[Rantburg University] Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's Mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment for delivery to Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York. This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico.
But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank. The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and eagerly awaiting the delivery were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning.
The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5 and is known, of course as - Sinko De Mayo
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I* have told this many times but only on Cinco de Mayo.
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In other news researchers have found that cows give more milk when the Farmer talks to them. That part is true. It's a classic case of in one ear and out the udder.
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[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—With Russia poised to tear through Eastern Europe with terrifying military power, Biden warned Putin that if he doesn't stop advancing his army, he will be forced to deploy his deadly trans admiral.
"You think I'm joking, Vlad! I ain't messin' around here! You don't want me to use this!" said Biden to Putin in a Zoom call, motioning to a portrait of transgender admiral and Assistant HHS Secretary Admiral Rachel Levine. "This is the deadliest weapon the United States has ever produced, and I won't hesitate to use it on you! Watch out!"
Diversity and inclusion experts speculate the firepower in just one trans admiral is capable of leveling 3 Russian cities to the ground using the incredible destructive power of intersectional identity politics. Foreign policy experts believe Russia is outmatched by America's stunning diversity and inclusion capabilities and will soon be forced to surrender.
Sources say Ukrainian citizens will certainly sleep better tonight knowing the power of diversity is on their side.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The British edition of The Guardian publishes the results of a forensic medical examination of the bodies found in Irpen and Buche.
Judging by them, those people whom the experts managed to examine were killed not by bullets, but by fragments of anti-personnel shells. That is, they were killed during shelling.
The publication writes that small metal darts called flechettes were found in the bodies of the victims.
"We found some very thin, nail-like objects in the bodies of men and women," Ukrainian forensic scientist Vladislav Perovsky told the Guardian. According to him, most of these bodies are from the Bucha-Irpensky district.
The flechette is an anti-personnel weapon that was widely used during the First World War. They are contained in the shells of tanks or field guns. Each ammunition can contain up to 8000 of these "nails". After a shot and an explosion, they scatter to a width of up to 300 meters and 100 in length.
Such ammunition is not prohibited by conventions. But their use in cities is a violation of humanitarian law.
The publication cites unnamed witnesses who saw Russian artillery firing such shells a few days before leaving the area.
Photography experts have determined that such "darts" are used in the 122mm ZSh-1 projectile.
We add that this projectile is suitable for the D-30 howitzer, which is in service with both the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
All of a sudden, the Russian Armed Forces controlled Bucha until the end of March, when they withdrew from there as part of the withdrawal of troops from the Chernihiv and Kiev regions.
As you might guess, shelling a city controlled by your own troops is a bad idea.
However, this does not negate the fact that the Ukrainians killed people with white armbands, which was highlighted in one of the videos.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
[Chernovec] The journalist spoke about the distortion of facts in the Western media:
I was three times in the south (Ukraine). The first trip was also to Melitopol. And so, on this trip, I was most impressed by the fact, or the fear that you see there in the eyes of people. And not among those who do not agree with the military operation, and this, according to my estimates, is a minority. It is they who swear, the camera writes, and they will say how much they disagree. And those who agree are the majority.
I see it in the squares, when there are hundreds of people, they walk past the soldiers and say in a whisper: “Thank you guys, don’t leave.” They are very afraid, and they said it directly. They are very afraid that the Russians will leave and there will be reprisals. What, in my understanding, happened in Bucha, by the way.
And the fact that now, Alina said, from Mariupol is another such example. The woman was afraid to just speak the truth. Afraid that, God forbid, the Russians would leave and there would be reprisals. I don’t want to take too much time now, I just want to give one example, because the West always says it’s Russian propaganda if they say that Azov and other units of the Ukrainian troops use civilians as a “human shield”.
I write in German, and the other day I read an article in the German magazine Spiegel, which is probably known to many. And there was a very surprising offer. So they wrote...
Everything, of course, sounded very positive, but they wrote that in Mariupol... More precisely, they (the newspaper) were told by people in Zaporozhye who had come from Mariupol, telling them that their national battalions held them, "politely of course", held peaceful residents to the basement, and took positions in the apartments above these basements.
It sounds in the Western media as if they are protecting them. Excuse me, what is this? If the fighters take up their combat positions above the basements where civilians are sitting, and how voluntarily they went to this basement.
P.S.
Well done German. He uses the Russian language well, puts accents correctly. And also a pen. He is clearly nervous... But he is nervous not because he has something to hide, but from anger, because he is telling the truth, but he cannot do anything with this truth.
Most people know the truth, but the Western media do not need this truth, they have a different manual, you need to do everything the other way around, and if it doesn’t work out the way America wants, sanctions are for you, and the EU countries, not Russia, they will die after the first package of sanctions.
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Ah. The "Russians are our liberators" narrative returns. This time supposedly coming from an (unnamed?) foreign journalist quoting people supposedly too afraid to say anything openly.
Garbage.
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04/25/2022 6:45 Comments ||
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I didn't see the German's name in the title. At least there is that.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
04/25/2022 6:46 Comments ||
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Ah. The "Russians are our liberators" narrative returns. This time supposedly coming from an (unnamed?) foreign journalist quoting people supposedly too afraid to say anything openly.
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So born in Germany, but as loyal to Russia as Merkel.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
04/25/2022 11:00 Comments ||
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Can't be any worse than CBS.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/25/2022 12:14 Comments ||
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"They are very afraid that the Russians will leave and there will be reprisals."
Rarely does the conquered fear reprisals from the liberators. If this story is true (i suspect not) the journalist is talking to traitors who let the Russians in, or assisted them during the occupation or something along those lines. Those are the folks that fear reprisals.
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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