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She lurked like a snake in the grass,
That lovely indigenous lass.
As the villagers passed,
If they weren't very fast,
Sure, she'd flash them the tats on her ass,
Which was hairy and gray
And would piously bray
In its pew every morning at Mass.
[PJMedia] It’s recession time — a mild one, so far — as the U.S. economy grew at a zero-point-zero annual rate last quarter after shrinking slightly during the first three months of the year.
While the numbers don’t seem to have been made public yet, someone at Zero Hedge got hold of them midday on Wednesday.
Economists consider the economy to be in recession when there is zero or negative growth for two consecutive quarters or more, and that’s what we’ve gotten in the first half of 2022 after a full year of Bidenomics has had its effects. Let's Go Brandon!
The economy shrank at an annual rate of 1.5% from January through March. That was revised downward from an original estimate of 1.4% shrinkage, and worse than the expected revision to 1.3%.
Consumer spending drives more than two-thirds of the U.S. economy, and consumers are feeling the pinch of double-digit price hikes for nearly everything, higher borrowing costs, and record credit-card debt to try and pay for it all.
Considering all of that, it’s almost impressive that overstrained consumers managed to juice the economy all the way up to zero.
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If we're "technically" in a recession, then by definition we're in a fokkin' recession. No matter,the Dems will continue to speak their truth and force us all to live by it.
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This is an estimate.
The second quarter isn't over until June 30.
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But it's Trump's fault. Or is it Putin's? Somebody ask Joe.
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june isn't over yet and the GDP estimates for 2nd Q won't be out until mid July (first estimate) and mid August (second estimate)
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What is scarier than this?
The 28% and 32% that still will vote Democrat in 2023 and/or to re-elect Biden in 2024.
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He will impose an excess profit tax unless they spend those profits producing at an. ‘expected value’ loss. Watch them move corporate location to Switzerland (following a number of international drilling and service companies.)
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Nah, they will pass a bill to hit them with extra fees/taxes that can be exempted if they donate to charities and political organizations. Of course the companies will know that only left leaning ones will be accepted by the IRS so there is your new tax loophole and the money goes into more corrupt politicians and their supporters.
Washington CNN — President Joe Biden is calling on major oil refinery companies to take “immediate actions” to ramp up supply, telling them in a new letter that “historically high” profit margins are unacceptable at a time when Americans continue to see soaring prices at the gas pump.
The letter is part of Biden’s effort to shift blame for soaring gas prices, which have become a major political problem, though the reality remains that there is not much he can do about it.
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This dummy can't even demonized the refiners properly. There is no spare refining capacity. There won't be anytime soon, thanks in large part to his party's environmental policies and bureaucrats.
More like corporate cronyism which is what we have had for over 150 years now. Just keeps getting worse.
I'm a capitalist and a libertarian. And the government I see right now is a weird mix between banana republic and facism. The "elite" are plundering the nation for all it's worth and the businesses are helping as hard and fast as they can as they get rich off it as well. Mean while the middle class gets squeezed and gets smaller every year.
And as Kate of Small Dead Animals wrote after the CNN horror show, “Don’t make the mistake of thinking they don’t mean it.”
● Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?
● NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times in lockstep call for higher gas taxes.
● 2008 L.A. Times headline: “The joy of $8 gas.”
Exit quote: “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”
In other words, Obama administration retreads are following the same playbook as the original Obama administration: “We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden: As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
[Insider] The Krebs had been renting for about seven years. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, they decided it was time to find a place they could call their own, especially since they were getting older and have two daughters: Carolina, 7, and Harper, 3.
They didn't have to look far to find the solution.
The couple had inherited 70 acres of land in Fayetteville, Texas, from Michael's grandparents. The property includes agricultural land — and a small, rundown shed.
"We thought the shed was the perfect thing to fix up and make into a tiny home, where we could live while saving up some money so we can have money for the forever house," Krebs, a stay-at-home mom, told Insider.
They plan to live in the tiny home until they have enough savings to renovate and move into the main house, which had been his grandparents' home.
[AFLDS] Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) Monday announced the death of his 17-year-old daughter Gwen, who abruptly passed away on Monday morning. The cause of death is unknown, though the DuPage County Coroner is investigating.
"This morning, Congressman Casten’s beloved daughter, Gwen (17), passed away," tweeted the Congressman’s account Tuesday. "The Casten family requests privacy, and we will be issuing no further comment during this heartbreaking time."
The untimely death comes as news media report an alarming rise in deaths among young, healthy people. News outlets say the deaths are flummoxing doctors, who are calling the phenomenon Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) and are starting "SADS registries" to discover the cause of the deaths.
Physicians who predicted the phenomenon were since censored and not included in any of the media reports. Those doctors include Dr. Zev Zelenko and Dr. Peter McCullough, the most published cardiologist in the world, who stated that the risks of the vaccine outweigh its benefits.
Studies have also shown a significant correlation between cardiac arrest and the COVID-19 vaccine, though these, too, were attacked.
Congressman Casten, who is in the middle of a re-election campaign, is a major proponent of the vaccine, calling the unvaccinated "knuckleheads" in September and telling Business Insider that every member of his staff got the shots "because they don’t like to be dead."
"I’ve made a point of not hiring knuckleheads, and everybody on our staff got vaccinated..." he said.
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Physicians who predicted the phenomenon were since censored and not included in any of the media reports. Those doctors include Dr. Zev Zelenko and Dr. Peter McCullough, the most published cardiologist in the world, who stated that the risks of the vaccine outweigh its benefits.
We really do need a Federal 'Bureau of Disinformation' to sort through these conspiracy theories.
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Did he vote for her to die? Probably not directly. But still...
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If he voted for vaxxes or against stopping fentanyl at the border, he's complicit, to use a word progressives love.
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Or, maybe she just OD'd, and the local LE will cover it up because that's how they roll...
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The incidental death of any child is something difficult to deal with.
We will likely read many rumors used to promote various agendas. Ranging from Fentanyl, other drugs, the VAX to politically motivated for sympathy votes.
But until we can read between the lines of the more than likely politically polished Coroner's Report. I'll let the dead lay in peace, and the family have it's private time.
[ZH] The World Health Organization said Tuesday it will rename the monkeypox virus after concern that it could stoke racism and stigma.
The current name for the virus, which has infected over 1,600 people in 39 countries this year and was first reported in Africa, does not adhere to WHO guidelines that discourage the use of geographic regions or animals, Bloomberg reports. Next up, WHO will suggest it's time to "stop being mean" to cancer.
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I categorized this as non-WOT when I posted, so I defer to the wisdom of the mods if it really belongs here. Truth is, WHO is a terrorist organization, so I can see it...
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Are monkeys complaining?
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Are monkeys complaining?
While getting it from behind from "sex tourists?" How could you tell?
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Happy Fun-Time Pox? Ehh... too much cognitive dissonance. Maybe we could give diseases a unique numeric identifier, like how Vidalia onions were originally called 1015s. Of course, numbers suggest White Supremacy and just like that, we're back in the weeds.
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Monkeys (not apes) appear naturally in Africa, South America, Asia, India, and Europe (Gibralter). So only North America doesn't have natural monkeys and they say its somehow a geographic region problem? I think there are more than a few racists at the WHO.
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We should ask the virus what it identifies itself with.
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^ LOL
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There are so many different categories under which this could be posted: Great Cultural Revolution, Short Attention Span, Signs Portents and the Weather, Science & Technology.... I settled on International-UN-NGOs because they’ve been making themselves ever more irrelevant with this kind of nonsense. And even if is another disease engineered by China, China is always Page 3: Non-WoT unless Iran is involved.
[MSN] Caterpillar Inc. said Tuesday it will move its global headquarters from Illinois to an existing divisional office in Irving, Texas, in the Dallas-Forth Worth area, in another blow to the Chicago area, which last month lost the Boeing Co. headquarters.
The move is "in the best strategic interest of the company," Chief Executive Jim Umpleby said in a statement. The heavy-machinery maker has had a presence in Texas since the 1960s, it said.
Even with the move, Illinois has the largest concentration of Caterpillar employees anywhere in the world, the company said. The headquarters was historically in downstate Peoria, Ill., before a move to the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, in 2017.
Caterpillar said it will begin the relocation this year, without proving further details.
Boeing in May said it was moving its global headquarters to Arlington, Va., outside Washington, D.C., promising to keep a "significant presence" in Chicago, where it moved in 2001 from Seattle.
Texas also welcomed Tesla Inc. headquarters last year, with Chief Executive Elon Musk blaming the San Francisco Bay Area’s lack of affordable housing for the move. Tesla was headquartered in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Musk had said in 2020 he had moved to Texas, saying that Silicon Valley has had "too much influence in the world."
Shares of Caterpillar fell 0.4% in midday trading Tuesday. The stock has lost about 0.3% so far this year, contrasting with losses of more than 21% for the S&P 500.
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Given the politic craziness, taxes and the union leadership in the LSD's pockets screw over members in ILL-inois.
I can understand why a right-to-work state (Texas, GA and etc...) are appealing to Manufacturers.
Where a person cannot be denied employment because of membership or non-membership in a labor union or other labor organization.
Don't give me wrong, Unions "once" served a badly needed purpose. But like too many things, it has become politically corrupted and abused for votes.
Many States now have laws that offer the same work environment safety union originally shalt. Supply and demand for skilled workers now sets the pay scale.
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We now live in an era where software drones unionize.
For some jobs, AI can't get here soon enough.
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Peoria is 'downstate' now? Folks in Vandalia or Mt. Vernon might dispute that.
Well I guess it is 40 miles south of I-80.
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I do understand the CAT wanting to move out of Deerfield, though.
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Mustang Plaza a.k.a. Williams Square is a very cool place Caterpillar is moving to. New restaurants, The Cork and Pig, The Thirsty Lion, Toyota Music Factory (concerts) Pacific Table (sea food), La Cocina, and the 5 star resort hotel Omni Mandalay with a massive lakeside pool area are just a few fun things within a block of the Caterpillar headquarters. It all sits on a man made lake called Lake Carolyn named after the wife of the ranch owner John Carpenter who owned the area as a huge Ranch years ago. Lake Carolyn has canals and Italian Gondolas rowed by Italian dressed operators through canals and on the lake. Along the canals Quenticerra (the 15th birthday) of hispanic girls is celebrated with them in beautiful Quenticerra dresses on the weekends along the Lake Carolyn canals because of the Spain/Mediterranean architecture is like Spain.
This area of Irving is called Las Colinas (The Colony) and is the home of over 2,000 company headquarters from Xerox to Exxon Mobil, to Citibanc. DFW International Airport is 5 minutes away. There is nothing like Las Colinas in the world.
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Another unusual thing is the cheapest apartments ($800) are the most beautiful and historic while new construction of homes and apartments are every where there also.
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Quinceañera, and they spend like a wedding's worth
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[IsraelTimes] Military serviceman, who was in a relationship with insurrectionist, was incarcerated for 19 months for planned mass shooting, legal document shows
A filing in a case stemming from the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol revealed that a US Marine in a relationship with one of the defendants served 19 months in jug for a plot to shoot up a synagogue.
The revelation came in a filing by federal prosecutors arguing against a request by an alleged Death Eater, Riley Williams, to loosen restrictions pending her trial.
Williams, who lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, lied about a meeting she had with the former Marine, the prosecutor’s filing said. Williams, who is under house arrest and wears an ankle monitor, is seeking less stringent restrictions, the Patriot-News reported over the weekend.
The June 10 filing by the US Attorney does not name the Marine, who was given a bad-conduct discharge, or when or where he plotted to attack a synagogue. It says only that he "stole his roommates’ truck and attempted to purchase a firearm with the intent of committing a mass shooting at a synagogue."
The man "was sentenced to 19 months in jug and was given a bad-conduct discharge from the US Marines Corps."
Williams, who is among the more prominent defendants because she allegedly stole US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... ’s laptop, broke conditions of her release by having video meetings with the former Marine, "who is believed to be Williams’ then-boyfriend" and by meeting with him in person in August 2021, the filing said.
At that in-person meeting, the former Marine revealed to Williams "the circumstances of his prior arrest, prosecution, incarceration and discharge from the United States Marine Corps."
Bellingcat, an investigative journalism website, was the first to identify Williams shortly after the insurrection. To do so, the group used a video that showed a woman with a hat emblazoned with occult Nazi symbology dancing until a narrator says "Heil Hitler," at which point she gives the Nazi salute.
A congressional committee investigating the insurrection last week launched public hearings and focused particularly on the role of far-right groups in its organization.
[IsraelTimes] German intelligence services estimate more than 1,150 people traveled from Germany to Iraq and Syria since 2011 for Islamist reasons
Four suspected members or sympathizers of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group have been detained in Germany and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... in a cross-border operation, prosecutors from the two countries said Tuesday.
In Switzerland, three people were picked up in the cantons of Zurich, Sankt Gallen and Lucerne, national authorities said, adding that seven further searches were also carried out.
The suspects, whose identities were not released, are accused of "participation in or support for the outlawed organization Islamic State."
In Germany, a man was detained in the western town of Roemerberg, federal prosecutors said. Identified only as Aleem N., he is "strongly suspected of preparing a serious violent mostly peaceful attack threatening the security of the state and of belonging to a foreign terrorist organization." He is believed to have attempted to travel from Germany via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... to Syria in September 2020.
"In Syria, the suspect wanted to join the foreign terrorist organization Islamic State, attain military training and then take part in combat or terrorist attacks," the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Aleem N. was unable to reach Syria for reasons that were not immediately clear and returned to Germany.
"At the latest in April 2021 he joined IS in Germany and carried out vast propaganda activities for the group," prosecutors said. His duties included "mainly translating official texts, videos and audio messages by IS from Arabic into German and distributing them on various Telegram channels in German-speaking areas."
"IS considered such activities to be equivalent to taking part directly in violent mostly peaceful jihad," it added. The suspect is also believed to have taken part in a telephone conversation with IS leaders in late 2021 to "verify his reliability" before travelling to "IS zones of operation." However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... "a further attempt" to reach Syria in January 2022 "failed again."
Aleem N. was to appear on Tuesday before a federal judge who will decide whether to remand him in jug.
German intelligence services estimate that more than 1,150 people have traveled from Germany to Iraq and Syria since 2011 for Islamist reasons. More than a third have since returned to Germany, while at least 270 have been killed in Iraq or Syria.
"A low three-digit-number" are currently detained in the two countries, according to the intelligence services’ 2021 report.
[Breitbart] The number of Syrians gaining German citizenship tripled in 2021 as many of those who arrived during the migrant crisis became eligible to obtain German nationality. The Federal Statistical Office of Germany announced that the naturalisation of Syrians had tripled last year, with 19,100 Syrian citizens becoming German citizens in 2021, compared to 6,700 in 2020.
The rise is largely due to the number of Syrians who arrived in Germany during the migrant crisis from 2014 to 2016 as the number of Syrians who have lived in Germany for at least six years rose from 45,300 in 2020 to 105,300 in 2021.
This year the number of Syrians who have been in the country for at least six years and could qualify for citizenship has drastically increased to 448,800, which could, in turn, lead to a further surge in Syrians gaining German citizenship this year. While Germany normally requires residency of at least eight years to qualify for citizenship, according to a report from the broadcaster Deutsche Welle, the Syrians granted nationality in 2021 were able to qualify after just six years due to their own successes in integrating into German society.
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[Breitbart] The former head of a French NGO that worked with illegal immigrants colonists has been sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of trafficking in human beings by a Gay Paree court.
Ronald D., the former head of the NGO Vies de Gay Paree, was sentenced by the Gay Paree Criminal Court to two years in prison with one year suspended after being found guilty of exploiting illegal immigrants colonists he had promised to help. The 54-year-old, a French citizen originally from Haiti, was accused of offering illegal immigrants colonists a place to live in exchange for work, often paying the migrants colonists very little and forcing the victims, 51 in total, to work long hours, the newspaper Liberation reports.
Two others connected to Vies de Paris were also part of the case with one of them found to be an accomplice to Ronald D. and was sentenced to a suspended sentence of eight months, while the other accused was released. The NGO itself was also dissolved.
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Interesting. Perhaps our Justice system could learn something from the French.
