"Science" has been used to strip us of medical rights and personal freedoms for the last two years. Now, "science" is touted as the justification for not eating real beef and getting used to insects and lab-grown protein alternatives instead. "Science" is also being weaponized to cajole us into accepting rolling blackouts and energy deprivation
Mirroring George Orwell’s dystopian novel, "1984," the Biden administration has been telling us the economy is good, the GDP is strong and inflation is transitory, even though data clearly tell a different story
Biden has even insisted that borrowing (read: printing) more money will reduce prices while not affecting the value of the dollar. It’s basic economics that increasing money supply results in inflation, but even inflation is being redefined at whim
At the end of April 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security even created an actual "ministry of truth," the Disinformation Governance Board, in blatant violation of the First Amendment. Government has basically "memory-holed" the Constitution and pretends it doesn’t exist, hoping you’ll pretend along with them
Is government gaslighting the public? Gaslighting is a form of emotional manipulation and abuse where the abuser creates a false narrative and makes the victim question their sanity. Rewriting history is a key hallmark, as is refuting what is obvious fact
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The online manipulation of dictionaries and encyclopedias has been classic 1984. Everything that they have done with the school systems is right out of the book. There are some elements of Fahrenheit 451 in the idea of the Metaverse. The college curriculum is a continuation of Abolition of Man. At least the perps are literary; too bad the victims are not well-read.
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[LI] Motion filed in trial court today: "If Defendants wanted to stay execution of the mandate of the Ninth District Court of Appeals, they were required to seek that stay in the Ohio Supreme Court. They did not. Plaintiffs are entitled to judgment on the surety bond ...."
As posted recently, Oberlin College is seeking to have the Ohio Supreme Court hear an appeal from the massive $32 million judgment entered after jury trial in the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas as affirmed by the 9th District Court of Appeals.
There has been an appeal bond in place since trial issued by Zurich American Insurance Company securing the judgment plus future interest in the amount of $36 million, as a condition of a stay of judgment issued by the trial court.
In the Court of Appeals decision, the court noted on the very last page something that didn’t mean much to me at the time (emphasis added):
We order that a special mandate issue out of this Court, directing the Court of Common Pleas, County of Lorain, State of Ohio, to carry this judgment into execution. A certified copy of this journal entry shall constitute the mandate, pursuant to App.R. 27.
It does not appear that Oberlin College sought a stay of that mandate pending appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court. The Gibsons have just filed a Motion to Enter Judgment Against Surety Zurich American Insurance Company in the trial court arguing, in part:
Plaintiffs Gibson Bros., Inc. and Lorna J. Gibson, as the executor and representative of the Estate of David R. Gibson and the Estate of Allyn W. Gibson ( collectively "the Gibsons") respectfully request that this Honorable Court enter judgment against the surety Zurich American Insurance Company, Bond No. 9280167 in the amount of $36,127,181.25 plus $4,331.19 per diem from the date of filing. A chart calculating the judgment per diem is attached for the Court’s convenience as Exhibit 1. There is no valid stay of execution of judgment remaining, and the Gibsons are entitled to judgment in accordance with the mandate from the Ninth District Court of Appeals.
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I wonder if someone at Oberlin decided that letting the case end by accidental payment of a bond, rather than outright losing, saves face and allows for bluster and phony accusations, all the while making the repayments necessary to end the issue?
This way no one "lost" the case, so no one who made the false accusations gets fired, messy problem solved,
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Associate Professor of Comparative American Studies and former Vice President and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo left Oberlin in October for a position as Vice President for Student Affairs at Oglethorpe University. Meredith Raimondo will step down from her role as Vice President and Dean of Students at the end of the spring 2021 semester.
LOL GTFO
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[YouTube] The Death of Stalin is one of the funniest political satires in film history, but it is the underlying themes that make it special. In this video, I discuss the political climate satirized by Armando Lannucci and how it's brought to life by comfortable lies and enforced silence. We're constantly told about the danger of politicians manipulating people with fear, but we're rarely told about the danger of politicians manipulating people with comfort. A friendly smile mixed with comfortable lies can produce quite the poison, and it's a poison the ministers in The Death of Stalin know how to use.
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[Babylon Bee] SAN FERNANDO, CA—A lifeguard at the San Fernando Community Pool reportedly refused to jump in and save a drowning child who was fighting for his life in 6 feet of water because it would constitute risking his life. The lifeguard in question, Peter Stroll, claimed to be following standard lifeguarding procedure. "I just ate a sandwich. One hour is required"
"Are you kidding? I can't save you right now. I might drown!" said Stroll as he picked up the phone to call for help. "According to the procedure, I will block all access to the pool and call for highly trained Coast Guard rescue divers to arrive."
The child's father attempted to jump into the pool and save his kid but was prevented by the determined lifeguard.
"Sir, I can't let you risk your own life. Let me do my job!" Stroll reportedly said in between whistle blows.
"Then do your job! Save him!" pleaded the parent.
"Sir, please. It's a liability for me to risk my life. Do you know how much the city would have to pay my family? Hundreds of dollars!"
The child was eventually rescued when a group of parents overpowered the masculine lifeguard and braved the dangerous chlorinated waters. Authorities arrived on the scene shortly after to assess the child's health and arrest everyone who tried to save the child.
"This is a pool of law and order!" Sheriff Witherdrew told reporters at the scene. "We can't just have people bypassing our sacred lifeguard institutions to take rescues into their own hands. Millions could be saved! It'd be total anarchy!"
At publishing time, lifeguard Peter Stroll was awarded a key to the city by Mayor Rankowicz for extreme bravery in following procedure to keep the city free of liability.
Well, dunno, read it again. If info is true, am I seeing they had shooter trapped within 7 minutes of vehicle crash?
RO is on scene but misidentifies target?
Sounds like doors which auto-lock to the outside when closed?
Are 111 and 112 suites? If so, how or does the common door lock?
Looks like the bloc in question would be 11:35 trap to 12:50 breach after getting keys from janitor? What is the key setup and why didn't RO have key(s)? -or- they had the key, but waited until 12:50 to breech?
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Its a wall with windows, not a bastion, so what are we doing to make shooter uncomfortable, or are we just waiting on the FBI to show up and shut off the power?
Anyone think about cutting the power and having a fire truck on 150% foam hit the exterior windows, or is that not the right pronoun? Start clanking those keys behind shields with NVG for breech when the water starts, have a couple dudes bang the windows with hammer?
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is spending border wall funds, previously allocated by Congress to construct a wall along the United States-Mexico border, on addressing “life, safety, [and] environmental,” issues.
In July 2021, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the administration’s plans to spend American taxpayer money on a host of issues, including environmental restoration, rather than expanding on the border’s existing wall constructed during the Trump administration.
On Friday, Mayorkas detailed plans to close some of the border wall’s gaps that have remained since Biden halted all construction of border wall in late January 2021.
As part of that effort, Mayorkas said in a news release that DHS is moving “forward with projects in the San Diego, El Centro, Yuma, El Paso, and Rio Grande Valley Sectors to address life, safety, environmental, or other remediation requirements in accordance with [DHS’s] plan for the use of border barrier funds.”
[WIRE] New York City health officials sparked backlash with a series of public health signs posted around the city’s subway system encouraging intravenous drug users to be "empowered" — not by getting clean, but by taking steps to "use safely."
NYC Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli shared a photo of one of the signs on Twitter, which read, "Don’t be ashamed you are using. Be empowered that you are using safely."
The sign included a number of "helpful" tips for those who wanted to "use safely."
Under the section labeled "What is fentanyl?" the description read, "Fentanyl is a powerful opioid that can be found in heroin, cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, ketamine, and pressed pills."
A second section answered the question, "Why is it dangerous?" by saying, "Fentanyl increases the risk of overdose, especially among people who do not regularly use opioids."
The final section listed several steps that users could take in an effort to "empower" themselves to "use safely" and "prevent overdose."
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Just start giving out hot shots. You'll get rid of alot of junkies real quick. Be no different than abortion right?
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If they whack too many junkies, they might lose another congressional seat in the next census.
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Do it the socialist way, redistribute the confiscated narcs to the users for free. Not much different than redistributing income confiscated from working taxpayers.
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This is what the subway hair grabber guy was doing, and why they couldn't intervene because peaking user can't be detained or reasoned with, only killed, and killed hard.
But sure, put a young lady's face on the problem and call it empowering. Sure that gal with the torn up scalp feels the empowering.
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This is utterly irresponsible. In 2019 I had a friend die of a fentanyl overdose in my arms. The Deputy and I tried to save him... but his lips turned blue and he was gone. He wasn't an intellectually stupid man, and knew how to "do his drugs." And they still took him.
[American Minute] On February 8, 2011, Harvard Professor Clay Christensen, the Robert & Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, observed:
"Sometime ago I had a conversation with a Marxist economist from China.
He was coming to the end of a Fulbright Fellowship here in Boston, and I asked him if he had learned anything that was surprising or unexpected.
And without any hesitation he said 'Yes, I had no idea how critical religion is to the functioning of democracy ...'"
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If you want to control the masses use religion...or a gun
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But if you want the masses to control themselves so you can work higher level problems, let them seek a religion that demands individual responsibility and own their own guns.
Russian state media has warned the US not to supply rocket artillery to Ukraine
Biden is expected to announce his is sending the weapons as early as next week
Kyiv begged for the systems because they have longer range than current kit
But Olga Skabeyeva , one of Putin's chief propagandists, said today that supply the artillery would cross a 'red line' and risk a 'very harsh response'
[Medium] A look at how accuracy is suffering by failure to "toss" unguided missiles onto targets. Both sides seem more focused on airframe survivability than on putting rounds on the target. While the aircraft/pilot returns for another sortie, the mission is a failure if the target isn’t destroyed. Nice details and pics in the link.
[MAIL] A shocking video shows the moments a woman riding a New York City subway pleads with passengers to help her as she is assaulted by a thug as other riders appear to ignore her pleas.
In the video, taken on Wednesday and posted on Daily Dot, the hoodlum is seen dressed in black leggings, a white cropped zippered hoodie and white sneakers, storms around the train car while screaming expletives.
After the frenzied fit the person sits down as many of the passengers rush to another area of the train. As one female passenger, closest to the hoodlum, tries to flee, the thug grabs her and terrorizes the victim.
The authorities condone and thereby reward this behavior. So do those who live there.
Growing up I witnessed my father quietly tell a man who'd casually backhanded his wife, my stepmother's sister, "If you ever do that again I will lay you on the ground, and you will not easily get up again."
If we do not demand civilized behavior we will live amid threatening beasts.
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A few years ago there was a movement by MARTA officials to extend the Fulton County criminal enterprise escape route South to Fayette County. The issue failed. Plan B was the moving of the criminal element to permanent digs in Fayette County. Plan B appears to be working.
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They put a MARTA Bus Stop at the Gwinnett Mall when we lived in Duluth, Ga. (2004-5'ish)
The Mall died 2-3 years later.
Shoplifters, a few gang shootings, car thefts and car burglaries. Fry's closed that location about 8 years before they went belly-up nationwide. The Movies Houses closed due the constant Gang/group thug BS and etc.
[American Thinker] The 18th century "enlightenment" changed the world. John Locke, Isaac Newton, Emmanuel Kant, and several others were largely responsible for the seismic humanist shift away from religion toward the complete sufficiency of science and intellectual thought. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
Kant identifies enlightenment with the process of undertaking to think for oneself, to employ and rely on one’s own intellectual capacities in determining what to believe and how to act... Enlightenment philosophy tends to stand in tension with established religion, insofar as the release from self-incurred immaturity in this age, daring to think for oneself, awakening one’s intellectual powers, generally requires opposing the role of established religion in directing thought and action. The faith of the Enlightenment -- if one may call it that -- is that the process of enlightenment, of becoming progressively self-directed in thought and action through the awakening of one’s intellectual powers, leads ultimately to a better, more fulfilled human existence.
Does it? Putting aside for the moment that miracles, religion, and tradition can be a part of cogent reality, the Enlightenment thinkers took a step away from religion, which until that time was the primary basis upon which mankind pursued knowledge and meaning. In its place came a strident self-directed philosophy by which many lived and still live.
Today we can see the distinct influence of Enlightenment thinking in American life: People are excessively self-absorbed to the point of being self-consumed. You can readily see this in TikTok, Instagram, and the Twittersphere where the singular aim is to get attention through "likes" and retweets. The dopamine hit has become the drug of choice.
Because this self-absorbed Enlightenment thinking has largely decimated decency and comity in our culture, the vacuum they have left paves the way for a new Enlightenment. This vacuum solicits meaning, not in the shallow Hallmark sense but with the deeper observation that little that the world provides is fundamentally meaningful.
Sadly, the science-based, anti-religious Enlightenment does not allow for ethics. Nowhere within can be found the methodology to determine right from wrong. Leaving ethics in individual hands seemed at the time (and still does for the non-religious) a perfectly reasonable thing to do because supposedly within each person lay the seeds of altruism and an innate striving to do what is right and good. But that is not the case. Human beings are too flawed to determine what is right and good without having a baseline in something or someone less flawed. Ethics can answer the question, "Is this effective?" It can never answer the question "Is this good?" God alone knows what is good.
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Sure anti-Enlightement types have ethics. They display those ethics all the time. **THEY HATE YOU**. That's their ethics. They're not particularly for anything as they are against your continued existence. Once all of you are gone...well probably there will be some kind of infighting followed by technological tyranny for 1,000 years...but hey it will all have been worth it to slay the biggest monster the world ever wrought: the Western Enlightenment.
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The Printing Press and the mass production / dissemination of knowledge had a noticeable effect as well. Also more trade and more agriculture because that philosophy stuff works so much better on a full stomach.
[WIRE] The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed on Friday that it is investigating Elon Musk’s disclosure that he owned shares in Twitter ahead of his $44 billion purchase of the company.
The SEC is looking into why Musk allegedly made his disclosure late that he owned more than 5% of the company’s shares, which he must legally disclose within 10 days of meeting the threshold.
"The SEC also wants to know why Musk filed a ’13G’ form, which is meant for passive investors, rather than a ’13D’ form that would be for activist investors (including those with interest in making a takeover offer)," Axios reported. "It’s important to note that the SEC’s letter came on the same day as Musk’s disclosure, which is before he offered to buy Twitter outright."
The SEC said in its letter that it wants a response from Musk even if he does not believe that their "comments apply to your facts and circumstances."
"The case is easy. It’s straightforward," Daniel Taylor, a University of Pennsylvania accounting professor, said. "But whether they’re going to pick that battle with Elon is another question."
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So they want to know why he filed the form that applied, rather than the one that didn't apply until later?
The response should be "causality", and nothing more.
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A hypothetical Deep State Conversation
Deep State A: Musk wants to allow uncontrolled Freedom of Speech during our elections.
Deep State B: Freedom of Speech would exposes our actives, illegal donations and Big Brother agenda.
Deep State A: Uncontrolled Freedom of Speech is bad and must be stopped. Or, the voters will demand hearings and we'll go to jail.
Deep State B: So use our political,Fed-Gov, MSM & SM powers to spread Fake News. We'll just start a fake investigation to stall the purchase until after the election. This will cause $$$$$$ & Political issues for Musk. It worked fighting Trump.
Deep State A: I think the people figured that out over a year ago.
[Daily Wire] As President Joe Biden reportedly nears a plan to cancel $10,000 in student loans per borrower, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) President Derrick Johnson argued Friday that the amount would not be enough — particularly for black borrowers.
