[IsraelTimes] Police have deployed in force across Jerusalem amid terror wave; IDF sends 12 extra battalions to West Bank
Friday’s Moslem prayers on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount passed without special incident as of late afternoon amid tesnsions ahead of the holy month of Ramadan,
Israeli forces had been on the highest alert ahead of the prayers at the flashpoint site following a wave of terror attacks. Ramadan begins Saturday in Israel.
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Boring, but something you want to keep an eye on. Transparency, accountability, etc.
[ChannelNewsAsia] HONG KONG: Cash-strapped Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd
*shrug* They don’t appear to be in the Rantburg archives...
has joined a growing list of Chinese property developers unable to publish 2021 audited earnings by Mar 31 as required by listing rules, deepening market concern about the sector's financial health.
Kaisa late on Tuesday said a virus lockdown in Shenzhen left audit work incomplete so it cannot publish financial results on time. In a filing, it said trading of its shares in Hong Kong will therefore be suspended from Apr 1 as per bourse rules.
Bigger peer China Evergrande Group, the world's most-indebted property developer, also on Tuesday said it would not be able to publish results on time due to a large number of additional audit procedures resulting from "drastic changes" in operations since the second half of 2021.
Trading of shares in Evergrande and two Hong Kong-listed subsidiaries has been suspended since Monday.
Other major developers including Sunac China Holdings Ltd and Shimao Group Holdings Ltd also this week said they will delay reporting audited results due to disruption caused by COVID-19, but that they will produce unaudited results on March 31 to keep their shares trading.
[Bus Insider] Putin was frequently visited by a vast team of doctors, Russian investigative news outlet Proekt said. There has been much speculation about the Russian president's health. Putin bathes in blood extracts from severed deer antlers as a form of alternative medicine, the report says.
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/\ In Chinese medicine, deer velvet has been used to treat impotence, female disorders, urinary problems, skin ailments, word salad, and knee weakness. It also is employed as a tonic in children with learning disabilities.....
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Come on. How is Putin sure that the blood is legitimately deer antler blood? How much blood can an antler hold? How many deer would you have to kill for their antler blood to fill a bathtub? What if it is some kind of scam blood from a cow that was stirred with a deer antler? Does that fit the criteria? Is their 3rd party labeling on deer antler blood to ensure that it is legitimate?
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I hear Putin kills the deer himself, with his own hands and teeth. You really don't want to know how he drains the blood and grinds the antlers believe me.
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Lightning flashes in the sky above Moscow. A murder of crows flaps overhead. In the streets men pull their trench coats desperately about themselves and shiver, while women clutch their children in fear. Spring rain falls in frozen sheets, turning everything grey - though, oddly, this is also what Moscow is like in Summer as well.
Deep, deep in the bowels of the Kremlin, below the chambers where Comrade Koba used his wives for target practice and Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria used other men's wives for other things, in a stone room lies a rectangular bathing pool filled with deer antler blood. The Lazarus Pit.
Aleksandr Dugin enters, wearing a long, hooded black robe with the symbol of the fourth ideology emblazoned upon its chest in red, the grey of his Rasputin beard clashing with its stoner metal color scheme. He is quickly intersected by a teenage gymnast with a shaved head, also wearing a robe.
"The Czar is not done with his treatment yet," she whispers pleadingly.
"Wake him." orders Dugin dismissively with a wave of his hand. The gymnast retreats with a bow. There is a clanking of metal as ancient chains begin to turn, raising the naked body of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin from the depths of his artiodactylian bath. Oddly, his is somehow still riding a horse. Which is also naked.
Dugin raises his hands into the air and in a desiccated, necromancer voice commands-
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#14 - Nicely done "He is quickly intersected by a teenage gymnast with a shaved head, also wearing a robe." made me snort
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Lord Melville spilled tea once, at Pemberly.
On hearing one speak -- you remember? --
He shrieked, "Don't be dense!
Sure, a queen of good sense
Should say, sweetly, 'Armenian ambergris!'"
[Free Beacon via Bongino] The Biden administration's new nuclear accord with Iran is likely to include a loophole that will "allow Iranian nationals linked to terrorism to enter and stay in the United States," according to a new Republican-authored policy analysis circulating on Capitol Hill and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
With negotiations over a revamped nuclear deal inching closer to completion, the Biden administration is considering a concession that will remove Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) from the U.S.-designated terrorist list.
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Did Barry convert him while he was with him? Is Joe actually Yusuf Rubabuddin Biden? Because at this point in world history I can totally see that.
I'm beginning to see indo-wakandan sugar tits Harris as the lesser evil now.
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True dat. Let's hope the deepState can dredge up enough competence to forestall the doom of its own gravy train, and install a better asshole. Or they could give democracy a chance this time. Gawd willing.
[FoxNews] House Republicans have called on Hunter Biden to testify before Congress later this week, according to a letter from a senior House Republican.
"House Committee on Oversight and Reform Republicans request the attendance and testimony of Hunter Biden," Ranking Member James Comer said in a letter to House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney.
The committee hearing, titled "It’s Electric: Developing the Postal Service Fleet of the Future," is scheduled for Tuesday, April 5.
Comer went on to cite Biden’s supposed expertise in cobalt mining, which secured him a negotiating position with Chinese officials, he suggested.
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I think they are more interested in showing how ignorant Hunter Biden is on cobalt mining or EV batteries. Basically to show he is totally unqualified for the positions he's taken - and by extension his 'pay' was simply a bribe to his father.
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#4 Come on, guys, get real. He's too busy in the art studio a hooker
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Still amazes me that this scum bucket Hunter can pork his dead brother's wife (doesn't say much for her, either), but this Biden family...my f'n gawd!
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An epic troll. I expected to see Lauren Boebert on the committee but that is not the case. Nancy Mace obviously was not the perp. Only Jim Jordan seems capable in my opinion.
Not a chance he shows, I am sure his security details will take him on a tour of the Smithsonian basement if he tries.
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Epic troll, indeed. The Democratic chair won’t let it happen on her watch.
[Express.co via Gateway] GERMANY has been left in shambles as Vladimir Putin reportedly has cut off the crucial Gazprom gas supply amid the ongoing crisis with Ukraine, a new report has claimed.
Germany depends on Russian gas for about 40 percent of its needs, but has joined Western sanctions against Moscow over Ukraine, including by halting the Nord Stream 2 Baltic gas pipeline designed to double the flow of Russian gas direct to Germany. The Russian gas supplier said it had terminated its participation in Gazprom Germania GMBH and all of its assets, including Gazprom Marketing & Trading Ltd.
However, it provided no further details or explanation.
Katja Yafimava, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies told Reuters: "I think this means Gazprom is drawing a curtain on being an active participant in the European gas market. Essentially it is going home because it no longer feels welcome.
"I think Gazprom understands it is going to face a hostile political and regulatory environment in Europe and therefore wants to consolidate and conduct all of its business in one place — St Petersburg, most likely with the political support of the Russian government."
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Biden last week: "The ruble almost is immediately reduced to rubble."
He's so full of shit. The ruble has gained about 70% since the sanctions were imposed. It's where it was before the war. The reality is the exact opposite of what this fool says.
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I read somewhere there would be delays of the cutoff until May. Is the gas cut off or not? I have not seen any other media report it is off. If so we should probably pay closer attention to the nuc stories.
[JustTheNews] The Biden administration has allowed a more than eleven-fold increase in the number of illegal immigrant offenders let out of Texas prisons and into the general U.S. population, despite federal immigration law requiring ICE to take convicts into custody after serving their time, usually in advance of deportation.
The disclosure emerges from state-initiated litigation that is beginning to shed light on what critics call the administration's secretive and lenient handling of immigrants beginning last year – treatment that is imperiling public safety, alarmed state authorities say.
Soon after President Joe Biden assumed office a year ago January, agents of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement began dropping their usually automatic requests to take custody from Texas authorities of immigrant convicts set to be released from the state's prisons and jails, so they could be deported.
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So, treat the 'men' better or the 'women' worse?
[JustTheNews] TSA announced changes on International Transgender Day of Visibility
The Transportation Security Administration on Thursday morning announced new standards for screening transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming airline passengers at airport checkpoints.
The agency said the changes are to "improve the screening experience for all passengers" and announced them on International Transgender Day of Visibility.
TSA also said the new standards will go into effect after the implementation of new technology that will in part replace the current, gender-based system, which will be more accurate and "advance civil rights and improve the customer experience of travelers who previously have been required to undergo additional screening due to alarms in sensitive areas."
If the testing of the new technology proves successful, the agency will begin deploying the other updates to airports later this year including:
Reducing the number of pat-down screenings
Streamlining identity validation
Making TSA PreCheck more inclusive to include an "X" gender marker option on its application
Updating its Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming Passengers web page to provide information to the traveling public on all gender-related updates
[JustTheNews] With midterms elections in North Carolina starting in about six weeks, more than 60,000 registered voters in the state are dead, registered in another state or registered twice under variations of their name, according to a new watchdog report.
The report released Tuesday by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a nonprofit law firm focused on election integrity, in one example found 7,933 North Carolinians are still registered to vote after having died in 2020.
"North Carolina officials need to use the time they still have to prepare voter rolls for the midterm elections," foundation President J. Christian Adams said. "Time is running out. Silly, obvious errors in the voter roll can create opportunities for voter fraud and chaos in a close election. Correcting deceased and duplicate records now will help to preemptively address those risks."
Primary balloting in the state begins May 17.
The foundation's audit began in late 2019 with the tracking of a sample of registered voters that matched the Social Security Death Index – to see how long it usually took the state's Board of Elections to remove them from the voter roll after they were listed as deceased.
About 12,940 deceased registrants were found in spring 2020. And according to the index, 95% of them died before 2020. The 7,933 deceased voters still on the roll show that some of the registrants, but not all, have been removed.
The foundation found two instances in which registered voters were dead for about 20 years but not removed from the voter roll until 2021.
A total of 42,984 registered voters in North Carolina left the state and established or renewed their out-of-state voter registration before the 2020 Election.
The foundation used the U.S. Postal Service's National Change of Address system and the organization's national voter database to track voters who moved from North Carolina to another state and determine if they registered there before November 2020.
In North Carolina, a residents loses residential status if they take steps to vote in another state. Thus, while it isn't illegal under state or federal law to be registered to vote in two different places, North Carolina considers "a subsequent registration a disqualifying action," according to the foundation.
To be sure, the names of dead people not being purged from voter rolls and people being registered in two states has always been a challenge for election officials. But numerous statewide audits after the 2020 elections have shed new light on challenges related to voter roll integrity.
About 87% of "interstate duplicate residents cast ballots outside of North Carolina in 2020," whereas just 8% cast ballots in North Carolina, and the rest didn't vote in 2020, the foundation also found.
While election officials are in charge of tracking residents who fail to fix their registration status, North Carolina is not part of any state-sharing agreements or interstate compacts to "track voters" who move to or die in other states, the report states.
There are also 13,525 North Carolina voters who were registered twice at the same address but sometimes with different variations of their names.
In 60% of these cases, age, residence and name were exactly the same.
Eighteen percent of the time, both age and residence matched, but the one name just had the middle initial, whereas the other registration spelled out the middle name. In 15% of cases, the age and residence were the same, but the confusion of maiden and married last names allowed for two different registrations.
Other duplicate registrations with the same age and address included spelling or punctuation errors.
The foundation learned from county officials that the faulty copies can occur when a person registers to vote through different avenues, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles vs. a third-party voter drive "and omits personal identifying information," like the optional last four digits of their Social Security number.
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...You would think that a voter roll accurate to about 95-98% (it's doable) would be a point of pride with a state.
You'd think.
Mike
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Insisting on picture ID, like a local driver's license would also cut down on fraud. It should cut down on dead people voting in most cases.
Of course, y brother is a junior. Our dad passed away about 16 years ago. I would not put it past my brother to vote for him, at least for the first few years.
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Simple.
Make it a CRIME punishable by X years of mandatory jail time and a $$,$$$ fine. When found to have multiple registrations to vote in 1 or more locations during a State or Federal election.
What was I thinking??? Many states already have such laws they just don't use or enforce them.
‘[T]he total number of inactive registrations reported by North Carolina dropped from about 1.2 million in 2019, to about 765,000 in 2021 (a 36% drop).’
In June 2019, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) released data showing that voter registration rates in a significant proportion of North Carolina’s 100 counties were close to, at or above 100% of their age-eligible citizenry – statistics considered by the courts to be a strong indication that a jurisdiction is not taking the steps required by law to remove ineligible registrants. Judicial Watch’s analysis also showed that at the time of the EAC report the entire State of North Carolina had a registration rate close to 100% of its age-eligible citizenry.
In the settlement, Judicial Watch told the court:
[T]he total number of inactive registrations reported by North Carolina dropped from about 1.2 million in 2019, to about 765,000 in 2021 (a 36% drop). The statewide percentage of inactive registrations dropped from 17% in 2019, which the complaint alleged to be a national outlier, to 10% in 2021, which is close to the median state inactive rate. The number of registrations removed for failure to respond to an address confirmation notice and vote in two consecutive elections has increased, from about 220,000 for the period reported in 2019, to about 590,000 for the period reported in 2021 (a 168% increase).
With respect to the two North Carolina counties, Judicial told the court:
Data for Mecklenburg County and Guilford County also showed improvement. From 2019 to 2021, the percentage of inactive registrations reported in Mecklenburg County dropped from 15.5% to 13%, and in Guilford County from 19% to 11%. The number of registrations removed for failure to respond to an address confirmation notice and vote in two elections increased during that same period, from roughly 21,000 to 51,000 in Mecklenburg County, and from 7,000 to 33,000 in Guilford County (a 142% and 372% increase, respectively).
(In 2020, Judicial Watch also sued Pennsylvania, and Colorado for failing to clean their voter rolls.)
“This is a win for the voters of North Carolina – because clean voter rolls help pave the way to cleaner elections,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “North Carolina follows Judicial Watch voter roll clean-up successes in California, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. And we are right now prepping lawsuits against other states to force them to clean up their rolls.”
In November 2021, Judicial Watch sent letters to election officials in 14 counties and five states—Arkansas, California, Illinois, New York, and Oregon—notifying them of evident violations of the NVRA.
[JustTheNews] Back before the 2020 election, when Democrats and their allies in the corporate media were still claiming the Hunter Biden story was a conspiracy theory or Russian disinformation, GOP Sen. Ron Johnson released an open letter to America posing questions to then-candidate Joe Biden.
Like most Biden scandals at the time, it mostly got ignored or ridiculed. But the questions were rooted in facts and evidence gathered over two years by investigators on Johnson’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Now nearly two years later, a funny thing has happened. The giants of the corporate media – the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN among them – have abruptly reversed course and acknowledged Hunter Biden’s foreign business pursuits raise legal issues and that content on his laptop left behind in a Delaware repair shop in 2019 was authentic all along.
And now Johnson’s unanswered questions posed in August 2020 loom larger than ever as a federal grand jury in Delaware investigates Hunter Biden for his Ukraine and China business deals, taxes, foreign lobbying and other issues, and some Democrats reportedly brace for a possible indictment.
Here are Johnson’s questions to now-President Biden, Hunter's father, from his August 2020 letter, with a few updates driven by Just the News own original reporting the past two years:
Why did you meet with Devon Archer, your son’s now-convicted business partner, at the White House on April 16, 2014? What was discussed? Did you discuss anything related to Ukraine, Hunter Biden or Burisma?
