A jury in San Diego has convicted two So Cal Antifa members of felony conspiracy to riot following a brutal attack. This brings 12-for-12 convictions of Antifa members, effectively breaking up the group cluster. Read my new report cowritten with @EvaKnott:https://t.co/142vefp4aa
A 12-person jury in San Diego County has convicted two So Cal Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... members after hearing evidence over the course of a four week trial. The two men from Los Angeles were revealed to have conspired as part of So Cal Antifa to confront beach-goers at Pacific Beach more than three years ago. This legal case could provide a blueprint on how prosecutors can unmask and break up criminal Antifa cells.
Defendants Jeremy Jonathan White, 41, and Brian Cortez Lightfoot Jr., 27, both of Los Angeles, were accused of assaulting supporters of former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... and others on a beach boardwalk, but the jury deadlocked on the six assault charges against Lightfoot. This case was the first time Antifa suspects were charged with conspiracy in the US. Ten of their comrades were already convicted in plea deals, including Luis Francisco Mora, 32, who took a last-minute plea deal at the start of the trial.
The jury found White guilty of felony conspiracy to riot, the most serious charge, and acquitted him of felony assault of a man on a bicycle who was documenting the Antifa rioters with his cell phone. Lightfoot, accused of being one of the "ringleaders" of the riot, was found guilty of conspiracy to riot and five felony unlawful uses of teargas.
BACKGROUND
On Jan. 9, 2021, cars full of black-clad So Cal Antifa members traveled more than a hundred miles to Pacific Beach armed with weapons and protective gear to confront Trump supporters who had organized a rally. The "direct action" quickly devolved into a riot as the masked Antifa members bear-maced and assaulted their targets, including those just walking by on the boardwalk. A dog wearing a "service dog" vest and his walker were among those attacked. Prosecutors identified 18 victims including a woman and teenage schoolboys.
The verdict on Friday, May 3, brings the total to 12 for 12 charged So Cal Antifa members who were convicted of violent mostly peaceful felonies.
Eleven suspects, about half from Los Angeles County, were indicted in 2022 by a secret grand jury on dozens of felonies including conspiracy to riot, assault and other violent mostly peaceful crimes. Alexander Akridge-Jacobs, 33, Jesse Merel Cannon, 33, Joseph Austin Gaskins, 23, Christian Martinez, 25, Samuel Howard Ogden, 26, Bryan Rivera, 22, Faraz Martin Talab, 29, Erich Yach, 40, and Luis Francisco Mora, 32, have all pleaded guilty.
A 12th co-conspirator, Jonah Abraham Bigel, pleaded guilty in 2021 to assault with a deadly weapon after having used a baseball bat in the riot. He was given a suspended prison sentence, which is sometimes offered for cooperation in an investigation. Within six months, into the following year, his comrades were indicted by a secret grand jury. Most of the co-defendants who accepted plea deals still await sentencing; they are expected to be sentenced to prison. Two defendants, trans activist Erich "Nikki" Yach and Jesse Merel Cannon were already sentenced to around five years in prison each; their sentences were compounded by other violent mostly peaceful felony crimes committed in unrelated cases.
THE TRIAL
Since April 2, prosecutors have presented evidence against defendants White and Lightfoot; this included hours of riot video, recovered encrypted Signal messages, private texts, aerial video from a police helicopter, photographs, and testimony from victims and law enforcement witnesses.
"I hadn't seen a group that coordinated," San Diego Police detective Emily Clark testified in the first week of trial.
Honorable Judge Daniel B. Goldstein heard the trial. At times, the judge admonished defense attorneys for repeatedly trying to bring politics into the case, especially in trying to explore the political beliefs of the alleged assault victims. But the jury deadlocked, they could not come to a unanimous decision on the assault charges, so it was declared "mis-trial" on those counts.
Lead prosecutor Makenzie Harvey showed jurors the armored black costume and mask worn by White at the riot, even though he claimed to be a volunteer "medic." White was armed with bear mace, a knife and a taser. White was known by several monikers online where he called himself "the Antifa Soldier," and "ACABman"; his co-defendant Lightfoot used "Antifa commander" as one of his aliases.
White and Lightfoot were represented pro-bono by Bay-area leftist activist attorneys Curtis Briggs and John Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... aki, respectively. Throughout the trial, defense attorneys suggested to jurors that assault victims provoked violence by appearing to be "right-wing turbans" to their attackers, because of the way the victims were dressed, e.g., in khaki pants or by wearing American flag apparel, and therefore their clients' actions were lawful self-defense.
White said he has been a leftist activist for nearly a decade, going back to Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... ' presidential primary campaign in 2015. He said he then became involved with Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles, and he participated in protests "probably" twice a week from 2019.
Under questioning by prosecutor Harvey, White said he began his involvement with "Antifa" in Los Angeles in late September 2020, when many cities in the country were experiencing deadly and violent mostly peaceful riots after Saint George Floyd ...The patron saint of Minneapolis... 's death. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... he added: "There is no joining [Antifa], it is just a mindset of your personal relationship to fascism ...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... ." White said that opponents of Antifa are "fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... s." On former President Trump, he said that "support for Trump is textbook fascism."
WHAT IS ANTIFA?
Defense often argued throughout the trial that Antifa is not organized. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... Antifa organizes around an ideology of anarchist communism and it can manifest as radicalized individuals taking direct action or groups of people who form a cell, sometimes with formalized membership, such as Rose City Antifa in Portland, Ore. So Cal Antifa is the regional cluster of multiple Antifa groups from Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Diego.
"I was going down there to attend a First Amendment protest in support of BLM," White said, regarding his role in the riot in January 2021. "BLM and Antifa share a lot of common ideologies and movement spaces," he explained. He said he was driven from Los Angeles with comrade Lightfoot by "Chip Nooo," the alias of Portland Antifa member Robert Sneed. White admitted he handed out yellow walkie-talkies to both Sneed and Lightfoot, and White kept one, so they could all communicate and coordinate during the action at the beach.
White claimed he didn't know Lightfoot's real name and had seen him "possibly four or five" times at previous direct actions. Antifa members are known to one another by aliases, a tactic to prevent them from learning the true identities of members.
[PJ Media] In the latest instance of these antisemitic, hate-spewing, miseducated twerps treating their intrusive thoughts like honored guests, students (and probably more than a few professional agitators, as we have learned) at George Washington University held a "People's Tribunal" putting many of the school's faculty on symbolic trial and demanding their deaths.
X account Stu Stu Studios posted footage of the scene featuring a girl speaking through a megaphone, leading chants calling out GWU Provost Christopher Bracey and accusing him of assault on top of the support for Israel and Zionism accusations, chanting, "Bracey, Bracey, we see you, you assault students too."
I do not know if they are confusing the title of "provost" within George Washington University's faculty as the academic supervisor with a supervisor of law enforcement (like "provost marshal"), but accusing Mr. Bracey of assault just adds another element of absurdity to this "tribunal" these kids are hosting.
Right after, the girl on the megaphone proclaims, "Off to the m*****f***ing gallows with you."
But hold on, it gets stupider.
The girl on the megaphone then accuses GWU's Board of Trustees of profiteering off the "genocide" of Palestinians, and after the other students loudly proclaim them "guilty," she yells, "To the guillotine!"
Finally, they also call for GWU President Ellen Granberg and her apparently "f****** bob [haircut]" to be under the guillotine as well for "using [their] tuition dollars to fund genocide."
Stu Stu Studios also posted a longer version, but the fact that these kids are openly and publicly calling for the deaths of specific people who can very likely hear them just underscores how insane these "protests" really are.
After all, these are the same students who vandalized the statue of George Washington on campus with a keffiyeh, Palestinian flags, and anti-Israel stickers, as my friend Catherine Salgado wrote about earlier this week.
That same day, Rick Moran wrote about the occupation of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University by students and agitators, complete with barricading the entrances and holding the maintenance workers in the building hostage for a few hours.
I had also written about students at the University of Wisconsin supposedly hailing Hitler at passing Jewish students, where they had also chanted, "There is only one solution: Intifada revolution."
The next day, I mentioned how Travis County authorities in Austin, Texas, discovered apparent weapons caches of chains, mallets, mallets, bricks, and even guns hidden throughout the site of the University of Texas's site of protest on the campus.
We have already seen students at UCLA get into fights from behind the little barricades they had built, and like Moran said earlier today, if you think everything we are seeing is bad now, just wait till summer.
[NY Post] Meghan Markle might be one of the most famous women on the planet — but Hollywood power players are purportedly less than impressed with her showbiz prowess.
The Duchess of Sussex, 42, is said to be scrambling after the launch of her forthcoming podcast with Lemonada Media was reportedly pushed back to next year. Ooooo! A podcast!
According to In Touch, honchos at the company put the project on pause for fear that the upcoming launch of her lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, would take attention away from her audio endeavors.
"Meghan gets greedy," an inside source told the publication.
"She wants everything all at once, and it’s backfiring on her again. She’s become a total joke and is overplaying her hand."
Lemonada execs are also allegedly worried that Markle’s upcoming Netflix cooking show will divert attention from the podcast
"That clearly didn’t go down well with Lemonada," the source stated.
"They surely expected to be Meghan’s priority project, but she must have decided she had bigger fish to fry with Netflix."
The purported pushback of the podcast comes after Markle’s Spotify series "Archetypes" was not renewed for a second season.
The source says Markle now desperately needs a hit with her Netflix show or her lifestyle brand in order to prove that she and husband Prince Harry are still viable in Hollywood.
However, the insider isn’t holding out hope.
“Almost everything they’ve tried has ended in disaster,” they tartly declared.
Meanwhile, one well-placed source in Tinseltown told In Touch that A-listers have little respect for the Duchess, who commands big bucks for her content.
“Hollywood is glam and glitz on the outside, but the real stars have worked hard for their success — and you get the impression hard work isn’t really Meghan’s thing,” the anonymous source says.
“Now, after all her failures, those A-listers — and the royals — are laughing at her!”
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A story that promises a shovel full of dirt and delivers a grass stain.
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Her only actual talent was snagging the ginger idiot, and her only remaining play when this all fizzles will be manufacturing a reason to dump him and play the race card on the talk circuit one last time. Coming attraction Harry, and Wills isn't in a forgiving mood.
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“Almost everything they’ve tried has ended in disaster,”
Positively Shakespearean, it is. You would want someone a bit more charismatic for the lead, but the Meghan Markle Story has all the ingredients for a good trashy Netflix serial.
[HotAir] Lil' Mussolini. My how the mighty have fallen.
Democrats have been working overtime in New York in an effort to seize Donald Trump's commercial and private property, including his estate at Mar-a-Lago. Thus far those efforts have come up short, but they may have inadvertently given others some ideas that could come back to bite one of their own. In Baltimore, former State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby is facing sentencing on a variety of charges ranging from perjury to fraud, including the fraudulent use of pandemic relief funds to buy luxury real estate holdings in Florida. On Friday, federal prosecutors in the case filed a motion asking the court to allow them to seize one of Mosby's vacation condos there as partial payment for the fines she will be expected to pay. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. (Baltimore Sun)
Federal prosecutors filed notice Friday that they will ask to seize former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s Florida vacation condo on the same day as her sentencing on perjury and mortgage fraud charges.
The government indicated early on in the case that it would seek forfeiture. Friday’s filing formalizes prosecutors’ request and sets up the possibility of a legal fight over the condo at Mosby’s May 23 sentencing.
The government intends to sell the condo, according to the motion, which Mosby bought in February 2021 for $476,000. If there are profits from the sale, Mosby would get back her $47,600 down payment, prosecutors wrote.
As we previously discussed, Mosby has publicly called on Joe Biden to issue her a pardon so she can avoid all of this trouble. Unfortunately for her, Biden appears to have more than enough problems on his own plate at the moment. Overriding a series of lawful convictions in a case of official corruption and fraud probably wouldn't do much for his already plummeting poll numbers. In past cases of officials being prosecuted and receiving stiff financial penalties, the debt has typically followed them around once they were released from prison. That was the case with Rod Blagojevich, one of four of the past ten Illinois governors who wound up going to jail. He was hit with some hefty fines, but the court didn't wind up taking his property.
Perhaps we'll be seeing more of this in the future, however. This happens more often than some might think. There are three types of asset forfeiture available to the courts. These are described as criminal forfeiture, civil judicial forfeiture, and administrative forfeiture. Mosby would be facing criminal forfeiture, while Donald Trump is being threatened with civil judicial forfeiture in the hush money case. The courts are able to either seize the title to your property or order banks and other financial institutions to place a hold on your financial assets so you are unable to access them.
