[Discover the Networks] First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven — both longtime members of the Democratic Socialists of America, where Piven today is an honorary chair — the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles — which erupted after police used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving — Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.
In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when "the rest of society is afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system. The authors also asserted that: (a) the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the country; (b) poor people would rise in revolt; and (c) only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands.
The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inherent inadequacy of the welfare state. In this regard, Cloward-Piven’s early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1971 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system’s failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.
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Joe Biden was never smart. In his current degraded state, he would certainly do a lot of damage to the country if he was calling the shots, but this is a systematic dismantling. He’s not capable of that type of planning and execution. Remember how badly Obama performed off the cuff. He’s dumb as well. They are implementing a coordinated plan by smart people that are very evil. It is being adjusted daily by the same collection of people that make all the media talking points match.
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[AMAC Newsline] Across the country, farmers and small communities are desperately rallying to protect their land and families from thousands of miles of new "carbon capture" pipelines being built as a result of Democrats’ misleadingly titled "Inflation Reduction Act" (IRA). Several dozen ventures have sprung up to build a network of carbon capture pipelines which would extend from the Great Lakes down to Texas and across the Midwest to Maine and Florida.
Carbon capture technology is a process designed to mitigate the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It involves capturing CO2 from industrial processes or power plants, transporting the captured CO2 to a storage site (via a network of pipelines) and storing it deep underground in depleted oil and gas fields or saline aquifers to prevent its release into the atmosphere. Perhaps transporting the climate-changing gas from the Blue states to the Red states.
The carbon capture and transport process carries significant risks, many of which the citizens of Satartia, Mississippi, learned first-hand in February 2020 when an underground carbon capture pipe burst and sent plumes of carbon dioxide rushing through the town. A recent article from The Intercept described the scene: "People were acting like zombies, dazed and walking in circles or gazing back blankly as responders yelled for them to evacuate. Others convulsed, drooling, as panic-stricken family members called 911."
The Summit pipeline is set to terminate in North Dakota, where it has forged another improbable alliance between mostly white farmers and Native American tribes. While the farmers are similarly concerned about the pipeline cutting through their land and potentially endangering their crops, Native Americans have said that the project will cut across lands that are sacred to their tribes.
This presents a particularly thorny issue for the White House, as President Joe Biden cited a concern for Native American heritage sites as one reason behind his decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline back in 2021. Notably, that project would have only straddled or run alongside Native American lands, while several of the proposed CO2 pipeline projects would run directly through them.
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Jackassery that will have Americans making fun of us for generations to come.
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And when they leak you'll get carbonated water table.
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Anti-environmental terrorists will attack it with Mentos.
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trees like CO2 and welike the oxygen trees give. So why put it in a pipe?
[HotAir] The Washington Post on August 15, 2023, in a story by Mariana Alfaro, writes about Bill Kristol’s launch of "Republicans for Ukraine," which is using a $2 million ad campaign "to get congressional Republicans to commit to continue funding aid for Ukraine ahead of what is likely to be a lengthy appropriations fight."
The odd thing is that the noted Conservative public intellectual, founder of the now-defunct The Weekly Standard, has been a vehement NeverTrumper since 2016 — going so far in 2020 as to register as a Democrat and endorse Joe Biden. So it’s puzzling that he continues to refer to himself as a Republican.
According to Alfaro, advertisements, which will include "testimony" from pro-Ukraine Republican voters, will appear on television, billboards, and online. After two decades of promoting failed and costly wars and interventions, Kristol and what is left of the neoconservative movement are making a last gasp at relevance by once again promoting American involvement in another war.
Fortunately, neoconservatives are a dying breed in American politics. At least in the Republican Party. Having achieved relevance in the latter stages of the Cold War by breaking with the Democratic Party (where most of them came from) and supporting President Ronald Reagan’s policies that won the Cold War, the neoconservatives spent much of the post-Cold War world finding new "monsters to destroy" (to use the famous phrase of John Quincy Adams). They first picked Saddam Hussein in Iraq. But after the U.S. military achieved a quick victory on the battlefield in 1991 and forced Iraqi forces to leave Kuwait, the neoconservatives criticized the Bush 41 administration for not toppling the Iraqi regime. During the Clinton administration, the neocons were ardent champions of U.S. intervention in the Balkans. Then, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the neoconservatives persuaded the George W. Bush administration not only to retaliate against our enemies in Afghanistan but to declare a "Global War on Terror" and launch a crusade to democratize the Arab regimes of the Middle East. Bush 43, backed by the neoconservatives and using Wilsonian rhetoric, preemptively attacked Iraq, overthrew the heinous Hussein regime, declared "victory," and then needlessly expended the lives of American soldiers and American treasure in failed efforts to remake the Middle East in America’s image. As I understand it, at the time Americans were given - essentially identical - advice by the Saudi King and the Israeli PM: "Now find a nice (one who'd remember what happened to Saddam) Sunni general and make him the new boss." But no, Americans had to play at Democracy - ignoring the fact that Shia are the majority and the only organized Shia are the ones owned by Iran.
At the same time that the neoconservatives promoted the democratization of the Middle East, they also urged the Bush 43 administration to expand NATO closer to Russia’s border, ignoring the prudent counsel of Bush 41 Secretary of State James Baker (who told Russian leaders that NATO would not expand if Russia didn’t contest German reunification), and Russian expert and elder statesman George F. Kennan who presciently warned that NATO expansion would revive the worst aspects of Russian nationalism and imperialism. Basically, they've convinced Russia that it's 17th century again - the Time of Troubles.