After months of pressure from progressive Democrats, the White House is nearing a plan to scrap $10,000 per borrower earning up to $150,000 per year, according to a report from The Washington Post. Johnson argued that such a solution would be "pouring a bucket of ice water on a forest fire."
"Black Americans are the only people who have student debt higher than their median annual income," he said. "$10,000 in cancelation would not place their student debt lower than their annual income."
Johnson also pointed toward wealth disparities between black and white households.
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Did Johnson also point out how many black people don't seem to want to work? Just might be the cause of the disarity in the wealth between white/black households.
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...I think a lot of whites found out during the lockdown when they too got 'free stuff' for not working that its a nice gig to get. IIRC, the states that continued the 'free stuff' have problems with filling jobs in the commercial marketplace they were trying to get going again.
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I remember Grand Cyclops Bob Byrd getting mildly remonstrated by the press for saying there were lots of "white n-words" in his state. Of course, he actually said the n-word.
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May have been a racist statement but it's a true one. I know plenty of them myself.
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We will own nothing and be happy as we stand in line to fill up our Jerry cans with government grade vodka.
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^^ I had been wondering how on earth he got this power. As far as I know, the program was enacted by Congress. Don't they have to be the ones to modify it? Separation of powers? Checks and balances?
Or is that all now ancient history?
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Since the days of Bath House Barry's phone and pen, they just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. Why let that silly old Constitution get in the way?
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If Biden can do this then why can’t a future President authorize $10000 for every adult to purchase a weapon?
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All the republicans would have to do then is add a line to the tax code. "Did you receive up to 10,000 to pay back student loans? If yes, put the amount on line #, add to taxes owed." Democrats LOVE taxes so won't try to block it.
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I wouldn't mind this - IF they took the funding out of collage and university endowments.
But you know they won't. They will just print more money and payoff or it in Inflation.
[Red State] There are a lot of questions being raised now about the police response to the Uvalde mass shooter. Even Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is saying he was misled by the police about the timeline of what occurred, that they hadn’t told him that they had waited for an hour-and-15-minutes from the time an officer first arrived on the scene until they killed the shooter.
You did have heroic people, like CBP agent Jacob Albarado, who raced into the school with some other agents and helped to get out not only his own daughter but dozens of other children. Albarado urged people to allow teachers to be trained and carry, to be able to defend themselves and their students. It’s not hard to think of how different things might have been had that been the case.
Indeed, we can look to a case that just happened in Charleston, West Virginia, on Wednesday night.
Dennis Butler, 37, was warned about speeding near a party where children were present in an apartment complex. Then Butler reportedly returned with an AR-15 and began shooting. It was a recipe for a disaster; there were dozens of people at the party and a lot of people could have been hurt or killed. But a woman who was a guest at the party was lawfully carrying a pistol. She pulled it, fired, and took down Butler. He sustained multiple gunshot wounds and later died.
"Instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives last night," Charleston Police Lieutenant Tony Hazelett confirmed. "She was lawfully carrying a firearm and stopped a threat. There was a graduation party and a party with kids so obviously someone just graduated high school and we could have had a casualty shooting."
There has been a concerted action in the past decade or so in LE to make cops more socially "acceptable". Programs like COP (Community Oriented Policing) and "Coffee with a Cop" come to mind. That and the efforts to be "inclusive", ie. hire more women and minorities. There are also lots of departments that strive to make themselves "friendlier looking", e.g. fancy paint jobs on the patrol cars and cops with beards, etc. All this is well and good, I suppose, but it's long term effect (in this one old cop's opinion) has been that cops have forgotten their prime mission statement - in a word: Enforcement. The operative portion of that word is "force". It's not "convince" or "plead" or other weasle words. Policing to me always meant being there with a smile, but with an attack plan in my head - be prepared at a drop of a hat to go from friendly cop to attack cop. Many, many new cops don't have that. Not their fault - it's the liberal societies fault. In recent years there is also the "G. Floyd" effect - don't do anything (even the right thing), that may get you fired or sent to the slam. Long story short: Woke cops don't automatically "run to the gun". Sad.
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Most teachers don't want to be the one carrying a gun. Their instincts are not to run toward the shooter. Not my opinion, opinion of many teachers I have spoken to.
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Like running a clean election, defending a school from one out-of-place person isn't that hard. One must assume the powers that be have reasons for not doing it.
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/\ "Reasons" ....yes of course. Second Amendment attacks began almost immediately, and at the highest levels of gov't.
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There are more people than teachers in the building. If they still have gym teachers, not all of them will be sheep. Ultimately, I don’t care if the hair-netted lunch lady is the one who is packing as long as she is in the building and will run towards the sound of gunfire.
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Some of the lunch ladies at my elementary school would not even have needed a gun.
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I was about to say the same thing murcek, I don't know about now , but those were some tough looking ladies back in the day.
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The nuns at my school could stop bullets with their wimples. Ramos wouldn't have dared to even point his gun at Sister Freddie.
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Step 1, have doors locked from outside, alarmed if propped opened or open longer than 30 seconds.
Step 2, Eliminate 1-2 'Administrators' per school and hire former military (Combat arms/Military Police Only) to have at least 2 per school. They will be at the school during school hours and make regular patrols while wearing full battle rattle (Armor, weapon with optics, etc). Each has master key for school.
[Washington Examiner] GDP fell at a 1.5% annualized rate in the first quarter of 2022, a revised estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed Thursday morning.
The decline in inflation-adjusted GDP is a major reversal from the previous quarter, when growth soared to a 6.9% rate as businesses began healing faster from the pandemic as restrictions were lifted.
The first quarter of this year marks the first such contraction since the second quarter of 2020, when the economy suffered from the enormous shock of coronavirus shutdowns.
The decline in GDP for the first part of this year fueled anxiety among some economists that a recession is around the corner.
"While we still expect the Fed to steer the economy toward a soft landing, downside risks to the economy and the probability of a recession are increasing," economists from Oxford Economics said after the report was released.
The country is being plagued by explosive inflation, with consumer prices increasing by 8.3% in the 12 months ending in April. As a result, the Federal Reserve has embarked upon a historic interest rate hiking cycle designed to slow the economy and tame the rising prices.
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So you own a business and you operate on a very slim profit margin on fuel sales.Soon Government or State dictates you must sell at or below cost. What are you gonna do. Add on price now as fuel supplies will shortly become very erratic. You will not lose money on sales. You will increase retail to slow sales so you don't run out of fuel. Perhaps shutdown fuel pumps all together. The decision is now on you. What would you do. Some states are now requiring $10.00 dollar price indicator. Who pays for that. States like Pa. and Maryland are wanting to increase state taxes also.Daddy big bucks gets raped again and again.
[WND] Joe Biden has told another of his stories in an address to the Naval Academy graduates.
And it wasn't even hours before its truthfulness was being challenged.
The New York Post said Biden reported applying for the academy, but bluntly said the dates claimed by Biden "don't add up."
"President Biden told graduating midshipmen at the Naval Academy Friday that he applied to the school in 1965 — but a quick check of his biography shows problems with the story," the report said.
Biden claimed he applied with a letter from then-Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs, "but the year he cited — 1965 — is the same year he graduated from the University of Delaware."
"I was told the Class of ’72 is here. I was appointed to the academy in 1965 by a senator who I was running against in 1972 — never planned it that way. I wasn’t old enough to be sworn in. I was only 29 years old when I was running," Biden said. "He was a fine man. His name is J. Caleb Boggs. I didn’t come to the academy because I wanted to be a football star. And you had a guy named [Roger] Staubach and [Joe] Bellino here. So I went to Delaware."
The post reported Bellino and Staubach are the only two Navy players to win the Heisman.
The report explained the U.S. was fully involved in Vietnam by the mid-1960s and had Biden gone to the academy, he would have needed to serve in the Navy on graduation.
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His stories will always be with us but many more reviewing his many accomplishments as President and commander and chief as the media will dutifully report. I can hear him proclaim his management of China and Russia preventing or winning WW111.
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From the cool WH pool, hark, a bark:
"My career has been warlike and dark.
Get Osama? That's me,
Had I not a bad knee...
Could we go for a walk in the park?"
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I feel for the Class of 22. The Academy is a difficult four years. To get your diploma from Biden is not optimal. At least he made it memorable by demonstrating his demonic possession with the creepy whispering which has become his signature move. Can’t have a Michael Jackson concert without a moonwalk.
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They seem to be letting Joe out more lately; maybe they are ready to dump him and waiting for the unforgivable gaffe?
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Biden's also lying about his support for Ukraine. Of the $15B for weaponry in the latest bill, only $6B will actually go to the Ukrainians. $9B is actually going to replenish the depleted US arsenal -- depleted by earlier shipments to Ukraine that succceeding in nothing more than buying the Ukrainians a few extra weeks. So in reality, US support under Biden is diminishing, not increasing.
This is corroborated by the EU chief's statement the other day that the European allies are so depleted now, "the European armies couldn't maintain a war like the one in Ukraine for more than two weeks. They'll run out of ammunition" in a conventional war with Russia.
Joe is just bullshitting again -- just like his lies about Afghanistan in that interview he gave to Stephanopoulos. As with Afghanistan, a big chunk of that $6B will probably end up in Russian hands.
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Instead of a 'Real' college? tsk, tsk.
You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors say antisemitism motivated white supremacist’s attack on Congress; told coworker he wanted to ’kill all the Jews’.
A former US Army reservist described by prosecutors as a Nazi sympathizer was convicted Friday of storming the US Capitol to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan... ’s 2020 electoral victory.
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who worked a security contractor at a Navy base when he joined the pro-Trump mob on January 6, was also convicted of disorderly conduct and other misdemeanors.
Hale-Cussanelli took the stand in his defense and claimed he didn’t know that Congress met at the Capitol building.
"I know this sounds idiotic, but I’m from New Jersey," Hale-Cusanelli said, according to WUSA-TV. "In all my studies, I didn’t know there was an actual building that was called the ’Capitol.’ It’s embarrassing and idiotic."
Hale-Cusanelli’s trial was the fifth before a jury and the seventh overall for a Capitol riot case. The first four juries unanimously convicted the riot defendants of all charges. Roughly 300 others have pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from the riot, including seditious conspiracy and assault.
Prosecutors said Hale-Cusanelli openly espoused white supremacist and antisemitic ideology and wore an Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... -style mustache to work. On his cellphone, Sherlocks found photos of him with the distinctive mustache and combed-over hairstyle associated with the Nazi leader.
Hale-Cusanelli had a "secret" security clearance for his job as a security contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Colts Neck, New Jersey. He also lived on the base with a roommate who reported him to the Naval Criminal Investigation Service and secretly recorded a conversion about the Capitol riot.
During the trial’s opening statements Tuesday, a Justice Department prosecutor said Hale-Cusanelli stormed the Capitol because he wanted to kick off a civil war and create "a clean slate."
Defense attorney Jonathan Crisp told jurors that "groupthink" and a desperate desire "to be heard" drove Hale-Cusanelli to follow a mob into the Capitol. Crisp described Hale-Cusanelli as a bombastic agitator prone to making "extreme statements to get attention."
In pretrial court filings, prosecutors framed Hale-Cusanelli’s bigoted, antisemitic views as motivating factors for his participation in the January 6 riot and his desire for a civil war.
One Navy seaman said Hale-Cusanelli told him "he would kill all the Jews and eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and he wouldn’t need to season them because the salt from their tears would make it flavorful enough," according to prosecutors.
Other coworkers recalled Hale-Cusanelli making derogatory remarks about women, Black people and other minorities, prosecutors said.
Before the trial, Crisp argued that any testimony about Hale-Cusanelli’s alleged statements about Jewish people and their role in the US government would be "highly prejudicial in nature without substantive value."
Crisp acknowledged Hale-Cusanelli shouldn’t have entered the Capitol building.
"But the question of why he was there is what is important," he told jurors Tuesday.
Hale-Cusanelli wasn’t charged with engaging in any violence or property destruction. He was indicted on five counts: obstruction of an official proceeding, entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or destructive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
The obstruction charge is a felony. The rest are misdemeanors.
Crisp said Hale-Cusanelli believed then-president Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s false claims about a stolen election. But the defense attorney said Hale-Cusanelli went to Washington to peacefully protest, wearing a suit while many others wore tactical gear.
A video captured Hale-Cusanelli yelling profanities at coppers and screaming, "The revolution will be televised!"
"This was not a peaceful protest," Assistant US Attorney Kathryn Fifield said.
More than 800 people have been charged with Capitol crimes stemming from the riot. Many of them are military veterans. Hale-Cusanelli is among a few defendants who were on active duty on January 6.
US District Judge Trevor McFadden, who presided over Hale-Cusanelli’s trial, decided two other Capitol riot cases after hearing testimony without a jury. McFadden acquitted one of the defendants of all charges and partially acquitted the other after bench trials.
Hale-Cusanelli was arrested less than two weeks after the attack and has remained locked away Please don't kill me! since February 2021. He was discharged from the US Army Reserves and barred from the Navy base after his arrest.
[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chairman Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... ’s surprise decision about not going ahead with the sit-in at the end of the long march left almost everyone baffled — foes and allies alike — but there is convergence on one thing — the manner in which it all ended, at least for now, carried clear indications of who made it happen.
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[Dawn] Police from across the country registered dozens of cases against PTI leaders and workers for violations of Section 144 as well as other, more serious violations, in the wake of the party’s long march, which was cut short by PTI chief Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... on Thursday morning.
In the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, capital police registered at least three cases against PTI leaders and activists for putting up resistance against law enforcers and damaging state property.
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... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reports that Tehran views deadly incident as an attack, noting it fits pattern of alleged past Israeli strikes in Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... and Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade...
A deadly explosion at Iran’s Parchin military complex on Wednesday was caused by quadcopter suicide drones, in an attack that fits a pattern of previous strikes that have been attributed to Israel, The New York Times reported Friday.
The report cited three Iranian sources along with a US official, who confirmed drones hit the site, but declined to say who was behind the attack. It said the drones went kaboom! into a building being used for research on Iran’s drone development.
The blast killed a young engineer at the site and injured one other person.
The report noted that the strike fits a pattern of previous attacks that have been attributed to Israel, including previous strikes against Iran’s drone program.
Iranian sources told the Times that the drone attack was launched from inside Iran, not far from the Parchin military base — which the Islamic Theocratic Republic uses to develop missile, nuclear and drone technology — noting that quadcopter drones have a short flight range, and Parchin is a long way from Iran’s borders.
While Iranian officials initially used the word "accident" to describe the earth-shattering kaboom, the Defense Ministry in a later statement called it an "incident" and labeled the casualty a "martyr," suggesting that Tehran is convinced it was an attack by a foreign entity.
On Thursday, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Hossein Salami said that the killing "will be responded to... Our enemies should wait," without naming who they were.
This would not be the first time that a drone attack was launched from within Iran’s borders by operatives said to have been recruited by Israel.
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As I remember there is quite a bit of Iran where nobody lives. Desert 1 was planned for that area of the country. There was an issue with deep sand at the LZ and Special Forces didn't have helicopter assets at the time - Nightstalkers were the result. Israel is probably at home in that environment.
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From two days ago, before things got more interesting than usual in that part of Pakistan.
[Dawn] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claims to have arrested a proclaimed offender belonging to the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP) wanted in three cases of kidnap for ransom and murder of a doctor.
A front man for CTD said the law enforcers had arrested Malik Zahid who kidnapped and killed people in Lalamusa. Zahid of Gujrat belongs to TTP’s Asmatullah Muawiyah Group
...they’re the Punjabi Talibs...
and he, along with other members of his group, was carrying out terrorist activities.
