pentagon official said: “You can already see how Ukrainians can go on a counteroffensive. In Donbass, they have returned several cities that the Russians captured earlier. And in Kharkiv, this is a great example of what they are doing more than just defending the city. Now they are pushing the Russians east and north, and we believe that howitzers are particularly affecting this, especially in Kharkov."
The Pentagon spokesman added that the M777 is not the only weapon that allows the Armed Forces to conduct a counteroffensive effectively.
10:53 Germany donated 2,450 RGW-90 disposable anti-tank grenade launchers, 1,600 DM22 anti-tank grenade launchers and 3,000 DM31 anti-tank mines to Ukraine, writes Spiegel. Information about new deliveries was confirmed to the publication in Ukrainian government circles.
Ukraine ordered and paid for the RGW-90 anti-tank weapon, which is called the Matador in the Bundeswehr, directly from the German manufacturer. Anti-tank mines apparently come from the stocks of the Bundeswehr. Berlin delivered to Ukraine mainly anti-tank weapons, armored vehicles, ammunition of various calibers and explosives. The supply lists also include 15 weapons to destroy bunkers. Deliveries of heavy weapons have not yet begun.
10:47 In Mariupol, the regime of silence is still maintained, adviser to the mayor of the city Petr Andryushchenko told Radio Liberty. According to him, yesterday the Russian forces still tried to storm Azovstal, but then negotiations began. "As far as I understand, a regime of silence has been declared, and so far, as far as we know, it has not been violated by any of the parties," Andryushchenko said.
10:31 Turkey is expecting Putin's visit in the coming days, local publications write.
10:18 The European Commission plans to adopt a document on May 18 that will call on EU member states to intensify preparations for a "complete cessation of Russian gas supplies", considering emergency measures such as a temporary cap on gas prices, writes Euractiv.
10:15 Positional war in Ukraine may drag on for 2-3 years, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Andrusiv said in a commentary to the Country. The most likely scenario, in his opinion, is that the Ukrainian troops will be able to liberate some territories, while the Russians will defend some. In this case, by September the war will become positional.
The expert is inclined to believe that the hot phase of the war with a large number of shelling, rocket attacks and deaths will end before September 2022. And the positional war will drag on for at least two years, and its outcome will depend both on the sanctions pressure on Russia (which it will feel in full only in two years), and on the internal political situation in the Russian Federation.
In turn, his colleague Anton Gerashchenko urged not to hope that Russia is about to fall apart. In his opinion, "it takes 3, 4, 5 months and a lot of weapons to defeat Russia by military means."
10:07 Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi called the nighttime missile attack on the Yavorivsky district one of the largest in terms of the number of missiles. According to him, there were two waves of missile attacks, all missiles were shot down. However, in one of the villages of the Yavorivsky district, fragments of a rocket partially damaged a railway infrastructure facility, glass flew out in neighboring houses. This happened in a 20-kilometer zone to the border with the EU.
10:01 German Finance Minister Christian Lindner does not exclude the confiscation of the funds of the Russian Federation frozen by the West and their use for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. According to him, this issue is being discussed in the EU and the G7, separate proposals are already on the table.
09:58 On the night of May 17, a Russian cruise missile was destroyed by a unit of anti-aircraft missile forces of the Pivden air command, the Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. The missile was fired by a strategic bomber that attacked Ukraine from the Caspian direction. She moved towards the western regions.
09:55 At night, the enemy launched a missile attack on the infrastructure facility of the Lviv railway in the Yavoriv district. The explosion damaged the railway infrastructure, there were no reports of injuries or deaths. Previously, the missiles were flying from the east, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky. Air defense also shot down three cruise missiles.
09:34 On Akhtyrka of the Sumy region this morning Russian troops launched a missile attack. Five rockets hit residential buildings and a kindergarten, five people were injured, said Dmitry Zhivitsky, head of the OVA.
09:19 The command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that tonight the enemy launched a missile attack on infrastructure facilities in the Lviv region. Three cruise missiles were destroyed by air defense units. They attacked the Lviv region from the southeast with sea-based cruise missiles.
09:14 The General Staff announced the approximate combat losses of the enemy on the morning of May 17. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Liman and Zaporozhye directions.
personnel - about 27,900 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 1235 (+7),
armored combat vehicles - 3009 (+35),
artillery systems - 578 (+1),
MLRS - 198 (+3),
air defense systems - 90 (+1),
aircraft - 201 (+1),
helicopters - 167 (+2),
UAV operational-tactical level - 436 (+9),
cruise missiles - 97 (+0),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2109 (+8),
special equipment - 43 (+1).
08:55 Free travel in public transport cost Kiev 500 million hryvnia per month, Klitschko said. He explained that the return of paid travel was a forced decision, but they would not increase tariffs.
08:53 The governor of the Kursk region announced the shelling of the village of Alekseevka, bordering Ukraine, in the Glushkovsky district. Three private houses and a school building were damaged, there were no casualties, "the shelling was quickly suppressed by return fire from border guards."
08:50 In the Kiev region near Makarov, Buchansky district, the police found the bodies of three civilians killed by Russian invaders. Two were killed in the head, one in the stomach. Documents of one of the victims were found at the burial place - he was a citizen of the Czech Republic. The identity of the rest has not been established, but they were in civilian clothes.
08:46 British intelligence predicts that Russia will continue to rely on the massive use of artillery in this war, which will become the main offensive in the Donbass. As an example, analysts cite the Chernihiv region, where 3,500 buildings, mostly residential, were damaged during the Russian offensive. Intelligence also considers this a sign of unwillingness to risk their aircraft to deliver more accurate strikes.
08:41 In the Luhansk region, the Russians fired at the hospital and the building of the research and production association Impulse in Severodonetsk, launched airstrikes in the Popasnaya area. As a result, ten people died, three were injured, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai.
08:36 In the Chernihiv region, the invaders fired at the village of Desna this morning, the head of the OVA Vyacheslav Chaus said. Previously, there are dead and many wounded.
08:27 According to the American Institute for the Study of War, Russian troops near Kharkov are afraid of the advance of Ukrainian troops into the zone from which the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will reach the outskirts of Russian Belgorod. For this reason, the occupiers around Kharkov are trying to hold their positions and prevent the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine further north, which is different from their previous retreat from Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy.
08:01 Of the 106 operational battalion tactical groups that Russia deployed in Ukraine, more than 50 are concentrated in the south, the Pentagon said. On May 9, the Pentagon reported the presence of 97 BTGs in Ukraine.
07:39 Russian troops have concentrated their main efforts in the Donetsk direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the morning report . They don't have success. In the Severodonetsk direction, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Sirotino, during the hostilities, the enemy suffered losses and retreated. Near Bakhmut, the Russians also tried to carry out offensive operations, which were unsuccessful.
07:10 Ukraine manages to redeem Zaporozhye and Kherson activists from the Russian occupiers, Mustafa Dzhemilev said: “Now the question is how to take these activists out. of our fellow citizens. It starts from $250 and more. Depending on who you negotiate with. Not all of them are possible. For example, I managed to ransom seven people."
06:57 Greenpeace activists did not let a tanker with fuel from Russia into the British port. The Andromeda tanker, carrying what was believed to be 33,000 tons of Russian diesel fuel, was about to dock in Essex, but activists who stood on the pier with an anti-war poster turned around and is now anchored near Marghita. The tanker was carrying fuel worth £30m, Reuters reported. At the same time, the publication notes that the Andromeda tanker is Greek.
06:40 US Senators are drafting a bill that would allow courts to hear war crimes cases even if neither party is a US citizen.
04:26 Borrell said that the EU is working to help take out the Ukrainian grain blocked by the Russians by trains through the "corridors of solidarity."
04:04 OK Pivden reported that a composition of fuels and lubricants near Chernobyevka was destroyed by rocket artillery fire. 29 people were liquidated, the Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system, the T-72 tank and other armored vehicles were destroyed.
03:51 In the Lviv region, the Russians again fired at a military infrastructure facility on the territory of the Yavorivsky district, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky: "Thanks to the air defense for the work! Again, a military infrastructure facility was fired at on the territory of the Yavorivsky district, almost on the border with Poland."
03:37 The US Air Force reported a successful test of a hypersonic weapon.
03:23 The US Senate voted for the final consideration of the project on the allocation of assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $40 billion. The main voting can take place as early as Wednesday, May 18.
00:40 The Ministry of Defense explained what order the Azov regiment was talking about: “The Mariupol garrison completed its combat mission . Ukraine and the whole world - to save the lives of the defenders of Mariupol."
Among the defenders of Mariupol - a separate detachment of special forces Azov, the 12th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, the 36th separate brigade of the Marine Corps, border guards, policemen, volunteers, the terrorist defense of Mariupol.
Holding positions on Azovstal, they did not allow the enemy to transfer a group of 17 battalion tactical groups (about 20,000 personnel) to other areas, the Defense Ministry said. Thus, they prevented the implementation of the plan for the rapid capture of Zaporozhye, reaching the administrative border of the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions and creating conditions for encircling the JFO group.
Pinning down the main enemy forces around Mariupol made it possible to prepare and create defensive lines on which Ukrainian troops are still today and give a worthy rebuff to the aggressor. Ukraine received critically needed time to form reserves, regroup forces, and receive assistance from partners.
00:25 264 Ukrainian soldiers were evacuated from Azovstal, all of them in the territory not controlled by Ukraine , said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar: “53 seriously wounded were evacuated from Azovstal to a medical facility in Novoazovsk to provide them with medical care. Another 211 people were delivered through the humanitarian corridor to Elenovka. For their further return home, an exchange procedure will be carried out."
