[PJMedia] Four economists at the Federal Reserve say the high rate of inflation in the United States compared to the rest of the world is due to the COVID-19 stimulus checks given to Americans during the pandemic. The direct payments to American citizens enlarged the money supply enormously and overheated the economy.
Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and former Treasury Secretary, has been warning about this almost since Joe Biden took his oath of office. Summers believes that massive government pandemic spending — including stimulus checks — has put too much cash into circulation while the pent-up demand from the pandemic isn’t catching up to supply.
Supply chain bottlenecks don’t help. But how bad would they have been if far more modest and targeted pandemic relief had been proposed?
Now we have the war in Ukraine effectively shutting off one-quarter of the world’s supply of grain. Food prices are going to skyrocket, and it’s going to hurt everyone.
But why is it so much worse here?
"Inflation rates in the United States and other developed economies have closely tracked each other historically," the economists write in an analysis published this week. "However, since the first half of 2021, U.S. inflation has increasingly outpaced inflation in other developed countries. Estimates suggest that fiscal support measures designed to counteract the severity of the pandemic’s economic effect may have contributed to this divergence."
Inflation in the U.S. hit an annualized rate of 7.9 percent in February (data for March will be released by the Bureau for Labor Statistics next week), a 40-year high. Meanwhile, inflation in similar countries like France (3.6 percent), Germany (5.1 percent), and the United Kingdom (5.5 percent) is significantly lower, according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a consortium of 38 rich-world governments. (Across the OECD as a whole, the average annual inflation rate is about the same as the U.S., but that’s due to the influence of outliers like Argentina—where prices are up over 52 percent in the past 12 months.)
Prices in the Unites States are rising faster than almost anywhere else. "Throughout 2020 and 2021, U.S. households experienced significantly higher increases in their disposable income relative to their OECD peers," the economists write.
In fact, the U.S. inflation rate climbed by 3.58 percentage points — a larger change from the third quarter in 2019 to the third quarter of 2020 than in all but two of the 46 nations included in the study. More money chasing a limited supply of items, who could have seen such a spike?
[JustTheNews] Fred Fleitz, former chief of staff at the National Security Council, made his comments following a report that the U.S. released unverified information in order to stop Russia from invading Ukraine.
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Fucking liars. Making up shit to "try to keep Putin off balance" - WTF? Who's the genius who came up with this strategy?
"It was an attention-grabbing assertion that made headlines around the world: U.S. officials said they had indications suggesting Russia might be preparing to use chemical agents in Ukraine.
President Biden later said it publicly. But three U.S. officials told NBC News this week there is no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine. They said the U.S. released the information to deter Russia from using the banned munitions."
[GatewayPundit] The confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court is only historic in the sense that she is an illegitimate justice, nominated by an illegitimate occupant of the White House, and a nomination in violation of U.S. law prohibiting hiring people on the basis of race and gender. She is also a Groomer, friendly to pedophiles and child pornographers, and placed on the Court to normalize that behavior.
For expressing those sentiments, I was permanently suspended from Twitter.
I did not post anything obscene or threaten anyone, but, in the eyes of the Stalinists at Twitter, I did something worse.
Exercising my freedom of speech, I challenged the narrative that buttresses the goal of the de facto political and cultural civil war being waged by those who, in the words of Barack Obama, want to fundamentally transform the United States of America.
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. He had a civilian career in international business and medical research. Dr. Sellin is the author of Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution.
Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, on Wednesday announced that buses would be sent to the Rio Grande Valley to allow migrants to travel to Washington DC
On Friday he told Fox News that his team had received multiple calls from communities in the area requesting buses for the volunteer migrants
Abbott said that, because Joe Biden was refusing to come to the border, he would 'take the border to him'
Abbott added: 'it's not like they want to stay in the Rio Grande Valley,' and insisted those who went did so voluntarily
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Abbott does a lot of Kabuki stuff. Hopefully he runs this better than the Afghan evac was run.
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Also it would be good to provide them with catered food from KFC on the trip in case any of them are internal fentanyl mules. No way that there packages make it past the Mississippi under those circumstances.
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it would be good to provide them with catered food from KFC
I was thinking Del Taco, but sure.
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GPS set to = 1600 Pennsylvania Ave - And Abbott should make it more dramatic; Headline MSM: "Texas Wagon Train Heads East - "Operation Resettlement": Migrants To Jackasses (Democrats) Now in Full Swing"
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Drop the little girls off at Biden's beach house at midnight, and whisper in Joe's ear that fresh talent will be ready and waiting for his midnight skinny dip
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Got to thinking...
When caught in TX, Biden could just instruct Ice/DOJ to load them on a FED/ICE plane and send them say to Ga, Al, Ms, or another state before TX gets hands on them.
[Florida Today] Liftoff of Axiom-1 from Kennedy Space Center at 11:17 a.m. ET! Michael López-Alegría, Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe are en route to the International Space Station in their Crew Dragon capsule and should arrive early Saturday. Launch video at link.
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Hope they're more qualified than the new people arriving at Rantburg.
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Quite honestly I couldn't care less about either party. My interests are aligned with my own nation. And against the globalists. Vlad may be an asset, a true product of the vicious komitet gosudarstvenoy bezopasnosti. All I know is NATO must be challenged, the west's ability to obstruct sovereign nations's economic development curbed, and that bastard Soros denied at every turn. If I have to ally with the devil to do that I would.
No, don't throw me the tinfoil hat, I know I'm right.
No, he is most definitely not a liberal imperialist or other type of western globalist. He is similar to Xi or Modi, a proud nationalist who rejects the West's pretensions to "universal" values. He puts Russia first just as Modi puts India first.
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a proud nationalist who rejects the West's pretensions to "universal" values
In other words, a normal leader of a normal nation. Imagine how much more peaceful and stable the world would be now, if we'd only had "proud nationalists" who put America first in charge of the US since 1992...
[CBS] The IRS could wipe out its massive backlog of returns by the end of the year, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said Thursday. His optimistic prognosis comes as millions of people are still waiting for the overburdened agency to process returns from past tax filing seasons and send their refunds, even as the IRS entered a new tax filing season.
The IRS still had 23 million items in its backlog to get through heading into this year's tax filing season, as it struggled to overcome hurdles exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this year, the Taxpayer Advocate wrote in her report the IRS was in a crisis. Treasury and IRS officials warned this could be the most challenging tax filing season for taxpayers and preparers to date.
Rettig appeared before the House Ways and Means committee Thursday for a hearing on the tax filing season. He said the agency will "absolutely" make it through the backlog before the end of 2022.
"If the world stays as it is as of today, we will be what we call healthy by the end of calendar year '22, and enter the '23 filing season with normal inventories — healthy through the eyes of the taxpayer," Rettig said.
The Treasury Department and IRS announced last week a plan to catch up on the pandemic-related backlog this year. The effort includes the hiring of 10,000 IRS employees over the next year, including 5,000 in the next few months. The IRS has also been granted more hiring authority, allowing the agency to get new employees in the door more quickly. Previously, the onboarding process took as many as six to eight months, Rettig said, but with their new abilities, employees could be onboarded in 30 to 35 days.
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They had 2 million pieces of unopened mail at their Kansas City processing center two Augusts ago and apparently it's still there, albetit maybe a tad smaller. I'm calling BS and I haven't sent shit to KC since that IRS appeals guy told me that (mail backlog).
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We were held up 45+ days in filling the latest FED/GA returns.
It seems the IRS failed to provide a Social Security Admin form needed for SSA retirees to file late into Feb. 2022. Then took the Tax S/w people a week+ to add it.
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And - try calling the IRS for anything. I haven't gotten through on my last four calls. My old CPA boss said in an e-mail last month - 'the tax system is in shambles'. No argument here.
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig testified to the Senate Finance Committee today. Rettig said agents are only picking up one in five taxpayer phone calls.
Rettig said: “We are currently running around 19 to 20 percent level of service.”
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I filed my taxes a couple of weeks ago and haven't heard back. Nor have they taken the money from my account. I am wondering - if they don't take it before the 18th - will I have to pay a penalty?
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if they don't take it before the 18th - will I have to pay a penalty?
If you mailed a hard copy to them Return Receipt, you have a signed record of when they got it, Crazy Fool, useful for discussing the question with them. Beyond that, I don’t know.
[IsraelTimes] Army chief Kohavi instructs military to focus operations on towns from which recent forces of Evil came; Tel Aviv attacker said to have crossed gap in barrier near Umm al-Fahm
Israel Defense Forces chief Aviv Kohavi on Friday said the military will ramp up activities in the northern West Bank, following several deadly terror incidents involving Paleostinians from the Jenin region and as officials reportedly believe the Paleostinian Authority is losing control of the area. Speaking to soldiers at the Ofer military base, Kohavi said he believes security challenges will remain for many days to come and hinted at an operation in Jenin.
"If we are going to clash with the forces of Evil anyway, I prefer it be in Jenin," Kohavi said, according to Channel 13. The city is located in the northern West Bank close to the border with Israel.
Channel 13 said Israeli forces may be preparing for an operation in the northern West Bank as soon as this weekend.
Earlier on Friday, Kohavi instructed the IDF to expand and increase offensive operations in the West Bank, especially in northern towns from which recent forces of Evil came.
The button men who carried out the deadly attacks in Bnei Brak last month and Tel Aviv on Thursday came from the Jenin area.
Last week, Israeli troops attempted to arrest a team of forces of Evil on its way to an attack. Three Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... members were killed in the ensuing firefight near Jenin and four Israeli soldiers were maimed.
According to the Kan public broadcaster, the Paleostinian Authority is being challenged for control of the area around Jenin by both the Islamic Jihad terror group and members of Fatah, the Paleostinian faction ostensibly led by PA President 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.... Israeli officials want the PA to crack down on terror in the area, but fear it will not be able to, according to Friday news reports.
Kohavi also ordered the military to ramp up defensive operations in the "seam zone" border area along the Green Line separating Israel and the West Bank.
Kohavi told soldiers on Friday night that the terrorist who carried out Thursday’s terror shooting in Tel Aviv, Ra’ad Hazem, crossed into Israel through a gap in the barrier.
Officials suspect Hazem was driven from Jenin to the northern Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm
... base of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the militant arm of the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood....
through a gap in the fence, and from there took a bus to Tel Aviv to carry out the attack, according to Hebrew media reports.
The suspect who drove Hazem is known to security forces, Ynet said.
Uh oh. Someone’s in trouble...
There are many gaps in the West Bank barrier, and the IDF has dispatched thousands of troops in recent weeks to the seam zone area to prevent Paleostinians from crossing into Israel. Kohavi told the troops that the attacker should not have been able to cross into Israel and that it is the IDF’s responsibility to prevent such border infiltrations.
On Friday, troops thwarted an attempt to smuggle an M16 assault rifle and ammunition from the West Bank into Israel near the northern city of Tulkarm.
Channel 12 said security forces were looking into the possibility that other people knew about Hazem’s plan to carry out a terror attack and did not act to stop him. At the moment though, the belief of the security establishment was that Hazem acted alone using a pistol he acquired in the West Bank.
The Shin Bet had in the past declined to grant Hazem an entry permit, but he had a thorough knowledge of Tel Aviv and the neighboring Arab-majority city of Jaffa after entering Israel illegally on a number of previous occasions, reports said.
Senior security officials told the Walla news site that Hazem had crossed into Israel through a hole in the security barrier near Jenin, even though the military recently fortified the fence in that area.
Hazem suffered from a limp, which could be seen in security camera footage in the moments before the attack. He was shot in the leg during an incident in the West Bank several years ago, but the reason, nature and Hazem’s role in the incident remained unclear.
The Shin Bet said earlier Friday that he had "no clear organizational affiliation, no security background and no previous arrests," but security officials had previously known Hazem as being a hacker, reports said.
His father, Fathi Hazem, is a former security prisoner who previously served as an officer in the Paleostinian Authority’s security services in Jenin.
[IsraelTimes] Thursday night’s terror attack has drawn several comparisons to a similar attack at a bar just down the street in 2016, in which Arab Israeli man Nashat Milhelm opened fire on the Simta pub, and then escaped back to his home in Wadi Ara within hours. Two people were killed at the pub, and Milhelm also killed a taxi driver as he fled.
He was eventually found in his hometown of Arara after a week-long manhunt. In contrast, shooter Ra’ad Hazem was found just 10 hours after the shooting, hiding out in nearby Jaffa.
Channel 12 news reports that Hazem also planned on escaping home, in his case to the West Bank, but was stymied by a decision to set up checkpoints on roads leading out of Tel Aviv toward the West Bank or northern Israel. Instead, he was shot and killed in a shootout with forces outside a Jaffa mosque.
According to Kan, Hazem did not visit the mosque before the shooting, but went straight to Tel Aviv, where he walked around before eventually carrying out the attack. Earlier reports had indicated he had been there before the attack.
[israelTimes] Move comes just weeks after Tehran said it set up another site for producing centrifuges in Isfahan, where UN watchdog doesn’t have access to data collected by its cameras.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... has shifted all the centrifuge production equipment from a nuclear site allegedly targeted by Israel to the underground Natanz facility, according to a Wednesday report.
Citing a statement from ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, Rooters said the move came just six weeks after Tehran had established another site at Isfahan equipped with the machines required to produce centrifuges.
In February, Iran informed the UN nuclear watchdog it had stopped production at the Karaj workshop after the site was allegedly struck last June in an Israeli "sabotage" operation.
Tehran initially refused to allow IAEA inspectors into the site to replace the cameras damaged in the alleged attack, but in December struck an agreement with the watchdog and new cameras were installed.
Weeks later, however, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said the agency was informed by Tehran of its intention "to produce centrifuge rotor tubes and bellows at a new location in Isfahan."
Grossi noted the IAEA "could adjust its surveillance and monitoring measures accordingly."
"A few days later, Agency inspectors applied seals on all the relevant machines in the Karaj workshop, placed them under containment and then removed the surveillance cameras installed there," he said at the time.
And on January 24, IAEA inspectors set up cameras at a site in Isfahan "to ensure the machines intended for the production of centrifuge rotor tubes and bellows were under monitoring," the UN watchdog said.
But the IAEA does not currently have access to the data collected by its cameras at the new Isfahan workshop under the agreement with Tehran, and not much is known about the site in Isfahan.
"Without access to the data and recordings collected by these cameras, the agency is unable to confirm whether the production of centrifuge components at the workshop in Isfahan has begun," the report sent out Wednesday to IAEA member states said.
Last April, the Natanz nuclear facility experienced a mysterious blackout that damaged some of its centrifuges. In 2020, unexplained fires struck the advanced centrifuge assembly plant at the site, which authorities later described as sabotage. Iran has said it was rebuilding the facility deep inside a nearby mountain.
[IsraelTimes] Yaakov Cohen, 32, faces up to 14 years in prison after admitting to his role in the brutal beating of Saeed Mousa last May.
A Tel Aviv court on Thursday convicted a second man for his involvement in a mob attack on an Arab motorist during a spasm of communal violence last year.
The incident took place in May, when a mob yanked Saeed Mousa from his car and proceeded to beat him in an assault that left him motionless and bloodied on the ground, and seriously injured.
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[IsraelTimes] Waqf estimates around 80,000 Paleostinians worshiped at Jerusalem holy site; several dozen chant pro-Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, slogans; additional forces deployed in city after Tel Aviv terror attack
Tens of thousands of Paleostinians attended afternoon prayers at the Temple Mount for the first Friday of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, as Israeli security forces were on high alert in Jerusalem following the deadly terror attack in Tel Aviv the night before.
Many West Bank Paleostinians crossed into Israel to pray at the holy site on Friday morning, in accordance with relaxed restrictions on movement during Ramadan.
A Waqf official said around 80,000 worshippers prayed at the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, a significantly lower number than usual.
"During a normal Ramadan Friday, we would expect to see as many as 200,000," Azzam al-Khatib said in a phone call.
Khatib said fewer worshippers arrived from the West Bank than expected, although he declined to comment further as to why.
"Some people were scared to come, because of what happened yesterday, and we were worried they’d close off the West Bank. But they’re here, praise God," said Adam, an East Jerusalem Paleostinian who works at a shop in the Old City.
