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Brazil search teams found possible human remains in their hunt for a British journalist and indigenous expert as the suspect’s family professed his innocence in the case.
Dom Phillips, who was a regular contributor to the Guardian and Washington Post, and Bruno Pereira were last seen Sunday in the Sao Rafael region of the Amazon rainforest where they disappeared after passing through a lawless region by boat.
This week’s developments saw police find traces of blood on a boat belonging to local resident Amarildo da Costa, who is considered the main suspect in the pair’s disappearance.
Now, experts will investigate the “organic material” found in a river near the town of Atalaia do Norte in the Amazon rainforest, in what may be the biggest break yet for the five-day investigation.
A Brazilian judge ordered suspect da Costa, who was this week charged with illegal possession of restricted ammunition, to be held for another 30 days while police investigate his involvement in the case.
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[IsraelTimes] Demand that Salah Abdeslam, 32, not have possibility of parole is extremely rare in La Belle France; verdict due on June 29; 19 others also on trial, accused of assisting killers.
Prosecutors in the Gay Paree attacks trial on Friday demanded a life sentence without parole for the main suspect in the November 2015 jihadist strike that killed 130 in La Belle France’s worst-ever terror assault.
Salah Abdeslam,
...the connected Moroccan-French boy who ran with all the other petty criminals in the notoriously Salafist Molenbeek neighbourhood until they grew up to transfer that sense of entitlement to membership in ISIS. Mr. Abdeslam has already been sentenced in Belgium in a separate trial. It appears he has abandoned the habit of silence that got him twenty years for that one...
a 32-year-old Frenchie, is the only surviving member of the attackers who opened fire in the packed Bataclan concert hall and on cafe terraces in adjacent streets, and detonated suicide bombs at the Stade de La Belle France sports arena.
The request that Abdeslam should not have the possibility of parole is extremely rare in La Belle France, where prisoners serving life sentences are often released after 20 to 25 years.
Also on trial are 19 others accused of various degrees of assistance to the killers, from providing logistical support to planning the attacks or supplying weapons.
Prosecutors also requested standard life sentences for suspected 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.... members, Swedish citizen Osama Krayem
....alias Naim al Ahmed, who grew up in Malmo before toddling off to ISIS in Syria...
and Tunisian Sofien Ayari,
...this is his first mention in Rantburg, but he reportedly came across from Tunisia during the 2015 invasion, immediately falling in with the francophone cell, which is suggestive of previous connections and activities. He was arrested with Mr. Abdeslam at the end, which is also suggestive...
and one for Mohammed Abrini, a Belgian accused of having provided weapons and logistical support.
Abrini, known as the "man in the hat" from video footage, would go on to take part in suicide kabooms that struck Brussels in 2016, though he decided not to detonate his vest at the last minute.
Abdeslam has also claimed during the trial that he had a last-minute change of heart, which failed to convince the prosecution.
The length of the trial, its emotional charge and the number of plaintiffs — 2,500 — have made it the most impactful legal proceedings in French history.
The remainder of the trial will now be dedicated to closing statements by defense lawyers.
The verdict is due on June 29.
Abdeslam, who was arrested in Belgium after five months on the run, kept silent during the police investigation but started talking during the trial, explaining how he gave up plans to blow himself up, and apologized to victims.
But his tearful appeal for forgiveness had little impact on the prosecutors, who believe that his boom belt simply malfunctioned.
Prosecutors also said that Abdeslam’s claim that he was recruited by a jihadist cell only a few days before the attacks was "illogical."
A verdict of life in prison without parole has been handed down only four times since it was implemented in 1994, and all but rules out a later reduction of the sentence, and only after at least 30 years behind bars.
Prosecutors also requested standard life sentences for Mohammed Bakkali, accused of being the logistics coordinator of the attacks, as well as for five suspected Islamic State members believed to have been killed in Syria or Iraq.
For the remaining suspects, sentences of five to 16 years were requested.
Such lovely people. Just the kind one should believe when they start telling you about those awful, awful Juices.
[IsraelTimes] Jewish arts group, schools, synagogues among network purported to be responsible for wide-ranging societal harms by the anonymous page, which also names the organizations’ staffers.
A Jewish arts group. A Jewish high school. A Jewish newspaper. A synagogue network. A major Jewish philanthropy that directs funds to mental health, homelessness prevention and refugee resettlement initiatives.
These are a few of the locations on a dense interactive map of "Zionist leaders and powerhouse NGOs" in Massachusetts created by an activist group that says it aims to expose "local institutional support for the colonization of Paleostine" and reveal how support for Zionist causes is a nexus point for various "other harms" in society, ranging from gentrification to the prison-industrial complex to ableism.
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Only the victims care, Too Old To Work. But the fashionably pro-Palestinian corner of the internet knows.
1/3 Israel strongly condemns BDS Boston’s publication of a map of local Jews and its blaming them for anything and everything wrong in Greater Boston. pic.twitter.com/vEf2cfbvdL
[Garowe] The federal republic of Somalia has improved ties with Kenya after years of turmoil, just moments after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud officially took over on Thursday in a ceremony graced by a number of Heads of States and governments from the continent.
On Friday, a senior Kenyan announced that the Horn of Africa nation had agreed to lift the ban imposed on Khat,
...also spelt kat and qat...
locally known as Miraa. The ban was implemented almost two years ago, following strained diplomatic relations between the two neighboring countries.
During the inauguration on Thursday, outgoing Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta attended the ceremony, signifying improved ties between the two countries following the change of leadership in Mogadishu. Former President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo is accused of triggering the fallout.
For years, Somalia has been battling with Kenya over a maritime border dispute, leading to a landmark ruling last year which largely favored the Horn of Africa nation. However, ars longa, vita brevis... Kenya was quick to dismiss the ruling by the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
Peter Munya, Kenya's Agriculture minister, announced that the East African country will start exporting Khat to Somalia after two years of suspension. The narcotic drug is widely used within Somalia as a mild stimulant drug.
According to Munya, the agreement between the two countries will be ready for signing within the next two weeks. Previously, aircrafts ferrying Khat to Somalia were locked out by the space agency which was under strict instructions from Villa Somalia.
The ban imposed in March 2020 led to a loss of more than 50 tonnes of Kenyan khat a day valued at around six million shillings [$50,000], according to Kimathi Munjuri, chairman of the Nyambene Miraa Traders Association in central Kenya, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports.
Somalia has been having a frost relationship with Kenya but the tension was minimized when the outgoing Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble visited Nairobi where he held talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta over deteriorating ties.
"A peaceful and prosperous Federal Republic of Somalia is the dream of every Kenyan," Kenyatta said at Mohamud's inauguration.
"Your brothers and sisters in Kenya look forward to working with you so that we can all benefit economically and prosper together."
Kenyan exports to Somalia of 13 billion shillings [over $110 million] accounted for nearly five percent of its total exports to African countries in 2021, according to government data released last month.
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had pledged to ensure the economy of the country is up and running following years of mismanagement under Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo. The president also pledged to work with other stakeholders to improve security within the country.
[AlAhram] Egyptian political forces preparing themselves for the national dialogue proposed by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi on 26 April reject any participation by Islamists, particularly the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund.
The rejection followed a series of statements issued in recent days by a number of Islamists and Moslem Brüderbund officials living in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and some European capitals.
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The incidents took place last Thursday between the towns of Peschiera and Castelnuovo along Lake Garda and saw the mob of youths, mostly aged between 16 and 20 with some as young as 12, harass and cause havoc. Some were claimed to have shouted during the rampage, “We came to reconquer Peschiera. This is our territory, Africa must come here.”
Mayor of Castelnuovo Giovanni Del Cero was present during the rioting and said, “I tried to understand but they shouted absurd phrases, waving flags of various African countries,” the newspaper Corriere Della Sera reports. Italian paper Il Gionale cites witnesses claiming the crowd was “for the most part North African”
Following an incident of theft, the mob began brawling with sticks and knives and then started ransacking businesses along the waterfront with bottles and stones thrown. Riot police were deployed and clashed with the crowds.
The attacks, which echo the sex attacks in Milan by young migrant and migrant-background men during New Year’s Eve, were condemned by Luca Zaia, governor of the Veneto Region, who called for zero tolerance for such behaviour and demanded police find those responsible.
League leader Matteo Salvini responded to the attacks by saying that those responsible should be punished, even if it meant lowering the criminal age of responsibility to do so and argued that his party had been trying to tackle the issue of teen gangs, known as “Baby Gangs” in Italy, for years.
Prosecutor of the Republic of Mulhouse Edwige Roux-Morizot stated that the woman showed signs of “great violence” and had marks on her throat as well as her arms, indicating that she made an attempt to defend herself before she died, the news website Actu 17 reports.
Earlier that day at around 2 pm, a 35-year-old Algerian illegal migrant had been arrested for attempted burglary and investigators later found that he had identity documents in his possession of the 70-year-old woman who was allegedly murdered.
The day prior to the alleged murder, the 35-year-old had been subjected to a check by officers of the anti-crime brigade (BAC) along with two others, both illegal migrants as well. The two were later taken into custody in connection with the murder. All three Algerians were already known to the police, with one of them attempting to claim he was actually a minor. Police also found knives in the possession of the men following their arrest.
Grave of Swedish Child Terror Victim Ebba Åkerlund Desecrated Over a Hundred Times
10 June
[Breitbart] Stefan Åkerlund, the father of Ebba, claimed that the most recent desecration of his daughter’s grave took place this week, the day after Ebba would have turned 17 if she had not been murdered by radical Islamic migrant terrorist Rakhmat Akilov who drove a truck through a shopping street on April 7th, 2017.
In 2018, Åkerlund was able to catch an illegal immigrant who he claimed had not only desecrated Ebba’s grave but had desecrated other graves in the cemetery as well and had been doing so for over a year.
“I personally caught him in the act of desecration, when he was pouring [candle wax] on Ebba’s grave; the police released him after only one hour in custody,” he said
‘Highly Dangerous’ Smugglers Behind 10k Illegal Arrivals Arrested by European Taskforce
8 June
[Breitbart] A German-led European police taskforce claims to have arrested eight “highly dangerous” people smugglers in Austria, Germany, Hungary and Romania. and 127 others who operated a major migrant smuggling network that allegedly helped 10,000 enter Europe illegally. The European Union police agency Europol announced the results.
Europol notes that 127 others were arrested as “facilitators” of the network in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania, the Netherlands and Serbia. A total of 151 home searches were carried out and assets worth approximately €900,000 (£768,303/$962,703) were seized by authorities.
“These Europol High-Value Targets, mainly Syrian nationals, had global connections in source, transit and destination countries. Europol checked its databases and discovered that these suspects are already linked to 150 investigations,” Europol stated.
“The investigative leads revealed that the targets facilitated the smuggling of at least 10,000 migrants, who are mainly of Afghan, Pakistani and Syrian origin, to the EU,” the agency added.
[Breitbart] Bowing to pressure from protests from Moslem groups, a British cinema chain has pulled all screenings of a supposedly "blasphemous" film that uses CGI to depict the prophet Mohammed and presents contested historical events.
On Tuesday, Cineworld announced that it would cancel all screenings of The Lady of Heaven, which had sparked protests from mostly Sunni Moslem groups, who have objected to the historical accuracy of the events during the life of Mohammed’s daughter Fatimah, a key point of contention between the two main sects of Islam.
The film has also drawn the ire of Moslem activists for its digital representation of the face of Mohammed with computer-generated images of many different faces to depict the Islamic prophet, which some have claimed is blasphemous.
Responding to a petition demanding the removal of the film from all British cinemas, Cineworld said: "Due to the recent incidents regarding screenings of ’The Lady of Heaven,’ we have made the decision to cancel upcoming screenings of the film nationwide to ensure the safety of our staff and customers."
This week several protests were held outside of cinemas by what appeared to be Sunni Moslem activists, chanting slogans such as "Allah hu Akbar"(Allah is greater [than your god]).
In footage posted on social media, one protester at the Cinemaworld theatre in Bradford can be heard proclaiming: "We have a right not to be insulted".
Another said: "Birmingham will not tolerate the disrespect of our prophet and there will outcomes from your actions. You will have repercussions for your actions. We have been trained from birth that we must defend the honour of our prophet and we will lay our life on the line."
Amid chants of "Allah hu Akbar", another video appeared to show the manager of Sheffield Cineworld bending to the crowd’s demands and cancelling the screening of the film.
Other protesters were heard shouting "Kafir Kafir Shia Kafir", an Arabic slogan describing Shia Moslems as non-believers.
Journalist and Associate Fellow at the neo-conservative Henry Jackson Society think tank, Wasiq Wasiq claimed that the use of the phrase Kafir against Shia Moslems represented a form of Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... , writing that it "is more than just sectarianism, it is anti-Moslem sectarianism and therefore anti-Moslem hatred."
Wasiq also noted that the use of the phrase has been widely adopted by radical Sunni terrorist groups, including the so-called 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.... to target "not only minority sects of Moslems in Iraq and Syria but also their fellow Moslems in the Sunni strand of Islam."
Free speech advocate and Baroness of the House of Lords, Claire Fox described the decision to pull the film as the "creep of extra-parliamentary blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... law".
"Same ’I Find that Offensive’ cancel culture arguments now being used far beyond campus activism. Disastrous for the arts, dangerous for free speech, a lesson to those who argue identity politics are no threat to democracy," Fox wrote.
In an article on Spiked Online, GB News host and political commentator Inaya Folarin Iman laid the blame for the film’s cancellation on the "self-flagellation and cowardice" of cultural elites in Britannia whom she argued are "so beholden to the politics of identity and victimhood that they actually think the Moslem protesters have a point."
"This is a deeply troubling moment for freedom of speech and tolerance in Britannia. If our cultural and politicians cannot be bothered to stand up for these fundamental values, then it is all too likely they will wither away. We can’t let this happen," she urged.
Folarin Iman said that the same cultural rot had been responsible for "empowering" the protests against a British teacher last year who had shown his students a caricature of the Moslem prophet during a lesson on blasphemy, resulting in outrage within the local Islamic community in Batley and Spen.
The grammar school teacher and his family were forced into hiding after local activists leaked his identity, sparking fears that he could fall victim to a Dire Revenge attack, as befell Samuel Paty, a French teacher who was beheaded last year for showing his class a similar caricature of Mohammed.
[OneIndia] Elaborate security arrangements have been made across the city ahead of Friday prayers and Section 144 of CrPC, which restricts assembly of more than four persons, has been imposed, police officials said on Thursday.
Personnel from Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), Rapid Action Force (RAF) and Quick Response Team have been deployed in Moslem-dominated pockets, a senior police official said.
Violence had erupted in parts of Kanpur after Friday prayers last week between members of two communities over attempts to shut shops in protest against controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad by now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma.
According to the officials, Kanpur district magistrate Vishak G Ayyar and police commissioner Vijay Singh Meena also held a meeting with religious leaders, including Moslemholy mans and Hindu priests, to take them into confidence. The holy mans and priests have been asked to persuade the members of their respective communities to maintain peace, they said.
It has been decided to make deployment of police personnel on the rooftops of the high-rise buildings and all the subordinates and station heads have been asked to ensure round-the-clock patrolling and take precautionary measures to maintain law and order in their respective jurisdiction, Meena said while elaborating on the arrangements made for Friday.
The route march was carried out in violence-hit areas, including Yateem Khana and Parade, where panic had gripped last week, he added. Meena also urged the people not to take the law into their hands by reacting to rumours on social media having the potential to incite violence.
Stern action will be taken against the rumour-mongers and those who try to disturb the law and order, he said. Section 144 of CrPC has been imposed in sensitive areas, the district police chief said, adding that police are keeping a close vigil with drone cameras.
Judges ruled laws had a 'punitive character' that gave exclusively judicial power
Delil Alexander was stripped of his citizenship after suspected terrorist offences
The High Court found Alexander's cancelled citizenship was unconstitutional
Two Australians suspected of terrorist activities will have their citizenship reinstated after the High Court found powers used by the government to cancel them were unconstitutional.
Turkish-Australian Delil Alexander, 35, is in jail in Syria after his Australian citizenship was removed on July 2 last year.
The identity of the second person is unknown.
