ATLANTA (CBS46) -- Police are investigating after a man reportedly drove off in Paramedic Engine 16 and hit a parked car on the 700 block of Neal Street Saturday.
Shortly after that incident, the man exited the engine and went westbound on Neal Street.
According to the Atlanta Police Department, officers were able to locate and detain the male suspect, identified as 26-year-old Curtis Malik Smith.
APD says Smith appears to be a homeless male suffering mental health crisis. Officers placed him in custody and transported him to Grady Detention where he will receive further medical evaluation. He is charged with Theft by Taking and Criminal Damage to Property.
No injuries were reported during this incident and there is minor damage to the fire truck.
[Breitbart] A suspect in Memphis, Tennessee, was taken into custody after he allegedly tried to set a local hospital and police officers on fire over the weekend.
WREG reported on Monday:
Memphis Fire Department responded to a fire at Methodist South in Whitehaven around 3 p.m. on Sunday evening. An investigation began after MFD declared the cause [of the] fire as intentional. Witnesses told investigators that Devonta Willis got upset inside the emergency department of the hospital and used a lighter to set a mattress on fire.
According to the Shelby County, Tennessee, inmate lookup page, Willis was charged with resisting official detention, 59 counts of aggravated arson, and vandalism.
The listing said there was no bond information regarding the inmate.
According to law enforcement, when the fire began spreading, the suspect allegedly opened valves on nearby oxygen tanks “with the intention of blowing up the entire hospital.”
The National Park Service website said oxygen use has been connected to nearly 200 house fires, 46 deaths, and 60 citizens being hurt every year.
The agency described oxygen as a “powerful oxidizer” that becomes an accelerant. This causes flames to grow and spread quickly.
In its advice to firefighters, the agency said, “Fires burn hotter and faster in oxygen-rich environments, and combustible materials such as hair, plastic, oils, clothing, and furniture catch fire at lower temperatures than usual.”
“If you know oxygen therapy is being used in a residence, consider the location of the bottle currently in use, as well as spare and empty bottle storage. Factor that into your complete situational size-up of the fire,” the website read.
Hospital employees and patients were able to evacuate the building, and officers helped push hospital beds to a safe area outside.
“When officers tried to detain Willis, they say he was combative and tried to set them on fire,” the WREG report said, adding no one reported any injuries after the incident.
According to a police report, Willis came into the hospital for suicidal thoughts and said that he had an overdose.
The staff then put him in a locked room due to him being diagnosed with bipolar schizophrenia. Willis then became irate over the wait time and was breaking property.
Police said Willis grabbed two oxygen tanks and broke the back windows to the room. Officers arrived on the scene and spoke to him.
After several minutes of talking, Willis became upset and used a cigarette lighter to set the sheets and mattress on fire.
Police said scene officers called for cars since Willis was armed with broken glass and two oxygen tanks, and claimed he would kill people.
Several officers arrived on the scene and tased Willis, sending him to the ground.
Willis began to resist arrest by refusing to put his arms behind his back, moving his body and kicking. He still had a lighter in his hand and officers dry-stunned him to no effect.
Officers then tased Willis a second time, and he was taken into custody.
A 31-year-old subway rider was stabbed twice in arm on southbound 6 train near Canal Street on Sunday evening
Victim was hospitalized in stable condition; suspect fled and hasn't been arrested as of Monday
On Saturday, one man was stabbed by two teens during a botched robbery in 168th Street Station, and another was knifed on a train in Morningside Heights
As of January 1, there have been 276 instances of crime in subway system - up 65 percent compared to the same period last year
Mayor Eric Adams announced last month he was injecting more police officers into the subway system
Adams and Gov Kathy Hochul on Friday unveiled plan to combat homelessness in the subway by barring people from sleeping on trains
#2
Shit, he's probably getting the trading cards printed off as we speak. Free piece of crack in every package. Here's the hook - placing them in bike spokes will actually defeat any bike lock.
