[WIRE] Pentagon officials are considering plans to deploy members of the U.S. Special Forces to guard the nation’s reopened embassy in Kyiv as Russia continues its military invasion of Ukraine.
The report comes as the White House remains concerned over American diplomats in Ukraine, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
"We are in close touch with our colleagues at the State Department about potential security requirements now that they have resumed operations at the embassy in Kyiv," Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said in a statement.
"But no decisions have been made, and no specific proposals have been debated at senior levels of the department about the return of U.S. military members to Ukraine for that or any other purpose," he added. The Pentagon is it ?
The U.S. embassy in Kyiv is currently protected by Diplomatic Security Services, according to the State Department. Oh huh, forgot to mention, many (corrected to a few) of our Foggy Bottom DIPSEC lads are SF or MARSOF veterans. Awaiting input and comment from our own deployed DIPSEC guy.
While the safety of the nation’s diplomats is important, some are concerned that sending Special Forces personnel to Kyiv could escalate America’s involvement in a direct conflict with Russia.
The Biden administration has clearly stated it does not intend to send American military forces into Ukraine. Instead, the U.S. is assisting by sending humanitarian and military support. In the past week, Congress approved an additional $40 billion in support for Ukraine.
The U.S. has also sent thousands of military troops into Poland and eastern Europe to assist with Ukrainian refugees.
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Sending SOF and NCIS into the embassy is pretty common. They get there under a few scenarios. Training is the conventional driver and with all the weapons entering from the US it should be no surprise they are in country. Second is outside security. And even though defending the embassy is DSS, bringing in the contractors and building the teams takes time, the SF guys can fill the void.
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#4 Um...I thought that's what they had marines for.
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^ for use at home, against "Domestic Terrorists" protesting the Great Replacement
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My embassy comings and goings were very infrequent and now very dated. The only security people I ever encountered were Marines, DIPSEC pogs, and host-nation contract weenies.
With today's facial recognition technology, I suspect SOF people coming in and out of a USEMBASSY (that site in particular) would not be career enhancing.
Could be a Zelensky extraction team.
Just a wild guess.
Extraction like a diseased tooth, as in another US coup if Zelensky continues to be an obstacle to the emerging land for peace approach that's being pushed in various forms by by the Deep State, Macron, Scholz, Draghi
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/\ Does appear to be some Euro donor fatigue, now that you mention it.
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There are a handful of former SOF folks of all flavors in DS including 1 former Unit guy. Overall - out of 2000 - maybe 2%. Former military - prolly 25%.
Embassy reinforcement/security has long been in the SOF mission set. We routinely plan for DOD support in crisis or extreme scenarios. I have never seen NCIS take any active role is embassy security. But hey - I've only been doing this for 25 years...
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As always, thanks for the gouge Billy. Hope all is going well in your AO.
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Clearly there would be a deeper covert threat detection for the Embassy and its staff, certainly the ability to develop intel sources and back-channel confirmations, but I wonder if it isn't just eyes eyes and ears for determining ground truth amidst all the noise.
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JSOC wants to be recognized as an active participant by the other branches. Ideally they’d send MARSOC to simplify reporting. Interesting how Wagner is actively participating on the Russian side but Constellis is sitting this one out
[IFLScience] For more than six decades, the Boknis Eck marine observatory has taken oceanic measurements in the Baltic Sea — until recently. Last month, transmissions suddenly and unexpectedly stopped. Now, researchers are looking for clues after they dispatched divers to the seafloor only to find the remote sensors responsible for taking data measurements have been "forcibly removed".
"On August 21 at 8.15pm it stopped the data transmission," said Boknis Eck coordinator Hermann Bange from GEOMAR in a statement, adding that at first his team suspected a "transmission error," but divers discovered a much more grim situation when they reached the seabed where the sensors were supposed to be.
"When the divers reached the bottom of the sea last week at the observatory's location, they found only the torn off land cable. It was completely shredded," said Bange.
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Hmm. Guess I don't know how to get the link in properly. Here it is in text: https://www.geomar.de/en/news/article/rack-of-the-missing-boknis-eck-observatory-found
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Pretty old, indeed — the IFL Science article is datelined 06 SEP 2019.
And from WacoInMN’s link:
18 February 2020 / Kiel. Two racks equipped with environmental sensors and installations for a power supply disappeared without trace at the end of August 2019. This equipment was installed by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research on the seafloor in a restricted area at the exit of Eckernförde Bay. Now, with the help of the survey, wreck search and research vessel (VWFS) DENEB of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), one of the racks was found and recovered. It was located north-northeast of its original location, upside down on the seabed at a depth of about 20 metres.
Good work finding the rest of the story, dear Waco. Thank you!
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WacoInMN, to create a hot link: first type a bit of text to hold it, then highlight the text, then paste the URL into the pop-up link thingy. You got the last step perfectly, but gave it nothing to attach to. No worries — we’ve all climbed that learning curve at some point.
[Breitbart] Whether Title 42 ends or not, migrants say they are tired of waiting and surged across the Rio Grande into the Eagle Pass, Texas, area of operations. As many as 3,600 crossed so far this weekend — eclipsing last weekend’s total of just over 2,800 migrant apprehensions in the Del Rio Sector — according to a source operating within U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Border Patrol officials called in all available agents in Eagle Pass on Sunday as increasing numbers of migrants crossed the border illegally from Mexico into Texas. Sunday evening, a large group of more than 250 migrants crossed near Normandy, Texas, while others streamed across into Eagle Pass.
Another group of approximately 300 migrants are crossing the border as this article published. And at a nearby hydro plant, agents found another large group of 100 migrants. That brings the total to more than 700 migrant apprehensions in a couple of hours on Sunday evening.
Agents identified most of the migrants crossing on Sunday evening as Honduran nationals. Some Colombian migrants also crossed.
Another source told Breitbart dozens of migrants have been waiting for hours for transportation as the Eagle Pass Station focuses its attention on large group crossings in more public areas. National Guard soldiers operating under Texas’ Operation Lone Star also are available to detain migrants until transportation eventually arrives.
On May 17, Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens tweeted that agents under his command apprehended 2,849 migrants last weekend, Breitbart Texas reported. That number will be eclipsed as it appears the total could approach 4,000 this weekend.
The migrants did not appear to know or understand that the Title 42 will not end on Monday due to a federal court order. They expressed they were simply tired of waiting.
The source stated resources were not available to transport migrants from the border to the processing station. It also appears the NGOs who regularly shelter the migrants are overloaded as migrants are reportedly being dropped off at an Eagle Pass Stripes convenience store.
The crossings are not without danger. On Saturday, seven migrants were swept off their feet in the middle of the night forcing Border Patrol agents to jump into action to save their lives, Breitbart Texas reported.
BORSTAR agents utilized a throw bag, a water rescue board, and a personal flotation device to successfully all seven migrants in the darkness of night, Chief Owens stated.
Not all migrants are as lucky as these seven. Earlier this week, Breitbart Texas reported that Del Rio Sector agents recovered the bodies of three migrants. Two of the migrants drowned and agents found the third on a ranch near Uvalde, Texas.
Between April 1 and May 15 approximately 513,000 migrants illegally crossed the southwest border with Mexico. The number reflects apprehensions cited in the April Southwest Border Migration Report and unofficial numbers obtained from a law enforcement source within CBP.
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Interesting photos at the link. I realize that I am decidedly upper middle class, but when the trailing daughters were still in the diaper/pre-school stage, I never went out without a large bag containing a full change of clothes, sweaters or jackets and hats, wipes, diapers and changing pad, a few cloth diapers — terribly useful things, cloth diapers — snacks and drinks, toys and books, crayons and paper, extra pacifier... I am shocked to see a mother carrying a child on a long road trip without even a backpack or plastic grocery bag holding a few necessities. It’s enough to make one wonder if that infant is really hers.
Video reportedly filmed at St Petersburg gig shows crowd chanting 'f*** the war' Footage uploaded by politician Lyubov Sobol, who is part of Navalny's party
Comes after singer Yuri Shevchuk was charged for opposing war at another gig
UK predicts Russian 'dissatisfaction with the war and a willingness to voice it may grow' as the death toll from months of fighting mounts
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Russia has had a long history of "Anarchy". Youth same as here. Daily mail I do not trust. Anything to cause Putin trouble is fair game. This to shall pass. Just look at our Blue cities.
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Same people who protested the Viet Nam war in the US now have Ukraine flags on their Twitter header.
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^ And STILL have Che T-shirts
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^"Che T-shirts" and they have no idea what a pervert he was and had assortment of other defects. I remember his inglorious end being caught with a farmers son in a barn and shot. The story told by a
Latin American.
[Interfax] Ukraine has sown crops on 11.84 million hectares, or 82.2% of the 14.4-million-hectare area planned for this spring, including crops sown on 1,94 million hectares on May 12-19, the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food said on Friday.
Sunflower crops have been sown on 3.94 million hectares (80% of the 4.93 million hectares planned for 2022), corn on 4.17 million hectares (86% of 4.85 million hectares), spring barley on 927,500 hectares (92.6% of 1.02 million hectares), spring wheat on 188,600 hectares (99.4% of 189,600 hectares), oats on 156,800 hectares (95.8% of 163,600 hectares), and peas on 124,800 hectares (86% of 145,700 hectares) as of May 19, according to a statement published on the ministry website.
In addition, the areas sown with potatoes stand at 1.07 million hectares (90% of 1.19 million hectares), while soybeans are sown on 728,600 hectares (78.6% of 1.25 million hectares), sugar beet on 182,000 hectares (88% of 206,900 hectares), spring rapeseed on 28,400 hectares (95.3% of 29,800 hectares), millet on 32,100 hectares (51.5% of 62,300 hectares) and buckwheat on 37.400 hectares (46% of 81,600 hectares).
"The sowing is continuing in Ukraine. Spring wheat has been sown on almost 98% of the planned area," the ministry said.
Winter crops were sown on 7.7 million hectares in 2021, including 6.5 million hectares of wheat, one million hectares of barley, and 0.16 million hectares of rye.
As reported earlier, Ukraine will reduce the sowing of highly marginal crops (sunflower and corn) this year, while increasing the area under simpler crops that are more important for food security - peas, barley and oat.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on April 20 that Ukraine would sow crops on approximately 14.2 million hectares this year, which is 80% of 16.9 million hectares sown with crops last year.
Earlier, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food estimated the spring 2022 sowing at 13.44 million hectares, as against 16.92 million hectares in 2021.
Deputy chief of staff of the Ukrainian presidential office Rostyslav Shurma said that Ukraine was aiming at a 2022 harvest of at least 70% of the previous amounts. Little bit of good news.
Don't know how they plan to ship the excess since the winter wheat crop is still stuck in Odessa.
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Aid for improved food distribution transportation is preferable to more weapons.
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Their planting is ahead of the US per the USDA figures. As of 15 May we’d planted 49% of our corn (versus 78% at the same time last year), 30% soybeans (vs 58% last year) and 39% spring wheat (vs 83% a year ago). Cotton, sorghum and winter wheat are on track with last year’s figures
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Oh,no! How will we ever maintain our panic and hysteria with articles like this???
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"hysteria"
Food scarcity and soaring food prices worldwide, food scarcity, another ten million will starve, civil wars and revolutions breaking out all over the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia.
You're right though. No cause for alarm. Move along please.
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This is much better than I thought it would be. Glad to see.
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At least some of the current shortages are due to panic buying and hoarding in response to all the scare stories about coming shortages.
I own that my household is currently keeping our cars fully gassed up at all times instead of waiting until the last quarter tank, and for certain grocery items we grab a couple extra when we see them restocked on the shelves, just in case. If many are acting as I am, that would be enough to create the appearance of shortages, just as during rush hour one driver tapping on the breaks ripples into a traffic jam.
Add that to this link from February, courtesy of Thing From Snowy Mountain, and it’s easy to see how a complete lack of shortage in supply can be turned into a dramatic shortage in the shops and, yes, killing starvation for the poor in poorer countries:
It’s the job of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (or however he spells it) to straighten out such little problems, but he’s been on parental leave with his new baby, and so hasn’t been working the problem. Not that him being in the office would have had better results, despite having reached the level of lieutenant in Naval Intelligence before going in for politics...
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Just stopped at the grocery store on the way back from other errands and I have to say, compared to the empty shelves and "two per customer" signs that were everywhere during COVID, I'm just not seeing it now. Prices are up, though, for sure.
Some of this is just the latest round of media turning everything into a hysteria apocalypse.
That's not to say it isn't happening at all.
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Just stopped at the grocery store
Bread in new packaging "Only 80 calories!"
Same diet/carb spin as new beers in smaller cans or 4 packs with 'specialty single serve' pricing.
The 'sandwich' sized slices are now much smaller and inversely priced.
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Someone called into Howie Carr's show today and said he ran the numbers on the first flight - it would supply the US with baby formula... for 40 minutes.
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"YO! Fat kid! Save some for the others!"
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That first shipment is a specialized variety for non-standard needs. That won’t impact the rest of the bottle-fed population, and those babies weren’t competing for the regular stuff anyway.
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According to the article, these shipments are for babies with cow’s milk protein allergies, and will supply 15% of that specific need — normal babies are out of luck. Abbott said they’ll be restarting production at the Michigan factory at the beginning of June, and in the meantime have been shipping in product from their facilities in Ireland, which were already FDA approved.
I imagine lots of babies are being started on solid food earlier than originally intended.
[FoxNews] A Florida sheriff is applauding his deputies after they saved a 9-year-old boy from a house fire, saving his life in the nick of time.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister and his deputies Alexander Maldonado and Kevin Reich joined "Fox & Friends First" recalling the heroic act that saved the child's life.
"It's their quick actions, their bravery, the fact that they never gave up on that child, trying to give them every opportunity to survive," Sheriff Chronister told co-host Todd Piro. "It's their heroic actions is the reason that this child is alive today."
"You can talk about all the training, the tools, the equipment, but it's their big hearts, the fact they never gave up, that's why we're celebrating a win today," he continued.
The house fire took place in Seffner, Florida, on Thursday night. When the deputies arrived on the scene, they were told a child was still inside the home, already engulfed in flames.
Maldonado and Reich were able to break a window, entering the home and rescuing the young boy.
"Alex was the one that located the boy just inside the bedroom," Reich said. "I was able to hear him from the other side of the residence that he had located the boy, and at that time, we went to work and made sure that we got him out of there safely."
"That room was completely full of smoke," he continued. "So every minute counts at that point. Every second counts."