The prayers ended peacefully, though tension in the air was palpable following Thursday’s terror shooting in Tel Aviv, with both police and IDF deploying additional forces across Jerusalem.
Many coppers were deployed around Damascus Gate, where daily festivities have erupted between Paleostinians and security forces since the start of Ramadan last weekend. Fences tightly directed the tide of worshippers out of the plaza as Border Police look on.
As the majority of Paleostinian worshippers left the Old City, several dozen remained on the Temple Mount, chanting pro-Hamas slogans.
"Put sword next to sword, we’re Mohammad Deif’s men," the Paleostinians chant, referring to the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -ruling terror group’s shadowy military commander.
[Dawn] Two suspected bandidosgunnies belonging to a banned outfit have been killed in a heavy exchange of fire with security forces in the Singi area of Mashkey in Awaran district.
According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday, security forces conducted an operation on information about the presence of bandidosgunnies in the Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... Singi area near Mashkey between the night of April 7 and 8.
Security forces seized illegal arms and ammunition, which were intended to be used for disrupting peace and security in the area.
During the operation, Lance Havaldar Raj Wali Khan and Sepoy Osama Khan embraced martyrdom, while one officer got injured in the exchange of fire.
The ISPR said when troops started taking positions in the area, the bandidosgunnies tried to escape from their hideout and opened fire on the security forces.
"Terrorists belonging to BLF [Baloch Liberation Front] have been killed in the ensuing heavy exchange of fire," the ISPR said, adding that these bandidosgunnies were involved in different incidents in Awaran district and its surrounding areas.
[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces have arrested a 60-year-old man who reportedly stabbed a Coptic archpriest to death in the city of Alexandria on Thursday evening.
Arsanios Wadid, the Priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary and Mar Boulos in the Karmouz neighbourhood of the Meharam Bek district, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria said on its Facebook page.
Wadid, 56, was transported to Mostafa Kamel Military Hospital in Sidi Gaber neighbourhood, but he departed this vale of tears, the church said.
Investigations are underway to disclose the stabber’s identity and motives, the church added.
"The church eulogises this blessed father who committed his life to God, and gave his life today to him in an honest martyrdom," it said.
The victim was stabbed with a knife while walking along the Mediterranean Corniche in the Sidi Bishr district, according to statement by the Ministry of Interior.
Wadid, born in 1966, was ordained to the priesthood in 1995 by the late Pope Shenouda III, the former head of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
[AlAhram] The church held the funeral for the 56-year-old Wadid at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria.
On Thursday, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb condemned the crime and presented his condolences to the victim's family, the Coptic Orthodox Church and Egyptian Christians.
[Rudaw] Around 450 Iraqi families with affiliation to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) have been transferred out of al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, an Iraqi official told Rudaw on Friday, adding that the transferred families will need to go through rehabilitation programs before they’re sent back to their original places of residence in the country.
"The number of families that have been transferred from the al-Hol camp is around 450. Around 8,000 families numbering 31,000 individuals remain in al-Hol camp," the spokesperson of Iraq’s ministry of migration and displaced, Ali Abbas, told Rudaw on Friday.
Iraqis have made up more than half of the population of the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) for years, most of them wives and children of suspected ISIS fighters, more than half of whom are under the age of 18. In January, the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) put the population of the camp at 56,000.
Abbas added that the families would first be transferred to al-Jada camp in Nineveh province where they would be subjected to rehabilitation programs, before being sent back to their original places of residence. The families are returned on the basis of bails from relatives and tribal elders.
Mainly under federal Iraqi control, al-Jada houses families with suspected links to ISIS. Last December, Iraqi authorities announced their intention to close the camp, but have faced difficulties in this so far.
The programs, conducted by the camp’s directorate and in coordination with international organizations, are mainly aimed at children, women, and the elderly. Nonetheless, all the individuals in the camp must pass a variety of health, social, and psychological rehabilitation programs in order to be sent home, according to Abbas.
Two orphaned British children were returned to the UK from camps in northeast Syria, Save the Children said on Wednesday.
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On Friday, an individual was shot dead by unidentified armed attackers in the western countryside of Daraa, south Syria.
Odayy Taher Roba’i was shot dead by unidentified armed men in the village of Tel Shihab, local sources told North Press.
“Roba’i was transferred to the National Hospital in Tafas town in the western countryside of Daraa where he succumbed to his injuries,” the sources added.
“Roba’i, who hailed from Sahem al-Golan village in Yarmouk Basin in the western countryside of Daraa, had previously operated within the ranks of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS),” the sources noted.
“Roba’i stoped operating within ISIS ranks in 2016 and settled in Tel Shihab village.”
Alternate headline: Former ISIS Turban Toes Up
Daraa governorate is witnessing an increase in the number of assassinations especially in the western countryside which is under the control of the military security branch of the Syrian government forces.
[BBC] ...But it's not just their exquisite condition that's turning heads - it's what these ancient specimens are purported to represent.
The claim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck Earth.
The impact site has been identified in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsula. That's some 3,000km away from Tanis, but such was the energy imparted in the event, its devastation was felt far and wide.
The North Dakota fossil site is a chaotic jumble.
The day 66 million years ago Regrettably, their Zoomers were completely destroyed, so no exact date available.
when the reign of the dinosaurs ended and the rise of mammals began.
The remains of animals and plants seem to have been rolled together into a sediment dump by waves of river water set in train by unimaginable earth tremors. Aquatic organisms are mixed in with the land-based creatures.
The sturgeon and paddlefish in this fossil tangle are key. They have small particles stuck in their gills. These are the spherules of molten rock kicked out from the impact that then fell back across the planet. The fish would have breathed in the particles as they entered the river.
The spherules have been linked chemically and by radiometric dating to the Mexican impact location, and in two of the particles recovered from preserved tree resin there are also tiny inclusions that imply an extra-terrestrial origin...
On Friday, a security source said that terrorists stormed a gas station in Al-Anbar Governorate, western Iraq.
"Armed elements believed to have belonged to ISIS kidnapped a team member in a gas station in Al-Rutba district of Al-Anbar then fled to an unknown destination." A source told Shafaq News Agency.
A security force arrived at the scene and carried out an operation to find the terrorists.
[THEFEDERALIST] Republicans are turning against the corporations that are telling the country what to do on everything from election security to education. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been exemplary in his response to Disney trying to bully the state over a new law that, among other things, restricts classroom discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity for young children. DeSantis has not only pushed back rhetorically, but has also suggested eliminating some of the special treatment Disney gets from the state.
As Biden continues to fail, Republicans will lambast Democrats for caring more about pushing culture war radicalism (e.g., transitioning kids without telling their parents) than addressing crime and inflation. Big Business could easily become another Republican target as class war and culture war merge. It was, after all, the fight over the Florida law that really pushed Disney’s efforts to "queer children" out into the open. And there are plenty of other targets, such as the Big Tech companies that censor the news, ban conservatives, and prey on children.
As conservatives wonder why they should protect corporations that hate them and their values, the corporate alliance with the Left is still tenuous. The Bernie Bros may not be done with the Democrats just yet.
Although many on the left have been satisfied by Big Business joining their side of the culture war, there are still constituencies on the left for anti-corporate politics. Indebted, left-leaning college graduates who can’t get good jobs may decide that woke capital is still too capitalist. Workers may not be quiet just because they are now oppressed by an LGBT CEO or having their salaries and benefits squeezed by a racially diverse corporate board.
Furthermore, a corporation that is woke enough to satisfy the internal mob will tend to creep normal people out, as Disney’s entry into the Florida fight shows. Disney isn’t going to go broke anytime soon, but leaked videos of Disney leadership discussing how they promote LGBT ideology and identities to children are going to cost it some customers.
This sort of radicalism may also alienate workers, especially given the propensity of woke ideology to induce bloat and incompetence. Just look at universities, where an ever-expanding array of diversity staffers rake in cash while actual teaching is mostly done by underpaid adjuncts and graduate assistants. Businesses have followed suit — diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting is worth billions of dollars a year, and even sympathetic coverage cannot hide that it is mostly a racket.
Thus, although corporate wokeness is rarely immediate suicide, it may still be toxic in the long run, alienating non-woke customers and employees. And as Republicans adjust to having Big Business as a foil, rather than an ally, corporate activism may lose its potency.
There are concerns on the left that Democrats have become too reliant on corporate power to win in the culture war. Republicans around the country could win a lot of political victories, and enact a lot of popular conservative policies, while left-wing salaried workers in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, protest and demand that their employers do something about what is happening in, say, Florida.
The allure of going woke was obvious; it placates left-wing employees, plays well in the social class that business leaders belong to, and buys political goodwill from Democrats. It allows CEOs, investment bankers, and the professional-managerial class that serves them to pose as the good guys even while being ruthlessly greedy. It seemed, in short, like it was all for the best — so long as Republicans remained quiescent.
But conservatives may be less subservient to business interests than expected. That miscalculation could end up costing woke capital dearly, with Wall Street and Big Business taking fire from all sides.
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Let's start by going back to the original copyright period of 14 years with an extension of another 14 years by application of the individual original artist. To hell with 'international' conventions, be American.
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Slap some more tariffs on the plastic crap produced by slave labor in China that some of these companies import.
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DeSantis is a populist where Mitch McConnell is a corporatist except he is more of a kleptocrat. The big difference is the level of corruption as well as which master you serve: the people or special interest.
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Yup, thoroughly matches what I thought about business interests, and attempts by businesses to dominate Conservatives. We conservatives should make every effort to whip the likes of woke businesses - Disney - Big Tech - and their ilk back into shape.
I think all the Conservative Single Ladies, Mothers and Grandmothers should dress for the occasion (not unlike what the "pu--y girls" did against Trump) and lead the charge against the woke companies. As a shareholder (it only takes 1 share) they have the right to petition against the direction the publicly traded company is on, and the potential jeopardy and financial injury to the stockholders the company's polices may make to the bottom line.
(the graphic is but a suggestion, the less than subservient ladies might wear)
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[KP] - Is your phone turned off? - ask the gunners at the positions of self-propelled artillery mounts.
- You offend, - I show the airplane icon on the screen - airplane mode.
- We even pulled out sim cards just in case. The Americans stuffed them with all sorts of fashionable devices. Calculate at a time.
Nearby, the fighters are puffing at the KamAZ - they are changing a punctured tire. Recently, a Hurricane cluster munition flew into position, slightly shaking the trucks. This roving multiple launch rocket launcher has been rattling nerves for days now.
Either Izyum will cover, then they will “throw” on the positions. Constantly moves and manages to get away from return fire. Of course, one "Hurricane" cannot undermine the combat capability of the Russian troops. Moreover, judging by the single launches, there is not much ammunition on the other side.
- To the trench! Fast! - cluster munitions begin to burst in the sky, we pour ourselves into a prudently dug shelter in advance. – Again he!
It subsides. We get to the surface. Long-range artillery changes location. "Saushki" (self-propelled artillery mounts) begin to hit the positions of Ukrainian troops, which slowly roll back to the south, along the Kharkiv-Slavyansk highway. The main efforts of the Russian troops in this direction are now focused on moving towards the city - a symbol of Russian resistance in Donbass in 2014. And there will definitely not be an easy walk here.
- They work smart. If they see that it is pointless to defend themselves, they roll back to previously prepared positions, the scouts of the Vistula division tell me.
- If the next echelon of defense is not yet ready, then they will resist to the last, as here, in Kamenka. They have these Javelins and NLAWs (anti-tank missile systems) here, like a grandmother of pickles in the cellar. At each hut, at each crossroads, they were simply piled up. They ran up, pulnuli - and into the basement. Moreover, Javelins in most cases do not penetrate the armor of our tanks. So they hit the guns and rollers. And snipers - on sights. And what is a tank without an aiming system?
HERO WARRIORS
Kamenka itself today differs little from Nikishino in the Donetsk region, or Khryashchevaty in the Luhansk region in 2014. All the villages, through which the war swept in full force, are similar to each other. When almost every house has been turned into a firing point, there is no time for sentimentality.
Both sides are thinking about how to complete the task and survive, and not about the safety of the civilian sector. Although the Russian side is still trying to maintain a peaceful infrastructure. But the Ukrainians, as if in retaliation, retreating, burns all the bridges behind her. Both literally and figuratively. After all, we got here by a pontoon ferry, built instead of a blown-up bridge.
- You are talking about doctors, write about our heroes! - the soldiers of the Vistula division, operating in this direction, meet us. How many people have they saved?
The commander of the second medical platoon, as befits a real hero, modestly reports:
- The fighting here was heavy, the number of sanitary losses was greater - mine-blast injuries, shrapnel wounds, penetrating, blind, through. They provided assistance, evacuated to a helipad and then to hospitals in Russia.
- This is your first war, what hooked you the most? I ask the young paramedic standing next to me.
- A lot of comrades were killed. And so ... Well, it was not in vain that I was taught medical science, I was prepared for everything. I calculated everything, understood what I was doing point by point.
TROPHY TANK
For many of these young guys, Kamenka has become a baptism of fire. Here they looked death in the eyes for the first time in their lives. They were able to survive and even show ingenuity in battle. The scouts are calling to show their main trophy - the T-72B tank, which they took without a single shot. It already flaunts tactical signs "Z".
- They went to us, - says a young Caucasian officer. - At first they wanted to “blow it out” with an RPG. But I took off my Russian equipment, I went up to the tank, the commander was riding in the hatch.
I start to improvise: “Sanya, hello! Where is Leha? He relaxed, completely crawls out, the gunner too. I jump on a tank with a peam (Makarov pistol): everyone, come on, guys, get out. We arrived. "Don't shoot!" they shout. Threw them out of the tank, the mechanic had to be smoked out. So they took the car.
HOW "ANTI RUSSIA" HAS BEEN TEMPERED
The fighters lay out other trophies - grenade launchers, a machine gun and ... books.
- Look what they read - "Invasion of Ukraine: a chronicle of Russian aggression." Edition 2016. Did you know beforehand?
- Where did you get it? I ask the guy.
- In the club, let's go and take you.
We get to know each other along the way. Lekha is a 19-year-old mobilized from the LPR, a resident of Lugansk. In 2014-15, during active battles in the Donbass, he did not leave the city anywhere and imagines what artillery shelling is. Studied in the second year of a local ped. I decided not to run from mobilization. Lyokha leads me to the second floor - to the library. To find a book in Russian, you have to work hard.
The bulk of the reading is on the move. And what's not here. "Airport" - about the Ukrainian "cyborgs" who fought at the Donetsk airport. "Anexia" - about the Crimea. There are more exotic options - here is a thick volume “Ukraine. Chronology of development - from ancient times to late antiquity. Or, for example, "The Wars of Russia against Ukraine in the XII-XXI centuries."
Here you have the "expansion" of Muscovy to the lands of Kievan Rus, and "special military operations" against the Hetmanate, and the struggle with Bolshevik Russia for independence in 1917-1921, and the struggle for the independence of Ukraine in 1941-mid-1950s ... And this pseudo-scientific slag filled half the library. If suddenly someone else had questions about how the Anti-Russia project was formed. And these books were published not somewhere in Poland, but in Kyiv, in Lvov, in the Poltava region ... True, judging by the empty library insert, such works were not very popular in Kamenka.
- But they are driven in all this at school, - Lech complains. “Something had to be done about it sooner or later.
We say goodbye to the peasants, they go further, to where the front rumbles continuously, continuing to approach Slavyansk.
Aleksandr Kots is prior service Russian airborne and a writer for Komsomol Pravda
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He seems most upset over the Ukrainian histories. Maybe he should travel more, maybe read something not Kremlin-blessed.
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Moreover, Javelins in most cases do not penetrate the armor of our tanks.
...You sure about that, Gospodin?
Mike
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DeepL translates technical vocabularies better than Google and will let you create and save a glossary so you don't have to go back and translate all of the idioms manually each time.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:18 In Kherson, on one of the buildings in the city center, local residents removed the old Ukrainian flag and hung the flag of the Russian Federation. 22:27 The main thing from the briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: The RF Armed Forces destroyed a large depot of rocket and artillery weapons near the settlement of Nimirovskoye, Odessa region; Aviation equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed at the Kanatovo military airfield in the Kirovograd region; The operation of the group of troops of the Russian Federation and the DPR to completely liberate the city of Mariupol continues.