DA George Gascon admitted that child molester Hannah Tubbs, 26, should not have been prosecuted as a juvenile and should have received a harsher sentence
Tubbs, a transgender woman, was sentenced last month to just two years in juvenile facility after pleading guilty to molesting a 10-year-old
At the time of the offense in 2014, Tubbs, then identifying as male, was two weeks shy of her 18th birthday
While in jail, Tubbs boasted to her father in jailhouse phone conversation that she'll be able to plead out and won't have to register as a sex offender
She also laughed about the prospect of leaving the country 'next time' she gets in trouble
Gascon, who is facing second recall for being soft on crime, announced on Friday changes to policies in exceptional cases such as Tubbs'
#2
Put in adult facility, it would be solitary as the likelihood of surviving 2 years would be minimal. Bad optics for one of the DA's major (though overall insignificant) constituencies.
#2
Same in our area. Fellow shot himself dead. Wife who caused his anxiety is awarded $200,000 insurance money for his accidental death. Insurance providers once flush with money now in negative territory.
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Speaking of life insurance, that industry's CEOs know their statistics and (unlike the CDC or Fauxi) do not attempt to bullshit anyone.
Deaths have soared since the vaccine was introduced -- not just in Indiana but in muktuolle states around the country. Here's a dispatch from Indiana, as of January 2022:
Jan. 1, 2022
(The Center Square) – The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.
“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”
OneAmerica is a $100 billion insurance company that has had its headquarters in Indianapolis since 1877. The company has approximately 2,400 employees and sells life insurance, including group life insurance to employers nationwide.
...At the same news conference where Davison spoke, Brian Tabor, the president of the Indiana Hospital Association, said that hospitals across the state are being flooded with patients “with many different conditions,” saying “unfortunately, the average Hoosiers’ health has declined during the pandemic.”
In a follow-up call, he said he did not have a breakdown showing why so many people in the state are being hospitalized – for what conditions or ailments. But he said the extraordinarily high death rate quoted by Davison matched what hospitals in the state are seeing.
The number of hospitalizations in the state is now higher than before the COVID-19 vaccine was introduced a year ago, and in fact is higher than it’s been in the past five years, Dr. Lindsay Weaver, Indiana’s chief medical officer, said at a news conference with Gov. Eric Holcomb on Wednesday.
Just 8.9% of ICU beds are available at hospitals in the state, a low for the year, and lower than at any time during the pandemic. But the majority of ICU beds are not taken up by COVID-19 patients – just 37% are, while 54% of the ICU beds are being occupied by people with other illnesses or conditions.
#5
At this point, the politicians are washing their hands of it. The bureaucr@ps are lagging indicators. The pols are looking at the next election. The bureau types are watching the permanant gravy train head for the siding outside the shop where old rolling stock is broken up.
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^ yes. Magoo will declare "victory" next Tuesday in his SOTU. Walensky and crew will pull an Emily Litello.
#9
I don't see how a booster of the same design as the previous shots will provide significant benefit, since the virus has mutated away from what that vaccine targeted. (Regardless of relative risks of vaccine and infection for a given demographic.)
#10
The UK government will no longer provide public Covid testing starting April 1.
“Because we know Omicron is less severe, testing for Omicron on the colossal scale we have been doing is now much less valuable in preventing serious illness,” Boris Johnson explained.
Which puts an end to mass surveillance.
Which puts a spike through the COVIDiocy: No mo' testing = no mo' pandemic. It's over. Just seasonal flu now.
#11
"Ron Brown plane ride" That's gonna leave a mark..as in a big grease stain.
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I don't see how a booster of the same design as the previous shots will provide significant benefit, since the virus has mutated away from what that vaccine targeted. (Regardless of relative risks of vaccine and infection for a given demographic.)
I liked the part when they said you can mix and match brands, no biggie, trust us.
Are they the same formula? Are there medication conflicts? Don't know.
Kind of miss being called a Flat-Earther, had some zing to it at least. Vaccine Hesitant is so 90's corporate speak, like Friends will be on after the commercial. Maybe get Oasis to do a PR piece.
#13
Unless they can stick me in a camp for refusing, I'll never take any booster of that garbage. Channeling Quint: "I'll never go in the water with a life jacket again..."
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I'm not getting anymore, I had two shots total but I don't trust it now and wish I hadn't.
#15
They are going to talk tough but do nothing that might illuminate the fact it's just talk. COVID is over and the vaxx mandates will mainly be applied to people who need to work in a specific setting or cross a border.
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Silentbrick, I suspect you are far from alone.