[LI] The treatment of University of Central Florida professor Charles Negy was one of, if not the, most egregious abuses of power in the dozens of ’cancel culture’ cases we’ve seen. The short version is that shortly after the George Floyd death and in the midst of nationwide protests and riots, Negy made tweets from his personal Twitter account
One tweet, which no longer is available,said:
"If Afr. Americans as a group, had the same behavioral profile as Asian Americans (on average, performing the best academically, having the highest income, committing the lowest crime, etc.), would we still be proclaiming ’systematic racism’ exists?"
A second tweet, also no longer available, said:
"Black privilege is real: Besides affirm. action, special scholarships and other set asides, being shielded from legitimate criticism is a privilege. But as a group, they’re missing out on much needed feedback."
The tweets caused student protests, threats, and administrative retribution. There was a Change.org petition with over 30,000 signatures, a Twitter hashtag was launched (#UCFFireHim) that trended, the student Senate passed a resolution, and there were protests on campus in which the President participated.
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Speaking the truth frequently upsets the people involved.
The Fed started the much needed and overdue Affirmative Action policies using Civil Rights Act of 1964.
That was 58 years ago or 3+ generations ago to right a great wrong.
In doing so like any "We from the gov and here to help..." disasters in the making. It found the usual solution, throw $$$$ at it, for votes.
So after 58 years and all the open doors, grants, and freebies handed out, what has it accomplished?
Many say look at the 2022 Black Community status:
High abortion rates,
High drug addiction rates,
High crimes rates,
High poverty rates,
High unwed mother rates,
Low educational accomplishment rates
and etc.
Is this the results of Government helping or a hidden form of Alternative RACISM.
The Black American Community needs another MLK jr. and NOT a bunch of race pimping for $$$$ reverends and politicians for votes.
[Breitbart] Answers were split to the question of whether respondents were "pro-life" or "pro-choice," as 27 percent identified as "pro-life," while 35 percent said "pro-choice," and 23 percent said "both."
Similarly, respondents were split on when they believe abortion should be illegal, as 11 percent said it should "never be allowed," and 29 percent said it should only be legal in special circumstances such as preserving the life of the mother. Another 31 percent said abortion should be legal with some restrictions, such as late term abortion, and 29 percent said it should be legal with no restrictions whatsoever.
However, when it comes to what people believe abortion is, specifically, a plurality — 45 percent — acknowledge that abortion is the "same as murdering a child." Of those, 30 percent "strongly agree" and 15 percent "somewhat agree." Forty-three percent feel otherwise, including 30 percent who "strongly" disagree and 13 percent who "somewhat" disagree.
Most Democrats, 61 percent, do not agree that abortion is the same as murdering a child, and 43 percent of independents hold the same sentiment. The majority of Republicans, 67 percent, believe that abortion is the same as murdering a child, and 44 percent of independents agree.
The survey was taken May 15-17, 2022, among 1,500 U.S. adult citizens, and comes as pro-abortion activists continue to protest in reaction to the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, which, if it becomes final, would give the power to determine abortion laws back to the states.
A Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group poll released this week also found that a plurality of likely voters say they trust their governor and state legislature to decide abortion laws, rather than the federal government.
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If time travel ever becomes practical, it will be fun to sentence certain types to travel back to before the moment of their birth with the understanding that they "might" be aborted.
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I don’t think any of the 11% would consider terminating a tubular pregnancy to be performing an abortion. That stuff just segments the numbers in a misleading way.
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Push OTC birth control to make abortion typically unnecessary
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/\ Should be made available here, in 'take-away' packets with mail-in coupons for re-supply.
[Breitbart] White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said Sunday on ABC’s "This Week" that Americans should be wearing a mask in crowded indoor spaces to combat the current coronavirus surge.
Anchor Martha Raddatz said, "We have the daily case number more than 100,000, I know you think the number is actually higher because of home testing, so what is your advice in these high transmission areas?"
Jha said, "First and foremost, my advice is, if you have not gotten vaccinated in the last five months, if you have not gotten boosted, now is a good time to do it. What we know is vaccines continue to provide a high level of protection against people getting seriously ill. That’s advice number one. Advice number two, I agree with Mayor Adams that when you’re in an indoor space, you should be wearing a mask. Crowded indoor places, high transmissions, people should be doing that. People have access to masks, vaccines, and therapeutics and testing."
He added, "We have a lot of infections out there because it’s still quite disruptive, and 300 people a day are still dying of this disease. That’s way too much. What I would say is we’ve certainly started really breaking that link between infections and deaths through two mechanisms, one, by getting people vaccinated and boosted, and secondly, by making therapies widely available. Those therapies really help a lot. Despite how many infections there are, death numbers are still relatively low. We’ve got to keep working on it."
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This is ample enough evidence is that there is no 'science' anymore just another gambit to loot the treasury by groups and individuals who talk the game.
[Breitbart] A mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter stopped a man apparently fighting with a Porter County Sheriff’s Office patrolman but said the incident did not faze him.
The moment Valparaiso, Indiana, resident William Cassoday rushed over to assist patrolman Jamison Smith, his experience as a fighter and skills from earning a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu came in handy, Lake Geneva Regional News reported Wednesday.
MMA is described as a full-contact combat sport involving different techniques and skills from other combat sports that are used in competitions, according to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) website.
"Stuff like that doesn’t bother me," Cassoday recalled of what happened. He was in the car with his wife when he saw the officer parked on Swanson Road, conversing with someone.
He saw the man "swinging at the cop," Cassoday explained, adding he immediately pulled over and ran to the scene but was careful not to surprise the officer.
[Unlimited Hangout] Two corrupt companies were in rocky financial territory just a few weeks ago. Now, with concerns over a global monkeypox outbreak being hyped by media and global health organizations alike, the worries — and sins — of these two firms are quickly being forgotten.
In recent days, concern over a global outbreak of monkeypox, a mild disease related to smallpox and chickenpox, has been hyped in the media and health ministries around the world, even prompting an emergency meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO). For some, fears have centered around monkeypox being the potential "next pandemic" after Covid-19. For others, the fear is that monkeypox will be used as the latest excuse to further advance draconian biosecurity policies and global power grabs.
Regardless of how the monkeypox situation plays out, two companies are already cashing in. As concern over monkeypox has risen, so too have the shares of Emergent Biosolutions and SIGA Technologies. Both companies essentially have monopolies in the US market, and other markets as well, on smallpox vaccines and treatments. Their main smallpox-focused products are, conveniently, also used to protect against or treat monkeypox as well. As a result, the shares of Emergent Biosolutions climbed 12% on Thursday, while those of SIGA soared 17.1%.
For these companies, the monkeypox fears are a godsend, specifically for SIGA, which produces a smallpox treatment, known by its brand name TPOXX. It is SIGA’s only product. While some outlets have noted that the rise in the valuation of SIGA Technologies has coincided with recent concerns about monkeypox, essentially no attention has been given to the fact that the company is apparently the only piece of a powerful billionaire’s empire that isn’t currently crumbling.
That billionaire, "corporate raider" Ron Perelman, has deep and controversial ties to the Clinton family and the Democratic party as well as troubling ties to Jeffery Epstein. Aside from his controlling stake in SIGA, Perelman has recently made headlines for rapidly liquidating many of his assets in a desperate bid for cash.
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Oh for Heaven's Sake, my post from yesterday. Avoid sex with suspect people and you don't need a f*cking mask.
"It spreads from one person to another through prolonged close contact (by inhaling the infected droplets), or direct contact with infected bodily fluids or contaminated objects, such as bedding or clothes. It does not spread via casual contact. Pitted scars and/or areas of lighter or darker skin may remain after scabs have fallen off."
ATLANTA (AP) — A man stabbed and killed a pastor who was ministering to him in his Georgia home, then put her body in a van and set it on fire, police said.
The Rev. Marita Harrell, 57, was a wife and mother of two and went into the ministry later in life. She was a senior pastor at Connections at Metropolitan United Methodist Church.
Christopher Devonta Griggs, 27, is charged with murder. Griggs attacked Harrell on Wednesday in his DeKalb County home, police told media outlets. It wasn't known if he had a lawyer.
Harrell's body was found in the burned van several miles from her home the day after she was killed.
The senior pastor of Rivertown United Methodist Church , where Harrell served from 2016 to 2018, wrote on Facebook his hearts and the hearts of his congregation were broken.
[Bloomberg] The world’s richest nation is waking up to an unpleasant and unfamiliar sensation: It’s getting poorer.
Americans’ collective net worth had been climbing at a dizzying rate for the past two years, even as families and businesses contended with the ravages of Covid-19. Households piled up an extra $38.5 trillion from early 2020 to the end of last year, bringing their collective net worth to a record $142 trillion, the Federal Reserve estimates.
Just as the US is learning to live with the virus and spending shifts back toward pre-pandemic normal, it faces a new scary threat: A plunge in wealth since the start of 2022 that JPMorgan Chase & Co. estimates totals at least $5 trillion -- and could reach $9 trillion by year-end.
So far, the richest Americans have borne the brunt, with US billionaire fortunes down almost $800 billion since their peak amid the sharp losses in stocks, crypto and other financial assets. But surging interest rates are also starting to rattle the housing market, where middle- and working-class families have the bulk of their wealth.
It all adds up to the sudden removal of a major prop to confidence: ever-bigger nest eggs. And it’s by design. To stamp out the highest inflation in decades, the Fed needs Americans to curb their spending, even if it requires an economic slowdown to get there.
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"To stamp out the highest inflation in decades, the Fed needs Americans to curb their spending, even if it requires an economic slowdown to get there."
Curb our spending?
Hell Inflation already has us paying more and buying less and less.
Question: Bloomberg should we the people just Starve and Walk?
Or should the DC Swamp Critters stop their constant $TRILLION annual budget deficit spending?
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So does that include how much we are spending on government in the form of taxes? We could just send in a note instead of Quarterly filings telling them we are trying to do our part to curb spending?
[Sydney Herald] London: The World Health Organisation said it expects to identify more cases of monkeypox as it expands surveillance in countries where the disease is not typically found.
As of Sunday, 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported from 12 member states that are not endemic for the virus, the UN agency said, adding it will provide further guidance and recommendations in coming days for countries on how to mitigate the spread of monkeypox.
"Available information suggests that human-to-human transmission is occurring among people in close physical contact with cases who are symptomatic", the agency added.
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Reports are coming out the monkeypox was one of the virus' Wuhan was working on. Stranger than that, didn't one of the covid variants originate in Africa like the monkeypox variant has?
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Another novel disease of filth we can thank gay men for. Thanks homos! How many innocents died in their last plague?
Globohomos strike again
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There are some good reads on Monkey Pox, where its from, and how it transmits. We did have 50 plus folks in the US get it a few years ago. Transmitted from monkeys, to animals in pet stores, to prairie dogs, and on to hunters in the mid West. While it is related to small pox and chicken pox, it is not as deadly as we are being led to believe. This is why they tout infection rates not death rates. The transmissibility rate on this virus is very low, I think the term is RA (?), but it sits at a 1 on their scale. To compare with COVID, which sits at a 7 to 10 on the scale. So it does not scale to be pandemic in quality of transmission. That also explains the initial groups getting it. Close proximity, fluid sharing, etc... Its not a gay mans disease BL, and knowledge, not finger pointing is what we need here. The shot for this is again, experimental because it was not tested on humans, only animals. This because there were not enough people willing to do the test groups. The vaccine is a but more dangerous with side effects than acceptable. All in all this is not a great problem.
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I assume that the scary rash pictures are from extreme cases or they would be showing us scarier pictures.
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“Apparently this strain of Monkeypox is a pain in the ass”. That comment “stinks”. LOL
Bertie Lumumba1577, since it was reported yesterday that some of those contracting the disease were bisexual, from my perspective it appears more a disease of promiscuous men behaving carelessly... and as no doubt women are already being caught up in it, a straightforward disease of promiscuity, like body lice or things no longer cured by penicillin.
TOKYO (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan, in one of the most forceful and overt statements in support of Taiwan in decades.
Biden said the burden to protect the self-ruled island was "even stronger" after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking at a news conference in Tokyo, Biden said, "That’s the commitment we made." He said an effort by China to use force against Taiwan would "just not be appropriate," saying it "will dislocate the entire region and be another action similar to what happened in Ukraine."
Under the "One China" policy, the U.S. recognizes Beijing as the government of China and doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Taiwan. However, it maintains unofficial contacts with Taiwan, including a de facto embassy in Taipei, the capital. The U.S. also supplies military equipment for the island’s defense.
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How will he fight the Communist China with 3,134,000+ soldiers and is less than 100 miles away from their goal target. Vs. US 1,832,000 8,000 miles away?
Logistically right now the Biden Coup/LSD's has overspent the USA by $34 Trillion. The LSD's can't even feed its own population, let alone fight WW-III?
100 miles of a very rough strait. The Chinese would need nearly all of their 2 million man army to fully conquer Taiwan. They only have the transport capability to put 30,000 on the island. That is just men, no tanks, APCs, supplies, SAMs, etc. So with everything they need they can only dump maybe a mechanized battalion per trip.
Not to mention that the buildup would be noticed 60 days before the invasion, Taiwan would call its reserves, more weapons would be sent, the few beaches that can be landed on would be fortified to hell and back and the ports mined. Not to mention the invasion has to happen in April or October. Only really times that the weather and sea is guaranteed to be cooperative.
I think China uses Taiwan as a quick way to boost popularity, but would only seriously consider an invasion if they had no other choice to keep face, aka the US recognize Taiwan as independent and put soldiers on it.
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"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you" - Leon Trotsky
Just remember all the crap of the last twenty years, unlike other places Taiwan is a long established democracy. Probably far more of a democracy than we are.
[Red State] Joe Biden is in South Korea to talk about strengthening economic ties. But Joe being Joe, the visit has had its confusing moments. Indeed, the confusion started from the moment Joe touched down. He got off Air Force One wearing a mask, walking down the steps by himself with it on. But then, just as he got close to another person to greet him, he ripped it off. Someone is going to have to explain this to me because I look at it and all I think is his brain is no longer there. Either that or someone told him you can catch COVID from walking down airplane steps by yourself outside. Peak absurdity.
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Joe's foreign policy is in flames. By the way, what happened to Ukraine? It's almost completely disappeared from US and British news coverage.
Looks like the combined weight of ceasefire calls by the Democrats (via the New York Times Editorial Board), Lloyd Austin, Macron, Schulz and Draghi are having their effect on the press.
