[DailyCaller] The Biden administration privately acknowledged in late April that a mathematical error is delaying the federal offshore oil and gas program, in a letter to industry leaders.
Richard Spinrad, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said a subagency "discovered a miscalculation" that has caused a massive backlog in permitting, in the April 29 letter obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Spinrad acknowledged the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) — the subagency tasked with analyzing the impact of offshore drilling projects on wildlife — has used faulty modeling on such impacts and, as a result, overestimated wildlife effects, delaying permitting on existing leases.
"NMFS understands the concerns of industry and is working with [the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)] to expeditiously develop ... revised regulations," Spinrad wrote in the letter to the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA). (RELATED: ’I’m Not Going To Respond To That’: Biden Cabinet Officials Can’t Get Their Story Straight On Energy Production)
The NOAA administrator’s letter came in response to an April 5 letter from NOIA, the American Petroleum Institute and the EnerGeo Alliance, warning that energy producers had experienced significant permitting delays. In particular, oil and gas companies have reported delays in obtaining letters of authorization (LOA) from the NMFS to conduct pre-drilling activity, including seismic surveying and geological exploration, in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Biden administration implemented the faulty modeling through an April 2021 regulation, according to the industry groups. A spokesperson for the Department of Commerce, which oversees NOAA and NMFS, said Thursday that the administration was "working to consider all possible solutions to expedite the rulemaking process to the greatest extent possible."
"NMFS is also engaged with affected members of industry and with industry trade associations as it considers both short-term and long-term solutions," the spokesperson told TheDCNF in an email. "The Commerce Department understands the concerns of industry and is working expeditiously to address the incorrect data it received for the initial rule and to proceed in earnest with the revised rule."
The spokesperson didn’t answer a question about the current size of the permit backlog.
"Gulf of Mexico seismic permitting delays — when coupled with the lack of progress on a new five-year offshore leasing program and the continuation of a multi-year gap in Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sales — undermine the predictability companies have relied on to make multi-billion-dollar investment decisions in the Gulf of Mexico," NOIA President Erik Milito told TheDCNF in a statement.
"At a time when energy issues are at the forefront, NMFS should address the problems as quickly as possible," Milito continued. "Companies must be able to continue to explore for and develop hydrocarbon resources in the Gulf of Mexico."
Milito and other industry leaders have warned the delays have "commercial, operational, and safety implications."
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and 19 fellow GOP senators wrote to the Department of Commerce Tuesday, expressing concern about the permitting delays caused by the mathematical error. The lawmakers demanded that the administration issue a new rule immediately, fixing the issue. We have our top men in the government. Top men.
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Math error my ass. Why is it under Obama gas and oil was restricted until we hit $4.00 a gallon gas. After Obama it went back down into the $2.00 range, and now Biden has it back up over $4.00 in a year. Its not a mistake, its part of the plan...
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[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Monkeypox pandemic has finally breached the shores of the United States, with the CDC confirming a staggering 1 infections so far. In response, America's favorite, most trusted doctor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, issued a statement recommending people stop the spread of Monkeypox by covering their eyes, ears, and mouth.
Fauci accepted 137 TV interviews and a book deal after issuing the guidelines essentially recommending people look the other way rather than investigate the source of this new outbreak.
"As I, the Science, have always said, lockdowns don't work. What really works is turning a blind eye to where this outbreak nonsense may or may not have leaked from," said Dr. Fauci to a fawning NBC news anchor trying to get his autograph. "And I'd like to add that there is no evidence the Monkeypox outbreak is connected to the NIH-funded Institute of Monkeypox Studies next door to patient zero."
Not all health professionals agree with Dr. Fauci's health order. Dr. Corry Larreia, a world-renowned monkey virologist and respected expert in finding the source of Monkeypox outbreaks, said Dr. Fauci was wrong and the outbreak should be investigated in full.
At publishing time, Dr. Larreia had been disbarred, lost his virology license along with his official stethoscope, was banned from his local book club, snubbed by Apple's Siri, and lost both of his hands in a tragic wood chipper accident.
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[YouTube] Most NATO members have met Finland and Sweden's joint application for membership with open enthusiasm. The US, UK, France; even the Italians and Greeks are cheering, in a rare moment of pan-European positivity.
But not the Turks. Long kept at arm's reach from EU-membership (including by self-appointed human rights stewards like the Swedes), Ankara is going to savor its ability to make Sweden and Finland's ascension process be as much about Turkey's needs as it is about Russia.
The Turks aren't just being spiteful for spite's sake.
Turkey and Greece were the first states to gain membership in an expanded NATO in 1952, joining the 12 member nations who formed the bloc in 1949. In addition to being one of the bloc's longest-standing members, Turkey (not unrealistically) views itself as one of NATO's most strategic. Its geography, particularly the control of the Turkish Straits, affords Ankara outsized influence over the Black Sea, the Danube Basin, and the Eastern Mediterranean. Ankara also happens to have the bloc's second-largest army, second only to the United States. Turkey isn't just cribbing from a Rodney Dangerfield act when it angles for more respect from its supposed Western allies; it is an important partner and now has the geopolitical heft to make sure everybody knows it.
Ankara is also one of a handful of countries around the world that is willing, able, and actively seeking to establish itself as a meaningful regional power. Turkey's neighborhood (especially along its southern and eastern borders) has always been...spicy. The Turkish state's long-standing conflict with Kurdish separatists has been an easy target of criticism for its European neighbors. But now Turkey gets to point the finger at countries like Sweden, who it claims is doing too much to encourage Kurdish separatist militias in places like Syria. Ankara is well within its rights to claim how it can be expected to call Sweden its ally, when Stockholm's actions risk directly threatening the security and stability of the Turkish state.
Turkey also famously straddles Europe and Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. We should not be surprised that a country that shares land borders with Bulgaria and Iran, Greece, Georgia and Armenia has a different worldview than the northern Europeans or Portugal. Or that a country that borders the Syrian Civil War, the remnants of Iraq and an intensifying Azerbaijani/Armenian conflict is going to have different security realities than the land of Ikea, H&M and Volvos. And here we see how one of NATO's strengths--its size--complicates its ability to move swiftly as a unified bloc.
Is Turkey going to use its veto authority to block Sweden and Finland from joining NATO? I think the more important question is whether or not Sweden and Finland are ready to recognize and respect Turkish security prerogatives as being as legitimate as their own concerns over Russia.
[Alt-Market.US] At the onset of the Russian incursion into Ukraine I argued in my article ’Order Out Of Chaos: How The Ukraine Conflict Is Designed To Benefit Globalists’ that US boots would be on the ground within a few months. I was wrong — As it turns out, US and European military boots were ALREADY on the ground. Ukraine was a proxy war from the very beginning.
But what is a proxy war, really? It means that Russian troops are fighting Ukrainian soldiers that are intermingled with western "advisors" and most likely US and European special forces, not to mention US intelligence operatives utilizing all the information gathering technology at the disposal of the Department of Defense. In other words, Russian soldiers are being killed by Western assets. Some pro-Ukraine people might ask why this is a problem?
To understand the gravity of this situation we have to first examine the historical significance.
The closest event in history that I could approximate Ukraine to is Vietnam, when communist elements within the country were receiving constant aid, weaponry and even some troops from China, along with monetary and technological aid from the Soviet Union. Vietnam was essentially a "safe" arena or cage match between the West and Communism; a place where the paradigm players could fight it out without risk of a larger nuclear exchange. The globalists could sit back, relax and watch the show while Americans sacrificed their lives over a conflict that did not need to exist.
Ukraine is similar, but the stakes this time are much higher. This is probably why the mainstream media and the White House have been in full denial that Ukraine is a proxy war at all, and have consistently downplayed the complex involvement of Western military assets. The fact is that Ukraine would have fallen completely by now had it not been for the fact that Russia is not really facing Ukraine; it is facing a proxy force of US and European support elements feeding intel, weaponry and likely direct kinetic support.
In my article ’Ukraine Learns The Value Of An Armed Citizenry, But Far Too Late,’ published on March 2nd, I noted that the Ukrainian "militia" programs being instituted at the last minute while Russia troops swiftly marched across the Donbass were a side show. The media was acting as if citizens with no more than a couple of weeks of training were going to make some kind of difference in the war; this was nonsense. In my view, the insurgency narrative was meant as cover for well trained Western assets already in place with advanced anti-tank and anti-aircraft technology. As I stated in that article:
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I don't need to buy the book. It's been perfectly obvious from the get-go that the two primary belligerents are Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. Of course you understand that by "Joe Biden" I mean whatever bunch of Deep State globalists are pulling his strings. They want regime change in Moscow just like the regime change they engineered in Kiev back in 2014...just like Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, etc. It's what they do.
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If I had to guess right now, I'd say these globalists have about a 50-50 chance in their bid to depose Putin. But what then? Maybe Russia will end up like Libya. Who will end up with control of Russia's nuclear arsenal? Someone who is "better" than Putin or someone who is worse? Maybe the globalists have someone in mind but who knows? I guess we just have to trust them.
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Regime change? I think there are many Red Diaper Babies furious at Russia's betrayal of the Communist Ideal.
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So Putin should end it.
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Now the New York Times editors are calling on Biden to de-escalate , explain what the hell their strategy is (if any), and in effect, to initiate peace talks. Evidently, Tom Friedman's been getting lots of phone calls from his pals in the Administration and the intelligence community. They can see that Biden and Austin have been unbelievably reckless and foolish.
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#4 I'd say these globalists have about a 50-50 chance in their bid to depose Putin.
Where'd you get that number? Based on what evidence?
Who would replace him -- Navalny? Navalny is a fervent Russian nationalist who was 100% in favor of annexing Crimea. So is nearly everyone in Russia.
Or do these deluded fantasists think the Pu$ sy Riot girlz will depose him? By killing with their qu!ms?
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The whole idea is to trigger a wider war and invade Russia. Not just regime change, but the breakup of Russia into smaller states easily dominated by banks.
And then, the refugee airlift starts. Massive relocation of population from ME/Africa to the former territory of the Russian Federation. The replacement of the Rus people with immigrants. Russia will never be a threat again.
Then, Iran, Venezuela, China and any other leftovers. The way will be clear for a global governance. Bye-bye US Constitution!
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Evidently, Tom Friedman's been getting lots of phone calls from his pals in the Administration and the intelligence community. They can see that Biden and Austin have been unbelievably reckless and foolish.
"...from everything I have been able to glean from senior U.S. officials, who spoke to me on condition of anonymity, the leaks were not part of any thought-out strategy, and President Biden was livid about them. I’m told that he called the director of national intelligence, the director of the C.I.A. and the secretary of defense to make clear in the strongest and most colorful language that this kind of loose talk is reckless and has got to stop immediately — before we end up in an unintended war with Russia."
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#21 The Economic Times article is here. The title is "ONGC weighs raising stakes in Russian oil despite Shell snub". The article goes on to discuss various possible bids for the western oil assets, which is a long way from "will buy". The concluding paragraph is:
The departure of oil majors also means an erosion in capabilities for Russian projects.
"Western companies brought in a lot of technical competence to Russian projects and their departure might impact the progress of projects," said another person. "Without them, it might be challenging to maintain efficiency in some of the projects located in harsh geographical conditions."
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They'll buy. The western majors are being forced -- not by the host country but by their own governments! -- forced to sell, and sell ASAP, at any price.
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If you want to share that opinion with us, fine. But that's not what the article you cited says.
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The last paragraph is an oil journalist's opinion. He's wrong. The oil majors need assets at scale and they scour the earth for them; big properties are extremely hard to come by. There are very few available. Re the harsh conditions, so what. When the oil price is sky high, Big Oil will find ways to turn a profit no matter what the obstacles.
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Can Rosneft and Gazprom operate the properties?
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I mean, considering the resignation of 5 senior Rosneft executives?
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Biden's oil policy is killing the US economy, impoverishing American households, enriching Big Oil, sending windfall profits to Russia, and building up Chinese and Indian oil companies. Biden is a foreign agent sent on a mission to destroy America.
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[KhaamaPress] At a meeting in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , a number of politicians who have been in exile from Afghanistan when the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... reclaimed power agreed to form the Supreme Council of National Resistance® for the Salvation of Afghanistan.
The meeting took place on Tuesday night, May 17th, at Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... ’s Ankara residence, the leader of Afghanistan’s National Islamic Movement.
Participants included Abdul Rashid Dostum, Mohammad Mohaqiq, Abdurrab Rasoul Sayyaf, Atta Mohammad Noor, Mir Rahman Rahmani, Mohammad Alam Ezedyar, representatives of Salahuddin Rabbani and Ismail Khan, and others.
The declaration called armed resistance against the Taliban in Panjshir, Baghlan, Takhar, Badakhshan, Parwan, Kapisa, Samangan, and other parts of the country "legitimate," and appealed for support for the resistance.
Participants in the meeting stated that the Taliban had "aggressed and killed people" in defiance of all religious principles and humanitarian conventions, and that people had been forced to defend their lives and property in various regions of the country.
Article 2 of the declaration urges the Taliban to refrain from causing further "damage and devastation" in the country and to return to the negotiating table to settle the current issues.
According to the article, the Taliban should be aware that, historically, no group has been able to establish a stable government in Afghanistan through coercion and violence.
The "exclusive and usurper rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan" will result in widespread crisis and turmoil, and this situation will not benefit the neighboring countries or the region. The declaration stated, "Only a united Afghanistan and has a stable democratic system based on justice and equality can ensure their [neighboring countries’ and region’s] interests."
The Taliban, on the other hand, has established the Return and Communications with Former Afghan Officials and Political Figures Commission.
Inamullahullah Samangani, a Taliban spokesperson, told the BBC’s Khalil Noori that the Communication Commission set up to organize an Afghan conference had finished contacting political figures and that some of them had made commitments to attend, albeit he did not name the attendees.
[KhaamaPress] Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry has announced the commencement of "anti-terrorist" military operations on the Border with Afghanistan and China to combat terrorism.
Rooters also reported on Wednesday, May 18th, that the operation was launched in Gorno-Badakhshan region near the Tajik border with Afghanistan and China.