I suppose an action like this could send a message to other public officials and would likely be seen as justice being served in Mosby's case. But it still doesn't address the more important, underlying question. How is it that we keep ending up with public officials who violate the trust of the voters and seek to line their own pockets illegally? This is particularly problematic in Baltimore, where a series of mayors and City Council members have wound up in handcuffs. We are currently only a couple of weeks away from the city's mayoral primary, which winds up being effectively the same as the general election. The latest polling shows that former Mayor Sheila Dixon is running neck-and-neck in her bid to return to office.
This is the same Sheila Dixon who was driven from office and only barely avoided prison time after being convicted of fraud, theft, and criminal misappropriation. (She was sentenced to four years probation in a sweetheart plea deal.) And now the voters of Baltimore appear to be poised to potentially put her back in office. There is the answer to the question above. We keep winding up with politicians going on trial for criminal activity because we keep electing the same pack of criminals over and over again. Who is really to blame here... the politicians or the voters?
[Hot Air] While we rarely hear it being mentioned in the legacy media or the White House press briefing room, the situation on the front lines of the war in Ukraine is not currently looking good for Zelenski's forces. Even with a fresh round of funding and military supplies arriving from the United States, the Russian army has been punishingly effective recently, particularly in the eastern parts of the country. Putin's forces have stepped up their use of drones and aerial glide bombs such as the FAB-500 bombs launched from Su-34 bomber aircraft and employed them to devastating effect against Ukraine's soldiers and military vehicles. In a rare interview with one Ukrainian front-line commander, the Associated Press reveals that it's often not even safe for them to pull back and try to regroup in the face of the Russian advance. They have no ability to counter these types of attacks and the Russians can reach well beyond the poorly defined front lines.
[SOFX] Russian Mercenaries Track Notorious Warlord Joseph Kony ... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo... in the Central African Republic
Russian mercenaries associated with the Wagner Group have intensified efforts to capture one of the world’s most elusive fugitives, Joseph Kony, the notorious leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). According to multiple sources, including a Rolling Stone report, a recent operation in the Central African Republic nearly succeeded in apprehending Kony, who has evaded international efforts to capture him for over two decades.
In early April, in a remote area of the Central African Republic, Wagner mercenaries engaged in a significant gunfight near a village named Yemen, where Kony was believed to be hiding. The operation followed the surrender of 14 defectors from Kony’s LRA at the end of March to Wagner-affiliated Chadian fighters posing as Central African Republic government forces. This action led to a severe skirmish in Yemen, reportedly resulting in casualties among both the local population and Wagner’s forces.
Kony, indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has been a ghostly figure in the African bush, orchestrating a campaign of terror that includes abduction, mutilation, and forced recruitment of children into his militant group. Despite various international efforts, including a high-profile U.S. military operation named Observant Compass, Kony has remained at large, moving frequently across borders and evading capture.
Wagner’s pursuit represents a significant shift in the dynamics of international military operations in Africa. The Russian mercenary group, led until last year by Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been increasingly active on the continent, providing direct military support to several African regimes in exchange for access to natural resources and strategic footholds.
The implications of Wagner potentially capturing Kony are profound, challenging the efficacy of Western-led military interventions in Africa. This comes at a time when U.S. and European influence on the continent is perceived to be waning, as evidenced by recent coups in Mali and Niger that have disrupted long standing military partnerships.
* Initial Peaceful immigration initially
* Establish communities
* Establish mosques in England.
* Establish Voting Rights to elect fellow Muslims
* Establish Sharia Councils.
* Establish Sharia Law Rights and Courts.
* Increase control over non-Muslims.
Coming to America soon? Can't happen here you think?
Just D2D or Google "Muslim Mayors in the USA"
It has already started....
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All you have to do is read the instruction book.
[Ynet] In the aftermath of the October 7 massacre committed in Israel by Hamas, the world has seen the worst wave of antisemitic incidents since the end of World War II, according to an annual global antisemitism report issued Sunday. But in the nine months of 2023 before October 7 during which there were no major upheavals, most countries with significant Jewish populations saw a rise in the number of antisemitic incidents compared to the same period in 2022, including the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Brazil, The Netherlands and Mexico.
"This means that the war in Gaza helped spread a fire that was already out of control. And it was already out of control despite the significant efforts invested in recent years by governments on educational and legal initiatives aimed at reversing the trend," according to the Annual Antisemitism Worldwide Report, published by Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which was released on Sunday ahead of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah.
What we should teach on Yom Hashoah is what it wasn't the first time (not even the 21st) they tried*. And, most importantly, it's not the last.
*And every time they try and fail - they hate us more.
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Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day for us heathens.
Worth taking note of by civilized people because if, some particular "they", they would do it to them, they would to it to you and me if the mood arose. I was kind of hoping us humans had gotten all this monkey-brain stuff sorted in the last century, but such is not the case.
[WIRE] Former President Donald Trump said during an interview this week that he no longer supports a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians following the October 7 massacre.
Trump made the remarks during an interview with TIME Magazine while discussing Israel’s military operation against the Hamas terrorist organization.
"I’m not sure a two-state solution anymore is gonna work," Trump said. "Everybody was talking about two states, even when I was there."
"There was a time when I thought two states could work," he continued. "Now I think two states is going to be very, very tough. I think it’s going to be much tougher to get. I also think you have fewer people that liked the idea. You had a lot of people that liked the idea four years ago. Today, you have far fewer people that like that idea. There may not be another idea."
Trump noted that Palestinian children are taught to hate Israel from the day that they are born, which makes achieving peace nearly impossible.
He also made clear that if Iran were to attack Israel, there is no question that he would defend and protect Israel.
Trump’s remarks about a Palestinian state come as Israeli leaders have also shut down the idea because of the obvious security risk that it would create for Israel.
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There was a lot of Western travelers (including Mark Twain) to Holy Land in 19th century. All agree on one, relevant, fact: outside the four cities, the land is empty. It's a mosaic of desert & swamps.
That is Falestinians are NOT descendants of Arabs who lived there before the Jews came back and restored the Land. They are exactly like the Muzzies currently infecting EUrope and demanding caliphate.
[WIRE] Comedian Bill Maher took a shot at President Joe Biden this week for effectively supporting the anti-Semitic protesters on college campuses with his latest student loan bailout.
Maher made the remarks Friday evening on his HBO show "Real Time" while discussing the recent demonstrations that have roiled numerous top universities.
"When I read about the college loans ... ’Biden administration’s student debt cancelation will cost a combined $870 billion to $1.4 trillion.’ That’s a lot of debt forgiveness," Maher said. "Colleges constantly raise tuition, then the kids take out more loans, then the government comes by and pays those loans. Okay, so my tax dollars are supporting this Jew hating? I don’t think so."
Maher discussed the issue with former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and Bloomberg Businessweek correspondent Joshua Green.
"Yeah, I mean, Trump is winning the youth vote by, I think, 11 points, that’s pretty astounding to me," Maher said, referring to a recent CNN poll. "What do you make of that?"
BLUF:
[Gateway] Their lawyer, Robert Barnes, charges, "This is the craziest thing I’ve every seen."
The fight apparently stems from allegations the two were practicing veterinary medicine without a license for running ultrasound test on cattle, a procedure that is common for farmers to use for various reasons.
The result was an investigation by the state of Pennsylvania, where officials demanded that the two turn over their records.
They failed to do what state officials demanded, and the report notes that resulted in contempt orders against the men.
The state’s court officials told the broadcast outlet that there is no option for bail, and no "sentencing hearing" required for contempt charges. Authorities simply arrest the suspects and jail them, the report said.
Eventually, a judge signed arrest warrants for the two, as well as orders to jail them in their respective counties, warrants that just recently were executed.
A critic of the two say there was ample due process, but Barnes issued a statement:
[ZERO] Special Counsel Jack Smith's team admitted on Friday that key evidence in Trump's classified documents case was altered or manipulated - leaving two different chronologies; one that was digitally scanned vs. what's in the actual boxes.
Smith also misled the court, after originally telling U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the boxes remained "in their original, intact form as seized," when in a footnote they conceded that they removed classified documents and left placeholder sheets, which prosecutors acknowledged has created an "inconsistent" record - in which some of the documents are no longer in the same order as they appear in digital scans made in the fall of 2022.
"The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court," the footnote reads, according to Just the News.
The finding comes after Cannon ordered a review into whether the FBI may have seized legally privileged records in response to a request from Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta.
So when will the "Politically Created" Trump case be tossed-out?
When will Jack Smith and other DOJ/ _ _ _ higher-ups arrested and charged?
Because: Treason, Subversion, Perjury, False Arrest, Evidence Tampering, Massive Organized Voter Fraud, Civil Rights Abuses, and a Political Coup are all serious Felonies.
Seriously, at the very least, several Upper Level types in the DOJ/_ _ _ need to be ID'd & indicted.
Remember, If they can do it to a popular Former President, think of how easy it would be to use the same process to falsely accuse any politically opposite citizen.
Disclaimer: No, I do not plan to commit suicide, die from a sudden cancer or Heart Attack. But I can't rule out the usual HC/DC QT processes, a robber with gun, train, or Hit-n-Run. 🤣
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Stunning to nobody. We all suspected this from about 5 minutes after the raid was announced. Stunning only that the truth sort of leaked like some test flatulence.
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"The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court,"
And the trial better end soon, because we're running out of weasel words! (Translated from government rear-end-covering: "We lied.")
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In any 'normal' criminal case, you mess up the evidence, it get thrown out.
[LI] Anti-Israel trolls are again crying foul after Israeli military destroyed a Hamas rocket launcher next to a humanitarian area in Rafah, southern Gaza.
Pro-Palestinian agitators on Twitter accused Israel of a ’war crime’ and ’genocide’ after an Israeli fighter jet on Friday struck a launcher used by terrorists to fire rockets towards southern Israel.
"Yesterday (Friday), a launch that was identified crossing from the area of Khan Yunis toward Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha fell near the security fence area in the southern Gaza Strip. Shortly after, IAF fighter jets struck terror targets adjacent to a launch site in the area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip," the Israeli military disclosed in a press release Saturday.
The IDF guided the Gaza civilians away from the target ahead of the strike, even at the cost of losing the element of surprise.
"Additionally, IAF aircraft struck a loaded mortar launcher ready to fire toward IDF troops in the central Gaza Strip. Furthermore, in the southern Gaza Strip, after the IDF confirmed the evacuation of civilians located near the area, IAF fighter jets struck rocket launchers aimed to launch toward Israel in the southern Gaza Strip," the press statement added.
The incident took place in Khan Yunis, a town couple of miles from Rafah — the last remaining Hamas stronghold in Gaza. The IDF is setting up a massive tent city in the area to accommodate civilian evacuees from Rafah ahead of an impending military operation aimed at freeing the hostages and eliminating Hamas’s Gaza-based terrorist leadership.
At least 10 people were hurt in a barrage of some 14 rockets and mortars was fired at Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza from the Rafah area on Sunday, in what is considered an unusual incident that comes after months of fighting in the Gaza Strip. Hamas immediately claimed responsibility for the strike.
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Stormy Daniels lawyer Keith Davidson was arrested trying to extort @HulkHogan over a sex tape. He made a deal to avoid prosecution by giving the FBI Michael Cohen's emails and agreeing to testify ( falsely) against Trump in the Bragg Prosecution
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[GEO.TV] Israeli forces on Saturday conducted a raid in the town of Deir al-Ghusun, near Tulkarm, surrounding a house and partially demolishing it.
Continuous exchange of fire could be heard in the area during the operation which started overnight and continued through the morning. Continuous exchange of gunfire usually means you've found the bad guys...
Violence in the West Bank has risen with frequent Israeli raids and rampages by Jewish settlers in Paleostinian villages.
The West Bank and Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. are among the territories which the Paleostinians seek for an independent state. US-brokered peace talks broke down a decade ago.
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[EngMilRu] From 28 April to 4 May 2024, in response to the Kiev regime's attempts to damage Russia's energy and industrial facilities, the Russian Armed Forces carried out 25 group strikes by high-precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles, which hit Ukrainian energy and transport infrastructure facilities, enterprises of the military-industrial complex, missile and ammunition storage areas, as well as a production facility for uncrewed boats and unmanned aerial vehicles.