Poor Ukrainians... the Telegraph editors quote the Times editors and write, "'a decisive military victory for Ukraine over Russia, in which Ukraine regains all the territory Russia has seized since 2014, is not a realistic goal,' the newspaper wrote.
"Ultimately, it said: 'It will be Ukrainian leaders who will have to make the painful territorial decisions that any compromise will demand.' Officials in Kyiv reacted with unconcealed fury.
What's prompting the 180 degree turnaround? The stock market crash?
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Did they just figure out that there was no way to win this without going to open war? It's know as 'put up or shut up'.
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Looks like the combined weight of ceasefire calls by the Democrats (via the New York Times Editorial Board), Lloyd Austin, Macron, Schulz and Draghi are having their effect on the press.
Politicians in the West are seeing that this pointless war is putting everything at risk. Not just the nuclear threat but the entire economic stability of the Western world. France, Italy and Germany see the U.K. suffocating from high fuel and food costs and want to prevent the same thing happening in their countries.
Also, Macron and Scholz are alarmed at the possibility that two large East European countries in the EU (Poland and Ukraine) could shift the EU Center of gravity away from Paris and Berlin. Macron and Scholz want to stifle any kind of Warsaw-Kyiv axis before it is born.
Everyone except Zelensky wants the war to end quickly, with a pragmatic trade of land for peace.
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#2 Did they just figure out that there was no way to win this without going to open war?
They figured that out long ago. Lloyd Raytheon Austin & Co. waited until the MIC porkfest bill was passed, and then they promptly pivoted and shafted Biden (and Ukraine). The goal was never to "win." The goal is to line their pockets while they can, then bug out.
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/\ The goal was never to "win." The goal is to line their pockets while they can, then bug out.
Hay is mowed, allowing multiple crops. It is not harvested like potatoes.
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Come November, the Republicans will look at the electoral success of JD ("I don't really care what happens to Ukraine") Vance -- and recognize that, as Americans' wealth dissipates and gas reaches $10 for unleaded, the winning platform is to cut Ukraine loose and stop shoveling our shrinking resources into that money pit.
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^ The more apparent it becomes that the average US citizen is not interested in the beltway's machinations in Ukraine, the harder that crowd will dig their heels in.
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/\ I just posted the 'SF troops to US Embassy' story.
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#7 The more apparent it becomes that the average US citizen is not interested in the beltway's machinations in Ukraine, the harder that crowd will dig their heels in.
Exactly so. Beltway and MSM reactions prior to Vamce's decisive victory in the primary election:
"JD Vance's repulsive spin"
"JD Vance is as vile as it gets..."
"General McCaffery Calls Vance 'Russian Stooge'"
"Vance Scrambles to Prove He's Not a Russian Stooge"
"JD Vance's Apathy toward Ukraine is Backfiring"
'Backfiring,' LOL. He just won the primary by more than a ten-point margin in a crowded field. (No, Trump didn't help him much -- Trump botched his name and called him "JD Mandel.")
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#5 /\ The goal was never to "win." The goal is to line their pockets while they can, then bug out.
"Hay is mowed, allowing multiple crops. It is not harvested like potatoes."
Make hay while the sun shines. And the sun is always shining somewhere for the MIC and Raytheon-Austin.
When the sun sets on Iraq, it shines on Syria, Libya and Afghanistan. When it sets on Syria-Libya, it keeps shining on Afghanistan. When it sets on Afghanistan, it shines on Ukraine. When it sets on Ukraine, it shines on Somalia...
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Don't forget les Européens. Ukraine is the biggest hayfield we've ever seen. So many ponies to feed... share the riches, spread it around
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Third time in nine months that the maundering meathead misspoke about the #1 flashpoint with our global adversary.
August 2021: Biden says US will come to Taiwan's aid if Taiwan's attacked. Jen Psaki jumps in, emphasizes that there “has been no shift” in US policy toward Taiwan.
October 2021: Biden says US will come to Taiwan's aid if Taiwan's attacked. A 'senior Biden administration official' immediately clarifies that US “policy with regard to Chinese-claimed Taiwan has not changed.”
Why does anyone still listen to this clown?
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...because its way too obvious if they all show up at Obama's house.
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials remain perplexed by mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world.
The best available evidence points to a fairly common stomach bug that isn’t known to cause liver problems in otherwise healthy kids. That virus was detected in the the blood of stricken children but — oddly — it has not been found in their diseased livers.
"There’s a lot of things that don’t make sense," said Eric Kremer, a virus researcher at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier, in France.
As health officials in more than a dozen countries look into the mystery, they are asking:
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They have to shift their narrative now that the Democrats and all the West European governments have thrown in the towel on Ukraine.
The military-industrial complex has collected its loot, and now the Democrats and their media shills can move on to their big campaign themes of Trump, racism, Trump, monkeyvirus, Trumpvirus
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2016 ripped the mask off the oligarchy. It's been fighting ever since to reestablish what little shred of legitimacy it still has left in calling itself a republic.
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It is something they are using to further divide us. This will never get passed the supreme court. Abdicating power to a foreign element is never gonna pass the courts, stacked or not.
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...only because of their own jealous assumptions of powers.
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All part of linking the world together, piece by piece.
Of course we must be given no voice, because it's not in our interest. The only interest it serves is those already powerful - they get even *more* power. It's intoxicating and addictive, and they can never get enough.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry has sent to the Duma a list of Russia's agreements with international organizations for their possible denunciation. Exit from the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) will be considered, said State Duma Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy.
"Russia has withdrawn from the Council of Europe, and now it's time to withdraw from the WTO and the WHO, which have neglected all their obligations toward our country."
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[CNBC] Automakers from Tesla to Rivian to Cadillac are hiking prices on their electric vehicles amid changing market conditions and rising commodity costs, specifically for key materials needed for EV batteries.
Battery prices have been declining for years, but that may be about to change. One firm projects a sharp increase in demand for battery minerals over the next four years that could push the price of EV battery cells up by more than 20%. That’s on top of already-rising prices for battery-related raw materials, a result of supply-chain disruptions related to Covid and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The higher costs have some electric vehicle makers boosting their prices, making the already-expensive vehicles even less affordable for average Americans and begging the question, will surging commodity prices slow the electric-vehicle revolution.
There is more coming out about Khodayari. According to Masaf News, he was born in 1972, and joined the IRGC in 1987, at a young age.
Hassan Sayad Khodayari was the deputy commander of unit 840 of Iran’s Quds Force.
He was on target for several months because of his responsibility for planning assassinations against Israeli/Jewish targets all over the World - in Cyprus, Turkey, Colombia, and Africa.
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House-to-house searches recommenced in Herat. Additional checkpoints have been established, and sources report that commuters are receiving extra scrutiny. Citizens are primarily being asked about their work history and which is their “home” province. It is believed they are continuing to look for former military members and northerners. Afghans from northern provinces are encouraged to conceal where they are from, if possible.
Several non-Pashtun Taliban unit commanders serving in Panjshir were apparently snubbed and not allowed to meet with the visiting Minister of Defense. A scuffle between the Minister’s bodyguards and an alleged Uzbek Taliban commander was filmed, during which the Uzbek Commander was reportedly humiliated and forced to surrender his weapon and a cell phone.
CONFLICT TRACKER
National Resistance Front (NRF) in Panjshir: Taliban Red Unit Commander Mawlawi Ghaweer reportedly killed in Paryan district.
NRF in Panjshir: Column of seven trucks reportedly looking for a missing detachment of Taliban fighters ambushed. The NRF claims to have killed 8 Talib fighters. A source claims the Talibs only speak Urdu, are TTP augmentees.
Unknown in Parwan: 3 Talib security personnelreportedly killed at an unlnown checkpoint by Resistance snipers.
.[OneIndia] Loudspeakers at mosques in Uttar Pradesh have either turned down their volume or been removed, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Sunday and added the uninstalled public address systems are being donated to schools and hospitals, PTI reported.
The chief minister further said there were no riots in the BJP-ruled state during and after the recent assembly polls.
Virtually addressing a media conclave organised by RSS-linked weeklies 'Panchjanya' and 'Organiser', Yogi Adityanath said, "In many states there were riots after the elections were over. There were no riots in UP during or after the elections. After the formation of the government, Ram Navami was celebrated with fervour. Hanuman Jayanti celebrations passed off peacefully. This is the same UP where small issues led to riots earlier," he said.
"Now, you must have seen for the first time that Eid namaz was not performed on roads. Now, you must have heard that either the volume of the mosque loudspeaker has gone down or the loudspeaker has been removed completely. Now these loudspeakers are being donated to schools and hospitals for their use," Yogi Adityanath said.
Talking about the issue of stray cattle in the state, he listed several steps taken by the government to deal with it.
"...when our government came to power in the state, it shut down all illegal slaughterhouses. And then stray cattle were roaming on roads and in the fields. Earlier they were smuggled into illegal slaughterhouses. To meet this challenge, we set up over 5,600 stray cattle shelters," he said.
He said a new system is being set up for producing CNG from cow dung, which will be bought from people at Re 1 per kg, Adityanath said, adding that all necessary steps will be taken to protect cows.
He also talked about the grand Ram temple being built in Ayodhya and the renovated Kashi Vishwanath temple complex.
In every assembly constituency in the state, the government is developing a pilgrimage site, he said.
He also spoke about the economic progress of Uttar Pradesh under the "double engine" government -- same party rule at the Centre and in the state.
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Good lord, Frank G — you’re an engineer, so you know that everyone has some value, if only as a machine to turn oxygen into carbon dioxide, giving plants the substance they need to reverse the process.
Not really news to our readers, but it’s nice that the report is finally issued less than a year later.
[Dawn] Many soldiers of the former Afghan government fled to Pakistain after the fall of Kabul, says an official US report while pointing out that the fall of border crossings into Pakistain and Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... also contributed to the collapse of the former Afghan government.
The office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction reported this week that in July 2021, the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... "started seizing border crossings with Pakistain and Iran, depriving the Afghan government of critical customs revenues".
The report noted that Afghan soldiers started crossing into Pakistain weeks before Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.
"Many Afghan soldiers reportedly escaped to Pakistain as the Taliban attacks on districts and scenic provincial capitals intensified weeks before the Afghan government’s collapse," the report added.
The UN refugee agency UNHCR reported early this year that more than 300,000 Afghans had fled to Pakistain between August 2021 and January 2022. But it did not say how many of those were from the military.
On July 26, 2021, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency reported that 46 members of the Afghan forces, including five officers, crossed into Chitral.
[NYPOST] Proving that what’s old is new again, here is how the late William Safire began his New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... column of Jan. 8, 1996:
"Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.
"Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit."
Safire detailed a series of situations where Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... was caught in obvious lies, and there is a straight line to the Hillary Clinton whose shadow hangs over the Michael Sussmann trial in Washington. Once again, Clinton is being exposed as "compelled to mislead" and ensnaring "her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit."
And to think she almost got away with stealing the presidency.
It is in keeping with her history that she is portrayed as the off-stage chief conniver at a trial that is, like her, something of a throwback. Coming six years after the 2016 presidential campaign, the Sussmann trial inevitably carries an air of anti-climax.
After all, we have known since the Robert Mueller report in 2019 that the charge that Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... colluded with Russia was fake news. And we have known for almost as long that Clinton’s campaign secretly funded the smear merchants at Fusion GPS who hired Remington Christopher Steele who fabricated a "dossier" that was long on lies and gossip and short on facts.
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It is said that men use power to get sex, and women use sex to get power. In Hillary's case, I'm having lots of trouble figuring out which men thought she was really worth banging, despite Safire's claim of her possessing 'undoubted talent'. It might mean code for 'chrome off a trailer hitch', but I'm just a half redneck; what do I know?
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I think she's more an Eleanor Shaw type. She not only wore the pants in the Clinton household, but she knew how to keep them on. Her daughter's resemblance to Webb Hubbell suggests that despite it all, she had needs just like the rest of us.
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^ The gift of the turkey baster. None of that sweaty stuff for her.
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Our Theodoraof Byzantium . As for me, I agree with the adage that the royal purple is the noblest shroud.
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So it took the press 50 years to realize, or admit, what us Minyons knew since Watergate! She has always been corrupt, always believed in feeding America lies, and power is the priority over the well being of our nation.
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Most of us didn't need a 6 year long Durham investigation to recognize these people as worthless pieces of kak.
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[Korrespondent] 22:43 Borrell said that the new security situation indicates the need to create modern joint armed forces in the EU.
22:20 The mayor of Nikolaev, Alexander Senkevich, reports the shelling of the city with cluster shells.
22:09 In the Donetsk region on May 22, the Russians killed five civilians: two in Liman, one each in Dachnoye, Klinovoe and Avdiivka. Another 11 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
21:47 Russian troops fired again at the Kievsky district of Kharkov today, Governor Oleg Sinegubov said: “For several weeks we have already recorded relative silence, but it is deceptive. This afternoon, the Kievsky district of the city of Kharkov was fired again. Hurricane".
21:42 Ukraine excludes agreement to a ceasefire with Russia and will not agree to any agreement with Moscow, providing for the recognition of the seizure of Ukrainian territory, Podolyak said in an interview with Reuters. According to him, Kyiv's position regarding the war is becoming more uncompromising, and any concessions would lead to negative consequences for Ukraine, since after a break in hostilities, the Russian Federation would deal an even greater blow.
21:07 The Ukrainian military today at about 13:00 shot down four enemy cruise missiles fired at infrastructure facilities over the Zhytomyr region, the Air Command Center reported. Three missiles were eliminated by aviation, one - by a unit of anti-aircraft missile troops of the air formation. The enemy attacked the Zhytomyr region from the southeast with sea-based cruise missiles.
20:49 Experts from the International Criminal Court, together with Ukrainian prosecutors, are documenting war crimes committed by Russians in the Chernihiv region, in particular, in the village of Yahodnoye, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports.
It was preliminary established that from March 3 to March 31, in the basement of the Yagodnyansky branch of the Kulichevskaya secondary school of the Ivanovo village council, the invaders kept civilians, who were used as human shields. In a 197 sq. m for almost a month there were more than 350 local residents, of whom 77 were children, including five babies. Ten elderly people died because of the inhumane conditions.
20:28 Medinsky said that the freezing of negotiations with the Russian Federation is an initiative of Ukraine. According to the head of the Russian delegation, Moscow has never refused negotiations with Kyiv at the highest level, but this requires "documents in a high degree of readiness."