I wonder what percentage of men just don't give a fuck. By Erin Keller
[NYPost] If you like a man’s gray hair, you should tell him. A new study shows that it will probably make him feel better.
A survey of 2,000 men across all generations — conducted by OnePoll and L’Oreal Paris — looked into how they deal with natural changes to their appearance that come with aging.
Half of the participants currently had gray hair and 44 percent of them were self-conscious about it.
That could be why 38 percent of men choose to dye their grays. An overwhelming 70 percent of participants worry that gray hair makes them look older, while 42 percent worry others will find them less attractive with silver locks.
The graying process can start early — in one’s 20s, if not even sooner — but the survey found that Gen Xers and baby boomers aren’t comfortable with the aging color gray until they are nearly 50.
One of the top concerns for millennials (34 percent) and Gen X men (39 percent) is going gray, which can contribute to why 45 percent of men admitted they sometimes feel pressure to look younger than they are. Read the rest at the link
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I watched my high school room mate get slugged by a pretty cashier while he was drunk because he thought he was being slick: "I just got my hair cut. Now I feel bald. You ever been balled?"
Wham!
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Summary:
Life's a bitch, live it.
Have as much Legal and Moral fun as you can while here. Remembering to thank GOD for it. Then gracefully die having not harmed others, while leaving a good and meaningful footnote in history.
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And, please. Do shave. Looking at all the Conservative Inc. a$$holes with their identical beards is creepy.
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B., My dad used to say, "It's a good day to be on this side of the grass."
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Gray/mixed on top, totally white fu-manchu, and no, I don't give a fuck
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Cousins, Earl and Helen. Earl was a WWII vet and nearing 100. Helen was 95 and no longer mobile. Both shared a very nice mini-apt in a care facility. On my last visit to see them, Helen told me, "I'm not doing so good and we don't know a soul around here anymore. I'm ready to go."
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I always listen to people in their 90s. I ask them questions, encourage them to talk and listen carefully. They remember things how things were...back then.
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Mr. Wife recently got a pair of white-framed aviator glasses — the visual opposite of the fashionable matte black that so many are wearing at the moment — and now that hair and glasses match, he’s getting lots of compliments on the new look.
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Deeply amusing is the idiot who shaves his head to hide his male pattern baldness and then has a 2 day shadow that advertises it. All while acting like Yul Brynner as Pharoah in The Ten Commandments.
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Abu Uluque so do I. I only wear them outside though. My beard was red but is now gray. My hair didn't turn gray, it turned loose.
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I don't have much silver even as I turn 50 this year. So I'm a somewhat salt and more pepper haired stud muffin.
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My father was totally grey at 19. Given that he was stretching toward the 5’4” height listed on his passport, and his boyishly round face, it must have given him the gravitas he needed as he dealt with the adult world — it was during the Great Depression, and he suddenly had to support himself at age 15 1/2.
I would have loved to have been grey that early — a young face with old hair is a stunning look — but sadly I take after my mother.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
The enemy in the industrial zone of the Azot plant is partially isolated from the main forces in Lisichansk. The estimated size of the group reaches 2,500 people + an unspecified number of vehicles. Normal supply of the group is impossible. Because of this, just like at Azovstal, there was talk of "humanitarian corridors."
Fights for settlements on the eastern outskirts of Severodonetsk. The enemy recognizes very heavy losses in the battles for Severodonetsk.
2. Slavyansk.
Battles at Bogorodichny. The Armed Forces of Ukraine recognize the loss of half of the village, our sources say that Bogorodichny has been liberated. In fact, it is still in the contested area.
Our troops broke into the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Valley and started fighting already on the territory of the village.'
Fighting in the Tatyanovka area and in the direction of Sidorovo.
Seversky Donetsk in the direction of Raygorodok or Seversk is not yet forced.
3. Kharkov.
Fighting in the area of Upper Saltov, Ternovoye and Rubezhnoye.
Fighting south of Cossack Lopan in the Velikiye Prohody and Tsupovka area. The Zolochevsky fortified area and the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Saltovka and Chuguev are subjected to active strikes by the RF Armed Forces.
Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strain the flank of the Izyum grouping of the RF Armed Forces did not have significant success.
4. Avdievka.
Fights at Krasnogorovka and New York, but without serious progress. The enemy continued shelling the Donetsk-Gorlovka agglomeration.
5. Artemovsk.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repulsed all attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to return the village of Roty under control and, in turn, advanced in the direction of the village of Vershina and Semigorye.
The position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is defending the Uglegorsk TPP and Novoluganskoye, has become significantly more complicated, since the supply roads are under the fire control of the RF Armed Forces. To the north, fighting continued at Mednaya Ore and Pokrovsky.
UPD: In the evening it was reported that PMC "Wagner" took Semigorye, cutting off the supply lines of the group defending the Novolugansk and Uglegorsk thermal power plants.
6. Soledar.
The RF Armed Forces entrenched themselves on the outskirts of Belogorovka and Berestovoye. The Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway is actually cut off, it is practically impossible to use it to supply the Severodonetsk grouping. The significance of the Artemovsk-Seversk-Lysichansk road has increased many times over, and holding Seversk is now vital for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to be able to retreat from the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk agglomeration.
7. Zolotnoye.
The cleansing of Kamyshevakhi has been completed, fighting is underway on the outskirts of Zolote.
Battles near Toshkovka and Ustinovka.
In the evening, messages came about the capture of the village of Vrubovka. If the information is confirmed, then this brings the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation very close to solving the problem of encircling the Gorsko-Zolotoy group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
UPD: The information is confirmed. They took the cut. Gorsko-Zolotaya grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the operational environment.
8. Izyum.
Battles at Bolshaya Kamyshevakha and Kurulka. The enemy is trying to probe the defenses of the RF Armed Forces in the Balakleya area, but pressure on the flank of the Izyum grouping is still limited here.
9. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoe-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoseloka-Ugledar-Novomikhaylovka-Maryinka without significant changes. Positional battles and artillery shelling in separate directions.
10. Nikolaev.
Positional battles in the Nikolaev and Kherson directions. The enemy made a number of attacks, but had no success.
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to resume the offensive and achieve at least some success within the framework of the tasks set by the political leadership to achieve advancement in the direction of Kherson.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, meanwhile, are building up forces in the Nikolaevsky direction. Gauleiter Kim threatens to blow up the bridges in Nikolaev if the city is threatened with loss.
Money being fungible, possibly some part of it will actually be spent as the donors intend.
[ToloNews] The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN said the World Bank contributed $150 million to provide critical livelihood and life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable rural populations in Afghanistan.
The FAO said that it will focus on wheat production, supporting about 2.1 million people.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock welcomed the World Bank’s financial support and said it will help Afghan farmers.
"In normal years, we import 1 to 1.5 million tons of wheat. In the years of drought, we import 2 to 2.5 million tons," said Musbahuddin Mustayeen, a front man for the ministry.
[KhaamaPress] According to The Wall Street Journal, some key Afghan officials and their families spent millions of dollars in the final years of the war on luxurious mansions in the United States and other countries, and when they fled the rising violence in Afghanistan.
Some officials who held senior roles during former President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... ’s administration, which began in 2014, are now residing in "mansions along Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s coast", according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of public records, interviews, and other evidence.
According to data and interviews, many former officials live in the United Arab Emirates, major European cities, and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... After seeking to uncover the officials whereabouts, it was discovered that the majority had migrated overseas, particularly in countries where currently accessible property and company information are limited.
Some former high-ranking government officials who had foreign citizenships and assets, allowed for an easier relocations in their assets outside of Afghanistan, while others spent on new properties and relocated their families abroad as the government collapsed to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , according to the journal.
ASHRAF GHANI AHMADZAI — FORMER PRESIDENT OF AFGHANISTAN
After escaping to the UAE, President Ghani initially stayed in a suite with his wife at the five-star St. Regis Hotel in Abu Dhabi. His wife then chose a private villa offered by the Emiratis as their permanent residence.
Foreign officials had alleged Ghani of looting government money, so substantial that not all of it could fit in the chopper when he escaped the presidential palace last year.
Given the helicopter’s space and weight limits, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction stated in an interim report last week that the allegation is "unlikely to be true."
HAMDULLAH MOHIB — FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR
Before Kabul fell, former President Ghani’s ally, Hamdullah Mohib, the former National Security Advisor, who left with President Ghani, relocated his family to the Shangri-La Hotel in Abu Dhabi, which was paid for by the UAE government.
According to public documents and Mohib himself, the family then relocated to a four-bedroom property in Florida on a beautiful bay bordered with palm trees.
Despite claiming that he does not own property "anywhere in the world", Mohib claims his mother-in-law owns the house in Florida.
EKLIL HAKIMI — FORMER MINISTER OF FINANCE
According to property and company records in the United States, Eklil Hakimi, the president’s longstanding Minister of Finance, purchased at least ten properties in California, both during his term in office and after departing in 2018.
One of the Hakimi’s property includes a five-bedroom home with a pool in a beach side luxury community, according to California property records. According to a real estate, the aforementioned property is valued $2.5 million.
The ten properties, which are under his wife’s name, Sultana Hakimi, are valued over $10 million at least.
KHALID PAYENDA — FORMER FINANCE MINISTER
Khalid Payenda, Afghanistan’s former finance minister, has two properties around Washington, D.C., one of which was purchased with cash. According to a real estate, they are valued more than $1 million.
In an email to the Journal, he explained that after coming to the United States, he worked as an Uber driver to help manage his finances.
MUSTAFA MASTOOR — FORMER MINISTER OF ECONOMY
According to Dubai records, President Ghani’s Minister of Economy, Mustafa Mastoor, possesses a property in a Dubai Marina. Mustafa Mastoor said that he bought the property before becoming minister, and that he now lives in an apartment in Istanbul that he bought months before Afghanistan collapsed to the Taliban.
ATTA MOHAMMAD NOOR — FORMER GOVERNOR OF BALKH PROVINCE
Atta Mohammad Noor, after the collapse of the government, has relocated to an apartment he has in Dubai’s luxurious place called The Palm, a network of man-made islands styled like a palm tree.
According to a spokesperson for Atta Noor, the property in The Palm is the Noor’s sole property outside of Afghanistan.
ABDUL RASHID DOSTUM — FORMER VICE PRESIDENT
Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... currently resides in Turkey. He recently hosted a gathering at his residence in Turkey where the Afghan political figures established the Supreme Council of National Resistance® for the Salvation of Afghanistan.
He lives in a luxurious house Ankara’s posh Or-An neighborhood. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... it is not determined as to when he bought the house.
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I'm so tired of people talking about how Dostum is the second coming of Genghis Kahn. He's a phony. People who worship him are losers.
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Most people understand that they are "too delicate for prison." One thing the entire political class of planet Earth has in common is that they are "too delicate for real work, too delicate for poverty."
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[KhaamaPress] Three Afghan refugees have been arrested in the US state of Virginia for the murder of another Afghan, according to foreign media articles.
According to the site (NBC12), three Afghan refugees were apprehended for murder on Saturday evening, June 11, at a shopping mall by Virginia State Police.
Khalid Naseri, an Afghan refugee, was stabbed to death by three other Afghan refugees, according to the report. "It's a Cultural Thing™, you wouldn't understand"
Khalid Naseri, being at his 25s, was taken to hospital after being stabbed to death, where he died.
The killers’ identities have been disclosed by Virginia police, who say they have detained three people for murder: Noorzad Nassery, Homauoun Naseri, and Jahadullah Naseri.
According to the report, these Afghan nationals are in police custody and no decision has been made about them so far.
Try ‘em fair and send ‘em back to the Oulde Sod. They clearly have not made the adjustment to a different way of life.
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This was an episode of NCIS like 10 years ago.
A legit refugee/Terp in Virginia was killed by brothers who were smuggled in on fake passports. Turns out they were an ISIS bomb making cell.
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Me grandson is stroppy and croppy,
Of grampaw a pretty fair copy
And a pretty fair cop,
Though I wish he would stop
With the "Sure, shoulda grown yer own poppy!"
[KhaamaPress] In an operation by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... security forces in Kabul province’s Bagrami district, a key ISIS commander was killed and another was arrested, according to Taliban officials.
Late Sunday night, 12th June, the Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that those killed and captured in the operation were involved in attacks on mosques, monasteries, and power pylons.
The killed and captured men were identified as "Kharijites" by Zabihullah Mujahid, who stated they were significant members of ISIS.
Your extreme jihadis are particularly fond of insults dating back more than a millennium. This one goes back to the Third Caliph.
Yusuf, one of ISIS’s senior commanders, was among those killed in the operation, according to the Taliban spokesperson on Twitter.
Another ISIS commander, Mohammad Agha, has reportedly been arrested, according to the official.
The Taliban’s operation against ISIS comes despite the Taliban’s repeated claims that ISIS has been vanquished in Afghanistan and no longer has a physical presence there.
In Afghanistan, the ISIS terrorist group has increased its attacks, mainly against Taliban and Shiite members.
Over 50 large and small explosions and armed attacks have occurred across Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power. The ISIS terrorist group has grabbed credit for most of the attacks.
[Dawn] The National Bank of Pakistain (NBP) has won a high-profile terror-financing case in New York’s Federal Court, avoiding a potential bankruptcy.
Media reports and diplomatic sources said the plaintiff, Harold Brown Sr, withdrew the case, dropping all charges against the bank.
NBP officials in New York and Washington, however, were mysteriously silent on this major win.
There was no one in the NBP’s main office in New York, except a receptionist, and the branch office in Washington had no information.
The bank would have faced the grim prospect of going into bankruptcy had the decision gone against it.
The case against NBP was being handled by the International Disputes Unit of the Attorney General’s Office. Earlier this year, the US Federal Reserve Board had announced a $20.4 million penalty against the NBP.
The New York Department of Financial Services also fined the bank $35 million for repeated compliance failures, taking the combined penalties to $55 million.
In his filing, the plaintiff alleged that NBP provided financial support and banking services to several notorious terrorist groups and terrorist fundraisers, among them, Al Qaeda.
The judge dismissed the complaint with leave to "replead" and directed the parties to appear for the initial case management conference on April 2, 2021.
It was apparently after this conference that the plaintiff agreed to withdraw the charges.
Sources told Geo News that a few years back, the NBP was accused of facilitating the transfer of funds that were used to plan and execute an attack on a United States military base in Afghanistan, which killed nine American soldiers.
Had the NBP lost the case, according to sources, it would have been slapped with fines worth billions of dollars, leaving it bankrupt. The AG Office sources also said in that case, Pakistan would have faced serious issues at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
The case was handled by the International Disputes Unit of the AG's Office. The team was led by Ahmed Irfan. It was the same team that helped produce positive outcomes in the Karkey, Reko Diq, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Tuwairqi cases.
From February — NBP is a habitual terrorism supporter, it appears:
[WSJ] State-owned financial institution agrees to spell out how it would improve compliance at its New York City branch in settlements with Fed, New York state
The National Bank of Pakistain has agreed to pay $55.4 million and to provide plans for improving compliance at its New York City branch after U.S. regulators found major deficiencies.
The bank agreed to monetary penalties and remediation plans in settlements with the U.S. Federal Reserve and the New York State Department of Financial Services. The settlements were announced Thursday.
Both regulators previously took action against the bank over persistent compliance deficiencies at the New York branch. The Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... -based, state-owned financial institution, founded in 1949, is the only Pak bank with a presence in New York.
In a settlement from 2016, the bank agreed to address significant shortcomings the regulators identified, but ultimately failed to do so, the regulators said.
Senior management at the bank was "unwilling or unable to promote a culture of compliance," the New York regulator said.
The bank failed to provide sufficient resources for compliance and to adequately supervise its New York branch, allowing problems to get steadily worse, the New York regulator said. The state enforcer also noted deficiencies in the bank’s program meant to ensure compliance with U.S. sanctions.
The bank will be required to create a plan to improve its anti-money-laundering program as well as its suspicious-activity monitoring and customer due-diligence requirements.
The New York regulator said it gave substantial weight to the bank’s cooperation and efforts to improve its compliance.
The National Bank of Pakistain didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Financial Action Task Force, a Gay Paree-based organization that sets anti-money-laundering standards, has for several years kept Pakistain on a "grey list" of countries identified as having deficiencies in their anti-money-laundering and counter-terror-financing regimes. The list comprises countries that are deemed deficient but that are working with FATF to improve.