#1
People targeting 'top' white house officials with brain scrambling rays can't simply be clever enough to have made such a thing.
Or maybe it's aliens. That's right. Aliens are beaming down some self-destructive tzimmes into 'top' brains all the time. Only sometimes, the brain rebels. Or when the feed transmission is interrupted, they have a withdrawal of sorts. That's the Havana Syndrome.
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And without the Daily Mail we would never have found out about it.
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Used to have a big friends get together at a restaurant just before Christmas every year. One year we had it a bit earlier than usual to take advantage of 12-13-14.
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We’ll see such global warming that our children will never see snow again.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Large parts of the US are facing major winter storms this week - Storm Nancy and Storm Oaklee
Storm Nancy will send temperatures plummeting by up to 30 degrees in the Midwest and Northeast
The worst of the storm is expected within 24 - 48 hours, and could bring over a foot of snow in some places We're lookin at 70 tomorrow, down to 30 tomorrow night w/22mph winds
The National Weather Service sent widespread winter weather alerts and warned of treacherous conditions
Nancy will be followed by Storm Oaklee later this week, which will track across the US from the Southwest
Oaklee is expected to make landfall in California on Tuesday but will gather strength as it sweeps eastwards
The storms represent yet more misery for millions who were battered by brutal weather late last week
#2
me too magpie, I still think it is. Also this "bomb cylone" that seems to be every winter storm now.
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We basically have named raindrops and named puffs of wind now. And I guess it's all down to diversity that what used to be called a "strong line of thunderstorms" is now a "derecho."
I live for the annual report of the "official end of hurricane season" where they basically play state funeral dirge music in the background while the talking heads mumble about "maybe next season will begin early."
Ghouls...
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They were predicting 15" here in the Missenota backlands; looks like 5" at most. OTOH it IS colder than a tiche's wit.
[IJR] The Capital Beltway may soon see blockades like Ottawa, Canada experienced as truckers protested COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Bob Bolus told Fox 5, an organizer of one of the convoys of truckers heading to Washington, D.C, "We will be along the Beltway where the Beltway will be shut down." so Fox 5 is organizing? A poorly written sentence.
He added that he plans to leave from Scranton, Pennsylvania on Wednesday morning and drive through the city before heading to the Beltway.
He continued, "I’ll give you an analogy of that of a giant boa constrictor that basically squeezes you, chokes you, and it swallows you, and that’s what we’re going to do to D.C."
"There will be a lane open for emergency vehicles, they’ll be able to get in and out and all that," Bolus added. "We will not compromise anybody’s safety or health, one way or the other. As far as if they can’t get to work, geez that’s too bad."
[Just The News] People's Convoy co-organizer Maureen Steele says truckers have been hit hard by COVID-19 mandates and the protesters "want accountability" for the government's actions during the pandemic.
The People's Convoy, inspired by the Canadian Freedom Convoy, plans to be in Washington, D.C., by March 5.
The truckers in the protest are looking to restore freedom and liberty, Steele told "Just the News, Not Noise" cohosts John Solomon and Amanda Head.
"We want accountability for what happened over the last two years," said Steele, calling the pandemic's fallout "devastating."
Some truckers have lost their jobs due to COVID vaccine mandates, Steele reported.
"They're still willing to go out on the road, and cross the country, for our freedom," Steele said. "And it's so typical of all of America, the blue-collar boys stepping up first.
Steele called the People's Convoy a "slice of Americana," explaining that "people from every walk of life" have joined the protest.
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[NewsFrontInfo] The American elites did not foresee the development of events with the recognition of the independence of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics by President Vladimir Putin. The current precarious economic situation of the United States may prevent the White House administration from joining the West's sanctions war against Moscow's decision.
“This suggests that they were outplayed - this is generally Putin's style.
They really made a mistake. And this is a system thing. Putin said that it was pointless to talk with Western Europe - it was necessary to talk with the United States. And now they have another pain, ”-declared expert.
The decision of the Russian side on Donbass has finally cut the ground from under the feet of the collective West, which has serious economic and domestic political problems. The ill-considered imposition of sanctions by certain European partners of the United States can cause a wave of bans against Russia, for which Europe itself cannot be ready.