According to Malyar, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard and the Border Guard Service are jointly carrying out activities to rescue the fighters who still remain on the territory of the blocked plant.
00:19 Zelensky confirmed the evacuation from Azovstal: "Thanks to the actions of the Ukrainian military - the Armed Forces of Ukraine, intelligence, the negotiating group, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the UN, we hope that we will be able to save the lives of our guys. Among them are seriously wounded, they are being helped. <. ..> The operation to rescue the defenders of Mariupol has begun to bring the guys home, the work continues, and this work requires delicacy and time."
[AnNahar] Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... 's 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... and its allies lost their parliamentary majority, official results showed Tuesday, while independents achieved a surprise breakthrough.
Full results announced by the interior ministry two days after the election revealed that no bloc will control the 128-seat assembly, a deadlock observers fear could usher in a tense period of political jostling.
The polls, the first since Lebanon was ravaged by its worst ever economic crisis and a cataclysmic explosion at Beirut port in 2020, were seen as a prerequisite for a crucial IMF bailout.
The Hizbollah-led coalition won 61 seats in the 128-member legislature, a drop of 10 members since the last vote was held four years ago. They fell short of the 65 needed to retain a majority following Sunday's polls. The loss was largely due to setbacks suffered by the group’s political partners, and was not expected to weaken the group’s domination of Lebanese politics. All 13 Hizbullah candidates who ran got elected.
Their strongest opponents in parliament will be led by the Christian Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... party of former warlord Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... , that raked in several new seats on the back of a virulent anti-Hizbullah campaign.
New reformist faces who entered the legislative race on the values of a 2019 anti-establishment uprising made a stronger showing that many had predicted.
17 candidates who backed the 2019 protest movement won seats. At least twelve of them will sit in parliament for the first time.
Together with independents and other non-aligned MPs who have sometimes supported the now-defunct protest movement's demands, they could find themselves in a kingmaking position.
They could obtain the support of MP Osama Saad, who supported the protests, and new MP Abdul Rahman al-Bizri.
That was a major achievement considering they went into the vote fragmented and facing intimidation and threats by entrenched mainstream parties. Their showing sends a strong message to ruling class politicians who have held on to their seats despite an economic meltdown that has impoverished the country and triggered the biggest wave of emigration since the 1975-90 civil war.
One of the most notable victories notched up by independents was the election in the third South district of Elias Jradeh and Firas Hamdan for seats that Hizbullah and its allies had not lost in three decades.
Another major satisfaction for those described in Lebanon as the "thawra" (revolution, in Arabic) candidates, was the defeat of several reviled MPs loyal to the Syrian government of Bashir al-Assad.
Hizbullah weapons: Will polls make radical changes
[AnNahar] The main issue that would polarize the new parliament elected on Sunday is Hizbullah's right to keep an arsenal that is described as equivalent to or better than the state's.
Some see it as a historical right and the best defense for the small Mediterranean country while others consider Hizbullah's weapons to be the root of all of Lebanon's ills.
“They forgot the political system, economic system, corruption, the war in Syria and its effects on Lebanon and they forgot the American sanctions,” Hibullah's MP Hussein Haj Hassan said.
Sami Nader, an analyst with the Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs, said that Hizbullah had suffered symbolic losses but was skeptical the polls could yield radical changes.
"Hizbullah and the Iranian axis took a blow but will this pave way for change in Lebanon? I have doubts," he told AFP.
The formation of a government, the election of parliament's speaker and the presidential election could all be very contentious and lead to protracted political crises.
Speaker Nabih Berri has held his job since 1992.
President Michel Aoun, the world's third oldest head of state, had long planned for his son-in-law Jebran Bassil to take over but the Lebanese Forces' surge in the polls could disrupt that scenario.
Disarming Hizbullah has dominated political campaigns among almost all of the group’s opponents, while Hizbullah supporters consider the group defended Lebanon against Israel and against attacks by the Islamic State group and al-Qaida-linked militants over the years.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Note: 200 is the Russian code for dead, while 300 is for wounded. They are cargo codes. It appears that 1488 is the cargo code for POWs. 1488 has to do with Nazis, not a Russian cargo code. Apologies. Thanks to Thock Spoluck5962 for the correction. [ColonelCassad] There is a load of 200. There is a load of 300. And there is a load of 1488, which goes from Azovstal to the colony in Yelenovka (the wounded are taken to Novoazovsk)
Today, the capitulation of the enemy at Azovstal continued. According to the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Polyansky, the surrender took place without preconditions.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has already announced that it will conduct interrogations of captured Natsiks.
Earlier, at the suggestion of Wasserman, the Duma announced the need to issue a decree banning the exchange of Nazi war criminals.
Fully agree with these statements. VSUshnikov on ours can and should be changed. Nazis and war criminals - judged on the territory of the DPR.
Three from Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets, with the first starting at 0001 hrs, May 17th: Still started to give up
May 17, 0:01 am
The first ten buses with prisoners of war left Azovstal drove towards the DPR
According to preliminary information, about 300 militants left the territory of the plant today. About 50 of them were wounded.
The wounded are now being taken to the Central Regional Hospital of Novoazovsk, where they will be provided with the necessary medical care. The rest, not wounded, were taken away by buses in the direction of Yelenovka. Ukrainian prisoners of war are kept in the colony there.
The next batch of prisoners will begin to surrender at 0400 hrs.
It is possible that some of the prisoners who are related to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, policemen or border guards found themselves by the will of fate at Azovstal will then be exchanged. But not the Nazis from the "Azov" regiment. For the technologists of the Office of the President of Ukraine, the surrender was a surprise.
Zelensky is preparing another chatter-statement on the fact of mass surrender.
Judging by the pause in all ‼️ Zelensky’s LOMs, they are still developing an information strategy and waiting for a go-ahead on what to say.
PS
Kiev officially recognized the surrender of 264 in Mariupol. Zelensky, in his address, allocated only 40 seconds for the surrender of his militants.
Now Ukraine is holding about 500 prisoners of war soldiers and officers of the Russian Federation, DPR and LPR.
At the disposal of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR are about 5,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war. After the surrender of the militants stuck at Azovstal, this figure will grow to seven thousand.
Second posted at 1300 hrs. The link is no videos embedded in Telegram, so the videos ae untranslatable. Garbage removal from Azovstal
May 17, 1:01 p.m.
Published a video with the "evacuation" (surrender) of 265 militants hiding in the basements of "Azovstal"
According to Russian estimates, the initial enemy grouping in Mariupol was up to 20,000 Ukrainian servicemen, according to Ukrainian estimates, up to 14,500 soldiers and officers. On May 16, 2227 people remained. There are less than 2,000 left hiding in the cellars now. Draw your own conclusions.
The process has already gone serious, not like yesterday, when a quarter of a thousand people surrendered from the Ukrainian side
New batches of militants from Azovstal continued to surrender all day today
The State Duma will consider on Wednesday a draft resolution banning the exchange of Nazi criminals. Of the two and a half thousand representatives of the ukrovermacht who remained at Azovstal, approximately one in three were from the Nazi Azov regiment.
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"Here is humour. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the Nazi: for it is the number of a man; and his number is [the eeeevil number referenced above]."
[NYPOST] Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors used charity funds to pay her brother and child’s father eye-watering sums of cash for various services, according to tax documents filed with the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... The co-founder’s brother, Paul Cullors, saw a cool sum of $840,000 hit his bank account for allegedly providing security services to the nonprofit organization, tax documents seen by The Post show.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the organization paid a company owned by Damon Turner, with whom Cullors shares a child, almost $970,000 to help "produce live events" as well as other "creative services."
On top of the controversy, BLM wrapped up its fiscal year — which runs from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 — with an eye-watering $42 million in net assets.
The foundation had an operating budget of about $4 million, according to a board member.
More than $37 million was spent by the foundation on grants, real estate, and charter on private flights, according to the tax filings.
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But since the LSD's are currently in power and because it is a WOKE PARANOID Mid-Term Election year. We likely won't see any serious legal effort for a while.
The LSD controlled DOJ Political Slow Walk might just set a new snail pace record.
Either way, the LSD/DC Swamp can now rope in the BLM leadership and demand their political support and services during the election....OR ELSE.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:25 The representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire reported that "shelling was recorded from the AFU in the direction of:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 20 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad,
— n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk: 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
23:00 Five DPR servicemen were killed in a day, another 22 were injured, said Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR. 21:30 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 3 civilians as a result of the shelling of the AFU on the previously liberated territory of the Republic:
n.p. Pavlovka: - a man born in 1954.
n.p. Gnutovo: is a man born in 1969.
n.p. Mariupol: - a man born in 1984.
21:23 Gorlovka again under the fire of Ukrainian punishers
Ukrainian militants continue to strike at civilians in Donbass. As a result of the shelling of the Gorlovka residential area "Komsomolets", a civilian resident of Gorlovka on the street received a mine-explosive injury. Lyubimenko. The victim was promptly taken to the hospital.
20:02 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of VFU shelling at n.p. Gorlovka at the following addresses:
- st. Shashurina - damaged gas pipeline;
- st. Neverova - Vocational School No. 88;
- st. Vlasenko - the garages of the Sputnik car cooperative were damaged.
19:14 Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation: Russian investigators will interrogate the surrendered militants from Azovstal as part of the investigation of criminal cases on the crimes of the Ukrainian regime against the civilian population of Donbass.
18:56 Militants of the Azov group*, blocked at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, surrendered without conditions - Russian Deputy Chairman to the UN Polyansky.
17:57 VFU is shelling the urban-type settlement of Panteleymonovka in Gorlovka. Shell explosions are reported in the area of the park area, cemetery, and highway. Residents in the immediate vicinity of the shelling area are strongly advised to find shelter!