[SHAFAQ] The residents of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... who witnessed their city being overrun by ISIS are not strangers to conspiracy theories that continue to crop up even eight years later.
According to eyewitnesses, the military and security forces in the city collapsed on June 10, 2014, leaving the city to ISIS for three years, during which they suffered unspeakable violence and destruction.
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Commentary by Russian military blogger Boris Rozhin
This sounds like the information came from one of the frontline Russian militiamen, instead of the Russian ministry of defense, which claims the information. So far, the Ukrainian side has yet to comment on the incident.
[ColonelCassad] Shooting near Novomikhailovka
More than 30 servicemen of the 25th battalion of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to lay down their arms and surrender after conducting fire preparations for the offensive of the Russian troops;
The Ukrainian servicemen, who occupied a stronghold in the area of the Animal Farm, appealed by radio to the command of the Russian unit to cease fire and provide an exit corridor;
At about 10 p.m., servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with white flags began to advance towards the Russian positions.
At that moment, a detachment of Ukrainian nationalists, who arrived at the strong point on armored vehicles, opened crossfire at the servicemen of the 54th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the back.
As a result of this execution, 32 Ukrainian servicemen were fatally wounded and killed.
Against the backdrop of growing military failures and the demoralization of the Ukrainian troops, the Kyiv nationalist regime is trying to stop the retreat and surrender of its units by punitive actions of detachments. The lives of Ukrainian servicemen and mobilized fighters of territorial defense units mean nothing to the current leadership of Ukraine. (c) RF Ministry of Defense
The case when a quasi-role-playing game of Nazism led to role-playing games in detachments as in the worst domestic and foreign films on this topic.
PS. Plus a video https://t.me/boris_rozhin/53617 with a soldier who surrendered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who tells how those who surrendered were shot in the back by the mobilized.
[ColonelCassad] Urgent statement of the Head of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine - Head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev:
The Ukrainian side requested the organization of a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians (women, children and the elderly) who are at the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk, to the territory controlled by Kiev in the city of Lisichansk.
Taking into account the fact that on June 13, 2022, by order of the Kyiv authorities, in order to prevent the retreat of territorial defense units, the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the last bridge across the Seversky Donets River in the direction of Lysychansk, it is not possible to carry out a safe evacuation in this direction.
The militants of the nationalist battalions, retreating from the residential areas of Severodonetsk, deliberately brought hundreds of civilians out of the city to the industrial zone of the Azot chemical plant in order to hide behind them as a "human shield".
Realizing the hopelessness of the situation of our armed formations, we regard the appeal of the Ukrainian side for the alleged rescue of civilians as an attempt to withdraw the surviving units from the encirclement. Thus, there are all signs of a repetition of the "Mariupol scenario".
Guided by humane principles, the Armed Forces of Russia and the formations of the Luhansk People's Republic are ready to carry out a humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians.
To do this, from 08:00 (Moscow time) to 20:00 (Moscow time) on June 15, 2022, a humanitarian corridor will open in a northern direction (to the city of Svatovo, Luhansk People's Republic).
At the same time, the safe evacuation of all, without exception, civilians and their movement as part of humanitarian convoys to temporary accommodation centers is guaranteed.
We offer militants of nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries who are at the Azot plant from 08:00 (Moscow time) June 15, 2022 to stop any hostilities and release the civilians they are holding through this humanitarian corridor, as well as to stop senseless resistance and lay down their arms.
The Russian Federation guarantees the preservation of life and compliance with all the norms of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, as happened with those who had previously surrendered in Mariupol.
The actual readiness of the Ukrainian side to start a humanitarian operation is indicated by the raising of white flags.
Once again, we call on the official authorities of Kyiv to show prudence, to give appropriate instructions to the militants to stop the senseless resistance and leave the territory of the Azot plant.
Through operational communication channels, this statement is immediately communicated to the Ukrainian side through I.A. Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Ukraine.
(c) RF Ministry of Defense
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Somewhere I have seen this recently.
Ah yes, in Mariupol. Then it was called extraction. The fact that requests for humanitarian corridors and the like were sent transparently hints that the northern fur-bearing animal (heh)
will soon come to the remnants of the AFU grouping in Severodonetsk.
PS. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR, the industrial zone of the Azot plant is defended by a group of 2,500 people, of which up to a quarter are foreign mercenaries.
Full-fledged supply of the defenders was disrupted due to the destruction of bridges and the possibility of artillery of the RF Armed Forces to fire at the approaches to Severodonetsk from Lysichansk.
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Taking into account the fact that on June 13, 2022, by order of the Kyiv authorities, in order to prevent the retreat of territorial defense units, the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the last bridge across the Seversky Donets River in the direction of Lysychansk, it is not possible to carry out a safe evacuation in this direction.
Hmmm. I thought it was Russians who blew that bridge so Ukrainians could no longer supply their people in Severodonetsk.
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This has been widely reported in Europe. It was entirely predictable due to the outbreak of dozens of mutinies and other instances of refusal to fight on the part of the poor Ukrainian troops who've been sent into the slaughterhouse by their mad politicians.
This kind of internecine killing is what we saw in World War One after the commanders were shown to be murderous cretins intent on prolonging the slaughter to no discernible end.
Shooting near Novomikhailovka
More than 30 servicemen of the 25th battalion of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to lay down their arms and surrender after conducting fire preparations for the offensive of the Russian troopsAt about 10 p.m., servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with white flags began to advance towards the Russian positions.
At that moment, a detachment of Ukrainian nationalists, who arrived at the strong point on armored vehicles, opened crossfire at the servicemen of the 54th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the back.
As a result of this execution, 32 Ukrainian servicemen were fatally wounded and killed. Against the backdrop of growing military failures and the demoralization of the Ukrainian troops, the Kyiv nationalist regime is trying to stop the retreat and surrender of its units by punitive actions of detachments.
⚡️Official: Number of injured in Lviv Oblast attack up to 6.
A Russian missile was downed by Ukraine’s air defense over the town of Zolochiv on June 14 but its debris fell and damaged an infrastructure facility.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 14, 2022
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[NYPOST] Russian forces could be just weeks away from seizing control of the key Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine — as Ukrainian officials continued to appeal for more heavy weapons and ammunition from the West.
An unnamed senior US defense official told the Washington Post that the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, which have seen some of the fiercest battles in recent weeks, could fall to Russia in the coming days.
Russia has been making steady gains in the strategically important Donbas region — comprised of Luhanks and Donetsk — by pounding the area with heavy artillery day after day and inflicting heavy casualties on the outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian soldiers.
It is widely believed that the fate of Donbas could dictate the course of the entire war, now in its fourth month.
The area is home to the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic, which are controlled by Moscow-backed rebels who have been at war with Ukrainian forces since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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Could be soon. Might not be. Waiting for the fat lady to sing.
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[SHAFAQ] On Tuesday, the Ottoman Turkish authorities arrested two men for belonging to ISIS.
In brief, the Ottoman Turkish Police said the Ottoman Turkish forces raided the terrorists’ house in Kayseri, Central Anatolia, and seized digital devices.
The two detainees are an Iraqi and a Syrian.
The Police did not give further details.
Last May, the Ottoman Turkish Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 26 suspects in operation against ISIS terrorist financing sources.
The ministry said raids were carried out in 12 provinces, including Balikesir, Adana, Ankara, Istanbul, Bursa, Hatay, and Sanliurfa.
See the photos at the link.
[REGNUM] The Alexander III Cadet Ball was held on the Yalta embankment. The ball was timed to coincide with two memorable dates at once: the 210th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812 and the Day of Russia.
A total of 250 cadets of the Yalta secondary school No. 11 took part in the celebration. To the accompaniment of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Crimean State Philharmonic, the cadets danced everything that was popular during social events: waltz, polonaise, quadrille, polka and pas de grasse.
The initiator of the ball was the director of the MBOU "Yalta Secondary School No. 11" Alexander Tutatchikov, and the main manager was the chairman of the non-profit public organization "Heirs of Russia" Anna Koryakova.
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Hair colors found in nature, women and girls in flowing gowns and young men and boys wearing neck ties and squared away uniforms, no visible ink or excessive piercings, and all celebrating their country's heritage...but WE are really the good guys, the veritable torch of civilization. OK
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I wrote a short story once about a guy who was all tatted up but no one could tell while he was dressed for work.
He had to dress funny on the golf course.
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Cesare, the Nazis were exquisitely groomed and wore designer outfits, too. Aesthetics do not correspond to morality.
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That's kind of a leap, Rob. I make and made no defense of the Hugo Boss boys, long defeated and well massacred. But we have trouble, and yes, I do mean right here in river city.
We live in a country that castrates it's little boys and neuters it's young women. Ask yourself, can you imagine the emergent drag queen menace showing up at the Alexander III Cadet ball?
How about celebrating their history and a victorious struggle. You know, maybe like the 150th anniversary of our Civil War and the anniversaries of so many incredible sacrifices on both sides. The 100th of the United States kicking the absolute crap out of the Hugo Boss' boys fathers. Yeah, I guess I missed that. Damned Wild Turkey must have gotten the upper hand again.
Morality? Suffice it to say I got involved in the independent oil business while I was still in college. Before the Army, Mrs C and the multitude of jr.'s. Not that I imagine it commends me in any way, but to be sure I absolutely understand the wrapper doesn't always foretell the goods.
We have a serious problem here. Look anywhere. Art? architecture? Public discourse? We are bombarded daily, Hell hourly with commands to hate Ivan. Chiefly from people who spent decades tongue bathing the Soviet Union.
Yet they are a country that is building nearly a church per day. A country that built a cathedral to celebrate it's fighting men. So what? we just had Memorial Day. That's right,' Day'. Now we have "Pride MONTH' and I don't care if you're a lighthouse keeper or a fire watcher you will not escape it.
Fine. The Russians are the stuff of the darkest nightmares. If that's so, it only makes events like this and even the Romanov wedding in St Petersburg awfully hard to square with the current American version of civilization.
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What did I see in the very first picture? Little boys ooohhhing and aaaahhhing over a Chevrolet Camaro. So, at least, we can still do a few things that Russians cannot.
But anyone who is paying attention must certainly notice that ours is a society in decline. Church attendance in the United States is falling at an alarming rate. Fentanyl overdoses are killing hundred of thousands per year. Homeless encampments foul our cities. Gang violence terrorizes our inner cities. Our southern border is undefended. Formerly great cities like Detroit, Seattle and San Francisco are dead or dying. The mainstream media is in bed with the Chinese Communist Party and ignores these problems while trying to make us believe that a senile old crook has it all under control.
I don't know if Russia is any better. I've never been there. But it's hard to imagine that it's any worse.
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Russia is not the West's enemy. Ukraine is not an ally. Ask yourself, in which cities would a man like De Gaulle or Eisenhower or Churchill, or his traditional conservative descendants, feel more at home today: in Moscow or Budapest? Or in rainbow-worshipping, "diversity"-soaked New York, Paris and London?
How does it go? Something about never interfering when your enemy is making a fatal error...
[ET] Chinese leader Xi Jinping has reaffirmed the ruling communist party’s strict "zero-COVID" pandemic control policy in a recent speech. Meanwhile, the regime has put out a new regulation trying to save China’s economy under the policy.
According to a report by China’s state media Xinhua, Xi said that officials must "do a good job in coordinating epidemic control and economic and social development efficiently, and resolutely overcome some current difficulties in economic development" during visits he made to Sichuan Province on June 8 and 9. He reiterated that the country should "unswervingly adhere to the general policy of ’dynamic clearing’ of COVID-19."
Following Xi’s speech, Zhong Nanshan, the regime’s top medical advisor, said on June 10 at the 14th China Bio-Industry Conference that the epidemic must be prevented, but more importantly, economic stability and development must be taken into account. He added that the latter two were equally important.
"The escalation of epidemic control measures is not advisable, as it will obviously affect economic development," Zhong said, according to a report on Yicai.com, a major Chinese financial news website.
He added that pandemic control measures were not as simple as only ensuring a "dynamic clearing" of COVID-19 cases. "At present, to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control, we need to focus on precise prevention and control, and we need to rely on science." Maybe they should talk to "Mr. I Am Science". Maybe he's got some more Gain Of Function research funds.
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"....And next up - people aren't getting any smarter, plus Xhangzhi with the weather!"
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This is a virus with a diverse animal reservoir.
Zero-Chinavirus Zero-Covid implies Zero in the global population not only of humans but also rats, mice, hippos, lions, deer, ferrets, cats and dogs to name a few species.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Censor] Operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine regarding the Russian invasion as of 18:00 on June 14, 2022.
This was reported by Censor.NET .
"For 111 days of heroic opposition of the Ukrainian nation to the Russian military invasion continue. The aggressor continues to launch missile and air strikes on military and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, no active action was taken by the enemy. As part of the check of combat readiness of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus, exercises were conducted with units of special operations forces.
In the northern direction, the enemy continues mortar shelling of settlements in border areas, including civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlement of Mykhalchyna Sloboda, Chernihiv region.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy focused its main efforts on maintaining the occupied frontiers. To restrain the actions of units of the Defense Forces, it carries out systematic fire on the positions of our troops. In addition, the Russian occupiers fired on civilian infrastructure in the settlements of Dementievka, Ruska Lozova, Mospanove and Bazalovka. The enemy remotely mined the area in the areas of Bayrak, Peremoha and Shestakovo. Conducts assault operations near Rubizhne, fighting continues.
Systematic enemy artillery shelling was recorded in the Slavic direction in the areas of the settlements of Tetyanivka, Chepil, Dolyna, Dibrivne and Bohorodychne. The enemy did not take any active action in the Lyman direction. He fired artillery at civilian infrastructure in the Siversk area.
In the Severodonetsk direction, the invaders fired on civilian infrastructure in the settlements of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Bila Hora, Ustynivka, Toshkivka and others. Helicopter strikes near Metelkino. The enemy is conducting assaults in the city of Severodonetsk, fighting continues. The enemy is regrouping troops and trying to strengthen the group.
Also read: The total combat losses of the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war - about 32.5 thousand people, 213 aircraft, 179 helicopters, 1434 tanks and 3503 armored vehicles. INFOGRAPHICS
In the Bakhmut direction, the occupiers fired at our troops with mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Mykolayivka, Berestove, Vrubivka, Pokrovske and New York. Enemy army aircraft launched an air strike near Belogorovka. In the Berestov area, Ukrainian soldiers repulsed an enemy assault, inflicted losses on the enemy and forced them to retreat to their former positions. The enemy is conducting assault operations in the area of the settlement of Zolote, the fighting continues.
The aggressor did not conduct active hostilities in the Avdiivka, Kurakhiv, Novopavliv and Zaporizhia directions. He fired on civilian infrastructure near Avdiivka, Marinka and Huliaipil. He struck with assault and army aircraft in the areas of Sribne and Mali Shcherbaki. He conducted reconnaissance in the battle near Pavlivka.
In the South Bug area, the enemy fired on units of our troops and tried to fight the counter-battery. In the areas of Trudolyubivka, Tokareve, Bashtanka, Kvitneve, Luch, Tavriyske, and Oleksandrivka, the Russian occupiers fired at the infrastructure with artillery, mortars, and multiple rocket launchers. The enemy conducts reconnaissance in this direction using UAVs. Remotely mined some parts of the river Ingulets. Continues engineering equipment positions.
The situation in the Bessarabian direction has not changed significantly.
Ukraine's defense forces are skilful on the battlefield and inflict heavy losses on the enemy. Total resistance continues in the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian occupiers. We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let's win together! Glory to Ukraine! ", - it is said in the information of the General Staff.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] At least 50 non-combatants were killed in a suspected terrorist attack on the the village of Seytenga, Seno province, in northern Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... "So far, 50 bodies have been found," the government front man Lionel Bilgo said on Monday, adding that the search was continuing and the toll could rise.
He said the attacks came as a result of reprisals for the army’s actions against armed elements.
Burkina Faso, particularly the north and east, has been the target of takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... terrorist attacks since 2015, perpetrated by movements affiliated with al-Qaeda and ISIS, that have left more than 2,000 dead and 1.9 million people displaced.
The government of Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... revealed on Tuesday that soldiers had recovered the bodies of 79 victims killed in an attack in the northern province of Seno over the weekend.