21:33 Russian air defense in the area of the settlement of Novomikhailovka shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 aircraft in the air.
21:29 Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 54 military facilities of Ukraine.
20:59 Aviation equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces was destroyed at the Kanatovo military airfield in the Kirovohrad region.
20:27 High-precision air-launched missiles destroyed a large warehouse of missile and artillery weapons near the village of Nimirovskoye, Odessa region
20:07 A curfew has been announced in the Odessa region.
18:48 Subdivisions of the RF Armed Forces and the NM of the DPR entered the territory of the Mariupol port. The territory is cleaned from the remnants of the Nazis.
17:46 Chechen fighters and Russian marines are clearing Mariupol square by square. Artillery is used only when it is no longer possible to clear the territory from Ukrainian militants with small arms alone.
16:51 Russian marines are removing streamers in the yards of Mariupol.
16:50 In Melitopol, the distribution of targeted humanitarian aid continues.
15:52 The Russian military is taking people out of the Kherson region - in some places there are still battles between the Russian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
15:04 The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to recapture the village of Topolskoye, which is south-west of Izyum, but suffered heavy losses and are now hitting it with MLRS
14:04 In Kherson, on the island at the gas station of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, the Russian Guard detained a group of Ukrainian marauders.
12:53 Ex-deputy of the Rada Zhuravko noted a decrease in the morale of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and connected this with rumors about the removal of organs from the wounded.
12:52 Explosions were again heard in the Belgorod region today, the head of the Volokonovsky district, Sergei Biketov, said. “Everything is calm in the area. There were no damages, no fires, and there were no complaints from citizens about the victims. We understand for sure that this is not shelling,” he said.
11:37 Serviceman of the 25th Specialized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry said that most of the Ukrainian soldiers used drugs.
10:53 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 97 helicopters, 421 unmanned aerial vehicles, 228 long-range and medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems, 2019 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 223 multiple rocket launchers, 874 field artillery guns and mortars have been destroyed , as well as 1917 units of special military vehicles.
10:24 Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces and missile forces hit 81 military facilities of Ukraine.
10:19 Russian air defense systems shot down in the air two Ukrainian military helicopters Mi-8 and Mi-24 near the village of Staraya Zburyevka, as well as five unmanned aerial vehicles, including two in the Kryvyi Rih region - "Bayraktar TB-2" .
10:17 High-precision missiles of the Bastion coastal missile system in the area of the settlement of Krasnoselka northeast of Odessa destroyed the Center for the Collection and Training of Foreign Mercenaries.
10:03 High-precision air-based missiles in the Donetsk region at the railway stations of Pokrovk, Slavyansk, Barvenkovo destroyed the weapons and military equipment of the reserves of Ukrainian troops who arrived in Donbass.
10:00 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine.
08:32 Over the past day, more than 21,000 refugees from the territory of Ukraine, as well as the republics of Donbass, crossed the Russian border.
"Cutting gas and petrol imports [from Russia], that will be a tragedy for French families,” Le Pen told French radio RTL. “I’m sorry to tell you, my priority is to defend the purchasing power of French families,” she said.
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Intestinal Fortitude, or, Who Stole the Keeshka?
When it comes to indelicate victuallings,
Americans brook no belittlings.
The stink of our tripas
May reach Tamaulipas
But only the gutless shun chitlins.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:37 When staying in residential high-rise buildings, VFU alternate floors: one floor is nationalists, the second floor is civilians -Denis Pushilin 22:28 A total of 160 settlements have been liberated in the DPR at the moment - Denis Pushilin.
21:47 Yesterday and the day before yesterday, in Izyum, the DRG of Ukraine, up to a platoon, tried to enter the positions of the troops of the NM DPR near the village of Donetsk. After a short shooting battle, the enemy retreated to a forest plantation, took cover and was covered by a TOS strike.
21:33 NM DPR: Kramatorsk was fired upon by rocketmen from the same brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that hit Donetsk with Tochka-U on March 14.
[…] “This is the same brigade that fired at that time in Donetsk, along Universitetskaya Street… The launch was north of Krasnoarmeysk, in principle, the same area.”
20:22 Ukrainian troops fired more than 200 shells and mines across the DPR on Friday.
19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian Nazis have fired more than 200 shells at the DPR, using 122mm artillery, 120mm mortars and Grad MLRS. Eight settlements came under fire, nine residential buildings and seven civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.
19:00 Today, three civilians of the DPR were injured under the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army, have destroyed 42 Ukrainian nationalists, three firing positions of 12mm D-30 artillery howitzers, one 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system and two armored vehicles. Two infantry fighting vehicles and one cargo vehicle were captured.
18:42 Half an hour ago, in the area of the city administration of Maryinka, nationalists in civilian clothes entered the bomb shelter and drove people out of there. They said they needed it.
17:17 The death toll as a result of the shelling of the railway station of Kramatorsk has increased to 39 people, another 87 were injured.
17:16 In Schastya in the LPR, the first supermarket of a nationwide network has opened. Residents were pleased with the cost and variety of products presented.
17:14 Three settlements of the DPR were left without electricity as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Nazis.
17:13 During the day, 262 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, including 45 children.
17:12 Kiev militants fired on Yasinovataya in the DPR, firing seven rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:10 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Yelenovka in the DPR, firing five shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:42 Kiev Nazis fired at the village of Yelenovka and Donetsk, fired 12 shells at them with a caliber of 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:41 Ukrainian punishers opened fire on Golmovsky in the DPR, firing six 122 mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:40 Kiev militants fired at Pervomaisk in the LPR, firing five shells of 122 mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:58 In Donetsk, they decided to stop the activities of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
13:24 Rubizhne in the LPR is under heavy fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The entire southern part is in smoke.
12:46 The Russian Ministry of Defense denied the statements of the Kiev regime about allegedly launching a missile attack on the railway station of Kramatorsk in the occupied part of the DPR:
“On April 8, the Russian armed forces did not have any fire missions in the city of Kramatorsk and were not planned.”
12:31 The strike on the railway station in Kramatorsk was a provocation of the Ukrainian security forces - the representative of the People's Militia of the DPR Basurin.
12:31 According to preliminary data, 27 people, including two children, were killed as a result of a missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk.
12:26 "Tochka-U", which hit Kramatorsk, was allegedly released from the southwestern territory controlled by Kiev. The version of a shot down projectile does not work: in this case, there would be no ejected cluster munitions.
12:25 An inscription "For children" was found on the "Tochka-U" rocket in Kramatorsk. This is a characteristic feature of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which left such messages back in 2014. This indirectly confirms that they are the ones responsible for the attack.
12:24 More than 30 people became victims of the strike on Kramatorsk. About a hundred more were injured of varying severity.
12:23 Kadyrov: Mariupol is 98 percent liberated. Only separately fortified shelters of Bandera remained, including the Azovstal plant, which the Nazis converted into a real fortress.
The rabble of Bandera, as we are convinced, did not waste time all these years. They dug, like gophers, their own holes in case it would be very bad. But we pulled out of the deeper tunnels in the dense forests of the Chechen Republic much more expressively than the hissing rats, and we can even cope with these. In the end, and Hitler ended up in a bunker, and therefore his passionate fans in the same subways and destroy.
12:22 AFU fired at Yelenovka in the DPR, using artillery with a caliber of 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:30 Ukrainian Nazis hit about Kramotorska (DPR), which is under their control, using Tochka-U. rocket fragments fell near the station.
11:24 Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on the villages of Horlivka. The power line in Mikhailovka and the transformer in Komarov were damaged. In the village of Michurin, a residential building was damaged.
11:07 The government has increased funding for payments to residents of the DPR, LPR and Ukraine who came to Russia - the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation.
11:06 Ukrainian Nazis fired at a school in Rubizhne (LPR), where humanitarian water distribution was taking place. Seven people died.
11:05 Kiev militants fired at Aleksandrovka in the DPR, firing ten rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:04 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR destroyed 34 Ukrainian militants.
10:25 Basurin: Everything is going according to plan. We approached [from below] the key points, and from the north - this is Izyum, which is completely controlled by the Russian armed forces, the road between Slavyansk and Kharkov is cut off. And slowly they begin to go down in order to pincer the group that is in the Donbass. This is a large group, Ukrainian politicians say that there are about 90,000 here. And they are ready to help, if you make some kind of counterattack, this is 30,000 in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
10:00 Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian Nazis fired more than 250 ammunition into the DPR, using 122mm and 152mm artillery, 120mm mortars and Grad MLRS. Ten settlements were under fire. In total, 43 residential buildings, one car and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.
10:00 Over the past day, under the fire of Ukrainian punishers, 23 civilians of the DPR, including one child, were injured.
10:00 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR destroyed 73 Ukrainian nationalists, 11 firing points, including three mortar crews, two armored vehicles, one infantry fighting vehicle and one cargo vehicle. Two 122mm multiple launch rocket systems BM-21 Grad, two 120mm mortars and two cargo vehicles were captured.
10:00 During the day, 11 militants of the 56th, 54th and 25th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily laid down their arms and went over to the side of the DPR.
09:22 Kiev militants fired at Yasinovataya in the DPR, using the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:22 Ukrainian Nazis fired eight shells of 122mm caliber at Yelenovka in the DPR. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:22 Ukrainian punishers fired at Golmovsky in the DPR, firing 29 grenades at him from the AGS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:22 During the day, more than 580 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, out of 102 - children.
08:50 Under the fire of Ukrainian punishers, a civilian Yasinovataya in the DPR suffered.
08:20 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Donetsk in the LPR, firing seven shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:19 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Yasinovataya in the DPR, firing eight rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:17 Kiev militants shelled four settlements in the DPR in the morning. They fired 22 122mm shells and six 120mm mines. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:14 Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire four times on the territory of the LPR. Two settlements of the republic came under fire. Kiev Nazis used 152mm artillery and 120mm mortars.
ISIS plans to launch a "Ghazwa (a war guided by faith)" on areas in the center and east of Baghdad in the holy month of Ramadan. A security source told Shafaq News Agency.
The source said that the available information showed that ISIS plans to target the Bab Al-Sharqi and the surrounding areas, the New Baghdad region, Karrada within the Rusafa side, and other locations where citizens are overcrowded.
The terrorist organization intends to send suicide bombers wearing explosive belts or a car bomb from Saladin to Baghdad.
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The mounting pressure exerted on ISIS terrorist groups sheltering in enclaves on the outskirts of Diyala, Saladin, and Kirkuk, has incited administrative disputes inside these groups, a senior Peshmerga officer revealed on Friday.
The Deputy Commander of the Peshmerga's 2nd axis (Qara Tappa-Hemrin), Major-General Muhammad Rustom, told Shafaq News Agency, "the members of the terrorist groups engaged in conflicts over leadership inside the so-called 'Wilayas' (Provinces), following the beating the remnants of the terrorist organization have been getting at the Peshmerga axes."
"The Peshmerga have been tracking the heatmap of ISIS inside its jurisdiction: the peril of ISIS has been limited to small groups and even individuals."
"We have not registered abductions inside our territory," the Peshmerga commander said, "the terrorist group attempted to depict a dispute between Arab and Kurd shepherds over the frontiers of Kurdistan-Saladin as a proof of their activity there."
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[NavalNews] On the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian warships appeared off a small rock in the Black Sea. Snake Island was, it turned out, minimally defended. But it is strategically located and could potentially provide intelligence to Ukrainian forces about shipping in the area. And taking the island could be symbolic of Russia’s expected victory.
History will remember the reaction of the defenders. Border guard Roman Hrybov famously replied to demands to surrender “Russian warship, go F*** yourself!“. The warship sitting off the island was none other than Moskva, the most powerful warship in the Black Sea.
A Slava class cruiser, Moskva is imposing in both size and armament. She is also, naturally, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet. Once the island was taken, and Moskva settled in to a wartime routine. Read the rest at the link
Alternate headline: Known Wolf Hunts in Sheep’s Clothing.
[IBTIMES.SG] The 28-year-old victim, whose identity has not been revealed, had just flown in from Salt Lake City and was looking for a cab when Fernando Avila Hernandez, pretending to be an Uber driver and offered to give her a ride to her hotel, NBC Miami reported Thursday.
Hernandez then dropped the woman off at a hotel where she alerted the hotel's staff members about the alleged attack. The suspect was later arrested after cops examined surveillance footage and recognized him from an unrelated incident.
Uber told NBC that Hernandez has not worked for them since 2021 and was not authorized to pick up fares. Hernandez is now facing multiple sex raps. His attorney, Bijan Sebastian Parwaresch, told NBC that his client was innocent. "We're highly objecting to the notion of an unconsensual sexual encounter," he said.
A novel defense.
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[IsraelTimes] Second-largest auto insurer in the US apologizes for planned event with prominent Palestinian-American activist, who supports BDS movement and has been accused of antisemitism.
#6
I know that there had to be some kind of meeting, likely on Zoom, in which her hiring would have been pitched by a person who was excited about the idea to other people who enthusiastically approved the hiring on some rationale. I just can't fathom what could be said to convince people to do stuff that reduces their Market Cap by 20% with one gesture.
I have never been to Business School. Maybe they teach that in an elective that all the executives take because it's easy and doesn't require essays.
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I just can't fathom what could be said to convince people to do stuff that reduces their Market Cap by 20% with one gesture.
“She ticks all the boxes, guys! She was one of the organizers of the 2017 anti-Trump women’s march, she’s a Woman of Color, she’s Moslem, a BLM organizer, on one of President Biden’s advisory committees, Trump hates her, she’s Palestinian, and she wears that funny headscarf!”
What are you talking about? GEICO is privately held. Its one of the jewels in the crown for Berkshire Hathaway, and Warren Buffett's best investment ever, extremely well-managed. Buffett invested $47m originally in GEICO and his stake returned over 40-fold, to $2b, within a decade.
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[RIA] Recently, a fashion has appeared in the West for direct appeals to the Russian people, sometimes using clumsy Russian-language phrases. This tradition was founded a couple of weeks ago by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and in recent days has been creatively developed by the British media and Prime Minister Boris Johnson personally. The Daily Mirror newspaper even came out with the Russian-language headline "You Need to Know" on the front page. This is not counting the regular inclusions of such appeals to the Russians in the daily televised addresses of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
All authors of fiery speeches constantly proceed from one postulate: the inhabitants of Russia are deprived of the opportunity to receive "the truth about the events in Ukraine."
Compare here:
—Arnold Schwarzenegger : "I am writing to you today because events are taking place in the world that are being hidden from you."
—Daily Mirror: "Dear Russian friend. We are writing to you because we want you to know the truth about the war in Ukraine ... But we also know that there is no free press in Russia and you are being fed lies about the war in Ukraine every day."
—Boris Johnson : "Russians deserve the truth . You deserve to know the facts."
That is, they seriously decided there that the citizens of Russia are cut off from world news and, as in the good old days, they still listen to foreign "voices" through tube radios, trying to catch the sound that sometimes breaks through the "jammers". How badly they know our people and understand the situation in Russia!
This was clearly confirmed by Johnson, who imagines himself to be Prometheus, carrying secret knowledge about "fire" to the Russian people - in this case, about the mysterious abbreviation VPN. And how, one wonders, before Boris, we could guess about such a miracle of modern technology? If necessary, our people are ready to share this knowledge with the British, we do not mind.
I would like to remind Western critics who have suddenly "beloved the Russian people" that it is not Russia that has begun to turn on the "jammers", as it was during the Cold War. It is in the West, contrary to all their fairy tales about "freedom of speech" and their own laws, that they mercilessly began to clean up the information space from the Russian media and even from social media users who sympathize with Russia, who were branded with a single label "Kremlin propaganda". And our measures were just responsive and symmetrical.
Schwarzenegger and Co. really think that we have not seen footage of the destruction in Mariupol or other cities. Confessing his "love for the Russian people", Arnold refers to his childhood memories of a meeting with our great weightlifter Yuri Vlasov.
Ask Schwarzenegger now if he has heard anything about what has been going on for eight years and is still going on in Makeevka , the city where his childhood idol was born, the ex-governor of California will certainly be surprised.