17:24 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): nine mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
n.p. Dzerzhinsk (sh-ta Yuzhnaya) - n.p. Gorlovka: seven shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
17:20 Air defense worked over Makiivka.
17:15 In the private sector of the Gorlovka housing estate Komsomolets, a direct hit of a Ukrainian shell on a house on the street was recorded. Kovpak, 26 without subsequent ignition.
Fortunately, no casualties.
In the area of the garages of the autocooperative "Kometa", in the village of Komarova, as a result of shelling from the positions of the VFU, a flare burning of the gas pipeline is observed. Emergency services and the Ministry of Emergency Situations will begin to eliminate the consequences after the end of the shelling.
Affected as a result of the aggression of the VFU, a resident of the residential area "Komsomolets" S. I. D., born in 1969 delivered to City Hospital No. 2 Gorlovka in a state of moderate severity.
17:10 About 4,000 residents previously evacuated from Volnovakha returned to the city after it came under the control of the Donetsk People's Republic - acting head of the city administration Konstantin Zinchenko.
17:04 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka: 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
16:35 As a result of the shelling of the Gorlovka residential area "Komsomolets" from the VFU, a civilian resident of Gorlovka on the street received a mine-explosive injury. Lyubimenko. The ambulance went to the address.
16:30 LPR will completely switch to the phone code +7 in July - Lugacom mobile operator.
16:13 People's militia of the LPR freed Orekhovo!
15:20 Military investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, within the framework of a criminal case initiated by the circumstances of the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of residential buildings and infrastructure in Donetsk, inspected a residential building located in the Petrovsky district on the street. Stakhanov.
14:46 The Knauf factory in Soledar is on fire. A powerful column of smoke rises above the city.
14:34 Footage from Taganrog: a convoy of FSIN paddy wagons passed through the streets of the city, escorted by a military police car.
Apparently, the first batches of those who surrendered in the Mariupol "Azovstal" are already in detention centers on Russian territory.
14:17 According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about damage as a result ofshellingVFU n.p. Yasinovataya at the addresses:
- st. Krasny Oktyabr, 39 - a private residential building;
- st. Lermontov, 20 - GBPOU "Yasinovatsky multidisciplinary technical school";
- st. Festivalnaya, 5 - apartment building;
- st. Skripnika, 91 - MOU "School №1 of the city of Yasinovataya";
- 55 quarter, d.2, d.3 - multi-apartment residential buildings.
13:28 "The Nazis of Azov asked not to film or photograph the evacuation." And then it is too similar to surrender.
13:10 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement.
Nevelskoye - n.p. Lozovoe: fired five mines with 82mm caliber, 5 LNG grenades.
13:02 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded.
Vrubovka on n.p. Pervomaisk with the use of artillery guns 152mm (six shells) - Representation of the Luhansk People's Republic in the JCCC.
12:35 On May 16, rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR in Mariupol issued humanitarian aid to the population in the form of 8,380 sets, of which:
food packages - 4,150 units;
hygiene kits — 4,150 units;
children's sets - 80 units.
5,321 people were provided with hot meals.
12:30 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine (17.05.2022)
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
168 aircraft;
125 helicopters;
912 unmanned aerial vehicles;
309 anti-aircraft missile systems;
3134 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles;
385 multiple launch rocket systems;
1542 field artillery and mortar guns;
2983 units of special military vehicles.
12:09 Afternoon summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on May 17, 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.
Novoselovka Second came under our control.
11:50 The Gorlovka direction of the NM of the DPR is hitting the 30th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
11:35 DPR troops, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, liberated 185 settlements, including Novoselovka Vtoraya (Yasinovatsky district).
11:30 According to preliminary information, some of the Azov soldiers who surrendered have already been taken to correctional institutions of the DPR for further investigative actions. Those who are involved in crimes against civilians of the DPR will be tried as war criminals.
11:20 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: five missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Vasilievka: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:10 There is a group of Ukrainian soldiers numbering 15-16,000 people in the cauldron near Severodonetsk and Lisichansk in the LPR - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic.
11:02 The headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR said that so far 256 people have surrendered at Azovstal, of which 51 are wounded.
10:36 In the area of the settlement of Novozvanovka, units of the NM of the LPR, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, successfully cleared enemy fortified areas. The nationalists suffered significant losses in manpower and armored vehicles.
10:25 Ukrainian artillery has been shelling the village of Yelenovka near Donetsk with Grads since the morning. It is through this settlement that the prisoners of Azov are transported from Azovstal.
Looks like a deliberate attempt to destroy their own surrendered unit.
10:10 Over the past day, from 08:00 on May 15 to 08:00 on May 16, 544 people, including 74 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky district.
Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
In total, for the period from March 5 to 08:00 on May 17, 33,182 people were evacuated to the Bezymennoye PPN.
09:55 The corridor for the delivery of new inmates from under the Azovstal plant was opened. There are many buses to receive them. For Kyiv, this is a corridor of shame.
09:25 Reception has begun at the polyclinic of the State Budgetary Institution "City Hospital #2 in Mariupol". On the left bank of the city of Mariupol, an appointment has been started at the polyclinic of the State Budgetary Institution "City Hospital # 2 of Mariupol", located at the address: Pashkovsky St., 36, by the following specialists:
- pediatrician;
– obstetrician-gynecologist;
- traumatologist;
– doctor of ultrasound diagnostics;
- pediatric surgeon;
- cardiologist;
- therapist;
- Dermatovenereologist.
The inpatient departments of the hospital are preparing to open.
09:15 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:01 Samara region will sign a cooperation agreement with the city of Snezhnoye. This was reported by the press service of the government of the region.
08:54 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:45 OBTF DNR denacifies Azovstal.
08:15 As a result of yesterday's shelling of the VFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, two more civilians were injured: a man born in 1980. and a woman born in 1992 - Representation of the DPR in the JCCC.
08:10 Armed formations of Ukraine fired from N of the item. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: 10 122mm shells were fired.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuybyshevsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: eight 122mm rounds were fired.
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): two shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: eight BM-21 Grad missiles were fired.
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells fired 122mm caliber
[OneIndia] An officer tells OneIndia that if one has noticed that groups such as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba or the Jaish-e-Mohammad have not claimed responsibility for any of the recent attacks in J&K.
Off late groups such as the Lashkar-e-Khalsa, the Freedom Fighter or the The Resistence Front have cropped up 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.... (J&K). These lesser known groups have been claiming credit for the recent attacks.
However the Intelligence agencies have learnt that these are deliberate tactics adopted by Rawalpindi to divert attention. An officer tells OneIndia that if one has noticed that groups such as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba or the Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... have not grabbed credit for any of the recent attacks in J&K.
Taking into consideration the new tactic by Pakistain, Union Home Minister, Amit Shah directed the Jammu and Kashmir police as well as the security agencies to refrain from using names of new terror groups in the Union Territory. The are only derivatives of Pakistain based globally proscribed groups created by the ISI to spread the narrative of home grown terror in the Valley.
The directive came after intelligence inputs suggested that the Pakistain groups such as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad-Mohammad have not been taking credit for the attacks as they are under pressure from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
'Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... 's mobile phones stolen after recording video threat''Imran Khan's mobile phones stolen after recording video threat'
Since Pakistain continues to remain in the Grey List, the ISI has told its main terror groups to lie low.
This is one of the main reasons why the main groups which continue to operate in the Valley have not grabbed credit for the attacks.
Earlier this week 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.
Not a rare occurrence: India slams Pakistain over killing of 2 SikhsNot a rare occurrence: India slams Pakistain over killing of 2 Sikhs
In a letter addressed to the president of the migrant colony the group has asked all migrant and RSS agents to leave or face death. The letter also said that there is no space for Kashmiri Pandits who want another Israel in Kashmir to kill Kashmiri Moslems.
'Double, triple your security, be ready for murder. You will die,' the letter also reads.
The letter came days after the killing of a Kashmiri Pandit government employee, Rahul Bhat. He was rubbed out by gunnies in Budgam district. The attack took place at the Tehsildar's office in central Kashmir on Thursday afternoon.
An Intelligence Bureau official tells OneIndia that this appears to be an off-shoot of the The Resistence Front, which is a proxy for the Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba had created the The Resistence Front (The Resistence Front) which was the localised version of the group. Now with the heat high on the TRF, the name of the outfit has been changed, the official also said.
[KhaamaPress] In the midst of a financial crisis, Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... authorities in Afghanistan disbanded five major departments of the former US-backed administration, including the Human Rights Commission.
This fiscal year, Afghanistan will have a budget deficit of 44 billion Afghanis, according to Taliban officials, who announced their first annual national budget since taking control of the country last August.
The dissolved departments, in addition to the Human Rights Commission, are the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR), National Security Council, Independent Commission for Overseeing the Implementation of the Constitution (ICOIC), and the General Secretariats of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) and Mishrano Jirga (Upper House).
The Taliban government’s Deputy Spokesperson, Innamullah Samangani, told Rooters, "Because these departments were not deemed necessary and were not included in the budget, they have been dissolved,".
The national budget, according to Samangani, is "based on objective facts" and is solely for departments that have been active and productive.
"If needed," he said, the bodies could be reactivated in the future.
Despite the Taliban’s assurances to the world that they would be more moderate, they have yet to allow older girls to return to school and have imposed rules mandating women and girls to wear Hijab and be accompanied in public by male relatives.
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Well, I guess the small government wing of the Taliban is holding sway. I suspect that the “we need some food and money” faction will soon be prominent. Maybe growing food instead of poppies would be a good initiative unless their population has developed a problem with chronic obesity that I don’t know about.
