[GP] New Zealand — Dr. Cat Pausé, a Massey University ’fat studies’ lecturer died suddenly in her sleep this weekend. suffocated under her Bingo Wings?
Cat Pausé’s work focused on the impacts of "fat stigma" and made it her life’s mission to spread ’body positivity’ and health at every size.
Dr. Pausé, 42, described herself and her mission in her Twitter bio: "Fatlicious. Feminist. Glorifying obesity since ’09. Tearing down white supremacy w/my fat fingers. Friend of Marilyn pod. Sociology, Public Health, Fat Studies"
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Gave her a Viking Funeral. It burned for two months
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Mother o' gawd, them poor pigs... though the fireworks and ceremony were pure time travel, for which thanks.
Also...
Two lovers, Tyrone and José,
Turned up at Cat's funeral today --
"How badly we'll miss you,
[sniff] adipose tissue!" --
But, sadly, her girlfriends were gay.
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Since they leak like a bucket with a hole in it, especially if it politically beneficial to the establishment, one can assume that the suspects are very damaging to the narrative and is not white male heterosexual christians.
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Or that all of them are hoaxes, which seems usually to be the case these days.
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Jussie Smollet was released a few days ago. Any correlation there?
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Or that all of them are hoaxes
That is the safe bet. But what if this is another supply chain disruption - what if there are simply not enough hate crimes to go around and people are forced to create fake hate crimes to call attention to all the hate crimes going on?
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They could be legitimate threats by wacko racists, fake threats by wacko racists or racist-ish types, or false flag threats by Smollet/Sharpton types. Statistics of late suggest the latter, but if I trusted the FBI I would at least agree with pursuing investigation of the other possibilities.
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The point to be made is that the FBI is NOT to be trusted. Their cred was squandered the last couple decades+. I wouldn't talk to one if I didn't do anything but didn't have an atty present.
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We saw the same in 2017 when Jewish community centers in US and UK.
If I’m thinking if the same bomb threats, Rex Mundi, they were real threats called in by an autistic Israeli lad, for which he was paid by his darknet friends. And for which he went to jail.
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However, many of these bomb threats turned out to be suspected attention seeking hoaxes acording to some local paper / media reports.
Regarding FBI in general... I am still of the mind set there only few ROUGE agents and they hold the higher level positions. There needs to be a serious house cleaning in ALL Federal Agencies of subversives, political agenda focsed staff and anti-USA Staff.
[FoxNews] Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., contends Democrats have a stake in digging for more details about the FBI breaking its own rules to probe elected officials, political candidates, religious organizations and the news media.
The FBI conducted an internal audit, a highly redacted version of which came to light earlier this month, that found 747 "compliance errors" across 353 separate cases in the category of "sensitive investigative matters." The bureau acknowledged the 2019 audit findings were "unacceptable."
While the FBI has faced increased scrutiny in recent years for alleged politicized investigations into former President Donald Trump, the problems apparently are much broader and likely go beyond the report, said Biggs, a member of the House Judiciary Committee.
"It possibly includes information about the surveillance of candidate Trump and later President Trump. But this is almost 750 compliance problems in 350 cases," Biggs told Fox News. "The next step is to call on the committee to have a hearing on this. If I was in the majority, I would want to get to the bottom of this. I suspect this conduct goes back for multiple administrations and has been an ongoing problem affecting members of both parties."
Biggs signed onto a March 21 letter with the House Judiciary Committee’s ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., to FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting an unredacted copy of the report, documents referring to or relating to the audit, an explanation of whether the FBI resolved the matters and a description of the FBI’s predicate to open investigations into politicians, religious groups and others named in the audit.
Biggs said, as of Thursday, he has not received a response to the letter of inquiry.
He added that if the Democratic-controlled House doesn’t investigate the matter and is unwilling to compel production of documents and testimony from the FBI, then a new Republican House majority will be ready to investigate and hold hearings in 2023.
[SanDiegoTimes] The Navy on Saturday christened its 73rd Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, a 9,500-ton warship named for a World War II Marine hero and headed to San Diego.
The future USS Jack H. Lucas honors a 17-year-old private who fell on two grenades during the Iwo Jima campaign to protect nearby Marines. Lucas survived the blasts, received the Medal of Honor and lived until 2008.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday delivered the principal address as the christening took place at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding on the Gulf of Mexico in Pascagoula, MS.
In a time-honored Navy tradition, the ship’s sponsors, Lucas’ widow Ruby Lucas and nonprofit leader Catherine B. Reynolds, christened the ship by breaking a bottle of sparkling wine across the bow.
The ship is the first of 20 advanced "Flight III" destroyers under contract. Among the upgrades compared to previous Arleigh Burke destroyers is special radar to allow the ship to shoot down ballistic missiles.
The destroyers are armed with a 5″ main canon, anti-antiaircraft guns, 96 missiles of various types in vertical launch tubes, torpedoes and two helicopters.
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17-year-old private who fell on two grenades...Lucas survived the blasts
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I posted a long narrative of my troubles with the boost here a couple of weeks back
I know that CMS knew the side effects and sent me emails daily asking about mine and my side effects were exactly the same as the selections they offered to me
They know what the side effects are
[JustTheNews] Sounding ever more a candidate seeking the White House again, former President Donald Trump on Saturday night attacked Democrats as a party of “socialists and communists” so extreme that they chose a Supreme Court nominee who “can't even say what a woman is.”
“A party that's unwilling to admit that men and women are biologically different in defiance of all scientific and human history is a party that should not be anywhere near the levers of power in the United States," Trump told a raucous rally in rural Georgia.
In a 90-minute speech, Trump also rallied Republicans to get behind gubernatorial candidate David Perdue and football star-turned-Senate candidate Herschel Walker and to defeat incumbent GOP Gov. Brian Kemp.
“Before we can defeat the Democrat socialists and communists, which is exactly what we’re running against at the ballot box this fall, we first have to defeat the RINO sellouts and the losers in the primaries this spring,” the former president said, using his favorite acronym for Republicans in Name Only.
Trump’s speech was far-reaching, touching on everything from the transgender movement’s push for biological males to compete against females to Vladimir Putin, who he said was “smart” but made a major miscalculation invading Ukraine.
"That's a hell of a way to negotiate, put 200,000 troops on the border," Trump said of Putin. "That was a big mistake, but it looked like a great negotiation. That didn't work out too well for him."
But America’s 45th president saved some of his sharpest words for President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson, seizing on a moment in her confirmation hearing where she declined Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s request to give a definition of a woman.
"The left has become so extreme that we now have a justice being nominated to the Supreme Court who testified under oath that she could not say what a woman is," Trump ssid. "If she can't even say what a woman is. How on earth can she be trusted to say what the Constitution is?"
[GatewayPundit] According to the latest data from the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Covid infection rate among vaccinated children aged 5-11 is now higher than it is among their unvaccinated peers for the first time since the data started being collected.
The flip has been in the making for months, as the infection rate for vaccinated children has been creeping closer to the rate of unvaccinated cases for quite some time, eventually surpassing the latter in the week ending on Feb 19th.
Despite a meteoric drop-off in cases — over 10× in just a month — the vaccinated case rate lept above the case rate for the unvaccinated.
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No one leaves a CDC data link, but, "The Epoch Times" and "Gateway Pundit" are being referenced as accessing the CDC for this "data" and Rantburg is reporting it.
This is horseshit and you guys falling for these putrid propaganda stories need to at least start growing up.
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The posted Gateway Pundit article does indeed link to an Epoch Times article. If you do the free sign in to the Epoch Times, you’ll open the premium article, which yields this CDC link; that should contain exactly the information you want, Omaing Stalag1261. I look forward to reading your analysis of it, my dear.
Hours after President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power," Secretary of State Antony Blinken made clear the United States does not have a plan for regime change in Russia.
"I think the president, the White House, made the point last night that, quite simply, President Putin cannot be empowered to wage war or engage in aggression against Ukraine or anyone else," Blinken said Sunday during a press conference in Jerusalem.
"As you know, and as you have heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia or anywhere else, for that matter," he said.
Julianne Smith, U.S. ambassador to NATO, also reaffirmed Sunday that the U.S. is not pursuing regime change in Russia.
[GatewayPundit] "Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand," Gates said. "So for meat in the middle-income-and-above countries, I do think it’s possible."
From Gates’ interview with Technology Review, via The Hill:
"I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef," Gates said when asked about how countries can help to reduce methane emissions when it comes to food production. "You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time.
"To help combat methane emissions produced by livestock." "Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand," Gates said. "So for meat in the middle-income-and-above countries, I do think it’s possible." All about controlling our food supplies.
Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States.
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Ugh. Green premium that tastes wrong? Nobody will want it, and eating real meat will signal good taste. Put enough external pressure on it — regulation, social media control — and eating real meat will become a mark of wealth and success, too. At which point the poor will start raising rabbits and guinea pigs for meat, feeding them on kitchen scraps.
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Bill Gates needs to be disabused of the notion that he can tell anybody what to eat and what not to eat. His billions do NOT give him that right.
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After enough vodka I can't tell the difference from the cheap crap... After enough vodka I probably won't care if it's real or fake meat - if I even bother to try to eat it...
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synthetic meat is a really, really difficult task
vegetable protein to make a meat substitute is much easier - Impossible Meats and Beyond Meat have already produced 3rd generation products - still not as good as real beef but getting closer with each improvement
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This is what happens when leftists worm their way anywhere close to public policy--they have ZERO opposition to mandating their personal opinions to become universal law.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", formally boycotts vote, but some members still competing across region; Paleostinians have not seen national elections for over a decade and a half
Paleostinians in major cities across the West Bank headed to the ballot box on Saturday to vote in a second round of local elections, a rare democratic moment in the Paleostinian Authority.
Around 234 slates fought it out in 50 cities including Ramallah, Hebron, and Jenin. Another 23 municipalities saw a single list running unopposed, according to Paleostinian elections chief Hanna Nasser.
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[IsraelTimes] The head of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev says an Islamist cell that operated "modesty patrols" and threatened students has been uncovered at the school in Beersheba.
According to Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, the group was made up of three people who "photographed female Bedouin students and sent the pictures back to their clans if they were not modest enough."
"How did we discover this? Because they complained," he says during a cultural event in the southern city. "It’s a complicated situation societally because they can’t complain publicly."
"Just as there are modesty patrols in Mea Shearim that if there’s a Haredi man or woman not behaving properly, they threaten them," he says, adding the group also photographed male Bedouin students.
"They threaten to send the photos if they don’t change their behavior."
Chamovitz says the school "dealt with" the issue, but refuses to say whether the members of the cell still study at the university.
He also says that when the university learned about the cell, "we were startled, Jews and Arabs both."
[IsraelTimes] The governor of Ukraine’s Lviv region says a man has been detained on suspicion of espionage at the site of one of the two rocket attacks that rattled the city today.
Maksym Kozytskyy says police found the man had recorded a rocket flying toward the target and striking it. Police also found on his telephone photos of checkpoints in the region, which Kozytskyy says had been sent to two Russian telephone numbers.
Rockets hit an oil storage facility and an unspecified industrial facility, wounding at least five people. A thick plume of smoke and towering flames could be seen on Lviv’s outskirts hours after the attacks.
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I believe they may have captured an FO (forward observer).
Saying nothing about his being captured and exploiting his mission, phone, contact times and voice, might have been a more prudent approach. You can be reasonably certain he would have cooperated.
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My guess is the actionable exploitation of his information and technology has already been accomplished and after a rather bumpy descent, his physical being has assumed room temperature, perhaps with visual cues pour encourager les autres!
[OneIndia] Writer-director Sudipto Sen said recently that nearly 32,000 girls from Kerala and Mangaluru from Hindu and Christian families have been converted to Islam. Many of them have been trafficked 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.... and other Islamic war zones in the past 10 years. Most of them end up in Syria, Afghanistan or such countries he added.
Last week, it was announced that movie called The Kerala Story by Vipul Amrutlal Shah and Sudipto Sen is in the making and will be released soon.
The issue had been brought to light by the National Commission for Women Chairperson, Rekha Sharma in 2017 when she said that the situation is Kerala is alarming as it is not just religious conversion but also organised human trafficking that is taking place. I have asked the DGP of the state to look into the role of some organizations, their source of funding as these are playing a big role in forceful conversions, she also said.
It is a terrible problem and has been going on for long an official tells OneIndia. At an adult held in Pathanamthitta in 2019, a 26 year girl narrated her story on how she was faced to join the Islamic State. She said when she refused, she was tortured.
In 2018, the National Investigation Agency had arrested one Muhammad Riyaz on the ground that he was forcibly trying to covert his wife. It was also alleged that he was planning to sell her off as a sex slave.
The plight of many girls in Kerala who have been subject to conversions and then trying to be sold off as sex slaves is quite similar to what the Yazidi women faced at the hands of the Islamic State.
Laila Khoudeida, secretary of the Yazidi Organisation who also works to provide mental and behavioural health services to the distraught Yazidis in an exclusive conversation with OneIndia had said scores of Yazidis had been killed by the ISIS. The ISIS termed the Yazidis as Devil worshippers and many women had been taken as sex slaves. The issue of the women has to also be treated as a special and unique case that requires immediate medical attention. A comprehensive psychological evaluation is important to be completed on each female victim of sexual violence and rape so as to prevent the risk of suicide attempts, she had said.
Last July, the Assam police revealed a larger plot when it learnt that several girls from the state were being trafficked to Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. The police while naming Muzzaful Haque and Rakbul Hussain as the main accused also managed to rescue several victims from a lodge in Kerala.
In an 8,000 page chargesheet filed by the NIA against Areeb Majeed who returned from the crutches of the ISIS, the agency while quoting him said, Indians are treated as sex slaves.
As Sen pointed out even Christian girls in Kerala have been subject to the same torture. In 2012, the Global Council of Indian Christians had warned Christians about this growing problem. The Commission for Social Harmony and Vigilance of the Kerala Catholic Bishops Council reported that there had been been around 2,868 victims of forcible conversion in Kerala between 2006 and 2009.
The National Commission for Minorities had written to the Union Government stating that Christians were soft targets for Islamic gunnies in Kerala.
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A civilized society would have exterminated these vermin long ago
[Dawn] A soldier was martyred and six terrorists, who were linked to the blast in Lahore's Anarkali area on January 20, were killed during an exchange of fire in the general area of Nagao Mountains in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Sibi, the military's media affairs wing said on Saturday.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces had launched an operation to apprehend Lions of Islam in Nagao Mountains after receiving information about their presence in the area.
"Once the troops started [a] clearance operation in the area, [the] Lions of Islam tried to escape from their hideout and opened fire on security forces," the ISPR said in a statement.