Alexander's lawyers argued the Sydney-born man was in danger of 'serious human rights violations' including torture while imprisoned in Syria.
A majority of the High Court found on Wednesday the citizenship stripping powers legislated by the former coalition government were invalid. The court found it gave the former home affairs minister 'the exclusively judicial function of adjudging and punishing criminal guilt'.
It is understood Alexander and the other person will have their citizenship restored, but the decision will not impact on people held onshore.
Alexander left Australia for Turkey on April 16, 2013, but just over two weeks later he was married in Syria.
ASIO assessed he joined terrorist group Islamic State by August 2013 - a qualified security assessment over which he has sought judicial review.
In November 2017, he was arrested by Kurdish militia in a place in Syria which was not a declared area under Australian terrorist laws.
Alexander was transferred to Syrian custody and given five years in jail for 'unspecified offences under the Syrian Penal Code'. He was pardoned in June last year, having served 18 months of his term.
Shortly after he was pardoned, the ASIO director-general provided classified advice to the then home affairs minister which did not recommend citizenship cancellation, the court heard. However, the minister Karen Andrews stripped Alexander's citizenship in July 2021.
Since then, he has been in Syrian intelligence custody and his family and lawyers have been unable to contact him, leading to his sister Berivan having to launch the legal action as a 'litigation guardian'.
Government lawyers argued the minister met the three required conditions in the decision: a person has engaged in the requisite conduct; the conduct demonstrates the person has repudiated their allegiance to Australia; and it would be contrary to the public interest for them to remain an Australian citizen.
Former attorney-general Christian Porter, in introducing the changes in 2018, argued stripping Australian citizenship of people who sought to do the nation harm was an 'an integral part of our ongoing response to international violent extremism and terrorism'.
Alexander's lawyers argued the power to cancel the status of an Australian citizen is 'inherently a domestic matter' and should be reserved for a judge.
The court heard Alexander retains Turkish citizenship.
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Based on "The court found it gave the former home affairs minister 'the exclusively judicial function of adjudging and punishing criminal guilt'."
It seems to imply the courts wants to be the ruling authority, not some bureaucrat or collection of their minions.
However, I do agree when an immigrant citizen takes up arms against a duly elected government, after having earned and been granted citizenship. That citizenship should be revoked by an independent, unbiased court. They should then be expelled AFTER having served their Prison term.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
Fighting in the industrial zone of the city. The enemy suffers heavy losses in the battles for the city, data about which even leak into the Ukrainian media. However, the topic of "withdrawal to Lysichansk" continues to be blocked for political reasons. In fact, the fighting in Severodonetsk turned into the grinding of those reserves that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine pushed into the industrial zone.
2. Soledar.
Fighting in the area of Berestovoye and Belogorovka. The enemy is gradually squeezed out of the line, grinding the reserves transferred here from Artemovsk. The Lisichansk-Artemovsk highway is still under the fire control of the RF Armed Forces, however, the supply through Seversk is maintained by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
3. Svetlodarsk.
A small advance at Dolomite. Uglegorskaya TPP and Novoluganskoye are still under the APU. Counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Roty were not successful.
4. Zolotnoye.
Fighting in the area of Vrubovka, Toshkovka and Ustinovka. There is no significant progress, just like on the outskirts of Zolote.
5. Avdievka.
In the industrial zone of Avdievka, in Kamenka and Krasnogorovka, there were no significant changes.
Fighting on the outskirts of New York. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue terrorist shelling of Donetsk and other cities.
6. Izyum.
Kamyshevakha, Kurulka, Dolgenkoye - no changes. Attacks on Krasnopolye and Dolina have not yet led to the capture of these villages.
Fights for the Mother of God.
7. Svyatogorsk.
The troops are clearing the forest to the west of Svyatogorsk, and are also fighting in the Tatyanovka area. There are unconfirmed reports of the capture of Prishib and advance towards Sidorovo. In other areas, the Seversky Donets has not yet been forced. The enemy reinforced the grouping near Seversk and Zakotnoe.
8. Kharkov.
Positional battles on the line Cossack Lopan-Liptsy-Ternovoe-Rubezhnoye.
Local attack attempts from both sides did not significantly change the overall picture. We can note the further intensification of enemy fire damage on the outskirts of Kharkov and in the Sumy region.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing to resume offensive attempts in the direction of Kazachya Lopan and Liptsy.
9. Zaporozhye.
There are no significant advances on the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka line. The enemy is fortifying positions in the area of Kamenskoye and Orekhov, expecting an attack by the RF Armed Forces on Zaporozhye.
10. Nikolaev.
The RF Armed Forces ousted the remnants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Kinburn Spit and provided the possibility of artillery strikes on Ochakovo, where the enemy suffered losses in the ship composition.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine expect the resumption of active offensive operations of the RF Armed Forces north of Nikolaev, as well as on the Black Sea coast.
In the Davydov Brod area, the enemy has so far gone over to the defensive.
On the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions - without significant changes.
All the newspapers on Ostrov write about one thing today - the death sentence for foreign mercenaries in the DPR
The head of the British Foreign Office, Liz Truss, called the verdict illegitimate, and the mercenaries themselves were "prisoners of war."
Lisa, it's not for you to judge legitimacy. You hold such a post and are absolutely legally illiterate. Your knowledge of jurisprudence is much worse than your demonstrated knowledge of geography. Legitimacy is the agreement of the people with the government, its voluntary recognition of its right to make binding decisions. Empty-headed, you see, you consider yourself the people of the DPR, since you are challenging the legitimacy of court decisions.
And this trio cannot be prisoners of war. Article 47 of Protocol No. 1 "On International Armed Conflict" to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 directly in the definition of the concept of a mercenary indicates that this person "is not a citizen of a party to the conflict." This is also recognized in the UK. Two weeks ago, the lord, a member of parliament, when asked by an English journalist about the fate of the mercenary captured at Azovstal, answered that he was outside British jurisdiction, because I went to fight myself. And now suddenly the mercenary has turned into a prisoner of war?
If, according to Truss, these mercenaries are prisoners of war, then this means that the UK is officially a party to an armed conflict. Does Ms. Truss understand everything that follows from this fact?
The United States is “seriously concerned” by the death sentences that a court in the DPR issued against foreign mercenaries - two British and one Moroccan who participated in the hostilities in the Donbass.
"We call on Russia and the forces it controls to respect international humanitarian law, including the rights and protection afforded to prisoners of war," U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken tweeted, impotently calling the trial “bogus” and the mercenaries, despite all the facts, called "legitimate combatants".
Wow, how the West got up! How to kill innocent millions themselves, so silently, and then, by a court decision, their mercenaries were sentenced - they immediately screamed about justice and laws!
"Exceptional" still believe that for the whole world, only the decisions of only US sham trials are valid. The Yankees played hegemony.
I love to watch the US secretaries of state put on jester hats and throw fools around. Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the International Criminal Court - the Kangaroo Court, simply because they tried to prosecute some privates and sergeants of the US Army (they killed, just for their own pleasure, many civilians in Afghanistan - children, women, the elderly, but not the Taliban).
The US Congress urgently adopted a law against the ICC, and its judges and investigators were banned from entering the territory of the United States, it was even written into the law that if any of the US military personnel were destined to get there, then the United States was obliged to conduct a military operation (against its own allies in Brussels) for their release.
At the same time, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, by his education and position, cannot but know that the norms of international law on prisoners of war do not apply to mercenaries, and they are judged as ordinary criminals, according to the legislation of the country in which they came to kill people for money. ..
"International humanitarian law (or the law of armed conflict) does not directly prohibit mercenarism, but only says that mercenaries are not combatants and do not have the right to prisoner of war status. This means that a mercenary risks being prosecuted for participating in an armed conflict if captured."
By the way, the investigation and the court investigated this issue and came to the conclusion that all three do not fall under the Geneva Convention. There is evidence in the case file. What kind of prisoners of war and "lawful combatants" does this defective mattress squeal about then?
Firstly, the law allowing foreigners to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine was adopted by the Rada only on April 14, and the blockade of Mariupol began on March 1.
And secondly, Article 47 of Protocol No. 1 "On International Armed Conflict" to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 in the definition of the concept of a mercenary indicates that this person "is not a citizen of a party participating in the conflict", and in order to obtain Ukrainian citizenship, one must refuse from anyone else.
Mercenaries in Ukraine, of course, do not do this. So they are not combatants, but mercenaries, and they do not have any protection rights according to the conventions. In general, they can be shot on the spot without trial or investigation.
The same Aiden Aslin is a typical mercenary. Before Ukraine, he fought in Syria and was recruited to the Donbass by a friend. He himself talked about this in one of his interviews. At first, he said that he served mortars, but he has a characteristic sniper tattoo on his left arm and a callus from a trigger on his finger. He was a sniper. These cannot be released.
And in conclusion, I would like to note the following:
All the mercenaries who came to fight against the Donbass should cut down on their noses that when they are hanged, London and Washington will not be able to help them with anything other than deep concern.
In the large graphic, the numerals in the first columns are deaths, the second wounded, and the third totals.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
The last I heard, the total number of troops of both Lugansk and Donetsk was around 40,000, Just a guess, that number with recruiting could expand the force by about 10 percent total, FLOT to the rear. Just under 25 percent losses totals.
[ColonelCassad] Data on the losses of the personnel of the DPR:
The result from the beginning of the active phase of hostilities is 2057 dead and 8526 wounded. Total losses for 16 weeks - 10583 people (that is, about 50% of the composition of 1 AK at the beginning of the year). 1 AK is the Donetsk 1st Army Corps Average daily losses are gradually decreasing over the entire period and are:
- irretrievable - 18.5 daily;
- sanitary - 76 daily;
- general - 94.5 people daily
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Russian allegory...
During mating season, male bears attack females with cubs
in order to get to the cub, whom they aim to kill as they look to sexually excite the female, who can't do so when taking care of young offspring
Ah so the "cub" = Ukraine (now killed), the female = the Zelensky regime and the male = Biden and his neo-cons.
And Biden and Zelensky have hurled themselves off a cliff.
[IsraelTimes] Moscow condemns ’vicious, provocative’ attacks; both runways in Syrian capital hit three times; Israel has accused Iran of using civilian flights to transfer weapons to Hezbollah
In an unusually bitter condemnation, Russia lashed out at Israel Friday following a pre-dawn strike blamed on Israel at Damascus Airport.
An Israeli satellite intelligence firm published images showing significant damage to the runways, which it said disabled the entire airport.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Friday evening condemned the "vicious practice" of Israeli strikes on civilian infrastructure, which it said were "provocative" and "in violation of the basic norms of international law."
Israel frequently targets Iran-tied facilities and convoys in Syria, and relies on a "deconfliction mechanism" agreed with Moscow to avoid direct confrontation with Russian forces there. Israel’s ties with Russia are being strained by the Ukraine conflict, however, and Friday’s bitter comments from Russia about the Syrian strike underlined the rising friction.
Syria’s state media reported that Israeli jets struck targets south of Damascus at around 4:20 a.m on Friday, wounding one person and causing material damage. Hours later, the country’s Transport Ministry announced that it would suspend incoming and outgoing flights at the airport, citing technical disruptions.
Israel made no official comment on the incident.
ImageSat International (ISI) said the strikes "completely disabled" operations at both the airport’s runways. Each runway appeared to have been struck three times.
In separate missile strikes in April and May, other sections of one of the runways were damaged in attacks attributed to Israel. According to ISI, those strikes shortened the length of the runway significantly and prevented large planes from landing.
Friday’s strike "disabled the entire airport until repair," ISI said.
Israel has repeatedly charged Iran with smuggling weapons and missile-improving systems from Tehran to its Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah using civilian flights via Syria.
Last month, the Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic-language spokesperson alleged that the son-in-law of assassinated Iran Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani was behind such operations.
Avichay Adraee accused Iran and Hezbollah of "endangering civilians" by smuggling the armaments via civilian flights to Damascus International Airport in order "to maintain secrecy."
Israel has staged hundreds of strikes on targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations. It says it targets bases of Iran-allied militias, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah group that has fighters deployed in Syria backing Assad’s government forces, as well as arms shipments believed to be bound for various proxies.
Israeli strikes have continued in Syrian airspace, which is largely controlled by Russia, even as ties with Moscow have deteriorated in recent weeks. Israel has found itself at odds with Russia as it has increasingly supported Ukraine while seeking to maintain freedom of movement in Syria’s skies.
Late Monday night, Syrian state media reported that Israeli missiles targeted Syrian army positions south of Damascus, causing damage but no casualties. Also this week, Israeli tanks reportedly shelled a Syrian military position in a demilitarized part of the Golan Heights.
From RIA Novosti:
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
The Damascus airport runway and lighting were disabled after the strike by the Israeli Air Force, the building of one of the terminals was damaged, the Syrian Ministry of Transport said on Saturday night.
On Friday morning, the Syrian Defense Ministry said Israel fired rockets at a number of targets south of Damascus . Air defense forces are said to have shot down most of the missiles, and one civilian was injured in the Israeli attack. After that, the arrival of flights to the international airport of the Syrian capital Damascus and departures from it were suspended.
"As a result of Israel's aggression, which targeted the Damascus International Airport infrastructure, runways were disabled and significantly damaged in several places, along with navigation lighting," the agency said in a statement, quoted by radio station Shams FM.
The building of the second terminal of the airport was also damaged as a result of the attack.
"At the moment, our specialists are working to eliminate the consequences of the attack and repair what was damaged as a result of the attack. Immediately after the repair and flight safety checks, the operation of the air harbor will be resumed," the ministry said.
Private Syrian airline Cham Wings Airlines said earlier that all of its flights were diverted from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the north of the country.
The Israeli military has repeatedly struck targets in Syria, explaining their actions by the desire to prevent modern weapons from falling into the hands of enemies. First of all, we are talking about the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, which is fighting in the region on the side of Bashar al-Assad and is controlled by Tehran.
Damascus has repeatedly appealed to the UN Security Council with a demand to put pressure on Tel Aviv so that they stop systematically violating Syrian sovereignty.
3rd time's the charm!
#Israel launches second airstrike on south of #Syria's Damascus in 72 hours, wounding a civilian and leaving material losses.https://t.co/CZD6J1S4TA
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 10, 2022
Israel targeted on Friday at dawn sites and military posts south of the Syrian capital, Damascus, with missiles.
State News Agency SANA cited a military source as saying, “The Israeli enemy launched at 4.20 am on Friday an aerial aggression from the occupied Syria Golan’s airspace, targeting some post south of Damascus.”
“Army air defenses confronted the aggression and shot down a most of the missiles,” the source added.
As a result, a civilian was wounded and material losses were reported, according to the source cited by SANA.
On Monday, Israel launched a similar airstrike on south of Damascus, only material losses were reported.
The airport is located in a region south of Damascus where Iran-backed groups, including Hezbollah, regularly operate.
The vicinity of the facility is favorite target for Israel which has launched 15 aerial attacks on Syria this year alone and regularly accuses Iran of using Damascus airport to send weapons shipments to its allies.
The Observatory said the runway hit in the attack had already been in poor condition before the raids.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:15 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about 8 victims among civilians as a result of shelling of the VFU of the settlement. Gorlovka:
microdistrict "Solnechny":
- a woman died (personal data is being established);
- a woman born in 1946 was wounded.
the village of Kondratievka:
- a girl born in 2003 died.
- injured: teenage boy born in 2007, women born in 1966 and 1987
Golmovsky village:
- men born in 1969 and 1957 were wounded.
Updated information was received that as a result of the shelling of the VFU state farm "Gorlovsky" settlement. Gorlovka, a woman born in 1973 was wounded.
Information was also received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the following settlements:
n.p. Gorlovka:
- st. Bogomolets, 1 - a direct hit in an apartment building;
- st. Trunk, 15 - a direct hit in an apartment building;
- st. Trunk, 13 - apartment building;
- st. Admiralteyskaya, 2 - a direct hit in an apartment building.