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Opium and Heroin are the primary cash crops, and now they’re reportedly adding meth to the mix, Super Hose. Saffron is another, for those who prefer staying away from the Talibs’ Pakistani partners in the illicit drugs biz.
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[REGNUM] According to the plan for May 17, 2022, about 1,000 Ukrainian neo-Nazis and military personnel who hid in the basements of the Azovstal plant in the city of Mariupol of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) should surrender. This was stated by the commander of the Vostok battalion of the People's Militia of the DPR, Alexander Khodakovsky , on the air of the 60 Minutes program on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
However, so far the plan has not been fulfilled - the number of militants who have laid down their arms is lower than planned.
“Today's target is 1,000 people a day. Until we deal with it. From the northern side, we observed 250 people passing by our positions. There is such a system that guides lead groups out, come back and bring out a new one. Almost everyone is walking, there are few wounded , ”said Khodakovsky.
[NotTheBee] In Kingsland, Arkansas, the hometown of the incomparable Johnny Cash, the water tower which bears his silhouette has sprung a rather unfortunate leak.
Actually, because it's Arkansas, the "leak" was started by someone who took a gun and shot the Man in Black in a rather compromising spot.
I'm sorry, I cannot stop laughing at this video.
Does that make me immature? Sure.
They say it's no laughing matter for the city, however.
Kingsland Mayor Luke Neal said the town is "losing about 30,000 gallons of water per day."
Now it's costing the town about $200 each day-- totaling about $1,200 so far.
"You kind of run on a tighter budget in small towns like this, because really all you've got to work with... things like this can set you back a little bit," Neal said.
[IsraelTimes] Collaboration involving Israeli fighter jets and American refuelers seen as message to Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... regarding potential for US assistance in an actual Israeli attack
The United States will participate in Israel’s largescale drill simulating a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities as part of the broader Chariots of Fire exercise later this month, Channel 13 reported on Tuesday evening.
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President Joe Biden called on all Americans to reject the 'lie' of the 'great replacement' conspiracy theory
I call on all Americans to reject the lie, and I condemn those who spread the lie for power, political gain, and for profit,' Biden said
'White supremacy is a poison. It's a poison,' he said
Joe and Jill Biden are in Buffalo where they paid their respects at the Tops Market Memorial
Jill Biden, dressed in black, carried a large bouquet of white flowers
The first couple didn't speak as they bowed their heads at the makeshift memorial, strew with balloons, flowers, candles, and homemade signs
They held a private visit with victims' families and local authorities
President Biden will also deliver remarks at a nearby community center where he is expected to decry racially motivated violence
'The President will call this despicable act for what it is: terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation,' a White House official said
Payton Gendron, 18, faces and was charged with one count of murder and officials said they would weigh additional charges in the coming days
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/\ The current level of inflation is transitory.
Trump was a Russian spy.
OJ is innocent.
Trump's firing of James Comey was a big mistake.
Agent Orange is quite harmless.
Christopher Steele was actually retired and no longer involved in British Intelligence activities.
Carter Page was not an intelligence community Trump Campaign source.
Bruce and Nellie Ohr are American patriots and HAM radio enthusiasts.
Biden defeated Trump in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election.
Our Southern border is secure.
There really is no Hunter Biden laptop.
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If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.
The security cameras malfunctioned.
Secret Service doesn't keep those records.
Green Energy doesn't upset the power grid.
The Harm Reduction Program does not have crack pipes.
[ToloNews] Speaking at a gathering, the deputy Minister of Vice and Virtue called on the forces of the Islamic Emirate to respect the orders of the Islamic Emirate and to not interfere in judicial activities nor harass the people.
"Everyone should be punished in line with their crimes and justice is determined by the court," said Abdul Rahman Munir, deputy Minster of Vice and Virtue.
He instructed the forces of the Islamic Emirate to avoid going to parks and other entertainment areas.
"Going to the entertainment areas disturbs the people. Please avoid such things and avoid going there in the future," Munir said.
Local officials said that they are following the orders of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.
"They should treat the people with good manners. There have been problems in some areas but they will be solved," Parwan’s Governor Obaidullah Aminzada said.
This comes as several reports of harassment by Islamic Emirate forces have been published.
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Couldn’t they go to the park if they cross-dressed? Nobody will know they are a soldier if they are all burka’d up. What if a soldier wants to play 18 holes of mini-golf to blow off some steam after a day of chopping off hands and shaking down folks at random checkpoints. A little burka action ought to be in line for that too.
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You can't keep them down on the madrassa once they've see Kabul!
[THEBLAZE] Several of the largest defense contractors in the U.S. have extensive ties to the government of China and the Communist Chinese Party.
Raytheon, Bell Flight, and Boeing — three of the nation’s most prolific defense contractors — continue to maintain close relationships with firms that conduct business with the Chinese government. Fox News reported that Lockheed Martin has business interests in China.
Issac Stone Fish, the CEO and founder of Strategy Risks, a China risk consultancy company, warned that these defense contractors’ relationships with the Chinese government present severe risks for the U.S.
Fish said, "Doing a relatively significant amount of business in China changes the risk profile now more than ever for any U.S. company, whether for compliance, cyber, reputation, security or other risks."
"Those risks are particularly critical for companies that safeguard U.S. national defense and security," he continued. "U.S. defense contractors need to better understand their risk exposure to China and the Chinese Communist Party, so they can reduce their China risks to better serve the needs of the U.S. military and national security."
Two of Raytheon’s subsidiary companies, Pratt & Whitney (P&W) and Collins Aerospace Systems, have ties to the Chinese military, the People’s Liberation Army.
P&W is a prominent player in the Chinese market and maintains offices in Shanghai and Beijing. P&W also reportedly powers two-fifths of China’s civilian helicopters with its engine technology. The company also manufactures engines for the Chinese state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, which is intimately tied to the People’s Liberation Army.
P&W also has joint ventures with Chinese companies including China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) and Xi’an Aircraft.
AVIC is a conglomerate owned by the Chinese government and is tied to the People’s Liberation Army. It was previously placed on the Treasury Department’s Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List and the Commerce Department’s Entity List.
Collins Aerospace Systems, Raytheon’s other subsidiary in China, has more than 15 locations and nine joint ventures in the Chinese mainland.
The company’s website said, "For close to 40 years, Collins Aerospace has been demonstrating our commitment to China. Our growing presence in China has been made possible by our company’s significant investments in the country as well as strong corporate and personal relationships that have been formed over the last three decades."
Bell Trexton, another contractor that produces military-grade aircraft, has a whole page on its website dedicated to its "China Service Center."
Bell’s website says, "Zhenjiang Bell Textron Aviation Services Center offers comprehensive maintenance, repair and overhaul services to our customers in the Greater China region, including Macao, Hong Kong, and Mongolia. Our in-country product and customer support engineers will ensure your aircraft is ready and operational at all times." Who could have possibly known ?
[RedState] The trial of Michael Sussmann, a Hillary Clinton apparatchik who spread false conspiracy theories about Donald Trump to the FBI, begins on Tuesday. That follows the selection of the jury, which is presenting new challenges for John Durham’s first major prosecution in his investigation of the Russian collusion hoax.
Sussmann’s prior attempts to get the case dismissed failed miserably after Durham expertly responded to the contradictory arguments presented. Going forward, though, the final decision will be in the hands of a jury that includes a Hillary Clinton donor and a woman who claims she can’t be impartial regarding Donald Trump. Then why is she on the Jury?
Many of the members of the broader jury pool, as well as some selected for the jury itself, expressed strong disdain for former President Donald Trump and/or support for Clinton. Most said they hadn’t heard of the Sussmann case until the judge told them about it last week.
"I remembered that the 2016 election was kind of a mess and that there were a lot of shenanigans," one of the selected jurors told the court. She said she "strongly" disliked Trump and that she didn’t think she could be impartial if the case was about someone on his team but noted that "if it’s not directly about Trump," then she could be impartial.
The obvious problem here is that the case is about Donald Trump. No, it’s not a Trump associate on trial, but the entire basis of the case is that Sussmann went to the FBI and lied to them about the Alfa Bank conspiracy theory, which asserted that the former president had a secret server communicating with the Russians.
On what planet can a juror who outright says they have a strong animus against Trump be impartial in judging someone who’s on trial for actively trying to destroy Trump with falsities? It’s absolutely insane that this woman made it into the final jury pool.
She’s not the only one, though. Other jurors also revealed that they donated to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and/or donated to Joe Biden in 2020. Given that most people never donate to any political campaign for president, it seems unreasonable that doing so wouldn’t be disqualifying. There are plenty of other possible jurors to choose from who aren’t overtly political to the point where they gave money to Clinton.
Further, the jury pool itself is comprised of 11 women and only five men. Why does that matter? Because women, specifically liberal women like you’d find in Washington, DC, represent one of the strongest demographics for the Democrat Party. I see an aquittal.
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The swamp holding a trial on the swamp. What could go wrong??
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This just in: On the first day of the trial of Hillary’s lawyer, Michael Sussmann, the Durham team’s opening statement and its first witnesses attempted to walk a fine line to show that the Democratic National Committee lawyer used his unique position to get the FBI to investigate Trump for secretly communicating with a Russian bank to get to Putin.
Durham’s team argues that the FBI was duped into treating seriously the Trump-is-a-Russian-secret-agent-with-super-secret-ties-to-a-Moscow-bank story that the Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer brought to it. They will argue in court that if the FBI had known it was Hillary’s oppo-research, they would have dismissed it out of hand.
I hope ya'll don't have high blood pressure. This whole thing is a joke.
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/\ They will argue in court that if the FBI had known it was Hillary’s oppo-research, they would have dismissed it out of hand.