No group has grabbed credit for the armed assault on the town of Seytenga.
Survivors of the attack who managed to flee to a nearby city said that they had been left defenseless after government soldiers left the area.
Burkina Faso has been ruled by the military since a coup ousted President Roch Marc Christian Kabore in January over allegations that he had not done enough to put down the insurgency.
SURVIVORS SAY THEY WERE LEFT DEFENSELESS
The attacks first began last Thursday when an unidentified group killed 11 gendarmes in an attack on a military police post near Seytenga.
The security forces then reportedly retreated to the regional capital of Dori, abandoning the security post and leaving no protection for when the attackers came.
The gang "went from shop to shop, sometimes torching them," one man told AFP news agency. "They opened fire on anyone who tried to run away. They stayed in the town all night."
"They looted homes — they killed anyone they found, men, children. There are so many dead. It's just awful," a woman survivor said.
The government said that over 3,000 people, most of them children, arrived in Dori on Monday after fleeing the attack. A project coordinator for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Dori said the number had risen to more than 6,800 by Tuesday.
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⚡️Explosions reported in Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast.
Social media users published videos and photos of explosions at a warehouse with Russian military ammunition, online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported.
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[NYPOST] The Queens man accused of hacking his nephew to death with a machete gave a grisly step-by-step account of the murder to cops, admitting, "I chopped him up," prosecutors revealed Monday.
"I’ve had enough," Mahadeo Suhnandan, 50, allegedly told police after the Sunday morning slashing death of his kin, 29-year-old Neraz Roberts, inside the family’s Hollis home.
"His whole life he wanted to kill me," Suhnandan said of the victim, according to authorities. "I chopped him up.
"I heard Neraz say he would kill me if he caught me outside," he said. "I got my ’Cutlass’ from my bed — it’s a machete. It has a wooden handle.
"I went downstairs, kicked open his door and asked him why he wants to kill me.
"He poked me with something, and I chopped him three times," Suhnandan allegedly said. "I pause between the second and third chop and said, ’You want to kill me? I will kill you,’ and then continued to chop him.
"The blood on my feet and on my sandals is his," he added. "He asked me why I chopped him. I leaned back for leverage for the big chops that caught him in the neck."
The bone-chilling account came as Judge Diego Freire ordered Suhnanda held without bail on murder charges at his arraignment in Queens court Monday.
Even the defendant’s lawyer, David Donaldson Strachan of Queens Defenders, told the judge at one point of the case, "I know, it’s a doozy."
The defendant remained quiet and composed during the proceedings.
"He has no criminal record, and this is his first arrest," Strachan noted to the judge.
Police said the brutal slaying occurred around 5 a.m. Sunday after the pair got into a heated argument the day before, prosecutors said.
Suhnandan allegedly said he called cops Saturday night after his nephew told him "he wanted to shoot me in the head" and planned to go to the 103rd Precinct later Sunday.
On Sunday, a family neighbor told The Post the family was feuding over ownership of the house after Suhnandan’s mother-in-law died from COVID about 2 1/2 years ago.
Neighbor Ryan Basdeo said the dead woman’s son — Roberts’ father — disputed ownership but was kicked out by Suhnandan earlier this year. Suhnandan is married to the dead woman’s daughter.
Roberts continued to live in the basement until he was slashed to death.
"Since the mother died, they’ve been fighting," Basdeo said. "Always cops coming here."
[Fox Business - June 3] Chevron CEO Mike Wirth says he does not expect another oil refinery to be built in the U.S. ever again, pointing to decades of federal government policies as the reason why.
"There hasn’t been a refinery built in this country since the 1970s," Wirth said at Bernstein's Strategic Decisions Conference this week, when asked about the prospect of new capacity being added in the Gulf of Mexico. "I personally don’t believe there will be a new petroleum refinery ever built in this country again."
"Capacity is added by de-bottlenecking existing units by investing in existing refineries," he explained. "But what we’ve seen over the last two years are shutdowns. We’ve seen refineries closed. We’ve seen units come down. We’ve seen refineries being repurposed to become bio refineries. And we live in a world where the policy, the stated policy of the U.S. government is to reduce demand for the products that refiners produce."
The Biden administration has sought to ease the rising prices by releasing a record 180 million barrels from the already-depleated Strategic Petroleum Reserve over six months starting in March, and by urging both foreign and domestic producers to increase output.
Wirth said that is just what the industry is doing. "We raised our Permian [Basin] production growth outlook to 15% this year," he said. "So the narrative you hear that the industry is not growing production is not true. We are growing production and our industry is growing production."
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With Putin's military setting up shop in Central America, taking out the US refinery on the Gulf Coast will be Target Numero Uno.
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Time to remove any agency or administrative layer created since 1970 in the national government. Get it off the throats of Americans.
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[RIA Novosti] Ukrainian authorities have mobilized hundreds of thousands of people, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar.
"We are talking about a large number, about hundreds of thousands (mobilized. - Approx. ed.)," Malyar said on the air of the Ukraine 24 TV channel.
Martial law was introduced on the entire territory of Ukraine on February 24, it was extended every month. And on May 22, the Verkhovna Rada increased this period immediately to 90 days - until August 23.
After the start of the special operation, the Ukrainian defense ministry announced that the mobilization would take place in several stages. First, former military personnel with combat experience who served in the army under a contract or took part in hostilities in the Donbass , then - military personnel who served in the military until 2014 or served under a contract. After them, those who graduated from the military departments of universities as reserve officers, as well as other persons who do not have age and physical restrictions, can be mobilized.
The head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Oleksiy Reznikov , said in May that it was necessary "to provide one million people who will resist the enemy." How many people have already been mobilized, the department did not specify.
Air Force says its transport crew made the right decision to leave Kabul airport amid a chaotic withdrawal last August
The USAF concluded that air crew members acted appropriately and were not at fault for some tragic deaths during the evacuation from Afghanistan last year
Crew exhibited 'sound judgment' in face of an 'unprecedented' security crisis, according to a report compiled by the military branch
Desperate Afghans clung to a military plane as it was taking off and fell to their deaths or were caught in the wheels
Crowds of people had surged onto the runway at the airport in Kabul in a desperate attempt to flee the country
Human remains were discovered in the wheel well of the the C-17 military transport plane after it landed in Qatar
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Delta probably already did and decided the seating would be too comfortable, B.
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...Had My Beloved Service made any other call, the pushback would have been epic. Those kids - and 44 years after hitting the parade ground at Lackland, I can say that - pulled off something that shouldn't have even been imaginable, much less possible. It wasn't their fault that some moron decided to hang on for the ride.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:42 The last stage of the release of Kamyshevakhi - Kadyrov is over. 21:03 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the ignition of the pipeline on the territory of the Yelenovsky bakery as a result ofshelling of VFU from MLRS BM-27 "Hurricane"at the address st. Postal, 147.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
20:16 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the injured civilian - a woman born in 1960. as a result of shelling of the VFUn.p. Gorlovka at st. Michurin, 11.
As a result of the shelling of the VFU, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin):
- st. Sukhumskaya, 1/2 - private sector;
- st. Yaroshenko, 8, 27 - private sector;
- st. Yaroshenko, 41 - gas pipeline.
n.p. Luhansk:
- st. Sadovaya, 1 - outpatient clinic.
Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk:
- st. Buturlinovskaya, 52 - an apartment building, a direct hit on the roof.
19:23 The signing of the Agreement on cooperation between the Federation of Trade Unions of the LPR and the association of trade unions of Russia "SOTSPROF" took place.
18:18 About 2,500 Russian specialists and almost 800 pieces of equipment are working on the territory of the DPR and LPR. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin. In the near future, another 1,500 builders and 200 pieces of equipment will go to the Republic.
18:00 Information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU at the following addresses:
n.p. Gorlovka:
- st. Angarskaya, 8 - private sector;
- st. Krinichnaya, 19 - the private sector;
- st. Zheleznodorozhnaya, 17 - private sector;
- st. Gornaya, 25, 27, 32 - private sector;
- st. R. Luxembourg, 9, 12 - gas pipeline;
- st. Molodyozhnaya, 15 - gas pipeline;
- st. Neverova, 2 - private sector;
- st. Berestovskaya, 4 - the private sector;
- st. Rybalko, 50 - the private sector.
As a result of the shelling of the VFU, the village was de-energized. mines. Rumyantsev - 18,822 subscribers, including one filter station.
n.p. Makeevka:
- st. Karl Marx, 53, 55, 57, 58, 62 - the private sector.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
17:29 The situation near Popasna as of 16.30 June 14, 2022:
Having occupied Vozrozhdenie and the Companies, the Wagner PMC assault detachments continued their offensive towards the village of Vershina, establishing at least fire control over the Bakhmut-Svetlodarsk highway.
For the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine holding the Novolugansk and Uglegorsk TPPs, this means an operational encirclement, since the only road for retreat - to Kodema - is being shot through from the Dolomite side by units of the NM of the DPR.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, together with the NM of the LPR, continue the offensive from Kamyshevakhi in the direction of Vrubovka.
There are reports that the 100th brigade of the NM DPR managed to break the resistance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and gain a foothold on the eastern outskirts of Berestovoye.
The operational situation in the Bakhmut direction is deteriorating for the Armed Forces of Ukraine every day.
16:21 At 19 addresses in Lugansk, private houses affected by the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being restored. The work is being carried out by Luganskzelenstroy LLC. According to the Cabinet, by the end of the week it is planned to complete repairs at 8 facilities.
16:13 In the maternity hospital in Donetsk, which was shelled yesterday by Ukrainian punitive forces, there were 3 newborns on the 5th floor, connected to oxygen. The 4th could already do without it - it was taken away when the shelling began.
16:02 The number of civilian casualties for June 13 is 37 people - four dead and 33 wounded.
15:56 A woman was wounded in the Kuibyshev region Friendship, 20. In a state of traumatic shock of the 3rd degree, the victim was hospitalized at the Institute of Emergency and Reconstructive Surgery. Gusak.
15:06 Heads of the LPR and DPR Pasechnik and Pushilin will take part in SPIEF.
15:02 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Ukraine had asked to organize a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians from the Azot plant in Severodonetsk to the territory controlled by Kyiv in Lysichansk.
The department regarded this appeal as an attempt to withdraw the surviving units from the encirclement and sees this as signs of a repetition of the “Mariupol scenario”. Therefore, the humanitarian corridor will open in a different direction.
15:00 DPR asks Russia to use additional Iskanders and aircraft to destroy artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Basurin.
14:36 Child died during the shelling of Rubizhne (LPR) by Ukrainian troops from US-supplied M777 howitzers. The mother of the deceased boy told how it happened.
13:08 AFU wounded a child in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. During the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk from the positions of terrorists on the street. In Zaboyschikovby a 13-year-old boy was wounded .
13:06 DPR, having asked Russia for additional assistance, is counting on more active use of ground-based and air-based missiles - Basurin.
13:04 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka: five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
12:29 According to updated data, two civilians were hospitalized in Makiivka, men born in 1974 and 1979. with explosive injuries.
12:03 The work of the maternity hospital in Donetsk will be temporarily suspended after shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, women in labor will be evacuated.
This was announced by Anna Zheleznaya, Deputy General Director for Medical Work of the Donetsk Republican Center for Maternal and Child Health, on the air of the Rossiya-24 TV channel.
12:02 Information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU settlement. Gorlovka at the following addresses:
microdistrict "Komarovo":
- st. Shashurina, 1 - residential building.
At the moment, the microdistrict is de-energized - without power supply to 2568 subscribers.
n.p. Zaitsevo (southern):
- st. Heroic, 3, 9 - private sector.
- st. Heroic - Kindergarten No. 74.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
11:30 It is reported that the LPR NM military evacuated the civilians of Toshkovka, who were forced to hide from shelling at a local mine for two and a half months. The village itself was liberated from Kyiv militants a few days ago.
10:16 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
- n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
10:02 Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired 27 shells from the BM-21 Grad MLRS, 120mm mortars and using the Tochka-U tactical missile system at the settlements of Zolote-5, Kremennaya and Krasny Luch.
09:25 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka: six shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
n.p.Zaitsevo (northern) - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): six mines fired in 120mm caliber.
09:22 On the territory of the Azovstal plant, one or two fighters of the Azov battalion are regularly found, who did not surrender on May 20, a TASS source in law enforcement agencies says. Headquarters TerO DPR reports:
The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a missile attack on Panteleimonovka from positions in Avdiivka. 20 BM-21 Grad MLRS missiles were launched.
08:47 It is reported that in the sky above the Red Beam, the air defense forces of the NM LPR intercepted a missile of the Tochka-U tactical missile system fired by Ukrainian militants. According to preliminary information, there are no victims or injured as a result of the incident.
08:34 DPR will turn to the Russian Federation for help to counter the shelling of Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Pushilin.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Panteleymonovka: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
--n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Panteleymonovka: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Mikhailovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
--n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: nine shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
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[Vesti] There is no longer a possibility to conduct a centralized evacuation
In Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, up to 560 civilians remain in the bomb shelters of the Azot chemical plant. This was announced by the head of the military-civilian administration Alexander Stryuk on the air of the national telethon.
"Some food stocks have been created at Azot, there are about 540-560 people who are hiding in shelters. The enemy is actually dismantling our largest enterprise for parts," he said.
Stryuk added that the police and military are trying to help people who still remain in Severodonetsk. There is no longer any possibility of a centralized evacuation.
"Every minute, when there is an opportunity, this is carried out, but this is such a quiet evacuation. Every possible case is used for this," said the head of the CAA.
Recall that the Russian military in Severodonetsk destroy high-rise buildings and "Azot" with artillery fire . During the day, 33 houses were destroyed in the Luhansk region, 32 people were evacuated.
[Vesti] Russian military in Severodonetsk destroyed high-rise buildings and "Azot" with artillery fire. During the day, 33 houses were destroyed in the Luhansk region, 32 people were evacuated.
This was announced by the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
According to him, the assault on the city has been going on for days in a row. The Russians use artillery to destroy high-rise buildings and industrial facilities to the ground.
"We have another targeted hit on the facilities of the Severodonetsk Azot and Fiberglass. A destroyed bridge, the premises of the regional State Emergency Service, shelled nearby villages of Sinetsky and Pavlograd.
Every day it becomes known about the dead, who are difficult to reach due to the density of shelling. Many damaged high-rise buildings in the old districts of Severodonetsk, some of them were shot by the Russian army in such a way as to be demolished to the very foundation. However, they failed to attack in the Metelkino area," Gaidai wrote.
The head of the OVA stressed that active hostilities on June 13 also took place in the areas of Toshkovka - Ustinovka, Orekhovo - Zolotoe, Kamyshevakha - Vrubovka, Vasilievka - Belogorovka, Nyrkovo - Nikolaevka.
"Due to Russian shelling, 13 houses were destroyed in Vrubovka, 11 in Toshkovka, 7 in Lisichansk, and two in Gorsky. A wounded woman from Novodruzhesk was hospitalized in a hospital in another region," he said.
According to Gaidai, the Russian army has strengthened its positions with two battalion-tactical groups.
"The Russians are trying to cordon off units of our troops in the area of the settlements of Lisichansk, Privolye, Severodonetsk, Borovskoye," the official stated.
In addition, on Monday, June 13, police and volunteers evacuated 32 people from Privolye under shelling. Civilians were hiding in bomb shelters. The police had to make three attempts to save everyone who was hiding there. Also among the evacuees were two wounded - a civilian and a military man, who received medical assistance.
We will note, the Russian military with the help of artillery strengthened the positions on the Nikolaev and Severodonetsk directions. The Russian Federation deployed two armored personnel carriers each to cover the Ukrainian-Russian border and to storm Severodonetsk.
[Fox News] In an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon, Lemon asked,
"Does the president have the stamina, physically and mentally, do you think to continue on even after 2024?"
"Don, you're asking me this question," a visibly stunned Jean-Pierre exclaimed. "Oh my gosh. He's the president of the United States."
The press secretary then laughed and told Lemon that she, 47, sometimes struggles to keep up with Biden, 79. Keep up with the gaffe corrections, or his naps?