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- st. Teslenko, 26 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Mediterranean, 12 - a fire was recorded;
- st. Terpigoreva, 37 - garage cooperative; damaged garages and cars;
- Panfilov Ave., 91 - VFU ammunition hit the Toyota Center;
- st. Military, 36 - hotel complex.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
22:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction: 21:30 — n.p. Kamyshevka - Donetsk: 40 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
21:50 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction:
21:05 — n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kirov district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
21:22 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction:
21:00 — n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Wide Beam: fired eight shells of 122mm caliber. 21:15 — n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
20:46 Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation discussed with the ambassadors of the DPR and LPR the issues of providing humanitarian assistance to the republics through international organizations
20:43 The APU continues to shell Gorlovka, as a result of which four people were killed and nine more were injured.
20:41 The Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk is now under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:40 Shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the direction:
20:29 — n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
20:21 As a result of the mortar shelling of N. p. Pervomaisk damaged apartment building, the Administration of Pervomaisk, the city center of culture and leisure "Zarya".
20:20 Shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
18:30 — n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
20:01 Donetsk received humanitarian aid collected by residents of the Russian Federation.
19:31 Shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
19:20 — n.p. Codema - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): 10 shells fired with a caliber of 122mm;
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS;
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
19:23 Mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko: an apartment building damaged as a result of shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine along Magistralnaya Street, 15 in the Solnechny residential area of the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka.
19:16 Shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Gorlovka: 10 rockets were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
— n.p. Majorsk - n.p. Gorlovka (Kalinin district): 10 122mm shells were fired;
— n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: fired eight mines in 120mm caliber.
19:00 Over the current day, joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed two armored personnel carriers-2, one firing position of 122mm D-30 artillery howitzers, 2 cargo vehicles and more than forty personnel, suppressed two firing points the enemy in the area of N. p. Avdievka. Captured one 152mm self-propelled artillery mount 2S3 "Acacia" and one infantry fighting vehicle.
In addition, in the Gorlovka direction, nine servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily laid down their arms, thereby saving their lives.
18:42 Mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko: as a result of an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a direct hit by a shell was recorded in apartment No. Three wounded people were pulled out from under the rubble.
Also, two civilians from Gorlovka were injured as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the state farm "Gorlovsky" (Kalinin district of Gorlovka).
There was a report that another civilian was injured in the Solnechny residential area of the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka along Magistralnaya Street, 15. All victims are provided with qualified medical assistance. An ambulance left for the village of Kondratievsky, where a woman was wounded along Admiralteyskaya Street, 2/37.
On Magistralnaya Street, 15, a woman was killed as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:36 Shelling of the territory of the LPR was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
18.15 from the direction of N. p. Gorskoe along the settlement Pervomaisk using 120mm mortars (eight mines).
18:18 As a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka, the number of wounded has increased to six people.
17:59 The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka. As a result of the shelling, five people were injured, including a teenager.
17:30 The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shooting at civilian targets, there are no military even nearby. The goal is to intimidate civilians.
"Terrorism in its purest form," Pushilin stated.
17:03 Shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymnovka: nine shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Gorlovka: 15 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kirov district): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
16:53 Shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): seven shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Vodyane - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
16:40 About 70,000 Ukrainian military may be in Slovyansk and adjacent territories, - Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Artem Olkhin.
16:30 The first batch of grain from the Lugansk People's Republic with a total weight of 650 tons went to Russia.
16:05 Consequences of shelling near the Administration of the head of the DPR on the avenue 25 years of the Red Army.
15:59 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Gorlovka (Kalininskiy district): 12 shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Dzerzhinsk (South mine) - settlement Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): fired five mines with a caliber of 120mm.
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Voroshilovsky district): three shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:56 The Green Plaza shopping center and Pushkin Boulevard in Donetsk came under fire from militants.
15:55 An explosion thundered in the center of Donetsk near the administration of the head of the DPR.
15:54 Local residents report arrivals in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk. The information is being specified.
15:39 Consequences of shelling by artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Krasnogvardeisky district of the city of Makeevka (Trochinsky St., Fontannaya St.)
14:56 Shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: three shells fired with a caliber of 152mm;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.
14:44 Video with the aftermath of the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. The Ukrainian shell landed right on the roof of a residential building.
14:43 The fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine use the French artillery installation CAESAR supplied by NATO during the shelling of Donetsk, the DPR reported.
14:35 Shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: three 122mm rounds fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka: three shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
14:34 As a result of the shelling of the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka from the side of the VFU, shells hit the yard of mine 2-bis on the street. Voznesensky 2a, hit in a substation, power cables were broken, insulators were damaged, roof and dry grass caught fire due to shelling. The fire was extinguished by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR, - Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko.Video
14:12 Fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an artillery strike on the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. During the shelling of the city, housing construction on the street was damaged. Aral, damaged gas pipeline.
14:11 During the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an apartment building in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk on the street was damaged. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky.
13:58 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction:
13:15 — n.p. Nikolaevka Second - n.p. Gorlovka: 19 shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
13:56 Fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine killed 2 and wounded 3 more civilians during the shelling of the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka. During the shelling of MREO on the street. Fountain in the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeyevka, a man died on the spot. A civilian was wounded up the street, two women were also injured near the Diana store and one more man died.
13:45 Destroyed American howitzer M777, Lisichansk area.
13:40 In the private sector of the Kirovsky district, as a result of the hit, a private residential building caught fire at the address: st. Kirov, 242. In the Kuibyshevsky district, the glazing of windows in an apartment building at the address: st. Semyon-Tyanshansky, 11 - Mayor of Donetsk Alexei Kulemzin.Video of the aftermath of the shelling
13:38 More than a thousand civilians are being held in the industrial zone of Severodonetsk - assistant to the head of Chechnya.
13:33 Shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Majorsk - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): seven shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
13:07 The village of Lidievka in Donetsk under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:06 As a result of the shelling of Makiivka, Ukrainian shells exploded along the street. Fontannaya at the local MREO.
13:05 Shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Zhovanka - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): 15 mines fired in 60mm caliber;
— n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (Kalinin district): 15 mines fired with 60mm caliber;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Ozeryanovka: nine shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Kamyshevka - Donetsk: six missiles were fired from the MLRS BM-27 "Hurricane";
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
12:50 The People's Militia of the DPR suppressed three enemy firing points in the area of Sand and Avdievka.
Enemy losses:
- installation of a multiple launch rocket system BM-21 "Grad";
- two tanks;
- three armored personnel carriers-2;
- two ammunition delivery vehicles;
- control point for drones;
- more than 70 militants.
12:27 Mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko published a photo of the consequences of the shelling by Ukrainian militants of the village of the mine named after. Kalinin (Kalinin district of Gorlovka). On st. Zorge, 11 - the ignition of two buildings, on the street. Zorge, 24/1 - the house was significantly damaged, as a result of a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell, numerous damages were recorded to the housing construction on the street. Ermak, 21.
12:10 As a result of the shelling by the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two civilians died in the Gorlovsky village of the Kalinin mine, 1954 and. born in 1957
12:04 Local residents report arrivals in the Azotny microdistrict in Donetsk and Gvardeyka in Makeevka.
11:55 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of:
— n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:50 Rocket troops and artillery destroyed more than 350 nationalists and two Grad multiple rocket launchers - Russian Defense Ministry
11:31 Shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Oleksandrivka: seven shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: 10 mines fired from 120mm;
— n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Gorlovka: nine shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm.
— n.p. Nikolaevka Second - n.p. Gorlovka: 12 shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Gorlovka: three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Gorlovka: five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Majorsk - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): five RPG grenades were fired, small arms were also used;
— n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): eight shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Severnoe - Donetsk: 40 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
11:26 As a result of shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka, on the street. Trochinsky, the number of victims increased to seven people: one died, six were injured.
10:49 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:15 The General Staff of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was forced to admit that the settlements of Kamyshevakh and Roti (Bakhmut/Artemovsk direction) came under the control of the Russian army and the People's Militia.
10:13 Our troops of the "Z" group have established full control over the settlements of Izbitskoye and Varvarovka. Currently, the nearby forest plantations are being cleared. During the occupation of settlements, Ukrainian militants were taken prisoner.
10:12 Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine subjected to fire the village of Kondratievsky (Kalinin district of Gorlovka). A rupture of a Ukrainian shell was recorded along the street. Neglinnoy, 12/2, as a result of which the housing construction and the building of the post office of the State Enterprise "Post of Donbass" on the street. Veresaeva, 15 damaged. There is no lighting on the street. Vyazemsky and Bryullov. Preliminary, no casualties, - the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko
10:11 According to updated data, the death toll during yesterday's Ukrainian shelling of Stakhanov in the LPR from the Uragan installations has reached 22 people - the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR.
10:05 As a result of armed aggression of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along 4 Altaiskaya Street, in the village of mine named after. V. I. Lenin (Central City district of Gorlovka), the house is on fire. In the Gorlovsky village of Golmovsky, as a result of a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell in a house along Zagorodnya Street, 12, a gas pipeline was damaged. Preliminary, no casualties, - the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko
09:13 Over the past day, from 08:00 on June 9 to 08:00 on June 10, as a result of shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the DPR, four people were killed and six more civilians were injured, the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations reports.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia has killed a young man from Ibb province on the Tor al-Baha road in Lahj province.
Local sources said that a 20-year-old Khaled Abdullah, a resident from Ibb province, was shot dead on Thursday by members of the STC militia near Tor al-Baha, west of Lahj, while he was heading to Aden city.
According to the sources, the bus he was riding on was intercepted by STC militias, and the passengers were ordered off the bus and robbed of all their property and money.
However, Khaled reportedly refused to hand over his money and belongings. He entered into a verbal altercation that led to shots fired at him, killing him instantly.
This crime comes less than a week after the killing of Akram Mohammed al-Azazi, who was passing with his father in Al-Ma’amiya area of Tor Al-Baha road in his truck when he was killed.
[Jpost] A Russian politician claimed the bill could be used to force NATO out of countries that joined the alliance after 1999.
A member of Russia's State Duma has submitted a bill to the country's parliament to repeal the recognition by the USSR of Lithuania's independence on Wednesday, saying that such a move could allow Russia to push NATO out of countries that joined after 1999.
The bill was submitted by Yevgeny Fyodorov, a deputy of the State Duma and a member of Russian President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party. The law was sent by the chairman of the State Duma to the State Duma Committee on International Affairs on Thursday afternoon.
Continued on Page 49
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Body camera footage captured the standoff between cops and a criminal holding a baby hostage that began in the tiny town of St. George. Utah and finished in the desert in the northwestern portion of Arizona near Beaver Dam.
The incident only ended after a police sniper shot the 30-year-old suspect, Oscar Alcantara, dead, while he was holding a baby that he had kidnapped.
The dramatic incident occurred in mid-February this year but the videos have only just been released following a public records request by television station KUTV.
Washington City police were already looking to capture Alcantara in connection with a separate incident in which a weapon was used.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Pavel Kukhmirov
[RODINANANEVE] Despite a number of successful actions of our army in the Donbass, in general, there is no point in denying that the war has stalled. The forces of Russia and the Kyiv regime have entered into a clinch, and the situation has not changed fundamentally for weeks. And now for months. However, something is still happening. For example, the supply of modern weapons systems to Ukraine from the United States and other NATO countries. For example, more and more "foreign specialists" and other "contractors" enter the territory. For example, the increase in Ukrainian military activity in other areas.
Literally, it has just become known about new incidents in Transnistria , which they are clearly trying to set on fire with completely understandable goals. But this, for now, is still trifles.
The barbaric bombardments of Donetsk, Makeevka, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Snezhnoye, Stakhanov and other cities of Donbass have begun again and are not trifles at all. According to some reports: with the use of the very modern weapons systems supplied by Western countries. And there is nothing surprising here. It's like in Brazilian football: if you don't score, they score for you. Marking time can have no other result. But Ukraine does all this for only one reason: because it can. Question: why can she?
Well, seriously: why? After all, Russia really has an overwhelming technological superiority over it. I will modestly keep silent about mobilization superiority, because it is a topic for a separate and separate discussion. But now it's about something else.
For a very long time, Ukraine has been promised strikes against some “decision-making centers”. Or rather, they promised. Now the promise is gone. As a result, creating in Ukraine a feeling of complete impunity not only for all possible terrorist attacks on Donetsk (and they are precisely terrorist, since they are inflicted on the civilian population), but also on the territory of the Russian Federation itself.
And this is just the beginning: it can be much more fun. This begs the question: why are these same decision-making centers not dealt with the same blows? In response, something unintelligible and unconvincing sounds, from the series "they all have already hidden" and "everything is decided for them in Washington."
No. This is complete nonsense.
Let's start with the fact that initially there was confusion in terminology. Their decision-making centers, perhaps, are in Washington. But the control centers in Ukraine. And they meant just that. Because decisions are made by people, and structures manage. And they were obviously going to “strike” not at incompetent or hostile elites (before that, in Moscow, alas, they had not yet matured all the more), but at the nerve centers of the state system. Here is the correct question. Whoever and wherever "made decisions", but everything is controlled by information and staff culture in any expression. Not only in the military, but also in many others.
And it is precisely on her nerve nodes that striking is absolutely real. And attempts to include "sarcasm" about this, they say, "where are they, these nodes", is completely out of place. These nodes themselves are known, as well as their addresses/passwords/appearances. What are they?
Well, firstly , since we are talking about "centers", then first of all these are data centers that manage large amounts of information. And above all, these are financial centers responsible for banking processing. Hitting them is almost a knockout. The modern state from this will simply begin to disintegrate into fragments. Inflict a couple of pinpoint strikes on the centers of financial and industrial groups in Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk - the result will already be amazing.
Second , it's a connection. Mobile communications and the Internet of Ukraine still work like clockwork. And now it is precisely on them, in many respects, that even command and control of the troops is carried out (I know - I saw it), not to mention the civilian infrastructure of the state. And here, too, we are talking about data centers and servers of cellular and Internet companies. I'm not talking about state special communications. A blow to them is a blow to the nerve centers, which paralyzes.
Thirdly , information terminals of law enforcement agencies and other government departments. All the same servers and data centers. Hit them and the state administration will shrink, as if having received a blow to the solar plexus.
Well, and fourthly , these are military and civilian headquarters, which, in fact, are also information control centers. There are actually not very many of those. And those key people who are of critical importance in the implementation of management are even fewer. And there is no need to tell, they say, "we have no irreplaceable ones." You don't have it. And in such stories, they are still there. And the conclusion from the equation of each is a critical damage to the controllability of a large and complex system.
That's what they are, these control centers. Suddenly, right? This is the very heart of the hydra, which must be beaten, and not deal with nonsense with chopping off its heads, which instantly grow back.
But if we talk specifically about “decision-making centers” in the true sense of the word (that is, not about structures, but about personalities), then this is also an option. Which has never been neglected neither by the USA, nor by Israel, nor by Europe. Yes, no one at all. Including Russia - for example, in Ichkeria,
...following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the so-called Chechen Republic of Ichkeria evolved into the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate, the umbrella group for the jihadi organizations in the North Caucasus...
where a lot of things were decided by means of personal cleansing of the elite of the terrorist quasi-state formation.
Much critical. I see no reason why the Dudaev elite is fundamentally different from the Bandera one. No, I understand that this needs a political decision. Well, I leave to the court of the respected reader the question of why it is not accepted.
Well, and finally . What I said above is no revelation. These are obvious things. But 100 days have already passed of what we are forced to call a “special military operation” (although what is happening has a simpler and more correct name), and this “obvious” has not yet been implemented.
Although much had to be realized already in the first hours of hostilities. Options for answering the legitimate question "why so?" just two. It's either incompetence or bidding. Well, rather, an attempt to conduct these auctions. So to speak, save yourself some room for maneuver. Or to be more precise: the opportunity to pass back.
Only here I will tell you one thing, guys: you do not have such an opportunity. And the sooner you understand (or accept) this, stop playing and start fighting seriously, the less lives will pay for the result.
And it is by no means only about the lives of the residents of Donetsk.
Pavel Kukhmirov is a writer and a former militiaman. He resides in Rostov, Russia.
Regarding the Christina Pushaw story...
[AceOfSpades] Gee, I wonder why the DOJ would have chosen to leak this story today to a corrupt propaganda paper that carries its water for it.