Bush 43 not only expanded NATO further (Romania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia were given membership in 2004, while Albania, and Croatia were invited during the Bush 43 administration but formally joined in 2009), he also publicly called for Ukraine and Georgia to join the alliance. The neocons also urged U.S. intervention in Syria and Libya in 2011 as part of their championing of the so-called "Arab Spring," which led not to democracy but instead to anarchy, chaos, and increased Russian and Chinese influence in the region.
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The road to Shaanxi has been long,
Not least for our Red Kuomintang
Who have trekked on two tracks,
Braving constant attacks...
[raging duck quack quack quacks]
And commutes from McClean through Hong Kong.
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So it’s puzzling that he continues to refer to himself as a Republican.
The media loves those "I'm a Republican, but I would never vote for Trump." stories. When anybody checks, it turns out the person quoted made max contributions to dems and was registered as a dem in at least two ther states.
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Basically, they've convinced Russia that it's 17th century again - the Time of Troubles.
Now Americans are the ones in their own Time of Troubles.
A recent report issued by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has unveiled the harrowing reality of the persecution faced by military personnel and former babus government employees at the hands of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... . According to the report by UNAMA, there have been 800 documented cases of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations committed by the Taliban. This grim tally encompasses 218 instances of persecution involving former Afghan soldiers and government officials across 34 provinces in Afghanistan from August 15, 2021, to June 2023. This comprehensive report unequivocally designates the Taliban as the principal instigators of these violations. The report additionally highlights the tragic fate suffered by soldiers and former government workers, either dying in Taliban detention facilities due to torture or falling victim to extrajudicial executions elsewhere. The release of this report has triggered a strong response from human rights organizations, underscoring the ongoing spree of retaliatory killings perpetrated by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
DISCREPANCIES IN REPORTING AND UNAMA’S FIGURES:
UNAMA’s report has cited 218 cases of persecution involving former government officials and soldiers, but it is apparent that this figure falls short when compared to independent sources. It is imperative for human rights advocates to initiate further independent investigations to expose the concealed dimensions of the atrocities committed by the Taliban. For instance, Human Rights Watch published a report on November 30, 2021, asserting that the Taliban had executed or eliminated over 100 members of the former Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in various provinces since their ascension to power. Correspondingly, the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported in mid-April 2022 that the Taliban had killed nearly 500 former babus government employees, including military personnel, in the initial six months of their rule.
The contrast between these reports and UNAMA’s findings is stark. UNAMA’s account presents a notably lower tally of persecuted soldiers and former government officials when measured against the records of the other two organizations. Additionally, UNAMA’s report covers a span of 22 and a half months during the Taliban’s rule, whereas the reports by Human Rights Watch and the New York Times encompass merely three and a half months and six months, respectively. These disparities in the figures indicate either UNAMA’s shortcomings in documenting cases or a possible attempt to sustain appeasement with the Taliban, reminiscent of past practices.
THE TARGETING OF FORMER ANDSF MEMBERS:
The downfall of the republic government has inflicted suffering upon all Afghans, particularly those who had resisted the Taliban as part of the security forces under the previous administration. Over the past two years, Taliban combatants have relentlessly targeted former soldiers in a public display of brutality. These soldiers had languished under the previous regime, facing theft of their livelihoods and a lack of adequate support and equipment in confronting the Taliban. Consequently, they perished in significant numbers on the battlefield. Some of these soldiers, who had sought refuge beyond Afghanistan’s borders, were ensnared in the Taliban’s amnesty and repatriated to Kabul. Assured of safety and unharmed existence, they were subsequently apprehended, subjected to torture, and ultimately executed upon their return.
COUNTERACTING MILITARY OPPOSITION:
Driven by concerns over the fortification of opposing military factions, the Taliban resort to capturing, torturing, and killing former soldiers. This strategy emerges from the acknowledgment that leaders of the Afghanistan National Resistance® Front (NRF) and the Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) assert the inclusion of former government soldiers within their ranks. Furthermore, the combat proficiency of these former soldiers poses a tangible threat to the Taliban. Their recognition that external support facilitated their conquest of Afghanistan underscores the Taliban’s determination to stymie any challenge to their authority.
The Taliban have frequently engaged with former ANDSF members in battles on the frontlines. The formidable skills of these soldiers, aligning with opposition forces, considerably menace the Taliban’s control. This predicament exposes even those soldiers who maintain no ties to these opposition groups and who had placed trust in the Taliban’s safe passage guarantees, leading them to endure the brutal backlash of the group’s retribution.
MEDIA INFLUENCE AND DETRIMENT TO FORMER SOLDIERS:
Certain media outlets contribute to the detriment of former soldiers by disseminating unwarranted reports. For instance, the Wall Street Journal published a November 2021 report insinuating that army and intelligence officers from the previous government, unable to depart Afghanistan, had joined the ranks 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.... -Khorasan (ISIS-K) due to destitution and fears of Taliban persecution. The Taliban’s stance against ISIS-K is ostensibly clear. The propagation of such news, irrespective of intent, imperils former soldiers.
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The Taliban is a brutal regime based on the information that we have. They may be 50%, 100% or more brutal in reality. Probably the same for every other terrible totalitarian oppression in the world including the Biden Administration. I want them all to fall. That part of the NeoCon that I used to be remains.
