High Seas: US and Netherlands authorities intercept 8,500 pounds of cocaine worth $245m and arrest 13 drug smugglers during 45-day sting operation in the Caribbean Sea
If you want to see "what were they thinking" and "what did they expect to happen" re: the civilian massacres in Ukraine, here's a historical backgrounder. Pay close attention to all the half truths and modified limited hangouts and whatabouts in the second half of the article. It's what you'll see about the current event, especially if Putin manages to eventually win. I'll put up the introduction here, but you really want to follow the link and read the whole thing.
The Huế massacre (Vietnamese: Thảm sát tại Huế Tết Mậu Thân, or Thảm sát Tết Mậu Thân ở Huế, lit. translation: "Tết Offensive massacre in Huế") was the summary executions and mass murder perpetrated by the Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during their capture, military occupation and later withdrawal from the city of Huế during the Tet Offensive, considered one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
The Battle of Huế began on 31 January 1968, and lasted a total of 26 days. During the months and years that followed, dozens of mass graves were discovered in and around Huế. Victims included women, men, children, and infants.[2] The estimated death toll was between 2,800 and 6,000 civilians and prisoners of war,[1][3] or 5—10% of the total population of Huế.[4] The Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) released a list of 4,062 victims identified as having been either murdered or abducted.[5][6] Victims were found bound, tortured, and sometimes buried alive. Many victims were also clubbed to death.[7][8][9]
A number of U.S. and South Vietnamese authorities as well as a number of journalists who investigated the events took the discoveries, along with other evidence, as proof that a large-scale atrocity had been carried out in and around Huế during its four-week occupation. The killings were perceived as part of a large-scale purge of a whole social stratum, including anyone friendly to American forces in the region. The massacre at Huế came under increasing press scrutiny later, when press reports alleged that South Vietnamese "revenge squads" had also been at work in the aftermath of the battle, searching out and executing citizens that had supported the communist occupation.[10][11] In 2017, Ben Kiernan described the massacre as "possibly the largest atrocity of the war."[12]
[defenseone.com] From battlefield concepts to geopolitics, Beijing is sure to be watching with avid interest—and some chagrin.
Operation Desert Storm was a turning point in modern Chinese military history. As military planners with the People’s Liberation Army watched U.S. and allied forces make short work of the world’s fourth-largest military (on paper), equipped with many of the same systems as the PLA, it became obvious that China’s quantitatively superior but qualitatively lacking massed infantry would stand no chance against the combination of modern weaponry, C4ISR, and joint operations seen in Iraq. The result was new military concepts and over two decades of often-difficult reforms, which produced the modern, far more capable, "informationized" PLA of today.
Today, the PLA is no doubt closely observing its Russian contemporaries in Ukraine as they under-perform in multiple areas, from failing to take key targets or claim air supremacy to running low on fuel and supplies and possibly experiencing morale collapse, and surely taking away lessons that will shape its own future. Of note, Russia’s experience appears to have confirmed many of China’s recent assumptions behind its investments, such as the utility of unmanned aerial systems in high-intensity conflict, as well as the necessity for the PLA’s 2015 reforms, which aim to fix many of the issues driving Russian failure that the PLA recognizes in itself. Follow the link, read the whole thing
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...One thing I'd be looking for is a series of retirements in the Chinese military, both civilian and military...and possibly a 'plane crash' or two. That'll tell me that they're going after the corruption aspects hard.
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...One thing I'd be looking for is a series of retirements in the Chinese military, both civilian and military...and possibly a 'plane crash' or two. That'll tell me that they're going after the corruption aspects hard.
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The reason the Chinese were able to hit us so hard with Covid 19 is that they were able to recognize guys like Fauci, Baris, and Daszak as classical corrupt bureaucrats of the Tang Dynasty model. They look at the white house communications guy with the makeup and the fashionable bag and see the long-fingernailed mandarins of that time period.
We really need a rent-a-Mongol-horde service if we want to buy another generation or two.
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Hopefully they haven't learned about the costs of discount tires and cheap radios.
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What is China learning...?
That it's better to posture and strut with knockoff armament, and to make edited presentations about capability, than to start a real war. They've got that lesson I'm sure. Real cautious bunch, those Chinese. Not like Russkies at all.
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We had people within the CCP since the beginning of the millenium. By 2010 nearly all were re-converted or deep sixed. Today, the effort is merely to make the leadership see the light.
An establishment that does not believe in a lengthy due process or equality or inalienable rights is not something one can take lightly. They kill kill kill moles there, and traitors. Anybody who inconveniences their long game, just disappears.
Besides, there is a huge racial problem with the Chinese. Americans think they know racism? For example, Chinese absolutely detest Americans naivety for giving the black people any rights at all. These people are quintessentially in awe of only the strong, the supremacist, a lot like the Japs although they won't admit it. Demonstrate overwhelming strength and they find a way to fall in line. The problem is, there's a shortage of testicles in the world today. As for who you can buy, the random ideologue the activist, the uighur sasquatch leader, the disgruntled businessman... maybe.
[WWW-FOXBUSINESS-COM.CDN.AMPPROJECT.ORG] Twitter announced Tuesday it’s appointing Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk to its board, expanding the billionaire’s influence during the ongoing debate over lack of free speech on the platform.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted the announcement Tuesday, writing that "Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board."
"He’s both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service which is exactly what we need on @Twitter, and in the boardroom, to make us stronger in the long-term. Welcome Elon!" he added.
[PopSci] On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that he was issuing a directive to use the Defense Production Act to boost the production and processing of critical minerals and other materials such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and manganese. These are substances needed to make batteries, which can in turn power electric vehicles and store renewable energy. This will also allow for other industries to advance corresponding tools and technologies that will decrease the country's reliance on fossil fuels, the president said in an address to the public.
To accomplish this, Biden directed the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, to fund feasibility studies for new projects, decrease waste at existing sites, and modernize domestic mines so they can amp up production of critical minerals, The New York Times reported.
The president can use the Defense Production Act of 1950 to speedily expand the supply of essential materials and services for domestic industries to promote national defense. Civil transportation and energy are only two of the areas that are covered under this act. The act was originally passed in response to the Korean War by the Truman administration, and was later used during the Cold War. Last year, Biden also used the DPA to bolster the health supply chain for COVID vaccines, testing, and protective equipment.
"Through the DPA, the President can, among other activities, prioritize government contracts for goods and services over competing customers, and offer incentives within the domestic market to enhance the production and supply of critical materials and technologies when necessary for national defense," according to a report from the Congressional Research Service. "The DPA has been amended and reauthorized numerous times since its original enactment." The Greens have been fighting this for years. What oh what will they do now? Popcorn please.
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From the "energy secretary" on down, electric car people act like it's free and no impact to the environment. Ask anyone who has had a neighbor steal their electricity to recharge an EV.
Question: If you are an EV driving lefty who is anti-nuclear energy, why don't you demand a "no nuke" charging station, much like unleaded gas?
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More than likely to reduce his personal lithium prescription costs.
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The mining is not any dirtier than any other mining. The processing of the ore is problematic, from health and environmental standpoints.
Thus China.
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^Pretty normal. We ship ore like that out of the US to places like China and Mexico/South America. Processing ore is dirty, takes toxic chemicals and is usually a environmental pain in the ass to do here in the US.
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The health chemistry of "rare earth metals" will make your hair fall out. Literally.
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How much cadmium do you want in your Big Mac?
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From a health chemistry standpoint, there's pretty much no metal you want more of in your bloodstream than is appropriate, and some metals, the appropriate level is basically zero.
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It sort of sounds like ceding control of our uranium to Russia might not have been in our interest.
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All that stuff is just so much paper. The uranium is still in the ground here.
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Oh, oh, but it's a contracttreaty. Yeah. look how those work out,
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To accomplish this, Biden directed the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, to fund feasibility studies for new projects, decrease waste at existing sites, and modernize domestic mines so they can amp up production of critical minerals, The New York Times reported.
I wanted to ask "Where is the graft in that?" until I read this part.
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Pretty sure making glorified golf carts wasn't the intention, but whatever. And that was my first thought too when I heard it on the radio the other day; gets mined, sent to china where it sits until whenever they feel like selling it back. What a scam.
Lunch Vader in charge huh. Bungling Bros and Drown'n Bailey's.
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"We lost the war because a 9th circuit judge said we could not recharge the electric tanks from nukes..."
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There isn't enough lithium in the earth to do what the Greennuts want.
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^ Physics is rayciss.
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The president can use the Defense Production Act of 1950 to speedily expand the supply of essential materials and services for domestic industries to promote national defense.
Hmmm - having more Priuses and Teslas on US roads 'promotes national defense'? I learn something new every day.
[IsraelTimes] TV report says Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... rulers do not want to currently be dragged into another war with Israel by PIJ, which wants to respond to killing of three of its people by IDF.
[IsraelTimes] Clashes continue at flashpoint Damascus Gate for third night, eight Paleostinians arrested as Ramadan tensions persist
Security forces arrested 14 East Jerusalem residents in the past three days on suspicion of planning attacks or inciting others to carry out attacks, Channel 12 news reported Monday.
The raids come following a spate of terror attacks in recent weeks. Those arrested all confessed to either planning attacks or inciting others to carry out attacks, Channel 12 said.
The report also said that police believe that they can contain festivities at the Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City if they continue at the scale of the past two nights.
Despite that, festivities were reported for the third night. Police said eight Paleostinians have been detained during festivities at Damascus Gate as Paleostinians gather to celebrate Ramadan.
Police said the suspects hurled stones and other items at officers. They added that some of the rioters were also involved in unrest on Sunday night too.
"Whoever chooses to disturb the order, riot, and engage in violence of any kind, harms first and foremost the large public of worshipers, merchants, and visitors, the vast majority of whom wished to celebrate Ramadan in peace and security, while maintaining freedom of worship," police said in a statement.
"We will not allow those inciting and violent mostly peaceful margins [of society] to disrupt order. We call on the public to mark the month of Ramadan legally, obey police instructions, and avoid violence and disturbances of any kind," the statement added.
Separately, Channel 12 reported that Paleostinian Authority the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... told senior members of his Fatah movement to help prevent any escalation in tensions.
[IsraelTimes] Military chief Aviv Kohavi said Monday that the Israel Defense Forces had foiled nearly a dozen terror attacks in the past two weeks, amid heightened tensions following several deadly attacks, as well as gunbattles with terror group members in the West Bank.
"At least 10 terror attacks have been prevented in the past two weeks, thanks to intelligence and operations. Even at this moment, we are focused on thwarting further attacks," Kohavi said at an Air Force ceremony.
"This is the IDF’s main mission at the moment. We will act wherever, as required, and using all methods to stop terrorism," he added.
There were no details about the thwarted attacks. Israeli security forces often keep operations under wraps for months, only occasionally publicizing details when suspects are charged.
[IsraelTimes] Output restored to pre-2018 level of 3.8 million barrels per day, official says, noting Raisi’s decision to invest $500 million to restore facilities and increase production.
[AlAhram] One week after button men attacked a train with explosives in northwestern Nigeria, the whereabouts of 168 passengers are still unknown, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has said.
At least eight people were killed and others missing on March 28 when button men detonated a bomb on the track and opened fire on the train linking the capital Abuja with the northwestern city of Kaduna.
President Muhammadu Buhari had said some passengers had been kidnapped and survivors said button men had snatched a number of passengers, but it is not clear how many.
It was the latest deadly assault blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs known locally as bandidos in the region.
In a statement late Sunday, the NRC said of the 362 passengers on board the train when it was attacked, 186 had been confirmed safe.
"Of the 362 validated passengers on board the attacked AK9 train service on March 28, 186 persons on the manifest are confirmed to be safe and at their various homes," it said.
The NRC said of the remaining 176 passengers, eight have been confirmed dead, leaving the whereabouts of 168 still unknown.
It said efforts were still underway to rescue the missing passengers.
The corporation said damaged track and coaches were being repaired while services on the Abuja-Kaduna route had been "temporarily suspended".
Two days earlier, button men killed a perimeter security guard in an attack at Kaduna airport before armed forces intervened.
Gunmen also attacked the same railway line with explosives in October.
Bandit gangs in the northwest and central Nigerian states have long terrorised communities, conducting mass kidnappings for ransom, raiding villages and stealing cattle.
But their violence has intensified. Gunmen often arrive in their scores by cycle of violence, sometimes striking several villages, killing and abducting residents.
Gunmen have also targeted highways for kidnappings between the capital and cities such as Kaduna and the northwestern commercial hub Kano.
Nigeria's military has been carrying out operations and air strikes to clear bandidos out of their camps hidden in forests across several states in the northwest. But the violence has continued.
Security forces are also battling Nigeria's 12-year jihadist insurgency in the northeast that has killed 40,000 people and displaced more than two million more.
[OneIndia] An IIT graduate attacked two coppers with a sharp-edged weapon at a gate of the famed Gorakhnath temple and tried to barge into premises before being overpowered, Uttar Pradesh officials said on Monday terming it a "terror incident".
The attack occurred on Sunday evening at the temple which is under high security as it is frequently visited by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is the head seer.
The accused, identified as Murtaza Abbasi, was arrested and has been sent to judicial remand for two weeks, police said and alleged that he tried to forcibly enter the temple, which was teeming with devotees during the Navratri festival, after raising the religious slogan of "Allahu Akbar".
Videos shared on social media showed the man brandishing a large sickle and roaming around on the premises, as some took cover while others threw stones at him. Soon a group a devotees along with security personnel surrounded him and pinned him to the ground.
Murtaza was earlier taken to hospital and produced in a local court on Monday. His father Munir Abbasi said Murtaza belonged to the 2015 batch of IIT-Mumbai and was a chemical engineer.
Speaking to a TV channel, he claimed that his son was mentally unstable and that this should be taken into account.
In a statement, the UP Home Department said, "The attack on police jawans at Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur is a part of deep conspiracy, and based on the available facts, it can be said that it was a terror incident."
ADG, Gorakhpur zone, Akhil Kumar said Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) constables Gopal Gaur and Anil Paswan were maimed as they tried to stop the accused who went to a PAC post near gate no 1 and attacked the security personnel.
The Gorakhnath temple is the highest Peeth of the Nath sect and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath is the Mahant of this Peeth.
In America we call that predatory lending, and toss the lenders in jail for it.
[OneInida] Both Pakistain and Sri Lanka have plunged into a crisis and the blame lies entirely on the Chinese debt.
The situation in these two countries has now forced nations like Maldives, Bangladesh and Nepal to think again on the Chinese infrastructure and also being part of the BRI initiative.
In Sri Lanka the blame clearly lies on Rajapaksa who began leaning towards the Chinese heavily much to the displeasure of India. The nation brought upon itself immense economic stress by taking high interest loans from China in the name of developing infrastructure.
Pakistain on the other hand has more than 10 per cent of its debt owed to China. Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... has been blamed squarely for the economic mess the country is in today. Due to this high value debts the country has not only fallen economically, buy has also plunged into political crisis. Khan is making matters worse by whipping up public sentiments and blaming the situation on a foreign conspiracy against him and his government.
Both Pakistain and Sri Lanka face complex situations as the US has a great amount of control on the global financial institutions. This would make it harder for the two nations as they have shifted their loyalties to China.
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Pakistain is no victim and is not in any trap. It is China who's in the trap that is Pakistain. This be deep, mon Ami. You gotta know the 'Stain to understand.
[OneIndia] Terrorists carried out three attacks in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... on Monday, leaving one CRPF personnel dead and four persons, including two workers from Bihar and a Kashmiri Pandit, injured.
Two CRPF personnel were maimed when turbans opened fire on security forces at Maisuma. They were rushed to SMHS hospital where one of them - Head Constable Vishal Kumar - succumbed to injuries while the other was undergoing treatment.
The area was cordoned off as security forces launched a search operation to track down the assailants but no arrests were made.
35-year-old Bal Krishan alias Sonu, a Kashmiri Pandit, was shot at and injured by suspected turbans at Chotigam in Shopian district late on Monday evening, officials said, adding he was taken to district hospital Shopian.
Earlier in the day, turbans opened fire on two non-local labourers in Pulwama district "Terrorists opened firing on Patleshwar Kumar and Jako Chowdhary, both residents of Bihar, at Lajoora this afternoon," the officials said.
They said the duo were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.
This was second attack on non-local labourers in Pulwama district in as many days. Two workers hailing from 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.... were shot at and injured in Nowpora area of the district on Sunday.
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“ This was second attack on non-local labourers” .. this will probably start occurring in the USA. People are allowed to enter the borders so that labor is cheaper. Our darker population will lose out again. The demoncrats want slaves!
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[OneIndia] Security forces busted a terrorist hideout in a village near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Poonch district and seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition, officials said on Monday, according to news agency PTI.
The hideout was unearthed during a joint search operation by the army and police in Noorkote village, the officials said.