Might it have leaked this in order to offset the story that General John Allen, a leader at the leftwing, extremely Clinton-aligned Brookings Institution -- essentially an incubator for the Russiagate Conspiracy Theory, as it employed "Primary Sub-Source 1," Igor "Iggy" Danchenko, who will go on trial soon -- is now being investigated for acting as an illegal, undisclosed agent of Qatar?
Dave Reaboi has been screaming about all the DC Swamp Creatures -- especially those allied with the Democrats -- who are paid foreign agents of Qatar, but who are permitted to continue operating without registering under FARA because so many of them are on the take that to start calling out any of them would bring down the entire dirty whorehouse. At this point Ace posts a screenshot of a tweet I can't find to link to... go to the original post, please. Anyway, continuing...
Dave Reaboi has been making the case that a substantial part of the DC foreign policy Swamp is not-so-secretly on Qatar's payroll for years. He wrote a book about it: Qatar's Shadow War: The Islamist Emirate and its Information Operations in the United States.
Federal prosecutors have obtained records indicating that John R. Allen, the retired four-star Marine general who commanded all American troops in Afghanistan and now heads a venerable Washington think tank, secretly lobbied for the government of Qatar, lied to investigators about his role and tried to withhold evidence sought by a federal subpoena, according to court documents.
The court records are the latest evidence of a broad investigation by the Justice Department and F.B.I. into the influence that wealthy Arab nations like Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia wield in Washington.
The records about General Allen were filed in April in Federal District Court in central California in an application for a warrant to search General Allen's electronic communications.
So yes, I strongly suspect the DOJ leaked the bullshit about Christina Pushaw to offset this major, major scandal about a four start general getting caught acting as a secret agent for Qatar.
Given that half of DC is on Qatar's payroll, I don't know if I'd expect this go any further than Allen. The whole town has a strong personal interest in making this investigation short and laser-focused on a single individual.
Though that might be a little tricky:
Other filings in the case appear to remain sealed, and the public release of the warrant application may have been accidental. The filing lays out evidence that General Allen joined in the secret lobbying plan along with Richard G. Olson, a former United States ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan, and Imaad Zuberi, a business executive with ties in the Middle East
They accidentally released the warrant application, so they rushed out the leak about Christina Pushaw.
Mr. Zuberi is serving a prison sentence for violating foreign lobbying, campaign finance and tax laws, as well as for obstruction of justice. Mr. Olson has agreed to plead guilty for participating in the Qatari lobbying effort in violation of a prohibition on such activity during the first year after leaving diplomatic service.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stood up for his press secretary, Christina Pushaw Wednesday, after a hit piece in the Washington Post accused her of violating the FARA Act.
"I am not deterred by any smear piece from these legacy media outlets," DeSantis said during a press conference in West Palm Beach. "The only reason they’re attacking her is because she’s doing a great job."
According to the Post, Pushaw belatedly registered this week as a foreign agent of a former president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, regarding work she did for the politician between 2018 and 2020. She made the disclosure after being contacted by the Justice Department, her attorney Michael Sherwin said.
"She began her work in 2018 as a volunteer in the post-Soviet country, Sherwin said, and was ultimately paid $25,000 over the course of two years. She received her first payment, of $10,000 in October 2018, in cash, according to her filing. She stayed for free for six weeks in an apartment owned by a Saakashvili associate in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.
"Her efforts included writing op-eds, reaching out to supporters and officials, and advocating on his behalf in Georgia and in the United States," Sherwin said. "The work ended in 2020. Ms. Pushaw was notified recently by the DOJ that her work on behalf of Mr. Saakashvilli likely required FARA registration. Ms. Pushaw filed for the registration retroactively as soon as she was made aware."
National Security expert David Reaboi, who previously worked for the Embassy of Hungary registered as a foreign agent under FARA, told American Greatness that the story is a "nothingburger."
"Of course, there’s no shame in working for a foreign client, especially one that’s pro-America and aligns with your values," Reaboi said. "What Christina Pushaw did wasn’t improper in any way, and long preceded her work for the Governor in Florida."
He continued: "Christina is by far the sharpest Comms staffer working in politics today—she’s exceptionally good at her job, and she doesn’t suffer fools. It’s no surprise that the leftist media is after her, because she’s made them look more foolish than anyone else. This cheap attack will fail, thankfully."
For her part, Pushaw told Florida’s Voice that "retroactive filing is routine."
"I voluntarily complied as soon as I was notified that I might be required to file," she said. "I have been very open about my past work in Georgia, which ended in 2020 — six months before I came to Florida. This has nothing to do with my work or the governor’s office."
Pushaw pointed out on Twitter that—contra the media narrative—she was working for a leader who was an enemy of Russia President Vladimir Putin.
Lib logic:
Put a Ukraine flag in your bio, and you’re a hero standing up against Russia
Actually spend years living and working in a foreign country for a leader who went to war with Putin, and you’re a Russian agent
Not serious people
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:13 The dismantling of Soviet monuments in Ukraine continues. In the city of Kamenetz-Podolsky, Khmelnytsky region, a monument to Soviet tankmen was removed from the pedestal today. 20:45 "In the Nikolaev region, on the bridge, an exchange of prisoners took place. Four of ours against five Ukrainians. To understand where one of the lines of contact is now," -- Yulia Vityazeva
19:29 Air defense worked over Sevastopol.
18:01 In the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine, the military goes to recreation centers every day and writes summons to the military registration and enlistment office right in the pool.
17:08 After a little digging into the Ukrainian documents about CAESAR 155mm self-propelled artillery mounts, we found something extremely interesting: the used 155mm OGR F1 projectile.
The OGR F1 is a 155 mm cluster munition. The concept of this type of weapon involves breaking the main warhead in the air with the release of dozens of smaller submunitions capable of covering a wide area. In the case of OGR, the bomb breaks into 63 small elements.
Due to the extremely high likelihood of harming civilians, cluster shells were banned as a result of the UN convention in Oslo, developed and approved by 46 states, including France, in 2010. The National Commission for the Destruction of Anti-Personnel Mines (CNEMA), operating under the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in 2016 successfully reported on the elimination of all M26 and OGR F1 ammunition.
Thanks to the leaky information security system in Ukraine, it is perfectly clear that the French not only did not destroy the prohibited type of weapons, but also handed it over to Ukrainian servicemen. And those, in turn, "successfully" use them against the civilian population of Donbass.
Well, the icing on the cake: the Armed Forces of Ukraine uses versions of shells with a remote fuse designed to increase the area of destruction of manpower. That is, the Ukrainian armed formations deliberately seek to kill as many civilians in the city as possible. "successfully" use them against the civilian population of Donbass.
16:26 By the decision of the CAA of the city of Berdyansk, in honor of the celebration of the Day of Russia, the following days off and holidays are established:
June 11 - day off
June 12 - holiday - Day of Russia
June 13 - day off
At the same time, the work of the mayor's office of the city of Berdyansk on June 11 and 13 will take place as usual on weekdays.
16:15 Serbia will not join the European Union without recognizing the independence of Kosovo.
This was announced by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Vučić has already stated that Western countries are moving closer to Kosovo in order to provoke Serbia.
The Serbian leader emphasized that he would pursue a sovereign policy and renounce anti-Russian sanctions.
At the same time, support for European integration among Serbs fell to a record low amid pressure on Belgrade from the West.
16:03 Ukraine repeats the mistakes of fascist Germany. Once the Wehrmacht had already burned the Donbass. How much more direct evidence is needed for the international community to see the repetition of mistakes?
Oh yes, for several years they have been stuffing Ukraine with weapons that are directed against the inhabitants of Donbass. But we all remember how the Nazi aggression ended.
14:17 Nazi ideology in Ukraine begins to be instilled from childhood. Nazi ideology has been nurtured in Ukraine for more than one year. From childhood, Russophobia is brought up in children. As adults, they themselves sincerely believe that genocide against the Russian people is normal.
13:35 Lavrov advised Polish President Duda, who compared Putin to Hitler, to learn the history of his country.
"So far, we see that behind the talk about the inadmissibility of dialogue with Russia, Polish colleagues are beginning to actively develop Ukrainian territory," the minister added.
13:20 In Melitopol, the Melitopol Museum of Local Lore was solemnly opened with the Tricolor raised and the Russian anthem. The director of the museum, Yevgeny Gorlachev, noted the need to recreate the expositions about the revolution, the civil war, the 30s of Soviet history, as well as the creation of an exposition dedicated to the liberation of the city during a special operation in the future.
12:37 The Russian Guard detained three accomplices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region. The saboteurs found 17 weapons: hunting carbines, machine guns, pistols, as well as grenades and cartridges. In addition, a laptop with data on the activities of the Ukrainian military was found.
12:20 Now, many have begun to report that Ukraine will now face a cholera epidemic, and then epidemics will start to stick like a snowball.
11:40 Briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry on June 10, 2022
- Aviation equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed at the military airfield of Dnepropetrovsk;
- In the Kharkov region, the production facilities of an enterprise for the restoration of weapons and military equipment were destroyed;
- Air-launched missiles hit 39 targets;
- Air strikes were carried out on 46 objects;
- Two Ukrainian Su-25s and one MiG-29 were shot down over the Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk regions;
- Destroyed five Ukrainian UAVs;
- Rocket troops and artillery hit 503 targets.
11:30 The situation in the Nikolaev-Kherson direction as of 11.00 June 10, 2022:
After the failures at the Serpentine (island)
and the collapse of the defense in the Donbass, the military-political leadership of Ukraine is trying to scratch out a small PR victory at least somewhere. Judging by the number of efforts made and the volume of reinforcements, it was decided to try to recapture the Kherson region, which is preparing by leaps and bounds to join the Russian Federation.
On the eve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an attempt was made to advance between Snigirevka and Davydov Brod: the Ingulets River was tried in several places to force units of the 63rd Ombre of the reserve corps. At the same time, there was an attempt to land a tactical landing: four Mi-8 helicopters took part in the raid, supported by two cover helicopters and tactical aviation.
The reconnaissance of the targets was carried out by the Bayraktar and Leleka UAVs: for several days now, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been reconnoitering the situation on the section of the Davydov Brod - Novaya Kakhovka road.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine did not manage to cross the Ingulets and cross to the other side: they worked out the Solntsepek TOS on the advancing units, and the helicopter landing turned around halfway.
The RF Armed Forces continue to hold a bridgehead on the northern bank of the Ingulets in the Velikoye Artakovo-Belaya Krinitsa sector. The Armed Forces of Ukraine mine the approaches and dig in five kilometers to the north at the Kalinovka-Caucasus line.
At the same time, along the entire line of contact, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to mislead the RF Armed Forces and imitate attacks using smoke screens.
Russian troops are building up forces in the Alexandrovka-Posad-Pokrovskoye section, preparing for an offensive on Luparevo. Despite reports from the field about the activation of the RF Armed Forces, the offensive has not yet begun: artillery preparation is underway.
Therefore, the Armed Forces of Ukraine urgently transferred reserves to Mirnoye, Shevchenkove, Novogrigorovka and Galitsinovo. Up to 300 servicemen arrived with 60 pieces of equipment (judging by internal Ukrainian reports). How combat-ready six dozen pieces of equipment is is a big question.
The Kinburn Spit was completely cleared of the DRG of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: the operation was carried out after the boat group of the Ukrainian Navy in the Dnieper estuary was disabled. The technical condition of the Ukrainian landing ship "Yury Olefirenko" is unknown: it was hit on June 6th, and, apparently, the ship was disabled. Otherwise, the cleansing of the Kinburn Spit would have been impossible.
The section Ochakov - Pervomaisky Island - Kinburn Spit is still partially blocked and mined by old Ukrainian barges.
A full-fledged cleansing of the Kinburn Spit makes it possible to transfer cannon and rocket artillery guns to Vasilyevka and Pokrovka for targeted work on Ochakov.
11:22 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry:
The Russian Armed Forces with high-precision missiles destroyed the aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force at the Dnepr airfield;
Rocket troops and artillery destroyed more than 350 nationalists and two Grad rocket launchers;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the production facilities of an enterprise for the restoration of weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkov region;
Russian air defense systems shot down two Ukrainian aircraft in a day: a Su-25 in the Kharkiv region and a MiG-29 in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
11:14 In Ukraine, a criminal case has been opened against political strategist Mikhail Pogrebinsky, local media write.
He is suspected of high treason and "subversive activities in the information sphere."
10:40 A subversive group of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered the territory of the Bryansk region near the village of Podyvot'e, a battle ensued. After that, the possible location of the Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage group was fired from grenade launchers and howitzers.
In addition, information appeared that at 5 in the morning, residents of another village, Belaya Berezka, heard explosions and saw a column of smoke. According to preliminary data, it was an attempt to shell the border office on the border with Ukraine.
10:30 The borders between the Kherson region and Crimea will be removed, which, among other things, will help the export of grain, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region.
10:28 Defense of the city of Ochakov, Mykolaiv region, standing at the exit from the Dnieper-Bug estuary to the Black Sea, was left without ships. Of the two ships of the Ukrainian Navy, one was flooded, the second was withdrawn from the combat area due to the low morale of the crew.
10:21 At night, mortar strikes were inflicted on enemy military facilities in the Sumy region.
[Twitchy] Rachel Maddow actually ADMITS Trump and his rally had nothing to do with Jan. 6 Capitol breach (no seriously, WATCH)
We have watched this clip of Rachel Maddow several times now, waiting for there to be a punchline or something we’re missing, maybe a follow-up about how Trump is still evil and kicks puppies, starves orphans, etcetera, but no. Granted, this is just a clip, and who knows what she rattled off after dropping this little truth bomb but she said what she said. I am gobsmacked.
Take a look:
Even MSNBC admits President Trump and the rally had nothing to do with the Capitol breach! pic.twitter.com/sMGyHW3KcP
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While Trump was speaking, long before he finished, two travel buses pulled up in front of the capitol despite roads to the capitol being closed. People dressed as Trump supporters exited the two buses. The bus riders then entered the capitol somewhat peacefully.
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Smelled like an out of control FBI and Deep State sting operavion from the beginning. Control never has been an FBI strong suite. I could give Waco. Nadal Hasan, and Boston Marathon bombing as possible examples....I say again 'possible.'
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Jan 6 is not the "bombshell" the dems were hoping for. It's unlikely COVID hysteria will be rekindled in time for the November mid-terms. Polls show most Americans are skeptical of USA involvement in Ukraine and don't blame Putin for US inflation and shortages.
They will have to throw some sort of hail Mary before November that is unrelated to those items cited above. They are so screwed.
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..you really think they're going to give up the power? They got away with bare naked Central American election last time, why should they care what you or I think is legitimate and what is not.
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They leaked the Roe v Wade decision so they could wave that bloody coat hanger. That was pretty obvious but it remains to be seen how effective it was.
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Playing exclusively to the extreme fringes of their shrinking base is not going to be an effective strategy.
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Its the Chutzpah voter fraud that worries me. I just voted in person in Nevada. Brought in my mail-in ballot (Nevada has gone all-in for mail-in) to a voting site to do in-person voting. There was an elaborate procedure to void my serialized, by name mail-in ballot, and verify my signature, but NOT ask for any form of ID. Then you get a plastic card to insert into a large touch-screen voting machine (not provided with any privacy protection) and select the candidates on the primary ballot. After another fairly tedious review on the screen, you select "print ballot" and the machine whirs a few seconds and tells you to withdraw the card and you are finished. NO PRINTED DOCUMENT appeared. When I asked one of the watching poll workers where the printed ballot was, he explained that "printed" meant it went into the system electronically, not that a ballot was actually printed for deposit by me. The whole process was merely a confabulation to explain I had just voted electronically, and had no proof that the machine correctly mirrored my choices. I admit I'm primed to distrust the system, but this is theater, not secure in-person voting.
Stalin's words came to mind more powerfully than ever. Some faceless IT tech can decide who won if they wish, or get paid to do so.
WE MUST return to voter ID and paper ballot counted manually with bi=partisan poll watchers.
[JustTheNews] FBI intelligence warning that Jan. 6 protesters might violently storm the Capitol, target lawmakers and blockade Democrats in tunnels was never sent to frontline police commanders and officers, but was quietly emailed the night before to a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, according to documents that raise new concern that politics trumped security preparedness in the fateful hours before the riot.