Were you aware that Devon Archer joined the board of Burisma six days later?
In April 2014, you gave a speech in Kiev calling for Ukraine to expand its natural gas production, Burisma’s core business. In private emails, Hunter Biden and Archer took credit for the language in the speech. Why did you make the request and did your son or his business partner have anything to do with it? (NEW)
Were you aware that Burisma’s owner, Mykoloa Zlochevsky, was generally viewed as a corrupt oligarch and that his London bank account containing $23 million had been seized by British officials only15 days before Hunter Biden joined the board of a company he owned?
Was Hunter Biden aware that British officials had seized Zlochevsky’s bank account?
When did you first become aware of Zlochevsky and Burisma’s reputations for corruption?
Do you believe Zlochevsky and Burisma are corrupt?
Were you aware in April 2014 that Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma? When did you first become aware that Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma? When did you become aware of how much Hunter Biden was being compensated by Burisma?
Why do you believe Burisma recruited and paid Archer and your son to be on its board?
What skills or knowledge do you believe Hunter Biden possesses that qualified him to be on Burisma’s board and receive $50,000 to $166,000 per month for his and his partner’s services?
When did you learn your son had not paid taxes on some of his overseas work, including on monies received from Burisma?
When did you first learn your son was facing a federal investigation?
State Department officials have testified your son’s work for Burisma while you oversaw [as vice president] Ukraine policy created the appearance of a conflict of interest and they further wrote in a classified email in 2016 that the conflict had undercut U.S. anticorruption efforts in Ukraine. How do you respond to those criticisms? (NEW)
What exactly had Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin done that caused you to threaten to withhold $1 billion in desperately needed aid from Ukraine if President Poroshenko didn’t fire him?
What do you know about Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China?
A 2017 series of memos referred to a Chinese business deal your son was involved in that reserved 10% equity for the “big guy.” What did you know about it and were you that “big guy?” (NEW)
What if anything do you know about your son's dealings with Russian oligarch Elena Baturina?
Did you ever meet with any of Hunter Biden's foreign business partners from China, Russia or Ukraine, including but not limited to Burisma's Vadym Pozharskyi or Baturina or her Moscow mayor husband?
What do you know about financial benefits your brothers and sister-in-law have obtained because of their relationship to you?
Emails on your son’s laptop now in the hands of the FBI refer to shared accounts or bills between you and him. Did your son ever give your any money, gift or financial benefit from his business dealings? (NEW)
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Off the "nautical fakery from yesterday-ish" pile...
Through a Scope, Hopefully, by Norman O'Leary (& diverfe Burgers)
Himself, on his porch at Mount Vernon:
"Me ship o' state! Martha, she's turnin'!"
"Sure, ever athwart
As she circles to port,
Rudder jammed, crewed by boarders, and burnin'. Hoorah!"
"By the Republic, turtledove, I sometimes wish I'd never sent ye to that female empowerment seminar at the Y."
"Aw, jayzus... here we go again with all yer feckin' patriarchal bullshite!"
"Sorry, dear."
Five minutes later...
"Now hurry up and get dressed, Georgie, or we'll be late for that orgy at the Jeffersons."
[Peter Zeihan via Insty] The Return of the Third Horseman
The Ukraine War is having dozens - hundreds - of follow-on impacts across the world, with the most dramatic about to be felt in the world of food. Whatever you think will happen, the reality is almost certainly worse.
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This is Biden's (and his evil puppet masters) fault. If you want to control corporations, control energy. If you want to control people, control food. We're trending toward Recession if not Depression coupled with food shortages. It wouldn't surprise me if these bastards try to enact Marshall Law if (when) the 2024 election doesn't go their way. We can only hope this Nov election goes well
Time to re-enact the Victory Garden idea. Fertilizer might be an issue. There are some things one can do to replace the K, P and N using natural methods including composting
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Excellent Article in American Thinker about the massive loss of trust across so many elements of our society and how it creates the risk of collapse faster than the natural entropy of all great civilizations. The Magic Kenyan and his minions surrounding the Puppet Show are the iceberg and after stealing the election and the Trump course correction they turned right back into it.
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Dale, I fixed your article for tomorrow, since you posted it after 2:00 p.m. ET. For future reference, put the URL in the Source box, and the article headline in the Title box. My thanks!
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This is Biden's (and his evil puppet masters) fault.
Exactly. Without Biden and his evil puppet masters mucking about in Ukraine where they have no legitimate business, this war never would have happened.
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And then, when the war did happen, Biden felt compelled to choose sides and impose the sanctions that will do the most damage not just to Russia but the entire world. You go, Joe. Punish the entire world for your own crimes.
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Watching the middle east implode this summer and fall is going to be interesting to say the least.
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#7 They know exactly what they are doing. The problem for them and the rest of us is that they continually miss the mark on expected results. They try to tight rope Cloward-Piven and always end up gobsmacked by what actually results.
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Watching the middle east implode this summer and fall is going to be interesting to say the least.
I’m not sure how much imploding we’ll see. The unstable places are already in full blown war of all against all, and the rest are pondering the benefits of joining the Abraham Accords to get Israel on their side against Iran as it approaches nuclear capability. Sure there will be hunger, and the drought has already started, but suffering is something they’re accustomed to over there.
TULLAHASSEE, Okla. — If you really concentrate, you can imagine the town that this community’s elders describe. There was the grocery store on the highway, and the gas station. There were the shops where children walked to buy lunch for 50 cents on school days. There was Ms. Sadie’s chicken shack and Dr. Minn’s office. All of that’s gone now. In their place, either vacant lots or dilapidated buildings.
Today, you’re more likely to see loose dogs than people on Lincoln Street, the town’s main drag. There are a couple of horses in a yard just across from the town hall, which used to be the center of a bustling commercial district. Now, Lincoln Street has a handful of homes, the low-slung cinder-block town hall, two churches and just one storefront, Bates Barbecue.
The once-thriving all-Black town of Tullahassee was ravaged by government policies that divested it and other Black communities, said Mayor Keisha Currin. And she says the city is owed reparations to get back on its feet. Owed reparations? FOADIAF
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"The Left Ruins Everything It Touches."
Dennis Prager
Every Day we see more examples.
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From the article:
Last year, Currin joined Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity (MORE), a group founded by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock. It counts more than a dozen mayors across the country as members, and its goal is to become a laboratory for new reparations programs that address slavery and the decades of explicitly anti-Black government policies that followed.
Its vision of reparations involves finding resources to rebuild the town and, by doing so, creating a blueprint for the hundreds of all-Black communities that once dotted the United States and drew African Americans fleeing racial violence.
This looks like they’re trying for government-funded Black separatism. Better than the Moorish Sovereign Citizen/Indigenous Moors idiots called the Not F*cking Around Coalition who announced Black self rule within an eleven mile border through the center of Austin — along the lines of Antifa’s CHAZ in Seattle. But not as good as that luxury community being self-financed for upper middle class Blacks in Pennsylvania or somewhere, whose success was still up in the air.
[Guardian] Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney has addressed the vexing question of how the US copes with its ageing population, suggesting that retirement benefits may have to be cut for younger Americans.
In comments to the Senate budget committee on Wednesday, the Republican senator from Utah said that the spiraling costs of retirement programs had to be tackled to bring national debt under control. Romney raised the politically controversial idea of cutting benefits, but only for younger generations before they reach retirement age.
"For younger people coming along, we got to be able to find a way to balance these programs or we’re gonna find ourselves in a heap of trouble," he said. He added that he was not in favour of raising taxes as a way of balancing the books, but was open to adjusting "long-term benefits not for current retirees".
Romney’s remarks, first reported by Business Insider, open a can of worms often avoided by members of Congress given its intense political sensitivities. The programs in question include two of the most popular benefits in the country — social security and Medicare, which make up more than 40% of government spending.
The backdrop to the issue is America’s ageing population. By 2034 projections suggest there will be 77 million Americans aged 65 and older — more than the projected 76.5 million under 18s.
That means that for the first time in US history older people will outnumber children.
That same year, 2034, the trust fund for social security is expected to run out, leaving the US government struggling to make full benefit payments. That looming deadline is a reflection of the intense and rising pressure on social security and Medicare given long-term funding shortfalls.
Conservatives have consistently tried to chip away at the programs. Most recently, House Republicans proposed raising the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 69 and social security from 67 to 69.
But in his Build Back Better plan, Joe Biden sought to protect and even extend the programs, adding hearing coverage to Medicare. The bill passed the House but was stalled in the US Senate.
Quoting part of the informative article. " Congressional members are eligible for their own unique pension plans under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), though there are other retirement benefits available, ranging from Social Security and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). Currently, members of Congress are eligible for a pension dependent on the member's age at retirement, length of service, and salary. The pension value can be up to 80% of the member's final salary. Since 2009 Congressional pay has been $174,000 per year, which, at an 80% rate, equates to a lifelong pension benefit of $139,200. All benefits are taxpayer-funded.
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Because members of Congress earn far more than the average American citizen, their initial Social Security benefits average just under $26,000 per year compared to $17,652 for the average retired worker in 2019."
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Covid was supposed to address this issue, right?
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..iirc they got like 6 more months in the system. They didn't kill enough of us with the bug. I suppose the experimental vaccine will take care of that.
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/\ Me as well. Can I help it if I have lived this long ?
Abortions, BC pills, opioids, fentanyl, suicides, COVID jabs, and the Northern migration of severely reduced life expectancy migrants will eventually solve the problem.
No one outside the beltway should live more than 45-50 years. Bill & Melinda and other Central Planners will see to it.
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^ How long do you think it will be before the gummint decides people on the dole need taxpayer funded retirement plans too?
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they already have them. That's still a part of welfare. Do you realize how many people inand after 2008 applied for disability with nothing wrong with them. If they got it they essentially retired. Not to mention the lifelong welfare kings and queens who stay on it for life.
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[DW] Federal prosecutors have charged a former Bundeswehr reserve officer with passing on information to Russian intelligence agents, including documents related to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany.
Germany's federal prosecutor's office has charged a former military reservist on suspicion of spying for Russian intelligence.
The indictment named the man as Ralph G., in line with Germany's privacy laws, and said he had been in contact with Russian agents from October 2014 until March 2020.
"The accused is sufficiently suspected of having worked for a foreign intelligence service against the Federal Republic of Germany and against a NATO state party," it said.
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Tell The US Should Negotiate With Turkey & Armenia With Russia & Ukraine For Making Ceasefire & Reconcillation & Truth & Provide Peace Committee For Forging Blanket Amnesty For All & Secure Peace With Crimea , Donetsk & Gdansk Leadership & All Combatants End Of War Crimes & End Of Pursuing Crimes Against Humanities! Talk Of Reunion Of Ukraine & Russia , together!!
[France24] France's military intelligence chief is leaving his post after Paris failed to accurately predict in contrast to other Western allies that Russia would launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, several sources with knowledge of his exit said.
General Eric Vidaud, who has led the Direction of Military Intelligence (DRM) since only last summer, is to immediately step down from his post, a military source, who asked not to be named, told AFP.
The source confirmed a report on the l'Opinion website citing an internal defence ministry investigation that criticised "insufficient briefings" and "failure to master the issues."
Another source told AFP that there had been rumours within the army concerning the departure of the general in recent days, with it possible that another post could have been offered to him, though in the end this was not the case.
In the months before the invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, France's assessments had contrasted with the gloomy predictions by allies including the US and Britain who warned a major military assault was imminent.
Senior figures from President Emmanuel Macron's government insisted there was no suggestion of a full-scale invasion and Macron kept diplomacy going to the last minute, meeting Putin in person in the Kremlin and trying to set up a summit with US President Joe Biden.
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The source confirmed a report on the l'Opinion website citing an internal defence ministry investigation that criticised "insufficient briefings" and "failure to master the issues."
Performance standards no longer in play in the US.
[OneIndia] A woman in a burqa who was caught on camera hurling a bomb at the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... has been arrested.
She has been identified as Hasina Akhtar, a resident of Baramulla. She is associated with the banned group Dukhtaran-e-Milat which is headed by Asiya Andrabi.
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[Dawn] Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... revealed on Friday that the "establishment" had given him three options: "resignation, no-confidence [vote] or elections", following the filing of a no-confidence motion against him in the National Assembly.
He shared this during an interview to ARY News, which was aired on Friday, while responding to questions about whether the opposition, government or "another party" had proposed early elections and his resignation as options.
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That is to say, they noticed he wasn’t where he was supposed to be. They haven’t actually found him yet. Possibly they aren’t really looking.
[Dawn] A member of the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP), who had been placed on the watch list, was booked under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) after he was found missing from his home in Rawat.
Police said Mohammad Ijaz, alias Pappu, had been placed on the 4th schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 by the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Home Department. He was an active member of the TTP and had been directed to report to the relevant cop shoppe whenever he left or returned to his house.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... he was found to have been missing from his home for the last seven days and had not informed the police when he left. Therefore, the police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against him under section II-E of the ATA.
Based on intelligence and police record, an individual suspected of having ties or membership with proscribed groups is put on the fourth schedule under the ATA 1997.
Following that, their identities are forwarded to the relevant police and law enforcement authorities for efficient monitoring and surveillance.
[Dawn] The United States has ’clearly distanced’ itself from Pakistain, former US military chief Mike Mullen said as the White House and the State Department publicly reject claims of their involvement in Pakistain’s domestic politics.
"It is difficult, difficult to say," said Admiral Mullen when asked to describe Washington’s relations with Pakistain, which was once a close US ally in the war against terror and during the cold war.
"I think we have clearly distanced ourselves from Pakistain over the last decade and Pakistain has more and more fallen under the umbrella of China," he told VOA Urdu Service in Washington this week.
He recalled that as the US army chief he had told a congressional hearing that Pak intelligence agencies were active in Afghanistan "and I still believe ... that connectivity is there. It sort of cuts both ways."
Admiral Mullen, who was chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 2007 to September 2011, was also named in the so-called Memogate controversy, which revolved around a memorandum, ostensibly seeking US support for preventing a feared military takeover in Pakistain that never happened.
He noted that China was not only Pakistain’s neighbour but it "has been supportive of Pakistain" as well.
This closeness, he said, "suits China’s global ambition" because Beijing would prefer to have a neighbor "closer to them and not close to the US".
For these reasons, the US-Pakistain relationship "is going to... be tense for quite some time," he added.
Asked if he believed Pakistain helped the Taliban ...Arabic for students... take over Kabul in August last year, Admiral Mullen said: "They did not do much to stop it for sure."
He recalled that as the US army chief he had told a congressional hearing that Pak intelligence agencies were active in Afghanistan "and I still believe ... that connectivity is there. It sort of cuts both ways."
The former US military chief reiterated a complaint that’s often heard in Washington that Pakistain "played on both sides (the US and the Taliban)" in Afghanistan.
On Thursday afternoon, the White House and the US State Department publicly addressed Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... ’s claim that foreign powers were supporting the attempt to unseat him.
During a regular press briefing, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, however, rejected this claim as incorrect.
"Absolutely no truth to that allegation," she said, responding to a question.
At the State Department, spokesperson Ned Price also responded to a question about the alleged US involvement in Pakistain’s domestic politics.
"We are closely following developments in Pakistain, we respect and support Pakistain’s constitutional process and rule of law," Mr Price said. "However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... when it comes to that allegation, there is no truth to it."
[DW] A group of children was playing in a field in 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... when two bombs went off. In a separate incident in southern Afghanistan, at least five children were killed when they found an unwent kaboom! shell.