19:45 The United States is ready to consider the transfer of weapons to Moldova to protect against potential Russian aggression, said Congressman, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee Gregory Meeks during a visit to Chisinau. He also confirmed that negotiations had already begun.
“One of the reasons for Ukraine’s success is that we are working together. We will focus our efforts on ensuring that all our allies work in the same direction so that Putin does not continue to invade other countries. The dialogue continues and we will make a decision collectively with our allies, including Moldova," Meeks said.
Earlier, the head of the British Foreign Office, Liz Truss, stated about the need to arm Moldova according to NATO standards.
19:37 As a result of the strike of Russian troops on Malin in the Zhytomyr region, at least one person was killed, said the head of the OVA Vitaliy Bunechko.
19:31 Russia has been working with 50 Syrian experts on barrel bombs that were previously dropped on Syria for about a month, and can use them in Ukraine, writes The Guardian, citing intelligence sources. They admit that this may indicate that the Russian Federation is preparing to use chemical weapons.
Barrel bombs were used in the Syrian war and are cylindrical containers filled with explosives and shrapnel. They are usually dropped from helicopters.
19:23 French Minister for European Affairs Clement Bon said that consideration of Ukraine's application for EU membership will take at least "15 or 20 years." CNN writes that in this way the minister is trying to promote President Macron's alternative proposal to create a new "European political community", which will include Ukraine.
19:20 In the Zaporozhye, Kurakhovsky and Avdievsky directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine registers a decrease in the intensity of hostilities. At the same time, the enemy is trying to break through the Ukrainian defenses in the Slavic and Donetsk directions. The invaders are trying to restore the railway infrastructure in the Kupyansk area in order to freely transfer troops and cargo. Also, the enemy keeps its forces in Transnistria on a high degree of combat readiness.
18:52 Putin is unlikely to shut off gas to the Netherlands or such large countries as Italy or Germany. This opinion was expressed by NOS Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans. In his opinion, Putin is now putting pressure on small buyers: "He would like to keep the big players on his side, because this is practically the only source of income that he has left."
18:46 In the Kiev region, in all settlements affected by the hostilities, electricity and gas supply has been restored. All highways have also been cleared of mines, but work on demining the territory continues, said the head of the regional administration, Aleksey Kuleba.
18:30 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Norway should share the "giant" profits that it received as a result of rising oil and gas prices. According to him, first of all, the Norwegians should give part of the money to Ukraine: “Should we pay Norway huge money for gas - four or five times more than we paid a year ago? This is wrong. They should share this excess profit. This is not normal, this unfair. It's an indirect gain."
17:57 Zelensky commented on a popular petition calling for the lifting of the ban on military-age men to travel abroad: "I don't fully understand who this petition is for - me, or maybe the parents of those soldiers who gave their lives for Ukraine? When today 50 to 100 people [are dying] in the most difficult area in the east of our state."
17:48 In Pridnestrovie, the Russian contingent was given the task of restoring a military airfield and equipment in Tiraspol, said the head of the Odessa OVA Maxim Marchenko.
17:45 Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said he was "optimistic" about resolving disagreements with Turkey on NATO membership, a decision, according to him, could take "several weeks." According to the minister, Finland can give Turkey assurances that links with the PKK will be monitored more closely.
17:36 Germany will give Ukraine lethal weapons, as well as money for the purchase of the necessary. The corresponding decision has already been made, Scholz said: “We have asked the German arms industry to tell you what materials it can supply in the near future. Ukraine has now made a selection from this list. We will also provide it with the money necessary for the purchase. Among all, as before, - weapons, which include anti-tank weapons and means of interception, as well as ammunition and what can be used in artillery combat.
17:13 Today, at about 15:45, the Russians again fired at the border areas of the Chernihiv region, the OK Pivnich reported. The observers recorded six shots fired from Russian territory, probably from a grenade launcher, in the area of the village of Senkovka. There are no losses among personnel and equipment.
16:57 In addition to the denunciation of the agreement with the Russian Federation on the avoidance of double taxation, the Rada adopted three more bills on withdrawal from agreements with the CIS. We are talking about agreements on a common agricultural market, on the fight against illegal migration and on perpetuating the memory of the courage and heroism of the peoples of the CIS in the Great Patriotic War.
16:52 Zelensky announced the signing of a decree establishing the honorary insignia of the Savior City , and the Polish Rzeszow was the first to receive this distinction.
16:50 In Energodar, during the absence of Shevchik, who was taken to the Melitopol hospital after the assassination attempt, the functions of the "mayor" will presumably be performed by Ruslan Kirpichev, a native of Makeyevka, who arrived in Energodar at the end of March from the occupied Donbass and was immediately appointed "deputy mayor for all financial, economic issues and taxes", but in fact - the overseer and "consultant" of the collaborator-mayor. According to the legitimate mayor Dmitry Orlov, in the past, criminal cases were opened against Kirpichev due to malicious tax evasion.
16:37 The Russians fired a rocket at the Pavlograd district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. According to him, the rocket hit the Samara River, people were not injured.
16:30 Project Belaruska Gayun reports that for the first time in two months, the movement of Iskanders across the territory of Belarus to the border with Ukraine was recorded. Also, despite the fact that most of the troops of the Russian Armed Forces retreated from the Kyiv direction in early April, Russian military and equipment still partially remain in Belarus. In addition, rocket launches from Belarus to Ukraine continue to be recorded from time to time.
16:28 State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich said that Ukrainian DRGs are allegedly entering the country: “The engineering equipment of the state border sections along the Ukrainian border, along our southern borders is underway. entry into Belarusian territory.
16:17 According to Ukrainian military intelligence, in several settlements of Belarus, funerals were held for the military, who had contracts with Russian PMCs. In particular, mourning events for the deceased contract soldier were held in the city of Maryina Gorka, Minsk Region (the 5th separate special-purpose brigade is based). In Osipovichi, Mogilev region (based on the 51st mixed artillery group), a retired officer and a former contract soldier were buried.
In general, participation in the war against Ukraine is unpopular among the Belarusian military. There is no serious agitation or propaganda activities in the military units. However, cases of voluntary signing of contracts with various Russian PMCs are known.
15:51 313 people, including 55 children, were deported from Mariupol to the filtration camp in Bezymennoye yesterday. From the filtration point in the village. Nikolskoye was deported to Russia 70 people, including 12 children, and from the village. Nameless to Russia - 175 people, including 17 children.
According to the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryushchenko, the deportation is gaining momentum. A direct deportation from Nikolsky to Russia was recorded, which had not happened before. He connects this with the fact that the evacuation route towards Zaporozhye is actually closed.
15:34 Today, an enemy missile was shot down over the Fastovsky district by air defense forces, the Kiev Regional Military District reported. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties or destruction.
15:15 French Secretary of State for European Affairs Clement Bon said in an interview with local TV channels that the goal of Paris is to prevent the victory of the Russian Federation in Ukraine and to liberate Ukraine from Russian troops: "The warmonger is Putin. We provide Ukraine with funds, ourselves without fighting, so that it resists aggression. They did not provoke a war with Russia. They seek to free themselves from the country that occupies them."
15:13 Lviv paratroopers from the air defense unit of the 80th separate airborne assault brigade of the Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down a Russian Su-25 Grach attack aircraft. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the armored aircraft was shot down with the help of Igla MANPADS.
15:09 The Rada voted to denounce the agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the avoidance of double taxation. Now income received in the Russian Federation will be taxed in Ukraine.
15:04 In Mariupol, the invaders do not stop trying to "restore" the water supply, but as a result, there is still no water in the taps, but there are floods in the streets. Residents are forced to draw water in communication wells and use technical water instead of drinking water for drinking and cooking, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor.
14:55 In the Nikolaev region at night, the enemy fired at the Shirokovskaya bulk. As a result of direct hits, three houses burned down, there were no casualties, OK Pivden reports. The Bereznegovatskaya community was also fired at, information about the victims and damage is being specified.
At night, Nikolaev was also fired upon, preliminary five people were injured, the scale of the destruction is being specified.
14:40 The Verkhovna Rada extended martial law until August 23. The general mobilization has also been extended.
14:26 Biden will hold a personal meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convince him to join the pressure that the West is putting on Russia for military aggression in Ukraine. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the meeting will take place next week on the sidelines of the Quadruple Security Dialogue (Quad) summit to discuss security in the Indo-Pacific region.
14:25 There were explosions in Malin, Zhytomyr region, Mayor Oleksandr Sitailo told Suspilny.
14:23 German intelligence has information that in the ranks of the Russian forces involved in the war in Ukraine, there are members of Russian right-wing radical and neo-Nazi organizations, writes Spiegel.
In particular, members of at least two right-wing groups, the Russian Imperial League and Rusich, are participating in the war against Ukraine, and the Kremlin is cooperating with at least one right-wing individual for its own purposes. The authors of the review write that cooperation with such groups "reduces the 'denazification of Ukraine' as the alleged cause of the war to absurdity."
14:11 The so-called "mayor" of Energodar was injured in the explosion and is in intensive care, a source in emergency services told RIA Novosti.
13:55 Zelensky and Duda agreed to work together to create common border checkpoints so that people can cross the border faster and more conveniently. Also, the President of Poland, together with the head of Slovakia, will go on a tour of the capitals of the EU states to convince them of the need to support Ukraine's entry. Another agreement between Ukraine and Poland concerns the work on the opening of the high-speed rail link Kyiv-Warsaw, the presidents said during their speeches in the Rada.
13:42 The Ministry of Defense showed the full video history of the liquidation of the 240 mm Tyulpan self-propelled mortar on a tip from Russian propagandist Sasha Kots.
13:29 In the Kherson region, after the cluster attacks by the invaders on May 21, three people died, the partial and complete destruction of about 380 private houses. In Aleksandrovka alone, 300 private houses were partially destroyed. The local population was evacuated, but about 150 people refused to be evacuated, the Kherson regional police department reported.
In the Berislav region, active shelling of the Novovorontsovka village continues. About 2,500 people of the local population independently evacuated in the direction of the Dnipropetrovsk region. All administrative buildings were destroyed.
In the Kakhovka district, the invaders continue to kidnap pro-Ukrainian activists, teachers, ATO/JFO members and other residents of the community.
13:14 Duda joked about the situation with Eurovision during his speech in the Rada: "No one can break our unity - neither hostile politicians, nor foreign agents, nor the jury at Eurovision."
The President of Poland also addressed world leaders: "After Bucha, Borodianka, Mariupol, there can be no business with Russia as usual, gentlemen presidents and prime ministers." In addition, he promised to do everything possible for Ukraine to become a member of the EU.
13:09 In Mariupol and the Mariupol region since yesterday, the occupiers have introduced a new access system. Now, for entry and exit from the city, as well as for movement in the Mariupol region and inside the city, passes for cars and passengers are required, said Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko.
"For those who are going to visit Mariupol, remember - now this is a one-way road. For those who are going to leave Mariupol towards Zaporozhye, before the opening of official corridors, you have almost a few days before the complete closure of travel towards Berdyansk," Andryushchenko warned.
12:48 Podolyak said that Ukraine itself will unblock the Black Sea if it receives MLRS systems: "1.6 billion people may become malnourished due to food shortages. Hundreds of millions will fall below the poverty line due to rising prices. The Economist predicts the consequences of the Russian aggression and invites the world to negotiate with Russia and Ukraine on international food convoys in the Black Sea Bargaining with a country that has taken hundreds of millions of people hostage?We have a better idea: the world should agree on the transfer of MLRS systems and other necessary weapons to Ukraine Black Sea. Then we will do everything ourselves."
12:44 Zelensky will soon submit to the Rada a bill on the special legal status of Polish citizens in Ukraine, MP Olga Sovgirya, a representative of the Verkhovna Rada in the Constitutional Court, said.
12:19 Mayor of Energodar Dmitry Orlov said that on the morning of May 22, unknown people blew up the entrance in which the "people's mayor" lives - collaborator Andrei Shevchik. According to preliminary information, he, along with the guards, was hospitalized with injuries of varying severity.
11:56 In Mariupol, after clearing the rubble of the Drama Theater and opening the square for free visits, the invaders staged a "volunteer rally" with red flags around the city. The final point was an excursion inside the Drama Theater, where they filmed a video, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city.
11:53 Russian aggressors continue to shell Kharkiv and settlements of the region. Among the civilian population over the past day, 11 were wounded, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
11:51 In Kiev, the areas of Pushcha-Voditsa, Vinogradar, Svyatoshinsky forestry and highways in the direction of Zhytomyr and Vyshgorod are most contaminated with mines and shells, the city military administration said.
11:47 Putin's power is weakening as he has to be distracted by treatment, ex-MI6 employee Christopher Steel, who previously exposed Trump's connection with Putin's entourage, told the British LBC radio station.
"Putin can no longer exercise political leadership, because the disease takes more and more strength from him. <...> In our understanding, confusion and chaos reign in the Kremlin. The power structure does not work as it should," said the British intelligence officer. According to him, Putin is constantly accompanied by a team of doctors, and meetings with senior officials, many of which are broadcast on television, are actually intermittent because Putin needs to be distracted by treatment, "and this has a very serious impact on the management of Russia. ".
Nevertheless, Putin will not leave Ukraine, Steele believes: "He has driven himself into a political dead end, he feels that he must somehow concentrate his political legacy - in the sense in which he understands it."
11:38 The lifting of Western sanctions against Russia in exchange for the unblocking of Ukrainian ports will cause a further escalation of the war and jeopardize the invasion of other European states, Podolyak said in an interview with Present Time: "Russia always goes to blackmail and is ready to kill people in order to get some additional opportunity for themselves. Suppose that part of the sanctions are lifted from it. This will stimulate it to further escalate the conflict. And not only in Ukraine. They will understand that the world is really weak, such as it was before the war in Ukraine ".
11:14 The world may face a major conflict between the great powers, said the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, in a speech to the graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point: "China and Russia have significant military potential, and both powers are fully determined to change the current rules based order.
According to him, the nature of war is changing dramatically, but its nature will not change.
“This is still a political act. It is the people's decision to impose their political will on the enemy through violence," Milli said.
10:55 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of May 22. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Bakhmut direction.
personnel - about 29,050 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 1285 (+7),
armored combat vehicles - 3141 (+25),
artillery systems - 599 (+3),
MLRS - 201 (+0),
air defense systems - 93 (+0),
aircraft - 204 (+0),
helicopters -170 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 470 (+8),
cruise missiles - 107 (+3),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2194 (+16),
special equipment - 43 (+0).