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Following the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ’s takeover of Afghanistan, there has been an increase in mysterious killings. Over the past two years, at least 60 women in 10 provinces have been mysteriously murdered, and dozens more have disappeared. While these numbers have been widely reported by the media, many cases remain unreported in the media’s reflection. Women and protesting girls have expressed deep concerns over the continuation of these killings, holding the Taliban responsible for these incidents. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... reports indicate that former military personnel, civil activists, former government officials, ethnic leaders, journalists, media workers, and children have been mysteriously murdered over the past two years. In the latest incident, a female YouTuber was killed in Kabul, prompting widespread reactions. On the other hand, citizens of the country state that the lack of rule of law and the presence of a vengeful spirit among the Taliban have increased mysterious killings. UNAMA has also recently stated that despite the Taliban regime’s announcement of a general amnesty, dozens of former military personnel and government officials have been mysteriously murdered.
In the two-year period of Taliban rule, statistics indicate that dozens of citizens, particularly women and girls, have been mysteriously murdered. According to published reports, during this time, at least 50 women have been killed in provinces including Kabul, Balkh, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Sar-e Pol, Takhar, Kapisa, Baghlan, Kunduz, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Faryab, and Bamyan. The victims include former military personnel, doctors, human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activists, protesting women and girls, as well as students and teachers.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... protesting women and girls, concerned about the continuation of these mysterious killings, hold the Taliban primarily responsible for these events. According to them, with the Taliban’s control, a majority of women who have been socially active over the past twenty years are now living under widespread threats. These protesters emphasize that dozens of women and girls in the country have been killed, but due to restricted information access and public fear of the Taliban, women have disappeared without a "name or grave."
These protesters continue to highlight that following the repeal of laws against violence against women and other enacted regulations, women face abundant threats and systematic eradication. They underscore that currently no woman is under legal protection or the safeguard of human rights institutions, and anyone engaging in actions against women goes unquestioned.
On the other hand, since the collapse of the republic system, thousands of divorced women have been at risk. Protesting women and girls state that the balance of power has shifted in favor of former husbands who have affiliations with the Taliban. According to them, divorced women have gone into hiding out of fear of Dire Revenge from their former spouses and in some cases have been mysteriously murdered.
Mehraieen (pseudonym), one of the protesting girls, states that dozens of women have mysteriously been murdered over the past two years. According to her, the Taliban threaten the families of the victims, warning that if the details of these killings are made public, other members of their families will also be at risk of murder. This protesting girl expresses, "Families are being threatened by the Taliban, fearing that all their members will be wiped out. Therefore, they bear the pain alone and suffer. We witness dozens of mysterious killings, but no one can raise their voice."
This comes as about a month ago, the bloody body of a woman was discovered in Kunduz province. Sources reported that the body of the woman was found in the Dasht-e Shakh Tapa area of Ali Abad district, bearing knife wounds in various parts of her body. Similar incidents have previously been reported in the media in different parts of the country.
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Harking back to my own reporting of the war, I fail to recall any mention of Wagner in any kinetic action, and I can see why. A number of videos and articles have surfaced since just before the begining of Russia's war with Ukraine which suggests that Wagner was much more active in the Donbass than I had realized.
Nine years ago, during heavy and stubborn fighting in the Luhansk People's Republic, the territory of the Lugansk airport was liberated. Throughout the summer of 2014, the air harbor of the capital of the LPR was occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who planned to use the airport as a key springboard for an attack on Luhansk.
However, the plans of the Ukrainian command for the occupation and massacre of all dissidents on the territory of the LPR were not destined to come true. By pushing the enemy back from the outskirts of Luhansk and clearing the area around the airport, the defenders of Donbass returned peace and hope for the future to the lands of the Luhansk region.
It was in this battle that Russian volunteers from a small battalion-tactical group under the command of Dmitry Utkin first showed themselves on a vast battlefield. The call sign of the commander and the name of the group, Wagner, will soon become known to the whole world. Arriving in Lugansk some time after its creation, the fighters of the BTG "Wagner" numbering a little more than 40 people were able to turn the tide of events - throwing the enemy away from Lugansk and single-handedly occupying a key foothold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
About what preceded the events of the end of the summer of 2014 and how the fighters of the future PMC "Wagner" stormed the Luhansk airport, says the head of the military-political Telegram channel Astra Militarum Commissioner Yarrik.
Glow over Luhansk
The summer months of 2014 brought countless troubles and suffering to the inhabitants of the newly formed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. The Armed Forces of Ukraine began a massive advance of personnel units, staffed by militants of nationalist formations, with the sole purpose of destroying the people's republics of Donbass by terrorizing the civilian population. In the LPR, the situation also escalated to the limit: the city was continuously fired from heavy weapons, and Ukrainian military aircraft dealt blow after blow to Lugansk and its environs, trying to hit the residential sector and the civil administration of the region.
The key center of the punitive operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Lugansk was the building of the international airport. Ukrainian troops were regularly supplied by air in this area, and Ukrainian Air Force planes used the airfield for air raids. According to the testimony of the participants in the events and the militias, up to 800 Ukrainian special forces soldiers, heavy weapons and military equipment were based around the airport for almost the entire duration of the battles for Lugansk, of which up to 400 military personnel and militants were on the territory of the airport terminal, and even before the battalion of Ukrainian soldiers acted in the area suburbs of the LPR capital.