He said the suspects kidnapped Dr Naqi Hussain Shah, a resident of Hirapur area in the Lalamusa Saddar police precinct, when he was on his way to the clinic from his house in 2009 and kept him in jug for eight to 10 days.
The suspects demanded ransom from Shah’s family and later killed him. Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else under sections 302/365 A /201 of PPC.
The same year, this terrorist group kidnapped Mubarak Ahmad Bajwa in Toba Tek Singh for ransom and brought him to Gujrat and killed him.
In 2011, the criminal, along with his accomplices, kidnapped Afaq Ahmed, 10, and his driver Mian Jamshed for ransom in Mauza Khokhar Gharbi. They left the hostages when their car rolled upside down on the way and fled. The Kunjah police started the paperwork but haven't done much else.
The suspect was declared a proclaimed offender in the three cases registered against him and fled to Dubai from where he returned after 11 years and went into hiding. The IGP handed over the investigation of the cases to the CTD which arrested Zahid.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian news agency says new support vessel will ensure the security of trade routes, help maintain Tehran’s ’authority’ over waters in area
Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is building a massive new support ship near the strategic Strait of Hormuz as it tries to expand its naval presence in waters vital to international energy supplies and beyond, satellite photos obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named show. The construction of the Shahid Mahdavi provides the Guard a large, floating base from which to run the small fast boats thon the lamly make up its fleet designed to counter the US Navy and other allied forces in the region.
Its arrival, however, comes after a series of setbacks for both the Guard and Iran’s regular navy, including the loss of its largest warship less than a year earlier. As negotiations over Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers also founder, further confrontations at sea between Tehran and the West also remain a risk.
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Massive = slow = won't last long in a conflict.
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If they pump it full of insulation foam, they may be able to use it twice. The calculations for the righting moment might be tricky. The AA batteries would be useful against subs on the second operation. Make sure the crew wears their water wings.
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Russia just might sink it in the Strait of Hormuz (if they can work a deniability angle.)
[Rudaw] An Albanian delegation repatriated 13 women and kiddies linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) from camps in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Friday, revealed a senior Kurdish official.
The Rojava administration’s office of foreign relations on Friday handed over four women and nine children of Albanian nationality to an official delegation from their country, said the head of the office, Abdulkarim Omar, in a tweet.
This is the fourth batch of such repatriations by the Albanian government. Five women and 14 children linked to ISIS were handed over to Albania in July 2021.
The Albanian delegation jointly visited Rojava with a Kosovan delegation on Saturday, discussing the security and economic challenges faced by the Kurdish administration, and stressing the importance of international support for the administration in combating "terrorism" in the area, according to a statement from Abdulkarim’s office.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested thousands of ISIS fighters along with their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Most of these people are held at al-Hol and Roj camps.
The notorious al-Hol camp, the larger of the two camps, houses around 56,000, according to UN figures.
Rojava authorities have repeatedly called on governments to take responsibility for their citizens, but most Western nations are reluctant to repatriate nationals who may be a security risk due to their links with ISIS. Most countries repatriate on a case-by-case basis, prioritizing children.
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[REGNUM] The armed forces of Somalia eliminated seven terrorists from the al-Shabab group (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) during a special operation in the south of the country. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of the Republic on the state television.
"The purpose of the operation was to prevent terrorist attacks against the people of Somalia," he said.
It is specified that the special operation took place near the village of Var-Ize in the Middle Shabelle region. During the operation, seven terrorists were eliminated, two more were arrested. Weapons, ammunition and vehicles were confiscated from the militants.
As REGNUM reported earlier , on May 11, a terrorist attack occurred in the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu. As a result of the explosion, four people were killed, eight more were injured of varying severity.
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[KavkazUzel] A native of Komi was detained in Astrakhan on suspicion of financing IS*, he was transferred to Syktyvkar for further investigation, the FSB said. Representatives of the department used force during the detention of the suspect, it follows from the video of the detention.
A resident of Usinsk (Komi Republic) was detained in Astrakhan on suspicion of financing terrorism, the press service of the Federal Security Service of Russia for Komi informed. extremist content," the TASS agency quoted the message as saying.
According to the department, the suspect is an adherent of the radical movements of Islam. In 2015, he "repeatedly transferred money" to an Islamic State member, "which was then used to purchase weapons and ammunition." The suspect was transferred to Syktyvkar and taken into custody, the agency said in a May 26 publication.
During the arrest, three security forces knocked the suspect to the floor in the apartment, he screamed and resisted, follows from the video of the arrest, published today on the YouTube channel of the Astrakhan News publication. The video shows the books, SIM cards, laptop and headphones seized from him. After that, one of the security forces leads the suspect in handcuffs down the stairs.
The detention was carried out by employees of the FSB of Russia in the Astrakhan region and the Komi Republic, the publication informed today.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that a resident of the Kamyzyaksky district of the Astrakhan region was found guilty of collecting money for terrorists as part of the organizers of a secret cell of the international terrorist organization "Islamic State" * banned in Russia by a court, the court sentenced her to eight years in prison.
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We‘re working with the SDF in Syria, jpal. I believe Germany, among others, is supplying and training the Peshmerga. Iraq voted to make us leave, recall, and so we mostly did.
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[Korrespondent] 23:40 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Donbass will be Ukrainian: “We are defending our land in the way that the defense resource available today allows. And we are doing everything to strengthen it. If the occupiers think that Liman or Severodonetsk will be theirs, then they "They are wrong. Donbass will be Ukrainian. Because that is its essence. And even if Russia brings destruction and suffering everywhere, we will still restore every city and every community. And there is and will not be any real alternative to Ukrainian flags."
23:37 Ukrainian society will not accept the strengthening of the powers of government institutions, while it is necessary to build a tough security system in the state, Zelensky said during a conversation with the Stanford University community. He also emphasized that for the effectiveness of the already existing and discussed sanctions against Russia, a single strong position of the whole world is needed, which would make it impossible to circumvent these restrictions.
23:14 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the situation in Donbas is very difficult: “The invaders are trying to achieve the goals that they hoped to achieve in the first days after February 24, at least until a hundred days of war. Therefore, they concentrated maximum artillery, maximum reserves in Donbas. There are missile strikes and aviation. We are defending our land in the way that the defense resource available today allows. And we are doing everything to strengthen it."
23:02 The US government has made a preliminary decision on the supply of modern M270 MLRS and M142 Himars launchers to Ukraine, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing US officials. The Biden administration may announce deliveries of both types of launchers to Ukraine as early as next week. These installations have a greater range than any of the MLRS available to the APU.
22:58 Russia has been fighting in Ukraine for the fourth month already, the Kremlin says that everything allegedly "goes according to plan", but even inside the Russian Federation, despite the total tightening of the screws, doubts creep in about the realism of this very "plan". Foreign Policy writes about the first signs of dissatisfaction with the war in the Caucasus. More details - in the material Caucasian revolt .
22:50 Another Russian sapper was blown up during the demining of Azovstal today, Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
22:47 Biden, during an opening speech to graduates of the US Naval Academy, said that Putin "is trying to wipe the culture and identity of the Ukrainian people from the face of the earth," writes The Washington Post. The President also criticized attacks on Ukrainian hospitals, schools and other civilian buildings. According to Biden, Putin inadvertently "subdued all of Europe to NATO" - due to the fact that Sweden and Finland decided to join the alliance after Russia invaded Ukraine.
22:31 The number of Ukrainian refugees has reached 6.7 million people, according to the UN. In the last 24 hours alone, 41,000 people have left the country. In three months, most of the refugees went to Poland - 3.5 million - about a million each to Romania and Russia, another 665 thousand to Hungary.
22:28 Washington has not yet made a decision on providing Ukraine with multiple launch rocket systems, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at a briefing. According to him, the US Department of Defense "remembers and knows about Ukraine's request."
"I won't go so far as to say that it's too late to provide the Ukrainians with any systems or facilities they might need because they are very active in combat and pushed the Russians back near Kharkov," Kirby added.
21:51 The Pentagon is convinced that Putin will not go to peace talks with Kiev. US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby noted that after three months of Russian military intervention, Putin does not express a desire to negotiate with Ukraine. At the same time, Moscow has not yet achieved a single strategic goal: "Not a single large city has been captured, except for Mariupol. But Putin has shown that he is ready to continue the war in the Donbass: he is building up troops, pulling equipment, delivering air strikes."
21:40 Yanukovych released a six-page statement in which he accused Poland of intending to annex the western regions of Ukraine, and advised Ukrainians not to rely on the West, but to negotiate with Russia not from a position of strength, but with respect.
21:29 AFU in the Kherson direction carried out a successful counterattack, which was probably supported by aircraft, Arestovich said. In his opinion, the consequence of this counterattack could be cutting off the group of Russian troops near Krivoy Rog from the Kherson group.
21:22 The latest achievements of Russia in the Donbass are related to the fact that the Russian troops are advancing on a smaller territory, as well as with the geography of the area, Pentagon Speaker John Kirby said at a briefing. He recalled that the offensive of Russian troops on Kyiv ended in failure due to logistical problems, as a result of which the convoy of equipment was stretched for tens of kilometers far from the sources of support.
"Donbass is a different area. It's flatter, more open, lots of fields, small towns and villages. And because it's in eastern Ukraine, it's closer to Russia's borders and their supply and resource chains. They're moving more carefully now so they don't go too far away," Kirby explained. At the same time, the Pentagon does not believe that Russia has fully managed to cope with the problems in the offensive - management, ensuring the integration of ground and air operations.
Kirby also said that the US is not considering military intervention to unblock Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea.
20:55 Kuleba said that he spoke with Blinken: “I appreciate his personal efforts to ensure sustainable support for Ukraine from the United States and the whole world. Heavy weapons are at the top of our agenda, and more are coming to us. Ukraine and the United States are working hand hand in hand to deliver our food exports despite the reckless Russian blockade."
20:21 Reznikov will take part in the NATO meeting at the level of heads of defense departments on June 15-16 in Brussels. The defense ministers of Ukraine, Georgia, Finland, Sweden and EU representatives will take part in a working dinner on June 15, which will be closed to the media, the press service of the alliance reported.
20:17 The Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church condemned the position of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, regarding the war in Ukraine and decided on the complete independence and independence of the UOC.
20:15 President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Congressman from the ruling Democratic Party of the United States Gerald Connolly does not consider the transfer of military assets to Kiev that would ensure control over the country's airspace as a way out of the situation in connection with the war in Ukraine: "We must look for other options for Ukraine to implement this control."
According to Connolly, the actions of the alliance should not be aimed at escalating the conflict, but at its completion. The spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly opened today in Vilnius.
20:09 The Ukrainian command may consider withdrawing from Severodonetsk in order to avoid encirclement, the head of the Luhansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said on the air of the telethon: "The Russians will not be able to capture the Luhansk region in the coming days, as analysts predict, we will have enough strength and means to defend. However, we will not it is possible that in order not to get into the environment, you will have to move away.
He also said that Severodonetsk "is not cut off, fighting continues in the vicinity of the city," and the Russians entered the area of the Mir Hotel and the bus station. The Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway, according to him, is now completely shot through, moving along it is dangerous, but evacuation is still possible.
20:02 The Kremlin is again considering the possibility of storming Kiev and hoping for a full-scale victory. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the inability of the Russian Federation to repeat the invasion from the north now, but noted that the threat to Kyiv from Russia will now always exist. Meanwhile, Belarus has become more active on the Ukrainian border. Experts doubt that Russia's campaign to the north of Ukraine is possible even with Belarus, but not all. For more details, see the article Will the Russian Federation Go North .
19:57 Zelensky said that he spoke on the phone with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who spoke with Putin the day before and said after that that he "did not see hope for peace" in Ukraine.
"I informed about the situation at the front. We expect further defense support from our partners for Ukraine. I touched on the issue of fuel supply. We discussed ways to prevent a food crisis. We must jointly unblock Ukrainian ports," Zelensky wrote.
19:42 Podolyak called for the preservation of the world order: "Today the world could talk about climate change, AI or the search for exoplanets. Instead, we talk about shelling cities, raping women and stealing grain. As if we live in the time of Genghis Khan. All because one country decided to eradicate an entire nation in the center of Europe and appropriate its land.Russia proved to be a barbarian country that threatens world security.Illogical, inconsistent, inadequate.Russia makes everyone poorer in Europe and provokes hunger in Asia.Russia must be stopped by force together. This is not a question of Ukraine, it is a question of maintaining world order."
19:36 The "head" of the occupying Zaporozhye administration, Yevgeny Balitsky, announced the establishment of the Melitopol "state" university, which will be adapted to the Russian system. "Vuz" is created on the basis of several educational institutions of the region.
19:12 The enemy does not have a numerical advantage in the Luhansk region over the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but he has more heavy weapons, said the head of the Severodonetsk regional administration Roman Vlasenko on air of the BBC.
19:00 The Russians are trying to oust the Ukrainian units from Liman and develop an offensive against Slavyansk, and in the Severodonetsk direction they carried out assault operations in the areas of Shchedrishchevo, Borovsky and Toshkovka, the fighting continues, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy attacked in the areas of the settlements of Kamyshevakh, Berestovo, Belogorovka, but to no avail.
18:52 Sources of Meduza report that the Kremlin is again discussing a possible assault on Kiev and hope for a full-scale victory in the war "by autumn." Thus, in the domestic political bloc of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, against the background of the advance of Russian troops in the Donbass, there was hope that Russia would be able to "bring the war in Ukraine to victory" in a few months.
Moscow now considers the capture of the entire territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions as the minimum program for declaring victory, and the taking of Kyiv under control as the maximum program.
18:45 The head of the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine, Oleg Kornilov, denied the information of the IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi that plutonium and enriched uranium are stored at the Zaporozhye NPP, which can be used to produce nuclear weapons.
18:43 In the Kherson region, some farmers agreed to cooperate with the occupiers, said the head of the OVA Gennady Laguta: "The Russians are exporting food and grain from Kherson. Traffic jams on the road to Crimea are already kilometer-long. These are not only the products that the occupiers take away, but also those which are part of the "cooperation" of some of our leaders with the occupation authorities. That is, individual citizens have already established trade with the Russians. This is tens of thousands of tons of grain and vegetables."
18:41 The occupation of territories should not prevent Ukraine from joining the European Union, said the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Matti Maasikas: "So far, no one will give a 100 percent guarantee that this can prevent it. However, for me there are some fundamental questions. From the EU point of view, if some part of the country that wants to join the European Union is under occupation, then this actually involves a third party in the process, which can say its "no" ... But the decision, again, is made by the EU, therefore, according to In my opinion, this fact should not interfere.
He recalled that Cyprus is a member of the EU, 37% of whose territory is currently occupied, but this fact did not affect the process of accepting the state into the ranks of the European Union. Maasikas added that it is now difficult to predict how soon Ukraine will receive the status of a candidate or a full member of the EU.
18:28 From June 1 to August 31, Belarus restricts access to the border strip in three areas near the border with Ukraine. We are talking about the Bragin, Loevsky and Khoiniki districts.
18:26 The GTS operator of Ukraine and Naftogaz sent an appeal to the German Ministry of Economy and the regulator because of the work permit for the Russian Nord Stream-1, the head of the OGTSU Sergey Makogon said on television. According to him, Ukrainian companies are asking to cancel the exceptions granted to the gas pipeline in the legislation.
