[SHTF] A board member of German insurer BKK ProVita recently had analyzed the data of millions of insured individuals of the BKK group. The results conclude that the number of COVID-19 "vaccine" side effects is much higher than is being reported by the German federal agency and medical regulatory body, the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI).
[TED] In this unedited conversation, Elon Musk — the head of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company — digs into the recent news around his bid to purchase Twitter and gets honest about the biggest regret of his career, how his brain works, the future he envisions for the world and a lot more. (This conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson was recorded April 14, 2022)
[TED] In 2007, Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, who was dying of pancreatic cancer, delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that made the world stop and pay attention. This moving talk will teach you how to really achieve your childhood dreams. Unmissable.
Iranian link and the shocking ineptitude of the Secret Service. It took the US Postal Service to reveal the phony DHS agents.
[TabletMagazine] Was the Infiltration of the Secret Service Part of an Iranian Plot to Kill John Bolton? Iran’s attempts to avenge the killing of Qassem Soleimani are another inconvenient truth for the Biden administration’s nuclear negotiators
Recently released court filings and press reports suggest that the two men apprehended for impersonating federal agents last week in Washington, D.C., might have been part of an Iranian assassination team whose mission was to kill former high-ranking U.S. officials. Yet even as the Biden administration became aware of a possible Iranian plot to kill Americans on American soil—an act of war—White House aides continued to negotiate the restoration of the Iran nuclear deal while seeking to accommodate the clerical regime’s thirst for revenge against former Trump administration officials: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Special Envoy for Iran Brian Hook, and National Security Advisor John Bolton.
According to media reports, the two men, Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali, are U.S. citizens. The latter told witnesses he had connections to Pakistani intelligence, and early reports from The New York Times, NBC, Associated Press, and other news sources seemed to make a point of not mentioning any possible link to Iran, despite at least one of the men having visas to visit that country.
Unsurprisingly, both men are now being actively investigated for possible ties to Iranian spy services, according to CBS News. Ali reportedly visited Iran twice in recent years.
Clearly, the two men enjoyed the financial and logistical support of a well-funded organization that supplied them with arms, electronic devices, and cash, which they used to infiltrate and compromise U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
The nature of Taherzadeh and Ali’s activities in Washington, D.C., is certainly suggestive of an intention to infiltrate the U.S. Secret Service. Starting in February 2020, according to the affadavit filed in support of the arrest warrants, they worked out of a building in the southeast quadrant of Washington, D.C., in the fashionable Navy Yard district that is home to federal agents, congressional aides, and other government employees. Falsely representing themselves as agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the two men provided Secret Service agents—including agents connected to President Joe Biden’s security detail—as well as a DHS employee with rent-free apartments each worth more than $40,000 per year. According to the April 5th arrest warrant, they provided Secret Service agents with iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat-screen television, a generator, and what they said were “official government vehicles.” They also proposed buying an assault rifle for a Secret Service agent assigned to First Lady Jill Biden.
It seems odd that these actions barely raised the suspicions of the numerous federal agents living in the building. Taherzadeh told one DHS employee in the building that he had a list of all of the federal agents in the apartment complex, along with codes to the elevators that gave him access to every floor, and surveillance footage from around the building. After the DHS employee tried to verify that the two men worked for the agency by searching internal DHS databases, Taherzadeh said that his name was redacted due to his undercover status. But as the DHS employee might have known, had Taherzadeh really been working undercover, it’s unlikely he would’ve identified himself as an undercover agent—or shown building residents his tactical gear, surveillance equipment, and a high-powered telescope, as well as a handgun he claimed had been issued by a U.S. agency. He also told neighbors he and Ali could access data from the cell phones of everyone who lived in the building.
Taherzadeh and Ali’s stunning imposture was finally revealed by a U.S. Postal Service inspector who was investigating an attack on a postal carrier in the Navy Yard building and was told by residents that the two men might have witnessed the assault. The inspector interviewed Taherzadeh and Ali, who identified themselves as federal agents who had been deputized by the city government of Washington, D.C., as “special police.” The inspector also learned that the two men had given gifts to Secret Service agents. He then passed the information on to the FBI, which arrested the two men.
How is it possible that in a building full of federal law enforcement agents, it took a postal service inspector to uncover the two men? After all, press reports have suggested for months that the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are aware of active foreign plots against U.S. officials. In particular, the Iranians are intent on taking revenge for the targeted assassination of Qassem Soleiman, the onetime chief of the Quds Force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ external operations unit, who was second in command only to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The Iranians have repeatedly threatened the three former Trump officials—Pompeo, Hook, and Bolton—by name in their own media. In a recent documentary, a former Iranian official, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, boasted that the Iranian regime’s threats to murder Hook have terrorized Hook’s family. “I went to America, and an American told me that Brian Hook’s wife can’t sleep. She cries and trembles, she told Brian, ‘They’ll kill you,’ since Hook was a partner in the death of Haj Qassem [Soleimani]. That’s how much they were trembling,” said Moussavian. Bizarrely, Moussavian holds a teaching post at Princeton University, which is apparently okay with faculty who use the university’s name and platform to amplify and celebrate murder threats by foreign governments against U.S. diplomats.
Because Pompeo and Hook are former State Department employees, their security is provided by the Diplomatic Security Service. Bolton worked in the White House, so his protective detail is provided by the Secret Service—the target of the penetration effort by Taherzadeh and Ali.
Early last month, the Washington Examiner reported that U.S. intelligence services had become aware that “at least two Iranians belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ covert-action Quds Force have been plotting to assassinate” Bolton, and a full-time Secret Service protective detail was assigned to him earlier this year or late in 2021. When emailed by Tablet, Bolton declined to comment on the arrests of Ali and Taherzadeh.
This is not the first time the Iranians have plotted to kill their enemies in the U.S. capital. In September 2011, U.S. law enforcement arrested Manssor Arbabsiar, an Iranian-born naturalized U.S. citizen who, together with Iran-based Quds Force officers, had plotted to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States Adel al-Jubeir at a Washington restaurant and subsequently bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies.
At the time, President Barack Obama said that Iran “will pay a price” for plotting terror attacks that were likely to have killed a huge number of people in the U.S. capital. Instead, the Obama administration legalized Iran’s nuclear weapons program when it agreed to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in July 2015.
The Biden administration is now negotiating to reenter the deal that the Trump administration withdrew from in May 2018. Despite some recent hand-wringing, it seems unlikely that Iran’s efforts to kill Americans will derail Biden’s negotiators. The Obama team eagerly embraced the Iranian nuclear program while ignoring Tehran’s terror plots and will almost certainly do so again under Biden. Robert Malley, the key negotiator for Obama’s Middle East team, now serves as Biden’s Iran envoy.
Apparently, Malley’s negotiating team tried to talk Iran out of killing Americans who served in government—but failed. According to Malley’s former deputy at the International Crisis Group, Ali Vaez, “It is politically impossible for the Iranians to publicly close the file on taking revenge for Soleimani. That proposal has been rejected by the Iranians. Iran has come up with a counterproposal that the US is now considering.”
In other words, rather than walking away from the deal with a terror state that is actively trying to murder former U.S. officials, the Biden administration has been trying to arrive at a formula that licenses Iranian vengeance against its predecessors in government. As depraved as that may sound to ordinary Americans, it is the reality that U.S. negotiators have brought about in their decade-long attempt to give international legitimacy, and U.S. protection, to Iran’s nuclear program.
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the two men provided Secret Service agents—including agents connected to President Joe Biden’s security detail—as well as a DHS employee with rent-free apartments each worth more than $40,000 per year. According to the April 5th arrest warrant, they provided Secret Service agents with iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat-screen television, a generator, and what they said were “official government vehicles.” They also proposed buying an assault rifle for a Secret Service agent assigned to First Lady Jill Biden.
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To be fair, it is my understanding that Messrs Taherzadeh and Ali also did not pay for the apartments they were giving to their Secret Service pals. The building owner was patriotically footing the bill for all of them.
Josh Sundquist, 37, from Santa Monica, California, got plenty of laughs from his social media followers when he shared a video of himself looking confused
He explained in the on-screen text that his health insurance company sent a nurse to his house because his body weight is 'dangerously low' for his height
Sundquist had his left leg amputated when he was nine after being diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and given a 50 per cent chance of survival
In a follow-up clip, he recalled his conversation with the nurse, saying she asked if he was eating enough even though the explanation for his weight was obvious
Things only got more awkward when the comedian shared that he had two knee surgeries and the nurse asked: 'On which knee?'
The videos have received millions of views and inspired others to share their own awkward health insurance mishaps
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She was reading from the Officially approved script?
Back in the Dial Up Days™ I was on on the telephone (land line of course!) asking for help setting up my e-mail account with MSN.com...
...the customer rep told me she would (quote) E-mail me the instructions (un-quote). *Blink*
Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is the also first state prisoner to face the choice of execution methods after a law went into effect last year
The law made electrocution the default and gave inmates the option to face three prison workers with rifles instead
Moore has spent more than two decades on death row after being convicted of the 1999 killing of convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg
If executed as scheduled on April 29, he would be the first person put to death in the state since 2011 and fourth nationwide to die by firing squad in over 50 years
Only three executions in the United States have been carried out by firing squad since 1976
The new law was prompted by the decade-long break in executions, which officials attribute to an inability to procure drugs needed for lethal injections
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He has been convicted and sentenced! Say FU and inject him. He should have NO say in his end.
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The venue
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It is not Justice if the sentence is carried out 21 later.
Using the SC Prison cost to house, Guard, treat and feed an inmate of $12,336 to $21,000 per year (1991 to 2021). His 21 years in jail has cost the SC taxpayers close to $700,000.00
Brian Donaciano Olguin Berdugo, 39, was arrested an apartment complex in city of Cali in the Colombian department of Valle del Cauca, south west of Bogota
Better known as 'Pitt', the Mexican national arrived in February for cocaine deals with FARC on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel
After finishing business he frequently met with a model who posted a photo of the pair kissing on Facebook after reportedly spending several nights together
His fate was sealed when the model uploaded one photo to her Facebook account and agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration informed the Colombian Anti-Narcotics Police of the suspect's location.
The Sinaloa Cartel (Cartel de Sinaloa - CDS) is also known as the Blood Alliance, and works as a huge international drug trafficking, money laundering and organised crime body operating primarily in the Mexican states of Sinaloa, Baja California, Durango, Sonora and Chihuahua.
It also has presence in Colombia and cities across the US. It is considered to be the most powerful drug trafficking organisation in the western hemisphere by the United States Intelligence Community.
A new set of guidelines say to keep your waistline less than half of your height
NICE says a healthy waist-to-height ratio — where you divide your waist measurement by your height measurement — is classed as 0.4 to 0.49
A ratio of 0.5 to 0.59 puts people at an increased risk of health problems which can include the likes of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease
We put 12 individuals to the test to see what the new guidelines say about them
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It is long overdue to ditch BMI. Ever since I started seriously lifting, my BMI has shot up and my health has improved. My waist measurement has not changed at all even though I am able to lift 5 times more weight. So yay.
[Rob Adolph - Tampa Bay Times] The United Nations just voted Russia off the Human Rights Council. Embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants much more from the international body, and who can blame him? Serious war crimes have been committed by the Moscow regime.
The U.S. and E.U. have decided to add more layers of increasingly harsh economic and financial sanctions against Russia and its leadership — official and unofficial — following the brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Previous sanctions have not worked. New sanctions will probably not work either, at least not in the near term. Short of combat, how can the international community further punish the regime in Moscow in ways that will have genuine impact? It can remove Russia from its permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council.
Why does Vladimir Putin enjoy a seat? There is only one answer: The late Soviet Union possessed a huge arsenal of atomic weapons. Although Russia contains a significant natural resource base, the nation is not a global leader in technology, innovation, finance, manufacture or any other commercial or financial enterprise. Russia is by most accounts a massively under-developed kleptocracy.
Reckless dictators like Putin, no matter how many nuclear missiles they possess, should be excluded from the globe’s most exclusive nation-state club. Permanent Security Council members that violate international law and norms of conduct by invading another member state without just cause should be expelled from what today is called "The Big Five" — the U.S., U.K., France, China and Russia.
Robert Bruce Adolph is a former US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel and United Nations Chief Security Advisor, who holds graduate degrees in both international affairs and national security studies and strategy. His previously published works have appeared in nearly every US military publication of note. Most recently, he penned the commentary series "Dispatch from Rome" for the Military Times. Adolph also recently published the book entitled "Surviving the United Nations: The Unexpected Challenge."
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Besoeker, thanks for bringing this to my attention.
This guy is a moron. The Security Council seat for Russia is there for Russia to protect its interests without killing millions of people. Believe me, Russia will protect their interests even if it means killing a bunch of US Special forces officers to do it.
Probably the reason this author is alive to write this tripe is that Russia/Soviet Union was able to peacefully protect its interests at the UN during his service rather than killing him and his unit.
[FoxNews] A judge ruled Friday that a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket last year is still mentally incompetent to stand trial, further delaying court proceedings in the case.
The prosecution of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa,
...also in our archives as Ahmad Alissa, the ISIS-curious, Trump-hating, untreated paranoid schizophrenic known wolf whose aggressive, infidel-hating Syrian refugee family did not bother to stop him from getting guns and running amok in a Jewish grocery store just before Passover. Mr. Al Issa would have preferred to shoot up a Trump rally the previous year, but the Covid shutdown meant the scheduled rallies were cancelled...
22, has been on hold since December, when Judge Ingrid Bakke ruled that he was mentally incompetent — unable to understand legal proceedings and work with his lawyers to defend himself.
The ruling came nearly a month after Boulder, the home of the University of Colorado, marked the first anniversary of the attack that killed workers, customers and a police officer who rushed inside the store. Alissa was not in court for Friday’s hearing.
Few details have been released about Alissa’s condition. Reports on his evaluations are not available to the public, but a court filing discussing one of the evaluations last year said he had been provisionally diagnosed with an unspecified mental health condition that limits his ability to "meaningfully converse with others."
In December, one of Alissa’s attorneys, Kathryn Herold, said her client has a "serious" mental illness but did not elaborate. At the time, District Attorney Michael Dougherty said Alissa had "deteriorated" over the previous months while being held in jail.
Investigators have not released any information about why they believe Alissa launched the attack or why he may have targeted the supermarket. He lived in the neighboring suburb of Arvada, where authorities say he passed a background check to legally buy the Ruger AR-556 pistol he allegedly used six days before the shooting.
Competency is a different legal issue than a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which involves whether someone’s mental health prevented them from understanding right from wrong at the time a crime was committed.
The judge set a July 21 hearing to again evaluate Alissa’s competency to stand trial.
The March 22, 2021, attack at a King Soopers grocery shocked a state that has seen its share of mass shootings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting.
Boulder police Officer Eric Talley, a 51-year-old father of seven, was shot and killed while rushing into the store with an initial team of police officers. The nine others killed inside and outside the supermarket were Denny Stong, Neven Stanisic, Rikki Olds, Tralona Bartkowiak, Teri Leiker, Suzanne Fountain, Kevin Mahoney, Lynn Murray and Jody Waters.
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I have never understood why the insane can't be put down when they have done some heinous crime. Wtf makes them any more special than you and I?
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Reminds me of an op piece proposing the insane and emotionally unstable are a bigger threat than those who plan crimes. The short, say what you want about 1st degree murderers, they are at least in control of their faculties.
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Can't have the real trial until after the Mid-term Elections, allowing the LSD's to use it as a new Gun Control Poster.
A Simple Question.
IF Gun Control Laws worked, how did he get a firearm being a mentally unstable person, and why were HONEST / INNOCENT Citizens unable to defend themselves because they were disarmed?
[OneIndia] Sarpanch Manzoor Ahmad Bangroo was rubbed out by bully boyz in North Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Goushbugh Pattan region of Baramulla district on April 15.
"A Sarpanch, Manzoor Ahmad Bangroo shot at and injured by bully boyz in Goshbugh Pattan in Baramulla district. He has been rushed to a hospital," according to ANI.
"Terrorists fired upon independent sarpanch Manzoor Ahmad at Goshbugh area of Pattan in district Baramulla leaving him critically injured. He was shifted to hospital where doctors declared him brought dead," said J&K Police.
[ABC] GRANTVILLE, Ga. -- A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a fatal armed robbery at a Georgia gun range that left three members of a family dead last week.
Jacob Christian Muse, of College Park, is charged with three counts of malice murder, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Friday.
When Grantville officers arrived at the scene of Lock Stock & Barrel Shooting Range on the night of April 8, they discovered the bodies of the gun range's owner, along with his wife and grandson. The victims were identified as Thomas Hawk, 75; Evelyn Hawk, 75; and Luke Hawk, 17.
Investigators said that as many as 40 guns and the range’s surveillance camera were also stolen.
The shooting range is in rural Coweta County, about 50 miles (about 80 kilometers) southwest of Atlanta.
[Townhall] "They fought like Tigers," wrote a CIA officer who helped train the Cuban freedom-fighters who landed at The Bay of Pigs 61 years ago this week... "But their fight was doomed before the first man hit the beach."