Several days of protests in Tajikistan’s Badakhshan province preceded the operation. The demonstrators claim that the governor and mayor of Badakhshan failed to appropriately prosecute the death of a civil activist in police custody, and that they should resign as a result.
Several protestors were hurt in conflicts between police and protesters, according to eyewitnesses. The Tajik Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that one protester was killed and three copperswere maimed during the protests.
Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry has alleged that the protests in Badakhshan region are being organized by "international terrorist groups" that provide firearms and ammunition to Tajik demonstrators and their representatives in order for them to "carry out terrorist acts."
Protesters, on the other hand, claim that their actions are nonviolent mostly peaceful and protected by the law.
Tajik opposition groups overseas have appealed to Tajik officials to stop "suppressing peaceful protests" in Badakhshan.
[KhaamaPress] Tahreek-e-Azadi Afghanistan (Afghanistan Freedom Movement) grabbed credit for an attack on the 209th AlFath Taliban ...Arabic for students... Corps convoy in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province.
An explosion occurred this morning, Thursday, May 19, in Mazar-e-Sharif Sharif’s 5th district, and it is believed that the target of the earth-shattering kaboom was a Taliban army convoy, leaving three people maimed.
Mohammad Asif Waziri, a front man for the Taliban police office in Balkh province, reported hours later that a vehicle carrying civilian personnel of the 209th AlFath Corps had been attacked, injuring three people. The injured were then taken to the corps hospital.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... according to Khalid Pasoon, a front man for the Tahreek-e-Azadi Afghanistan, at least ten people were killed and twelve were maimed in the incident.
He described the attack as the result of a magnetic mine explosion.
He further said that the blast completely destroyed a truck transporting Taliban forces.
Pictures of the mini-bus carrying Taliban forces were also released on social media after the earth-shattering kaboom, and the picture shows the vehicle being completely destroyed.
Several other groups, in addition to the Resistance® Front and the Tahreek-e-Azadi Afghanistan, have announced their presence, and their attacks on the Taliban have increased in recent weeks.
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Interior has ordered all paths be blocked that are used for human trafficking to Iran.
Many young people said they are struggling with severe economic conditions, and this crackdown will only cause more problems.
Mohammad Nabi, a resident of Kapisa, and his family came to Nimruz province and are living in a small hotel.
"We were unable to purchase passports and visas. Now when we arrived in Nimroz, the Islamic Emirate closed the borders. Where can I go with these children I have with me?" he said.
Many young people arrived in Nimroz province seeking to cross the border to Iran. They called on the Islamic Emirate to provide job opportunities in the country.
"There is no opportunity for work. Everyone is forced to leave the country to find food," said Hashmatullah, a resident of Kapisa.
"I am not happy about leaving the country but I am obliged to," said Faqir Ahmad, a resident of Kapisa.
The department of Refugees and Repatriation of Nimruz said that the Ministry of Interior ordered all border forces to prevent human trafficking in a bid to stop the illegal migration of citizens to the neighboring countries.
"Afghanistan is going toward development, and the Afghans must try to spend their energy on the development of their own country," said Sadiqullah Nasrat, head of the department.
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What is described does not sound like human trafficking although there may be human trafficking in the full article. For refugees, you would have to live in a terrible place for Iran to be the Oz at the end of your yellow brick road. Iran is, unfortunately, surrounded by terribly poor countries. I guess they would kind of be the Dollar General of refugee destinations, if Dollar General was out of food, repressed people and funded terrorism.
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If it weren't for my Dollar General Ah'd have to drive 40 miles RT for smokes, chips and beer.
The Taliban’s stepwise removal of females from the public square continues.
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prohibition of Vice has issued a new directive requiring female presenters on television to wear masks.
The order was officially announced on Wednesday, May 19 by Taliban Ministry of Interior agents to MOBY Group television channels, including TOLONews.
Officials in charge of the communiqué instructed female MOBY Group presenters and operators that the order was "indisputable" and should be considered without any debate.
Female presenters with masks have appeared on the MOBY Group’s TV networks since yesterday, in accordance with the Taliban’s Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prohibition of Vice strict order.
The Taliban’s latest edict comes after the group’s previous edict to "make hijab mandatory," raising concerns about the implications of both orders to women’s rights. A number of women reacted to the adoption of the decree on mandatory hijab, protesting in Kabul streets, raising their voice.
The new directive is not surprising given that the Taliban have already implemented a gender segregation policy in restaurants and parks as well as the fact that the issue of reopening the girls’ schools yet remains unsolved.
There have been objections, with some social activists claiming that the Taliban’s measures are intended to keep women out of society.
[NYP] One of the most galling aspects of the Hunter Biden laptop saga is that the 51 former intelligence officials who played such a critical role in suppressing The Post’s stories and giving Joe Biden cover before the 2020 election have never been brought to account.
The "Dirty 51" lied by painting our stories as Russian disinformation in an Oct. 19, 2020, letter they signed and delivered to Politico five days after The Post exposé and three days before the final presidential debate of the election campaign.
They used the institutional weight of their powerful former roles to legitimize partisan political propaganda designed to smear The Post and everyone associated with the story and dissuade the rest of the media from looking deeper into the laptop.
The letter, titled "Public Statement on the Hunter Biden emails," and signed by former CIA Directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta and Mike Hayden, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other ex-spooks, claimed the material on Hunter’s hard drive "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation," although not one of them had seen it.
Their lie "probably affected the outcome" of the 2020 presidential race, as former Attorney General William Barr has said, describing the letter as "partisan hackery," "baseless" and signed by "a coterie of retired intelligence officials who had lost their professional bearings."
Yet they have never apologized or retracted their lie. In fact, when The Post contacted the group in March, after the New York Times belatedly acknowledged the laptop was real, some, like Clapper, doubled down.
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I utterly believe the intent of those 51 signatories to the letter (some of whom had careers worthy of actual respect) was to stop Trump by using their implied experience and wisdom to debunk the Hunter Biden story. I also believe many were always partisans whose experience was created by appointment, not a lifetime in the business. But sadly, the precise language of the statement they issued will protect them from any accountability beyond damage to their credibility and labeling as compromised sources.
This is the actual language from the letter:
"We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have
evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the
Russian government played a significant role in this case. If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this."
The alibi is proof against liability beyond poor judgement, and the subsequent media stories about the NYP allegations being disproved are all spin about the actual letter answering the allegation.
Its dirty tricks by inference, and abuse of public trust, but I doubt it is actionable beyond public embarrassment.
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It appears to be actionable. Trump's lawyer Parlatore is pursuing multiple lines of attack. First, the CIA chiefs clearly failed to run their letter through the pre-publication security review process. Second, it's obviously a major campaign favor, so there's a strong case it was in effect an "in-kind" campaign contribution.
[The American Moment] "The most important thing is to bring people to Christ, --and the second most important thing is to preserve the freedom to do the most important thing!"--W.J. Federer. This was the attitude of many pastors and seminary-trained founders who served in America's early government.
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For one, you got a blue chip like that serving on your board, s/he gets an all expense paid account food, room & board, transport, entertainment, no questions asked. Then one of your best goes through the receipts to make sure they are "properly named". $150k for a bottle of Chateau Lafite....non non non....history and culture tutor.
[Garowe] At the UN Security Council’s Ministerial on Food Security today in New York, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced nearly $215 million in additional humanitarian assistance to address the global food security crisis, which has been exacerbated by Russia’s war on Ukraine and its corresponding impact on global markets.
Even before the war began, approximately 768 million people were chronically hungry. This new crisis has only made an already dire situation significantly worse, with as many as 40 million people projected to be pushed into poverty and food insecurity through the end of the year.
This additional support, provided through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will expand emergency food security operations in several countries already facing food insecurity as a result of conflict, drought, and other natural disasters, including Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Kenya, Nigeria, Zim-bob-we, 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... In addition to announcing new humanitarian food assistance funding, the United States will issue a Roadmap for the Global Food Security Call to Action to reflect the outcomes of the ministerial-level meeting, outlining the commitments that countries have made to address these challenges.
With today’s announcement, the United States has provided nearly $2.6 billion in emergency food assistance since Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine began on February 24. This includes nearly $1.7 billion in humanitarian assistance to respond to worsening food insecurity around the world.
It also includes USAID and the U.S. Department of Agriculture taking the extraordinary step to program the full balance of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust as part of an effort to provide $670 million in food assistance to six countries facing severe food insecurity: Æthiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Yemen.
The United States is continuing to scale up assistance to respond to this crisis by increasing emergency food assistance in countries that have high levels of food insecurity and are vulnerable to price shocks.
"We are also continuing to call on other donors to increase funding to prevent this global food security crisis from getting even worse and use data analysis to project the potential impacts of the crisis on countries with existing humanitarian emergencies," said USAID.
[BenarNews] Government forces killed two runaway bully boys, who were suspected of supplying firearms to Moslem holy warrior groups in the southern Philippines, during a shootout in Mindanao and arrested two other suspects afterwards, military officials said Thursday.
The Army’s 6th Infantry Division, based in southern Maguindanao province, identified the slain suspects as Datu Romah Malang Mastura (alias Mamako) and Ebrahim Samama.
They died in a brief firefight that broke out as government soldiers and drug enforcement agents conducted a counter-narcotics operation in the town of Pigcawayan on Wednesday, said Maj. Gen. Juvymax Uy, the regional military chief.
"The exchange of fire lasted for about five minutes which resulted in the death of Mastura and Samama and the enemy withdrew towards the south direction," Uy told BenarNews.
The military identified the two suspects who were taken into custody after the shootout as Guiahed Akmad Toting and Ali Kamsa Guilay.
Mastura and Samama were among several inmates who had beat feet from a heavily secured prison facility in nearby Kidapawan City in 2017. Intelligence operatives had tracked their movements since then, and their group allegedly had widened its criminal operation to include drug trafficking and selling firearms to local groups allied with 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.... holy warriors.
The military said the two slain were among its list of "high-value targets" in the war against drugs. Authorities recovered from the scene an assortment of rifles and guns as well as six heat-sealed plastic sachets, containing meth drug paraphernalia.
The group to which the suspects belonged also was "providing finances and arms and other logistics support" to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... and Daulah Islamiyah bully boy groups in the province, military officials said.
BIFF is a splinter group from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a separatist group that has signed a peace pact with Manila, while the DI is the local arm of so-called Islamic State group.
The incoming administration of President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. should expect a persistent presence of gangs trying to advance their cause for a separate Islamic state in the Mindanao region, according to Rommel Banlaoi, a counter-terrorism analyst at the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research.
"There are still few Moslem personalities opposing the government. They want full separation," Banlaoi told BenarNews.
"Those active murderous Moslems are remnants but there are new emerging leaders still aligned with the Islamic State," he added.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Banlaoi noted that the numbers of BIFF and Daulah Islamiyah members are dwindling due to efforts to counter the financing of terrorism to mount attacks.
Other Daulah Islamiyah cells have worked with a faction that was behind a five-month siege of Marawi, a city in the southern Philippines, by pro-IS Filipino fighters and murderous Moslems from other countries in 2017.
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[Garowe] Residents of Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, have reportedly sighted fighter jets within the suburbs of the city, in what comes just hours after US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan... authorized the redeployment of Special Forces to the Horn of Africa nation.
Just hours after Somalia elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the next president, Pentagon is said to have authorized the redeployment of close to 500 soldiers who will help the local security forces to tackle 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... snuffies within the country.
Last year, Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... , the former US president, signed an Executive Order which saw all the 700 US troops who had been training Danab Special Forces besides helping in aerial combats, leave the country even in the middle of surging al-Shabaab attacks.
According to eyewitnesses in Mogadishu, two fighter jets were sighted cruising at low altitudes and shooting flares, a rare and mysterious night flying over the city. It was not immediately clear whether the jets were attached to the US Africa Command.
A short clip capturing one of the fighter jets shooting a decoy flare as a preemptive measure to counter incoming RPGs or missiles. Some residents across the northern neighborhood of the city heard the loud sound of the supersonic engine.
The US has been a major security partner of the Horn of Africa nation. On Wednesday, Outgoing PM Mohammed Hussein Roble met African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission [ATMIS] team amid fears that Burundian forces in Middle Shabelle could vacate three more Forward Operating Bases to minimize potential al-Shabaab attack.
BNDF vacated Gololey base earlier on Saturday. Troops from Gololey were deployed in other bases to reinforce just after the al-Shabaab snuffies raided one of the bases in El-Baraf, leaving at least 30 Burundian soldiers dead according to military reports.
According to the VOA, the decision by the US to deploy troops to Somalia, however, became increasingly unpopular with U.S. military officials, who complained of having to "commute" to work, and with some Somali officials, who saw al-Shabaab's forces grow in the absence of a persistent U.S. presence.
"This was a wrong decision taken. The withdrawal was a hasty decision," a senior adviser to Mohamud told VOA, ahead of the official announcement on Tuesday.
"It disrupted counterterrorism operations," said the Somali adviser, who asked not to be named because his position in the administration has not yet been made public. "To reinstate and start with the new president is the right decision, and it came at the right time."
U.S. officials, explaining the decision to deploy fewer than 500 troops to Somalia as part of what they describe as a persistent presence, agreed that the cost of waiting any longer would be high.
Al-Shabaab "has unfortunately only grown stronger" since the December 2020 decision to no longer maintains an ongoing U.S. military presence in Somalia, a White House official said Monday, speaking on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss the new authorization.
Al-Shabaab "has increased the tempo of its attacks, including against U.S. personnel," the official said. "We're concerned about the potential for al-Shabaab's upward battlefield and financial trajectory to generate more space for the group to plan and ultimately to execute external attacks."
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Team America has arrived to make things better by killing people in the midst of a failed state for some reason. I guess we should ask Biden’s teleprompter.
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Most of Africa is accessible from the Horn.
Closer to Iran than Spain or Italy.
[AlAhram] The Egyptian security forces have foiled a suicide kaboom attempt by a terrorist against personnel stationed at a police checkpoint in El-Telol district in North Sinai, according to a statement by the Ministry of Interior on Thursday.
The security personnel killed the terrorist after an exchange of fire, noted the statement, adding that an boom belt, two grenades, an automatic weapon, four magazines, and 112 bullets were found in his possession.