Six Balochistan Nationalist Army terrorists, including Naseebullah Bangalzai alias Jahangir, Pir Jan and Rakai Kalhoi, were killed in the ensuing exchange of fire, the ISPR said, adding they were involved in recent "security incidents" in Sibbi and linked to the blast in Lahore's Anarkali area on January 20.
Three people were killed and over 30 injured in the Anarkali blast, which law enforcement agencies had initially declared a gas cylinder explosion. But later investigations had confirmed that it was a kaboom
During the operation in Turbat, "a valiant son of the soil, Sepoy Nisar embraced shahadat (martyrdom) while another two soldiers got injured", the ISPR said.
According to the ISPR, arms and ammunition were seized from the Lions of Islam that they intended to use for "disrupting peace and security in the area".
"Security forces, in step with the nation, remain determined to thwart attempts at sabotaging peace, stability and progress of Balochistan," the ISPR said.
Earlier this month, security forces had killed seven Lions of Islam in Turbat's Gorchop area in Balochistan during an intelligence-based operation.
[Dawn] Unknown button men killed a bad boy commander in Azam Warsak area of South Wazoo tribal district on Thursday night, police and witnesses said.
The witnesses said that attackers driving a non-custom paid car opened fire on Mr Bakhan in front of a shop in Azam Warsak, some 15 kilometres from Wana, the district headquarters of South Waziristan. He died instantly.
No group has grabbed credit for the attack.
Locals said that commander Bakhan had affiliation with the "good Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... " that had supported the government in operations against local and foreign bully boyz in South Waziristan.
Presently, they said, he had formed his own faction code-named 24 Group comprising youth of the area.
[Khaama] Send us money
United Nations World Food Program has said that they keep providing food for people in Afghanistan but lack of funds is threatening their operations in the country.
WFP in a Twitter post said still half of the Afghan population-23 million people- need emergency food assistance.
"Every day, WFP convoys are on the road- through snow and in freezing temperature- to bring food to people across Afghanistan." Reads the Tweet.
This is the first time the UN aid agency is complaining about the dearth of money for providing food in Afghanistan as 97 percent of people in Afghanistan are under the poverty line and in desperate need of assistance.
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And yet, Antonio Gutteres looks well fed and soaked in wine to me.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:20 The Kirovsky district of Donetsk was hit by the GRAD MLRS. As a result of an artillery strike from GRAD multiple launch rocket systems on civilians in the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk, residential buildings, civilian infrastructure and agricultural facilities were damaged.
21:16 APU struck from the MLRS on two streets in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. As a result of shelling from Ukrainian Gradov, houses of civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk were damaged. Damaged Khersonskaya street and Dynamo street
21:07 In Rovenky, according to preliminary information, Tochka-U was shot down. Civilians report the fire of two houses.
21:00 Over the past day in the struggle for independence, six defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic died in the line of military duty and 22 were injured.
20:38 Alexander Oprishchenko visited the Regional Intensive Care Hospital in Mariupol. The minister held a meeting with the staff of the institution, whose employees continue to provide the necessary medical care, perform surgical interventions, take births.
Alexander Oprishchenko expressed his gratitude to the doctors, discussed problematic issues in the work. For the work of the institution and local residents, the Ministry of Health provided the supply of water, bread, medicines and disinfectants. Patients were examined by doctors from healthcare institutions in Donetsk. Provided advice to those in need. Also, 14 people were evacuated by ambulance teams.
20:06 Guys from the Off-Road Club of Donbass take ou twounded children from Mariupol. The family came under sniper fire from the nationalists. So Azov "escorts" the civilians of the city.
19:47 People's militia of the LPR continues evacuation of civilians from the city of Rubezhnoye.
19:45 At the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured in Marinka, not only the flag of the Right Sector (the organization is banned in the Russian Federation), but also stripes with the flags of Canada and Great Britain were found. By words Izvestia correspondent Valentin Trushnin, this indicates the involvement of foreign mercenaries.
19:44 Basurin: In Mariupol, a group of Ukrainian nationalists has been driven out of residential areas and blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant. For the Nazis, this is the end, given that the perimeter of the plant is blocked by units of the Russian Army and the forces of the DPR.
19:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of the Trudovskaya mine): six mines fired with a caliber of 120mm - STsKK.
19:14 The forces of the Donetsk People's Republic on Saturday blocked Ukrainian nationalists in the Mariupol industrial zone - the representative of the people's militia Eduard Basurin
19:05 In the Petrovsky district, the private sector suffered as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The fire was fired from the side of Maryinka, the BM-21 GRAD MLRS systems were used.
19:00 Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR took under protection the Luhansk TPP, which is a strategically important infrastructure facility in the energy sector. Earlier, the Ukrainian side argued that the Lugansk TPP does not belong to paramilitary facilities, the finds on the territory of the TPP say something else:
- 6 shots for RPG;
- 6 jet boosters СР-91;
- 324 shots VOG-30;
- 656 rounds of 14.5 mm caliber.
In addition, ammunition with foreign markings was found, which once again indicates the presence of foreign weapons in the VFU.
18:36 DPR Special Forces working on the perimeter of Azov-Stal. Today, the @wargonzo project managed to almost come close to the territory of the Azovstal enterprise, where militants from the Azov battalion settled down. Neo-Nazis still hold a few adjoining high-rise buildings, but in general, the perimeter of the plant has already been taken under the control of the People's Militia of the DPR and the Russian Armed Forces. Our special forces have only a few buildings left to clear, which the Nazis have made their outpost.
18:25 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions: n.p. Trinity - n.p. Ozeryanovka: 58 AGS grenades fired; n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Beam: 25 AGS grenades were fired, small arms were also used.
17:41 On the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received from the Ministry of Health of the DPR about the wounding of twelve civilians, including four children, from the previously liberated part of Mariupol.
17:31 Residents of Mariupol talk about how Ukrainian nationalists fired at them: “This is hell, Azov was shooting at us, I personally saw it.”
17:12 “We gave birth to women, and then lowered them into the basements” - Tatiana Bolyuk, junior nurse at the maternity hospital in Volnovakha tells about how she and her colleagues worked while the UAF used the city as a battlefield. And her mother, who lives nearby, talks about how Ukrainian tanks “drove around the hospital” and hid behind her building, hiding from return fire.
17:00 In the liberated Genichesk Russia starts pay pensions and social benefits to state employees. People are given 10 thousand rubles each.
16:58 Another 183 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye: during the day on March 26, from 08:00 to 16:00, 183 people, including 50 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye of the Novoazovsky District, reports the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR.
16:49 They are coming to Mariupolcolorsfor residential areas. It is hard for the Russian military to clear the territory from the Nazis, since there may be civilians in the houses. The Azov people do not enter into open battle, they use the tactics of using the residential area as a cover.
16:33 Russian military caught Ukrainian commander - deputy chief of staff of the Ukrainian 503 Separate Naval Infantry Battalion, who tried to leave Mariupol. According to him, their battalion broke up into groups, the rest of the team tried to get out of the encirclement about two days ago.
16:24 Servicemen from South Ossetia left for Donbass to participate in a Russian special operation. This was announced by the President YuO Bibilov.
16:22 In the liberated village of Verkhnetoretskoye, Russian sappers have begun demining.
16:21 Over Lisichansk in the Lugansk region was supposedly hit by a Ukrainian rocket Tochka-U.
15:40 Employees of the criminal-judicial department of the General Prosecutor's Office of the LPR organized and delivered a humanitarian help in the city of Happiness. Residents were given food (cereals, pasta, butter, sugar, canned food, juices), sweets for children were also given.
15:17 Conduct a thorough searches of columns leaving Mariupol. Apparently, they are looking for the runaway mayor of the city. Previously, several Nazis from Azov managed to escape from the city in a similar way, it became known after the cowardly Nazis began to brag on social networks, posting photos that they had left in ambulances and in hearses under the bodies of corpses. Most likely now all columns will be so carefully checked. None of the Azov terrorists will leave the city again.
14:45 As a result of the shelling of the Gorlovsky village of Zaitsevo from the side of the VFU, a house fire was recorded along Poletaeva Street - the head of the city of Prikhodko.
14:31 “Ukrainian armed formations daily carry out artillery strikes on the infrastructure of Pervomaisk. There is an extermination of the inhabitants of the LNR, a genocide is taking place, they (the Armed Forces of Ukraine) are driven into a corner like rats and are trying to do as much harm as possible, ”said officer of the LPR representation in the JCCC Viktor Matveev.
14:28 Ukrainian punisher in Dmitrievka shot a civilian from a machine gun, trying to steal a car.
“25 years old boy. In Dmitrievka, he was bringing us firewood and water to the basement in his car. And some wandering Ukrainian soldier jumped out and hit the car with a machine gun.” About it told resident of the village of Donskoye Alexander.
“We could barely take them to Donetsk. A vertebra was broken, two lungs were shot through. Just screwed up. He probably wanted to run away from the village.
14:27 Daily summary of the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on March 26, 2022: During the joint operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, the group of DPR troops continues to liberate the settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic, which were previously under the control of the VFU. Currently, there are battles for Maryinka, Novomikhailovka and Novobakhmutovka. Measures are being taken to clean up Verkhnetoretsky.
14:26 APU attacked Horlivka. Artillery of Ukrainian militants smashed houses along Velikan Street in the Central City District of Gorlovka.
14:25 “Kill them on the spot. No capture! Women who came under fire from the Armed Forces of Pervomaisk told what kind of reception awaits the captured soldiers in the city. “Idiots! Don't feel sorry for anyone. Let them bring them here. Our May Day women will give for children, and they will give for everyone,” added a resident of the city.
14:10 "When will this end, you scum!" A resident of Pervomaisky about the brutal shelling of the peaceful sector by the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “In 14, my wife, daughter and granddaughter were killed. They put three. For what? That's horrible", -added Man.
13:46 DPR fighters fire at positions of the Ukrainian army from anti-tank systems in the Horlivka region.
13:17 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received from the DPR Ministry of Health about the wounding of nineteen civilians, including four children, from the previously liberated part of Mariupol.
13:13 The Russian military are fighting for the settlements of Novomikhailovka and Novobakhmutovka in the Donbass, said Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov.
12:53 Fighters from the Nazi battalion "Azov" changed combat tactics. Having changed into civilian clothes, they infiltrate in pairs, a sniper and a machine gunner, into the urban territory liberated by the forces of Russia and the DPR in order to open fire from there. Therefore, the fighters of the NM of the DPR and the RF Armed Forces have to re-comb the previously cleared quarters of Mariupol.
12:18 VFU shelled the Kvartal 88 microdistrict, which is in the Central City district of Gorlovka. A direct hit of a shell on a private sector house at 57 Mozhaisky Street was recorded. Details are being clarified - Prikhodko.
11:33 In the DPR, for 36 days of escalation, as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 64 civilians were killed, another 583 were injured, the representative office of the republic in the JCCC reported.
11:17 The JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.
11:08 The people's militia of the DPR destroyed 64 Ukrainian nationalists in a day, captured 16 people and seized several units of military equipment. This was announced by the Deputy Head of the NM DNR Eduard Basurin.
11:00 DPR forces, with the support of the Russian army, liberated 132 settlements - the headquarters of the defense. During the day they released: Aslanovo, Khersones, Kellerovka, Yalta, Yuryevka, Azov, Melekino, Belosaraiskaya Spit, Buryakovaya Balka, Portovskoye, Glubokoe, Ogorodnoye, Demyanovka, Urzuf, Kamyshevatoe, Starodubovka, Krasnaya Ukraine, Zakharovka, Babakh-Tarama, Novoyanisol, Lesnoye , Shallow, Zaporozhye, Bakhchevyk, Druzhnoye, Abundant, Regimental, Kirovskoye, Privolnoe, Vesele (Volnovakhsky district).
10:51 Construction materials have been delivered to the liberated Stary Krym to restore infrastructure.
10:50 Over the past day, one civilian of the DPR was killed, 54 civilians were injured of varying severity (51 from previously liberated territories), including 4 children.
10:48 Shelling from the side of the VFU in the settlement was recorded. Nevelskoye - n.p. Staromikhaylovka: fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm. — SCCC.
10:44 Nazis from "Azov" made homemade ammunition to kill the citizens of Donbass. The militants, having learned about the approach of the troops of the People's Militia of the DPR, left their military units in fear, which were located in the vicinity of the city of Mangush. Now the bases of Ukrainian nationalists are completely have crossed under the control of the NM DPR.
10:42 "Don't be afraid, speak Russian!" - such posters appeared on the territories of the LPR liberated from Ukrainian invaders.
10:39 The authorities of the DPR in the liberated territory of the Republic provided more than 3,000 people with payments: from March 7 to March 25, pensions were paid to 2,952 recipients in the liberated settlements, 368 people received social benefits.
10:36 The work of police departments has been organized in Mariupol. Addresses of the temporary location of the district police departments of the Mariupol Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR:
Ilyichevsk Regional Department of the Mariupol Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR: Sartana village, per. Club, 8b:
Ordzhonikidzevsky District Department of the Mariupol Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR: Vinogradnoe, st. Soviet, 38;
Zhovtnevy District Department of the Mariupol Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR: Mariupol, ave. Builders, 230;
Primorsky District Department of the Mariupol Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR: Melekino village, st. Gagarin, 8.
10:23 JCCC recorded the shelling of the settlement. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 4 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired.
10:12 Armed formations of Ukraine fired at N of the item. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): fired 5 mines with a caliber of 120 mm and n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: fired 5 mines in 120 mm caliber. — SCCC.
09:50 AFU shelled the settlement Novomikhailovka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 14 shells of 122mm caliber were fired. — SCCC.
09:22 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received from the DPR Ministry of Health about the wounding of twenty-four civilians (of which three are children) from the previously liberated part of the settlement. Mariupol.
09:08 The JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
n.p. Zhovanka - n.p. Zaitsevo South: fired 3 mines with a caliber of 120mm;
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): 18 mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
08:27 Ukrainian armed formations fired on the Gorlovsky village of the mine named after. Gagarin from heavy weapons. Shell explosions were recorded behind the Galaktika shopping center - Prikhodko.
08:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): 6 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired. - SCCC.
07:00 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 2 shelling was recorded on 2 settlements of the LPR: n.p. Pervomaisk damaged nine multi-storey buildings and the Central Library of Pervomaisk - the representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
05:55 AFU fired at the settlement Petrivske (Ukr. Stepovoe) - n.p. Yasinovataya: 40 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad - STsKK.
00:30 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: eight shells of 152mm caliber were fired. — SCCC DPR.