Show him the footage of how the Ukrainian troops ironed this city in 2014-15, and ask why he didn’t remember the name of the great Vlasov then, he will shrug his shoulders, and nothing more. Kindergartens, schools, and hospitals in Makiivka were all subjected to shelling. But there were no such appeals to the Ukrainian people and to the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Western actors, politicians, writers. They were not interested in it.
Boris Johnson believes that the Russian viewer or reader has not heard anything about the events in Bucha at all. And as soon as we turn on the VPN and read the British press, the veil will immediately fall from our eyes.
Come on, he doesn’t even suspect that somewhere, but in our media the events in the town near Kiev are analyzed frame by frame, minute by minute, with reference to primary sources, including, first of all, Ukrainian ones. I have not seen in any Western publication such a detailed analysis of these horrific shots as we have. Perhaps that is why I did not see that a thorough analysis of the chronology of events in Bucha refutes the myths about "cruel Russians who executed defenseless people."
ZAKHAROVA ACCUSED WESTERN JOURNALISTS OF COMPLICITY IN CRIMES IN BUCHA
For example, it is shown everywhere here by the mayor of Bucha, who solemnly declared on March 31 the city "liberated from Russian orcs." This is what we have shown footage in which this mayor (note, together with Ukrainian police detachments) is already on April 1 in the center of the town.
We are wondering where the heap of dead bodies is on the streets of a small settlement, which received the status of a city quite recently. It is in our media that the video of the National Police of Ukraine about the cleansing of Bucha, filmed on April 2, is being played. And at the same time, they quote a Ukrainian militant who asked for permission to shoot at people "without blue bandages."
For some reason, they are actively trying to clean up this video from the networks, but it is our media that bring it. Schwarzenegger and Johnson do not want to ask.
Or does someone in the West think that our public is not shown the "sensational" satellite images from Bucha that The New York Times shared and which allegedly prove that the bodies on the streets have been lying untouched since at least March 19? It was the Western media that obediently, without any critical analysis, repeated this thesis after the "enemy of the American people" (as Donald Trump lovingly called this newspaper).
Our journalists, however, analyzed these pictures in detail, posing questions that you just will not find on the pages of either this newspaper or any other Western one.
MOSKALKOVA COMMENTED ON THE FAKES ABOUT THE PROVOCATION IN BUCHA
For example, none of the numerous analysts in the West raised the question of how the bodies could have been so preserved and not decomposed for more than two weeks of warm weather. It was we who carefully analyzed the daily temperature in Kyiv and its environs starting from March 19 and found out that sometimes these days it reached 20 degrees Celsius there.
But the hordes of Western journalists who have flooded Bucha in recent days are calmly filming these bodies and do not even wonder why they do not need respirators to be near a place where the putrid smell should simply knock you down. There were no questions anywhere about why in more than two weeks none of the townspeople, neighbors, relatives, acquaintances of the dead missed them, found them on the streets, did not call for help, did not call the same police, who worked in the city even while the Russian units were there. It is we who want to know the whole truth about the tragedy of the inhabitants of Bucha, not they.
And now let's ask Johnson: why does a Russian user need a VPN? What additional information can he learn about the events in Bucha that they don't say and don't analyze in detail on Russian TV? Here, the British viewer would discover a lot of new things if for a moment he renounced the Russophobic propaganda and fakes of his media and got acquainted with Russian materials. Both in London and Washington understand this very well, and therefore they are actively cleaning up any information from Russia.
KYIV WANTS TO ACHIEVE A COMPLETE BAN ON RUSSIAN TV CHANNELS IN EUROPE
Although it doesn't always work. The Dutch press, for example, laments the fact that the Forum for Democracy party, which recently boycotted Zelensky's virtual speech in their parliament, continues to accuse the West of unleashing the conflict in Ukraine even after the events in Bucha.
And the Financial Times pointed to the most serious problem in Asia and Africa : they say, like Twitternor bans accounts for the hashtag @IStandWithPutin ("I'm with Putin"), where the audience still believes "Russian propaganda" and again blames the West for everything. It would seem to be asking why people, who have more access to information than the British or Americans with their carefully censored social networks, tend to trust the Russian media? Maybe because they immediately understand who the truth is behind?
But the conclusion is unequivocal: so much the worse for the truth - we need to further strengthen censorship for our media and spread more lies about Russia.
The example of the Russian-language appeal of the British Daily Mirror is the most indicative, since it was drawn up in the worst traditions of Goebbels' propaganda. Eighty years ago, the trenches of the Red Army were constantly bombarded with leaflets: "The political instructor is lying to you. In German captivity, you are not tortured or killed, but treated well!" So the Mirror writes without a twinge of conscience : "Your president is lying when he says that Ukraine poses a threat to Russia and is full of Nazis."
And the same newspaper cites the most monstrous fake under the heading "A woman raped and killed by Russian soldiers who marked her body with a swastika." The lie is terribly cynical, since the article cites a photo of the body of a woman found in the basement of Mariupol School No. 18, which was turned into a base for Azov militants.
The picture has long bypassed all the Russian media, caused a wide resonance, about the fact of the atrocity, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a case on March 28, and the Mirror writes a week later that it was unable to determine "where the photo was taken". But the newspaper already knows, you see, that the girl was allegedly raped and killed by the Russian military.
Since, you understand, admit that this is the victim of the Nazis of "Azov", the leaflet "The political instructor is lying to you that Ukraine is full of Nazis" immediately loses all meaning. And how, tell me, are the methods of Mirror in this case different from the methods of Goebbels?!
And now let Johnson answer the question for himself: how would accessing British sites via a VPN change the mind of an informed reader who knows (thanks to the Russian media, he knows!), Where and when the terrible photo of a tortured woman was taken? For some reason, this photo was hidden from the British audience for a week, and not from the Russian one.
If a resident of London or Edinburgh had access to our TV channels blocked by the Johnson government, he would be able to receive truthful information about events in Ukraine and Donbass , and not these primitive fakes of his yellow newspapers. But that's why "Prometheus" Johnson explains to us, not to them, what a VPN is.
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Can I have a penny for every time I'm told I "need to educate myself?" Even with inflation it would add up these days.
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More stupid Russian self-pity and delusions. Yes, Vladimir, you're the real victim of Putin's terrorist campaign against the Ukraine. So sorry it happened to you.
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Macron calls Polish PM a Hitler lookalike.
Polish PM calls Macron a Hitler enabler.
Hitler, Hitler, everyone is Hitler.
"French President Emmanuel Macron called Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki “an extreme-right anti-Semite who bans LGBT people.” In an interview with French daily Le Parisien, Macron also described as “shameful” comments by Morawiecki comparing the French president’s frequent phone calls with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to talking with Hitler.
The Polish premier earlier this week criticized Macron for achieving little in his discussions with Putin. “Mr. President Macron, how many times have you negotiated with Putin, what have you achieved? Have you stopped any of the actions that have taken place?” Morawiecki said at a press conference Monday. “One should not negotiate with criminals … Nobody negotiated with Hitler. Would you negotiate with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot?”
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Apollo managed to make the trip in leaky bathtubs and Spam.
I do like the optimism fights to the moon are so routine soft people will need a porterhouse to make the trip, instead of The Moon being a large battlefield for drones.
But this is NASA, so Media Headlines kiss kiss Bill Gates.
In the prophecy film Demolition Man the artificial sex was easily taunted. Much more subtle, since film doesn't do tasting (yet) was the artificial meat at Taco Bell being taunted with the rat burger tasting so good.
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Imagine what a lbs. of this meat well end upcosting?
I would think it’d be much cheaper to transport a few cultures to be grown up there than to transport mass quantities of actual food. And once the cell cultures are started, it’d just be a matter of cutting off the end before cooking and throwing it back into the matrix to grow more.
Kind of like adding ornamental sweet potatoes to the planters for their beautiful vines, only to discover that there are vegetables to harvest under the soil at the end of the summer.
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[Korrespondent] 23:20 The death toll as a result of the shelling of the station in Kramatorsk has increased to 52 people, the wounded - up to 109 , said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko. 22:59 The Pentagon considers "unconvincing" Russian claims that its forces were not involved in the attack on Kramatorsk train station, spokesman John Kirby said. According to Washington, it was a Russian strike, and they used a short-range ballistic missile to deliver it.
22:56 Vereshchuk said that 6,665 people have been evacuated today. In particular, 5,158 people arrived in Zaporozhye from Mariupol and Berdyansk on their own vehicles and buses.
In Melitopol, the invaders have been holding eight buses for evacuation for 24 hours, the Ukrainian authorities are negotiating. The column of buses, which was sent from Zaporozhye to Berdyansk in the morning, continues along the route. 1,507 people were evacuated from Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Kremennaya and the village of Gornoe in the Luhansk region.
22:55 According to Pentagon estimates, more than 40 Russian battalion tactical groups are located in the Donbass region or near it, according to ABC News.
22:53 Zelensky: “Like the massacres in Bucha, like many other Russian war crimes, the missile attack on Kramatorsk should be one of the charges at the tribunal, which will definitely take place. All the forces of the world will be directed to establish minute by minute who what was done, who gave what orders, where did the missile come from, who transported it, who gave the command, and how this strike was coordinated. Responsibility is inevitable."
22:51 It will take at least four years to restore Chernihiv destroyed by Russian troops, the mayor of the city, Vladislav Atroshenko, said.
22:48 Canada begins to investigate war crimes of the Russian military in Ukraine. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is the only law enforcement agency in Canada with a mandate to investigate such crimes.
22:46 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said that at the moment, Russian troops in Ukraine are changing tactics and preparing for the next attack. According to her, the threat of an offensive, despite the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, remains, and throughout Ukraine. Malyar stressed that Moscow has not abandoned its plans to seize Ukraine, but is forced to change its offensive plan.
22:44 In German Lower Saxony, the rules for holding pro-Russian actions have been tightened: now they will be banned from the flags of the USSR and St. George ribbons - such a decree was signed by the regional Minister of the Interior Boris Pistorius.
22:43 Zelensky at a briefing with Ursula von der Leyen and Borrell said he was grateful for the new sanctions, "but this is not enough." The President stressed that he "has many questions for Ursula von der Leyen, but the atmosphere of dialogue and relations we have now is the best in many years."
Ursula von der Leyen, in turn, told how the sanctions are hitting Russia: "Exports fell by 71%, inflation rose by 20%, 700 companies left Russia, 225 billion euros of personal assets in the EU are frozen."
22:39 France is ready to ban the import of Russian oil, said Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.
22:36 The head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, says that after each attack or attempt to break through, the invaders lose from 20 to 40 freshly mobilized soldiers, whom the Russian Federation uses as cannon fodder.
22:31 Estonians have created an online map with the addresses of the Russian military of the Russian Federation, who killed and looted in Bucha. A map called Where do orcs come from? created using Google Maps.
Its authors used open data from Ukrainian intelligence about the place where military passports were issued based on information from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine about servicemen of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 35th Army.
22:28 The Pentagon has found out that Russia is going to recruit "more than 60 thousand military personnel" from among the recruits and mobilize reservists to strengthen the invasion force, reports CNN.
22:26 The Russian military actually does not have a modern communication system that allows them to effectively coordinate the actions of their units. Therefore, the Ukrainians not only listen to the radio broadcasts of the invaders, but also jam their communications by broadcasting heavy metal music right during the battle, writes The Economist.
22:25 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Ukrainian "neo-Nazis" had mined storage facilities with chemicals at a plant in Avdiivka, they plan to blow them up when approaching the city of "DPR" formations.
22:19 The EU has published the fifth package of sanctions against Russia , which has already entered into force. The sanctions list includes: the Kalashnikov concern, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense Konashenkov, the head of Sberbank German Gref, the oligarchs Oleg Deripaska, Boris and Igor Rotenberg. Also on the list are Putin's daughters Ekaterina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova.
Sanctions have been imposed against TASS CEO Sergei Mikhailov, VGTRK CEO Oleg Dobrodeev, editor-in-chief and owner of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets Pavel Gusev, editor-in-chief and CEO of Komsomolskaya Pravda Vladimir Sungorkin, president of the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding Alexei Pimanov.
In total, sanctions were imposed against 217 individuals and 18 legal entities.
22:13 Ursula von der Leyen said following her visit to Bucha: "It was important to start the visit to Bucha. Because in Bucha our humanity was collapsing. My message to the Ukrainian people: those responsible for the atrocities will be held accountable. Your fight is our fight. I today in Kiev to tell you that Europe is on your side."
21:47 The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Gaidai, said that fighting continues in Rubizhne and Popasna. In particular, from Gorny to Popasnaya, the entire section is shelled from morning to night. Today, 640 people have been evacuated from this region.
21:46 Head of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili refused to visit Bucha. He explained this by disagreements between Tbilisi and the government of Ukraine.
21:45 Enemy troops fired at the territory near Odessa in the evening. There were no casualties as a result of the strike, said the head of the Odesa OVA Maxim Marchenko.
21:42 The European Parliament has a Twitter account in Ukrainian, the first tweet in it appeared on the evening of April 8: "Together we will succeed: welcome to the new European Parliament Twitter page in Ukrainian! Here you will find the latest news on how the EU supports Ukraine in its struggle."
21:40 Austrian Chancellor Karl Negammer will meet with Zelensky in Kiev on Saturday, after which he will go to Bucha, Austrian media report.
21:38 According to information from various sources, more than 121 thousand children have already been forcibly taken to Russia - both orphans and those who have parents, Ombudswoman Denisova said. It is known that some of the children were taken by the invaders from Mariupol to Donetsk and in the direction of Taganrog.
According to her, Russia is repeating the scenario of 2014, when it took Ukrainian children out of the occupied Crimea on the so-called "train of hope" for their adoption.
21:25 Arestovich says that Putin wants to end the war, and there are several signs of this. In particular, this is Peskov's statement about the significant losses of the Russian army. According to the adviser to the head of the OP, Russia strategically lost on the eighth day of the war. Moscow's main task now is for Putin to come to the meeting with Zelensky "at least with some kind of power position - at least take something."
21:18 Russia has reorganized the command of the war in Ukraine - the invasion is led by the commander of the Southern Military District, General Alexander Dvornikov, who has extensive experience in Russian operations in Syria, writes Air Force.
21:10 Russian invaders forcibly took 31 thousand people out of Mariupol , said the mayor of the city Vadim Boychenko. "They go through various humiliations. We know that they take their fingerprints, force them to sign various documents and are very tough on employees of the municipal sector or other government agencies. That is, people sit for weeks and wait for this so-called filtration. People are brought to the very outback Russia - Tomsk, Tambov, Astrakhan and other regions," Boychenko said.
20:55 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the operational-tactical aviation of the Aerospace Forces hit 54 military facilities of Ukraine in a day. In particular, "high-precision missiles destroyed a large warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons in the area of the settlement of Nimirovskoye, Odessa region."
The Russian ministry also warned that "the threat of Kyiv's provocations and missile attacks on civilians remains high" because the Ukrainian armed forces "still have a significant arsenal of Tochka-U missiles."
20:44 Western countries continue to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons to deter the Russian full-scale invasion. For more information about partner assistance, see From S-300 to Bushmaster: New Weapons for Ukraine .
20:25 Biden called the strike on Kramatorsk "another terrible atrocity committed by Russia." He vowed to continue to provide aid to Ukraine and support efforts to investigate the attack by documenting Russia's actions and bringing those responsible to justice.
20:22 Macron called the missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station "an abomination" and promised to support the investigation throughout Ukraine to ensure justice.
20:19 The Russian delivery service CDEK, through which the Russian military transported property stolen in Ukraine, refused to accept parcels with goods if the sender could not confirm ownership of them, writes UP.
20:17 Russians tomorrow will try to appoint their occupying "authority" in the city of Oleshki, Kherson region, the mayor Evgeny Ryshchuk warned.
19:59 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen officially handed Zelensky a questionnaire , the completion of which is a necessary step to grant Ukraine the status of an EU candidate.
"We will be ready with answers in a week," Zelensky replied.