That CIA man, Grayston Lynch, knew something about fighting -- and about long odds. He carried scars from Omaha Beach, The Battle of the Bulge and Korea's Heartbreak Ridge. But in those battles, Lynch and his band of brothers could count on the support of their own chief executive.
At the Bay of Pigs, Lynch and his band of Cuban brothers learned -- first in speechless shock and finally in burning rage -- that their most powerful enemies were not Castro's Soviet-armed and led soldiers massing in Santa Clara, Cuba, but the Ivy League's Best and Brightest dithering in Washington.
Lynch trained, in his own words, ''brave boys most of whom had never before fired a shot in anger." Short on battle experience, yes, but they fairly burst with what Bonaparte and George Patton valued most in a soldier -- morale. They'd seen the face of Castro/Communism point-blank: stealing, lying, jailing, poisoning minds, murdering.
They'd heard the chilling "Fuego!" as Castro and Che's firing squads murdered thousands of brave countrymen. More importantly, they heard the "Viva Cuba Libre!" from the bound and blindfolded patriots, right before the bullets ripped them apart. They set their jaws and resolved to smash this murderous barbarism that was ravaging their homeland. And they went at it with a vengeance.
[Guardian] On n Wednesday, police finally arrested Frank James, the man accused of shooting up a crowded subway train in New York City, wounding 10. James, strangely, had called in the tip himself, telling police he was at a Manhattan McDonald’s. Other New Yorkers spotted the subway shooter too, assisting the police.
Eric Adams, the New York City mayor, touted the arrest as another victory for the New York police department and called, once more, for increased surveillance on the subways. "We believe we have a technology that we can use in the subway system that many passengers are not even going to be aware that they are walking past a device that could detect weapons, and we are excited about the possibilities and I’m not going to leave any legal technology off the table when it comes down to keeping New Yorkers safe," Adams said on MSNBC.
A former police captain, Adams was elected mayor last year on a promise to crack down on crime. He was able to outflank more liberal rivals in the Democratic primary as public safety became a top issue for voters. Since taking office, he has visited numerous crime scenes and vowed, at various points, to reintroduce tougher policing practices.
Progressives are wrong to simply mock police for taking 30 hours to apprehend James or relying on tips to find him — that’s how policing usually works. Some online commentators have argued that the shooting proves police can’t prevent any crime because Adams had already dispatched more cops to the subways and James was still able to detonate a smoke bomb and unload his gun on passengers. Police can deter crime and most working-class New Yorkers want them to catch criminals and solve crimes.
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What did the FBI know about Frank James and when did it suppress that knowledge?
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I think the FBI keeps guys like this around as "they might be useful, at some point." Sort of like the thinking of that reclusive crank in the neighborhood who keeps a couple live grenades around the house.
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had called in the tip himself, telling police he was at a Manhattan McDonald’s
"... Now get here before I die of cholesterol all by mahself, you stoopid mutherfcukers!"
[Breitbart] Authorities in Arizona are probing the death of a woman who apparently got tangled upside-down on a border fence this week.
A 32-year-old woman from Mexico tried to climb the border fence near Douglas, Arizona, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office revealed in a prepared statement.
Sheriff’s deputies and Border Patrol responded to the scene late on April 11 shortly after receiving a call from Mexican counterparts. They found a woman who had died after spending "a considerable amount of time" upside-down hanging from the fence.
According to authorities, the woman was using a rappelling harness to climb from the Mexican-facing side. At the top, her foot became ensnared as she was trying to climb down to the U.S. side. Authorities rushed the woman to a local hospital where she "was declared deceased." Since the incident, authorities have been in communication with the Mexican Consulate.
"These types of incidents are not political, they are humanitarian realities that someone has lost a loved one in a senseless tragedy," Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels said in a statement." We have to do better in finding solutions to the challenges facing our border, and we have to do it for the right reasons."
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Obviously, we need to provide Humanitarian Gates and Ladders
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See, this is like the bank robbery problem. If there were no banks, there would be no bank robberies. Same thing here: no fences, no fence climber accidents.
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Put a warning label on the border fence, please!
[Real Clear Investigations] Even today amid a mounting exodus among those who can afford it, and with its appeal diminished to businesses and newcomers, California, legendary state of American dreams, continues to inspire optimism among progressive boosters.
Laura Tyson, the longtime Democratic economist now at the University of California at Berkeley, praises the state for creating "the way forward" to a more enlightened "market capitalism." Like-minded analysts tout Silicon Valley’s massive wealth generation as evidence of progressivism’s promise. The Los Angeles Times suggested approvingly that the Biden administration’s goal is to "make America California again." And, despite dark prospects in November’s midterm elections, the President and his party still seem intent on proving it.
But most Californians, according to recent surveys, see things differently. They point to rising poverty and inequality, believe the state is in recession and that it is headed in the wrong direction. Parting with the state’s cheerleaders, the New York Times’ Ezra Klein, a reliable progressive and native Californian, says the Golden State’s failures are "making liberals squirm."
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If you want to be depressed, go try to read all the way through the article.
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Mrs. Warthog and I left Kaliphornia in 2013 and we thought it was bad then. It's an upholstered cesspool. Idaho is paradise comparatively..but for how long is the question...
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Paradise Lost, first came in 1969, was stunned by the beauty and optimistic sense of the American Dream. Left for good in 2018, simply could not stand the creeping ruination brought on by the cancer of demokrat ideology and policy.
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Bring in millions of illegals
Pay people not to work
Thwart housing construction
Block needed dans and desalination projects
Decriminalize theft
Ignore popular will and Impose illegal race preferences in college admissions
Run public schools into the ground
Turn the state's treasury over to virtue-signaling plutocrats and left-wing activists
Lock down and destroy all independent commercial or cultural activity
Shut down the oil exploration & production industry
Elect tools of Chinese espionage to national office
Make Pedophilia Great Again, in Hollywood and throughout the public schools
Yes, Kaliphornia is a blueprint for Biden's America
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Mrs. Uluque will never leave so I'm kinda like stuck here. Oh well, if it gets so bad that people are leaving in droves then at least it won't be so damned crowded. I keep hearing that people are leaving but what I see tells me otherwise. Massive apartment and condo buildings continue to be built and freeway congestion keeps getting worse. If they keep going the way they are it's gonna look like Newark all the way from Mexico to Oregon. Politicians and developers keep telling us we need more affordable housing and they keep building as fast as they can. Newsom is turning it into a Third World hell hole but the prices and the rents continue to rise. I don't get it.
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Not exactly. AFAICT, the more the bureaucracy they added in government to "avoid graft and corruption" the less that gets accomplished and the more corruption it takes to get anything done.
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Equipment from large military contractors and other countries are also part of the effort. However, the equipment listed above is available commercially at dramatically cheaper prices than what’s offered by the large existing defense contractors, and developed and delivered in a fraction of the time.
"Government is not the solution. Government is the problem."
~ President Ronald Reagan
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The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFARs) were massively expanded after c.f. major corruption in Naval procurements circa the 80s. They impose a significantly complex process that entails identifying requirements, validating them, issuing a formal request for proposals, evaluating the proposals, negotiating, and contract issuance. Then the actual procurement begins. Lots of people earn lots of certifications authorizing them to carry out various steps / roles in the process. (Mine is SPRDE Level 3 from a decade ago FWIW. A search on that will bring up more than you want to know about the whole procurement mess.)
Congress has divided the DOD budget into major line items, with detailed sub-categories. Line 6 in the DOD budget is for RDT&E, the stages for meeting operational needs with tech. 6.1 is basic research, 6.2 is early applied R&D, and so on through procurment, validation, and test / deployment of items, etc.
It's illegal to spend money from one sub-line to another. Only Congress can do that.
So one issue that arises WRT off the shelf tech is, what line item must be used to fund this. Another is, what are the formally validated requirements for it? How will the off the shelf item be validated WRT meeting those requirements?
Systems engineers get involved in most cases because the tech item doesn't stand / work alone, so interactions with larger systems must be defined and validated. And usually that means across the service branches.
It's a frigging mess. Palantir challenged the long, slow, bumbling attempt at an integrated Army info sys by providing analysts with a flexible way to assemble tactical level data / intel, share observations / questions, etc. The brass hated it. The boots on the ground analysts were enthusiastic users.
Palantir founder Peter Thiel previously had co-founded PayPal with ... Elon Musk. Musk is issuing a similar challenge to the Beltway swamp with SpaceX.
You will note where those two align WRT markets, free speech, etc.
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So, here is the Defense Acquisition University (yes, there's such a thing) page on SPRDE certification levels for Science & Technology Mgmt, the sub-category of SPRDE that I had to be certified in to manage a DOD research grant program and to serve as the technical rep for the contracting officer on a contract.
It was the longest 2 years of my life.
We're talking many years of time and money spent in accruing certs (for guvvies) and equivalents for contractor personnel to learn their way around the maze. Compare the results at Boeing of late with the agile design / build / test / redesign method at SpaceX to decide if the investment of taxpayer dollars is still cost beneficial.
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lotp, you're having a remarkable career. The one procurement issue that keeps floating across my layman's field of vision is the USN's surface combatant problem, which is periodically addressed in detail here. Assuming surface combatants are still relevant after the recent events in the Black Sea, we're in a world of trouble.
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Posted by: lotp 2022-04-16 09:32 Palantir founder Peter Thiel previously had co-founded PayPal with ... Elon Musk. Musk is issuing a similar challenge to the Beltway swamp with SpaceX.
My organization acquired Palantir...the brass hated the fact that we needed it for our version of targeting downrange, but it is very effective. Really good at visualization, especially the flow of bad guy monies.
Interesting that Elon Musk was part of the group that brought Paypal to the fore. A large um, venture capitalist bunch was involved as well that was rumored to have connections to a certain agency.
This continues to prove that things are never as they seem. Now I am not sure that I trust Musk.
[IsraelTimes] Authorities say protesters hurled rocks and launched fireworks at police, hours after massive unrest at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque
Police arrested seven people in Umm al-Fahm
... base of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the militant arm of the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood....
Friday night suspected of participating in rioting. The unrest included attempts to block roads in the northern Arab town and saw protesters fire fireworks and hurl stones at cops. The seven suspects were taken for questioning. Three of them are minors.
Early Friday saw massive unrest in Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Dozens of young people began marching in the area before dawn on Friday. Some bore the Paleostinian flag, while others carried green banners associated with the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group, according to police. The marchers threw stones and set off fireworks, while stockpiling rocks and other objects to prepare for further festivities.
Thousands of Paleostinians gathered at the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount, due to reports of plans by Jewish gunnies to perform a Passover animal sacrifice at the site.
Israeli authorities insisted that they would not allow such a ceremony to take place and arrested several suspects on Thursday and Friday in order to ensure as much.
Police said they waited for morning prayers to end before entering the Temple Mount to disperse the rioters, and that some of them threw stones at the Western Wall below. Some Paleostinians barricaded themselves inside the al-Aqsa Mosque, hurling stones toward officers. Three officers were lightly hurt after being pelted with stones, two of whom required medical treatment.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy emergency group reported 158 people were hurt in the festivities. It said the vast majority were treated at East Jerusalem’s al-Makassed Hospital or at a field hospital set up by medics, without giving details on the nature of the injuries. In footage from the police raid circulated on social media, officers could be seen hitting some Paleostinians with clubs for no apparent reason.
A police source quoted by the Kan public broadcaster said some 400 people were arrested.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held a situational assessment with police chiefs on Friday morning, during which he said security forces were "working to calm tensions on the Temple Mount as well as throughout Israel, and we are preparing for any scenario," according to a statement from his office.
Later in the day, Friday afternoon prayers concluded without incident.
But police conduct against the protesters enraged Israel’s Mideast neighbors, with Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... all issuing statements of fierce condemnation.
The UN, EU and the US were all more measured in their responses, instead focusing on calling for calm and urging the parties to act with restraint.
At 4 p.m. on Friday, the IDF’s closure of the West Bank and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip for Paleostinians went into effect. The policy is standard for holidays, but the Defense Ministry said it would reevaluate the situation on Saturday evening, possibly lifting the lockdown then instead of maintaining it for the entire week-long holiday.
[IsraelTimes] Wasim a-Sayed, named by police this week as the killer of Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri and a Moldovan worker, told police he was inspired by 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.... , reports say.
The Paleostinian who allegedly killed an elderly Jerusalem couple in 2019, and who police named as the culprit on Thursday, has reportedly sketched out the attack and his motivation to Sherlocks.
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[DW] The last surviving alleged attacker, Salah A., said he hoped his apology would help the relatives of those killed. One hundred and thirty people were killed in the atrocities claimed by the "Islamic State" armed group.
Salah A.
... Salah Abdeslam, the Moroccan-French boy who ran with all the other petty criminals in the notoriously Salafist Molenbeek neighbourhood until they grew up to transfer that sense of entitlement to membership in ISIS. Mr. Abdeslam has already been sentenced in Belgium in a separate trial. It appears he has abandoned the habit of silence that got him twenty years for that one...
, the main defendant in the trial over the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks, apologized on Friday to the victims and their families for the atrocities.
[Dawn] The UK’s ruling Conservative Party faces a tough by-election test after former MP Imran Ahmad Khan quit parliament on Thursday following his conviction for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
Khan, 47, who represents the northern English city of Wakefield, said he would resign in order to "focus entirely on clearing my name".
"While legal proceedings are ongoing, I do not believe that it would ordinarily be appropriate to resign," he wrote on Twitter. "However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... owing to long delays in the legal process, my constituents have already been without visible parliamentary representation for a year.
"Consequently I am resigning as MP for Wakefield and withdrawing from political life." A jury found Khan, who has been kicked out of the Conservative Party, guilty of sexually assaulting the boy after forcing him to drink gin at a party in 2008.
The unnamed victim told the court he was left feeling "scared, vulnerable and numb" and that Khan applied "slow caressing" to his legs. Khan said he only touched the teenager’s elbow after he became upset during a conversation about his "confused sexuality".
The victim said he approached the Conservative Party press office days ahead of the 2019 election that saw Khan elected to tell them what had happened but "I wasn’t taken very seriously".
[Israel Unwired] Hamas and Hezbollah have raised the stakes against Israel by shifting focus from rockets to using assassin drones — gifted to them by Iran. In return, Israel has developed the means to stop the drone threat.
The Iron Beam using the latest laser technology, has the ability to knock out the drones and rockets before they do damage.
Why is this important?
In the next war, it is clear that Hezbollah and Hamas will attempt to work together to do maximum damage to Israel and the Jewish State’s infrastructure.
The Iron Beam is the first step to counteracting this threat.
[THEBLUESTATECONSERVATIVE] Another day, another instance of President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him.... making stuff up, and another reason for Americans to be mortified. No, folks, this isn’t some sort of nightmare you’re in, one that you can’t wake up from. This is really happening.
During an appearance yesterday at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University in Greensboro, Biden gave a speech about the importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). As is so often the case with the president, he went off-script again and just totally lied about his past.
We all remember when Biden told us that he had been a truck driver in his youth, only to find out that it was a lie. Then there was that time he said his family had almost died in a house fire, and that was also a load of crap. We can also remember when Biden had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race because of plagiarism and lying about his academic record, wrongfully claiming he had graduated near the top of his class at the University of Delaware when in reality he was in the bottom half.
We’re sure to hear the president’s handlers try to clean up this mess later today. We can bet that Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... or someone else from his communications department will be asked about it, and Psaki or someone else will try to spin this invention as an honest mistake. It wasn’t. Our president is a pathological liar.
The fact is, Joe Biden was given what amounted to a ceremonial position at The University of Pennsylvania in 2017, a title called "Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor." It was one of those cushy jobs that pays a lot.
While he reportedly received a total of $776,527 for the short time he was there, Biden never actually taught a class. In fact, an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian was given the headline, "No one is really sure what Joe Biden will be doing at Penn."
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^ And something that would get your sh*tter account shut down is allowed to stand because Saudi is a white knight investor in the propaganda engine's struggle to remain out of the clutches of Musk.
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Who knew you could get a degree in child-sniffing!
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Same School that got a $54 million donation from the CCP? Coincidence surely, but curious how it only happened proximate to Jojo's time working there!
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He was a Senator forever and supposedly was elected as president without campaigning, but he'll argue to have been a semi driver and full professor, which he never was. Frankly, any sane person would avoid him at a party or bar.
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[Korrespondent] 23:03 In the Donetsk and Lugansk directions over the past day, the forces of the Joint Forces Forces successfully repulsed ten attacks of the enemy. The Ukrainian defenders destroyed three tanks, three artillery systems, one unit of special equipment, two units of vehicles and one enemy armored personnel carrier (another one was captured).
Air defense units in the sky of the Ukrainian Donbas shot down six unmanned aerial vehicles of the Orlan-10 type.
22:42 The prosecutor's office of the Kharkiv region reported ten dead and 35 wounded as a result of shelling by the Russians of the Industrial District of Kharkov on Friday, April 15, around 16:30. The shelling was carried out by Uragan multiple launch rocket systems.
22:36 Italian Ambassador Pier Francesco Zazzo returned to Kiev, from Monday, April 18, the embassy will fully resume work.