Moreover, temporary deployment areas of nationalist groups and foreign mercenaries, clusters of AFU manpower and military hardware have been hit.
Over the past week, the units of the Zapad Group of Forces have taken up more advantageous lines and inflicted fire damage on units of 12 enemy brigades close to Stelmakhovka, Novogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Petropavlovka, Glushkovka, Sinkovka (Kharkov region), and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
A total of 23 counte-attacks of assault detachments of AFU 77th Airmobile, 3rd Assault, 63rd Mechanised brigades, 10th and 18th National Guard brigades have been repelled close to Chervonaya Dibrova, Novovovodyanoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Grigorovka, and Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 975 Ukrainian troops, one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, 28 motor vehicles, two 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicles, and 27 field artillery guns, including 13 Western-made guns.
During the week, the Yug Group of Forces' units continued to advance to the depths of the enemy defence.
Two AFU airmobile, three assault, and nine mechanised brigades have been hit near Spornoye, Andreyevka, Maksimilyanovka, Paraskoviyevka, Belogorovka, Kleshcheyevka, and Kurdyumovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Four counter-attacks by AFU 46th airmobile, 79th, 80th Air Assault brigades, and 93rd Mechanised brigades have been repelled close to Bogdanovka, Georgiyevka, Krasnogorovka, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were more than 2,325 Ukrainian troops, seven tanks, 10 armoured fighting vehicles, including four U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, 44 motor vehicles, and 20 field artillery guns.
Five electronic warfare stations have been eliminated: one Nota, one Anklav, one Bukovel-AD, one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery warfare station, and four field ammunition depots.
The Tsentr Group of Forces' units have improved the situation along the front line and liberated Novobakhmutovka, Semyonovka, and Berdychi (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, 14 brigades of the AFU have been defeated and 66 counterattacks of the enemy have been repelled close to Leninskoye, Usmanskoye, Novgorodskoye, Novokalinovo, Ocheretino, and Netaylovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
More than 2,405 Ukrainian troops, three U.S.-made Abrams tanks, 20 armoured fighting vehicles, including four U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 27 motor vehicles, 33 field artillery guns, 14 of them are Western-made.
The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation by defeating the units of the 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade, the 72nd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU, 102nd and 128th Territorial Defence brigades near Chervonoye, Gulyai pole (Zaporozhye region), Ugledar, Urozhaynoye, and Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 745 Ukrainian troops, 15 motor vehicles, 15 field artillery guns, two Anklav and Bukovel-AD electronic warfare stations, as well as one ammunition depot.
Over the week, the units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged personnel and hardware of four brigades of the AFU, marines brigades, three Territorial Defence brigades, and National Guard brigades close to Malaya Tokmachka, Rabotino, Novoandreyevka, Shcherbaki (Zaporozhye region), Mikhailovka, Ivanovka, Tyaginka, and Berislav (Kherson region).
The AFU losses were up to 215 Ukrainian troops, nine motor vehicles, and six field artillery guns.
Missile Troops and Artillery, and unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian Groups of Forces have eliminated two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS combat vehicles, two S+-300PT anti-aircraft missile system launchers with an illumination and guidance radar, one IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile system launcher, as well as one fuel depot for AFU military hardware.
In addition, one military echelon with Western-made hardware and weapons delivered to Ukraine by NATO countries has been destroyed.
Aviation and air defence facilities have shot down 15 U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, 17 French-made Hammer aerial bombs, six GLSDB, HIMARS, and Uragan projectiles, as well as 201 unmanned aerial vehicles.
Over the past week, 14 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered on the line of contact.
In total, 593 airplanes, 270 helicopters, 23,742 unmanned aerial vehicles, 512 anti-aircraft missile systems, 15,911 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,279 combat vehicles of multiple rocket launcher systems, 9,289 field artillery guns and mortars, and 21,471 special military vehicles have been neutralised since the beginning of the special military operation.
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[Korrespondent] During the day, Defense Forces aircraft carried out strikes on seven areas where personnel were concentrated.
The enemy also does not abandon his intention to oust our units from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper.
Over the past 24 hours, 74 military clashes were recorded at the front. Most of the enemy attacks were repulsed in the Avdeevsky direction. This is stated in the evening report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Kupyansk direction
Our soldiers repulsed eight attacks in the areas of the settlements Peschanoye and Kislovka, Kharkov region; Stelmakhovka, Berestovo, Lugansk region. About 10 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, in particular, Sinkovka, Ivanovka, Kotlyarovka in the Kharkov region.
Liman direction
The defense forces repelled seven enemy attacks in the Serebryansky forestry areas of the Luhansk region and Ternov, Donetsk region. The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Novosadovo and Ivanovka, Donetsk region. More than 10 settlements were damaged by artillery and mortar shelling, including Nevskoye, Lugansk region; Terny, Yampolevka, Torskoye, Donetsk region.
Bakhmut direction
Our soldiers repelled 10 attacks in the areas of Belogorivka settlements in the Lugansk region; Novy, Klishchievka, Razdolevka, south of Ivanovo, Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to improve the tactical situation. The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Spornoye and Druzhba in the Donetsk region. More than 10 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Rozdolovka, Kalinovka, Chasov Yar in the Donetsk region.
Avdeevskoe direction
Our defenders repelled 18 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Novoaleksandrovka, Sokol, Novopokrovskoye, Umanskoye in the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to oust our units from their occupied lines. The enemy also carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Tarasovka and Novoselovka Pervaya, Donetsk region. More than 10 settlements were shelled by artillery and mortars, including Sokol, Novopokrovskoye, Umanskoye in the Donetsk region.
Novopavlovskoe direction
The defense forces continue to contain the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Georgievka, Paraskoveevka and Urozhaynoye in the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried 10 times to break through the defenses of our troops. The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinovka, Vodyanoye and Urozhaynoye in the Donetsk region. More than 10 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire from the occupiers, including Georgievka, Konstantinovka, and Paraskoveevka in the Donetsk region.
Orekhovskoe direction
The enemy, with the support of aviation, attacked the positions of our defenders five times in the area south of Novodarovka, Staromayorsky, Donetsk region, and Robotinoy, Zaporozhye region. The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of populated areas of Staromayorskoye, Donetsk region; Orekhov and Preobrazhenka, Zaporozhye region. About 20 settlements were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling, including Poltavka, Belogorye, Robotino, Lobkovo in the Zaporozhye region.
Kherson direction
The enemy does not abandon his intention to oust our units from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper. Thus, within 24 hours, with the support of aviation, he made nine unsuccessful attacks on the positions of our troops in the area of the village of Krynki, Kherson region. The enemy launched an air strike near the village of Berislav, Kherson region. About 20 settlements were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling, including Nikolaevka, Lvov, Novotyaginka, Ponyatovka in the Kherson region.
Enemy losses
During the day, Defense Forces aircraft carried out strikes on seven areas where personnel were concentrated, three control points, two anti-aircraft missile systems and one enemy ammunition train. Also, one X-59/69 guided aircraft missile was destroyed by Ukrainian air defense forces and means.
Let us remind you that MTR soldiers burned three Russian Buk-M1 anti-aircraft systems in a week. The enemy deployed air defense in the Sumy direction.
Earlier, the special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate hit the starting position of Russian FPV drones in the Zaporozhye region. There were enemy UAV operators there.
Text taken from the V Kontakte age of THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR.
On the night of May 5, 1943, more than a hundred aircraft raided the railway junction of Minsk and the accumulation of troops and equipment, as well as headquarters and warehouses located in the city. Here are some results of this raid received from the partisans: at the railway junction, freight and passenger stations, a locomotive depot, a railway suspension bridge, and a power plant were destroyed. 30 trains with manpower, ammunition and equipment, 20 tanks with fuel, 9 locomotives were destroyed, and an ammunition warehouse was burned. Railway traffic was interrupted for three days.
In the city of Minsk, a building (opera and ballet theater) was destroyed, where the headquarters of the air unit was located and confiscated valuables were stored, barracks in which up to 200 flight personnel were destroyed, buildings where the Germans repaired guns and where 200 to 300 vehicles were destroyed, military barracks , military unit headquarters and warehouses, field commandant's office, two dormitories with Germans, chemical, yeast and bread factories. The machine tool and tannery factories were damaged.
The house of the German field commandant's office, where a banquet was held, of which 158 officers were killed, was destroyed. The power plant, radio station, and buildings of the clinical campus were destroyed. In the villages of Grushevsky and Kominternovsky, buildings housing Germans were destroyed.
Seven anti-aircraft installations were destroyed. Up to 4,000 Germans were killed, including a general and 70 officers. According to the Germans themselves, 2,000 soldiers were killed. The German garrison was evacuated from the city and settled in the villages closest to Minsk. The bombing caused panic among the Germans.
From 180 to 230 aircraft each simultaneously took part in massive raids on the Orsha railway junction. Orsha is almost 200 kilometers east of Minsk.
Here are partial data on the results of our raid carried out on the night of May 4-5, 1943. At the railway junction, six trains with military equipment were destroyed, and two railway bridges were destroyed. At the central station, four trains with ammunition and military equipment were destroyed. After the bombing, the shells at the station exploded within three days. The tracks leading to the central station were destroyed. Two warehouses with ammunition and one with food were destroyed. It should be noted that Minsk was a critical rail node for the German Army. Supplies transshipped from these points were used for the buildup to the last major German offensive, code named Case Citadel. In July 1943.
Recovery trains have been sent from Vitebsk to Orsha. In the city, up to 3,000 German soldiers and officers who were in the barracks were destroyed. The central special purpose camp was completely destroyed; up to 4,500 people fled from two prisoner-of-war camps during the bombing. Two prisons were broken, where many Germans were killed, including two generals. The house with the officers, the building of the commandant's office No. 353, the barracks with the policemen were destroyed. The counterintelligence building was smashed, an ammunition depot was blown up, and two anti-aircraft batteries with crews were destroyed.
A.E.Golovanov "Long-Range Bomber" Aleksandr Evgen'evich Golovanov (1904-75) was a Chief Marshal of Aviation. During World War II, he served as Commander of Long-Range Aviation (ADD)
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
Link to the Australian defense department is a series of pdf files.
[ColonelCassad] An independent analysis of the state of the fleet was carried out by a government advisory group, taking into account the updated National Defense Strategy. The new fleet modernization and expansion plan calls for $7.32 billion in addition to the planned $35.6 billion for fleet renewal.
As part of the plan, the advisory group proposes:
– the acquisition of nine “Tier 1” warships, including three existing Hobart-class destroyers with Aegis Baseline 9 CIS and six Hunter-class frigates;
– acquisition of six large surface ships with additional crew (LOSV) with 32 vertical launch systems and Aegis Baseline 9 control system;
– acquisition of seven (optimally eleven) “tier 2” ships to replace eight ANZAC class frigates.
In connection with the fleet renewal plan, a number of questions arise, in particular financing - most of the expected funds remain unallocated.
Another question is whether the current government will be able to avoid the pitfalls of timely budget releases, as was the case with past programs. Examples include the Collins class submarines, Hobart class destroyers and Arafura patrol ships, which had various problems during production and after delivery to the fleet. With a limited number of shipbuilding personnel, the threat of missed delivery deadlines can hang over every ship.
The first-in-class ANZAC frigate is scheduled to be decommissioned this year, while the second-in-class frigate Arunta will not join the fleet until 2026. In addition, the Type 26 frigates selected by the government in June 2018 are years behind schedule and suffering from excessive costs. The first ship was initially planned to be delivered between 2027 and 2030; The earliest date currently expected is 2032.
Another challenge is recruiting, training and retaining enough fleet personnel to man the growing number of ships.
Of course, all these events are anti-Chinese in nature as part of the US strategy to use Australia and AUKUS to put pressure on China.Previously, as part of this strategy, the project to build nuclear submarines for the Australian Navy was pushed through.
Increasing the capabilities of the navies of Australia, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines is, among other things, a way to compensate for the US lagging behind China in the number of ships of the main classes and the pace of implementation of shipbuilding programs.
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"US lagging behind China in the number of ships of the main classes and the pace of implementation of shipbuilding programs." Years of neglect. Fear and panic. A tool as with Ukraine, Georgia and EU. Spend, spend, upgrades never ending money drain. Who needs diplomacy. The hounds of war bark as they bankrupt and destroy their own countries. Apposing thought contrary to liberal totalitarianism, banned. All medias controlled, institutions and the printed word. Welcome to our new age of enlightenment. Soon to appear even here and welcomed by some. The fantasy of a uni-polar world will fail as it is dying now. The red flags are showing here now; social unrest, economic decline, decline in birth rates, big cities dying, always the answer is tax and spend. Why, those who rule are too far removed from the common people. The kicker is they haven't fixed anything with all the money.