They said the arms and ammunition seized from the hideout included two AK-47 assault rifles with two magazines and 63 rounds, one 223 bore AK shape gun with handgrip, its two magazines and 20 rounds and one Chinese pistol with a magazine and four rounds.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... no one was arrested during the operation which was carried out late Sunday evening based on a specific information, the officials said.
That op was separate. Umer Feroze, Ahmed Bilal and Waris Bhat [acquirer of the arms] were encountered circling the village to get out to catch an interstate bus. They caught the latest form of Chinese virus and wasted away before our eyes.
[PJ] Following Twitter’s suspension of the Babylon Bee, Elon Musk appeared to get a little irritated. In late March, Musk asked his more than 80 million followers what to do about Twitter’s failure to adhere to free speech principles:
With the plethora of new platforms emerging, many followers and commentators suggested that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO just buy Twitter. Musk once again proved that his timeline is one to watch because he’s willing to spend a gobsmacking amount of money in response to a Twitter poll. Musk just bought a 9.2% passive stake in the company. Talk about sending a message. According to CNBC:
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Musk is doing much more important stuff than messing with social media. I hope he has a trusted underling he can put in charge of cleaning up the public toilet that is Sh*tter.
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While Elon Musk now controls 9.2% of Twitter. Twitter's top five shareholders as of Q3 2021 all together still control 31.02%.
They are:
Morgan Stanley,
Vanguard,
BlackRock,
State Street Corp.,
and Lone Pine Capital.
Collectively, the top five Twitter shareholders own just around 30.02% of the company.
So, IF say Morgan Stanley and Vanguard Group teamed up, or one of them and 2 others teamed up then they outvote Musk.
Plus there is the issue of who all owns the other 59.7%
QUESTION: Looking at the bigger picture.
It is interesting to note these Elite companies own a Media company associated with the Massive Censorship of free speech and supported/promoted Anti-Trump narratives in 2020.
[Rudaw] Iraqi forces on Sunday said a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... has been handed to two Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) members who oversaw the fatal double suicide kaboom that shook Baghdad last year.
The two members, who were arrested earlier, were handed a death sentence by the judge, state media quoted the investigative department of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as saying.
The two ISIS members held "sensitive and important" positions in the holy warrior group, the department added, noting that one was the assistant to the so-called leader of southern Iraq in ISIS, Abu Hassan al-Gharibawi, and the other was in charge of the group’s hostels.
At least 32 people were killed and 100 others were maimed when two jacket wallahs attacked Baghdad’s Tayaran square on January 21 last year.
The death sentence comes over a year after two ISIS members were killed, including Gharibawi, for being allegedly involved in the attack.
ISIS seized control of swaths of land in Iraq in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but has continued to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and kidnappings across several provinces.
Two ISIS suspects, plotting to carry out a suicide kaboom during the month of Ramadan, were arrested in Kirkuk last month.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted six attacks in Iraq from March 24 to March 30, killing and injuring 10 people.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 00:15 Two SBU officers crossed the border with Belarus and they had some important data on the execution of civilians by Ukrainian soldiers in Bucha, whose corpses were later attributed to the Russians. If this is true, then soon we will see the continuation of Ukrainian cinema, according to the telegram channel Joker DNR. 22:18 The first confirmation of the mass surrender of Ukrainian marines from the 501st Battalion in Mariupol appeared on the network. Project Sources @wargonzo on the Donbass front, more than 200 military personnel were captured by the troops of the DPR and the Russian Federation.
21:40 The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation instructed to identify all those involved in the abuse of the Russian military in Ukraine.
21:36 Russia is preparing a new offensive. Russian troops are preparing to encircle the forces of the Joint Forces Operation (in Donbass) and capture Kharkiv, - the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
21:33 In total, since the beginning of the operation, 125 aircraft, 91 helicopters, 394 drones, 226 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,948 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 212 multiple launch rocket systems have been destroyed
21:02 During the day, 17 military facilities of Ukraine were hit by Russian Aerospace Forces aviation, including two command posts and communication centers, two ammunition depots and a fuel storage, as well as 11 strongholds and areas of concentration of Ukrainian troops.
20:19 Russia today will present materials on the situation in Bucha at a special press conference in New York - Lavrov.
20:01 Russia is trying to ensure that all accusations about the events in Ukraine are based on concrete facts, and not fakes, as they do in the West - Lavrov.
19:33 Russia requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the provocation of radicals in Bucha at 22:00 Moscow time on Monday - permanent mission.
19:02 Soldier of the Russian Armed Forces: Ukrainian nationalists beat a Russian prisoner of war to death.
18:47 A battalion of marines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered in Mariupol.
18:37 There is a powerful fire at one of the oil infrastructure facilities in Odessa.
17:55 In the last week, a large number of military and dual-use cargo from Romania has come to the Chernivtsi region under the guise of humanitarian aid. They are placed in small settlements in order to avoid detection and centralized destruction. One of these places may be the former ammunition depots near the village of Kamennoye.
17:39 South of Poltava, between the settlements of Shcherbanya and Veliky Trostyanets, there is a point of permanent deployment of a separate radar reconnaissance company (military unit A-2057), which is part of the 164th radio engineering brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On the territory of the unit there are several radar stations and an underground command post. To the north is also a base for storing military equipment.
17:07 The special forces of the Russian Guard liquidated a sabotage group and a workshop for the production of ammunition in the Kiev region.
16:29 During yesterday's attack on objects on the territory of Nikolaev, the Russian Aerospace Forces used a medium-range cruise missile X-59M "Gadfly-M".
16:16 In Dokuchaevsky, southeast of Kharkov, positions of the 164th Radio Engineering Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were discovered. Its units occupied the buildings of the Kharkov National Agrarian University.
15:24 The Odesa regional prosecutor's office said that as a result of a missile strike, fuel tanks were destroyed at the refinery, outbuildings and gas communications were damaged.
15:01 Yesterday afternoon in the village of Brazhkovka (southwest of Kamenka), a tank battle took place. Tankers of the 13th regiment of the First Tank Army went out to the tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and destroyed six tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a short-lived clash, losing one of their own tanks. At the moment, the village itself is in the gray zone, there are fierce battles for it.
14:38 Arestovich picked up the fake Ukrainian media about the atrocities of "Azov" in Mariupol, posed as killing civilians near Kiev.
13:52 Russia has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday in connection with "the blatant provocation of Ukrainian radicals in Bucha" - Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN.
13:42 Russian humanitarian aid has been delivered to the village of Dneprovka.
13:03 In Novaya Vodolazh, southwest of Kharkiv, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense have set up headquarters in the building of the Novovodolazh Lyceum No. 3.
There are a large number of armed people in the village, and temporary parking lots for equipment and personnel are equipped in the surrounding forests.
11:45 Over 11,500 refugees from Donbass crossed the Russian border in a day.
10:39 During the night, operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 14 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: two command posts, two launchers of Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile systems in the Krasnogorsk and Verkhnetoretskoye regions, one artillery battery, two depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition, and three fuel depots, as well as six strongholds and areas of concentration of combat APU technology.
10:27 Russian air defense systems shot down six unmanned aerial vehicles in the air in the areas of the settlements of Nikolaev, Kherson, Kurakhovka, Industrialnoye, Velyka Novoselka.
10:11 As a result of the April 3 attack on the Balovnoye airfield, in the suburbs of Nikolaev, the destruction of three helicopters of the Ukrainian armed forces was confirmed.
10:01 The RF Armed Forces continue to strike at the military infrastructure of Ukraine. On the night of April 4, in the area of the city of Lysichansk, as a result of an air strike, the command post of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces and nearby warehouses with ammunition, weapons and military equipment were destroyed.
09:16 The 60th Separate Infantry Brigade of the Reserve Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that it had received 12.7-mm Browning M2 machine guns and 7.62-mm MG3 machine guns delivered in the order of Western military assistance.
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^ Another shitposter links to laughable Brit tabloid MI6 Info Ops planted junk. What is with this site's magnetic attraction to the UK shit-tabloids? The titty photos?
#6
It disorienting to find our new guests personally trash-talking people whose posts I've been enjoying for years. You gotta learn to read the room, boys.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] These things happen, from time to time. Nobody ever bothered with a vaccine before, they just culled the infected flocks.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering rolling out a bird flu vaccine for poultry in the country
A current outbreak of the avian flue has caused the death of around 22 million birds
The outbreak has caused turmoil in the poultry industry over the past few months
Humans are relatively safe from the outbreak, with bird-to-human transmission rare and human-to-human transmission likely not possible
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I think the standards for pet food are higher. I'm going to try Friskies one of these days.
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So, we won't be seeing those "no antibiotics, ever" chicken ads for a while. As an aside, the last time bird flu ran thru, it just about wiped out the alligator farmers down here. Turns out reptiles get bird flu.
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Vaccine is now Holy Water of the COVIDian religion. It's water from the tap and does nothing. Oh, a priest waved his hand over it. Nut it's still just water.
But worse for you.
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Ed @#5 - Don't they feed the gators a lot of chicken?
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04/05/2022 11:22
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Yes they do. That's why gator meat "tastes just like chicken."
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chickens are currently consuming considerable quantities of antibiotics and various hormones
another vax would hardly register
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"Free range" chickens mainly eat each other's droppings. So healthy...
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#12 - "this chicken tastes like ass"
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^ Unfortunately, I've had that...
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My chickens just started laying. All egg chicken, only 6. I control all the food and water. Everyone should have a couple of chickens in the yard. Free range chicken eat bugs, snakes, lizards, spiders, greens, worms, mice, not their own crap. They might even eat dumb comments and russian trolls too.
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Fry the egg. And the chicken. Eat the egg. Give the chicken to the dog. A chicken who would get impregnated by a duck is not fit for human consumption.
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A chick can't fcuk
a talking duck?
That's Disney top billing!
She's a Jezebel
for dogs to eat?
Why, that's honor killing!
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I envision one of those "behind the scenes" pr0n videos with Disney Elsa interviewing the chicken and duck in fluffy robes on a 70s style couch, with interspersed clips of avian preversion (that last word with props to Col. Bat Guano.)
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. It is obvious that the story with Bucha simply one in one copies a similar methodology of staged accusations that everyone could observe in Syria (regardless of whether the participants in the staged picture are alive or dead) since 2012, when only "bloody Assad" did anything in Syria.
2. It is obvious that such stories will continue, as they have continued in Syria for many years. Moreover, in the next episodes of the series, we will surely see the series "The sinister attack of the Russians using chemical weapons."
In Syria, this was done by "fighters for the freedom of Syria." In Ukraine, "fighters for the freedom of Ukraine" are doing this. The template is the same, because the owner of all this action is the same. The performers shoot a picture for the media, which is used by diplomats to encourage further action. Moreover, at all levels, the process is controlled from one center.
3. Russia's arguments in the mainstream media and at the diplomatic level will not be accepted, because this is not a discussion, but a war of annihilation. Therefore, the facts provided by the Russian Federation will be swept aside according to the principle "if the facts contradict faith, then so much the worse for the facts." What kind of faith they want to impose is not difficult to assess from the rhetoric of the US-controlled neoliberal media.
4. Nevertheless, it is important for Russia to explain the mechanism of such provocations inside the country for its own citizens, as well as to work with those groups in Western society that also did not buy into the "stories about the atrocities of the Assad regime" - on the one hand, there are anti-imperialist leftists, and on the other hand, the alt-right. So, you can't go all out on this job.
5. Of course, such provocations will be used to impose new sanctions against the Russian Federation and intensify the supply of weapons, as well as to demonize the Russian Federation and dehumanize its population.
6. It is important to remember from the Syrian experience - despite a whole bunch of such provocations, they did not help the United States and its satellites achieve victory in the Syrian war. Neither Eastern Ghouta nor Khan Sheikhoun prevented Assad's victory.
Accordingly, realizing the meaning and consequences of such provocations, as well as taking the necessary measures to stop them, it is necessary to continue operations in Ukraine until the goals are achieved, which, in fact, they are trying to prevent with such provocations.
If you have already declared to fight the "Empire of Lies", be prepared for its usual tools of warfare. And then, just another provocation, and some have already hung their noses. Don't worry, there will be more. More cynical and bloody.
Learn to take a hit.
PS. In the title photo, an attempt by Ukrainian propaganda to break through a new bottom, passing off the body of a girl killed in Mariupol (filmed by Patrick Lancaster) as a "victim of Russian troops in Gostomel." This is again to the question of what the authors of fakes about the "genocide in Bucha" feed the audience with.
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I've had the misfortune of seeing someone's brains knocked out of their head with my own eyes. I don't say this to be macho; it's not something I ever wanted to see. I'm not a soldier or anything like that, and I had hoped to live a nice, long life without ever seeing anything like that.
But, since I have seen it, I had a good long look at the Bucha pictures; especially the one of the man in the blue jacket face down on the street with a spray of viscera below his face. It didn't look quite right to me - until those satellite images came out. Then it made sense. He'd been lying like that for weeks in the cold of Winter, so everything had frozen, changing color and consistency. Then the picture made sense.
God help us all, the Russians are practicing the Russian way of war straight out of the old Stalin playbook. Mass executions, gang rape, and even genocide are unfortunately part of that way, designed to break the spirit of the population and make them more docile. It worked pretty well in East Germany; but it isn't working on the Ukrainians. Whether they were or weren't a nation before, they certainly are one now.
I say this as large "L" Libertarian who is extremely suspicious of the Western media; a media prone to beat the war drums one moment (Ukraine) and to go completely quiet another moment (Somalia, Ethiopia) when it suits them. And I have been critical of much of the propaganda on both sides during this war - like Putin bathing in deer antler blood. (Please!) But as much as a Libertarian has any power at all, you can have the power to not lie to people. Or yourself.
The Russians are clearly doing many of the things they are being accused of. They are clearly guilty and need to be stopped. The trolls they are sending to this website are also clearly lying. The Russians also have a lot of nuclear weapons and a willingness to use them. So an extremely unsatisfying tightrope must be walked at all times, less the killing of thousands turn into the death of millions.
So let us all pray whomever in Washington is running the show behind the scenes is a lot smarter and more capable than the human marionettes they're currently hiding behind.
The propaganda on CBS is just as bad as the propaganda coming out of Russia. There are many victims in this war. The truth is prominent among them.
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And the Katyn Forest massacre was done by Nazis, not the Soviets...
NB: much, much less horrific accusations against US troops resulted in investigations, trials, and political fall-out. The Putinist line appears to be "didn't happen, we left earlier, besides they were asking for it".
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It's well past time to start referring to Actual Nazis™ vs Media narrative nazis™
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...diagnoses of autism, anxiety, depression and significant psychological problems, described as a troubled kid obsessed with guns — the police came to the family home frequently to deal with him. Mr. Cruz was adopted at birth, then his adoptive father died when he was young, followed into the grave by his adoptive mother a few months before he ran amok. So really he was a classic school shooter. Interestingly, his biological sister Danielle Woodard, a decade older, also has a long rap sheet and is classified as a habitual violent offender...
23, will be put to death for murdering 17
It is expected to be a two-month process to pick 12 panelists, eight alternates
In October, Cruz pleaded guilty and jurors will only decide on his sentence
The jurors chosen will decide on a death sentence or life without parole
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The vics all got death. I will say, I am totally against the death penalty for people who fit the clinical and legal definitions of mentally ill. That comes down to did he know what he was doing and did he understand actions have consequences. I'm not qualified to say and if I was, I still have not interviewed him myself. My layman's impression is that he's sane enough to bear responsibility. YMMV.
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If one has murdered seventeen people, regardless of whether he's mentally ill, it's only sensible to end his life as soon as possible. Or others get the idea that your lives are not worth much.
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When I was a reporter, I covered lots of criminal court, but no death penalty cases. I believe in the death penalty in principle. In practice, I saw too many stupid jurors, drunk court officials and dishonest cops to believe the system was in any way competent to hand anyone a death sentence.
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Armed judges on motorcycles. With helmets connecting to all perp records. And ammo from armor piercing and flechettes to incendiaries and hi-explosive.
Anybody joining that service, I'd trust with law enforcement totally.
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When a dog mauls and kills a child, do we really worry about whether the creature understood what it was doing or the proceeding of its disposition?
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Oh, the pit bull apologists come out in droves every time. Makes me ill.
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A wild dog attacked me when I was eleven or so. It bit me in the neck, face, arms. Blood all over. My legs shook from fear and shock.
Passersby and my grandpa beat it half to death. Then my grandpa made me hit it too, get the fear out of me. They said I was to deal the killing blow but I couldn't. I just sat and watched the thing die. My blood, its blood. The same color. It was a moment.
Only killed one animal in my life, when I was fifteen. A monkey that was fighting my dog. We killed it together in fact. No guilt.
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Some crimes are so horrendous and shock the public to such an extent that the death penalty is the only appropriate sentence. I can think of a few such crimes in our area where the death sentence was the only appropriate sentence. There was no doubt about who did them; they were just vicious horrible crimes. However, endless appeals have dragged out the justice process for 20 years or so. These criminals end up destroying victim and their families' lives forever.