The #US calls for tougher UN #sanctions after #NorthKorea tested its biggest intercontinental ballistic missile, with Kim Jong Un vowing to expand his country’s “nuclear war deterrent” while preparing for a “long-standing confrontation” with the US.https://t.co/4qm1cY3eJh
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[RIA Novosti] In recent years, the Kiev authorities have been consistently implementing the plan of Western intelligence services to resettle nationalist-minded residents of Western Ukraine to the Russian-speaking regions of the country, ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said in an interview with the Ukraina.ru portal.
Thus, Kiev and the West sought to weaken pro-Russian sentiment in the southeast of the country.
"After the coup d'état, the implementation of a special program of Western intelligence services for the resettlement of Bandera, Nazis, in the eastern lands of Ukraine began. This has never happened in Kharkov! How many neo-Nazi groups are now in Kharkov.
<...> The entire Southeast! Odessa! Odessa has never there were so many Bandera neo-Nazis," Azarov said.
He also noted that the placement of combat positions of nationalist formations in residential buildings in Mariupol shows that the radicals consider this city a stranger to them.
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And yet, it was Russian speaking Ukrainians who put up the strongest defense. Investigating and doxxing saboteurs, intercepting chatter, negotiating with Russian troops to give up and run off, creating disinformation to be sent to the commanders that got them trapped and killed.
How many problems would not exist in the world if 'western intelligence services' just admitted they were not intelligent? I will make a list in my spare time.
Escalation in the mutual shelling between the government forces and the opposition forces, amid the flight of Russian reconnaissance planes in #Syria’s northwest. #HTShttps://t.co/p6U3HvqiHK
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 26, 2022
[Garowe] Qali Mohamud Gulad, the mother of slain National Intelligence Security Agency [NISA] cyber security chief Ikran Tahil, now says the death of Amina Mohammed Abdi, an MP from HirShabelle, was intelligently planned and executed by state actors.
Amina Mohammed, a candidate for a third-term Member of Parliament, was killed in Beledweyne town in HirShabelle on Wednesday night in a suicide explosion to which al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... has taken responsibility. HirShabelle President Ali Gudlawe Hussein said over 50 people died in the attack.
But according to Qali Mohamud, the slain politician was targeted in the attack, noting that it was carefully planned by the people who were trailing her. She insists the MP bore the price of fighting for justice of her daughter, whose death caused ripples in Somalia last year.
Ikran Tahil went missing in June 2021 but her employer, NISA, would later say she was kidnapped and subsequently, executed by al-Shabaab hard boys. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the Somalia-based al-Qaeda linked group denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! And Abdi, 32, who died on Wednesday, joined Tahil's family in calling for justice both inside and outside parliament. The family directly accused Fahad Yasin and four other senior intelligence officials of allegedly being responsible for the NISA agent's death.
So fragile was Tahil's death that Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble sacked NISA boss Fahad Yasin, leading to a fierce confrontation between him and Farmaajo. The outgoing president would later reinstate Yasin as his National Security Advisor.
The death of the MP has also sparked outrage in Somalia, with former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud calling for an international probe while former HirShabelle leader Mohammed Abdi Waare terming it as an "liquidation" by Villa Somalia. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... Farmaajo termed it as a "terrorist" attack.
"A girl was away from us at first, but now our other daughter has been killed. Everyone who spoke out against the Ikraan case is being pursued," she said, adding that she offered her condolences to the victims.
Wednesday's explosions at Beledweyne town in the Hiraan region also leftover 108 people injured. Hours earlier, another attack at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu left close to 10 people dead, and al-Shabaab had taken responsibility.
Late Amina Mohammed Abdi and former parliamentarian Hassan Ali Abdi Dhuhul were buried in Mogadishu on Friday.
Terror attacks have intensified in the Horn of Africa nation despite assurance by security forces that security had been heightened to allow the country to hold peaceful elections. Somalia is yet to conclude elections, over a year later after the tenure of Farmaajo expired.
[IsraelTimes] Filming for Channel 12, Iranian dissident shows shopkeepers horrified by inflation, drug users and hookers; highlights double standards, despair, criticism of the regime
An Iranian dissident has filmed a series of reports from Tehran for Israeli television, depicting the country’s cratering economy, frustrated residents, drug abuse and prostitution.
Channel 12 said the first report in the series, broadcast on Sunday, marked the first time cameras working for Israeli television had operated in Iran
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The head of the #UN human rights team in #Ukraine says monitors have received more information about mass graves in the besieged port city of #Mariupol.https://t.co/B8KBKaPZWx
President Vladimir #Putin slams the West for discriminating against Russian culture, which he likens to #Nazi supporters burning books in the 1930s.https://t.co/tBFpcymSpk
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:41 In Odessa, at the direction of the governor, the Khadzhibey dam was mined, which the neo-Nazis plan to blow up, the RF Ministry of Defense reports. The dam retains the waters of the Khadzhibey estuary, located 7 kilometers northwest of Odessa. 21:36 Media reports about the strike on Lutsk.
21:32 Briefing Mayor of Melitopol Galina Danilchenko: All municipal services of the city are operating normally; On the territory of the air town, repair work is underway to restore the supply of electricity; Utilities debt as of March 1, 2022 will be written off;
The issue of reducing tariffs for utilities is being worked out. The decision will be announced later; On Sunday, from March 26 to March 27, Melitopol and the Melitopol region are moving the clock hands one hour ahead, to Moscow time.
21:28 The armed forces of Abkhazia are put on high alert because of NATO exercises in Georgia.
20:12 During the day, 91 military facilities of Ukraine were hit, including two command posts, 11 field warehouses with weapons and ammunition - the Russian Defense Ministry.
20:09 Three new explosions are reported in Lviv.
20:08 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus knows about 50 members of the "Belarusian battalion" in Ukraine, acting against Russia. Criminal cases have been initiated against the participants, according to the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime.
20:03 Over the Black Sea towards Sevastopol Ukrainian drone was shot down - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
20:01 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the number of military facilities destroyed since the start of the special military operation:
— 271 unmanned aerial vehicles,
— 1,627 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
— 167 multiple rocket launchers,
— 669 field artillery pieces and mortars,
— 1,474 units of special military vehicles.
19:43 In Irpin during the battle with the RF Armed Forces were liquidated militants from Georgia and Belarus Dato Gobejishvili and Dmitry Apanosovich.
18:38 They began to blame the head of the regional military administration for the missile attack on Lviv, who literally this morning reported on the delivery of fuel to the city and the absence of problems with it.
The head of the regional military administration was blamed for the missile attack on Lviv, who just this morning reported on the delivery of fuel to the city and the absence of problems with it
18:31 Three self-propelled guns "Msta-S" (two of which were destroyed), BMP-2 and Kamaz trucks of the RF Armed Forces in the city of Trostyanets, on which the Armed Forces have taken in counterattack from the Akhtyrka area.
17:39 Explosions in Lviv -report Ukrainian media.
17:25 Yesterday to the city of Izyumwentthe first convoy with humanitarian aid from Russia. Whatever you understand, the city has not yet been completely cleared, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are inflicting artillery strikes on it, but the humanitarian situation is such that it was impossible to wait.
Under the protection of the military police, five KamAZ trucks of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were carried out. Aid is being distributed from Gazelles, on which humanitarian aid has been loaded. Moreover, the distribution takes place in different areas in order to minimize the risk of falling under shelling.
16:39 Russian military helped humanitarian aid to foreign sailors: stew, cereals, condensed milk were brought to the port of Kherson. Kherson region more than a week ago came under the control of Russian troops.
16:12 Chernihiv is in operational environment Russian troops - the mayor of the city of Atroshenko.
15:10 Kherson returns to a peaceful way of life. Car washes began to operate in the city. The city continues to support security of Russian troops.
13:34 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed personnel destruction of the Ukrainian air defense system "Buk". Strike with high-precision missile weapons. They used the operational-tactical complex "Iskander".
13:00 In Kherson they stopped work on Ukrainian radio channels in the FM range. Residents of the city report that now only Russian radio channels are broadcast in this range.
12:50 The Ministry of Defense showed personnel mass surrender of officers of the armed forces of Ukraine - more than 60 people.
12:30 Another Ukrainian fighter jet has been confirmed destroyed. Ukrainian media have confirmed the loss of their next MiG-29 fighter. An obituary for the killed pilot, Major Dmitro Chumachenko, has been published. He was the flight commander of the MiG-29 fighters of the 204th tactical aviation brigade. The aircraft was destroyed on 23 March.
11:35 The head of the administration of the Kiev region said that Russian troops entered the city of Slavutych, not far from Chernobyl.
11:01 The crew of a small missile ship of the Black Sea Fleet from the Black Sea carried out a salvo start four cruise missiles "Caliber" on military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of a precise hit with high-precision weapons, an arsenal with weapons and military equipment was destroyed on the territory of the Zhytomyr region.
10:40 Russian troops were already seen in Slavutich itself.
10:37 Aleksey Smykov, a militant of the Ukrainian nationalist regiment "Azov"* (an organization banned in the Russian Federation), who voluntarily laid down his arms, called the vile tactics of his colleagues to use civilians as human shields.
10:26 High-precision cruise missiles "Caliber" destroyed a warehouse with ammunition and weapons in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Velikie Korovnitsy, Zhytomyr region - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
10:24 During the day, operational-tactical and army aviation hit 117 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: six command posts, three MLRS installations, one S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, nine warehouses with weapons and ammunition, two with fuel and lubricants, 92 strong points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, nationalist battalions and the military equipment concentration area - the Russian Ministry of Defense.
10:22 The high-precision Onyx cruise missile destroyed the fuel base in the Nikolaev region, from which the APU grouping in the southern part of Ukraine was supplied with fuel.
10:21 Russian air defense systems shot down three Ukrainian aircraft (two Su-25 and one Su-24), as well as six unmanned aerial vehicles in the air over the village of Vishnevoe, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. In addition, one tactical missile of the Tochka-U complex was destroyed near the village of Vasilievka.
09:10 Russian Defense Ministry publishes personnel destruction of the command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of the Ka-52. The armed forces used guided missiles of the Vikhr complex.
08:36 A missile hit the military base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zhytomyr. This was stated by the mayor of the city S. Sukhomlin.
07:00 The Russian army shot down seven Ukrainian military UAVs in the Chernihiv region near the Russian border.
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There is no Hitler in Ukraine. Mot even a Hitler manque or a Hitler wanna-be or a baby Hitler or a Hitler Starter Set™. There is a lot of moist panty pearl clutching going on in various places with the invocation of Hitler and nazis as an excuse.
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^ Anything in defense of Vlad's invasion
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It's funny how they completely ignore one entire side of the equation. But then paid trolls gotta troll.
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Sorry, but the term "Nazi" means nothing to me anymore. It was trotted out a couple of hundred times too many for me to take such charges seriously.
[DailyWire] On Thursday, President Joe Biden took questions from the press in Brussels, Belgium, after meeting with the G-7 alliance to discuss the Western world’s response to Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine. Biden confirmed speculation that food shortages caused by the war in Ukraine are going to impact much of the world in the year ahead.
“It’s going to be real,” Biden said at the news conference in reference to food shortages. “The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well.”
At the same time, “fertilizer prices have also seen more than their fair share of volatility as the war in Ukraine disrupts supply chains and alters demand,” he added.
“Russia, which supplies roughly ten percent of all fertilizer for American farmers, no longer allows such exports to the United States,” which adds to the problem, Phillips explained.
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"It's going to be real"
Was this lost in translation?
Or did his brain stop functioning when he mumbled "real..." -- perhaps he meant "real[ly] cool, man"? Or "really lucrative" for his family?
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This will be expanded in apocalyptic terms and when we have to pay 40% more for food, Joe will take credit for saving us from the famine ravaging everywhere else.
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Didn't also say something along the lines last year that the unvaxxed were going to suffer and die in great numbers during the winter?
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What are we going to do if 10 million hungry people show up on the border? Seriously, how would we deal with that when they just keep coming? Hungry people who can't feed their kids are dangerous, and million and millions of them know the way since their relatives are already here.
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Hungry strangers beating on my door or trying to break into my house are in a dangerous situation too...
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With BLM fading they need another source of riots to distract the proles.
"Beasley was keen to stress that it is not just a migrant crisis that Europe is running the risk of with the ongoing food crisis. The former Republican politician painted a picture of mass unrest in Africa, Europe, and the United States as a result of the ongoing crisis.
"What do you think is going to happen in Paris and Chicago and Brussels when there’s not enough food?” he asked. “It’s easy to sit on your high horse in your ivory tower when you’re not the one starving.”
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#9 That is a question from hell, and I sure don't have an answer. But if we had a rational government the first thing it would do is to preserve (or reestablish) our ability to determine who enters and who dosn't.
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What do you think is going to happen in Paris and Chicago and Brussels when there’s not enough food?
Well, the riche in those places will either leave (they can afford to and will always be welcome somewhere with their money) or stick it out to the extent that's possible. The bulk of the urban populace will do what? Leave on foot? Thumb a ride? Catch a bus or train? To where? When the SHTF you can bet non-urban areas will suddenly rediscover the joys and necessities of stringent anti-vagrancy laws. And it won't matter if the local political class and LE authorities are woke. If they want to remain in their positions, they will quickly discover that responsiveness to the demands of their constituents are hard to insulate themselves from.
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the first thing it would do is to preserve (or reestablish) our ability to determine who enters and who dosn't.
How do you suppose the Open Society types, WEF types and gerbalists will respond to that? We'll hear a lot of caterwauling about how preventing unregulated migration across borders is rayciss and so forth. Will we see, for example, blue helmeted UN "peace-keepers" breaching border fences or engaging in fire fights with border patrols? How long would the UN be able to remain headquartered in NYC if we had a US gummint that didn't dig that sort of activity?
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The complete fencing of the border with Mexico seems an imperative now. In the pre-Reagan era, the USBP actually had use of force protocols that included deadly force to stop suspected illegals, though rarely needed or used. The volume of entrants not caught was small enough that interior enforcement by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement held serious incursion numbers in check. Today, when enforcement is actually used at all, its mostly tackle football, if anything. It has become a flood of millions a year now, and they are filling urban areas to overflow, with rural spill over growing rapidly, visit any food bank, school cafeteria feeding large families or emergency room to see the proof of it. Since even non-lethal force at the border is almost impossible to contemplate in current political realities, only the physical barrier offers any immediate hope of preserving what is left of American sovereignty. We are rapidly being bled dry of remaining wealth by tolerance beyond all reason by demokrat elites who have no concept of real privation or want. But it is coming, hard, if they dominate our political system much longer.