[GEO.TV] Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday came to the former US president Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... 's rescue after Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro Nazified the beleaguered presidential nominee by likening him to German dictator Adolf Hitler.
In a recent interview with MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, De Niro said, "I’m tired of calling him names...He is really, genuinely a sick person."
While reactions to De Niro’s MSNBC interview started pouring in from the social media, Tesla CEO Elon Musk educated the actor that Trump administration policies "bore no resemblance to those of Hitler".
"Well, Trump was actually already president for 4 years and his policies bore no resemblance to those of Hitler, so this makes no sense," Musk wrote on X.
The billionaire further enlightened De Niro that Trump brought some peace in the Middle East with Abraham Accords.
"In fact, with the Abraham Accords, he made some progress towards peace in the Middle East, which was definitely not high on Hitler’s agenda."
The actor even tried to advise Trump's supporters not to vote for the GOP leader, arguing that they "don't understand how dangerous it will be: if he comes back to power." According to him, Trump's second term would be "chaos beyond our imagination" as "the guy’s a monster".
"And, historically, from what I see, in Nazi Germany they had it with Hitler. They don’t take him seriously. Looks like a clown. Acts like a clown. Mussolini, same thing. These guys, I don’t know why, they look like clowns. Somehow people, that element of society, identifies with them," De Niro said.
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I am for the public perception of 'actors and entertainers' in general revert back to the 'so-called actors and entertainers again be perceived as whores, perverts, etc'. It just feels right.
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If instead of assuming that De Niro is an actor, you assume that he is a paid influencer does his actions make better sense?
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...you assume that he is a paid influencer does his actions make better sense?
More of a washed up idiot screaming "PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEE!!!!" by screeching the things he thinks the Powers That Be™ in Hollywood want.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gregor Spitzen
[REGNUM] The exhibition of Western armored vehicles, organized in Moscow, caused a predictable reaction in Western capitals.
Indeed, few politicians in Europe and the United States give pleasure to seeing combat vehicles that cost European and American taxpayers crazy amounts of money, in the most pitiful and unsightly form. And they have completely lost their combat power and the ability to instill terror in a potential enemy with just their appearance. No, they haven't. The vehicles the US provided were not used properly, not according to how they were designed. The Ukrainians, being Ukrainians, used them how Ukrainians use them: as a big fuckin' gun. That will get any armor vehicle in loads of trouble.
Noted that, sadly, many who trade on their experience in the amorphous West, or trade on someone they know with military experience, will get it wrong, simply for the fact those who are operating the government don't know shit from Shinola on how modern mobile warfare works..
Moreover, the equipment was deliberately displayed in the most sacred place - opposite the Victory Museum against the combined forces of the “European Union of the 1940s.” A well deserved display.
Almost all publications in European and American media followed a single narrative - Russia allegedly staged a propaganda show, presenting isolated losses of high-tech combat vehicles as an unhealthy trend, which has nothing to do with reality. Western publications are the very definition of not having anything to do with reality.
For example, the Dutch analytical portal Oryx, which few people have heard of, but which is referred to by the German news portal t-online, scrupulously calculated that Ukraine has lost only 800 tanks since the beginning of the Northern Military District.
Such information is probably only trusted by the audience that believes the words of Vladimir Zelensky that Ukraine’s irretrievable losses amount to only 31,000 people.
Alas, German journalists did not even bother to familiarize themselves with the historical context, based on which the exhibition on Poklonnaya Hill was largely organized.
Thus, Spiegel journalists suggested that the Leopard 2A6 cannon was bent to the ground only to make the tank less menacing in appearance, while the lowered cannon barrel in the Russian army is a symbol of a captured and “trophied” German tank since the days of the Great Patriotic War. The barrel bending was a Russian exhibition, which meant nothing about the Leopard II. Long barrelled 120mm cannons do not experience stress from those axes, so they will bend. You'll note western publications don't understand that.
Journalists from the publication Frankfurter Rundschau went even further in their ridiculous theories, calling what they saw a “strange scene.”
“It appears that Putin was not pleased with the condition of the captured German-made Leopard 2 tank. The video, made the day before the exhibition, shows a heavy load being attached to a crane. The weight slowly approaches the cannon barrel and pushes it down until it bends completely.”
“Probably, this action has one main reason: propaganda. To humiliate the Leopard 2A6 tank captured in the Russian Federation, its gun and stabilizer drive were broken,” the Germans quote one of the pro-Ukrainian “military bloggers.”
Another American blogger reporting from the war zone in Ukraine, also quoted by FR, writes: “After failing to damage a Leopard tank in Ukraine, the Russians tried to bend the tank’s barrel in a square in Moscow to create the impression of defeat. ” Hint: it was defeated, and that is why its hulk was put on display in Moskva.
“Failing to damage” is a statement that says a lot about the competence of both the blogger and the professional journalists quoting him.
In general, German journalists, accustomed to using manipulative propaganda technologies in covering events in Ukraine, in particular devaluing the source of information, look very comical with their narratives in publications about the Moscow exhibition of military trophies.
“An exhibition of “trophies,” as the Russian Ministry of Defense calls the Leopard tank, and more than 30 other weapons presented at it, opened in Moscow’s Victory Park.
Many of them are Western-made. Putin’s military claims that they have captured tanks and armored vehicles in the combat zone in Ukraine,” write Spiegel journalists.
With these words they seem to emphasize that the “trophies” of the Russian army are not really trophies. And such an impressive fleet of armored vehicles may not have been captured in Ukraine at all, but purchased at a reasonable price from American and European scrap metal collectors.
Publications of the British press, in particular The Times, are more objective:
“The exhibition in Moscow reflects growing optimism in Russia that the war is turning decisively in its favor.
Ukraine has no good options for ending the conflict, even with the latest aid package. It is now abundantly clear that Russia’s population, economy, military hardware and defense industrial base are far superior to Ukraine’s, even if it is supported by the United States, Europe and other allies and partners,” The Times quoted Eugene Rumer, a former US national intelligence officer, as saying.
The British Daily Mail generally published an extremely objective article in which anti-Russian narratives are practically not traced. The British pleasantly surprised us by presenting a wide range of opinions from patriotic Muscovites who came to the exhibition.
But their American colleagues from The Washington Post are trying to downplay the importance of the exhibition in the Russian capital, without hiding their bile:
“The exhibition at Moscow’s Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill takes place on the eve of Victory Day celebrations on May 9, which couldn’t be more different from last year, when Russia faced setbacks on the battlefield and a summer counter-offensive by Ukrainian troops relying on new Western military equipment.
Instead, Ukrainian troops have been pushed out of several front-line villages this year as arms supplies have stalled.
Journalists casually “demoted” Avdievka, the center of the most powerful Ukrainian defensive fortified area, to the “village”.
And they completely forgot to mention that Bakhmut, another “fortress” on which the Ukrainian regime had high hopes, was taken just a few days after last year’s parade - on May 20, 2023.
“According to Western and Ukrainian critics, most of Russian military equipment is old or obsolete, and Russian victories on the battlefield were achieved due to a simple advantage in numbers and high losses,” the journalists of the American publication add, without further ado and repeating old narratives Doctor Goebbels.
However, The Washington Post also does not ignore the topics raised at the Moscow exhibition that are unpleasant for the American reader.
“Climbing onto an Abrams and holding a microphone, a state television correspondent told Russians that the tank was advertised in the United States as an indestructible “miracle weapon.” “But it was complete nonsense - look at him: his whole reputation is destroyed,” said the Russian journalist. No NCO I have had occasion to speak about the Abrams has ever said the Abrams is indestructible. To quote the British novelist Frederick Forsythe: Every tank is vulnerable to the right shot.
I spoke with a few NCOs after Desert Storm who said the Abrams crews were getting first round hits on Russian T-72s at two miles, but I knew that target acquisition at that range would be a huge problem. And later it proved to be so.
I would only add to how it is used. You lumber a tank into an environment, at knife fight range with AT mines, a preplanned artillery impact zones, and exposure to attack drones, that tank is going to be destroyed.
It is obvious that not all media in the West are ready to adhere to uniform pro-Ukrainian propaganda narratives, as was the case at the beginning of the Special Military Operation.
The level of objectivity in covering events in the zone of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict by Western media journalists has increased significantly.
True, it is not known what had a greater influence on this - the undoubted successes of the Russian army at the front or the decline in confidence from its own audience?
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The Russians fully support this display. Support for Putin has only gotten stronger. The people of Russia are patriotic and unified. Say what you will but this will press on as long as needed. Russians have had a long love affair for tanks. Factories just delivered 1500 to 2000 tanks to Ukraine. New and advanced units. Staggering the military production levels of related needs with new electronics with ongoing developments. Where we went wrong is in having 48 four star generals when in WW11 we had four, as I recall Ike, MacArthur, Patton and if memory serves me Abrams or Bradly. I recall Patton was not at the top of his class upon graduation from the academy but respected as a brilliant tactician by MacArthur.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:20 Over the past two weeks, the damage to the Ukrainian energy system as a result of Russian attacks has exceeded $1 billion, said Energy Minister German Galushchenko. According to him, thermal generation, hydrogeneration, and substations for electricity transmission suffered especially significant damage. Gas storage facilities were also attacked. The minister noted that blackouts are now being avoided thanks to renewable energy sources.
Galushchenko said that the objects attacked recently have not changed, but the emphasis has shifted to generation: “If in 2022-23 the main blow fell on main substations, while generation was also attacked, then today more emphasis is placed on generation, although attacks on substations have not stopped."
21:18 During the day, Russian troops used eight missiles of various types and about 70 guided bombs against Ukrainian border communities and positions at the front, Zelensky said in an evening video message. The president also said that today he heard a detailed report from Syrsky on the situation at the front, as well as a report from Budanov. In addition, Zelensky said that the Defense Forces today shot down a Russian Su-25 in the Donetsk region.
20:19 The Russian Army fired a missile at Druzhkovka, Donetsk region, one person was killed, said the head of the OBA Vadim Filashkin. Two more people were injured in the town of Chasov Yar.
20:03 The Russians struck Kharkov again - a large-scale fire started at a civilian enterprise, six people were injured, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
19:47 The number of victims as a result of the Russian strike on the Industrial District of Kharkov has increased to six, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. The enemy also hit the village. Slobozhanskoye, Kharkov district, one person died.
18:54 This afternoon the Russian Armed Forces launched missile attacks on the civilian infrastructure of the Odessa region, wounding three people, the prosecutor’s office reported.
17:30 The Russians hit civilian infrastructure in the Industrial district of Kharkov, four people were wounded, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. According to him, the enemy fired a missile at the territory of a civilian enterprise. In addition, the Russian army today launched KAB attacks on the village. Cherkasy Tishki, Kharkov region, one person was injured.
17:26 Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said that Italian soldiers under no circumstances can be involved in the war in Ukraine: “I do not undertake to judge the president of such a friendly country as France, but I do not understand the purpose and usefulness of these declarations, which objectively increase tension."
16:19 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation put Zelensky on the wanted list “under an article of the Criminal Code.” Poroshenko is also wanted.
15:37 In 2024, the maintenance of one Ukrainian serviceman costs Ukraine 1.2 million hryvnia per year, Deputy Defense Minister Yuriy Dzhigir said in an interview with Bloomberg. He clarified that this is an approximate amount that does not include the cost of weapons.
12:13 Spokesman of the Southern Defense Forces Dmitry Pletenchuk explained why Russia began to use ballistic missiles more often against Ukraine, primarily Iskander-M: “This platform is mobile, mobile, and accordingly, its deployment time is short, it’s minutes, and it takes minutes to fold it down. even less. That’s why they chose to use ballistics now - the speed is different, and there’s less time to react.”
10:40 At night, the enemy attacked the energy infrastructure of the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Ministry of Energy reported. As a result of the attack, the substation was de-energized, and along with it, two mines (no people were brought to the surface), a water utility, and industrial and household consumers. The consumers and the substation were healed.
08:58 As a result of yesterday's Russian shelling of the city of Chuguev, Kharkov region, three people were wounded, said the head of the OBA Oleg Sinegubov.