19:56 The rescue ship Sapfir, captured by the Russians, has returned under the control of Ukraine, the Ministry of Infrastructure reports. All 19 crew members were released from Russian captivity on March 25 as part of a prisoner exchange.
19:53 Johnson and Scholz, after the talks, said they were ready for unprecedented steps to rid Europe of dependence on Russian gas and help Ukraine repel Russian aggression. They also promised to help bring the leadership of the Russian Federation to justice for war crimes.
19:47 FSB General, head of the Fifth Service Sergei Beseda, who provided Putin with information about the political situation in Ukraine, was transferred from house arrest to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, writes journalist Andrey Soldatov, who covers the work of special services.
According to the journalist, the Conversation case is being investigated by the Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee. Beseda is also accused of embezzling funds allocated for subversive and undercover work in Ukraine.
19:45 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council reports that Russia is preparing another manipulation about "bad" Ukrainians in order to deliberately demonize Ukraine in the world. So, stuffing appears that Ukrainian refugees, when evicted from an apartment, paint walls, organize pogroms in shops, etc.
19:36 Hungary will violate EU sanctions if it fulfills its promise to pay for Russian energy in rubles, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
19:32 The military leadership has decided to restrict entry to the Kiev Puscha-Voditsa due to "a huge number of objective factors," said the head of the Obolon Regional State Administration Kirill Fesik. There is no exact date for the ban yet, specialists are waiting for a large front of work, he added.
19:23 Twitter has blocked the account of the propaganda TV channel Russia Today.
19:19 The European Council will hold a special meeting on May 30-31, during which it will discuss defense, energy and the situation in Ukraine.
19:16 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more than 80 percent of the personnel of some Russian units involved in the war against Ukraine do not want to participate in further hostilities. The commanders of the military units of the invaders banned the dismissal of servicemen whose contracts have expired until the end of the "special operation".
The General Staff also reports that the occupying "authorities" in the occupied territory of Donbass received instructions from Russian curators about the return of people who left for Russia during January-February 2022. Citizens must return to the settlements at the place of registration or residence after two months of stay in the Russian Federation.
19:07 Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin transferred 1,500 ETH (approximately $4.7 million) to help Ukraine.
19:05 The EU introduces free roaming for Ukrainian refugees. According to the Ministry of Digital Development, 24 EU mobile operators and three Ukrainian mobile operators signed a joint statement on coordination of efforts to ensure affordable and free roaming for international calls from the EU to Ukraine.
19:03 In Kiev, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, handed over a questionnaire on EU membership to the Ukrainian authorities, Radio Liberty reports.
19:00 Zelensky began a meeting with Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell. Talks are planned in a narrow circle, after which the President and EU representatives will make statements for Ukrainian and foreign media and answer their questions.
18:57 Podolyak: "It's time to think about a new European "currency of exchange". One barrel of Russian oil = one liter of blood of a torn Ukrainian citizen. And 140 European companies that remain to work in Russia is one Buchanskaya massacre. Add your original ones further" blood business ideas.
18:43 In France, on April 10, the first round of presidential elections will take place. The favorite is the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron. However, the main event of the election campaign was the war in Ukraine, which has already corrected the presidential race. More details - in the material Ukraine will decide the fate of Macron .
18:38 Ursula von der Leyen said that they plan to prepare a conclusion on Ukraine's membership in the EU this summer. Then the Ukrainian application for membership will be submitted to the European Council. She stressed that "it usually takes years before the EU Council accepts an application for membership, but Ukraine did it in a week or two."
18:37 The UK will send a new shipment of $130 million worth of weapons to Ukraine, including Starstreak MANPADS, Johnson said.
18:35 Venediktova reported that there were approximately 67 bodies in a mass grave in Bucha. Each of them is examined by forensic experts, criminologists, investigators and prosecutors. Most of the people received gunshot and shrapnel wounds from explosions, some of them only fragments remained. Some of the dead were with documents, the rest will have to be recognized by relatives by clothing or other signs and identified by DNA.
18:32 In Madrid, the street near the Russian embassy will be renamed Bucha or Irpin, and the streets Russia and St. Petersburg will be renamed Kiev and Mariupol, the Ukrainian embassy in Spain reported.
18:28 Medvedev said that Western sanctions against the Russian Federation can be qualified as "an act of aggression against the country," therefore Moscow "has the right to individual and collective defense."
"Unlawful sanctions under certain circumstances can be qualified as an act of international aggression on the part of individual states or their unions. First of all, when their application is aimed at undermining its economic independence, and therefore state sovereignty, and threatens the very existence of the state. In fact, "as our opponents say, this is a declaration of economic war. Taking into account the totality of legal and political circumstances, we can conclude that sanctions in the current situation can be qualified as an act of aggression against the Russian Federation, as one of the forms of hybrid war," Medvedev wrote. .
He had previously stated that Russia could use nuclear weapons in the event of a "threat to the existence of the state."
18:23 The NBU turned to the Cabinet of Ministers with a proposal to withdraw the financial assets of MR Bank (Sberbank) and Prominvestbank, which were withdrawn from the market at the beginning of the war, subsidiaries of Sberbank of Russia and VEB. About 26 billion hryvnias can be directed to the state income.
18:07 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EU High Representative Josep Borrell and Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Geger visited Bucha , where bodies were exhumed from a mass grave today.
17:59 A unit of Russian special forces, who have experience of military operations in Syria, in full force refused to participate in further attempts to storm Mariupol, according to Ukrainian intelligence. In the battles against the Armed Forces of Ukraine from April 2 to April 4, this unit lost about 30 servicemen.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense also reports that the latest data on the selection for military service in Russia indicate a low level of interest of Russians in contract service. According to a report on the results of recruiting in Yekaterinburg, less than 1% of citizens from the reserve agreed to even talk about the possibility of signing a contract. Of the 397 candidates, only two agreed to be interviewed. 52 refused, 203 did not get in touch, work on 140 candidates is underway.
And on March 7, two PAZ buses with wounded Russian servicemen were sent from the Novoaydar polyclinic in the direction of Luhansk. Most of them had leg injuries, the most likely cause of which, according to the conclusions of the doctors, was self-mutilation in order to avoid returning to the combat zone.
17:57 The UK will send armored vehicles to Ukraine, including Mastiff armored vehicles, said Defense Minister Ben Wallace.
17:52 In Odessa, the curfew will last from 21:00 Saturday, April 9, until 6:00 Monday, April 11. This decision is connected with the missile attack on Kramatorsk. Odessa authorities report that the city is also at risk of rocket attacks.
17:50 According to the results of March, consumer prices in Ukraine increased by 4.5 percent. Inflation for the year reached almost 14 percent, the State Statistics Service reported.
17:43 Because of the Russian invasion, the transit of gas through the Sokhranivka gas metering station is under threat, the GTS Operator of Ukraine says. He reported on "gross interference" by Russians in the process of transporting gas through the Novopskov compressor station in the Luhansk region. Almost a third of the transit of blue fuel to Europe from the Sokhranovka gas measuring station passes through this station.
17:34 The SBI found collaborators among the assistants to people's deputies from the Opposition Platform for Life. In particular, an assistant-consultant on a voluntary basis to a People's Deputy of the IX convocation from the Opposition Platform for Life, one of the top managers of the 112 Ukraine TV channel, co-founder of the youth wing of the political party Opposition Platform for Life, was convicted of anti-Ukrainian activities. According to media reports, we are talking about Artem Marchevsky.
Together with him, this activity is carried out by a personal lawyer, Medvedchuk's confidant. The media note that this is probably Alexander Mamenko.
17:23 One day of war with Russia costs Ukraine up to four billion dollars, Shmyhal said. According to him, the daily expenses from the state budget associated with the Russian invasion amount to about two billion hryvnias. At the same time, the total losses of the state associated with the destruction of infrastructure and the loss of economic potential amount to four billion dollars a day.
17:16 The European Commission has provided Ukraine with a grant of 120 million euros as part of the overall package of emergency financial assistance to Ukraine. The funds will be directed to the general fund of the state budget to finance the most urgent state expenditures.
17:13 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, said that the death toll as a result of a missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk had risen to 50 people. According to him, 38 people died on the spot, 12 more died in the hospital. In total, 98 people have already been hospitalized, including 16 children.
17:06 All Russian invaders who were in the Exclusion Zone received large doses of radiation, their military equipment is also infected, said the head of the Ministry of Energy German Galushchenko. According to him, Russian soldiers "dug with their bare hands soils contaminated with radiation, collected radioactive sand in bags for fortifications, breathed this dust. After a month of such exposure, they had a maximum of a year of life left. More precisely, not life, but a slow death from diseases."
Galushchenko stressed that not only the entire personnel of the invaders and "trophies" were infected, but also all military equipment that passed through Chernobyl - and this is about ten thousand units.
16:59 According to the VTsIOM poll, 74 percent of Russians support the decision to invade Ukraine, 17 percent do not. At the same time, 89 percent of the respondents trust the Russian army, while 8 percent rather distrust the army.
16:47 Ukraine is rapidly moving towards unification with the EU, Shmyhal said. According to the prime minister, the government is now actively working on a joint energy market, customs, transit traffic, and the ACAA agreement. Kyiv is also waiting for a questionnaire from the European Commission, which will allow it to obtain the status of a candidate for EU membership.
16:46 Russia has decided to expel 45 Polish diplomats, the Polish Foreign Ministry said. This decision was made in response to similar actions by Warsaw.
16:44 In Ukraine, for the duration of martial law, customs clearance of cars was officially made free, the State Customs Service reports. Thus, the import of vehicles is exempt from import duty, VAT and excise tax.
16:38 Montenegro has finally joined the European sanctions against Russia, said acting. Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazovich. The internal political situation and difficulties with the creation of a legitimate government prevented Montenegro from accepting restrictions against Moscow.
16:26 The Office of the President and the Cabinet of Ministers have launched a project that should tell the whole world about how brave the people of Ukraine are. On the site https://brave.ua you can download posters, stickers and merch layouts designed to spread the idea of Ukrainian courage.
"We want the whole world to know: Ukraine is a country where brave people live, bold ideas, bold businesses in which you can safely invest," the project description says. All Ukrainians are encouraged to join the flash mob #BRAVEUKRAINE - upload photos and videos where you can see all the courage of the Ukrainian people.
16:24 In Makarov, Kiev region, 132 shot bodies were found, the village was destroyed by 40 percent, the village head Vadim Tokar said.
16:21 More than 110,000 Ukrainians joined the Territorial Defense Forces, more than 450 volunteer formations of territorial communities have been created, more than 100 territorial defense fighters have already received state awards, Brigadier General Yuriy Galushkin, commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said. He stressed that the day before the invasion in Ukraine, there were only six thousand professional soldiers and reservists.
16:17 Belarus published a list of 40 "unfriendly states" - Ukraine was not included in it. The list was formed "in order to ensure the protection of the national interests of the Republic of Belarus." In particular, it included all EU countries, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, Great Britain, USA, Montenegro, Switzerland and others.
16:13 Yermak said that Russian banks are trying to circumvent sanctions through their European brokers. In particular, Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank and Otkritie transfer foreign assets of their clients to BCS and ATON brokers. Ukraine is in favor of imposing sanctions against BCS and ATON.
16:08 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called the Russian missile attack on Kramatorsk a war crime and promised to bring "Russia and Putin" to justice.
16:01 During the Russian invasion in Chernigov, about 700 people were killed , the mayor of the city Vladislav Atroshenko said. He clarified that this includes both military and civilians.
15:54 All the details about today's Russian strike on the railway station in Kramatorsk are in the material Another crime of the Russian Federation.
15:40 Finland said that the Russian government aircraft Il-96-300 probably violated the country's airspace on the morning of April 8. The plane entered the country's airspace over the Gulf of Finland in the Porvoo area and stayed in it for about three minutes. This is the first such violation in two years.
15:29 Moscow suggested to Kiev that Belarus be among the countries guarantors of Ukraine's security, Lavrov said.
15:20 Lithuanian media write that after the imposition of sanctions against the well-known Russian propagandist Artem Sheinin, a large family of refugees from Mariupol was settled in his apartment. In response to such actions, Sheinin asks Putin for retaliatory measures, among which may be the arrest of Gerard Depardieu's apartment in Russian Saransk.
15:13 Propaganda RIA Novosti reported an explosion in Kramatorsk at 10:25, although the first chat messages appeared at about 10:30, which is confirmed by most people. On Twitter, the message was posted via TweetDeck, a service used to send delayed posts. That is, the message was written in advance, writes Gerashchenko.
15:11 Mayor of Kramatorsk Alexander Goncharenko announced that an emergency evacuation of residents of the Donetsk region to safe places is starting from the city: “Today we are starting an emergency evacuation of people by all public transport, all private transport, we are looking for drivers. About 30-40 drivers are needed as for today".
15:06 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the governments of the EU countries have frozen 29.5 billion euros of assets associated with sanctioned persons. At the same time, only half of the EU countries submitted information, writes Reuters.
15:03 In Lvov, people brought "trophies of Russian servicemen" to the Russian embassy: washing machines, children's toys, frying pans and even a dog house. All this is covered with red paint. A similar action took place in London.
15:01 Arestovich is convinced that Ukraine will face two to three more clashes with Russia until 2032-2035, regardless of who will be in power in the Russian Federation. However, in his opinion, "this will be an operation on a smaller scale than now, dedicated, for example, to cutting off us completely from the Sea of Azov, or capturing Kharkov, or reaching the borders of the so-called" LDNR "in administrative projections, which they recognized on the eve of the war" .
14:55 SBU speaker Artem Dekhtyarenko said that as a result of a missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station, 39 people were killed , including four children. The Donetsk OVA specified that 87 people were injured.
14:51 The Prime Minister of Slovakia confirmed the transfer of S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine.
14:47 Zelensky spoke in the Finnish Parliament and called on Europe to stop payments for oil from Russia, accumulating money in special accounts, to which Moscow will not have access. He also said that Ukraine "needs the weapons that Finland's partners in the European Union have."
14:22 Russian occupiers tonight in the Mariupol commercial port fired at the icebreaker Kapitan Belousov, on which there was a civilian crew. As a result of the shelling, one person was killed and several others were injured, the Azov regiment said.
14:19 Podolyak said that Kiev, in negotiations with Russia, could agree to put the issue of the occupied Crimea "out of the brackets" for the sake of signing a real peace treaty. However, issues of territorial integrity will be determined exclusively by Zelensky, the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office added.
14:07 About 5,000 Ukrainians for three days registered as volunteer rescuers to participate in the aftermath of Russian aggression. In particular, these are works to clear rubble, rescue people, provide assistance to the victims, unload humanitarian cargo, etc., the State Emergency Service said.
14:05 In Bucha, on the territory of the church of St. Andrew the First-Called, the exhumation of bodies from a mass grave began to identify people and establish the circumstances of their death.
14:03 A total of 46 UNESCO member countries will boycott the meeting of the World Heritage Committee while it is headed by Russia. The 45th session of the Committee was to be held in Kazan.
13:57 The basic indicator of world food prices rose in March by 12.6 percent - up to 159.3 points, according to the FAO. This growth was influenced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, since both countries are large exporters of wheat, corn, barley and sunflower oil.
13:55 New mail from tomorrow suspends work in the Donetsk region.
13:54 Residents of Lisichansk are being urged to evacuate. According to the head of the Lisichansk city military-civilian administration Alexander Zaika, the shelling is becoming more intense, it is dangerous to stay in the city.
13:49 President of the European Council Charles Michel, in response to Russia's strike on Kramatorsk, announced the need for greater sanctions against Moscow and more weapons for Ukraine.
13:47 Great Britain, following the US and the EU, imposed sanctions against the daughters of Putin and Lavrov.
13:45 Six weeks after the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU Delegation will resume work in Kiev, Borrell said.
13:39 The mayor of Kramatorsk Alexander Goncharenko said that the wounded from the station continue to arrive, doctors from neighboring settlements come to the city. According to him, many are seriously injured, have lost their arms and legs, they are undergoing complex operations. The explosion was very powerful, fragments of the rocket were found 40 meters from the epicenter.
Goncharenko said that the RF Armed Forces deliberately fired at the station: "Trains depart from 10:00, and the occupiers deliberately hit at the moment when about four thousand people were standing on the square."