The ministry said all legal measures have been taken and that the country's Supreme State Security Prosecution is investigating the incident.
In the past several years, Egypt has been battling Death Eaters in North Sinai, who carried out deadly attacks on police and Armed Forces checkpoints as well as civilians.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... in 2018, the Armed Forces launched a major counter-terrorist drive dubbed "Comprehensive Operation Sinai 2018" that succeeded in almost eradicating terrorism from North Sinai as well as the Nile Delta and desert areas.
As a result, the rate of terrorist attacks in North Sinai has declined in recent years following massive and successive security and military anti-terror operations.
The Egyptian Armed forces has foiled two terrorist attacks this month.
On 7 May, the army thwarted an attack launched by a group of Death Eaters on a water lifting station in western Sinai, which left an officer and 10 soldiers dead as well as five others injured.
On 11 May, the army killed seven Death Eaters in an ambush near a security checkpoint, which left an officer and four soldiers dead and two others injured.
A branch of the terrorist group 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.... (IS) — that was formerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis — grabbed credit for the 7 May attack.
On Sunday, the Armed Forces announced the killing of four Death Eaters during a series of raids on a number of krazed killer hideouts in North Sinai, as part of its ongoing anti-terror operations.
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[BenarNews] Many of the 24 suspects arrested in Central Sulawesi with alleged links to a pro-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.... holy warrior group wanted to join another hard boy outfit whose decimated membership has dwindled to two, Indonesian police said Wednesday without disclosing details.
The suspects are members of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah ...founded by our old friend Abu Bakar Bashir of Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah fame, JAD translates cleverly as Partisans of the Islamic State, but really only means (Wink! Wink!) ISIS in Indonesia... (JAD), a domestic holy warrior network affiliated with IS, said Sr. Commissioner Arif Budiman, the head of an operation tasked with hunting down the last remaining holdouts from the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) group in the mountains and jungles of Central Sulawesi province.
"All of them are members of JAD. Various pieces of evidence were seized," Arif told BenarNews, adding that the arrests were a "pre-emptive" move to stop them from joining the two MIT runaways and carry out acts of terrorism.
Arif said the 24 suspects were being held in Poso, a regency in Central Sulawesi where MIT holy warriors, who are accused of carrying out beheadings and bombings, have been most active.
MIT is one of two pro-IS groups operating in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Moslem-majority country. The other is JAD, which Indonesian authorities have blamed for most terror attacks in the archipelago nation during the past six years.
Earlier this week, national police front man Ahmad Ramadhan said that some of the two dozen suspects had pledged allegiance to the overall IS leader, Abu Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, through the WhatsApp messaging service. al-Qurayshi died during a counter-terrorism raid by U.S. special forces in Syria this past February.
Some of the suspects had sought to deliver food and other supplies to the MIT Lions of Islam on the run or had withheld information about them, according to Ramadhan.
Police seized eight rifles, silencers, a revolver, and hundreds of bullets from the suspects, he said.
On Wednesday, police also said they had had arrested two more JAD holy warrior suspects, bringing to 26 the number of people who have been nabbed since Saturday.
"Both are Poso residents and supporters who wanted to join MIT," Provincial police front man Didik Supranoto told BenarNews, without providing details on accusations against them.
Authorities believe that MIT’s strength has been reduced to two people after security forces killed Suhardin (also known as Hasan Pranata) during a shootout in Parigi Moutong regency last month.
On Sept. 18, 2021, police and military members of the Madago Raya task force shot full of holes Ali Kalora, MIT’s top commander at the time, and a follower identified as Jaka Ramadhan in the jungles of Parigi Moutong.
In January 2016, the government launched Operation Tinombala, a joint military-police task force, with a mission to capture or kill MIT holy warriors. The name changed to Madago Raya (Kindness), as part of a strategy that focused on humanitarian and social activities, police said.
‘EXCESSIVE’ Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... a member of the Central Sulawesi legislative council, Muhaimin Yunus Hadi, called the arrests "excessive" and said they involved the destruction of several residential homes in Poso and Tojo Unauna regency.
"Ten residents complained to me that their family members who were arrested were treated badly by the Densus," Muhaimin told BenarNews in Palu, referring to the anti-terror police unit.
He said relatives of the suspects had been left in the dark about their loved ones’ status.
"From the reports I have received, those arrested were mostly youths, some of them teenagers," he said, adding that those arrested included ordinary residents and construction workers.
Andi Akbar, a member of the Central Sulawesi Moslem Legal Team, which provides legal representation for suspected holy warriors, said he received information that officers had acted unlawfully, including intimidating residents.
"Densus even destroyed several residents’ houses. We are still collecting reports from residents in Poso and Tojo Unauna," he told BenarNews.
Akbar said a mother had not received news about the whereabouts of her son.
"Maybe her child was one of those arrested," he said.
"If that’s the case, Densus should provide information to the family so they don’t panic."
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For a minute there I thought it was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I got kicked out of their on campus pub back in 1991.
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Not sure how you can be suspected of herding. Could you tell the police officer, “No sir, I’m just walking with my dog; the sheep must just be headed in the same direction.”
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"They're not my sheep. I was just watching them for a friend."
— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) May 19, 2022
A senior Army officer, Brigadier General S. Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... has been attacked by button men in Abuja.
Sources told SaharaReporters that the Army General was attacked on Wednesday evening around Life Camp in the nation’s capital.
He was said to be going to his house in the area.
The button men also left with Fulani’s Toyota Venza vehicle marked ABJ41JB.
"Abuja is no more safe, imagine a General attacked easily. Our boss, Brigadier General S. Fulani was attacked by armed criminals around Life Camp, Abuja.
"The criminals also carted away his vehicle."
Abuja, the nation’s capital has seen a surge in the activities of button men in recent months.
A few months ago, the FCT Administration raised the alarm that bandidos and other criminals being forced out of key Northern states were relocating to towns around Abuja.
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Next time he should buy a Pontiac Aztec. Nobody ever would steal one of those.
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"...Comrade President Putin wishes you to know that this is nothing personal and that these things happen. In the meantime, please enjoy this tea he has sent."
While pumping gas in Osceola County, Florida, Jean Barreto, 26, was 'cooked alive' after a deputy from the sheriff's office tasered him, causing an explosive fire
The family of 26-year-old Fed Ex worker Jean Barreto are demanding that the state or federal government intervene in police's investigation of the incident
Lawyer for Barreto say he 'sustained third-degree burns on approximately 75% of his body... [and] is wrapped and unwrapped in gauze daily'
A State Fire Marshal report confirmed that the taser caused the gas station fire
Police refused to turn over bodycam footage of the incident, and have yet to identify the deputies involved, pending an internal investigation
The force has also refused to provide incident reports detailing the incident
[INSIDER] Oklahoma is one step closer to having one of the most anti-abortion laws in the nation. The state's legislature passed a bill banning almost all abortions from the point of "fertilization." Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, is expected to sign the latest legislation into law.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:38 Ukrainian Nazis shelled the Kursk region, the villages of Alekseevka and Dronovka were hit, Governor Roman Starovoit said.
23:01 The Russian Federation delivered 245 tons of humanitarian aid to the Donetsk People's Republic and Kharkiv region. 22:29 Over the past day, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 17,693 people, including 2,371 children, have been evacuated from dangerous areas of the republics of Donbass and Ukraine to the territory of the Russian Federation.
21:37 WHO did not give an adequate assessment of the use of medical institutions by Ukrainian nationalists as strongholds and firing points.
21:37 The military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the defense battalions equipped firing positions in preschool and educational institutions in Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Druzhovka.
21:37 The Kyiv regime is preparing a provocation in the Sumy region to accuse the RF Armed Forces of indiscriminate strikes against civilians.
21:37 The militants are planning to fire at the border area of the Russian Federation from areas of private households to call back fire on residential buildings.
21:36 Head of the Kherson Provisional State Administration Volodymyr Saldospentthe first meeting with the heads of districts of the region. The balance announced that the Kherson region would return to Russia. The new budget of the region has already been approved in rubles. Salaries and pensions in the Kherson region will also be paid in rubles from May.
21:34 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports that the Kyiv regime is preparing another provocation using the so-called "wandering mortars" - the militants plan to fire at the border territory of the Russian Federation from areas of private houses in the Sumy region in order to cause return fire on residential buildings.
Also, Ukrainian troops equipped strongholds, placed heavy weapons in schools and kindergartens in Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Druzhkovka in the DPR. Firing positions and sniper points are equipped by militants on the upper floors of apartment buildings in Bakhmut in the DPR, the approaches to the houses are mined, but the local population is deliberately not notified about this. All such facts are still cynically ignored by the world community and the "civilized" West, as well as "human rights activists" and politicians,
20:36 Reuters: The United States is working on organizing the supply of long-range anti-ship missiles to Ukraine to lift the blockade of the Black Sea.
20:36 APU blew up another bridge - Shestovitsky bridge across the Desna River on the way to Chernigov.
20:30 Ukrainian sources report that the leaders of Azov do not want to go out with their hands up until they receive guarantees from Zelensky’s office that they will definitely be included in the exchange list.
19:43 As a result of shelling today in Chernobaevka, a man was killed and a woman was wounded. They worked in the garden. Dill shell Chernobaevka every day at the same time.
18:54 Failed attemptsUkrainian infantry destroy a Russian tank from an RPG. During the battle, Russian tankers correctly determined the direction of arrivals and returned shots. In the end, the Russian infantry occupied the Ukrainian trenches and the tank covered them with fire.
18:53 Belarus bought a sufficient number of Iskander missile systems and S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia, Lukashenka said.
18:52 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed footage of a fortified position left by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region. On the personnel it can be seen that the infantry battalion could be in abandoned positions, there are also trenches for heavy military equipment, where a tank or lightly armored vehicles can be placed.
“These fortifications have been prepared very well and quite a long time ago, because the boards have already begun to rot, and everything has already begun to overgrow. The length is about 10 kilometers of all passages, ceilings, trenches. Lots of concrete shelters. Prepared for year-round service, ”said Roman, a serviceman of the RF Armed Forces.
17:44 At the Ministry of Defense declared that the letters Z and V are not official military symbols.
17:43 “The special operation is unlikely to end by autumn,” Arestovich. He considers Zelensky's proposal to extend martial law for 90 days fair. According to him, “every time” to continue martial law for 30 days is to give false hopes to Ukrainians.
17:43 The Sverdlovsk region of the Russian Federation took patronage over Makeevka. The city will be restored by joint efforts. The head of the administration of Makeevka said that there is a program designed for 2022-2025.
17:43 The situation in the north of the Kharkiv region by 1600 hrs on May 19, 2022.
▪️At the moment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are strengthening the front line near Stary Saltov and Zolochev. Additional command posts were deployed in Chernoglazovka and Peschanoe.
▪️In the vicinity of the Thorn fight. At night, units of the RF Armed Forces reached the northwestern outskirts of the settlement, blocking the exits to the state border. According to unconfirmed reports, at the moment the settlement is again in the "gray zone".
▪️To the west of Kazachya Lopan, Ukrainian units are expanding their zone of control, digging in villages in the "gray zone". Units of the Ternopil 105 Territorial Defense Brigade entered Guryev Kazachok and Baranovka.
▪️American M777 howitzers were supposedly transferred to Zolochiv and Shestakovo. Artillery units of 14 Ombr and 10 Ogshbr were transferred to Tsirkuny. Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continues to fire at Zolochev.
▪️On the eastern bank of the Seversky Donets, DRGs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to operate. Khotomlya is under the conditional control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukrainian units are operating in the vicinity.
▪️The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the positions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has not yet begun: the primary task of the Ukrainian side is to stabilize the front near Ternova and Rubizhne, as well as to suppress firing positions in Kazachya Lopan and Tsupovka.
16:48 Kherson region will return to Russia. The new budget of the region has already been approved in rubles. Salaries and pensions in the Kherson region since May have already been in rubles - the head of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo.
15:41 Scholz trampled Ukraine's hopes for a quick entry into the EU: Europe will not go to such expenses.
“Restoring the destroyed infrastructure and revitalizing the Ukrainian economy will cost billions. The EU must start laying the groundwork for a solidarity fund funded by contributions from its members and partners,” said the German Chancellor.
The verdict was the final phrase: "there are no short cuts on the way to the EU."
15:39 The supply of the Nazi group in Severodonetsk has been interrupted, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine asks for permission to withdraw troops. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky about the beginning of street fighting in the next few days in Severodonetsk and asked the president to give the green light to the withdrawal of troops from the city so as not to repeat the fate of Azovstal.
14:31 Peskov on the future of the territories liberated in Ukraine: nothing can be done without the expression of the will of their inhabitants.
14:30 The deputy commander of one of the units of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion "Aidar" Denis Muryga tried to enter the Rostov region under the guise of a refugee and was detained, a source in the region's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.
13:18 Rodion Miroshnik: The situation in the "triangle" is inexorably moving towards a denouement! Active street fighting is going on in Severodonetsk. A number of microdistricts of the city are controlled by allied forces. Accurate information is delayed due to lack of communication. Several transmitters of mobile operators are still working only on the outskirts of Lisichansk.
The Lisichansk-Artyomovsk road is being shot through by our troops. All attempts to break in or out of the "triangle" are stopped. There are many burnt military vehicles along the road. On the approaches to Lisichansk, a new pot was formed - Gorskoe and Zolote - there, according to observers, up to 2-2,500 Ukrainian militants were closed. They have options, either lay down their arms and survive, or continue to resist and die. Most of the settlements on the way are controlled by allied forces. Shchedrishchev allied troops have already passed, there is a cleansing of the Nazis who have huddled in the cracks. This is a second tier business. All over the "triangle" are offensive battles. There is panic in the ranks of the terbats. Many eyes are fixed on Azovstal.
13:17 It is reported that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation recaptured the village of Ternovoe near the border with the Russian Federation in the Kharkiv direction from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine last week.
13:16 Russia is ready to return to negotiations with Ukraine when Kyiv expresses readiness for this - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Rudenko.
12:09 Russian artillery strikes at the enemy. Destruction of the trenches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the forest.
12:06 Explosions in Kharkiv! A pillar rises above the city smoke.