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If it's to be done, it must be done in public, so everyone can see. In the movie In Cold Blood, during the hanging scene, one witness asks another "Does anyone know the hangman's name?" The other guy says "Yeah, 'We the people.'"
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A number of readers will have killed better men than he and should have few qualms about putting down a dog that knows or doesn't know he did a bad thing.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] More than four tons of cocaine has been intercepted on ships smuggling narcotics in the Caribbean during a 45-day sting operation led by the US Coast Guard, officials said.
At least 13 suspected drug smugglers from Colombia and the Dominican Republic were arrested in 11 incidents involving the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dauntless and the HNLMS Friedland of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
The Coast Guard was unable to say where the cocaine was being smuggled to and from after it offloaded the drugs at a Miami port.
The arrests come six weeks after the Coast Guard cutter James dropped off 30 tons of cocaine and marijuana worth over $1 billion at Port Everglades in Florida.
The 54,500 pounds of cocaine and 15,800 pounds of marijuana offloaded February 17 followed months of interdictions of drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Coca cultivation in Colombia in 2020 soared to 245,000 hectares (945 square miles), enough to produce 1,010 tons of cocaine, according to the White House’s latest report on harvesting trends in the Andean region.
As recently as 2014, potential production was less than half that amount. Production in Peru and Bolivia has also steadily risen.
[BearingArms] It’s a wonderful stroke of irony that a guy whose byline appears on the eponymously-named news site of the gun control lobby’s biggest sugar daddy has delivered one of the most devastating blows against the idea that Science has proven the effectiveness and need for more gun control laws. In a new video from Reason’s Justin Monticello risk analyst, statistician, and Bloomberg columnist Aaron Brown lays to waste the tired tropes of politicians who claim that "evidence shows" the urgent adoption of gun or magazine bans, or that "studies show" gun homicides dropped by 20, 30, or 40% after the passage of a "common sense gun safety" measure. How? By taking a look at the studies themselves.
He’s not the first to do so. Brown begins by using a recent RAND analysis of gun research, which the corporation used to try to determine what the science actually says about the effectiveness of various gun control laws. What RAND found is that out of 27,900 pieces of research, just 123 of them displayed enough academic and scientific rigor to be taken seriously. Brown says that the problem is actually even worse, and that virtually none of the 123 projects that RAND deemed worthy of examining can be trusted to tell us anything of note.. and not just statistical noise.
We took a look at the significance of the 123 rigorous empirical studies and what they actually say about the efficacy of gun control laws.
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[Bloomberg] Germany will temporarily take control of a unit of Gazprom PJSC in the country as it seeks to safeguard security of gas supply.
Gazprom Germania GmbH -- owner of energy supplier Wingas GmbH and a gas storage firm -- will come under the trusteeship of the German energy regulator until Sept. 30, Economy Minister Robert Habeck told reporters in Berlin.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) April 4, 2022
A Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a vehicle belonging to the Syriac Military Council while accompanying a Russian patrol to Tel Tamr power station northwest of Hasakah, northeast Syria, on Sunday evening. The Syriac Military Council is an Assyrian/Syriac military organisation in Syria, part of the Syrian Democratic Forces.
"The Ottoman Turkish occupation targeted with a drone the vehicle of Orom Marogi, a member of the General Command of the Syriac Military Council, while escorting the Russian side to the Tel Tamr this evening," SDF Media Center reported.
"Marogi and the translator were maimed due to this attack," SDF media center added.
A Christian commander of the Kurdish-led forces and another person were maimed in a suspected Ottoman Turkish drone attack in northeast Syria (Rojava), the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and media outlets said.
The drone hit a car carrying a member of the general command of the Syriac Military Council, Orom Maroge, and his translator in Tel Tamir as they were heading to the town’s power station, SDF media head Farhad Shami said in a tweet.
The attack came hours after an alleged Ottoman Turkish bombardment hit Tal Tamir and Zirgan district in Hasaka province, according to a conflict monitor, without causing civilian casualties.
Ankara often targets Rojava, especially Hasaka province, killing and injuring civilians as well as security forces.
Over 700 civilians were kidnapped and 134 others were maimed in Ottoman Turkish attacks in 2021, the SDF said in January.
The region also saw 47 Ottoman Turkish ground attacks and incursion attempts as well as 89 drone offensives last year.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... has conducted three military operations in northern Syria since 2016, two of them against Kurdish fighters who Ankara considers a branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and a threat to its national security. It has been threatening a new offensive against Kurdish forces in Rojava in recent months.
'He had an army of misfits to aid him. An aging MI6 agent fighting for each quarter of his pension. An AI, which believed it was a hausfrau and mother of two. A wannabe Russian who didn't know what to believe. Robots, some built in checkist factories, some in a Maryland garage! All of them insane, fascists. Hateful of liberty, equality, globo... globality. A rip-roaring read by the world's friskiest geriatric after Hefner!'
Limited edition pre coffee stained cover on pre-orders!
#8
Martin and Alexander Burns?
Jonathan Martin is a national political correspondent for the New York Times who co-authored The End of the Line: Romney vs. Obama: The 34 Days That Decided the Election.
He previously worked for Politico and National Review and often appears as a CNN commentator.
Alexander Burns is also a national political correspondent for the New York Times and a political analyst for CNN.
He was one of the main reporters covering the Trump presidency.
Their book covers 18 months in the White House detailing the 2020 election, the Covid pandemic, the Capitol riots and Biden's presidency.
As New York Times reporters, the pair had access to the White House and the book offers in-the-room accounts of the Trump and Biden administrations.
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LOL as if this old-fashioned blog with 40 readers even gets noticed
Precisely why we mere forty find it absolutely fascinating that so many international trolls influencers so urgently need to bully us into agreeing with them on their variety of opinions.
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And. Well. I still think the USA has no dog in this fight. Most of the people who feel the Russians are the root of all evil are anti-Trump gerbilists I have no use for. As for Ukraine, I have no problem with that country (that I know of - those Fauxi run bio labs bother me) Hollywood and the left is all in on Ukraine. Sorry guys, that's a problem for me. People I think are out to kill the USA are anti-Russian. That does not make me pro-Russian. It does make me skeptical.
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Losing arguments makes you feel like someone is bullying you?
Wow, really?
Typically it's the bullies who are doing a pile-on with numbers and profanity and the underdog is the brave one who is fighting back with facts and logic.
Black Lives Matter brass secretly used $6 million in donation money to buy a 6,500-square foot mansion in Southern California, it has been revealed
Emails show the firm wanted to keep the purchase secret, despite filming a video on the home's patio in May
The news comes as the foundation faces federal scrutiny for alleged misuse of donated funds - and comes on heels of criticism of co-founder Patrisse Cullors
Cullors, 38, came under fire last year for a slew of high-profile property purchases. She resigned after facing backlash from critics and supporters
They could have paid for a lot of troublemaking with that money, but instead they bought a nice house — a small win for civilization.
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Groundskeeper slightly wounded. Dozens of luxury automobiles riddled as alleged BLM rival faction rakes mansion with automatic weapons fire. Four vehicles seen speeding from the scene following a four minute barrage. More at Eleven.
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The pic in the post is from I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka, which, if you haven't seen, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It's hilarious. In a similar vein, also watch Hollywood Shuffle.
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Well FBI/DOJ when will we see Indictments?
BLM operates across state lines, handles $$$$ collected across state lines....etc etc etc.
Oh!!! that's are we are rolling into Mid-terms and the LSD's might get their A$$ handed to them, so they'll need every vote they can get now that States are banning DEAD People from voting.
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...Sweden is quietly working out behind-the scenes with their various political factions when and how - the 'if' has already been decided. Putin's harassment and the 'nuclear' intercept a week or two back did in thirty days what seventy-five years of NATO offers couldn't do.
Mike
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The Rooskies and the Swedes surely have some score to settle from way back when.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Former President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... offered his endorsement to Utah Sen. Mike Lee on Friday, prompting the immediate backlash of the incumbent’s top challenger, Evan McMullin.
Nominal Mormon, CIA 10 year man, Republican policy wonk, professional NeverTrumper. He fronted a failed NeverTrump presidential campaign in 2016, since then has earnt his daily caviar and champagne as a policy wonk for “Conservative” organizations funded by sympathetic far left billionaires like George Soros and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. It looks like he’s now sucking up dollars for another failure in practical politics...
In a tweet Friday, McMullin released a new attack ad questioning the Utah senator’s involvement in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. In the video, McMullin calls on Lee to "come clean" about the extent of his involvement on Jan. 6 and to cooperate with the House committee investigating the riot at the Capitol.
"Sen. Mike Lee, once a constitutional conservative, now has the endorsement of a wicked man who tried to dismantle our republic and stay in power against the people’s will," McMullin said. "Lee sacrificed his honor and values to serve him at the expense of Utah and our nation. I will not."
That, dear Reader, is because Mr. McMullin had no honour or values left by 2016, so he has nothing now to sacrifice.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... it’s not entirely clear whether Trump’s endorsement will offer much standing among Utah voters. Although it’s a reliably red state, Republicans there remain hesitant to back the former president, which may complicate Lee’s reelection bid because he is seen as one of Trump’s strong allies.
After the departure of the Russian Armed Forces from Bucha, no one saw the corpses for four days - Nebenzya
[REGNUM] There were no reports that the Russian military fired on civilians in Bucha for more than three days after they left this settlement, Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said on April 4 at a press conference on the provocation in Bucha.
"For four days since the Russian military left Bucha, there was not a single sign of atrocities, not a single mention of them," the Russian diplomat said.
"To sum up, there are no reports of atrocities that are attributed to the Russian military in Bucha," he added.
“The videos that I presented, especially those of Bucha, do not give any reason to doubt that this was a production. We will present new evidence for this , ”Nebenzya emphasized.
In addition, the Russian permanent representative said that those who call for an "independent investigation" of the events in Bucha should remember the numerous "investigations" that had previously taken place with the strongest political motivation.
"The question is who will conduct the so-called independent investigation. We saw a lot of “independent investigations” that were not independent at all, because they were politically motivated," said Vasyl Nebenzya.
OSCE to hold special meeting on Ukrainian Bucha on April 5
[REGNUM] The Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will hold a special meeting on April 5 to discuss the consequences of the Russian military operation in the Kiev region of Ukraine. The Permanent Representative of Poland to the OSCE , Adam Halachinsky , announced this on April 4 on his page on the social network Twitter.
"The next special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council was convened for 5 April."
The special meeting, the main issue on the agenda of which is the situation in the Ukrainian Bucha, will not end with the adoption of specific decisions that require the consensus of the OSCE participating countries. It will only state and discuss the positions of the parties on the situation.
Recall that on the news feed of the Italian state television and radio company RAI on April 4, the news about the response of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the situation in Bucha appeared, and then disappeared. The news was published with the headline "Lavrov: there was a fake 'attack' and staging by the West and Kyiv in Bucha" and was deleted after a few minutes.
From Andrey Chervonets a brief chronology:
They worked extremely synchronously - early on Sunday morning, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC Russian Service and other news aggregators issued notes about Bucha, from which Russian troops left on March 30th. At the same time, sheets of pages on this topic were rolled up on Wikipedia in different languages. In the photo and video - a dozen and a half bodies that were found on the streets of the city.
And now we are carefully watching the full picture, which, of course, will not be shown in the West. Let's go in order.
1) March 30th. Russian units are leaving Bucha in an organized and complete manner, the day after the in-person round of talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey, where the chief Russian negotiator Medinsky, as a gesture of goodwill, announced the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kyiv.
2) March 31st. The mayor of Buchi joyfully reported on the liberation of the settlement (despite the fact that the Russian troops left from there themselves). He does not talk about any corpses on the roads and terrible destruction in the video. At the same time, the deputy Jean Beleniuk was there. In the photo he is smiling, in his social networks there is no information about the bodies.
3) On the night of April 1-2, the Azov Nazis enter Bucha. Among others was the grouping of Sergei Korotkikh (Boatswain). In his video, empty streets with destroyed equipment.
4) Two days later , photos and videos of people lying on the streets appear. Why these photos and statements began to appear only two days after the entry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the city is obvious. Videos and more at the link, all in Russian
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz; ...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Latino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet... endorsed Josh Mandel in the highly competitive Ohio Senate Republican primary on Monday.
Cruz hailed Mandel as a "proven fighter" against the Democrats and a champion of conservative causes, issuing a highly coveted endorsement in a primary that has often been dominated by forceful appeals to the Republican base.
"As our nation faces crisis after crisis under Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... , our country needs conservative fighters to stand up to the radical Democrats who want to exploit these problems to deliver socialism to America. That's why I am supporting Josh Mandel for U.S. Senate," Cruz said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
The endorsement comes at a time when polls have tightened between Mandel, a former state treasurer who was once the clear front-runner, and Mike Gibbons, a businessman. A RealClearPolitics polling aggregate of the race has Gibbons up by 1.3 percentage points over Mandel. The primary is currently slated to take place on May 3.
"Having Senator Cruz's support shows that he believes I am the only candidate in this U.S. Senate race who will have the backbone and courage to stand up alongside him in Washington and take on the party bosses, left-wing media, and powerful lobbyists," Mandel said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. "When I get to the Senate, I look forward to serving as a reinforcement for Senator Cruz as we stand up to Joe Biden and work to defeat the far-left's radical agenda."
[MRC] Along with CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America decided it wouldn’t do its job on Monday of covering the latest layer of the Hunter Biden saga as a new report said the Secret Service is spending "more than $30,000 a month to rent out a swanky Malibu, California, mansion" to protect the First Son.
The outlet that reported this in a 1,433-word story, posted at 4:54 a.m. Eastern? ABCNews.com!
So, yes, ABC made the decision to ignore the work from three of its own reporters (Josh Margolin, John Santucci, and Soo Rin Kim) in favor of stories such recapping The Grammy’s from the night before, which they combined with CBS and NBC for 19 minutes and 48 seconds of coverage.
The trio began their piece "Secret Service paying over $30K per month for Malibu mansion to protect Hunter Biden" by explaining the hefty monthly bill has been shelled out "for nearly a year" to house Secret Service agents in order to keep "the president's controversial son" safe.
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden bent down on one knee for a photo with Navy sailors after commissioning the USS Delaware submarine.
The president and his wife First Lady Jill Biden appeared at the commissioning ceremony in Delaware on Saturday.
"It’s always a good day when I get to celebrate Delaware or spend time with service members and their families or introduce Jill," Biden cracked after taking the stage during his remarks, introducing himself as "Jill Biden’s husband."
But during the class photo, the president bent down on one knee next to the First Lady who remained standing. "Kamala told me dropping to your knees made a great impression"
All of the sailors also stood during the photo.
It is unclear why Biden keeps taking a knee during formal photos.
The president took a knee during a photo with the Seattle Storms team as he welcomed them to the White House to celebrate their WNBA championship.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki indicated afterward that Biden taking a knee was not part of a protest, but something he had done in the past with other sports teams.
In July, Biden also took a knee while taking a photo with the Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House after celebrating their World Series victory.
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The entire point of the American Revolution could be distilled down to this: I don't have to kneel before anyone but God. I don't have to kneel for any man or any man's ideas.
Anyone who does not get this is not an American.
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Senile imbecile.
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Maybe the doddering old bastard totally forgot where he was? All those white summer uniforms, maybe he confused it with a baseball game or something?
Russia withdrew from the W and N of Kiev on 2 April, then withdrew from the NE around Chernihiv on 3 April and now has withdrawn from the area near Suny in the E of the Ukraine on 4 April. Ukraine forces are basically at the Russia border in all these areas.
Russian forces are making some gains to the West of Donetsk and Luhansk and some gains in completing the conquest of Mariupol.
Not much movement either way in the south.
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[NYPOST] Former President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... has endorsed former Alaska Gov. Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin ... the babe libs love to hate ... in her bid for Alaska’s congressional seat just days after she announced her candidacy.
"Sarah Palin is tough and smart and will never back down, and I am proud to give her my Complete and Total Endorsement," Trump said in a Sunday night statement, Fox News reported.
Trump also encouraged "all Republicans to unite behind this wonderful person and her campaign to put America First."
Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, is looking to make a political comeback after more than a decade out of office.
She will run in a crowded special election for Alaska’s only seat in the US House of Representatives, left vacant when longtime Rep. Don Young died two in March after representing the state in Washington for 49 years.
"I’m in this race to win it and join the fight for freedom alongside other patriots willing to sacrifice all to save our country," Palin said in announcing her candidacy on Friday.