13:22 Japan expels eight Russian diplomats and expands sanctions against the Russian Federation.
13:06 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "the Russian armed forces did not have any fire missions on April 8 in the city of Kramatorsk and were not planned." Moscow assures that Tochki-U "are used only by the Ukrainian armed forces," and everything that happened is a "provocation" of the Ukrainian side.
13:04 Telegram channel Typical Donetsk at 10:25 published a recording of the launch of two rockets at the station in Kramatorsk. According to the public, they were launched from Shakhtyorsk - that is, from the territory controlled by the "DPR".
The first message about the strike on the Kramatorsk railway station appeared at 10:45 - it was published by the head of Ukrzaliznytsia.
13:02 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for the creation of a tribunal over Putin and Lavrov: "Anyone who is responsible for these crimes will have to explain himself."
12:55 A group of hackers Armageddon is attacking the state bodies of Ukraine, according to the State Service for Special Communications. In particular, emails with the subject "No. 1275 dated 04/07/2022" are received. They contain an HTML file, the opening of which will lead to the creation on a computer of an archive with a file called "On the facts of persecution and murder of employees of the Prosecutor's Office by the Russian military in the temporarily occupied territories.lnk". After opening it, hackers gain complete control over the computer.
12:47 Kramatorsk station was closed to receive trains after the Russian attack, Ukrzaliznytsia reports. Train No. 45 will depart from Sloviansk on an evacuation flight to Uzhgorod today, flights No. 274, No. 276, No. 278 and No. 92 are expected to depart to Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ternopil and Odessa, respectively.
12:45 In social networks, photos and videos are published showing a Russian rocket that fell on the territory of the Kramatorsk railway station. On it is written "For the children":
12:32 The head of the Kiev Metro turned to Klitschko with a proposal to change the names of five metro stations - Friendship of Peoples, Lev Tolstoy Square, Beresteyskaya, Minskaya, Heroes of the Dnieper.
"Our people take refuge in the Friendship of Peoples while this so-called "friendship of peoples" kills their relatives and destroys our country. This cannot be," he stressed.
12:29 In March, the number of Ukrainians who believe that the resumption of friendly relations with the Russians after the current war is impossible at all has increased significantly - from 42% to 64%. At the same time, according to the Rating group, 22% believe that this can happen in at least 20-30 years.
12:27 For the second day, Russia claims that it controls the center of Mariupol, but this is not so: the occupiers have advanced one block and "relatively control" the territory in the area of the destroyed Drama Theatre, Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko said.
According to him, Primorsky district, part of Levoberezhny near Azovstal, the coast from Azovstal to the port, the port itself and the territories of factories remain under Ukrainian control. By area, this is a large part of the city.
12:23 The EU has adopted the fifth block of sanctions against Russia, the Council of Europe reports. Among the main measures are a ban on Russian ships entering European ports; an embargo on the supply of Russian coal, which will come into force in August; a ban on transportation across the EU territory by road transport operators from the Russian Federation and Belarus, excluding medical and food products.
12:15 The Defense Ministers of Turkey, Great Britain and Italy will discuss the situation in Ukraine today in Istanbul, Ankara reported.
12:13 The "DPR" stated that Ukraine struck Tochka-U at Kramatorsk: "This obsolete Soviet missile system is not in service with the DPR, LPR and the Russian Federation and is actively used by Ukrainian militants."
Eyewitnesses previously reported that a column of Russian vehicles with V marks was moving in Belarus from Rechitsa towards Gomel along the M10 highway. It contained at least eight Tochka-Us, several BTR-82s, about nine KamAZ trucks, some of which carry Tochka-U missiles, as well as a communications vehicle and a crane.
After the attack on Kramatorsk, messages were published in pro-Russian telegram channels, according to which they "worked on the accumulation of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine." Soon they were removed or changed.
12:10 Zelensky said that the Russians hit the station in Kramatorsk with Tochka-U.
12:06 A prolonged war is fraught with complex consequences for the Ukrainian economy, but hyperinflation is not expected in the country, Shmygal said: "We did not print money, we are not worried about hyperinflation. We have war bonds. Today, business is buying these papers. Today more than 40 billion were attracted to the budget thanks to this instrument, it gives us the funds to compensate for the budget deficit that arises due to the war."
The prime minister also recalled that Ukraine is going to nationalize all Russian property in Russia in order to compensate for losses from the invasion. Kyiv also expects to receive funds from assets of the Russian Federation frozen in the West.
12:03 The emotional background of the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia has changed after the events in Bucha, but the negotiations themselves are ongoing, Podolyak said. At the same time, he could not name the date of the next face-to-face meeting of the delegations - this will depend on many factors, including the state of affairs at the front.
12:00 Podolyak said that agreements without real preventive mechanisms to prevent war will not work, so Ukraine will not go for Minsk-3 or Budapest-2.
"In a historical perspective, even short-term, all these Minsks lead to grandiose tragedies," he explained.
11:57 Arestovich said that as a result of the strike on Kramatorsk, more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were injured.
"You need to understand that such strikes are preceded by a thorough additional reconnaissance of the target, at least an UAV, gunners on the ground - a missile is too expensive and it is too difficult and risky to organize such strikes. They perfectly saw that they were hitting civilians, early in the morning, that at the station at that time there were thousands of people trying to evacuate, families, children, old people," he wrote.
11:55 Italy is ready to act as a guarantor of Ukraine's security , said Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio. He stressed that Moscow has crossed red lines, so Europe needs to rethink its approach to collective security.
11:52 As a result of the shelling of the Kramatorsk railway station by the Russians with a cassette Iskander, 27 people were killed, at least 30 were injured , Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA, said. According to him, at that moment there were thousands of people at the station, as the residents of Donbass are being evacuated. Two children were among the dead.
11:47 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin believes that Putin "probably abandoned" the attempt to capture Kiev, as Russia has shifted its attention to the east and south of Ukraine. The Pentagon, in turn, is focusing on continuing to arm Ukrainian forces as the war enters its next phase, he said.
11:28 In Kiev, services for the rental of bicycles and electric scooters have resumed. According to the Kyiv City State Administration, Bolt, Bike NOW and veliki.ua services are available for rental today. Residents of Kiev are asked to remember the safety rules and follow the rules of the road.
11:17 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of April 8:
personnel - about 19 thousand people,
tanks - 700,
armored fighting vehicles - 1891,
artillery systems - 333,
MLRS - 108,
air defense systems - 55,
aircraft - 150,
helicopters - 135,
automotive equipment - 1361,
ships/boats - 7,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 112,
special equipment - 25,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
11:13 About 12,000 Ukrainians "urgently" received Russian passports, said Oleg Kadochnikov, deputy head of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. According to him, some of the "displaced persons" are in more than 800 temporary accommodation centers, where about 25 thousand people live, including 10.5 thousand children.
11:08 Two rockets hit the railway station of Kramatorsk, there are victims, Ukrzaliznytsia reported.
10:58 The Russians who robbed the Ukrainians, among other things, took a large number of cars to Belarus. Their significant concentration is in Mozyr, Gomel, Rechitsa, Narovlya, Khoiniki and Elsk. In addition, the Russians buy gold with stolen money and have fun in Belarusian establishments, writes Belaruski Gayun.
10:49 The UN has confirmed 1,611 civilian deaths during the Russian invasion, including 131 children. 2227 people were injured.
10:32 Almost the entire convoy of buses traveling to Melitopol with humanitarian aid for further evacuation of people was taken away by the Russian military, said the head of the Zaporozhye regional administration Alexander Starukh. According to him, the drivers were ordered to transfer to one bus and go back. The rest of the buses were confiscated by the invaders.
10:19 The Government of Canada has submitted a new budget for 2022-23 to Parliament, which provides funding for the purchase of weapons and new loans for Ukraine for a billion Canadian dollars.
10:15 Australia has imposed sanctions against 67 Russian citizens, said Foreign Minister Maryse Payne. According to her, all these people are from Putin's inner circle.
10:09 In the Donetsk region, the Russians attacked Vuhledar from a helicopter, as well as a missile attack on Slavyansk. As the governor of the region Pavel Kirilenko said, in both cities there are wounded civilians and a lot of destruction.
Also this morning, Avdievka was hit, as a result of which at least one person died, one was injured, and five houses were damaged.
09:47 Arestovich is convinced that an attempt to take Kiev for the second time is "that crazy plan that cannot be carried out."
"The residents of the capital are not in much danger now - no more than in Vinnitsa or Ivano-Frankivsk," the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office believes.
09:36 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that Russia had finished preparing for the battle for Donbass: “We feel the end of preparations for the great battle that we will have in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. We have constant attempts by the enemy to break through the defense line in certain directions "Yesterday, there was a battle in Rubezhnoye from 4 o'clock in the morning. Everything ended well for our defenders: several tanks and armored personnel carriers were knocked out, and up to 50 enemies were killed."
09:35 Payments for Russian gas in rubles will be considered a circumvention of sanctions, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
09:33 Blinken said that the US is imposing sanctions on two Russian state-owned enterprises - Alrosa, the world's largest diamond mining company, and the United Shipbuilding Corporation, which develops and builds most of Russia's warships.
09:15 During the occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Russians destroyed documents and archives that specialists had been collecting for decades, said the head of the Public Council under the State Agency of Ukraine for the management of the exclusion zone Oleksandr Syrota.
09:08 The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen went to Kiev - she announced this on Twitter. She will arrive in the Ukrainian capital as part of a delegation including Josep Borrell and Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger.
08:59 Ten humanitarian corridors agreed on April 8:
Donetsk region: Mariupol - Zaporozhye (by own transport)
Zaporozhye region: Berdyansk - Zaporozhye (by own transport and buses); Tokmak - Zaporozhye (by own transport and buses); Melitopol - Zaporozhye (by own transport); Energodar - Zaporozhye (by own transport)
08:54 Macron said in an interview with Le Parisien that France would become the guarantor of Ukraine's security. He explained that in Ukraine "at some point" a ceasefire will come and peace will have to be built, and this "cannot be done without a guarantor." At the same time, Macron believes that it is necessary to continue negotiations with Putin.
08:51 According to British intelligence, in the north of Ukraine, Russian troops have now been completely withdrawn to Belarus and the Russian Federation, at least part of these forces will be transferred to the Donbass. That being said, many of these forces will need significant reinforcements before they are ready to move further east, and any massive redeployment from the north is likely to take at least a week.
Intelligence also notes that the shelling of cities in eastern and southern Ukraine continues, and Russian troops have moved further south from the strategically important city of Izyum, which remains under their control.
08:46 According to the UN, more than seven million Ukrainians have become internally displaced since the beginning of the Russian invasion, half of them women. IDPs do not have enough money, medicines and medical care, the UN noted.
08:30 Serbia, which yesterday voted for the exclusion of the Russian Federation from the UN Human Rights Council, said that it was forced to do this by threatening sanctions. "The fate of Serbia is now being decided, whether we will be excluded from the oil sanctions package," President Vučić said.
08:12 In Bucha, 163 local residents were identified who were killed, Mayor Fedoruk said. According to him, about 320 bodies of Bucha residents have already been collected around the city.
07:50 Danilov warned that the men who managed to illegally leave Ukraine during the period of martial law would be detained upon their return "for explanations."
07:31 The Russians are repairing the railway from Kupyansk to Kharkov, Izyum and Svatovo, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. Also, representatives of the "DPR" were seen in Izyum, who perform the functions of the "police", checking the documents of the local population.
07:23 The White House listed the American aid that the United States has already delivered to Ukraine or is preparing to deliver:
more than 1400 Stinger anti-aircraft systems,
more than 5,000 Javelin anti-tank systems,
over 7000 other anti-tank systems,
hundreds of Switchblade tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (of which only 100 have been transferred so far),
more than 50 million rounds,
45 thousand sets of body armor and helmets,
missile systems with laser guidance,
puma unmanned aerial systems,
night vision devices, thermal imaging systems and optics,
satellite intelligence.
06:52 The EU will allocate another 500 million euros for the military needs of Ukraine, said the President of the European Council Charles Michel. He recalled that in total Europe has already spent one and a half billion euros for these purposes.
06:14 The head of the Sumy regional administration, Dmitry Zhivitsky, said that Russian troops had completely left the region. He warned local residents that if they hear explosions, this is the work of explosives technicians and rescuers.
00:29 For one Russian tank, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have 90 anti-tank systems from Western partners, said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. She also said that Ukraine reports what systems are needed for defense, and "we satisfy the vast majority of requests."
00:01 Arestovich believes that Russia deliberately launched a rumor about an attack on Kharkov in order to force Ukraine to keep troops under the city, and not to transfer them to Izyum. The adviser to the head of the OP does not believe in an attack on Kharkov.
[NEWSWEEK] A third person arrested in connection with the early Sunday morning shooting in Sacramento, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, that killed six and injured at least a dozen has been released on bail after he was charged with illegal firearm possession.
Two men, brothers Dandrae, 26, and Smiley Martin, 27,
...both Crips boys...
were arrested earlier this week on firearm possession charges. A third man, 31-year-old Daviyonne Dawson, was arrested late Monday and has been released on $500,000 bail, according to The Sacramento Bee. Police said they are continuing to search for the person or persons responsible for the shooting.
None of the three men has been charged with any crimes directly related to the shooting, which has made national headlines and drawn messages of condolence and condemnation from local and state officials like Governor Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... , as well as President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... . Both condemned the gun violence that is occurring throughout the country, with Newsom calling it a "scourge" in America. Newsom and Biden also called for reform of the nation's gun laws.
Police said that the gun recovered when Dawson was arrested likely was not used in Sunday's shooting, in which over 100 shots were fired, striking several buildings and vehicles in the area, the Bee reported.
The Bee also reported that Dawson has previous felony cases, from 2012, 2014 and 2015, and has been charged with being "engaged in a pattern of criminal gang activity and did willfully promote, further and assist in felony criminal conduct by said gang members."
A third person arrested in connection with Sunday's mass shooting in Sacramento, California, was released on bail. Above, coppers at the shooting scene on the corner of 10th and L streets on Sunday.
Smiley Martin also has prior felony convictions. Last year, the Sacramento County district attorney's office requested that he not be released early after serving part of a 10-year sentence for domestic violence and assault, the Bee reported.
He was seen on a Facebook Live video hours before the shooting with a gun, according to the Bee. Other videos that circulated on social media in the hours following the shooting showed several people involved in fights outside as bars and nightclubs closed at 2 a.m. Several gunshots can be heard in some of the videos.
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Gruesome has been targeting gun manufacturers for some time. Basically, he's running a Fast and Furious op in the entire state. Flood the state with murderers, then blame the manufacturers for the carnage. Rinse n repeat. His last gambit was for private citizens to be able to sue manufacturers and distributors. So far, the courts have found that problematic.
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A local officiall disclosed new details regarding the Ayn al-Assad incident.
The official told Shafaq News agency that an armed group had entered Kabisa sub-district to carry out the attack, prompting the Global Coalition forces to prepare to repel any possible attacks.
The Coalition said in a statement today, "At approximately 1:46 a.m., April 8, U.S. air defense systems shot down an armed unmanned aerial system entering Al Asad Air Base, Iraq.
'There are no reported injuries or damage and all Coalition personnel are accounted for. The incident is under investigation", the statement added.
However, a source reported to Shafaq News agency that the drones are similar to the ones that carried out the attack on Erbil and were found in Diyala two months ago.
The Global Coalition units deployed in Ayn al-Asad airbase
...alternately Ain Al-Asad...
thwarted an attack on the base today, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the units dropped two drones that were flying on the east side of the base, in addition to two rockets.
It is still unknown whether the two rockets were launched by the drones.
Ayn al-Asad is located 90 Km west of Ramadi, the capital city of al-Anbar governorate, and is the largest base hosting the Coalition units.
Bases hosting the Coalition units are constantly attacked since the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
Washington accuses pro-Iranian factions of being behind such attacks.
The attack comes after four U.S. troops were hurt Thursday when rockets were fired at a base housing American forces in neighboring Syria's Deir Ezzor province.
Dozens of rocket and armed drone attacks have targeted U.S. troops and interests in Iraq in recent months.