Several children were killed in Afghanistan on Friday in two separate incidents in the city of Herat and in the southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
While the earth-shattering kaboom in Helmand appeared to have been an accident, Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... officials in Herat said they believed bombs that went off at a playing field had been recently planted.
WHAT HAPPENED IN HERAT?
In the western city of Herat, a group of children and young men who came to a field to play were hit when two bombs went off in quick succession.
Five people were killed in the blast and at least 20 others were maimed, according to Taliban-appointed provincial officials.
The field is used for traditional Afghan games including mud wrestling and a horse-mounted game called Buzkashi.
The playing area was deemed safe after it had recently been demined to remove unwent kaboom! ordinance, Sabit Harwi, the Taliban-appointed front man for the intelligence office in Herat told the AFP news agency.
The bombs that went off appear to have been planted in the area shortly before the group came to play, he said. Local police defused two other bombs found in the area after Friday's deadly blasts.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the kabooms in Herat.
WHAT HAPPENED IN HELMAND?
In a separate incident earlier on Friday, a group of children was killed in the southern province of Helmand when they came across an unwent kaboom! mortar shell that suddenly detonated.
The children, who were aged between 3- and 12-years-old, discovered the shell in the district of Marja and were playing with it when it went off, a Taliban media officer told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Two other children were maimed in the blast and are being treated in a local hospital.
A DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR CHILDREN
The two incidents highlighted the dangerous situation facing children in Afghanistan.
Since seizing control of Afghanistan in August last year, the hardline Islamist Taliban have been facing attacks by the regional chapter of the bad boy "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... " (IS) group.
While Afghan society facing a rising economic crisis since the Taliban takeover, many children try to gather scrap metal to sell and support their families.
Due to the decades of conflict that have plagued Afghanistan, children can sometimes come across unwent kaboom! ordnance — which results in severe injury or death.
[Real Clear Science] Desire doesn't die after age sixty. In fact, more seniors than ever are embracing their inner friskiness in their old age, and science has some things to say about it.
[ZERO] An ominous sign about today's high inflation environment, and quite clearly the Federal Reserve is behind the hiking curve, is a contact close with the Fed complaining about out-of-control golf membership prices.
Yes, you heard that correctly. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker's speech cited "one of our contacts," presumably a Wall Street banker or corporate elite, complained about the "whopping membership fee increases at his golf club."
Harker said the contact even "suggested it may be a good time to play at your local muni instead" of a private course.
As Matt Taibbi of TK News notes,
"I know I’m a little out of practice, because just as I was about to begin speaking, I made sure my mute button wasn’t on," he cracked. "In all seriousness..."
Shifting to a graver theme, he mentioned the old saw about being cursed to live in "interesting times." The novel coronavirus, he said, "has tragically killed at least 6 million people globally and around 1 million here in the United States," adding, "That’s the equivalent of a city larger than San Francisco or Seattle." Russia has also invaded Ukraine, he said, "fomenting death and destruction and spurring a humanitarian crisis in the heart of Europe."
Next in this parade of calamities: the scourge of inflation, a problem so serious that it touched him and his colleagues personally.
"One of our contacts, for instance, mentioned whopping membership fee increases at his golf club," Harker said, "suggesting this summer may be a good time to play at your local muni instead."
[PJ] During her confirmation hearings, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s despicable record on sentencing child porn offenders became a key issue. Republicans pointed out that she had a pattern of giving these perverts lenient sentences, while Democrats made excuses for her and kept gushing over her status as a black woman.
Although, since they’re not biologists, I’m not sure how they know she is, in fact, a woman.
We knew her record was terrible during the hearings, but her record is even worse than we thought.
"Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has a record of handing down dramatically lower sentences in criminal cases, but especially lower sentences in cases involving child pornography," explains Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who released a comprehensive analysis of her record. According to that analysis, Jackson gave sentences nearly 60% shorter than the national average for possession of child porn and nearly 50% shorter for distributors of child porn.
Cruz’s analysis found that in every child pornography case that Judge Jackson heard, she sentenced the defendant below the sentencing guidelines and at or below the recommendation from the prosecutor.
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No. She will be confirmed. I predict that Lindsay Graham will vote to confirm. This after asking the "tough questions" during the hearings. Be sure that he didn't ask and will never ask "tough questions" about the 2020 election. This guy is an evil clown.
[Washington Examiner] An interview with Mel Gibson abruptly ended after Fox News host Jesse Watters asked the Hollywood star to respond to the scandal surrounding Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.
Nearly five minutes into the exchange, which aired shortly after Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, Watters popped the question of what Gibson thinks would have happened to him if he were the one who slapped Rock.
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I watched it. Waters asked what the result woud be if Gibson had slapped Chris. That's when you can hear someone off camera saying the interview time was over and it cuts away from Gibson.
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Mel looked haunted, twitchy, and had odd eye and head movements, clearly not a well man, and the rescue cut-off told me he has a minder/oublicist/shadow to protect what is left of his market value. Sadly, that was deeply damaged by this.
[Washington Examiner] The newest Democratic selection for the Afghanistan War Commission is an MSNBC pundit who was among dozens of former intelligence officials who signed a letter in October 2020 claiming without evidence that the Hunter Biden laptop story was part of a Russian operation.
The Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Washington Rep. Adam Smith, announced he had picked Jeremy Bash for the Afghanistan investigation Friday, with the biography for Bash noting he served as chief of staff at the Pentagon and chief of staff at the CIA during the Obama administration. Former CIA Director Leon Panetta, for whom Bash worked, also signed the letter.
Bash’s LinkedIn lists himself as the founder of Beacon Global Strategies and as a national security analyst at NBC News and MSNBC.
Despite offering no proof, Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, along with many in the media, dismissed the laptop story as being a Russian disinformation operation. After the New York Post published emails belonging to his son, Joe Biden called the story "garbage" and part of a "Russian plan" during an October 2020 debate with then-President Donald Trump.
Joe Biden was referring to a Politico report about the letter in an article titled "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say." The title was misleading because the letter never directly called it Russian "disinformation."
Bash himself strongly suggested it was "disinformation" on TV, however.
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Now the Media half heartedly is starting to pretend it is 2 page newsworthy.
But, it is clear the media and LSD's conspired to slander and harm many people for Years. It is also clear, that it was for personal, social, political, and/or financial gains.
May Trump and every other wrong, smeared, slandered person to sue those that deliberately lied to the American public to further their Political, Social, and/or perverted Agendas.
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They're just straight-up lying to your face now. They don't care. They will never suffer any consequences for it, so why don't you go fuck yourself, commoner?
[Breitbart] Appearing Thursday on NBC News, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called for the United States government to create a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), which some longtime crypto proponents warn could be used to surveil citizens.
A transcript is as follows:
CHUCK TODD: Are you there [on creating a Central Bank Digital Currency]?
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: Oh, for a Central Bank Digital Currency? Yes. I think it’s time for us to move in that direction.
TODD: Whenever you look at every piece of paper currency we issue, not with coins, but paper, has its own identity. So essentially, we’re prepared for the blockchain now. Should that be how we build this?
SEN. WARREN: I think of it was what’s the problem we’re trying to solve and if the problem you’re trying to solve is fast, almost frictionless ability to send money across country and the world, a Central Bank Digital Currency does that. You don’t need a stablecoin for that.
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The dollar conversion will be painful at first, that is if you have any remaining dollars to convert. It really is for the greater global good. In this particular case, a more equitable solution really does justify the means. You'll see.
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They have lot's of brilliant plans, mostly centered on taking everything you have. Don't worry if you are a billionaire though. None of these plans apply to their donors. Bernie is a liar if he says the uniparty will attack their donors.
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And let’s put in safe guards like having the encryption keys and passwords stored in Humper Biden’s laptop, put the congressional Pakistani Brothers in charge of cyber security and whomever is the world leader in charge of the central digital currency let us ensure they are selected based on Race, Sexuality, and ideology.
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Once digital, then DC can turn ON or OFF a person's wealth/income... based on whatever issues they decide or deem.
Some have asked ...What if we went back to a Gold Standard backed dollar, plus other such rare metals?
At the last audit, the US Treasury claimed 261,498,926.241 Troy OZ of Gold in its vaults.
Gold, which was selling for about $1,928.00 per troy oz at COB yesterday.
If the USA went back to a Gold Standard?
The US dollar would be backed by only about $504.1 +/- Billion in Gold Reserves.
Notes:
DC has a purposed Federal budget of about 10 times that for 2023.
DC has run up a national debt of about 60 times our Gold worth and 5 times the annual collected tax revenues.
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The Godverment in charge of your assets and you say what can go wrong? OK, my sister's gay friend (who has a black partner) owns several VRBOs as his livelihood. The max occupancy on the posting is 4 people. VRBO rents it and 10 people check in which the owner sees this on the outside video and calls the renter, who lies about it. He tells them to leave. They eventually do, but immediately complain to VRBO that they were told to leave because they are black. VRBO shuts down all of his account pending an investigation. How does one prove they are not racist. It took weeks to resolve. Thousands of dollars lost.
Do you really believe this can't happen with the leftists in Washington if they had the keys to your assets? Look what the little tyrant in Canada did to protesters.
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Do you really want the likes of Elizabeth Warren, Adam "the liar" Schiff, Mitch, Pelosi, and the others controlling *all* of your financing. It's bad enough they can freeze your bank accounts and leave you to starve on a whim as they did on Canada.
"Oh your retirement's too big so we'll going to take 80% of what you worked your ass off for and sacrificed for and give it to some poor slobs who wasted their lives on hookers and booze".
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The globalists have a lot of great ideas for everyone but themselves (sarc). You don't want to give up dollar dominance. It will not make for a better country or world. Warning! Morons, crazy people and crooks at the helm.
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I prefer to store my wealth as ammunition. It's always needed, it can get you what you need and best of all, you can recycle it and make NEW ammo from the cases.
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Why does this site keep linking to a shitty UK tabloid rag known for telling lies?
"Why are you linking to X?" is a common complaint with new 'visitors'. Don't think of a source as news, think of it as data. Data needs to be filtered and cleaned and processed before it is usable. A compass that points 90 degrees to the left is still useful as long as you are aware of the skew. Sometimes, just knowing the Message of the Day is information.
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A colleague told me this site aggregates open source info relevant to defence and terrorism issues.
Your colleague is correct, although we also pay attention to interesting local situations like the current excitements in the Ukraine. Please pass along our thanks for the recommendation.
The Daily Mail is as reputable as the National Inquirer or Alex Jones.
On some subjects, yes, much like the New York Times, et al. But if you check the curated Daily Mail articles posted here, you’ll notice that in almost all cases the DM links to one or more published articles from sources local to the events being reported, so with a few minutes’ work you can decide for yourself the trustworthiness of the information they present.
Did the site get a new owner?
No.
Why is it linking to tabloid garbage?
To the educated mind, even bad data is useful if it reveals something about the actors or the situation. Good data, of course, is even better for this, and it must be remembered that the site owner is a professional military intelligence analyst, fully aware of the sources and methods pertaining to the information we present here.
—trailing wife for the moderators at 11:40 a.m. ET
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A colleague told me this site aggregates open source info relevant to defence and terrorism issues. The Daily Mail is as reputable as the National Inquirer or Alex Jones. Did the site get a new owner? Why is it linking to tabloid garbage?
The Daily Mail does provide American domestic news we can't get anywhere else.
If you have a link disputing this news presentation, post it and let readers decide for themselves.
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Hey - the National Enquirer (of Batboy) fame) broke the 'John Edwards' story the other media refused to report.
"Consider the Source"
As for the Daily Mail - as long as you know its slanted you can use its information - just adjust your bullshit filters accordingly - and change them more often.
I also read gab - which is very open. Some of the things posted there are pretty wacky - again adjust your BS filter to match. I like gab because it is open and I can see everything - yes even the messy, disgusting, and wierdo stuff. *I* choose what I believe or not - not some executive or fact finder.
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You're so gullible. The London tabloids are notorious outlets for MI5 and MOD disinformation. They've been using these rags to manipulate public opinion for decades.
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If you don't have a bullshit filter, that's your problem, no one else's. I'm directing that remark at all our recent visitors who are always telling me to "educate myself."
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Squinty Gliper2985,
It's pretty well known here the Russians and Brits hate each other. Their media takes on the political slant.
But you are so smart, why not tell us with sources to read?
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His sources are Russia Today, Pravda, and daily emails from the Internet Research Agency.
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Even the most reputable U.K. publications are crawling with MI6 agents (usually masquerading as the papers' foreign correspondents).
The tabloids however are a complete joke. Both MI5 and MI6 routinely use them to spin, plant stories, demonise opponents and do character assassination, whip up support for wars.
Roy Greenslade was on the media beat at the Telegraph and the Guardian. Greenslade says: "Most tabloid newspapers – or even newspapers in general – are playthings of MI5."
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Pity the poor US Defense Intelligence Agency junior analyst whose boss tells him to peruse "Skidmark's Daily Daily Mail" roundup for trustworthy open source nuggets each day. (At least the analyst can keep tabs on Kendall Jenner's toes and ogle Emily Ratajkowski's breasts)
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I would like to thank Chuckles Ebbique3271 for triggering a thoroughly educational and amusing discussion.
I personally admit to being gullible and female, despite the joint efforts of the regulars here to fix the former. The latter is unfixably fixed, no matter what President Biden currently believes he thinks.
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Phone rings
Skid: Agent 86 here
Sputnik News: Sputnik News here, what do you have?
Skid: Emily Ratajkowski is still ugly.
Sputnik: No, something new.
Skid: George Max is gay?
Sputnik: Who is George Max? Can we turn him?
Skid: Uhh, Putin's is on steroids.
Sputnik: Thanks, tonight's lede.
Skid: heh
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Probably not prudent to discount Open Source or Info Ops, or those who follow such publications. Someone once told me 95% of all intelligence collected originates in unclassified Open Source information venues. Analysts simply study the available data and make critical assessments, which oftentimes then become classified and possibly actionable.
The guy with the Daily Mail fetish is definitely not an analyst, current or former. Probably an IT guy. Low level database administrator type. But "disgruntled grievance guy" fits the shitposter profile. Makes sense
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I've given up on you, Squinty, so I'm just going to assume that the DM's figure of 625 Russian tanks lost is accurate.
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Best chew-toy fracas in a while. Its nice to see the troll A-team back and decent grammar and up-to-the-minute cultural dreck mixed in. It tells me we are still an important influencer for somebody they want to shade or twist!
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Someone once told me 95% of all intelligence collected originates in unclassified Open Source information venues.
That's true, but most of it comes from local sources in the local language. No experienced or intelligent analyst would rely on obviously planted Information Ops using the Daily Mail.
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Ref #47: Analysts have monitored this site from unclassified boxes in SCIFS for nearly two decades CB. Go ahead, it's Saturday. Lift a window and get some air. When you return to work on Monday, you'll likely have no window to open.
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Squinty, still no numbers on Russian losses from you. Next time do your homework before you come to school.
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So this is essentially a shitposter site for bored ex-analysts who are no longer in the loop on anything
No shit, there I wuz...
Let’s not tell Grorong Barnsmell1400 about Mr, Wife’s adventures as a corporate R&D type developing laundry detergents in the Third World, most of which I only heard about when he was talking to colleagues while I fed them dinner. He doesn’t like upsetting me about the near misses, though his mother told me that very night when he called from India with amoebic dysentery.