22:33 Bolshaya Rogan, Kharkiv region, has been liberated from invaders and is coming back to life, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. According to him, about 50% of the buildings were left practically without roofs, 70% - without windows. Burned to the ground from direct hits of shells - 27. Many mutilated residential buildings in the village of Dokuchaevskoye.
22:27 Ukroboronprom confirmed that last night Russia hit a plant that manufactured components for Neptune rockets. We are talking about the State Enterprise Zhulyansky Machine-Building Plant Vizar.
22:00 The first external default of the Russian Federation in the last century looks almost inevitable, Western economists say. What will be the consequences? In detail about this - in the material Around they talk about the default of Russia - what does it mean .
21:46 German meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann said on his Twitter that the cruiser Moskva "definitely did not drown because of the storm, because there was no storm."
"This Russian ship Moskva has been sailing for almost 40 years. And now it suddenly sank in a storm - just when Ukraine is shelling it?" he wrote.
21:37 The Russian Defense Ministry announced that Ukraine is preparing a provocation, "similar to the one at the railway station in Kramatorsk." Moscow warns that in the near future Tochka-U will hit a crowd of refugees at the train station in the village of Lozovaya.
21:25 The United States acknowledged that the Russian cruiser Moskva was hit by two Ukrainian missiles, writes CNN, citing a senior Pentagon official.
21:19 The war in Ukraine has changed the security situation in Europe. Today, Finland and Sweden are seriously thinking about the prospect of NATO membership. Details - in the material What awaits the Russian Federation in the event of Finland and Sweden joining NATO .
21:15 The first train with humanitarian aid arrived in Chernihiv, the head of the Chernihiv OVA Vyacheslav Chaus said.
21:13 The mayor of Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, Gennady Matsegora, fled to Russia after the surrender of the city to the Russian invaders, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
21:04 The Russians fired at the outskirts of the Krivoy Rog region from the Kherson region from multiple launch rocket systems, said the head of the military administration of Krivoy Rog Alexander Vilkul. There are no casualties, he said.
20:52 According to The Washington Post, Zelensky asked Biden to add Russia to the American list of countries sponsoring terrorism. Biden, in turn, did not make any commitments, but said that he was ready to explore a whole range of proposals to increase pressure on Moscow.
20:26 It took Germany 50 days of Russia's war crimes in Ukraine to move from the position "German weapons will not kill Russians" to the ruling coalition agreeing on the supply of heavy weapons to the Ukrainian army. Read more in the material Heavy weapons for Ukraine: Germany is changing its position .
20:03 SBU reported that since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it has identified almost 100 DRGs and detained more than 300 collaborators.
20:01 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that on the morning of April 15, "the attempt of the Kiev nationalist regime to defeat the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station with a missile strike was prevented."
19:52 The Russian army suffered more losses in Ukraine than in the two Chechen wars, and than the USSR in 10 years in Afghanistan, and the US in 20 years in Iraq. Read more in the material Monstrous losses of the Russian Federation in the war .
19:49 The United States will continue military support for Ukraine, despite Moscow's demands to stop arming Ukraine, State Department spokesman Ned Price said: "The Russians have said some things in private, some things they have said publicly, but nothing can dissuade us from a strategy that we started."
19:45 The Office of the Prosecutor General will demand a change in the measure of restraint for Medvedchuk from house arrest to arrest without bail, Prosecutor General Venediktova said. She also allowed the possibility of exchanging Medvedchuk for Ukrainian prisoners before the trial.
19:23 Demining the entire de-occupied territory of the Kiev region may take up to a year, said the head of the Kiev Regional State Administration Oleksandr Pavlyuk. At the same time, he clarified that the main activities on settlements and roads are planned to be completed by the end of May.
19:19 Ukraine meets all the political criteria for EU membership, said Olga Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. According to her, this is the opinion of the European Union.
"We will go through certain bureaucratic processes, and in June at the EU summit, we hope, a decision will be made that Ukraine, by all criteria, can become part of the EU," she said.
The vice-premier also promised that the questionnaire for Ukraine to obtain the status of a candidate for joining the European Union would be published - this step was agreed with European partners.
19:17 Russia has declared 18 employees of the EU Delegation in Moscow persona non grata.
19:13 The Mariupol City Council announced another "innovation" of the occupiers: now residents can get food if they serve their labor service while clearing rubble. "Rashists are holding the whole of Mariupol hostage and are gradually turning it into one big labor camp," the report says.
19:09 The world must be prepared for the fact that Russia may resort to the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Zelensky told CNN. According to him, he can resort to the use of nuclear or chemical weapons, because he does not value people's lives.
19:07 Yermak said that the International Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), at the request of the National Depository of Ukraine, suspended the membership of Russia and Belarus. Now the supply of ISIN, CFI and FISN codes by the numbering agencies of Russia and Belarus will be stopped.
"In simple words, Russia will no longer be able to register new securities and financial instruments in the civilized world. And without these codes, securities do not exist for the world. It's like a person without a passport and a name," Yermak explained.
18:58 The upper part of the most famous skyscraper in the world, the Empire State Building in New York, will be illuminated every evening in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, according to the skyscraper's Twitter page.
18:50 As a result of the shelling of Kharkov, seven people were killed, including one child, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another 34 people were injured, including three children.
18:48 As a result of today's shelling of Nikolaev four persons were lost, 15 more are wounded, from which four in a serious condition, doctors fight for their life, the governor Vitaly Kim reported. According to him, the Russians fired at the residential quarter of the city with cluster munitions of the Smerch class.
18:40 The Cabinet of Ministers, together with the UN, launches a new payment program for IDPs. According to Shmygal, internally displaced persons who need additional protection will receive 2,200 hryvnias every month for each family member. The UN World Food Program will pay these funds within three months.
18:36 According to the UN, since the beginning of the war, 4.8 million citizens of the country and about 215,000 foreigners have left Ukraine. 2.7 million Ukrainians left for Poland, almost 727,000 - for Romania, 447,000 - for Hungary, 419,000 - for Moldova, 329,000 - for Slovakia. There is no exact data on their further movement in Europe due to the lack of border control between countries.
18:27 Scholz wants to allocate an additional two billion euros for military assistance to Ukraine, including the purchase of military equipment, Reuters writes, citing its sources. It is assumed that 400 million euros will go to the European Peace Fund, which buys weapons for Ukraine, the rest of the funds will be directed to bilateral military contracts with Kiev.
18:25 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council reports that Russian propaganda is starting a new stage of "biological warfare" and recording an "intermediate victory", talking about the destruction of biological laboratories in Ukraine.
After an almost two-week lull on this topic, propaganda reported: “biological warfare continues,” and the United States and Germany, after Russia launched a “special operation” in Ukraine, are actively exploring Mongolia to conduct their biological research on cholera, malaria and encephalitis viruses.
18:18 Finnish Minister for European Affairs Tytti Tyuppurainen called the country's accession to NATO "very likely".
18:02 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, told CNN on air that the weather in the region impedes the movement of heavy enemy equipment, but this will not last long. According to him, the Russians are ready to go on the offensive in the east, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready to fight back.
17:59 The State Department said that they do not plan to return diplomats to Ukraine for security reasons. Biden's visit to Kyiv is also not planned.
17:55 According to the OP, on April 15, 2864 people were evacuated. 2,494 people traveled to Zaporizhia via humanitarian corridors from Mariupol and Berdyansk on their own vehicles, 363 of them from Mariupol.
From Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, Rubezhnoye, Kremennaya, Popasnaya and with. Mountain Luhansk region, despite the constant shelling, left 370 people.
17:52 For the first time since the beginning of the war, Russian aviation bombed with Tu-22M3 long-range bombers. The Russians hit Mariupol with them, said Alexander Motuzyanyk, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense.
According to him, the enemy continues to focus on preparing for an offensive in eastern Ukraine, establishing control over the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
17:49 The Russians launched three missile attacks today on objects in the Kiev region, said the head of the OVA Alexander Pavlyuk. He did not rule out the possibility of repeated strikes "on any targets, and we must be prepared for this."
Pavlyuk stressed that "the danger of the return of the strike force in the direction of Kyiv, for which we are preparing, the danger of mined territories in the de-occupied territories, the possibility of enemy missile strikes both in Kyiv and throughout Ukraine" remains. In this regard, he urged the return to Kyiv "leave for more peaceful times."
17:42 Gerashchenko reports, with reference to data from Sevastopol, that as a result of a fire and an explosion of ammunition, the crew of the cruiser Moskva died in full force. The explosion was so strong that the ship sank in a matter of minutes.
Probably, as a result of the fire, the warheads of the P-1000 Vulkan large cruise missile, of which there were 16 on board, detonated.
17:27 In Mariupol, there are active battles in the area of the metallurgical plant named after. Ilyich and in the port area, said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Motuzyanyk. He described the situation in the city as difficult.
17:20 After the defeat of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet cruiser Moskva by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, enemy attacks may intensify, but the security and defense forces of southern Ukraine are ready for them, assured the head of the joint coordination press center of the security and defense forces of southern Ukraine, captain 1st rank Natalya Gumenyuk .
17:16 The FSB asked the government of the Russian Federation to increase by 17 percent allocations for burials and tombstones for the military, reports the Air Force. The FSB explained its request by the fact that these expenses were not included in the list of annually indexed social payments.
17:11 Ukrainian intelligence and foreign partners do not yet see signs that Russia can use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said: "Nuclear weapons are the so-called last trump card of the Russian Federation. So far, we do not see signs that Russia can use this weapon. There is no such information in our intelligence."
He added that Ukraine's foreign partners and foreign intelligence services, with which Kyiv cooperates and exchanges information, also do not yet confirm such intentions of Moscow.
17:09 Anti-tank "hedgehogs" and barricades are being removed from the streets of Odessa. As the deputy of the district council Natalya Bogachenko told, they will be sent to the Nikolaev-Kherson direction.
17:07 In the Russian Federation, the production of new tanks is stopped due to financial problems and the lack of imported components. So, according to Ukrainian intelligence, Uralvagonzavod, where the main tank of the Russian Federation T-72 is produced, has faced numerous problems since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, which greatly complicated the production of most types of military equipment.
The plant is forced to look for a solution to financial problems, including requiring 100% prepayment under government contracts. The production of new equipment is being stopped, including the T-90 and T-14 (Armata) tanks. The created "operational headquarters" determined the repair of military equipment damaged in the war with Ukraine as the main direction of work.
16:59 The "LPR" said that Ukrainian troops on Saturday, April 16, could hit Luhansk with Tochka-U - supposedly Kiev calls on citizens to gather for a rally, after which a blow will be struck.
16:56 The war of Russia against Ukraine gave a chance for complete reconciliation between Kiev and Warsaw in historical matters, said Polish Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Glinsky. According to him, the "difficult moments" that exist in the common history of the two countries "should be closed - and we will definitely return to them in our relations with a free and independent Ukraine - after the war."
16:45 The United States confirms a Ukrainian missile attack on the cruiser Moskva, but does not name the type of weapon that was struck, writes The Washington Post, citing a high-ranking American official.
16:33 It's time for Ukraine to prepare for the mass arrests of Russians who openly call for violence against Ukrainians, Podolyak said: "In Russia, various actors who are lost in time are now offering to bomb the center of Kiev as brutally as possible and be sure to destroy civilians. Mass destruction. With maximum destruction. Including President Zelensky. And these are quite specific criminal proceedings."
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office named, in particular, Medvedev ("always drunk"), Volodin ("the speaker of the parliament that does not exist"), Mironov, Konstantinov ("banal Crimean thief"), and dozens of other politicians and officials - not counting the "traditionally perverse " propagandists.
“It’s enough to put “red” wanted cards on these subjects. For a start. More to come. It’s time for us to really prepare for mass arrests of subjects who every day more and more frankly demand the mass deaths of Ukrainians,” Podolyak said.
16:26 The operational command of Pivden also reports that the Russian military throughout the day randomly fire at residential areas, cultural sites and private enterprises of Nikolaev. Once again, the Russians have used banned cluster munitions, and multiple rocket launchers are firing at the city. There are dead and wounded among the civilian population.
16:20 In Buryatia - the most dead as a result of the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine. At least, it is in Buryatia that the most obituaries are published. The Democratic Initiatives Foundation collected a thousand obituaries and compared them with the population in the regions of Russia.
16:09 Three railway stations have been renamed in the capital:
Kyiv-Oktyabrsky station - in Grushki;
Kyiv-Moskovsky station - to Kyiv-Demeevsky;
Kyiv-Petrovka station - to Pochaynaya.
16:06 In Kiev, near the Main Post Office, a queue of people who want to buy a postage stamp with the image of a "Russian warship" has lined up.
16:04 Peskov said that the main task of the "special operation" in Ukraine is the destruction of "nationalist battalions."
16:00 Rogozin believes that the cargo ship Progress, which is due to fly to the ISS in June, should be called Donbass.
15:50 The Vizar military plant near Kiev was partially destroyed as a result of Russian night strikes, an AFP correspondent reported from the scene. The publication notes that this plant produced Neptune missiles, which probably hit the cruiser Moscow.
15:48 A plan for the forced mobilization of 26,000 "reservists" into the Russian ground forces has been thwarted in ORDLO. According to Ukrainian intelligence, men of military age (18-65 years old) avoid conscription in every possible way. According to preliminary plans, at the expense of the mobilized, 17 rifle regiments were to be completed as part of the combined arms armies of the Southern and Western Military Districts of the Russian Federation. This task has not been completed.
With the personnel, which nevertheless managed to attract, no training or briefing is carried out. They are also supplied with unusable ammunition and weapons.
Representatives of the Russian army, who conduct recruiting, promise to involve "recruits" in the tasks of ensuring control over the occupied territories, guarding roads and military facilities, and improving defense positions. But, as practice shows, those mobilized from ORDLO constitute the nearest reserve to replenish the losses of units directly involved in hostilities against Ukraine. Also, it is their least valuable "resource" that is used to conduct "reconnaissance in force" to identify the positions of Ukrainian defenders.
15:37 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told European allies that the war in Ukraine could continue until the end of 2022. Two other European officials said they believe fighting in eastern Ukraine could last four to six months before reaching a stalemate, CNN reports.
15:35 40-50,000 people return to Kiev every day, said the first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration Nikolai Povoroznik. According to him, in connection with this, some transport problems arise, since the city was intensively preparing for defense and erected fortifications and checkpoints, which now complicate the movement.
15:26 The border guards reported about the repeated shelling of their positions in the Chernihiv region - in the afternoon there were 12 more mortar attacks. There were no casualties among the border guards and the local population.
15:24 As of April 15, law enforcement officers found the bodies of 900 civilians killed by Russian invaders in the Kiev region , said the head of the regional police Andrey Nebitov.
In Borodianka, the bodies of ten people have been found today, and in total since the beginning of work - 40 dead.
Also, information was received from the National Police that near the village. Nalivaykovka, Buchansky district, two employees of the Fastovsky Distribution Zone, who were driving a car, were blown up, they were hospitalized.
15:13 A "rail war" is unfolding in Russia: successful sabotage of Russian Railways has already taken place in four regions, according to @belzhd_live. Thus, over the past two weeks, on the Moscow Railway, rail guerrillas have carried out successful actions to render the railways in the Bryansk, Oryol, Smolensk and Kursk regions unusable.
For this, in particular, special devices are installed in the relay cabinets of the signaling system, which are triggered by a timer and completely burn out the internal equipment of the relay cabinet. Responsibility for some partisan actions on the infrastructure of Russian Railways was assumed by Busly lyatsiats .
15:08 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of 30 Polish volunteers fighting in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Yasina denied this information: "We know nothing about the existence of any "Polish volunteer unit" or about the death of Poles in Ukraine."
15:06 The Russian troops fired at one of the districts of Nikolaev, the head of the regional council on humanitarian issues Anna Zamazeeva reported. According to her, there are victims.
The Nikolaev mass-media report also that in the city the third day there is no water. Probably the damage was caused by enemy shelling.
15:00 Justice after the war in Ukraine can be difficult to ensure, given that Russia has withdrawn its signature on the statute of the International Criminal Court, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN. At the same time, he called for all procedures necessary for justice to be carried out: "Collect evidence, save it, analyze it and draw conclusions based on what they show. And these conclusions can be verified by judges."
14:58 The Czech Republic has supplied Ukraine with at least 20 RM-70 Vampire multiple launch rocket systems, the military resource 19fortyfive reports. They are based on the Soviet BM-21 Grad system.
14:54 Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko held a press conference in Moscow and stated that her husband's whereabouts are unknown and that the SBU is brutally torturing him. She demanded that his French lawyer be allowed to see her husband and that Medvedchuk's whereabouts be revealed.
14:51 The United States, as part of a new military assistance package, will transfer Mi-17 helicopters to Ukraine, which were previously intended for the Afghan government of Ghani, but they were not delivered in time, because the Taliban overthrew this government. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Washington had previously handed over five helicopters to Kiev.
14:45 Klitschko said that until May 31, tariffs for hot water and thermal energy for heating it will be applied in the capital at the level of the previous heating season, that is, these tariffs will not rise yet. In the future, their cost will depend on the price of gas.