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Putting his descent into end-stage Trump derangement syndrome aside, George Will made one incisive observation back in the day: Leftists see history as a ratchet rather than as a cycle or pendulum. Leftist aims, once achieved, can never be undone. That is why the left is on an obsessive mission to erase history. The past does not exist, only the deeply flawed and unjust present and the Glorious Utopian Future™ that only leftist policies can provide. What they do not bargain for is a future that involves a descent into a new dark age, Heinlein's "bad luck" or a spin of the cycle or swing of the pendulum that brings the exact opposite of what the left desires. We got a taste of it with Trump and given the right circumstances could get a bigger taste of it again. Imagine the diametric opposite of open borders, a legal system run for the benefit of criminals and rampant wokeness. Unlikely? Don't bet on it.
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‘It's Going To Be Real' Only for the little people. The important and smart people will not be effected.
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You know, we have this place called the American Midwest that grows LOTS of food. Any non-counterproductive government policy (I know. But a boy can dream.) would take advantage of this gift and assure enough food for us.
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We don't need the globohomos on the coasts. The interior of the US has everything an advanced economy needs. Fresh water, rich farmland, oil-gas-coal, hydroelectric power, advanced manufacturing of nearly everything, world-class huge public research universities with tons of STEM talent, the best medical facilities in the nation (Cleveland, Mayo Clinic, UTSouthwestern, Anderson in Houston etc).
Screw Biden and the climate change globalist nutjobs. Let the coasts fend for themselves
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The Chinese own 1/3 of American pork production.
As we saw once Covid hit, owning things on the far side of the ocean is easy. During troubled times, actually getting the owned stuff delivered as contracted can be problematic. Tit for tat and quid pro quo, sauce for the goose, reap what you sow.... so many ways to sat that China ought to consider its next steps carefully.
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Hutchison Whampoa (Chinese firm) “operates” the Panama Canal as I recall. They also are involved with the Suez authority but not to the same extent. Handy for the Chinese BRI project
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has lit up its historic landmarks with pictures of the leaders of Ansarullah movement and the flags of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... This coincides with the seventh anniversary of the Saudi-led war and in showcase of international solidarity.
Yemen’s ambassador to Iran, Ibrahim al-Dailami, published a series of photographs of the group’s founder Sayyid Hussein al-Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... and current leader Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, as well as that of martyred President Saleh al-Sammad and others.
The photographs were lit up in Azadi Square, one of Tehran’s most important squares.
The ambassador thanked the Municipality of Tehran for the move.
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"Congrats on your domestically-produced missiles and resistance™"
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[IsraelTimes] Members of Middle East Studies Association sign off on a resolution ’endorsing the Paleostinian call for solidarity in the form of boycotts, divestment and sanctions’.
An academic professional organization devoted to international study of the Arab world and Israel has voted to endorse boycotting Israel, in a resolution signed by thousands of professors and scholars worldwide.
Members of the Middle East Studies Association signed off on a resolution "endorsing the Paleostinian call for solidarity in the form of boycotts, divestment and sanctions," known as BDS.
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Lord Garth, MESA appears to be smaller than your numbers. From the MESA NA About page:
From its inception in 1966 with 51 founding members, MESA has increased its membership to more than 2,800 and now serves as an umbrella organization for more than fifty institutional members and thirty-six affiliated organizations.
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ASMEA had an in person conference in Nov 2021 at a big hotel and had a lot of papers presented and a lot of concurrent sessions. Probably several hundred to a thousand at the event.
MESA had a virtual conference in Nov 2021 also. MESA has numerous institutional sponsors (ASMEA didn't seem to have any). There were more sessions that the ASMEA but of course, virtual is different from in person. MESA says it will have in person conference in 2022.
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[NYPOST] The Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children raked in $3.9 million in 2020, but spent only a fraction of that on its purported mission to help kids, The Post has learned.
The Delaware-based charity, which was started in honor of President Biden’s late son, got an infusion of $1.8 million from the Biden Foundation before that group shut down in 2020, according to the charities’ latest tax filings. The Biden Foundation was started by Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. 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.... and his wife, Jill Biden, to champion "progress and prosperity for American families."
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And most likely those programs are the ones where kids are trafficked across our southern border and flown in unaccompanied in the dark of night to various cities.
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$544K spent on children / $3.5 mm income = 15.5% Quite an admirable record.
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^ Actually, lots of "charities" do even worse. The bar is pathetically low. In no way am I excusing this, however. It's the definition of venality. Scrooge would grimace.
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Beau was a JAG-off in Iraq, frequently cited by his corrupt "Big Guy" Father for any and every reason excluding inflation. That one's on Putin
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Beau was another crack/cocaine head (my gawd, what a f'ed up family).
But if the fire pits in Iraq gave him the cancer that killed him, then that is f'ed up on a different level (as a mensch).
[TOLO] "Send us money Endeavor to Persevere"
First Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said that the aid provided by international donors will alleviate urgent needs for a short period of time, but said that the ministries must work toward self-sufficiency.
Speaking at a ceremony held to celebrate the National Day of Farmers in the capital city of Kabul, Mullah Baradar said that a new agricultural plan will come into effect in the near future which will also benefit half of the Afghan population.
The new plan will pave the way "for irrigation of half of Afghanistan," he said.
"We must work day and night and immediately bring a system that makes Afghans self-sufficient," Mullah Baradar added.
The acting Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, Abdul Rahman Rashid, vowed that they have been empowered to prevent many land seizers from seizing the government lands.
The ceremony included an exhibition of Afghan-made products, where various types of products were displayed.
The exhibition was also attended by Afghan women who displayed their products.
"Our business has been broken. Our business has collapsed. Now, with this exhibition, we hope our business will get better," said Farishta Hashimi, a participant.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, around 75 percent of Afghans are making their income through agriculture.
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Amusing. Back to the State of Nature. Many small communities manage it. Some islanders and deep forest denizens too who like to be secluded from civilization. But that is not the objective.
The world is stupid today. Spinners and hustlers out of Londonabad will keep bombarding the world with news of how their money can make a difference until someone pays. Following which a steady channel may be established to 'support' Afghanistan's struggle with poverty.
Andropov should have finished off Afghanistan with two nuclear bombs. Islamic terrorism would have never been discovered. The natives were going to be miserable anyway. 9/11 may never have happened.
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Islamic terrorism would have never been discovered.
Islamic terrorism goes back to the Prophet Mohammad and the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs who followed him. It is commanded in the Koran as the method of jihad to most quickly bring unbelievers to surrender and conversion.
[SupermacroSubstack] Just when you thought that Washington couldn’t possibly concoct a worse foreign policy, President Joe Biden rose to the challenge—abetted by the Beltway uniparty. Democrats and Republicans alike seem to share the goal of putting America last.
On Saturday, in a speech in Poland, Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” For the first time since Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 and George W. Bush invaded Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein five years later, regime change is once again apparently U.S. policy.
This step is only the latest act of self-indulgent, imperious stupidity by Biden and the Harvard Kennedy School glee club running our foreign policy. A year ago, Biden blithely called Putin a “killer.” This month his administration accused Putin of being a war criminal. And now Biden is purporting to direct who can govern Russia.
Not since the Ottomans issued grandiose and widely ignored proclamations from the Sublime Porte in the last days of Constantinople has imperium been so pretentious and pathetic.
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This man is a menace. He is not of sound mind. His sick obsession is threatening the peace and prosperity of the planet and he is leading his nation off a cliff.
Remove Joe Biden from power. Before he destroys us all.
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Just when you thought that Washington couldn’t possibly concoct a worse foreign policy, President Joe Biden rose to the challenge—abetted by the Beltway uniparty. Democrats and Republicans alike seem to share the goal of putting America last.
He's to be pitied. His brain is decrepit. He does not understand that the art of negotiation requires carrots and sticks: Richard Nixon understood this well. For poor braindead Joe Biden there is no stick and no carrot, only words. So many words: "Killer!" "War criminal!" "Bad person!"
"Joe Biden went to Europe and advocated for a nuclear power's regime change, and then 10 minutes later his own White House had to contradict him. Seems like a big deal."
For sure. How much longer will they allow this cretin to utter such dangerous nonsense? Gag him and lock him in the attic before he does any more damage
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AP reports (via Twitter) that "After President Joe Biden declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power," a White House official asserted that the U.S. leader was "not discussing Putin’s power in Russia or regime change."
What kind of government operates like this? The head of state calls for regime change, and then his subordinates loudly and publicly contradict him. This is truly dangerous. The US needs to climb down and stop making these foolish and irresponsible pronouncements.
#5
Joseph Marionette Biden. He just says stuff. He doesn't have any real power. None of them do. The last guy thought he had power and you know where it got him. So they put a tool in office who needs notes and is led by the elbow to his meets.
When commissariats cut out the electorates and assume control of all decisions, the face of the party does not matter. Removing him requires them to find another flexible geriatric first. The disorganised nature of the Washington DC power structure was the problem. It was too representative. The Democrats have now solved it.
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This is the third time in the last few days that the American president made a reckless, outrageously provocative policy statement which his top aides were forced to walk back. He said he'd put US troops in combat in Ukraine -- triggering WW III. He said he'd use chemical weapons. He's pledged to overthrow Putin as if he were CornPop.
And every time, his advisers jumped in and said that this degenerate somehow meant the OPPOSITE of what he plainly said
#7
That's what I'm trying to tell you. He didn't mean to. They are trying to keep him on script but he is of the old order and forgets he is not in charge sometimes. Or, they never told him. Which is more funny in a way.
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All excellent comments and all are accurate. Biden, Graham, the late McShame, and others in Washington are simply parroting the Deep State (DS) "regime change" process they've come to know and love. They are not in charge of anything, they are simply handmaidens of the DS.
They're the crooked cops, pretending to protect us from the evil doer's while pocketing graft and kickbacks for themselves.
By the way, they treat enemies of the DS, both foreign and domestic in the same manner. The 2020 presidential election is a good example of their regime change handiwork.
#9
Gag him and lock him in the attic before he does any more damage
Nope. Gotta think things through:
1) Jo-jo back in the basement
2) Kama-Kama-Kameleon back under Willie Brown's desk
3) Skeletor back in her crypt with some Absolute to keep her quiet.
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This Christian Whiton substack writer is brilliant. His diagnosis of Washington's insane obsession with regime change is very accurate:
"Biden and his enablers in both parties are being driven by the discredited fantasy that they can install neoliberalism and wokeness abroad, and that American power and money are limitless. Catastrophic failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria apparently haven’t given pause to the woke crusaders.
In fact, Ukraine has developed into something of their last stand. Quintessential globalist Anne Applebaum put it plainly in an article in The Atlantic: “Ukraine Must Win.” No amount of killing and destruction around the world will deter her quest:
“That goal [in Ukraine] should not be a truce, or a muddle, or a decision to maintain some kind of Ukrainian resistance over the next decade…”
Only elusive victory will do, damn the cost of people, money, or risk to America. Prolonging the war and subjecting Americans to the risk of a nuclear exchange with Russia for someone else’s dispute is worth not having to admit one’s world view is wrong.
If the globalists can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in their outpost of empire in Ukraine, which they tried to tilt westward through a successful coup in 2014, then the hundreds of thousands of corpses from their failed interventions and nation-building experiments won’t look so bad, or so they reason.
#11
That pretty well sums it up. Explains why Biden is doing everything wrong, in ways that are contrary to American interests. He's deliberately prolonging the war when it's in our interest to end it. He's punishing the entire world with self-destructive sanctions that are just screwing over Americans and taking the US economy. He's causing powerful nations all over the world to dump dollars, find ways to trade with Russia, and making them determined to bring an end to the dollar's reserve currency status.
Only some bizarre quasi-religious higher goal could possibly justify such an extreme spectacle of self-destruction. Washington's obsession with "regime change" for Unwoke Leaders We Don't Like explains this well.
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#10 Biden and his enablers in both parties are being driven by the discredited fantasy that they can install neoliberalism Catastrophic failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria apparently haven’t given pause to the woke crusaders.
Exactly. Crusaders of both parties. Neocons and neoliberals trying to make the world over and trashing everything they touch
Quintessential globalist Anne Applebaum
Neocon bitch. Deranged Russophobe constantly shilling for her husband's Poland
Prolonging the war and subjecting Americans to the risk of a nuclear exchange with Russia for someone else’s dispute is worth not having to admit one’s world view is wrong.
So much damage results from people in power refusing to admit when they screw up. The Iraq war and the covid debacle also come to mind.
#13
Pay no attention to that man behind the podium.
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I continue to disagree as to his state of decrepitude. He has been a semi coherent blowhard his entire career in public life, this is not new.
That and even glancing knowledge of the man and his criminal spawn would suggest that the family motto is 'Do you know who I am'. You think the boys are full of interesting hi-jinks, have a look at the niece, there's a heartwarming tale.
This nitwit's first impulse has ALWAYS been to bully. Remember some of his lusty interactions with voters on the campaign trail.
So now you have Putin in office until 2035, minimally, and however you might refer to this malignant imbecile calling him 'dictator', butcher', oh, and let's not forget 'war criminal'.
Good thing the adults are back and brought all their 'Smart Diplomacy' with them.
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#14 This nitwit's first impulse has ALWAYS been to bully.
Yes. Like all bullies, a shit talking coward
So now you have Putin in office until 2035, minimally, and however you might refer to this malignant imbecile calling him 'dictator', butcher', oh, and let's not forget 'war criminal'.
Mao Tsetung was the biggest butcher in history. Didn't stop Nixon and Kissinger from smiling and toasting him and singing his praises when it came time to seal a deal that would advance US interests.
Good thing the adults are back and brought all their 'Smart Diplomacy' with them.
These fuckwits are retarded children with no emotional control. Greta Thunberg is a sage by comparison
#19
This idiot has been talking nonsense for at least 13 years. He was the point man for Obama on Ukraine and he fucked it up back when the whole mess started, with the US coup in 2014. Biden's been saying stupid shit and off ever sense. Remember "limited incursion"?
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Niall Ferguson got it right. The Biden approach is a mixture of rank cynicism -- stoke the war, kill thousands -- and stupid wishful thinking about Russians miraculously rising up to overthrow Putin and replace him with a transgendered postmodern pro-American liberal. Ferguson on Twitter:
"People didn't pay enough attention to the evidence I presented last week about the cynical/optimistic plan to let the war keep going until there's regime change in Russia. So they were surprised by Biden's "gaffe."
#22
Yes, the problem goes way beyond Biden the marionette. The policy of trying to prolong the war is stupid and self-destructive. There is absolutely no chance that Putin will be overthrown. The sanctions are punishing us. These people are retarded. We will pay dearly for many years to come for their breathtaking incompetence m
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President Putin and the White House team fronted by President Biden both fully expected Ukraine to collapse within a few days. So did the cognoscenti running most of Europe.
So they were all comfortable talking tough on the assumption that they were not going to have to back it up.