“Their key problem is that they don’t have mechanisms in the domestic situation by which they could do something, and Putin has put them in a situation in which they have the same situation in foreign policy. They don't know what to do with it. Moreover, they cannot, because in order to come up with a foreign policy, you need to be sure that you have an internal resource for its implementation, ”Khazin concluded.
The situation in Ukraine required decisive action on the part of Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized in his address to the nation what historical moments led to such a misunderstanding between Moscow and the West on all counts. The anti-Russian front is reaping the fruits of many years of aggression, which created a Russian superpower with inviolable national principles.
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"The American elites did not foresee the development of events with the recognition of the independence of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics by President Vladimir Putin."
Well I'm only Bavarian elite but I did foresee this.
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You give them way too little credit for their brainpower and way too much for their moral fortitude.
The "elites" in the West have spent the last thirty years undermining the West's ability to produce products and energy for themselves and empowering China's industrial base and Russia's leverage via its energy resources and the resources it leverages from the landlocked countries of Central Asia. (Oh, and whatever Iran can do to disrupt supplies from the Middle East).
But hey, the elites sure whipped those truckers' asses, eh? Maybe Putin will be impressed by their ability to have the RCMP trample underhoof some First Nations senior citizen on a mobility scooter.
#3
Even more comical: all the western elites' predictions centered on Kyiv. Instead the Russians are just moving materiel into those pro-Russian disputed regions at the far eastern end of Ukraine, de facto autonomous regions that could not be further from Kyiv.
Whose autonomy and independence would have been upheld by a good-faith, even minimally competent US government, if we ever were to have one.
#5
Has anyone considered tik-tok getting a platoon of paratroopettes to dance to Uptown Funk, then have Lunch Vader introduce Admiral Tits on a Bull for a national conversation about how the worlds' militaries should Go Green?
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all the western elites' predictions centered on Kyiv
Because Frank Luntz focus group said, although nobody in the group could identify Ukraine's location on a map, slightly more than half of them had at least heard of Chicken Keiv. Slightly less than half guessed correctly that it's a main course, not a diplomatic gambit...
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Six-language coverage from #Kyiv with @AP_GMS. In this order: English, Luxembourgish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. pic.twitter.com/kyEg0aCCoT
[ArmyTimes] Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered forces Monday to "maintain peace" in separatist regions of eastern Ukraine in a further escalation of tensions that followed the Kremlin’s recognition of the areas’ independence despite warnings of sanctions and international condemnation.
In response to his earlier move recognizing separatist republics of Luhansk and Donestk, a senior Biden administration official said that the White House is assessing those moves and will determine what additional actions, likely in the form of sanctions, it will take, in the coming hours.
"We will continue to consult with our allies and partners about both diplomatic solutions and the consequences we will impose on Russia, should it further invade Ukraine," said a senior administration official during a Monday evening press call.
There are already more than 150,000 Russian troops surrounding Ukraine. The official pointed out that Russian troops have repeatedly entered the region since Russia invaded in 2014, during which time more than 14,000 people have been killed in fighting. But he declined to set a red line on what further incursions would prompt an additional U.S. response.
"Just in the last hour, we’ve seen Russia or troops to deploy into the DPR and LPR for so called peacekeeping functions," said the senior administration official, who declined to confirm reports by the Russian Interfax news agency and social media posts showing additional Russian forces entering the Donbas.
A Ukraine military official told Military Times Monday night that a new wave of Russian troops had entered the Donbas in the wake of Putin’s order.
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79th anniversary of Manstein's masterpiece: the Third Battle of Kharkov...
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He's sending 'peacekeepers' in already occupied territory. Just like the KGB followed the Red Army as it 'liberated' areas '42-post'45.
Now watch carefully how incompetent the Western leadership is. If they tell the Ukraine to accept this grab as a defacto event, their diplomatic war against Israel collapses when dealing with West Bank issues. No principle, not that they had any principles anyway.
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And then there's this where Zhirinovsky tells us the exact date and time that Russia would begin operations in Ukraine.
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Even the Polish leaders and the EU Foreign Minister admit the obvious and refuse to call this an "invasion." These are disputed lands already occupied by Russian troops.
Putin is yet again wrongfooting our sadsack, incompetent leaders.
Russia will not yet send troops to the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the recognition of which President Vladimir Putin announced the day before, said Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko.