Makogon recalled that these exceptions were based on the fact that the gas pipeline would contribute to strengthening the security of gas supplies to Europe, the principles of market competition and energy solidarity of the continent. "But we see that Russia completely violates such principles. We know that they created an artificial gas deficit last year, that they unilaterally insist on paying for gas in rubles, that Russia unilaterally suspended gas supplies to Poland, Bulgaria and Finland," he said.
18:11 German Development Minister Svenja Schulze visited Ukraine on Friday, May 27, becoming the second member of the German government to visit since the beginning of Russian aggression, writes Bild. During her visit to Borodyanka, she spoke about the help from Germany. Thus, the allocation of 185 million euros for emergency measures has already been approved.
18:07 Zelensky hopes that the war with Russia will end before the G-20 summit, which will be held in mid-November in Indonesia. In his address to the politicians and people of Indonesia, the Ukrainian president thanked their leader for the invitation to the summit and expressed the hope that before the meeting "the world will solve this big problem: we must prevent large-scale famine, stop killings and repressions, we must forever wean any state of the world from nuclear blackmail and flirting with the threat of chemical or biological weapons."
"I believe that only friendly states, partner states will be at the summit, and there will be no occupiers," Zelensky said.
18:03 A secret conference was held in Lithuania to discuss scenarios for Russia without Putin, writes Bild. According to the publication, about 70 participants came to the meeting - former leading politicians, experts, journalists and human rights activists, including Russians who have long lived abroad. The participants discussed the "de-Putinization" of Russia, in particular the scenario in which the uprising of the "unenlightened masses" would lead to the disintegration of the Russian Federation into many republics.
17:53 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said that the purpose of the call to Putin was to find out if potential humanitarian solutions could be found in Ukraine. According to the chancellor, Putin told him that he was ready to discuss the exchange of prisoners with Ukraine.
17:51 At the Pogonvo and Boguchar military training grounds in the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation, up to 1,500 Russian reservists are being trained for motorized rifle, tank and artillery units. They can be sent to fight in Ukraine, Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said: "It is possible that upon completion of this three-week training, these personnel may be involved in combat operations in Ukraine."
17:49 Czech Defense Minister Yana Chernokhova denied Western media reports about the existence of some kind of tacit agreement between NATO countries, which allegedly obliges them not to supply heavy military equipment to Ukraine: “Such an agreement does not exist, at least I don’t know anything about it. If such an idea had arisen, the Czech Republic would not have supported it."
17:47 The invaders took all the convicts and staff out of correctional colony No. 10 in the village of Daryevka, Kherson region, and settled the personnel of the Russian army there. The prisoners were distributed to correctional colonies No. 7 (Golaya Prystan) and No. 90 (Kherson). There is also military equipment on the territory of colony No. 10, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports.
Intelligence also reports that approximately from mid-June, the occupiers will stop supplying money and "humanitarian aid" to Mariupol, which will further aggravate the humanitarian catastrophe in the city.
In the village of Shevchenkove, Kharkiv region, the Russian military asks at the local bazaar where they can buy Ukrainian-made cartridges. The reason for their interest is explained by the desire to make a crossbow, passing it off as a combat wound.
In Kupyansk, Veliky Burluk, Shevchenkovo, Izyum, Kharkiv region, cases of disappearances have become more frequent. Most often they are men from 18 to 60 years old and young women. The disappearances are linked to the "work" of the Russian special services. Currently, all exit routes to the territories controlled by Ukraine are blocked. Cars that people are trying to evacuate are carefully filtered and returned back.
17:36 Teachers in Kherson refused to cooperate with the occupiers, the head of the OVA Gennady Laguta said at a briefing: "Where there are no hostilities, in the occupied territory, the Russians are trying to "improve life." Yesterday in Kherson, the gauleiter held a meeting with teachers. School administration teachers "Just heroes. Only 20 people came to listen to him, despite the fact that there are 71 schools in the city. Teachers are encouraged to prepare for training under the new program, to go to the Crimea to improve their skills. In fact, all directors said that they were not satisfied with this, and left."
Laguta also said that the situation in the region remains difficult. It is impossible to bring in humanitarian cargo, because the occupiers do not provide green corridors. Constant shelling of the liberated territory continues, the enemy is trying to reach the borders of the region.
17:27 Putin, in a telephone conversation with the Austrian chancellor, announced the sabotage of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations by Kiev, the Kremlin said. Also, the Russian president called baseless attempts to make Russia responsible for the difficulties with food supplies.
17:00 Lukashenka instructed to create a "people's militia" in the country, said Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin. According to him, in this way the number of defenders of Belarus "will increase many times over."
16:54 Russia has used 2,400 missiles of various types against Ukraine since February 24, Zelensky said, speaking at the Indonesian think tank Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia. The vast majority of them are for civil infrastructure, enterprises, warehouses, including food warehouses, residential buildings, and railroads.
Since the beginning of the war, according to the president, Russian combat aircraft have appeared in the Ukrainian skies more than 3,000 times. More than 600 healthcare institutions and almost 2,000 educational facilities have been destroyed.
16:46 Turkey's recent negotiations with the delegations of Sweden and Finland over NATO membership have not led to significant shifts, Reuters reports, citing two sources familiar with the negotiations.
16:23 Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ended up in the Peacemaker's base "for participating in a special information operation of the Russian Federation." Kissinger said in Davos that Ukraine would have to make territorial concessions in order to make peace with Moscow.
16:06 Today, at about 14:00, a MiG-29 fighter of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter in the sky of the Kherson region, which was hunting for Ukrainian attack aircraft, the Command of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
15:53 The impact of the Russian default on the global economy will be minimal, White House Speaker Karine Jean-Pierre said: "We expect the impact on the US and the global economy to be minimal, given that Russia was already financially isolated."
15:52 In Severodonetsk, the Russian DRG was driven out of the Mir Hotel, but the invaders are trying to get inside the building again, said Alexander Stryuk, head of the CAA. According to him, the city is in a tough defense, fighting continues in the vicinity. In Severodonetsk, fires do not stop due to continuous powerful shelling by Russian invaders on residential areas, infrastructure facilities, and the Azot enterprise.
15:48 Despite the public statements of the Russian leadership, "not a single indicator" indicates Russia's readiness for negotiations, Kuleba said at a joint briefing with his North Macedonian counterpart Buyar Osmani in Kiev.
15:45 Negotiations on the exchange of prisoners of war between Ukraine and Russia are ongoing, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said: "There is a stagnation in the negotiation process between Russia and Ukraine, even Ukraine said that the negotiations were suspended ... There is a discussion on the exchange of military personnel captured by Russia and Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine".
According to Cavusoglu, the ceasefire negotiations have receded into the background, the issue of unblocking sea routes for grain exports from Ukraine remains relevant.
15:42 Putin issued a decree ordering the payment in rubles to accounts in Russian banks of obligations to foreign copyright holders who are associated with unfriendly countries, supported anti-Russian sanctions, left Russia due to Western sanctions or discredited the Russian army, and also "indecent form express disrespect for Russia, its society, authorities and official symbols.
15:38 Johnson said that the British government is negotiating with Ankara regarding the delivery of grain from Ukrainian blocked ports to markets. In particular, he said he had a "good conversation" with Erdogan the other day, but stressed that he "would not pretend that there is an immediate solution to this problem at the snap of a finger."
15:22 Journalist Yury Butusov said that he was forbidden to visit military units on the front lines. This happened after the People's Deputy Maryana Bezuglaya demanded that the SBU take action against Butusov, who, according to her, "constantly spreads tons of information about our military, positions, operational situation with impunity, shakes, disorients and plays along with Russia."
15:17 Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz Yuriy Vitrenko said that foreign companies are again using Ukraine's underground gas storage facilities: "There are already foreign companies that, starting from April, in war conditions, still take risks and store gas in our storage facilities."
Vitrenko recalled that in the first month of the war, Ukraine suspended such an opportunity, but reopened storage facilities for non-residents. According to him, the volumes of storage by non-residents "are still mostly small, the question is simply that there is a certain shortage of gas in Europe."
15:12 The EU is developing a plan of action in case Russia decides to stop gas supplies this year, European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson said, reports the Financial Times. According to the European Commissioner, the European Union is now trying to pump in as much gas as possible and will be able to replace two-thirds of the supplies from Russia this year, but more needs to be done in case of a complete cessation of supplies.
The plan being developed by the EC includes measures to limit the supply of gas to industry: “We are faced with a situation where any member state can be next ... So far, we have been able to take care of the security of the supply of these three member states, mainly through the solidarity of neighbors” .
Earlier it was reported that Poland, Bulgaria and Finland were cut off from Russian gas supplies after they refused to pay for it in rubles.
15:01 In Canada, they plan to adopt a law on the confiscation of property and funds of Russians and their transfer to the restoration of Ukraine. Now Canadian and Ukrainian experts are working on this issue, said Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine Larisa Galadza, Espreso reports.
The ambassador hopes that Canada will be the first country to approve such a bill and be able to transfer confiscated Russian property to Ukraine: “We are at the forefront of this issue around the world. The confiscation of property of Russia or Russians is a very difficult issue, but we are trying to figure out all these circumstances. Canadian experts, together with Ukrainian ones, are working on how to do this."
14:56 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced that he was going to call Putin today at 16:00 Kyiv time. He plans to discuss a possible prisoner exchange and the creation of green corridors for agricultural products.
14:52 The head of the administration of Severodonetsk, Lugansk region, Alexander Stryuk, said that "almost two-thirds of the city's perimeter is occupied by the enemy," while the city is not surrounded. Stryuk also said that 90% of the buildings in the city are damaged, 60% of the houses will need to be rebuilt.
14:41 In Ukraine, a shortage of some vegetables is expected due to the occupation of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy Taras Vysotsky said in an interview with Ukrainian Radio. In particular, the shortage will affect young onions, carrots and beets. At the same time, there will be enough potatoes for domestic consumption, and sugar beet can even be exported. There are also sunflower stocks.
Vysotsky said that the sowing campaign this year can be considered completed - 90% of the planned sowing has been sown.
14:27 Zelensky addressed the politicians and people of Indonesia: "The sooner our lands are liberated from the invaders, the more reliably people around the world will be protected. Protected from the aggressive desires of those who want to pursue a colonial policy, as in the old days. If the world really is united and honest about this Russian aggression against our sovereign state, then the speed of ending this war will be measured in weeks. Weeks, not even months."
13:49 Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin, who visited Kiev the day before, opposes granting Ukraine special conditions for joining the EU. "I don't see how we could make exceptions," Yle quoted her as saying.
13:33 Ukrzaliznytsia from June 11 appoints night train No. 53/54 Kiev - Przemysl (Poland). The train will depart from Kyiv at 19:48 and arrive in Przemysl the next day at 7:21. In the opposite direction, the train will start running from June 12, departing at 18:39 and arriving in Kyiv at 9:21.
13:18 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States has supplied Kiev with 23.8 thousand tons of weapons and military equipment, the Transportation Command of the United States Armed Forces reported.
In particular, 23,942 anti-tank guided missiles, 1,033 anti-aircraft missile systems and 1,468 missiles for them, 90 howitzers, 174,173 artillery shells, nine helicopters, 33 radars, 7,888 machine guns and pistols, and about 60 million cartridges for small arms were deployed from the United States. . In addition, about 68.5 thousand body armor and 50 thousand helmets were sent to Ukraine.
13:04 Iran and Russia may conclude barter agreements to facilitate trade between the countries. So, Iran can get Russian steel in exchange for auto parts and gas turbines, Iranian Minister of Trade and Industry Reza Fatemi Amin said.
12:57 Sweden and Finland are unlikely to become candidates for NATO membership at the upcoming alliance summit at the end of June, if Turkey's demands are not met before that, Stoltenberg said. In turn, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel said that NATO has no plans to offer membership to Ukraine yet.
12:55 Former US Secretary of State urged Ukrainians to make territorial concessions to the invaders. The network reflects on the reasons, Western politicians talk about his war crimes. For more details, see Reaction to Kissinger about Ukraine .
12:51 This morning, the enemy launched three missile attacks on the Dnipro district of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Chairman of the Public Council of Dnipro Gennady Korban said on television that about ten people were killed as a result of the missile strike, and about 35 more were injured. According to him, the Iskander missile hit the National Guard training ground, the launch was carried out from the Rostov region.
“These are not ballistic Iskanders, this is the so-called Iskander-K, a cruise missile. Two arrivals were not accurate and did not hit the target, one hit the barracks where there were people,” Korban said.
12:47 The city of Liman in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region is mainly controlled by Russian troops, and the Ukrainian military has taken up new fortified positions in the Liman direction, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, told Hromadske. In the Svetlodar direction, according to him, there was a regrouping of the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to take up fortified positions. The enemy is now on the territory of the Svetlodar community.
12:45 Johnson said in an interview with Bloomberg TV that Russia is making slow but tangible progress in the war with Ukraine: “I am afraid that Putin, at great cost to himself and the Russian military, continues to gnaw through the ground in the Donbas. He continues to achieve gradual, slow but, I fear, tangible progress, and therefore it is absolutely essential that we continue to support the Ukrainians militarily."
The British prime minister advocated supplying Ukraine with multiple launch rocket systems and compared Putin to a crocodile: "How can you deal with a crocodile when it's eating your left leg? This guy can't be trusted at all."
12:42 The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, said that yesterday the Russians fired at the city from Peonies, as a result of which nine people were killed. According to him, shelling of the region continued at night. In particular, a boarding school was damaged in Lyubotin, Chuguev was also fired upon. Residential buildings were damaged, there were no casualties.
Sinegubov said that fierce battles continue in the region - in the Kharkiv direction, the Russians are focused on holding their previously occupied positions, in the Izyum region they continue to attempt an offensive.
12:39 In Kherson, the "authorities" together with the National Guard are taking measures to return Mariupol residents home. Places of compact settlement and single accommodation are being established, buses are being formed and all established Mariupol residents will be sent home, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor. He noted that the reasons and purpose are now incomprehensible, "but the fact of turning Mariupol into a real ghetto for Ukrainians becomes indisputable."
12:35 The Russians forcibly took almost all the men from the "DPR" to the war, the "mobilized" captive invader told the SBU: "We have no time for politics, we are working people, we worked ... And we were drafted by almost 100% of the male population. You know how it is now" "DPR" name-calling? "ZhNR". There are practically no men left."
12:31 Russia's actions in Ukraine provide ample evidence that Moscow is inciting genocide and committing atrocities aimed at destroying the Ukrainian people. This is stated in the first independent legal report, signed by more than 30 leading legal scholars and experts in the field of genocide. The report was produced by the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, an American think tank and the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights.
The document accuses Russia of violating several articles of the UN Genocide Convention. The allegations are backed up by a long list of evidence, including examples of massacres of civilians, forced deportations, and inhumane anti-Ukrainian rhetoric used by top Russian officials.
12:27 In Mariupol, in addition to mobile televisions with propaganda, the distribution of newspapers has resumed. They write that Mariupol is an example of how the Russian military, together with the "DPR", "surgically precisely without mass destruction" took the city to save the lives of Mariupol residents. According to the mayor's adviser Pyotr Andryushchenko, newspapers are handed out at the points of issue of humanitarian aid - "against the background of a panorama of total ruins a hundred meters from the morgue, where corpses are piled up in the street."