Now they’re all in the distinctly uncomfortable and exposed position resulting from the fact that the Ukrainians are much tougher than predicted. Despite the deep corruption of Ukrainian politics and general society typical of former Soviet and Third World countries — including Mother Russia herself — the Ukrainians have thoroughly bloodied the Russian nose, and shown they’ll probably be ungovernable if the Russians don’t give up their quixotic quest to reestablish the Russian empire.
Whether or not Vladimir Putin is overthrown over this, President Biden will not be — that’s not how Americans do things. Hopefully the Republicans will take control of both Houses of Congress following the election in November, and continue the trend of adding more legislative seats and executive positions across the country at the state and local level. As an aside, note that Putin is now age 70, so his odds are poor of still running things in 2035.
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if the Russians don’t give up their quixotic quest to reestablish the Russian empire.
This is the flimsiest of all the straw man arguments put forth by the West's clueless analysts. There's no evidence whatsoever that this was ever Putin's goal. He stated clearly he wanted to destroy Ukraine's usefulness to NATO -- first, to "demilitarize ", Ukraine that is to render it neutral, and bomb the hell out of it ("wreck Ukraine" as John Mearsheimer says) so that it's now a basket case broken nation a la Palestine.
Second, to destroy the hold of the Ukrainian paramilitaries and shock troops on the Russian-speaking Donbas region. That's what Putin means by "de-Nazify": destroy the paramilitaries ie Azov, Praviy Sektor and the other neo-Nazi or far right military groups that have terrorized the Donbas for eight years.
Putin has achieved both of these goals. The Ukrainians have conceded in western interviews that Putin has won the south and completed his "land bridge" across Azov all the way to Crimea.
Putin never set out to "conquer" Ukraine or "restore the Soviet Union." These myths are just another example of how badly the US has fucked up its handling of this matter.
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Deleted your comments as requested, DooDahMan.
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No one who's been paying attention to this savage civil war during the last eight years could have underestimated the ruthlessness and savagery of Ukraine's far right paramilitaries. They have been killing and torturing Russians for eight years: over 10,000 butchered at their hands.
It's only ignorant and self-absorbed Americans who have failed to see that this is essentially a civil war that was triggered by the Obama administration's cynical coup plotters, Pyatt and Nuland née Nudelman. Like all civil wars it was always going to be ferociously fought tooth and nail, with horrific civilian deaths, on both sides. The "restore the USSR" narrative is embarrassingly stupid bullshit
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* yawns *
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The "restore the USSR" narrative is embarrassingly stupid bullshit
Putin did want to establish/expand what he called a Union State comparable to what is the Russian Federation now.
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Russian empire is not exactly the same as USSR. While covering the same physical territory, one was a totalitarian Socialist mess, while the other will be a perfect Volksheimat with Valodya as the Great Man perfect leader, protector of civilized Christendom from the Muslim horde.
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#32 The "restore the USSR" narrative is embarrassingly stupid bullshit
"Putin did want to establish/expand what he called a Union State comparable to what is the Russian Federation now. You can read it here"
I've read that before, thanks. It's totally consistent with my point. You actually misinterpreted it.
The subject of that extremely literate and well-informed discussion is not the territories that correspond the the former Soviet Union. He is focused on "the southwestern lands of the Russian Empire" only, ie what are traditionally known as "Little Russia" and "Novorossiya, Crimea."
In other words, that document understand less my point exactly. He was NOT interested in "restoring the USSR." He was totally focused on defining the relationship to Russian history of those particular "southwestern lands."
And note the specific emphasis on Crimea and Novorossiya. Crimea was restored in full to Russian control in 2014, and Novorossiya has now been restored to Russian control control the last month's campaign.
Thanks for proving my point.
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You really should read it more carefully. It's exceptionally balanced, moderate and well-argued. Here are three paragraphs that show how utterly misguided and destructive America's meddling in Ukraine in the Obama-Nudelman era was:
"Ukraine and Russia have been developing as a single economic system for decades, centuries. The depth of cooperation that we had 30 years ago could be the envy of the EU countries today. We are natural, mutually complementary economic partners.
"Such a close relationship is capable of enhancing competitive advantages and increasing the potential of both countries. And it was significant in Ukraine, it included a powerful infrastructure, a gas transportation system, advanced shipbuilding, aircraft construction, rocketry, instrument making, scientific, design, and engineering schools of the world level.
"Having received such a legacy, the leaders of Ukraine, declaring their independence, promised that the Ukrainian economy would become one of the leading, and the standard of living of people one of the highest in Europe.
He then describes the complete devastation Nd degradation of Ukraine during the period of gross corruption, plundering and manipulation by Ukrainian 'oligarchs,' their puppets like Zelensky, and American neocon conspirators and carpetbaggers:
"Today, industrial high-tech giants, which were once proud of both Ukraine and the whole country, lie on their [backs]. Over the past 10 years, the output of mechanical engineering products has fallen by 42 percent.
"The scale of de-industrialization and, in general, the degradation of the economy can be seen in such an indicator as the generation of electricity, which has almost halved in Ukraine over 30 years. And finally, according to the IMF, in 2019, even before the coronavirus epidemic, the level of per capita GDP in Ukraine was less than 4 thousand dollars. This is below the Republic of Albania, the Republic of Moldova and the unrecognized Kosovo. Ukraine is now the poorest country in Europe.."
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#35 Thanks for proving my point. My comment was an aside. And you're welcome.
My mistake! Sorry. Please revise my last comment to "You EVERYONE should read it more carefully..."
Thank you again (sincerely!). That's an exceptional document. A pity that the West's leaders aren't even half as literate and well-versed in history as the author of this document.
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It's exceptionally balanced, moderate and well-argued. Here are three paragraphs that show how utterly misguided and destructive America's meddling in Ukraine in the Obama-Nudelman era was:
I agree with the first sentence.
So, let me simplify it, so my feeble mind can comprehend:
Barky and his Barkettes fomented a coup in Ukraine in 2014. Russia moved to preserve his Black Sea Naval base in Crimea by taking over Crimea, and as a prelude to this war, sent FSB operatives and others to stir up a separate coup, and a subsequent civil war.
The missive, the link of which I posted, was Russia's cause of war.
China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia, sources say, heeding a government call for caution as sanctions mount over the invasion of Ukraine.https://t.co/5IdAzH72bO
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nice non-sequitur anonymous troll-guy. I don't believe Carlson's shared that love publicly, so perhaps it's just you in the privacy of yer Mom's basement?
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lots of weirdos around here lately... interesting
The Arab Coalition says it has destroyed a weapons warehouse in the vicinity of the Salif Port in Yemen after the Iran-backed Houthi militia transported weapons to it.https://t.co/95NoBw75jepic.twitter.com/S4urBH1n25
ICYMI: The Arab Coalition has launched airstrikes against the Houthis’ strongholds in #Yemen’s city of #Hodeidah after it gave them a three-hour deadline to remove weapons from the ports of Hodeidah and Saleef.https://t.co/95NoBw75je
[BenarNews] Troops killed a top-ranking Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
Radzmil Jannatul (also known as Khubayb), was killed in a clash with members of the elite Scout Rangers in the village of Baiwas on Friday afternoon.
Group leader during a shootout on the southern Philippine island of Basilan ...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts... , the military said Saturday.
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[IsraelTimes] If the Mideast Studies Association adopts the anti-Israel resolution, it will be the only academic group to do so — and then, most likely, it will quietly back down
The massive international response to the crisis in Ukraine should have shocked BDS
...the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, an international outreach effort by the PLO to Jew-hating social justice warriors which has waged economic warfare on Israel since 2005. Omar Barghouti is the public face of the thing...
activists to the core. Twenty-plus years into its efforts to single-out Israel and sever its cultural, economic, and academic ties with the rest of the world, BDS has nothing to show for its efforts. Not a single company, bank, or university has joined the effort. Those who have attempted even a semblance of a boycott (like Ben & Jerry’s recent refusal to sell ice cream in the West Bank), faced immediate backlash, hurried to distance themselves from BDS, and eventually walked back their boycotts. Most US states now have anti-BDS laws on their books, as does Congress. As I show below, even on the most politically active campus in the U.S., students are unfamiliar with BDS, are skeptical about the effectiveness of sanctions, and vehemently reject academic boycotts.
[DW] Bandit attacks using cycle of violences have increased in northwestern Nigeria leading to the loss of lives and properties. The region has a long history of bandidos raiding villages, conducting kidnappings and stealing cattle.
An increasing number of states in Nigeria's northwest have imposed bans on the movement of cycle of violences in an attempt to tackle a recent spate of deadly attacks carried out by criminal gangs known as bandidos.
The armed bandidos typically use cycle of violences to escape after carrying out their attacks, the latest of which was in Kaduna state last Sunday where at least 34 people were killed including two soldiers.
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[Korrespondent] 22:05 Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in his article, Russia has declared war on the West. How to win outlined the main steps of the West in the confrontation with the Russian Federation:
arm Ukraine "to the teeth" by making Putin's imperial restoration goals unattainable;
increase defense investment, including the US should rearm allies and partners, including Ukraine, with the help of a new Lend-Lease program;
to increase the number of NATO troops on the eastern flank in Europe;
sanctions should be in place until the Russian Federation leaves Ukraine and pays reparations;
the perpetrators of military atrocities in Ukraine must be punished.
In addition, in his opinion, it is necessary to prepare a plan for the restoration of Ukraine, in particular, at the expense of the assets of Russian oligarchs who financed Putin's aggressive policy.
22:00 The United States will provide Ukraine with another $100 million to "ensure border security, maintain law enforcement functions and protect critical infrastructure," Blinken said.
21:58 Today, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in addition to Trostyanets, liberated the settlements of Slavgorod and Krasnopolye in the Sumy region, MP Goncharenko said.
21:56 Vereshchuk said that all ten humanitarian corridors have worked today. A total of 5210 people were evacuated.
21:55 In the Rivne region, the Russian Federation also struck at the oil depot, said the head of the Regional State Administration Vitaly Koval.
21:54 Poland has already received 2.3 million Ukrainian refugees, President Duda said during a video conference with Zelensky.
21:33 In Melitopol, the Russian occupiers were not able to hold a paid rally in support of the Russian Federation because of the patriotic position of local residents, the Zaporozhye regional administration reported.
21:31 Mayor of Slavutych Yuri Fomichev said that the city is occupied by the Russian military. He also confirmed the deaths of three local residents.
21:26 Zelensky signed a law criminalizing the publication of data that could damage the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is strictly forbidden to publish:
street names, bus stops, shops, factories;
movement of the Ukrainian military, military facilities;
air defense work;
rockets that fly or hit somewhere;
places of shelling or projectile impact;
addresses, visual reference or battle coordinates;
numbers of cars, armored vehicles;
injured or dead (other than official data).
The minimum sentence is three years in prison, the maximum is eight years. And if mercenary motives and a preliminary conspiracy are proven - from eight to 12 years.
21:25 Martial law has been introduced in the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the authorities are asking Putin to increase the "peacekeeping contingent" of the Russian Federation.
On March 25, the Armenian Foreign Ministry stated that the armed forces of Azerbaijan had violated the line of contact of Nagorno-Karabakh in the zone of responsibility of the Russian "peacekeeping mission". The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan denied reports of an armed incident and noted that the units of the Azerbaijani army continue the process of clarifying positions and deployment points without the use of force.
And the NCC stated that the Azerbaijani army is trying to ensure the advancement of the line of contact of Nagorno-Karabakh in the eastern direction.
21:20 Venediktova said that since the beginning of Russia's war against Ukraine, 12 journalists have died at the hands of the invaders.
21:17 A ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops from the territory of Ukraine are key conditions for lifting sanctions against Russia, said British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.
21:14 The Volyn regional administration reported that, according to preliminary information, a Russian drone was shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces approximately ten kilometers from Lutsk. It is possible that it could be a rocket, the information is being specified.
21:11 Zelensky, in a conversation with Duda, expressed disappointment that Soviet-made aircraft that Eastern European countries, in particular Poland, have not yet been transferred to Ukraine. Although publicly, both these countries and the United States declared their readiness for such a decision.
"The price of delay with planes is thousands of Ukrainian lives that we are losing from missile and air strikes on peaceful Ukrainian cities," the Ukrainian president said.
21:07 Sadovyi said that Lviv suffered two attacks tonight - an oil depot in a residential area within the city and a plant, also in a residential area, were hit. Each object received two strikes. It is known about five victims, there are no victims yet, the fire is still being extinguished.
The mayor of Lviv noted that this is the second blow to infrastructure in a week. In his opinion, in this way the aggressor "says hello" to Biden, who is in Poland. At the same time, Sadovyi stressed that all military facilities were taken out of Lviv before February 25, so the enemy is hitting civilian targets.
He also said that the rockets were fired from the occupied Sevastopol.
21:00 The White House clarified Biden's words that "Putin cannot remain in power": "The president's point of view was that Putin should not be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or over the region. He did not discuss Putin's power in Russia or regime change.
20:38 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation claims that 439.4 thousand people were delivered to Russia from Ukraine, of which almost 92 thousand are children. Including 19.7 thousand people were illegally evacuated to Russia per day, including 3.3 thousand children.
20:35 Russian missile attacks on Lviv are an attempt to scare Ukrainians and diplomats who are in the "city of democratic countries," Yermak said. “Ukraine is definitely not going to be frightened by such crimes of the Russians, and I want to say to Western partners once again: close the sky, show strength, such as the Ukrainian army shows in the fight against the Russian one,” he wrote.
20:32 People's Deputy Goncharenko said that information about Russian intelligence officers in Ukraine is being sold by Kadyrovites.
20:22 Podolyak about missile strikes on Lviv: "Another big Ukrainian city. With great historical value. Near the border. Inside the city there are embassies of many countries. But the barbarians of the Russian Federation are not interested in anything - neither history, nor heritage, nor foreign diplomatic missions. Is it really Europe continue to "pacify?"
20:19 Russian troops again fired at the research nuclear installation in Kharkov at the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation reported.
19:59 Trostyanets has been liberated from Russian invaders, said the head of the Sumy OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
19:57 Putin signed a law on awarding the status of a combat veteran to all participants in the "special operation" in Ukraine. It entitles them and their families to receive tax, transportation, land and housing benefits, as well as increased payments in case of injury and death.
19:52 Biden said in his speech that the war against Ukraine has already become a failure of Russia. He called "a cynical lie" Putin's claims that he wants to "denazify" Ukraine - he wants to unseat Zelensky, "who is a Jew, who is legally elected, whose grandfather fought Nazi Germany."
What happened during the Second World War, the Russian army is doing now in Ukraine, the American president said. According to him, Putin "can and must" end this war, and he cannot remain in power. And Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, Biden is convinced.