08:36 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 4:
personnel - about 473,400 (+1260) people,
tanks - 7366 (+12),
armored combat vehicles - 14,156 (+27),
artillery systems - 12,148 (+46),
MLRS - 1055 (+2),
air defense systems - 788 (+2),
aircraft - 348 (+0),
helicopters - 325 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 9611 (+31),
cruise missiles - 2127 (+1),
ships/boats - 26 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 16,337 (+71),
special equipment - 2001 (+8).
08:23 Over the past 24 hours, 119 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In particular, in the Avdeevsky direction, 34 attacks were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Arkhangelskoye, Novoaleksandrovka, Sokol, Novopokrovskoye, Umanskoye, Netaylovo and west of Semenovka, Donetsk region; on Bakhmutsky - 27 attacks in the Belogorivka districts of the Luhansk region and Novy, Kleshcheevka and Andreevka in the Donetsk region. Another 16 attacks were repulsed in the Novopavlovsk direction - in the areas of Krasnogorovka, Georgievka, Paraskoveevka and Vodyanoye of the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled nine attacks in the areas of Petropavlovka, Kislovka, Kharkov region and Andreevka, Stelmakhovka, Lugansk region; on Limansky - seven attacks in the areas of Makeevka, Nevsky and Serebryansky forestry in the Lugansk region and Ternov and Torsky in the Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - five attacks in the area of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - 11 attacks on the left bank of the Dnieper.
08:01 Elimination of the consequences of a massive attack by attack drones continues in Kharkov. According to the State Emergency Service, three fires occurred in the city at different addresses. The largest is in warehouses with a total area of about 3000 sq. m. m.
07:39 In the Pavlograd district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, as a result of a night attack, a critical infrastructure facility and three private houses were damaged, two people were wounded, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. In addition, in the Nikopol region, as a result of shelling, critical infrastructure facilities, a utility company, a lyceum, two high-rise buildings, a bank, and a power line were damaged.
07:12 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Russian air defense systems allegedly shot down four ATACMS missiles over Crimea.
06:57 Air defense at night destroyed all 13 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/13 type, which Russia attacked from the Belgorod region, the Air Force reported. Drones were destroyed in the Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk regions. In addition, the enemy attacked with four S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles.
02:35 The Russians carried out drone strikes on Kharkov, there is damage and fires to civilian infrastructure, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. In particular, a fire broke out in a two-story office building in the Osnovyansky district of the city. Four victims are known, including a 13-year-old child.
00:24 The United States has initiated the allocation of a new package of financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of up to $50 billion. This issue is now being discussed with the G7 countries, Bloomberg writes. According to the publication, a significant part of the funds should be allocated from excess income from frozen Russian assets, most of which are located in Europe. The initiative involves sending funds by a coalition of countries, which the United States intends to lead. The American side wants to sign a corresponding agreement in Italy at the G7 summit in June. However, the agency's interlocutors do not rule out that negotiations on this issue may drag on for several months.
[GEO.TV] Stressing the need for expanding revenue collection, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said that Pakistain would leave India or even a greater economy behind with hard work. and IMF loans boodle
His remarks came as the cash-strapped country’s tax evasion (revenue gap) was estimated to be around Rs5.8 trillion on an annual basis of fiscal year 2022-2023, which makes 6.9% of the GDP, according to The News.
On the other hand, India collected a record $25.15 billion as gross goods and services tax (GST) in April, recording a 12.4% surge from the same period last year, New Delhi claimed this week, according to Rooters.
Addressing a ceremony to award shields to the honest, hardworking and efficient officers of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), PM Shehbaz said that the country had the potential to collect revenues of over Rs24 trillion against the annual tax target of Rs 9.4 trillion.
He said an amount of around three-time of the annual revenue target was "going down the drain" due to corruption, inefficiency and negligence.
The premier said that the nations which believed in reward and punishment made progress.
Pakistain was facing various challenges, the premier said, adding: "Revenue collection is a big challenge. Neighbouring countries are far ahead of us."
Lashing out at the corrupt practices, the country’s chief executive said: "Recoveries that should add to the national exchequer are prone to corruption and fraud."
"We are compelled to seek loans and approach IMF."
Hinting at harsh accountability in the FBR, the premier said: "We will 'separate the white from the black' on the reports of agencies and the input of the organization."
"Justice is decided on the basis of merit," the PM said, adding that the the government would not show leniency to the corrupt officers.
"Shields are awarded [to the FBR officials] on merit."
Promotion would be given to the official on the basis of merit, he vowed.
[GEO.TV] The Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy Society said that Khan Younis-based al-Amal hospital continued to operate partially and in a limited capacity despite the scale of destruction and limited resources in Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. , Al Jazeera reported.
The medical group posted video of damage caused to the Khan Younis-based hospital and its surrounding areas, showing destroyed buildings and rubble everywhere after Israeli attacks.
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The Palestine Red Crescent has been a captive of Hamas at least since 1999. Then it had 3.500 staff, 15,000 volunteers, 70 hospitals and 30 clinics. Over the past quarter century it has only enlarged its outreach. Its reporting should in all cases be questioned.
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[Regnum] The tanker Sea Marine 1, en route from Greece to Russia, suffered an engine failure in the Dardanelles Strait, the Turkish Coast Guard reported.
“The tanker Sea Marine 1 suffered an engine failure near the bridge over the Dardanelles Strait,” the department said.
According to the department, the 180-meter tanker, traveling without cargo, stalled in the area of the Channakale bridge. The ship, flying the Vietnamese flag, was towed to the Shevketiye pier, where it dropped anchor.
The Dardanelles Strait connects the Mediterranean and Marmara Seas.
As Regnum reported, in April the passenger ship Lotos, which had 48 passengers and four crew members on board, anchored near Vladivostok due to a breakdown. The preliminary reason for the stop was a technical malfunction.
In October 2023, the cargo ship Mitsos, traveling from Greece to Ukraine, had an engine failure in the Dardanelles Strait. The 195-meter-long tanker was driven to an anchorage in the Bozcaada area.
[GatewayPundit] Lefty actor Mark Hamill made an appearance at the White House press briefing today for some reason. He apparently had just met with Joe Biden, again, who knows why?
The Hill reports:
If you’ve spent any time on Twitter/X, you know that Mark Hamill is more famous for his hatred of Trump than for his role as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies.
Mark Hamill calls Biden ’Joe-B-Wan Kenobi’ in White House press room appearance
Mark Hamill says the force is with President Biden — the actor made a surprise visit Friday to the White House briefing room and offered a "Star Wars"-inspired nickname for the commander in chief.
"How many of you had ’Mark Hamill will lead the press briefing’ on your bingo cards?" Hamill, sporting a pair of sunglasses, told reporters at the top of the White House’s press briefing.
[GEO.TV] Security forces neutralised six forces of Evil after a shootout during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) North Wazoo district, the military's media wing said on Saturday.
The IBO was conducted on the night between May 3 and 4 by the security forces on the reported presence of forces of Evil in the area, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
During the conduct of the operation, intense fire exchange took place between the troops and the terrorists, as a result of which six forces of Evil were "sent to hell". Terrorists’ hideout was also busted during the operation, the statement read.
The killed forces of Evil remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against security forces as well as murders of innocent civilians in the area.
"A sanitisation operation is being conducted in the area by the security forces, who remain determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism from the country," it concluded.
Security forces on Thursday killed forces of Evil involved in the recent abduction of district and sessions judge of South Waziristan joint IBO in KP's Tank district, the ISPR had said in a statement.
"During the conduct of the operation, after intense fire exchange, three forces of Evil were successfully neutralised and sent to hell," the statement added.
The ISPR had identified the forces of Evil as ringleader Azmat alias Azmati, ringleader Karamat alias Hanzla and Rehan. Rehan was bumped off a few days ago too. And twice in February.
At least 92% of all fatalities and 86% of attacks, including those related to terrorism and security forces operations, were recorded in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... provinces in the first quarter of 2024.
These key findings were revealed in the Q1 2024 Security Report issued by Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), detailing that the country witnessed at least 432 violence-linked fatalities and 370 injuries among civilians, security personnel and outlaws resulting from as many as 245 incidents of terror attacks and counter-terror operations.
Among the 432 fatalities, 281 included that of civilians and security forces personnel.
[NYPOST] One of the most violent mostly peaceful leaders of the Columbia University riots is allegedly a professional agitator and limousine liberal — the scion of millionaire ad execs who lives in a $3.4 million Brooklyn brownstone, has a model babymama and a stepmom dating John Cougar Mellencamp.
James Carlson, aka Cody Carlson, aka Cody Tarlow, is "a longtime anarchist," a high-ranking police source said.
He bought his 2,893-square-foot, three-story brownstone with four wood-burning fireplaces and a carriage house in Park Slope in 2019 for $2.3 million, according to property records and online listings.
The provocateur, who has arrests dating back to 2005, is one of three children of prominent advertising execs Richard "Dick" Tarlow and his wife, Sandy Carlson Tarlow.
Dick Tarlow, died in 2022 at age 81 with an estate worth at least $20 million, court papers show.
The Shelter Island resident was known for his work with Revlon, Ralph Lauren, Cuisinart and Pottery Barn.
He was a loyal supporter of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and helped underwrite the school’s John Jay Justice Awards.
Sandy Carlson Tarlow, who died in 2003 at age 59, was known for defining the "public face of Ralph Lauren," according to her obituary.
By the time she and her husband sold her namesake firm, Carlson & Partners, to DDB in 2001 for an undisclosed amount, the company had more than 100 employees and was doing $165 million in business.
Dick Tarlow and his second wife — Carlson’s stepmom, Kristin Kehrberg — lived together in a $15 million Fifth Avenue mansion.
The widow is now dating John Cougar Mellencamp, Page Six reported last summer.
Carlson, 40, appears to have two children, including one with a model, blonde bombshell Kim Heyrman.
The four-bedroom, four-bath townhouse Carlson owns is currently being renovated, workers told The Post Friday. The property boasts a large garden with a deck and skylights.
Estranged relatives of Carlson refused to discuss him.
"We don’t talk to him. Leave us alone. He is out of our lives for so many years," a woman who answered the phone at his sister’s home said Friday.
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[Regnum] The death toll from floods caused by heavy rainfall in southern Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state has risen to 39. This was reported on May 3 by CNN Brasil.
It is clarified that today 39 people have become victims of the worst floods in the last few decades, and another 68 are listed as missing. In addition, according to the state government, at least 74 people were injured due to the rampant disaster.
The rains in Rio Grande do Sul began on Monday, April 29. To date, 265 municipalities have been affected, 32 thousand people are left homeless and are in temporary shelters. In the state capital of Porto Alegre, one of the floodgates of Lake Patus burst, leaving areas in the north of the city at risk of flooding. A delegation led by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived in the affected region against the backdrop of unfavorable forecasts.
As specialists from the Brazilian Geological Survey clarified, the flooding was the worst in more than 80 years. Water levels in several cities were at their highest since records began nearly 150 years ago.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that in the south of Brazil, 29 people became victims of floods, and another 60 were missing. Parts of the state of Rio Grande do Sul remain on red alert.
The food is better than back home, and the nights are quieter without IAF bombing runs and IDF raids. And since Hamas’s purpose is to run out the clock until Allah (or Iran) finally intervenes and forces Israel to surrender, making no progress suits their needs perfectly.
[GEO.TV] Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... negotiators arrived in Cairo on Saturday for intensified talks on a possible Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. truce that would see the return to Israel of some hostages, a Hamas official told Rooters, with the CIA director already present for the indirect diplomacy.
Egypt's state-affiliated al-Qahera News TV channel also confirmed the arrival of the Hamas delegation in Cairo.
"The results today will be different. We have reached an agreement over many points, and a few point remain," one Egyptian security source told Rooters.
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[NYPOST] An embattled Brooklyn teaching assistant who was handcuffed at a Columbia University protest last week has been fired, The Post has learned.
James Parra, a fifth-grade paraprofessional at Brooklyn Arbor in Williamsburg who called Israel a "racist" and "terrorist" state, shared his ouster on social media Wednesday.
"After 8 years of dedicated service and after 6 months of doxxing and harassment and Zionist parents making themselves the victims, my superintendent just a few moments ago terminated me from my position," Parra, 27, wrote on Instagram. The heart bleeds.
"F—k these Zionists and f—k these administrators who are complicit and sympathizers with Zionism and genocide," he added with a photo of himself wearing a keffiyeh while a child hugs him. [Burp!]