Pro hint: a home cooked meal loosens tongues admirably, and the Italian lads will literally weep if the coffee is poured from the same cheap aluminum espresso pot used by their mothers. Come to think of it, the young military intelligence sergeant one of my au pair girls brought home for dinner when we lived in Germany interrogated me so smoothly that I didn’t realize it wasn’t aimless conversation until long afterward, which goes to show all sorts of things.
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The regulars here have been places and done things, it shows in the information they share. I've definitely learned some useful stuff in the comments here.
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Analysts have monitored this site from unclassified boxes in SCIFS for nearly two decades CB
I heard about it back in the early days of the Iraq War. Someone said that Rumsfeld had mentioned it in passing once. Hard to believe anyone looks at it today, given all the shitposting on the site now. Maybe if you cleared out all the Daily Mail garbage and got actual local sources in local languages there might be some stuff worth looking over
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95% of all intelligence collected originates in unclassified Open Source information
Yupp. They're all lazy sad sacks now. 🙃 Gone are the days when you could reach out and bring back a tidbit and not find it originated in a youtube rant.
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/\ Document translation and exploitation is conducted here on a near daily basis. For obvious reasons, a great deal of RU of late. Where does your interest lie? What languages do you specialize in? Perhaps we can more accurately focus our posts to assist your efforts. We are here for you.
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Yep, long-gone are the days when I was doing call for fire missions, danger close, from a foxhole knee-deep in grenade pins, overlooking the LDLC and the incoming hordes of ....Defense Logistics Agency Auditors examining our procurement files> Damn, it was epic!
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I heard about it back in the early days of the Iraq War. Someone said that Rumsfeld had mentioned it in passing once. Hard to believe anyone looks at it today, given all the shitposting on the site now. Maybe if you cleared out all the Daily Mail garbage and got actual local sources in local languages there might be some stuff worth looking over
Daily Mail's presentations aren't mixed in with the post on terrorism. They are separate. Their existence or reference doesn't change the rest of the news posted here.
And as the dateline suggests, the Daily Mail is where we get the best coverage of non-terrorism related US domestic news.
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Hard to believe anyone looks at it today, given all the shitposting on the site now.
If the Internet Research Agency trolls would go away it would be back to normal. But you clowns are paid to shitpost, so...
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Like hair rays to the muzz, the war-skeptics here at Rantburg get the trolls in a tizzy.
They're paid Putinists, so any information that doesn't show their Lord and Master in a flattering light upsets them. They don't want to be caught near the Bad Think that says his Holodomor II isn't a stroke of genius...
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Oh -- and if things are going so well for Russia, why are they looking to get Syria involved in it, too? Why expand the war if they're on-track to win?
Unless Putin's intent was ALWAYS to expand the war, to do whatever he could to start World War III...
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Well, Skid, it turns out you're Bond -- James Bond.
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Yes, this new class of troll here is quite amusing. Their posts come across like Rantburg secretly controls the government and can make them do what we want. It's also clear they don't wander off their assigned topics much to realize how MUCH there is to learn here from the articles and the comments. I get far better analysis and commentary here than the MSM could ever provide. It's also fun when the physics people stop lurking to have their knock down drag outs over things like "That particle doesn't exist" or other weird esoteric stuff most of us barely comprehend.
I will give the new trolls this, they have far better grammar and spelling than the odd dailykos type troll we used to get or the crazed jihadi's that occasionally visit.
Anyway on with the show!
*opens a can of pringles*
And what is it with the Icelandic obsession with Pringles anyway? Is that the USAF's fault?
While much of Ukraine's success against Russian Forces has been down to agile tactics and advanced hardware, the ability to improvise with equipment is proving to be equally important.
[CitizenFreePress] "Today, I’m announcing my candidacy for the U.S. House seat representing Alaska," she said in a statement shared with DC Secrets on Friday night. "Public service is a calling, and I would be honored to represent the men and women of Alaska in Congress, just as Rep. Young did for 49 years. I realize that I have very big shoes to fill, and I plan to honor Rep. Young’s legacy by offering myself up in the name of service to the state he loved and fought for because I share that passion for Alaska and the United States of America."
Palin, 58, joined the race for a planned special House election just before the filing deadline closed. There are 40 other applicants in the race.
Goodness — an enthusiastic crowd.
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has set the special election’s primary for June 11 and the general election for Aug. 16.
In the statement, she said, "America is at a tipping point. As I’ve watched the far Left destroy the country, I knew I had to step up and join the fight. The people of the great state of Alaska, like others all over the country, are struggling with out-of-control inflation, empty shelves, and gas prices that are among the highest in the world. We need energy security for this country, and Alaska can help provide that — but only if the federal government gets out of the way and lets the free market do what it does best.”
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The left's visceral hatred of poor whites overflowed like a broken sewer when John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate in 2008. It would be impossible, and disturbing, to attempt to identify the single most offensive comment that leftists lobbed at Palin. One can report that attacks on Palin were so egregious that leftists themselves publicly begged that they cease; after all, they gave the left a bad name. The Reclusive Leftist blogged in 2009 that it was a "major shock" to discover "the extent to which so many self-described liberals actually despise working people." The Reclusive Leftist focuses on Vanity Fair journalist Henry Rollins. Rollins recommends that leftists "hate-fuck conservative women" and denounces Palin as a "small town hickoid" who can be bought off with a coupon to a meal at a chain restaurant.
>This past weekend, I went to Lollapalooza in Chicago. I wore my new shirt, which in big letters, states "Sarah Palin is A Cunt." I knew in this extremely liberal city, the hometown of Barack Obama, that I would not get lynched, but I wasn't expecting so many compliments. Literally over 100 people complimented me on my shirt, from "I love your shirt" to "I love your shirt."
[Foxnews] Border agents found several migrants with criminal histories in a span of several days
Several migrants attempting to enter the United States illegally through Texas this week were found to have long criminal histories, including one wanted for a homicide in his home country and another with a conviction for raping a child, authorities said Friday.
The most recent encounter between migrants and agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector occurred Friday when two groups were apprehended near the border city of McAllen. Among one group was a gang member from Mexico with a criminal history of child cruelty for which he was sentenced to two years in prison. A Honduran citizen in the other group has an arrest for a homicide in his country, a CBP statement said.
The agents made multiple arrests beginning on March 28 when a Mexican citizen was taken into custody while trying to allegedly smuggle marijuana. While doing a background check, agents learned he was previously arrested in 2019 by the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office for an alleged murder attempt.
He was convicted and sentenced to two years of confinement and deported.
Later that afternoon, agents with the Kingsville Border Patrol Station apprehended 67 migrants being smuggled in a tractor-trailer at a border checkpoint. A Salvadoran citizen among the group admitted to being an MS-13 gang member who was previously deported from the United States in 2018.
The next day, another group of 35 migrants was taken into custody. A 24-year-old Salvadoran man revealed he was wanted for a murder in El Salvador, authorities said.
On Wednesday, a Mexican citizen identified as Edward Gonzalez was among a group of ten migrants apprehended. He received an 11-year prison sentence in Indiana for rape and was deported.
Several encounters between border agents and migrants occurred on Thursday as well.
They encountered a Honduran gang member with a conviction for assault causing bodily harm to a family member in Fort Worth, Texas in 2008. He was also sentenced to one year after being in the U.S. following multiple deportations.
Later that morning, a Mexican national was found among a group of 16 migrants. He was sentenced in 2014 to 14 months confinement for the rape of a child and 36 months in 2012 for viewing depictions of a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, authorities said.
Border agents nabbed MS-13 gang members and others with long criminal histories in Texas' Rio Grande Valley within a span of several days, this week, authorities said Friday.
That same day, agents processing migrants discovered one was a gang member in El Salvador.
The arrests come as immigration hawks presser the Biden administration to address the surge of migrants at the southern border. On Friday, the administration announced it will terminate end Title 42, a Trump-era health order that allows for the expulsion of migrants at the border that was implemented due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Just saying...
Wouldn't opening the borders to anyone including MURDERS, DRUG CARTELS and RAPISTS be a logical preliminary step in selling the voters on a FEDERALIZED POLICE FORCE. Which naturally would be controlled in Washington DC.
You know, something reminiscent of another National Socialist Police Force ( Gestapo )
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I thought, from the current lenient on pervs SCROTUS nominee to the entertainment industry elites screeching about Florida's anti-grooming law that the message is that future (if the sick left gets its way) belongs to the rapists and so on.
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Command and Control philosophy. The Russians have largely been by the book 'mother-my-I' for a long time. Destroying the C2 node of the Ukrainians on the first day, they fell back upon improvise, adapt, overcome.
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The Ukie pilot doing the selfie cockpit interview appears to have a mustache and beard. Does that work with an oxygen mask? Or does a good seal not matter as much as it would with an Nuke-Bio-Chem mask?
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Although... if I had 200 billion cash in my personal account at 600 billion cash reserves for my military.... I'd have decent tires on my trucks and a lot of STOL aircraft in my air force.
[Rudaw] Suspected Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a van in Hasaka province, northeast Syria (Rojava) on Friday, killing one and injuring two others, according to Kurdish forces which later confirmed that the vehicle belonged to them.
"Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a civilian car on Tirbespiye city road, which injured two people and martyred another. The crimes by Ottoman Turkish drones in northeast Syria [are committed] before the eyes of the global coalition and in Russian presence," Siyamend Ali, head of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) media office, said in a tweet.
Tirbespiye (al-Qahtaniyah) is located in Hasaka province.
Internal Security Forces (Asayish) confirmed the news and casualties, saying the incident took place in Hasuda village near Tirbespiye.
Farhad Shami, Head of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) media center, said the vehicle belonged to "Self-Defense Forces" which are affiliated to the SDF.
"As a result of this attack, our comrade Dirar Juma Hamza was martyred and two of our comrades were maimed, including the well-known poet Ferhad Merdê," he added.
Relatives had confirmed Merde's injury to Rudaw earlier in the day.
The Ottoman Turkish defence ministry said in a tweet that their forces "neutralised" two YPG fighters in Rojava, claiming that they were making preparations to attack Ottoman Turkish forces "with support vehicles." However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the ministry did not elaborate where exactly the incident took place. Ottoman Turkish officials use the term "neutralise" to imply surrenders, killings or capturing.
It is not clear if the ministry refers to the same drone attack reported by the YPG or not.
Rojava Information Center (RIC), local monitor group, said on Friday that Ottoman Turkish drones have hit six vehicles in Rojava in 2022. "At least 3 people, including 2 children, were killed. Overall, 22 dronezaps were conducted on NES."
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... regularly bombards Kurdish forces in Rojava for their alleged link with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) - Kurdish gang which has fought the Ottoman Turkish army for decades.
[AnNahar] Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... 's electricity company is charging $16 million to supply power on the day of the May 15 parliamentary polls, a sum that exceeds the overall election budget by nearly 30 percent, the interior minister said.
Holding credible elections is one of the main steps Lebanon's major donors are insisting on to deliver more assistance to the country, which is mired in a deep financial crisis fuelled by endemic corruption.
The state-owned Electricite du Liban (EDL) presented a quote of $16 million to the government, which is trying to provide just half a day's worth of power to polling stations for the critical vote.
"I held several meetings with EDL, which apparently couldn't provide electricity except at a very high cost," Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said.
"The entire elections, at home and abroad, don't cost this much," Mawlawi said, saying his total budget for the vote was capped at $12.5 million.
Mawlawi was adamant the government was working for the polls to go ahead as scheduled, despite persistent rumors they could be called off.
Lebanon, grappling with an unprecedented economic crisis since 2019, and which defaulted on its debt in March 2020, has suffered from severe power shortages for nearly a year -- largely because the government can't afford fuel for power stations.
Power cuts last up to 22 hours a day in most regions, forcing many to rely on expensive generator subscriptions to keep the lights on.
The international community has long demanded a complete overhaul of Lebanon's loss-making electricity sector -- which has cost the government more than $40 billion since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war -- as one of the basic conditions to disburse billions of dollars in desperately needed financial support.
EDL had asked for its payment in cash, Mawlawi said.
- 'CAN'T RELY ON THE STATE' -
Mawlawi said the government may turn to private generators to power voting centers, which will need electricity to light the room at night when the votes are counted immediately after polls close.
"I can't rely on the state because despite the high cost demanded, EDL can't guarantee solid results... which may lead to a sudden blackout," the interior minister said.
"The issue of electricity is the biggest problem facing Lebanon... but we will be able to solve it for the day of elections," he added.
Lebanon's energy crisis is just one of its many economic woes, with the currency having lost more than 90 percent of its value.
Most of Lebanon's population lives below the poverty line.
Power outages mean streets are dark at night and surveillance cameras are effectively obsolete, leading to a spike in certain types of crime, Mawlawi said, who cited deepening poverty as another driving force.
Interior ministry figures show armed robberies surged by 135 percent in 2021 compared with the previous year, and car theft increased by nearly a quarter over the same period.
At the same time, Lebanon's security forces have been weakened because officers have quit to look for other work, since their salary barely covers enough to buy basic food for a family.
At least 478 security officers working for Internal Security Forces or the General Security Agency have quit ranks since the start of the country's crisis, documents provided by the ministry showed.
"There is a problem," Mawlawi told AFP.
But "the number of those defecting is not large. We should not exaggerate the problem," he added.
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Well, it's all part of the plan. Rolling blackouts will let them decide which voting districts get to vote and will allow undesirable voting results to be "lost" when power goes out "unexpectedly."
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BTW, when I first read the headline, I saw "London" instead of "Lebanon." Not that there's much difference in the long run...
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
A map is at the link
[ColonelCassad] There were shots with the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Borodianka. Apparently, the withdrawal of troops from Kyiv is indeed carried out in the direction of the border with Belarus, from where troops are being transferred near Kharkov and Izyum before the upcoming operation against the main grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass.
What can be said about this withdrawal of troops from Kyiv.
If the upcoming operation on the Left Bank ends with the defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, then everyone will talk about the well-thought-out plan of the General Staff.
Indeed, according to official statements, a throw near Kyiv was needed to tie down forces at the first stage, and the assault on Kyiv was not planned. Now they have announced that the goal of the 2nd stage (according to Shoigu) is to defeat the main forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass.
Well, if they are now defeated (that is, those red arrows to the Donetsk-Pavlograd highway that I showed back in the first half of March are filled with content), then everything will really look like a clear adherence to the plan.
But if the task of defeating the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Left Bank fails to be solved, then it will hardly be possible to say that everything is going according to plan.
So it remains to wait for the start of the operation and look at the implementation of the goals that the General Staff has outlined. I believe we will get answers to all questions in the next month.
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I've heard that Putin and his top yes men are hiding in the bunkers. Could he be planning a tactical nuke on Kiev (Yes...this is how I spell and pronounce it) and is just moving his troops out of harm's way?
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Or the Russians are on Plan (C). Plan (A) was cross the border, shout "Nazi!" three times and take over when the Ukrainian Oligarchs fled the country; Plan(B) was(is?) encircle Kiev and starve it into surrendering; and Plan (C) is reinforce the other columns and carve Ukraine into chunks leaving Kiev to 'wither on the vine'?
[NYPOST] Ukraine was accused of bombing a huge oil depot in Russia on Friday, the first reported Dire RevengeArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on enemy soil after suffering almost constant bombardment during 37 days of war.
Videos showed a flurry of rockets piercing the night sky in Belgorod at around 6 a.m. — and then a huge fire raging at the storage depot in the Russian city about 21 miles from Ukraine’s border.