"That is not a question that we should be even asking," she added. "Just look at the work he does. And look how he's delivering for the American public." That question was only appropriate for Trump. Jean-Pierre then brushed off criticisms from a New York Times report that surfaced earlier this week that questioned the president’s mental capabilities as "hearsay" and "not what we care about." Right, nobody cares about the New York Times. Waitaminute...
The article quoted several prominent Democrats who questioned whether Biden was the best choice to lead the party into the 2024 election. Concerns about Biden’s age and ability to lead the Democratic Party have also extended to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 82, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, 71, Axios reported.
Jean-Pierre added: "We care about how we are going to deliver for the American people. How we're going to make their lives better. That's what the president talks about. That is his focus and that's what we'll continue to focus on." He's doing a terrific job; just ask him!
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If the goal is to destroy the country, no one can question his enthusiasm, stamina, and grasp of what needs to be done. If the goal is to harm the maximum amount of citizens and obliterate our founding principles, Joe is the man for the job.
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2022 update: These three #Antifa members in Philadelphia who carried out a mob beating of two Hispanic men will get no jail time. All of the felony charges were dropped. The cases were handled by prosecutors under @DA_LarryKrasner, who benefited from Soros money. https://t.co/VoPTlZd71c
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Money is always welcome by politicians. It's bad form to make it hard for the rich to finance politics.
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Should have Rittenhouse'd their asses also.
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I hope Ngo does "where are they now" with these freaks and makes job getting impossible for them.
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you really think they work?
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So one has to wonder why his illegal tampering (bribery) has not resulted in a indictment?
Unfortunately, what Mr. Soros through his various foundations is doing is merely immoral, not illegal. He isn’t bribing anyone directly, merely donating a hellacious amount of money to foundations that donate funds and offer various services and training to like-minded candidates.
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Believe me among the Asians and Hispanics this will not go unnoticed. The Democrats are digging their own graves. Unfortunately the Africans will continue to be lead by the nose. In Philadelphia especially.
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#7 The dems are about to try to outlaw menthol ciggies. That ain't gonna play well in da hood.
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Yeah, about those Latino men, they were active duty Marines. They we're not in uniform at the time, conducted themselves as best they could knowing the consequences they would face. No consequences for Antifa!
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^ Yeah, I'd imagine their commanders would still like to throw them under the bus for LGBTQWERTY+/BLM points.
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[An Nahar] Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Paleostinian official increasingly seen as a successor to the 86-year-old President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... , says relations with Israel have gotten so bad that Paleostinian leaders cannot go on with business as usual.
But even if they are serious this time around, they have few options. And they appear unlikely to do anything that undermines their own limited power in parts of the occupied West Bank, which largely stems from their willingness to cooperate with Israel.
In an exclusive interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, al-Sheikh defended the Paleostinian leadership in the West Bank, saying it was doing the best it could under the difficult circumstances of Israel's 55-year-old military occupation. As the point man in charge of dealing with Israel, he said there is no choice but to cooperate to meet the basic needs of Paleostinians.
"I am not a representative for Israel in the Paleostinian territories," he said. "We undertake the coordination because this is the prelude to a political solution for ending the occupation."
Al-Sheikh saw his profile rise further last month after Abbas named him the secretary-general of the Paleostine Liberation Organization. The appointment has generated speculation that al-Sheikh is being groomed for the top job — as well as criticism that the autocratic Abbas, who has not held a nationwide election since 2006, is once again ignoring the wishes of his people.
Al-Sheikh, 61, declined to say whether he wants to succeed Abbas. He said the next president should be chosen through elections, but that they could only be held if Israel allows voting in all of east Jerusalem, effectively giving it a veto over any alternative leadership.
"The Paleostinian president cannot be appointed, or come to power by force, or come because of some regional or international interest, or arrive on an Israeli tank," he said.
Al-Sheikh recited a familiar litany of complaints: Israel's government is beholden to right-wing nationalists, its prime minister opposed to Paleostinian statehood. Settlements are expanding, Paleostinians are being forcibly relocated, and the U.S. and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... seem powerless to stop it.
"The Paleostinian leadership is on the verge of making major and difficult decisions," al-Sheikh said, when asked about Abbas' threat to cut security ties or even withdraw recognition of Israel, a cornerstone of the Oslo grinding of the peace processor in the 1990s. "We have no partner in Israel. They don't want a two-state solution. They don't want to negotiate."
But the Israelis meet with al-Sheikh all the time.
As head of the Paleostinian body that coordinates Israeli permits — and a close aide to Abbas — he meets with senior Israeli officials more often than any other Paleostinian.
Israeli officials view him as "a very, very positive player in the Paleostinian arena," said Michael Milshtein, an Israeli expert on Paleostinian affairs who used to advise COGAT, the military body in charge of civilian affairs in the West Bank.
"Because of his close relations with Israel, he can achieve a lot of positive things for the Paleostinian people," including permits and development projects, he said. But most Paleostinians "cannot really accept this kind of image of a Paleostinian leader who actually is the one who serves Israel's interest."
12th of May: IRGC Aerospace officer Ali Kamani is killed in a “car accident” in Khomein
13th of May: IRGC Aerospace officer Mohammad Abdus is killed “on duty” in Semnan Province @IranIntl_En reports both worked on Hezbollah weapons projects and deaths were not “accidents”
[NYPOST] Massive floodwaters ravaged Yellowstone National Park and nearby communities Monday, washing out roads and bridges, cutting off electricity, and forcing visitors to evacuate parts of the iconic park at the height of summer tourist season.
All entrances to Yellowstone were closed due to the deluge, caused by heavy rains and melting snowpack, while park officials ushered tourists out of the most affected areas.
There were no immediate reports of injuries, though dozens of stranded campers had to be rescued by raft in south-central Montana. Authorities also said they would be assessing a potential "loss of homes and structures" in Montana’s Stillwater County.
Elsewhere, some of the worst damage happened in the northern part of the Yellowstone and the park’s gateway communities in southern Montana. National Park Service photos of northern Yellowstone showed a landslide, a bridge washed out over a creek, and roads badly undercut by churning floodwaters of the Gardner and Lamar rivers.
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Maybe flyover country people will stop voting for and welcoming libs to their neighborhoods.
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The city of Boise has yet to learn what a virus the libs are and keep voting them in. The North End never made it out of the 60s. Here in the western burbs we tend not to make that call although the influx from CA and WA has polluted us a bit. Had to use 3 propane patio heaters for a todo we had yesterday...all that global warming you know.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Petroleum Company (YPC) announced on Tuesday that a new oil ship was seized by the Saudi-led aggression coalition, in a new violation of the UN-brokered truce.
The company’s front man, Essam al-Mutawakel, said in a statement to Saba News that the aggression coalition seized the ship "Princess Halima", which is carrying 23,920 tons of gasoline, and prevented it from reaching the port of Hodeidah despite it having been inspected and given entry permits by the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Al-Mutawakel confirmed that "the coalition is still practicing piracy on fuel ships obtaining entry permits from the United Nations, which was unable to let in ships of a humanitarian character, either before or during the announced truce."
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A gunfight broke out between terrorists and security forces in Mishipora area of south Kashmir's Kulgam district on Tuesday afternoon, police said.
"Encounter has started at Mishipora area of #Kulgam. Police and security forces are on the job. Further details shall follow, " a police spokesman said.
The encounter broke out shortly after security forces cordoned the area.
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[MVTimes] The select board approved a request for a 2,500-gallon commercial propane tank for 79 Turkeyland Cove Road in Katama — owned by former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. "We’ve never had a private propane tank come to us," said select board member Arthur Smadbeck, with select board member Michael Donaroma noting a private-residence propane tank is typically a fraction of the quantity being requested.
Could it be the Donks have found a way to convert solar power to propane?
Checked out Google Streetview (check out the satellite view), and the address, in Edgartown MA is not waterfront. Investment property maybe?
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Can you use a propane tank to hold anhydrous ammonia for meth production?
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When I switched from oil furnaces to propane, I called Agway. They never sent anyone out. So I went with Amerigas, they came out the day I called, but would not put in bigger than a 400 gal tank (on a farmlet) I accepted that and settled for two fills over the course of the heating season. As Agway was not interested in my business what else was I going to do?
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No one ever accused the SOB of being stupid. Hitting a vein is a bitc* in the dark.
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Regarding the Propane itself:
Propane was discovered (1910) while investigating gasoline evaporation and storage. Propane is one of several evaporating gases from GASOLINE?
Given there are 2 ways to obtain Propane
1. from distilling Natural Gas.
2. From distilling Crude oil.
BOTH of which must be drilled for, both use pipelines, both use tanker ships, both use trains, both use trucks and barges.
It uses a lot of OIL, Gas and Diesel to get from Point A, to Point B, trucked to your backyard storage tank.
Somehow, given all the Fossil Fuels used to get it to a customer. Environmentalists love it, and it is labeled an Environment Friendly product.
Go Figure?
BTW: Propane was $14.95 BBQ Grill in 2020.
It is well over $24.00 a tank now.
Confirmed: Robert John Stoms (b. 10-28-88, pronouns it/its) was the #Antifa member from Portland who was arrested for violence & drug crimes at the pride event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Press has reported extensively on arrests of 31 Patriot Front members but ignored this arrest. pic.twitter.com/mEf2lnRrSQ
Courtesy of Nero in comments yesterday, the list of arrested Patriot Fronters. Possibly some are also elsewhere in the Rantburg archives...
Mishael Joshua Buster - 22 from Spokane, WA
Jared Michael Boyce - 27 from Soringville, UT
Nathan David Brenner - 26 from Lewisville, CO
Colton Michael Brown - 23 from Rovendale, WA
Josiah Daniel Buster - 24 from Watauga, TX
Devin Wayne Center - 22 from Fayetteville, AR
Dylan Carter Corio - 21 from Cheyenne, WY
Winston North Durham - 21 from Genesse, ID
Joseph Garret Garland - 23 from Freeburg, IL
Branden Mitchel Haney - 35 from Kaysville, UT
Richard Jacob Jessop - 21 from Idaho Falls, ID
James Michael Johnson - 36 from Concrete, WA
James Julius Johnson - 40 from Sioux Falls, SD
Connor Patrick Moran - 23 from Watauga, TX
Kieran Padraig Morris - 27 from Haslet, TX
Lawrence Alexander Norman - 32 from Prospect, OR
Justin Michael Oleary - 27 from Des Moines, WA
Cameron Kathan Pruitt - 23 from Midway, UT
Forrest Clark Rankin - 28 from Wheat Ridge, CO
Thomas Ryan Rousseau - 23 from Grape Vine, TX (Founder of Patriot Front)
Conor James Ryan - 23 - from Thornton, CO
Spencer Thomas Simpson - 20 from Ellensburg, WA
Alexander Nicholai Sisenstein - 27 from Midvale, UT
Derek Joseph Smith - 24 from Sioux Falls, SD
Dakota Ray Tabler - 29 from West Valley City, UT
Steven Derrick Tucker - 30 from Haslet, TX
Wesley Evan Van Horn - 34 from Lexington, AL
Mitchell Frederick Wagner - 24 from Florissant, MO
Nathaniel Taylor Whitfield - 24 from Elk Ridge, UT
Graham Jones Whitsom - 31 from Haslet, TX
Robert Benjamin Whitted - 22 from Conroe, TX
In the same thread, Rex Mundi added:
Thomas Ryan Rousseau, formerly of Occupy Wallstreet, formerly of Charlottesville white supremacist rally, now with Patriot Front. Funny how this same guy keeps popping up wherever there is major civil unrest... and just never seems to get in Dutch with LE, much like Epps. Great gig if you can get it.
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Behold our New Soviet Man, it who rules over you.
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Why do its hair look like it belongs in a trailer park behind the dumpster?
[NYPOST] A man was arrested last week in connection to the death of a Texas mother of four who was found dead in the trunk of her car last month, authorities said.
Christopher Maldonado was charged with tampering/ fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair (human corpse) in connection to the death of 24-year-old Angela Leean Mitchell, according to Texas City Police.
Texas City Police and US Marshals made the arrest during a traffic stop Friday.
Maldonado was the last person Mitchell was known to have been with before she disappeared, according to a missing persons flyer created by her loved ones.
Mitchell’s decomposing body was found inside the trunk of her white Honda sedan in Texas City on May 11 after police received a report of a foul odor.
Police have not revealed her suspected cause of death, but have cited the case as a "suspicious death investigation." The Galveston County Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy.
Mitchell’s mother reported her missing May 6, after she failed to return to her home in Dickinson the night before.
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[NYPOST] Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity (so to speak) within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... has taken a new series of swipes at Russia for its actions in Ukraine, saying its troops were brutal, cruel and ferocious, while praising "brave" Ukrainians for fighting for survival.
But in the text of a conversation he had last month with editors of Jesuit media and published on Tuesday, he also said the situation was not black and white and that the war was "perhaps in some way provoked."
While condemning "the ferocity, the cruelty of Russian troops, we must not forget the real problems if we want them to be solved," Francis said, including the armaments industry among the factors that provide incentives for war.
"It is also true that the Russians thought it would all be over in a week. But they miscalculated. They encountered a brave people, a people who are struggling to survive and who have a history of struggle," he said.
Francis then said in his own words: "We do not see the whole drama unfolding behind this war, which was perhaps somehow either provoked or not prevented."
Asking himself rhetorically if that made him "pro-Putin," he said "No, I am not. It would be simplistic and wrong to say such a thing."
[NYPOST] President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....... is "really aware" of the recent stock market decline, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday when asked about the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost all of its gains since Biden took office.
The Dow closed Monday at its lowest point since January 2021 as soaring inflation and rising interest rates spur fear of an economic recession.
Before the recent stock slide, Biden often touted the market doing well, though he usually made a point of saying that he didn’t regard it as the only important economic indicator.
For example, Biden said Jan. 7, "the stock market — the last guy’s measure of everything — is about 20% higher than it was when my predecessor was there. It has hit record after record after record on my watch, while making things more equitable for working-class people. At the same time, we’ve created jobs, reduced unemployment, raised wages."
On Monday afternoon, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy confronted Jean-Pierre with that quote, saying, "President Biden once bragged about the stock market hitting ’record after record after record on my watch.’ How about now?"
"All the gains from President Biden’s time in office have been wiped out," Doocy added.
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Credit idiot/woke CEOs also.
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[REGNUM] At the end of August 1919, the situation on the Southern Front deteriorated sharply. In the rear of the front, in Saransk, the Don Cavalry Corps was formed. They were commanded by the former military foreman F. K. Mironov.
On Tuesday, three ISIS members were killed in a missile attack in Kirkuk Governorate.
Lt. Gen. Ali Al-Fariji, the commander of joint operations in Kirkuk, said that the 8th Division of the Iraqi army killed three terrorists with missiles.
Recently, the terrorist organization has become more active, as sleeper cells target civilians and security forces, especially in Kirkuk, Saladin, and Diyala governorates, known as "the Triangle of Death."
[Breitbart] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... (R) is ahead of his Democrat challenger, failed presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... , by 19 points, according to a new poll.
Blueprint Polling found that 56 percent of Texas voters support Abbott, compared to 37 percent support for O’Rourke. An additional seven percent of Texas voters remain undecided ahead of November’s general election.
These latest poll numbers are the first to come out since O’Rourke crashed Gov. Abbott’s presser in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting. During the presser O’Rourke interrupted, he told the governor, "You’re doing nothing," in regards to school safety.
O’Rourke’s outburst prompted the Uvalde mayor to call O’Rourke a "sick son of a bitch."
"He needs to get his ass out of here/ Sir, you’re out of line! Sir, you’re out of line! Please leave this auditorium.," the mayor told O’Rourke. "I can’t believe... you’re a sick son of a bitch," the mayor continued, "that would come to an event like this to make political issues."
The latest poll numbers show that O’Rourke’s stunt backfired and harmed his gubernatorial campaign.
Blueprint Polling surveyed 603 Texas voters from June 8 to June 10. The poll’s margin of error is 3.9 percent.
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Move over New York's AOC (D). Here comes MAGA's Mayra Flores (R) all the way from Texas's Rio Grande who just flipped a reliably Dim district to Republican.
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He is comic relief. I expect him to appear in drag soon. Maybe he will transition. As a CIS white male generic lib, Beta is detrimental to the left as he is unelectable and energizes the right.
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Here's hoping the Dem donors keep flushing money on this pathetic asshole's campaigns!