14:36 Last night, Russian troops tried to capture an observation post in the Nikolaev region and conduct reconnaissance of Ukrainian positions in Kherson. The attack on the post was repulsed, and the reconnaissance group was destroyed, OK Pivden reported.
14:34 Resistance guerrillas are participating in the liberation of Ukraine from Russian invaders. Their activities were reported in the intelligence of the Ministry of Defense .
14:23 Well-known Russian oppositionist, former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev reported, citing his sources, that 58 out of 510 sailors from the cruiser Moscow were caught alive.
14:14 The city council renamed the former square of Friendship of Kiev and Moscow in the Goloseevsky district into the square of the Heroes of Mariupol, Klitschko said.
He also stated that there are still "dozens of streets and objects with names associated with the aggressor" in Kyiv, and their renaming remains relevant. “Therefore, we are developing new names that will be worn by streets, avenues, metro stations and other objects. We have allocated time for these procedures until May 9,” Klitschko said.
14:12 Lithuania and Latvia called on their citizens to refrain from traveling to Belarus, despite the fact that Minsk introduced a visa-free regime for them.
14:07 Posts of six countries have already stopped communication with Russia and Belarus in support of Ukraine. According to the press service of Ukrposhta, these are Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Australia and Latvia.
14:04 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, almost 2.76 million people have left Ukraine for Poland, Polish border guards said.
13:55 North Macedonia has declared six Russian diplomats persona non grata. Earlier, on March 28, the republic had already expelled five Russian diplomats.
13:47 There are enough forces in the Kharkiv region to knock out the Russian occupiers from the region, but this will happen with the possibility of a total counteroffensive, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
13:33 The consequences of the war between Russia and Ukraine affect the economy of 143 countries, which account for 86% of world GDP, the IMF said.
13:21 Ukrzaliznytsia announced the resumption of railway communication between Chernihiv and Kiev from April 16. It has been blocked for over a month. So far, one train has been scheduled.
13:09 The Russian military fired on evacuation buses near the village of Borovaya, Kharkiv region. According to Interfax-Ukraine in the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, according to preliminary data, up to ten people were killed, and up to 30 were injured.
12:58 Churches in Ukraine will not work during Easter curfew, Ukrainian News reports citing the National Police, the OCU and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. According to the publication, Easter baskets will be consecrated in churches and in the territories adjacent to them, taking into account the curfew in a particular region. Divine services will not be held during the curfew.
12:47 The scriptwriter of the cult series House of Cards Beau Willimon plans to make a documentary film about the war crimes of Russian troops in Bucha. As they said in the Buchansk City Council, Villimon is now in Ukraine and collects evidence of the atrocities of the Russians.
12:31 In the Donetsk region, 238 civilians have been killed since the beginning of a full-scale war. These figures do not include casualties in Mariupol, said Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA.
12:23 Ireland has allocated an additional three million euros for the work of the International Criminal Court, said the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Simon Coveney.
12:18 Gerashchenko said that during the explosion and fire on board the cruiser Moscow, Captain 1st Rank, commander of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Anton Kuprin was killed.
12:13 Moody's reported that if Russia does not pay its foreign debts in the required currency by May 4, this will mean the issuer's default.
12:09 In Kakhovka, Kherson region, two people were killed, three were injured after they went outside to look at a rocket shot down in the sky. As reported by the territorial community, among the wounded, one is in serious condition in intensive care, two are of moderate severity. All have shrapnel wounds. Ukrainians are asked not to go outside and not to approach the windows when explosions or shots are heard.
12:03 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the approximate losses of the enemy on April 15:
personnel - about 20,000 people,
tanks - 756,
armored combat vehicles - 1976,
artillery systems - 366,
MLRS - 122,
air defense systems - 66,
aircraft - 163,
helicopters - 144,
automotive equipment - 1443,
ships/boats - 8,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 135,
special equipment - 25,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
11:54 In Uzhgorod, 58 streets will be renamed, the names of which are associated with Russia, the City Council announced. When determining new names, preference will be given to worthy local figures, and where possible and appropriate, historical names that existed before the Soviet period will be returned. Also, after the victory of Ukraine, names will appear in honor of the heroes of the current war.
11:52 The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation announced that major international carriers refuse to deal with Russian goods and supply them. They also say that European insurance companies refuse to cover dangers for cars from the EU in Russia.
11:44 The State Border Service reported that this morning the Russians fired mortars at the area near the village of Senkovka, adjacent to the state border of Ukraine. 13 shots were fired from enemy territory, there were no injured border guards or the local population. An enemy drone is constantly circling over the area.
11:42 Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo visited Kiev and held a meeting with Klitschko. The capital's mayor said that they signed an agreement on the establishment of friendly relations between Kiev and Paris.
11:38 The "special military operation" in Ukraine "will end pretty soon, the Russian Federation is not going to deliberately stretch it out," said Andrey Klimov, senator, deputy head of the United Russia Commission on International Cooperation.
11:33 The defenders of Mariupol declare a critical situation in the city and call for a de-blockade as soon as possible. As the commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, Major Sergei Volyn, said, Mariupol can be saved either by an urgent military operation or by a political decision.
11:29 Washington received an official diplomatic note from Moscow, in which the Kremlin demands to stop arming Ukraine, threatening "unpredictable consequences" otherwise, reports The Washington Post.
According to the publication, the note came after Biden approved a sharp expansion of the range of weapons provided to the government of Ukraine. The note says that US and NATO deliveries of the "most sensitive" weapons systems to Ukraine "add fuel" to the conflict and can lead to "unpredictable consequences."
"What the Russians are telling us privately is the same thing we've been telling the world publicly - that the massive amount of assistance we're giving our Ukrainian partners is proving to be extremely effective," a senior White House official told the publication.
11:11 The IMF is preparing to restore Ukraine after the war with Russia, said Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. The fund has already provided Ukraine with $1.4 billion in emergency funding, she said, as well as opening a special account that will provide a safe way to continue funding the country.
"And together with international partners, we are preparing for the massive recovery effort that will be required," Georgieva added.
11:06 In Switzerland, they began to produce vodka called Vodka Zelensky. It is already on sale in Switzerland, UK and EU countries. As stated on the brand's website, all profits from sales go to help Ukrainians.
11:02 New South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol expressed his readiness to support the world in putting pressure on Russia: "When the international community calls on us to be more involved, we must clearly demonstrate our position, which is respect for the world order."
He also recalled that South Korea has allocated $10 million to Ukraine and intends to provide even more humanitarian assistance, as it is limited in its ability to supply weapons.
10:59 The United States is ready to lift some of the sanctions from Russia, provided that Moscow begins to behave adequately in peace negotiations with Kiev and the Ukrainian authorities give their consent to this, Biden's national security aide Jake Sullivan said.
10:55 The US Department of Justice recognized several Russians as foreign agents. We are talking about Deputy Head of the State Duma Alexander Babakov, as well as his assistants Alexander Vorobyov and Mikhail Plisyuk. They planned a covert propaganda campaign "to carry out Russia's hostile political designs against Ukraine and other countries, including the US," prosecutor Damian Williams said.
10:47 The nuclear attack, with which Moscow again began to scare Ukraine, is an element of information warfare, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vadim Denisenko is convinced. According to him, the logic of all Russian information wars of recent years boils down to two key elements: to sow panic or make the enemy quarrel with each other. At the same time, he reminded that "so far the Russians have not succeeded in any information attack on the territory of Ukraine."
10:31 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the Russian S-400 complex shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter, which allegedly attacked the village of Klimovo in the Bryansk region the day before.
It is also reported that "the metallurgical plant named after Ilyich in Mariupol has been completely liberated from Ukrainian nationalists."
Meanwhile, residents of Belgorod reported two explosions that were heard in the city center. Eyewitnesses suggest that the air defense system worked.
10:28 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the RF Armed Forces struck a Caliber strike at the Zhulyansky Machine-Building Plant on the outskirts of Kiev, the workshops for the production and repair of air defense systems were destroyed.
10:25 The RF Ministry of Defense stated that "the scale of missile strikes of the RF Armed Forces on targets in Kyiv will be increased in response to any attacks or sabotage on the territory of Russia."
10:18 The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating more than 230 cases of treason, two thirds of which are in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Among the defendants are the heads of village councils, deputies of various levels, officials, judges, law enforcement officers, military personnel.
Most of the cases against traitors are investigated by the territorial department of the State Bureau of Investigation of Kramatorsk: 109 proceedings were opened for high treason, 74 for collaboration activities.
10:10 The European Union is finally preparing a gradual oil embargo against Russia, which may be approved after the second round of the French presidential election on April 24, writes The New York Times.
10:00 Russia itself shelled the village of Klimovo in the Bryansk region, although it blamed Ukraine for this. This is evidenced by recent intercepts of telephone conversations of the occupiers, which were presented by the SBU.
“These are our herats,” the Russian invader, who is in the Donetsk region and received this information from his commander, explains to his wife.
09:54 In Mariupol, the invaders are trying to cover up the traces of their crimes. According to the city council, Russian troops began the process of exhuming the bodies, which had previously been buried in the courtyards of residential buildings. At the same time, the occupiers forbid the burial of the people they killed, for this a "caretaker" was placed in each yard.
Earlier, Ukrainian intelligence recorded 13 mobile crematoria in Mariupol.
09:51 Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a law imposing an embargo on Russian coal. The law also provides for the ability to freeze the assets of individuals who supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
09:49 In Skadovsk, Kherson region, this morning the Russian military removed the flags of Ukraine from the building of the City Council and the flagpole and hung up their tricolors, Mayor Alexander Yakovlev said. He stressed that the city council will not cooperate with the occupiers, "so from today not a single employee of the executive committee will work in the building under the enemy flag."
09:44 Nine humanitarian corridors agreed on April 15:
Mariupol, Berdyansk, Tokmak, Energodar - Zaporozhye (by own transport)
Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Popasnaya, with. Gornoe, Rubizhne - Bakhmut (subject to the cessation of shelling by the occupying troops)
09:41 US Senator Steve Danes and Rep. Victoria Spartz visited Kiev and its suburbs on April 14, becoming the first US officials to arrive since the start of the war, writes The New York Times.
09:33 Slovak Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy called Putin "equal to Hitler" after his invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with The New York Times, he said that Putin must be stopped in Ukraine before he can move to the West. "Ukraine is literally fighting for our future," Nagy added.
09:25 Ukrainian officials who have gone abroad must return to the country before April 25. Otherwise, according to the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers, a disciplinary sanction will be applied to them - up to and including dismissal.
09:14 China will have to make a choice in the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, as it affects the reputation of Beijing in the world, Blinken said.
09:00 British intelligence believes that after the loss of two key naval facilities in Ukraine, the Russian Federation may reconsider its position in the Black Sea. In London, they note that the cruiser Moscow, being the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, played the key role of both a command ship and an air defense unit.
This Soviet-era ship was one of three Slava-class cruisers in the Russian Navy. Initially commissioned in 1979, the cruiser Moskva underwent a massive overhaul and only returned to service in 2021.
08:52 Prime Minister of Saxony Michael Kretschmer said the day before that Germany should not supply Ukraine with heavy weapons so as not to "cross the line." Andriy Melnyk, the Ukrainian ambassador, replied: "Thank God you're not in the federal government. Foreign policy in Saxony has always been a disaster. But your outrageous friendliness to the war criminal Putin will forever be remembered in history."
08:36 Great Britain imposed sanctions against two Russian oligarchs - Yevgeny Tenenbaum and David Davidovich. The British government has frozen the assets of the two oligarchs, who are valued at around £10bn, in what the British Foreign Office called the biggest asset freeze in history.
08:29 Germans must start saving energy now to become more independent of Russian fossil fuels, Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister Robert Habeck said.
08:20 According to the UN, 30,000 people from those who left since the beginning of the war are returning to Ukraine every day. In total, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 870,000 Ukrainian refugees who left the country have already returned.
07:51 In the Kherson region, an exchange of prisoners of war took place: in the area of \u200b\u200bthe village of Posad-Pokrovskoe, five Ukrainian soldiers returned home in exchange for four Russian ones, the operational command Pivden reported.
07:45 Japan organizes ten flights with humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees. The mission will last at least until the end of June, according to Japan Today.
07:29 Three NATO ships entered the Baltic Sea. The main task is to demonstrate the presence of allies in the Baltic Sea region and conduct joint exercises with the Estonian navy.
07:16 According to the State Headquarters, in the East of Ukraine, the enemy is focusing its main efforts on attempts to capture Popasna and Rubizhne, to no avail. On the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions over the past day, eight enemy attacks were repulsed, four tanks, six armored personnel carriers, four infantry fighting vehicles, and one enemy artillery system were destroyed.
03:55 The Azov Regiment reported that as of April 14, more than 2,000 Russian soldiers became victims of Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol.
Joe Biden sent family and aides a series of negative articles on Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential bid
The president has long had barely disguised animus toward Clinton, telling a hedge fund conference. 'I never thought she was a great candidate. I thought I was a great candidate'
The first email, sent on October 2, 2015, had the subject line 'Supporters', and contained a link to the political news site Real Clear Politics
It republished a Washington Post story from the day before about a dramatic drop in Hillary's polling among black democrat voters
'Non-whites have consistently been more supportive of Hillary Clinton than whites,' the story said
Two weeks later Joe sent another email, to Hunter, with the subject 'Mills'.
The email contained a link to a Wall Street Journal editorial on Hillary's top aide Cheryl Mills, whowas paid to negotiate a private deal with the United Arab Emirates
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Hmm, rehashing events from 2015/2016... Battlespace preparation to keep Her Ominence from bubbling to the surface in the coming game of Presidential Musical Chairs?
On April 7, 2022 Fannie Mae posted the following Consumer Outlook report.
"Consumer Pessimism Regarding Direction of Mortgage Rates Hits New Survey High"
IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: As the coronavirus (COVID-19) unfolded, the government imposed a foreclosure moratorium, a mortgage forbearance program, and mortgage servicing guideline which was the reason for the LOW Foreclosure Rates recorded in 2020 and 2021. With that foreclosure moratorium now lifted, the 2022-2023 reports will start to show the true US Housing Market situation.
Highlights contained in the report were:
* In March 2022, a survey-high 69% of respondents indicated that they expect mortgage rates to continue their upward ascent>.
* The "Good Time to Buy" component set a new survey low, with 73% of respondents reporting that it's a bad time to buy a home.
* Consumers are expecting their financial situations to worsen over the next year.
* Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) down 8.5 points compared to the same time last year.
* Home Price Expectations: Those responding feel home prices will continue to increase over the next 12 months increased from 46% to 48%.
* Mortgage Rate Expectations: the percentage of those who expect mortgage rates to go up increased from 67% to 69%.
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And those who own a buildable lot and have the $ to pay a builder to put up a house, are SOL due to supply chain problems getting building materials.
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^ #1
Was in Home Depot, Lowe's and 84 Lumber RE-RE-pricing materials for a project I started before the world went crazy.
It seems the items are running anywhere between 14% to 40+% more depending on the item and IF in stock.
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3/4" Plywood (Exterior) being the highest now at $63+ to $68 a sheet depending on which store.
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Bought my house in '94, the going rate for 30 year fixed as 10% with money down. Back then the banks had to borrow the money from the citizenry via savings at an attractive rate rather than just call up the Feds and get a nearly 0% stack to run things.
[FoxNews] Friday marked nine years since the Boston Marathon Bombing of 2013.
The FBI has joined Massachusetts law enforcement agencies in investigating the theft of Boston Police Department uniforms, which were stolen from a Weymouth business, just weeks before the city’s annual marathon is set to kick off.
Friday marked nine years since the Boston Marathon Bombing of 2013, when three people were killed and more than 260 were hurt. Ahead of Monday’s 126th Boston Marathon, Boston Police Superintendent-In-Chief Greg Long is urging attendees not to hesitate to report someone acting suspicious, even if they are dressed in a uniform.
The Weymouth Police Department announced earlier this week that it was working with the FBI in investigating the theft of several Boston Police Department uniforms that were stolen from a local uniform supply store.
Investigators believe the uniforms were stolen between 3:30 p.m. March 27 and 9:30 a.m. March 28, the department said Wednesday. Authorities are now offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading them to their suspects.
Monday will mark the first time the Boston Marathon will be held on its regularly scheduled Patriots Day date following postponements and changes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Approximately 30,000 people are set to run in the marathon, officials have said.
Long said there was no known credible threat to the race, but said spectators and runners could expect heavy security, bag checks, camera surveillance, police observation points and the presence of officers in plain clothes and in uniform.
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So Weymouth police said someone broke into Andrea’s Police and Fire Supply back in Late March and stole 4 uniforms, a leather jacket, and 1 bulletproof vest. NOTE: These NEW uniforms were issued less than a year ago.
SNIDE NOTE:
Beside the marathon, there are also Mid-Term BLOM/ANTI-FArt RIOTS & LOOTINGPeaceful Protests & Wealth Redistribution sessions just around the corner.
IF Boston Police, are like most police plans I have seen. They will just add an extra identifier(s) like a special arm ban or extra large Special neck lanyard or Uniform attached ID to assigned staff.