"The fire at the oil depot occurred as a result of an airstrike from two helicopters of the armed forces of Ukraine, which entered the territory of Russia at a low altitude," Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.
Ukraine did not immediately acknowledge the accusation — which the Kremlin warned could hamper peace talks between the nations, which were due to continue Friday.
"Of course, this is not something that can be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for the continuation of negotiations," Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov told news hounds, according to Agence La Belle France-Presse.
Gov. Gladkov initially said two employees had been hurt, but in an update said that "there are no victims." Russian energy giant Rosneft, which owns the facility, also said there had been no injuries.
All workers were quickly evacuated and at least 170 emergency workers were tackling the blaze, the company and local officials said.
Locals in Belgorod quickly rushed to gas stations, forming huge lines, the regional governor said, while insisting that "there are no problems with fuel in the region and never will be."
Russia has reported shelling from Ukraine before, including an incident last week that killed a military chaplain, but not an incursion of its airspace.
Ukrainian authorities did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The strike came after Ukraine’s defense ministry posted a social media video pretending to announce Oscars-style awards for its military successes.
Best picture was given to video of Russia’s blown-up warship the Orsk as it brought military supplies to battle, while best cinematography was for "a kiss from Stinger," with footage of a Russian helicopter being downed.
The alleged airstrike Friday also came as Ukraine claimed that Russian troops had been forced to leave the heavily contaminated Chernobyl nuclear site.
Ukraine’s state power company, Energoatom, said the pullout at Chernobyl came after soldiers received "significant doses" of radiation from digging trenches in the forest in the exclusion zone around the closed plant. The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency said it could not independently confirm the exposure claim.
Ukrainian forces also retook Sloboda and Lukashivka, two villages along a main supply route between the besieged northern city of Chernihiv and capital Kyiv, according to Britannia’s Defense Ministry.
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Given the quality of (post sanction) maintenance, a regular industrial accident is not out of the question.
[IsraelTimes] Announcement comes a day after Blinken’s meeting with Abu Dhabi crown prince, two days after call with Saudi FM as US seeks to calm their frustrations over lack of support.
The United States on Wednesday announced sanctions against Iranian defense companies after a spate of ballistic missile attacks on targets in Iraq, Saudi 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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and the United Arab Emirates
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She thinks she's an oppressed class, but she's an elite who sneers at the rest of America. That's why she's freaking out - it's been pointed out to her, she doesn't like it, and suddenly she's pretending she's the part of Hollywood that works on sets and operates equipment. She couldn't be further from them.
Keep hitting these people with the "elite" label. It's working.
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The Diplomad had a term for U.N. people who would swoop in at the end of a crisis, push everyone else aside, and start taking credit, skimming off the charity, (and abusing whatever the crisis was). I believe he called them the 'Vampire Vulture Elite' which pretty much matched them.
We need a similar label for Hollywood Elites like Whoopie. 'Fabulous Phoney Elite'?
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In my ideal world the cast of the view are indeed working hard... inside of a cement walled factory, making shoes for poor children or some other socially productive activity. Forever more unheard and forgotten by all.
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Now, now. Even Disney wouldn't keep Whoopi's show on the air if it wasn't getting the ratings. The sad fact is that millions of soft headed, gullible women tune in to this poison every weekday morning. No, it can't be very hard work for her but, yes, she does the work. She'd fail miserably if she had to wait tables or clean hotel rooms. No way could she stay on her feet long enough to work as a clerk in a department store. She might be able to hack a gig in an HR department. But what she does best is to run her mouth and say the things that Disney wants her to say.
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In my ideal world the cast of the view are indeed working hard... inside of a cement walled factory,
In my ideal world, they've had their bodies partly surgically altered into flesh and steel automatons programmed to clap and laugh at Trump jokes, their jaws and limbs powered by servos and hydraulics, their brains made to live for decades.
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...Whoopi - may I call you Whoopi? Thank you so much.
Here's the thing: I actually understand that acting at your level can be a tough, mentally and physically demanding thing.
For a month or two. At most, and you spend a lot of that time in a makeup chair, or trailer, or standing around waiting for someone else to do something.
I'm 62 years old. I've already retired once, I have Type I Diabetes, I've had a heart attack, and my wife is 17 years younger than I am. Yet somehow, my backside gets up five days a week at 0415 and gets into work where I walk/run a mile or two a day until 1630. Unless of course, some utterly clueless customer/driver wanders in at 1629, in which case I get to hold their hand until they figure things out.
The point I'm trying to make here is that - frankly - you don't work that hard. It was great seeing you for about five minutes on ST:Picard, but that could not have possibly been more than a few hours work for you, and I no doubt assume you got a handsome paycheck for playing a beloved character for those few hours.
I work a minimum fifty hours a week, and will until I retire on February 16, 2027. Working past that is becoming increasingly unlikely as my physical condition gets more and more worn.
You on the other hand can work one day a week and make more than I do in ten years, much less anything else.
Keep that in mind, Ma'am.
Best Regards,
Mike
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Work.
Some ranches down in Texas need their fence replaced. After they bury their burnt cows.
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I really don't care what anyone from Hollywood says. They aren't any smarter than average. They are good at repeating words that someone else wrote, and faking emotions when told to. In some cases they are better looking than average (Whoopi is an exception.)
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In my ideal world, they've had their bodies partly surgically altered into flesh and steel automatons programmed to clap and laugh at Trump jokes, their jaws and limbs powered by servos and hydraulics, their brains made to live for decades.
In all fairness Dron I was envisioning them making those shoes with hollowed cheeks and eyes blazing with hunger... but I didn't want to go that far. Until you lapped me.
[FoxNews] Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis addressed on Thursday the suggestion of repealing a 55-year-old state law that allows Disney to effectively govern itself on the grounds of Walt Disney World, following the company’s public opposition to a controversial parental rights law in Florida.
"What I would say as a matter of first principle is I don’t support special privileges in law just because a company is powerful and they’ve been able to wield a lot of power," DeSantis said during a press conference in West Palm Beach, Florida on Thursday.
Disney has been engaged in a war of words with Republicans in Florida leading up to Monday’s signing of the controversial bill, which prohibits classroom instruction on "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" with children in third grade or younger "or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards."
DeSantis referenced a bill reining in big tech that Republicans were working through the legislature last year when Disney added a "carve out" at the "11th hour" for theme parks.
"I’m thinking to myself, ‘This is ridiculous,’" DeSantis said. "Honestly, it was embarrassing."
DeSantis continued, "I think what has happened is there’s a lot of these special privileges that are not justifiable, but because Disney had held so much sway, they were able to sustain a lot of special treatment over the years."
DeSantis said that Disney has "lost a lot of the pull that they used to have" over the company's reaction to the parental rights law and said he thinks that’s a "good thing for our state because the state should be governed by the best interest of the people."
"I would say any special privileges that are in law I would like to get rid of generally," DeSantis added. "I think in this particular case with Disney, I just don’t think you have very many people in the legislature anymore who are going to be able to defend a lot of what has been done over many years to really have them almost govern themselves in some of these things. That was probably never appropriate to start, but is certainly not appropriate now at this point." Disney
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Ever been by Disney World in Orlando? Be terrible if one of those never ending government 'road improvement' projects ever was done around the approaches to the park.
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Pretty sure if I went into a Chuck E. Cheese and started talking to a 6 year old boy how great it is to put cock in his mouth I'd get beat up, arrested, and charged with a sex crime against a minor.
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Whorelando is a big place. While the mouse is a very big employer there, there's a lot else going on, much of it peripheral to DizzyWorld but not corporately attached. There's also stuff that has nothing to do with the bigfoot of Orange County at all.
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Just watched a Sportsball game.
One of the advertisers promote an adventure show which is in the Anime style. Vox Machina.
Sexual Fetishes, gay innuendo, a line about cumming in a dead person. That is the lead for joining 'a large forest' named place.
Disgusting. I found the show entertaining but what the hell?! Kids are watching this Sportsball.
President Biden said something similar to President Putin shortly before the current excitement over there....
[IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides says Israel won’t be faced with any US restrictions if it wishes to act against Iran, whether or not a nuclear deal is signed between Tehran and world powers.
“The president… will do whatever he can do to make sure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon… It’s clear we’d like to do it through a diplomatic channel,” Nides tells Channel 12 news.
Regarding the progress of the negotiations on a deal, he says: “The Israelis know very clearly exactly what is going on. I’m not suggesting they necessarily like it always, but there are no secrets here.”
He dodges a direct question on whether Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will be delisted, as he also does in a Channel 13 interview.
Channel 12 asks Nides if the US expects Israel to “sit quietly and not do anything” if a deal is signed.
“Absolutely not. We’ve been very clear about this,” Nides says. “If we have a deal, the Israelis’ hands are not tied. If we don’t have a deal, the Israelis’ hands are certainly not tied.”
“Israel can do and take whatever actions they need to take to protect the state of Israel,” he adds.
Asked about Israel’s efforts to tackle terrorism, Nides says: “We’re not going to tell the government what to do.”
On Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s highlighting of settler violence and settlement expansion during his recent visit, as opposed to Palestinian terrorism, Nides says: “No one likes violence. Period. It doesn’t matter if it’s settler violence, you know, Palestinian violence…”
He says he made clear, in his own confirmation testimony, that the Palestinian Authority’s payments to terrorists and their families must be halted: “Martyr payments… must stop,” he says.
He stresses US support for the two-state solution:, noting: “We can’t lose the vision… (though) we can’t impose anything on anyone.”
Regarding Israel’s policies on Ukraine, Nides says, “We’re very comfortable with what the Israelis are doing vis a vis Ukraine. And as for any mediator role that they can play, we welcome that.”
Reminded that senior State Department official Victoria Nuland warned against Israel being the “last haven” for Vladimir Putin’s dirty money, Nides says: “When we have issues, we express them, as Israel expresses them to us…. I am very comfortable today on the relationship, with what they’re doing with Ukraine.”
[NYPOST] A 12-year-old student was shot and killed Thursday by another 12-year-old student inside their South Carolina middle school, authorities said.The shooter was found hiding under a deck at a home not far from Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville about an hour after the shooting and was still armed, Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis said.
The boy is charged with murder, possession of a firearm at a school and possession of a weapon by someone under 18. He was taken to a juvenile prison in Columbia, Lewis said.
"He was hiding. He’s a young man, probably didn’t understand the consequences of what had just happened," the sheriff said at a news conference. "I don’t think he knew what to do, honestly, except for to leave the school." Oh, I think he probably knew exactly the consequences. That's why he was hiding
The boys knew each other, but the sheriff said Sherlocks are still trying to figure out what led to the shooting in a front part of the school and how the boy got the gun.
No one else was injured in the shooting.
The family of the boy killed released a statement saying he was Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson and asking people to respect their privacy as they grieve.
A school resource officer requested emergency backup just before 12:30 p.m., when deputies said a 12-year-old student was shot. Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson was transported to the hospital.
It was sadly another BOB kid killing... Neither even Teenagers yet.
But IF this wasn't an "accidental" shooting, then the questions become:
Where did a 12 y/o shooter learn and acquire such a temperament?
Was it a Home/parent-related, social, environmental, TV/Movie taught, or was it a kid mentally programmed after playing too much shoot'em up Combat video games?
[NYPOST] Organizers of the second effort to recall embattled Los Angeles County DA George Gascón
...one of the Soros stable of criminal-protecting DAs. Soros prosecutors refuse to enforce laws against shoplifting, drug trafficking, and entire categories of felonies and misdemeanors. LA DA Gascon even stopped enforcing laws against disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, and making criminal threats, which eventually annoyed many of the law-abiding portion of the residents...
said they have gained momentum after collecting more than 200,000 signatures— with plenty of time to still hit their goal to get on the November ballot.
Campaign officials said they also have raised more than $4 million — already four times the money raised compared to last year’s recall efforts, which fizzled in September after failing to secure less than half of the approximately 500,000 signatures needed from LA County voters.
"We are continuing to deploy our resources, and we are definitely going in the right trajectory," recall spokesperson Tim Lineberger told The Post. "There is just a lot more support this time around since people are more aware that what’s been happening in Los Angeles County, especially crime increasing, is tied to George Gascón’s policies."
While last year’s campaign garnered just 200,000 votes by the October 2021 deadline, the campaign this year has already collected more votes with still three months left before the deadline.
To get on the ballot, a total of 566,857 signatures — 10 percent of total Los Angeles County registered voters
...yes, but how many of LA’s registered voters are living, legal, and unduplicated? There has been some clean up of California’s voter roles, but there’s also been plenty of time to sign up new duplicate imaginary-Americans.
— must be submitted to the LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office by July 6.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:51 Ukrainian Nazi artillery fired on the village of Novaya Basan near Kiev, killing civilians, said the head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. 21:55 Heavy fighting in the center of Mariupol from the airport. The Azovites are driven out to the port and to the sea. Squeezing and crushing. Meter by meter reclaiming the yards. The cleanup on the Left Bank continues.
21:21 Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter near Gulyaipol.
21:17 Russian Defense Ministry: Russian aircraft hit 40 Ukrainian military facilities in a day.
20:59 An exchange of prisoners took place in the Zaporozhye region, said the deputy head of the President's Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko: "86 Ukrainian soldiers, including 15 women, are already safe."
20:37 Ukraine stopped the recruitment of mercenaries in the "Foreign Legion" due to the low qualification of volunteers and lack of weapons.
20:19 The Russian Armed Forces launched a strike with a high-precision Onyx missile at the command post of the group of troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The missile was launched by the crew of the Bastion coastal missile system from the Black Sea coast.
19:58 From the garages under the communal bridge on Lva Landau Avenue (Kharkiv), the Armed Forces of Ukraine drove out civilian trucks and deployed military equipment.
19:29 The Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied the building of the elite automobile center "Bavaria Motors" on the street. Latishcheva, 4 (Kharkov) and placed there a logistics control point.
18:42 Now it was reported from Melitopol that a strong sound was heard from the impact in the city. The windows shook. The circumstances are being clarified.
18:39 The General Staff of Ukraine has prepared a report on the real state of affairs in the Donbass. The situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is critical. Groupings in the region of Chernigov and Kyiv are connected by battles. The Nikolaev grouping suffered significant losses and also cannot be redeployed to the Donbass. An analysis of the current situation predicts the complete defeat of the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine located in the east of Ukraine.
18:15 In Melitopol, on the territory of the Ukrainian base abandoned by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a cache with ammunition was discovered and neutralized.
17:12 The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a bill that prohibits the use of the symbols V and Z in the country, and the Russian Federation is recognized as a “terrorist country”, according to a message published on the website of the Servant of the People party.
16:48 In the Melitopol region, in the village of Vasilyevka, the Chechen military distributed humanitarian aid to local residents.
16:43 In the center of Kherson on Svoboda Square (which is very symbolic), the Russian flag finally flew up proudly.
15:57 In the city of Energodar, the distribution of food packages from the Russian Federation to residents continues.
15:56 Cooks of the food service of the MTO of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are baking bread on the front line to give it to the residents of Mariupol, who are in need of essential products.
14:49 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry refused to confirm the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the oil depot in Belgorod. He stated that he had "no data".
14:03 The Russian army occupied Izyum. The military drove the APU out of the outskirts.
13:29 The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reported that it was receiving reliable data about how, after the publication of a video of torture of captured Russian soldiers in Ukraine, the Kiev authorities are trying to prevent the discovery of new similar facts.