Despite the fact that the airfield was blocked several times by the LPR militia forces, the Ukrainian troops managed to push back the defenders of the Lugansk region over and over again and intensify attacks on the capital of the republic. As a result of the fighting on July 13-14, part of the armored group of Ukrainian troops broke through to the garrison of the Lugansk airport, reinforcing the grouping of troops in the area with tank formations, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery mounts. The advance of the Ukrainian troops was supported from the air by the Ukrainian Air Force, which continued air raids on peaceful settlements.
In July 2014, the situation in the LPR became extremely dangerous. Ukrainian troops and militants of the national battalions moved closer and closer to Luhansk, occupying the suburbs. On July 22, the LPR militia leaves Severodonetsk and Popasnaya, on July 24, the defenders of the Lugansk region leave Lisichansk and retreat to Lugansk. As a result, by the end of July, the capital of the LPR was actually completely blocked.
The inhabitants of the republic were forced to sit without light and water, risk their lives and break through towards the border with Russia. The route to Krasnodon, along which civilians leave the war-torn republic, received notoriety, but fell under aimed fire from Ukrainian artillery.
Shot distance
The Ukrainian military considered two settlements on the outskirts of the capital of the LPR to be the key points for breaking through the defense of the LPR militia - the village of Khryashchevatoye and the urban-type settlement of Novosvetlovka. The route to Krasnodon passed through these two points - the only artery that for a long time connected Lugansk with the mainland.
Already on August 7, in an attempt to reach the outskirts of Luhansk, Ukrainian troops from the Luhansk airport break through to the outskirts of Novosvetlovka, establish control on this section of the route and open fire from the east on the residential areas of Lugansk. The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to build on their success and capture Khryashchevatoe, but they failed to take the village under full control.
By August 10, the LPR forces, not least thanks to a strategic mistake by the Ukrainian group of troops that was surrounded in the Izvarino region, were able to regain control over most of the border of the former Lugansk region with Russia. The seizure of control over the border led to the intensification of humanitarian aid for the LNR, as well as to open the way for the arrival of aid from the "mainland". These days, volunteers from Russia are coming to Lugansk, who, at the call of their hearts, went to protect the civilian population of Donbass from Ukrainian punitive detachments. Many of those who arrived had extensive military experience and were decorated for their exploits in other local conflicts.
Highly qualified personnel joined separate formations of volunteers who were sent to the most dangerous sectors of the front. One of these units was the battalion-tactical group "Wagner", which later became famous in Russia and around the world. We talked about how and under what conditions the creation and combat coordination of the fighters of the future "Orchestra" took place in a separate article.
Memoirs of a participant in the events from the book of Kirill Romanovsky "Eight years with Wagner":
There is such a military rule, I learned from the priest. When he took a blessing to let me go to war, he said: “War is a sacred thing, but only you must be a warrior. Kill only to save human life. Wars and disasters are given to us only so that we change our minds. Live and act like an Orthodox person. Don't be like that, they say you came to a foreign land. Not a damn thing like that: where the Cossack's foot has set foot, there is his home and his homeland.
Road to the airport
On August 12, after the forces of the 30th and 95th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, marching to the airport, were surrounded in the Krasny Luch area, the Ukrainian security forces decided to break the defense of Lugansk with their available forces. On August 14, units of the 1st Separate Tank Brigade, the 80th Separate Airmobile Brigade, and the 24th Aidar Territorial Defense Battalion entered the village of Khryashchevatoe and entrenched themselves in Novosvetlivka, hastening to announce the “start of the assault on Lugansk.” However, the plans of the Ukrainian command for a “final solution” to the Luhansk issue were not destined to come true: 5 kilometers from Luhansk, right behind Khryashchevaty, the Ukrainian army ran into coordinated resistance - volunteers from the Wagner PMC, pulling up the forces of the LPR militia, detained the enemy at this line and not allow the offensive to develop.
Due to the fact that Khryashchevatoe and Novosvetlovka covered access to the Lugansk airport, the LPR command set the task for the combined formations of the militia and Russian volunteers to liberate the settlements and go to the air harbor. This breakthrough will allow Ukrainian units to be thrown back from Lugansk and thereby break the blockade of the capital of the LPR. On August 17, the militia continued active operations to eliminate the Ukrainian army grouping in Novosvitlovka and Khryashchevaty. As a result of heavy fighting, the LPR forces destroyed three tanks and up to thirty Ukrainian fighters. However, the militias were not able to achieve decisive success - they only managed to slightly push back the Armed Forces of Ukraine in several areas.
It was necessary to urgently take decisive measures in order to reject the Ukrainian formations and reach the airport. To complete the task, a detachment of Dmitry Utkin (“Wagner”), which is in the vanguard of the advancing units of the LPR, is transferred to Khryashchevatoye and Novosvetlovka. As a result, on August 22, the forces of the BTG "Wagner" launched a counteroffensive to the south-east of Luhansk. Squeezing the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Khryashchevaty, after stubborn fighting on August 29, the Wagner volunteers liberated Khryashchevatoye and Novosvetlivka, thereby restoring direct communication between Luhansk and Russian territory and opening the road to the airport.
The scope of the battles for Khryashchevatoye and Novosvetlovka is worthy of special mention in terms of the actions of the military equipment of both sides. According to the LostArmour portal, during the battles on August 28-29, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the LPR actively used tanks and artillery, while some of the vehicles remained on the battlefield and were recorded as irretrievable losses. Based on photographic materials, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost at least six tanks during the battle - four of the most advanced modernized BM Bulat tanks in the Ukrainian army and two T-64BV tanks. All the lost tanks belong, apparently, to the 1st separate tank brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Several other armored vehicles were also destroyed - primarily infantry fighting vehicles. For their part, the LPR forces also lost at least one T-72B tank destroyed in Novosvetlovka.