He said that thanks to Western sanctions, the ruble "turned into ashes" and a blow was dealt to the very heart of the Russian economy. "We made real proposals to the Kremlin to stabilize the situation, but the Kremlin rejected them all," the US president added. And democracies, he said, are now recovering in months, not years, as they used to be.
Biden also reiterated that "the US military is not here to participate in the war, but to protect NATO."
19:44 Sadovyi said that as a result of new missile attacks on Lviv, "significant damage was caused to infrastructure facilities." Residential buildings, he said, were not damaged.
19:34 Biden called "the lies that Russia is spreading" the information that "we are going to expand NATO."
19:30 Biden said that the West needs to prepare for a "long struggle" between democracy and autocracy, and this struggle "will not be won in a couple of days or months."
He also said that "now Ukraine is at the forefront in the struggle for democracy and freedom," and Putin does not really need negotiations.
19:16 Another missile strike was inflicted on Lviv, Mayor Andriy Sadovyy said.
19:11 The Russians demand that the police be removed from Slavutych, Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, said. But everyone understands that after that there will be other requirements, he added.
Now the city is under siege by Russian invaders, but without the inhabitants of Slavutych it is impossible to ensure the vital activity of the Shelter and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. So it is not yet clear what plans the Russians have.
19:09 In the Kiev region, the DRG of the enemy does not leave attempts to penetrate the capital. The saboteurs dress up in civilian clothes and use cars stolen from the civilian population, the General Staff reports.
19:07 In some settlements of the Chernihiv region, the invaders forcibly distribute "humanitarian aid" among the local population in order to create propaganda reports by the Russian media, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
19:05 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Kherson region, an increase in the terror of the local population by the invaders is recorded. They conduct searches in houses in order to identify ATO/JFO participants, military personnel, volunteers and members of their families. Numerous cases of abduction of women and torture of local residents are reported.
19:03 Russian invaders continue to actively use the transport network of Belarus, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. There is an increase in the number of air transportation of military cargo from the Russian Federation - mainly for the transfer of missiles of various types and ammunition, the enemy uses An-124 transport aircraft. This method of delivery is due to the blocking of railway tracks in certain directions.
The population of Belarus still does not support involvement in the war against Ukraine, but the provision of military support for Russian aggression and the issue of sending Belarusian units to Ukraine is being lobbied by a group of high-ranking officials and generals from the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus.
18:59 In Avdiivka, the invaders used phosphorus ammunition today, said the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavel Kirilenko.
18:57 The occupiers were pushed back from Kyiv by 35-70 kilometers, the Defense Ministry said.
18:41 Reznikov says that the US top leadership no longer has any objections to the list of weapons that Ukraine needs: "I spoke about the Stingers in November, and they answered us: what are you talking about, Stingers are impossible. Today we are not even talking about about this name. It's just a matter of logistics."
18:30 Russian invaders fired on Krasnohorivka, Donetsk region, with cluster munitions from Tornado-S MLRS - they fell on the streets of a residential sector, the National Police reported. Local residents are urged not to approach cluster munitions in any case, as they can detonate at any moment. Explosives are on the scene.
18:19 In Mariupol, Russian invaders forcibly took out doctors and patients of city hospital No. 1, as well as people who were hiding there in the basement from shelling, the City Council reports. It is known that there were about 700 people on the territory of the hospital, but it is not known exactly how many Mariupol residents were deported.
18:12 Very heavy fighting has been going on in Irpin for the third day, the invaders attacked from three directions, but their attacks were repulsed, the mayor of the city Alexander Markushin said.
18:09 The head of the Kiev OVA, Oleksandr Pavlyuk, explained the abolition of the enhanced curfew in the capital and the region: they decided not to introduce it so as not to create "excessive social tension." He also noted that there was a threat to the activities of sabotage groups, but now "the situation is stabilized."
Pavlyuk said that in the region the enemy is trying to regroup and attack the capital, the defenders are actively working to push the enemy back.
In Slavutych the situation has been stabilized, the organization of a humanitarian corridor from the city is proposed, information about the deceased local resident is being checked.
18:01 Pope Francis donated an ambulance to Ukraine, which he personally blessed. The car is already on its way to Lviv, it will be handed over to the city by the papal elemosinary, Cardinal Konrad Kraevsky.
17:59 It's still too early to talk about the refusal of the Russians to storm Kiev, said Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs. “Indeed, they have no strength now. But at the same time, we understand that they are concentrating their units to the Belarusian-Ukrainian border,” he added.
At the same time, Denisenko confirmed that the Russians are now abandoning their main forces to gain control over the Donbass.
17:57 Russian occupiers launched two rocket attacks on Lviv. According to preliminary data, five people were injured, said the head of the Regional State Administration Maxim Kozitsky. He warned that the threat of a new strike still remained.
17:56 Russian troops fired on Boyarka in the Kiev region today, four civilians were wounded, including a child, the regional prosecutor's office said.
17:51 All 48 buses that the occupiers blocked in Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, are already moving to Zaporozhye after passing the last Russian checkpoint, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
17:43 In the Odessa Regional Council, the OPPL faction dissolved itself - all 24 deputies wrote statements about leaving it.
17:25 Biden, when asked by a journalist about what he thinks of Putin, said: "I think he is a butcher."
17:21 The air command of Skhid reports the destruction of an aircraft and a drone of the Russian invaders near Kharkov.
17:16 South Ossetia has officially announced the dispatch of its military to the Donbass. In Melitopol, eyewitnesses are already reporting the appearance of vehicles with their flag on the streets.
17:02 The Turkish Ministry of Defense stated that an unknown object, due to which the Bosphorus was blocked today, turned out to be a sea mine, which the Turks neutralized. Turkey turned to Ukraine and the Russian Federation with a request for consultations.
Earlier, the Russians said that the Ukrainian side had allegedly mined the approach to its shores of the Black Sea, but the mines began to drift towards the Bosphorus. However, Russia even named their exact number - 420. Experts say that these are probably Russian mines, since it is almost impossible to accurately calculate their number in a stormy sea, Babel writes, citing Turkish media.
17:00 Since the beginning of the war, the State Bureau of Investigation has registered 330 criminal proceedings, of which almost 200 are for high treason and collaborationism.
16:59 Russian propaganda is spreading fakes about the cyber landings of US and NATO specialists in Ukraine to explain the power of Ukrainian cyber defense, reports the State Service for Communications.
16:57 The invaders launched a missile attack on the outskirts of Lviv, an oil depot was attacked, MP Goncharenko said.
16:53 Kuleba and Reznikov handed over to Biden, Blinken and Austin the fragments of one of the Russian missiles that had been fired at the Yavoriv military training ground.
"Today, in the development of contacts between Presidents Zelensky and Biden, we agreed on the next steps to ensure that fewer such missiles fall on Ukrainian soil. And, of course, for Ukraine to win," Kuleba wrote after the meeting.
16:42 The social network VKontakte massively blocks opposition publics. Among these have already turned out to be The Insider, the fan community of Ekaterina Shulman, the pages of Khodorkovsky and Navalny, The Village, Rain, Echo of Moscow, Meduza, Present Time, Radio Liberty and many others.
16:20 The rector of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanius, said that "dozens of communities and several monasteries" voluntarily joined the OCU.
15:57 Podolyak says that two destructive processes are happening simultaneously in Russia:
15:42 From today, Ukraine has launched a program to provide free food to residents of settlements located in the war zone, Shmyhal said.
15:35 The city council of Slavutych asks local residents to remain calm and warns that occupiers' equipment is moving around the city in order to check the absence of weapons.
15:24 The Armed Forces of Ukraine will return control over Kherson today , adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Markiyan Lubkivsky is convinced.
15:06 The Ukrainian military almost completely destroyed the elite tank army of the Russian Federation in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, Arestovich said.
14:57 In Crimea, mobilization is underway to participate in the war on the side of Russia against Ukraine. Men of military age are massively trying to leave the peninsula through the Russian Federation, the representative office of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea reported.
14:55 The occupiers are trying to break through the Izyum to the Donbass , said the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, they are trying to bypass Izyum, pass partially through it in order to transport their troops to the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, in fact, cut off the JFO line.
14:51 Kuleba spoke about the meeting with Biden:
Biden is convinced that what is happening in Ukraine will change the 21st century. And this is not about the war of Russia against Ukraine, but about the war of tyranny against the whole world. The American president also promised that the United States will continue to support Ukraine and increase assistance.
We discussed sanctions, agreed how and with which countries to work so that they do not become a loophole for Russia to circumvent sanctions.
On the supply of weapons, "there was a substantive discussion, progress and developments."
14:34 Ukraine has offered its underground storage facilities for storing fuel purchased jointly by the EU countries and their partners. According to Energy Minister German Galushchenko, Ukrainian underground storage facilities are the largest in Europe.
14:32 Russia hit Lisichansk with a Tochka-U missile, several houses are on fire in Severodonetsk, said the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. According to him, because of the shelling, the mine, where the workers are underground, has been de-energized.
14:24 There is no electricity and central water supply in Chernihiv, water is delivered to people in affordable containers. The footbridge across the Desna River has been damaged and may fall, moreover, it is under cross fire. It is not possible to arrange a large-scale evacuation from Chernihiv - they are trying to organize it only for seriously wounded people, said the mayor of the city Vladislav Atroshenko.
14:22 Great Britain will provide food supplies worth two million pounds to the regions of Ukraine surrounded by Russian troops.
14:20 In the center of Energodar near the city council, on the building of the communication center of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the Russian invaders installed their dish to ensure broadcasting and conduct enemy agitation among the townspeople. Armed guards were posted around the building, Energoatom reports.
14:09 In the West, mainly in the US and Britain, there are funds from the Russian Federation in the amount of about one trillion dollars, according to Anders Åslund, a Swedish economist and diplomat, an expert on the economy of Eastern Europe.
14:07 There will be no enhanced curfew tomorrow in Kyiv and the region , Klitschko specified. The curfew will operate as usual, from 20:00 to 07:00 the next day.
14:04 In the Chernihiv region last night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked an accumulation of enemy equipment and an ammunition depot near the village of Vyshneve to the north of Chernihiv, Command Pivnich reports. Among the enemy equipment were electronic warfare equipment, therefore, after their destruction, the broadcasting of Ukrainian radio resumed, which until that moment had been jammed by the occupiers.
13:42 The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the "neutralization" of an object similar to a mine in the Bosphorus Strait.
13:39 Anton Gerashchenko, citing his sources, claims that Shoigu has a heart attack, and today's video in the propaganda media allegedly with his participation is a classic "canned food" dated March 11. Moreover, according to Gerashchenko, Shoigu's condition has worsened and he continues to receive treatment at the Burdenko military hospital.
13:32 In the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian army launched a counteroffensive and liberated several settlements in the direction of Malaya Rogan, Governor Oleg Sinegubov said.
13:14 Russian invaders fired on and damaged the memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in Drobitsky Yar on the outskirts of Kharkov, the Ministry of Defense reports.
13:11 In the Kiev region, an official Telegram bot was launched to search for missing citizens: https://t.me/findme_kyivobl_bot
13:10 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announces the withdrawal of units of the armed forces of Belarus from the points of permanent deployment to the training grounds.
13:09 Russian troops retreated to the outskirts of Slavutych, said Tatyana Melnik, adviser to the mayor.
12:48 In the Kiev region at the Tarasovka station, Russian troops fired at the Shepetovka-Kiev train, one person was injured.
12:45 Russian invaders tried to land the DRG ashore in the Odessa region, using high-speed boats, Vladislav Nazarov, officer of the Pivden operational command, said. According to him, the enemy received a worthy rebuff, the saboteurs were destroyed. The Russians continue to conduct reconnaissance of the coastline and the Black Sea with the help of aircraft, but they are actively opposed by Ukrainian air defense.
12:43 Borrell said that Europe supports Ukraine without forcing an escalation: "We do not want a conflict of a larger scale, but at the same time we want to put pressure on Russia with all our might so that it pays the price."
12:33 On the morning of March 26, the invaders launched a missile attack on an oil depot near Kiev, MP Elena Krivoruchkina said. According to her, there are no victims or injured, but rescuers cannot start extinguishing the fire because of the danger of repeated shelling.
12:27 Near Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, Russian invaders have created a many-kilometer traffic jam in which there are refugee cars and ambulances with wounded children, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, the Russians carefully check everyone who crosses their checkpoint and create obstacles for the rapid movement of the column.
12:18 At the rally in Slavutych, one person was killed , two were injured. The Russian military throw stun grenades into the crowd and open fire, Suspilne reports.
12:16 The "authorities" of the so-called "DPR" have allowed the circulation of the hryvnia along with the ruble on the territory of the illegal formation. The Decree will be in effect until July 1. The rate is fixed at 2.5 rubles per hryvnia.
12:12 The mayor of Slavutych was released. He spoke to the local residents and said that the Russians "will let them live in peace" if there are no military men in the city. The possibility of leaving the city will be resumed, the invaders will bring humanitarian aid. The mayor stressed that the city remains under the Ukrainian flag.
12:08 In the western part of Mariupol, which is now under the control of the invaders, sweeps have begun. According to the city council, citing local residents, Russians go to the apartments of surviving houses and conduct a population census. If no one opens, they break down the doors, conduct searches, and ask neighbors.
12:03 Zelensky said at the Delphic Forum that Russia does not receive punishment for its atrocities and uses its nuclear status to threaten the whole world, so international institutions need to be reformed to restore justice. He also stressed that due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the whole world will face problems with food.
11:59 A meeting between Kuleba and Reznikov with American colleagues Blinken and Austin began in Warsaw. A meeting of Ukrainian ministers with Biden is also scheduled.
11:57 Venediktova said that the former people's deputy from the Party of Regions Oleg Tsarev was suspected. Prosecutors are asking for a life sentence for him.
11:55 Bucha City Council warned local residents that today the occupiers will try to carry out a fake "evacuation" to Belarus , you can't go anywhere with them.
11:54 Vereshchuk said that the occupiers planned a demonstrative action: they are going to forcibly deport ethnic Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Meskhetian Turks from Kherson to the occupied Crimea.
11:45 According to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russian Federation is often faced with the impossibility of restoring equipment after "reopening" from warehouses. Optical devices and electronics containing precious metals were completely stolen from combat vehicles.
In particular, in the 4th Panzer Division of the Russian Federation, they found out that out of ten "reactivated" tanks, only one is in a more or less operational condition. The rest are completely dismantled. Some of them don't even have engines. At present, plans for the transfer to the front of equipment removed from storage have actually been thwarted.
Intelligence also reports that, according to available information, the commander of the 13th tank regiment of the 4th tank division of the Russian Federation shot himself.
11:33 In Kyiv and the region, the curfew will last from 20:00 Saturday, March 26, until 07:00 Monday, March 28.