Accepted the Sussmann (Clinton operative) reporting without checking his sources did they? Once the BS was discovered, the FBI continued to pursue (doubled down) on the issue.
They're sticking with their "monitoring Carter Page" (D.C. intelligence community insider) and sometimes Trump Campaign worker story.
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They might get Sussman but the crooked FBI is in the clear.
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A bridge too far, and the deep state sees, once again, proof that nothing happens if you are inside the swamp, even if you commit sedition, as long as its conservatives you are thwarting.
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Notably,Elias mentioned Jake Sullivan as someone at the Clinton Campaign who knew about the Trump/Russia research (though there is uncertainty as to whether Sullivan knew about Fusion’s activities). Elias would give the campaign these updates.
A brief aside: Jake Sullivan’s wife is Margaret Goodlander - who serves as counsel to Attorney General Merrick Garland. We understand that she has not recused herself from anything having to do with the Special Counsel’s investigation. We further understand that Goodlander is keeping close tabs on Durham’s investigation. We’ll report on that down the road…
Anyway, Elias also testified that the Clinton Campaign paid them (Perkins Coie) a “flat fee” for their legal services. Why is this important? Because it explains why Sussmann would block bill the Clinton Campaign (see tweet below). (“Block billing” is having a multi-hour entry with a generalized description. Example: “6.5 hours on confidential project.) For flat fee work, attorneys are generally allowed block billing because the client isn’t paying the hourly rate.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 00:06 Right now, crowds of Azov and Azov fighters are climbing literally from all the cracks in the ruins of Azovstal, DPR fighters participating in the reception of prisoners report.
“Large forces of the troops of the DPR and Russia have been assembled on the spot, special groups of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR are taking prisoners,” our people report from the scene. 17:03 The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation asked the Supreme Court to recognize Azov as a terrorist organization and ban its activities in Russia. This will make it possible to judge the militants by the fact of their belonging to the battalion. The final decision may be made on May 26.
15:04 Near Chernihiv, an air strike was carried out on the Desna training center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The local administration claims at least eight militants killed.
13:20 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine (05/17/2022). In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
168 aircraft;
125 helicopters;
912 unmanned aerial vehicles;
309 anti-aircraft missile systems;
3,134 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles;
385 multiple launch rocket systems;
1,542 field artillery and mortar guns;
2,983 units of special military vehicles.
13:15 The Russian military in the Kharkiv region destroyed a traction power substation that ensured the delivery of APU weapons and military equipment from the United States and Western countries to the Donbass.
11:55 Ukrainian negotiators are "led" by Washington and London, Lavrov said.
11:50 Russia is ready to continue to resolve humanitarian issues in Ukraine, as it was earlier with the removal of the wounded from Azovstal - Lavrov.
11:13 Russian humanitarian aid has been delivered to the village of Velyka Belozerka, Zaporozhye region.
11:05 Peskov about the special operation in Ukraine:
We are sure that we will win. Putin knows where he is leading the country. Ukrainians are talented, peaceful people, a people related to Russia, but they were “fooled” for a very long time - Peskov.
11:00 Territorial defense units are deployed to the settlements of Grabovskoye, Pokrovka, Slavgorod and Popovka of the Sumy region bordering on Russia. Military personnel are equipping fortified areas in close proximity to residential buildings. Ammunition and fuel are transported from warehouses in Mezenovka.
10:11 The Ukronazi missile attack on Lviv hit the railway infrastructure. This was reported by the head of the Lviv city administration Maxim Kozivitsky. There were no reports of injuries or deaths.
09:36 Commander of the Central Military District, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin handed overstate awards to servicemen who showed courage and heroism during a special military operation.
“Today it is a great honor for me to congratulate you on high state awards. I wish you all the successful solution of all assigned combat missions. Take care of yourself and your subordinates. Only forward and only to victory. Thank you, brothers,” said Colonel General Alexander Lapin, addressing the military.
Among the awards given to the servicemen are the Order of Military Merit, medals of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland with swords, Suvorov and Zhukov.
08:11 At night, an air raid alert sounded in almost all regions of Ukraine.
08:02 There were arrivals to Lviv at night. The most powerful since the beginning of the special operation.
More on this story from yesterday, though the Daily Mail spelt his name as Mikhail Khodaryonok.
BLUF:
[BBC] Russia's mainstream media outlets offer a view of the Ukraine war that is unlike anything seen from outside of the country. For a start, they don't even call it a war. But our Russia editor reflects on a rare exchange broadcast on state TV.
It was an extraordinary piece of television.
The programme was 60 Minutes, the flagship twice-daily talk show on Russian state TV: studio discussion that promotes the Kremlin line on absolutely everything, including on President Putin's so-called "special military operation" in Ukraine.
But on Monday night, studio guest Mikhail Khodarenok, a military analyst and retired colonel, painted a very different picture.
He warned that "the situation [for Russia] will clearly get worse" as Ukraine receives additional military assistance from the West and that "the Ukrainian army can arm a million people".
Referring to Ukrainian soldiers, he noted: "The desire to defend their motherland very much exists. Ultimate victory on the battlefield is determined by the high morale of troops who are spilling blood for the ideas they are ready to fight for.
"The biggest problem with [Russia's] military and political situation," he continued, "is that we are in total political isolation and the whole world is against us, even if we don't want to admit it. We need to resolve this situation.
"The situation cannot be considered normal when against us, there is a coalition of 42 countries and when our resources, military-political and military-technical, are limited."
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Looks like Badanov's god, Vladimir Putin, has seen the handwriting on the wall and is preparing his robotic citizens for the reality, Ukraine is whipping Russia's murderous ass.
While you were sleeping, the Azov Nazi Battalion surrendered, Mariupol fell, and Russia completed its domination of the entire southern coast all the way to Crimea. The land bridge is complete.
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So is the enormous ruination of much of your economy and national prestige. Enjoy your new Chinese friends and their expectations!
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The only "pro-war" people are Putin and his fan-boys
I dunno. Was it Austin or Blinken (or both?) who said something about this being an opportunity to bleed the Russians. That suggests a certain enthusiasm.
[Rudaw] Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and another was injured while attempting to foil an 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) attack in central Iraq, state media reported on Monday.
Two members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) were shot in Salahaddin, an area infamous for ISIS activities, while another was maimed.
A member of the PMF was killed and another was injured in festivities with the terror group in April.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted five attacks in Iraq from May 5 to May 11, killing and injuring five people.
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[Dawn] The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested two people for allegedly sharing blasphemous content on social media.
The FIA cyber crime Lahore has booked Muhammad Osama and Maisham Abbas under sections 295-C (use of derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!), 295-B (defiling of Holy Koran), 109 (abetment), 120-B (liable to punishment for offence committed within Pakistain) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of PPC r/w PECA 2016.
Acting on a complaint, the FIA arrested Osama and Maisham from Harbanspura, Lahore, and Mandi Buhauddin, respectively. The suspects are accused of sharing blasphemous content in a WhatsApp group and Facebook.
Both suspects were sent to jail on judicial remand on Monday.
[IsraelTimes] The US Department of Justice is accusing a Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n cardiologist of having developed the Thanos ransomware used by state-sponsored Iranian hackers to target Israeli companies in 2020.
The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announces that it has unsealed a Brooklyn federal court indictment against Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez on charges of attempted computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit computer intrusions.
"The multi-tasking doctor treated patients, created and named his cyber tool after death, profited from a global ransomware ecosystem in which he sold the tools for conducting ransomware attacks, trained the attackers about how to extort victims and then boasted about successful attacks, including by malicious actors associated with the government of Iran," US Attorney Breon Peace says in a statement.
Zagala used a number of online aliases, including "Nosophoros," "Aesculapius" and "Nebuchadnezzar" — the Babylonian king who conquered Jerusalem in 597 BCE.
The Justice Department says Zagala publicly discussed his awareness that his clients used his Thanos ransomware, even linking to a news story about the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps contractor "MuddyWater’s" cyberattack on Israeli companies ClearSky and Profero.
The two firms said at the time that they identified and thwarted the attacks before any harm could be inflicted, but were raising an alarm to the methods used, indicating that they could have been employed in earlier hacking attacks that might have gone unnoticed.
Zagala’s current whereabouts are unknown, but the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... has requested that a warrant be issued for his arrest. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
[ToloNews] The World Food Programme said on Twitter it provided food assistance, nutrition and other support for 17.5 million Afghans.
"On International Day of Families. WFP is reaching mothers and children across Afghanistan in some of the most remote and mountainous areas of the country," WFP Afghanistan said on Twitter.
"We have been able to provide food or cash to over 17 million people, so they can purchase food for themselves," said Waheedullah Amani, a front man for the WFP.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), said in a recent report that "some 70% of Afghan households reported being unable to cover basic food and non-food needs, reflecting the impact of decline in household incomes."
Economists say the reduction in the international community’s aid to Afghanistan will cause further deterioration of the economic condition.
"Due to the stall in main factors of the economic sector, there is a need for extension of the international aid, otherwise the economic condition of the people will become worse," said Fahim Abassi, an economist.
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Seems like Afghan food will probably be a lower priority for people in this giant famine that the New World Order has created. Doesn’t sound like Iran or India will be shipping Uncrustables and HiC towards the Kyber Pass. Maybe the Taliban has a good plan for this situation. They are students so some of them must have studied up some good food ideas.
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[IsraelTimes] More than 600 indictments have been filed since the unprecedented intercommunal violence that shook Israel’s mixed communities during the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war in May last year, according to a new report by the State Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the report, 89% of those indicted were Arab, and about a quarter were minors.