12:16 Podolyak posted on Twitter a video of the use of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system by the Russian army in Ukraine and once again called for the transfer of multiple launch rocket systems to Kiev: "The video shows the work of the Russian Solntsepek flamethrower system. Some partners doubt whether to give us the necessary weapons, fearing "Escalations?! Escalations?! The Russian Federation is already using the heaviest non-nuclear weapons against Ukrainians, forcing people to burn alive. Maybe it's time to give back to non-humans and transfer MLRS to Ukraine?"
12:11 Russia is reducing the population of eastern Ukraine, relocating people thousands of miles from home with no way to return. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians passed through a series of Russian filtration camps and were sent to Russia as part of a systematized forced eviction program, CNN reports, citing sources familiar with the intelligence. They are usually sent to economically depressed areas, including Sakhalin, more than 16,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
All this is part of Moscow's efforts to strengthen political control over the occupied territories - partly by eliminating Ukrainians who are considered to be sympathetic to Kyiv, and partly by reducing Ukrainian national identity through depopulation and what some human rights activists call "cultural genocide."
12:07 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said that the enemy DRG had seized the Mir Hotel in a remote area of Severodonetsk. The fighting continues, the Ukrainian defenders managed to eliminate two Russian companies. Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not control the territory of the hotel, but they are working to dislodge the invaders.
12:04 In Mariupol, during the analysis of the rubble of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation on the street. Kuindzhi, on the territory of the former Oktyabr plant, about 70 bodies of the dead were found. The cause of death - people were locked in the rubble of the building after the shelling, said the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko. The bodies of the dead were packed in plastic bags and taken out for burial in a mass grave in the village. Old Crimea. Identification has not been carried out, but locals say that the condition of the bodies would hardly allow it.
11:48 The enemy shelled the Sumy region from its territory all night long, the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky reports. According to him, from 4:30 every half an hour, mortar shots were heard on the territory of the Shostka district. Private houses of civilians in the vicinity of Seredino-Buda were damaged. And at 6:30, the neighborhood of the village of Starye Vyrki, Belopolsky community, Sumy region, was fired from self-propelled guns. The enemy fired from their territory, there were no casualties.
11:37 The United States is not discussing the easing of sanctions against Russia in exchange for the deblockade of the occupied ports of Ukraine, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said: "It is Russia that blocks exports from Ukrainian ports and provokes world hunger. Tons of food are on ships that do not may exit due to a Russian naval blockade. US and partner sanctions do not ban the export of Ukrainian or Russian agro-industrial products, nor do they ban bank transfers or ships required for these exports. Russia should immediately allow Ukrainian exports."
11:16 Podolyak said on the air of the telethon that if Russia wins, World War III will begin: "If Russia does not lose, then Russian revanchism, Russian chauvinism will only swell. They will become larger and larger. And the third world war, which they are so afraid of "It will definitely be. Because Russia will hate us much more. Because we humiliated them. We proved that this is not the second army in the world. And they will want to take revenge on us."
According to the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, intense fighting is connected with the intention of the Russian Federation to take away part of the territories: “They want to take at least part of our territory. And therefore there are very intense hostilities. that will record the results of the war is impossible. Parallel to this, diplomatic work is underway at the level of political advisers in terms of guarantees after the war."
11:02 In the Black Sea, a multi-day traffic jam has formed near the Danube due to Ukrainian grain, as Romania does not have time to process ships with Ukrainian exports, writes Forbes. So, at present, about 100 ships are in the Black Sea near the Romanian port of Sulina, waiting to pass through the Sulina Sea Canal - the most convenient way to the Danube ports of Ukraine, Romania and Moldova.
Experts note that there are not enough pilots in Romania to navigate ships through the canal, because they were not ready for an increase in Ukrainian cargo traffic.
10:55 The "DPR" stated that they had established full control over Krasny Liman, in total, 220 settlements were allegedly captured in the region.
10:44 Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are switching to the Russian telephone code +7, new operators have entered the regions, Russian media report, citing a representative of the "authorities" of Crimea.
10:31 Finland will intensify the supply of weapons to Ukraine, the government announced following a visit to Kiev by Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
10:20 Scholz's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos was "weak and indecisive," Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk told Bild. According to him, Kyiv expected to hear from the chancellor about concrete steps of the ruling coalition in Germany to support Ukraine.
According to Melnyk, the chancellor's words were particularly lacking in clarity about the immediate delivery of heavy weapons: "Obviously, there is a lack of leadership and courage. In military terms, Berlin is simply letting Ukraine down."
10:07 Greece and Cyprus support Ukraine's EU membership, but oppose an accelerated accession process, writes Euractiv Greece, citing diplomatic sources.
09:36 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 27. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Avdiivka direction.
personnel - about 29,750 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1322 (+7),
armored combat vehicles - 3246 (+11),
artillery systems - 623 (+6),
MLRS - 201 (+0),
air defense systems - 93 (+0),
aircraft - 206 (+0),
helicopters - 170 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 503 (+1),
cruise missiles - 115 (+1),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2226 (+1),
special equipment - 48 (+1).
09:19 The war will continue until winter, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with Radio Liberty. According to him, Putin does not want to give up his positions and abandon his plans, therefore, according to analysts, the war will be long.
Skibitsky also said that since May, in the Kherson region, the Russian army has been building several defense lines, mining bridges and roads. Russia has already used 60% of its stock of precision-guided weapons. Stocks are running out, so they got old Soviet ammunition. After the destruction of the Moscow and Saratov ships, Russian ships do not come close to the Ukrainian coast.
09:12 Russia is transferring personnel and military equipment, including Grads, from Crimea to the Zaporizhia region, the Zaporizhia OVA reports. Over the past day, the enemy in the Zaporozhye direction fired at the positions of Ukrainian troops from mortars, rocket and cannon artillery, and conducted a counter-battery fight. Also, the enemy grouping was additionally reinforced by the formed tank battalion on T-62 tanks.
The Russian Federation is deploying not only ground forces, but also air and sea components, the IVA said. In the direction of Melitopol, a convoy of military equipment drove from the Crimea - about 20 tilt trucks and the same number of Grad multiple rocket launchers.
08:50 British intelligence reports that Russian troops continue to try to encircle Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, and also transfer T-62 tanks to the south of Ukraine. Also, Russian ground forces have recently captured several villages northwest of Popasnaya and are putting pressure on the Severodonetsk region. Ukraine maintains control over several defense sectors, preventing the Russian Federation from establishing full control over the Donbass.
The task of occupying the southern territory of Ukraine is likely to remain before the southern grouping of Russian troops, analysts say. They estimate that re-mothballed 50-year-old T-62 tanks, likely deployed to southern Ukraine, will almost certainly be especially vulnerable to anti-tank weapons, and their presence on the battlefield highlights Russia's lack of modern combat-ready equipment.
08:31 Johnson offers Ukraine to abandon the idea of joining the EU and create a new system of unions. The British prime minister explains such an initiative with distrust of Brussels, and especially Germany, in the matter of countering Russia, writes Corriere della sera. According to the publication, Johnson "has been weaving his web for more than a month." He voiced this idea to Zelensky in Kyiv on April 9.
The model of the new European Commonwealth promoted by Johnson includes the UK as a leader and, in addition to Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. And also, perhaps, Turkey "at a later stage." Kyiv has not yet responded.
08:16 In Severodonetsk, four people died in a day, a police station was fired at in Lisichansk, and about 50 houses were damaged in the Luhansk region, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, throughout the day, the Russians tried to break into Severodonetsk from the direction of Purdovka and Shchedrishchevo, attacked the positions of the Ukrainian military in the Ustinovka area.
08:12 Speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk called Russia's statements about the alleged opening of "humanitarian corridors" from Ukrainian ports "an information-psychological operation" of the enemy. According to him, the entire Odessa water area is mined by Russia, and in principle no ships can pass there.
Bratchuk is convinced that such statements are made by Moscow in order to transfer the blame for the lack of food in the world to the Ukrainian side. He also stressed that Russia did not coordinate the work of such corridors with Ukraine.
08:00 The Biden administration may announce the transfer of long-range missile systems (MLRS) to Ukraine next week, writes CNN. The issue was high on the agenda at two meetings last week at the White House, US officials said.
07:56 In Severodonetsk, on May 26, an enemy DRG entered the Mir hotel, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine were able to repulse the attack, said the head of the city's military-civilian administration Alexander Stryuk. During the day, 12 people were evacuated from the city.
07:52 The Russians were firing at night in the Dnepropetrovsk region. There is serious destruction, now the rubble is being cleared and people are being searched, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
07:48 Governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Gladkov said that in the Russian border village of Zhuravlevka, a woman allegedly died from shelling from the Ukrainian side. According to him, constant shelling is going on in Zhuravlevka, Nekhoteevka and Sereda.
07:45 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that in recent days, although the defense of Ukraine remains effective, the Russian armed forces have made some progress in the conduct of hostilities and are preparing a third line of defense. Thus, the Russian troops have taken control of more than 95% of the Lugansk region and, probably, their goal is to complete the capture of Severodonetsk in the coming days.
At the same time, the Russians unsuccessfully tried to move southeast of Izyum near the borders of the Kharkov and Donetsk regions. They continued the siege of Severodonetsk and, probably, aim to completely cordon off the area of Severodonetsk-Lysichansk in the coming days.
The occupiers are moving steadily south and west from Popasna towards Bakhmut, but the pace of their advance is likely to slow down as they approach the city itself. Most likely, Russian troops in the occupied areas of the southern direction are preparing a "third line of defense" in order to consolidate long-term control over the region and prepare to repel possible future Ukrainian counteroffensives, analysts say.
07:37 The enemy resumed the offensive in the Slavyansk direction and wants to develop success in Bakhmutsky, cutting off Ukrainian units from the main forces, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning summary.
07:05 The Pentagon says that recently none of the parties in Ukraine has made significant progress. According to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, the Ukrainians are keeping the Russians from advancing on Mykolaiv, and settlements in the Donbas are changing hands.
06:59 WHO adopted a resolution condemning Russia, which called on Moscow to "immediately stop all attacks on hospitals and other healthcare facilities" in Ukraine, and to ensure the protection of medical personnel, the sick and the wounded in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. China, Russia, Algeria, Belarus, Burundi, Eritrea, North Korea, Cuba, Laos, Mali, Nicaragua and Syria voted against the resolution. Serbia and Hungary did not vote.
05:56 Ukrainian military bases in the Zaporozhye region should be transferred to Russia, said a member of the "main council of the military-civil administration" of the region Vladimir Rogov. According to him, the Ukrainian naval base Vostok, located in Berdyansk on the coast of the Sea of Azov, could become the location of the Russian military base, and "the military air base in Melitopol would be even more useful."
02:47 China and Russia have vetoed the strengthening of UN sanctions against North Korea, initiated by Washington for testing Pyongyang's ballistic missiles.
00:13 Following the rejection of Russian monuments and street names with the outbreak of war, Ukraine is also trying to abandon the Russian Orthodox Church. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill, praises young Russians who join the army and go to kill Ukrainians. More details in the material Church war .
00:02 Zelensky in the evening address: “Exactly eight years ago, on May 26, the Donetsk airport stopped working. <...> The catastrophic unfolding of events could still be stopped if the world treated the situation in Ukraine as its own situation. If the powers that be would not flirt with Russia, but really put pressure on her to end the war.<...> Since May 26, 2014, and even more so since February 24 of this year, to this day, there have been many opportunities for those who really have for this, the strength to put an end to it and say: now Russia will really feel the full price for what it is doing against Ukraine, against European unity and against freedom as such."
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[RIA Novosti] In Ukraine , militants from a territorial defense unit were detained and charged with desertion, the commander of which complained about the lack of training and weapons, writes the Washington Post.
The American edition published an article with the story of two Ukrainians - company commander Sergei Lapko and platoon commander Vitaly Khrus - about the plight at the front. The material notes that a few hours after the interview, SBU officers arrived at the hotel where the interlocutors of the journalists were and arrested some of the company’s fighters.
Apart from rifles and hand grenades, all they got was a handful of hand grenade launchers to counter the well-equipped Russian forces, the Teroboronians themselves said. At the same time, the Ukrainians were not explained how to use the issued RPGs.
"We didn't have normal training," company commander Sergei Lapko quoted the publication as saying. According to his colleague, there are about four RPGs for 15 people.
Interlocutors of the Washington Post from the defense of Ukraine said that most of the deaths in the unit were caused by the inability to quickly deliver the wounded to the hospital, since two cars that their company was supposed to receive did not reach the unit and are used at headquarters. Fighters have to wait up to 12 hours to send the wounded to the hospital in Lisichansk , 24 kilometers away.
In total, during the hostilities, out of 120 people, 54 remained in the company, the article says.
Earlier, the Ukrainian online edition "Strana.ua" reported a series of riots among the fighters of the territorial defense of Ukraine due to the sending of their units to the front line without adequate training.
Thus, servicemen from the 101st and 115th Brigades recorded video messages to the command and authorities of the country, declaring their refusal to perform combat missions and inadequate training and equipment of the units. The publication also reported on conflicts between the commanders of the defense and relatives of soldiers, outraged by the state of affairs in the troops.
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This is why Kissinger and The NY Times' ghost writers inside the intel community are urging a cease fire and peace talks. The truth on the battlefield is that the Ukrainians are desperate.
They've lost so many of their elite, savage fighters (like Azov) and the NATO-trained troops that now the replacements are press-ganged "volunteers," sent with next to no training and scarcely any ammo to the Donbas killing fields. They're cannon fodder and they know it.
The humane and prudent course of action is to call for an immediate cease-fire and stop the slaughter. Instead, Biden is escalating and prolonging the slaughter. Madness.
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Putin can end the war any time. Why the attention on Biden? The US isn't a party to the conflict.
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Actually, he's just bullshitting, as usual. US support is declining, not increasing.
Of the $15B slated for weapons in the recent authorization, only $6B will actually go to the Ukrainians. $9B is actually going to replenish the depleted US arsenal -- depleted by earlier shipments to Ukraine that merely bought the Ukrainians a few extra weeks. The amount supplied is therefore decreasing, from $9B previously to $6B now.
Also, EU Foreign Affairs head Josep Burrell recently said, "the European armies couldn't maintain a war like the one in Ukraine for more than two weeks. They'll run out of ammunition." They're depleted, and the US arsenal is being depleted as well.
Wonder how much of the $6B will end up in Russian hands...
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[RIA Novosti] The Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR has completed the investigation into the criminal case of foreign mercenaries from the UK and Morocco, they may face the death penalty, Viktor Gavrilov, head of the department for investigating crimes against the peace and security of mankind of the Republic's Prosecutor General's Office, told RIA Novosti.
"The Prosecutor General's Office of the Donetsk People's Republic has completed the investigation of a criminal case against a group of foreign mercenaries from Great Britain and Morocco suspected of committing crimes under Part 2 of Article 34 ("Commission of crimes by a group of persons"), Article 323 ("Forcible seizure of power or forcible retention of power "), Article 440 ("Mercenary") of the Criminal Code of the DPR, - said Gavrilov.
According to him, the testimony of British citizens Sean Pinner and Andrew Hill, as well as a citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco, Saadoun Brahim, confirmed their guilt.
"The criminal case against the mercenaries who took part in the preparation and conduct of hostilities against the Donetsk People's Republic has been fully formed. The case materials have been transferred to one of the republican courts for consideration on the merits, as a result of which, taking into account wartime, the defendants can be capital punishment: the death penalty," Gavrilov said.
The British Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin surrendered in Ukraine in mid-April. Major General Igor Konashenkov , spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry , said that under international humanitarian law, mercenaries cannot claim combatant status, so "the best thing that awaits them is a long prison term."