Parra received a summons on April 22 for refusing to move from outside the campus gates at a pro-Paleostine protest. Or maybe it's just the chili.
The former one-on-one special-ed paraprofessional attended LaGuardia Community College and Hunter College, according to LinkedIn and a GoFundMe he started to raise tuition money.
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[GEO.TV] While the truce talks are underway in Egypt, the Israeli forces continue attacks across the Gaza Strip, including artillery shelling in Rafah, Al-Jazeera reported.
The online publication said last night at least three people were killed inside a residential home of Rafah. One of the victims was a local resident, while two were those who arrived here after being displaced from the enclave’s north.
[Rudaw] Saeed Mohammed Shukri along with nearly 30 other Iraqis, mostly Kurds, were deported to Baghdad on April 24 from Germany on the grounds that Berlin had repeatedly rejected their asylum cases.
Shukri told Rudaw’s Ghareeb Majeed in an interview on Tuesday that the German police treated them "terribly" when deporting them to Iraq.
"Before the deportation, I were tossed into the calaboose for ten days. After ten days, I was forced into a plane and I was sent to Baghdad in Iraq," Shukri sighed.
Germany is a favored destination country for the residents of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq who want to migrate to Europe.
Tens of thousands of Kurds, mostly the young, leave the Kurdistan Region for Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... every year in search of a better life, using smuggling routes introduced by smugglers. A number of these migrants colonists died in freezing temperatures on the Belarus-Poland border and others drowned in the sea, suffering a catastrophic fate in recent years.
It is unclear how many Iraqis have so far been deported from Germany to Iraq in 2024.
Berlin deported more than 500 Iraqi nationals last year, according to official data obtained by Rudaw.
In an interview with Rudaw in August, Gonul Eglence, a member of the regional parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, said that Iraqi asylum seekers must not be deported to Iraq because it is an unsafe country. She explained that many individuals cannot be deported because they could face political persecution or their lives would be at risk due to their religious beliefs.
"Those people will not be deported. Instead, they receive Duldung. That means they can stay temporarily," Eglence said.
Below is the full transcript of the interview with Saeed Mohammed Shukri:
Saeed Mohammed Shukri: My name is Saeed Mohammed Shukri. I am from Zakho. In 2020, I migrated to Germany. I was there for three and a half to four years. I had my job there. I had a happy life. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... I was not granted asylum. The German government deported me. I was deported at 7 am by the country's police. Before the deportation, I were tossed into the calaboose for ten days. After ten days, I was forced into a plane and I was sent to Baghdad in Iraq.
Rudaw: When were you deported?
I was deported on April 24. Yes, they deported me to Baghdad. We were stopped at the Baghdad airport for six to seven hours as they were arranging some papers for us. In the end, we were let go. We took a taxi and came back home to Zakho.
Where were you living in Germany? Which city?
I was in Regensburg City, Bayern.
How many others were deported along with you?
Around 25 to 30 other people were deported along with me. Two to three other people were also from Zakho. There were people from Semel town, from Duhok city, Erbil, and Sulaimani. There were people also from Baghdad.
Did you ask why they would deport you?
They said our asylums had been rejected. That is why they deported us.
How did they treat you?
They handcuffed our hands and legs with three coppers escorting us. They treated us terribly. The three coppers were with us in Baghdad.
Did they pay you any amount of money while deporting you?
Before boarding the plane, they gave us each 200 euros, and then we signed a piece of paper for them. This was all.
What was your job in Germany?
Well, I was working at a restaurant. I had a formal job. But in the end, we were deported.
Had you made any problems there to make them deport you? Did you have criminal records?
No. The only reason that pushed them to deport us was that our asylum applications had been rejected. A year ago, I received a warning that I must leave the country, but I refused. All of a sudden [on April 14] at 7 am, they [the police] raided my house and arrested me.
Were you asleep when they did that to you?
Yes, I was asleep. When I opened my eyes, I saw four coppers around me—two of them in casual clothing and the other two wearing police uniforms.
How did the coppers who raided your house treat you? Tell us about what they did to you when they broke into your house.
I was asleep. I opened my eyes and noticed that somebody opened the door of my house. They had a copy of the key. I asked them what was wrong with them. At first, they checked my house. They checked everything inside... In the end, they asked me to pack my belongings and get my bag ready. I did so. I never knew it was to deport me. I never knew that they would deport me in this way.
Were there deported children and women among you?
Yes. A woman who had four children was deported alone.
Where was the woman from? Do you know anything about her?
I think she was from Erbil.
Were there any children at all among you?
No, there were no kids with us.
Only adults?
Yes, young men mostly, as well as a woman and an elderly man.
Do you know how old the elderly man was?
I would say around 60.
What is your message?
My message is that the government should take care of our youth and stop them from migrating to this country [Germany]. All they need at home is a job. This is all I could say.
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A year ago, I received a warning that I must leave the country, but I refused. All of a sudden [on April 14] at 7 am, they [the police] raided my house and arrested me.
[Facebook] Have you ever planned an event? If yes, you grasp the coordination required, not to mention necessary resources and contacts at street level to pull it off. By design, not organic. Imho.
Imaged list, including 23 abroad, can be seen at the link — I don’t know how to post images from Facebook. Hattip 3dc.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Anymore, war can be considered lawyer busy work.
[Regnum] The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put the commander of the Ukrainian Army Ground Forces, Alexander Pavlyuk, on the wanted list. The corresponding data appeared in the department’s database on May 4.
“Pavlyuk Alexander Alekseevich. Date of birth: 08/20/1970. Wanted under an article of the Criminal Code,” the wanted card says. It is not specified under what specific article the search is being conducted.
Pavlyuk became commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces in February 2024, after his predecessor in this post, Alexander Syrsky, was appointed commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army. Prior to this, Pavlyuk was Deputy Minister of Defense.
As IA Regnum previously reported, on May 4, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, on the wanted list. The ministry noted that he was wanted under an article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, but did not specify which one.
On May 2, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put several Ukrainian politicians on the wanted list, including the former Minister of Justice of Ukraine Pavel Petrenko and the ex-head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaichenko (listed by Rosfinmonitoring as terrorists and extremists).
“Pyotr Alekseevich Poroshenko, 09/26/1965. Wanted under an article of the Criminal Code,” the wanted card says.
The database also contains information about the defendant’s place of birth - the city of Bolgrad in the Odessa region. The article under which Poroshenko is wanted was not indicated.
Poroshenko became president of Ukraine after the coup in Kiev in 2014 and the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych as head of state. In 2015, he made an odious statement that in Kyiv children would go to schools and kindergartens, but in Donbass they would “sit in basements.” Poroshenko served as President of Ukraine until 2019, when he lost the election to Vladimir Zelensky.
As IA Regnum previously reported, on May 4, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, on the wanted list. The ministry noted that he was wanted under an article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, but did not specify which one.
In addition, on May 2, several Ukrainian politicians were put on the wanted list, including the former Minister of Justice of Ukraine Pavel Petrenko and the ex-head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaichenko (listed by Rosfinmonitoring as terrorists and extremists).
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexander Litvinenko, ex-Minister of Finance of Ukraine Alexander Shlapak and ex-head of the Ukrainian National Bank Stepan Kubiv were put on the wanted list on May 3.
The wanted card states that Koval was born in the city of Izyaslav in the Khmelnitsky region on February 26, 1956. The ministry announced that it was looking for him under an article of the Criminal Code. There are no other details in the database.
Koval headed the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine from March 25 to July 3, 2014. He also served as Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. In military service, Koval rose to the rank of colonel general.
As Regnum reported, on May 4, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, on the wanted list. Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Grigory Karasin suggested that the department made this decision because the Ukrainian leader heads the junta responsible for crimes against Russians and Ukrainians in the Donbass and new Russian territories.
In addition, on May 4, the ministry put the ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and the commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Alexander Pavlyuk on the wanted list.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Six people were killed and 22 others injured, as reported by the besieged in the Chaman district of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , Pakistain, following firing by Pak security forces on their besieged tents.
The protesters object to the requirement of a passport and visa to cross the Chaman-Spin Boldak border.
One of the protesters in Chaman, Chausullah, told media outlets that the Pak security force (FC) launched an armed attack on the protesters, as a result of which 6 protesters were killed and 22 others were maimed, as reported by Afghanistan International.
He added that Pak security forces, after firing on the protesters, also set fire to their besieged tents.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was wondering if Buck was okay. He suspected he wasn't... videos circulating on social media show people trying to control their burning tents with soil. In these videos, one of the leaders of the protest committee also says that security forces attacked "dishonourably" during prayer time and mealtime and warns that the government will face the consequences of its actions.
The Pak government has required a passport and visa to cross the Chaman-Spin Boldak border since 29 May, last year. Thousands of residents of Chaman district in Balochistan province, Pakistain, have resorted to besieging and demanding the repeal of this law.
Previously, residents on both sides of the border could travel back and forth with an Afghan ID card and Pak passport.
After about seven months of protest and besieging, the Pak government has not yet positively responded to the demands of the protesters, and they demand the lifting of this siege.
Between his religious compatriots (it is forbidden to leave Islam on pain of death, so if his father or grandfather was Moslem, so by definition is he) and the chanpagne socialists showing off their broadmindedness, it looks like there were enough votes to continue to soft jihad of law and elections in London.
[GEO.TV] Pakistain-origin Briton Sadiq Khan has swept to victory in the London mayor’s election for a record third time as the polls results poured in Labour party's favour, BBC reported on Saturday.
Khan defeated his Conservative rival Susan Hall by more than 276,000 votes and won nine of the 14 constituencies including two gains from the Tories.
Sir Keir Starmer’s party continued to count gains after Khan's landslide victory against his nearest rival, in a contest dominated by criticisms of his decision to expand London’s ultra low emission zone.
Keir had signalled he was confident of Khan’s victory before declarations commenced, as he counted mayoral victories for his party in Liverpool, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, and in Greater Manchester where Andy Burnham returned to power.
In a fresh challenge to the prime minister to call an election, Sir Keir said: "Fourteen years and, I am sorry, I don’t care which political party you support, if you leave your country in a worse state than when you found it 14 years later, you do not deserve to be in government for a moment longer."
Khan needed to win a simple majority of ballots cast, as the rules for the mayoral race were changed to a first-past-the-post voting system ahead of the latest election.
"Fourteen years and, I am sorry, I don’t care which political party you support, if you leave your country in a worse state than when you found it 14 years later, you do not deserve to be in government for a moment longer."
Khan's victory, his third in a row, was widely expected despite some public anger over knife crime and the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), which charges drivers of older, more polluting vehicles a daily fee.
London is the latest of dozens of English councils and mayoralties that Labour has won in the local elections that took place on Thursday, inflicting heavy losses on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives.
The kind of famine where the markets are full and wives and children are fat, except for those in bad odour with the totalitarian oligarchy, but whatevs.
[GEO.TV] United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) chief Cindy McCain has said that northern Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. was experiencing "full-blown famine".
Thousands of Paleostinians are starving after more than six months of war, he added.
"It’s horror. There is famine — full-blown famine — in the north and it’s moving its way south."
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[NewsFront] 23:55 A man was injured as a result of artillery attack of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops. Information about this appeared inTelegram channel representation of the republic in the JCCC.
“Donetsk city (Petrovsky district): a man born in 1961 was wounded on Kirov Street,” the message says.
Earlier in Donetsk, a married couple was injured as a result of artillery attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
21:04 Russian attack aircraft took control of the largest fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Krasnogorovka DPR - media
19:40 Telegram channel «Fisherman":
Donetsk direction: advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the center of Georgievka and in the Pobeda area, the situation as of 18:00 on May 4, 2024
For a long time, practically no footage of the battles in Georgievka appeared on the Internet, which made it difficult to determine the exact configuration of the front line in this area. However, it turned out that during this period the Russian Armed Forces were able to launch several successful attacks and expand the zone of control in the settlement and its surroundings.
– As a result of competent actions of the assault groups, Russian troops were able to make significant progress in the center of Georgievka: they occupied most of the buildings on Gagarin Street, and also marched along Central and Mirnaya streets in the area of the monument and the local House of Culture.
– Also, the territory of the former Selkhozkhimiya enterprise and the ruins of the farm came under the control of the RF Armed Forces. To the south, Russian assault groups have taken a forest belt leading to the village of Pobeda, but in the neighboring settlement the presence of the enemy remains, relying on the embankment of dry reservoirs.