At the same time, Moscow expressed its readiness to provide military assistance to the republics in the event of a threat.
“Military assistance is provided for by the treaty. But let's not speculate. So far, no one is going to enter anything anywhere. If there is a threat, then we will provide assistance in accordance with the ratified treaties, ”he said (quote about TASS ).
According to the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, the Russian Federation recognizes the DPR and LPR within the borders "in which they proclaimed themselves," TASS reports .
Journalists asked him if these borders include Mariupol.
"Nothing to say. Within the limits in which they exist and have been proclaimed. And they were proclaimed, and they exist, ”Interfax quotes Peskov.
He also commented on the possibility of introducing troops into the Donbass. According to him, the decision to send Russian troops to the DPR and LPR will be made depending on the situation and in the case of appeals from the heads of the republics.
Peskov added that a break in diplomatic relations with Ukraine is highly undesirable, it will make relations between the two countries and peoples even more difficult.
#8
This is a bargaining chip. Or if you prefer шахматы, Putin moving the Queen into striking position: check.
Magoo has to negotiate now. If someone in his admin is listening to reason, that is. "Independence" for Ukraine... with no NATO membership. A Ukrainian version of the sleight of hand formula we use vis-a-vis Taiwan
#9
WRT Taiwan, the gummint better pay whatever it takes to fast track Intel and Samsung's new chip fabs on US soil.
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Everything Putin has done this week has been 100 percent predictable. I knew Georgia Part II was on the table. If our "elite" had been paying attention they could have achieved a long lasting diplomatic solution.
But no.
Wew have old cold warriors applying the only thing they know about Russia thinking it will apply in reality.
Russia continues to call for talks despite the state department acting as though they don't need to talk, just impose sanctions.
#11
The people who actually won the cold war are mostly gone now. The office boys and girls that were there when it happened imagine themselves "old Russia hands" now. They couldn't be more wrong.
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There's nothing to negotiate.
There was nothing left to negotiate when the German Wehrmacht entered Prague.
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#13
Bidet and Blinkey "have the Bear right where it wants them" now.
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Alas, all those shrewd and clear-eyed Russia hands who predicted Russian revenge on NATO were ignored.
Alas, the most eloquent and learned voices have departed the scene: George Kennan, Stephen F. Cohen,
Bill Bradley traveled around Russia in the mid-1990s with liberal politicians and heard an earful about NATO from ordinary Russians -- long before anyone ever heard of Putin. But no one listened to Bradley in 2008 when he warned of this.
No one listened to two of our greatest IR theorists, Mearsheimer of Chicago or Schweller of OSU. The former explained it with crystal clarity 6 years ago. No one in our arrogant, mindless foreign policy establishment heeded him.
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#10 Russia continues to call for talks despite the State Department acting as though they don't need to talk, just impose sanctions.
As with their COVIDiocy, our elites are just mindlessly thrashing now. "It failed -- so let's do more of the same."
Sanctions are the stupidest of our many retarded policies. They failed vs Saddam. They failed vs Iran. They've failed every damned place they've ever been tried, simply ending up punishing ordinary people and turning them against us.
Before our pointless and futile sanctions were. Applied to Russia in 2014, the Russian people and we had a favorable view of the United States and its policies. Thanks for the chili attic sanctions, the Russians now have an overwhelmingly negative view of the United States and its policies.
So now they're talking about sanctions again -- when Russia has $650 billion in the bank and $130 billion worth of signed oil and gas deals with its new ally, China. Which has THREE TRILLION $ in reserves.
#18
COVID brought us the "we are all in this together" mantra. It's nonsense, but it's what the leftist elite are selling. It's an expansion on the R2P bullship...
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Last night CBS News reported that Putin had launched into a tirade about Ukraine on Russian TV. But, of course, neither CBS nor any other mainstream outlet would report on what the man actually had to say. So I went to Al Jazeera and found highlights. I posted it for tomorrow's Opinion section. They say there are two sides to every story but you'd never know it from watching CBS.
I'm sorry if people in Donbass are suffering. I don't like all the tension. Yes, I think Putin is a ruthless dictator and a scary thug and I have no way of knowing whether his tanks will roll into Kiev or not. But, at this point and from where I sit, I'm more afraid of Brandon and his media friends than I am of Putin.