40 versus 400
Having finished with the cleansing of the territory of Khryashchevaty and Novosvetlovka, the forces of the BTG "Wagner" on August 30 advanced towards the airport. At that time, the Ukrainian security forces held the airport with the last of their strength - the collapse of the group's supply, food shortages and heavy losses in the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine severely crippled those remaining in the air harbor of Lugansk. At the same time, the soldiers had a large arsenal of means of defeating the enemy - Shot armored vehicles, a wide range of small arms, 122-mm D-30 howitzers, BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems and various mortars, including 2S4 " Tulip" caliber 240 mm. All these units of weapons and equipment were intended for the planned assault on Lugansk.
The battle for the Luhansk airport was complicated by the fact that almost all militia formations refused to go towards the air harbor - under various pretexts. As a result, the task of taking the airport is taken over by a Wagner detachment of only 40 people.
Memoirs of a participant in the events from the book of Kirill Romanovsky "Eight years with Wagner":
“The task was not easy. The commander came (Dmitry Utkin, aka Wagner, aka Ninth), we were in a forest belt 5 km from the Lugansk airport, opened a map in front of us, poked it with his finger - and said:
– Do you know what it is?
– Yes, this is Luhansk airport.
- That's right. We'll take it tomorrow morning.
And we are a little over 40 people.
- Well, well, how many dill are there?
- Why do you need to know?
- No, well, you tell us what we are going for.
- Well, guys, there are 400 people according to approximate data.
And, as you know, the assault is carried out in a five-fold superiority of the attackers over the defenders. And here it was the other way around - we are ten times less! The only thing that saved us was artillery support: Grads, mortars, other rubbish.
In general, at three o'clock in the morning we went to the positions. While we slept, a fairly successful artillery preparation was carried out. I want to note right away: we did not have a single objector. Another group, from the militias, refused to go in full force: they were supposed to support us, there were about 100 of them.
“All of us, we already have a deadline, we have been here for a whole month,” their commander said. - We are leaving.
“A task is a task,” our commander said then. - If it is set, then we will fulfill it.
And so, we went to 40 people, knowing that with a very high probability we would die. When they went to the assault, no one spoke at all - everyone was ready to die. People recorded death messages on dictaphones, on phones: listen to your mother, be a good boy, you are the eldest son in the family, so now you are the eldest. Well, they kept them on their chests, so that in case of death, the guys could give it to their relatives. There were no illusions: everyone understood that the fight would be terrible.
On August 30, a tight battle began in the area of the Lugansk airport, during which the Wagner detachment managed to push the militants of the Aidar national battalion, who were guarding the perimeter of the airport, deep into the territory. The landscape of the battle was especially difficult: in order to approach the territory of the airport, the Wagner volunteers had to overcome under fire a wide open area through a field with sunflowers.
Memoirs of a participant in the events from the book of Kirill Romanovsky "Eight years with Wagner":
“The ninth puzzled for a very long time how to accomplish this task. But, in my opinion, he picked a very good time. I've been running this for a very long time, all these years: the best time to attack is after lunch. Not morning, not evening, not night. In a soldier's environment, lunch is considered to be a sacred thing - according to the schedule, all people have lunch, not expecting an attack at this time and relax. And the Ninth instructed our groups of observers to detect this moment. The dill had lunch, went to the dining room, dispersed to their bunkers, went to play on phones, in electronic books, someone fell asleep. And exactly at 3 pm we went to the airport. That is, we drove close, insolently, practically into the territory of the airport in a column, abruptly entered.
Someone got lucky. Although, I don’t even know whether to consider this luck or not. They went on a bigger postcard than we did. We had about 200-250 meters from the forest belt to the airport fence, the bulk of the people walked there. It was a sunflower field, with thorny sunflowers. With terribly prickly ones. If you have, well, let's say, a bare surface of the body, then it just ripped out with meat. Here. Plus it was mined. To the fence - 250 meters.
During the first onslaught of the Wagner, the fighters of the very first assault unit of the future Orchestra destroyed two field fortifications, disabled three vehicles and eliminated about ten militants.
Memoirs of a participant in the events from the book of Kirill Romanovsky "Eight years with Wagner":
“I remember that the people were a little taken aback by a flurry of oncoming fire - to which the commander encouraged us: “Why are we lying? You took Grozny, go ahead! And we climbed through the minefield to the airport - consider going through it. Only later it turned out that the video camera was filming us, the Ukrainians were not ready for the assault - they relaxed. Afternoon. Usually they expect an attack at dawn, in the morning, everything is like a science. And we came after dinner, when people had already hung out footcloths and decided that there would be no more war for today. This effect of surprise, by and large, saved the lives of many: the minefields in our direction were quite serious, and if they were raised, then your obedient servant would not talk to you here. There were 90th Monks with an interval of 15, maximum 20 meters, a full bed.”
Lugansk "voentorg"
Thanks to the successful actions of Russian volunteers, the ranks of the Ukrainian military trembled: panic began to be heard in the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrounded at the airport, since none of the punishers was ready to lay down their violent head. To avoid unnecessary bloodshed, the Ukrainian side was provided with a humanitarian corridor to the village of Georgievka. Leaving tanks, artillery and heavy weapons, the Ukrainian Armed Forces left the airport on the night of September 1, 2014 – those who had recently flaunted the beginning of the assault on Luhansk were forced to leave with nothing.