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Beto is the distraction and fall guy for demoncrat's failures. Nothing more.
[Federalist] After heavy rains triggered flooding and rockslides in Yellowstone National Park this week, federal officials shut down Wyoming’s largest tourist destination while the state’s at-large lawmaker remains fixated on an effort to indict former President Donald Trump.
On Monday, the National Park Service announced a full evacuation of the park, which is larger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined, and closed its five entrances to visitors.
"Due to record flooding events in the park and more precipitation in the forecast, we have made the decision to close Yellowstone to all inbound visitation," said Yellowstone superintendent Cam Sholly in a press release keeping the park closed at least through Wednesday. "We will not know timing of the park’s reopening until flood waters subside and we’re able to assess the damage throughout the park."
At the same time that Wyoming’s largest attraction shut down, the state’s sole congresswoman, Liz Cheney, was in Washington D.C. conducting the second episode of her beloved Jan. 6 Committee’s Soviet-style show trial to prosecute Trump and his supporters. So far, a single tweet Tuesday afternoon is the extent of Cheney’s public addressing of the flooding that’s shut down her state’s top recreational space which drew 4.9 million visits last year and added more than $444 million to local communities in 2020.
The flooding is "probably the worst thing that’s happened disaster-wise since the fires of ’88," said Jeff Olson, a resident of Cheney’s adopted hometown, in an interview with Jackson Hole News & Guide. "To have all five entrances closed because of one event during the summer season? It’s crazy."
In 1988, fires ravaged the park all summer burning down about 800,000 acres, or more than a third of the park, according to the National Park Service.
The last two press releases from Cheney’s office, however, are each transcripts of her remarks in Monday’s Jan. 6 hearing. Despite the fact that half of her state is under the jurisdiction of the federal government, the Wyoming lawmaker is also no longer on the House Natural Resources Committee, having instead embraced her vendetta against Trump and his supporters as a hallmark of her time in the lower chamber.
Cheney has faced rising criticism about her absence from the state as she uses her remaining time in Congress to spar with Trump. The Wyoming representative serves as vice chair of the Democrats’ weaponized Jan. 6 Committee, where her appointment from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi followed a prohibition on members appointed by the House minority leader. In April, a Federalist analysis of campaign finance data in her race against Trump-endorsed attorney Harriet Hageman revealed Cheney is relying on Beltway donors to fund a fourth term. Only 2 percent of the incumbent congresswoman’s total contributions, with $10 million to spend this cycle, came among Wyoming constituents.
On a rare visit to the state in February, Cheney snubbed voters to mingle with reporters instead.
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So? She's not in any executive branch, and she was elected to serve in DC. She's a swamp creature, sure, but there's nothing she could be doing to help anyone.
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During the 2016 election campaign Trump went after George Bush/Dick Cheney. Liz lied to her constituents to get elected into power to take out Trump for 'Dick and Bush', Inc..
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...The Other Side (TM) justifiably (IMHO, YMMV) crucified Ted Cruz when he went on vacation during a TX. Apparently they're more tolerant of this sort of thing depending on the "Republican".
And have been wondering for a few weeks now if La Cheney won't throw a Hail Mary and try crossing the aisle.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:39 The situation in the Kharkiv region at 22:00 June 14, 2022:
In the north of the region, regular clashes between Rubizhny and Verkhny Saltov continue. Russian troops continue fighting for the site in order to prevent the crossing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine through the shallow Seversky Donets.
To the west, the battles for Tsupovka continue. The village has been without communication for more than a week.
Artillery duels continue on the site. The RF Armed Forces attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkov, Zolochevo, Dementyevka, Russkaya Lozova, Peremoga, Shestakovo, Pitomnik, Prudyanka, Slatino and Dergachi. Ukrainian artillery shelled Vesele and Liptsy.
Under Balakleya, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are gathering manpower and armored vehicles for another offensive attempt.
At the turn of Chepel - Protopopovka - Petrovsky Ukrainian command continues to try to organize a sortie through the Seversky Donets and go to the rear of the group advancing on Slavyansk. In response, the Russian armed forces systematically fire at the positions of Ukrainian formations in this area. 21:58 The strike on the village of Zaimishche in the Bryansk region, according to the military, was carried out by the Tochka-U missile, said the governor of the region Alexander Bogomaz.
20:18 The military-civilian administration of the Kherson region began to register firms and entrepreneurs, who after that will be able not to pay Ukrainian taxes and choose between two types of taxation.
17:32 The US Treasury allowed until December 5 operations with the Bank of Russia, VEB, Otkritie, Sovcombank, Sberbank, VTB and Alfa-Bank on energy, despite the sanctions.
17:19 A secret document of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has appeared at the disposal of Izvestia. It says that Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree on the destruction of all these employees of Ukrainian enterprises who collaborated with the US military biological laboratories of Metabiota and the Battelle Memorial Institute.
According to the document, the data of military personnel, civilian employees and personnel of three organizations are subject to destruction: the Center for Public Health of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Anti-Plague Institute. Mechnikov and Zhytomyr Laboratory Center for Transport.
16:17 In the Kherson region, they began to register firms and entrepreneurs. Registered persons apply one of the tax regimes: turnover tax or single tax. Reporting forms are simplified as much as possible. After registration, entrepreneurs will be able not to pay taxes and fees established by Ukrainian legislation.
15:50 The number of wounded during the shelling in Zaimishche has grown to six, about 50 houses have been damaged - the governor of the Bryansk region. The victims have shrapnel wounds.
15:43 The Rada proposes to ban books written by Russian citizens. A bill on a ban on restrictions on the distribution of publishing products from Russia, Belarus and territories not controlled by Kyiv has been registered in parliament.
13:02 The products of the Zaporozhye region began to be certified as made in the DPR or Russia. As explained in the administration of the region, this will avoid additional taxation.
09:03 US authorities are secretly encouraging agricultural and shipping companies to increase the volume of fertilizers they buy from Russia amid sanctions and concerns about the risk of a global food crisis, Bloomberg has learned.
09:01 An explosion occurred in the city of Klintsy, Bryansk region, eyewitnesses report. According to unconfirmed reports, the shell hit part of the military base and part of the residential complex in Klintsy. One woman's leg was torn off, windows were blown out in most houses.
08:49 "The task is to completely liberate the entire region and restore control over the entire border of the region," the Main Council of the Zaporizhia Regional State Administration. RIA Novosti.08:33 Kyiv has crossed all boundaries - the head of the DPR Pushilin.
[AmericanThinker] Before the 2020 presidential election, I became curious about political polls claiming that Joe Biden had a ten-percentage-point lead over Donald Trump. At that time, Trump was addressing crowds in the thousands. When he was not barricaded in his basement, Biden was lucky to draw a crowd of a hundred. That did not seem right.
So I did some research and concluded that the polls were undercounting Republicans. In one of the articles, which you can read here, I predicted the silent Trump vote to be north of two percent of the electorate. I was not the first to consider this, but I was one of the first to make a prediction.
Polling organizations would not admit their polls were biased against Republicans. However, it turned out my estimate was too low by half. In fact, the polling error for the 2020 election was roughly 4% nationwide, the largest in the last 40 years.
Fast-forward to today. Inflation is 8+ percent, the price of food and gasoline is way up, crime is up, there is a nationwide shortage of baby formula, and don't get me started on the border crisis. Yet Joe Biden's job approval is close to 40% positive. That means almost four out of every ten Americans think Joe is doing a good job if you believe the RealClearPolitics average. And I don't.
It is possible that Biden's job approval is being helped by positive coverage from the news and social media. But I am not buying that, either. Spin can go only so far, and even rank-and-file Democrats have to fill their gas tanks and buy groceries.
The big difference between today and two years ago is that pollsters will now admit that their results are systemically biased against conservatives. For example, in an article published in Vox, pollster David Shor said:
For three cycles in a row, there's been this consistent pattern of pollsters overestimating Democratic support in some states and underestimating support in other states. It happened in 2018. It happened in 2020. And the reason that's happening is because the way that [pollsters] are doing polling right now just doesn't work.
Pollsters face two fundamental problems. One is developing an accurate voter turnout model that predicts who is likely to vote. The other is getting an unbiased measurement of what voters think, known as a random sample.
The turnout model is usually based on demographic distributions and historical voting records. If pollsters get the model wrong, it can bias their results. For example, in the 2020 election, most turnout models did not account for Republicans who rarely vote, participating in larger numbers than predicted.
The second problem is getting a random sample of the electorate. Unfortunately, in recent elections, this has become increasingly difficult to do. Although there are several theories as to why this is happening, it boils down to two issues. One is technology, and the other is a lack of trust in political polls.
As recently as the 1990s, pollsters could count on getting a random sample of responses to telephone surveys, but not anymore. Although most Americans have a cell phone, prohibitions on auto-dialing cell phones mean that pollsters continue to call landlines. This is problematic because landlines have a different demographic from the general population. And many of them have Caller ID, allowing voters to see who is calling.
Explanatory details at the link.
On top of nonresponse bias, another fly in Democrat approval numbers is that most polls currently sample registered voters rather than likely voters. Nate Silver believes that midterm polls of registered voters tend to lean toward Democrats.
We estimate that on average in midterm years since 1990, registered voter polls have had a 2.6 percentage-point Democratic bias — compared against likely voter polls, which have been unbiased.
If the polls are overestimating approval numbers for Biden and other Democrats, how bad is it? The political climate today is different since the 2020 election, but the Democrat poll bias seems intact, which was 4% nationwide. Since nonresponse bias, 4%, and registered voter bias, 2.6%, should be mutually exclusive, we can add them together. This gives us a total Democrat bias of roughly 6.5%
What does this mean? Until pollsters switch to sampling likely voters right before the election, you can subtract a solid 6 percent from Joe Biden's approval numbers. And if nothing changes before the election, any Democrat who leads by 3 percent or less is likely to lose.
Democrats had better pray I am not underestimating the number of hidden Republican voters, as I did in 2020.
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Typically after people catch on to their games the liberals change their terminology. This happens every decade or so. liberals become progressives become lefties become third wave socialists, etc.
I'm wondering if they are checking out possible replacements for the term Democrat after the 2022 midterm beating or if they'll wait until 2024. Maybe replace the donkey symbol with a dead horse.
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Just remember that for polling companies to sell their services, they have to keep the rubes on the fishing line. You come to them with - hey, look, the numbers say you're about to be blown out of the water, and the rubes and their money will probably go elsewhere to be lied to.
The idea used to be, candidates assert their policy for governance, their genuine philosophy and consistent principles, and polling will see how people react to it. If they like it, you will be chosen to serve in office.
What has now become the rule, is they poll to determine what people find most beneficial individually, and craft a messaging theme to sell them on the idea of giving you power to get it. Not a genuine consistent policy, just promises and vague phrases like "fighting for you". Blacks in America have been biting at that hook for well over 80 years.
We have devolved from common purpose as fellow citizens, to tribal and cultural grouping, always divided by haves and have nots, with the "other" as de-facto enemy to be controlled and dis-empowered, in a zero-sum mindset. From land of opportunity and individual responsibility to mandated "equity" (from equality of opportunity to equal outcome).
Remember, in polling, information about you is the product they sell to people seeking power over your life, career, finances and safety. Imagine if you answer polling question that you are helping build an economic, cultural and political target folder on yourself...
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People who vote for what they want to hear should be disqualified from voting. Politicians who tell people what they want to hear and then behave differently should be ejected from office.
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It's a family business where there's a legally necessary division of labor.
Those not holding elected office manage promotion, customer acquisition and customer relations, among other thing by selling vouchers paintings and by promising aspiring customers that services will be rendered upon payment.
These bought services are then indeed totatlly coincidentally rendered by relatives holding elected office.
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[Korrespondent] 23:33 Podolyak explained why negotiations with Moscow are impossible at the current stage: "For us, any peace process today, which was in 2014-2015, is fraught with a postponed war. This is the first component. The second component must be very clearly understood if we stop where today, we will not get money, investments. Ukraine will rot from an economic point of view. No one will invest in a country with a postponed war."
23:05 The point of the Ramstein-3 meeting is for countries to get together and hear, first of all, from Ukraine, what it needs, and decide what contributions they want to make in the future, Julian Smith, US Ambassador to NATO, said on the air of the telethon. According to her, Washington receives information from Kyiv about its needs almost daily and connects Ukraine with those countries that can meet these needs. Smith announced the participation of almost 50 countries in the Ramstein meeting on June 15 in Brussels.
23:01 Zelensky asked Zaluzhny to be very attentive to reports in the media and social networks that some Ukrainian fighters do not have enough personal protective equipment: "The reports that I receive differ significantly from what is being discussed by society. And I expect verification logistics in the army - checking what is supplied and how personal protective equipment is distributed. Today, everyone who is in war zones should have enough of everything necessary for protection. The state provides such supplies. "
22:57 Zelensky announced in an evening video message about his conversation with the Prime Minister of Canada, as well as with the President of Ecuador, who was elected a member of the UN Security Council: "He informed about the current situation on the battlefield and called for increasing pressure on Russia to end this war. And this conversation with the President of Ecuador, and yesterday's conversation with the President of Guatemala, were only the beginning of our new policy of resuming relations with Latin America."
22:26 Zelensky, in an evening video message, said that Ukraine needs modern anti-missile weapons, and delaying its provision "cannot be justified." According to him, Kyiv made the first requests for anti-missile systems long before the full-scale invasion. And this week there will be many different negotiations, the president noted, "and not only with European politicians who are capable of providing Ukraine with modern anti-missile systems."
22:07 Since February 24, the Germans have donated 812 million euros to Ukraine - this is the largest nominal amount of charitable contributions from German citizens since the Second World War, the German Central Institute for Social Problems (DZI) reported.
22:04 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, June 15, will chair a meeting of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine in Brussels. The focus is on Kyiv's urgent demands to continue fighting Russia, the Pentagon said.
21:27 The Pentagon considers the Ukrainian side's assessment of daily losses on the battlefield to be reliable. According to the agency, the battles in the Donbass are fierce artillery battles. Kyiv said that every day in the battles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine they lose from 150 to 200 soldiers.
“Ukrainians know better what they are dealing with and we are actively asking them for information about the conditions on the battlefield. In general, we consider their assessment reliable and reliable. I would say that the numbers are not beyond what you would expect from such kind of artillery combat," said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
21:10 Today it became known that all the bridges across the Seversky Donets, separating Severodonetsk and Ukraine-controlled Lisichansk and the rest of the Donbass, were destroyed by the Russian army - the evacuation of civilians and the supply of humanitarian aid is now impossible. Russia, meanwhile, is gathering new forces. Read more in the material Azovstal 2.0?
20:49 An emergency hospital in Mariupol, on the basis of which an infectious diseases department is being opened, received a document warning of the possibility of a cholera outbreak, Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city, said: “The order is to prepare. the number of corpses in the Seversky Donets River, "from where the Donetsk region takes water. Everything except Mariupol ... At the same time, all the public pages of the occupiers continue to write that the risk of cholera is a fake."
20:36 Lithuania will provide Ukraine with Turkish ammunition for Bayraktar TB2, Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said. The Turkish company provided additional ammunition for the strike drone.
20:20 Mobilization in the Ukrainian army is proceeding according to plan, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said on the air of the telethon: "The consciousness of citizens is high and society is very motivated." Malyar added that the issue of mobilizing women in Ukraine is not on the table right now.
20:18 Putin probably still wants to capture a large part, if not all of Ukraine, US Under Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs Colin Kohl said: "I still think he has plans for a large part of Ukraine, if not all country. At the same time, I do not think that he can achieve this goal. <...> They can achieve tactical successes here and there. The Ukrainians are holding on. I do not think that the Russians are capable of achieving these grandiose goals."
20:10 The status of a candidate for EU membership is very important for Ukraine, since it will allow to consolidate the European vector of the development of the state, Kuleba said in a comment to NV: "Why is this status so important? It will legally strengthen Ukraine in the European integration project. This is a bullet point after decades European policy of strategic uncertainty in relation to Ukraine. Uncertainty that has ceased to be constructive."
According to him, the green light for Ukraine's candidacy will destroy the long-standing narrative of Russian propagandists that "Ukrainians can never become part of the EU."