[BBC] It’s an unthinkable idea. Is it possible that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use nuclear weapons as part of the Ukrainian conflict? In this political documentary on BBC Select, esteemed British broadcaster Jon Snow explores the chances of this kind of escalation as the Russian strategic nuclear force is put on high alert. If Putin went nuclear, what would be the consequences for the world?
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Maybe it's time for me to put a radio, my ultimate backup hard disk drives and laptop in a Faraday cage at home.
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I think if there's any nuke usage, it will be an excuse our gummint will seize upon to shut down the intertubes, newspapers (except those directly distributed by the gummint) and broadcast news. Most proles will get their information from trucks with loudspeakers that will circulate the neighborhoods.
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Most proles will get their information from trucks with loudspeakers Chinese Drones that will circulate the neighborhoods.
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^ You saw that video I linked here the other day.
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in a Faraday cage at home
Little point in saving an end node when the hub has melted.
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So we are now in the uncomfortable position of having to trust Joe Biden and his handlers not to push Putin so hard that he feels he has no other option.
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What's going to happen when Putin blows up all our GPS satellites in orbit? The Uber guy an the pizza guy won't know how to find your house.
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Golly gosh, indeed! Now we know that if a nuke does go off, it was that rat bastard Putin and not a false flag op because all those people warned us about it. Top. People.
So we are now in the uncomfortable position of having to trust Joe Biden and his handlers not to push Putin so hard that he feels he has no other option.
Would this be the same Team Brandon that pushed Putin into thinking he had no better option than to invade Ukraine? I wonder which little hamlet Zelensky would give up to add some more drama to his movie.
In my case, I use an all Metal Medium size Trash Can with a Rubber sealant sprayed several coats thick (flex-seal) in the interior. Used an Exterior Strap to insure a tight seal. Grounded using a Car Jumper cable to a grounding rod.
Tested it by placing my cell phone in it and tried calling it. The cell phone never rang. Place a AM/FM Battery power radio in it, turned the volume full up and sealed ....No Sound.
Either I have built a soundproof enclosure, or I may have hit on a simple Faraday container with everything purchased at Wally World for under $50.
[Breitbart] Police in western India’s Maharashtra state recently arrested four men for allegedly “gang-raping” a Bengal monitor lizard, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on Thursday, noting an official for the Maharashtra Forest Department confirmed the group’s arrest on Wednesday.
The incident allegedly took place inside Maharashtra’s Sahyadri Tiger Reserve and “came to light days after the four accused were booked for illegally entering Chandoli National Park, which is part of the reserve, with one of them carrying a gun for hunting,” a spokesman for the Maharashtra Forest Department told reporters on April 13.
Local police originally detained the four men on March 31 for illegally entering the state forest when their alleged crime of bestiality was discovered.
“During the investigation, the forest officials found that the accused had allegedly raped a Bengal monitor lizard. Their act was also recorded in a mobile phone of one of the accused persons,” an unnamed Maharashtra Forest official told PTI on April 13.
“We have recovered all the related evidence from the accused and they were granted forest department custody initially, but are out on bail now,” the official added.
“The four accused have been booked under various sections of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972,” Nanasaheb Ladkat, the field director of the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, told reporters on April 13.
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^^ ...one day in Jamaica he
dated a fakir in a saree.
He asked 'im 'Why?'
Was returned a look sly.
"Nautch!" Said the fakir.
"It's how we drown our worry!"
British SAS special forces soldiers reportedly in Ukraine:
SAS troops have trained local forces in Kyiv for the first time since the war with Russia began, Ukrainian commanders have told The Times.https://t.co/9GZpPHjCaW
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I have seen reports that British SAS and American special forces were in Ukr before this all jumped off. Possibly part of what made the Russians twitchy?
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I seriously doubt the validity of the reports. Brits are not stupid like Americans are bragging about X and Y. They are training Uke soldiers, in Poland.
This report is probably a propaganda plant by the UK to make Putin think NATO forces are making a move into Ukraine. He needs to believe that.
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Are they on 'Active Duty' indeed? I have read that there was a custom of SAS members being granted leave to 'moonlight' on private contracts, such as acting as guards and/or trainers in places in the Middle East like Oman... The understanding was that they weren't supposed to embarrass the Crown while doing so and the contacts/experience they would acquire was seen as a plus if/when the returned to the SAS Regiment later on.
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Hope they activated their U.K. mobile phones. Onward Cretin Soldiers!
British volunteer fighters may have triggered deadly strike on Ukrainian base after their phones were detected
The Telegraph has learned that 12 to 14 phone numbers starting with +44 were visible to surveillance equipment before the missile strike
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[KP] Cooks out of the Environment
After a series of unsuccessful attempts to get out of Mariupol , I, the “Azov” and Vushniks (Ukrainian Armed Forces) retreated back to the industrial zones and to their borders in urban areas. Their room for maneuver is shrinking every day - the industrial zone of the Ilyich Plant is practically cleared, fighting is still going on in the port, but the outcome is clear.
Only the industrial metropolis - Azovstal - is holding on - the military from Russia and the DPR left it "for dessert", collecting all the reptiles in a heap - in one place. But, not all militants want to die in Mariupol...
Yesterday, at the location of our battalion (the location of the DPR battalion "Vostok"), business executives drove a medical van based on the American "Hummer". Two dozen "Azov" people crowded into it, trying to get out of the encirclement, hiding behind a red cross:
- We pierced his wheel, he flew into a ditch, almost turned over, - the Vostok fighter tells me:
- And then they rushed into the loose. But, you see, they were clearly divided into two groups of ten! One immediately went to the industrial zone, back. And the second, we later found out, broke into a house in the private sector. The owner was almost beaten to death, his wife was made a nightmare.
- What for?
- And so that if anything, she said that there was no one in the house. We sat there for several hours, dropped our backpacks, chargers for walkie-talkies, batteries, rations and left for Zaporozhye. We tried to leave.
The city is now blocked for civilians to enter - too many Nazis tried to break out of Mariupol in civilian cars with pieces of sheets on the antennas and door handles. Therefore, the standard question at every checkpoint, to people sitting in such cars: "Is everyone all right?."
The fighter checking the car at the same time carefully peers into the faces of women, trying to read the signal for help. You can only leave after many hours of checking. Illegal "Taxi service" taking people out of Mariupol for a lot of money, withered by itself.
Already at the entrance to Mariupol , we are stopped by a commandant's office patrol. We talked with a young military policeman, who told how THEY leave the almost killed city:
- Do you see, over there, a field with hills? Watching this morning, four bodies are coming. Barely dragging legs ...
It's raining in the Sea of Azov now, and every step on the virgin soil is three kilos of mud on your boots, you can't run. The fighter continues:
- We are also barely crawling through the mud to intercept them. Three, in camouflage, with guns, immediately started running and ran into the abandoned house, left. And the third remained standing, he was a civilian. He says: "Guys, don’t drive in, there is no weapon, I dropped it in Marik, there are no documents, I’m a vushnik, a cook."
The Komendach laughs contagiously, and so do we. The abundance of captured cooks, drivers and signalers is simply amazing! This is the joke of the week. With whom they fought in Mariupol for a month is a mystery. We say goodbye, we wish each other caution and Victory, as is now customary in recent times.
On the Zaporozhye highway, already a few kilometers from Mariupol, there were more cars that “cut down” our secrets. The highway is empty, straight as an arrow, and for some reason the encircled people think that this path from the city is open to them. I was struck by an old "Japanese woman" with a shot windshield. She was decorated with the letters Z from all sides, while losing a sense of proportion. On the hood there is a clumsy inscription from a balloon: “Work brothers!”.
The brothers did their job, no offense. The fighters didn't leave ...
Impact to the Soul
At the Hypermarket at the entrance, there is a familiar picture - thousands of citizens receive humanitarian aid, eat, collect water from watering machines.
People immediately hang on us, they have two questions: “When will all this end?” and “What is there at the front?”. Everything else is strung on the second question: “Is it possible to drive to Zaporozhye?”, “And to Kherson?”, “And to the Crimea?”
We with my friend, military correspondent Vlad Yevtushenko,who is a fighter of the "East," patiently explained. I frown inwardly at a simple thought: “Well, what do you, dear local authorities, hang out in such places on plain paper the daily report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the People's Militia of the DPR?
Even print and distribute, people will pass from hand to hand! Read aloud! Yes, I'll deliver it myself! I hope they hear me. Because in recent days, in Mariupol , due to electronic warfare (electronic warfare systems), not only cellular communications and television, but even radios do not work: people complained to me, “one hiss, they made antennas, it doesn’t help.”
Stop. And, actually, where are the city authorities? Searching unsuccessfully. We find a few more distribution points for humanitarian aid, which is good. At school No. 53, where a new mayor was elected a week ago, the yard is covered with smoke from bonfires. People have made field kitchens in garbage bins - they have roofs and some sort of walls.
A middle-aged man loosens the ground on the lawn with a rake, will there really be a garden? No, here Death mowed down - crosses are scattered across the lawn. The man does not turn to us, it seems he sees us with his back, says through sobs:
- My wife is dead. Because of you. We ran here with weapons, now you are shooting, what happened? Say hello to your parents.
We are turning around. Vlad's face just tipped over, he says that he hasn't been so nasty in his soul for a long time. For understanding: Vlad from Poltava, went to fight in 2014, was wounded by a tank shell near the Donetsk airport, shrapnel to the temple, eyesight goes down, poor motor skills. Disability was transferred from the 2nd group to the 3rd, not because Vlad got better, so there are fewer problems with the bureaucracy. I didn't see my mother for 8 years. She, as we were advised in our hearts, can’t even say “hello”, her Security Service of Ukraine grazes ...
On Metallurgov Avenue we find the Employment Center. Men in overalls are inserting glass, tomorrow the city administration will start working here - it's almost the Center. On the other side of the avenue, a military excavator roars, a crane hauling broken slabs and dumping them into a truck. A whole block of apartments in a sooty high-rise building collapsed, along with the entrance, from the roof to the very bottom.
I ask the Ministry of Emergency Situations, they say, is everyone preparing the house for reconstruction? Indeed, good news! The rescuer hits me in the very soul, the second time in 15 minutes, so it turns out:
- Brother, what a reconstruction. Two weeks ago, twenty of our Donetsk reservists ran into this house, on the first floor. And the dill (Ukrainian) tank laid down the entrance... So they lie there like that... We'll be poking around for a long time, come tomorrow, we'll get it.
Snipers and God's Work
In the Drama Theater of Mariupol, according to rumors, crushed people are also lying under the rubble. I can't get into it for the second week. Others get in - I don't. I always come at the moment when the battle begins at the theater.
The quarters around are considered a "gray zone," they have long been passed by sappers. And I myself was here - in the neighboring building of the SBU. And then a day passes and in dilapidated houses, suddenly Nazi “troikas” start working: a sniper, a grenade launcher, and a submachine gunner, for cover.
And this time, too, it was not possible to get to the place of the monstrous provocation (the Azovites blew up the Drama Theater, gathering hundreds of people here, and announcing that it had been bombed by Russian aircraft). If we consider everything that is happening in Mariupol as God's providence, then everything was predetermined so that we would save the girl Tatyana, wounded by a sniper. Too many coincidences, they clung to each other.
Prospekt Mira, the architectural axis of the city, rests against this unfortunate Drama Theatre . I drove carefully, the car wobbling between unimaginable iron rubbish from roofs and facades, cut down by fragments of lanterns and hanging wires. The last intersection, the intersection with Nielsen Street, a little lower down this street - the SBU from my last report (on the website kp.ru and in the issue of "KP" for April 11). And then, my grandmother, another heroine of that text, throws herself under the wheels. The one to whom I gave the loaf of bread hidden in the car “in the most extreme case”. She still held my sleeve with a bird's paw, so that I would not run away, would not change my mind about giving her bread. Grandma lives! I lower the window, she screams:
- Rather, the girl is injured! Take me to the hospital, please!
Vlad, a former ambulance paramedic, starts fiddling in a cramped car, unbuttoning the medical package and also shouting:
- Faster! Show the way!
Grandmother runs to the corner of Nielsen Street and freezes, pressed against the wall, does not go further. Everything is clear, the street is being shot through. Waving hand:
- There! There!
He points to the entrance to the courtyard, 20 meters from it, and immediately the end of the house will close us. Trying to get through in one throw, the engine roars, we don't hear the whistle of a bullet, but we can clearly hear the screech of a ricochet from the metal, on the other side of the avenue, already behind us.
Dirty, plague-ridden people in the cellars are waiting for us in the yard. I put a blanket on the back seat, Tatyana is dragged out of the basement, she screams at every step. Above the knee on the thigh is a bloodstain, but the artery and veins are not affected, lucky. Tatyana's manicure is striking, on gray, almost black hands. Another sign of underground life, the only consolation of Mariupol women. Tatyana spent 52 days in this cellar. It began to rain, she went out of the yard, to pick up pieces of metal torn from the roofs - to close the windows ... I ask who will accompany? Tatyana's husband, Igor:
- I have no documents!
The family's documents burned down along with the apartment, and few people understand what a disaster it is in the warring Mariupol. I promise that I will agree with the roadblocks and bring them back - another problem of the city without transport. I still try not to think about the fact that I will have to skip this corner of Prospekt Mira three more times. On the way to the infamous Regional Hospital, Tatyana says that she had a small shop. Father - a retired lieutenant colonel, lives in Rostov. Husband, Igor, a pensioner, a former judge, and he was afraid of document checks in vain. At checkpoints, it is enough to shout “Wounded!” and they wave their hands to us: “Drive faster!”.
"Enemies" and "Ours"
In that same unfortunate hospital, where a month ago, the living were lying in the corridors mixed with the dead , and the corpses were piled in heaps in empty wards, something subtly changed. For the better. Because it doesn't get any worse.
A minute and volunteers in white suits appear. Body armor is hidden underneath. They bring a bloody stretcher, and a couple of minutes later Tatyana is on the operating table. We are all taking a breath. I'm talking to volunteer Alexei. He is from Mariupol, he came to the hospital himself, he brought friends. With the future, he decided:
- I have all hopes only for Russia.
Already without a camera, Aleksey briefly, obscenely, characterizes the current Ukraine and what it has done to his hometown. Tatyana appears, jumps on one leg, but does not cry out, she was anesthetized. He shows a bag with a 7.62 bullet, and Vlad, for comparison, clicks a 5.45 cartridge out of the magazine. She says: “I was at the end of my life, so I kept up, went down and didn’t have the strength to break a bone.”
We do not leave Tatyana in this hospital, we tell her that "it will be better in the basement." We promise to bring to the dressing on Monday. Perhaps there will be no more snipers in the area. Hope.
We return back. We are greeted by the whole yard, thanked, vying with each other to tell how we lived in recent months. I remember the phrase: "Bread is now more expensive than gold, and only smoke is even more expensive." They show how a sniper and a grenade launcher hit their yard - they waited until everyone gathered with bowls near a common pan. Vitaly, a blacksmith from Azovstal, says:
- I then ran to the militia, crawled through. They came, put the DShK (Degtyarev-Shpagin heavy machine gun), hit it so hard that the sniper hung upside down through the window sill!
Then we are led to look at a small courtyard cemetery near the Ukrainian propaganda monument to the “Victims of the Holodomor”. After 2014, they were sculpted in all Russian-speaking cities of Ukraine, as a warning to Muscovites, cotton wool and separatists. After what happened in Mariupol, this symbol of the "new Ukraine" causes only righteous malice. On the way back,
I notice that the corner of the yard has been cleared, and the flower beds have been dug up and the first sprouts are already breaking through on them. And at the sight of these beds, no words are needed to understand how they want peace here.
Tatyana's neighbors, old-timers of the city, explain to us where these sniper groups come from deep in the rear:
- The center of Mariupol stands on the catacombs. According to legend, the Cossacks dug them, and they were also used during the Crimean War. Just stone was mined for construction. Everyone who grew up in the center knows where the exits are. One is just on our street, two more are also nearby, on Kuindzhi street and in the City Garden. But there are more of them, of course, in the spring the passages usually open in the beams.
Of course, the “Azovites”, who had been preparing Mariupol for defense for eight years, could not help but know about these catacombs. And we, unfortunately, heard about them only now. And it cost a lot of blood.
In parting, Tatyana tells us: “God sent me today both enemies and his own,” the most precious words of the day, we did not expect them, did not count on them ... A little later, in the car, my friend, Vlad from Poltava , notices that "black longing" let him go. It also made me feel a little better.
American taxpayer dollars, otherwise ill spent on everything from Paki jihad to Syrian rebs to the home-grown lives that matter [or just embezzled by Dem cronies], have been used well by Israel to protect itself against the rabid moslem world.
Now make a laser that melts people. And point it in the direction of stone throwers. Call it global warming. Watch out for those sunspots...!
[NYPOST] The 9-year-old girl who was shot at a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, mall Tuesday night was hit by three stray bullets while waiting in line to see the Easter Bunny, police and her relatives said.
Little Ava Chruniak was struck by the bullets allegedly fired by Marqel Cockrell, 20, a shoe store owner at the Mall of Victor Valley who was aiming at two shoplifters he was chasing away, according to police and her grandmother.