11:10 Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the Ukrainian division of the S-300 in the Nikolaev region and the division of the Buk-M1 complex in the DPR with high-precision missiles.
11:10 Russian aviation struck 58 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment, destroyed more than 340 nationalists.
11:10 Russian air defense systems destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones in a day, including one Bayraktar-Tb2.
10:52 Today in Rostov-on-Donwill take place the first trial of a Ukrainian war criminal - a militant from "Aidar" Denis Nuryga. He is accused of war crimes committed in 2019 on the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic. Nuryga stated that he voluntarily surrendered to the Russian military and went over to the Russian side because of his desire to speak Russian.
10:46 In Kharkov on Saltovk demolished a monument to Alexander Nevsky. The only war in which the Ukrainian authorities are still winning is the war with monuments.
10:44 Russian military delivered humanitarian aid to the village of Velikaya Belozerka. Food parcels were distributed to the villagers.
10:44 Russian military doctors helped a four-year-old boy and his mother to get from the territory of the Kherson region to the Republic of Crimea, where the child will undergo an emergency operation. The boy was diagnosed with a serious illness, for the treatment of which surgical intervention and qualified medical assistance from specialized specialists are vital. Due to the fact that there are not enough specialists in the medical institutions of the Kherson region, the family of little Mark turned to the military doctors of the medical service of the Russian Armed Forces for help.
09:40 Tinkoff Bank banned transfers with comments related to Ukraine. The bank did not officially announce the changes. At least Zelensky, Glory to Ukraine, Ukraina and APU were banned.
09:14 Ukraine will receive emergency food assistance in the amount of $215 million, and more assistance is expected in the future, - US Secretary of State Blinken.
[NYPOST] The woke police are coming for the term "obesity."
The University of Illinois reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... ’s school of public health published an article by a dietitian claiming the medical term is "racist" and should be replaced with the wordy term "people with larger bodies."
Author Amanda Montgomery, RN, argued that race scientists used "fatness and differing body characteristics" to classify black people as "less civilized" and "as a way to justify slavery, racism and classism, and control women," according to her health brief, entitled "Addressing weight stigma and fatphobia in public health."
Montgomery also contends that losing weight "has detrimental effects on our physiology" and many people can’t become thinner because of "uncontrollable genetic or environmental factors."
Obesity is defined by the World Health Organization as having a body mass index over 30. The organization says the condition is "preventable" by eating healthy food and engaging in regular exercise.
A person’s BMI is calculated by dividing their body weight in kilograms by their height in meters squared. The medical community considers a "healthy" BMI to be between 20 and 25.
Montgomery argues that the BMI is a flawed measurement that is "not representative of the entire human population," because it does not consider health behaviors or body composition. This keeps up, I'll soon be considered skinny. Of course I’ll be black, too.
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Obesity might be racist, but is fat slob OK? Asking for a friend.
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My moment of liberation is nigh...
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"See: Cullors, Patrisse"
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The BMI is in fact a lousy way to measure obesity. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger is 6'2"". When he was competing for Mr Olympia, he was 235 lbs, which makes his BMI at 30.2 - obese. Check Wikipedia to see what he looked like in 1974 while competing.
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I was going to be nice and walk away, but then I remembered how much I hate Tiktokers and self described influencers, the modern lifeless take on door to door salesmen. I mean, say what you will about the D2D Way, those practitioners have to have style, and they have to have guts, and even out here in G*Ds country the scripture readers come across the heckler. So, in the tradition of the porch heckler....
*clears throat*
Didn't know Pam had an SPF rating.
Calls herself Brooklyn, because that crown makes her look like The Statue of Liberty.
Shade and a surface to place your beer on, all in one.
Certain evolutionary advantages too. In the Savannah at least.
"Steatopygia is believed to be an adaptive physiological feature for female humans living in hot environments, as it maximizes their bodies' surface-area/volume ratio but keeps enough fat to produce hormones needed for menstruation.
"With fat deposited heavily in only certain areas in the middle on the trunk of the body, the limbs are left slim enough to expel heat more efficiently.
"But more likely, being able to store large fat amounts is important in very seasonal environments like those in African savanna, where during the dry season, a food shortage installs, and live largely off of their stored fat."
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:39 The occupying forces of Ukraine once again opened fire from heavy weapons on civilians in the DPR. The Nikitovsky district of the front-line city of Gorlovka was under fire from Ukrainian punishers. 23:15 The village of Troitskoye was taken south of Popasnaya. This is actually part of the Svetlodar arc. In 2015, during the battle for Debaltseve, they were unable to break through the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
22:51 It is reported that the allied troops entered Viktorovka, which means the complete collapse of the Ukrainian group near Popasna.
22:31 Another arrival from the Ukrainian Nazis in Gorlovka. Getting into the plant management building on the street. Curtain, 2
21:57 The offensive of the allied forces near Popasna: the situation as of 21.00 on May 19, 2022:
Ten days after the fall of one of the most powerful fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass in Popasnaya, the allied forces broke through the enemy defenses in several directions at once. The Ukrainian front began to crumble.
The network has already aptly dubbed what happened the “opened flower of Popasna”: and if you look at the map, this is true. While near Zaporozhye, Liman and Izyum, successes at the front stopped, in the west of the Lugansk People's Republic, the enemy's lines are being formed one after another.
After the cleansing of Popasnaya, the Wagner PMC assault groups continued their offensive in the direction of Soledar to the west. Having connected the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the defense units in Tripoli, the “musicians” opened the way to Vladimirovka for the allies along the front.
Russian units of the Airborne Forces managed to go around Tripoli and take Vladimirovka by the morning of May 19. By evening, Tripoli fell: the advanced groups of the “orchestra” entered there.
The highway Bakhmut (Artemovsk) - Lisichansk is blocked by the fire of the allied forces. Soledar is three kilometers away.
In order to establish full control over the main supply route for the AFU grouping in the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk-Rubizhnoye agglomeration, the allied forces will have to take fortified positions on the commanding heights north of Vladimirovka and Tripoli.
After that, the only way to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be the Lisichansk-Seversk road, shot through from the eastern bank of the Seversky Donets.
Another direction of the Wagner PMC offensive is south, towards Troitsky. If in 2015 this fortified area could not be taken during the battles for Debaltseve, then on May 19, 2022, the settlement fell.
Units of the RF Armed Forces are advancing north of Popasnaya. Fierce fighting began in the south of Kamyshevakhi. Having rounded the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the west, Russian units took the small village of Viktorovka, occupied the railway station of Kamyshevakh and continued their offensive to the north. Kamyshevakha was taken into a semicircle, and the RF Armed Forces were able to move north and enter Vrubovka, where a sweep is now underway.
By the end of May 19, the road to Soledar was cut by the RF Armed Forces from the side of Popasnaya, the road to Lisichansk was cut by the People's Militia of the LPR in Toshkovka. "Lugansk" attack enemy positions in Gorsky and Zolote from Toshkovka and Orekhovo, and the RF Armed Forces grinds the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south of Kamyshevakhi.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine can still break out of the encirclement along the country roads from Gorskoye and move across the fields in the direction of Lisichansk. Now, in the crucible of battle, the last reserves at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being ground: territorial defense detachments from western Ukraine, units deployed from under Izyum, and the remnants of the 24th Ombre that had previously retreated from Popasna.
In the event of a full-fledged closure of the Popasnensky Cauldron, from five to eight thousand Ukrainian servicemen will be surrounded.
21:56 On the outskirts of Severodonetsk, battles unfolded for this strategically important city of the LPR. According to various sources, there are from 8,000 to 15,000 militants from the formations of the Kyiv regime in the Severodonetsk-Lisichansk agglomeration.
21:55 Today at 20:40, as a result of the shelling of the village of Golmovsky from the side of the VFU along Voroshilovgradskaya Street, 4 (a section of water supply and a subscriber service of the Gorlovsky PUVKH “Company “Water of Donbass”), the glazing of the window opening was damaged. The security guard, who was at the workplace during the shelling, was not injured. The property will be further inspected.
21:43 Nationalists have placed firing positions on the roofs of high-rise buildings in Bakhmut in the DPR, the approaches to the buildings are mined.
21:43 Demining teams of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation checked 35 buildings, one bridge and 7.6 km of roads in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
21:42 A total of 7,386 explosive items were found and defused during the demining of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation in the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.
20:45 The Kaluga region of Russia will take part in the restoration of Pervomaisk, which suffered from the aggression of the Kyiv security forces. This was announced by the head of the city administration Sergei Kolyagin.
19:50 VFU attacked Gorlovka, a civilian was wounded.
As a result of the shelling on the street. Dzhankoyskaya was wounded one man.
18:20 VFU shelling the Gorlovka village of Panteleymonovka. Shell explosions are reported in the area of the track, the stadium, the road behind the plant. Locals report that the whistle is very audible. A convincing request to all citizens living in this settlement - to leave the streets and go to shelters - Prikhodko RIC.
17:25 Attack on Lisichansk: there is an assault on the city of Zolote in the LPR.
The liberation of this city in the Pervomaisky district of the LPR will allow access to Lisichansk, where a large group of Ukrainian militants is concentrated, reports corr. iz.ru Denis Kulaga.
15:56 VFU attacked the Nikitovsky district of Horlivka. Damage was received by a number of residential buildings on the street. Uglegorskaya. The militants continue to use 122mm artillery against civilians.
15:37 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of two civilians as a result of shelling of the AFU of the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Mineral:
- man born in 1996
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- man born in 1952
In addition, additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU housing estate "Komsomolets" n.p. Gorlovka at the following addresses:
15:35 Departments of penitentiary inspections of Volnovakha district and Pershotravnevoy district began work in Volnovakha and Mangush
The department of the penitentiary inspection of the Volnovakhsky district of the State Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice of the DPR is located at:
Volnovakha, st. Kostya Babina, 16.
Department of Criminal Executive Inspection
Pershotravnevoy district of the State Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice of the DPR is located at:
town Mangush, Mira Avenue, 64.
15:23 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian born in 1967. as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Nikitovsky district of the settlement. Gorlovka at the address: st. Mussorgsky, 11/1.
A victim with traumatic amputation of the foot as a result of MVT was hospitalized in City Hospital No. 2 of Gorlovka.
In addition, information was received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU in the settlement. Gorlovka at the following addresses:
housing estate "Komsomolets":
- st. Mussorgsky, 18 - School of Arts No. 1, Gorlovka.
mine village V. I. Lenin:
- st. Heroes of Stalingrad, 22/1, 24/1, 25, 25/2, 29 - private residential buildings;
- st. Tsimlyanskaya, 14 - the car was damaged.
14:47 AFU attacked Gorlovka, civilian wounded
As a result of the shelling on the street. Mussorgsky, a man was injured.
In addition, the building of art school No. 1 was damaged.
13:48 The operational line of the DPR JCCC received refined information about injured civilians as a result of shelling VFU in Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
Two women born in 1989 were wounded. and born in 1956
A man born in 1963 was killed during the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
In addition, there were reports of damage as a result ofshellingVFU of the mine village named after V.I. Lenin n.p. Gorlovka at the following addresses:
- st. Heroes of Stalingrad, 22, 24, 26, 28 - private residential buildings;
- st. Geroev Stalingrada, 22 - low-pressure gas pipeline ⌀219 mm damaged;
- st. Tsimlyanskaya, 18 - a private residential building.
13:10 Ukrainian fighters fired at the Central city district of Gorlovka. Damage was received by housing construction in the 88th quarter on the street. Heroes of Stalingrad. The pipeline was also damaged.
12:11 Right now, the AFU shelled the village of Ozeryanovka, in the Central City district of Gorlovka. It is reported about the explosions of Ukrainian shells in the area of the knitting factory. Residents of this settlement are urged to leave the streets and go to shelters.
11:37 AFU is equipping firing positions in residential buildings in Chapaev and in office buildings in Shevchenko - Ivan Filiponenko, official representative of the NM LPR.
11:36 The National Guard discovered mines and detained an accomplice of nationalists in the Luhansk region - department.
11:32 AFU launched an artillery strike on Yasinovataya. Destroyed residential building on the street. Chestnut.
11:31 Ukrainian militants attacked the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, at the intersection of the Krasnoarmeyskoye highway and Shvedova Avenue, a local resident was killed. On st. Tumanyan woundedtwo civilians.
11:18 Over the past day, at the blocked metallurgical plant "Azovstal" in Mariupol, 771 militants of the nationalist division "Azov" surrendered. In total, since May 16, 1,730 militants have surrendered, including 80 wounded.
All those in need of inpatient treatment receive assistance in medical institutions of the Donetsk People's Republic in Novoazovsk and Donetsk.
11:02 As of May 19, 2022, on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, a group of DPR troops, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, liberated and established full control over 186 settlements, including Novogrigorovka (Volnovakha district).
11:01 AFU attacked the Nikitovsky district of Horlivka. The destruction of residential buildings along Kirovogradskaya Street was recorded.
11:00 On the morning of May 19, 1,727 Ukrainian militants surrendered from Azovstal in Mariupol.
In total, 1,727 Ukrainian militants surrendered from the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol.
10:59 AFU attacked the village. Mineral in the Yasinovatsky district. On st. The feldsher-obstetric station and the building of the village council were damaged in the world.
10:33 More than half of the Ukrainian military, blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, came out and surrendered, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin said on the air of the Soloviev live TV channel.
09:24 A total of 231 people evacuated from Mariupol.
Over the past day, from 08:00 on May 18 to 08:00 on May 19, 231 people, including 12 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 19, 33,952 people were evacuated to the Bezymennoye PPN.
08:50 Ukrainian militants attacked the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. Damage was received to housing construction on the street. Kobylyanska.
08:49 Mineralny settlement de-energized due to VFU shelling
As a result of the shelling of the VFU, two transformer substations and 167 household subscribers in Mineralny were de-energized.
Repair and restoration work will begin as soon as the situation allows, the Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR reported.
08:42 AFU attacked Yasinovataya from positions in Avdiivka. War criminals continue to use BM-21 Grad MLRS against civilians.
Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter.
08:28 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling VFU settlement Panteleymonovka in Gorlovka at the addresses:
- st. Grape, 24 - apartment building;
- st. Grape, 26 - kindergarten number 26 "Golden Key".