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We have no strategic interest in Ukraine.
Except we told them we'd guarantee their security if they gave up their nukes.
This and the cave towards Iran will kick off a world-wide nuclear arms race.
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Except we told them we'd guarantee their security if they gave up their nukes.
This and the cave towards Iran will kick off a world-wide nuclear arms race.
Unless it was part of a treaty endorSed by the US Senate those promises are meaningless.
#25
We expect that sort of thing from Putin but we thought Trudeau was just an annoying liberal weenie. We'll see how long Trudeau can get away with it.
#26
And now the kabuki begins, with "harsh" sanctions.
Which have never had the slightest impact on Putin's calculations or conduct and won't now -- except of course for cementing the new Russia-China alliance. Brilliant.
But American Pravda laps it up: NYT flooding the zone with a dozen screaming headlines and articles, as if this comical, useless theater were another D-Day landing.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] The situation with the alleged Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to be approaching its logical conclusion
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The situation around Ukraine has escalated to such an extent that the next two days may be decisive. The Pentagon says Russia could launch a full-scale invasion today. In Ukraine, they believe that Russian troops are not yet ready for this. Meanwhile, the Kremlin is considering recognizing "LDNR". The decision will be announced today, marking a turning point in the conflict. Korrespondent.net follows the events around Ukraine online. Continued on Page 49
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[ColonelCassad] The press service of the Southern Military District reports that during the hostilities on the border of the DPR and the Russian Federation, five Ukrainian saboteurs and two infantry fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (hit by anti-tank weapons) were destroyed, who were trying to cross the Russian border to support one of the DRGs. There are no losses among the Russian military and border guards of the FSB who took part in the liquidation of the Ukrainian group.
"The subdivision of the formation of the Southern Military District, together with the border detachment of the FSB of Russia, prevented the violation of the state border of Russia by a sabotage and reconnaissance group from the territory of Ukraine.
February 21, 2022 at about 6 am Moscow time in the area of the settlement. Mityakinskaya, Rostov region on the section of the state border of the Russian Federation with the Republic of Ukraine, the border detachment of the FSB of Russia discovered the penetration of a sabotage and reconnaissance group.
To detain the sabotage group, the FSB border detachment of Russia requested reinforcements from the unit of the formation of the Russian armed forces of the Southern Military District allocated for the operational cover of the state border.
During the clash for the emergency evacuation of the sabotage group from the territory of Ukraine through the state border with the Russian Federation, two infantry fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered.
A unit of the Russian armed forces promptly arrived at the scene of the clash with fire from anti-tank weapons, and both infantry fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
As a result of the clash, five violators of the border of the Russian Federation from the sabotage and reconnaissance group were destroyed.
There are no casualties among the servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the border troops of the FSB of Russia.
A little earlier, the DPR UNM reported that there was a battle with two Ukrainian DRGs in this area after they blew up the artillery depot of the DPR army. It was also reported that someone's armored personnel carrier was destroyed in the area.
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"Someone's" armored car? That's a confused situation if you don't know who an armored cat belongs to.
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Been bugging me at odd moments for months that I can't find this viral-ish bit of video from a few years back: curious citizens exploring non-tank armored thingy abandoned on city street trigger autocannon, hitting building across intersection with a round or two, whereupon an old person shuffles out of doorway beneath point of impact looking more or less unhurt. Mariupol, maybe? Anyone?
#6
Been bugging me at odd moments for months that I can't find this viral-ish bit of video from a few years back: curious citizens exploring non-tank armored thingy abandoned on city street trigger autocannon, hitting building across intersection with a round or two, whereupon an old person shuffles out of doorway beneath point of impact looking more or less unhurt. Mariupol, maybe? Anyone?
We have stolen all we want from them so lets just sanction them.
[Jpost] China's foreign ministry spokesman said that the US arms companies' sale to Taiwan undermined China's security interests and China-US relations.
China has placed US companies Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Technologies Corp under sanctions over US arms sales to Taiwan.
The sanctions are countermeasures against the two companies over a $100 million February 7 arms sale that "undermined China's security interests, seriously undermined China-US relations and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait," foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular news briefing.
Beijing says that the self-ruled island of Taiwan is a breakaway province that must be reunified with the mainland.