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[NYPOST] Sen. Roy Blunt ...A Missouri political oligarch. As a member of Congress he was reelected six times without significant opposition. He married Roseann Ray in May 1967 and had three children with her: Matt (the former Governor of Missouri), Amy Blunt Mosby and Andrew Blunt, both lawyers and lobbyists. Blunt and Ray divorced after 35 years of marriage. Afterward, he married Abigail Perlman, a lobbyist for Kraft Foods. In April 2006, he and his wife adopted an 18-month old boy from Russia, whom they renamed Alexander Charles Charlie Blunt. He will be either a politician or a lobbyist or both when he grows up.
on Sunday became the latest Republican to come out in opposition to Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, saying he disagrees with her judicial stance.
"My sense is that the president certainly had every good intention and every, every right in the campaign to talk about putting the first black woman on the court. I think it’s time for that to happen," the Missouri Republican said on ABC’s "This Week." "I was hoping that I could be a part of that."
But he said he found in conversations he had with Jackson on Capitol Hill last week that while the DC federal circuit court judge was "certainly qualified" and has a "great personality," her judicial views gave him pause.
"The judicial philosophy seems to be not the philosophy of looking at what the law says and the Constitution says and applying that, but going through some method that allows you to try to look at the Constitution as a more flexible document and even the law, and there are cases that show that that’sher view," Blunt said.
[REGNUM] A number of settlements in the DPR were shelled by Ukrainian armed formations on the evening of April 4, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
So, at 16:25 Moscow time, Ukrainian militants from the side of the village of the Yuzhnaya mine opened fire on the village of the Gagarin mine in the city of Gorlovka, firing five grenades from a grenade launcher.
At 17:40 Moscow time and at 18:45 Moscow time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the village of Ozeryanovka, firing four and five mines of 120 mm caliber from the side of Troitskoye.
At 17:58 Moscow time, the village of Bayrak came under fire, which Ukrainian militants attacked from the direction of the Novoluganskoye settlement, firing four mines of 120 mm caliber.
The city of Yasinovataya was shelled twice in the evening: at 21:46 Moscow time and at 22:25 Moscow time from the side of the settlement of Avdiivka. Ukrainian fighters fired six and three 122 mm shells.
At 22:04 Moscow time, the city of Makiivka was also shelled from Avdiivka: Ukrainian armed formations fired eight shells of 122 mm caliber at it.
[REGNUM] The settlement of Donetsk in the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) was shelled by Ukrainian militants. This was announced on April 4 by the representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).
Kiev punishers at 06:00 Moscow time fired five shells from a 152 mm caliber artillery gun from the direction of the Novotoshkovskoye settlement at the Donetsk settlement.
Information about possible victims or destruction of civilian infrastructure facilities is being specified.
Earlier , REGNUM reported that Russia evacuated more than 27,000 people from Ukraine, the LPR and the DPR in a day.
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[NYPOST] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the mothers of Russian soldiers in an emotional Sunday night speech — saying he wants them to see the carnage their sons have caused after hundreds of executed civilians were discovered in a mass grave in a Kyiv suburb.
"I want every mother of every Russian soldier to see the bodies of the killed people in Bucha, in Irpin, in Hostomel. What did they do? Why were they killed?" Zelensky asked in his nightly address on Sunday.
"What did the man who was riding his bicycle down the street do? Why were ordinary civilians in an ordinary peaceful city tortured to death? Why were women strangled after their earrings were ripped out of their ears? ... How did all this become possible?" an enraged Zelensky said.
On Sunday, images surfaced of bodies littered in the streets of Bucha, a small city about 30 miles northwest of Kyiv. A mass grave of nearly 300 corpses was also uncovered, leading Zelensky to claim that the atrocity amounts to "genocide."
The bodies were discovered after Russian troops pulled out of the city. Among the slain were children and women, who were reportedly raped and set burned alive, Ukrainian officials said.
Men were also tortured executed, shot in the head with their hands bound behind their backs, the officials said.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The corpses of a missing Ukrainian mayor, her husband, and her child were recovered in a shallow grave, according to recently released images and Ukrainian officials.
Olga Sukhenko, mayor of the suburb of Motyzhyn outside of Kyiv, was initially kidnapped by Russian forces alongside her husband and son on March 23, Ukrainian officials said.
The Russians "tortured and murdered the whole family of the village head," said Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior ministry.
"The occupiers suspected they were collaborating with our military, giving us locations of where to target our artillery," Herashchenko said. "These scum tortured, slaughtered, and killed the whole family."
The bodies of Sukhenko, her husband, Ihor Sukhenko, and her son, Oleksandr, were uncovered by a news hound on a farm outside of Motyzhyn, according to a report.
One body had its head taped, the report noted, and a fourth body was found tied up.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk verified Sukhenko's murder and said at least 11 community officials are being held captive by the Russians across the nation.
Satellite images of mass graves, including a 45-foot trench seen Monday, have been released to the public throughout the past month, leading to strong condemnation by foreign leaders.
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"Госпожа, I'm calling to inform,
that your son resolutely
doth not conform
to the tenets of Geneva Rules."
"Ha! Mister выпендрежник.
I shall have you know.
The ленивый мальчик would never
be there but for you fools."
#2
Yeah, yeah. The mother who says her son is a "good boy." We are very familiar with that here in America. The sons are black and almost never know their fathers.
I sure as hell hope the Russians have done a bit better.
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Not forgetting that quite a few Russians have Ukrainian cousins... Those mothers may well recognize some of the dead faces.
Two ISIS turbans were killed in armed confrontations with a force from the Iraqi army in the southwest of Nineveh, the Security Media Cell (SMC) reported on Monday.
SMC said that a force from the 75th brigade of the Iraqi army's 16th division discovered a network of tunnels during a combing campaign near mount Nowayqit.
The force clashed with a group of faceless myrmidons sheltering inside, SMC said, and a jacket wallah was rubbed out in the fire exchange.
"Another suicide bomber blew himself inside a tunnel, injuring two officers and two troops," SMC added, "the Iraqi airforce carried out two Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, killing the faceless myrmidons hiding inside the tunnels."
[NYPOST] An Indonesian court handed down a death sentence on Monday to a teacher for raping 13 girls at an Islamic school, upholding an appeal by prosecutors for the death penalty after he had initially received a sentence of life in prison.
The case of teacher Herry Wirawan has shocked Indonesia and shone a spotlight on the need to protect children from sexual violence in the country’s religious boarding schools.
After he was sentenced to life in jail by a court in the city of Bandung in February, prosecutors who had called for the death penalty filed an appeal.
“(We) hereby punish the defendant with the death penalty,” the judge said in a statement on Monday posted on the Bandung High Court’s website.
Ira Mambo, Herry’s lawyer, declined to comment on whether there would be an appeal, citing a need to see the full ruling from the court.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The prime minister of Pakistain accused a United States diplomat on Sunday of playing a role in a conspiracy to overthrow his government.
Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... claimed Donald Lu,
Who?
assistant secretary of state for south and central Asian affairs,
...that doesn’t really clarify, sorry. He’s not interesting enough to be found in the Rantburg archives...
had told him through Pakistain's ambassador to the U.S., Asad Majeed, that there would be implications if Khan survived the no-confidence vote, according to the Hindustan Times.
Khan added that he had reports that objectors to his Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... party had frequented the U.S. Embassy.
"What were the reasons that the people, who have left us, met people of the embassy frequently in the last few days?" he said in a televised statement.
The no-confidence vote was blocked in Parliament on Sunday, with Khan calling on Pakistain to prepare for an early election. He also requested Pak President Arif Alvi to dissolve Parliament, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... reported.
The State Department did not respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment on Lu.
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It's not hysteria. The 'Stain is the only 'ace' the US deepState has in this region. The CIA channels into Islamabad run deep and smell of curry and piss. They're dogs ove there. Dangle enough carrots before them [hell, some can be bought for a blówjob] and they'll sell out their affiliations, topple their governments gladly. And the military junta is pro-dollar more than pro-yuan, always. Give it a chance, and they'll even jail their PMs.
For Imran worshiping before Putin, to counter the possibility of increasing India-China economic interdependence under threats of sanctions, to punish the subcontinent basically... what better way than to do incentivize the junta to take over. That would plunge the region likely into war.
I'm all for war, but Imran was good for slow negation of the 'Stain influence in Asia. The corruption was phenomenal, the crime and chaos and utter sasquatchery was beautiful. He set back whatever Nawaz and Mush tried to build by a decade, and leeched both dollar and yuan out in truckloads.
This is not hysteria. The US wishes for a stable, productive, supportive Islamic Republic of Paxstan strong enough to push Washington's will in the region. We won't let that happen inshallah or outshallah. Because Washington is insane, we are not.
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I think you much imagine the ability of the CIA. Corruption and greed is Pak's biggest problem. If India's IB was worth a crap they'd have the Paks killing each other at a higher rate.
Always blame the US, eh Dron66046?
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No, not always, unvaxxed. And I don't blame the US. For me, you are the US. Your rulers have not been representative of you for a longer time than you'd like to imagine. If you'd still like to defend their actions out of a sense of loyalty or hubris, I understand that too. It just is what it is.
Wholeheartedly agree about our IB and ...uhh, other chaps.
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No defense of the CIA from me. I would add, the government of India represents you about the same as my government represents me. Blaming the US is just too easy, especially in Pak, blame the locals for their deeds (and falling for foreign intervention).
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Unfortunately I do not have the luxury of thinking apart from the government, nor can I divorce myself from America. In whatever form, we all battle an existential threat from Islamists, commies, homegrowns, whatever. They all derive their strength from international conventions of 'inalienable rights' and 'due process' and such. So, a clash between East and West will exist until the west accepts the fallibility of these notions, or at least learns to apply them selectively. Everyone from the UN to the mandarins in DC would shit a brick if we nuked 'slamabad tonight, wouldn't they. The same people mumbling 'oh the humanity!' over dead bodies in Ukraine would tear up and whine to kingdom come over dead children and women littering the Khyber pakhtunkhwa. You will appreciate we are indignant at not being able to 'solve' Pakistain.
If India blames Washington for empowering the 'Stain and endangering everyone including Americans, it is a justifiable criticism. Of not only callousness but suicidal stupidity. If the moslems in Pakistain do it they're just being moslem ingrates.
Obama, Biden, the next one... as far we are concerned, all are to be feared. Only DJT was worth the trust and respect because he couldn't be taken for a ride by moslems. He understood who the enemies were and how to get ahead together without obstructing non-hostile societies. India suffered a greater setback in the dem putsch than any other Asian country in fact. If India works to undermine the west's ability to sanction us for ridding the world of pests, that too you cannot begrudge us. Trump gave only India the waiver on Iran and understood he couldn't trust the 'allies' his advisors pointed to. He trusted us instead.
To blame is to live in the past. To be wary of something you know has the Murphy's Touch is not paranoia or hatred but just plain prudence. And the US government has been pathetically underperforming on meeting the ideals the real America stands for.
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I dream of an America where, as soon as a politician, bureaucrat or "policy wonk" says "religion of peace," they lose their job and are banned from appearing as a commentator in any media format.
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If India works to undermine the west's ability to sanction us for ridding the world of pests, that too you cannot begrudge us. Trump gave only India the waiver on Iran and understood he couldn't trust the 'allies' his advisors pointed to. He trusted us instead.
Well said. Americans consistently fail to understand how much damage is done by their blunt sanctions weapon. Trump was a breath of fresh air. Biden brought back all the foul stench and patronizing stupidity of liberal western imperialism. "Shaky." Tsk tsk.
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Not all Americans, SC. Most of them are like you and me. All they want is service for their tax dollar. And most of that service is domestic. The few who were sold that schtick about 'protecting our freedoms' by fighting in Asia were also made to pay dearly by the deepState administrations when they asked for some of that freedom on Capitol Hill.
So we are all in this together. The American Right and India are not so opposed to each other's interests. We are not for blind and blatant Chinese expansionism for one. We are both victims and enemies of islamo-marxist and Globalist conspirators that seek to hijack our democracies.
Conservative Americans aren't naive. They are deeply patriotic and have yet to come to terms with the fact that this is not the America they have grown up serving. Imagine India taken over by the Congress, the SPs and Kejriwals. Having to witness the piecemeal dismantling of every edifice your brothers have died protecting. By scoundrels. This shit about Ukraine and Vlad... it's another hook into the hubris with which both RINO and libDem establishments have led the conservatives.
I read the arguments here. 'You are just wrong!' 'America is done!' 'No, Russia is!' 'Nazis! There's no such thing!' 'oooh the dead bodies!'
And I think of the engineers of chaos. And how they're consistently winning while we all predictably quibble.
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It always comes down to good against evil. At the end of the day, I need to be good more than I need to be American. I would like for the two to heavily overlap, but it's actually becoming less and less so these days. In the end, I'll choose good.
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An excellent appraisal on all fronts Dron, or perhaps one with which I heartily agree. Well said, and thank you.
#12
Why's the article say "HYSTERIA" all over it? US diplomats meddle all the time. Should I post the intercepted phone call by the US viceroy of Ukraine where she discusses which government she favors in power and then says "Fuck the EU"?
#13
Should I post the intercepted phone call by the US viceroy of Ukraine where she discusses which government she favors in power and then says "Fuck the EU"?
Put up or shut up.
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And provenance is the coin of the realm. Juicy made-up stuff doesn't cut it.
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Should I post the intercepted phone call by the US viceroy of Ukraine where she discusses which government she favors in power and then says "Fuck the EU"?
That’s olds, not news. We discussed it here when the reports first came out. Also: ambassador, not viceroy. It says hysteria because Pakistanis are particularly prone to conspiracy theories. It’s a societal talent.
Nailed it on the head. Putin and Zelensky (with a huge assist from Obama's, then Biden's people) have engineered a cosmic clusterf*** and we're the ones who will have to clean up their mess. ("We" means everyone around the world who's not part of the Davos set or the military-industrial complex)
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"Engineers of Chaos", lol. Superb name for a rock group ...like Eagles of Death Metal.
Me I don't care about either P or Z or RU or UA. They're both a thorn in the side of the world, like the fucking Palestinians and the Israelis--multiplied by 1,000..
#18
^ Yes. That's why you are here stirring the pot.
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^ Can't they both lose? And leave the rest of the world alone
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Palestinians are not our problem
Ukrainians are not our problem
But it's a big problem for us when our politicians tell us we need to ration food, gas etc because they're trying to punish someone who doesn't threaten us. Fuck off, thank you very much
#23
Let's say, for the sake of argument, the USA worked out Prompt Global Strike and controlled its borders. We would be hated even more than we are now. For staying home and only hitting people who tried to hit us.
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Fuck off. Someone expresses his opinion you don't like, and you just spit out insults. How do we know you're not a bot?
Which is why I'm all for embracing the gate. Nazi, shmazi. Wear the name your enemy gives you proudly. Straddle an ICBM and shout 'I am the great satan who shall ass rape Allan with this!'
You guys think Putin gives a fcuk about what the press is saying? Or does Kim sit and worry about who doesn't love him in the west? But it's only good policy if you start from home. Russia, China both started from home. You haven't solved the domestic, don't try and control the world, simple.
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for the sake of argument, the USA worked out Prompt Global Strike and controlled its borders. We would be hated even more than we are now. For staying home and only hitting people who tried to hit us.
THAT, I agree with!! If the USA and the other major powers (and I include France too) were to "stay home and only hitt people who tried to hit us", the West would be much richer and more free. Safer as well.
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#24 Thanks Bad. I am too actually decrepit in the flesh to be a bot. And nobody is spending any money to put me out there every day...
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#27 Dron. If we are hated for staying home, we are finally doing something right.
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I want a t-shirt. ENGINEERS OF CHAOS "Embrace the Hate" World Tour 2022
Kyiv
Kharkov
Mariupol
Odessa
Odessa TX
Moscow ID
St Petersburg FL
Vladivostok, South Dakota
Rantburg, Ekaterinburg
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My personal fantasy of foreign hatred would not be complete without the elimination of USAID and freely allowing US companies to profit from slave labor in foreign lands. Then we would be hated even more from certain quarters in CONUS.
But, it would be a start.
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Poorly worded. Elimination of USAID and elimination of free use of foreign slave labor by US corporations.
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#31. I don't see how St. Pete, FL, Odessa Tx or Rantburg belong on your shirt. You give yourself away as a troll.
We embrace a very rigidly structured form of chaos here. St. Pete is a great vacation destination. I know nothing of Odessa, TX other than it's not Austin and that works for me.
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Oh lighten up fer (St.) petes sake. Odessa TX has a great Meteor Crater that would be a cool place for an outdoor concert. Worth the trip if you're out that way working the Permian Basin
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Go see the Marfa Lights.
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it's a big problem for us when our politicians tell us we need to ration food
Viceroy Nuland: "Good. I don't think Klitsch should go into the government. I don't think it's necessary, I don't think it's a good idea."
See how she's deciding what kind of government Ukraine will have?
Viceroy Nuland: "I just think Klitsch going in... he's going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk, it's just not going to work."
Good thing Ukraine is a democracy where the people decide their own fate without foreigners butting in and making decisions about their government without their knowledge or consent!