On the territory of the airport, Ukrainian militants left a huge amount of equipment, weapons, ammunition and uniforms - all of which was subsequently requisitioned by the LPR authorities and is now used by the Luhansk military.
“For a long time we called the territory of the airport a military trade ...”, - the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko spoke so meaningfully about the remaining Ukrainian trophies.
Memoirs of a participant in the battle from Kirill Romanovsky's book "Eight Years with Wagner":
“The treatment of prisoners was always normal, they were never offended. They put them in a circle, someone standing there lectures them, that they are wrong, that they need to change their minds. These guys are sitting - grimy, young. Someone is sitting like that, lowering his head, someone is looking like a wolf, not hiding his hatred. Open. We even gave them cigarettes.
There was only one case of assault in my memory - and that, consider, in a state of passion. One of our guys had a close comrade who died during the storming of the airport. And out of grief, on nerves, on emotions, he grabbed a machine gun - and hit the captive VSUshnik with the butt. We stopped him, dragged him away. And so - never touched them. And they knew about it, calmly behaved.
... Then, already at home, I sat, leafing through videos on the Internet - and came across a Ukrainian documentary about the Lugansk airport. Like, their view of all these events - what kind of brigade was there, what kind of troops were there, how the IL-76 was shot down, back and forth. And one of the eyewitnesses is a guy from that very pack of prisoners. I still have pictures of them, I remember him very well.
And here he sits and talks. He is asked how he got captured:
- Well, we were sitting, defending the airport building. They fired back and fired, there were no more cartridges left. And then the Russians roll up the tank, point the gun and say: - Surrender, or we'll equalize everyone here now. Well, what was to be done?
And here he is sitting like that, and I think - what an infection. We didn’t do anything to the prisoners – we didn’t execute them, we didn’t shoot them, as the Ukrainians try to imagine. They took him prisoner, then gave him away, exchanged him, and that was it.”
During the procedure for the exit of the Ukrainian forces, the expected excesses were not avoided - part of the column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned off the agreed route and, judging by the maneuver begun, planned to go into the rear of the militias and treacherously attack them in the back. In order to avoid such a development of events, the command of the LPR decided to cover the "fugitives" with artillery fire.
The second "number" was arranged by paratroopers from the 80th Lvov brigade under the command of Major General A.T. Kovalchuk: when retreating from the airport, the soldiers disobeyed the order of the commander, refused to go through the corridor to Georgievka and tried to attack the checkpoint of the LPR militia near the village of Tsvetnye Peski. Only according to official data, 23 enraged paratroopers were eliminated during this battle.
Star of Wagner
On September 1, 2014, volunteers from the future Wagner PMC entrenched themselves on the territory of the Lugansk airport and transferred it under the control of the LPR command. From that moment on, Lugansk could breathe easy - the last stronghold of the Ukrainian security forces, who were already preparing to storm the capital of the republic, had fallen. The operation to storm the airport became one of the most important in ensuring the security of the capital of the LPR and allowed Lugansk to escape from the direct attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But most importantly, the liberation of the Lugansk airport from the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions made it possible to save thousands of civilian lives.
It was against the background of the battle for the airport that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine realized the further impossibility of fighting the defenders of Donbass, both with locals and with volunteers from the Russian Federation who had come to protect the civilian population.
Now, just like nine years ago, the Donbass remains a dangerous region: the Ukrainian security forces are not abandoning their attempts to inflict another dastardly blow on peaceful cities. However, now Russia has come to restore order in the zone of armed conflict. And now, against the backdrop of another anniversary of the failure of the Ukrainian troops near Lugansk, the Kyiv regime should remember that monstrous defeat and get ready to meet the well-deserved punishment for all its crimes committed in the Donbass.
At the same time, it was from this operation that the real combat career of a new unit of Russian volunteers, created on the initiative of Yevgeny Prigozhin under the command of Dmitry Utkin, began - later it will become known to the whole world as the Wagner PMC. Ahead, the unit will have new settlements taken and new achievements, thanks to which the whole world will know about Wagner. There will be difficult pages in this story - we are experiencing one of them right now.
But all this will be after ...
Memoirs of a participant in the events from the book of Kirill Romanovsky "Eight years with Wagner":
“After the airport, the most memorable thing is that we drove into Lugansk in a column, and we were met by local residents. It reminded me of the chronicles of the Second World War, when the winners were met. Well, with flowers there, back and forth. We were really welcomed by the whole city.”
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A few weeks ago, I published a message titled "Build Back Better," in which I explained that the theme of Klous Schwab’s World Economic Forum, and his thousands of governmental minions around the world — including the Biden campaign — has been "Build Back Better." But was everything in such utter ruins three years ago that it needed to be "built back?" Not quite yet, at that time. You see, in order to "build back," you first have to tear down. You first have to destroy. Thus the priority of Biden regime has been non-stop destruction. This is by design.
The Global communist cabal absolutely hates Christians and be aware that those who wield power over us have absolutely no respect for human life. In fact, they view us as a "cancer" on the planet that must be eliminated.
So, let’s get to the point of today’s message. I am absolutely livid. I am incensed. I’m beyond furious. I haven’t talked about today’s topic for nearly a month, because I did not want to jump to wrong conclusions, spread misinformation or get this wrong. Because this is too big to get wrong. So, I’ve been studying and researching steadily, and have consulted more than sixty sources for what I’m going to share with you today. I’ve checked, double checked and triple checked my facts. And despite my outrage over this matter, I’ve kept my mouth shut until I had time to make sure of the conclusion I’ve come to.