10:41 Commander of the Azov regiment Andriy Biletsky noted in an interview with UP the exceptional heroism of the helicopter crews that delivered reinforcements to the defenders of Mariupol: “In the end, it was clear that the enemy was developing, watching, he understood that helicopters were breaking through into Mariupol. highlight the heroism and maximum professionalism of Ukrainian pilots".
10:39 At the moorings in the South Bay of Sevastopol, there are two submarines of the Varshavyanka project, all the rest are at sea, Krym.Realii reports. In total, the Black Sea Fleet has six submarines of the Varshavyanka project, so four out of six submarines are currently at sea, which is two-thirds. The Ukrainian submarine Zaporozhye is also moored at the pier, which was stormed by Russian troops in March 2014.
In addition to mine-torpedo armament, Varshavyanka-class submarines carry Caliber-type cruise missiles, which are used in various modifications against sea and land targets. Each submarine is armed with four such missiles.
10:23 The World Davos Forum starts today - for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic and for the first time since the late 1980s without the participation of Russia. The main topic for discussion will be a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On opening day, Zelensky will deliver a speech via video link. As part of the Ukrainian delegation, who will personally visit Davos-2022, the Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov, the mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko, and businessman Viktor Pinchuk are expected. Also among the announced guests is the former Special Representative of the US State Department for Ukraine, Kurt Volker.
Meanwhile, the site Russian House (Russian House) in Davos, Switzerland was renamed the Russian War Crimes House (Russian Warcrimes House). They organized an exhibition dedicated to the war in Ukraine.
09:46 British intelligence suggests that the same group of Russian troops that failed near Kiev is now trying to take Severodonetsk. According to them, the only company of BPMT Terminator support vehicles operating in Russia has most likely been deployed to the Severodonetsk direction.
The presence of this equipment indicates that the Central Group of Forces, which is the only formation that fielded these vehicles, was involved in this attack. Earlier, this grouping suffered heavy losses, failing to break through the defenses east of Kyiv in the first stage of the invasion.
Terminators were developed by the Russians after they realized the need for special protection for main battle tanks during the Afghan and Chechen wars. The Severodonetsk area remains one of Russia's immediate tactical priorities. However, the Terminators are unlikely to have a significant impact on the campaign, since no more than ten of them are deployed in this direction, British analysts specify.
09:29 The main goal of the Russian occupiers in Ukraine in the coming days will be Severodonetsk, analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War say. They note that attempts to advance in other directions, including Izyum, have faltered, so the Russians are likely to try to build on their limited success in the Luhansk region on the Rubizhne-Severodonetsk-Lugansk-Popasna arc to besiege the region's last stronghold.
The Russians are carrying out an operation to block the land lines of communications of Ukrainians between Severodonetsk and Lisichansk across the Seversky Donets River. Also, Russian troops are likely to strengthen their grouping around Kharkov in order to prevent further Ukrainian counteroffensive to the state border.
09:12 The occupiers tried to break into Severodonetsk from four directions at once, but received a fitting rebuff and retreated to their previous positions, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. He clarified that as a result of an unsuccessful attempt by the Russians to advance near Oskolonovka, Purdovka, Shchedrishchevo and Smolyaninovo, almost every controlled settlement was damaged.
Between Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, the span of the bridge near the railway station was destroyed. In addition, several people who were taking pictures of military equipment were detained yesterday. The SBU will deal with them, Gaidai added.
08:51 Russian marines are short of personnel, spokesman of the Odesa OVA Sergey Bratchuk said: "The marines are enrolling ship cooks and heads of latrines from other ships and units of the Black Sea Fleet - there are not enough personnel."
08:36 Russian troops fired rockets at the civilian infrastructure of one of the villages in the Volnyanshchina of the Zaporozhye region tonight. It has been preliminary established that there are affected citizens, the OVA said.
08:33 Another exhumation was carried out near Bucha, as a result of which the body of an elderly woman who died as a result of shelling, as well as her 27-year-old grandson, who was killed by the invaders, was found. According to the police of the Kyiv region, to date, 1290 bodies of civilians who died at the hands of the invaders have been identified.
08:22 The Belarusian battalion named after Kastus Kalinovsky, fighting for Ukraine, announced the expansion and transformation into a regiment. From now on, it will include the Litvin and Volat battalions.
08:18 Arestovich, in an interview with Mark Feigin, clarified Zelensky's words about the size of the Ukrainian army. According to him, 700 thousand people - "these are all the defense forces of Ukraine, including the police, border detachments, the Security Service of Ukraine, the terrorist defense and others."
07:59 Russian troops deployed launchers of the Iskander-M missile system in the Belgorod region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . The deployment of additional means of electronic intelligence in the regions of the Gomel region of Belarus bordering with Ukraine was also noted.
Near Bakhmut, the enemy has entrenched himself in the areas of Trypillya, Lipovoe and Vasilievka, and is trying to improve his position.
06:36 The Russians are gathering troops in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions and are preparing for an offensive, according to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Analysts noted a high concentration of Russian troops in Inzhenerny, south of Gulyai-Polye, which may indicate that Russian troops are potentially preparing to continue the offensive towards Gulyai-Polye.
ISW also writes that the appearance in the occupied Melitopol of banners for the 220th anniversary of the creation of the Taurida province may indicate the intention of the Russians to turn the occupied territories in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into a quasi-republic like the so-called "LDNR".
04:12 In Ukraine, Alexander Kharchenko, who was appointed by the Russian military during the occupation as the "mayor" of the village of Dymer, Kiev region, was arrested, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to the publication, Kharchenko is a 39-year-old businessman whom the SBU suspects of having passed information to the occupiers about war veterans in Donbass and members of the TRO.
During the occupation, Kharchenko participated in recording videos in which he urged local residents to come out of the basements and not be afraid of the Russian military. Then these videos were published by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. When the invaders left Dymer, Kharchenko remained in the village. According to the WSJ, he barely survived the shelling of his car by Ukrainian troops, and is now on trial in a case of cooperation with the Russian military.
03:10 Polish President Andrzej Duda arrived in Ukraine. According to the press service of the Polish President, on Sunday, May 22, he will address the Verkhovna Rada with a message as the first head of a foreign state since the beginning of the war.
01:37 In Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, the invaders threaten entrepreneurs who refuse to sell goods for rubles with "preventive conversations," the OVA reported. The occupation administration of Vasilievka approved the exchange rate at the level of 10 hryvnia for 25 rubles.
In Melitopol, collaborator Evgeny Balitsky ordered from May 20 to use both hryvnia and rubles for settlements, and to carry out non-cash payments only in rubles, the rate is 2 rubles for 1 hryvnia.
01:23 Zelensky called on Ukrainians who are in the rear and who "allow themselves to be carefree or careless" to help the army and not forget that the war continues. In his video message, he called the situation in Donbas "extremely difficult." According to the president, the enemy is trying to attack Slavyansk and Severodonetsk, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine are repulsing the attacks.
01:15 The "authorities" of the "DPR" will set the exchange rate, according to which from May 23, 1 hryvnia will be equivalent to 2 rubles (according to the decree of March 26, the hryvnia was equivalent to 2.5 rubles). Earlier, a similar resolution was adopted in the "LNR".
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14:23 German intelligence has information that in the ranks of the Russian forces involved in the war in Ukraine, there are members of Russian right-wing radical and neo-Nazi organizations, writes Spiegel.
In particular, members of at least two right-wing groups, the Russian Imperial League and Rusich, are participating in the war against Ukraine, and the Kremlin is cooperating with at least one right-wing individual for its own purposes. The authors of the review write that cooperation with such groups "reduces the 'denazification of Ukraine' as the alleged cause of the war to absurdity."
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Meanwhile, the site Russian House (Russian House) in Davos, Switzerland was renamed the Russian War Crimes House (Russian Warcrimes House). They organized an exhibition dedicated to the war in Ukraine.
That house must be HUGE to hold all that.
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The Basra Criminal Court sentenced a person with ties to the terrorist organization of ISIS to death on Monday for executing a car-bomb attack in al-Rumailah area.
The media office of the Supreme Judicial Council said that the terrorist carried out a car bomb attack in al-Rumailah area on the international road on Basra.
The attack killed a group of civilians and security officers and injured scores, according to the statement.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 00:05 DPR military correspondents report that the 1st Slavic brigade of the DPR army entered Avdievka. There are fights in the urban area.
21:22 Russian army broke through the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, went to the city of Soledar near Artemovsk and took Vladimirovka 21:22 Russia is ready to continue negotiations with Ukraine, the initiative to freeze them comes from Kyiv, Medinsky said.
21:22 Personnel combat work of special forces from the Chechen Republic in the Luhansk region. The soldiers liberate the settlements of the Lugansk People's Republic from the Nazis and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Despite fierce resistance, the advance of our fighters is going well,” says Ramzan Kadyrov.
20:57 A total of 10 Lithuanian mercenaries accept participation in the preparation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense in the territory of the Kyiv region.
Soldiers arrive in the region, undergo training, and then go to the east of the country
20:56 The Guardian: Ukraine has transferred additional military forces to the border with Belarus. Under the pretext of signs of an "attack", Kyiv deployed additional troops along the border with Belarus. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported on the growing threat from Ukraine.
19:54 Russia will put about 50 new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles on combat duty in the near future - Dmitry Rogozin.
19:20 Since the Kyiv authorities refuse to take the bodies of their dead soldiers, the fighters of the allied forces, according to Orthodox traditions, decided to carry out the burial on their own. Redkodub, liberated part of the DPR.
18:07 The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved a bill banning the use of Z and V symbols in the country.
17:07 The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine filed a lawsuit to ban pro-Russian parties in the country.
16:08 On the night of May 22, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, with cluster munitions. As a result of shelling from 122mm MLRS, several multi-apartment and private residential buildings along Sportivnaya, Shevchenko, Moskovskaya streets, cars, as well as Vasilevsky Lyceum were damaged.
15:26 State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Alexander Volfovich: There are recorded attempts by Ukrainian DRGs to enter the territory of Belarus.
14:25 Start missiles "Caliber", which destroyed a large batch of weapons and equipment from the United States and Europe for the grouping of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass near the railway station Malin, Zhytomyr region.
14:13 The Verkhovna Rada voted to extend martial law and mobilization in Ukraine for three months.
13:22 Kyiv region, the village of Luzhet. People are not allowed to go to their homes, as servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine live in their apartments.
12:46 The mayor of Energodar Andrey Shevchik and two of his guards were injured in the explosion - local law enforcement agencies.
12:12 The military special operation in Ukraine has spurred the technical modernization of the Russian troops. New types of weapons are on combat duty - from submarines with cruise missiles to anti-aircraft systems.
11:40 New briefing by the RF Ministry of Defense, main points:
During the day, high-precision air-based missiles hit three command posts, 13 manpower concentration areas; More than ten Ukrainian drones were destroyed by Russian air defense systems in a day; Russian aviation hit three command posts, an ammunition depot and 26 areas of concentration of forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a day.
11:32 Servicemen of the RF Armed Forces continue to evacuate civilians from the Kharkiv region to the territory of the Russian Federation at their request, including for the provision of qualified medical care.
11:15 The mobilized military personnel of the NM DPR are serving in the Kherson region. The mobilized servicemen from the Donetsk People's Republic adequately fulfill their military duty on the territory of the Kherson region and help the RF Armed Forces in the performance of combat missions.
10:28 During the shelling last night of the village of Belozerka in the Kherson region, the troops of the Nazi regime killed three and wounded nine local residents. Belozerka was fired upon by the Nazis from heavy MLRS "Hurricane" with cluster rockets. Separate cassettes flew to the ground and exploded, bringing death and destruction.
09:30 The crew of the Ka-52 helicopters discovered and destroyed military equipment and positions of Ukrainian military units.
09:20 More information about the detention of an SBU agent in the Kherson region. The agent liquidated in the Kherson region was recruited by the SBU in 2014 in the Luhansk region. After that, he served a sentence for a long time in one of the colonies of the Kherson region.
On February 24, after the start of the special operation, a curator from the SBU contacted him and set the task of collecting data on the locations of Russian military personnel. In particular, on May 6, using one of the messengers, the agent transmitted the coordinates of the Russian troops in the city of Golaya Pristan, after which, on the morning of May 7, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Tochka-U at the indicated settlement.
Also, the saboteur was given data on the location of the cache from the Igla MANPADS for the purpose of possible transfer to members of sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
Taking into account the nationalistic views of the liquidated agent, he was tasked with attacking a checkpoint of Russian troops, and then moving to the territory of the Nikolaev region still controlled by Ukraine.
However, thanks to the operational work of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the place where the saboteur was hiding was found, where he was liquidated when trying to detain him.
An F-1 grenade was found on him, which he could use against Russian servicemen. Work is currently underway to capture other DRG members operating in the region.
08:44 At night in Nikolaev were arrivals at the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
08:17 Russian servicemen, at the request of civilians in the Kharkiv region, continue to evacuate them to the territory of the Russian Federation, including for the provision of qualified medical care Residential areas where families lived were periodically subjected to artillery shelling by nationalist battalions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In order not to put themselves in danger, the residents turned to the servicemen of the RF Armed Forces for help. The servicemen evacuated more than 60 refugees to the territory of the Belgorod region. Among them are mainly elderly people, women and children.
[JPost] IRGC Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodayari was shot and killed near his home by unknown assailants.
Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodayari, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officer, was gunned down in Tehran on Sunday in a carefully coordinated operation, Israeli media reported.
The approach
Khodayari was driving his car near his home on Mahadi al-Islam Street in Tehran at around 16:00 local time. There, two unknown assailants riding a motorcycle approached his vehicle, rapidly closing the gap between them and Khodayari, according to Walla News.
THE ATTACK
From point-blank range, equipped with a silenced weapon, the two fired five shots at Khodayari, killing him instantly. The assassins were nowhere to be seen and a manhunt is currently underway.
The aftermath
The IRNA published pictures showing a man strapped in with his seat belt with the front window on the passenger side shot out.
The man was slumped over in the driver's seat with blood around the collar of his blue shirt and on his right upper arm.
THE GETAWAY
Reports of Khodayari's assassination began to circulate in Iran and around the world, while security forces in Iran were frantically searching for the assassination squad.
Meanwhile, the ISNA news agency reported that the IRGC had exposed and arrested a network of Israeli intelligence agents.