20:07 12 universities of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine have simplified the admission procedure in 2022 as much as possible, said Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Kateryna Pavlichenko. So, an application for admission and all documents can be submitted online, and a multi-subject test is now optional - applicants just need to pass an oral exam right at the educational institution. A medical examination can also be taken at the university or at any medical institution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
There are benefits for the children of dead and wounded military personnel, as well as privileges for entering the magistracy for active military, rescuers, policemen, and Trooper fighters.
20:04 Washington intends to transfer intelligence information to Ukraine for strikes with the help of American missile defense systems, said US Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Cole.
20:01 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the assault near the village of Berestovo and inflicted losses on the Russians, fighting continues near Zolote and in Severodonetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the evening report .
19:55 The number of people injured from the fall of rocket debris in Zolochevo, Lviv region, has increased to six. Doctors assess their condition as satisfactory, all of them are now on outpatient treatment, said the head of the Lviv OVA Maxim Kozitsky.
19:53 The Russians have kidnapped the Vice-Rector of Kherson State University Maksim Vinnik, the Kherson edition of Most reports. According to eyewitnesses, it happened near the dormitory of the university, after the capture of the main building of the university. The command to seize Vinnik to armed people was given by collaborator Tatyana Tomilina, who led the capture of KhSU. Vinnik was taken away in an unknown direction. The publication reports that Maxim Vinnik has a disability and needs constant medical care.
19:44 State budget revenues in May amounted to 101 billion hryvnia, expenses - 250 billion, said the head of the financial committee of the Rada Daniil Getmantsev. According to him, the state budget deficit is $5 billion a month, it is covered by subsidies from international financial organizations. At the same time, Getmantsev added that it is necessary to attract these funds every month "with a battle."
Hetmantsev clarified that the partners do not finance the military campaign - Ukraine pays these expenses from its own funds.
19:36 According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 300 MLRS installations that Podolyak requested from the United States is half of all American stocks, writes The Guardian. According to the publication, the US Army has 363 Himars cargo rocket artillery guns and 225 M270 tracked launchers, and the US Marine Corps has 47 more. The UK has 35 of its own versions of the M270.
And the powdered 1000 howitzers roughly correspond to the entire arsenal of the United States, which has 518 M777 towed howitzers of the type already delivered, the Marine Corps has another 481 units. The only request that could be assessed as realistic is 500 tanks. The United States has 2,645 Abrams tanks in service and about 3,450 more in storage.
19:25 The United States is working on a plan to export grain from Ukraine by rail with the creation of transshipment points on the border, including with Poland, Biden said in a speech on the economic situation in the United States.
19:12 Ukraine received from the West only 10% of weapons at its request, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar on the air of the telethon. According to her, the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not have enough weapons to successfully confront the Russian troops: “No matter how much effort Ukraine makes, we will not be able to win the war without the help of the West. From what Ukraine said, from what we need, we received only 10 %".
18:58 While performing a combat mission in the Kharkiv region, a well-known Kiev activist died, he was 24 years old. More details - in the material of the Russian Federation, the color of the nation is killing .
18:57 The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a single and unified form that will record the damage caused to the housing of Ukrainians by Russian troops. Now every citizen whose housing has been damaged or destroyed will have a digital document confirming their damage, Shmyhal said.
18:54 As a result of Russian aggression, 30 million hectares of Ukrainian territory require demining. The coastal waters of the Azov and Black Seas also need this. Currently, primary demining has already been carried out on more than 2 million hectares, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
18:41 The ECHR recognized the Russian law on foreign agents as a violation of human rights. The case was considered nine years later, after the exclusion of the Russian Federation from the Council of Europe and the refusal of the state to execute the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, BBC reports.
18:28 Zelensky said that the Ukrainians are not terrorists to shell the civilian quarters of Russia. So he answered the question of Danish journalists about whether Ukraine will shell the territory of Russia if the West agrees to it: "No. We are not interested in shelling civilians. We are not terrorists to shell civilian quarters. We are normal healthy people. This weapon is for us needed to liberate our state."
The President explained that there are places in Ukraine where Ukrainian defenders are concentrated at a distance of more than 100 km from the Russian occupiers. Therefore, according to Zelensky, Ukraine needs appropriate weapons that would reach them at such a distance.
18:15 A rocket was also shot down over the Ivano-Frankivsk region today, Svetlana Onischuk, head of the OVA, said. There were no casualties or damage to infrastructure.
18:03 Zelensky said that Ukraine will be ready for negotiations with the Russian invaders only when the occupiers are ready to end the war: "I am not looking for a balance to agree on something. We know exactly what we are doing. I have no doubts "We are ready to speak only when the other side is ready to end the war. There is no time for chatter."
17:51 During a press conference for journalists in Denmark, Zelensky said that the speed of de-occupation of the state's territories depends on the supply of weapons to Ukraine, and any delay in this matter is fraught with stagnation at the front. And the strength of Ukraine and the ability to withstand the Russian army depend on the unity of Europe and the world: "If Ukraine is not strong, Russia will go further. Kyiv is not the finish line in its marathon."
17:33 In Mariupol, the invaders have strengthened the control regime. Despite the checkpoints removed inside the city, control over the exit towards the Zaporozhye region has become tougher. All the trails are not just plowed up - the invaders are partially mining, partially setting up new roadblocks, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city. The issuance of entry and exit passes is blocked by bureaucratic refusals without explanation. The only way out of the city is Donetsk or Russia right away - "coercion to "self-deportation" is gaining momentum," the adviser said.
17:16 The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation announced that it limits the publication of data on budget reporting in order to minimize the risks of additional sanctions.
16:57 Syria is ready to recognize the independence of the "DPR", said Dmitry Sablin, coordinator of the group for relations between the State Duma and the SAR parliament, citing Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad.
Until now, the independence of the "LDNR" from the UN member states, except for Russia, has not been recognized by anyone. The "republics" recognized only Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
16:49 The Cabinet of Ministers agreed on "transport visa-free" with the EU. According to Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Mustafa Nayem, Ukrainian carriers have been waiting for this for almost five years - "in short, the signing of this agreement will have the same significance for carriers as the abolition of visas with EU countries." According to Nayem, after the signing of the agreement on transport liberalization, the problem of lack of permits for international transportation will be finally resolved. The signing of the document is planned before the end of June.
16:28 Ukrainian air defense systems are not anti-missile, their main task is to shoot down enemy planes and helicopters, so not all missiles can be shot down, Yury Ignat, press secretary of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, explained: "We have air defense systems in service, and not missile defense. The main task of our anti-aircraft missile systems is enemy aircraft - planes, helicopters. But we also shoot down cruise missiles. Yes, unfortunately, not all of them."
According to him, Russian missiles are high-tech and designed to be stealthy and fly at ultra-low altitudes, from 50 meters: "It can fly, say, along the Dniester, as it has been since the beginning of the war, it disappears from radar, and does not all air defense systems can destroy it."
16:20 In Mariupol, the occupiers actually stopped the exhumation of bodies, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor. According to him, the Russians made the process of reburial of Mariupol residents as difficult as possible, shifting all the problems onto the townspeople. Now you need to wait for the investigator with the prosecutor to carry out the exhumation, take the body to Donetsk for a forensic examination and only then bury it in a specially designated place. And at each stage you have to pay.
15:47 The "LPR" stated that there are up to 2,500 military personnel on the territory of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk, of which up to 20-25% are "foreign mercenaries."
15:33 Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from United Russia Yevgeny Fedorov proposed to withdraw the recognition of the independence of three more countries - Ukraine, Estonia and Latvia: "We just started with Lithuania. And it is clear why - Lithuania is more dangerous for the Russian Federation in terms of the situation related to the Kaliningrad region and in confrontation with NATO and the United States. And after the mechanism is worked out, we will work it out in other NATO territories. And not only NATO. Here, Ukraine, for example, also illegally left the USSR."
15:18 Zelensky, in an interview with ZDF, stated that there is skepticism on the part of Germany towards Ukraine: "There is a certain skepticism of the German leadership towards Ukraine, I do not think that Scholz brought it. This is especially evident in relation to future membership in the European Union or NATO. All this skepticism was before Mr. Scholz. I believe that this attitude will change."
15:16 Training of Ukrainian military personnel in handling German howitzers will soon be completed, after which these weapons will be able to be used in Ukraine, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said: "In the near future, training on the Panzerhaubitze 2000 will be completed so that it can be used in combat in Ukraine ".
15:13 Zelensky, during a conversation with Danish journalists, urged Ukrainians who left because of the war abroad not to rush to return: "The war continues. The situation is still unsafe in several regions. I can't ask people to return ... Now it's everyone's choice. I must say that we are counting on each of you, Ukrainians, wherever you are."
14:48 Kiev is guarded by the 40th tactical aviation brigade, it was from there that the general image of the Ghost of Kiev came from, said Yuriy Ignat, speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, it was these military pilots who took upon themselves heavy blows to defend the capital in the first two weeks of the war. The enemy then prevailed in air battles 1:6 - 1:10.
14:45 Podolyak, in an interview with The New York Times, explained why Ukraine is persistent in defending Severodonetsk, instead of leaving the city and avoiding losses: “Russians are bad at fighting in cities. In cities, you can maneuver, find shelter, and minimize losses. You will be able to resist longer and inflict significant losses on the Russians."
14:41 Fragments of a Russian missile, which the air defense forces shot down over Zolochev, fell on a brick factory, four people were injured, including one child. Doctors assess the condition of the victims as mild and moderate, said the head of the Lviv OVA Maxim Kozitsky. The missile was launched from a southeasterly direction.
14:26 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the Ukrainian side asked to organize a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians from the Azot plant in Severodonetsk to the territory controlled by Kiev in Lysichansk. But given that the last bridge over the Seversky Donets towards Lysichansk was blown up on June 13 (which Moscow blames on Kyiv), a safe evacuation there is not possible, the ministry said.
In this regard, the Russian military announced their readiness to conduct a "humanitarian operation" to evacuate civilians from Azot to Svatovo "LNR", for which tomorrow a "humanitarian corridor" will be opened from 8:00 to 20:00 and allegedly "the safe evacuation of all civilians is guaranteed people" to temporary accommodation centers. And the Ukrainian military of the RF Ministry of Defense, located on Azot, is offering to "stop hostilities and release the civilians they are holding through this corridor, as well as lay down their arms."
14:21 The enemy uses strategic bombers remotely, primarily TU-160 and TU-95, which use high-tech missiles worth millions of dollars. But recently, there has already been a tendency for the enemy to save these expensive missiles, said Yury Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, today the enemy is increasingly using Soviet types of missiles, such as XA-59 and XA-22. The latter is one of the most destructive: its warhead is 900 kg, and it flies in the wrong direction.
14:14 The enemy has not flown into the territory controlled by Ukraine for more than two months, and this is a very good indicator of the work of the Air Force, Yuriy Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said.
14:09 The head of the Khmelnytsky OVA, Serhiy Gamaly, also said that today, during an air raid, air defense forces shot down an enemy missile. The wreckage fell into the field, according to preliminary information, there were no casualties and no damage.
14:06 In the Ternopil region, according to preliminary information, the air defense forces worked on several enemy missiles. Preliminary - there are no casualties and destructions, the information is being specified, said the head of the OVA Vladimir Trush.
14:03 Air defense forces shot down a missile over Zolochev, Lviv region, head of the UVA Maksim Kozitsky said. As a result of the fall of the rocket, a civilian infrastructure object was damaged, information about the victims is being specified.
13:44 Podolyak told the NYT that a number of countries are giving weapons to Ukraine as if they want to defeat it: "If you think that we must lose, just tell us straight: we want you to lose. Then we will understand why you give us weapons at this level. The adviser to the head of the OP added that some Western European countries, including France and Germany, are "hiding from the war."
13:42 The mayor of Ternopil, Serhiy Nadal, announced possible explosions in the city and urged residents to take care of safety.
13:41 Britain did not turn to Russia about the "sentenced" to death in the "DPR", Peskov said. He added that "in the event of an appeal to Moscow, the Russian Federation is ready to listen to their position."
13:37 The Ministry of Social Policy cannot deliver pensions to 300,000 pensioners in the occupied territories, Minister of Social Policy Marina Lazebnaya said on the air of the telethon. She recalled that the pension is delivered either by banks or by Ukrposhta, and called on Ukrainians to leave the occupied territories to receive the accrued funds.
13:32 Podolyak addressed the partner countries on the eve of a new meeting in the Ramstein format: "Each participant in the Ramstein format should close their eyes and imagine a world in which Russia has won. Morning rockets to croissants, night sirens to lullabies, the disappearance of cities with a thousand-year history. This world will become a reality if the current pace of arms transfers is maintained. We are waiting for a decision."
13:30 Air defense works in the Lviv region, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky.
13:21 Podolyak responded to Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, who said that Georgia should be the first on the list of candidates for EU membership, and then Ukraine and Moldova: "No one enters the queue for death from Russian missiles. Ukraine pays a terrible price for the choice be a European democracy. The EU pays a heavy price to protect Western civilization. Because values are more important than profit. What is more important to you? Candidacy line number?"
Garibashvili said the day before that Georgia has earned the status of an EU candidate on the path of reforms carried out over the past nine years: "When they say that Ukraine is in a state of war and because of this it should be granted candidate status, I apologize if the assignment of status is determined by war We don't want war."
13:14 The terms of Ukraine's membership in the EU should be discussed only after the end of hostilities, said Minister Delegate to the French Foreign Ministry for European Affairs Clement Bon.
13:11 In the controlled part of the Donetsk region, the water supply is resumed, the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko said on the air of the telethon: "We are filling the tanks and taking all measures so that all remote cities, primarily Konstantinovka and Druzhkovka, have water."
13:09 A well-known metropolitan activist and intelligence officer of the 93rd Specialized Brigade Kholodny Yar Roman Ratushny died in a battle near Izyum on June 9, said the NGO Defend Protasov Yar , which was headed by Ratushny.
13:07 "DPR", having asked Russia for additional assistance, "is counting on more active use of ground-based and air-based missiles," said Eduard Basurin, a representative of the "People's Militia of the DPR".
13:05 The products of the Zaporozhye region have begun to be certified as made in the "DNR" or Russia, "which allows you to avoid additional taxation," said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the "main administration council": "Legally, it turned out that we are no longer Ukraine, but not yet Russia. A lot of large industries have fallen into this gray zone, that is, dozens of factories and all those enterprising people who provide hundreds and thousands of jobs. Now they have met us halfway." According to him, now the certification indicates not just "made in Melitopol, Berdyansk, Energodar", but, for example, "made in Melitopol, in Russia."
13:02 Ukraine has already returned dozens of children who were forcibly taken away by the Russian invaders, Vereshchuk said: "Today we are looking for these children, we are trying to compile lists. Each repatriation on our part is a real special operation." The minister also called on international institutions to help Ukraine and not to delay doing so, because now Russia is using children for anti-Ukrainian propaganda, and then they are going to be adopted.
12:51 For the second week in a row, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have tactical successes in advancing towards Kherson, which can develop into a full-fledged counteroffensive, adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Serhiy Khlan said on the air of the telethon: "We are approaching Tomina Balka, and this is 20 kilometers to Kherson, where both once there are occupiers. Now the fighting is going on between Tauride and Tomina Balka."
According to him, "no matter how hard the occupiers try to return, recapture the lost positions, nothing works for them, and they roll back even more." At the same time, Khlan stressed that the Ukrainian shelling is not as massive as the Russian one: "Unlike the invaders, ours work precisely: they hit the ammunition, equipment and personnel of the enemy. Unfortunately, for the orcs it does not matter that they get into residential buildings, APU is the opposite."
12:38 Additional conscription into the armed forces of the Russian Federation will not be required, "there are enough volunteers participating in the special operation," said Viktor Bondarev, head of the Senate Defense Committee.
12:34 The mayor of Severodonetsk, Alexander Stryuk, said that today it is impossible to evacuate people from Azot. Preparations are ongoing to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians. The Armed Forces of Ukraine protect the city, moving forward as much as possible. The Russians are destroying the surrounding villages in the south of Severodonetsk, the Ukrainian military periodically push the enemy back, do not allow these settlements to be captured.
12:26 The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, said that the harvest and its export would continue even during the curfew: "Lists of all those involved in the harvest will be formed to ensure unhindered work at night. We will try to take the maximum amount to where it is could be sold."