"Cockrell’s shots missed the shoplifters and instead hit the 9-year-old female victim," the Victorville Police Department said in a statement.
Ava suffered a broken arm, according to a GoFundMe page that was raising money for her hospital bills.
Ava was said to be in stable, pH balanced condition, and flashed a wide grin for the camera in her hospital bed in a picture posted online.
"No child deserves this she was at the mall going for Easter pictures with the bunny she such a sweet loving girl and loves reading her books," her mother, Natalie, wrote in the fundraising page.
Cockrell was arrested after he fled to Nevada following the shooting, police said. He is facing an attempted murder charge.
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Nice tats. Perhaps the owner sells more than shoes and handles more cash than can be explained?
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I wear New Balance. Not worth anyone stealing from me and no multi-millionaire bassetbaw player who whines about "being treated like a slave" is getting any endorsement money off them.
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[Breitbart] Swedish police gang crime expert Gunnar Appelgren has warned Sweden could be in for a “terrible year” as the number of fatal shootings could break new records if current trends continue.
On Sunday, Sweden — once a peaceful state of less than ten million souls — saw its 20th fatal shooting this year, and if trends continue the country may be seeing a new record for fatal shootings this year.
So far 2022 has seen the most fatal shootings from January to April of any year since the Swedish police began to publish records of shootings in November of 2016. There were seven fatal shootings in the equivalent reporting period in 2017, 2018 had nine, 2019 had 16, 2020 had 15, and 2021 had seven.
Gunnar Appelgren, Detective Superintendent and Gang Expert at the Swedish Police Authority spoke to broadcaster SVT regarding the trend for this year saying, “If you look at the start of this year, there are more deaths, but about as many shootings as there were in 2020. It’s a very high level we’re at right now.”
Appelgren noted that many of the killings are related to criminal gang activity and revenge conflicts between gang members. “There are still very violent conflicts and spirals where revenge begets revenge. The very first crime of trying to shoot someone dead creates this spiral of violence,” he said.
In recent years, Swedish police have successfully managed to take many gang members off the streets of cities like Malmö, largely thanks to the hacking of the encrypted messaging app EncroChat, which was widely used by organised criminals across Europe.
However, according to Appelgren, those gang members who have been taken off the streets have been replaced by younger gang members who are just as willing to use firearms.
“Even if you have prosecuted a lot of people, younger boys continue to be perpetrators in these murders or attempted murders with firearms,” he said.
“If we look statistically at the last five years, there will be more shootings in the next four or five months than in January-April. If this trend is true, we have a terrible year ahead of us,” he added.
[ZeroHedge] The company behind the plans for a multi-billion dollar bullet train project in Texas can't even seem to get out of the starting gate.
The company, Texas Central, is in the midst of seeking out a $12 billion federal loan for the project, but also happens to owe $623,000 in delinquent property taxes, according to a new report from the Houston Chronicle.
The company owes "at least" that amount, according to a brief filed with the Texas Supreme Court in an ongoing condemnation lawsuit by several counties where the train is supposed to run.
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Hot tip. In Texas, a project like this should be the exact opposite of its debacle counterpart in California. But it's not. It's basically the same. Grifters pushing a solution looking for a problem, with taxpayer money driving it and huge malfeasance and rake-offs along the way. Common denominator: the leftist dream of Trains™!
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The project was always supposed to be built without taxpayer funds and they are seeking a loan to get started.
Dallas-area press has been mostly positive, and Southwest Airlines is indifferent, unlike the 1991 effort. [inserts picture of a unicorn]
They've been delayed by covid; I wonder if they got any covid relief?
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Read a piece by an owner of a small rail line about the lack of need for these services. His point was, if people actually wanted these, there would be bus services already running these routes. There's no demand for the product.
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Common denominator: the leftist dream of Trains™!
There is nothing wrong with trains. Civilized countries have trains that work well. Countries that are run by grifters don't.
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The company "has been aggressively buying properties it knows it will need for the current route."
That was my first guess. A nice grift if it had worked.
[IsraelTimes] World body says more than 4.7 million Ukrainians and another 215,000 foreign nationals have fled to neighboring countries since war began; nearly 24,000 in Israel.
[Breitbart] A 21-year-old who was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a coworker has been revealed to be a former Islamic State terrorist who managed to obtain a security job at Austria’s largest Chinese coronavirus vaccination site.
The 21-year-old was arrested in January after allegations that he had tried to force himself on one of his coworkers at the Austria Centre Vienna (ACV) where he worked as a security guard, which also serves as the largest Wuhan coronavirus vaccination site in the country.
On Wednesday, the man was indicted for the alleged sex attack and his criminal history first became known as the court noted that in 2017 when the man was 17, he had been convicted to two and half years in prison for being a member of a terrorist organisation but only served ten months behind bars.
The year prior the man had attempted to join the Islamic State terrorist group and receive combat training in Syria but had been caught by Turkish authorities in the southern border town of Gaziantep in May of 2016 and sent back to Austria, Kronen Zeitung reports.
Just months after he was sent back to Austria by Turkish authorities, the man was caught attempting to recruit eleven and twelve-year-old boys in a park for the terror group in July of that year.
Neither the Austrian Centre Vienna nor the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund aid organisation that runs the vaccination centre, claim to have known of the man’s criminal background.
“The security company in question is a renowned company and has assured us of the police inspection of all employees employed in the ACV. We are shocked by what has happened. We would like to express our sympathy to the victim and hope for a quick legal clarification,” the aid organisation said.
The 21-year-old, who is still an employee of the ACV, claimed he is innocent of the charges of sexual abuse and rape against his colleague, stating that the sexual relations between the two had been consensual.
Radical Islamic extremism remains a major issue in Austria and the country is said to have one of the largest numbers of residents going overseas to fight for Islamic terrorist groups per capita in Europe, according to the Journal for Deradicalization, a peer-reviewed academic journal.
The Islamic State also played a part in the 2020 Vienna terrorist attack that saw four people fatally shot by terrorist Kujtim Fejzulla, who was said to have been in contact with a German member of the terror group as well as a Turkish supporter of the Islamic state.
[JustTheNews] With his father's eight-year tenure as Barack Obama's vice president waning, Hunter Biden received a remarkable overture in 2015: One of China's richest businessmen wanted to make a sizable donation to the World Food Program USA (WFP USA), which was led by the VP's son.
WFP USA is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to raising funds and building U.S. support for the World Food Program, the United Nations organization that fights global hunger.
But soon, memos gathered by the FBI show, the charitable discussions evolved into an expanding relationship between Hunter Biden and Chinese energy giant CEFC to include business deals that would eventually reap the Biden family millions of dollars.
"CEFC China is very interested in exploring humanitarian initiatives of mutual interest to the World Food Program USA and discussing investment opportunities with Burnham," an email received and then forwarded by Hunter Biden in October 2015 stated. Burnham was one of the many firms through which Hunter Biden and his partners like Devon Archer scored large investments.
The story of CEFC's dual pitch for charity and business opportunities is documented in emails and memos stored on the notorious laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop. The device was eventually turned over in December 2019 to the FBI, which is leading an investigation into the taxes, finances and foreign business dealings of the president's son.
The FBI's former intelligence chief said the Chinese overture to Hunter Biden fits the classic pattern of a foreign influence operation, much like was seen with Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell a few years ago.
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Now how could he? Joe said it himself. He didn't know anything about Hunter's contacts. Besides, Joe was too busy being a professor at an Ivy League school.
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[REGNUM] Today, April 15, 2022, in the hero city of Sevastopol, they said goodbye to the legendary cruiser Moskva. And the epithet "legendary" here is not for the sake of a red word - it is a statement of fact, and nothing more. "Moskva" is the same part of Sevastopol as Malakhov Kurgan or Chersonese. He is native, he is from childhood. I am telling you this as a citizen of Sevastopol.
And with "Moskva" I, like many others, are associated primarily with victories. Parade on May 9, for example. Or Russian Navy Day, where the cruiser—the “aircraft carrier killer,” as it was called—always took center stage. I also remember how in 2008 the Sevastopol residents welcomed "Moskva" on their native embankment. Then the steel hero with living heroes on board returned after the pacification of Georgia.
Now it won't come back. And today in the Sevastopol square of the 300th anniversary of the fleet, they said goodbye to the "Moskva." Already forever. Many were crying as if a close friend had passed away. The one who lived. Yes, the loss of ships is always perceived by the people as especially painful, but this is already a special case. The cruiser Moskva, indeed, intertwined with Sevastopol, becoming one of its symbols and certainly its talisman.
Yes, he has long been with the Black Sea Fleet and with the hero city, respectively. Launched in July 1979. So consider: he lived for 43 years. For a person, the age is considerable, but for a warship it is generally very, very solid.
After its flooding, by the way, many pedaled this very topic. Like, the old man was shabby. The cruiser, indeed, is somewhat outdated and required modernization. And here the damned question arises: why was this modernization not carried out? Although only a very sleepy one did not say: "Moskva" needed improvement. However, they didn't happen. Was there no money? What were they going for? Opportunities not found? Now what?
You can, of course, diligently broadcast that the Moskva cruiser is outdated morally and technically, but such speeches are relevant when you have dozens of modern and ultra-modern ships in ports, which, at least, are not inferior, but better than the object under discussion. How about with us? Is everything alright? It is reported that there are two ships equal to the "Moskva" in the Russian fleets. But how many spectacular, powerful yachts have been built by Russian oligarchs for the people's money.
In general, these attempts to justify the loss of the Moskva cruiser look, to be honest, sometimes not only unconvincing, but also harmful. After all, one should not be afraid to speak with the people - to speak, if not frankly, then at least semi-frankly. With us, it comes to the point that people learn information about the fate of the cruiser from the Pentagon. Is it correct? It seems to me that this military conflict should teach all of us exactly the dialogue between the people and the authorities. And this applies not only to the situation with the cruiser.
The special operation in Ukraine, in principle, raised a lot of damned questions. After the Crimean War, the Russian poet exclaimed: “Is it possible that the Russian soldier will return to the same thing? ..” He exclaimed with the implication that Russia needs changes, solid, intelligible. So the special operation, like that doctor, examines the patient, removes the bandages and diagnoses the state of affairs.
After all, many things in Russia were unwilling and could not be changed, not because there were not enough resources or opportunities for that, but simply because everyone was satisfied with the prevailing parity. The tops, elites, groups of influence (call it what you want) divided the country and everything seemed to suit everyone. But after February 24, things got so bad that only a madman does not understand: the changes are not just overdue - they rolled in like waves, and not to implement them means signing a death sentence for yourself. Sorry for the stamp, but in this case it is as accurate as possible and more than appropriate.
We have come to a great choice - to remain the same and lose Russia or, having changed, making systemic conclusions and taking drastic measures, try to save our Fatherland. Half measures, standard rhetoric and mechanisms are indispensable here. Only maximum mobilization and unpopular decisions can forge our victory. And then the death of the cruiser "Moskva" is not without sadness, but it certainly will not be in vain.
In the meantime, we say goodbye to the era and wait for changes. And I remember how, on one of my visits to the cruiser Moskva, I was there together with Yulia Chicherina and Vadim Samoilov. And they sang before the sailors. Mentally so, under an acoustic guitar. They sat straight, in a military way, but periodically glanced at the senior officers, and one of them nodded, giving a sign, and the sailors dragged along with Vadim and Yulia:
[FoxNews] A third migrant bus arrived in Washington, D.C., around 8 a.m. Friday as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's efforts to counter federal immigrant policies amid the current border crisis.
Texas began sending an unspecified number of buses en route to Washington, D.C., on April 8, followingAbbott's statement that Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) officials would be transporting migrants released in Texas communities to the nation's capital. The White House initially described it as a "publicity stunt," with many assuming the governor would not follow through. The Friday bus carried approximately 30 migrants.
"What better place for them to go than the steps of the United States Capitol?" Abbott asked "America's Newsroom" hosts just last week.
The first migrant bus arrived in DC on April 13, with the second bus arriving the next day. Both buses included immigrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and Nicaragua.
The group spoke with the press in Spanish, and eventually called together a prayer circle not far from where they were dropped off.
Abbott has been highly critical of the Biden administration's handling of the border crisis, stating that the federal government has failed in properly assessing the border situation.
During remarks at a ceremony for a Texas Department of Safety Memorial, Abbott stated more than 1.6 million people had crossed the border into Texas illegally in the last 15 months.
As of February, approximately 220,000 known "gotaways" have evaded Border Patrol since October 2021, a Department of Homeland Security official told Fox News in February.
The legality of Abbott's move to send migrant buses to Washington, D.C., remains in question, however. The 2012 Supreme Court case, Arizona v. the United States, established states could not make their own immigration policies.
Abbott has called on Mexico to step up and help curb illegal immigration numbers. He threatened economic consequences during his Thursday night appearance on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
"The predictable result is that these governors of states that are connected to Texas would be knocking on our door begging for relief," Abbott told host Tucker Carlson. "As they beg for relief, we are demanding that they implement security measures that will reduce illegal immigration coming across the border."
[Breitbart] On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) stated that the enhanced safety inspections of commercial vehicles coming into Texas from Mexico have predictably resulted in the governors of multiple Mexican states demanding relief from the traffic slowdowns caused by the inspections, and that as those states demand relief, “we are demanding that they implement security measures that will reduce illegal immigration coming across the border.”
He added that the governors of several Mexican states have either reached an agreement or are in talks with Texas to implement security measures. Abbott also vowed that if Mexican states won’t bolster security, “we are going to continue with our right to inspect every single vehicle coming across that bridge into the state of Texas, regardless of the economic consequences it poses to Mexico.”
Abbott said the inspections “had the predictable result, and that is it snarled traffic for miles…basically crashing economic conditions in these states as well as in the country of Mexico and having severe economic consequences for businesses in Mexico. And the predictable result is that these governors of states that are connected to the state of Texas would be knocking on our door begging for relief. And as they beg for relief, we are demanding that they implement security measures that will reduce illegal immigration coming across the border.”
He continued, “There are different standards that we will be applying to different states that are connected to the state of Texas. Yesterday, we announced an agreement with the governor of Nuevo Leon. Today, we are hammering out details with two more states that are adjacent to Texas, they have border crossings in Texas, that will have some different measures that enhance security, that [stop] the flow of illegal immigrants from their states to the state of Texas, and then there will be one more state governor that we are dealing with tomorrow to try to hammer out details with him. Altogether, we expect and we demand that, on the Mexican side, they finally step up and stop these low-water crossings and other actions that are allowing these illegal immigrants to cross the border. If they fail to do that, we are going to continue with our right to inspect every single vehicle coming across that bridge into the state of Texas, regardless of the economic consequences it poses to Mexico.”
Abbott added that “you may see heightened migration attempts in other states like New Mexico and California where they are being less resistant as Texas is.”
Mexican Cartel Gunmen Torch Trucks at Border Port to Protest New Texas Checkpoints
[Breitbart] Cartel gunmen set fire to three tractor-trailers outside an international port of entry Wednesday to protest Texas’ rollout of new border enforcement programs ahead of Title 42’s cancellation. The torching comes at a time when truckers and politicians on both sides of the border oppose additional vehicle inspections ordered by Governor Greg Abbott.
The case took place on Wednesday afternoon in Reynosa, near the Pharr International Port of Entry. The Tamaulipas government disclosed that a group of men riding in SUVs set fire to three tractor-trailers waiting at the port. State police forces were able to track the men using surveillance cameras. Authorities managed to arrest three men suspected of being part of the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel and seized two vehicles. It remains unclear if more gunmen took part. Inside one of the vehicles, authorities found a container of gasoline.
The three men are in police custody undergoing questioning.
Texas DPS Border Inspections Take 1K Dangerous Commercial Trucks, 84 Drivers Off U.S. Roadways
[Breitbart] Texas Department of Public Safety troopers conducting safety inspections of commercial vehicles at ports of entry stopped nearly 1,000 trucks with “serious safety violations” from driving into the state. The increased inspections are being carried out under an order from Governor Greg Abbott as part of a response to the growing border crisis.
Troopers took nearly 25 percent of the 4,133 commercial vehicles inspected during the first six days following the governor’s announcement off the roadways for “serious safety violations,” according to a statement provided by DPS officials. Troopers placed 973 commercial vehicles out of service following the inspections. These safety violations included defective brakes, defective tires, and defective lighting. Troopers also placed 84 drivers out of service for violations of state or federal regulations.
Abbott and Gov. Samuel García signed the agreement at a news conference in Laredo, Texas. They reached the agreement after Abbott expanded border security measures through Operation Lone Star, directing Texas Department of Public Safety officers to perform enhanced security checks of commercial trucks at ports of entry. This led to protests and major jams, halting international commerce at at least three major ports of entry on Monday and Tuesday.
Garcia began implementing security measures on the Rio Grande River and at ports of entry in Nuevo León on Tuesday, he said.
Nuevo León, located in the northeast region of Mexico, shares a 14-kilometer border with Texas. The Laredo-Columbia Solidarity International Bridge, which saw backlogs as a result of Abbott’s new policy, connects Laredo, Texas, to Colombia in Anáhuac, Nuevo León.
Abbott also announced that crossing the Laredo-Columbia Bridge “will return to normal effective immediately” and remain that way “as long as Nuevo León executes this historic agreement.