"In accordance with the Zionist regime's intelligence service instructions, the network tried to steal and destroy public and personal equipment, hijack and obtain false confessions through a network of thugs," the IRGC said.
The target
Khodayari was considered a senior officer in the IRGC.
According to Iranian sources, Khodayari was responsible for attempts to abduct and assassinate Israelis in Cyprus, Turkey and Colombia, N12 reported.
The IRGC also reported that Khodayari was involved in the security of the Shiite holy places in Damascus and that he had a close relationship with Qasem Soleimani, an IRGC commander who was killed in a US airstrike in 2020.
IRNA referred to Khodaei as a "defender of the shrine," a term used to describe those working on behalf of Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in Syria or Iraq.
He was shot at around 4:00 pm near Mojahedin-e-Islam Street, according to the agency.
Little information was publicly available about Khodayari, as Quds officers tend to be shadowy figures carrying out secretive military missions supporting Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group, and other militias in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.
But according to Channel 13 news, one of the operatives under Khodayari’s direction was Mansour Rasouli.
In April, it was reported that Rasouli, said to be a member of the IRGC, admitted to Mossad agents, during an interrogation at his home in Iran, that he was sent to target an Israeli diplomat in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , as well as an American general stationed in Germany, and a journalist in La Belle France.
Channel 12 reported that Khodayari was also behind an attempt — recently uncovered by the Shin Bet — by Iranian operatives to lure Israeli academics, businesspeople, and former defense officials abroad and possibly kidnap them.
That report also said he was behind an alleged plot to kill five Israelis in Cyprus.
Channel 12 also said that Khodayari had recently returned from Syria, where he served under former commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force and celebrated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani , who himself was killed in a US Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Iraq in January 2020.
An Iranian security source was quoted as saying he also played an "important" role in Iran’s military industry, "especially when it came to drones."
The long-running shadow war between Israel and Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... has been bursting into the open in recent months, with more direct attacks attributed to Israel against Iranian targets in Syria and mutual cyberattacks carried out by both nations, threatening to bring the regional rivals to the brink of direct warfare.
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'Five bullets with a silencer' - How was an IRGC officer assassinated?
...Quite well, from the looks of it.
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The hope was that they would come and become German. Instead they imposed their own culture on Germany. And Europe, England, and everywhere else the current hijrah is spreading.
[DW] Homicide police are investigating a weekend shooting at a German funfair. After repeated altercations between a group of youths and a teenager and his father, an apparent bystander was shot by a stray bullet.
A 40-year-old was shot and killed at a funfair in Ludenscheid, east of Cologne ...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany.... , police said on Sunday. The incident took place the preceding evening.
The local homicide commission and criminal police force had taken over the investigation and were seeking more information from witnesses.
Trouble first arose when a group of six young men, thought to be aged between 16 and 20, were involved in what police described as a "physical confrontation" with a 16-year-old.
Around 20 minutes later, the 16-year-old returned with his father to confront the group again.
The six youths, who police described as having a "southern appearance," a term often used by German authorities to describe people of north African or middle eastern appearance, tried to flee but were pursued.
TWO WEAPONS USED IN SHOOTING
As they ran, police believe that two of the youths fired shots, one using a warning and signal weapon and another using a real gun.
"The shots were both had gun sex, and in the direction of the pursuing 16-year-old and his 52-year-old father," police said. "A 40-year-old man from Gummersbach, who was also situated near the exit of the funfair, was hit by a projectile. He later died of his injuries in hospital."
Police said it was unclear whether the victim, who had taken no visible part in the fracas, had any connection to either group.
Police offered only limited information on the young men's appearance, saying all looked southern, aged roughly 16 to 20, with four wearing dark clothing, one wearing a gray tracksuit and one wearing a white t-shirt.
Afghan Migrant Accused of Sexually Abusing Two Ukrainian Refugee Children
21 May 2022
[Breitbart] An Afghan migrant who worked as security at German asylum accommodation has been accused of sexually abusing two Ukrainian refugee children aged six and seven. The alleged abuse is said to have taken place at asylum accommodation in the town of Meßstetten in Baden-Württemberg, where the 24-year-old Afghan was contracted to work security.
The mothers reported the Afghan to the head of the security at the home. He was arrested and presented to a local magistrate on Tuesday, broadcaster SWR reports.
Terror Motive Investigated After Woman Attacked by ‘Allahu Akbar’ Knifeman
20 May 2022
[Breitbart] The French Anti-Terror prosecutor has been notified following a knife attack on a woman in Chantilly by a man who allegedly yelled “Allahu Akbar” during the stabbing. The attack took place on Tuesday in Chantilly when a couple was driving and saw a man looking to hitchhike to the Campanile hotel and decided to help the man by giving him a ride. After arriving at the hotel just after midnight, the couple accompanied the man to the reception of the hotel.
When the man was denied a room due to the fact he did not possess the required identification documents, he is said to have taken out a knife and attacked the woman who was with him, stabbing her in the neck, Actu reports.
As the woman ran to take refuge in a room behind the hotel bar, passersby attacked the knifeman, who then fled the scene.However, the man, who was injured from the blows, managed to only get a few hundred feet from the scene before he was confronted by gendarmes, who subdued him with electric stun guns. Two gendarmes were also injured trying to subdue the attacker.
The incident comes just days after five police officers in Tarn were injured by an illegal immigrant who attacked them outside of a local mosque while yelling “Allahu Akbar!” He was smashing the vehicles and colleagues had already intervened for the first time around the mosque without being able to locate him. He was very strongly excited and shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’, said he had a mission, and threatened to kill officers,” the alliance police union said.
Asylum Seeker Dies After Stabbing in French Asylum Accommodation
19 May 2022
[Breitbart] A 36-year-old asylum seeker from Guinea died last Sunday in a French asylum accommodation in Vergigny after being stabbed by another African asylum seeker, a 34-year-old form Chad, during a fight between the pair. The incident took place at an asylum accommodation in the commune of Vergigny run by the social organisation Coallia on the evening of Sunday, March 15th and saw the two migrants fight with each other before the 36-year-old was stabbed.
The incident comes just over a year after a Sudanese migrant murdered a 46-year-old official at an asylum reception facility in the city of Pau in February of last year. The 38-year-old Sudanese national was arrested after stabbing the asylum worker to death and police later learned that his asylum claim had been rejected just prior to the stabbing.
Just months later in August, a Palestinian migrant was suspected of repeatedly threatening to kill immigration officials in the city of Bordeaux after being angered that his requests for residency in France had been rejected by authorities.
[ToloNews] TOLOnews and other TV channels in Kabul on Sunday followed an order of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue regarding covering female presenters’ faces.
The Ministry of Vice and Virtue named Sunday morning as the final deadline, calling this order mandatory.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... on Twitter TOLOnews stated it maintained there was no clear indication regarding covering female presenters' faces on TV programs in the recent decree about Hijab by the Islamic Emirate’s leadership.
It should be noted that when the Taliban say Hijab they don’t mean merely the hair-covering scarf, but rather their entire concept of female modesty, ie. only eyes showing...or less. What is being demanded here is adding the niqab, the flap of cloth covering from the bridge of the nose to the chest. What will shortly be demanded is a return to purdah, where only immediate male relatives ever see females, and then only within the home.
In addition, TOLOnews said it "considers images of female presenters on TV as virtual and not the actual presence of women, and therefore stands on its position regarding this matter."
The male presenters of TOLOnews in solidarity with female presenters appeared on air wearing masks.
TOLOnews’ Director, Khpolwak Sapai said that the Ministry of Vice and Virtue named Sunday as the final deadline.
"We have been told to implement this (decision) by the stated time and we did it today. But our arguments are twofold: first, that there was no clear indication regarding covering female presenters' faces on TV programs in the recent decree about Hijab by the Islamic Emirate’s leadership. Second, the images of female presenters on TV are virtual and not the actual presence of women, and therefore TOLOnews stands on its position regarding this matter," Sapai said.
"I can’t breathe nor talk properly -- how will I be able to run the program?" said Khatira Ahmadi, a female presenter of TOLOnews.
"We were not ready mentally and morally that such things would be forced on us. Running three hours of programs with a mask is very difficult," said Sonia Nizai, a female anchor of TOLOnews.
After the Islamic Emirate swept into power, the current Afghan government issued repeated statements regarding women including; closing girls' schools, banning women from going to work, the segregation of male and female student’s studying days in universities, banning women from traveling, as well as the dissolution of women-supporting organizations.
"Unfortunately, the imposed sanctions on Afghan women affects our county," said Suraya Paikan, a political analyst.
The Ministry of Vice and Virtue said the observation of Hijab is mandatory.
"This is not our word, it is an order of God. Covering the face is a part of Hijab. But if the face is not covered, we cannot say it is not absolute observation of Hijab, but it is not a good observation of Hijab as it is supposed to be for women," said Akif Mahajar, a front man for the ministry.
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If I had to choose a solidarity mask, it would be a toss up between Nacho Libre and a vintage Gary Cheever’s goalie mask. I don’t think I would last very long on Taliban TV.
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The reason Islam will win is because that is where men rule!
[John Kass] All that's going wrong in Chicago has its' roots in Democrat Politics. Kass , along with Second City Cop (RIP) has been my go-to. HeyJackass has the raw numbers
The Furies of Chicago are hardly ever mentioned all together. And that’s unfortunate, because they deserve to be immortalized, for what Chicago has become. You’ll never see their names together in editorials or in broadcast news commentary from tepid corporate media. But they do have names.
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Used to read Kass's editorials and articles in the ChiTown Tribune.
He was about the only voice of reason there when they parted ways last year after 40-odd years.
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If Chicago and Illinois want to live like that, I'm fine with it. The problem is, they exported their model to Washington in the form of Bath House Barry. And while our problems as a nation go back to before Clinton (FDR, Woodrow Wilson, take your pick) the race to the bottom started when the "community organizer" came to town.
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Why is the "US" Red Cross involved ?
The US Red Cross aka American National Red Cross, is a US based non-profit that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States.
So why isn't the International Red Cross, aka International Committee of the Red Cross, doing this?
Africans they can get behind saving. Americans? Eww gross. Did you see how they vote? To western leftists, the only bad killing is done by white people. If non-white people kill in large numbers, this is to be expected because they're non-humans.
Remember this principle, it is shockingly applicable over and over.
The de-escalation zone in Syria’s northwest witnessed sporadic shelling between the forces of the government and opposition. #SNA#HTShttps://t.co/nm7P2YAk8S
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[REGNUM] On the territory of the Russian North, many wooden buildings of bygone times have been preserved, which are an integral part of the reserved land. For the most part, these are temples of the 17th-19th centuries, which are inscribed in the landscape and seem to be striving upward along with the strong trees that surround them.
The problem is that most of them are in disrepair, and we risk losing this part of our heritage forever. But there are people who have chosen to preserve unique wooden buildings as their life's work, they do it for one simple reason - so that the memory of who we are and what real primordially Russian culture looks like is not lost. It is not in slogans and banners, it is in the wooden walls created by our ancestors, in the cultivation of our land and in creative work that unites people for a common cause.
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[RIA Novosti] Assistant to the president and head of the Russian delegation at the talks between Moscow and Kiev, Vladimir Medinsky, on the air of the Belarusian ONT channel , said that freezing the process was an initiative of Ukraine.
He stressed that Russia has never abandoned dialogue at the highest level.
“Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has repeatedly confirmed this. The only question is that in order for a summit meeting to take place between the presidents, serious preparation is needed. That is, documents of a high degree of readiness are needed,” Medinsky said.
In his opinion, the Russian leader and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky should meet to reach final agreements and sign specific agreements, "and not to take pictures."
Slutsky allowed the resumption of negotiations with Ukraine
He added that a month ago, the Russian side handed over to Kyiv a draft treaty, in which a number of fundamental positions had already been agreed upon.
"We intended to move on. However, since then there has been no desire to continue the dialogue on the part of Ukraine. They have not even officially confirmed the draft agreement agreed upon by them. They disagreed that our counterparts took a break. They are in no hurry, apparently. The ball is completely on their side," the presidential aide stated.
Russian-Ukrainian consultations began at the end of February: the delegations held two face-to-face meetings in Belarus , after which it was decided to continue them on a daily basis via videoconferencing. At the end of March, another round of talks took place in Istanbul . As a result, Medinsky said that Ukraine had submitted its written proposals for a future treaty, Moscow considers this a step forward, and in general, Kiev, for the first time in many years, has shown a desire to negotiate.
The Russian side, in response, took two steps towards Ukraine. First, it was decided to significantly reduce hostilities in the Kiev and Chernigov directions. Secondly, Moscow suggested that the meeting between Putin and Zelensky be held simultaneously with the initialing of the treaty by the foreign ministers.
However, later Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Ukraine was refusing its own proposals and creating numerous provocations in order to slow down the negotiation process. In particular, according to the minister, Kyiv presented its draft agreement with Moscow, in which there is a departure from the provisions fixed at the meeting in Istanbul regarding Crimea, and also changed the provision on military exercises without mentioning the need to obtain Russia's consent.
[REGNUM] Kyiv's initiative is to freeze Russian-Ukrainian negotiations. This was stated on May 22 by Assistant to the President of Russia Vladimir Medinsky in an interview with the Belarusian TV channel ONT.
“We (the Russian authorities) ... are ready to continue the dialogue,” Medinsky said. “But I will emphasize once again: the ball for the continuation of peace negotiations is on the Ukrainian side.”
According to Medinsky, the freezing of negotiations with Russia is completely the initiative of Ukraine.
As REGNUM reported, on May 9, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky said that the negotiations between the Russian Federation and Kiev had not yet been terminated and were being held remotely.
[ThePipeline.org] I kind of can’t believe I am finally headed back to Davos after a two-year hiatus. We cancelled and rescheduled, and cancelled, and rescheduled, then moved location…and cancelled anyway. All because… don’t even make me say it—the dreaded you-know-what. All of which I found both maddening and embarrassing. Here we are, the smartest people on the planet… coming together to save the planet and… oops… let’s just cancel, and cancel, and cancel. Like schoolteachers saying there’s no need to teach. I know on this point I depart from my colleagues but let’s be honest; there isn’t a six-year backlog for Gulfstreams because we all sat home.
But never mind any of that… I picked up the slack. One of the projects of the World Economic Forum was to scale-up production of alternative protein sources… otherwise known as bugs. They had committed land and resources to this worthwhile endeavour—the proof of which was meant to coincide with our Singapore conference. But Covid had other plans and neither the conference nor the project got off the ground. Based on stories (with pictures!) from the WEF website, I had planned a series of high-end cocktail parties to introduce these mega-proteins to the glitterati. And only when I went to order, did I find the project had gone bust. It was a near-disaster, saved only by clever little farmers in Thailand and China who had apparently been farming and eating the critters for years.