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Awesome pics! Flew over that area 2012 in the back of an F-15D Eagle which is now living there. The fractured B-52's were actually set up there so the Soviet's could identify our compliance with nuclear arms limitations. IIRC some of the ex Afghan helicopters now serving Ukraine were briefly stored there.
Rumor has it that you will not see any F 14s there, because of concerns that spare parts could have been sent to Iran.
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Used to be a nice row of stored Titan boosters there, they are all gone now.
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Heard that the M&R group there actually generates a profit, as in parts sold for more that it costs to operate.
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The way the headline is written is why I cast a jaundiced eye at every piece of news I hear and see. Makes it sound like a great evil is being committed. Almost click bait.
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[Regnum] The situation in the Baltics was very difficult. In the former Ostzeyz region of the Russian province, the confrontation between the German, Latvian and Estonian elements was traditionally strong. Before the First World War, the territory of the Baltic States was divided into three provinces - Livonia, Courland and Estland. The most developed and populated was the Livland province. Its largest cities were Riga (322,500 people), Yuryev (modern Tartu, Estonia - 42,000). The rest of the cities had a small number of inhabitants - from several hundred to 4-5,000 thousand.
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Germans were not the only ones fighting the Bolshies. See, though, "friekorps".
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All this is fascinating stuff. I had no idea just how chaotic the aftermath of WWI was. Thanks for the very informative history lessons.
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The Poles and the Rooskies duked it out for a while as well after World War, Part I. Going from memory here...Pilowski or something was the Polish leader.
[NPASYRIA] Military sources in the opposition said on Thursday that the Russian forces have evacuated many of their posts in the northern countryside of Latakia and Homs countryside. The evacuated posts were transferred to the Lebanese Hezbollah."The Russian forces abandoned their posts in the Jabal al-Turkmen and Jabal al-Akrad and the vicinity of the town of Kasab, north of Latakia. The posts were transferred to the Lebanese Hezbollah," the sources told North Press.
"The Russian forces’ evacuation in Lattakia coincided with withdrawing several KAMAZ military vehicles from their bases deployed in the city of Palmyra, east of Homs governorate," the sources added.
On May 7, the Moscow Times newspaper reported Russia has begun the process of withdrawing its military forces from Syria and is concentrating them at three airports before being transferred to the Ukrainian front.
The abandoned air bases of the Russian Federation are transferred to the Iranian military-political formation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, it said.
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Hey Fred!
Fake distorted news!
The real reason of Russia “moving” is:
On May 20, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies plus the Russian Federation off a large-scale operation against ISIS cells in Syria’s central region.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
The United States launched a new hypersonic warhead from an air carrier. The previous three launches were unsuccessful.
The speed of the rocket declared in the message from the USA reached just 5M, that is, 6120 km/h. This is the boundary speed between supersonic and hypersonic, that is, the lower limit of hypersonic speed.
With the most optimistic development of events for the Americans, they will be able to reach the bar of the Russian Federation in five to ten years. But rather much later.
On the southern coast of California on May 14, a hypersonic cruise missile with a solid-propellant booster and a guided warhead was launched from a B-52H strategic bomber. These were the first successful tests of a rocket from an air carrier. The head of the US Air Force weapons program noted that this launch was a great achievement for the development team - that the speed of the warhead was five times the speed of sound.
For comparison:
- The Soviet serial supersonic cruise missile Kh-22, created in the 1970s, reached 3.5. Its modification X-32, first tested in 1998 - Mach 4.6, also later went into series.
- The Tsirkon hypersonic missile, which is already in service in Russia , is capable of reaching speeds of "about Mach 9 at a range of more than 1,000 km."
- The Kinzhal hypersonic complex, which is in service and has already been used in combat, is capable of reaching a speed of Mach 10-12, attacking at a distance of 2,000-3,000 km (depending on the MiG-31 or Tu-22 carrier) maneuvering along the entire flight path.
- In the period from 2012 to 2020, the Russian armed forces conducted five successful launches of the Avangard intercontinental ballistic missile with hypersonic gliding winged units. Already in series production. Develops speed up to Mach 28.
All these complexes, in addition to being able to maneuver in flight, have a powerful warhead of 400-500 kg and a full-fledged homing system. They are built on different principles.
"Dagger" - "motorless hypersound." Simply put, an air-to-ground ballistic missile, which at the final stage of engine operation has hypersonic speed.
"Zircon" - a cruise missile with a ramjet hypersonic engine, the so-called. "motor hypersound.
"Avangard "- is launched (accelerated) not just by a starting accelerator, like the Zircon, but is accelerated by a solid-propellant rocket.
The Americans need to carry out a titanic work in the next ten years and cut hundreds of billions (trillions?) To at least come close to similar characteristics of hypersonic missiles.
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How many hypersonic missiles could Russia have? From the looks at how well the rest of their equipment has been maintained and works, how much of a threat could they be?
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We have been told about superior Soviet Russian "Wonder Weapons" before.
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The Russian one is basically a ballistic missile that flies horizontal. It is very expensive and Russia can't make or launch a lot of them. The US ones will be pricy, but not as much as the Russian ones when compared at a percentage of total military spending. Aka, we can make a shit ton of them and don't mind using them liberally.
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From today's 'clobber list' as published by the Defense Ministry of Russia:
My dear Russian boot, you’re in the wrong thread with that useful bit of information. You want to post that under the Russian Perspective article — and if you would be so kind as to add a link so we can see we you got it for ourselves, that would be very helpful indeed.
[YouTube] In this video I discuss a recent bill introduced in Congress which aims to create a federal license requirement to purchase and own firearms.
After a good deal of explication, the speaker states he doesn’t think it likely this bill will pass.
I think the Daily Wire is addressing the same proposed bill here:
Democratic Senators have introduced new gun control legislation that would, among other things, institute a federal license requirement to buy a gun.
Democratic New Jersey Senators Bod Menendez and Cory Booker, and Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced the “Federal Firearm Licensing Act” Thursday. The bill would institute a requirement for gun purchasers to obtain a firearms license through the Department of Justice before buying or receiving a gun.
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Can’t get out of the Senate unless MCConnell turtles.
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Quoting the US Constitution Bill of Rights.
“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
So, they need a Constitutional Amendment, not a new law or regulation.
[Irish Times] Moscow said on Thursday that 1,730 Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Mariupol over three days, including 771 in the past 24 hours, claiming a surrender on a far bigger scale than Kyiv has acknowledged since ordering its garrison to stand down.
The ultimate outcome of Europe’s bloodiest battle for decades remained publicly unresolved, with no confirmation of the fate of the hundreds of Ukrainian troops who had held out in a vast steelworks at the end of a near three-month siege.
Ukraine, which says it aims to secure a prisoner swap, has declined to say how many were inside the plant or comment on the fate of the rest, since confirming that just over 250 had surrendered in the initial hours after it ordered them to yield.
The leader of Russian-backed separatists in control of the area said nearly half of the fighters remained inside the steelworks, where underground bunkers and tunnels had protected them from weeks of Russian bombardment.
"More than a half have already left — more than half have laid down their arms," Denis Pushilin told the Solovyov Live internet television channel.
"Let them surrender, let them live, let them honestly face the charges for all their crimes."
The wounded had been given medical treatment while those who were fit had been taken to a penal colony and were being treated well, he said.
Ukrainian officials say they cannot comment publicly on the fate of the fighters, as negotiations are under way behind the scenes to rescue them.
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Time to come back to the negotiating table. This is a game changer.
If Biden had any brains he'd push for the best deal he can get now. Hunter's friends can keep their loot, Lockheed and the others can book their sales. But Russia has achieved what it set out to achieve, and now's the time to strike a deal.
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Translation: Russia realizes it's not going to get any further, and wants to take its winnings to the bank instead of wait for Ukrainian counterattacks. Good luck with that.
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Wrong. The Russians are already advancing in the east. Mariupol's fall, additional troops freed up to move north plus redoubled shelling and missile attacks are enabling them to push back the Ukrainians. Zelensky admitted this in his address tonight.
In the last 24 hours the Russians have broken through the Ukrainian defenses in Luhansk and are now encircling the Ukrainians in Severodonetsk. They're advancing and bombing the hell out of the Ukrainian positions..
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The longer we wait, the stronger Russia's negotiating position will be. They're advancing now, they're rolling in money, the Euros have caved on the issue of buying Russian gas on Russia's terms, and the Russian population is solidly behind the war.
Then again, perhaps Biden's actual plan is to let Ukraine's position become so desperate that he then orders a US intervention to attack Russia. There are already rumors about the USN attacking the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Anything is possible with this madman.
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Luhansk's governor just said that Russians now "control 90 percent" of the province. NBC, MSN, all the major outlets are reporting Russia's breakthroughs today -- except The NY Times. We are hearing so much bullshit from the Times now -- it's like living in the USSR.
Politicians say that #Turkey intends to implement a plan that has catastrophic consequences on the geography and demography of northern #Syria. The Syrian government has not issued actual attitudes to the announced project.https://t.co/cFndTGQoQh
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[SpyTalk] In the 1950s, the British intelligence community and the British press were riveted on the subject of espionage. Two diplomats, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, had defected to Moscow and it was clear that they had spied for the Soviets from within the heart of Britain’s national security establishment. But was there a "Third Man?" Suspicion soon centered on Kim Philby, the former MI6 liaison officer to the CIA and confidant of the agency’s top mole hunter, James Angleton. For years, however, nothing could be firmly pinned on him.
According to former CIA officer Robert Baer, author of the forthcoming The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia, the CIA and the U.S. intelligence community are in a similar liminal period. Since the mid-1980s, there have been lingering suspicions that Moscow had a major spy within the CIA, a spy who is yet to be caught. Baer refers to this person as "the Fourth Man," counting the CIA’s Edward Lee Howard and Aldrich Ames and the FBI’s Robert Hanssen as the first three traitors. He tells us that since the mid-1990s there has been a candidate for the Fourth Man, a prominent figure in the CIA, but that nothing can be pinned definitively on this officer who is now retired but still alive.
Baer previously authored a memoir of his time at the agency, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the War on Terrorism, with former New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh, as well as several other non-fiction books and a novel. At one point in his career, while head of the branch in charge of the Caucasus and Central Asia in the Directorate of Operations’ Central Eurasia (CE) Division, he worked with a woman named Laine Bannerman. She was a counterintelligence officer who had been a key player in the hunt for the Fourth Man. When she came to Baer’s branch, however, she was a refugee from that work. At the time, she never breathed a word about it, but when Baer, in retirement, became aware of the Fourth Man controversy, she and a significant number of other former officers were willing to tell him at least portions of what they know about the subject. Drawing on these bits and pieces as well as two key books, Circle of Treason, by retired CIA mole hunters Sandy Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille, and The Main Enemy, by Milt Bearden and journalist James Risen, Baer has produced a compelling account of the ongoing search for the Fourth Man.
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#1 so the guy got away with it?
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...That's a definite 'maybe'. Angleton's paranoia got to the point where the Agency was chasing its own tail and starting to enter paralysis. If there was a Fourth Man, it's possible he was able to cover himself with the general disdain everybody had for Angleton by the end of his career, and went on his merry way knowing that nobody would ever bear down on him again unless he made a world-class error.
On the other hand, nobody knows for sure if there was a Fourth Man - Howard, Ames and Hanson did enough damage by themselves to account for a half dozen moles.
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@#2 - I've seen reports that Ames and Hanssen revealed more than 15 all of whom were executed. I ordered Baer's book n will gladly send to an interested Rantburger after my perusal.
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/\ Thanks Billy, we'll be watching for your assessment. Are you down under yet?
I sent you an email about an author fellow you might want to look up. Don't know if you caught it or not. His name is Dave George. Hereis his link.
Far-left extremists & #Antifa from across US have been going to Atlanta to support an occupation at a construction site for a future police training academy. They've created barricades & hurled firebombs at responding police. Comrades have carried out violence in solidarity. pic.twitter.com/pz4sHNHFu1
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^^^ exactly, they were throwing molotov cocktails a couple of days ago.
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I look at this as an opportunity for some cadets to hone their riot control skills. This could be a valuable lab session. Alternatively, Atlanta could call Ottawa and import their horse guard and miscellaneous thugs wearing police garb with no name tags. Keep the DC Capital Police out of it. We don’t need that level of brutality.
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they have horses in the Atlanta police. They like every other city has to cover their own ass when dealing with these POS in case they are charged.
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Newshounds desperate for anything to get public eye. They are seen as increasingly irrelevant. Help wanted signs as recoup efforts have lost their glamor. Nobody wants to work.
[NYPOST] Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said that when $90 million in "white guilt money" came pouring into the organization’s coffers after the murder of George Floyd, the group had no infrastructure in place to handle the flood of cash — and now the mistakes made are being "weaponized" against her.
"I’m a human being that has made mistakes that want to change, want to challenge those mistakes and want to learn from those mistakes," Cullors told the host of MSNBC’s "Into America" podcast Monday. "And I think what’s been hard is feeling like there isn’t room and space for that."
The beleaguered former executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation also addressed allegations that she had personally benefited from the donations by purchasing homes for herself, including a $6 million property in Los Angeles, which included a seven-bedroom mansion, a pool, a soundstage and a garden.
"This was an investment," she said. "It’s not my personal real estate. It’s not Patrisse Cullors’ real estate, it’s the organization’s real estate."
Cullors said the house was to be used as a "media creation space" for BLM and also as a safe house for activists, but she said the organization decided to stay mum about the true purpose of the mansion out of fear that the right-wing media would jeopardize the safety of those associated with the movement.
"The minute we shared the information with the public ... the right-wing media would do what they always do and they always did," she said. "Because the right-wing media doesn’t have any sense or care for people’s security or safety."
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White Guilt Money - that is a new alibi, since obviously its not like real money made from drugs or crime? Garbage people playing the race game once again expect the Melanin Exemption to apply.
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Vespasian Ebboting9735 I agree. The outrageous part is her claiming her misuse of the money has been weaponized against her. She believes she shouldn't have to abide by the same laws as the rest of us.