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#37 Not a problem for you when you're on the dole.
I hadn't considered that. Good for you!
Do you live in California? How much do you take each month? Someone said they're rationing food in Spain... are they talking about food rationing in the USA yet?
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I want to remember the Rantburg readers if they wanted to put the dots together, that March 7th of this year , foreign office of Pakistan received diplomatic correspondence from their ambassador in Washington DC. It detailed an official meeting he had with Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu. Mr Donald Lu told Pakistani ambassador that their current tilt toward china and Russia is not acceptable by Biden administration. And things will get more difficult if Pakistan does not correct its path.
All Pakistan had to do was to make sure upcoming no-confidence motion against PM Imran Khan does not fail.
That motion was filed next day March 8th. Imran Khan government kept quiet about this letter but asked intelligence agencies under his control to start documenting movements of 3 foreign ambassadors , 24/7.
I think its normal practice for any foreign ambassadors to meet different political leaders but it was highly unusual for them to meet members of national assembly from Imran Khan’s own party , 22 of these defected against Imran Khan.
This matter is fluid and complex , there is a lot at stake here. Barring any under handed surprises , Imran Khan will sweep next elections, local media estimating 80% support for him right now .
Basically what we are seeing is another cia color revolution or management change failure developing under our eyes.
#5
Maybe they think their opium selling days are over now and they shall happily live hereafter on the 'tranche'. There will always be some excuse for the US Congress islamists and islamophiles to send money. We always knew there's another Pakistain in the making.
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Money on the table, Dron. The "tranches" go to the gummint {whatever that might be in the Stan) but a man who sells his own raw opium is a man in charge of his own life and wallet. At least until the door gets kicked in...
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We could have stopped opium production from restarting after the invasion. Remember, the Taliban banned it back in the 1990s, too. But it's just too profitable. Plus, the opioids that are destroying small town America come from Afghanistan, so there's that's another point in its favor.
#11
Yes. There were stories about creating a bio blight to kill off poppies and coca when I was in college in the 70s. Never happened. But we did get COVID.
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Just remembered the Chinese developed many high yield poppy seeds specifically for the Afghans to cultivate for them. This was in 2015-2017. Maybe it's about quality control now?
#13
The US military was in complete control of Afghanistan for 20 years. If they had wanted to stop opium production from restarting, they would have done it.
But no. They allowed it to restart. Then they defended fields full of poppies from the Taliban, knowing full well those would be made into opioids and flood in to America.
"But the farmers needed that income" what a bullshit excuse. With all the money we spent on Afghanistan, we could have paid them all a subsidy not to grow crops. I hear USDA does the same thing and it works great.
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^ Well, me, personally, no. But as a society...
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The US military was in complete control of Afghanistan for 20 years.
Has Anyone been in "complete control" of Afghanistan at any time? ...Absolute bollocks
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pressed spotless clean clothes not even pigeon poop thanx fox news!
#4
The pro Putin stooges get more desperate as Russia's weakness is revealed more and more everyday.
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Again. I am not an oncologist. That does not make me pro-cancer.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/05/2022 16:10
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@M. Murcek
If i remember correctly it was you who mentioned that you are against USA getting involved with other nations problems?
And then i remembered another comment of yours which stated that you would be willing to go to Israel to fight Arabs....
Posted by: Don Vito and Company8397 ||
04/05/2022 16:13
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you would be willing to go to Israel to fight Arabs
I never said any such thing.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/05/2022 16:18
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I'm extremely anti muzz. At the same time, they are another "not my problem" thing.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/05/2022 16:20
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If they become my problem, I will be all over them. Here. Nowhere else.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/05/2022 16:22
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Yeah, it definitely was you.
Posted by: Don Vito and Company8397 ||
04/05/2022 16:24
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DV shitbag. What is your problem? People who don't care about small case nazis? People who don't want somebody else's fight?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/05/2022 16:24
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Yeah it was definitely me. Like never.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/05/2022 16:25
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@M. Murcek
Most Neo-Nazi's are anti 'Muzz'.
Posted by: Don Vito and Company8397 ||
04/05/2022 16:27
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Oh, look. I'm white, therefore white supremacist. I don't like ANTIFA therefore I'm a nazi (lower case. I have no Party membership, uniform nor benefits) I won't be going to fight for the Ukrainians so I anm automatically a Putin apologist.
I got it.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/05/2022 16:32
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LOL.
I wasn't even commenting directly to you when i mentioned "pro Putin stooges" on this article.
You jumped right into it to defend yourself. Seems a bit strange to me that you would feel the need to do that if you were not indeed a pro Putin stooge.
Posted by: Don Vito and Company8397 ||
04/05/2022 16:36
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Anyway, have fun.
The day is just getting started for me. I intend to enjoy it...offline.
Posted by: Don Vito and Company8397 ||
04/05/2022 16:39
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See it as you need to. That's the game of life.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/05/2022 16:39
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I actually dig this. Someone (maybe) who does not know me at all has me all figured out, in a totally fictional way.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/05/2022 17:24
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Ok, so this is really out there. Enjoy, or possibly not.
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Don Vito and Company8397,
To suggest one would risk their own life in a foreign war is an entirely different thing than wanting ones nation involved in a foreign war. I'm not saying M. Murcek said that but it is hardly a gotcha.
[NYPOST] President Biden believes his son Hunter did nothing illegal while involved in controversial and highly lucrative business dealings in Ukraine and China and is allowing the Justice Department to carry out its investigation unimpeded, the White House chief of staff said Sunday.
"Of course the president’s confident that his son didn’t break the law. But, most importantly, as I said, that’s a matter that’s going to be decided by the Justice Department, by the legal process," Ron Klain said on ABC News’ "This Week."
"It’s something that no one at the White House has involvement in."
But ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pressed Klain on a report in the Washington Post last week that said a Chinese energy conglomerate paid Hunter Biden and the president’s brother, James, $4.8 million over a 14-month period
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Should the DOJ allow Hunter Biden to be prosecuted, then latter Joe Biden, it will be a precursor for them to prosecute Trump. Since Biden is known as a disposable President, the Deep State will eventually turn on him, then use the precedent to go after Trump and his family.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Gregory Wayne Abbott is attempting what only one other governor in Texas has done: win a third term.
But the 64-year-old incumbent, previously the longest-serving attorney general in state history, must first convince voters that he deserves another shot. To do that, Abbott is painting his state as a bulwark against national Democrats' agenda on border enforcement and economic policy as well as school curricula and child sacrifice abortion restrictions. It's this approach he hopes will help him beat out Democratic contender Robert Francis "Beto" O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... in November.
Speaking with the Washington Examiner at his office inside the Texas state Capitol in March, Abbott first emphasized the need to maintain Texas's economy, which would be the ninth-largest in the world by GDP if it were an independent country.
"There's obviously so many issues," Abbott said when asked about his priorities. "You address the issues that are before you at the time. And one thing that we want to focus on is Texas has pretty much the leading economy of any state in the United States. Goal No. 1 is to continue that process because that brings prosperity to everybody in this state."
The state's booming economy and the "Don’t Mess with Texas" individualism responsible for it are, in fact, drawing people from other states. The 2021 Texas Relocation Report, which tracked the arrival of new residents in 2019, found more than 500,000 people moved to Texas in each of the last seven years. That was before the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic, which led even greater numbers of West and East Coast residents to migrate down south. Texas was among the first states to ban vaccine requirements and oppose mask mandates. Texas was the second-most moved-to state in 2020, after Florida, according to Move.org. Despite being the second-most moved-to and moved-from state in 2021, it gained more people than it lost and is expected to surpass 30 million residents in 2022.
Dimon called on Biden to organize military frameworks to make the world prosperous
He added that the war, the pandemic and inflation will have a 'meaningful effect on the economy for the next few years and on geopolitics for several decades'
He slammed the 'dysfunctional' politics of Washington that have turned the 'brightest minds' away from becoming leaders
'Regulation has dramatically impeded our ability to build good infrastructure in a timely manner,' he said
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22.55 The DPR JCCC reports shelling of Makeevka and Yasinovataya, shelling from the VFU in the following directions was recorded:
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka: eight 122mm shells were fired;
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 12 mm caliber were fired.
Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
21:46 — Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired six shells of 122mm caliber. 21:37 - Hits in Makiivka near the railway and the K7 area. The shelling of Makiivka was carried out from the VFU MLRS.
22:18 The first confirmation of the mass surrender of Ukrainian marines from the 501st Battalion in Mariupol appeared on the network. Project Sources @wargonzoon the Donbass front, more than 200 military personnel were captured by the troops of the DPR and the Russian Federation.
21:32 From the direction of n.p. Novozvanovka by settlement Kalinovo with the use of 120mm mortars (six min) - LPR representation in the JCCC.
20:35 Two Ukrainian drones were shot down near Severodonetsk.
20:03 Units of the People's Militia of the LPR advanced 2 km in a day and blocked Novotoshkovskoye, Borovskoye, Metelkino.
19:49 The LPR said that the Ukrainian security forces are hiding in a residential area on the outskirts of Popasna.
19:12 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Donetsk in the LPR, firing four 122mm shells at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
18:30 Since the beginning of the current day, six settlements of the DPR have come under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis. four houses, one car and four civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.
18:30 From the beginning of the day, three civilians were injured as a result of shelling by Kiev militants.
18:30 Today, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of Russian troops, destroyed 53 Ukrainian militants, three infantry fighting vehicles and one armored car. The Zu-23-2 anti-aircraft gun and the Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer were captured.
18:30 Nine soldiers of the 56th and 53rd brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine laid down their arms and voluntarily went over to the side of the DPR.
18:12 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR came to the settlement of Novgorodskoe, which Kyiv renamed New York.
18:12 Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian Nazis have fired about 50 shells at the DPR, most of them with a caliber of 122 and 152mm.
18:12 A difficult humanitarian situation is developing in Mariupol. Volunteers help all those in need, but many are still held hostage by the war and cannot leave the basements due to constant shelling.
17:25 Ukrainian Nazis fired five shells with a caliber of 152mm at Pervomaisk in the LPR. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:24 Kiev militants fired at Donetsk, firing five 122mm shells at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:30 Ukrainian Nazis fired five shells with a caliber of 152mm at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
16:14 Almost 200 more people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, 41 of them were children.
16:14 As a result of the shelling by the Ukrainian Nazis, the village of Krasny Partizan in the DPR has been de-energized.
16:14 Kiev militants fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing six shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:27 Three civilians of Donetsk were injured during the shelling by the Ukrainian Nazis.
14:25 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing six shells with a caliber of 122 mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:24 Kiev security forces fired from 152mm artillery guns at the urban-type settlement of Donetsk in the LPR. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:33 Ukrainian troops fired two shells with a caliber of 152mm at Pervomaisk in the LPR.
12:01 The captured Nazi "Aidar" spoke about the participation of instructors from Lithuania in the training of militants. He also stated that the attack on the Donbas was to begin on March 8.
12:00 The People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian Armed Forces, took Novobakhmutovka and went to the road leading from Konstantinovka to Avdeevka. The battles with the enemy for this village went on for three days.
11:15 Over the past day, 30 Ukrainian militants have been liquidated in the LPR.
11:01 Ukrainian punishers fired at the city of Kirovsk in the LPR and damaged a residential building.
11:00 Over the past day, 25 civilians of the DPR suffered under shelling from the Ukrainian Nazis.
10:33 Over the past day, the NM DPR destroyed 52 Ukrainian nationalists, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, one armored vehicle, two trucks and a field depot of rocket and artillery weapons. One 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount and two infantry fighting vehicles were captured.
10:09 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR are advancing in the village of Staraya Marinka - under the control of about 40 percent of the village, the militants are putting up stiff resistance.
09:51 During the day, 526 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye in the DPR, including 90 children.
09:48 The central part of Mariupol is practically under the control of the DPR forces, the industrial zone and the port remain, the cleansing continues - the official representative of the People's Militia of the DPR Eduard Basurin.
09:17 Kiev Nazis shelled the territory of the DPR 14 times in a day, firing 97 pieces of ammunition across the republic.
09:17 As a result of attacks from the Ukrainian fighters seven civilians of the released part of Mariupol suffered.
09:17 Ukrainian militants fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing six shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:17 Kiev militants fired at the village of the Trudovskaya mine in Donetsk, firing two mines with a caliber of 120mm at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:17 Over the past day in the DPR, as a result of shelling by Ukrainian Nazis, 21 civilians, including one child, were killed.
08:31 Kiev militants opened fire on Yasinovataya in the DPR. They fired three 120mm mines at her. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:24 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Donetsk in the LPR. Five shells of 152mm caliber were fired at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
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And here ↓ come the overly passionate but rude bastitches supporting either side for no particular reason, in 3...2...1...
They're not paid, nobody from DC to Bankova street to the Kremlin cares about them, but they spend inordinate amounts of time on Rantburg trying to change minds and win hearts by insulting others.
Here they come. Enjoy, Smoky the bear and Bubba Smith.
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To try to save some bandwidth, I've complied a list of pro-Putin talking points our visitors can just check off as the spirit moves them:
( ) The Ukrainians are Nazis, especially the Jewish ones.
( ) Ukraine was wearing a short skirt. And for that matter, Poland and the Baltics are looking pretty hot.
( ) We had to destroy Mariupol in order to save it.
( ) We are not targeting civilians. Our aim isn’t all that good, though.
( ) We’ve weakened NATO by showing just how valuable NATO membership is.
( ) NATO made us do it.
( ) America made us do it.
( ) The Chinese didn’t make us do it, but they approve. Sort of.
( ) Good news! India is willing to buy our oil at 20% below market. We’re like the watermelon salesman — we’ll make it up on volume.
( ) Our special operation in Ukraine will make the dollar cease to be the world’s reserve currency. Heck, we haven’t seen a dollar in weeks.
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04/05/2022 10:46
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^ Not "snark of the day" but best sarcasm / cynicism tutorial so far this month.
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04/05/2022 10:49
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( ) Our tank and helicopter production was lagging due to excessive inventory. Our Military Industrial Complex oligarchs have set exciting new production and fielding goals.
#7
Walter Russell Mead: Biden's Ugly Options in Ukraine
1. Escalate and threaten Russia with nuclear war (LOL)
2. "Force Ukraine to accept Russian demands"
3. "Freeze" the conflict
"The first option, helping Ukraine win, is the most emotionally appealing
[always the best course of action: follow your feelz!]
"and would certainly be the most morally justifiable and politically beneficial, but the risks and costs are high. Russia won’t accept defeat before trying every tactic, however brutal, and perhaps every weapon, however murderous. To force Russia to accept failure in Ukraine, the Biden administration would likely have to shift to a wartime mentality, perhaps including the kind of nuclear brinkmanship not seen since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. With China and Iran both committed to weakening American power by any available means, a confrontation with the revisionist powers spearheaded by Russia may prove to be the most arduous challenge faced by an American administration since the height of the Cold War.
["Joe, you're no Jack Kennedy"]
"But the other two options are also bad. A Russian victory would inflict a massive blow to American prestige and the health of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, especially if the West were seen as forcing Ukraine to surrender to Russian demands.
"Freezing the conflict is also perilous, as this would presumably leave Russia holding even more Ukrainian territory than it did following the 2014 invasions of Crimea and the Donbas. It would be hard to spin this as anything but a partial victory for Russia—and Mr. Putin would remain free to renew hostilities at a time of his choosing."
This is what's likely to happen. And of course Psaki's successor and all of Bidens media shills (excluding honest Walter Mead) will "spin this as anything but a victory for Russia" -- as America gets invaded and plundered and becomes poorer and less free. For #Ukraine!
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04/05/2022 11:05
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WRM gives a certain vastly overrated blogger a woody lasting more than 4 hours. As soon as I see it's Waltah writing, I move on.
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04/05/2022 11:06
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#7 To force Russia to accept failure in Ukraine, the Biden administration would likely have to shift to a wartime mentality
They already are on a "wartime mentality": the Biden administration's been waging war against Americans on every front since before Biden was inaugurated
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04/05/2022 11:16
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The "frozen conflict" option allows Putin to keep on attacking Ukrainians and Biden to keep on destroying America.
With hyperinflation and shortages of everything, Biden can move forward to rationing of gas and food, UBI, Bernie's 95% tax on corporate profits, government seizures of private assets, nationalization of key industries...
#12
^ Putin can't afford to spend as he is right now in Ukraine for 20 years. America couldn't afford it either in Afghanistan, but we are just about to hit the borrowing wall now.
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04/05/2022 11:22
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Food rationing has already started in Spain. Every left-wing government will be doing this soon. American cities will follow Spain's example:
The socialist government of Spain has introduced new laws allowing for the supermarkets to ration food and other items as a part of its “Response Plan” to the economic fallout from the war in Ukraine.
Amid soaring inflation, which hit nearly 10 per cent in March, the Spanish government, controlled by the leftist Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has opened up a legal loophole for supermarkets to begin rationing to customers.