I’m talking about the fire that has destroyed the historic town of Lahaina, on the island of Maui, Hawaii. One of the most beautiful places in the world. Lahaina was the capitol of the Kingdom of Hawaii until 1959 when the United States took possession of it.
But on August 8, this beautiful little town of 13,000 people was completely destroyed by fire. Approximately 2,000 structures were incinerated; 87% of them, single-family homes. One thing I’ve learned well over the years is to never trust the "official narrative" and this was never so appropriate as in this particular case. The official narrative, pushed by the governor of Hawaii, the mainstream press, and others, is that this disaster was caused by wildfires, caused by dry weather conditions, caused by "Climate Change." Baloney!
I will say that the conclusion I’ve come to, after many hours of study and research and hearing eye-witness accounts of locals is mere speculation. It can never be anything more than that because although the Agenda 2030 fiends were pretty sloppy in their operation of wiping Lahaina off the map, they’ve covered their tracks just well enough that absolute proof can never come out.
I’ll get to my conclusion momentarily. But assuming things happened as they’re now telling us, there are still too many red flags to not come to the conclusion that the demolition of Lahaina was intentional and deliberate. They’re telling us the fires were caused by high winds knocking down power lines, which fell into dry brush on the ground. Embers were then whipped through the air (by winds that mysteriously came from the east) and lit the fires that destroyed virtually everything. So they’re blaming the Hawaiian Electric Company. Ok. Perhaps that’s true. Did you know that Hawaiian Electric is owned by Vanguard and Blackrock — two corporations at the forefront of the Globalist New World Order agenda?
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Several factors could be at play in creating the lack of interest in this Gulf of Mexico sale, perhaps most prominent among them the fact that, since wind developers began conducting seismic testing for those Atlantic projects last fall, the dead carcasses of more than 60 baleen whales have washed up onto the beaches of New Jersey and New York. While the Biden regulators claim no cause-and-effect connection exists between the developments and whale deaths exists, a rising chorus of critics begs to disagree. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: Should We Believe The Media Hype Linking Hurricane Idalia To Climate Change?)
Former California gubernatorial candidate and climate activist Michael Shellenberger serves as executive producer of a new documentary released in August that claims to have scientifically established a direct connection. "The film documents surprisingly loud, high-decibel sonar emitted by wind industry vessels when measured with state-of-the-art hydrophones," Shellenberger recently wrote at the New York Post. "And it shows that the wind industry’s increased boat traffic is correlated directly with specific whale deaths."
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[Breitbart] Thursday on FNC’s "Hannity," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich observed President Joe Biden’s detachment that was on display during his visit to a fire-ravage Maui last week.
Gingrich called Biden "clearly out of it," and said it begged the question of who was calling the shots inside the Biden administration.
"Well, look, I thought his performance in Maui was so bad. He was so clearly out of it that, frankly, I think it’s frightening," he said. "This is not about politics and scoring points. This is the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military in the world, and it’s clear that at least half the time, he’s just not there."
"I mean, month by month, his cognitive collapse is more and more obvious the Associated Press just reported that 77% of all Americans, Democrats, Republicans, independents, 77% now believe that Biden is too old to run for reelection," Biden continued. "I suspect by next summer, that number will be in the ’90s because once this starts, it’s just going to get steadily worse. He’s clearly in cognitive decline. He’s clear — in fact, makes me wonder who’s making the real decisions at the White House because, obviously, Joe Biden is not. He’s not capable of it."
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Makes Me Wonder Who's Making the Real Decisions
The same people who were making decisions during Obama's admin. And, lets face it, the decisions that resulted in actual actions during the Trump admin.
[NewsMax] Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., told Newsmax on Thursday that he has all kinds of questions about the federal government's response, or lack thereof, to the deadly Maui wildfires that devastated the Hawaiian island earlier this month.
"I live in a hurricane prone area," Fry said during an appearance on "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE." "We see disasters pretty frequently, but I've never seen that level of, really cover-up, ever in my entire life of seeing hurricanes on the ground, being on the ground. FEMA just doesn't act like that. Government officials don't act like that. The administration's response has been lackluster at very best, but it's almost been criminal."
"We still don't know how many people are missing?" he asked. "We don't know their status? This is absolutely ridiculous.
"When you look at the front end of this, the cries for help that were there from the beginning — 'we need water, we need resources' — and none of it was followed up with. Every single disaster takes a local, federal and state response. Here, you have three different directions, and no one's rowing the right way."
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters last week that the House will likely probe the federal response to the wildfires that killed at least 115 people and razed the historic enclave of Lahaina.
M. Kaleo Manuel, former deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, waited more than five hours to release water as the fires were burning. The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources later transferred Manuel to another position within the department.
Fry said that getting enough water to firefighters battling the blaze, on an island surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, doesn't seem that complicated.
"To me, to see the level of tragedy that struck Maui, to know that families lost everything and then to know, on top of it, that we still, at this point, weeks later, don't know who we've lost, who we have accounted for or not accounted for, I think, is unconscionable," Fry said.
"FEMA has a direct obligation in this, and I don't want to hear excuses that this is an island and it takes a while. It's so easy to get on a plane and head over there to really figure out what's going on. They're not doing it. They haven't done it. Meanwhile, they're going off to Lake Tahoe to go on vacation. It's ridiculous.
