[Townhall] Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, claimed on Monday he saw CNN trying "to create conflict and film it" while covering the protests and riots in Ferguson, Missouri in the aftermath of the officer-involved shooting of Michael Brown.
Dorsey made the comment when responding to Brain Stelter, CNN's chief media correspondent, posting an article from the Washington Post about how Fox News host Tucker Carlson is always selling the same thing, "He's selling doubt..."
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Currently in Newport News, Virginia, where it is undergoing a refueling and complex overhaul, a one-time process to replace the ship's nuclear fuel and refit the ship for future operations. So liberty for the crew allows easy contact with all sorts of vendors. Retail Services PO's Mika'il and Natasha might have had some special connection to a cultural source?
[FoxNews] Airmen's Time is included in the Air Force's training program
The U.S. Air Force has launched a new initiative called "Airmen’s Time" which, among other things, aims to create a "safe space" where service members can share perspectives with their commanders.
"The intent of Airmen’s Time is to create a safe space, be present, and ensure that our Air Force culture invites healthy conversation for every Airman…anytime, anywhere," reads a memo, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, that was recently sent to commanders.
I have no idea what that sequence of words means.
The memo, written by Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Joanne S. Bass and General USAF Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown, Jr., states "building trust and belonging is never a one-time event – it is a daily commitment to those we serve."
"To further advance this cultural shift, leaders at every level are entrusted to prioritize time to elevate connection, growth, and enhance the well-being of individual Airmen while building unity within teams," the memo says.
An Air Force schedule and training program available online shows that "Airmen’s Time" is already included in the list of activities over eight and a half weeks.
A spokesperson for the Air Force told Fox News that "an environment focused on continued growth is key to mission success and readiness of the force."
"Allowing leaders to carve out time to directly communicate with their Airmen is crucial for unit cohesion and connectedness," the spokesperson said in a statement. "By further investing in and empowering our Airmen, through initiatives like Airmen’s Time, we are better positioned to act confidently and out-think our adversaries by approaching and solving problems in new ways."
The Pentagon did not respond to Fox News' request for comment by publication.
[American Thinker] Two weeks ago, Elon Musk initiated the biggest Leeroy Jenkins move against a social media giant we have ever witnessed.
That is a gaming reference, and this is a game that is being played out. With his bid to take Twitter private and restore free speech, he provided a stage for the mainstream media and the progressive pundits to expose themselves as not only being in favor of censorship, but demanding that there be more of it.
Musk's stunning gambit rumbled through the halls of Twitter and the newsrooms of CNN and MSNBC. Their fear was palpable. After years of saying, "If you don't like what we are doing to you, go build your own social media platform," they suddenly were faced with someone calling their bluff.
The progressives found themselves wallowing in their own hypocrisy on the matter. When Facebook purchased Instagram, there was no outcry of "foul." When Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post, there were cheers from the left. But when Musk put his money where his mouth was and purchased 9% of Twitter, they immediately tried to toss a flag on the play. They screamed warnings of dire consequences of people being able to express themselves.
Their reaction was no surprise. The man who single-handedly ushered in the return of electric cars was overnight painted as a social media pariah. The progressive left staked out its lack of moral high ground as advocating that you have to have restrictions on free speech. Some went so far as to say we needed even more restraints. The leftist media advocated that allowing anyone to share their opinions is dangerous, racist, and un-American. Their stark fears that Donald Trump might be given voice again were palpable.
The right of free speech is fundamental to the American way of life. Yes, social media have given utter morons a platform to spew hate, on both sides of the political spectrum, but it also gives us the ability to ignore those people. Censorship in any manner is against a principle that this nation was built on. Clearly, Elon Musk sees this and is willing to pay big bucks to set these matters right.
The silent acceptance of social media platforms like Twitter using bots and mysterious, unnamed "fact-checkers" to determine what is the truth, blocking things that they deem inappropriate, is borderline madness. Yet it is the world we have begrudgingly been forced to accept.
[NewRepublic] In one way or another, the scholars and journalists in The New Republic’s special May issue all examine the state of democracy here or abroad. It is their work to diagnose and prognosticate, to analyze and warn. And to them, the situation is plain: Our system of government is crumbling. Around the world, autocracy looms. The tasks ahead could not be more urgent. But what of the people who are not necessarily glued to the news, whose jobs do not require them to track, in detail, every grotesque new contrivance of the Republican Party, every vain counter by the Democrats? How worried are they?
Interestingly, the Republican rank and file is split about what January 6, 2021, represents. Although most Republicans in our poll described the events of that day as patriotic, a hefty minority said what happened was an insurrection—a dissensus, it should be underscored, that isn’t reflected among Republican Party leadership, which has been overwhelmingly reluctant to condemn the incident. "I don’t know whether we should take a lot of comfort in knowing there are still 43 percent of Republicans who think that was wrong," Molyneux reflected, "or despair that it's only 43 percent." Poll results at the bottom of the link.
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A carefully orchestrated channeling of Trump supporters into arrest and detention zones. Note the continued attempt to hold Donald Trump responsible for the violence. Nothing in Washington D.C. is ever totally as it seems.