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Seems there are so many fat people in the world today that food rationing could be the best test case ever for "needs based" regulations.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/05/2022 11:30
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#12 Putin can't afford to spend as he is right now in Ukraine for 20 years
How much is Russia spending? Do you know? The best analysis at the war's height was less than $500 million per day. A frozen conflict would require not more than $100m/day. Russia has a current account surplus that's already over $200 billion. Goldman Sachs now forecasts that Russia is on track to make $321 billion in oil revenues in 2022.
This doesn't even include the other revenues from exporting to Brazil, India, China and all the other big markets that are not telling the West to screw off. Russia can easily afford a frozen conflict for years to come.
Bloomberg Economics expects Russia will earn nearly $321 billion from energy exports this year, an increase of more than a third from 2021. It’s also on track for a record current-account surplus that the Institute of International Finance says may reach as high as $240 billion.
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Every time I read a MSM story about "teachers who have to buy pencils and paper for their classroom from they own funds," I then think about our pro bassetbaw stars that make millions a year and say they are basically slaves. I don't think Russia has $500 million a day / week / year to waste on Ukraine. Just as iran can't afford its nuke program or NKor its missile program.
All of that spending is foul and wrong, but hey, we do it too, so I guess everyone else is just following the example, eh?
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04/05/2022 11:45
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Russia is on track to make $321 billion in oil revenues in 2022.
...another very nice benefit of the "frozen conflict" option for the Biden administration is mucho kickbacks for the Biden family. More million dollar wire transfers from Russia to Biden's bagman. Get that pardon ready, Joe
#19
Dear Sir. I am a Nigerian Prince and my country is awash in money, but I can't get access to it without your help. Please send me your bank account and routing numbers...
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04/05/2022 11:50
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The only thing I regret is that Trump didn't do this to California a couple years ago. That would have been a laugh riot and over in 3-4 days.
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04/05/2022 11:55
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Russians--or Putin anyway--excel at frozen conflicts. They haven't even bothered to use their navy or Air Force in this one. It's havoc on the cheap. Just do the math. A $250 billion current account surplus will fund a low intensity conflict that ensures Ukraine will be as poor as Gaza for, well, as long as Gaza has been poor.
Russia's current account situation is the opposite of ours: they're piling up savings, importing far less than they export, while we spend like drunken sailors, run up enormous deficits and pile up debts as far as the eye can see. Then we hope-pray-wish that other nations (mainly China) will keep lending us money, funding the spree and bailing us out.
A poster here pointed out that the US debt to GDP ratio is 125%, while Russia's is not even 1/7th ours. Their debt to GDP is the lowest in the industrialized world (17%).
He also noted that Russia has enough physical gold to almost totally (85% iirc) back up its money supply. The US has only 9% of its money supply backed by physical gold.
I don't think you understand. The oil exports are real. Commodities are real. The $321 billion that Goldman Sachs expects Russia to receive is real. Not funny paper cranked out by Jay Powell and Joe Biden's printing press.
Also, settlement is a trivial problem which the world's bankers can easily solve with non-SWIFT payment mechanisms. The ruble is going to backed by gold -- again, the ratio is a very healthy 85%, not pitiful 9% as is the case for the US fiat currency.
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04/05/2022 12:13
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#22 There you have it, friends. "Frozen conflict." Neither winning nor losing. Right, troll?
Walter Russell Mead's a "troll"?
He said the other two outcomes are either Biden threatens thermonuclear war, or a Russian victory. What do you think the chances are that Biden can successfully pull off another Cuban Missile Crisis?
Or are you implying you actually prefer the other option -- a Russian victory? Are you just trolling us, "Murcek"?
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04/05/2022 12:16
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The $however many billion that Goldman Sachs expects Russia to receive is real.
Really real. So real you can feel it. You might even stub your toe on it.
GS is only around today because Lehman was greedier and stupider.
I think the Russians are afraiderer of nazis. That may not work out so well for them.
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04/05/2022 12:19
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^ Dont waste your time with the troll. Sarcasm is the resort of those who don't understand economics and can't do basic math
#29
successfully pull off another Cuban Missile Crisis
Bwahahhahahhhahhahahhahhaaaaa! Most historians say Jack almost destroyed the world even with the last credible cold-war brain trust experts at his disposal.
Joe does not have that.
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04/05/2022 12:22
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Don't most trolls have treasure? Where's my treasure?
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04/05/2022 12:24
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$250 billion current account surplus will fund a low intensity conflict that ensures Ukraine will be as poor as Gaza for, well, as long as Gaza has been poor.
Bloody hell... so we're going to be on the hook for funding bombed out Ukraine for the rest of the century? While we get food rationing and petrol queues. Fucking lovely
#32
$250 billion current account surplus will fund a low intensity conflict that ensures Ukraine will be as poor as Gaza for, well, as long as Gaza has been poor.
And you can see, good sir, with your help, we can unlock that wealth forthwith...
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04/05/2022 12:34
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#29 "successfully pull off another Cuban Missile Crisis" Most historians say Jack almost destroyed the world even with the last credible cold-war brain trust experts at his disposal. Joe does not have that.
Alright, then which of Mead's other two outcomes do you expect-- Russian victory, or frozen conflict?
Seriously, I'd like to hear people weigh in on which of these two is more likely. Go ahead, Murcek. What do you think? Do you think?
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04/05/2022 12:38
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Ukraine will be as poor as Gaza for, well, as long as Gaza has been poor.
Yeah, that's the plan. Create another oppressed victim & charity group so our politicians can posture as morally superior while they screw us and waste our money. As well, we get millions of refugees we have to support - while they ration our food. All according to plan.
#35
I think Russia "wins." They get to define what "wins" means. Wall Street totally goes along with that, because, what else are they going to do? Bidet and Kamala declare victory, which means he's a Putin apologist and she s*cks Putin's cock. The dems still lose the mid-terms, but the GOPe makes it a closely run thing. The bigger their margins, the harder they sell their voters out. Because only the dems have non-real voters, and how can such constructs feel sold-out?Zelllleeeeeennnnnnsssssskkkkyyyy remains prexident (or whatever his title is) of Ukraine. There are still nazis, but they are lower case nazis as always.
More of the same, but staler, more unpalatable and more expensive. Wash, rinse, repeat.
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04/05/2022 12:47
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I think Russia wins and Ukraine becomes European Gaza. Russia becomes like Israel and bombs the fuck out of Ukraine-Gaza every time they get frisky. This goes on for 50 years.
#37
Which I could live with as long as the US involvement is limited to "sternly worded communiques" from 9th tier diplomats we have to pay anyway to do something.
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04/05/2022 12:58
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I think Russia wins and Ukraine becomes European Gaza. Russia becomes like Israel and bombs the fuck out of Ukraine-Gaza every time they get frisky.
I could go for that. As long as it's none of our money going down the Ukraine-Gaza sinkhole. I mean, who gives a shit about Chechnya today? Ukraine-Gaza will be replaced by The Current Thing soon enough. ("sternly-worded communiques" -- heh)
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04/05/2022 14:26
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So Russia is turning a profit off their war while risking famines around the world?
Good Lord, that's inhuman! That certainly counts as a crime against humanity! If you really care about people, you'd demand Putin withdraw from the Ukraine so the sanctions can be dropped. It may be too late for the Ukrainian harvest, but the Russians haven't had a hostile army running around, and their fertilizer exports can get back on track!
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04/05/2022 15:04
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War is not profitable. Has never been. But the powers that be will never, ever let you hear that. There is a difference between certain people "making money" and humanity's overall increase in wealth.
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04/05/2022 15:07
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It remains, though, that Putin is risking famines around the world for... what?
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04/05/2022 16:02
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M is fine. M is for Martin, which I am also fine with. My long-time friends call me Bud. Because my great aunt called me "her little buddy" when I was an infant. It stuck and I still like being called that too.
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04/05/2022 16:36
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It remains, though, that Putin is risking famines around the world for... what?
I'd guess there are 20 reasons related to Covid Protocols before getting sanctions preventing Russia exports, then getting to ripples in the Ukraine harvest.
I'm not quite sold on that part either, kind of depends on the strain of wheat. Out here it was planted months ago and the only thing to do is hope for the right moisture and keep an eye on weeds. If its a Spring wheat, then yes it is about planting time, and again dependent upon the grain and ground temperature and conditions.
Could be all those tractors are available because it is still idle time with the fields, and if the fronts become stabilized, those not near fighting could sow, if the appropriate resources are available such a fuel and parts for the implements.
The worldwide potential decrease in yields has a lot more to do with shutting down international (and intra-national) trade for a year and varying degrees of restrictions for an additional year.
Its these very same politicians who shut down our own energy and manufacturing capacities. Stories of fertilizer waiting to unload in California from China taking so long as to miss planting for Winter Wheat, that's California Government and people like Buttgig who slept their way to their position and are totally incapable of solving real problems, so they make money off of creating them. Whatever Putin is or is not, this is not on him.
PS - it also wouldn't be the first time Brandon hyped up a situation to scare people into The Narrative. Like, when all the unvaxed were supposed to die this last Winter so go get your shots and boosters.
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Politicians are not our friends. The original idea that politics is a form of organization that will benefit humanity is over now. politics is a business and leeching off humanity is the business model. They won't go away and they won't go easy, but they need to go, for the long term good of the human race.
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^ Not solvable by humans. But a time is coming. When the kingdoms of this world shall become the Lord's.
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After 2020 and going into 21 The Ag Community was very vocal about what it needed, and certain key states and fed gov actually aggravated those needs, so whatever shortfalls in yields in the USA occur, and they are expected, is mostly government inflicted, and they would love it if you blamed Russia in the Ukraine instead of ridiculous dock yard policies which had shipments from Asia going to the Gulf or SE Coast to unload instead of West Coast to sit over the horizon for unknown weeks until their number came up or the check cleared.
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#35 I think Russia "wins." They get to define what "wins" means. Wall Street totally goes along with that, because, what else are they going to do?
Yup. Dividing and smashing the country to pieces is "winning." How many people does Ukraine even have left? Millions emigrated before the war, millions more have left since Feb. 24, and they've since lost millions more in Donbas, Mariupol etc.
I doubt Ukraine's healthy population even exceeds 20 million at this point. It would take decades and trillions in western aid to get the country back to anywhere close to where it was before February.
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#46 Cripe, Dron, thats the Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem outlook. I totally agree!
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Wall Street totally goes along with that, because, what else are they going to do?
Wall Street is most definitely on Russia's side - go for the gold, literally. Bill Browder is besieged with calls from money guys asking him how they can exploit this situation, which securities to invest in.
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#48 it's a piece of dirt. Who cares if anybody lives there? It's certainly not up to the rest of the world to subsidze human habitation there. Beadbasket, blah blah blah. If there's money to be made off the land there, it will happen regardless.
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Their black earth is good farmland, similar in richness and quality to south-central Illinois black earth. Coal too (also like Illinois). But the Ukrainians are so corrupt and incompetent they've squandered what little good fortune they were given. It's basically like a middle eastern shithole.
An “opportunity to complete the deindustrialization of Ukraine.” Putin isn’t defeated or baffled or confused. He’s turning the crank on the meatgrinder.
One doesn’t have to read too far into these lines to conclude that Putin hoped that Zelensky would cut a deal on his terms once Russia invaded, but when Zelensky refused to cut a deal, Putin moved to Option B, which is to erase most of Ukraine from the face of the earth.
That’s not as difficult as it sounds. Putin will keep the bits he wants in the Southeast (Donetsk and Luhansk), leave the West to factory farming, and pound the rest to rubble with artillery and air power.
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"think Russia wins and Ukraine becomes European Gaza."
Ukrainians are not as stupid as the Palestinians.
Brits are already planning to build nuclear plants. I believe the Germans will follow. Russian stranglehold on energy exports will diminish in time.
Nuclear weapons and rockets have a shelf life and high cost of maintenance. At some point Russia's Florida sized economy will have to chose between a conventional military or maintaining the nuclear weapons.
Russia can't hold Ukraine for more than decade, shorter if they smash Ukraine at some later point.
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#55 "think Russia wins and Ukraine becomes European Gaza."
Ukrainians are not as stupid as the Palestinians.
Yes but they're (even) more corrupt. In any case this assessment is correct. Ukraine was the poorest country in Europe before the war. Now they will be as poor as sub-Saharan Africans. Wards of the European state.
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It's amusing to see people whine about corruption in the Ukraine, when Russia is right next door. Putin's corruption set the tone for the entire nation -- that's why their soldiers don't even have optics, let alone radios or trucks that can run farther than the local liquor store.
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Why go to the liquor store when you have a whole radiator full of coolant right there?
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The West is with the US and its crippling sanctions.
The non-western world opposes these sanctions and is with Russia.
One of China's top diplomats, Zhou Xiaoming, notes that of the 193 member nations in the UN, more than 150 "refused to join in the West's effort to hamper Russia." These nations represent more than half the world's wealth and about 80% of its people.
Despite the Biden Administration's bluster, begging, and pleading, over 150 nations have held firm it is false to say that the West's sanctions "represent the will of the international community....This claim is neither accurate nor factual."
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[KP] There are no bodies scattered around the city in the video footage of the National Police of Ukraine
The morning covers of Western newspapers, as expected, exploded with the headlines "Nightmare in Bucha", "Genocide", "Mass murder of the innocent". The meaning of the publications is reduced to one "axiom": "Russia must answer for the execution of civilians in the suburbs of Kyiv." The terrible footage was published by the Ukrainian side the day before, the Russian military was indiscriminately accused of torture and extrajudicial executions.
The proof is only footage of the unfortunate on the streets, in basements, many have their hands tied behind their backs. Killer picture. And I’ll say right away that I have no doubt that in the photo and video there are really the bodies of the dead. There were enough of them in Bucha. But who shot the unarmed? Let's restore the chronology.
On March 30, Russian troops withdrew from Bucha as part of a regrouping. This is stated by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. I was these days in the suburbs of Kyiv. In fact, the withdrawal of our units began even earlier. It's just that by the 30th there was not a single soldier from Russia left in Bucha. The enemy did not immediately realize this. And he continued to inflict artillery strikes on our former concentration areas.
On March 31, Bucha was visited by the mayor of the city, who pathetically announced the "liberation" of the settlement. At the same time, without saying anything about the corpses on the roads. On the same day the deputy and wrestler Zhan Beleniuk visited here . In the photo, he is smiling, which would look out of place against the backdrop of dead bodies. The statement of the mayor, in fact, was premature - I really wanted to hurry things up. But Ukrainian forces have not yet taken control of the entire city. Artillery continued to work in separate areas.
On April 2, the National Police of Ukraine enters the city. A long video of their work to clean up the city has been preserved on the Web. There is everything to understand the atmosphere there - crumpled cars, destroyed buildings, joyful locals, one of whom says that they wanted to shoot him for Ukrainian symbols, but for some reason changed their minds. There are no only bodies scattered around the city.
On the same day, units of the Kiev Territorial Defense entered Bucha from another direction - to clean up. Among them is a detachment of a certain Boatswain. On the footage of their video chronicle, one of the militants asks the question: “There are boys without blue armbands, can they be shot at?” "And then!" - happily replies the other. And this is the key point.
"Boatswain" is a neo-Nazi Sergey Korotkikh , well-known in Russia by the nickname "Malyuta" . At one time, he was one of the leaders of the RNU and the closest associates of another far-right figure , Maxim "Tesak" Martsinkevich . Born in Togliatti, grew up in Belarus. Since 2014, he fought in the Azov battalion.
In Russia, such neo-fascists do not take root, but Ukraine welcomes them with open arms. It was he who gave the go-ahead to fire on people without identification marks. The blue bandages on the sleeves are the identification mark of "friend or foe" of the Ukrainian forces. In order not to open fire on their own from afar. During sweeps, people's nerves are strained to the limit and any little thing is enough to pull the trigger. For example, the lack of an identification mark. Or the presence of another - enemy.
And now let's take a closer look at the video and photo materials published by the Ukrainian side. Yes, it is quite obvious from the not dried blood and not yet stiffened bodies (the nationalists pull them and move them from place to place) that they were not killed on March 30th. But most importantly, most of those killed have white armbands on their sleeves. Who has a ribbon, who has a bandage, who has just a rag.
The white armband is the identification mark of the Russian forces. Nobody forced the locals to put them on, they did it themselves to designate themselves - "we are ours." One of the locals, blogger Vladimir Sklyarov , describes his experience with the Russian military: “They said: “Tell everyone that we will not hurt anyone. Let them hang white sheets on the windows so that we can see that peaceful people live here. Let them be calm. We only burn the Nazis and Bandera.”
This is so, a lyrical digression. What was going on in the city when the militants of the "Boatswain" and other Nazi leaders entered there? Natural cleaning.