12:03 Zelensky said in an interview with ZDF that time is now playing on Moscow, which "doesn't care how long this war lasts." "We need to act, time is playing on the enemy, not on us," the president said. He explained this by the fact that the Russians "mainly earn on oil products, on the export of energy resources."
11:57 In the Zaporozhye region, another exchange of bodies of dead servicemen took place. Ukraine returned the bodies of 64 defenders of Azovstal, the Ministry of Reintegration reported.
11:34 Zelensky in an interview with ZDF commented on Biden's statement that Kiev did not believe the invasion warnings. In particular, he said that the Ukrainian authorities asked the West for help, but, despite the knowledge about the upcoming invasion, they did not provide such assistance: “The question arises: why was the airspace not closed, why were we not supplied with weapons before this invasion, and why were not temporary sanctions have been introduced in order to stop the President of Russia in a preventive manner?"
"Let's be honest: we were preparing for this, at the beginning no one supported us, but now I am grateful to all partners for the support we have," the president added.
11:32 The Court of Appeal in Lvov has banned the pro-Russian party Nashi Yevgeny Muraev. The property of the party and all its cells is transferred to the state.
11:29 US billionaire Warren Buffett's son Howard donated $2.7 million to Ukraine. The funds he donated to the charity Spirit of America will go to nine buses for the needs of the terrorist defense, as well as to purchase 375 of the latest trauma kits for the military APU, Voice of America reports.
11:06 European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans supports granting Ukraine candidate status for EU membership: "Ukrainians defend our European values. And if, given this, they ask for the opportunity to join the EU, we cannot say no." At the same time, he noted that now it is impossible to name the terms of entry, and added that he understands the concern of some countries about the too rapid acceptance of a war-torn country.
11:03 Russians are testing new types of weapons and weapons prohibited by international standards in Ukraine, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said on the air of the telethon: "They actually use this war to test their new types of weapons, and all this is used here. They have some kind of weapon there is a "successful" test, some samples turn out to be extremely bloated in their quality characteristics, and it turns out that they cannot be used here normally at all.
11:00 The Russian missile ship Admiral Makarov is commanded by a former Ukrainian officer from Vinnitsa, who in 2014 remained in a military unit in Crimea captured by the Russians and continued to serve in the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. Now, according to the State Bureau of Investigation, he was informed of suspicion of treason. "The deserter returned to Ukraine in 2022 with the invaders. The ship under his command launched cruise missiles at Nikolaev and Odessa," the SBI said.
10:47 Slovakia intends to help Ukraine meet the criteria for obtaining the status of an EU candidate country, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said after negotiations with Scholz. According to him, Kyiv will need a team that will support Ukraine on the path to reform. At the same time, there should not be a simplified scheme for joining the EU, Heger noted.
10:39 In the Donetsk region, the invaders tried to scrap the components for the air defense system. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the commanders of one of the batteries of the 933rd anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Russian troops, in order not to get to the forefront, decided to make their equipment incapable of combat. They removed the control units from the Tor-M2U combat vehicles and decided to sell them at a collection point for precious metals. However, they named too high a price and came into conflict with an employee of the reception point, who immediately reported the “businessmen” to the “MGB DPR”.
Now the command of the regiment explains the loss of electronic units as alleged military operations, and the "businessmen" continued to serve in the infantry units on the front line.
10:15 Officials in the Kherson region "appointed during the Ukrainian period and sabotaging work on the ground" will be removed, said Russia-appointed "deputy head" of the region Kirill Stremousov: "All those who sabotage work on the ground, all those who do not give in villages of a specific, clear position regarding our future development as part of the Russian Federation, will be removed in the near future. Many will simply be punished."
10:13 Governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz said that due to the shelling of the village of Zaimishche, Klintsy urban district, several residential buildings were damaged, four people were injured.
10:11 In the Sumy region, the Russians fired at least 60 shells from mortars, self-propelled guns and MLRS, civilian infrastructure was damaged, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
10:09 The UN responded to the shelling of Donetsk, where, according to the "DPR", a maternity hospital was fired upon. The Secretary General's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that "any attacks on medical facilities are a clear violation of international law." The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that the daily shelling and bombing of "non-government-controlled areas of Donetsk region", which lead to civilian casualties, is of great concern.
10:03 Sanctions come into force today against three more large Russian banks - Sberbank, Rosselkhozbank and Moscow Credit Bank, which are disconnected from SWIFT. Bloomberg also reported that the world's largest banks JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs suspended transactions for servicing Russian debt obligations.
09:45 In Mariupol, the occupiers with collaborators are going to open the Drama Theater on September 10, Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city, said. According to the announcement, "the new season will open with two or three dance and variety-concert numbers, as well as a theatrical production."
09:28 In the Kharkiv region, one person died per day, five were injured, including three children, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. On the territory of the region, hostilities continue: in the Kharkiv direction, the enemy is still concentrated on defense, in the Izyum region, the Russian army is trying to establish control over Bogorodichny and is preparing an attack on Slavyansk.
09:13 In Belarusian Gomel, there is a train with howitzers, among them 13 Acacia self-propelled guns were spotted - all new, with fabric at the end of the muzzle, reports the monitoring group of Belaruska Gayun.
09:11 Mayor of Severodonetsk Alexander Stryuk said that all three bridges across the Seversky Donets have been destroyed, but there are communication routes with the city. In the bomb shelters of Azot, which the Russians are bombing, 540-560 people remain, they have certain food supplies.
09:09 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of June 14th. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut direction.
personnel - about 32,500 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 1434 (+2),
armored combat vehicles - 3503 (+11),
artillery systems - 721 (+3),
MLRS - 229 (+3),
air defense systems - 97 (+0),
aircraft - 213 (+0),
helicopters - 179 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 588 (+3),
cruise missiles - 125 (+0),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2473 (+13),
special equipment - 54 (+0).
09:04 British intelligence reports that Russia's main efforts are focused on the attack on the Severodonetsk pocket, and its Western Group of Forces, probably for the first time in several weeks, made a little advance in the Kharkov direction.
The first deputy chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation predicted that government spending on defense would increase by 600-700 billion rubles, which could approach a 20% increase in Russia's defense budget. However, the industry may struggle, partly due to the effects of sanctions and lack of experience. Russia's production of high-quality optics and advanced electronics is likely to remain problematic and could undermine its efforts to replace equipment lost in Ukraine, analysts say.
09:01 This morning, the Russians launched a missile attack on the Odessa region, OK Pivden reported. Two Onyx missiles were fired, the air defense forces destroyed the shells.
08:59 The "DPR" stated that during yesterday's massive shelling of Donetsk, in which the "authorities" blame the Ukrainian side, five people were killed and 33 were injured.
08:57 Russian media write that 88 Ukrainian prisoners from Azovstal were transferred from the Lugansk pre-trial detention center to the Sukhodolsk correctional colony near the border with the Russian Federation.
08:54 Biden extended sanctions against Belarus for a year. "The actions and policies of certain members of the Belarusian government and others, as well as the malicious activities of the Belarusian regime and ongoing abuses, continue to pose an extreme threat to US national security and foreign policy," the White House website said in a statement.
08:51 The Russians again fired at two districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region - Krivoy Rog and Sinelnikovsky, hit the Apostolovsky and Pokrovskaya communities from Hurricanes, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. People, according to preliminary information, were not injured, houses in the Pokrovskaya community were damaged.
08:27 The United States is ready to provide Ukraine with $1.5 billion in monthly aid, First Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Derek Hogan said at a conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He stressed that US efforts are focused on providing Ukraine with medium and long-term assistance. Medium-term assistance is to support the continued operation of the Ukrainian government.
"We have already allocated $1 billion for this purpose through various mechanisms and intend to send $1.5 billion more every month for four to five months," Hogan said. He noted that over the past three months, the United States has already allocated about $53.6 billion in assistance to Ukraine, including military, and this is the largest assistance that the United States has provided to Europe since the Marshall Plan.
08:10 The Russians continue to storm Severodonetsk, destroy high-rise buildings and Azot with artillery, said the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. The bridge, the premises of the regional State Emergency Service were destroyed, the nearby villages of Sinetsky and Pavlograd were shelled. At the same time, the enemy failed to advance in the Metelkino area. Active hostilities on June 13 were also in the areas of Toshkovka - Ustinovka, Orekhovo - Zolotoe, Kamyshevakha - Vrubovka, Vasilievka - Belogorovka, Nyrkovo - Nikolaevka.
07:53 In the Donetsk region, the suburbs of Dobropolye came under rocket fire, a residential building was damaged, there were no casualties, Pokrovsk Mayor Ruslan Trebushkin said.
07:41 The European Commission will recommend granting Ukraine the status of an EU candidate country, Politico writes, citing sources. “Ukraine is the only country in Europe where people died, where people were shot because they were on the streets with EU flags. Now we can’t tell them: sorry guys, you were waving the wrong flag,” said one of the senior officials.
However, the recognition of Ukraine as a candidate country will require the unanimous approval of 27 countries in the European Council, and now at least three of them are still opposed, the newspaper notes, without naming the country.
07:05 Russian troops have transferred additional battalion-tactical groups to the Severodonetsk direction. The enemy has partial success in the Bakhmut direction, is fixed in the village of Vozrozhdenie, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . The enemy also establishes full control over Bogorodichny north of Slavyansk, trying to gain a foothold in the center of Severodonetsk.
06:00 Vladimir Rogov, a member of the "main administration council" of the Zaporozhye region, said that "the task is to completely liberate the entire region and restore control over the entire border of the region."
05:36 Human Rights Watch reports that human rights activists are aware of thousands of examples of the use of booby traps and so-called surprise mines by the Russian army. For example, Russian mines were found in document covers, machine gun horns, children's toys, and candy boxes. However, the most cynical case was the installation by the Russians of a mine between a murdered mother and her living child, whom they tied to the woman's corpse.
04:11 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Russian occupation authorities probably staged terrorist attacks in Melitopol and Berdyansk on June 12 "Russia Day" to accuse Ukrainian partisans of attacks on civilians.
According to ISW, collaborator Volodymyr Rogov, who heads the occupation administration in the occupied territories of the Zaporozhye region, made a statement that "terrorists" staged three explosions in Berdyansk, and then retracted his statements and defined the situation as an accident at a power plant. Rogov said that the residents of Berdyansk associated any emergencies in the city with "Ukraine's attempts to disrupt peaceful life in the" liberated "areas."
"Deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs" Alexei Selivanov also said that unknown people planted an explosive device in Melitopol to disrupt the "Day of Russia." In turn, the head of the Zaporozhye OVA, Oleksandr Starukh, recalled that the Ukrainian authorities had warned about the possible terrorist activities of Russian troops by the "day of Russia."
02:14 In Ukraine, three thousand Britons are fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, commander of the Georgian Legion Mamuka Mamuashvili told Sky News. In total, according to the publication, there are currently 20,000 foreign soldiers in Ukraine.
01:55 About 2,800 dollar millionaires may leave Ukraine by the end of the year - this is 42% of all citizens with a million fortune, the Henley & Partners analytical agency has calculated. At the same time, more than 15,000 dollar millionaires may leave Russia.
01:42 Berlin intends to expand military assistance to Ukraine and will supply additional weapons, Scholz told reporters in Berlin: "We are significantly expanding our support. We will supply Ukraine, including a modern missile defense system and a radar to detect artillery." The Chancellor recalled that Germany had already supplied Ukraine with anti-missile weapons, armored personnel carriers, and ammunition. At the same time, he did not specify the details and terms of new deliveries.
01:28 In Poland, two new combined-arms divisions will be formed, they will be deployed along the Vistula River, in the central region of the country, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said.
01:19 Zelensky, in an interview with ZDF, criticized Scholz's attempts to "keep a balance" in relations between Kiev and Moscow: "He and his government must make a decision: there should be no attempts to maintain a balance in relations between Ukraine and Russia." The President also urged the Chancellor to be more unequivocal in relations with Ukraine.
00:57 In total, about five Russian ships with 30-40 cruise missiles on board are present in the Black Sea near Odessa, the threat of an attack on the city remains. However, there are no signs of preparing support for such an attack from the land, and without such support, the attack is doomed to failure, Sergey Bratchuk, speaker of the Odessa OVA, said on the air of the telethon.
[NYPOST] A man in London picked the wrong place at the wrong time to stir up trouble.
Julius Francis, a 57-year-old former professional boxer who was once the British champion and in 2000 fought Mike Tyson, is now a security guard at BOXPARK Wembley.
In the video, a man in a blue du-rag is seen repeatedly yelling obscenities at the security staff and other people who appeared to be workers at the venue, saying “f–k you!” too many times to count, and yelling, “I’ll f–k you up!”
Warning: violence and language
Former British heavyweight champion Julius Francis (who fought Mike Tyson) now working as security at BOXPARK Wembley and dealing with some trouble today…
The man shoves multiple people as a group of security guards try to nudge him away from a set of guardrails around the space.
About 45 seconds into the clip, Francis unleashes an absolutely vicious right-hand, knocking the rabble rouser down with one of the most severe head-shots you’ll ever see in a viral internet video.
“When your mouth writes a check …” observed Sports Illustrated and DAZN boxing reporter Chris Mannix.
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[MaineCoastTV] Russian President Vladimir Putin has given another of his...heavy-on-the-revisionist-history speeches. This time, he categorized the Great Northern War--the 18th century conflict that saw the Tsardom of Russia successfully challenge Sweden for Baltic superiority--as one where Russia "reclaimed" such territories as Estonia and Latvia. As with Moscow's claims that places like Ukraine have always been a part of Russia, this is just simply not true.
But reality isn't the point. Or rather, the Russian president is delivering a Russian "reality" to the bulk of the Russian people. This is primarily an insular conversation, where a strongman is trying to justify a war of expansion. But it also sends a warning to a Sweden and Finland that have already moved ahead to join NATO: we have beaten you in the past, we consider much of your neighborhood as properly our own, and don't sleep too comfortably in your beds at night.
The latter might be a projection of Putin's, or Russia's, strategic anxieties but that doesn't mean we should dismiss them out of hand. As seen in the graphic from my first book below, the Russia of today is not what we'd consider geographically secure. It is not an island power detached from mainland squabbles like Japan or the United Kingdom. Nor is it a mountain fortress like Iran. Russia is a vast territory--difficult and expensive to secure--and its more densely populated western core features multiple invasion routes for those who would be so inclined.
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But no one wants to invade Russia -- its full of Russians.
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" Sweden and Finland that have already moved ahead to join NATO" Turkey threw a wrench into that one.Russia and China are vast territories. I don't see media attacks on the leadership of China of cancer, mental instability or delusions of world conquest when China is the bugger here in this day and age.
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Well, I mean, everyone from from Tom Freidman to Tony Fauxi says we should be more like china. Who's gonna argue with experts like those?
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Dissolve NATO and reconstitute without Turkey
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Dissolve NATO. Period.
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Our former NATO assigned troops could be put to very good use along the Mexican border.
Tip to the Euro's and our former NATO allies; keep an eye on the Russian rail system. If they are coming your way, it appears they'll be arriving via train. Just something I recently noticed.
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That’s been one of my primary take aways from the Ukrainian conflict. On both sides - one train line is barely adequate for supplying defense but two train lines operating fuel an advance. Not much change from WW2 if you study logistics from that period. Trucks simply can’t transport enough POL, munitions and armor to REMAB sites to establish critical mass for an offense
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But no one wants to invade Russia -- its full of Russians.
Yeah, and they remember what all those Russians did to Napoleon and Hitler. So now it's no surprise if Russians think of NATO as the 21st Century version of wannabe conquerors from the West. And you think that just because Joe Biden says it ain't so that it ain't?
Face it, folks, it's been dirty for dirty for centuries and Russians are not the only ones with a history of aggression. Too bad we can't just get along.
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[MaineCoastTV] Russian President Vladimir Putin has given another of his...heavy-on-the-revisionist-history speeches. This time, he categorized the Great Northern War--the 18th century conflict that saw the Tsardom of Russia successfully challenge Sweden for Baltic superiority--as one where Russia "reclaimed" such territories as Estonia and Latvia. As with Moscow's claims that places like Ukraine have always been a part of Russia, this is just simply not true.