11:22 There is no power supply in the Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev: two lines are disconnected due to the shelling of the invaders in the suburbs in the directions of Gostomel and Irpin, the Kyiv City State Administration reports. Now the work of specialists is impossible, because the occupiers continue shelling. It will take several hours to repair the damage.
In addition, lower water pressure is possible on the right bank during the day. The shutdown of the lines led to a blackout of three pumping stations in the capital.
11:17 Mayor of Zhytomyr Sergei Sukhomlin said that on the evening of March 25, a military unit came under fire. In turn, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the Caliber missiles destroyed a warehouse with ammunition and weapons in the Zhytomyr region. The missiles were launched from the Black Sea.
11:10 Ten humanitarian corridors have been agreed for March 26:
Kyiv region: Plesetskoye - Fastov; Severinovka - Belogorodka; Borodianka - Bila Tserkva; Chervonaya Sloboda, Rozhev, Sitnyaki - Bila Tserkva
Luhansk region: from Rubizhne, with. Lower, Lisichansk, Popasnoy, Severodonetsk, Gorsky
In addition, work is underway on the gum corridors for Slavutych, Dymer and Ivankov.
11:09 Zelensky addressed the politicians of Qatar and the participants of the Doha Forum: "It is a matter of time when European countries refuse to purchase Russian oil and gas. Responsible states, in particular, the state of Qatar, are reliable and solid suppliers of energy resources. And they can make their contribution in stabilizing the situation in Europe. They can do a lot to restore justice."
11:05 In Kiev, from March 28, the Centers for the provision of administrative services are resuming work. They will work from 10:00 to 16:00.
10:56 In the Sumy region tonight, the occupiers withdrew a significant part of the troops to the territory of Russia. There was shelling of the suburb of Sumy, information about the victims and destruction is being specified, the IVA reported.
10:37 The occupiers kidnapped the mayor of Slavutych Yuriy Fomichev , the head of the Kiev OVA Oleksandr Pavlyuk reports. The city council in full force continues its work. Also, Russian troops seized the city hospital.
10:26 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russians on the morning of March 26:
personnel - about 16,400 people,
tanks - 575,
armored fighting vehicles - 1640,
artillery systems - 293,
MLRS - 91,
air defense systems - 51,
aircraft - 117,
helicopters - 127,
automotive equipment - 1131,
ships/boats - 7,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 73,
UAV operational-tactical level - 56,
special equipment - 19,
launchers OTRK - 2.
10:04 Lebanese prime ministerial candidate Omar Arfush called on Hezbollah to fulfill their leader's promise and not send their soldiers to fight with Ukraine.
10:02 The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has decided to suspend all contacts with scientists and research centers in Russia and Belarus.
10:01 Germany will punish for public demonstration of the sign Z. According to Deutsche Welle, such a decision has already been made by two federal states - Lower Saxony and Bavaria.
"Anyone who, using the Z sign, publicly expresses his approval of Russian President Putin's aggressive war against Ukraine should expect criminal prosecution in Lower Saxony," said Lower Saxon Interior Minister Boris Pistorius.
09:57 Residents of Slavutych took to the action for Ukraine, while a column of Russian tanks and infantry stands under the city. They shoot at checkpoints around the city, some houses in the city suffer from the blast wave, Energoatom reports.
09:52 Ukrainian air defense is forcing occupiers to use more drones, British intelligence said: “Robust Ukrainian air defense has almost completely restricted manned flights beyond their front lines, so Russia has most likely been forced to use more UAVs instead. This is likely leading to an increase demand for these assets and their depletion".
09:48 The Belarusian battalion named after Kastus Kalinovsky became part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was created at the beginning of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine and consists exclusively of Belarusians.
09:42 Medvedev named four situations in which Russia can use nuclear weapons:
if the territory of the Russian Federation is struck with the use of nuclear weapons;
in the event of any other use of nuclear weapons against Russia and its allies;
if there is an encroachment on critical infrastructure, as a result of which the Russian nuclear deterrent forces will be paralyzed;
in the event of an act of aggression against Russia or its allies, as a result of which "the existence of the country would be in jeopardy."
09:38 After a month of the war, 45% of Ukrainian families began to worry about the lack of food. And one in five is already forced to use different ways to overcome hunger, the UN report says. According to the organization, people are cutting back on their portions and number of meals, and forgoing food in order to feed their children.
09:24 Johnson, following the results of negotiations with Erdogan, said that Britain would provide Ukraine with anti-battery systems, and Turkey would provide another batch of Bayraktars. According to him, anti-battery complexes will help the Armed Forces of Ukraine "destroy the long-range artillery of the Russians, from which they shoot Mariupol." They will also be able to destroy Russian ships at a long distance.
09:21 YouTube removed the channel of Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, who called the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of Britain, introducing themselves as Ukrainian ministers.
09:09 Scholz said that Germany is able to abandon Russian gas faster than previously thought. He stressed that the process of gaining independence by the EU countries from Russian gas has now become irreversible.
09:06 Elon Musk said that after the start of the war in Ukraine, hackers tried to hack into the Starlink system. According to him, all attacks have so far been repulsed.
09:05 British intelligence believes that Russian troops do not want to participate in large-scale urban infantry operations, so they are going to bomb cities with aircraft and fire artillery to demoralize Ukrainian forces.
09:02 Adviser to the Minister of Defense Markiyan Lubkivsky in an interview with CNN said that PMC Wagner was supposed to kill Zelensky and Shmyhal. According to him, the conspiracy was confirmed by the Ukrainian special services and special forces that protect the president. Ukrainian intelligence tracked saboteurs in Ukraine, several groups were eliminated.
09:00 In Melitopol, the invaders began to hunt for those who do not want to obey them, the Zaporizhia District Police Department reported. So, representatives of the Russian commandant's office gather the heads of condominiums and offer to report where "fascists" live - that is, everyone who is pro-Ukrainian.
08:34 The Russians are targeting food trains in Severodonetsk, said the head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. He is sure that it could not have done without a fire spotter. "Another sign of the 'Russian world' is to leave civilians without food," he added.
08:21 As a result of the shelling, the gas pipeline was damaged in Trostyanets, the invaders dropped a large bomb on Akhtyrka, the surroundings of Sumy are under fire, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
08:00 The introduction of the NATO peacekeeping mission to Ukraine was supported by Denmark and Lithuania, said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. According to him, there is also approval from other countries, but they are waiting for the reaction of the alliance.
07:43 According to the General Staff, the invaders are trying to intensify the activities of sabotage and reconnaissance groups in Kiev.
07:40 The enemy deployed almost all units of the Russian Guard, which were stationed on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and in certain areas of the Kherson, Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions, in order to suppress the resistance of the inhabitants of Kherson, Genichesk, Berdyansk and Mariupol, the General Staff reports in the morning summary.
04:52 The mayor of Kherson, Igor Kolykhaev, did not rule out that the Russian occupiers could hold a referendum in the Kherson region by force. At the same time, he believes that the Russians are not interested in creating KhNR - it is more profitable for them to annex Kherson to ORDLO or the occupied Crimea.
04:46 Great Britain has imposed sanctions against another 65 individuals and enterprises involved in Russia's war against Ukraine. In particular, the Russian defense company Kronstadt, which is the main manufacturer of the Orion drone and other drones, fell under the sanctions.
03:14 The invaders are gathering in Melitopol a paid rally in support of the Russian Federation, the Zaporozhye regional administration reported.
02:55 Anonymous hackers released 28 GB of information from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation into the public domain.
01:58 During the day on March 25, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed three enemy aircraft, three Orlan-10 drones, one helicopter and at least five cruise missiles.
01:16 On the evening of March 25, in the Chernihiv region, Russians fired at a convoy with civilians, where there were foreign journalists and TSN correspondent Andrei Tsaplienko, who reported the incident. The journalist himself was wounded, the shelling lasted at least an hour and a half.
00:45 In the Kharkiv region, Russian invaders restrict the movement of the civilian population by establishing a network of checkpoints, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
00:26 A Moscow City Duma deputy said that it is necessary to expand the boundaries of the "military operation" and "denazify" Poland, Moldova, the Baltic countries and Kazakhstan. Podolyak, in turn, commented that Russia, apparently, intends to attack a number of European countries on a full scale.
#Turkey's authorities have warned vessels to stay away as a dive team inspects a “mine-like object” found floating north of Istanbul near the #BlackSea, days after #Russia warned that several mines had drifted away from Ukrainian ports.https://t.co/GKHDceziLv
[AnNahar] U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska was convicted on charges that he lied to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign from a foreign billionaire at a 2016 Los Angeles fundraiser.
A federal jury in LA deliberated about two hours Thursday before finding the nine-term Republican guilty of concealing information and two counts of making false statements to authorities. Fortenberry was charged after denying to the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... that he was aware he had received illicit funds from Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian billionaire of Lebanese descent.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Xavier Pelkey, 18, and two other teens conspired to attack a Chicago Shia mosque with homemade explosives in the name of ISIS, new court documents reveal
The recently unsealed federal filing alleges Pelkey and two unidentified teens - who weren't named because they're juveniles - used Instagram to plan the attack
The potential murder spree was foiled by feds last month after a search of Pelkey's apartment turned up three homemade explosive devices
The filing reveals that Pelkey's underage accomplices in the plot also were arrested and questioned in regard to the attack
The two teens, one from Chicago and the other from Kentucky, detailed the plot to feds, saying Pelkey planned to go to the city to 'commit mass murder'
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First Deputy Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said that they will get started a major agricultural project in near future.https://t.co/qacCWayNTb
#Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia says it is suspending offensive operations on the ground in Yemen for three days, the militia's political office head says, hours after the Arab Coalition targeted its strongholds in #Hodeidah.https://t.co/TollmEDzFspic.twitter.com/6ERtaE9BSd
[MilitaryLand] The summary of the 31st day of Russian invasion to Ukraine, as of 23:59 – 26th of March 2022 (Kyiv time).
Russian command announced change of tactics and the new primary goal – Donetsk and Luhansk Regions. Ukrainian forces liberated Trostianets in Sumy region.
Ukrainian forces liberated several villages in Kharkiv and Kherson region. Russian Army crossed the river near Izium and have broken through Ukrainian lines. Go to the site. They have improved greatly the graphics presentation of the maps.
One of the staples on social media accounts reporting from Ukraine has been the very high rate of cruise missiles that have failed to detonate.
Problems with fuzing are not unknown. The most famous example of this is the Mark 6 exploder used in the Mark 14 and Mark 15 torpedoes of the US Navy until September 1943. The flaws of the exploder and the torpedo produced a dud rate of over 50% in the standard submarine torpedo. The problem was caused by the Navy weapons designers wanting to avoid the cost of a field trial.
Precision-guided munitions are essential in modern warfare. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... in Ukraine, the proliferation of air defense systems, particularly MANPADS, has made flight below 10,000 feet very unhealthy. By the same token, dropping gravity bombs from above 10,000 feet, given the skill level of the Russian Air Force, which flew eight hours per month before the war, is not much better than using a trebuchet.
If this report is accurate, it speaks to massive manufacturing and possibly engineering design problems in the Russian arms industry.
The United States assesses that Russia is suffering failure rates as high as 60% for some of the precision-guided missiles it is using to attack Ukraine, three U.S. officials with knowledge of the intelligence told Reuters. https://t.co/H8XmqyeqRc
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It will take much equipment and many years to defuse and remove the warheads and Ukranian mines too. Most of the demining machinery was destroyed in Mariupol and Kharkiv. Once this nonsense war ends.
[Bus Insider] Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a recent interview said that the United States has a "very, very ancient leadership" and questioned how leading figures can "stay in touch with the people" if they are several generations removed from most of the population.
The comments from the electric vehicle and clean energy company leader came this week during a conversation with Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California.
Musk spoke about everything from Russian President Vladimir Putin to revelations that he sometimes feels "lonely," but he had pointed criticism for leaders whom he feels are disconnected from their citizenry.
When Musk was asked about humans having "a significantly increased lifespan," he offered a straightforward view about human life.
"I don't think we should try to have people live for a really long time," he told Döpfner. "That it would cause asphyxiation of society because the truth is, most people don't change their mind. They just die."
He continued: "So if they don't die, we will be stuck with old ideas and society wouldn't advance."
Musk then said that a "gerontocracy" — where a government is essentially controlled by citizens significantly older than the bulk of the population — is not healthy.
"I think we already have quite a serious issue with gerontocracy, where the leaders of so many countries are extremely old," he revealed. "In the US, it's a very, very ancient leadership. And it is just impossible to stay in touch with the people if you are many generations older than them."
He added: "The founders of the USA put minimum ages for a local office. But they did not put maximum ages because they did not expect that people will be living so long. They should have. Because for a democracy to function, the leaders must be reasonably in touch with the bulk of the population. And if you're too young or too old, you can't say that you will be attached."
Musk said that he'd like to see political leaders "be ideally within 10 or at least, 20 years of the average age of the population."
He said that while he would like to sustain good health over an extended period of time, he doesn't fear death.
"I am not afraid of dying. I think it would come as a relief," he said in the interview.
Over the course of President Joe Biden's tenure, Musk — who seemed pumped about the administration's push to combat climate change early last year — began to criticize Biden, who is 79, over his failure to include Tesla in the national conversation about electric vehicles.
In January, the billionaire on Twitter blasted Biden as "a damp sock puppet in human form."
Last month, the president during a speech called Tesla the country's "largest electric-vehicle manufacturer" after facing repeated criticism for not acknowledging the company as a leader in the automotive industry.
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I guess because Elon's grifts are aimed at young people and the "we'll just invent new power sources, never mind the industrial throughput..." naivete.
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Dear fellow commentors;
Did you actually understood what you read? The age of average U.S. citizen is 38 point something so translated into plain English, Musk was saying that professional politicians should be "kicked out" of politics and away from the levers of power by the time they are ~60.
Are you really disagreeing with this considering the current clown-show of 60+ geriatrics in DC?
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As DeGaulle opined, "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." The problem here is too many of them use the trappings of power to put the graveyard off for too long.
Term limits are all that's really needed, along with a "no lifetime bureaucrats (looking at you, Fauxi) and no family political dynasties" policy enshrined in a special clause of the Constitution that says "this clause is not subject to alteration or removal."
Oh, and reduce the power they wield and the opportunities for graft. You will be surprised how quickly a certain type suddenly gravitates to other pursuits.
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An amen to both #5 and #6. Denying the obvious has become the hallmark of politicians and the current roster of democrats for certain.
Another method of effective crop rotation would be the taxpayer funding of first two terms only. Stay for more than two terms and the comp package is your responsibility.
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No correlation either way between age and effectiveness. Jefferson and Bobby Kennedy were in their 30s; so are Ocasio-Cortex and Swalwell. Franklin, Eisenhiwer, De Gaulle, Reagan were in their advanced old age when they achieved great things; so were Brezhnev and so is our fetid geriatric politburo.