They just killed people on the streets without knowing if they had weapons or not. And someone was captured and tortured. Footage from the basement, in which the Russians allegedly shot several people, confirms this. Among the dead are also people with white armbands. Most likely they were killed as "agents of the Russian troops" or "collaborators" who collaborated with the "occupation authorities."
Why didn't civilians take off their white armbands after the withdrawal of Russian troops? Because they didn't know about it. I repeat, for three more days after that, artillery strikes were carried out in the city, people sat in the basements, not sticking out. As soon as the cannonade subsided, they went upstairs and came under fire from their "zahisniks".
Frames with bodies appeared the next day - most likely, the Internet was given to the city, which disappeared during the fighting. At the suggestion of the Ukrainian authorities, the West began to disperse this great hoax of the “Buchan massacre”. As in the summer of 2014, when the Ukrainian front in Donbass was bursting at the seams and Kiev needed a breather, a passenger liner was shot down in the sky over the war zone. And Moscow was immediately blamed for the death of its passengers.
With the provocation in Bucha, it is quite possible that Ukraine, with the support of the West, which should put pressure on Russia, is trying to save its group in Mariupol, which is living out its last days.
Aleksandr Kots is prior service Russian airborne and a writer for Komsomol Pravda
Welcome to the nation's capitol. [NYPost] It was like the hip-hop equivalent of "Weekend at Bernie’s."
Washington, DC’s Bliss nightclub has apologized over an appalling spectacle in which the body of slain rapper Goonew was reportedly displayed on their stage at his own funeral. The memorial service took place Sunday, weeks after the hip-hopper was shot dead at 24 years old.
"Our deepest condolences to Goonew’s family, friends and fans," the venue wrote in a statement, which was shared on Instagram Monday by the Shade Room. "Bliss was contacted by a local funeral home to rent out our venue for Goonew’s home-going celebration.
"Bliss was never made aware of what would transpire. We sincerely apologize to all those who may be upset or offended," the venue continued. "Please keep Goonew’s family and friends in your prayers at this difficult time."
The statement was posted amid trending Twitter footage that reportedly showed the slain rapper, whose real name is Markelle Morrow, apparently propped up onstage at Bliss nightclub while mourners raved around him like an Irish wake. The hip-hopper’s corpse was decked out in a hoodie, a blinged-out watch and a crown.
A source who attended the macabre public viewing, entitled "The Last Show," confirmed that there was a $40 cover charge to enter the venue, the Shade Room wrote in a prior post.
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— Backend Pay (@itsopulencebaby) April 4, 2022
While initially unclear if the figure was Goonew’s actual corpse or a mannequin, the general consensus is that the body was, in fact, his.
"During the event, Goonew’s body was propped up on stage, wearing designer clothing and a crown," the Shade Room wrote on Instagram. Meanwhile, per XXLMag, Black Fortune — a rapper who performed at the event — wrote in an Instagram Story: "No this ain’t no wax figure my Brodie went out gansta."
Social media found the display obscene and disrespectful.
"No way goonew mama approved that s—t that’s so sad & disrespectful," wrote one aghast fan on Twitter. Another offered: "if y’all saw that video with Goonew’s body y’all can’t tell me this society ain’t already collapsed ... "
"This is madness," spluttered another gawker on the ’Gram. "WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?"
Even hip-hop icon 50 Cent weighed in on Twitter, writing: "oh s—t ! i just realized what this is."
Meanwhile, another tweeter — reportedly an employee at the bar, expressed shock upon arrival, claiming they were not clued in beforehand about what they witnessed.
"Imagine walking into work and it’s a deceased body on display. They didn’t warn us they didn’t tell us they didn’t even know," they wrote. "When i say I’ve officially been traumatized this year i mean it."
Imagine walking into work and it’s a deceased body on display. They didn’t warn us they didn’t tell us they didn’t even know. When i say I’ve officially been traumatized this year i mean it.
— MELLONZ🍒 (@mellonellen96) April 3, 2022
Morrow had reportedly been shot dead by an unknown assailant in District Heights, Maryland, on March 18, per an announcement by the Prince George’s County Police Department, Complex reported.
Once on scene, they located an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound," according to the department. "The victim was taken to a hospital for life-threatening injuries. At approx. 7:30 p.m., the victim was pronounced dead."
Police are currently offering a $25,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest of a suspect in the shooting.
[CBSNEWS] A man linked to a series of sexual assaults in central Indiana more than 30 years ago by his DNA on an envelope for a utility bill payment was sentenced Friday to 650 years in prison, prosecutors said. Eligible for parole in 425 years.
Steven Ray Hessler, 59, of Greensburg, was convicted March 3 of 19 felony charges for crimes against 10 victims between 1982 and 1985.
The charges included two counts of rape, six counts of unlawful deviate conduct and three counts of criminal deviate conduct and one count of robbery.
Investigators said Hessler, masked and armed, would break into homes in the middle of the night and would rape, bind and sexually torture his victims. He eluded authorities by wiping down the scene of the crimes and stealing items he had touched.
Shelby County Prosecutor Brad Landwerlen said that Hessler also struck a male victim with a gun, sending the man into a coma for months. The victim "for years now has been confined to a wheelchair," Landwerlen said.
The prosecution was made more difficult, Landwerlen said, because a previous task force had arrested and charged another local man with the first few attacks in 1983. In an odd turn of events, that man turned out to be Hessler's cousin, he said. Which is probably the reason he stopped.
The case received a break in 2020 when a detective asked prosecutors if they would pay for samples to be sent to a company that uses the same sort of DNA testing that resulted in the capture of the Golden State Killer. Testing narrowed down the case to Hessler, linked to a DNA sample left at one scene. DNA from the utility bill envelope matched it.
A very clever bit of police work. Well done, guys!
Authorities executed a search warrant at Hessler's home in the early morning hours on August 17, 2020, and "hit upon a gold mine," Landwerlen said. Investigators found photographs stolen from one victim, and computers which showed that he had been tracking down four other victims.
"Steven Ray Hessler is one of the most evil, dangerous, sadistic predators that I've had the pleasure of prosecuting in my 30+ year career," Landwerlen said. "He derived great pleasure from his unnecessarily brutal methods of terrorizing and sexually torturing his victims. I promised the victims early-on that my goal would be that he go to prison the rest of his life, and all involved are very happy that we have achieved that goal." UNLESS, if he lives longer than 650 more years!
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So we are told "justice" is placing this piece of excrement in prison for life.
In case you did not think about it this far.
The VICTIMS, (also being TAXPAYERS) will also provide funding for this piece of $%^ to have a better standard of living than 9+/-% of the USA's Honest citizens living in extreme poverty do not have.
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So, officers, now that this miscreant has been put away, could you maybe work on a crime that occurred in this century? There's been a couple I hear.
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Cripe. I'm from Greensburg. Fortunately, not that Greensburg...
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Clearly this gentleman is that 1% of the population that is convicted of 63% of all violent crimes — in Sweden around the turn of this century, at any rate. Link.
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[Korrespondent] 20:02 German President Steinmeier admitted that economic cooperation with Russia was a big mistake
"I did not believe that Vladimir Putin would accept the complete economic, political and moral collapse of his country for the sake of his imperial madness," he said.
In particular, they talked about the Nord Stream 2 project, which Steinmeier had previously actively supported. 20:00 US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that 140 UN members have already voted to condemn Russia for the war with Ukraine.
19:56 CNN, citing a senior US Department of Defense official, reports that about two-thirds of the Russian troops that were concentrated around Kiev have left the area.
The United States believes that these troops will be "used in the eastern part of the country, in the Donbas region." BUT emphasize that this is "only an estimate".
19:50 The Supreme Court of Russia upheld the amendments on the introduction of criminal liability for the implementation of sanctions on the territory of the country
Responsibility may arise for refusing to work with Russian banks that have fallen under sanctions, as well as for avoiding business cooperation with sanctioned companies. 19:41 In the basement of a children's camp in Bucha, in the presence of international journalists, the bodies of five people were found. All with bandaged hands and traces of torture. Who has been shot in the legs, who has five bullets in the heart or in the head.
19:37 The meeting of the UN Security Council on the tragic events in Bucha will be held tomorrow, April 5. Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative of Great Britain to the UN, stated this.
19:33 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Monday called for Russia to be excluded from the UN Human Rights Council.
19:25 Zelensky visited the bridge leading from Irpen to Kiev. According to him, it will take ten days to build a temporary crossing here, and a full repair of the bridge will last two to three months.
19:17 Germany declares 40 Russian diplomats persona non grata, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock.
19:13 Elections were held in Hungary and Serbia, which brought victory to Russia's closest political allies in Europe. It is Hungary and Serbia that continue to maintain ties with Russia even after the war unleashed by the Kremlin against Ukraine. What to expect after the strengthening of the existing regimes in the countries?
19:07 "Due to hostilities, Ukraine is losing from 35 percent to 50 percent of GDP. This is a blow to the economy. Budget losses of about UAH 2 billion a day. Infrastructure losses of $ 4.25 billion daily. We have enough reserves. But we must stop the aggressor as quickly as possible. We demand the next package of sanctions!" Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
19:01 "This guy is cruel, and what is happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone has seen it. I am considering imposing more sanctions. I will let you know about this later," Biden said.
At the same time, the Associated Press writes that the American leader in the commentary refused to call what happened in Bucha "genocide" - he considers it a "war crime".
18:58 The Israeli Foreign Ministry used the term "war crime" for the first time in relation to Russia.
18:53 President of the European Parliament Roberta Mezola declares the need to develop a strategy, the implementation of which will hit the Russian economy in proportion to the unprecedented brutality of the war waged by Russia against Ukraine.
18:47 In the territories of the Kherson region temporarily occupied by the invaders, hostilities continue, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
18:41 The creators of the video game Fortnite have completed a charity event. In two weeks, Epic Games managed to raise $144 million to help Ukraine.
18:35 Russians are surprised that a wardrobe in a hospital is the norm.
18:29 The seventh package of sanctions involves a blow even to those who cooperate with Russia, Arestovich said.
18:22 Diagram of EU countries that exported weapons to Russia during 2015-2020.
18:18 Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova said that despite the shocking footage and the situation in Bucha, the situation with human losses is the worst in Borodyanka.
18:13 Operational investigation teams have already arrived in Irpin, Bucha and Gostomel. International observers, investigators and the tribunal are arriving, said Arestovich.
18:10 In Nikolaev people at a stop and passengers of minibuses got under attack: there are victims.
18:06 In the Zhytomyr region, the invaders were driven back. As of April 4, there are no Russian occupation troops in the region, said the head of the Zhytomyr Regional Military Administration Vitaliy Bunechko
18:03 The work of the Russian media: first comes the operator, followed by sappers who are looking for mines.
18:00 Lithuanian Ambassador to Ukraine returns to Kiev.
17:55 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation found losses of almost 8 trillion rubles in Russian banks. In one year the bankers will lose 5 years of profit.
17:50 The German Gazprom Germania GmbH was transferred under the trusteeship of the Federal Network Agency - the German Ministry of Economy.
17:45 Beaten and starved. Ukrainian prisoners of war were kept in a tent camp at a time when it was 20 degrees below zero outside, Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova accused Russia of violating the Geneva Convention.
17:40 Biden called Putin a war criminal, Reuters reports. The US President also spoke on the situation in Bucha - he called for "trial on war crimes." He added that the United States will continue to impose additional sanctions against the Russian Federation.
17:35 The Anonymous hacker group leaked 900,000 emails to the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
17:30 The UN office coordinating humanitarian missions has recognized Ukraine as one of the most mined countries in the world. "Even before the start of the military offensive, more than 1.8 million people lived for 8 years surrounded by mines," the OCHA said.
17:27 This week, the European Commission plans to submit a questionnaire to Ukraine, which is a necessary step for obtaining the status of a candidate for EU membership, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna said.
17:25 The Prime Minister [of Hungary] should be grateful to the President of Ukraine that the reality of the war did not reach the borders of Hungary thanks to the heroism of the Ukrainian people in containing the aggressive actions of President Putin, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
17:17 Historian and political scientist, professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of books on the genocide Yevgeny Finkel commented on footage from Bucha, which was occupied by Russian troops for a month. He declared that it was "genocide for what it is".
“As a genocide researcher, I am an empiricist, I usually reject empty rhetoric. I also treat claims of genocide not with a particle, but with a whole truckload of skepticism, because activists now use it almost everywhere. But not now. There are actions, there are intentions. This genocide as it is. Unprecedented, simple and put on public display," the scholar wrote.
17:11 Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova said that the Yunarmiya detachments got into the mobilization of reserves in the Russian Federation, some of them are located on the territory of the temporarily annexed Crimea.
17:06 The mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich reports that the invaders are again conducting a chaotic shelling of the city with cluster shells.
17:03 Slovakia will act in unison with the EU on the issue of Russian gas payment requirements, Reuters quotes the words of Prime Minister Eduard Heger.
17:00 Pictures from Bucha deny the idea of a compromise, Ukraine needs weapons, said Polish President Andrzej Duda. He also stressed that criminals should be called criminals, and "Ukraine needs only three things: weapons, weapons and more weapons."
16:55 Georgia and China not only did not support the sanctions against Russia, but they can also secretly help the aggressor country bypass them. Thus, according to Bloomberg, China is preparing for secret purchases of Russian gas.
16:51 The developer of World of Tanks and other multiplayer online games Wargaming has decided to stop doing business in Russia and Belarus. The company wrote about this on its LinkedIn page.
16:46 The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced her intention to send investigators to Bucha, who will work in cooperation with the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, Europol and Eurojust.
16:40 Zelensky published a photo from a trip to Bucha, Irpen and Stoyanka. "We will do everything to bring them back to life as quickly as possible," he added.
16:37 The enemy is preparing a new offensive. Russian occupation troops are preparing to encircle the Ukrainian forces of the Joint Forces Operation and capture Kharkiv, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said.
16:35 There are about 130,000 people in the blocked Mariupol, said the mayor of the city Vadim Boychenko.
16:24 The reaction of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the proposal to come to Bucha is a signal that "Western elites still remain in dangerous illusions," said Mikhail Podolyak, a member of the negotiating group, adviser to the head of the President's Office.
16:19 The Latvian Foreign Ministry said that their country "lowers the level of diplomatic relations with Russia."
16:16 Zelensky called the situation with Mariupol one of the most difficult. In response to a question about "realistic scenarios for saving Mariupol," he said: "In the coming days, or maybe in the next few hours, we will have an answer to your very difficult question."
16:13 The office of the president published a video of Zelensky's conversation with the press in Bucha.
16:00 The United States will appeal to the UN General Assembly with a call to expel the Russian Federation from the UN Human Rights Council, said US Ambassador to the organization Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Or maybe from the UN Security Council?
15:57 Ukraine will reduce the area under crops by 25-30 percent due to the military aggression of the Russian Federation, but in general the campaign is provided with fuel and funds, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
15:54 Imports of Russian gas in transit through Ukraine this morning rose to a level close to the maximum. This was announced on Twitter by Bloomberg energy and commodities columnist Javier Blass and provided a corresponding chart.
15:51 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said that his country is recalling its ambassador from Russia, writes Bloomberg.
15:42 Belgrade will try to maintain friendly and partnership relations with Russia, Aleksandar Vucic said after winning the presidential election in Serbia.
"I can promise you that we will not kick Dostoevsky out of schools and Tchaikovsky out of the opera. Serbia will try to maintain partner and friendly relations with Russia," he said.
15:36 Journalists-researchers of the Conflict Intelligence Team received confirmation that Russia is transferring troops from the Kiev region and reserves to the east of Ukraine.
On April 2, a train with BMD-2 landing equipment was filmed on video in Belarus. According to CIT, there may be vehicles on the echelon from the airborne units or formations that took part in the battles on the territory of the Kiev region - the 76th airborne assault division, the 98th airborne division, or the 31st airborne assault brigade.
According to the Russian Railways database, the train goes to the Novy Oskol station in the Belgorod region - this is not far from the border with the occupied part of the Kharkov region.
Also, a train with T-72B3, which departed from Yelnya, where the 59th Tank Regiment of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division is stationed, is also heading to the nearby Valuyki station. According to CIT, in the last weeks before the invasion, the equipment of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District was located there.
Research journalists suggest that these tanks may not have taken part in the invasion due to malfunctions, and have now been repaired.
It is reported that the arrived equipment will most likely proceed south through Kupyansk and Izyum, recently captured by Russian troops, towards Slavyansk in the Donetsk region.
"The transfer of both withdrawn and, possibly, previously unused vehicles means that the Russian command is serious, and that in the coming days the battle for Donbass will only flare up," summed up CIT.
15:17 The Mariupol city council has published photos of the drama theater, which was destroyed as a result of the bombardment by Russian invaders. The exact number of dead has not yet been established, because in Mariupol, which Russia has been trying to take control of for the second month, hostilities continue.