Later, Pinner on the TV channel "Russia 1" said that he and Aslin turned to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a request to assist in their exchange for opposition Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk.
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Funny how *spit* mercenaries *spit* don't get the love and legal protections from "international law experts" that (quote) globetrotting 'freedom fighters' (un-quote). Odd, isn't it?
Americans and other foreign fighters who’ve taken up arms against Russia describe glaring disparities in what they expected and what they experienced
By Alex Horton, Razzan Nakhlawi and Souad Mekhennet
THE WASHINGTON POST
May 28, 2022 at 7:07 p.m. EDT
In interviews with The Washington Post, foreign fighters from the United States and elsewhere described glaring disparities between what they expected the war to be like and what they experienced. They recalled going into battle underequipped and outgunned...
...the conflict has drawn Western military veterans who either have never deployed into combat previously or have experienced only asymmetrical insurgencies — not this type of war, with contested airspace, unrelenting rocket bombardment, and swarms of drones with sophisticated thermal targeting technology.
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[IsraelTimes] Helicopter-launched raids mark the first such incident in months, as tensions rise amid the West’s lagging nuclear talks with the regime; Greece calls incident ’piracy’
Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized two Greek oil tankers Friday in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf, officials said. The action appeared to be retaliation for Athens’ assistance in the US seizure of crude oil from an Iranian-flagged tanker this week in the Mediterranean Sea due to violating Washington’s crushing sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The raid marks the first major incident at sea in months as tensions remain high between Iran
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We will be back to escorting tankers again. It is boring, dangerous and the liberty ports are bottom shelf.
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Put truck launched Hellfires and a couple fire crews on each tanker. After 3-4 iranian ships are sunk for getting too close, they may straighten up.
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[KavkazUzel] Four cases of justification of terrorism and calls for terrorist activities are being investigated in Dagestan. The suspects posted videos justifying terrorism on social networks and the messenger, the investigation suggested.
Four criminal cases on public calls for terrorist activities were initiated by the Investigation Department of the ICR for Dagestan based on the materials of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic.
According to investigators, in 2018-2021, the suspects posted videos on their pages on a social network and in a messenger containing public calls to carry out terrorist activities and justify terrorism, according to today's message on the website of the Russian Investigative Committee for Dagestan.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in March the Southern District Military Court found a resident of Dagestan, Dagir Huseynov, guilty of posting videos and comments justifying terrorism on a social network. He was sentenced to a fine of 200,000 rubles, and the court also banned him from administering websites for two years.
In which one of our Fearless Leaders lays out the next Clever Ruse for our delectation.
[BenarNews] The United States will invest at home, align efforts with allies and partners, and compete with China to counter Beijing’s drive to change the existing rules-based world order, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday in a speech laying out the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... ’s threefold strategy toward the Asian superpower.
Speaking at an event hosted by the Asia Society at George Washington University in Washington, the top American diplomat vowed that the U.S. would "defend and strengthen" international law, principles and institutions which, he argued, China was undermining. But neither is the Biden administration looking to become embroiled in conflict with the world’s most populous nation, Blinken said.
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So we are not going to hold them accountable for killing one million Americans and twenty million worldwide, with 10x worse yet to come? The CCP must be destroyed and the senior leadership must depart this world.
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Like that time back in the day, when the time was Friday night, the weather horrible, and the boys rowdy. Reverse P()ker. 5 Card Drew, worse hand didn't drink.
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Part of the drop in ratings at CNN is the stupidity and incompetence of the Biden cabinet. Viewers are exposed to dumb people covering incoherent and nonsensical speeches and press releases. An infinite numbers of monkeys would eventually type the works of Shakespeare in an infinite amount of time. That does not mean that you want to hear Stelter talk about Blinken at 8PM. Monkeys and Stelter spend a lot of time flinging poo. A person might make a trip to the zoo occasionally, but nobody gives the a monkey a nightly show in prime time, except CNN.
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Fancy pants words. Will anything actually happen? Aside from Tony going off afterwards to a very nice luncheon?
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[ToloNews] The US Treasury placed well-known Afghan trader Kamal Nabizada on a sanctions list, claiming links to Iran's QUDS force.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the company of Kamal Nabizada issued a statement reacting to the US Treasury's decision, saying there are political motives behind it.
Analysts said that individuals who are engaged in money laundering and Iran’s Sepah-e Pasdaran
... which translates as 'Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution', the fancy Arabic name for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...
are being put on the list.
"The US Treasury targeted the network of fuel trafficking of Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... which is under Russia’s support... the property of the people on the list will be restricted," said Seyar Qureshi, an economist.
Some analysts said the placement of Afghan traders on such lists will affect investment in the country.
"I think this issue has a political side. The US tries to put pressure on the Afghan companies to restrict their economic activities to kind of press the Afghan government because the private sector plays an important role," said Abdul Naseer Rishtia, an economist.
The Nabizada company in a statement claimed that the political motives behind the sanctions involved the US's relations with Russia and Iran. "The US, due to its serious disputes with Russia and Iran over different issues, has made allegations against some traders of the countries... which are completely untrue," the statement reads.
The US Treasury list included entrepreneurs from Russia, Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... , Iran, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and other countries.
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We have sanctioned a trader from a country that we don't trade with because of his ties to another country that we don't trade with. The impact of our sanctions will be less than the administrative costs of creating the documents and holding the press conference. If these sanctions work as well as the Russian ones, Kamal will be high fiving his partners on his good fortune.
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[IsraelTimes] Plaintiffs, one of them a Holocaust survivor, argued the protests targeted Jews at their place of worship, violating their First Amendment rights.
The US Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... has declined to hear two different requests to take up a suit against a group of protesters who have gathered weekly outside an Ann Arbor synagogue for nearly two decades holding anti-Israel and antisemitic signs, seemingly closing off any remaining legal avenues against the long-running display.
The court issued orders in March and May denying petitions brought by two different congregants who had argued that the protests targeted Jews at their place of worship, violating their First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion.
The plaintiffs belong to two different congregations that both meet in the same synagogue building: Conservative Beth Israel Congregation and the Jewish Renewal-affiliated Pardes Hannah Congregation. Neither congregation was involved in the lawsuits.
The two congregants, one of whom is a Holocaust survivor, had first brought a joint lawsuit against the protesters, the city and Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor in 2019. Lower courts dismissed it on First Amendment grounds, and a judge ordered the plaintiffs to pay the protesters’ legal fees. Following a dispute between one of the plaintiffs, Marvin Gerber, and their attorney, Marc Susselman, the suit was broken up and two separate petitions under two separate attorneys were filed to the Supreme Court.
Both of those petitions have now been declined; Gerber’s was rejected most recently, on May 16.
Gerber had retained the well-known Jewish attorney Nathan Lewin, a veteran of the Supreme Court who has argued multiple Jewish-interest cases and who was a close friend of former Justice Antonin Scalia.
"I am shocked and dismayed that the Supreme Court and the court of appeals view antisemitic picketing timed and designed to harass and intimidate Jews only when they come to pray — clearly protected by the First Amendment’s Religion Clause — as free speech that may not be curtailed," Lewin told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
He compared the case to a law that makes it a federal crime to protest or picket near a judge’s residence in order to influence a decision — a law that has been in the news lately as child sacrifice abortion rights protesters upset with a leaked Supreme Court draft appearing to overturn Roe v. Wade have protested outside the homes of conservative justices.
Jewish groups, including Agudath Israel of America, the Rabbinical Council of America and the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, filed friend-of-the-court briefs on behalf of the plaintiffs.
Henry Herskovitz, the lead defendant and a regular presence at the weekly protests since their origins in 2003, told JTA that his group (identified in court documents as "Jewish Witnesses for Peace") was "grateful" for the ruling, saying, "Freedom of expression is the bedrock principle of a democracy."
Earlier this year, the Ann Arbor City Council issued a formal resolution condemning the protests as antisemitic. The protesters, who claim they are opposed to Israeli policy, have held signs with messages including "Jewish Power Corrupts" and "Resist Jewish Power."
[AnNahar] The unofficial dollar exchange rate dropped from a record high of LBP 38,000 to at least LBP 34,300 on Friday, immediately after Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh ...Governor of Lebanon'scentral bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. Salameh was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Ministers for a renewable term of six years. He was reappointed for four consecutive terms; in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017. Salameh chairs the Banque du Liban Central Council, the Higher Banking Commission, the AML/CFT Special Investigation Commission and the Capital Markets Authority. Salameh is a member of the board of governors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and at the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF). Salameh is the longest-serving central bank governor in the world.... issued a statement saying banks would resume exchange operations at the Sayrafa platform rate as of Monday.
In a statement addressed to "all the holders of Lebanese pounds, be them citizens or institutions, who want to exchange them for U.S. dollars," Salameh said exchange requests can be submitted to Lebanese banks as of Monday.
"These requests will be fulfilled in full within 24 hours," Salameh added.
"This offer is open and available every day," the governor went on to say.
In another statement addressed to banks, Salameh said: "As of Monday, and for three consecutive days, Lebanese banks must keep their branches and cash counters open until 6:00 pm daily, to fulfill citizens’ requests to purchase dollars at the Sayrafa rate in exchange for Lebanese pounds."
Banks must also "pay the salaries of public sector employees in dollars and according to the Sayrafa rate," Salameh added.
Banks had stopped selling dollars at the Sayrafa rate in recent days, with some accusing them of suspending the operations in response to the government's financial and economic recovery plan.
The Lebanese pound had registered a new record low of LBP 38,000 to the greenback earlier on Friday.
For decades, the Lebanese pound was pegged to the dollar at 1,500, meaning that it has lost around 95 percent of its value in two years.
A financial crisis widely blamed on government corruption and mismanagement has caused the worst economic crisis in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... 's history.
The cost of a full tank of petrol now far exceeds the minimum monthly wage, mains electricity comes on barely two hours a day and unaffordable school fees are driving increased student dropouts.
Four out of five Lebanese are now considered poor by the World Bank.
The country desperately needs an international rescue package but the required reforms have not been forthcoming.
The exchange rate, which is unofficial but applies to most transactions, had recently stabilized at around 26,000 to the dollar but took a tumble after the latest legislative polls.
The results brought in a handful of independents who support the spirit of a 2019 protest movement which called for the wholesale ouster of Lebanon's corrupt and hereditary ruling class. But they also yielded a more scattered assembly that observers predict could remain stuck in a political deadlock that will further delay any meaningful economic recovery program.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] 1. Svetlodarsk.
Fighting continues in the Novoluganskoye area. The Mironovskaya State District Power Plant was released. There are battles for the Svetlodarskaya CHPP. The enemy is preparing a retreat to positions southeast of Artyomovsk.
2. Avdievka.
Fighting continued in the area of Novoselka-2, Novobakhmutovka, New York and Krasnogorovka. Our troops have a small advance of 1-2 km.
3. Zolotoye.
Fighting continued in the Toshkovka area, as well as in Kamyshevakh.
Gorsko-Zolotoy fortified area, in fact, hangs on one road, which is also subjected to artillery fire.
4. Soledar.
Fighting continues north of Soledar near the Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway. The enemy confirms the complete fire control of our troops over the section of the road from Belogorovka to Berestyanoe, but declares that it is still possible to break through and even move away from Severodonetsk along it. To the south of Soledar, the front approached 10-15 km from Artemovsk.
5. Severodonetsk.
The fighting is taking place directly in the city near the bus station and the Mir Hotel. The enemy confirms that the city is covered from 3 sides. The bridges leading to the city from Lisichansk cannot be fully used, that is, the full-fledged supply of the group in Severodonetsk has already been disrupted. Today there was talk that the order to withdraw from Severodonetsk might be given. It is also worth noting the intensification of the offensive of our troops near Svetlogorsk.
6. Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
The enemy continues to use Artemovsk as the main supply hub for the Severodonetsk grouping, and is actively preparing the city for defense and street fighting.
Fighting continues in the Pilipchatino area and near Novaya Kamenka. Up to 2 BTGs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were deployed to Artemovsk, which are used in the battles for the Lisichansk-Artemovsk highway and east of Artemovsk.
7. Krasniy Limon.
The city has actually been taken, although the enemy claims that there is still resistance on the southeastern outskirts. Moreover, the troops that bypassed the Krasny Liman had already reached the Seversky Donets.
The group defending Krasny Liman suffered heavy losses. The next serious barrier will be at Raygorodok.
8. Kharkov.
Positional battles in the area of Liptsy, Ternovoe, Rubizhnoye. Both sides operate here with rather limited forces.
9. Izyum.
Positional battles in the area of Kamyshevakhi, Kurulka, Dolgenkiy.
The enemy is waiting for the RF Armed Forces to launch an offensive against Slavyansk.
10. Maryinka, Nikolaev (the attack to the north of Kherson ended unsuccessfully for the Armed Forces of Ukraine), Krivoy Rog, Nikopol, Odessa - without significant changes.
[IsraelTimes] Military says suspects taken for questioning after being detained by troops, doesn’t specify whether they had crossed border
Israeli troops detained two Paleostinians attempting to cross into Israel from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip early Friday morning, the military said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the pair were found with two grenades and a knife when they were captured near the southern section of the border.
The military did not clarify whether the suspects had successfully passed through the fence when they were captured.
The two were later taken for questioning.
In March, three Paleostinians carrying knives, bottles of gasoline and lighters, were captured by troops after attempting to cross the border.
Israel has a high-tech series of fences and walls guarding its frontier with Gaza, both above and below ground, but a number of gaps remain in the steel fencing surrounding the Strip.
These gaps have been used by Paleostinians in Gaza to illegally enter Israeli territory, often with hopes of fleeing the beleaguered enclave.
While attacks on Israeli civilians by those infiltrating from Gaza are rare, a Paleostinian man crossed into Israel last May while armed with several knives and attacked a security guard some five kilometers from the border fence, lightly hurting him. The suspect, who was shot and maimed by another guard, has been indicted over the attack.
[JustTheNews] "[W]e are encouraged that the truth was revealed in this Board, and we hope this ground-breaking case sends a strong message to the Department of Defense," said counsel for Navy Lt. Billy Moseley.
In a stinging rebuke to the Pentagon, a Navy administrative separation board voted unanimously to retain an officer who refused to comply with the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Navy Lt. Billy Moseley, who has been an officer for 22 years, could have chosen to retire from the military when he was ordered to receive the COVID vaccine. He also could have submitted a Religious Accommodation Request, since he objected to the vaccine for religious reasons.
Risking his retirement, Moseley chose instead to take his case to the administrative separation board after learning "that the Navy and the other services intended to implement a blanket denial policy," according to a blurb from his attorney, R. Davis Younts.
Moseley consulted with legal and medical experts and "became convinced that as an officer he had an obligation to take a stand against the unlawful order and be a voice for thousands of enlisted Sailors," the blurb continued.
Younts told Just the News Moseley is one of the first Navy service members — maybe even the first officer — to go to the board over the COVID vaccine mandate.
Any service member who has been in the military for more than six years is entitled to the board for due process. In the Navy, the board's recommendation on whether to retain or separate (another term for firing) a member of the service is binding.
Younts argued at the board hearing that the mandate for the experimental COVID vaccines was not a lawful order since the military has not made fully FDA-approved versions of the vaccines available to military members.
The military defense attorney told Just the News that the attorneys for the Navy agreed with him that there are no FDA-approved vaccines available, only interchangeable vaccines. Younts added that if there are no FDA-approved vaccines available, then the president would have to authorize the experimental shots that are currently available, which hasn’t happened.