The Mossawa Center, an NGO that works to protect Arab rights, says that the report proves there is "selective enforcement" by police and prosecutors, and that those who attacked Arab citizens during the violence have not been brought to justice.
[OneIndia] The platforms Khalistanis use to spearhead their movement are Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Zindabad Force and Pannu's Sikhs for Justice and Lashkar-e-Khalsa.
Traumatic memories of Khalistan movement that rocked the nation and Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
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[Dawn] As three cases of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... have been reported after a gap of 15 months, the national polio programme has decided to launch a campaign across the country to boost the immunity level of 43.3 million children up to the age of five years.
Moreover, considering a massive movement across the Afghan border, it has been decided to synchronise the campaign with Afghanistan.
Earlier, the campaign had to be held at sub-national level or in selected union councils but after detection of the recent cases it has been decided to conduct it across the country.
An official of the Ministry of NHS said the campaign will be conducted from May 23 to 27. As many as 43.3 million children under five years will also be given vitamin-A. He said that around 340,000 frontline workers will participate in the campaign.
On January 27, Pakistain marked a major milestone with no wild polio case reported for one year. But experts said there was still an imminent risk of poliovirus to any unvaccinated child across the border as children were moving with families and Pakistain and Afghanistan were the only two countries left with the virus.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... during last few weeks, three cases of polio have been reported from North Wazoo.
Inoculation staff are regularly confronted and killed by the rustics. Polio was around in Mo's time. It's UnIslamic to prevent it. Allan's will and all that..
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On of our many road trip vacations in the family station wagon, parents took all of us to the Salk Institute to tour the place that "cured polio". For my parents, it was something of a pilgrimage. Now, behold the wonders of open borders.
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Bringing the third world to us and not even the courtesy of a passport stamp.
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Maybe a free trip to Rekall, inc.? Let us feel like we were on that fateful trip into Kabul to rescue a ZSU and Afghans, laze up a runaway family station wagon?
"Damn you Cohaagen! Those were my Marines who got killed! We are a rescue team, not assassins!"
"Wrong Quaid! Your mission was always to deliver the pallets of cash and bring home the interpreters. Interpreters Quaid, that's what we call them. Our vision of alien ruins!"
[Rudaw] Iran’s state TV on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of two French citizens, saying they met with protesting teachers and took part in an anti-government rally.
The report identified the two as Cecile Kohler, 37, and Chuck Gay Paree, 69, and said they were not on a tourist visit to Iran. La Belle France had earlier identified the two as a teachers’ union official and her partner on vacation in Iran.
The Intelligence Ministry in Tehran last week only said that it had detained two Europeans.
The TV broadcast footage of the arrival of the two, saying they landed from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... at Tehran airport on April 28. It also broadcast footage of their meetings with Iranian teachers and other activists, as well as their presence at a protest gathering, and also aired a video purported to show the two being arrested while on their way to the Tehran airport to leave the country on May 7.
The report said the two French citizens were "organizing a protest" with the purpose of creating "unrest" in Iran.
Last Thursday, La Belle France condemned the "groundless arrest" of the two and called for their immediate release. La Belle France’s Foreign Ministry said its ambassador in Tehran has already attempted to obtain consular access to the couple and that the charge d’affaires at Iran’s Embassy in Gay Paree has been summoned for explanations.
Another French citizen, Benjamin Briere, was sentenced in January by Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... to over eight years in prison for espionage, for photographing "prohibited areas" with a drone in 2020 during what he said was a tourist visit in the north of the country.
Briere’s lawyer had claimed his client was being used as a "bargaining chip" in diplomatic negotiations at the time between Iran and Western countries over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
Also in January, Iranian justice ordered the re-imprisonment of Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, arrested in 2019, who had for a time been allowed to serve a five-year prison sentence under house arrest. She had been accused of "propaganda against the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s political system" and "collusion to undermine national security."
There have been teachers’ strikes over the past weeks in cities across Iran. Teachers have walked out of their classes to press for better pay and working conditions.
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I love asking our Tree-Huggers and Democrats around here.
Why is it BAD to drill for oil here, pump it to the the refinery for processing? But is environmentally acceptable to ship it 1/2 way around the world, risk the polluting our coastal shores and rivers. Only to pumped it out of a ship to the same pipelines to be refined here?
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With prices like that you know they won't be stopping by anymore for a full tank and the one true pleasure of pulling off at Earth before hitting the ol' Hyperspace Expressway, a bag of Chuckwagons.
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These idiots really have NO concept of the whole process and how things affect each other. Every step of the way costs more....resulting in higher prices.
Not too mention that 'profit' winds up getting used to pay for the drilling to continue. An offshore rig in the gulf costs 1 million PER DAY whether it's drilling or not. You also have to plan on things like hurricanes and loop currents which don't permit you to drop the BOP, so you sit there waiting for -6- weeks until you can do it....at 1 million per DAY.
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has ordered female staff members of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) to wear the hijab.
On Monday, the 16th of May, the organization shared the Taliban’s directive to wear the hijab with its employees.
"Taliban claim new women’s dress rules are ’advice’ but are imposing them as mandatory—including on Afghan women working at UN." Heather Barr, Associate Director of the Women’s Rights division at Human Rights Watch, tweeted.
Despite Taliban rules, Barr called upon UNAMA on "how will [it] protect [its] colleagues’ safety & freedom?".
According to a UNAMA statement, a delegation of Taliban officials from the Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice told the UN that female employees should consider wearing the hijab, while reporting to duties.
The statement also notes that the personnel of the Ministry will stand outside the UN office to "monitor if hijab is used or not". In an event if the personnel finds a female staff member without hijab, they will talk to her "politely" to wear it as wearing hijab is mandatory outside.
In addition to that, outside the UN office, the Ministry has also placed a poster calling on women to wear the "hijab." Barr tweeted a photo of the poster, which shows a black layered Niqab and a bright blue Burqa (Chadari), as examples of hijab.
The Ministry, which had recently ordered that the hijab was mandatory, said the best type of hijab in the directive was Chadari or Burqa.
The Taliban had warned that if the women disobeyed the order, their parents would be punished and imprisoned.
[KhaamaPress] General Faiz Hameed, the former director general of Pakistain’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) and the current commander of the Pakistain Army Corps in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... , has arrived in Kabul, according to a number of international media.
General Faiz Hameed "has arrived to the Kabul Serena hotel lobby", according to Al Jazeera’s Middle East and South Asia news hound Sadaf Chaudhry, who tweeted on Monday, 16th May.
A number of Indian media sources have confirmed General Faiz’s visit to Kabul and stated that Pakistain and the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... (Pak Taliban) are initiating peace negotiations.
General Faiz Hameed, according to News 18, has arrived in Kabul following the start of peace talks between the Pak Taliban and the Pak government.
According to Pak military sources, Pak Taliban and security officers have been staying at the Serena Hotel in Kabul since Wednesday.
General Faiz Hameed’s arrival to Kabul has yet to be confirmed by the Taliban.
This is General Faiz Hameed’s second visit to Afghanistan since the Taliban took control on August 15, last year. On September 5 of last year, he came to Kabul at the Taliban’s official invitation.
Garrett Ziegler, 26, who worked under Peter Navarro in Trump's office of Trade and Manufacturing uploaded 128,775 emails
Using the name Marco Polo, Ziegler described the emails as ‘a modern Rosetta Stone of white and blue collar crime’
Included in the posts is one from Biden's former business partner James Gilliar which talked of 'H' holding 10% of the equity in a Chinese deal 'for the Big Guy'
That has widely been assumed to mean that Joe Biden would benefit from the deal
Nearly 15,000 emails, that DailyMail.com has verified, are missing from Ziegler's database
Not at all ex, as it turns out — merely between engagements.
[NYPOST] A career criminal is in jug after police said he shot up a crowded Brooklyn intersection last week, sending more than 20 people scrambling for safety, sources said.
Shocking surveillance photos show the gunman — identified by sources as Terrel Norman, 36 — clutching an automatic rifle on East 102 Street before jumping into a Nissan Sentra with a pal.
Cops pulled the car over several blocks away and arrested both men, the sources said.
None of the intended targets were hit.
Norman has a history of emotional disturbance and a lengthy rap sheet that includes more than two dozen busts, a stint in state prison on an armed robbery conviction, and a pending Brooklyn gun case, according to records.
In his most recent arrest police said Norman was pulled over in March on a traffic violation when cops determined he was allegedly driving without a license — and a loaded .45-caliber handgun inside the vehicle, the sources said.
He was initially released on bail but the bail was rescinded after prosecutors didn’t get an indictment in the case in five days — as required by state speedy trial statutes.
Police could not determine if the gun in the car belonged to him or one of his passengers, and are awaiting DNA results to determine if they have a case.
"This individual has no regard for consequence," one law enforcement source told The Post. "You have someone, multiple warrants, parole at various times or probation, and he has a wreckage every in his life.”
Mentally ill leads to poor impulse control? The usual story, and New York City is determined that such people will not get the help they need.
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YEP! those NYC gun controls are really working for Felons, Thugs, and Gang Bangers.
Now convicted Felons need not worry of an Honest Citizen defending themselves.
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"Automatic" rifle? I doubt it seriously. Probably a semi-auto, but no one in NYC has the intelligence to understand the difference. Fully-automatic weapons have been banned (illegally) since at least the 1930s.
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[RIA Novosti] The Russian Defense Ministry published a video showing the destruction of armored vehicles of two Ukrainian mechanized battalions, which on May 14 tried to launch a counterattack.
The video shows footage from a drone that loiters over the countryside. Artillery hits on tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of the Ukrainian troops are shown. You can also observe the results of fire damage - Ukrainian armored vehicles burned to the ground, a tank with a turret torn off after an explosion of ammunition.