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Simply put ... BLM sold the Black Community a racial song and dance for $$$$$$ while delivering votes to the LSD'S. Just like several well known and now very comfortable Civil Rights Reverends.
Now that BLM's usefulness to LSD's is tapering off, the LSD'S are roping them for votes in another way.
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[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
The surrender of the remnants of the Mariupol group at Azovstal continues. By the evening of May 19, more than 1,800 enemy soldiers and officers had surrendered. This is the largest loss of prisoners for the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2014. The process continues. A tribunal is already being prepared for war criminals.
2. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka without significant changes. Positional fights.
3. Ugledar.
Fighting in the area of Novomikhailovka and Ugledar. There is no significant progress in this direction.
4. Marinka.
Positional battles in the village continue. There is no significant progress in the village.
5. Avdievka.
Fighting in the area of Novoselka-2 and Novobakhmutovka, as well as on the outskirts of New York. The enemy is intensively shelling Yasinovataya.
6. LPR.
The offensive in the area of Popasna is developing successfully. The troops took Troitskoe north of Svetlodarsk. To the west of Popasnaya, battles are being fought for Pilipchatino.
PMC "Wagner" took Trypillya, and the paratroopers - Vladimirovka, coming almost close to Soledar. The villages of Druzhba and part of Novaya Kamenka were also taken. The Soledar-Lysichansk highway is already under fire from this direction.
The threat of the operational encirclement of the entire Severodonetsk grouping is growing. Severodonetsk itself is being stormed from three sides. The capture of the village of Shchedrishchevo on the outskirts of Severodonetsk was confirmed.
7. Izyum.
Fighting in the Krasny Liman area, where up to 1200-1500 enemy soldiers are under the threat of encirclement. Heavy fighting is also going on in the forest near Dolgenkiy. The enemy puts up stubborn resistance in the region of Privolye and Svetlogorsk.
8. Kharkov.
The RF Armed Forces pushed the enemy back from the border near the village of Ternovoe and again brought him back under control. There are reports of battles for the village of Rubezhnoye southwest of Volchansk. Also, attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions intensified as a response to the shelling of border villages in the Belgorod and Kursk regions.
9. Nikolaev.
No significant changes in the Nikolaev, Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions.
10. Odessa.
No significant changes. The enemy continues to talk about the threat of landing and conducts reconnaissance in the direction of Serpent's Island.
Restoration work is underway on the damaged railway bridge in Zatoka, which is of strategic importance.
[FoxNews] Mexico has no interest in being a good-faith partner of the United States.
Under President Joe Biden’s failed foreign policy leadership, Mexico has shown its willingness to undermine America’s strategic interests.
Over the past two years, Mexico has been more of an enemy than a partner. Nothing has underscored Mexico’s exploitation of President Biden’s weakness than their posture on immigration and cozying up to communists in Cuba.
A major national security and humanitarian crisis on our southern border has erupted over the course of Biden’s presidency with both President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas showing alarmingly little interest in solving it. This weak and gutless decision by the Biden administration to reverse the Remain in Mexico Policy incentivizes Mexico to pass its border security responsibilities to the United States rather than dealing with the influx of migrants from Central and South America at the Mexican border.
Right now, the vast majority of migrants seeking asylum from their home countries are not actually from Mexico, but rather, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and even countries such as Cuba, Haiti, and beyond. If the true intent of these migrants is to seek refuge from brutal regimes and harsh living conditions in their home countries, then it would make sense for them to apply for asylum in Mexico rather than engage in the dangerous and treacherous journey to the United States. Instead, Mexico has taken advantage of President Biden’s lax policies to remove the onus from itself to combat the human traffickers and the narco-cartels and pass it onto the United States by allowing the free flow of un-vetted migrants to make the 1,500-mile journey through Mexico to our border.
Under the Trump administration, the Remain in Mexico policy forced the Mexican government to be a reliable partner in stemming illegal migration throughout the region by forcing Mexico to enforce its own border protection with the rest of Central American countries. The policy worked. The policy made sense. Our communities and our families were safer because of it.
All of this further underscores the notion that Mexico under Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has no interest in being a good-faith partner of the United States, and instead, is quick to exploit whatever opportunity is given to them to undermine our strategic interests.
Under the Biden-Obrador leadership, Cuba’s illegitimate, communist regime has been a big winner. Mexico announced just this past week it will bring 500 Cuban doctors into the country after an open dialogue between Presidents Obrador and Miguel Diaz-Canel. The profits derived from these government-coordinated medical missions are then used to fuel the Cuba’s espionage regime against the United States and its apparatus of brutality against freedom-seeking people.
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[Korrespondent] 23:57 Zelensky on the evacuation of the defenders of Mariupol from Azovstal: "I am doing everything so that the most influential international forces are informed and, as far as possible, involved in the rescue of our military."
23:33 Biden approved the allocation of $ 100 million in additional military assistance to Ukraine , Blinken said: "On behalf of the President, I am authorizing the tenth withdrawal of additional weapons and equipment for the defense of Ukraine from the stocks of the US Department of Defense in the amount of up to $ 100 million. Thus, the total amount U.S. military aid to Ukraine has reached approximately $3.9 billion in arms and equipment since Russia launched its brutal and unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
22:51 Zelensky, in an address to Ukrainian students, said that the last phase of the war is the most difficult and lengthy, so he cannot yet recommend returning home: "The final stage is the most difficult, the bloodiest, it exists. We cannot dissociate ourselves and say - everything I will tell you frankly that in Kiev after the de-occupation of the Kiev region there is such a feeling that everything, there is no war ... Today I cannot shout "come back home" to everyone who is abroad, because the war has not ended. It's still the choice of each person."
22:48 Biden announced an additional aid package for Ukraine. The U.S. will provide artillery, radar and other equipment, he said: "These weapons and equipment will go straight to the front lines of freedom in Ukraine and reaffirm our strong support for the courageous people of Ukraine defending their country from Russian aggression."
22:46 G7 finance ministers agreed to allocate $18.4 billion to help Ukraine pay its bills in the coming months and said they were ready to support Kiev throughout the war with Russia. More details - in the material How to save the economy of Ukraine .
22:27 Zelensky welcomed the approval of the US Senate bill on additional appropriations for Ukraine for 2022: "$40 billion is a significant contribution of the United States to the restoration of peace and security in Ukraine, Europe and the world as a whole."
21:58 The new package of US military assistance to Ukraine includes 36 counter-battery radars and 18 howitzers, the shipment of these weapons will begin immediately, the Pentagon said.
21:51 Podolyak said on the air of the telethon that negotiations with Russia have not ended - they are suspended, since any war ends with negotiations. The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office added that Zelensky’s negotiations with Putin would take place when the Ukrainian president needs them.
Podolyak also stressed that Russia "must understand that it will not win this war": "They must understand that as a result of this war they will lose everything, so they must stop it."
21:47 The length of the line of contact between Russia and NATO will immediately more than double due to Finland alone, whose foreign policy in Moscow was considered "the most reasonable" among Europeans. Neutral Switzerland also decided to move closer to NATO, while the Baltic countries are asking for more troops. For more details, see NATO Expansion - Who Else Can Join the Alliance .
21:22 The Russian Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti that Russia does not interfere with the export of Ukrainian grain - "logistic problems arose through the fault of Kiev: its troops themselves mined their ports."
21:01 Germany will help Ukraine restore the healthcare system, promised the head of the German Ministry of Health, Karl Lauterbach. In particular, German specialists will help with the development of trauma and burn centers for patients with severe injuries.
20:55 Deputy commander of the Azov regiment, Captain Svyatoslav Palamar, recorded a short video message in which he said that he, along with the command, was on the territory of Azovstal: "A certain operation is ongoing, the details of which I will not disclose."
20:22 Washington is working on organizing the supply of long-range anti-ship missiles to Ukraine to lift the blockade of the Black Sea, Reuters reports citing US officials.
20:21 The US Congress approved the allocation of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $40 billion. The final stage remains - the President's signature.
20:13 Germany will allocate about 1 billion euros of budget support for Ukraine, said Finance Minister Christian Lindner. According to her, we are talking about grants that should be paid from the budget for 2022, without creating additional debt. The funds will be used to ensure the viability of Ukraine.
20:04 France does not rule out that the war in Ukraine may spread to neighboring countries, Macron said, receiving Moldovan President Maia Sandu at the Elysee Palace: "The recent incidents in Transnistria show that it is impossible to exclude the spread of the conflict to neighboring countries." France, he said, "intends to pay special attention to the situation with regional security and any possible encroachment on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Moldova."
19:57 The Russians have formed two detachments of warships to fortify on Zmeiny Island, but due to stormy weather they are hiding in the Crimea, reports the Operational Command Pivden. According to OK, there are two other Russian ships with cruise missiles in the Black Sea.
19:48 British Armed Forces Minister James Hippie believes that the heroic defense of Mariupol on the territory of Azovstal will be included in military history textbooks as a key factor in Ukrainian success in the war with Russia.
19:46 The G7 countries intend to provide Ukraine with $18.4 billion in financial support, Reuters reports.
19:38 The European Parliament supported a resolution calling on the EU to create a special tribunal for Russian war criminals, Kuleba said.
19:22 In the Kiev region, the Russians destroyed more than 4,000 residential buildings in 46 out of 69 communities, said Kirill Tymoshenko, deputy head of the OP.
19:19 Currently, 36% of the sanctions Plan of the McFaul-Yermak group has been completed. Work on the rest continues. In particular, Ukraine expects sanctions from its allies against the energy sector and the banking system of Russia, Yermak said.
19:17 Foreign Policy correspondent Jack Detch reports, citing Pentagon officials, that in the last 24 hours the Russian Federation has carried out only 140 airstrikes, which is about 100-150 less than the daily count in recent weeks. Including the Russians have sharply reduced the number of strikes on Mariupol.
According to the Pentagon, Russia still has 106 battalion tactical groups in Ukraine, and the US does not see any hints of mass mobilization from the Russian side. At the same time, Russia still has a numerical advantage on the battlefield, and its combat capability remains "significant."
At the same time, Ukraine continues to retake territory east of Kharkiv from Russia - earlier this week, Ukrainian troops pushed the Russians back within three kilometers of the border with the Russian Federation. In the Donbas, Russia is still making slow progress due to serious logistical problems, despite focusing on a smaller geographic area. Also, Russia brought into the battle in the Donbas some units that were not 100% restored after they suffered losses during the unsuccessful assault on Kyiv. The US sees signs that Russian commanders are being fired for poor performance in Ukraine.
18:58 Biden said that Finland and Sweden meet all NATO criteria.
18:47 As a result of Russian shelling of Severodonetsk today, at least 12 people were killed and more than 40 were injured , said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Russians began chaotically shelling the regional center with heavy weapons from the very morning, shelling continues now. Basically, these are targeted hits on residential buildings. Gaidai noted that the data on the dead and injured are still being specified, since it is impossible to examine the territory under shelling.
18:42 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russia's offensive in the Donbass has stalled, but this does not mean that the Russian Federation has abandoned its strategic goals.
18:39 In Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, there are more than a thousand cars in front of the checkpoint of the occupiers, which the Russian military does not allow to enter the territory controlled by Ukraine, or in the opposite direction, the OVA reported.
18:38 Speaker of the Estonian Parliament Jüri Ratas sent a letter to his colleagues from the national parliaments of the European Union, in which he called on them to support granting Ukraine the status of a candidate country for EU membership.
18:36 The European Parliament called on the EU Council to start negotiations on joining the European Union with Albania and North Macedonia, especially in the context of the war in Ukraine.
18:30 On May 18, 127 Mariupol residents, including 12 children, were brought from Mariupol to the occupants' filtration camp in the village of Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky district, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
18:09 The European Union will completely abandon Russian oil and gas by 2027, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. The plan for energy independence from oil and gas from the Russian Federation, presented today, will cost more than 200 billion euros and will ensure energy independence for the EU until 2027.
18:04 On May 19, 37 people managed to be taken out of Severodonetsk under shelling, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
17:49 WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that he had asked Lavrov for safe access to Mariupol, Kherson, Yuzhne, Zaporozhye and other occupied areas for the delivery of medical assistance. "Civilians must be protected," he stressed.
17:44 Johnson announced that Ukraine will receive an additional £1.3 billion military aid package from the UK. It will include long-range artillery, anti-ship missiles and drones.
17:30 The National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting announced that Russian Radio will now sound like Radio Bayraktar on the air.
17:18 In the Kharkiv region, from the towns and villages liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the past week, yesterday, in just one hour, ten people turned for support after experiencing sexual violence. Of these, eight were raped minors, including two boys of ten years and one-year-old babies, said Lyudmila Denisova, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada.
17:02 The Minister of Digital Transformation, Mikhail Fedorov, entered the Politico Tech 28 European digital leader rating. He was shortlisted and took first place in the Rulebreakers category. Fedorov especially showed himself during the war unleashed by Russia.
16:56 Ukraine and the United States signed a memorandum on transport cooperation. According to Infrastructure Minister Alexander Kubrakov, the document provides for the renewal of the entire fleet of locomotives and wagons by 2030, the creation of a fast rail system between large cities and the improvement of railway infrastructure, especially in large cities. Also in the sphere of priorities is the modernization of existing roads.
16:43 In the Luhansk region, the enemy is throwing all his forces into seizing Severodonetsk and the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the situation in the region is difficult. If enemy troops capture the Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway, this may cut off the entire region from communication with other regions of Ukraine.
16:28 The prosecutor's office demands a life sentence for the Russian military Vadim Shishimarin, who is accused of killing a civilian, representatives of the prosecution said during the trial. The wife of the deceased, Yekaterina Shelipova, also asked for a life sentence for the accused, but noted that she would not mind exchanging him for the military with Azovstal.
16:15 There will be less blocking of content from Ukraine related to the war and Azov on Facebook and Instagram, Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development, promised after a meeting with Meta President for Global Affairs Nick Clegg.
16:08 The UK intends to transfer long-range artillery, anti-ship missiles and drones to Ukraine, Johnson's office said.
15:56 The Pechersk District Court of Kiev has given permission for the arrest of Yanukovych, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. The ex-president who fled to Russia is suspected of organizing the illegal transfer of people across the state border. So, on February 23, 2014, Yanukovych illegally transported at least 20 people from the village of Urzuf, Donetsk region, to the city of Anapa, Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation.