Capitol Police Deputy Chief Sean Gallagher emailed top Schumer aide Kelly Fado, now the Senate's deputy sergeant of arms, at about 9:40 p.m. on Jan. 5, 2021 saying he wanted to "provide you visibility" to new intelligence that an FBI threat analysis center had received from a website owner, according to documents obtained by Just the News.
The information explicitly warned that demonstrators had detailed maps of the tunnel systems around the Capitol frequented by lawmakers and their staffs and they were plotting to create a "perimeter" for potential violence and to find "Democratic members early to block them from entering the Capitol." One point of entry the rioters were targeting was the Library of Congress, he warned.
"The owner of the website submitted an online tip to the FBI NTOC (National Threat Operations Center) stating that he has noticed a significant uptick in new visitors to his website," Gallagher wrote.
How many of them would be identified as FBI agents provocateur or Antifa if someone actually tracked them down to identify them? Or Russian/Iranian/Chinese/Romanian trolls trying to cause trouble? Because as far as I am aware, none of that happened in real life.
"We have identified numerous open-source comments indicating groups intentions of finding the tunnel entrances and confronting/blocking" members of Congress.
"Additionally," he said, "we have seen a huge uptick with reporting via open source of the groups intentions of forming a perimeter around the campus (indicated in image #5 above) from 0600-1000 hours in order to block all MOC's from getting inside our perimeter to the Buildings with spots identified for direct action."
The Gallagher-Fado email is part of a tranche of documents obtained by Just the News from Capitol Police and congressional sources that show widespread security and intelligence lapses before Jan. 6.
An internal after-action report by the Capitol Police Department identified 53 major failures, while the department's official timeline of the tragedy revealed the Trump Pentagon began offering Congress a deployment of National Guard troops on Jan. 2, 2021, four days before the tragedy, but it was turned down, first by police and later by aides to Pelosi and Schumer.
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Out of the thousands of people that went to the protest very few would have considered storming the Capitol. All of those few were instigators. It seems that the FBI intelligence gathering is limited to their own instigators and surveillance of innocent Americans that they disagree with.
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If everyone there took a 15 minute tour it would have been a 24 hour affair.
Schumer? Thought this was a House affair. Anyways, better theater if they don't tell people. Maybe even have a shootout.
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None of these a$$holes grandstanding this should ever have the words "The Peoples' House" pass their lips again, unless it's right before they hang.
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[Townhall] But the facts weren’t out about that day. Many remain undiscovered. And today, to the annoyance of hysterical Democrats hellbent on advancing their theatrical narrative about January 6th, Republicans are raising one looming question that remains overtly (and purposefully) ignored by the Democrats’ Partisan Witch-hunt Committee:
Why did Nancy Pelosi fail to properly protect the Capitol while President Trump, on January 4th, requested 10,000 National Guard Troops be available to provide security to Americans and the United States Capitol on January 6th?
The Left would very much like for you to ignore this question. Its answer fundamentally undermines the January 6th Partisan Witch-hunt Committee’s highly-crafted and theatrically-based storyline about President Trump’s involvement in the events of that day—a theory that was completely rejected by an FBI investigation. If you were planning on "inciting an insurrection," "trying to overthrow the Republic," or "subverting the democratic process," you wouldn’t have asked for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the institution you were trying to overthrow!
Pelosi’s blunders were not anomalies in her leadership, her errors were systemic. A secret after-action analysis by the Capitol Police identified "fifty-three areas of failure" in Capitol security under Nancy Pelosi’s management.
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[Marshall Project] Eastern State Penitentiary, a former prison turned museum in Philadelphia, used to lure in visitors every Halloween with an event called "Terror Behind the Walls." The haunted house, with evil doctors, a jailbreak, and zombie inmates jumping out to scare visitors, was one of the museum's most lucrative fundraising events. But starting last year, the museum decided to drop the gore and emphasize the educational. Now the event is more optical illusions, eerie soundtracks, and live performances focused on the museum’s mission of highlighting issues of incarceration.
Museum curators debated the appropriateness of the haunted house over the years. Sean Kelley, Eastern State’s senior vice president and director of interpretation, said he had grown uncomfortable with the use of prison scenes in the haunted house. "I'm amazed at how numb many of us can be about these sites. The whole subject of incarceration is less a source of amusement than it was 10 years ago in America, but there's still like a layer of people thinking that it's funny," he said. "But it’s not funny to us."
Prison tourism often relies heavily on the spooky, the gruesome, and the salacious to attract visitors for a playful afternoon of ducking into cells and taking selfies in striped jumpsuits. But the entire industry, built largely on entertainment at the expense of incarcerated people’s dignity, is grappling with a growing criminal justice reform movement — and the business is being challenged by questions about exploitation and voyeurism.
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"The way the United States approaches prison tourism re-inscribes the kind of politics that support mass incarceration," said Jill McCorkel, a professor of criminology at Villanova University. "It turns human suffering into a spectacle."
Ya blithering bleeding-heart bint. What about the suffering of the victims of the pieces of shit that were incarcerated? Ever feel for them?
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Um, I think "suffering" is a fundamental component of "punishment."
Though I would not be surprised if academics miss that fine distinction.
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Humans and their morbid curiosity. I guess that is why torture museums are moderately popular in some places.
As for this broad Jill McCorkel....she can pound salt.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] It begins.
Following a directive by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for investigations to be brought against anyone aiding a minor in gender-affirming care, calling it 'child abuse'
That day, a Texas woman said that her 16-year-old son attempted to take his own life by swallowing a bottle of pills
Now, that woman is joining with two other families in attempt to halt the investigations into them for alleged 'child abuse'
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Service opened nine investigations following the directive
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This woman had her daughter chemically sterilized, then surgically mutilated. The girl will never have children and will spend her life dependent on drugs and more surgery.
How is that not child abuse?
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Puberty Blockers are not 'reversable'.
The 'mother' likely forced her daughter to take them and the poor mixed up kid finally realised the totality of what 'dear mother' did to her.
Of course the media will claim she suicided because she wasn't 'accepted' in school.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] At least four children were injured on Thursday as a result of the explosion of a cluster bomb from the remnants of the Saudi-led coalition forces in Saada province.
According to the security sources, the children injured while grazing caws in Wabla area in the district of al-Dhaher.
The Executive Center for Mine Action said the border districts of Razeh, Sheda and al-Dhaher are among the areas most contaminated by cluster bombs of the aggression.
The center called for providing the necessary supplies to confront the humanitarian catastrophe as a result of the internationally prohibited cluster bombs left behind by the aggression in those areas.
[YallPolitics] Just in time for the 2023 Elections and the 2000 Rehired Mules. Or is this a way to get around title 42?
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Well, new cases have been averaging over 100k per day. Don't throw away your masks just yet! Could be some more 'curve flattening' coming up! /sarc
On the other hand, deaths are a few hundred a day, compared to almost 7,000 in one day, (three weeks after the new POTUS took office).
More importantly, 'serious/critical' has plummeted, falling from 25,000 in late January to 3,100 today. So lifting the requirement is a good step in getting back to normal - the 'new normal'.
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So, those nurses have more time to learn the new dance sweeping the wards, "The Monkeypox..."
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If you don't test them crossing the southern border and holding those testing positive, you know its all be a sh!t show. The CDC, just another alphabet agency that need unfunding.
On Friday, Senator Wicker released the following statement regarding the Administration’s actions:
“I am relieved that the Biden administration has finally seen reason and removed the requirement for pre-departure COVID testing for inbound international travelers. Ending this burdensome requirement is long overdue and something I have been urging for months.”
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The monkey dance
is your chance
to do the pox
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Honestly, best use I've seen for them paper masks....chicken diapers. So your chickens can tour your house and not leave a mess. Chicken Diapers. Straps go over the wings, mouth part covers the chicken's bunghole.
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BFD. The requirement for foreigners to be vaccinated to enter the USSA is still in force. Even immediate relatives. No spousal exceptions. The CDC (and the USG) can go to hell.
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[Vesti] Fighting continues in the settlements of Gorskaya and Popasnyanskaya communities. Severodonetsk is holding out, but the Russian military is destroying everything in its path.
This was announced by the chairman of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
"They have not rebuilt anything in Lugansk for eight years, they are not even trying to restore water or electricity in Popasna and Rubizhne - they are only destroying it. The Russian World is a desert. This is the goal the enemy is trying to achieve. Who was hindered by the Ice Palace , or the ammonia production shop at Azot - one of the main divisions of the enterprise? Saved thousands of people from the hope of a job," Gaidai said.
He also noted that the fighting in Severodonetsk continues. As well as in the settlements of the Gorskaya and Popasnyanskaya communities.
"Thus, the Russians tried to conduct assault operations in the direction of Nyrkove and Nikolaevka. Ukrainian soldiers inflicted a fire defeat on them - the invaders withdrew with losses. True, nine more houses were destroyed there," Gaidai said.
He added that the Russian assault was also repulsed on the northwestern outskirts of Toshkovka.
Also recorded were the destruction of 15 houses in Orekhovy, six in Vrubovka, four in Lisichansk, and four more in Gorsky. Serious destruction was suffered by the village of Sinetsky on the outskirts of Severodonetsk.
"As a result, over the past day, seven enemy attacks were repulsed, ten tanks, seven artillery systems, four armored combat vehicles, three special armored vehicles, four vehicles and an enemy ammunition depot were destroyed," Gaidai said.
In addition, according to him, air defense units shot down five unmanned aerial vehicles of the Orlan-10 type.
Note, Gaidai believes that there is no threat of encirclement of the Ukrainian military in Severodonetsk.
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[Korrespondent] 23:56 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the Cabinet of Ministers has already begun implementing the decisions that were discussed at meetings this week. In particular, a draft law was agreed that allows customs clearance of a car through a public service in Dії - this will make the entire customs clearance process as transparent and convenient as possible and immediately remove all shadow schemes.
Non-repayable grants for micro-businesses and other special financial support for small and medium enterprises will also be provided. "Despite all the pressure from Russia, against all Russian strikes, we will do everything to revive economic activity in Ukraine," the president stressed.
23:50 Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna said that any EU decisions, except for granting Ukraine candidate status, will be perceived in Ukraine as a betrayal: "I believe that any decisions, except for granting Ukraine candidate status, will weaken before of all European leaders and our desire, the faith of the Ukrainian people in the European project as such. Therefore, I think that this decision will disappoint us, it will be perceived as a betrayal in our country. Of course, we will not abandon European integration, but we will feel that European leaders They missed their historic opportunity."
23:27 Arestovich believes that the total Ukrainian losses are up to 10 thousand people: "The Russian side has much more. At the beginning of the conflict, 100 people per day died on average, and the Russian army killed 1,000 per day for the first 20-30 days "Now it's 200-300, no less. It will fluctuate like this - 1:5, 1:3, 1:6."
23:25 Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said that the Russians have identified Melitopol as the "capital" of the occupied Zaporozhye region and are preparing to hold a "referendum" on joining the region to the Russian Federation.
23:23 Slovakia will not only repair, but also modernize Ukrainian military equipment, said Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy.
23:15 Another 23 residents were evacuated from Lisichansk. According to the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai, an English volunteer Philip from Severodonetsk has assembled a "super brigade", which today managed to persuade people to leave for a quiet place.
23:13 Journalist and officer Aleksey "Rekrut" Chubashev died in the war. He was the author of the Recruit UA program, led Army FM and the Military Television of Ukraine, writes Babel.
23:09 Zelensky talked to students and professors from Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London and other leading educational institutions in the UK: "Ukraine is fighting for its future, Russia is fighting for someone else's past. That is why Ukraine will win."
"During a frank dialogue with students and teachers of British universities, I was convinced of three things. The war in Ukraine is not indifferent to them, the lies about this war are noticeable and disgusting, but the truth is known, needed and important. Thank you for this conversation and solidarity with Ukraine" , the president said.
22:47 Arestovich said that in Staraya Zburyevka, Kherson region, two generals were killed - one from the army and one from the FSB (he was responsible for organizing a referendum in the Kherson region). In addition, according to him, in the Kherson region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed two ammunition depots, and at least 200 Arab mercenaries (most likely Syrians) and "more than a hundred" Russian military were killed by artillery hits.
And the reconnaissance group of Kadyrov's regiment Akhmat Ukrainian special forces in Severodonetsk did today "to zero", Arestovich added.
22:24 Biden, speaking in Los Angeles, said that Americans pay "Putin's tax" on fuel and food: "We've never seen anything like Putin's tax on food and gasoline at once."
22:20 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic refused Scholz his statement about the need to join the sanctions against the Russian Federation, writes The Guardian. Vučić, at a joint press conference, said that he did not consider the sanctions "effective" and that his country was in a difficult position, given the long-standing special relationship between Serbia and Russia: "As for sanctions, we have a different position ... We are mindful of sanctions (against Serbia ) and do not consider the sanctions to be effective."
21:52 In Russia, the Committee against Torture is included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of unregistered NCOs-foreign agents.
21:45 In the occupied Borovaya Kharkiv region, the Russians appointed Andrei Semashko from Belarus as the "leader", and the Russian Sergei Rozdorozhny as the "military commandant". According to the Borovsky Council, Semashko was the manager of the affairs of the executive committee of the Baranavichy of the Brest region, and before that he headed the housing and communal services department in the city's executive committee. On June 1, he was presented as the "head of the community" from the occupying authorities.
21:37 NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoane sees no direct military threat to Sweden and Finland from Russia and is confident that the Scandinavian countries will join the alliance, despite Turkey's position. According to Reuters, during the summit in Copenganen, the official said that "the allies have certain concerns, and Turkey also has them, and they are quite legitimate when it comes to terrorists." Joane also said that he sees "no signs that Russia has the ability or intention at this stage to show military aggression" against the Scandinavian countries.
21:26 In two weeks, the Armed Forces of Ukraine moved the front line from Zaporozhye by 5-7 km, Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said.
21:05 The head of the US mission to the OSCE, Michael Carpenter, said that the Russian authorities began to formalize the process of annexing the Kherson region, violating human rights and international law: "Kherson has become the place that I would call a laboratory of horrors. We see how the Kremlin launched its strategy of annexing Ukrainian territories to Russia. And we have seen such a strategy before. These are all, unfortunately, quite well-known steps. We believe that the Kremlin is waiting for the moment to annex the Kherson region to Russia, and we believe that the referendum is one of possible ways."
The American diplomat stressed that the Russian occupiers systematically torture civilians in the occupied territories of the Kherson region: “Now we see reports of torture of at least 600 people in the Kherson region. They are kept in special basements that serve as torture rooms. There is information about the exact location Such premises are the building of the Kherson State Administration and Lyceum No. 17 in Genichesk, where the Russian military takes local officials, journalists, public activists and people whom the Russians consider participants in rallies against the Russian occupation.”
20:44 Denmark supports the European aspiration of Ukraine, but the decision on granting candidate status will be made after receiving the opinion of the European Commission, Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod told the UP: “Denmark fully supports the European aspiration of Ukraine. That is why Denmark also supported the rapid initiation of the process necessary to process the request "We are now awaiting the opinion of the European Commission on the extent to which Ukraine meets the criteria necessary to continue the process."
20:32 Ukraine is able to oust Russia from Donbass, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said at a meeting with Zelensky: "We now see that Ukraine is able to oust Russia from Donbass. We see that the Russian regime is on the verge of collapse, at least in that as far as military power is concerned. That is, they are now also on the verge of exhaustion."
20:13 The world's sixth largest economy has taken a neutral stance on the issue of Russia's war against Ukraine, refusing to impose sanctions, in connection with which Moscow has high hopes for Delhi amid the collapse of expectations associated with China. More details - in the material India buys Russian oil - will it save the Russian Federation .
19:51 The leaders of nine countries of Central and Eastern Europe asked NATO to strengthen its eastern flank after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The heads of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia met in Bucharest less than three weeks before the NATO summit in Madrid, AFP reported. They will also discuss the impact of the Russian invasion on the security of NATO's "vulnerable partners", including Moldova and Georgia.
19:33 The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, announced the details of the rescue of the head of the Shevchenkovsky district of the Nikolaev region, Oleg Pilipenko, who was abducted on March 10: "Today, thanks to the joint efforts of the Coordinating Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war, Oleg, as well as four more of our civilians, will already be at home. The exchange took place on formula "4 by 5" (four of them, five of ours)."