13:03 In the Kiev region, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at a civilian car in which there was a woman and her 16-year-old daughter.
12:27 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 124 aircraft and 81 helicopters, 353 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1839 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 202 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 773 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 1711 units of special military vehicles.
12:13 The air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down in the air: one Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter near the village of Lyubimovka and 8 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of Lisichansk, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Korosun, Novomikhailovskoe, including one Bayraktar TB-2" in the Vakhovka area.
12:00 In the Rivne region, the groundless carrying of weapons by members of the defense and its demonstration in public places was banned. This was announced by the governor of the region Vitaliy Koval.
11:39 A total of 50 Polish mercenaries are deployed on the territory of the Most-Citycenter shopping center (Dnepropetrovsk, Glinki 2).
11:13 During the night, up to 40 Ukrainian nationalists were destroyed, operating as part of 57 Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade, one artillery battery, two infantry fighting vehicles and four vehicles for various purposes.
11:00 Operational-tactical aircraft hit 52 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: three command posts, three multiple launch rocket systems, the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system, a radar for illumination and guidance of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, as well as 10 military equipment concentration areas and 16 strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:53 Members of the territorial defense of the village of Khotomlya, Kharkiv region, killed two people.
10:51 Humanitarian aid from Russia continues to be distributed in Kherson.
10:28 High-precision air-based weapons destroyed six military facilities of Ukraine, including five warehouses of ammunition and rocket and artillery weapons in Boguslavsky, Krestishche, Reznikov, Velyka Novoselka and one warehouse of fuel and lubricants.
09:44 The pilot of the Russian Ka-52 combat helicopter, which was shot down by the Ukrainian military, landed it with one failed engine, and after repairing it under mortar fire, continued to perform combat missions.
08:51 Melitopol switches to Moscow time. Against this background, the curfew is being reduced, which will begin at 20:00 and end at 06:00.
[JPost] The Shin Bet said that terrorists killed on Friday night had committed terror attacks in the past and planned more in the near future.
According to the Shin Bet, the terrorists were responsible for a terror attack in Tul Kerem
...alternative spelling Tulkarem...
and were planning further attacks in the near future. They were not affiliated with any particular terrorist organizations, but the Shin Bet called them "ticking time-bombs".
Security forces were monitoring the cell for hours on Friday and eventually, began a car chase after the terrorists' car when they opened fire at the forces who responded with fire and killed them.
Various weapons were found in their car including guns and grenades.
Three big terror attacks in the last week left 11 people dead. As a result, security forces have been making arrests in places like Jenin and have been faced with much resistence.
Update at 3:15 a.m. ET:
The three were later identified as belonging to the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which vowed after the incident to continue fighting Israel "in the name of the Palestinian people," Ynet reported.
Four soldiers were injured in the fight. Two of them were lightly injured, one was moderately injured with wounds to his lower body, and the fourth was severely injured and was taken to the hospital where he underwent surgery and is in stable condition, according to Dr. Hani Bacchus, head of the Trauma Unit at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.
Friday reports said Israeli security officials have concrete warnings of imminent terror attacks and have foiled a number of other planned attacks in recent days.
The Kan public broadcaster said Friday that Defense Minister Benny Gantz and IDF chief Aviv Kohavi ordered the military to prepare for a monthlong escalation.
Extra troops are expected to remain in the field, and Kohavi has instructed the IDF to step up its intelligence collection in Syria, Sinai and on Paleostinians in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... Also Friday, Paleostinian Authority health officials said a 29-year-old Paleostinian man was killed by live Israeli fire during festivities with soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The IDF confirmed that troops opened fire and hit a man in Hebron, saying that he "threw a Molotov cocktail at troops, endangering their lives."
Palestinian Authority health officials say a 29-year-old Palestinian man was killed by live Israeli fire during clashes with soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinian media identify the man as Ahmad al-Atrash. Al-Atrash formerly served prison time in Israeli jails for security offenses, Palestinian media report.
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A will was also found in the car, encouraging the continuation of terror attacks against Israelis. A video on social media showed one of the terrorists reading out the will prior to setting out for the attack.
The IDF and Shin Bet later on Saturday arrested a man suspected of being the fourth member of the cell, in a joint operation of the IDF Special Forces unit Duvdevan and Shin Bet operatives in the town of Shweikha near Tulkarm.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:49 The representative office of the LPR in the JCCC reported that the AFU fired at the village of Donetsk in the LPR. The shelling was recorded at 22.30, 12 shells from a 122mm caliber artillery gun were fired at the village of Donetsk. 21:37 The mayor of Rubizhne, Sergei Hortiv, has defected to the LPR.
21:03 DPR in the JCCC: Ukrainian troops shelled Ozeryanovka, Shirokaya Balka and Bayrak in 2.5 hours.
20:53 The people's militia of the DPR said that Ukrainian troops lost 32 people.
20:21 LPR announced an increase in shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and an emergency humanitarian situation.
19:57 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the settlement of Pervomaisk in the LPR. They fired four 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
18:18 People's militia forces liberated the settlements of Bobrovo and Nizhne.
18:11 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Donetsk in the LPR. They fired two 122mm shells at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:53 Over the past week, 186 law enforcement officers and 82 civilians were killed in the DPR. 360 civilians and 758 security officials were injured.
16:57 The authorities of the DPR will soon elect the head of the administration of Mariupol.
16:57 There is intense shooting going on in Mariupol. Small arms, RPGs and armored vehicles are used.
15:50 Ukrainian Nazis shelled the village of Donetsk in the LPR, using the Grad MLRS. Five houses were damaged.
15:50 Kiev militants again fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing ten rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:46 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing 20 rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:46 Kiev militants opened fire on Gorlovka in the DPR, firing eight shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:20 Kiev militants opened fire on Gorlovka in the DPR. firing ten shells of 122mm caliber. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:20 Ukrainian Nazis are shelling the village of the mine. Lenin in the DPR. Shells hit the territory of the mine.
12:20 The People's Militia of the DPR has already liberated 136 settlements from the Nazis.
12:20 Kiev Nazis fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing ten rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:20 The People's Militia of the DPR took control of the village of Polne.
12:00 Azov militants* in Mariupol took away trucks from truckers from Uzbekistan. The men were held hostage for 23 days at the Azovstal plant. As a result, they managed to escape and get to the territory controlled by the DPR.
11:43 Subdivisions of the Lugansk People's Republic, continuing the offensive, blocked the northern outskirts of the village of Kremennaya and the eastern outskirts of Metelkino.
11:08 Ukrainian Nazis fired ten shells of 122mm caliber at Aleksandrovka in the DPR. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:07 Russia sent to the LPR a specialized unit of the engineering troops of the RF Armed Forces - the International Mine Action Center, equipped with the Uran-6 robotic demining complex.
11:07 Kiev militants fired at the village of Golmovsky in the DPR, firing 12 shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
10:38 Already, almost 550,000 refugees from the DPR, LPR and Ukraine have crossed the state border of Russia since the beginning of the escalation of the military conflict, including over 110,000 children.
10:30 During the day, the Ukrainian Nazis fired 165 shells to the DPR, used the Grad MLRS and 122 mm artillery.
10:30 Over the past day, eight settlements of the DPR came under fire from Kiev militants. Four residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.
10:30 During the day, 22 civilians of the DPR suffered under shelling from the Ukrainian Nazis.
10:30 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army, destroyed 67 Ukrainian nationalists, 12 firing positions, two helicopters, one tank and two armored vehicles. Two infantry fighting vehicles, one 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount and one armored personnel carrier were captured.
10:30 During the day, six servicemen of the 56th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, five servicemen of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and four servicemen of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily laid down their arms and went over to the side of the DPR.
10:13 Ukrainian troops fired 68 shells at the LPR in a day, using the Grad MLRS.
09:47 Kiev Nazis fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing eight shells of 152mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:46 During the day, almost 570 people, including 118 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe.
09:45 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on the DPR 15 times, firing 164 shells at it.
09:16 Over the past day, 57 civilians of the DPR suffered under the fire of Ukrainian punishers.
09:15 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Donetsk and Gorlovka, firing 20 shells of 122 and 152mm caliber at them. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:30 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis opened fire four times on the territory of the LPR. Residential buildings in Zolote-5, Donetsk and Golubovsky were damaged.
08:29 As a result of shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a school caught fire.
08:28 Kiev punishers fired at the Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk, firing 18 shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:27 Ukrainian Nazis shelled the city of Gorlovka in the DPR, firing seven grenades from an anti-tank grenade launcher. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:29 Kiev militants fired at the Gorlovka checkpoint in the DPR, firing four shells with a caliber of 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s government will take steps to arrange for the release of prisoners, open Sanaa airport and release oil ships via the port of Hodeidah, the foreign minister said in a tweet on Friday in support of calls for a truce during the holy month of Ramadan.
The minister also announced the release of the first two fuel ships through Hodeidah, saying that these steps come based on directives from President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
UN and US envoys on Wednesday welcomed unilateral truce moves by Yemen’s warring sides as encouraging steps, while stressing the need for a more comprehensive ceasefire.
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[Korrespondent] 22:00 The International Committee of the Red Cross postponed an attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, as the group heading to the city found itself in conditions that "made further movement impossible." Everyone had to return to Zaporozhye. The next attempt is scheduled for Saturday, April 2. 21:57 American actor Sean Penn called on the world's billionaires to purchase 12 F-15 or F-16 fighters for Ukraine, which would have a qualitative advantage over Russian Su and MiG fighters. To do this, you need to raise 300 million dollars. He also asks to buy anti-missile defense systems for Ukraine for $200 million.
21:51 The head of the military administration of Kiev, Nikolai Zhirnov, said that the enemy had not reached his goal in any direction. According to him, the Russians took about 20% of their units away from the capital. Nevertheless, rocket attacks on the positions of Ukrainian troops and the infrastructure of the city continue, so the danger to the population remains.
21:48 Russia is preparing for the battle for Donbass. According to Kuleba, this is evidenced by the intelligence received.
At the same time, Kuleba expressed his conviction that Putin has become more realistic about the war in Ukraine and therefore abandoned the storming of Kyiv. "He does not have enough strength to attack Ukraine from three directions at the same time. Therefore, he is transferring part of his forces to another direction in order to strengthen the army in this area," the Foreign Minister explained.
21:46 Today, 6,266 people were evacuated, of which more than 3,000 were from Mariupol, the OP reported. Buses and private cars that left Berdyansk and Melitopol should also arrive in Zaporozhye.
21:43 Russian troops are expanding their presence in the Sumy region, Governor Dmitry Zhivitsky said. According to him, the invaders "begin to dig in in many communities... this is the beginning of the occupation of the central part of the Sumy region."
"Starting from the border with the Russian Federation, the Belopolskaya community, Borinskaya, Putivlskaya, Novaya Sloboda and further to Konotop - a very difficult situation. More than a thousand pieces of Russian equipment, clashes periodically occur, artillery shelling of our settlements takes place," the head of the regional administration said.
21:38 Vitaliy Kim hinted that the Ukrainian military again struck at the Russians in Chernobaevka.
21:36 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, more than 10.5 million Ukrainians have become internally displaced persons, according to the UN.
21:27 Head of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola said that the EU will recognize Ukraine as a candidate for EU membership and will take part in the post-war reconstruction: "We will recognize Ukraine as a candidate for EU membership officially and quickly. I promise you this from the European Parliament."
21:23 The Russians fired three Iskander missiles at a settlement in the Odesa region, said the chairman of the OVA Maxim Marchenko. According to him, there are victims.
21:05 Russian occupiers have established control over Izyum, Kharkiv region. The head of the youth and sports department of the City Council, Maxim Strelnik, said that this was due to local traitors and the quantitative advantage of the occupiers.
20:34 The Prosecutor General's Office of Bulgaria opened a criminal case against one of the Russian diplomats for espionage.
20:31 Danilov said that Putin does not abandon plans to destroy Ukraine. Now the Russian Federation is reformatting its troops in order to continue to strike at our country.
"I would like to appeal to everyone: do not rejoice today that supposedly someone is leaving our cities voluntarily. This is the work of our army. When we liberate cities one by one, behind each of these liberations is the death of our guys and girls who protect our country. Therefore, to say that they are running somewhere... All this so-called waste of theirs is very expensive for us," the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council said.
He also recalled that Putin has a "sacred date" - May 9 - when he wants to end this war with a parade. According to Danilov, there are still a lot of fights ahead, and no one should relax yet: "The situation today is not as joyful as we would all like."
20:17 Danilov said that Ukraine had nothing to do with the explosions at the oil depot in Belgorod. In his opinion, this is the work of locals who are beginning to "understand something."
19:51 Shmygal said that Russia wants to create a big food crisis in the world: "Today they are destroying part of the granaries in Ukraine, they are closing the export of grain from Ukrainian ports through a sea blockade."
19:49 The Office of the Prosecutor General has recovered in favor of the Ministry of Defense 4.8 million dollars, which belonged to the former Minister of Energy of the times of Yanukovych, Eduard Stavitsky.
19:45 The EU and China have agreed that the war in Ukraine poses a threat to global security and the economy of the whole world, said the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, following the EU-China virtual summit.
He also said that he warned China against any support for Russia in the war against Ukraine, and promised the Chinese partners that not only Europe, but the entire world community would welcome helping to end the war.
19:31 Russia is directing its military campaign against Ukraine from Moscow, without a single military leader on the spot who could give orders and make decisions. More details - in the material Failures of the Russian Federation in Ukraine .
19:22 The Russian Defense Ministry accused Ukraine of shelling an oil depot in Belgorod: "On April 1, at about five o'clock in the morning Moscow time, two Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters entered the airspace of the Russian Federation at an extremely low altitude. Ukrainian helicopters launched a missile attack on an object located on the outskirts of Belgorod storage of petroleum products.
19:18 The death toll as a result of rocket attacks by Russians of the building of the Nikolaev regional council has increased to 30 people , reports GSChS.
19:15 Macron held a meeting in Paris with the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, released from captivity, as well as with several Ukrainian women deputies who came with him.
19:13 Thousands of Ukrainian refugees are returning to Ukraine, writes Politico, referring to the data of the Polish border police. So, in recent days, about 12-13,000 people cross the border every day, and in total, more than 370,000 Ukrainians have returned since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Many refugees return because of financial problems.
19:09 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said that all utilities provided by the city will be written off from February 24 until the end of martial law.
19:01 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that the invaders who received significant doses of radiation during their stay in the Chernobyl zone are "treated" at the Gomel Center for Radiation Medicine.
18:59 In the city of Tokmak, Zaporozhye region, Russian invaders are going to hold a "referendum" on April 4. The local population has already been notified of such plans, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:57 The mayor of Bucha Anatoly Fedoruk has officially announced that the city has been liberated from the Russian occupiers.
18:55 Roskomnadzor complains about the "pronounced anti-Russian policy" of Google and YouTube and calls for "an immediate end to any restrictions on Russian media and resources."
18:53 More than 30 countries have agreed, following the United States, to release oil from strategic reserves, which should add "tens of millions of barrels" to the market, Biden said.
18:50 The Rada adopted a law on raising taxes by 1.5 times for international companies that operate in Ukraine and have not left Russia.
18:43 Erdogan said in a telephone conversation with Putin that he wants to arrange a meeting with Zelensky, the office of the Turkish President said.