– South of Pobeda, units of the Russian Armed Forces also knocked out the Ukrainian Armed Forces from several positions, however, Ukrainian formations retain the opportunity to attack along the O0532 highway (T-05-24).
As before, in this area the Ukrainian Armed Forces rely on Konstantinovka. However, if the Russian Armed Forces successfully advance east of Novomikhailovka and the battles for Paraskovievka begin, the situation near Pobeda will worsen for the enemy, which in the future may make it easier for Russian troops in the sector.
19:23 Around 17.30 Moscow time suppressed another attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Duty air defense systems destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Belgorod region.
18:25 Front birdreports:
Avdeevskoe direction:
– In his evening report, the enemy confirms our successes in the settlement. Novoaleksandrovka. Our fighters have entered the eastern outskirts and are developing success towards the center of the village; we can state that there is a battle for another village in this direction.
– We had success in moving from the settlement. Solovyevo in the direction of Sokol. Our guys are already directly on the eastern outskirts. Advanced assault groups began entering the village. The advance to Netailovo also continued in the direction of the western outskirts of the village.
– In addition, stabilization measures are taking place in Arkhangelsk and the surrounding area. Our guys are bringing in fresh forces for further advancement.
17:49 Front bird reports:
Kyiv and Kyiv region.
Explosions. 04.05
The enemy reports a threat to launch our ballistics.
The air raid alert is spreading to other areas.
17:18 Crews of 122mm howitzers D-30 of the Tula paratrooperscoveredmortar crew and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Seversk direction.
Reconnaissance units discovered a stronghold with Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, as well as an enemy mortar section. The enemy fired harassingly and did not allow our assault units to approach his forward positions at Razdolovka.
From a distance of more than 10 km, artillery crews destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry dug in in their positions and suppressed mortar firing points.
16:39 Avalanche fighters hoisted the Russian flag in Arkhangelsk -video.
16:30 At the air defense command post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Vyshgorod areawill causestrike by two Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. There was no air raid alert.
16:21 Explosions in Kharkov.
16:19 Explosions in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region.
15:54 Donbass Partisan reports about the destruction of an enemy target in the vicinity of Konstantinovka:
This morning, Russian troops struck an enemy target in the village. Tarasovka in the southwest of Konstantinovka (UAF-occupied part of the DPR).
The defeat took place in the building of the Tarasovskaya secondary school. The enemy organized a temporary deployment point on the territory of the educational institution.
According to available data, the facility was used for rotational activities and regrouping of enemy personnel performing combat missions in the Artyomovsk direction.
15:45 The Lancet crew of the 98th Airborne Division, using x-51 ammunition, wasdestroyedEnemy SAO 2S1 in the Chasov Yar area.
15:17 An explosion occurred in Odessa. Local Telegram channels have already published photos of smoke rising from the site of the missile strike. According to preliminary information, the strike was carried out in the area of a military camp in Velikodolinskoye, Odessa region.
15:14 Explosions occurred in the area of Voznesensk, Nikolaev region. The missile strike could have been carried out on a military airfield located south of the city.
14:50 Explosions occurred again in the northern outskirts of Kharkov. The Russian Aerospace Forces carry out bombing attacks on enemy targets.
14:42 Explosions occurred in Kharkov, the Strana publication reported.
14:25 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
Units of the Southern Group of Forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy’s defenses and defeated 14 brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces within a week;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 745 military personnel and a field ammunition depot in a week due to the actions of the Vostok group of troops;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 2,325 military personnel in the area of responsibility of the “South” group;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 215 soldiers in a week due to the actions of the Dnepr group of troops;
Within a week, units of the Center group improved the situation along the front line and liberated Novobakhmutovka, Semyonovka, Berdychi in the DPR;
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkov region, LPR and DPR, in the zone of the West grouping of forces amounted to 975 military personnel;
The Russian grouping of troops “West” repelled 23 counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region, LPR and DPR;
Within a week, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed two HIMARS MLRS, two S-300PT air defense systems with radar, an IRIS-T air defense system, a fuel depot, and a train with Western equipment;
Within a week, 14 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered on the line of combat contact;
During the week, aviation and air defense shot down 15 ATACMS missiles, 17 Hammer guided bombs, six GLSDB, HIMARS and 220mm BM-27 Hurricane rounds, 201 UAVs;
Over the course of a week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 2,405 military personnel, an Abrams tank, and four Bradley infantry fighting vehicles in the area of responsibility of the Center group
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14:14 The Russian Armed Forces liberated Kotlyarovka, Kupyansky district, Khar'kov region -video.
13:50 News from the Chasov Yar:
The bridge over the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal was destroyed by RF Armed Forces in order to complicate the enemy’s supply of the group in the Kanal microdistrict. But the Ukrainian Armed Forces built a causeway crossing two hundred meters upstream. She, too, was incapacitated.
When trying to restore the embankment crossing, enemy actions were stopped.
13:44 Statement of head of the press center of the Dnepr group.
The Dnepr group of troops (forces) carried out assault operations, occupied the defense of the left bank of the Dnieper River, destroyed enemy UAVs, conducted counter-battery combat to suppress Ukrainian Armed Forces attacks on civilian targets, and hit enemy personnel and equipment on the right bank of the Dnieper River.
During the day, enemy losses amounted to: up to 30 military personnel. During the counterbattery fight, six positions of guns and mortars were hit. Artillery fire and the use of attack UAVs destroyed four watercraft, three units of automotive equipment, and 40 UAV control posts.
Air defense fire and electronic warfare suppressed control and shot down 40 reconnaissance and attack UAVs. Also hit were 25 observation posts and four warehouses for material and technical equipment.
13:05 The Paratrooper’s Diary reports from the Zaporozhye direction:
“Rabotino region: fighters of the Russian Armed Forces are advancing to the north of the settlement, it is very difficult to gain a foothold in this section of the front, since there are practically no positions and shelters where you can sit down, and, roughly speaking, we are sitting in an open field under artillery, cassettes and drones.
At the moment, there are positional battles for every meter of the front, on which there is no way for us and the enemy to gain a foothold.
North-west of Verbovoy: artillery is working bilaterally on forward positions; over the past month, our fighters have made good progress on this section of the front.
There have been successes in progress, but now we are faced with the same problem as in Rabotino - there is nowhere to gain a foothold and hide, and there is no opportunity to bury ourselves and sit in an open field.”
12:55 Avdeevsk direction: liberation of Arkhangelsk situation as of May 4, 2024.
After clearing Ocheretino and Keramika, Russian troops completed the operation to liberate the village of Arkhangelskoye. Combat operations in the direction of the settlement began a week ago, advanced groups of special forces units entered it immediately after clearing Ocheretino, but full control was only established last night.
The offensive was carried out in several stages with the simultaneous pull-up of groups both through the ravine from the side of Ocheretino and across the fields. On May 3, other groups were brought up from Keramik, which completed the operation to cover the village and actually push the enemy out of the village.
The clearing of the fields south of Arkhangelskoye is also completed: the enemy abandoned their positions and retreated.
At the moment, Russian units are digging in and consolidating their position on occupied lines, bringing up reserves and building logistics through Ocheretino and Novokalinovo. Reinforcements are being deployed to the area of responsibility of the 1st Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces to develop offensive capabilities.
11:45 Statement of Head of the press center of the Vostok group:
Units of the Vostok group of troops continue to carry out combat missions in the special military operation zone.
During active operations, the group's units improved the situation along the front line, repelled three counterattacks by assault groups of the 58th motorized infantry brigade in the Urozhainy area, and thwarted attempts by the enemy to reinforce forward positions in the areas of Vladimirovka, Urozhainy, Priyutnoy, Lugovsky and Zagorny.
Bomber strikes, artillery fire, and heavy flamethrower systems hit strong points and places where manpower and equipment accumulated, the 58th Motorized Infantry brigade, the 23rd Brigade of the National Guard in the areas of Vladimirovka, Urozhayny and Makarovka.
Over the course of 24 hours, more than 130 enemy military personnel, an M777 towed howitzer, two units of automotive equipment, four aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles and three ammunition supply points were destroyed.
11:17 The settlement of Arkhangelskoye has been liberated from the long-term occupation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There are unconfirmed reports that Arkhangelskoye, 10 kilometers north of Avdeevka, has been completely liberated.
Judging by reports from military commanders, Russian troops continue to move in two groups along key heights to the north and northwest.
To the north, behind the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there is still a huge cascade of small villages, but there are no equipped positions there.
10:50 Crew of the BUK-M1 anti-aircraft missile system of the 71st Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade of the Russian 35th Army struck reconnaissance UAV of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:35 Drone operators they beat on the accumulation of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment “Lancet” near Novomikhailovka in the South Donetsk direction.
10:30 Netailovo - Russian troops entered the center of the village and advanced further.
09:29 The Russian Armed Forces attacked a large warehouse in Kharkov at night.
As a result of the arrival, a strong fire occurred on an area of ??3 thousand square meters. m (atphoto).
The head of the administration, Lysak, also reported that objects in the Dnepropetrovsk region had been damaged.
09:10 Summary as of May 4 from military correspondent Evgeny Lisitsyn:
Donetsk direction: the tactics of outflanking with aviation support, successfully applied in the Avdeevsky direction, remain effective. In the Konstantinovka area, airstrikes are continuously carried out, and in the Paraskovievka area, from the north and south, our troops are putting constant pressure on the Ukrainian defense.
The Russian Armed Forces break through the defenses near Pervomaisky and Netailovo, continuing active offensive operations;
Kupyansk direction: The RF Armed Forces are complicating tasks for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The unpredictability of further actions of Russian fighters in this direction confuses the enemy, who was hoping for an attempt at containment only on the Avdeevsky sector of the front.
Currently, the troops of the Russian Armed Forces advancing on Sinkovka have joined forces with units storming the positions of the Ukrainian armed forces in Kislovka;
Artyomovsk direction: fighting is taking place in the vicinity of Chasov Yar, where the Russian Armed Forces are expanding the zone of control in the Stupki-Golubovskie-2 nature reserve.
08:20 Avdievka direction: another M1 “ABRAMS” tank destroyed by Russian soldiers from the reconnaissance company of the 228th Motorized Rifle Regiment.
08:16 The crew of the Fagot anti-tank missile system of the 1st Tank Army of the Western Group of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed the machine gun points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces -video.
08:07 Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forcesdestroyeda stronghold of Ukrainian troops in the zone of responsibility of the Center group of forces, the Ministry of Defense reported.
08:01 Personnel retreat of a large group of Ukrainian Armed Forces under artillery fire from Arkhangelsk
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[REGNUM] After the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, the discussion about labor migration from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, control over migrants and interethnic relations intensified in Russia. Human rights activist from Kyrgyzstan, coordinator of the Congress on Human Rights of Central Asian Countries Tursunbek Akun, in an interview with Regnum news agency, said that he regularly comes to Russia, studies these problems and takes part in resolving them.
Tursunbek Akun was born in the village of Erki-Naryn, Tien-Shan district, Naryn region (now the village of Kulundu, Leilek district, Batken region). He worked as a veterinarian at the Naryn Stud Farm and was a junior researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Kirghiz SSR. In 1991 he became the executive secretary of the Democratic Movement of Kyrgyzstan, and in 2005 - chairman of the Human Rights Commission under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic. In February 2008, he was elected Ombudsman of Kyrgyzstan.
— Tursunbek Akunovich, what exactly is your activity now?
— First of all, the protection of the rights and freedoms of our migrants from Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. Migration issues. After the tragedy at Crocus City Hall, pressure on them increased, and cases of deportation became more frequent. As a human rights activist, I receive complaints about the infringement of the rights of our migrants.
On the other hand, Russia, of course, has the right to use force and deport foreigners. We have ourselves to blame! Our migrants make many mistakes: they do not know the language, do not comply with the legislation of the Russian Federation, and do not comply with the legal requirements of the authorities and security forces. Sometimes they arrive unprepared and do not know the customs and traditions of the Russian people.
We are all very hurt and ashamed by the terrorist attack that occurred on March 22, although it was committed by ethnic Tajiks.
More prepared people come from Kyrgyzstan: at least 90% know Russian. But from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - unfortunately, no.