15:47 In the Kharkiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated 23 settlements since the beginning of the counteroffensive on May 5, said Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff Alexei Gromov. He also said that Russian troops have intensified shelling of Ukrainian positions in order to contain their advance to the border.
15:31 Kuleba spoke with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri and thanked him for refusing a Russian ship with grain stolen in Ukraine. The parties also agreed to coordinate efforts so that Russia unblocks the export of food products from Ukraine.
15:24 The European Parliament voted to impose sanctions against ex-German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, as he continues to act in the interests of Russian energy companies such as Rosneft. The text of the EP resolution also calls on the EU countries to expand the list of persons subject to restrictions at the expense of European board members of large holdings and politicians who continue to receive money from the Russian Federation.
14:48 In Zaporozhye, from May 20, the duration of the curfew will be reduced by an hour - it will last from 22:00 to 5:00, OVA reports.
14:47 Zelensky received a letter from the President of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovsky, who expressed support and solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people and stated that the process of EU enlargement should not stop in the Western Balkans. He supported granting Ukraine the status of a candidate country already during the EU meeting in June this year.
"Such support from a country that received the status of a candidate country back in 2005, but is still fighting for the right to start accession negotiations, is very important for Ukraine," Yermak wrote.
14:42 The US is considering a number of measures to deprive Russia of oil profits, writes NYT. Among them, in particular, the introduction of a price ceiling, blocking Russia's access to payments for oil exports, forcing banks to transfer money for Russian oil imports to escrow accounts so that the Russian Federation can spend them only on essential goods, as well as the imposition of secondary sanctions against countries that do not comply with US sanctions.
14:41 Peskov said that the future of the "liberated" Ukrainian territories cannot be decided "without expressing the will of their inhabitants."
14:40 Italy has proposed a four-stage plan for resolving the situation in Ukraine, writes La Repubblica. According to the publication, the document would have been drawn up by the country's Foreign Ministry with the participation of the Chigi government palace and has already been submitted to the UN Secretary General:
ceasefire and liquidation of the line of combat clashes under the supervision of the UN;
Ukraine's accession to the EU in a short time and its neutral status without joining NATO;
an agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the "disputed territories" of Donbass and Crimea to resolve conflicts over internationally recognized borders;
a new multilateral treaty for peace and security in Europe, which should ensure arms control and conflict prevention.
14:36 The letters Z and V are not official military symbols, Moscow City Duma deputy Stupin said, citing the response of the Russian Defense Ministry to his request. At the same time, the letter says, these signs are "recognizable and positively accepted by the military and citizens of Russia, the DPR and LPR, and many others."
14:33 Great Britain has included three Russian airlines in the sanctions list - Aeroflot, Russia and Ural Airlines. The sanctions include freezing the assets of companies, according to the website of the British government.
14:32 Ukrzaliznytsia asks the Russians to take the bodies of their military. The company said that for the third month they have been storing hundreds of bodies of Russian soldiers in refrigerated wagons in order to return them to their mothers and wives: "We appeal to the Russians: we know that you are reading this. Your cargo of 200 is waiting."
14:31 In Mariupol, the invaders continue to sort out the rubble of the Drama Theatre. According to the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko, yesterday and today the bodies of the dead were taken out several times by trucks in the direction of Stary Krym. The clearing area is guarded and not given access to the locals. The operation to cover up the consequences of war crimes continues.
14:25 The SBU detained Oleg Tsarev's brother while trying to organize sabotage in the eastern regions. After a full-scale invasion, he was confident in the imminent victory of Russia, he was waiting for the occupation of the region and the promised post of head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration. When the hopes for the arrival of the Russians did not materialize, he began to receive instructions from his curators. In particular, his task was to destabilize the situation in the region through a series of explosions at transport and critical infrastructure facilities, the SBU said.
14:19 Arestovich denied the information about the train being blown up by partisans in Melitopol: “I have to disappoint you a little. The rails were blown up, but in front of the train. According to my information, not a single occupier died, and the train was not injured. that the rails were mined near the railway station, and the explosion damaged the track. This indicates that our heroes are acting decisively and boldly. This is the first such case, but not the last."
14:16 The US Department of Defense cannot confirm the information about the use of laser weapons by Russian troops in Ukraine, as Moscow has stated. "I haven't seen anything to support reports of lasers being used. Yes, we've seen some open press reports about it, but we haven't seen anything to support it," a Pentagon spokesman said.
14:07 NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov said in an interview with NV that Russia "is not as weak as we would like": "And those people who say that the war will end in May or in a week are frivolous. It is very difficult and multicomponent process, and the help of our partners with weapons is the key moment in determining the situation today.Depending on what and in what time frame will be delivered, the scales will fluctuate one way or the other."
14:03 The European Parliament supported the abolition of EU import duties on all Ukrainian goods for one year.
13:59 The Swiss Embassy resumes work in Kiev.
13:57 Australia will send 14 M113 tracked armored personnel carriers and 20 Bushmaster armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, Defense Minister Peter Dutton said.
13:54 Russian deputies have submitted a bill to the State Duma that will allow Putin to create "interim administrations" outside of Russia.
13:38 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that in order to open access to seaports in Ukraine, "it is necessary to consider, among other things, the possibility of lifting sanctions against Russia."
13:22 The delivery of heavy weapons to the defending country is not an escalation, Scholz said: "To help in the defense of a country that has been severely attacked, there is no escalation. It is a contribution to repelling an attack and thereby ending violence as soon as possible."
13:13 The International Committee of the Red Cross has started registering prisoners of war who left the Azovstal plant. The Red Cross records information about each captured Mariupol defender in order to track their fate. The operation started on Tuesday and will continue further. At the same time, the committee does not participate in the transportation of the Ukrainian military.
12:54 Lukashenka said that he expects to develop an Iskander-type missile in the country with the assistance of Russia by the end of the year.
12:52 Zelensky said that he had spoken with Ursula von der Leyen: "Thanked for 9 billion euros and 0.6 billion euros of financial assistance. We discussed the Platform for the restoration of Ukraine proposed by the European Commission. It should become a common success story. Agreed on the advisability of introducing joint border control Ukraine and Poland".
12:50 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council called manipulation the information that the United States is afraid to transfer weapons to Ukraine because of the likelihood of using it against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation. According to the JRC, this was reported by "Russian propaganda media".
12:44 The NBU received from the UK 5 million pounds (or more than 182 million hryvnias in equivalent) to a special account opened to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is the largest amount received in support of the Ukrainian army in one payment in foreign currency from foreign philanthropists since the beginning of the war with Russia, the regulator said.
12:40 Finland does not plan to deploy nuclear weapons or military bases of the alliance in the event of joining NATO, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said. According to her, these issues are not in the negotiation process. At the same time, she noted the importance of negotiations with Turkey, which objects to the membership of Finland and Sweden in NATO.
12:36 Pushilin gave the command to radically reduce the police corps in Mariupol and return it to Donetsk. According to the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko, there are several reasons for this, one of them is the growing riots of the relatives of the mobilized and dissatisfied residents of Donetsk, where there has been no water for more than a month. The second is purely political, as part of the internal struggle of political clans - conditional Donetsk and Mariupol. "An interesting trend. Little by little it becomes clear who exactly is lobbying the idea of Kadyrov's control over Mariupol from the inside and why," Andryushchenko wrote.
12:29 Poland is ready to build permanent NATO bases to accommodate light units, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.
12:28 Scholz promised Ukraine further assistance in defending itself against a Russian attack and said that Putin would not be able to dictate peace terms: "Putin still believes that he can bomb and dictate peace. But he is wrong. Just as he was wrong about the determination of Ukrainians and the unity of our unions. Because Ukrainians do not accept this, and neither do we."
12:26 In Ukraine, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, 88 DRGs have been exposed, about 800 people involved in sabotage activities have been detained, First Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Enin said. Almost all of them were transferred to the SBU, he specified.
12:23 Finnish Ambassador to Ukraine Päivi Laine has returned to Kiev, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
12:20 In Nikolaev, the curfew will begin an hour later - at 22:00 and end as usual, at 6:00, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim. He also said that the region will soon allow the sale of low-alcohol drinks in cafes. Since the end of March, the sale of alcohol in Nikolaev is allowed only on weekends.
12:14 The Polish state oil and gas company PGNiG has filed a new lawsuit against Gazprom and is demanding interest for an overpayment of $ 1.5 billion for gas supplies in 2014-2020.
12:06 The Russians are shelling the border areas of Ukraine, including in order to divert the attention of Ukrainian troops from the counteroffensive, said Rostislav Smirnov, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: “We must understand the nature of these shellings, why they began to occur in Sumy, in particular, in the direction. This due to the fact that at the strategic level we are starting to launch a certain counteroffensive. Perhaps not quickly, but if you look at the last few days, we have liberated several settlements in the Kharkiv and Lugansk directions."
12:03 The Russians launched another air strike on Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, shells hit a five-story building, a private house and an office building, said the head of the OVA, Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, in a private house, rescuers got six people out of the rubble, their condition is satisfactory. In the five-story building, an entire entrance was destroyed, but, according to preliminary information, there were no victims.
Kirilenko once again asks everyone who has the opportunity to leave the Donbass, since there are no safe places left in the region.
11:59 In Kharkov, early this morning, the Russians fired at the Kiev region. The projectile hit the boiler room of the Institute of Endocrine Pathology Problems, according to preliminary data, there were no casualties, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
11:56 The SBU liquidated a large-scale scheme for the theft of humanitarian aid intended for Ukrainian defenders. The attackers tried to illegally sell more than a thousand body armor for a total amount of more than 12 million hryvnia. They were made in Ukraine by one of the public organizations, and through the Cherkasy military administration were supposed to be transferred to the needs of defense, but instead they appeared in a supermarket chain.
11:48 Today, on the day of the 100th anniversary of the creation of a pioneer organization in the USSR, a bill was submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the creation of a similar children's movement called Big Change. Its goal is "preparing children for a full life in society, shaping their worldview based on traditional values, traditions of the peoples of Russia, the achievements of Russian and world culture, developing socially significant and creative activity, high moral qualities, love and respect for the Fatherland, hard work , legal culture".
11:45 Kuleba again criticized Europe for trying to offer Kiev "surrogates for the status of an EU candidate": "The strategic uncertainty regarding the European perspective of Ukraine, practiced by some EU capitals in recent years, has failed and must stop. This only encouraged Putin. We do not need surrogates for EU candidate status who demonstrate second-rate attitude towards Ukraine and hurt the feelings of Ukrainians."
11:18 The European Commission will assess Ukraine's request to join the European Union "presumably at the end of June," Scholz said.
"Ukraine has requested membership in the European Union. The Commission before the European Council will give its assessment to the request,"
11:14 Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko warned foreign journalists against participating in press tours organized by Russia in the occupied Ukrainian territories: "Fakes and disinformation of Russia have taken on some incredible forms. Now the occupiers are trying to hold a press tour for foreign journalists on the territory of the occupied Mariupol. The primary goal of the enemy is to discredit the role of Ukraine in the war. Now special "decorations" for foreign media have already been brought in: fragments of Ukrainian ammunition collected from the occupied regions, extras have been assembled, which will be passed off as local eyewitnesses."
10:48 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that 771 servicemen of Azov surrendered from Azovstal during the day, since May 16, a total of 1,730 soldiers, including 80 wounded, have surrendered.
10:34 The presidential representative in the Constitutional Court, Fyodor Venislavsky, explained that martial law would be extended immediately for three months, since the counteroffensive takes more time than defense.
10:32 In Kharkov, on Saltovka, a monument to the Russian prince Alexander Nevsky was thrown from the pedestal. The bronze figure was hooked with a rope and knocked down with the help of a truck.
10:29 For Vyshyvanka Day, the world's first military vyshyvanka was created in Cherkasy. The initiator was a fighter of the 118th separate brigade of the territorial defense from Cherkasy - a specialist in art criticism.
10:27 Lavrov urged the WHO to "pacify Kiev's attempts to hinder the special operation." The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, in particular, turned to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and asked to influence the Ukrainian authorities so that it "does not interfere with the implementation of Russia's measures to protect Donbass."
10:23 A ceasefire is impossible until the complete withdrawal of Russian troops and the liberation of the occupied Ukrainian territories, Podoliak said: "Do not offer us a ceasefire - this is impossible without the total withdrawal of the Russian troops. Ukrainian society is not interested in the new "Minsk" and the return of the war in a few years. Until Russia is ready to fully liberate our lands, our negotiating platform is weapons, sanctions and money."
10:07 The leader of the "DPR" Pushilin said that more than half of the Ukrainian military left Azovstal. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation put the commanders of the national battalion Azov Velichko and Nemichev on the wanted list. They are accused of "involvement in the encroachment on life" of at least eight military men in the Kharkiv region.
09:36 British intelligence reports that top commanders are being fired from the Russian army who did not complete their tasks at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. So, due to failures in Kharkov, Lieutenant General Sergei Kisel was removed - he commanded the elite 1st Guards Tank Army.
Vice Admiral Igor Osipov, who commanded the Black Sea Fleet, was also likely removed after the sinking of the cruiser Moskva. Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov is likely to remain in office, but it is unclear if he has Putin's confidence.
British intelligence notes that the system of concealment of information and "scapegoats" is still being cultivated in the Russian army. Many officials involved in the invasion of Ukraine are likely to become increasingly distracted by attempts to avoid personal responsibility for the failures of the Russian army in Ukraine. This will put additional strain on Russia's centralized command and control model as officers increasingly seek to shift key decisions to their superiors.
09:33 Ukraine's presence in NATO would reduce the threat of nuclear war, Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk believes: "Then Putin would know that if he attacks Ukraine with nuclear weapons, he should expect a retaliatory nuclear strike. And this would deter him from attack ".
At the same time, the ambassador admits that the process of Ukraine's accession to NATO is unlikely to be as fast as in the case of Finland and Sweden. Melnyk added that only a political decision is needed to integrate Ukraine into the alliance.
09:30 Russian media report that representatives of Kiev and the Red Cross visited the Ukrainian military, who left Azovstal, and made sure that they were kept "in normal conditions."