18:37 In the border Russian city, another fire broke out at a strategic facility, in which the Russian side blamed Ukraine. Read more about what happened in the material Airstrike on Belgorod: whose helicopters struck .
18:19 In Kakhovka, Kherson region, the occupiers have appointed their "power". According to the Kakhovka city territorial community, today several dozens of armed Russian military men, along with some local residents, entered the premises of the city executive committee and announced that from today Pavel Filipchuk would lead the city, Oleg Bukhovets became the head of the police, and Oleg Gavrilyuk became the head of Vodokanal.
Employees of the city executive committee were offered to cooperate with the new "authority", otherwise everyone will be fired. The leadership of the Kakhovka city territorial community refused the proposal.
18:13 An exchange of prisoners has just taken place in the Zaporozhye region: 86 Ukrainian servicemen, including 15 women, are already safe , the OP reported.
18:07 This morning, a Russian shell hit one of the departments of the Chernihiv Regional Center for Modern Oncology, Suspilne reports. Shrapnel wounds were received by two employees of the medical institution, another person with a contusion.
18:02 Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said that the Russian invaders are trying to establish full control over Mariupol: since yesterday they have not let people out of the city. According to eyewitnesses, the Russians said that the city would remain closed for 5-7 days.
17:54 Klitschko asks all Kievans who want to return to the city not to rush into it. According to him, intense fighting is still going on near the capital, and this can be deadly for civilians.
17:39 The Verkhovna Rada has established a reward for the transfer of Russian military equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In particular, one million dollars was promised for a combat aircraft, $500,000 for a helicopter, and $100,000 for a tank and self-propelled ground artillery. The ship of the first or second rank is also estimated at one million dollars, the third or fourth rank - at 500,000 dollars.
17:37 The Rada adopted a law guaranteeing full reimbursement of the amount of bank deposits to individuals during martial law.
17:29 Erdogan and Putin have been talking on the phone for more than an hour, according to Turkish state television.
17:25 Crimea asks not to accommodate refugees from the "DNR", "LNR" and from Ukraine before the tourist season on its territory, Russian media write with reference to the draft resolution of the Russian government and explanations to it.
17:20 Any attempt by Beijing to provide military assistance to Moscow will undermine China's reputation in the EU, said the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
17:13 The Russians are shelling all the settlements of the Lugansk region and are preparing to attack in two directions - Popasnaya and the area between Kremennaya and Rubizhny, said the head of the regional administration, Sergei Gaidai.
According to him, the intensity of shelling is extremely high, there is no way even to pick up the bodies of the dead from the streets and deliver humanitarian aid.
17:11 Arestovich about explosions in Belgorod: "The leadership of the Russian Federation bears full responsibility for what is happening on the territory of the Russian Federation." According to him, anything could be the cause - from a thrown cigarette butt to sabotage.
16:57 On the way to Slavutych, four people died during the assault on roadblocks, said the director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Valery Seyda. According to him, the invaders were in Slavutych for less than a day, so they managed to avoid heavy losses. "At that time, they went door-to-door with searches and terrorized the population. There were no obvious examples of looting. They probably did not have time," he added.
16:51 Erdogan said he intends to raise issues of the occupied Crimea and Donbass during a telephone conversation with Putin.
16:48 Yesterday, a new gas field was discovered in the Lviv region, said the head of the regional administration Maxim Kozitsky. According to him, now the plans are to increase production.
16:35 Defense Ministry Speaker Oleksandr Motuzyanyk on explosions in Belgorod: "Today, the Ukrainian state is carrying out a defense operation to repel armed Russian aggression on the territory of Ukraine. And this does not mean at all that Ukraine should be responsible for all miscalculations, for all catastrophes and events taking place on the territory of the Russian Federation. This is not the first time we have seen such accusations. Therefore, I will neither confirm nor deny this information."
16:29 The restoration of Mariupol will require at least $10 billion. This is a preliminary minimum estimate, which will be clarified in the process of fixing the destruction, said the mayor of the city Vadim Boychenko.
16:23 The Rada approved the procedure for the nationalization of property belonging to Russian citizens and Ukrainians who publicly deny the Russian-Ukrainian war. Bill No. 7169 was supported by 305 parliamentarians.
16:09 In Irpin, the police are conducting a special operation. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the city has been liberated from Russian troops, now it is necessary to check every house, because people can remain under the rubble.
15:55 The Mariupol City Council at today's extraordinary meeting, which was held online, suspended the powers of the deputies of the Opposition Platform for Life and the Party of Shariy for the period of martial law.
15:51 The Rada banned the propaganda of symbols that Russia uses in the current war, and also recognized the Russian Federation as a terrorist country.
At today's meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, President of the European Parliament Roberta Metzola also spoke.
15:42 Kuleba said that he could neither confirm nor deny the involvement of Ukraine in the attack on the oil depot in Belgorod, since he does not have the information.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense stated that Ukraine was not involved in this explosion. "We suspect that the explosion of an oil depot in the Russian Belgorod occurred due to the carelessness of the occupiers or in order to hide someone's corruption," a spokesman for the Defense Ministry told Segodnya.
15:29 The Ministry of Defense has compiled a rating of the most expensive military equipment that Russia has lost during the war in Ukraine. In total, the aggressor country lost more than $10 billion worth of equipment.
15:27 Kazakhstan respects the territorial integrity of Ukraine, intends to comply with UN decisions on the issues of Crimea and Donbass and will not become a tool for Russia to circumvent Western sanctions, the head of the presidential administration said.
15:26 Kuleba said that the main condition for a potential peacekeeping mission in Ukraine is that it should not freeze the conflict and consolidate the current positions of the parties.
15:24 Estonia has banned Yandex.Taxi and offers to do it throughout the European Union.
15:22 Ukraine has not yet received a response from Russia to its proposals voiced at the talks in Istanbul, Kuleba said.
15:15 The invaders are mining the central part of Lisichansk, Luhansk region. Police ask citizens to be careful and in no case approach suspicious objects.
15:11 The SBI in the Odessa region seized the metal of the Russians for a total amount of more than 93 million hryvnia. It is planned to be nationalized and transferred to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The metal, which was transported in transit through Ukraine, was seized from the territory of the Sea Trade Port.
15:06 Podolyak commented on Peskov's statement that Ukraine's possible involvement in the fire at the oil depot in Belgorod "does not create comfortable conditions for continuing negotiations": "There is no need to get ahead of ourselves. This is the Russian Federation. We are not talking with a country that adheres to moral aspects. We are talking with the Russian Federation, and they can revise what was agreed upon at any time."
15:00 The German federal government approved the supply of armored personnel carriers to the Ukrainian army. We are talking about 58 armored personnel carriers, which were originally intended for the National People's Army of the GDR.
14:49 The assault on Kiev is no longer possible , Arestovich said. According to him, the enemy is conducting a partial rotation with the withdrawal of troops and their transfer, probably, to the JFO zone. "But he fails to fully secure those sections and areas that they would like to keep with barriers," the adviser to the head of the OP added.
In general, according to him, "the situation is optimistic for us, in the ratio of 55 to 45." At the same time, he added that the enemy is trying to turn Chernihiv into a second Mariupol, "but I think we can handle it."
14:41 Arestovich said that the Russians cannot launch an offensive operation to encircle Ukrainian troops in the JFO. So far, the enemy has been delivering only missile, air and artillery strikes, "which may indicate that he is not fully prepared to act on the ground."
Mariupol, according to Arestovich, "holds on", the command provides "some assistance, which is too early to talk about, but Mariupol is provided with the assistance that can be provided in the current difficult situation."
14:32 Zelensky's meeting with Putin may take place in Istanbul, Erdogan said.
14:14 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the release of a number of settlements in the Kiev and Chernihiv regions: Demidov, Dymer, Litvinovka, Gavrilovka, Kozarovichi, Zhovtneve, Glubovka, Yasnogorodka, Talakun, Sukholuchye, Lipovka, Gavronshchina, Makovishche, Nikolaevka, Rudnya, Shevchenkove, Bobrik , Old Basan, New Basan, Makiyivka, Cellars, Bazhanovka, Vladimirovka, Shnyakovka, Salne, Sofiyivka, Gavrilovka.
14:00 In Zaporozhye, a curfew will be in effect from 20:00 Saturday, April 2, until 05:00 Monday, April 4.
13:51 Shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it became clear that it was not as strong as it seemed, and calls began to be made for countries that also suffered from Russian occupation to open a second front and return their territories. So far, only Japan is beginning to take small steps in this direction. More details - in the material, Tokyo recognized the occupation of the Kuriles .
13:42 The Buchansk city council urges local residents not to enter the territory of the Delicia confectionery factory, since the invaders mined its territory and poisoned the cookies.
13:27 The armed forces have already liberated almost 30 settlements, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
13:16 Peskov said that the air strike on the oil depot in Belgorod does not create "comfortable conditions for continuing negotiations" with Ukraine.
13:14 In the village of Novy Bykov, Chernihiv region, Russian soldiers took local children hostage and put them in trucks in order to cover their convoy of military equipment, local residents reported.
This is far from an isolated case. Similar cases of using children as cover have been recorded in Sumy, Kiev, Chernihiv, and Zaporozhye regions, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
13:00 Peskov assured that the spring conscription has nothing to do with the "operation" in Ukraine, since conscripts "are not involved in any way" there.
12:56 Lavrov said that Russia is in favor of providing security guarantees to Ukraine, the Russian Federation and all European countries.
He also added that negotiations with Ukraine are ongoing, while there are no final plans and agreements yet. There is only "movement forward", including in terms of Ukraine's non-bloc status.
12:52 Yermak announced "a lot of good news about the work of our Armed Forces."
12:37 There are no Russian military on the territory of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but some of them are still in the exclusion zone, said Yevgeny Kramarenko, head of the State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management.
12:15 In Melitopol, the Russians are extending their Internet line from Crimea and blocking Ukrainian mobile communications, the mayor of the city Fedorov said.
12:12 An evacuation column from Berdyansk with Mariupol residents left for Zaporozhye. There are up to 42 buses in the convoy, they are accompanied by Red Cross and State Emergency Service vehicles, as well as a lot of personal vehicles. Nearly 2,000 people are on the buses, the Mariupol city council said.
12:10 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on April 1:
personnel - about 17,700 people,
tanks - 625,
armored fighting vehicles - 1751,
artillery systems - 316,
MLRS - 96,
air defense systems - 54,
aircraft - 143,
helicopters - 131,
automotive equipment - 1220,
ships/boats - 7,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 85,
special equipment - 24,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
11:59 The war negatively affected the work of 86 percent of Ukrainian companies - they were forced to reduce business or even stop, according to Gradus Research.
11:50 The occupants are destroying their own military equipment and passing it off as "padded Ukrainian" in order to shoot a video, follows from the conversations intercepted by the SBU.
11:45 Invaders release inhabitants of Melitopol only to the Crimea, the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, about 70-75,000 inhabitants remain in Melitopol today. Russian soldiers are also blocking unofficial green corridors.
11:37 Putin is accompanied on trips by a team of doctors, and he himself likes to take baths from the extract of deer antlers, investigative journalists found out .
11:32 The governor of the Rivne region Vitaliy Kovel announced the decision of the local authorities to ban the groundless carrying of weapons by voluntary groups and "flaunting" them in public places. "Now is not the time to wave it anywhere. A weapon to defend the Motherland," he added.
11:30 Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, as of the end of March, at least six grain storage facilities were damaged as a result of Russian attacks, Reuters writes, citing US authorities.
11:28 Taras Shaprovsky, secretary of the city council of Bucha, Kiev region, said that part of the Russian troops have been withdrawn from the city, but sabotage groups remain, and therefore his release continues. Residents are not allowed to return home.
11:25 Russian troops are withdrawing from the Chernihiv region, but it has not yet been completely liberated, Governor Vyacheslav Chaus said. He stressed that the threat of missile and air strikes remains, so "it is too early for us to relax."
11:12 A Ukrainian court arrested 12 An-124-100 Ruslan transport aircraft of the Russian airline Volga-Dnepr at the request of the Antonov state enterprise. The arrest was imposed in order to ensure the safety of material evidence and subsequent compensation for damage. The planes were arrested by the ruling of the investigating judge of the Svyatoshinsky District Court of Kyiv dated March 21, 2022.
11:03 The Cabinet of Ministers decided to pay 15 million hryvnias of one-time assistance to the families of the dead servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Shmyhal said.
10:50 Mariupol remains closed to entry and very dangerous for private vehicles. According to the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko, people are currently getting into evacuation buses from Berdyansk to Zaporozhye. The column is pre-loaded halfway.
Andryushchenko stressed that the main problem again lies in the fact that the occupiers do not allow buses to Berdyansk and "are not very willing" to let people in so that they get on the buses from Berdyansk.
10:47 Russian social networks and telegram channels publish a video with supposedly "Ukrainian" helicopters that this morning attacked an oil depot in Belgorod. But users quickly noticed that the video shows a Ka-52 helicopter, which is not in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:44 Ivankov of the Kiev region, from which Russian troops left last night, is completely under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, local authorities reported.
10:40 An IT battalion is registered in the capital - the Center for Protection and Monitoring of Digital Systems of Kiev. According to the Kyiv City State Administration, in fact, the IT battalion was created from the beginning of the Russian invasion and is engaged in repelling cyber attacks on the capital's services, adapting the Kyiv Digital application to wartime conditions and creating new services.
10:36 In Nikolaev already 27 dead as a result of hit of an enemy rocket in the building of the regional state administration , rescuers reported.
10:15 Without exception, directors of schools and preschool institutions in Melitopol have written letters of resignation of their own free will, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, they did it in protest against cooperation with the occupiers, who demanded to start the educational process in Russian according to an incomprehensible program.
10:13 Russian media report that in Belgorod, in addition to the oil depot, they also fired at a printing house, there were no casualties.
10:08 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council warns that Russia's stories about the allegedly final phase of the "special operation" in Ukraine are fake. Firstly, the Russian Federation does not "withdraw" troops, but the invaders run away, because they met stiff resistance from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the population. In addition, the enemy is transferring its forces to the Donbass. Secondly, there are no agreements between Ukraine and Russia.
"All the stories about the alleged completion of the "special operation" are just an attempt to avoid further imposition of sanctions against the aggressor country. In fact, the occupiers are trying to organize incomprehensible structures in the temporarily occupied territories and put the ruble into circulation there," the Center said.
09:55 French police froze two helicopters, probably owned by Usmanov. One of them was detained in the French Le Castellet, the second - in Monte Carlo. Their total cost is about 26 million dollars.
09:31 Brovary Mayor Igor Sapozhko said that Russian troops had practically withdrawn from the Brovary district: "The Armed Forces of Ukraine will clean up settlements from invaders, enemy equipment, carry out mine clearance. In Brovary, checkpoints are not dismantled and are ready for defense. Many residents have returned to the city."
09:27 Ukraine continues to carry out "successful but limited" counterattacks to the east and northeast of Kiev, British intelligence reports.
The British also state that Chernigov and Kyiv are being subjected to air and missile strikes, despite the statements of the Russian Federation about a decrease in activity in these areas.
09:18 Since the beginning of the war, the invaders forcibly took out about 45,000 citizens of Ukraine , Vereshchuk said. Mostly people were taken out from the Mariupol direction.
09:11 Australia, at the request of Zelensky, will send Bushmaster armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. They will be included in further military assistance to Kiev, the Australian prime minister said.