I met with the head of the apparatus of the Russian Ombudsman, Tatyana Moskalkova, Vladimir Lozbinev in the Sverdlovsk region, in Yekaterinburg, and he told me: Uzbeks, Tajiks come - and their children, who are in elementary school, do not know Russian at all. Even worse, they unite in hooligan groups and attack Russian students.
Therefore, I say to my compatriots: prepare your children! At least basicly, learn Russian with them. You have no idea what a big problem this is.
But I repeat: there are almost no such complaints against the Kyrgyz. I recently held a meeting on this topic at the Embassy of Uzbekistan and talked with senior staff members.
— On Tuesday, April 30, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a telephone conversation with his Tajik counterpart Sirojiddin Mukhriddin. Earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan sent Russia a note of protest against the infringement of the rights of Tajik citizens in the Russian Federation, and also recommended that Tajiks refrain from traveling to Russia in the near future. Can you comment on this? What is the manifestation of the infringement of rights that the Tajik Foreign Ministry claims?
— Law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation sometimes go too far and make mistakes. But, on the other hand, before making a remark to another state, Russia, which provides us with the opportunity to work, earn money, feed our children, we need to think about our mistakes. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan would do well to be critical of the mistakes of its citizens.
Didn't they see the migrants I saw? Not even children, but 17-18 year old boys and girls who don’t know a word of Russian, don’t know anything about Russia, and sometimes are nationalistically opposed to everything Russian. They are not even ready for life in such a large metropolis as Moscow. You can not do it this way!
I heard this in Moscow at a meeting with Russian ombudsmen for migration, and now I’m going to tell it in detail in Dushanbe and Bishkek. So before handing over notes of protest, you need to understand what is happening. I don't support this at all.
— You spoke about the nationalist views of some young people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Do you know about cases of chauvinism against migrants?
- Yes, there were such cases. After Crocus, after March 22, this escalated. In addition, now some security forces and law enforcement officers, due to their chauvinism, are abusing their official powers. For example, they park a bus at the entrance to the metro, grab every Asian who gets out and take him to Sakharovo.
But, of course, we are not talking about mass chauvinism.
And again: I know about a large number of violations of laws by migrants. Many are without registration, without permanent residence, without registration, and work without an employment contract. The purpose of my trip is precisely this: to convey to everyone how important it is to know the laws, the Constitution, the language, traditions and customs of the country where you come to earn money.
A separate problem is drugs. In Russia there is very strict legislation in this area, and you definitely need to know about this and not fall for offers with promises of big money. Know exactly what you are carrying if you work as a courier.
— You are talking about traditions and customs, I can’t help but ask: how big a role does religion play in this issue?
- Very big. In the Russian Federation, about 25 million people are Muslims, they live well. There are no conflicts between different faiths, between Muslims and Christians. But those who come from Central Asia, most often from Tajikistan, some profess fundamental Islam, promote it, and there it is not far from terrorism.
Islam itself is a peaceful religion. The canon of Islam is peace, mutual assistance, goodness, as the founder of the religion, Prophet Muhammad, spoke about. What are they doing? They pervert Islam. I am telling you this as a Muslim.
— Do you agree that terrorism has no nationality or religion? This idea is still not obvious to society.
- I completely agree. Neither terrorism, nor murder or blackmail have a nationality or religion. The terrorists who attacked Crocus City Hall are, of course, Tajiks, but we know that they received the order from Ukraine, and America was behind it.
The collective West promotes Russophobia, wants to separate and isolate from the whole world - with sanctions and weapons. But Russia is on its feet, the economy is growing, and all because Russia is on the right path. And I believe that Vladimir Putin correctly announced a special military operation. I am not a citizen of Russia and probably do not have the right to praise the Russian president, but I think so.
— Do you think the root of all the problems we are talking about is the collapse of the Soviet Union? In the weakened and sometimes lost cultural and humanitarian ties between residents of the former republics of the USSR, in particular - Russia and Tajikistan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan, and so on? This raises the question of language, disrespect or ignorance of traditions, which you talked about. Are there any attempts being made in this area to bring closer together and restore cultural interaction?
- Yes, I think so too. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, our ties in culture, art, and literature were severed. Festivals, concerts, conferences - everything that plays a huge role, this has become critically scarce. How did we live in the Soviet Union? Together, with the ideas of solidarity and good neighborliness.
Recently, the leadership of Russia and the countries of Central Asia has been engaged in rapprochement in the political sphere: we have the CIS, CSTO, EAEU, SCO. But this is not enough.
We need as many projects and contacts as possible. For example, our artists from the Opera and Ballet Theater and the Philharmonic in Bishkek went on tour to Moscow last year, and Russian artists came to us. Therefore, we have fewer problems than our neighbors; Kyrgyz youth are drawn to the Russian language and culture.
But this is not enough. The whole world is now set up for disunity, for wars, for conflicts. Therefore, my goal as a human rights activist and goodwill ambassador is for there to be peace throughout the world, for friendship, dialogue and consolidation.
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"Also, the “Black Wasps” are considered the most prepared and combat-ready unit for war in rural conditions. A special feature of the unit’s use is the use of tactics of small mobile autonomous groups of 5-6 fighters, capable of penetrating deep behind enemy lines and causing critical damage to key military communications."
I wonder how many Sheriffs throughout the US have encountered such suspect groupings without being aware of it. In California, we started a joint federal, state and local law enforcement intelligence framework to try and link locals to the national systems and give national systems local visibility, with considerable success. Now, the tidal wave of illegal incursions has undoubtedly swamped the entire system/
[NYPOST] The Biden administration warned Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday that legal action will be taken if it enforces a new law that allows authorities to arrest migrants colonists who were previously denied entry or deported from the US — as she and the state attorney general vow they "will not back down."
In a letter to the Hawkeye State governor, a Justice Department official called the measure unconstitutional and gave the state a May 7 deadline to suspend enforcement of Senate File 2340, which Reynolds signed into law earlier this month.
The DOJ official argued that the law "effectively creates a separate state immigration scheme," which "intrudes into a field that is occupied by the federal government and is preempted."
Boynton further claimed the law violates the Immigration and Nationality Act and conflicts "with various provisions of federal law permitting noncitizens to seek protection from removal to avoid persecution or torture."
[NYPOST] Buzzy healthcare company Hims & Hers lost nearly $210 million in stock value in a single day after the company’s CEO said he and other executives were "eager" to hire anti-Israel student protesters who’ve faced disciplinary actions from their universities.
The online sexual health and pharmaceutical company plummet 8% on Friday from its opening price of $12.24 to $11.26 — just two days after Paleostinian-American CEO Andrew Dudum said companies would be happy to have the protesters and encouraged them to apply to Hims and Hers.
"Moral courage > College degree," Dudum tweeted on Thursday, amid the nationwide anti-Israel protests at universities that have seen more than 2,100 people arrested.
Hundreds more have been suspended or banned from campus activities for participating in the demonstrations.
"If you’re currently protesting against the genocide of the Paleostinian people & for your university’s divestment from Israel, keep going. It’s working," Dudum added.
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Good; freakin' stupid name always annoyed the crap outta me.
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I am sorry that I do not buy any of their products so cannot boycott them.
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The company is scheduled to announce results for Q1 of 2024 tomorrow after the market closes.
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This happened in time to affect their stock price but not quarterly results.
Technically they could have to at least mention it in their guidance, but all they would have to do is acknowledge it may have an impact on future quarters.
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Haven’t the they them crowd been left out in this name?
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The company's big revenue makers are hair restoration and erectile dysfunction treatment where the company provides a doctor to give an on line prescription. It is a pretty simple operation and one where they can target marketing relatively cheaply online. However other companies can do pretty well also.
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Rutgers University refused to let a Jewish group hold a pro-Israel barbecue on the campus’ Vorhees Mall, despite allowing pro-terror protesters to camp there for days, emails obtained by The Post claim.
Rutgers Associate Dean of Students Kerri Willson refused to allow the Jewish students to gather at the spot, saying no events could be held on campus after the last day of classes on Monday, April 29 — despite allowing the encampment to drag on until May 2.
The Kosher cookout was set to mark the end of a grueling semester for Jewish students at Rutgers, which has seen pro-Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... students plaster a pro-Israel student’s picture all over their dorm; spray paint pictures of Paleostinian murderous Moslems on campus sidewalks; and scream "Hitler would have loved you" at Jewish students.
[NYPOST] A Jewish teacher who said she was terrorized by students at her Brooklyn high school — including with swastikas, death threats, Nazi salutes and Hitler-loving comments — has sued over the heinous antisemitism that school officials allegedly allowed to run rampant.
Danielle Kaminsky, whose alleged ordeal was detailed in a front-page Post expose about hateful incidents at Origins High School in Sheepshead Bay, claims bigotry was "effectively promoted and encouraged" there, according to the Brooklyn federal lawsuit from Friday.
Kaminsky, 33, a global history teacher, claims she was the victim of a slew of antisemitic incidents since the Oct. 7 Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... massacre — including an email she received saying, "All Jews need to be exterminated."
Teacher Danielle Kaminsky and campus administrator Michael Beaudry went to speak at a congressional briefing Friday as their suit was filed in a Brooklyn court. Marc Armas
According to the suit, from Oct. 8 through March — when Kaminsky was finally transferred to another school — students engaged in an array of "aggressive antisemitism" at Origins including marching through campus chanting "f—k the Jews," and "Death to Israel!" while waiving the Paleostinian flags, drawing swastikas on school grounds and glorifying Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... , the suit claims.
But when Kaminsky, 33, spoke up about it, the school retaliated against her, the suit alleges.
Campus manager Michael Beaudry — the other plaintiff in the suit — supported Kaminsky and made a bid for the administration to intervene, but was also allegedly punished for speaking out.
"The students conducted their campaign of hate within a New York City public school, emblazoned it in graffiti on its furniture, scribbled it on blackboards, circulated it in emails and text messages, and repeated it on papers and notes foisted on, and taunts directed at, Jewish teachers and students," the suit charges.
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Would love to know her 20 year voting pattern.
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prolly only 15 yrs of voting "D" - she's only 33
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[NYPOST] An estimated 1,260 Russian troops were killed on the battlefield Saturday — the sixth straight day Russia lost over 1,000 men to fighting, according to new estimates.
The slaughter brings the total Russian deaths to nearly 500,000 troops since Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... launched his full-scale invasion on Ukraine more than two years ago.
The figures from the general staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces were validated by the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense in a statement Saturday.
With a depleted fighting force, Russia has started actively recruiting women for the war, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported, even extending the efforts into prisons.
People walk past military vehicles used in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict,
Recruitment is also an issue for Ukraine’s military, which has started tracking down draft evaders, The Guardian reported.
In addition to the heavy loss of personnel, Russia has also lost 7,366 tanks, 348 airplanes, 325 helicopters, 9,611 drones, 26 ships and boats, and one submarine since the start of the war.
These latest estimates come as Ukraine claimed to have downed 13 drones launched overnight from the Russian region of Belgorod on the northeastern border of Ukraine. Kyiv also claimed it shot down another Russian Su-25 fighter jet over the eastern region of Donetsk on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, the Kyiv Independent reported.
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According to Ukrop reports, they should be in Moscow by now.
[NYPOST] A second whistleblower has died under mysterious circumstances, just two months after another one allegedly shot himself in the head — and the attorneys for both men hope their deaths don’t scare away the at least 10 other whistleblowers who want the company to clean up its act.
Joshua Dean, 45, a former quality auditor at Spirit AeroSystems which assembles fuselage sections for Boeing, died Tuesday morning from a fast-growing mystery infection.
Dean’s death comes less than two months after Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, 62, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 9.
Barnett, who had worked for Boeing for 32 years, was found dead in his Dodge Ram truck holding a silver pistol in his hand in the parking lot of his South Carolina hotel after he failed to show up for the second part of his testimony for a bombshell lawsuit against the company.
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
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[ZERO] Special Counsel Jack Smith's team admitted on Friday that key evidence in Trump's classified documents case was altered or manipulated - leaving two different chronologies; one that was digitally scanned vs. what's in the actual boxes.
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces on Saturday conducted a raid in the town of 
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
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[NYPOST] An embattled Brooklyn teaching assistant who was handcuffed at a Columbia University protest last week has been fired, The Post has learned.
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[NYPOST] Buzzy healthcare company 
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
[NYPOST] A second whistleblower has died under mysterious circumstances, just two months after another one allegedly shot himself in the head — and the attorneys for both men hope their deaths don’t scare away the at least 10 other whistleblowers who want the company to clean up its act.