19:30 The trial of the British and Moroccans in the "DPR" is tantamount to another Russian war crime, UN human rights spokesman Ravin Shamdasani said: "The UN Human Rights Office is concerned that on June 9 the so-called "supreme court" of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Respubliki" sentenced to death three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but citizens of foreign states, taken prisoner in Mariupol, for being mercenaries, and for trying to seize power in the so-called "republic".
Shamdasani also noted that since 2015, the UN notes that the so-called "judicial power" in the self-proclaimed "republics" does not respect the basic guarantees of a fair trial, such as a public hearing, the independence and impartiality of the court and the right not to be compelled to testify. "Such trials of prisoners of war are tantamount to a war crime. In the case of the death penalty, guarantees of a fair trial are most important," Shamdasani stressed.
19:19 Sanctions against Russia will not be lifted immediately after the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, the situation needs to be normalized, Scholz said. He also stressed that states seeking to join the European Union should join the anti-Russian sanctions.
19:13 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Slavyansk direction, units of the Russian army are preparing to resume the offensive on Slavyansk, they fired artillery at the areas of the settlement. Dolina, Krasnaya Polyana, Novaya Dmitrievka, Grushevakha and Dubravnoye. In the Limansky direction, the Russians continue to gain a foothold in the Svyatogorsk area, are preparing to continue the offensive in the direction of Liman - Slavyansk, fired near Dronovka and Serebryanka.
18:47 Austria will oppose granting Ukraine the status of a candidate member of the EU, if the states of the Western Balkans and Moldova do not receive the same status, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said.
18:30 At the meeting of the heads of the US and Chinese defense departments in Singapore, Ukraine was also discussed. According to the US representative, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin urged his Chinese counterpart not to provide Russia with any material support. At a press conference after the meeting, the Chinese side said that it had not done so anyway. "China has not provided military assistance to Russia. That's for sure," said Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian.
18:03 The Elysee Palace said that France is ready to join the operation to lift the blockade of the port in Odessa and export Ukrainian grain from there: "We are open to the parties so that an operation can take place that will allow you to get completely safe access to the port of Odessa, that is, it will allow ships to pass, despite the fact that the sea is mined."
17:52 Despite the war, Germany increased imports from Russia by 60% in January-April 2022 and transferred almost 6 billion euros to Moscow, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said. At the same time, the trade turnover between Ukraine and Germany decreased by 11%.
17:40 The Netherlands will decide to support granting Ukraine candidate status for EU accession after the conclusion of the European Commission, Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said: "The European Commission must make a reasonable decision on what needs to be done. Then you must be ready to look at it openly, as the Netherlands will."
Podolyak responded to this position: "Freedom, competition, human rights - the Netherlands has always been a model of democracy. Today, Ukrainians pay a terrible price for protecting a free Europe from Russian camps. Have our people paid enough blood yet to get a chance to be in the EU family?"
17:17 Sales of new cars with internal combustion engines should end in the EU in 2035. The European Parliament voted for such a decision, which applies to cars and light commercial vehicles. For more details, see Freedom from Putin .
16:59 Applicants from the occupied territories can enter Ukrainian universities, said Yulia Grishina, head of the Verkhovna Rada Subcommittee on Higher Education. Those who cannot travel and cannot pass the national multimedia test, she said, can take entrance exams in the form of a "remote individual oral interview or creative competition."
16:48 Representatives of the UN independent international commission to investigate Russia's crimes against Ukraine visited Bucha and Irpin. According to the Kyiv OVA, the purpose of the visit is to record the facts of violations of human rights, international humanitarian law and other crimes committed by the Russian military in Ukraine.
16:46 The head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaliy Kim said that today the 11th exchange of prisoners took place, in which it was possible to release the head of the Shevchenko UTG Oleg Pilipenko, who was held captive for two months.
4:40 pm British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said she spoke with Kuleba to discuss efforts to free prisoners of war "held by Russian puppets." She said that Britain will continue to support Ukraine "in the fight against Putin's barbaric invasion."
16:22 The "DPR" announced an artillery strike on the center of Donetsk and damage as a result of a residential building.
16:17 German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said that due to organizational reasons and security problems, it is difficult to talk about schedules for the supply of weapons to Ukraine, writes Tagesspiegel: "Now preparations are in full swing to make it work. But this does not happen overnight."
Gebeshtreit recalled the planned deliveries of the Gepard APU, Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzers, Iris-T anti-aircraft system and Mars multiple launch rocket system. According to him, he understands the impatience, but these issues must be checked and studied very carefully. He stressed that the Ukrainian military is now being trained in Germany to use the Panzerhaubitze 2000. "In this regard, it makes sense that the weapons they are learning on are also in Germany," Seibert added.
15:58 An explosion occurred in the center of Donetsk near Pushilin's administration, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
15:47 A land breakthrough of Russian troops through Nikolaev to Odessa is currently impossible, the head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim said on the air of Channel 5: "A land breakthrough of Russian troops through Nikolaev to Odessa is impossible. As for the sea coast, the attack is only by amphibious assault forces will not give the desired result, we need help and logistics from land." According to the military, now the Russians do not have such an opportunity.
15:45 Russia is looking for weaknesses in the Ukrainian defense in the Seversky Donets region and does not leave attempts to force the river, said Defense Ministry spokesman Alexander Motuzyanyk. At the same time, he noted that in general, forcing a water obstacle is a very difficult operation.
15:22 "LPR" sent the first 650 tons of Ukrainian grain to Russia. The train was seen off in Starobelsk by the leader of the "republic" Pasechnik. According to him, there is a lot of grain in the "republic".
15:20 The British company Blighter Surveillance Systems announced that it will transfer radar systems to the Armed Forces of Ukraine to detect enemy drones. The delivery of A422 radars complements the United Kingdom's military technical support to Ukraine. Part of the equipment will be handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in June.
15:12 Russia is experiencing a shortage of high-precision cruise missiles, so the enemy began to use the Soviet X-22, said the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Vadym Skibitsky: “We noticed that Russia carries out much less rocket attacks and uses Kh-22 missiles. These are old Soviet-made missiles. 1970s. This indicates that Russia is running out of precision-guided missiles." At the same time, intelligence noted that economic resources would allow the Russian Federation to continue the war at the current pace for another year.
Replacing the modern stuff will be interesting, as will be replacing the old stuff, if they can’t get modern parts.
14:56 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace visited Kiev, after the meeting Zelensky thanked him and the British government for "really real, united work, when words and communication constantly turn into actions."
14:54 Adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadim Denisenko, in a commentary to The Guardian, said that Russia wants to use two Britons and a Moroccan sentenced to death for fighting with Russian troops as hostages. In his opinion, in this way the Kremlin will try to put pressure on the West during the peace talks.
14:52 U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink clarified that Washington will provide Kiev with another $7.5 billion directly from the budget: "I look forward to working with Denys Shmyhal to help Ukraine defend against Russian aggression and support Ukraine's resilience and recovery. Having direct budget support of $7.5 billion, we will ensure that Ukraine continues to be strong."
14:44 Ukraine and Poland are starting to increase the capacity of the Krakovets-Korcheva checkpoint as part of the Open Border project, the Ministry of Infrastructure reported. Over the next weeks, the checkpoint's capacity will be increased by at least 50%, in particular by increasing the number of truck lanes and creating additional pavilions for customs and passport control.
14:29 Finland will provide Ukraine with a new package of military assistance - this decision was approved by President Sauli Niiniste at the proposal of the government, Defense Minister Antti Kaikkonen said: "Finland will not leave Ukraine and Ukrainians. We will continue to help and send a new defense support package."
14:25 Other criteria for determining collaboration will be applied to Ukrainian doctors who remained to work in the occupied territories, Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko said in an interview with UP. According to him, one cannot consider a medical collaborator who simply performs his duties. Also, the fact that medical workers take medicines or gasoline from them cannot be considered cooperation with the occupiers.
"If the occupiers say: we pay you a salary, and you are on the territory of the institution, I, as the Minister of Health, will defend that this is not cooperation with the occupiers. Because doctors have no other choice," Lyashko said.
14:22 After the capture of the Kiev region, the Russians planned to create an occupation administration and organize a pseudo-referendum to proclaim a local republic. All residents were going to be registered and in exchange for Ukrainian documents they would be forced to distribute USSR passports - at least for the first time before the issuance of documents to the Russian Federation. This is evidenced by the data that the military counterintelligence of the SBU received on the positions of the invaders, and also confirms the behavior of the Russians in those parts of Ukraine that are under their occupation.
In particular, in an abandoned house near the town of Makarov, Buchansky district, an enemy cache with blank passports of the former USSR was found. It is noteworthy that these forms were of the Ukrainian type - on behalf of the Ukrainian SSR. Moreover, such a series has not been produced in Ukraine since 1990. Thus, all the forms found were imported from Russia at the beginning of the war.
13:48 Switzerland approved the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions, which was previously adopted by the EU, including an embargo on oil supplies from Russia.
13:45 Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky admitted in an interview with AFP that the government quarter in Kiev and the historical center, as well as "any place in Ukraine," could become the target of Russian missiles. At the same time, the minister added that at present there is no immediate threat of an offensive by Russian troops on Kyiv.
13:32 There are Russian troops in ten settlements of Belarus. Iskanders are also deployed, which threatens to launch missile strikes against Ukraine, Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said. He added that in the past few weeks, the armed forces of Belarus, consisting of up to seven battalions, have been trying to cover a section of the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
13:27 Latvia is preparing a law for the alienation of Russian and Belarusian real estate, said Minister of Justice Janis Bordans. According to him, the first in line will be the House of Moscow in Riga, as well as the sanatorium Yantarny Bereg and Belarus in Jurmala, owned by the Russian state structure.
Latvia has wanted to get rid of their Russian colonists since the Iron Curtain fell. Will they now be able finally to do so?
13:24 The Canadian police reported that the assets of Russians worth 412.1 million Canadian dollars ($328 million) were blocked in the country. These are funds that were in Russian accounts or appeared in transactions involving sanctioned persons.
13:21 The EU has prepared a "positive" and "negative" decision on the status of a candidate for Ukraine, writes UP. Plan A assumes that the European Commission will provide a conclusion that Ukraine meets the criteria and the EU recognizes its candidate status now. All subsequent steps will be subject to reforms. Plan B, which is being promoted by several countries, stipulates that the conditions are put forward now, and until they are met, Ukraine will be a "candidate for candidates."
13:19 Orban said that Ukraine has the right to defend itself against a Russian invasion, "even if the bookmakers do not give a great chance of winning." At the same time, he believes that in Europe "almost no one speaks with the voice of the world." "We must speak with the voice of peace," he said.
13:14 Kiev has not yet received any information from Berlin about when the weapons promised by the German government will be delivered, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said in an interview with Tagesspiegel.
13:11 Lavrov said that Poland is beginning to "actively develop Ukrainian territory."
12:49 Zelensky spoke via video link at the Copenhagen Summit for Democracy and called on democratic countries to support Ukraine not only in words, but also in deeds: "We need to move on to actions, except for words that Ukraine should be part of the European family. In the coming weeks and days, the European Union can take a historic step that will prove that the words about the belonging of the people of Ukraine to the European family are not just words and not empty words.
“Why are there still politicians who are skeptical or hesitant about whether Ukraine should be allowed to join the European Union? Why? Why have the Ukrainian people been told for so long that they should still remain in this gray area between the EU and Russia. Why? If Russia cynically violates literally all the key documents of international law, then why are there still those who hesitate to block any relations with such a state? Zelensky said.
The President recalled that Russia's aggression did not begin on February 24, but in 2014, and during this time Moscow violated more than 400 international treaties and agreements.
12:40 In Odessa and the Odessa region, as of June 10, not a single fact of confirming the presence of a cholera pathogen has been revealed, said Serhiy Bratchuk, speaker of the OVA. According to him, information about the detection of cholera cases, which is massively distributed on the Internet, is fake.
Bratchuk recalled that the presence of the causative agent of cholera is determined not by examination by a doctor for certain symptoms, but exclusively by laboratory and bacteriological analysis.
12:33 Currently, 40 Russian cruise missiles are aimed at Ukraine - these are two submarines and four surface missile carriers. In addition, one large landing ship was recorded on duty at sea, the rest are staying closer to their bases in the occupied Crimea, OK Pivden reported.
12:24 The Government of Montenegro has decided that it will provide Ukraine with additional assistance, perhaps not only military, but also financial or humanitarian. How exactly Montenegro will help will be determined in the near future.
11:52 Gazprom and dozens of other Russian companies sanctioned by the European Union will move their headquarters from the EU to Istanbul, writes Habertürk.
11:49 Since February 24, more than half of the population left Nikolaev, Mayor Alexander Senkevich said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. According to his estimates, out of 480 thousand inhabitants, about 230 thousand remained in the city. Sienkiewicz also assured that the city is ready for a possible enemy attack: “I don’t think anything will change in the near future. The front line has been in place for about a month. It moves back and forth a little, but does not change significantly. They are also digging in near Kherson, they also expect an attack or an offensive by our army."
11:31 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the aviation equipment of the Ukrainian Air Force was destroyed by a missile attack on the Dnipro military airfield, and in the Kharkiv region, the production facilities of an enterprise for the restoration of weapons and military equipment of the Ukrainian army.
11:09 Russia will deprive Japan of the right to fish off the Kuril Islands, said Yury Trutnev, representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. According to him, the Japanese "refused to pay for quotas for catching off the Kuril Islands, and accordingly, this right will be taken away from them." Moscow hopes that Russian companies will be able to take the place of Japanese fishermen near the southern Kuriles.
11:05 The Ukrainian ambassador promised the British that prisoners sentenced to execution in the "DNR" would be included in the next list for an exchange, British MP Robert Jenrick told The Guardian: "There are exchanges of prisoners between the Ukrainian and Russian armies, and last night the Ukrainian ambassador told me that they would prioritize Aiden and Sean in one of those exchanges."
Generic also demanded that British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss negotiate with Lavrov about the fate of prisoners sentenced to death.
10:56 Over the past day, the Russians continued to shell Kharkiv and the region from artillery and MLRS. The Shevchenkovsky district of the city and Kharkiv, Chuguevsky, Izyumsky and Bogodukhovsky districts of the region were hit. Houses, warehouses, infrastructure facilities were damaged, coniferous forests and forest belts burned. Two civilians were killed and 15 were wounded, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA, said.
10:49 Ukrainian political strategist Mikhail Pogrebinsky has been declared suspected of treason, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. Pogrebinsky is also a defendant in the case against Medvedchuk.
10:46 In Mariupol, as a result of an experiment to restore electricity, a fire broke out at the Satellite plant, which was engaged in the collection and processing of sunflower seeds. The fire destroyed several thousand tons of sunflower seeds. The occupation administration of Mariupol is now trying to hide real losses from the leadership of the Russian Federation, since the destroyed was being prepared for export to Russia, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of the city.
10:19 In Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine's largest metallurgical plant Arcelor Mittal resumes its work, which stopped in March due to the war, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Valentin Reznichenko.
10:02 Podolyak compared "LDNR" with ISIS: "Probably you heard how ISIS terrorists publicly executed people. "Death sentences" in the "courts" of non-existent "LDNR" prove: there is no difference between ISIS and "LDNR". Except one: the latter are supported by Russia for the oil and gas funds of some countries. Russia must be recognized as a sponsor of terrorism."
09:59 The separatist court's "death sentence" against three foreign servicemen of the International Legion grossly violates international law, Amnesty International says.
09:57 At night, the enemy opened fire from a mortar on the territory of the Seredino-Budsky community of the Sumy region, there were no casualties or destruction, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
09:55 In the future, the borders between the Kherson region and Crimea will be removed, this will also help the export of grain, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the "military-civil administration" of the Kherson region.
09:51 The enemy plans to capture Severodonetsk before June 22, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. He also said that the entire free part of the Luhansk region is under heavy shelling, and in Severodonetsk there are street battles. At the same time, the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway remains under the control of Ukraine, and there is no threat of encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the Luhansk region. "Quiet" evacuation, according to Gaidai, is possible only from Lisichansk and the Mountain community, there is also the possibility of bringing humanitarian aid.