"I think [how FEMA prepared] deserves a really good look, but, since then, it's just been a parade of horribles, one thing after another," he continued. "FEMA's response has been absolutely abysmal, and so there's a lot to investigate here from top to bottom, everything from freezing out the town, denying aid, not having proper accounting of people who were missing and their status.
"I think that's kind of the state of play, and it hasn't gotten any clearer since the fires. I think, in this day and age, that's reckless, and it's wrong, and the American people deserve better."
Being Hawaii, it's a good bet the "opposition" is just the lite version of what they have now, if even that.
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Those rough & tough GOP Reps such as Fry, McCarthy, Jordan, et al., ad nauseam, should let Hawaii worry about that and perhaps pay a little more attention to the Biden crime family, impeachment inquiry, Fauci Flu killer clot shots, et al., ad nauseam.
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Like everything else, there is a coverup. Are they covering up incompetence, corruption or conspiracy? We don’t know. We know that they are hiding the death count of kids. The purpose of the death count coverup is delay. The strategy of the coverup is to extend the production of damaging info beyond the interest of Americans. It is the job of journalists to oppose the delay strategy. Most of our journalists assist with the coverup rather than doing their real job.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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The 'Tin Foils' and Hobbits called coverup in 48 hours. Normals started to see it within 72 hours. Rep. Fry, being in the vocation of professional cover-up people, what is your take?
Everyone missing, all those children, are all dead. Not at grandma's. Didn't pull a Ferris Bueller that day. Dead. That neighborhood is a graveyard.
Super Hose is absolutely right. They don't want questions like, for what was that denied water denied for?
Could we see the IR fire progression map?
A FOIA request for the budget and expenditures on maintenance for a public utility please.
How bad was the beef between locals and newcomers?
Why did a sea side community of such a population located in a sparse water region not have the ways and means to use ocean water, at least within city limits?
Why did a system so well aware of the fire risks that power would be shut off on such conditions not have a proper fire warning procedure?
[RT] As many Americans are now familiarizing themselves with Vivek Ramaswamy, a smooth-talking Republican candidate who is quickly climbing in the polls, it might be wise to read the fine print on this novice first.
...In addition to supporting many of the talking points found in Donald Trump’s MAGA (Make America Great Again) platform, Ramaswamy swore his loyalty to the legally embattled 45th president when he gratuitously pronounced during the primaries, "Let’s just speak the truth, okay? President Trump, I believe, was the best president of the 21st century. It’s a fact."
The comment, which attracted no shortage of cheap applause, came off as rather stiff and unexpected considering that Trump is still very much in the presidential race, despite facing multiple criminal charges. Even stranger is that Ramaswamy’s support for Trump seems to change with the legal seasons.
On August 1, federal prosecutors presented their 45-page indictment against Trump, alleging that he pressed election officials to reject voting results in their states in order to overturn the election. Ramaswamy blasted the latest round of indictments targeting the Republican Party’s top candidate, writing on X (formerly Twitter): "Donald Trump isn’t the cause of what happened on Jan 6. The real cause was systematic & pervasive censorship of citizens in the year leading up to it. If you tell people they can’t speak, that’s when they scream."
Yet compare that to what Ramaswamy had to say about Trump’s response to the January 6 insurrection/protest/rebellion/riot/take your pick just days after the Capitol building was breached by hundreds of Orange Man supporters.
"What Trump did last week was wrong. Downright abhorrent. Plain and simple."
Still, that is nothing compared to what the pharmaceutical mogul had to say about Trump in his 2022 book, ’Nation of Victims’, which sounds as though it were penned by the most progressive leftist in the Democratic Party.
"It was a dark day for democracy. The loser of the last election refused to concede the race, claimed the election was stolen, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from loyal supporters, and is considering running for executive office again.
I’m referring, of course, to Donald Trump."
...Questions about the ’skinny guy with the funny-sounding name,’ however, do not end there. In 2011, Ramaswamy accepted a $90,000 scholarship from the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which was founded by Daisy and Paul Soros, the now-deceased older brother of billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros. And that tells me all I want to know about him
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Quick answer: no.
Long answer: also no.
(Trust a politician? I've heard of playing stupid, but you ain't playin', are ya?)
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He is young. I would like to see him be given some job like cleaning up the FDA. If he is a plant, that assignment would reveal him.
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Ramaswamy accepted a $90,000 scholarship from the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which was founded by Daisy and Paul Soros, the now-deceased older brother of billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros.
As I understand it - Paul Soros was nothing like his asshole brother, and the scholarship was for young conservatives. I won't vote for VR til he grows up, learns foreign policy, and has a better track record, but c'mon...
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There's a clip out there from 8-10 years ago with Vivek on Cramer's CNBC show. Geeeeezus, Cramer can really pick 'em (SBF, Elizabeth Holmes, "don't sell Bear Stearns").
Vivek pulled some b.s. with a pharma company, and he and his family cashed in their stock for billions of dollars. Surely he's not the only one, but he's the the squeaky-clean articulate GOPer we are supposed to believe.
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Paul Soros was nothing like his asshole brother
Of course not.
George Soros came to UK as a penniless refugee and became a billionaire by being smarter that everybody else in financial markets.
Paul Soros came to USA as a penniless defector, barely finished his engineering degree without starving, and then made a genius invention that made him a multi-millionaire.
Practically a fairy story of success, albeit without a fairy godmother.
Interestingly, each used his money to gain influence with one of the two USA mainstreams.
And they say life is not stranger than fiction!
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