“Since Nuevo León has increased security on its side of the border,” Abbott said, Texas DPS was returning to its previous policy of randomly stopping vehicles crossing the bridge into Texas instead of performing enhanced checks.
Through OLS, Texas law enforcement officers have apprehended known convicted murderers, previously convicted child rapists, kidnappers, drug traffickers, MS-13 gang members and cartel members who’ve entered Texas illegally from Mexico, and seized enough fentanyl “to kill every man, woman, and child in the U.S.,” Abbott said.
“Texas is apprehending people crossing our borders illegally from countries like China, Iran, Russia, Iraq and more than 150 countries,” he added. “It’s time for the Biden administration to stop it.
“Until he does, Texas will continue to use its own strategies and work with Mexico to secure the border.”
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Comment from Breitbart on the "dangerous commercial trucks" issue:
“These unnecessary inspections are occurring when vehicles exit U.S. ports of entry within the El Paso and Laredo areas of operation after being comprehensively inspected and cleared to enter the United States by CBP,” the statement reads. Absolute 100% BULL SCHIFF. The CBP DOES NOT do safety inspections. Full stop. End of lie. They inspect for illegal material/contraband and that is ALL. They do not do DOT type safety inspections on the drivers or the equipment.
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Now it will get stupid Indian leaders to help Srilanka by playing to the populist hindu egos. Watch as China begins to hail India in the media, and Indian media houses sing of how China adores India for being 'brave and noble'. They may even jointly produce some stupid mythological flick for the Indian rube.
Idiots in New Delhi will sign off on some aid package for the srilankans hoping to please the millions of tamils back home and they'll sell it as 'India has become a great saviour, a big brother to nations!' while the CCP slap their knees laughing.
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That whole dynamic blew right past me. I've got to break down and finally buy a copy of "South Asia For Dummies".
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I merely meant to say the Chinese will play the Indian leadership using typical Indian hubris and aspirations of grandeur. And the leadership will find a way to sell a $ billion aid package for the Srilankans, to clueless taxpayers.
Now the srilankan population consists of Tamils in great number. [A linguistic group] Tamil Nadu in India is the ridiculously Tamil state full of regional minded obstinate fools, barring a few evolved communities. These constantly demand aid and security and help and sops for their cousins in the ocean. [I'm not doing a very good job here am I?]
Basically srilanka is a thankless ingrate whom we protected, helped feed itself, helped grow into something remotely investable. And then they changed loyalties for the Chinese plastic magic wand. Sold out for a few blōwjobs and scholarships in America for their children. We didn't really need a sovereign buffer state in the Indian Ocean. Not one this useless anyway.
I would advise new Delhi to regime change it and 'help' local democracy find a stooge leader who would never entertain China's overtures again. And plant our Navy all across its ports.
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We have already sunk $5 billion in this place, just because New Delhi keeps hoping this is the way to make loyal friends. And we're going to send them $2 b more. Then China will regime change them and pick a stooge from the primary political dynasties there.
My solution would be to start a civil war. Then finish it for them. And plant our own stooge from a non-dynastic party. Somebody staunchly budhist right-wing or something.
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^ China doesn't want it. They would rather just own the presidents and legislatures, consolidate assets not the liabilities. Liabilities are for idiots like us and you. As long as it remains a 'democratic' thingy, its upkeep is someone else's problem. China can park its navy there, it can enslave the local population unseen, it can make the rulers run it into the ground unheard. And some retard, some absolute shit for brains moron will be there to bail it out and prop it up again.
This is their MO in Pak, in African countries and now in Nepal too.
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IIRC, Nepal is one of the only countries in the world that has never been conquered. At least so far.
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^ They're trying. They poured millions into KP Oli's pockets and his establishment. We helped replace it with a... better pedigree of leadership. India and the US have gone to great lengths to ensure this total commie-fication of Nepal doesn't take place. It was one of the things we did well to team up on.
This is in fact one of the ops Washington got right. Of course it was begun in DJT's term. Maybe he took Indian advice, I don't know. By 2018, DC realised Nepal was going the wrong way and regime change was not possible using Pakistain here. The Millenium Challenge Corporation under USAID infused the local democratic foundations with funds and enabled the Nepali Congress to compete in free and fair elections. We wanted the same thing and it took elbow grease and... some unmarked graves [because money is never enough...sigh]. But the regime was changed back to a more pro-Nepal than pro-China government.
But they're still trying. Nepal is two different societies. One are the Neowari upper castes, Gorkhali, Chetri etc. You know some of them as Gorkhas. The other are madhesis, a pejorative for essentially people who don't belong. The Gorkha and Chhetri are fiercely traditional Hindu-buddhist. The madhesis are... diverse. And that's where the UFWD finds its worker bees. Building Chinese schools, promising careers in mainland China, creating silent plodders against the nationalist core. Planting Chinese overseers in Nepal.
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Pakistain is one entity that needs a China controlled Nepal. Because it offers a great haven and launch pads for cross border jihadis. Training camps and madrassas established under the communist government were jointly destroyed but keep springing up whenever a humanist islamic foundation is allowed entry. China stays out of this game for now. If they touch a moslem they wash their hands twice.
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See, Dron, if you write the book as Steve suggests, you'll have complete control over the information flow to naive Americans such as myself. On the maps you could label Pakistain "Land of Tiny Testicles" and none of us would know any different.
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FTA Effectively, Ukrainians with no ties to the U.S. or immigration documents are set for release into the U.S. interior while awaiting asylum hearings. I rather doubt they are all actually "Ukrainians".
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I rather doubt they are all actually "Ukrainians".
With surnames like Zhāng or Rodriguez, why would you think that?
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211 million people. Among the Brazilian population, around 68% of people fall between the ages of 15 and 64, a target age range for both anxiety disorders and depression. Brazil leads in the world in terms of anxiety cases and ranks fifth for cases of depression, but access to public health support for treatment remains low.
WHO: BRAZIL HAS HIGHEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION IN LATIN AMERICA
Brazil also ranks alongside Ukraine, Australia and the US, as one of the nations with the highest population depression rate (5.9% out of total, or about 11.5 million people) globally. Some data, taken from the Center for Valuing Life (CVV), a Brazilian non-profit organization that provides people having suicidal tendencies with telephone assistance, expose that one case occurs every 43 minutes. The WHO warned that around 800 thousand people annually die due to theses tendencies, considered as the second cause of death in the Brazilian population between 15-29 years. People suffering from depression are lacking medical care and in many other countries less than 10% of depressed patients access medical care.
[AnNahar] Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... has started making components for machines used to enrich uranium at a new workshop in Natanz, the country's main nuclear site, the U.N. atomic watchdog said Thursday.
The new workshop replaces a nuclear facility in Karaj, near Tehran, after an attack there last year, which Iran said was an act of sabotage.
On Tuesday, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) completed installing surveillance cameras at the new site and removed the seals from the machines to produce components of centrifuges, equipment used to enrich uranium.
"On April 13, Iran informed the agency that the machines would start operating at the new workshop the same day," Director General Rafael Grossi said in his latest report on the Islamic republic's nuclear program seen by AFP.
World powers are negotiating to revive a 2015 landmark agreement to rein in Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.
The accord started to unravel in 2018 when then US president Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... left the deal and re-instated sanctions, leading Iran to in turn step up its nuclear program again.
Negotiations to return to the 2015 agreement started early last year. Negotiators say they are close to a conclusion, but have not manage to finalize all points yet.
Since last year, Iran has not allowed the IAEA to actively use its surveillance cameras. Instead, Tehran is storing the recordings while negotiations are ongoing.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:19 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 18 civilians as a result of shelling by the AFU of the previously liberated territories of the Republic. 22:15 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Friendship - n.p. Gorlovka, 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
19:47 Representation of the DPR in the JCCC: AFU fired six shells at Panteleymonovka.
19:11 Representative office of the DPR in the JCCC: APU fired five shells of 122 mm caliber at Aleksandrovka.
18:50 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
18:42 The speaker of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said that Russia had bombed the remnants of Ukrainian troops in Mariupol with the help of Tu-22M3 long-range bombers.
18:39 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of two civilians - a man born in 1961. and women born in 1954 as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district (microdistrict "Tekstilshchik") at the address st. Petrovsky, 127. A man in serious condition was hospitalized in a medical facility, where he receives the necessary assistance. The woman's condition is satisfactory - she refused hospitalization.
As a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
- st. Dobrovolsky, 3 - apartment building;
- st. Stakhanov, 2, 4 - multi-apartment residential buildings.
18:12 AFU fired from the settlement Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
from n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 rockets were fired from the BM-21 Grad, four shells with a caliber of 122mm.
17:51 AFU fired from the settlement Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
17:43 More than 180 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe in the DPR on April 15.
17:29 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded: from the direction of the settlement. Zolote-4 by settlement Pervomaisk with the use of 122mm artillery guns (10 shells) LPR representation in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
17:20 The number of wounded as a result of the shelling of the VFU in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk has increased to two people.
17:02 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Zolote-4 by settlement Zolote-5 with the use of 122mm artillery guns (six shells) - representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
16:54 A civilian was injured during the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops.
16:49 The Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR opened a criminal case against several employees of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission on the fact of espionage
16:40 Ukrainian troops fired on Yasinovataya from Gradov.
16:38 As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian punishers of the Kirovsky area on street. Petrovsky, 127 a civilian was seriously wounded in the chest. In the house, a shell broke through the ceiling from the 8th to the 7th floor, the glazing was damaged.
16:30 As a result of artillery shelling of the settlement. Zolote-5 damaged two residential buildings and a kindergarten "Beryozka" - the representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
16:27 Continuation of shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
15:52 Shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction of:
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Balka: 10 LNG grenades fired;
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): one shell with a caliber of 152mm, two shells with a caliber of 122mm were fired. n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine 6/7): 14 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:25 Head of the DPR awarded fighters in Mariupol taking part in the denazification of Ukraine.
15:22 In Mariupol, near the plant named after Ilyich, the commander of the 36th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was taken prisoner.
15:12 Special services of Ukraine are planning to commit a terrorist attack on Theater Square in Lugansk on April 16 - the Ministry of State Security of the LPR.
15:01 Power engineers of the liberated regions received their first salary in the DPR. More than 300 power engineers were hired.
15:00 Azov snipers stationed at the Azovstal Mariupol plant are "mercilessly shooting at civilians" - RF Investigative Committee.
14:33 In Mariupol, the flags of the DPR and the Russian Federation are flying on the buildings. In the photo is the building of Mariupol in which people draw up documents for moving around the DPR, here they can also apply for the destruction of their housing for subsequent compensation.
14:17 From the side of the armed formations Ukraine shelling was recorded: 13.30 (coincides with Moscow time - ed.) from the direction of the settlement Novozvanovka in the settlement Pervomaisk with the use of artillery guns 122mm (six shells).
14:11 DPR special forces use all available means to open enemy firing points and destroy them. Front-line ingenuity often comes to the aid of traditional weapons in combat conditions. So, for example, the guys from the 1st Special Forces of the NM of the DPR learned to use copters not only to collect intelligence and adjust fire, but also as “shock” UAVs. A dropping mechanism is attached to the drone, a porcelain mug with a raised (that is, without checks) grenade inside clings to it. Upon hitting the target, the mug shatters and the grenade detonates.
13:52 The consequences of the shelling of the Petrovsky district: according to the updated data of the military experts of the operational group of the DPR JCCC, the shelling was carried out from the positions of the VFU in the area of the settlement. Krasnogorovka with the use of multiple launch rocket systems BM-21 "Grad". As a result of the shelling, residential housing construction at the address: st. Lucky, 64, 68; st. Katovitska, 103, 103 "a", 105, 112, 114, 116 "a".
13:28 In the liberated Novotroitsk and Mirny branches of the Donbass Post opened:
Novotroitskoe village at the address: per. Komsomolsky, d. 6;
Mirnoe village at the address: st. Central, d. 6.
13:21 Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR: More than 71 km of power lines of various voltage classes have been restored in the liberated territories, electricity has been supplied to 43 settlements, 21 transformer substations (substations, transformer substations) have been restored.
13:12 VFU fired at Yasinovataya, firing 20 rockets from the BM-21 Grad, two shells with a caliber of 152mm and six shells with a caliber of 122mm - DPR JCCC.
13:02 The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation will send educational literature to schools and kindergartens in the liberated regions of Donbass. “We made a decision and talked with a number of our publishing houses that today we will send 40,000 copies of educational literature for kindergartens and schools to Donbass,” said the head of the department, Sergei Kravtsov.
12:32 On April 14, the rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR in Mariupol, Kremenevka, Ivanovka and Rivnopol issued humanitarian aid to the population in the form of 8,407 sets, of which:
food packages - 4,164 units;
hygiene kits — 4,164 units;
children's sets - 79 units.
12:31 The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to open fire on the cities of Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Kremennaya, Lisichansk, Novodruzhesk, Popasnaya, Gornoye, Zolote. As a result of the shelling, entire residential areas are on fire.
12:30 VFU fired at Yasinovataya, firing 20 rockets from the BM-21 Grad, two shells with a caliber of 152mm and six shells with a caliber of 122mm - DPR JCCC.
11:52 "We got here and, as I understand it, I was saved." A wounded soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who surrendered in Mariupol told how they were treated in the Ukrainian hospital. “There was no help for me. And they brought us here and they are doing everything so that we get better, ”this is how the military attitude towards him in the DPR hospital describes.
11:47 UK installed and presented charges another 15 commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine involved in the genocide of civilians in Donbass.
11:38 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Orekhovo in the settlement Donetsk with the use of 152mm artillery guns (four shells) - the representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
11:17 Testimony of refugees from Mariupol confirms that since February, Ukrainian nationalists have forbidden to leave the city - RF IC.
10:18 In Mariupol, the metallurgical plant named after Ilyich was taken under control - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
09:53 Over the past day, 520 people, including 74 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky district.
09:22 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:56 Sources report a breakthrough in the enemy's defenses in the area of the settlement. Popasnaya (LPR), where the Russian flag is hoisted over the building of the city administration. The information is confirmed by the Rybar TV channel.
As part of the allied forces of the Armed Forces of the F and the NM of the LNR, assault detachments of the "orchestra" - Wagner PMCs work.
08:50 AFU fired from the settlement. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: two shells of 152mm caliber, six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:25 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Staromikhaylovka: fired six mines in 120mm caliber;
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of Trudovskaya mine): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:22 At night, a GP was shot down by air defense forces over Zuevka, the remnants fell on the street. Artem and nearby streets. EMERCOM is working. So far no casualties.
06:15 AFU fired from the settlement. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
06:00 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
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[RIA Novosti] Security forces have detained four Islamists from a cell of the Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham group banned in Russia* in the Kaluga region, the FSB reported.
"On the territory of the Kaluga region , the activities of four members of a clandestine cell of the international terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham, one of whom planned, on the instructions of foreign emissaries, to commit a terrorist act at military facilities in the region, were exposed and suppressed," the press release says.
Components of improvised explosives were found in the suspect's hiding place. In addition, allegedly, the seized gadgets found correspondence with terrorists in the Middle East and materials with instructions for making bombs.
There is an investigation of the case under the article on preparation for a terrorist attack.
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According to Wikipedia, the Kaluga oblast has a few thousand Tatars and Uzbeks, both Turkic groups — only 0.6% of the population is Moslem —while 93% of the population is ethnic Russian.
[NY Post] Finally, some common sense: In an open letter to President Joe Biden, 46 retired generals and admirals this week denounced the ongoing Iran deal negotiations.
"In Ukraine, we are bearing witness to the horrors of a country ruthlessly attacking its neighbor and, by brandishing its nuclear weapons, forcing the rest of the world largely to stand on the sidelines," they noted.
And: "The new Iran deal currently being negotiated, which Russia has played a central role in crafting, will enable the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism to cast its own nuclear shadow over the Middle East."
Biden is hell-bent on putting a new Iran deal in place despite all those begging him not to. A group of 18 House Democrats this month warned that it would be an even bigger disaster now than the 2015 Obama accord (which then-President Donald Trump wisely killed). Top US diplomats have quit the negotiating team over the weak positions they’ve been ordered to take.
Israeli experts estimate that Iran could go nuclear within four to six months under the deal Biden’s minions are negotiating. Why offer major concessions to a hostile regime for that?
Of all the Biden policies that leave us scratching our heads, this one takes the cake
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And his administration has overtly bullied financial institutions if they extend credit to oil/gas production and processing companies thereby blowing up their cash flows. Smaller firms are affected adversely.
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Tonight, Russian Navy warships have been sailing out of Sevastopol. Too soon to say destination but direction Ukraine. There were more landing ships near Crimean coast pic.twitter.com/9n6Z9n8BWV
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Loitering around the site of the Moscow sinking might give credence to rumors of nukes onboard?
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The picture should show before and after citizens of Mariupol-- alive and fed vs starving then dead.
"Civilians trapped in Mariupol and other besieged Ukrainian cities are at risk of starving to death, the executive director of the World Food Program said after visiting the country. The United Nations agency said Mariupol is likely running out of its remaining food and water reserves, and that 60 percent of those displaced across Ukraine are “worried about finding enough to eat.”