09:01 At the hands of the invaders during the Russian invasion, 153 Ukrainian children were killed, 245 were injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
08:58 The US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman will remain in the Mediterranean until the summer as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, writes CNN. Aircraft from the aircraft carrier flew in support of the US and NATO efforts to strengthen the eastern flank after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
08:54 As a result of a rocket strike on the building of the Nikolaev regional administration, 24 people were killed , the State Emergency Service reports. Work continues around the clock.
08:52 Japan evacuates Ukrainians and Japanese from Poland fleeing Russian shelling. The head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry will arrive in Poland today to discuss this issue. The possibility of transporting people on a government aircraft is being considered, Japanese media write.
08:50 Hundreds of Syrian militants are going to Ukraine to fight on the side of Russia, at least 300 of them have already arrived for training in Russia, writes NYT.
08:47 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the G20 countries should reconsider Russia's participation in the organization: "Russia, by its illegal invasion of Ukraine, disrupted economic growth for the whole world and cannot be a constructive partner."
08:36 In the Lugansk region over the past day, two civilians from Severodonetsk were killed, 18 houses were destroyed, Governor Sergei Gaidai said. He also spoke about the enemy's attempt to bypass Popasnaya, where street fighting is taking place.
08:00 In Russian Belgorod, an oil depot caught fire, the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that the fire arose as a result of an air strike from two Ukrainian helicopters that entered the territory of the Russian Federation at a low altitude. According to him, two people were injured, residents of the three nearest streets were evacuated.
07:04 Russia has charged 22 defendants with "genocide of the Russian-speaking population in Donbass", including former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Valery Geletey and Chief of the General Staff Viktor Muzhenko.
06:49 According to the General Staff, a partial withdrawal of Russian troops from the north of the Kiev region towards the border with Belarus continues. Mixed columns of vehicles of different numbers are moving, they also include stolen civilian cars with stolen property of local residents.
05:03 Japan imposes sanctions against four companies and three individuals from the Russian Federation due to violation of the provisions of the UN Security Council resolutions on the DPRK.
04:20 Latvia has banned the symbols of Russia's military aggression: the symbols Z, V and other marks used by the Russian occupiers. Now their use in public is banned.
04:08 IT specialists will not be mobilized in Transcarpathia, said the head of the regional administration Viktor Mykyta: "We are creating a national IT cluster in Transcarpathia: we are exempting all IT specialists from military service to protect the economy of Ukraine. Transcarpathia is becoming a national hub for all Ukrainian businesses that develop Ukrainian economy. Businesses that move and operate in Transcarpathia will be protected."
04:04 Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said on CNN that the country is participating in all international financial sanctions that have been imposed against Russia because of the war in Ukraine.
03:56 Biden admitted that after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin could isolate himself: "There are different points of view on this matter. But it seems that he is in self-isolation. And that he fired or even put some of his advisers under house arrest. But I can’t say that this is reliable information, we don’t have exact evidence yet.
03:51 US citizens who are on the territory of Russia and Ukraine must immediately leave these countries, the State Department said. According to Washington, in recent weeks, Russian security forces have been identifying and detaining American citizens both in Russia and in areas of Ukraine controlled by them.
03:49 Russian invaders robbed the station before leaving the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: they took out computers, teapots and a coffee maker. And from the hotel in Chernobyl itself, they took away sets and cutlery, said the head of the State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone, Yevgeny Kramarenko.
03:42 The US Department of Commerce will impose export controls on 120 defense enterprises in Russia and Belarus in the coming days, the White House said.
03:37 In the Kherson region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated from the invaders and took control of 11 settlements - Novovorontsovka, Malaya Shesternya, Novogrigoryevka, Topolino, Knyazhevka, Krasnovka, Svobodnoe, Kamenka, Prigorye, Kochubeevka, Orlovoe, the Operational Command Pivden reported.
03:10 The head of the British army, Admiral Tony Radakin, said that Putin made "catastrophic mistakes" when trying to seize Ukraine. He also noted that Britain was "incredibly cautious" to believe Moscow's statements about the withdrawal from Kyiv, but there are signs that the Russian Federation is preparing to focus its efforts in the east and south of Ukraine.
02:58 According to British intelligence, Russia will redeploy part of its forces from the occupied regions of Georgia to strengthen the offensive against Ukraine. From 1,200 to 2,000 of these fighters are part of three battalion tactical groups.
02:02 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, the Ukrainian army destroyed four aircraft - one fighter and three bombers, Governor Oleg Sinegubov said. According to him, during the day the Russians were hit by a rocket near the center of Kharkov, artillery fired at areas of the city. The fight for Raisins continues.
01:49 About 300 servicemen from the unrecognized "South Ossetia" refused to participate in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine and independently returned to Tskhinvali, Mediazona reports citing its sources.
01:30 President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola is on a visit to Kyiv.
00:09 Zelensky stripped the rank of general of the ex-head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the SBU Andriy Naumov and the ex-head of the SBU in the Kherson region Sergey Krivoruchko. "Random generals don't go along with us," the president said.
00:03 Zelensky said that the situation in southern Ukraine and Donbas is "extremely difficult."
#Ukraine: A Ukrainian Skif ATGM in use against 2 TOS-1A thermobaric MRL, destroying them both.
It seems they were likely unloaded; if loaded there would be a massive explosion as the 24 thermobaric rockets detonated. Either way, a serious loss as these are very powerful systems. pic.twitter.com/jVokspMMKD
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Putin, "didn't we pay off the Bidens to keep this shit from happening?!"
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From the safety of my rural Georgia armchair, wonder if anyone gave consideration to potential danger areas, drone route clearance operations and monitoring, scouts, diversion tactics, night movements ?
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) April 1, 2022
After midnight Thursday-Friday, the Ottoman Turkish police arrested a Syrian media activist near the Ottoman Turkish city of Gaziantep.
Media activist Hassan al-Mukhtar posted on his Facebook page "I am detained at a Ottoman Turkish police checkpoint near Gaziantep, despite having a travel and work permit."
"Now they are taking me to an unknown place under psychological pressure," he added.
This morning, al-Mukhtar posted another post on his page, in which he confirmed that he is still arrested in a place similar to the cop shoppe in Gaziantep.
The activist indicated that he is being treated in a very inhumane and bad manner, and that the reason for the arrest is the suspension of his temporary protection card (Kimlik).
He posted that he slept on the floor last night, and the coppers refused to give him any blankets, in addition to the officers pressuring him and insulting him with intimidating words.
Al-Mukhtar pointed out that the police were allowing him to use his mobile phone, which had almost run out of charge.
Recently, the General Directorate of Migration in the capital, Ankara, informed thousands of Syrians residing in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and who hold the Kimlik that their restrictions have been completely stopped and that their temporary protection has been canceled, fears of deportation to Syrian territory have increased.
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#Germany approves the delivery to Ukraine of several dozen infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) amid criticism that Berlin is not sending enough military aid to #Kyiv.https://t.co/dm1pkyVx8G
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You won the election, Mr. Mayor. Now you own all the problems.
[NYPOST] All too predictably, the Legal Aid Society is attacking the NYPD’s renewed "quality of life" policing.
The direly needed shift targets such violations as selling pot, dice games, public drinking and urination, criminal trespass, fare evasion and other acts that Commissioner Keechant Sewell all too rightly calls "precursors for violence."
Cue a Legal Aid Society study purporting to show that the effort will be racially discriminatory. It uses 2021 data indicating that the vast majority of those arrested for such offenses were black and Hispanic, and so provided fodder for the usual suspects on the City Council to assail top police brass.
Guess what word is missing from Legal Aid’s study? Victim.
Yet black New Yorkers, about 24% of the city population, make up the vast majority of serious crime victims: 65% of those murdered in 2020, and 74% of shooting victims.
[TOLO] "A fella could have a pretty good week in Quetta with that"
The UN held a high-level virtual pledging event in cooperation with the United Kingdom, Germany and Qatar on Afghanistan, where a total of amount of $2.44 billion had been promised.
The meeting was held on Thursday.
The UN earlier said it was seeking $4.4 billion to alleviate the crisis in Afghanistan.
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Question: How much do they think will end up actually helping the Afghan people, after the Taliban leadership gets its hands on it?
[Rudaw] United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... experts said on Friday that the fate of 100 children detained in Hasaka prison in northeast Syria (Rojava) is unknown following a jail break by 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.... in January.
ISIS attacked al-Sina’a prison in Hasaka on January 20 with explosive-laden vehicles and other weapons. This led to over a week of intense festivities between ISIS fighters and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Control of the prison was retaken by the SDF with the support of the global coalition against ISIS, with the recaptured prisoners transferred to another prison.
"We are extremely concerned that since the January 2022 attack, the fate and whereabouts of at least 100 of those boys remain unaccounted for which raises serious concerns relating to their right to life," the UN human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. experts said a statement. "Some of these cases might amount to enforced disappearance, and where children are concerned, States — and de facto authorities — must undertake special measures of protection that reflect their vulnerability."
International rights groups, including Save the Children and Human Rights Watch, have previously said 700 boys had been in the Kurdish-run jail in northeastern Hassakeh province before it was attacked by 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.... group.
Aged 12-18, the detainees included many who had adult relatives inside Ghwayran prison and were transferred from nearby displacement camps housing thousands of children of jihadist fighters.
The independent experts called on the de facto authorities to allow all humanitarian actors to have full and unimpeded access to children still held at Ghwayran.
"Harm to these children must be identified, and those responsible must be held accountable to prevent impunity," the UN experts said.
The IS prison break attempt from Ghwayran triggered a week of festivities inside and around the Kurdish-run facility, leaving hundreds dead, before Kurdish-led forces recaptured the jail.
Dozens of residents lined up in South L.A to apply for the 'Breathe: LA County's Guaranteed Income Program'- the state's latest Universal Basic Income program
The program will provide $1,000 to 1,000 Los Angeles residents every month for three calendar years through a debit card provided by the County
To qualify residents must be at least 18, have a household income below $56,000 for a single person or $96,000 for a family of four
Researchers are using these these pilot programs to see what happens when a range of people are sent payments that guarantee a basic living
But critics warn of a possible downside, people relying on fixed income can become discouraged of joining the workforce
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I was, and remain a member of the US Government's Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine "Trial Program." Advance Directives really are recommended. I believe it was in the smaller print.
I may also soon be a member of the US Government's Capital Gains 401K seizure "Trial Program." Equitable quarterly tax payments for everyone really are the way ahead. If you have no greedy big business investment profits or selfish racist gains you have nothing to be concerned about.
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Thing, this is just a trial run. Eventually they will extend it to everyone who "qualifies".
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Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been tried in other places usually on a limited basis such as in L.A. Finland tried UBI on a limited basis in 2017 but stopped the program in 2018. A government that can give you everything can also take it away. Give-away programs may provide money for people at the cost of economic slavery for another group of working people.
It is likely the money's made available to taxpayers during COVID 19 got people to thinking about UNI again. One might note that California is not in very good economic shape. The government is too free with other people's money. The accrued debt will enslave future generations.
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As much as I dislike Peppermint Pattie’s condescending attitude toward the press, can’t blame her for jumping ship when there is a lifeboat nearby. Think maybe her bullsh!t filter finally got clogged.
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She's going to MSLSD's streaming property on Peacock network. You'd think the recent news that CNN+, where Chrithhy Wallathe went, is almost underwater already would be a warning sign. Of course, when any media property crashes and burns, the high priced talent gets paid while the drones get cut loose, so she either doesn't know or doesn't care.
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Not Surprise!!!
George Stephanopoulos's salary is $15M? a year.
MSM has always paid DC talking heads and deceviers very well it seems.
Appalling photos at link. It’s a wonder Israel has survived. Yes, they have a super high-tech fence surrounding the Gazoo strip, but the West Bank appears as unprotected as our southern border.
[IsraelTimes] ’This is how a terrorist can get from Jenin to Bnei Brak in an hour,’ Englman says, urging Israeli politicians to ’come to their senses’ amid deadly terror wave
Israel’s state ombudsman on Thursday accused authorities of allowing the West Bank security barrier to fall into disrepair, saying that the defensive measure credited with helping staunch the Second Intifada over 15 years earlier was "no longer relevant."
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman made the comments while visiting a broken section of the barrier near the town of Matan, northwest of Tel Aviv, days after a Paleostinian terrorist, who apparently drove into Israel via a hole in the fence, rubbed out five people in Bnei Brak.
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[NYPOST] One police officer was rubbed out and two others were maimed while responding to a domestic violence call in a Pennsylvania city Thursday afternoon.
Police responded to a call in a residential neighborhood in Lebanon just after 3:30 p.m. that devolved into a shootout about 50 minutes later, officials said at a presser.
An unnamed 34-year-old male suspect was killed in the shootout along with an officer, whose identity was being withheld until his extended family was notified, police said.
One officer was fighting for his life and another was in stable, pH balanced condition, according to Mayor Sherry Capello.
"Obviously the incident is still under investigation and details will be forthcoming as that investigation concludes," Capello said.
"At this time we are focused on the tragic loss of the officer and the well-being of the other members of our police department. This is an extremely difficult moment for everyone."
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The death toll from the explosion of al-Ahdath village, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, late Thursday evening, have risen to three, after another woman lost her life.
“Fidan Sabri Chawish (42) lost her life as a result of acute bleeding,” a medical source from Avrin Hospital, in the town of Fafin, told North Press.
Last Wednesday, al-Ahdath village witnessed a huge explosion that led to the complete collapse of the house of the commune and the loss of two women of their lives, in addition to the injury of eight people, including four women.
“The cause of the explosion is unknown yet, but the security forces have begun investigations,” North Press reported a security source.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Free Beacon via Bongino] The Biden administration's new nuclear accord with Iran is likely to include a loophole that will "allow Iranian nationals linked to terrorism to enter and stay in the United States," according to a new Republican-authored policy analysis circulating on Capitol Hill and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
House Republicans have called on Hunter Biden to testify before Congress later this week, according to a letter from a senior House Republican.
[Express.co via Gateway] GERMANY has been left in shambles as Vladimir Putin reportedly has cut off the crucial Gazprom gas supply amid the ongoing crisis with Ukraine, a new report has claimed.
How's that Russian pipeline arrangement working out now ? 
[JustTheNews] The Biden administration has allowed a more than eleven-fold increase in the number of illegal immigrant offenders let out of Texas prisons and into the general U.S. population, despite federal immigration law requiring ICE to take convicts into custody after serving their time, usually in advance of deportation.
[JustTheNews] With midterms elections in North Carolina starting in about six weeks, more than 60,000 registered voters in the state are dead, registered in another state or registered twice under variations of their name, according to a new watchdog report.
[Peter Zeihan via Insty] The Return of the Third Horseman
/\ Me as well. Can I help it if I have lived this long ?
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...aka 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[ZERO] An ominous sign about today's high inflation environment, and quite clearly the Federal Reserve is behind the hiking curve, is a contact close with the Fed complaining about out-of-control golf membership prices. 
[Breitbart] Appearing Thursday on NBC News, Sen. 
[Foxnews] Border agents found several migrants with criminal histories in a span of several days
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
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[NYPOST] A 12-year-old student was shot and killed Thursday by another 12-year-old student inside their South Carolina middle school, authorities said.The shooter was found hiding under a deck at a home not far from Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville about an hour after the shooting and was still armed, Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis said.
[NYPOST] Organizers of the second effort to recall embattled Los Angeles County DA 
...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[NYPOST] All too predictably, the 
...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 
...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 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[NYPOST] One police officer was 