Deep cleansing breath… and we move on. This year’s conference is so packed full of great ideas—I’m sure this is the reason I can’t get onto the website. I am needing to research because I am receiving one of the Schwab Foundation Awards, and all I can find is a news article saying we have collectively impacted the lives of 100 million people. Hmm. Impressive but truth be told I wanted to see how my picture looked on the site. Also I wanted to see just how many of the 100 million lives the other awardees have impacted.
Miss Kennedy's bio:
Born in British Hong Kong, Ms. Kennedy grew up in London and attended Cheltenham before completing her studies at the University of Southern California. A three-day eventer on the British Olympic equestrian team, Jenny has worked as a dressage coach in Hampshire, Findlay, Southampton, Palm Beach, Hoboken, and La Jolla. She has consulted on multiple commercial shoots, and film projects. She is currently unemployed Follow her @JennyKe07515900
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Back in the pre-WWII days the Three Day Event was a competitive, strenuous international cavalry meet. Now more of an excuse to be a yappy mediocrity, sort of the vegans of the horse world.
Sept. 11, 2001, was “The Day the World Changed.” The 2,977 deaths at the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists led to massive policy changes and dominated U.S. politics for years afterward. The United States went to war in Afghanistan to topple the Taliban, and the attacks contributed to the U.S. decision to invade Iraq in 2003. America began an array of aggressive counterterrorism programs, including the use of armed drones to kill suspected terrorists, indefinite detention at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and even torture. At home, the U.S. government detained many American Muslims on flimsy pretexts and implemented controversial programs related to surveillance.
Over 20 years later, the effectiveness of these measures, and the threat al-Qaeda poses, remain hotly debated. Leading terrorism experts like Bruce Hoffman have warned that al-Qaeda remains strong, patiently waiting for opportunities to strike while strengthening its global reach. Other leading analysts are skeptical. Barak Mendelsohn and Colin Clarke contend that “al-Qaeda the organization has failed.” In her 2022 threat testimony, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines struck a middle ground, warning that al-Qaeda still aspires “to conduct attacks in the United States” while also noting that its external attack capabilities are “degraded.” With the al-Qaeda threat perhaps in the rearview mirror, President Biden withdrew troops from Afghanistan in 2021 to end the so-called “forever wars” that sprang up in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
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[Rudaw] Awatef Massud is longing to reunite with her Iraqi family after years spent in Syria, but first she must do time in a vetting camp to ensure she has no links to jihadists.
The 35-year-old mother of five fled to neighbouring Syria in 2014 to escape violence at home after the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group swept across swathes of Syria and Iraq.
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Hard to believe people hold a grudge after you beheaded and tortured them and their families, huh?
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Like Rwanda, I think some kind of reconciliation would be beneficial. Easier said then done. I like the Rwanda model over the Perpetual Palestinian Problem model.
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[Rudaw] A drone on Saturday night targeted a military base housing Ottoman Turkish troops in northern Iraq, killing one person, as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s offensive against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) stationed in the Kurdistan Region’s mountains continues.
"A drone fell on the Ottoman Turkish base tonight and injured one person who later passed away," Mohammed Amin, mayor of Zilkan subdistrict, where the base is located, told Rudaw on Saturday.
Home to Ottoman Turkish personnel in Zilkan, the base is located 10 kilometers away from the town of Bashiqa in Nineveh province. The base is also referred to as Bashiqa base.
Amin added that the dear departed worked as a chef in the base and is originally from the Kurdistan Region.
The drone attack on Saturday came less than 24 hours after two suspected Ottoman Turkish drones targeted a vehicle in Sulaimani province’s northwestern subdistrict of Aghjalar, killing five passengers, including at least two members of the PKK.
Later in the day, a vehicle was bombarded by unidentified forces in Makhmour camp, which is controlled by the PKK.
Turkey often targets PKK positions in the Kurdistan Region, sometimes causing civilian casualties but Ankara has repeatedly said that it does not target civilians. The attacks are often countered by the PKK.
Several rockets landed on Zilkan base on April 24. The base had been a target of at least four other rocket attacks in the year, prior to April 24.
Turkey-Iraq relations were strained in the wake of the deployment of some 150 Ottoman Turkish soldiers to Iraq in December 2015. Ottoman Turkish troops were deployed to the area on the pretext of training Iraqi and Kurdish forces in their fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
The troops are still present in the area despite calls from Iraqi officials for them to leave.
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A Turkish military base in #Iraq was targeted on Saturday by an armed faction calling itself Ahrar Sinjar with Katyusha rockets and suicide drones, marking the first use of drones against this base. #Turkeyhttps://t.co/wgVaGS6TlC
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Three ISIS militants were killed in a large-scale military operation carried out by the Iraqi army in the vicinity of al-Tharthar lake, the Security Media Cell (SMC) reported on Sunday.
According to SMC, a group of terrorists were spotted commuting in a Pickup vehicle in the north of al-Tharthar lake near al-Sukariyat Bridge.
"Immediately, a Cessna Caravan affiliated with the Iraqi airforce carried out two airstrikes, killing two members of the terrorist group," SMC added.
"Simultaneously, a joint force from al-Jazeera Operations Command launched a search campaign in the desert of al-Tharthar. The Iraqi airforce executed a third airstrike, killing a third terrorist."
"The death of three terrorists was confirmed during this operation. The security forces found a KIA vehicle loaded with explosive material," the SMC said.
The Spanish police dismantled a network of companies in Catalonia and the Valencian Community that finance a militia linked to the Islamic State (ISIS), which operates in Libya, according to Spain’s Confidencial Digital news.
The Anti-Terrorism police arrested three Libyans in Barcelona, Gerona and Valencia. The Ministry of the Interior reported that “the investigation began two years ago when specialists in the fight against terrorism detected the presence in Spain of a person related to the leadership of a Libyan militia, linked to ISIS.”
The Ministry also explained that “after the initial investigations, the agents verified that this person had a business structure that, operating in several countries -including Spain- diverted funds to Libya to finance the militia that operates under the direction of ISIS”.
Confidencial Digital news said that it has been able to access a document from the Spain’s National High Court that provides key data on who made up this militia. Some of its members arrived in Spain due to a solidarity program for those wounded by war.
The Libyan militiamen “would have settled in Spain, at least temporarily, after receiving medical treatment as war wounded, within the solidarity program in Spanish hospitals”.
The members of this militia were all from the same Libyan city, Zawiya, which is close to the capital, Tripoli, and the border with Tunisia.
There were between four and five Libyans who entered Spain in stages. They had been injured during their participation as combatants in the Libyan civil war.
The Spanish police said the four Libyans from the militia arrived in Spain to receive medical and/or surgical treatment in private clinics in Madrid and Barcelona.
The police discovered that a Libyan man controlled several commercial companies with which he carried out commercial operations with Turkey, Tunisia, Libya and other countries.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:41 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the death of a civilian born in 1952. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Vladimirovka at the address: per. Kyiv, 17.
Information was also received about the wounding of a civilian born in 1978. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Makeevka at the address: st. Interdistrict, 18.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
22:35 Two residents of Kremennaya were injured as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a power line ( power line ), more than 100 apartments were damaged, a private house and a grocery kiosk were destroyed, the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of the LPR reported.
“On May 22, the armed formations of Ukraine carried out a massive artillery shelling of the infrastructure of the city of Kremennaya. As a result of the shelling, two residents of the city were injured, who are receiving medical assistance, more than 100 apartments were damaged, a private house and a grocery kiosk were completely destroyed, and a power line was also damaged,» the report says.
The department noted that representatives of the prosecutor's office are working at the scene of the incident, they "record the results of the criminal activities of the armed formations of Ukraine."
21:17 The first convoy of construction equipment from the Penza region arrived in the Donetsk People's Republic to restore the transport infrastructure, said the head of the convoy Maxim Yakushev.
21:17 Three servicemen of the Donetsk People's Republic died over the past day in battles with Ukrainian troops, another 24 were injured, said Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR.
21:17 Heavy military equipment of the People's Militia of the DPR coming out from liberated Mariupol. According to the tankers, during the battles for the city, the nationalists fired on the civilian population of Mariupol.
21:16 Street cleaning in the territories adjacent to Azovstal has begun in Mariupol, said the head of the Ordzhonikidzevsky district of Mariupol, Mikhail Zolotov.
21:15 Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPRcontinueto dismantle the rubble of houses in Mariupol, subjected to shelling by Ukrainian militants from "Azov."
21:14 Headquarters of the defense of the DPR: a woman was wounded during the shelling of Vladimirovka by Ukrainian troops.
21:13 The DPR army took full control of the village of Novoselovka in the Gorlovsky direction.
20:07 There is a tight battle near Avdievka.
20:06 Yasinovataya: the earth is trembling. Powerful art duels. Just shot down a drone. The cannonade is powerful - everything is mixed up, it is impossible to understand where everything is.
18:38 Seven attack helicopters Ka-52 "Alligator" and transport and attack helicopter Mi-8AMTSh of the army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the skyLuhansk People's Republic.
17:39 Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPRcame outon the border with the Kharkov region. Immediately after the fighters of the People's Militia of the DPR and the Russian Army, humanitarian convoys of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk Republic enter the liberated towns and villages.
16:20 In the LPR arrived the eighth humanitarian convoy from the Republic of Bashkortostan of the Russian Federation. An asphalt concrete plant was delivered to Krasny Luch, which will allow restoring the road infrastructure.
15:29 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 14:30 — n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: two missiles fired from BM21 Grad.
15:19 The DPR army took full control of the village of Novoselovka in the Gorlovsky direction.
15:01 On going demining liberated territories of the Luhansk People's Republic from explosive ordnance. Particular attention is paid to roads, territories adjacent to important life support facilities of the Republic, as well as agricultural lands. Engineers note that the areas mined by Ukrainian nationalists are protected by numerous traps and stretch marks.
13:28 CommentHead of the administration of the city of Pervomaisk Sergey Kolyagin. Main:
Over the past day, the Kyiv security forces have damaged objects in Pervomaisk at 34 addresses by shelling.
Since February 22, armed formations of Ukraine have destroyed and damaged residential and social facilities in Pervomaisk at 1,212 addresses by shelling.
13:25 The authorities of the city of Mariupol, which was seriously damaged during the liberation from Ukrainian troops, have established public transport. This was announced to journalists on Sunday by the head of the city Konstantin Ivashchenko.
“This is our small labor victory, although there are sorely lacking buses. To date, 12 buses have entered the line,” the mayor said.
According to him, after undergoing maintenance and current repairs, the number of cars on the lines can be increased to 22.
12:46 All-Russian Popular Front submitted humanitarian cargo in n.p. Bulgakovka.
12:36 As a result shelling Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, houses were damaged at the following addresses: st. Kuibysheva, 155, 157. The fire of three cars was also recorded in the courtyard of these apartment buildings. Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
11:33 Representation of the LPR in the JCCC: as a result of artillery shelling of Pervomaisk damaged three residential buildings.
11:32 Mobilized servicemen from the Donetsk People's Republic worthily perform their military duty on the territory of the Kherson region and help the RF Armed Forces in the performance of combat missions.
11:08 The National Guard destroyed the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lugansk region. A pickup truck and a group of infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the shelter were discovered during aerial reconnaissance in one of the districts. The fire platoon of the Russian Guard preempted a possible attack and destroyed the stronghold, up to 20 personnel and an enemy vehicle with mortar fire.
11:07 Ukrainian troops over the past day lost 14 personnel during clashes with units of the Luhansk People's Republic, six more people laid down their arms, the People's Militia (NM) of the republic reports.
“In the course of clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely: 14 personnel; two tanks; seven units of automotive equipment; six servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made the right decision, laid down their arms and thus saved their lives,” the people’s militia said in a statement.
10:41 The servicemen of the Donetsk People's Republic, together with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, continue to liberate the settlements of our Republic from the Ukrainian occupiers.
Over the past day, our servicemen destroyed 23 Ukrainian nationalists, five firing points, one firing position of 152mm towed artillery installations 2A65 "Msta-B", three infantry fighting vehicles and one cargo vehicle. One 122-mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system, four 82-mm mortars and three cargo vehicles were captured.
10:40 Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 247 shells and mines across the territory of the DPR from 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 122mm cannon artillery, 120mm and 82mm mortars. Areas of 11 settlements of the Republic were fired upon.
As a result of the Ukrainian aggression, THREE civilians, including 1 child, were injured. Damaged one residential building, and one object of civil infrastructure. Materials on the fact of wounding civilians, damage to infrastructure were transferred to the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR for inclusion in criminal cases initiated against the command of Ukrainian nationalists.
10:38 Shelling was recorded from the VFU in the direction: 08:00 — n.p. Georgievka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:40 Civilians are again suffering from VFU shells. As a result of the night shelling of the town of Staromikhaylovka, a direct hit was recorded on a private residential building on the street. Artem, 24, which provoked a fire. A man living there, born in 1954. received a contusion of the brain, and a woman born in 1954. poisoned by combustion products. Both victims were hospitalized in city hospital No. 24.
08:13 2,439 people who surrendered at Azovstal are in custody, 78 of them are women. This was stated by the head of the DPR Pushilin on the air Solovyov Live.
Previously, there are foreign mercenaries among the prisoners. Before the surrender, six militants tried to blow up ammunition depots, but died. Now the territory of Azovstal can still hide Ukrainian neo-Nazis. The Republic forces are conducting a thorough check of each room, so they will find everyone.
08:05 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: eight 122mm rounds were fired.
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[REGNUM] Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky said on the air of the Belarusian channel that Russia and Belarus should tell the truth about the Great Patriotic War, the memory of which "stops from a big war."
“We want peace now more than anyone else. Certainly more than the Americans, who last saw a war in their country during the war between the North and the South, a hundred and fifty years ago...
And Russia, and Belarus, and the Russian and Belarusian peoples, which, to be honest, I consider a single people culturally, ethnically and family, like the Ukrainian. We know what a big war is, not from stories, not from movies. We saw it ourselves. We just need to tell the truth,” Medinsky said.
The truth, Medinsky said, is that the Soviet Union during the Second World War took upon itself the destruction of 2/3 of the potential of the united Nazi Europe.