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The picture should show before and after citizens of Mariupol-- alive and fed vs starving then dead.
"Civilians trapped in Mariupol and other besieged Ukrainian cities are at risk of starving to death, the executive director of the World Food Program said after visiting the country. The United Nations agency said Mariupol is likely running out of its remaining food and water reserves, and that 60 percent of those displaced across Ukraine are “worried about finding enough to eat.”
The Russians say they are evacuating civilians back to places where they can be provided for.
Additionally, they say they are providing some aid in Mariupol for civilians.
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I hear dogs are becoming an endangered species in Ukraine because Russian soldiers find them tastier than the meat they can get in their shops in Russia.
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The Russians say they are evacuating civilians back to places where they can be provided for.
badanov, one of your translated posts a few days ago reported that 100,000 evacuated Ukrainians were settled in Siberia and points north of the Arctic Circle, also Chechnya and other locations.
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badanov, one of your translated posts a few days ago reported that 100,000 evacuated Ukrainians were settled in Siberia and points north of the Arctic Circle, also Chechnya and other locations.
Posted from the Ukrainian perspective. One of Zelensky's claims.
In some of the translated posts going back a ways, are mentions of humanitarian corridors civilians can take both into Russian as well as in points west and northwest in Ukraine.
Would not be so hard to believe that assistance would would be available to civilians beyond those points as well.
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Dog meat is what the Ukrainians will eat - if they're lucky enough to get a ration.
David Beasley, director of the World Food Program, says WFP relies on Ukrainian cereals to feed roughly half of the 125 million people the organization provides aid to. In an address to the UN Security Council recently, he warned that his organization may soon have to ration food to the hungry to save the starving
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"The picture should show before and after citizens of Mariupol-- alive and fed vs starving then dead."
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Twitter has video from Russia of long range bombers going somewhere.
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As I recall, the land corridor to the Crimea concept needed to remove one major urban nexus to prevent endless guerrilla ops to interdict rail/road movement and security from an urban core base of operations. Large scale artillery concentrations to effect WWII levels of destruction on such a resistance center are hard to create and protect, given how relatively close they need to be.
The Bomber Harris airpower strategy seems an apt alternative given how poorly the ground war has been going, and so far that segment of Russian military has been kept from the fray. High end ADA (Air Defense Artillery) systems are bigger and easier to find for the Russian counter-battery effort. Look for Viet Nam redux video of Bear Bombers in flames as this goes on...
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Mother Russia The US is running out of cruise missiles. That is all.
Wrong. Completely backward.
"The American strategy is presenting Western countries with a stark choice between pouring more supplies into Ukraine or husbanding finite capabilities they may need for their own defense.
Germany has declined to transfer tanks to Ukraine on grounds that it simply cannot spare them. Canada quickly ran short on rocket launchers and other equipment that the Ukrainians desperately need.
***The U.S. has already provided one-third of its overall stockpile of Javelin anti-tank missiles. ***
The US cannot easily deliver more without leaving its own armories badly depleted — and it may take months or years to significantly ramp up production.
Before the U.S. entered World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt and his military advisers engaged in intense debates about whether the U.S. should rush weapons to a beleaguered Britain or hang onto them in case America had to defend itself. Biden’s arsenal-of-democracy strategy is reaching a similar inflection point in Ukraine.
Kyiv will require far more Western support to beat back Russian forces gathering in the east, where relatively open terrain is less favorable to the defense. It will also need more sophisticated weapons, such as tanks and aircraft, to deny Russia a decisive advantage — and perhaps take the offensive if Moscow’s eastern offensive falters. Stout Ukrainian resistance has given Kyiv a reasonable chance of winning this war, but the cost of any victory, in equipment no less than lives, will be astounding.
For the same reason, the war in Ukraine is a sobering preview of the problems the U.S. itself would face in a conflict against Russia or China. If forced to go to war in Eastern Europe or the Western Pacific, Washington would spend down its stockpiles of missiles, precision-guided munitions and other critical capabilities in days or weeks. It would probably suffer severe losses of tanks, planes, ships and other assets that are sophisticated, costly and hard to replace.
[NATIONALREVIEW] Former president Trump endorsed GOP candidate J. D. Vance in Ohio’s Senate race on Friday.
Once a vocal critic of Trump during his first presidential bid, Vance declared his support for Trump in 2020 and has since carried his mantle with a populist campaign platform.
A GOP primary poll released Friday showed Vance in second place, at 22.6 percent, to Republican Josh Mandel, at 28.0 percent, according to the Trafalgar Group.
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I would have thought President Trump would have joined Senator Cruz in endorsing Josh Mandel, but either would do a fine job representing Ohio in the Senate.
[BenarNews] The leader of the PULO separatist group claimed Friday it carried out a deadly twin bombing in Thailand’s Deep South because it was sidelined from peace talks between Thai negotiators and another rebel group, BRN, and wanted to be included. The explosions on Friday struck Sai Buri, a district of Pattani province, in the middle of Ramadan, killing a villager and injuring three members of a police bomb squad, officials said.
"Today’s incidents were carried out by one of our five PULO operation units. It is to say that the Thai peace dialogue panel must negotiate with all groups. Patani doesn’t belong only to the BRN," Kasturi Mahkota, the leader of the Patani United Liberation Organization, told BenarNews.
The attack shattered a relative calm that had settled over Thailand’s southern border region since early April. It was the first bloodshed since Barisan Revolusi Nasional rebels and the Thai government, through direct talks brokered by Malaysia, agreed to a 40-day pause in violence during the Islamic fasting month.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:07 The Investigative Committee will study the data of the Russian Ministry of Defense about Kiev preparing a provocation in Lozova. 22:11 A Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft was shot down near Izyum, military correspondent of KP Oleksandr Kots reports.
17:14 Greece will no longer send military equipment to Ukraine - government spokesman Ioannis Ikonomou.
16:31 In Odessa, signs of Russian sister cities were removed from the memorial sign. According to the order of the mayor of the city, Gennady Trukhanov, their place will soon be taken by signs with the names of other, "friendly" countries.
16:20 Another monument to Soviet soldiers was dismantled in Rivne. At this place, after the victory, the local authorities plan to install the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, turning the muzzle towards Moscow.
15:56 In Vasilyevka, in a large railway station, the Ukrainian military is leaving poured out all the coal from the wagons to the ground. It would be nice to collect it and distribute it. Despite the meanness of the Ukrainian army, the Energodar police ensure the safety of the railway route. And the railway communication of the Zaporozhye region with the Crimea and Donbass will still be restored.
15:54 A blow was struck on prom. zone of Kramatorsk. The territory of industrial enterprises is used by the formations of the Kiev regime to accommodate manpower, armored vehicles, artillery, ammunition depots and fuel and lubricants.
15:43 In Ukraine, an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (and, probably, a member of the “ATO”) decided that it was much safer to fight the “Muscovites” on Facebook than on the front line, and therefore decided to transform into a girl so that it would be easier to cross the border with Moldova. Did not work out.
15:32 Fighters of the French Legion are present in the ranks of the Ukrainian troops - RF IC.
15:21 The Chechen military delivered humanitarian aid to the residents of Melitopol.
15:17 It's very loud in Kyiv right now: there are massive attacks on military facilities. This is reported by people living in the city.
15:15 In Melitopol, on Victory Square, a Cossack divorce took place. Today, representatives of the local Cossacks will begin to protect public order. The decision to create a squad was made on April 3 at the Cossack Circle. The ataman Igor Lysenko headed the squad.
15:06 In Kramatorsk, an APU facility was hit on the territory of the industrial zone next to the thermal power plant. Judging by the smoke, the warehouse to the south of the CHP itself was hit, which was probably used for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
14:29 The Armed Forces of Ukraine mined the bridge across the Konka River between the settlements of Orlovo and Preobrazhenka in the Zaporozhye region. The closest positions of the RF Armed Forces in Nesteryanka are about 10 km away, so this event is more likely to be planned in preparation for the second phase of the special military operation of the RF Armed Forces. Coordinates: 47.580175, 35.78774.
14:16 In the Ukrainian capital, the Friendship Square between Kiev and Moscow will be renamed the Heroes of Mariupol Square.
14:15 Oksana Marchenko stated that the SBU allegedly fabricated her husband's escape in order to arrest her later. Marchenko says that Medvedchuk's whereabouts are currently unknown to her. She suggests that torture is used against Medvedchuk in order to obtain evidence.
13:40 The Federation Council announced the presence of NATO soldiers among the prisoners in Ukraine.
13:10 Peskov called the destruction of nationalist battalions in Ukraine a top priority. The Kremlin has no doubt that all the tasks of the special operation in Ukraine will be fulfilled.
13:01 "You are concerned about the security of the bank." After the start of the special operation, the Russians noted a sharp decrease in the number of calls from telephone scammers. And here is another proof that they called from Ukraine. Russian security forces in the liberated Berdyansk discovered abandoned call center. The staff left it about 10 days ago. The instructions that were tried to be destroyed with the shredder explain who to call and what words to say.
12:33 The volunteer headquarters of Melitopol has established interaction with public organizations of Crimea. The interaction will concern the delivery of targeted humanitarian aid. In the cities of New Russia liberated from the Kiev Nazi regime, normal life is being established.
12:30 "To date, 15 more commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, involved in the genocide of civilians in Donbass, have been identified and brought as defendants," the Investigative Committee of Russia said in a statement.
12:28 Appeared on video tonight strikes on units of the Ukrainian Air Force in Mirgorod and Starokonstantinov.
11:45 In Skadovsk also removed Ukrainian flags. Bandera Gauleiter Skadovsk in hysterics.
11:42 A blow was struck on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Kharkov Aviation Institute. The village of Prosyanoe, southwest of Kharkov, has become a full-fledged training center for "forest brothers" - rangers and hunters who have strayed into squads and sabotage and reconnaissance groups that operate on the routes of advancement of Russian columns. On four sides, Prosyanoe is surrounded by posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense units.
11:28 Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation: in Russia there are more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers who have surrendered. Most were interrogated - among them five brigade commanders, the department said. The testimonies of refugees from Mariupol confirm that since February, Ukrainian nationalists have been forbidden to leave the city
11:20 Sberbank branch opened in Energodar. Residents of the city can now cash out their accruals in hryvnias, as well as exchange them for Russian rubles and other currencies.
11:19 “There was a terrible explosion. It is not clear what - with a screech, with a roar, it went well. Residents of the Bryansk region, who found themselves under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine,toldhow it all happened. Windows were shattered in houses. The woman, whose leg was torn off, was carried out of the house on a blanket even before the arrival of rescuers. Now she is in the hospital. According to the latest data, a two-year-old boy with a penetrating head wound was transported to Moscow for treatment.
11:15 Air defense is working in Belgorod, subscribers report.
According to unconfirmed information, two air targets were shot down.
11:06 The military special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine will end pretty soon, we are not going to stretch it out - Klimov.
11:05 Last night APU fired upon civilian population of the village of Vasilyevka in the Zaporozhye region. They hit with a Tochka U rocket with cluster munitions. Previously, one woman was killed, five people were injured. Detailed information will be available a little later, after experts examine the place of shelling.
11:03 Russia will increase the number and scale of missile strikes on objects in Kyiv in response to attacks on its territory by Ukraine - Russian Defense Ministry.
11:00 In the Zaporozhye region launched railway communication from Energodar. This route is of great importance - the iron ore mined in Dneprorudny can be supplied to the metallurgical plants of Donbass. And the Donbass coal goes to the Energodar thermal power plant. Directly from the locomotive.
10:40 in Melitopol dismantled a memorial plaque installed in memory of the punisher who took part in the so-called. ATO in Donbass. The military-civilian administration of Melitopol decided to dismantle the memorial plaques to Bandera. On April 14, the staff of school No. 4 complied with this instruction.
10:24 MO RF informs about the downed Su-27 of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Kharkov direction. In addition, judging by the incoming reports, some kind of UAV was shot down by air defense forces in the Belgorod region.
10:21 The Russian Defense Ministry reports that up to 30 militants of the Polish PMC have been eliminated in the Izyum region. In addition, they promised to step up strikes on the Kiev region in response to yesterday's shelling of border villages in the Bryansk and Belgorod regions.We wait. This night there were 8 arrivals near Kiev.
10:20 Caliber cruise missiles were used to strike an object in Kyiv. As a result of a missile attack on the Zhulian machine-building plant "Viza", the workshops for the production and repair of air defense systems and anti-ship missiles were destroyed. The number and scale of missile strikes on objects in Kyiv will be increased in response to the commission of sabotage by Kiev forces on Russian territory - Russian Defense Ministry.
10:19 In the Chernihiv region, a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter was shot down by the S-400 system, which attacked a village in the Bryansk region - the Russian Defense Ministry.
10:00 According to oursource, the command of the Ukrainian army set the task for the units to bury the dead soldiers in common graves. To classify the places of burial, an order was received to pour lime into the graves. It is strictly forbidden to fix the identity of the dead and to provide information to relatives. Since the number of deaths among the Ukrainian military is growing every day, a decision was made not to pay money to their families.
09:24 Ukraine's social networks are actively spreading video explosions. The last large oil refinery in Ivano-Frankivsk was destroyed, a video appeared from Krivoy Rog, Kharkov, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, where several districts were left without electricity. Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense promised to strike at decision-making centers.
08:14 Explosions are thundering again in Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk.
08:12 Local resident of Radomyshl, Zhytomyr region told how representatives of the local territorial defense for the sake of entertainment killed her 12-year-old son.
03:00 Local residents on social networks write about tonight in the vicinity of Kyiv: “Kyiv region, 40-50 km from Vasilkov, about seven explosions were heard. Such a shock wave has never been felt before. The walls shook. They saw an explosion over Vasilkov, apparently the air defense shot down something.
From two days ago, but does not seem to be the same person as this report from two days ago, but may be this unnamed man whose arrest was reported in our archives last August.
[AnNahar] A man who allegedly launched a grenade into a crowd of civilians waiting for food in Damascus in 2014, killing at least seven people, has been charged in Germany with war crimes and murder, prosecutors said Thursday.
The stateless man, identified only as Moafak D. in line with German privacy rules, was a member of the Free Paleostine Movement,
...Palestinian Syrian armed movement and community organization headed by businessman Yasser Qashlaq that supports the Ba'athist government of Syria.The organization opposes the existence of Israel, and was mostly known for political activism and social services in favor of Palestinians in Syria and the Gaza Strip...
one of the groups that at the time controlled the Yarmouk district of the Syrian capital on behalf of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... 's government, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
They said that, on March 23, 2014, the suspect launched a grenade from an anti-tank weapon into a crowd in the district's Rejeh Square who were waiting for food aid from UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees. At least seven people were killed and three maimed, including a 6-year-old child.
The Yarmouk district, which grew out of a Paleostinian refugee camp, was cordoned off by the Syrian government from July 2013 to April 2015, causing shortages of food, water and medical supplies.
The suspect was arrested in Berlin on Aug. 4. Prosecutors didn't say how or when he came to Germany. He has been charged at a regional court in the German capital with war crimes, seven counts of murder, three of attempted murder and three of bodily harm.
Germany's application of the rule of "universal jurisdiction," allowing the prosecution of serious crimes committed abroad, led in January to the first conviction of a senior Syrian official for crimes against humanity.
The Berlin court will now have to decide whether to bring Moafak D.'s case to trial.
[ZeroHedge] New migration trends published in a report by Realtor.com revealed Americans who had the economic mobility to pick up their bags and bug out during the pandemic fled from expensive coastal cities and liberal technology hubs to Sun Belt states, according to Bloomberg.
Now for the exodus. Rent growth in some Northeast and Mid-Atlantic cities was flat to negative. Buffalo, New York and Washington, D.C. recorded negative to flat rent growth over the last two years. Rents were muted in liberal technology hubs, such as San Jose, California; San Francisco, California; and Seattle, Washington.
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Seeing the cop rolling around with the perp after tazing and finally shooting him the other day, can't wait to see Salvadorans wrestling these things.
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Company I co-founded made the little ROWs sitting on the UGV
Too cool! Tell us more, if you can.
I'm thinking about mounting a NERF gun on an RC truck chassis to chase the squirrels off the lawn.
You can't have boots everywhere, but you can have treads and little robot spider legs. That eagle soaring overhead? Yeah, he's one of ours too.
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tl;dr:
County prosecutor wanted to reduce jail population by not prosecuting certain drug crimes.
Cops keep arresting people because that is their job.
Jail population unchanged.
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.
[SHTF] A board member of German insurer BKK ProVita recently had analyzed the data of millions of insured individuals of the BKK group. The results conclude that the number of COVID-19 "vaccine" side effects is much higher than is being reported by the German federal agency and medical regulatory body, the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI).
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
Ref #1: If you want to be depressed, go try to read all the way through the article. 
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...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 
[DW] The last surviving alleged attacker, Salah A., said he hoped his apology would help the relatives of those killed. One hundred and thirty people were killed in the atrocities claimed by the "Islamic State" armed group.
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
...The nation is noted for 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
It is time for an "all of the above" approach. 