09:48 The sanctions Action Plan of the McFaul-Yermak group has already been completed by 45%, Yermak said.
09:35 Macron, following a yesterday's conversation with Zelensky, said that Paris is ready to increase the supply of weapons to Kiev, including heavy weapons.
09:14 There is an "artillery war" in the Donbass, and Ukraine is losing in such a confrontation with Russia, Vadim Skibitsky, deputy head of military intelligence of Ukraine, said in an interview with The Guardian: "Ukraine has one artillery gun for 10-15 Russian artillery pieces."
According to Skibitsky, Ukraine uses 5,000-6,000 artillery shells a day. "We have nearly used up all of our ammunition and are now using standard 155 caliber NATO rounds," he said.
09:10 President of Senegal and Chairman of the African Union Maki Sal after a meeting with Putin last week called on Ukraine to clear the Odessa ports in order to resume grain exports, writes The Guardian. According to him, if the export of wheat from Ukraine does not resume, Africa "will find itself in a situation of very serious famine, which could destabilize the situation on the continent."
Sal said that Putin assured him at the meeting that Russia would not attack Ukraine if the ports were cleared of mines.
08:57 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of June 10. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kharkov and Bakhmut directions.
personnel - about 31,900 (+200),
tanks - 1409 (+11),
armored combat vehicles - 3450 (+12),
artillery systems - 712 (+1),
MLRS - 222 (+9),
air defense systems - 97 (+1),
aircraft - 212 (+0),
helicopters - 178 (+0),
UAVs of the operational-tactical level - 572 (+10),
cruise missiles - 125 (+0),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2438 (+17),
special equipment - 54 (+1).
08:49 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the base of the Wagnerites in the occupied Luhansk region, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. The enemy base is located at the local stadium in Kadievka, which the Russians occupied in 2014.
08:38 British intelligence reports that fighting continues in the Severodonetsk region, Russia again controls most of the city, but its troops have made little progress in trying to surround the vast territory from the north and south.
The Russian Federation is struggling to provide basic public services to the population in the occupied territories. Access to safe drinking water has been erratic, while severe disruptions to telephone and Internet services continue. There is likely a severe shortage of medicines in Kherson, and there is a risk of a major cholera outbreak in Mariupol. Isolated cases of cholera have been reported since May.
Ukraine experienced a major cholera epidemic in 1995, and since then there have been small outbreaks, especially along the coast of the Sea of Azov, including Mariupol. Medical services in Mariupol are likely already close to collapse: a large cholera outbreak in Mariupol will further exacerbate the situation, analysts say.
08:33 Blinken condemned the decision of the fictitious "DNR" court to execute three foreigners: "We are seriously concerned about reports of a fictitious trial and sentences against lawful combatants who serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We call on Russia and its proxies to respect international humanitarian law, including rights and protection afforded to prisoners of war".
08:28 Japan has banned the export of trucks, dump trucks and bulldozers to Russia since June 17.
08:26 The future harvest in Ukraine may be reduced by 35-40% due to the Russian invasion, Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Vysotsky told CNN: "We have lost 25% of arable land. In terms of volume, of course, more. We expect the harvest to be approximately 35% less than in previous years, that is, about 30 million tons less, 35-40% less, almost half of last year's harvest."
08:21 The Russians launched a missile attack on the Dnieper region in the morning, previously, no one was injured, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military District, Valentin Reznichenko. He also said that a strong morning fire in the Dnieper was not connected with an enemy attack - the fire occurred at one of the enterprises of the city, the fire was already extinguished by rescuers.
Also at night, the enemy again fired on the Krivoy Rog region, three communities came under fire at once. There is destruction in the Zelenodolsk community, one person received a shrapnel wound. No one was hurt in the Shirokovskaya and Apostolovsky communities.
08:12 The Russians are unsuccessfully trying to establish full control over Severodonetsk, the fighting continues, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . In the Bakhmut direction, the military of the Russian Federation is actively using operational-tactical and army aviation, they tried to conduct assault operations in the direction of the settlements of Nirkovo and Nikolaevka, but withdrew with losses. The enemy is conducting an offensive in the direction of Vozdvizhenka - Rota, has a partial success, is fixed on the occupied lines.
It became known that due to the losses received during the battles with Ukrainian defenders in the Kharkiv region, a motorized rifle unit from the 1st Army Corps of the Russian Federation in full force refused to participate in hostilities.
07:55 Ukraine has launched a pre-trial investigation into the fact that a fake "DPR" court passed the death sentence on British Aiden Aslin and Sean Pinner and Moroccan Brahim Saadoun, who, together with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, defended Mariupol. Venediktova stressed that according to the Geneva Conventions, as prisoners of war, they cannot be held accountable for participating in hostilities.
06:57 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that the Russian Federation has achieved little success in the attack on Slavyansk, but before storming it, it will have to overcome the Seversky Donets. Previous attempts to force the river were unsuccessful, but now it has grown numb. The ISW added that the Russian occupiers continued ground, air and artillery attacks east of Bakhmut.
00:46 France may transfer proximity fuses for Caesar self-propelled guns to Ukraine, Macron said in an interview with Ouest-France.
An Iraqi soldier was wounded in an ISIS attack that targeted a security point, on the outskirts of Jalawla district, Diyala.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the soldiers clashed with the terrorists and repelled their attack.
Jalawla district has become a haven for ISIS groups that have been sheltered there since the withdrawal of the Peshmerga forces from the territory in the aftermath of the 2017 independence referendum.
On Friday, a young man died, and others were injured by an explosive device north of Jalawla district, northeast of Diyala.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency that a device blew up near a tractor on an agricultural road in Umm al-Hinta village, which resulted in the death of a young man and the injury of 4 to 5 other members of his family
A security force rushed to the scene and launched an operation to “comb” the area.
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[Vesti] On the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, in the zone of responsibility of the fighters of the Joint Forces grouping, on Friday, June 10, Ukrainian defenders repelled 14 enemy attacks. Fighting continues at two more locations, the JFO command said , summing up the day.
To date, the military personnel of the Joint Forces grouping have destroyed:
four enemy tanks;
two artillery systems;
11 armored combat vehicles;
three units of automotive equipment;
one ammunition depot.
Air defense units shot down four unmanned aerial vehicles of the Orlan-10 type in the sky of the Ukrainian Donbass.
[Vesti] During the day, the Russian army shelled the Donetsk region 10 times, 7 settlements came under fire. This was reported in the police of the Donetsk region.
It is noted that because of the shelling there are killed and wounded civilians. The destruction, according to the police, received 22 residential buildings, a school, a farm, an enterprise, agricultural machinery, as well as railway and critical infrastructure.
Over the past day, Bakhmut, Konstantinovka, New York, Kalinovoye, Pervomayskoye, Khromovoye, Nikolskoye came under fire from Russian troops. The shelling of the Russian troops was carried out from aviation, rocket launchers, Grad MLRS, artillery, tanks, and small arms. It is noted that the military of the Russian Federation fired 4 cruise missiles at Bakhmut.
The police collected evidence of war crimes of the Russian Federation, and together with the SBU opened criminal proceedings under Article 438 ("Violation of the laws and customs of war") of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
It should be noted that earlier Ukrainian aviation attacked strongholds and places of accumulation of the Russian military in five settlements of the Kherson region.
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There's really not much time to overcome strong encryption during a missile's flight window. Quantum computing will most likely change that, but then the goal posts will move again.
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[REGNUM] Ukrainian militants place their firing positions on the territory of civilian facilities, including schools, Mikhail Mizintsev , head of Russia's National Defense Control Center, told reporters on June 10 .
In the city of Slavyansk (DPR), Ukrainian militants set up firing positions in the buildings of the station for young technicians and school No. 7. Armored vehicles and artillery pieces were located on the adjacent territories.
In the city of Dobropolye (DPR), in a boarding school, special school No. 4 and lyceum No. 5, general education school No. 7, Ukrainian militants equipped their firing positions and ammunition depots.
In the village of Kleban-Byk (Konstantinovsky district, DPR), near a water station and on the territory of a secondary school, strongholds were equipped by Ukrainian nationalists, heavy weapons and MLRS were placed.
In the city of Kramatorsk (DPR), the headquarters of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was deployed in the premises of a furniture factory, and firing positions were equipped on the adjacent territory, and artillery was deployed.
At the same time, the Ukrainian militants severely suppress all attempts of civilians to evacuate from these settlements to safe areas.
The militants, deliberately provoking return fire, fire at the positions of the Russian military and DPR formations from residential areas in order, according to a well-established scenario, to make them responsible for the consequences of supposedly indiscriminate strikes.
In a recent interview with friendly media, the embattled ex-@HSNQ_NISA Dir Fahad Yasin confesses that he was a member of Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya, a violent Islamist group that later cracked and turned into political. Fahad also claims to have held senior ranks within AIAI#Somaliapic.twitter.com/3DHNkVS8OS
For some reason, the nickname of Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya was AlAl. About as imaginative as all those people named variations of Mohammed, sometime in multiple variations for one person.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Do you have what it takes?
Anthony Perry, 20, was stepping off of a train when he saw the man lying with his head against the third rail and 600 volts of electricity coursing through his body
Perry acted immediately, and despite being shocked himself, managed to pull the man to safety
With the help of a witness, Perry was able to administer CPR and keep the man alive until emergency services arrived
The man who was electrocuted is in serious condition at the University of Chicago Hospital
Police are investigating what led to the man falling on to the tracks with witnesses alleging he spat on another commuter and instigated the fight
A local Chicago community leader honored Perry at a ceremony on Wednesday and even gifted him a car
Perry said of the other witnesses to the potentially fatal incident: 'No one actually did anything, they just wanted to record'
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Since the day that these idiots "took" office.
My Gas has gone from $2.12 to $4.49 a Gallon as of yesterday. That's 111.79%.
A loaf of Bread from $2.25 a loaf to $3.25 that's 44.4%
We now buy store brand @ $1.75 a loaf.
Milk was $2.89 is now $3.79 that's 31.14%
Eggs went from $0.75 a dozen to $1.89 That's 152.0%
Bacon was $2.85 an LBS is now $4.95 That's 73.68% it was $7.07 a LBS for about 6 months.
Chicken Wings $2.89 an LBS to $4.04 That's 39.79%
Our 2022 SSA COLA was 5.9%
The 2022 Congressional Pay Raise was 21%
Speaking with a Wally World Shelf Stock'er I know.
I was joking and said "How long before Y'all set up a Loan Dept. and hire armed guards?"
He responded they now have a Store Credit card and were hiring more Loss Prevention staff to monitor certain high loss sections. He added, they are closely watching those with large pursues and Baby Strollers with drape covers.
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Maybe, just maybe, the people in government are totally clueless that they are the problem and not the 'endless' solution. Nah, they're doing this on purpose.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] The southern Yemeni city of Dhalea has witnessed a security alert after al-Qaeda members kidnapped the brother of a leader in the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militias in the province.
Sources said that al-Qaeda operatives kidnapped the brother of the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Brigade of the so –called “Southern Resistance”, Munir Saif, in retaliation to the killing of al-Qaeda leader Amjad al-Naqis.
Al-Qaeda accuses Saif of being behind the murder of al-Naqis, especially since his battalion is based in the area where his body was found, one of the sources said.
The source noted the al-Qaeda terrorist organisation vowed to conduct retaliatory attacks against the UAE-backed militia commanders in Dhalea.
Following al-Qaeda threat, the STC raised the alert status, doubling their guards and armoured vehicles in the area.
[FoxBusiness] A woman in Missouri won $5.2 million in a settlement with Geico after she contracted a sexually transmitted disease.
The woman said she contracted Human papillomavirus (HPV) while having sexual intercourse inside a vehicle insured by Geico, and the company quickly found a petition for payout from the unnamed woman.
She alleged that because her partner failed to take proper precautions and infected her inside the insured car, her HPV infection should be covered by the policy.
The petition was filed in February 2021, and subsequently rejected by April of the same year. After a final settlement offer of $1 million was rejected by Geico, the dispute went to arbitration.
An arbitrator with the Jackson County Circuit Court found in favor of the woman, recommending a $5.2 million payout from Geico.
The Missouri Court of Appeals deferred to the arbitrator and refused to overturn the previous findings.
"At the time of Geico's intervention, liability and damages had been determined by an arbitrator and confirmed by the trial court. GEICO had no right to relitigate those issues," the court wrote.
The court wrote in its decision that Geico may have been able to avoid the payout if they had defended the woman's sexual partner – the owner of the insured car.
Instead, because they chose to deny coverage, their path of legal recourse was compromised.
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Not sure how you would prove that the infection came from a particular car owner at a particular time in the car. I suspect that the rape kit came back positive for gecko semen.
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Just one more reason states should not be allowed to regulate insurance companies.
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Now when you see that little disclaimer "Not responsible damages resulting from fucking in sexual acts commited in the vehicle" on you car insurance policy - you will know where it came from.
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More lies and ludicrous bullshit from British tabloids aimed at gullible fools who think Russia's still communist.
There is absolutely nothing in the speech that constitutes a "threat," to Sweden or any other nation.
In fact the speech and the Q&A session from which this offhand remark was lifted had nothing at all to do with relations between Russia and the Baltic. It was all about advanced technology development and trade relations with world beyond Europe. The meeting was with young scientists, engineers and technology entrepreneurs, and the questions were about materials science, fiber optics, trade and export opportunities etc.
The particular remark about territory capped a long discussion about the sources of national strength -- technological, military, economic and socio-cultural. Most of it was obvious but European and American leaders who welcome in millions of illiterate, violent, and anti-Semitic third world migrants would do well to ponder these sensible observations.
Of course the speech would deal with Peter the Great: it took place in Peter's gorgeous city, the most beautiful city north of Venice, in advance of the annual St Petersburg Economic Forum and inside a famous hall in Moscow which contains exhibits dedicated to the extraordinary achievements of this leader.
Peter was a kind of hybrid of Elon Musk and Charlemagne who mastered many of the great technologies of his era. An accurate report of the speech and Q&A session with these young technologists would have highlighted Tsar Peter's concern with technology -- in his day, the emphasis was on shipbuilding, which he learned about by disguising himself as an ordinary worker and apprenticing himself as a carpenter to try to master the craft (and learn the secrets) of Dutch shipbuilding from the ground up.
Here is a fine 3-part Radio Netherlands overview, beginning with "The Carpenter Tsar": how, during his visits to Holland, Peter studied ship-building, city-planning, hydraulic engineering, science, dentistry, anatomy, fortress building and even fashion. And all this resulted in a radical transformation of Russia and Russians, a modern navy and a magnificent new capital Saint Petersburg, complete with canals.
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To clarify, the speech occurred in advance of the St Petersburg forum but it took place in Moscow, in the part of the science and technology exhibit hall that's dedicated to Peter's achievements.
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^ thank you, Timmerman. That's an amazing story.
Peter's 21st century successor is focused on development of hypersonic missiles, which he highlighted in his speech to the young technologists. It's no mystery why the shit tabloids and the British intelligence services try to detract people from this conference and this speech about Russian technology, trade ties with China and the other BRICs, military strength etc. Russia's current leader's understanding of science, technology and economics dwarfs that of any American or European leader (aside from Angela Merkel) of the last 80 years. Hence all the ridiculous bullshit about his declining health.
Here is a video of him speaking. Compare this precise, clear and confident speaker to the blithering of Joseph R. Scheisskopf Jr. and ask yourself again which country's leader is mentally decrepit.
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Hallo Gomez -- your link isn't there. No worries; I've seen videos of that speech and many others by Putin. He does indeed speak calmly and clearly about complex historical, technical and economic subjects, with no "ums" or "ahhs" or filler words, in a way that puts to shame western politicians (agree that Merkel is a notable exception).
It's really astonishing how this anodyne little talk has been twisted beyond recognition by the British press.
It's almost as if they want to distract you from the next catastrophic Mariupol-caliber defeat for the Ukrainians, in Severodonetsk...
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Thank you Peter Timmerman for your article about Putin. I used to think he was America's enemy and he should be punished. You have completely changed my mind. Now I believe the Russian people are America's enemy and it is good to see Russia bleed in Ukraine, regardless of the outcome.