On Friday, the board voted 3-0 that Moseley's failure to follow the COVID vaccine order did not count as misconduct and that he should remain in the Navy. Younts said that the board members weren't convinced that the vaccine order was lawful.
He added that this precedent "puts the Navy in an interesting position" regarding the other service members who have also refused the COVID vaccine.
While this is "only one case of thousands and we have many more clients facing prosecution by the military, we are encouraged that the truth was revealed in this Board, and we hope this ground-breaking case sends a strong message to the Department of Defense," Younts' blurb concluded.
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COVID is over. The people who thought they were going to make an iron rice bowl career of it and for the next two generations of their progeny have to go back to the drawing board.
And we need justice for all the people whose livelihoods were ruined by the gummint manufactured panic.
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blink, blink, blink
Their career dissipation lights are blinking
Johnston Island (Frobisher Bay) here they come.
Side Note:
Covid-19-22 is still here.
The "according to" the CDC the USA had 1.4+ Million (702,058 & & 761,583) "reported" cases and 3,900+ "CLAIMED" deaths in the last 14 days.
Is it me, or are the "CLAIMS" now even to c-19 panic types more creative than fact?
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An O-3 after 22 years suggests he must have been a Mustang LDO (Limited Duty Officer) so it seems likely it was about retention, not his future career promotions?
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Retention issues is possible. A friend was an Army Captain (O-3) and told me that there was a big hurdle in making Major (O-4). He didn't kiss the right posteriors (and didn't "walk on water and out Napoleon Napoleon" as well) so he punched his ticket at that point.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:02 As a result of the shelling of the settlement. Svatovo with the use of tactical missile systems "Tochka-U" killed 3 and wounded 15 civilians. Information about the consequences of the shelling is being specified - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC. 21:43 A group of Russian volunteers from Chechnya took control of the entire line of contact in Severodonetsk - Kadyrov.
21:20 Scary footage: The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the residential areas of Makiivka near Donetsk, shells were exploding next to the author of the video. In the comments on the Ukrainian channels under the video, the Russians are cursed ... for shelling the city in the DPR by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:20 APU fired at the village of Nekhoteevka in the Belgorod region, there is a victim, the governor said. The Belgorod region was again shelled from the Ukrainian side, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck at the village of Nekhoteevka, there is destruction, one person was injured.
"Operational services report shelling of the village of Nekhoteevka. There is destruction: 8 buildings, a gas pipeline and a power line were damaged. There is a victim, a man with a shrapnel wound to the shin. All necessary medical care is being provided," the governor said.
21:19 Operative services report shelling of the village of Nekhoteevka. There are destruction. Eight buildings, a gas pipeline and a power line were damaged. There is a victim, a man with a shrapnel wound to the shin. All necessary medical assistance is being provided.
21:17 Four children and ten adults were injured as a result of a strike inflicted by the Kyiv security forces with a missile of the Tochka-U tactical complex in Svatovo. The LIC was informed about this by the acting head of the administration of the Svatovsky district, Lyudmila Rusanova.
"There was an arrival (from the Ukrainian side) to the square of the 50th anniversary of the Victory, people were walking. According to preliminary data, three dead and 14 wounded, including four children. The wounded are now receiving medical care, the children are being sent to Lugansk, there are medicines," Rusanova said.
20:51 A burial ground with the corpses of the Ukrainian military was found in Mariupol. They died in February-March. In total, it can contain up to 40 corpses. A total of 14 have already been removed, work continues.
20:20 Two people were killed, eight were injured due to the attack of the APU "Tochka-U" on the village of Svatovo, the Prosecutor General's Office of the LPR said.
20:20 From Kramatorsk, they report heavy artillery fire near the city.
19:19 Today we are faced with the task of deploying work as quickly as possible to help the DPR and LPR in restoration work. Literally on a daily basis, we see that convoys of equipment are sent from many regions of the country to help restore damaged housing, roads and infrastructure of the Republics.
In total, about 1,000 Russian builders and 250 pieces of equipment are already working there. The volume of work to be carried out in the Republics is significant, and we will increase the number of people who work there - Marat Khasnullin.
18:53 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian - a woman born in 1948. as a result of shelling of VFU n.p. Panteleymonovka at the address: st. Karl Marx, 10.
The victim with a mine-explosive injury, severe injuries of the lower extremities and shrapnel wounds was taken to City Hospital No. 2.
Information was also received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the following settlements:
n.p. Panteleymonovka:
- st. Tarasenko, 1, 3, 4, 6 - private residential buildings;
- st. Serdyukov, 3 - the gas pipeline is damaged.
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
- st. Schipacheva, 2 - apartment building.
18:05 A woman was wounded in Panteleymonovka
As a result of the shelling of the VFU on the street. Karl Marx was wounded by a civilian.
16:34 Ukrainian militants continue to terrorize the civilian population of Donbass. As a result of artillery shelling of the Kirovsky district, residential buildings in the private sector were damaged. One civilian was hospitalized with a mine-explosive injury.
16:29 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU settlement. Makeevka at the following addresses:
- st. Shchorsa, 1 - KP "Kommuntrans";
- st. Panfilova, 10 - fire on the territory of a private household.
16:19 In the Republican Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination of the Ministry of Health of the DPR, a hotline is starting to search for the missing on the territory of Mariupol and other areas of the Donetsk region, where active hostilities are taking place.
15:19 As a result of the shelling of the VFU, 200 household subscribers in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk have been de-energized.
15:05 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 cities of the Republic by the AFU:
n.p. Yasinovataya (Verkhne-Kalmiusskaya filtered station of the Donetsk RPU of the Water of Donbass Company):
- a man born in 1968.
n.p. Makeevka (Kirovskiy district):
is a woman born in 1942.
Also received additional information about damage caused by shelling of the VFU n.p. Gorlovka at the following addresses:
- st. Dunayevsky, 51, 88 - private residential buildings;
- st. Mezhlauka, 81, 126 - private residential buildings;
- st. Rubenstein, 46 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
15:02 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Makiivka, in the area of the stopping point 1118 km, a woman was injured.
14:55 VFU shelled the territory of the Upper Kalmius reservoir. As a result of the shelling of the filtered station , a man was injured.
14:34 Ukrainian MLRS BM-21 "Grad" from positions in Avdiivka continue to strike at the residential areas of Yasinovataya.
13:54 As a result of the armed aggression, the AFU revealed damage in the village of Bayrak, Kalininsky district of Horlivka. Damage to a number of housing constructions of varying degrees was recorded along the streets: Astakhova, 94, Markina, 81, Markina, 77, Markina, 75, Markina, 63, Mezhlauka, 108 a, Mezhlauka, 75, Mezhlauka, 77, Mezhlauka, 65 (hit by a Ukrainian shell in garden), in Central lane, 17, 21, 23.
According to information received from the residents of Gorlovka, as a result of explosions of Ukrainian shells along Dzhankoyskaya Street, 26, in the village of the Kalininskaya TsOF, house building and outbuildings were damaged.
As a result of the shelling of the Gorlovsky village of the mine. Kalinin, from the positions of the VFU, the houses along Shevtsova Street, 16, 18, 20 were damaged. We find out the details.
13:53 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian - a woman born in 1954. as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the address: st. Kastus Kalinovsky, 9.
The victim with a mine-explosive injury, a fracture and shrapnel wounds was taken to City Hospital No. 14.
12:44 The head of the DPR banned the charging of penalties to tenants of state property until December 31.
12:30 In Mariupol, destroyed houses are gradually cleared from rubble
Rescuers of the DPR are being helped by their colleagues from the Tula Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation. 35 units of equipment were involved in the work.
This is a preparatory stage, which will be followed by a "very serious, in fact huge, construction", announced by the Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
12:20 pm On May 26, rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR in Mariupol and the Krasnolimansky district issued humanitarian aid to the population in the form of 5,370 sets, of which:
12:10 Another supermarket and kindergarten opened in Mariupol
A supermarket, the third in a row, and a kindergarten opened today in Mariupol. This was reported to DAN by the press service of the city administration.
The MT Market supermarket is located in the Oktyabrsky district along Metallurgov Avenue, 69. Also, the day before, there was a roll call in kindergarten No. 98, which is located on Gondy Street, 44. After an almost three-month break, the long-awaited meeting of children and their parents with the teaching staff took place.
11:50 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage to a private house as a result of shelling of the VFU of the Lozovsky village of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk at the address: st. Red hill, 5.
11:36 More than 5,000 captured Ukrainian militants are on the territory of the DPR, Pushilin said.
11:32 As of May 27, 2022, on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, a group of troops of the DPR and LPR, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, liberated and established full control over 220 settlements, including Krasny Lyman.
10:37 The forces of the Luhansk People’s Republic completely control the Mironovskaya GRES, but there are still battles for the Svetlodarskaya CHP, reports corr. RIAN from the liberated village of Troitskoye.
10:27 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian - a man born in 1958. as a result of shelling of the VFU village Bayrak, Kalininsky district, n.p. Gorlovka at the address: st. Markina, 69.
A victim with a mine-explosive injury and shrapnel wounds was taken to City Hospital No. 2 in serious condition.
Also as a result of shelling of the VFU microdistrict "Solnechny" n.p. Gorlovkadamaged110 kV line, 28 transformer substations de-energized.
Without power supply are 2,690 subscribers.
09:13 Daily official summary of the DPR JCCC from 03:00 May 26 to 03:00 May 27
Over the past day Representationreportedabout 46 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used - MLRS "Grad", artillery 152mm and 122mm, mortars 120mm.
On Gorlovsky - MLRS "Grad", artillery 122mm, mortars 120mm and 82mm LNG, RPG, AGS, small arms were also used
Having fired 334 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of nine settlements of the Republic: the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky, Kyiv and Kirovsky districts), Golmovsky, Dolomitnoye, Gorlovka (village of mine 6/7), Zheleznaya Balka, Troitskoye, Yasinovataya, Yelenovka, Staromikhaylovka.
According to official data of the DPR JCCC, on the territory within the borders before the start of the NWO:
Over the past day, information was received about the injury of four civilians: men born in 1955 and 1962. and women born in 1946 and 1968, in Kalininsky district of Gorlovka and Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
Damaged 27 houses in Kuibyshev, Petrovsky, Kirovsk and Kiev districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka (Kalininsky district, pos.Golmovsky, pos.sh-you im. Lenin), Yelenovka and Yasinovatoy, as well as three objects of civil infrastructure.
AT previous 46 shellings were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.
08:50 The operational line of the DPR JCCC received information about the wounding of a civilian - a woman born in 1946. as a result of yesterday's shelling by the VFU in the Microdistrict of the mine 17-17 BIS of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk at the address: st. Revputi, 5.
The victim with a mine-explosive injury was taken to City Hospital No. 24.
Also received additional information about damage caused by yesterday's shelling VFU of the Microdistrict of the mine 17-17 BIS of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Malinovsky, 9 - a private residential building;
- st. Revputi, 4 - a private residential building;
- st. Claudia Nazarova, 53, 55 - private residential buildings.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... said on Thursday that operations conducted along its southern border are essential to protecting the country from terrorism and do not violate the illusory sovereignty of its neighbors, likely setting the stage to launch a fresh offensive against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.
Turkey’s National Security Council (MKG) stated that "under no circumstances the operations currently conducted and to be done to clean our southern borders from the treat of terror" breach the illusory sovereignty of its neighbors, in a session attended by Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... "It is underlined that these operations will contribute seriously to the peace and safety of our neighbors," the statement continued.
The statement comes as Ankara continues to oppose Sweden’s bid to enter NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... , accusing Stockholm of supporting Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria (Rojava). Consensus by all NATO members is required for a new country to join and Erdogan is expected to use his approval as leverage to gain concessions from the West, including guarantees that they will not oppose a fresh offensive.
Erdogan announced on Monday that his country is making preparations to launch a fresh military operation in Syria, aiming to expand its "safe zone" to a depth of 30 kilometers. The operation is likely to target Kurdish fighters of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Turkey claims that the People’s Protection Units (YPG), backbone of the SDF, is the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — an gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara.
Previously, Ottoman Turkish forces and their allied Syrian militias have launched two separate assaults on Kurdish forces in Syria. In 2019, they launched an invasion of the border towns of Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) and Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) on behalf of Operation Peace Spring, a year after they seized the city of Afrin in Operation Olive Branch from the YPG.
The conflicts have forced hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Kurds, to flee their homes, and most have not returned.
In March, Turkey launched a new phase in a series of operations targeting PKK positions beyond its border with the Kurdistan Region. The operation, dubbed Claw-Lock, is an air and ground assault that heavily focuses on mountainous border areas where the gang maintains a presence.
Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the operation, once completed successfully, will ensure the PKK’s complete inability to traverse its border.
Baghdad and Erbil have previously criticized Ankara for violating Iraqi illusory sovereignty, but it continues to establish increasing numbers of bases and outposts in the mountains of Erbil and Duhok provinces.
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[Garowe] The UN Security Council on Thursday adopted a resolution to extend the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) for five months, till Oct. 31, 2022.
Resolution 2632, which was adopted unanimously by the 15-member council, requests the UN secretary-general to continue to keep the Security Council regularly informed on the implementation of this resolution, with the next report due by Aug. 31.
It also requests the secretary-general, following consultations with the federal government of Somalia, to undertake a strategic review of UNSOM to include recommendations for clearly defined, measurable and realistic benchmarks to track UNSOM's timely execution and achievement of its mandate and to report to the Security Council by Sept. 30, 2022.
The UNSOM was created in June 2013 by the Security Council to support state-building and peace-building in Somalia.
[IsraelTimes] Police say suspect, a member of an unspecified terror group, tossed pipe bomb at a cop a year ago.
A 25-year-old man from East Jerusalem has been arrested for allegedly planning to attack trains running through the city, police said Thursday.
In a statement, police and the Shin Bet security service said the man planned to launch fireworks at the city’s light rail, as well as bring fireworks into the flashpoint Temple Mount compound to be used during violent mostly peacefulfestivities with security forces there.
The statement described him as a member of an unspecified terror organization.
The investigation also found that the suspect was involved in making explosives and hurling a pipe bomb at police last year.
Police said an indictment was expected when the investigation concludes.
Paleostinian rioters regularly use fireworks and firecrackers during festivities with police in East Jerusalem, aiming the explosive charges at buildings or people, and using the loud noises and bright flashes to disorient the Israeli gendarmes.
Last month saw days of rioting at the Temple Mount, which Moslems call the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, raising tensions in the city which have yet to fully subside.
On Wednesday, police announced that cops in Jerusalem and other areas of the country were being put on high alert ahead of a nationalist march planned for Sunday in the Old City.
Officials fear a repeat of violence surrounding the yearly Jerusalem Day Flag March, which generally attracts thousands of nationalists who march to the Western Wall through the Old City’s Moslem Quarter to mark the anniversary of the city’s unification in 1967.
Last year, Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, shot rockets at Jerusalem during the parade, sparking 11 days of war, and Gazook terror groups have threatened to take action again in response to "provocations."
Some 3,000 police will guard the march, while thousands more will be deployed around the city and other locations across the country.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:01 A source in the OP said that Zaluzhny asked Zelensky for permission to urgently withdraw the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Severodonetsk and Lysichansk. Our grouping in two days can be completely surrounded, which will lead to terrible consequences, like in Mariupol, only in an accelerated format, since the city is not ready to keep all-round defense for a long time. 21:41 US will not fight over Ukraine, including at sea - Pentagon.