15:14 Zelensky visited Bucha, where there is evidence of massacres of civilians by Russians. He inspected the road with the destroyed equipment of the Russian Federation and talked with local residents. The President said that Russia had committed war crimes and genocide in Ukraine.
Asked by a BBC News reporter if he still thinks it is possible to negotiate peace with Russia, he said: "Yes, because Ukraine must have peace. We are in 21st century Europe. We will continue our diplomatic and military efforts."
15:12 The UN Security Council will not hold a meeting on April 4 at the request of Russia, which demanded to discuss "the flagrant provocation of Ukrainian radicals in Bucha."
15:08 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki criticized French President Macron for frequent calls to Russian President Putin:
"Resident Macron, how many times have you negotiated with Putin, what have you achieved? Did you stop any action that took place? No one negotiated with Hitler. Would you have negotiated with Hitler, with Stalin, with Paul Pot?"
15:07 "All the tanks and machine guns in Putin's arsenal will never break the spirit of the Ukrainian people and conquer their Motherland," British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.
15:05 Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said that the country would support sanctions against Russian gas. Especially after the tragic events in Bucha. According to the Ansa agency, he expressed this opinion during a visit to Croatia: "Italy will not veto Russian gas sanctions."
15:02 The EU may impose an embargo on Russian gas and oil as early as April 6, the authoritative British newspaper Financial Times writes, citing sources.
14:35 The Kremlin-controlled edition of RIA Novosti published an article that contains direct calls for the "de-Ukrainization" of Ukraine and the need to re-educate the population through "ideological repression." The article is called What Russia Should Do with Ukraine.
In the publication, Rospropagandists substantiate the need for ethnic cleansing and ethnocide in Ukraine.
Now the article is actively discussed in social networks:
14:04 The state budget of Ukraine loses about two billion hryvnia every day.
13:59 In Trostyanets, Sumy region, liberated from Russian invaders, they are already starting to restore the destroyed facilities. Now the city is being surveyed by a group of architects and urbanists who will work on the restoration of the city.
13:48 Journalists were shown a mass grave in the village of Motyzhin, Kiev region, which was discovered after the withdrawal of Russian troops.
13:45 Greece will help rebuild Odessa after the war. This was stated by Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias during a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Olga Stefanishyna.
Dendias arrived in Odessa yesterday. Earlier, he stated that he would like to lead a humanitarian mission to Mariupol.
13:41 Russia's losses in Ukraine are comparable to the armies of other countries:
13:25 After the massacres in Bucha, the likelihood of European countries imposing an embargo on the import of Russian energy carriers is growing, writes the American newspaper New York Times. The EU has previously rejected calls from Biden in particular to impose such sanctions.
Now, world leaders are expressing horror at images "which appear to show dead civilians, some with their hands tied behind their backs, strewn about the streets of Bucha," according to a New York Times story.
13:24 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published the personal data of servicemen of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade of the Russian Federation, who were directly involved in the atrocities and massacres of civilians in the city of Bucha. The full list of war criminals is here .
13:22 Rescuers showed how the dog Patron helps in demining the Chernihiv region.
13:18 Peskov said that Russia rejects allegations of involvement in the killings of civilians in Bucha. According to him, in the video and photo from the city "there are forgeries and fakes", and "the factology, the calendar sequence of events also does not speak in favor of the reliability of these statements."
Peskov also refused to comment on how the topic of Bucha could affect the negotiations between the delegations of Ukraine and Russia.
13:11 Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel insists that she considers her decision not to admit Ukraine to NATO in 2008 correct. This was stated on Monday by Merkel's press secretary at the request of the DPA agency.
At the same time, the ex-chancellor supported international efforts to end the Russian war of conquest in Ukraine, but did not respond to an invitation to come to Bucha.
13:06 The network publishes footage of the Zhytomyr and Warsaw highways near Kiev. The road is paved with destroyed Russian equipment and cars of peaceful Ukrainians shot or burned by the invaders.
13:04 The Russians are establishing a channel for smuggling sanctioned goods through the territory of Georgia, according to Ukrainian intelligence. Representatives of the Georgian special services were instructed by the political leadership not to interfere with the activities of the smugglers.
12:54 American television channel CNN learned that Macron wants to completely block Russian coal and oil exports to the EU this week after discovering what he called war crimes in Bucha.
"We cannot ignore this. We must have sanctions that discourage what is happening there [in Bucha], what is happening in Mariupol," he said.
12:45 American billionaire Elon Musk is convinced that Russia's attack on Ukraine is a message to other states. "Probably the war will come to them. We can't let Putin take over Ukraine. This is crazy," he said in an interview with Insider.
12:43 CNN journalists spoke about a mass grave in Bucha, in which at least 150 people are buried. The mass grave is located on the territory of the Church of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called and All Saints, the channel said.
It is noted that the CNN team saw at least a dozen corpses in bags dumped in the grave, some were partially covered with earth. Journalists of the TV channel stressed that the burial could be larger.
12:41 State enterprise Antonov told which planes the invader destroyed and damaged in Gostomel: An-225 Mriya, turboprop An-26 and An-74 were destroyed. An-132, which was developed for Saudi Arabia in 2016-2017, was damaged, one of the Ruslans - An-124-100-150; An-12, recently restored An-22 Antey and light twin-engine An-28.
In addition, the airport administration building and the control tower were destroyed.
12:32 Today, photos of a girl killed by Russian invaders with a swastika on her body appeared on the network. As Arestovich said, the Ukrainian woman was tortured to death in Gostomel.
12:21 The Board of Governors of the EBRD voted for the immediate suspension of Russia and Belarus' access to the bank's finances and expertise. Earlier, the EBRD announced that it was closing its offices in Moscow and Minsk.
12:16 Borrell: "Convincing images of a large number of deaths and casualties among the civilian population, as well as the destruction of civilian infrastructure, show the true face of the brutal war of conquest that Russia is waging against Ukraine and its people. The massacres in the city of Bucha and other cities of Ukraine will be included in a list of atrocities committed on European soil. The Russian authorities are responsible for these crimes."
12:14 Mobile crematoriums brought by Russian troops to Ukraine were intended for the disposal of the bodies of civilians killed by them to cover up the crime, the Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council said.
12:12 Germany is the main obstacle to the introduction of tougher sanctions against Russia, said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
The head of the Polish government also called for the creation of an international commission to investigate the events in Bucha and other areas of the Kiev region, which he called genocide.
12:08 The state border in the Sumy region is again under the control of Ukraine.
11:51 By this time, about 350 people had been buried in Bucha, according to funeral services.
11:49 Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in the next few days will begin the process of complete transport isolation from Russia.
This was announced by Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Mustafa Nayem.
"Last week, we officially asked our colleagues to stop any road communication from the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. Thanks to all the ministers of transport of these countries. The response is instant. We are waiting for the final result," he wrote.
According to Nayem, if a positive decision is made, the borders of the countries with the Russian Federation and Belarus will be completely closed, which means that auto connections and all transport will become impossible.
11:36 As a result of attacks by the Russian troops of the cities of Ochakov and Nikolaev on April 3, eight civilians were killed.
11:34 The National Gallery of London has renamed the painting Russian Dancers by the French impressionist Edgar Degas. From now on, the picture is called Ukrainian dancers.
11:06 Russian occupying troops shelled residential buildings in the Sloboda district of the city of Kharkov. Seven people were killed and 34 others were injured.
11:03 Russian troops are planning a huge breakthrough in the Lugansk region, troops and equipment are being pulled together, said the head of the Lugansk regional military administration, Sergei Gaidai.
10:49 The Russian army intends to continue to seize Ukraine, and the current withdrawal of Russian troops is only an intention to concentrate them in other areas, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar.
"... the risk of escalation, the likelihood of missile strikes remains. Among them, there remains the possibility of missile strikes on large cities ... Now there is a fierce war, a fierce struggle for every centimeter of our land and for every settlement," Malyar stressed.
According to her, despite the liberation of the Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, this does not mean the surrender of the enemy, he concentrates his forces in other regions, withdraws part of the troops to Belarus and strengthens and regroups them there.
Malyar noted that today the danger in the East remains high, in addition, the enemy's target is Kharkov, Mariupol, Odessa.
10:34 On April 6, the ambassadors of the EU countries will discuss a new package of sanctions against Russia because of the situation in Ukraine. It may include an embargo on the supply of energy resources, reports the Financial Times, citing its own sources in the diplomatic environment.
10:31 Zelensky performed at the 64th Grammy Music Awards.
10:26 The massacres carried out by the Russian military in Ukrainian cities were part of Putin's plans for an invasion of Ukraine. This was stated by the head of British foreign intelligence MI6 Richard Moore.
"We knew that Putin's invasion plans included extrajudicial executions by his military and intelligence officials," Moore wrote.
9:48 According to British intelligence, Russian forces continue to consolidate and reorganize as they refocus their offensive on the Donbass.
Russian troops are being moved into the area, including mercenaries from the private military company Wagner.
8:59 Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale military aggression in Ukraine, 161 children have died. A total of 425 children were affected. The data is preliminary.
8:55 Russian troops launched several missile attacks on Nikolaev.
7:58 In the Russian Federation, which continues armed aggression against Ukraine, a covert mobilization of reservists has begun. They want to attract up to 60,000 people.
7:17 Russian troops began to actively withdraw from the territory of the Sumy region, said the head of the regional military administration Dmitry Zhivitsky
6:06 The first signs of a mass grave of the inhabitants of Bucha, who were killed by the Russian invaders, are visible on satellite images from March 10, Reuters reports citing Maxar Technologies, which collects and publishes satellite images of Ukraine.
5:44 Canada intends to do everything possible so that Russia is held accountable for the massive bloody crimes against Ukrainians committed in Ukraine, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
3:55 Another man of Putin wins in Europe. The current President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, is leading by a wide margin in the presidential elections.
3:27 Mariupol is certainly a key target for the Russian invasion, because the land corridor from Russia to the occupied territory of Crimea, British intelligence said.
The city continues to be subjected to intense indiscriminate strikes, but Ukrainian forces are putting up staunch resistance, maintaining control in central areas.
3:00 Russian occupiers can launch an offensive in eastern Ukraine, in the direction of Severodonetsk in the next day, according to the operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The General Staff noted that in the Donetsk and Tauride directions, the enemy continued to focus its main efforts on capturing settlements:
Rubezhnoye
popasnaya
Trinity
Avdiivka
Maryinka
Krasnogorovka
In addition, the Russian occupiers are preparing for an offensive, which may start in the next day in the direction of Severodonetsk and Bolshaya Novoselka.
"With the support of aviation and artillery, the enemy continues the assault on Mariupol," the statement said.
In the Polesye direction, the enemy is completing the regrouping and preparation for the redeployment of individual units from Belarus to the Russian Federation.
According to available information, separate units of the airborne troops of the invaders are being transferred by military transport aircraft to the city of Belgorod.
To slow down the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the occupiers carried out mass chaotic mining not only of previously occupied positions and areas of the terrain, but also of the ways of advance.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues to blockade Kharkov, inflicts artillery strikes on residential areas of the city and tries to regroup troops.
In the Izyum direction, the invaders tried to resume the offensive, but were unsuccessful.
2:33 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called on the EU to immediately change its policy towards Russia after the massacre in the Kiev region. He noted that the EU is obliged to introduce really working sanctions.
"It is necessary to confiscate all Russian assets and sever trade relations with the Russian Federation," he urged.
The Prime Minister said that the leadership of the European Union should organize a meeting of the European Council as soon as possible. There, Poland will initiate consideration of the war crimes of the Russian Federation and the introduction of effective sanctions.
"Ukraine must receive weapons with which it will be able to protect the women and children of Mariupol, Bucha and many other cities. This is our political and moral obligation. Enough of fake gestures and avoidance tactics. Enough! Sanctions do not work. Turn off the oxygen to the Russian genocide," he said. Morawiecki.
1:09 In Hungary, the election is won by the party of Orban, Putin's main friend in Europe, which prohibits the supply of weapons to Ukraine through its territory, refuses to impose sanctions against Russia and blocks Ukraine's entry into the EU.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. by Oleg Airapetov
[REGNUM] One of the most hostile neighbors of the Soviet republics, and then the USSR, was Poland. The end of the First World War gave her a chance for a revival. Already on November 10, 1918, under the influence of news from Berlin, where the revolution was going on, the German garrison began to be disarmed in Warsaw. The pockets of resistance could not change anything. Soldiers' Soviets were formed, the army wanted to return home.
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That is helpful. My understanding of that era in that area was inaccurate and might as well have been drawn with crayons.
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...Sadly, the Poles weren't so much interested in peacefully rebuilding their nation after a few centuries as they were interested in Revenge(TM). Winston Churchill may have said it best about the land of my fathers: "There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess...and there are few mistakes they have ever avoided."
Mike
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The person who can forgo revenge is maybe the most dangerous person you ever will meet.
"Beware the wrath of a patient man." -John Dryden
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That is helpful. My understanding of that era in that area was inaccurate and might as well have been drawn with crayons.
Why I post this.
The Russian civil war has never been told to this extent and detail in English (to my knowledge) until this guy and regnum.ru started with the series.
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Court documents show that Martin — also listed as Dandrae Martin in some public documents — has an extensive arrest record.
In 2014, records show, he was convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence upon a spouse or partner in Riverside County and sentenced to 30 days in jail. Two years later, he was convicted of attempting to commit aggravated assault in Maricopa County and served a stint in an Arizona prison.
Two years after that, he was convicted of criminal damage, but another charge — assault causing fear of physical injury — was dismissed.
#6
This woebegotten son of a ho,
became a dredlocked rappist.
They wouldn't let him near money,
so he tried being a trappist.
But Alas! Wakanda calls,
and woe alway befalls
these yooths turnin' their
black lives 'roun.
Oh they all end up ded,
or behind the iron latticed.
#8
My comments initially are now consistent with opinion of contacts locally. The some of the RAP concert, down at the Mall, attendee's were on K Street, a wide city street for pedestrian and streetcar traffic only, and an encounter with patrons of an Hispanic-themed bar. Apparently some form of altercation ensued and some wakandan street respect was administered semi-randomly.
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Well. He's a certain type of person. And he did what he did. But connecting his type with what he did is rayciss.
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Off the "hatin' on Haiti" ["Aye, and I loik it, too!"] pile...
Black hellhole! A vision beguilin'
For folks who think blacks ultraviolent.
Put a Frenchman or two
On les Iles du Salut,
And -- mon Dieu! -- bienvenue, Devil's Island!
Posted from a comment yesterday by our own Unavinter Ulaitch.
[Glenn Greenwald - May 3, 2021]
One of the primary plagues of corporate journalism, which I have documented more times than I can count, just reared its ugly head again to deceive millions of people with fake news. When one large news outlet publishes a false story based on whispers from anonymous security state agents with the CIA or FBI, other news outlets quickly purport that they have "independently confirmed" the false story, in order to bolster its credibility (oh, it must be true since other outlets have also confirmed it).
This is an obvious scam — they have not "independently confirmed" anything but rather merely acted as servants to the same lying security state agents who planted the original false story — but they do it over and over, creating the deceitful perception that a fake story has been "confirmed" by multiple outlets, thus bolstering its credibility in the public mind. It was the favored tactic for spreading debunked Russiagate frauds and is still used. One of the most vivid examples occurred in December, 2017, when CNN falsely reported what it hyped as "a major bombshell": that Donald Trump, Jr. had advance access to the WikiLeaks archive. Within an hour, NBC News’ Ken Dilanian and CBS News both claimed they had "independently confirmed" this fairy tale. When it turned out that it was a complete lie, all based on a false date on an email to Trump Jr., these outlets embarrassingly corrected it hours later and then simply moved on as if it never happened, never explaining how multiple outlets could possibly have all "independently confirmed" the same blatant falsehood.
On Thursday night, The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources (of course), claimed that the FBI gave a "defensive briefing" to Rudy Giuliani in 2019, before he traveled to Ukraine, that he was being targeted by a Russian disinformation campaign to hurt Joe Biden's candidacy, yet he ignored the FBI's warnings and went anyway. The Post also claimed that the right-wing news outlet OANN was similarly briefed. The claim about Giuliani not only predictably ricocheted all over social media and cable news — where, as usual, it was uncritically treated as Truth — but it was shortly thereafter "independently confirmed" by both NBC News’ de facto CIA spokesman Ken Dilanian along with The New York Times.
What was the problem with this story? It was totally false. The FBI never briefed Giuliani on any such thing. As a result, The Washington Post had to append this "correction" — meaning a retraction — to the top of its viral story:
#1
Ken Dilanian is a tool. Most of the "national security" reporting from D.C. consists of fables, spin, bullshit planted by anonymous "senior Pentagon officials" and "intelligence analysts."
#2
Uhhh.... the entire reason for a defensive briefing is so you CAN go. Go with a little warning of what you might face and how to...defend yourself from the threat. That and last time I checked, the USG cannot restrict the travel of private citizen barring a legal process/order.
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