"In accordance with the relevant stipulations in China's anti-foreign sanctions law, the Chinese government has decided to take countermeasures on the infringing acts of Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin," Wang said.
"Both are military enterprises that have long participated in US arms sales to China's Taiwan region."
This is the first time the companies have faced sanctions under China's new anti-foreign sanctions law drawn up last year in response to US sanctions against Chinese companies.
On at least two previous occasions China has announced sanctions against Lockheed and Raytheon, in 2019 and 2020, though Beijing provided no further details.
LONDON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Investors were bracing for a torrid day for Russian, Ukrainian and wider global markets when they reopen on Tuesday, after Vladimir Putin upped the ante in a crisis the West fears could unleash a major war.
#10
Kissenger/Nixon opening to China was based on the concept of triangulation. Seems familiar, but we seem to be on the wrong side of it. Our grandparents and parents (for us codgers) gave us a superpower based on strength, industry and confidence in our institutions, beliefs and exceptionalism. Seventy years later, we have squandered it and stopped believing in much of it beyond material plenty. And now that too is ending. It has been a chronicle of stupid choices and tolerance and coasting along on the belief that it will always be that way. The worst part for me is the mind-numbing lack of basic history and rudimentary situational awareness expected of a citizen. I look north and south and see nothing but our future as the globalist sewer rats loot what is left of the public trust and treasury.
I would try and tell our grandkids about the path that led to this to awaken them, but I can't fit it in 186 characters..
#11
/\ You did an excellent job of explaining the origins NBS.
The exploitation of cheap Chinese labor finds it's roots in the Kissinger/Nixon opening. Kissenger went on to make a successful career of coordinating investments in China. In fact, the crooked bastid is still at it today.
#2
This is why we need wage and price controls, before the price of gas AND the minimum wage go to infinity. Maybe they will work this time. Unlike all the other times when they just *bleep*ed up the economy even more. But we have to do *something*, right?
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That was actually one of the lines, something like, "The reason the shelves are empty and the prices are up is because the economy is doing so well people are buying, buying, and buying."
Went to a Big Sandwich store the other day, the one which used to sell you a lot of sandwich for $5, did double meat and cheese, $12, and only had as much meat and cheese as normal back in the $ day.
Only customer, walk in, dude repeated my request to me and the cashier, and wasn't a dullard, so distracted/forgot to double up is very unlikely.
My take, they did all the shrinkflation they could absorb and still make a sandwich with a straight face, and the price is up about 20% from the last time I ate there.
[NationalPost] The NDP voted in favour alongside the minority Liberals, with some expressing concerns a 'no' vote would have toppled the government.
The House of Commons on Monday night approved the extraordinary and temporary measures in the Emergencies Act, heeding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King... ’s warning that the "state of emergency is not over," even though police ended a three-week occupation in Ottawa and reopened border points to the U.S.
The motion to confirm the declaration of emergency passed 185-151, with the New Democrats voting in favour alongside the minority Liberal government.
The Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois opposed it.
The vote to approve the measures will keep them in place until mid-March at the latest and the Senate must also vote on the government’s request.
At any point, the Senate, House or government could pull support and the extraordinary powers stemming from the emergencies law would be torn up.
Speaking to news hounds on Monday before the vote, Trudeau made it clear that there are still protesters and truckers awaiting an opportunity to come back to Ottawa, some of which are in the towns of Arnprior and Embrun, respectively 70 and 45 kilometres away from Ottawa.
Trudeau, who invoked the Act last week, stressed his government does not want to keep it in place "a single day longer than necessary."
"But even though the blockades are lifted across border openings right now, even though things seem to be resolving very well in Ottawa, this state of emergency is not over. There continues to be real concerns about the coming days," he said.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh echoed these concerns in a subsequent presser. He said some protesters waiting in the surrounding areas of Ottawa "need to be cleared out" and alleged that some supporters of the occupation are "still hiding in Ottawa itself."
Singh said his party was fully prepared to pull its support and to trigger a vote on the necessity of the Emergencies Act — which expands police powers and enables banks to freeze accounts linked to supporters of the protests — once it would not longer be necessary.