21:15 Ukrainian military lead fire from the Polish portable anti-aircraft missile system Piorun.
21:14 The Ministry of Construction of Russia has created a department that will oversee the restoration of the liberated territories of the DPR and LPR - the press service of the department.
20:16 The Council of the UOC decided on the complete independence and independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The decision was made under pressure from the authorities and the Nazis, who for many years rotted the Orthodox Church, took away churches and eventually threatened to ban the Church.
20:15 Ramzan Kadyrov showed footage with captured NATO weapons, which continue to be found untouched in the liberated territories in the LPR.
20:15 Summons in Ukraine distribute already through viber.
19:11 In Melitopol started sale of sim cards of a Russian mobile operator.
19:10 To Melitopol today arrived three tons of humanitarian aid from Crimea is food, medicine and hygiene products.
19:10 AFU fired at the village of Zernovo in the Suzemsky district of the Bryansk region today. According to locals, the border post came under fire. It is known that there are wounded. At the same time, information about the victims among the border guards diverges on the network, but there is no official confirmation yet.
18:15 Putin assured that he is ready to actively discuss with Ukraine the issue of the exchange of prisoners, said the Austrian Chancellor.
18:15 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that in a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he “did not see hope for peace” in Ukraine.
17:21 Captured Ukrainian border guard told about deception by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the unwillingness of people to fight.
"We dug something in the rain, everyone got wet. Then they took me to the positions, maybe the Right Sector, and they told me to dig there. They tried to communicate with us, but it was clear that they were inadequate, most likely drug addicts.
Everyone was in a very bad mood, no one wanted to fight, and we all wanted to leave there as soon as possible. We did not want to go there, we were brought there by fraudulent means. We were promised that we would stand far away, at checkpoints and check cars and documents, but still they deceived us and took us there."
17:20 The United States, Ukraine, Germany and Poland, contrary to the bioweapons convention, did not notify the UN of joint experiments, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
16:20 Ukrainian refugees are massively evicted from hotels in Spain before the start of the tourist season. Apartments for Ukrainian refugees are paid from the Spanish Red Cross fund, but the organization will no longer be able to sponsor summer rate accommodation in resort areas.
16:18 Russian reconnaissance and strike drones Orlan/Inohodets accept participation in the Special Military Operation. Drones not only correct the work of artillery, but also independently strike at the enemy.
15:23 To Kherson delivered humanitarian aid. The Russian military near the Dnieper market distributed food packages to the residents of the city.
15:23 Shops Mikhailovka and the villages of Timoshevka, Vasilyevsky district, are gradually switching to a bi-currency system.
15:22 Air defense of the Russian army works on targets in the sky over Kherson.
14:00 AFU fired at the village of Novovoskresenskoye in the Kherson region from the Uragan MLRS with 9M27K3 cluster rockets with PFM-1S anti-personnel mines (the infamous Petals). Each rocket projectile carries 312 of these mines. Earlier, we reported that there was evidence of the shelling of the village of Solokhi in the Belgorod region using cluster munitions 9M27K 220-mm MLRS Uragan.
13:18 War criminals in Ukraine must receive adequate sentences so that neo-Nazism does not raise its head - Slutsky.
13:18 Since the beginning of the war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the United States has supplied Ukraine with 23,800 tons of weapons and military equipment. Such data was announced in the Transportation Command of the armed forces of the United States.
13:18 The head of the Center for Territorial Defense of Dnepropetrovsk confirmed information about a Russian missile attack on a military training ground in the region. According to him, the barracks located at the facility were hit by an Iskander ballistic missile. 10 people were killed and 35 others were injured. Previously, they all served in parts of the National Guard.
13:17 Seizure of weapons issued by Kyiv to the population should be one of the first tasks after the end of hostilities - Aksyonov.
13:17 Negotiations with Ukraine are frozen by the decision of Kyiv, this contrasts with Zelensky's words about the need for negotiations at the highest level - Peskov.
12:40 Cossacks who wish to obtain Russian citizenship are constantly coming and leaving their data, although the documents have not yet been accepted - the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
12:39 On the night of May 27, Ukrainian troops fired at the civilian population of the city of Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region. As a result of the shelling, several private houses and utility rooms on the street were damaged. Lenin, there were no dead or injured.
12:14 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 180 aircraft, 127 helicopters, 1,027 unmanned aerial vehicles, 324 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,281 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 438 multiple rocket launchers, 1,693 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 3,218 units of special military vehicles.
12:14 Missile troops and artillery hit 77 command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 412 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, as well as 53 artillery firing positions. As a result of a strike on a pontoon company, another attempt to build a pontoon crossing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine across the Seversky Donets River was thwarted in the area of the settlement of Zavgorodnee, Kharkiv region.
12:14 Russian air defense systems shot down one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force over the village of Belyary, Odessa region.
12:13 Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 44 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment. As a result of air strikes, more than 250 nationalists were killed, 84 units of weapons and military equipment were disabled, including nine tanks, five Grad multiple rocket launchers, ten field artillery guns and 22 vehicles for various purposes.
12:13 In the Gusarovka area of the Kharkiv region, a Ukrainian air defense guidance and target designation radar was destroyed.
12:13 In the Barvenkovo area, the launcher of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system and the radar for illumination and guidance of the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system were destroyed.
12:12 High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces near the village of Bakhmut of the Donetsk People's Republic struck at the positions of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Seven command and observation posts and thirteen areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment were hit.
12:12 APU leads the fire from the 155-mm FH-70 howitzers transferred by Italy. In addition to guns, trucks were also handed over.
12:11 A train with fuel arrived at the Panyutino railway station north of Lozova, Kharkiv region, to provide units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After unloading, fuel and lubricants were transported to warehouses in Orelka, from where the fuel will be distributed to destinations.
First of all, deliveries go to the Donbass, then to other regions. The Ukrainian command is also actively using vehicles to transport fuel: recently a large convoy of tank trucks passed through Dnepropetrovsk to supply units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Soledar and Zaporozhye directions.
10:41 The port of Skadovsk will be repaired so that by the autumn there will be an opportunity to ship and send grain - the head of the military-civilian administration of the Skadovsky district of the Kherson region Sergey Shvaiko.
10:40 Head of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia Vladimir Kulishov:
"About 250 supporters of Ukrainian nationalists were identified among refugees heading from Ukraine to Russia."
10:39 Zaporozhye region has switched to Moscow time, there will be no more clock changes for winter and summer time - Vladimir Rogov, member of the main council of the region's CAA.
09:34 Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are switching to the Russian telephone code +7, new operators have entered the regions - RIA Novosti with reference to the adviser to the head of Crimea.
09:32 The fourth batch of humanitarian aid from residents, entrepreneurs and volunteers of Crimea will go to Melitopol.
08:11 Terodefense of Zaporozhye uses Maxim machine gun mounted on the Soviet car LuAZ-969.
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Zaluzhny asked Zelensky for permission to urgently withdraw the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Severodonetsk and Lysichansk. "Our grouping in two days can be completely surrounded, which will lead to terrible consequences, like in Mariupol, only in an accelerated format, since the city is not ready to keep all-round defense for a long time."
It's going to be truly horrific because unlike Mariupol, the slaughter will not take place in drips over weeks, and hidden from view inside a closed industrial plant, but rapidly and out in the open along the roads west and south of Lysychansk.
There are a few elite battalions remaining but most of the Ukrainian troops now have no experience, next to no training, and little ammunition. They will be slaughtered if a cease fire us not called within the next week.
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The United States, Ukraine, Germany and Poland, contrary to the bioweapons convention, did not notify the UN of joint experiments, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Nor was the UN informed of the unicorn fart testing. Because neither happened.
More Russian prep to use something nasty and blame everyone else.
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Wait, what...? You mean the Ukrainians are getting pounded and retreating on every front? But we were told as recently as a week ago that they were winning.
Now the Narrative is that they're collapsing. Mutinies, desperation, dwindling ammo, death and despair.
So today the NY Times' main dispatch from the Donbas front -- conveniently buried beneath some dozen or so flood-the-zone pieces about Gun Violence and Evil Republicans -- warns of impending doom:
Under the fire of Russia’s long-range arsenal andfacing a desperate need for ammunition and weapons, Ukrainian forces remain outgunnedon the long and pockmarked eastern front, according to military analysts, Ukrainian officials and soldiers on the ground.
But...but... you told us it was the Russians who were "outgunned" and "desperate." How can this be? You mean you lied?
#5
If the media is giving up on it, the dems won't be far behind when the polling shows no advantage in it for them
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dems won't be far behind when the polling shows no advantage in it for them
They were just waiting for a potent New Narrative to cast off the collapsing Ukraine Narrative. Texas - NRA - GunViolence - Trump fits the bill, perfectly.
Now it's Emily Litello time for Ukraine
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Don't tell me we've spent tens of billions of USD backing yet another loser? How can this be ?
"The United States is in danger of running out of weapons it can supply to Ukraine from [the United States'] own stocks... Ukraine is running out of men, ammunition, supplies and weapons, and the West, instead of being able to replace those lost supplies, is depleting its own stocks of weapons."
Thus the curious use of "lend-lease," a program of new production of future stocks rather than sales out of existing weapons inventories. This approach, based upon future production, has never been applied since World War II.
The implied depletion of western weapons stocks would also fit with what appear to be Pentagon and Intelligence Community directives to the politicians to reduce their commitments to Ukraine -- so as to enable the US backfill its own dangerously low reserves of critical weapons and supplies.
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Hopefully it drives Nuland into a padded room.
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My, how the Narrative shifts. The latest Washington Post story from Ukraine, published 3 hours ago, details how American mercenaries got the crap beaten out of them.
By Alex Horton, Razzan Nakhlawi and Souad Mekhennet
THE WASHINGTON POST
May 28, 2022 at 7:07 p.m. EDT
In interviews with The Washington Post, foreign fighters from the United States and elsewhere described glaring disparities between what they expected the war to be like and what they experienced. They recalled going into battle underequipped and outgunned...
...the conflict has drawn Western military veterans who either have never deployed into combat previously or have experienced only asymmetrical insurgencies — not this type of war, with contested airspace, unrelenting rocket bombardment, and swarms of drones with sophisticated thermal targeting technology.
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Total clownshow. Poor deluded fools. The WaPo reporters continue their sad tale:
"...Russian artillery pounded their position a half-hour later, and [American mercenary] Dakota’s team withdrew under the cover of night. About a week later he felt nauseated and carsick. He was diagnosed with a brain injury linked to his proximity to the shelling, he said, and left for home toward the end of April. He has been in recovery ever since.
Other volunteers described different frustrations. Pascal, a veteran of the German army, was on a team with Cancel, the American killed in combat in late April. Problems arose during their first mission, he said.
The team suspected their two-way radios were being monitored by Russian forces, and they lacked extra batteries, forcing them to rely on unsecured cellphones and WhatsApp to communicate. Soon after they exchanged plans, their position was attacked by Russian artillery, he said.
The volunteers felt underinformed during many of their missions, not knowing where they were — and, vitally, where the Russians were, Pascal said. The day Cancel was killed, he said, they took fire from a position they believed to be Ukrainian but didn’t have radio communication to confirm. Two members of the team ventured out to investigate. Gunfire sounded, and they never returned, he said.
The remaining team members came under heavy fire, including artillery rounds, from the same direction, Pascal said. One team member was killed in the shelling. Pascal and another volunteer turned their attention to Cancel, who had be struck by shrapnel, he said. They applied tourniquets in a fruitless attempt to stop the bleeding. Their bodies were left behind as Pascal and another survivor withdrew.
That was Pascal’s last mission. He later crossed into Poland. Miller, the American volunteer, met him at a bar in Warsaw and noted how shaken up he seemed. They stepped outside and Miller consoled him, using Google Translate to find the right words in German. They hugged.
“From the beginning, we had no chance,” Pascal said in an interview. “I was asking myself why I survived and the others did not.”
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Who is to blame for raising these "glaring disparities between what they expected the war to be like and what they experienced"?
Who gave them the impression that could defeat a great power military when they "went into battle underequipped and outgunned"?
Very well then, so perhaps it's the foolish arrogance of "Western military veterans who ... have experienced only asymmetrical insurgencies" — unlike "this type of war, with contested airspace, unrelenting rocket bombardment, and swarms of drones with sophisticated thermal targeting technology...."
Ultimately though the blame rests with the Wesyern politicians, the defense contractors and the media figures who lied to the public and pretended that Russia is not a great power with great resolve and overwhelming force, fighting for what the Russians believe is their very existence as a great nation. Saying it implying otherwise was a Big Lie.
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"Kämpfe nicht mit Russen. Auf jede List reagieren sie mit einer unvoraussehbarer Dummheit.”
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05/28/2022 23:31
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Pull Tolstoy and Vlad from your shelves!
Yes, prepare! Putin's humanist elves,
Spilling ink over blood
And Ukrainian mud,
Must help Russians think well of themselves!
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Sorry, Herr Fred. Your sarcasm can't hide your ignorance. Ukraine is collapsing.
There are at least eight videos from eight units, posted on Ukrainian social media, all of them refusing to carry out suicidal missions. Each of these units presents a formal demand to President Zelensky and the Ukrainian General in Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:
13th Battalion of 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade
2nd Company of the 46th Rifle Battalion
3rd Platoon of the 46th Infantry Battalion
115th Brigade
3rd Platoon of the 115th Brigade
71st Jaeger Infantry Brigade
Ukrainian 14th Brigade: 6th Battalion, 4th, 5th, and 6th companies
Cherkasy Territorial Defense
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Zelensky's days are numbered. Talk now of a coup to depose him unless peace talks begin.
Go ahead, Jolly Joker: find a rhyme for Zelensky.
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[RIA Novosti] A mass spontaneous burial with the bodies of the Ukrainian military was found in the park area of Mariupol near the former Metallurg stadium, the servicemen died in February-March of this year, when this part of the city was under the control of Ukrainian troops, the head of the Republican Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination of the DPR Ministry of Health told RIA Novosti Dmitry Kalashnikov.
According to him, 14 bodies have already been removed, 10 have been processed, and in total, according to external signs, up to 40 Ukrainian soldiers can be buried there.
"A burial place of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was discovered , who died around February-March of this year. Documents on some corpses were preserved with them. Moreover, almost all the corpses are signed, the surname, name and patronymic, military unit, rank, position are printed on the cards. All bodies are in cadaveric 10 corpses have already been described, and a total of 14 have been raised. Excavations continue further, presumably there may even be up to 40 (bodies of the dead - ed.)," Kalashnikov said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Mercola] STORY AT-A-GLANCE
[LI] Motion filed in trial court today: "If Defendants wanted to stay execution of the mandate of the Ninth District Court of Appeals, they were required to seek that stay in the Ohio Supreme Court. They did not. Plaintiffs are entitled to judgment on the surety bond ...."
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is spending border wall funds, previously allocated by Congress to construct a wall along the United States-Mexico border, on addressing “life, safety, [and] environmental,” issues.
[WIRE] New York City health officials sparked backlash with a series of public health signs posted around the city’s subway system encouraging intravenous drug users to be "empowered" — not by getting clean, but by taking steps to "use safely."
Parallel results are likely to found at the MACRO level as well. 
[WND] Joe Biden has told another of his stories in an address to the Naval Academy graduates.
My name is José Jiménez and I am an astronaut. 
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan...
...aka 
...The word 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed 
...The nation is noted for 
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
[IsraelTimes] Military says suspects taken for questioning after being detained by troops, doesn’t specify whether they had crossed border
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