Musk has achieved a lot. Kudos. He's also an exploiter of corporate welfare, a chaotic and nasty boss, a manipulator of markets. I wouldn't trust him or his fellow Silicon Valley overgrown adolescents anywhere near the levers of power.
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^ That's an excellent idea. I also think eliminating full-boat lifetime benefits for those appointed to fill a partial term and then not re-elected would be helpful. I also think when a politician is tossed out (rare, I know) for criminal reasons, the district they serve should do without representation until the next regular election. they can use the time while they have no say in gummint to maybe ponder electing a better class of candidate next time.
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Have the states compensate their own legislators.
"I am not afraid of dying. I think it would come as a relief," he said in the interview.
He wants yo die? Let the putz drive these Teslas. In the meantime despite my own age I'll still learning from the experience and wisdom of my elders. TW comes to mind.
Check out Karl Pillemer's work on the subject.Lessons for surviving crises, from the wisest among us.
He said “Oh you mean like a Tesla or something? The answer is you can’t. You cordon off the area, and spray a fine mist of water on the fire to try to keep the temperature down until it finishes burning. Takes a few days until it is safe”.
The problem is, besides being highly flammable, lithium is literally the lightest metal. At atomic number 3, it is the first element in the periodic table which is a solid. The two previous elements, hydrogen and helium, are both gasses.
Lithium is so light, it floats on water (lithium density 0.543, half the density of water). Lithium is entirely happy to blaze away while sitting on the surface of a puddle of water.
So if you try to smother a lithium fire with sand, the sand sinks to the bottom, and the lithium floats on top.
#Ukraine’s authorities say Russian forces have effectively surrounded the northern city of #Chernihiv and are bombarding areas where residents are stuck without electricity, heating and water.https://t.co/gDQbCrNIbk
The US and Taliban were due to meet in the Qatari capital Doha on Saturday and Sunday and discuss economic issues along with other relevant matters.https://t.co/wvYp0tGXg6
The #US abruptly cancelled meetings with the #Taliban in Doha that were set to address key economic issues, officials say, after #Afghanistan’s Islamist rulers reversed a decision to allow all girls to return to high school classes.https://t.co/TAyH1kKmw4
[AlAhram] Afghanistan's Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... rulers refused to allow dozens of women to board several flights, including some overseas, because they were traveling without a male guardian, two Afghan airline officials said Saturday.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions from the Taliban, said dozens of women who arrived at Kabul's international airport Friday to board domestic and international flights were told they couldn't do so without a male guardian.
Some of the women were dual nationals returning to their homes overseas, including some from Canada, according to one of the officials. Women were denied boarding on flights to Islamabad, Dubai and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... on Kam Air and the state-owned Ariana Airline, said the officials.
The order came from the Taliban leadership, said one official.
By Saturday, some women traveling alone were given permission to board an Ariana Airlines flight to western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, the official said. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... by the time the permission was granted they had missed their flight, he said.
The airport's president and police chief, both from the Taliban movement and both Islamic holy mans, were meeting Saturday with airline officials.
It was still unclear whether the Taliban would exempt air travel from an order issued months ago requiring women traveling more than 45 miles (72 kilometers) to be accompanied by a male relative. Taliban officials contacted by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Since taking power last August, the Taliban leadership have been squabbling among themselves as they struggle to transition from war to governing. It has pit hard-liners _ like acting Prime Minister Mullah Hasan Akhund, who is deeply rooted in the old guard _ against the more pragmatic among them, like Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... . He took over leadership of the powerful Haqqani network ...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani... from his father Jalaluddin Haqanni. The elder Haqqani, who died several years ago, is from Akhund's generation, who ruled Afghanistan under the strict and unchallenged leadership of Mullah Mohammad Omar.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A small group of women erupted into the streets of Kabul on Saturday, March 26, 2022, to protest against the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s announcement banning teenage girls from going to schools.
The female protestors said access to education is an alienable right of humans and girls likewise the rest of the boys in Afghanistan have the right to get educated.
The protestors were chanting, "We are tired of ignorance", "Shame on the international community", "You took my land, don’t take my education", "Seeking education is obligatory on male and female."
The demonstration that was staged at the gate of the Ministry of Education in central Kabul was attended by parents, women activists, females, students, and a few young men.
"Education is our right, I want to go to school to study and make my future and the future of my country. I want to go to school as my brother does." Said a student.
The protestors further said that there are no limitations on female education in other Islamic countries like Iran, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , and Indonesia so why should the Afghan girls not go to schools.
The Ministry of Education of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan announced on March 23rd that secondary schools for girls shall be closed until further notice.
Infuriating many Afghans is the knowledge that many of the Taliban of the younger generation, like Sirajuddin Haqqani, are educating their girls in Pakistain, while in Afghanistan women and girls have been targeted by their repressive edicts since taking power.
This latest assault on women's rights in Taliban-run Afghanistan denying women air travel, comes just days after the all-male religiously driven government broke its promise to allow girls to return to school after the sixth grade.
The move enraged the international community, which has been reluctant to recognize the Taliban-run government since the Taliban swept into power last August, fearing they would revert to their harsh rule of the 1990s. The Taliban's refusal to open up education to all Afghan children also infuriated large swaths of the Afghan population. On Saturday, dozens of girls demonstrated in the Afghan capital demanding the right to go to school.
An Afghan charity called PenPath, which runs dozens of ``secret' schools with thousands of volunteers, is planning to stage countrywide protests to demand the Taliban reverse its order, said Matiullah Wesa, PenPath founder.
U.S. special representative for Afghanistan Tom West canceled meetings with the Taliban at the Doha Forum after classes for older girls were halted.
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In Operation Barbarossa the aggressor was Adolf Hitler and NAZI Germany. People who assume the aggressor in the current Ukraine war is Vladimir Putin are, I believe, mistaken. IMHO the war currently raging in Ukraine was started by Barack Obama and his deep state sponsors when they engineered the Maidan coup in 2014 to oust Ukraine's then pro-Russian President Yanukovic. This violent expansion of Western influence triggered a civil war in Ukraine's eastern provinces which was, until recently, being fought on a low level. So, in this respect, the comparison to Operation Barbarossa is apt because the invasion is going from West to East. The comparison is also apt because the Russians are having great difficulty repelling it.
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^ This is correct. It's fundamentally a civil war that has been going on since 2014. The Biden people view it as a proxy war between the US and Russia. You can make a strong case that the US Ambassador and the State Department and CIA started the war by engineering a coup in Kiev in February 2014.
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/\ em>State Department and CIA started the war by engineering a coup in Kiev in February 2014.
Not to be critical, but is there some other method for starting wars we've somehow overlooked in the past 50 years or so ?
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China will overcome this. Seeing how global markets weakens them will cause them to redirect their future efforts with Russia. They can't count on the west and Europe. They see more stability with Russia in my opinion. Attention now will be directed to pipelines whichever way is feasible. They have shown the will to act and quickly. The Arab world, Africans, Latin America, India all seem to work well with Russia and (India) must with China.
CDMedia has confirmed the Hunter Biden infamous ’laptop from Hell’ contains many U.S. Department of Defense ’root encryption certificates’, or encryption keys to DoD databases. The keys have unusual long-term expiration dates, with many lasting twenty years or more.
This information was discovered during a deep forensic investigation done over the last couple weeks, by Jack Maxey and his team in Switzerland.
This situation raises multiple questions, such as...
Why did Hunter Biden have a large number of Department of Defense encryption codes to allow access to national security data?
Did Hunter Biden give anyone else access to this information?
Who gave the codes to Hunter Biden?
Why do the codes have long-term expiration dates, when the usual practice is to provide a user access only during his ’need to know’, or time in the job, which is usually 2-3 years at most?
We have been informed the Department of Justice has been alerted to the situation.
We have also been informed the DoD has been told of the discovery. This story is unconfirmed.
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All of those question are quickly answered if you acknowledge the fact that Hunter was an Intelligence Community source or stringer. The Encryption of his communications was essential.
The Hildebeest's mysterious 'home brew' server communications were likely Encrypted as well, which might explain the indifference to the improper or illegal use and transmission of classified data. I don't recall the Hildebeest's servers ever having surfaced. I believe she took care of her cell phones with a hammer.
Two items that are routinely seized in the course of warranted Federal investigations and sweeps are computers and cell phones. The problem here was, Hunter had a computer in the shop.
Nothing will come of this. Nothing ever comes of it. All will be consumed by the memory hole.
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Hunter's Beijing-based Chinese joint venture partner was a tool of the Chinese military. (The America-based Chinese partner is in federal prison for bribery and money laundering.)
Hunter's business partner in Kazakhstan was a crony of the ruling family.
In addition to his Burisma loot Hunter received $3.5 million for god knows what from a powerful Russian oligarch.
The man is obsessed with pr0n and had thousands of images and videos involving himself and prostitutes. He is walking kompromat.
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The Bidens are obviously compromised by both the Russians and the Chinese. No wonder Old Man Biden is doing so much damage to US interests.
Think about it: If you wanted to make America weak while pretending to be "tough" on Russia and China, you'd pretend that Trump was a Russian spy and try to hang the Chinese virus around his neck. You'd open the southern border and hand over Kabul to the Taliban.
And if you wanted to weaken America economically and reduce its standing in the world, what better way to do so than to prolong the war, piss off all the powerful non western nations with clumsy sanctions and force Americans to pay higher prices for everything?
Biden and his family have been compromised. Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate.
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Biden Crime Family. Corrupt as sin, dumb as rocks, setting the world on fire with their blundering stupidity. Remove them from power before they do even more damage to this country
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Ukrainian tanks of nationalists move among the residential buildings of Mariupol
[REGNUM] Ukrainian nationalists used the inhabitants of Mariupol as a "human shield". This was announced on March 26 by the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR.
The headquarters published a video recording of the story of a local resident, according to whom the base of the “Azovites” (the neo-Nazi battalion “Azov” is an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) has been located near the city since 2014. Now, according to him, since the start of the special operation, the tanks of the nationalists drive up to residential "nine-story buildings" and, having fired a shot, quickly leave, provoking return fire on residential buildings.
“Tanks of the nationalists fired principally from residential areas, maneuvering in the yards of residential buildings ,” he noted.
REGNUM recalls that earlier the representative of the People's Militia of the DPR , Eduard Basurin , said that the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic drove Ukrainian nationalists out of the residential areas of Mariupol. Now a group of nationalists is blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant.
Air defense forces of the LNR shot down a Ukrainian missile "Tochka-U"
[REGNUM] The Air Defense Forces (PVO) of the People's Militia (NM) of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) shot down a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile near the village of Rovenki. This was reported on March 26 by the People's Militia of the LPR.
"Ukrainian nationalist formations are again shelling residential areas of the territory of the LPR," the report says. "So, at 19:45, our air defense units of the NM LPR shot down a tactical missile “Tochka-U” in the area of the settlement of Rovenki."
No casualties or injuries have been reported.
As REGNUM reported , on March 25, the DPR air defense forces shot down a missile of the Tochka-U tactical missile system of Kiev militants on approach to Donetsk.
"In Mariupol, a group of Ukrainian nationalists was driven out of residential areas and blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant," he specified.
Basurin also added that six DPR fighters were killed, 22 people were injured over the past day.
"Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired more than 300 shells and mines from 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 122mm cannon artillery and 120mm mortars," Basurin was quoted by the Izvestia newspaper. According to him, nine settlements of the republic came under shelling.
As a result of enemy shelling, 21 residential buildings and one infrastructure facility were damaged during the day.
“The shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 19:09 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of the Trudovskoy mine): 6 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired, ”the message says.
Earlier, Ozeryanovka and Zheleznaya Balka were fired upon by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ukrainian Armed Forces fired more than 300 shells and mines at DPR
[REGNUM] Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) fired over 300 more shells and mines at the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was stated on March 26 in the message of the People's Militia of the DPR in the Telegram channel.
“ Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired more than 300 shells and mines from 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 122mm cannon artillery and 120mm mortars ,” the message says.
It is noted that the areas of nine settlements of the Republic came under shelling.
As REGNUM reported, on March 26, the DPR representative office in the JCCC
In Donetsk, six servicemen were killed
[REGNUM] In the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) over the past day, during the fighting with representatives of the armed forces of Ukraine (AFU), six servicemen were killed. This was stated on March 26 in the message of the People's Militia of the DPR in the Telegram channel.
"Over the past day, in the struggle for independence, six defenders of the DPR died in the line of military duty and 22 were injured," the report says.
As REGNUM reported, on March 26, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported that Ozeryanovka and Zheleznaya Balka had been fired upon by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
#Iraq's lawmakers are scheduled once again to elect the country’s #president and try to overcome months of political paralysis, even as renewed boycott calls risk scuttling a vote.https://t.co/8Paxn7EvUn
#Tunisia’s police forces have dismantled about 150 militant cells in the past six months, a spokesman for the National Guard says.https://t.co/8hgkoc1epc
He added that some of the foreign hard boyz arrested were planning to join "Jond Kilafha," a group linked to ISIS in Libya and in the mountains on the Tunisian-Algerian border.
"Attempts of attacks targeting neighboring countries were thwarted and a cell that was planning to stab the interior minister in the south of the country was dismantled," Houssem Eddine Jbebli told news hounds.
The North African nation has been under a state of emergency since 2015, after an assault in which a number of presidential guards were killed.
Tunisian security forces have thwarted most turban plots in recent years and have become more efficient at responding to those attacks that do occur.
Practice makes perfect.
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[CBSNEWS] A New Jersey man was arrested for allegedly causing the overdose death of his 12-year-old nephew, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office announced in a blurb. Troy Nokes, 35, is accused of directing the boy to clean drug paraphernalia that contained fentanyl prior to his death.
On January 24, local officials were notified of an unresponsive 12-year-old boy on a school bus. The school's nurse performed "life-saving measures" on the child until EMS arrived on the scene and transported him to a local hospital.
The boy died on February 1, the prosecutor's office said. Medical examiners determined fentanyl intoxication as his cause of death.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[SanDiegoTimes] The Navy on Saturday christened its 73rd Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, a 9,500-ton warship named for a World War II Marine hero and headed to San Diego.
Hours after President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power," Secretary of State Antony Blinken made clear the United States does not have a plan for regime change in Russia.
...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 Pashtun equivalent of men...
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...46th president of the U.S. 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....
22:00 The United States will provide Ukraine with another $100 million to "ensure border security, maintain law enforcement functions and protect critical infrastructure," Blinken said.
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[CBSNEWS] A New Jersey man was arrested for allegedly causing the overdose death of his 12-year-old nephew, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office announced in a 