The Ministry of Defense showed footage of howitzers "Msta-S" in Ukraine
"On May 14, Russian servicemen in the Zaporozhye direction stopped an attempted counterattack by Ukrainian armed formations, inflicting damage on nationalists in manpower and armored vehicles.
In the area of the village of Vishnevoe, Zaporozhye region, the Kiev regime made an attempt to attack units of the Russian Armed Forces with the forces of two Ukrainian mechanized battalions on tanks and infantry fighting vehicles," — the Ministry of Defense commented on the video.
As noted in the department, Russian units destroyed 26 Ukrainian tanks and 12 infantry fighting vehicles, the irretrievable losses of the enemy in manpower amounted to about a hundred militants.
The ministry clarified that the advancing of enemy armored vehicles and preparations for the attack were spotted by drones and technical intelligence equipment.
Armored vehicles were hit by unmanned aerial vehicles, artillery was operating, and the Russian military also fired oncoming fire from tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. Ukrainian troops took to flight.
Earlier, the Russian military took control of the entire Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region . Civil-military administrations were formed in the regions. Thus, it was possible to completely cut off Ukraine from the Sea of Azov , as well as connect these territories with the DPR.
[AnNahar] For years, the Siyam family clung to hope they would one day be reunited with their son Wassim, who they believed was being held in a Syrian government prison after he went missing at a checkpoint nearly a decade ago.
That hope evaporated the moment they saw him in a newly leaked video: He was among dozens of blindfolded, bound men who, one by one, were shot and thrown into a trench by Syrian security agents.
"It shocked us to our core," Siham Siyam said of the gruesome video, which was taken in 2013 and emerged late last month.
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[Dawn] Security forces killed two "important and most wanted" snuffies of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) in North Wazoo district's Boya area, the military's media affairs wing said in a statement on Tuesday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that security forces and snuffies exchanged fire last night in the area during which the two forces of Evil were killed.
They were identified as commander Rasheed alias Jabir and Abdul Salam alias Chamtoo.
Weapons and ammunition were recovered from the killed terrorists, the ISPR said. The two had been actively involved in terrorist activities in the area, it added.
TTP attacks on Pakistain soil have of late seen an uptick.
The previous PTI government and the TTP had agreed to a month-long ceasefire to hold talks last year. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the hard boy group had declined to extend the ceasefire after the one-month period ended, accusing the government of failing to honour the decisions reached earlier.
On March 30, the TTP announced the launch of Operation al-Badar against law-enforcement agencies, which led to a surge in its attacks in tribal districts, southern region and other parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Last month, two TTP forces of Evil were killed in a raid in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... . They were identified as Khalil and Ehsan.
The police had said the slain snuffies were involved in attacks on security forces and several other sabotage activities, including an attack on a police mobile van, in which five coppers were martyred and seven others were maimed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... two TTP sources told AFP last week that the group had extended a ceasefire with the government, agreed for the Eid period, till May 16 to hold peace talks.
A TTP letter outlining the truce told fighters "not to violate the decision taken by the central command".
Both sources said a team of Pak mediators has travelled to Afghanistan to meet the TTP leadership for talks facilitated by the Afghan Taliban.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... Islamabad has not yet commented on the matter.
[Dawn] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Police's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has arrested two suspects allegedly involved in the deadly blast in Lahore's crowded Anarkali area earlier this year, it emerged on Tuesday.
On January 20, three people were killed and over 30 injured in the blast in Lahore's Anarkali bazaar, which law enforcement agencies had initially believed was a gas cylinder explosion. Subsequent investigations determined that it was a kaboom. The Baloch Nationalist Army, a newly emerged terror outfit, had grabbed credit for the blast.
The Punjab police on Tuesday said the "terrorist network" was busted through the services of the Safe City Authority, intelligence and other technical methods.
In a statement, it said the two suspects — identified as Sana Ullah and Abdul Razziq — were arrested when they reached Lahore from Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... via truck. It added that the pair was planning to conduct two kabooms in Lahore in a single day.
Two detonators for prepared improved bombs, a primacord, remote control and batteries were recovered from the individuals, the police said.
"The terrorist links go back to an anti-state agency. Anti-state elements in a neighbouring country got this blast carried out after planning," the police said.
Separately, a blurb later issued by the CTD said the two confessed to their involvement in the Anarkali blast and subsequently, a first information report was registered at the CTD cop shoppe in Lahore.
The CTD said that all the main suspects of the blast had been arrested and the department's investigation team would "leave no stone unturned" to ensure their conviction through a legal process.
In March, six faceless myrmidons linked to the blast were killed during an exchange of fire in the general area of Nagao Mountains in Balochistan's Sibi.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Dmitry Steshin
[KP] Early in the morning, on May 16, the positions under the walls of Azovstal began to stir. A white flag poked out of a tunnel under the railway tracks, followed by people in a strange, dark sandy uniform with blue tape on their sleeves and ammunition. Together with the “factory inmates”, the boy Kolya got out - he looked to be 15-16 years old - for the last month he lived at Azovstal practically on the surface, in one of the factory supply rooms. As you might guess, the teenager testified to good will and readiness for dialogue. This dialogue has been long awaited. Both our negotiating group and the "Azovites" themselves, as the militias called them - "PSE" Azovstal."
For a long four hours I sat in positions in some kind of administrative factory building unwound in the trash. It was very quiet, and for the first time I heard the toads yelling in the Kalmius River, they are now in spring love. We were waiting. They were waiting for this whole epic to end and someone to go home, at least for a few days on leave, so that later, if necessary, continue to fight further.
By one o'clock in the afternoon, the radio spoke clearly and sternly: do not open fire, sappers will start working from 13.00, open the mined passage for those who surrender and dismantle the rubble. Everyone take their positions, triple their vigilance, and prevent provocations. The exit of the first group with the wounded at 15.00.
It was lunch time, the fighters regretfully set aside or quickly scraped the cans with rations of meat and vegetable canned food. The fighter with the call sign “Borzoy” took the “Bumblebee” flamethrower and, fitting it behind his back, muttered: “You can expect everything from these. The positions will be cleared, our firing points will be copied and how they will go for a breakthrough ... ". The place for the exit of the surrendered and the removal of the wounded was chosen wisely - a narrow passage under the tracks, along the embankment along the same narrow corridor between the buildings. Under the full supervision of "Borzoy" ...
Barbecue at Azovstal
The passage for surrender turned out to be miraculous - a bomb hit between the tracks, throwing out several tons of earth. This hole, the Ukrainian militants threw rusty, bent iron and mined almost three layers. Now, these same people in a strange form, quickly and dexterously dismantled the blockage with shovels, and having disassembled, moved between the embankment and our building. Our fighter, who crouched near the loophole, took aim at the enemies - they were about ten meters away. The "Azovites" walked, sometimes stopping and crouching over some dark green boxes sprinkled with dust.
These were home-made mines made of cartridge zinc stuffed with plastid. The calculation is that tankers will not pay attention to the usual military garbage - empty cartridge zinc. But, some mines were connected by wires - their "Azov" sappers cut them without hesitation. And all this happened in complete silence.
One of ours shouted out: “What, falconers, have you fought? Well, tell me how the stick is right?" But no one supported the wit, the fervent cry faded in silence. The strangers were all with weapons, however, machine guns were thrown behind their backs, pistols in buttoned holsters.
The "Azovites" reached the exit from the yard and stopped in some confusion. In front of them stretched the floodplain of the River, delightful in its greenery and width. And on the other side of Naberezhny Prospekt, there is a Sarmat restaurant. Those who left the factory were, without exaggeration, shocked by the view.
One of the strangers sighed: "Oh, now would be a barbecue!". And I, looking at this cafe long closed because of the war, thought the same thing ...
Mercy trait
THEY didn't look into the asphalt, but they didn't look into our eyes either. All young, up to twenty and a little more. Very cool gear, everyone. But the weapon is the same - our eternal Kalashnikov. They weren't dirty. They weren't haggard and scared. Rather tense. So far, they had all the necessary stripes - from yellow-black flags to "Azov" chevrons.
And we, with my comrade, the militia Vlad, did not know how to behave. He held the machine almost at the ready. To be honest, I was ready to hang on Vlad's shoulders. He lost everything in this war - his house in Poltava, relatives, fellow soldiers, health. Exchanged for the trenches the best years of male maturity.
I have not been separated from Vlad for the third month already and I know how sometimes fierce, terrible anger boils in him. But Vlad was calm. Probably, something happened to us that always happens to Russian people at the sight of a surrendering enemy. No matter what bestiality and cruelty he does, no matter what bloody battles the day before, there is such an invisible line beyond which mercy turns on. No, of course, prisoners can later be judged, but laying mounds of severed heads right on the battlefield is not in our tradition. Vlad spoke first, very calmly:
Why are you so clean? Does that mean there is water?
The guy with the bushy beard, with Stechkin in his chest holster, seemed to be waiting for this question:
- There is water. Technical. There - "Azov" pointed with a hand in a tactical glove to the going black pipes - there are tons of it! And even tea can be brewed normally. But food has been a problem for a week now. We found apples here, a box, it was such a simple holiday.
I couldn't resist:
- How many of you are there?
The guy with Stechkin answered both evasively and with soldier's ingenuity:
You'll be amazed how many of us are out there.
I got the camera:
- This is probably your last chance to tell your relatives that you are alive. I can record videos, I'll throw them in the evening.
But, they did not want to act, none.
The guy with Stechkin turned out to be my namesake. Almost. Named Dmitro. We talked about the bombings. According to Dmitro, the jamming was terrifying, creepy, and only:
- To break the bunker, you need to put three FAB-500s in one place. The first collapses the building, the second makes a funnel, the third breaks through to the bomb shelter.