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Some say Putin is actually Ming the Merciless, intent on the conquest of our Solar System. If this is true, and I have no reason to think that the media or our government would lie to us, then the People of Earth must rise up as one and defeat this tyrant.
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and his paid sycophants whose posting style is easily recognizable regardless of what nym they hide behind
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Vaxxer made a few errors -- I've fixed them: Now Ibelieve know the Russian people Democrats are America's enemy and it is good bad to see Russia let them bleed in UkraineAmerica, regardless of their attempts to distract us with another of their foolish failed overseas wars
You missed Mariupol, but that's OK. Still time for you to get out from behind the keyboard and give 'em hell. Bring some shells (not this kind 🏖but y'know the explosive kind... the Ukrainians don't have any left)
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Go reinforce uh replace the Ukrainian deserters.
Ukraine is now facing "massive losses" with Russia overpowering Ukraine's ammunition and artillery store.
There has been a rise in desertion as morale declines, says an intelligence report seen by The Independent.
Ukraine is now dependent on Western donations of supplies, Ukrainian officials say.
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Again with the broad strokes of the "we" brush. Plenty of people in the USA really don't care if Ukraine is completely dissolved.
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Disciples of Dr. Zarkov, I knew it. You know, its your fault The Earth is being destroyed.
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I wonder how long it takes Gomez and Timmerman to get the taste of Putin out of their mouths.
Or if they're even different people.
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Get thee to Donbas, Rob! Replacements are desperately needed. Hurry! Pick up some ammo on your way
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I do like "Joseph R. Scheisskopf Jr." for a change of pace insult. But as for the other parts of the sales pitch, your mastery of the English language, western culture and history, and detailed linkages to exclusively pro-Russian stories seem like what it is, PSYOPS. What I enjoy is its investment in this little corner of the ether, it seems overkill unless you know who lurks in our readership. That I find interesting.
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Who's lying? Surely not Honest Joe. Right??
Aides to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have responded to Joe Biden's comment that the Ukrainian president "didn't want to hear" American warnings before Russia's invasion.
Speaking at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Los Angeles on Friday, the president said, "I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating and Zelensky didn't want to hear it," Biden added.
Zelensky's spokesman Sergei Nikiforov said the Ukrainian leader had "three or four telephone conversations" with Biden before the war started, during which they discussed assessments of the situation in detail.
Nikiforov told Russian-language Ukrainian news outlet LIGA.net, "If you remember, the president of Ukraine called on partners to introduce a package of preventive sanctions in order to encourage Russia to withdraw troops and de-escalate the situation. Here we can already say that our partners 'did not want to hear us,'" Nikiforov said.
Meanwhile, Zelensky's adviser Mikhail Podolyak told the same news outlet that Biden's comments were "not entirely true" and that Kyiv had been "well aware that Russia was developing various expansion scenarios."
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I can't imagine why I'd believe any of them.
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"introduce a package of preventive sanctions"
🤡 Oh NO!! Not preventive sanctions!!
No more Big Macs?! The horror, the horror
McDonald's is Back as Russian Economy Rolls On On Sunday — Russia Day, a patriotic holiday — he will reopen 15 stores, including the former flagship McDonald’s on Moscow’s Pushkin Square, the place where, in 1990, thousands of Soviets famously lined up for a taste of the West. The chain will operate under a still-to-be-disclosed new brand, though the new logo has been unveiled, said to represent a hamburger and French fries.
The hash browns will go by a Russian name, according to a menu leaked to a Russian tabloid. And, since the secret sauce is proprietary, there will be no Big Mac on offer.
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^ Yellow-blue [thrown under the Biden] bus!
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Great basis for an over / under poll. When does the last uniparty DC swine stop wearing a Ukraine pin and get back to their constituents' business?
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When?
A) after the J6 show trials end
B) after the last M777's titanium has been stripped off and sold for cash by Paul Pelosi
C) after Zelensky and his retinue surface in his Tel Aviv villa with a cool billion and a new comedy show satirizing Backstabbing Biden / Americans / Germany / Israel etc
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#36 When?
A) after the J6 show trials end
B) after the last M777's titanium has been stripped off and sold for cash by Paul Pelosi
C) after Zelensky and his retinue surface in his Tel Aviv villa with a cool billion and a new comedy show satirizing Backstabbing Biden / Americans / Germany / Israel etc
I'll take 'D' for $600, Alex:
D) 2-3 more weeks, or after the Russians cut to shreds the remaining 1,000 km line of 40,000 Uke soldiers
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D) 2-3 more weeks, or after the Russians cut to shreds the remaining 1,000 km line of 40,000 Uke soldiers
Well, they've been telling us for the last three months or so continuously how they were going to cut the country in two and cut off all the Ukrainian soldiers in the west, and now they're degenerating into WW1-style large scale infantry/artillery battles in Severodonesk at the tip of the supposedly to-be-cut-off area.
Or so they said when they gave up on trying to take Kiev.
Once again the propagandist forgot “Shoulder to shoulder into the great Soviet Russian future,” but otherwise he hit so many notes it’s like a full orchestra playing Tchaikovsky.
[REGNUM] The Cossacks have always been a reliable stronghold of Russian statehood, but the genocide of decossacks and 70 years of Soviet power have weakened the Cossack gene pool. The revival of the Cossack troops in modern Russia on the basis of a serious comprehensive state program, obviously, strengthened the borders of modern Russia, making them strong and safe. This is proved by the Cossacks not in word, but in deed - freeing the territories of Donbass and Ukraine from Ukrainian nationalists. The ataman of the All-Russian Cossack Society (VsKO) Nikolai Doluda drew attention to this .
The public position he is required to take. One wonders what he thinks in private.
No wonder the people say: "As long as the Cossack is alive - Russia is alive." Historically, it so happened that the fate of the Cossacks is inextricably linked with the fate of Russia, because the Cossacks are Russia, the Cossack general is sure. Knowledge and understanding of history, those events that hardened and made Russia stronger, helped the country in the dashing 90s, years of stagnation, not to lose its bearings.
"The Cossacks are a unique phenomenon in Russian history. In no country in Europe did the tradition of chivalry revive, because it did not have a folk background. They were knighted for faithful service to their master. At its core, the Cossacks in Russia are a phenomenon of the spiritual life of the Russian people. It arose by the will of the people. According to Gogol, 'the Cossacks are a spark carved from the chest of the Russian people by blows of misfortune.'"
In the 18th century, under Peter I, the Cossacks became a service class. The Cossacks are the heart of the Russian world, the backbone of Russia, which today is building up and strengthening its muscle," Doluda noted.
And Kiev is the heart of Russia, the original Rus. Therefore it is necessary that Russia again own it, if necessary clearing the aboriginal people away to accomplish the great deed.
Returning to history, the Cossack general recalled that the Don and Zaporozhye Cossacks, of their own free will, in 1642 took the Turkish fortress of Azov and asked Tsar Mikhail Romanov to include it in Russia .
"The Cossacks were called the knights of the wild field, the steppe knights of Russia. The main thing in the Cossacks is the male will, courage and readiness to give life for the Motherland. The genocide of decossackization and 70 years of Soviet power weakened the Cossack gene pool.
"And today in the Cossacks, unfortunately, there are not only grains, but also tares ... Grains are real Cossacks who fought in Transnistria, Abkhazia, Crimea, who today protect the people of Donbass from neo-fascist wickedness. Who invests their professionalism and mental strength in the education of the younger generation in Cossack kindergartens, schools, cadet corps, universities. The strong-willed spiritual core of the Cossacks was not broken by the events of decossackization, the civil war. <...> The Cossacks did not settle accounts with Soviet Russia. Because the Fatherland for the Cossack is a sacred concept," the ataman of the East Kazakhstan region emphasized.
Doluda drew attention to how the Cossacks courageously overcome difficulties, excluding from their ranks random people who joined the ranks of the Cossacks for their own benefit. Their strength of character and will manifest themselves in many situations.
"A real Cossack is distinguished by an irresistible will to live, which cannot be banned, closed, turned back. If the Cossack got up and moved, he could not be stopped. The origins of the Cossack strength is that the Cossacks are determined to win - good over evil. The Cossacks win anyway. Even at the cost of life."
Because from the moment of birth, the Cossack knew that his life did not belong to him, but to God and the Fatherland. Cossacks compare everything good and bad with the commandments, lay down their lives for the faith of their ancestors, for the land on which the graves of their fathers, for their wives and children. Therefore, the church ranks the Cossacks with the army of Christ. By good will, the Cossacks bear the burden of responsibility for the fate of the Fatherland. The modern Cossack, perhaps, is not churched enough. But he works with his heart, tries to live in harmony with God. This is the truth of Cossack life at all times," said the ataman of the All-Russian Cossack Society.
In this direction, the Cossacks also educate the Cossack youth.
Nikolai Doluda notes that today Russia is returning to itself, to its historical values. And the Cossacks have something to offer. This is both the experience of Cossack democracy and the continuous system of Cossack education, based on continuity, mentoring and spiritual and moral priorities of duty, honor, love for the Motherland, multiplication of cultural and historical traditions, respect for elders.
"A thousand volunteer Cossacks holding the defense in the Crimea in 2014 on Chongar, Perekop, Turkish Val, more than five thousand Cossacks as part of the Kuban, Don, Tavrida, Yermak Cossack units, who are fighting in the Donbass with neo-Nazis - demonstrate the experience of high self-organization. The named Cossack units numbering 250, 300, 400 people were assembled, equipped and crossed the combat zone within 10-12 days," said the Cossack general.
Speaking about the return to the historical experience of the chief atamans of military societies, Doluda again pointed to historical experience. Even Peter I appointed Peter Romazanov as the first ataman . In this position, he remained permanently. There were chieftains on the Don, Kuban, Terek, Orenburg. And this is a historical tradition for the Cossack troops of Russia.
Mykola Doluda is sure that today the tasks of organizing public service, developing the Cossack economy, forming Cossack military units, opening new Cossack schools, cadet corps, developing the Cossack component in universities can only be solved by the ataman, endowed with state powers.
As expected, the chief chieftains of military Cossack societies will be appointed by decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the proposal of the chieftain of the All-Russian Cossack Society and the approval of the Council under the President of Russia, the Federal Agency for Nationalities of Russia. At the same time, the chieftains of all other levels must preserve electivity as the basic principle of Cossack democracy.
In order to prepare a personnel reserve, a system of continuous Cossack education has been built - from kindergarten to university. Work on professional retraining of representatives of the Cossack societies is carried out in several universities in Russia.
"The Cossacks are the foundation of a united, changing Russia. It builds its development in accordance with the tasks defined by the Strategy of the State Policy of the Russian Federation towards the Russian Cossacks until 2030. This is a strategic planning document in the field of Russian national security. In a word, in the context of today's events in Ukraine, the number one task for the Cossacks is to participate in the formation of the country's mobilization human reserve, to promote national security in all spheres of public life," Mykola Doluda concluded.
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"Returning to history, the Cossack general recalled that the Don and Zaporozhye Cossacks, of their own free will, in 1642 took the Turkish fortress of Azov and asked Tsar Mikhail Romanov to include it in Russia ."
As the direct descendent of Zaparozhian hetmen I can attest that that last bit is .... not quite how things happened. But whatever - go for it.
This will resonate with some young Russian men who have been looking for purpose and identity. Cossack martial arts training camps have attracted some of them, for understandable reasons in a country with high drug abuse rates and shockingly low lifespan expectations of late.
[JustTheNews] Babbitt, an unarmed 14-year veteran of the Air Force, was fatally shot by USCP Lt. Michael Byrd on Jan 6, 2021.
Legal watchdog group Judicial Watch says it has received 102 pages of new Justice Department records related to the fatal shooting of Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt.
Included in the documents is a memo recommending that the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia "decline for criminal prosecution" the fatal shooting of Babbitt.
The documents also state U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, the shooter, "did not create a police report or documents" related to the incident.
Babbitt, an unarmed 14-year veteran of the Air Force, was fatally shot and she attempted to climb through a broken window and into the lobby of the House chamber during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Congress and the Justice Department did not reveal the identity of the shooter until about eight months after the riot – until Byrd was ready to go public himself and defend his actions.
Judicial Watch filed its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, the Civil Rights Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation would not provide the requested records following two Freedom of Information Act requests from the organization.
The memo recommending not to prosecute Byrd justifies that decision, "based on a review of law enforcement and civilian eyewitness accounts, physical evidence, recorded radio communications, cell phone footage, [Metropolitan Police Department] reports, forensic reports, and the autopsy report" for Babbitt.
The memo also states that "after a thorough review of the facts and circumstances in this case, there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Lieutenant Byrd violated [Babbitts'] civil rights by willfully using more force than was reasonably necessary, or was not acting in self-defense or the defense of others."
The report also sets out the federal government's timeline of events: "Once the demonstrators broke the glass, Lieutenant Byrd took up a tactical position to the immediate right of the barricaded entry doors, [Capitol Police Officer Reggie Tyson] took up a tactical position behind Lieutenant Byrd on the right side behind the third pillar and Sergeant McKenna took up a tactical position behind Officer Tyson and behind the fourth pillar on the right side of the Speakers Lobby."
The memo also states that officers repeatedly instructed the "mob" to stand back, a request protesters ignored while continuing to break the glass on the doors to the lobby.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says that the department memo suggests that Byrd was given "special treatment by the Biden DOJ and that there was a miscarriage of justice in the half-baked shooting death investigation of Ashli Babbitt."
He also said "Lt. Byrd, who works for Congress, shot an unarmed woman for no good reason. I suspect that this unjustified shooting isn’t of much interest to the Pelosi rump January 6 committee."
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The notion this is all water under the bridge and will create no repercussions is probably wishful thinking on the part of some, understandable cynicism on the part of others.
There may not be a reckoning for this specific misdeed, but it will be somewhere there under the straw that finally breaks the camel's back.
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Ref #1: You will of course, understand my cynicism.
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The "flap of a butterfly's wing in Africa leads to a hurricane in the southwestern Atlantic" is both a fable and an aspect of the chaotic nature of reality. I don't rule it out, even in the political sphere.
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Juanita Broderick has been very expensive for the Clintons over the years through a determined effort not to go away. The family does need to figure out what their message is and who they plan to haunt.
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Some people make you viscerally angry, and you want to pop'em.
[ET] Paywall busted
Recipients of secret royalty payments who hold key roles at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) have been revealed by nonprofit government watchdog Open the Books.
Through the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Open the Books has discovered that payments totaling more than $134 million were paid to more than 1,600 NIH executives, scientists, and researchers by outside firms, thought to be primarily from the pharmaceutical industry, between 2010 and 2014.
Royalty payments also went to at least three of the top echelon of NIH leaders, including Dr. Francis Collins, the immediate past director of NIH, who got 14 payments. Dr. Anthony Fauci received 23 payments and his deputy, Clifford Lane, received eight payments.
"When an NIH employee makes a discovery in their official capacity, the NIH owns the rights to any resulting patent. These patents are then licensed for commercial use to companies that could use them to bring products to market. So what "rights" does the NIH retain, having given away the monetary rights?
"Employees are listed as inventors on the patents and receive a share of the royalties obtained through any licensing, or ’technology transfer,’ of their inventions. Essentially, taxpayer money funding NIH research benefits researchers employed by NIH because they are listed as patent inventors and therefore receive royalty payments from licensees." But the NIH has 'safeguards', to prevent conflicts of interest, it says somewhere in the middle of the long article, so it's no big deal. Unexpectedly.
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While the overall amount of cash flowing in is determined, how much going to whom is redacted. Fauci supposedly agree to donate all his royalties to charity. Because the specific cash flow to recipients we are expected to trust him that he is actually donating the cash. Americans are short on Fauci trust at the moment.
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What? You mean they copyrighted covid?
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Apparently it is normal for public research (government and academia) that the royalties be shared between the scientist and the employer. It is only in private/corporate research that the work product belongs entirely to the employer.
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Through the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Open the Books has discovered that payments totaling more than $134 million were paid to more than 1,600 NIH executives, scientists, and researchers by outside firms, thought to be primarily from the pharmaceutical industry, between 2010 and 2014.