Western officials have blamed hard-line pro-Iran factions for the attacks, which have never been claimed.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A motion for detention shows two men impersonating federal agents, Haider Sher-Ali, 35, and Arian Taherzadeh, 40, had a slew of damning evidence in their apartments
This included images showing several different passports and IDs as well as firearms
'They are not law enforcement agents, and they are not involved in sanctioned covert activities,' the motion for detention filed Friday claims. 'Neither Defendant is even employed by the United States government Didja look and see who they were employed by? We'll wait.
'But their impersonation scheme was sufficiently realistic to convince other government employees, including law enforcement agents, of their false identities,' the memorandum added.
At least two Secret Service agents assigned to Biden and Harris' protective detail were caught up in the scheme by two men posing as DHS agents
One agent receiving free rent, sources say, was regularly stationed at VP Kamala Harris' residence at One Observatory Circle at the Naval Observatory
Another who was often seen partying with the two men is on the presidential protective detail
At least four Secret Service agents have been placed on administrative leave
Taherzadeh and Ali were arrested Wednesday for impersonating federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security, their apartment were raided by the FBI, NCIS and USPIS
The duo claimed to be involved in an investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
Taherzadeh told law enforcement in an interview after being taken into custody on Wednesday that Ali was the one funding their lavish lifestyle and seemingly endless stream of gifts, but claimed he wasn't aware where the money was coming from.
Ali, according to Taherzadeh, was the one able to gain access codes and a list of tenants in the Crossing DC apartment complex — owned by upscale real estate firm Tishman Speyer.
'With respect to Ali, Taherzadeh stated that Ali had obtained the electronic access codes and a list of all of the tenants in the apartment complex,' the memorandum notes. 'Taherzadeh further stated that Ali was the individual that funded most of their day-to-day operation but Taherzadeh did not know the source of the funds.'
Just after the interaction with a Postal Inspector in March, which eventually led to the duo's arrest, Taherzadeh said that he started deleting law enforcement material from his social media.
Images from the raid Wednesday of a unit on the 7th floor where Taherzadeh was residing allegedly for free showed agents recovered 'three current copies of Taherzadeh's Washington D.C. driver's license, passport, United States Special Police — Special Investigations Unit business cards, a USSP police badge, and several identification and credit cards.'
During an arraignment Thursday afternoon, details emerged that there could be connections between Ali and the Pak Intelligence Service.
Two of his passports were found during a raid of his unit on the 6th floor of Crossing DC.
'Ali's expired passport contained several visas authorizing foreign travel,' the Friday memorandum notes. 'For instance, this passport contained two visas authorizing travel from the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran.'
'The Government has identified at least four entry/exit stamps from Mashhad International Airport in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran.'
It goes on: 'In addition, the Ali's passport contained two thirty-day visas from Pakistain and one visa for travel to Egypt.'
Images of these visas and passports corroborate the claims made in the memorandum for detention of Taherzadeh and Ali.
Customs and Border Protection records show that Ali traveled through Doha, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... in November 2016, May 2019 and July 2019. He also went through there in October 2019 and returned from Istanbul, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... .
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So at no time in 18 months it was determined that Biden/Harris were worth the effort?
ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE
Where there is 1 sleeper cell there are others.
If this is real not mid term hype.
Then DC swamp better cover its assets big time.
QUESTION:
How long before the Biden DOJ & MSM tries to blame TRUMP for this ?
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I wonder how many more fake cops and fake bureaucrats are about these days.
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Haider Sher-Ali, 35, and Arian Taherzadeh
Clever cover names for white supremacists.
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#2 So at no time in 18 months it was determined that Biden/Harris were worth the effort?
Posted by: NN2N1 2022-04-09 08:43
NN,
The question is often asked as to why the WWII allies never tried to kill A Certain Austrian Corporal, and never gave all that much assistance to those in Germany who did try.
The answer has and can always be distilled down to one thing: the possibility that they might be replaced by someone competent.
They stayed away from Biden and Harris because they know no matter what they did, the worst result would be a couple of ineffective airstrikes and the White House kissing their backsides again in a few months for a new nuclear deal. But if you actually whacked the top of the food chain, somebody might get in there who says, 'Enough."*
Mike
*IMHO - YMMV, of course - Nancy Pelosi would avoid the Presidency like Dracula avoids Holy Water.
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They stayed away from Biden and Harris because ...
'... if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?'
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'They are not law enforcement agents, and they are not involved in sanctioned covert activities,' the motion for detention filed Friday claims. 'Neither Defendant is even employed by the United States government'
As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
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Idle speculation: these guys are actually Mossad. They infiltrated Pakistan's ISI but in order to maintain their cover, they had to infiltrate Homeland Security, which appears to be like having the weekend off.
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It is a concern that the real agents were taking free rent from these possibly Iranian agents. Not sure why the Iranians would benefit from infiltrating the Biden regime. That would be like Walmart sending agents to infiltrate Sam's Club. It's the same payroll. Looks like we are missing 2/3rds of the puzzle which means we will never hear of it again.
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#3 I wonder how many more fake cops and fake bureaucrats are about these days.
I've reach the point where I think there's only about 3-5 people in each department of the government that do ALL the actual work. The rest are just there to grift money and get party invites.
More on this story from yesterday.
[NATIONALREVIEW] A jury acquitted two men accused by the FBI of conspiring to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer ...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender... and could not reach verdicts on two other men involved in the alleged plot.
Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta were found not guilty on the charge of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Harris was also found not guilty of other weapons charges pertaining to the case.
The jury said they could not agree on verdicts for Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., who were also charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping in the alleged plot. As a result, U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker declared a mistrial for Fox and Croft.
Defense attorneys claimed that the accused were tricked or goaded into conspiring to kidnap the governor by undercover FBI agents and informants. Federal prosecutors ended up indicting one of their own informants on a gun charge,
...that’d be Dan Chappel...
while one of the FBI agents who testified in the case, Richard Trask, was subsequently fired after being accused of beating his wife in an argument following an orgy.
Fox, Croft and Harris also face additional charges. Two of the most serious charges, kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use explosives, can carry life sentences.
The verdict was read in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Three of the four defendants hail from the state, one is from Delaware.
Seven other men allegedly involved in the case are to be tried in state court.
Prosecutors were also aided by two co-defendants, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, who agreed to work with prosecutors. Garbin is serving six years for his role whereas Franks is awaiting sentencing.
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FBI/DOJ credibility: SHOT
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Their credibility was shot IMO along time ago.
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IMO the biggest story never told is the 8 years of Obama corrupting and politicizing the senior career civil service in DC. FBI, IRS, DoJ, DoD, HHS, DHS, CIA, NSA, EPA, FDA, NIH, the list goes on. In each case think about the news stories under Trump and Biden that show agencies at odds with decades of policy and precedent, and always moving to the left, globalist, Chinese, gay, Islamic. racist viewpoints. The salting of the civil service at the DoJ or DHS are stunning examples of malfeasance in failing to prosecute or enforce existing laws.
Take a look:
https://ourpublicservice.org/blog/a-revealing-look-at-racial-diversity-in-the-federal-government/
In reality, Whitmer was never in actual danger; "Big Dan," the ringleader of the alleged plot, contacted law enforcement early on, and the FBI paid him $54,000 to conduct six months of surveillance on a loose network of militia members who were upset with Whitmer's aggressive COVID-19 lockdown policies. When the group staked out Whitmer's house, it was Big Dan leading the effort—with the FBI's foreknowledge and encouragement.
At the same time, Big Dan's FBI handler, a man named Jayson Chambers, was attempting to start a side business as a security consultant; he thus had every incentive to construct a major domestic terrorism bust that he could take credit for foiling.
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And notice I didn't assign the critter a gender as I'm not a biologist. Sadly as a geologist, all I can do is hit something with a rock hammer and tell you if it's a rock (Doesn't scream and spray blood everywhere) or not a rock (Screams, cries and has the red red krovvy inside).
[NYTimes] At least 53 people have tested positive for the coronavirus since attending The Gridiron Club and Foundation’s annual dinner last Saturday in Washington, the group’s president confirmed on Friday.
The Gridiron Club dinner, an annual white-tie roast between journalists and presidential administrations, was held at the Renaissance Hotel. But a night of good-natured ribbing has devolved into an outbreak of cases among Washington’s elite, including members of Congress, members of the president’s cabinet and journalists.
About 700 people were at the event, including the 628 guests seated in the ballroom, Gridiron organizers said. Attendees were required to show proof of vaccination but not a negative test result, and face masks were not required during the program.
Among those who have publicly announced being infected with the virus after attending the dinner are Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo; Attorney General Merrick B. Garland; Valerie Biden Owens, the president’s sister; and Representative Adam B. Schiff of California.
President Biden did not attend the dinner.
On Wednesday, cases appeared to be contained to just a couple of the tables, but they have since popped up at additional tables. So far, there are no reports of any symptoms more serious than a sore throat or mild fever, said Tom DeFrank, a contributing editor for National Journal and president of the Gridiron Club.
Tch. Simply dreadful.
Members have been coming forward since Sunday to notify the club of positive cases, and the club has been informing anyone who sat next to, across from or in proximity to an infected guest, Mr. DeFrank said. “That is what we have done from the start and continue to do,” he added.
This year’s event was the Gridiron dinner’s return after a two-year, pandemic-related absence. In 2020, the organization canceled the event just days before it was set to take place. That year, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, had accepted an invitation but later declined less than two weeks before the event at the start of the pandemic, Mr. DeFrank said. This year, Dr. Fauci was the first guest to accept the invitation, Mr. DeFrank added. “That gave us some optimism,” Mr. DeFrank said, adding that if Dr. Fauci had declined, “that would have told us something.” Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was also at the dinner.
The number of new reported cases among those who attended the dinner has been decreasing since at least Wednesday, Mr. DeFrank said.
“We are hopeful that the downward trend will continue,” he said.
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Found this the other day. Sites block searches and posts more than ever.
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Go to substack dot com. (To find someone using a search engine just type in a name + "substack.com"; then click "Let me read it first" to peruse without paying for a subscription.)
These substack writers offer the best COVID reporting, analysis and not least, ironic / sarcastic humor in the face of global COVID follies:
Dr Robert W Malone: rwmalonemd.substack.com
Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch: Stevekirsch.substack.com
Florida litigation attorney Jeff Childers: Coffeeandcovid.substack.com
Former NYT journalist Alex Betenson: Alexberenson.substack.com
An anonymous but scientifically-expert East Coast medical researcher: boriquagato.substack.com
from Austria, another scientifically-literate anonymous professor: fackel.substack.com
from Germany, an anonymous doctor: eugyppius.substack.com
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Dr. Fauci was the first guest to accept the invitation, Mr. DeFrank added. “That gave us some optimism,
That, simply out of principle, should have been enough to cancel one's attendance. Since many of the attendees are unprincipled, they have now become ill.
#9
What exactly does "tested positive" mean here?
An active case of COVID?
Evidence of antibodies in the blood, meaning they have been exposed but never sick, or sick and recovered?
Or another example of the PCR test, which was never meant for this purpose, being cranked up to high?
#10
What exactly does "tested positive" mean here?
It means that polling shows people are more concerned about the economy and the potential for war than they are of the Holy Virus. So the elites want to crank the skeer up to 12.
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François Bonivard, Chronicles of Geneva, second volume, pages 395 – 402
“When the bubonic plague struck Geneva in 1530, everything was ready. They even opened a whole hospital for the plague victims. With doctors, paramedics and nurses. The traders contributed, the magistrate gave grants every month. The patients always gave money, and if one of them died alone, all the goods went to the hospital.
But then a disaster happened: the plague was dying out, while the subsidies depended on the number of patients. There was no question of right and wrong for the Geneva hospital staff in 1530. If the plague produces money, then the plague is good.
And then the doctors got organized. At first, they just poisoned patients to raise the mortality statistics, but they quickly realized that the statistics didn’t have to be just about mortality, but about mortality from plague. So they began to cut the boils from the bodies of the dead, dry them, grind them in a mortar and give them to other patients as medicine. Then they started dusting clothes, handkerchiefs and garters. But somehow the plague continued to abate. Apparently, the dried buboes didn’t work well. Doctors went into town and spread bubonic powder on door handles at night, selecting those homes where they could then profit. As an eyewitness wrote of these events, “this remained hidden for some time, but the devil is more concerned with increasing the number of sins than with hiding them.”
In short, one of the doctors became so impudent and lazy that he decided not to wander the city at night, but simply threw a bundle of dust into the crowd during the day. The stench rose to the sky and one of the girls, who by a lucky chance had recently come out of that hospital, discovered what that smell was.
The doctor was tied up and placed in the good hands of competent “craftsmen.” They tried to get as much information from him as possible. However, the execution lasted several days. The ingenious hypocrites were tied to poles on wagons and carried around the city. At each intersection the executioners used red-hot tongs to tear off pieces of meat. They were then taken to the public square, beheaded and quartered, and the pieces were taken to all the districts of Geneva.
The only exception was the hospital director’s son, who did not take part in the trial but blurted out that he knew how to make potions and how to prepare the powder without fear of contamination. He was simply beheaded “to prevent the spread of evil”.
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Are the Dems prepping for another stolen election, i.e. the 2022 elections. Create and hype another pandemic scare, push mail-in voting, stuff ballot boxes, bring out the dead voters and multiple-voting voters, rig voting machines, insert fake ballots, steal critical elections.
For crying out loud, can we not arrest these people and or divorce ourselves from Washington corruption?
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^#14 - Johns Hopkins University says ... about 570,000 people in the United States have died of coronavirus-related reasons.
But this morning, the Johns Hopkins site put the death toll over 800k. Worldometers has it over one million.
Some inconsistency observed.
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JOHNQC, national politicians live in their home states. Why do politicians from Wyoming live in DC. With the internet and communication devices most of their work, besides once or twice a year ceremonial duties could be performed from their home states. The current procedure is about as sensible as day light savings time.
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#11 But then a disaster happened: the plague was dying out, while the subsidies depended on the number of patients. There was no question of right and wrong for the Geneva hospital staff in 1530. If the plague produces money, then the plague is good
Same as it ever was.
We could use some hot tongs for our own plague-mongers
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@11 François Bonivard, Chronicles of Geneva, second volume
This looked dubious to me, so I DDG'd it, and it looked even more dubious, given the sites re-posting it. So, I spent some time looking for the original. Here it is:
My French is very limited, but with the help of Google and DeepL I produced this:
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This year also the plague reigns in Geneva, and was not enough of that God sent to men, to punish him for their sins, but human malice also wanted to help him.
You must know that, in Geneva, there was a pestilential Hospital, to sequester the infected there in times of plague, and there was a Hospitaller who was a surgeon, a Prebster and other servants, all well paid because of the danger where they sat; and even women, who were called curesses, who truly believe, for they had good wages and stole just as valiantly: And the Hospitaller and the Prebest shared in their booty.
It happened that, by the grace of God, the plague subsided little by little, which made my gallants were not very happy, because people who make their profit from evil, do not willingly wish the good and would always have willingly maintained the evil.
It happened at this point that there was a kid in Geneva, of quite a good House, but addicted to all sorts of deceptions, who took the name of villain in praise, provided that his subtle wickedness was reputed. His name was Michel Caddo. In spite of his refinement, he fell into such poverty that he did not scrape up enough to live on, and he faked being a plague patient.
Immediately he was sent to the Lhospital, where he was treated promptly with julep wine or syrup, and seeing that this party could only last forty days, he decided to prolong it, for which reason he conspired with Lhospitalier, and they decided that all those that brought to Lhospital, instead of curing them, if they did not die quickly, they would kill them, by poison or otherwise.
After they were dead, they took the plague from the carbuncle that had been on the body and made it into powder, mixed with other drugs, from which they gave to drink to those stricken with the plague, pretending that it was a drink of healing. Not satisfied with that, after Caddo had finished his term at Lhospital, they powdered with this poison fine handkerchiefs, well worked, fine garters and the like, then they went through the town at night, dropping them hither and thither, and principally in front of the houses where there was something to bite for them, and for the curers and curesses: And not content with that rubbed the bolts of the doors.