What were you doing during the bombings?
- In "Counter-strike" they were cut along the grid ...
Vlad once again examined the audience and issued a diagnosis:
- If we were all dressed ... well, in tracksuits, and put on a bench in the park, no one would understand who is here for what and for whom ...
There was a pause, and to fill it in, I remarked:
- It would still be interesting to understand why we are so bloody ...
18-year-old "Azov" Nazar from Lviv broke away from another mine and for the first time in many months I heard the Ukrainian language live:
- Ztokhnuvshi people with people ... (pushed people with people, in Ukrainian)
Dmitro noticed that “everyone got along just fine” and said that he was from Mariupol. But Vlad did not agree here:
- I am from Poltava, I left to fight in the fourteenth year, because I understood that I could not get along there. Here we all speak Russian. And they spread rot on the Russian, they adopted a bunch of laws!
Dmitro squeezed out:
- Well, yes.
But he quickly gathered himself, saying that all these were our internal Ukrainian affairs, but why did Russia get into this? I did not expect such malice from Vlad:
- And what, you wanted you to simply kill all of us, and no one would stand up? Now Europe and the USA are for you, and Russia is for us. Are you okay? And we're fine. That is, it is not normal to ruin youth in the war.
Dmitro remarked:
- I, too, have been fighting since I was 14. Also youth ... of that. Has ended already.
Vlad perked up: "Where did you fight?" I left them to talk, and they talked for an hour.
Our officer showed up.
- Let's move on to defuse.
There were still many mines - half of Naberezhny Prospekt.
Losers or losers?
An hour later, the first batch of "zahistniks" left the factory. Before passing under the tracks, they tore off their sweaty armor, threw off their helmets and weapons, and went into captivity. They didn't feel defeated, more like losers. Lost one battle. And yet, they believed in our mercy and knew for sure that they would not shoot their legs and gouge out their eyes. As "Azov" did with our prisoners.
The first party left, and ... almost immediately returned - already with a stretcher. They carried the wounded away from the factory. The Azov people told us, they say, “we would sit at the plant until the New Year.”
Perhaps, but the wounded, judging by their condition, would not have survived until the next Sunday. And as one of our negotiators explained to me informally, "we started the surrender process with an act of mercy." It was hard to argue with that.
In general, I did not want to argue about anything, sitting on the loose earth, under the menacingly creaking exploded rails. An officer from Azov showed up. According to him, the core of the regiment is still in position, waiting for the first day of surrender to pass. They have the Internet, and they greedily catch every message on the Net. But one thing is already clear to everyone - "the evil Kyiv owner of the living" Azov "is not needed." This is finally understood by everyone.
In general, by all indications, the war in Mariupol is over. At all!
Finally, Vlad surprised me:
- After the war, I would drink with this Dmitro.
- Did you forgive them?
- No. But I liked it, we would have something to talk about.
- What did you like?
- He is still the only one who did not pretend to be a cook and did not play around. This is a worthy enemy.
But we defeated them.
- Yes. But it was very hard.
It is worth noting that earlier information appeared that the wounded of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were being taken out of the basements of Azovstal for treatment in the DPR. Our observer Nikolai Varsegov comments on this news:
"To tell the truth, I initially had ... a misunderstanding of this decision on our part. By accepting enemy wounded, including the Nazis of Azov, we, of course, make life much easier for those who hid under the plant. Now they do not have to share the meager remains of water and food with those who came out of No need to waste physical and moral strength to help them, and therefore the surrender of these basement warriors will drag on for some time, tying down our military over Azovstal.
I have no doubt that many Russians, who worry about our soldiers and wish for a speedy victory, think the same way.
But there is another, probably more valuable side of the coin - humanism. Most, I believe, the rescued Ukrainian wounded, as well as their loved ones, will change their minds to everything that is happening. They will turn on the mind, as happens with hundreds of other military Ukrainians who are in our captivity.
Every now and then we see on TV screens absolutely adequate people who have surrendered to the Russian army, who sincerely declare that they do not want to fight for the crooks and bandits who have seized power in Ukraine. “The summons came, I was taken to the front. Where was it to go? Otherwise, prison ... ".
One must think that among the wounded at "Azrovstal" these are the majority. And humanly, and not for the picture, they are sorry.
Ukrainian propaganda is trying its best to show the Russian army as barbaric. He calls it a horde that encroached on their exaggerated democracy. But the whole world saw how Ukrainian "democrats" in military uniform mock our prisoners of war with sadistic joy. Nothing like this happens on our side. On the contrary, we feed them normally, treat them, do not humiliate their human dignity. My personal opinion is that to mock prisoners of war is a sign of subhumanity. I am satisfied that in my civilized country, even in a mild form, there is no such disgrace with prisoners as is happening in Ukraine.
And this humane action for the treatment of Ukrainian wounded is important for us in order to feel like decent people. And it doesn't give a damn that Ukrainian and Western propagandists are talking about us there. We Russians are much higher morally than they are, as events show."
And yet, they believed in our mercy and knew for sure that they would not shoot their legs and gouge out their eyes. How did the "Azov" do with our prisoners.
Perhaps the audience here doesn't speak foreign languages but this sentence obviously should be translated as something like, "As 'Azov' have done to our soldiers taken captive"
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Yes, a pity the translation is such crap. Dmitry Steshin is a gifted writer. His dispatches recall the great Russian modernist writer Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry series of short stories about the Russo-Polish War of 1920: beautiful, ironic, tragicomic and lyrical at the same time.
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^ Red Cavalry is one of my favorites! Babel is sublime. One of the geniuses of the 20c. Speaking of dispatches from the front, have you read any of Tolstoy's stories about the Caucasus? His best stuff IMO
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Perhaps the audience here doesn't speak foreign languages but this sentence obviously should be translated as something like, "As 'Azov' have done to our soldiers taken captive"
I edited that particular passage, adding the word 'do.' The English translation I edited is proper English. You just appear to think differently. That is your right.
Absolutely! This Dmitry Steshin piece appears to be influenced by A Prisoner Of The Caucasus. Russians tell me it used to be taught to every Russian schoolchild; don't know whether it still is but Steshin appears to be at least in his forties.
Anyway from his style I'd guess he's probably read it many times. Steshin's obvious and amazing sympathy for the Azovtsi is definiteky Tolstoyan: see Tolstoy's wonderful portrait of his great Chechen hero Hadji Murat
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Anyway from his style I'd guess he's probably read it many times. Steshin's obvious and amazing sympathy for the Azovtsi is definiteky Tolstoyan: see Tolstoy's wonderful portrait of his great Chechen hero Hadji Murat
They both proceed from imaginative understanding of another hunan's plight, but "pity" is condescending. That's not accurate. Steshin never condescends. He views these flawed people as equals, fellow humans, the same way that Babel viewed the Poles or Tolstoy the Chechens. Even when he repeats a sneer lobbed at them by a Russian captor, Steshin makes it clear that the joke is on the would-be sarcastic jokester, not on the Azovtsi. That's Tolstoyan -- see Prince Andre's takedown of his fellow soldier who sneers at the Austrians after their humiliation at Schöngrabern
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Steshin makes it clear that the joke is on the would-be sarcastic jokester, not on the Azovtsi. That's Tolstoyan -- see Prince Andre's takedown of his fellow soldier who sneers at the Austrians after their humiliation at Schöngrabern
Agreed. The Russians and Ukrainians I know have this same attitude toward the war. They both think it's a tragic waste, basically an out of control family quarrel, pointless and brutal and caused ultimately by stupid outsiders stirring up trouble. All of them hate that stupid American bitch who plotted the Maidan coup in 2014.
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Why would Steshin waste his time here? He's probably working 14-hour days now. For the record I've never met him. I don't know if he speaks English (or Dutch or German or French).
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Why would Steshin waste his time here? He's probably working 14-hour days now. For the record I've never met him. I don't know if he speaks English (or Dutch or German or French).
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Victoria Nuland is part of that cabal of Washington neo-con idiots who have fucked up more countries and caused more death and destruction than anyone else alive. When I saw Biden reassembling the old 2014 Obama team in March 2021, I knew that things would go to hell again in Ukraine. Fuck that rancid bitch
#28
We seem to be getting some civil, well reasoned and literate discourse from the Russians today instead of the usual vulgar trolls. Good job, guys. Interesting article.
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/\ Yes, many who gather here appear to have more than a passing interest in military affairs and geopolitics. One might suspect they make their living in such a manner.
#33
What country is Victoria Nuland fucking up now? She seems awfully quiet of late. Looks like she and the other neocon bastards who kicked over this hornet's nest have moved on to their next disaster.... Somalia?
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One might suspect they make their living in such a manner.
All sorts of interesting people wander in here. While some, no doubt, are typing dogs, others are Platonic ideals of their particular type. It makes for educational conversations.
#37
Nuland and the other neocon bastards who kicked over this hornet's nest have moved on to their next disaster.... Somalia?
Actually, yes. Funnily enough, the bitch just went to Africa to see if she can drag America into additional pointless wars over shitholes. Life imitates satire.
As if Iraq (with her boss Dick Cheney) and Ukraine (with her boss Obama) weren't enough disaster and devastation for one lifetime.
[Garowe] Rising al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... attacks within Somalia and the need to train more local security forces informed the US decision to reinstate troops to the Horn of Africa nation, a year after an unceremonious exit occasioned by an order signed by former President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... .
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Yes, the Purple Heart is our second highest decoration. Don’t expect help from a reaction force during the Biden Regime. Keep up with your cardio in case there is a need for the Mogadishu Mile Part II.
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