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How many "Republicans" compare 6Jan with the burning cities full of 'mostly peaceful' Antifa/BLM and think: "It was stupid, childish and unlawful but...".
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Chervonec] The groupings of troops from Donbass and Russia began to move in the aura of the Donbas pocket from the Kharkiv and Zaporozhye directions. Each covered at least ten kilometers in the first day. In my opinion, this is the most difficult section of the path, the troops, along with the movement, are pushing the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Nazis from their settled and fortified positions.
If we talk about the formation of a large Donetsk cauldron, then a little more than a hundred kilometers remain between the above groups. If they manage to close together, this will mean one thing for the most combat-ready part of the all-Ukrainian forces - a cauldron, or the end, which in this case is identical.
Further, according to the classics, the dismemberment of the Donetsk boiler into separate sections will go (let Peskovsky, Avdievsk, Kramatorsk, and so on). For what? Yes, so as not to allow the enemy to maneuver inside a large cauldron, to strengthen certain sectors of the defense by transferring forces and weapons, and so on.
But, in fact, the Donetsk part of the coverage of this boiler is almost not moving forward. The main thing for our forces assembled here is to prevent the enemy from breaking through into the city of Donetsk itself. Indeed, they can line up like a “pig” to go for a ram. And here everything will depend on the quality of the lead: whether the intelligence will be able to report on time, whether the artillerymen, rocket launchers, missilemen and pilots will be able to inflict damage on the grouping enemy in time - well.
Tthe “Azovites” are cunning, playing for time, provoking pity, calling for political expediency. The center, it must be said, is ready to respond to such initiatives, supported by groans from the West. Today, the Nazis were even given the opportunity to take a break from shelling for a couple of hours, bring ammunition to strongholds, hold meetings, and develop new solutions for further defense.
No, civilians, one hundred and twenty people, still came out, but not from the basements of Azovstal, but from workers' residential buildings located next to the territory of the plant. Interestingly, while blocking the industrial zone, according to statements, we did not clear all the houses around? If they cleaned up, why didn’t they take people out of them earlier? This is purely a question.
So, our enemy is a serious one, knows how to fight, does not want to surrender, the theater of operations is complex, crossed, but ... Our “iron helmets” (reservists) are already becoming dogs of war, not to mention those people who managed in equal numbers in just a month to take possession of a huge city (600,000 inhabitants, for comparison, Grozny 300,000).
I would like, of course, that all this ends in Donbass as soon as possible, and then we can move on, but it is immoral to rush our guys. They are already doing more than anyone else could do.
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Americans will not defend NATO.
And NATO cowards will not lift one finger for the Ukrainians
China and Russia India will create a new economic block
Europe will be forced to abandon the AUKUS in favor of economic and political independence from the USA. Cultural identity will be the call.
Mariupol will be rebuilt by Chinese and Russians companies, and will be the largest hub on the new Silk Road, serving an independent federation of European States. Ukraine will be no more and will be part of the Russian federation territory.
Same as the territory of Yemen the Houthi governance and the Chinese are in consultation, to develop ports and infrastructure.
So basically it’s a done deal and there’s nothing that the aukus can’t do.as President Putin put very clear…
Sarmat missile will make Russia foes 'think twice': Putin http://toi.in/psSPmY86/a24gk
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Mariupol will be rebuilt by Chinese and Russians companies, and will be the largest hub on the new Silk Road,
While you weren't looking, Ukraine's export economy has been almost completely destroyed.
Ukraine is now landlocked. They have lost all their non-EU markets and cannot replace them with European markets. (Try exporting agricultural goods to the EU when those goods compete with EU farmers' products. Good luck with that.)
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
The assault on Azovstal continues. The last center of organized resistance. The additional cleansing of the Primorsky district is also continuing.
2. Ugledar direction.
No major changes. The enemy is holding Maryinka, Ugledar, Velikaya Novoselka.
3. Zaporozhye direction. Small advance east of Gulyaipole. Front Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole without changes.
4. Nikolaev direction.
Serious attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city area. There are heavy losses of the enemy. There is no active attack on Nikolaev yet.
5. Odessa.
No significant changes. The enemy does not exclude the possibility of landing operations, but he is transferring some of his forces to the Nikolaev direction.
6. Avdievka.
No significant changes. Fighting in the area of Novobakhmutovka and Troitsky. Activation is expected in the coming days.
7.LNR.
Confirmed the capture of Kremennaya and advance in Popasna. There are also fighting in the south of Rubizhne and on the outskirts of Severodonetsk.
8. Izyum.
The troops are advancing towards Slavyansk and Kramatorsk from the north and northwest. The enemy suffers heavy losses and slowly withdraws. Fighting is noted north of Krasny Liman and Yampol. There are also heavy battles in the Barvenkovsky direction.
9. Kharkov.
The enemy is trying to strain the flanks of the Izyum grouping of the RF Armed Forces west of Kharkov in order to force the Russian command to withdraw part of its forces from the directions of the main strikes. There is also fighting north of Kharkov.
10. Regarding the issues of the 2nd phase of the operation, today Foreign Minister Lavrov confirmed that Russia is starting the 2nd phase of the operation, which will be related to the liberation of the remaining territories of Donbass occupied by Ukraine.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