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In place of the policy of the 90s, when everything connected with the Soviet Union was attacked, in Russia they remembered patriotic education and the preservation of the spiritual foundations that unite the citizens of Russia. The most important place was occupied by the memory of the victory in the Great Patriotic War as a manifestation of mass patriotism and heroism of the Soviet people.
At the same time, attempts to distort military history continue both on the part of foreign journalists, historians and artists, and within Russia. A RANEPA survey in 2015 showed that 60 percent of Russian citizens notice such distortions in the domestic media, and 82.5 percent in the foreign press.
A particularly fierce struggle against the legacy of the Great Patriotic War is being waged in countries that directly or indirectly support fascist ideas: primarily in Ukraine and the Baltic states.
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Yes, let's forget the partition of Poland between Hitler and Stalin. Stalin's annexation of the Baltic States and the invasion of Finland. All at the beginning. There are no good guys here.
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And let's not forget that Stalin was a mercenary in the war, kept in by endless shipments of supplies by the US, extorted with threats of making peace with his socialist brother in Berlin.
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We never had The Talk about Russian Totalitarianism and WW2 because we never had The Talk about Communist Totalitarianism and WW2. Putin is taking the accumulated stress from seventy years of post-WW2 corruption and using it against us and the left is sitting there with its &*(^ in its hands and saying "Gee, is something happening?" Yes, he's doing to Ukraine what you helped him do to China, and North Korea, and Vietnam... and the US economy. It's ugly, but it isn't any uglier than the %$@$ econazi plandemic or the economic euthanasia by Gazprom, or for that matter the massacre at Hue.
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It was not only the Partition of Poland and the conquest of the Baltic countries. Communists were sabotaging armament factories in France and England.
The French Communist Party was made illegal in France 1939 for collaborationism.
Soviet Union offered Nazis the "Basis Nord" to base submarines.
And what about to tell the truth about Stalin considering to be an Axis partner?
The is really a fascinating overview of the role of the forward air controller in the Russian military.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Interesting material about the work of aviation gunners, whose work usually remains in the shadows.
On cooperation with aviation
The widespread use of aviation in modern armed conflicts necessitates commanders of all levels to ensure continuous interaction between infantry units and crews of aircraft and helicopters. To do this, a forward aviation gunner (hereinafter PAN) from the VKS can be attached to units (groups), and in his absence, an emergency PAN from among the personnel can be assigned. This review article will not describe the method of work of this specialist, but only indicate some of the nuances that must be understood and taken into account before starting to work together with aviation. VKS is Russian acronym for aerospace forces. Thanks to SteveS for the reminder
First, a little theory. There is the concept of "guidance", and there is the concept of "target designation." Usually, when it comes to air guidance, non-core experts confuse them with each other. Guidance is the work of the combat crew of the aviation control center to bring the aircraft to a tactically advantageous position relative to the target for the most efficient use of aviation weapons (hereinafter ASP), or other tasks (for example, landing groups from helicopters by landing method).
Target designation (hereinafter referred to as TA) is the provision of information to the crew about the location and nature of the target. The guidance process implies a control center, but is not limited to it. I will not give the guidance method itself here. In this review article, only some important nuances of visual control of an aircraft (hereinafter aircraft) when pointing at a ground target (hereinafter NC) will be voiced, as the most accessible and does not require any special technical means, in addition to a radio station. An automated control center of the KRUS type, as well as guidance based on air situation indicators, will not be considered here. KRUS
So, we figured out what is the difference between guidance and CC. When guiding an aircraft (hereinafter referred to as AC) to a ground target (hereinafter referred to as NC), PAN must first of all take into account:
– aircraft maneuverability (in terms of maneuvers available to this type of aircraft, as well as in terms of speed characteristics);
– type of applied ASP;
- the nature of the target (single / area, armored / unarmored, etc.);
- terrain, vegetation, characteristic landmarks;
- availability of air defense systems;
– weather conditions, azimuth of the Sun.
Having assessed all these conditions in the aggregate, the PAN develops a decision on the order of guidance of the aircraft. First of all, it includes the course and height of reaching the target, the maneuver for the attack and the side of the withdrawal from the attack.
All this is reported to the crew by radio. At the same time, the radio exchange in air radio networks differs from the ground. The main requirement is brevity and unambiguity.
You can not clog the air with unnecessary phrases, parasitic words, curses; units of measurement are not mentioned, as is the word "reception". There is only one reason - the situation can change very quickly, there can be not only one crew on this channel, but the whole squadron, and the extra "clogging" of the air will only interfere with the task. For example: “703rd, the target is a group of infantry, from the 1st landmark with a heading of 200, 2 minutes, to 100, work from the horizon with artillery, after work exit to the right.” The author used the word Gvozda (which translated into nail (used in the dative case)), which is the name of a mobile artillery gun, 152mm.
Tangents is the main weapon of the PAN.
It is very important to understand that the decision of the PAN is not an unrelenting dogma for the crew; based on their level of training, remaining fuel and the availability of ASP, the crew may deviate from the originally planned guidance.
Forcing the crew to comply is strictly prohibited! Here we directly approach the first important point - the level of crew training. Many do not understand that the combat use of aviation is not “arrived and dropped a bomb”, but serious work in which many factors must be taken into account - and which are strictly regulated by aviation documents.
First, the weather conditions. There are different application conditions for different types of ASP: drop/fire speed, exit height, etc.
The Su-25SM will not be fired by NARs in a dive if the height of the continuous cloud base is 100 m, not to mention the fact that not every crew is capable of performing tasks in such weather. It is important to understand that these are not the "whims" of the aviators, but serious moments, the failure to comply with which may be fraught with the loss of the aircraft, or the use of ASP on their own troops.
During the Chechen wars, there were frequent cases when the command forced to bomb the positions of militants with uncontrolled FABs from behind the clouds, out of sight of the earth. Of course, the effectiveness of such an application was minimal, and cases of arrivals on their own are not uncommon. The same applies to the performance of auxiliary tasks, for example, the transport of troops and cargo.
The weather can worsen to such conditions that the crew simply cannot cope with, and stick into the ground along with the passengers. Therefore, before work, it is necessary to give the crew information about the weather in the target area. If the weather conditions are not suitable for the work of the crew, he will tell you about it.
A common misconception is the "all-weather" aviation.
Just because it's all-weather doesn't mean it can fly through thunderstorms, hail and fog. An example of issuing information about the weather: "703rd, I am a KIT, over the target 3-5 points of medium cloudiness, the lower limit is 600, visibility is 5, a slight haze."
The most important meteorological elements in this case are: cloud base and flight visibility; for a helicopter landing approach, it is also necessary to give the direction and speed of the wind. Visibility is determined visually by ground references, the lower boundary of the clouds - visually or according to reports of other crews, meteorological data; direction and speed of the wind - visually according to landmarks, or smoke from the checker.
You should be aware that flight visibility may slightly differ from ground visibility in the direction of deterioration, and also that the direction of the wind is given out from where it blows, in degrees and with gusts (desirable). For example: “703rd, landing clear, wind 240, 3 meters, gusts up to 7."
Helicopters usually land against the wind. If the approach against the wind is not provided, it is necessary to take into account its maximum allowable values for this type of aircraft. For example, for the Mi-8AMTSH tailwind should be no more than 5 m/s, side wind no more than 10 m/s; side wind is better on the right. Forcing the crew to enter into the wind more than allowed threatens to get into the left rotation, or even to cut the tail boom with their own main rotor.
An equally important point is with the azimuth of the Sun. It can be calculated using the simple formula (t-2)*15, where t is the local time. For example, at 12 o'clock the azimuth of the Sun will be (12-2) * 15 = 150 degrees. You need to know this in order to build a direction for an attack: if the enemy has a MANPADS, the exit from the attack should be done towards the Sun in order to bring down the GOS control center. Of course, information about the presence of air defense systems in the enemy is brought to the crew in advance, as well as the facts of launches against him.
As for the maneuverability and speed characteristics of the aircraft, the PAN also needs to have some minimal knowledge of aerodynamics and piloting features in order to build a competent guidance scheme. The nature of the available ASP determines the nature of the maneuvers performed over the target, because different ASPs have different conditions in terms of altitudes, speeds and patterns of use.
Also, the flight weight of the aircraft can impose restrictions on maneuvers: the Su-34, loaded with bombs, will not be able to hit the target from the loop (if this is necessary for some reason, of course), and helicopters will not fire NARs from the hover mode, because. their trajectory will be unstable due to the low initial speed. Therefore, the nature of the performed figures from the PAN can only be advisory in nature, and the crew, based on the information received, can make their own adjustments. What is important for PAN to know is the turning radii, the distance traveled per unit of time and fuel consumption in order to quickly assess the flight time and time for work.
Especially perverted radii and distances can be calculated on the NL-10m, but you can also use navigation calculators, which are many on the net. Fuel and tactical radius specifications, as well as acceptable wind strengths for helicopter landings, are specified in the aircraft type flight manuals, and these figures must be known and recorded in advance.
Here we smoothly move on to equipment. I will not encourage anyone to take this or that platen, or this or that radio station; everyone defines their equipment based on the task, and enumerating a list of everything will take a lot of space and time. I will dwell on only two things for now: these are reference data, and a headset for a radio station.
The second is highly desirable in the format of active headphones. On the one hand, the work of the PAN on the air is very attractive to the mortars. On the other hand, not a single crew report should go unheeded, each request can be of critical importance, as well as each given command.
Often, an executive team late for 2-3 seconds can disrupt successful guidance. PAN must be the eyes of the crews on the ground, and in order to work quickly and accurately, it is necessary to have a minimum supply of reference material on hand. It should include:
- a notepad for notes (a reusable plastic panel is also convenient, on which you can write with a pencil and erase)
- the main weapon of the PAN, in addition to the radio communication button. In the working records, it is necessary to indicate the call signs of the crews, their place, altitudes, the remains of the TSA and fuel, and other operational information. Don't count on memory, write it down!
– tables: turning radii depending on speed; distance traveled per minute from speed; minimum and emergency fuel balances by aircraft types; tactical radii; allowable wind forces for takeoff and landing, etc.;
- a map (diagram) of the combat area with marked reference points and a protractor.
Other data such as coding tables, password numbers, control room callsigns, etc, it is desirable to have such an option that in which case they can be quickly destroyed. The placement of all reference waste paper is optimal in the administrative pouch on the chest; a wrist tablet is also very convenient. When separating equipment, it is important to understand that the main weapons of the PAN are his PTT and his working records.
You should not shove them into the far corner of the crackers, and their placement should provide constant access on the one hand, and ease of use on the other. An informed crew is focused on combat use. An informed PAN, on the other hand, is able to make quick decisions about how to use the crew.
Option to place an administrative pouch with reference documentation
Of course, these are far from all the nuances regarding interaction with aviation. You can talk a lot and for a long time, but the format of this article is an overview, if necessary, you can continue it in the future on more specific issues. What should be understood after reading it is to understand the role of the PAN, to understand that this is not just a “shoot there”, but a tool for maximizing the capabilities of your aviation.
If necessary, anyone can contact the crew, you just need to know the call sign and frequency. But the point is not to give out the CC - the point is to point. It should be built in such a way that the target is destroyed from the very first approach, and this is the main point of the work of the PAN as a specialist. It's easy to learn radio communication. It is difficult to analyze the situation and work out the most competent decision on the order in which the crew will be used. And for this you need to have a large layer of knowledge, from flight laws, and ending with aerodynamics and piloting techniques. Only by developing and improving, you can win. And we have always won.
#1
Going from what I have read in the past about the Soviets, I'd say the author is a rated pilot. Only a pilot would lay claim to the type of knowledge necessary to carry out an air strike.
That said, and given the large number of cruise missile strikes, I suspect that the Russian successes with the ongoing bombardment they are delivering the Ukrainians, most of those strike, especially "precision" strikes are with air controllers with a laser designators.
That means two things. Those long range missiles have a selectable switch that enables them to go to a point, then either follow a preplanned flight path, then seek a laser spot to hit its target, or simply follow the path if a laser spot is not detected.
#2
..most of those strike, especially "precision" strikes are with air controllers with a laser designators.
..or they're using GPS (theirs or ours) and info derived from lousy security and comsec. I'd make a reasonable assumption that Russian satellite assets are focused on the theater now rather than the usual long term surveillance elsewhere. That allows them to focus their attention and exploitations.
#6
badanov, many thanks for the informative article. 'Deconflicting' a battlespace filled with planes, artillery shells and unmanned weapons be hard. Still, what I found interesting was the tone of the article of the article that 'pilots needed to be walked through everything by the hand' by higher command...
#7
You're not going to jump into the old SU-25 and go on a free hunt, as the Russian call it. The costs of ignoring aerial battlespace security is too high, especially now for the Russians.
If you'll remember, the Russians lost about eight aircraft in the War in Georgia, with all but three due to friendly ground fire.
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Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) launched a security operation in Khanaqin, a district contested between the federal government of Iraq and Kurdistan's Regional Government, a security source in Diyala revealed earlier today, Sunday.
The outskirts of Khanaqin and Jalawla have become a haven for ISIS groups that have sheltered there since the withdrawal of the Peshmerga forces from the territory in the aftermath of the 2017 independence referendum.
The activity of the terrorist groups has remarkably diminished since the large-scale military operations the Peshmerga forces carried out to purge the area toward the end of last year.
The linked blog is written by a Russian military blogger known, according to military journalist Boris Rozhin, due to his (Cat Ivanov's)reportage from the start of the war in 2014. (I didn't know about him. It was August, 2014 when I first followed Rozhin, and then later wrote from other reports including official reports.)
The updates are weekly. You click on the map to show more data. The author (Cat Ivanov) has written in sliders to the map to take you to whatever date and date range you want to see.
Since the subject is so sensitive in some circles, I disclaim any accuracy as to the data. You get to judge.
Following text is from the author:
1 The use of drones at the tactical level is definitively becoming the norm of the NWO. The performance of artillery corrected from drones like Mavic3 is close to high-precision weapons and even surpasses them in some ways. There is an opportunity inaccessible to Orlans and others to work out point targets, up to one fighter, opening bunkers and dugouts to move drugs (see video in the Avdievka area on the Avdeevka-Konstantinovka highway).
2 The bunkers of Azovstal were empty. All the “zahisniks” surrendered (it’s not very clear why they took personal belongings with them - everything will be given out in prison)
3 The pushing and grinding of the enemy continues in the directions of Barvenkovo, Liman, Severodonetsk, New York, Soledar, Gorskoye.
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