#3
185-151 seems a fairly small margin. I do like the irony of Trudeau being the leader of the Liberal Party. Liberal, hah! I say it is time for the People to rise up and go all Confucian Rectification of Names on their commie asses. It's time to call a spade a spade.
#4
Well. The US senate just let freedom go to the back of the bus on 4 votes because 4 GOPe squishes stayed away from their jobs. So "the margin" doesn't really mean much.
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Like everywhere else, the hipsters in the cities love this. Until there's a weighting system that keeps blue urban zones from steamrolling everyone else, this is what you will get.
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#1
So the CDC and Scotland's Public Health Authority have both buried their vaccine data. There's transparency for you: transparent, brazen, obvious liars.
Even American Pravda knows these fvckers are lying.
Concern about the misinterpretation of hospitalization data broken down by vaccination status is not unique to the C.D.C. On Thursday, public health officials in Scotland said they would stop releasing data on Covid hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination statusbecause of similar fears that the figures would be misrepresented by anti-vaccine groups.
"Misinterpreted."
"Misrepresented."
"Misinformation" and even "malinformation."
Right.
Our "public health agencies" are now refusing to release health data to the public. We need a new name worthy of INGSOC's Ministry of Truth (propaganda) or Ministry of Love (torture) for these sick mofos... maybe Ministry of Death.
The proles -- and even Nobel shortlisted scientists like Dr Malone, or Dr Harvey Risch of Yale or Dr Kulldorff of Harvard -- can't be allowed to see actual data about the actual safety and efficacy of this failed gene therapy.
Clue for these clowns: the U.K.'s NIH are releasing their data, as have many other nations. It's horrifying. The cure is worse than the diseases.
They fvcked up royally. They panicked, and and forced us all into their monstrous, failed experiment.
But at least Britain and other north European countries are now showing enough good sense to admit failure and change course. But not the USSA or the People's Thistle Republic.
[GatewayPundit] Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem shared a new video on Monday highlighting the need to decertify the irredeemably compromised 2020 election in Arizona.
Mark Finchem is the Trump-endorsed candidate for Arizona Secretary of State.
Recently, Rep. Finchem introduced a resolution to decertify three 2020 county elections in Arizona and reclaim the state’s fraudulently certified electors. RINO Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who will decide whether or not this bill is assigned and voted on, immediately opposed Finchem’s resolution.
Rep. Finchem has challenged Rusty Bowers’ legal scholars to a debate with his attorneys on the resolution’s constitutionality. The Arizona Legislature must pass this resolution to restore voter confidence.
Please show me in the US and Arizona Constitutions the procedures to be followed for decertifying a Presidential election.
You'll pardon me if I don't hold my breath while you look that up.
Mike
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I have to agree with #1 on the legal point.
Plus it opens doors to constant political disruption to any hope of a smooth operating Admin. Unless Biden, Nancy, Chucky, and BJ knew the fix was in and assisted. Impeachment based on the fake election won't work even.
However, Biden Nancy and BJ have violated their Oaths of Office several times over and could be removed legally that way.
BUT.....
We have 3 branches of Gov. and we use to get, what we voted for.
Now politicians are elected by hacked Voting Machines, Elite political operatives, Social Media along with the cases of extra printed ballots.
The 3 branches of Government functionality was neutralized/corrupted the day the 2 Political Party system concept came into being. Then Voter Interests were only heard around election time.
NOW.....With all the phony ways to cast and count votes, voters are no longer even needed.
#3
show me in the US and Arizona Constitutions the procedures
Yeah, there's that. It appears that the Founding Fathers, despite their understanding of human nature and political systems, did not account for things going so far off into the weeds. But that is not the important bit.
The important part is that someone is saying this out loud. Anyone paying attention knows there were some election shenanigans, but you are not allowed to talk about it in polite company. The East German Stasi spend a lot of time shutting down dissent, not by throwing people in jail because you cannot arrest everybody, but by making sure no one talked out loud. But eventually, the signal gets through. Slowly at first. Then, all at once.
#1
Yum, chickpeas. I have a rice cooker and keep a casserole dish of mixed brown rice, chickpeas and lentils on the refrigerator top shelf. Instant meal when you add a can of something else and nuke it in the microwave.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] A suspect in Memphis, Tennessee, was taken into custody after he allegedly tried to set a local hospital and police officers on fire over the weekend.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King...