This remained hidden for a space of time, but the Devil does not care so much to help himself to hide the sins of his minions, as to make them commit them. When Caddo had taken enough care of the night, he could not refrain from doing it during the day, except on a Lenten day, in the year 1530, he dropped a cone of his ointment in the middle of the rue de Coutance, thinking that no one noticed it, but someone saw it and carefully unfolded it, when the greatest stink in the world came out of it. A poor woman, fresh out of hospital, said: No mistake, gentlemen, this is done with the carbuncle of the plague. And each marveled and went to warn the Sindicas, who seized Caddo and interrogated him, giving him a strappado.
Immediately they sent to seize his accomplices, who were confronted and tortured. They all spoke as if through a pipe [i.e. gave the straight skinny], and didn't allow them to die, not all at once, not in a day. They were put on a cart, all around the city, tied to a column, naked to the waist: And to have the executioner, above the cart, fire blazing, where he warmed up his pincers, then when they were all feasting red, gave them, at each crossroads, a pinch, which lifted a piece of flesh from them.
Afterwards they were taken to Molard, where on a scaffold they had their heads cut off, then were quartered, and quarters with the heads were carried and tied to various places, except to the son of Lhospitalier, who because of his youth was allowed to keep his head. But he then confessed that he knew how to compose the paternal mixture well, and for this, as much for fear of the evil to come as by revenge for the past, he also lost his life.
[Estrapade: Kind of torture which consisted in being suspended, the feet and the hands tied to a cord, and suddenly precipitated a few feet from the ground, which exposed the patient to sharp pains by the weight of the body and to the danger of being crippled, if, not answering the questions of the judge, the latter prolonged or renewed the torture.]
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N.B. The commentator was very interested in this story. He points out that, at the time, there were numerous plague hospitals that were reimbursed based on the number of patients. He provides additional sources, but I ran out of steam. Those here who have French might enjoy the rest.
So the original text circulating on the net is a modernized paraphrase of the original. There are a number of errors - the chief one is mistaking the criminal Caddo to be a doctor. But, surprisingly, it's "truthy".
'I believe very strongly if the good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl,' Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement on the bill
The Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act makes it a felony for doctors to perform medical procedures or prescribe medication to minors who want to alter their appearance or gender
The criminal penalty would be up to 10 years in prison
The ACLU said the bill was the first of its kind to make trans healthcare
...not trans healthcare but preventing child grooming. Time enough for people to decide to permanently mutilate their bodies when they’ve settled into their adult selves...
a felony and promised to challenge it in court
Democrats who opposed the bill said it contradicted Republican principals of small government
#2
..it is small government. Cuts all the government bureaucracy and medical funded practices that would set up to do the drugging and cutting like Planned Parenthood.
#3
Hey Groomer, going to cut out the parents on having a say in the kids having access to alcohol and tobacco too? Most states have laws about parents who give their kids those too. There is a reason. Same applies here.
Ukraine's state railway company announced attack on Kramatorsk's station, a city in the east of the country
The governor of Ukraine's Donesk region said later on Friday the death toll had risen to at least 50 people
Pictures from outside the station showed bodies strewn across the ground. Some were in body bags
Other pictures showed wreckage of a missile with Russian text written on the side reading 'For (our) children'
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky took to Instagram to decry the attack, confirming the casualties
Russia's defence ministry denied the attack, and instead claimed Ukraine was attacking its own civilians
Kramatorsk is found in the east of the country, about 80 miles west of Luhansk in the country's Donbas region
Ukrainian authorities have urged residents to flee west as Russia refocuses its military efforts in the country's eastern Donbas region after recently pulling its forces back from Kyiv
Western officials believe Captain General Aleksandr Dvornikov, a Russian commander who oversaw devastation in Syria, is likely to have ordered yesterday’s fatal air strike on the station in Kramatorsk
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The peoples pushing this sort of trash are for some strange reasons the same scum that imposed masks and vaccines on their populations It’s very sad the industrial scale killing that’s happened in Ukraine personally as a Russian I feel sorry even for the Azof’s…….it’s very sad. Even if they are Nazi’s, they are someone’s sons, fathers, they are men. But it has to be done. Genetically we are basically the same. And you can check this. Their genotype does not differ from Russians from ..(names a lot of cities in Russia) they dream in russian, speak in russian, think in Russian. But thanks to Cia and nato criminal propaganda and brainwash, they don’t consider themselves Russians. This is what lead to this.”
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Moving the war to the Donbas area is peculiar in that it involves inflicting bombardment and war on Russian speakers, for their own good of course, and apparently trying to do it by use of Syrian and Chechen mercenary forces.
If the Ukrainian forces attack their logistic support, they will undoubtedly take revenge on the residents of the already "independent" areas of the Eastern Ukraine.
Will local residents of the area stand up and cheer for this approach?
#7
Yes, it's NATO and the CIA that convinced the Ukrainians they're a distinct people, not the repeated Russian attempts to exterminate them.
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There bubbled a cauldron of frogs
Who gobbled intelligent blogs
And never were rude
But subduedly stewed,
Until... New and Improved! With more wogs!
[Cyrillic Campbell's multiple]
Terrorists locally known as bandidos have reportedly kidnapped an unspecified number of residents in Danjanku village, Musawa Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State.
According to residents who escaped the incident, the bandidos stormed the community in the early hours of Friday, and operated for many hours.
In their account, they claimed the bandidos arrived in the village on cycle of violences and started shooting indiscriminately. They kidnapped some locals and escaped with them into the forest, Politics Nigeria reports.
Barely a week ago, five persons were killed by button men suspected to be bandidos in Yantumaki, Danmusa Local Government Area of the state.
Danmusa, which is on the boundary of Rugu Forest, is one of the main hideouts for button men commonly referred to as bandidos.
Katsina, despite being the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, has witnessed sporadic attacks by bandidos and kidnappers that have claimed the lives of many.
Over 700 people have been reportedly killed by the button men in Jibia, Kankara, Dutsinma, Musawa, Danmusa and Safana local government areas of the state in the last five months.
#4
We also had no compelling interest in Afghanistan when the soviets invaded but for the impish desire to make it hell for the soviets. I have no issue doing the same here, but no troops. Golden opportunities for field testing our hardware vs theirs.
#5
Except we're making it hell for ourselves and for the poor Ukrainians. It's not like Afghanistan because fucking bleeding hearts have adopted Ukraine as their next Holy Mission.
We will be on the hook to clean up Putin's mess. Billions every year for the next 30 years at least. While they make us poor and push ration cards on us
#6
A classic example of unintended consequences came out of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. We interfered and provided weapons to the Afghans. Eventually the Soviets had enough and left. But then we got Osama bin Laden. Recent history is littered with the tragedies that result from American interventionism.
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#1 Not our circus. Not our monkeys.
Stay the fuck out.
Damn straight. If they're going to put up another botchjob in a shithole country that's none of our business, they can bloody well sink their own money. Not ours. Stay the fuck out.
Gary McCoy was accused of 'just making up random numbers' by a the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... Department of Health official
McCoy helps run the now-notorious Tenderloin Linkage Center, an open-air site intended to help homeless addicts that's instead become a squalid drug den
McCoy works for HealthRIGHT 360, a non-profit given tens of millions by the City of San Francisco to run some of the city's health facilities
Earlier this week, DailyMail.com revealed that just 18 of the 23,369 people who'd visited the center since January were given meaningful help
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"Meaningful Interactions" is a metric chosen because it is totally subjective, the exact opposite of meaningful. Subjective metrics are most useful if the goal of the metric is to avoid accountability. Conversely,"18 visitors were referred to rehab" is an objective statement which, I think, is indicative of a subjectively terrible performance. To brand it an objectively terrible performance, I recommend discovering another objective statistic: the count of visitors who were hauled out of the linkage center on a gurney. I bet that number is higher than 18 during the same time period. It is probably high enough to objectively declare the whole project a meaningfully bad idea.
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A statement that ought to be calligraphied and framed. :-)
A senior Iraqi military officer on Friday attributed the alarming spike of abductions in the "hotspots" between Diyala and Saladin to the shrinking financial resources of the militants sheltering in the volatile territory.
Spokesperson to the northern axis of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) Command, Ali Hashem al-Husayni, said that the extremist militants have been asking for ransoms from the families of the abductees to commensurate for the declining financial influx.
Al-Husayni cited the abduction of five shepherds in an open area between the governorates of Saladin and Diyala near the Haleiwa airport, calling for bolstering the cooperation between the security authorities of both governorates to tighten the control over the gaps and eradicate the terrorist shells sheltering there.
The PMF commander adduced reports about the infiltration of ISIS militants into the families being repatriated from displacement camps. "This might be a major catalyst for ISIS resurgence. It helps facilitate their action by providing information and intelligence," he said.
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I hadn't thought of possible impact of Bidens plan to collapse the world economy on terrorist enterprises. Maybe Ali called Dave Ramsey and he recommended either doing night pizza delivery or kidnapping shepherds. Maybe they'll do both. to accelerate their financial recovery.
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Doesn't say much for your organization when kidnapping shepherds is a major part of your funding.
Shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR damaged residential buildings
[REGNUM] Three residential buildings in the village of Kalinovo (LPR) were damaged as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime reports on April 8.
Ukrainian militants fired at 13:30 Moscow time, firing ten mines at Kalinovo.
Recall that during the day on April 7, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the LPR four times: as a result of one of the attacks, a civilian was wounded.
Ukrainian militants shelled Yasinovataya with Grads
[REGNUM] On the evening of April 8, Ukrainian armed formations shelled the cities of Yasinovataya and Gorlovka in the DPR, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
So, Yasinovataya was attacked at 16:30 Moscow time. From the direction of Avdiivka settlement, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired seven missiles from the BM-21 Grad.
Ukrainian militants opened fire on Gorlovka at 19:15 Moscow time, firing 15 shots from the BMP-2 from the side of the village of Shumy.
Recall that in Istanbul on March 29, the next round of negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations ended. After that, a number of Russian officials announced the prospects for an early conclusion of a peace treaty.
“In seven years, everyone has already understood everything - who makes sense to listen to, and who does not. Whoever has not understood either in the past seven years or in these seven weeks will never understand," said the agency’s interlocutor.
Now ordinary Luhansk peasants are doing their job, smoking the Armed Forces of Ukraine out of the fortifications around the 29th checkpoint near Novotoshkovka, and they simply have no time for this, Sintsov noted. “When they’re done and there’s time to take a break and look at the Internet and everything, I think they’ll just shrug their shoulders and say: "Another f ... offered to give up. Dill, probably," said the fighter.
"One of my acquaintances, a local militia, who has been fighting from the very beginning, somehow very correctly said: “Bandera is in front of us, Vlasov is behind us.” This is what people think about those who do not want to end Ukrainian Nazism," Sintsov concluded.
Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Golmovsky in DPR from artillery
[REGNUM] Kiev militants fired artillery at the village of Golmovsky in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was announced on April 8 by the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).
It is noted that the shelling of Holmovsky by the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded at 15:10 (coincides with Moscow time) and during it six shells of 122 mm caliber were fired at the settlement.
As REGNUM reported , earlier Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia wants to see Belarus among the countries that guarantee Ukraine's security.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] 1. As a result of the arrival of a tactical missile at the Kramatorsk railway station, 30 civilians were killed and about 100 wounded.
2. Ukraine immediately stated that it was Russia that fired at people who were in a hurry to evacuate, and that it was an Iskander with a cluster warhead.
3. When photos of rocket fragments appeared, it turned out that this was Tochka-U, which is used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After that, Zelensky changed his shoes and began to assert that this was not an Iskander, as Arestovich and Kirilenko broadcast, but Tochka-U, only Russian.
4. In the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, "Tochki-U" was officially withdrawn from the armament of missile brigades in connection with the transition to the "Iskander". There is not a single video showing the combat use of Tochek-U by the RF Armed Forces or the armies of the DPR and LPR in the Donbass (even if we assume that they will be taken from long-term storage bases). At the same time, there are a lot of videos of the combat use of the Iskander and other types of missiles. At the same time, Ukraine uses Tochki-U everywhere, including to strike at Donetsk, where the SBU gathered a rally specifically for this strike through front men in social networks.
5. The missile, presumably, flew in from the southwest. According to one data. was hit. For others, it worked just fine. On the rocket everything was inscribed "For the children"
6. It is also worth noting that the population of Donbass, including Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, is considered by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be disloyal (in Ukraine, residents of Donbass are actually deprived of voting rights), so they can easily be sacrificed.
The strike on the railway station of Kramatorsk was carried out by a missile division of the Ukrainian armed forces from the area of the settlement of Dobropolye, 45 kilometers southwest of the city.
This follows from the statement of the Russian military, who established the place from which the strike on the railway station in Kramatorsk was carried out.
If the rocket went off course, that's one thing. But if the rocket flew purposefully to Kramatorsk, and it looks like it did, then this is a provocation in order to catch up with the emotions of the highest European commissioners who are coming to Kyiv today.
Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov says it's a "huge tragedy to us" to have lost Russian troops during the war in Ukraine.https://t.co/X3flQUBL0r
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Feng 'Franklin' Tao faces 20 years in jail after being convicted for fraud Thursday
He concealed ties to China's government while working on US-funded research
Moved to Fuzhou to work with a university there but told KU he moved to Europe
Tao found guilty on three counts wire fraud and one of making false statements
Tao's is the latest trial to come out of a now-ended Trump-era crackdown on Chinese influence within US research amid concerns of economic espionage and intellectual property theft.
He was one of two dozen academics charged under the US Department of Justice 'China Initiative' which fell apart following several failed prosecutions and criticism that it chilled academic research and fueled bias against Asians.
Tao, who was born in China and moved to the US in 2002, began working in 2014 at the University of Kansas Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis on projects involving renewable energy, including shale gas, funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Prosecutors alleged that in 2018, Tao signed a five-year contract with Fuzhou University in China that required him to be a full-time employee with the Changjiang Professorship after applying to participate in one of China's 'talent plans'.
As part of that program he traveled to China to set up a laboratory and recruit staff for Fuzhou University, telling the University of Kansas he was in Germany instead.
The Justice Department says China uses those programs to entice foreign researchers to share their knowledge with it.
Prosecutors alleged that in 2018, Tao signed a five-year contract with Fuzhou University in China that required him to be a full-time employee with the Changjiang Professorship. The Justice Department says China (pictured, President Xi Jinping) uses those programs to entice foreign researchers to share their knowledge with it
Prosecutors alleged that in 2018, Tao signed a five-year contract with Fuzhou University in China that required him to be a full-time employee with the Changjiang Professorship. The Justice Department says China (pictured, President Xi Jinping) uses those programs to entice foreign researchers to share their knowledge with it
Prosecutor Adam Barry said Tao falsely in reports filed with the school claimed no conflicts of interest, describing it as 'an elaborate lie' to defraud the university, the DOE and NSF.
Tao also caused KU to submit to the US government hundreds of thousands of dollars in reimbursement requests for expenditures associated with research grants he was working on, according to the Department of Justice.
But Zeidenberg argued that Tao was merely 'moonlighting' and stressed throughout the trial that Tao remained such a prolific researcher that the University of Kansas honored him in April 2019 - just months before his arrest.
He contended that Tao completed all the research he received grants to conduct and said his work in China was not against the rules because he was not paid for it.
#1
Gee, I don't know but maybe a little focus on "profiling" Chinese named individuals might be a consideration? Near as I can tell the CCP is/has stolen an awful lot of our stuff and intellectual property?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJMedia] Four economists at the Federal Reserve say the high rate of inflation in the United States compared to the rest of the world is due to the COVID-19 stimulus checks given to Americans during the pandemic. The direct payments to American citizens enlarged the money supply enormously and overheated the economy.
[ZeroHedge] Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have blocked a Republican-backed subpoena to compel Hunter Biden to testify as a witness.
...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....
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
The 28-year-old victim, whose identity has not been revealed, had just flown in from Salt Lake City and was looking for a cab when Fernando Avila Hernandez, pretending to be an Uber driver and offered to give her a ride to her hotel, NBC Miami reported Thursday.
[IsraelTimes] Second-largest auto insurer in the US apologizes for planned event with prominent Palestinian-American activist, who supports BDS movement and has been accused of antisemitism.
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender...