09:28 The Pentagon notes that Russia has recently reduced the scale of its actions, which demonstrates a decrease in ambitions. According to the Washington Post, citing a US Department of Defense spokesman, Russian troops are working in smaller groups with significantly "smaller" tasks - instead of formations of several hundred people, actions are carried out in groups of several dozen to hundreds of military personnel.
Also, if earlier it was about big cities and entire regions, now efforts are focused on villages or crossroads.
09:24 The Economic Security Bureau secured the seizure in Ukraine of Russian and Belarusian assets totaling over 30 billion hryvnias. Half of the seized assets are almost 18,000 railcars, including those with inventory worth UAH 3 billion.
09:23 Energoatom reported that the Zaporozhye NPP continues to operate in the energy system of Ukraine and provides industrial facilities with energy.
08:57 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 19. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Slavyansk, Krivoy Rog and Zaporozhye directions.
personnel - about 28,500 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 1254 (+3),
armored combat vehicles - 3063 (+20),
artillery systems - 595 (+9),
MLRS - 199 (+0),
air defense systems - 93 (+2),
aircraft - 203 (+1),
helicopters - 167 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 455 (+14),
cruise missiles - 103 (+1),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2157 (+20),
special equipment - 43 (+0).
08:51 Finance ministers and heads of central banks of the G7 countries will hold talks on Ukraine today, Reuters reports. Financial assistance to Kyiv and food security issues will be discussed, as well as non-Ukraine topics of inflation, public debt and healthcare costs.
08:42 The Government of Japan will provide Ukraine with an additional loan in the amount of $300 million.
08:41 The US Senate will vote today on the next package of military, economic and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $40 billion.
08:34 Even those who are usually called Moscow's allies are in no hurry to support Russia in the war against Ukraine. Read more in the material Complete isolation .
08:30 Russian military continue to fire at Luhansk region, including from aircraft, the area is de-energized. Severodonetsk received the greatest damage - there are four dead, as well as settlements of the Popasnyanskaya community, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai.
08:19 Troops of the Russian Federation five times fired at the Zelenodolsk community in Dnepropetrovsk region. They beat from Gradov and Hurricanes along Velikaya Kostroma, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. People were not hurt, houses were damaged and destroyed, the village was partially without electricity and gas.
07:55 Poland will transfer 25,000 tons of gasoline from its reserves to Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko said following a meeting with Polish Climate Minister Anna Moscow. Deliveries will begin next week and will help "balance the fuel market."
07:48 Ukraine is disappointed that the United States does not send American multiple launch rocket systems to it, writes Politico. According to the publication, the Ukrainian leadership has been asking the United States for several months to send long-range MLRS, but the White House fears that such weapons could be used to strike at Russian territory, thereby expanding the conflict.
07:37 Over the past day in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, Ukrainian defenders repelled 16 enemy attacks, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning summary .
05:01 The US Senate unanimously approved the candidacy of Bridget Brink for the post of US Ambassador to Ukraine.
02:15 The US does not see that Russia needs negotiations, US State Department spokesman Andrea Kalan said: "In order to negotiate with Russia, the US must see that it wants to de-escalate the situation and withdraw its troops from Ukraine, but now Russia is only showing aggression ".
01:27 The Russian military leadership decided to mobilize the servicemen in Crimea, who betrayed Ukraine in 2014. In total there were about 14 thousand of them, in eight years many of them were demobilized and left the service. Now they are forcibly mobilized and replenish broken brigades that are on regrouping in the Crimea, said Viktor Andrusiv, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs.
"The peculiarity of this news is that traitors are not subject to exchange. They are subject to article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (treason)," he clarifies.
01:12 The Parliament of Canada recognized the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 as genocide, Ukrainian Ambassador Yulia Kovaliv said. From now on, in Canada, May 18 every year will be celebrated as the Day of Remembrance of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar Deportation (Sürgünlik) Memorial Day).
00:43 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced that Washington will provide Ukraine with an additional $215 million in new emergency food aid.
00:27 Volunteer of the morgue in Bucha, editor-in-chief of the publication Babel Evgeny Spirin told Present Time that the headquarters of the Russian army was located on the territory of the pioneer camp Radiant, in which the occupiers equipped a torture room, where they brought veterans of the 2014 war. The bodies of the tortured and executed inhabitants of Bucha were found in it. One of them had no skin on his back, he was tortured for several days, after which he died.
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There's a lot of that going around these days, Vladimir.
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After the Battle of Waterloo in 1812 the many thousands of French soldiers’ bones buried in mass graves were exhumed and delivered to Britain. The bones were ground down to make bone meal fertiliser that was spread on the English East coast farms.
Britain will be needing fertiliser and Ukie bones could keep British farms productive :)
A woman was killed and 11 people were left injured after a kaboom occurred at Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s crowded Bolton Market in Kharadar on Monday evening.
Victims and witnesses said that a van from the Kharadar cop shoppe, out on routine patrol, had just stopped in Bombay Bazaar near New Memon Masjid at around 9:25 pm when a powerful explosion took place.
The explosion was powerful enough to destroy half the police van and several cycle of violences parked around it in addition to damaging a rickshaw and shattering windowpanes of the buildings nearby.
The explosion also caused a fire to erupt, which locals doused on a self-help basis.
Ambulances rushed to the scene and evacuated around a dozen injured people to Civil Hospital where doctors pronounced one woman dead. The 11 others were provided with medical treatment.
Soon after the blast, a large contingent of rescue workers, police, and other law enforcement agencies rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area. Officials from the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and the Bomb Disposal Squad also arrived on the scene, which is just a few hundred meters from the City Police Office (CPO), and have been examining the area.
During a press briefing on the spot, CTD Transnational Terrorist Intelligence Group Chief Raja Umar Khattab said ball bearings and IED were used in the kaboom which was planted in the cycle of violence, suspecting similarities with the Saddar blast earlier this week.
"The target was a police van and it is being expected that it was a remote control blast as the target was moving," he added while talking to SAMAA TV.
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[RIA Novosti] Over the past day, 20 servicemen from the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered, the People's Militia of the DPR reported.
"Twenty servicemen of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade voluntarily laid down their arms, thereby saving their lives," the ministry said on its Telegram channel.
In addition, fighters of the People's Militia, together with Russian troops, destroyed more than 30 Ukrainian soldiers, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles and eight firing points. Three infantry fighting vehicles, two armored personnel carriers and one tank were captured.
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They have enough money laundering and terrorism without making it into a law.
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If they make it a law, then the government can get its beak wet directly, in addition to all the indirect moistening already going on.
Maybe Chicago could do this for the shootings. Right now, people just shoot whoever they want and the City doesn't get any of the action. If you had to get a Shoot Someone permit, then the govt could get a taste. And if you don't get a permit, then there are fines for committing a criminal act. It's a win-win!
[NPASYRIA] An official in al-Shaddadi Military Council of the Syrian democratic Forces (SDF) denied on Thursday that any members of ISIS had beat feet from al-Shaddadi Prison, south of Hasakah in northeast Syria.
Social media pages and websites circulated news during the last two days that four ISIS members beat feet from al-Shaddadi Central Prison, after killing two prison guards.
"The news on escaping some members of ISIS from al-Shaddadi Central Prison is not true," Sayil al-Zoba’, a leader in the al-Shaddadi Military Council, told North Press.
Tightening the security guard on the prison came as the result of the fall of two shells in the vicinity of al-Jabsa oil field two days ago, he added.
On Monday, unknown assailants targeted the vicinity of the American base in al-Shaddadi with two shells. One shell fell near a medical point in al-Jabsa oil field, while the other fell on the house of a resident without causing any casualties.
Al-Zoba’ said, "Such news is in the interest of some parties, including ISIS, which is active in the region. The aim of this news is to destabilize the region."
Al-Shaddadi Central Prison, 3 km northeast of the city, houses thousands of ISIS Death Eaters held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
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We should abandon the base in a big convoy around a fake oil tanker. After the horde of motorcycle skinheads with aboriginal weapons follows our convoy, we can troop out all personnel and all valuables on a school bus.
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[ZeroHedge] Gas station pumps in Washington state are being reprogrammed to accommodate $10 a gallon and even higher as the summer driving season begins amid tight fuel supplies, according to a report.
The Post Millennial has learned gas station chain "76" has reprogrammed its pumps to include double-digit numbers in "price per gallon" at Washington state gas stations.
A 76 spokesperson confirmed to The Post Millennial they added an extra digit to pumps, noting the change doesn't necessarily imply the company was anticipating prices above $10 a gallon.
The 76 gas station in Auburn, Washington, located at 1725 Auburn Way North, is one of the stations that has had reprogrammed pumps. It also sells high-octane race fuel, which tends to be more expensive, though the special fuel is sold at separate pumps than regular, plus, premium, and diesel.
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a lot of stations have pumps that use LED for digits but the large overhead signs frequently don't and will need to replaced
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That is totally unnecessary. Just change the unit of measure to pint or cup.
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$4.40 this morning here.
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If they're going to go through the exercise of replacing pump displays, and other signs, they may as well add another digit at the same time.
That way, they'll be prepared until gas reaches 999.99 9/10.
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This is being discussed in my area of Maryland. $10 Dollars a gallon mid summer. This is realistic as we are in stagflation now. So as prices go up with no limit in sight, people are reducing purchasing.
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Looks like we Americans can't do Communism better than anyone else after all. Still, the Left will persist.
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Left Can't Meme, #whatever
There was a meme going around, and it has been a few months, and sure AF hasn't popped up recently, going something like we should have a better appreciation and perhaps learn some sophistication now that our gasoline prices are the same as what the British have always been paying.
I'm not sure "Close your eyes and think of England" at the pump was the intention, but it was the message.
[NPASYRIA] Russian military vehicles, accompanied by the Syrian government forces officers, were seen driving along the Syrian-Jordanian border, one day after the Jordanian king’s statements.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned on Wednesday that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. 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. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and its proxies may fill a vacuum left by Russia in southern Syria which could lead to issues along Jordan’s borders.
More than 10 Russian military vehicles roamed the Syrian-Jordanian border in the western countryside of Daraa governorate. The vehicles were accompanied by a number of the government forces officers, local sources told North Press.
The visit lasted for nearly two hours and included many villages and towns along the Jordanian borders, namely Maariya, Koya and al-Qusayr.
"The military vehicles, after completing their tour, headed directly to Damascus, which suggests that there were high-ranking Russian officers inside the cars," the sources said.
The residents believed that the Russian tour is a message to the Kingdom of Jordan that Russian forces are still present in southern Syria, contrary to the statements of the Jordanian ruler.
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I wonder how many Russian troops "disappear"into Syria when they hear they are going to the Ukraine?
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It may be a Ukrainian farmer taking a test drive.
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[LB] Today, May 19, the Russians killed five civilians in Donetsk region. This was announced by the head of the Donetsk regional military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko. Two civilians killed in Bakhmut…
The Russians launched another air strike on Bakhmut in Donetsk region.
The shells hit a five-story building, a private house and an office building.
In a private house, rescuers pulled six people out of the rubble, their condition is satisfactory. An entire entrance to the five-story building was destroyed, but according to preliminary information, no one was injured.
"The Russians continue to shoot at civilians, but timely evacuation allows us to save hundreds of lives. Of the 73,000 inhabitants of Bakhmut, just over 20,000 remain in the city - thanks to which we can avoid the number of casualties expected by the enemy, " Kirilenko said.
The head of the OVA once again asked everyone who has the opportunity to leave the Donetsk region, because now there are no absolutely safe places in the Donetsk region.
We will remind, on May 17 Russia struck an air strike on Bakhmut, one of shells hit the apartment house, building constructions on 5 floors were destroyed. The first victims to be rescued were two men, aged 43 and 44, and a 75-year-old woman. Four others, including three children aged 9, 12 and 17, suffered injuries of varying severity.
The next day, rescuers found the bodies of a 35-year-old woman and a 2-year-old child .
As of the evening of May 18, the total number of dead is five, wounded - four.
The enemy prepares provocations in Donetsk region according to the "Bucha scenario", - the National Security and Defense Council
The Ukrainian military will allegedly disguise themselves in the uniform of the Russian army with white armbands "and shoot the residents of Kostiantynivka on camera.
[LB] To discredit Ukraine in the international arena, the Russian Defense Ministry reports provocations under the "Bucha scenario," which is allegedly "prepared by the Ukrainian government with the support of Western curators."
The Center for Combating Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine warns about this .
According to the JRS, the Kremlin media misinforms that in order to implement the plan, the Ukrainian military will "change into the uniform of the Russian army with white armbands" and "shoot" Kostiantynivka residents on camera.
The purpose of the "warning" messages of the Kremlin media is to try to provide an "information alibi" and "prepare" the population of Russia and the international community to commit terrible crimes planned by the occupiers.
"Propaganda continues to work according to the template and is again trying to shift responsibility for the mass killings of civilians in our country to Ukraine," the JRS at the National Security and Defense Council said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[DailyCaller] The Biden administration privately acknowledged in late April that a mathematical error is delaying the federal offshore oil and gas program, in a letter to industry leaders.
[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Monkeypox pandemic has finally breached the shores of the United States, with the CDC confirming a staggering 1 infections so far. In response, America's favorite, most trusted doctor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, issued a statement recommending people stop the spread of Monkeypox by covering their eyes, ears, and mouth.
[YouTube] Most NATO members have met Finland and Sweden's joint application for membership with open enthusiasm. The US, UK, France; even the Italians and Greeks are cheering, in a rare moment of pan-European positivity. 
[Alt-Market.US] At the onset of the Russian incursion into Ukraine I argued in my article ’Order Out Of Chaos: How The Ukraine Conflict Is Designed To Benefit Globalists’ that US boots would be on the ground within a few months. I was wrong — As it turns out, US and European military boots were ALREADY on the ground. Ukraine was a proxy war from the very beginning.
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...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...
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[NYPOST] Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said that when $90 million in "white guilt money" came pouring into the organization’s coffers after the murder of George Floyd, the group had no infrastructure in place to handle the flood of cash — and now the mistakes made are being "weaponized" against her.
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