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-Great Cultural Revolution
Executions by firing squad are beneath this country's dignity
[The Hill] South Carolina’s plan to carry out executions by firing squad was put on hold April 20 by the state supreme court, which granted temporary reprieves to two men who had elected that method under a state law requiring that condemned inmates choose either the firing squad or electrocution.

Forcing such a choice adds a sadistic element to execution’s cruelty and inhumanity. Being required to select a method of being killed is ghoulish and horrible.

As bad as the fact of choice is, the inclusion of the firing squad makes this legal requirement even worse. Execution by firing squad is beneath the dignity of any civilized nation.

Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science at Amherst College and the author of “Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution.”...so there is no method this tool won't object to
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2022 04:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But the government sanctioned, systematic slaughter of 50,000,000 innocent unborn or recently born infants since January, 1973 is..... "dignified?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2022 4:09 Comments || Top||

#2  As capital murder involves premeditation, the perps are all familiar with choosing a modality of death already.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2022 6:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Madame Guillotine awaits. Quick and proven effective. No record of 'ooops'.

Why should any person convicted of premeditated murder have the consideration of 'humane'?

Execution by firing squad is beneath the dignity of any civilized nation.

When you re-civilize this country we can consider it, but till then we're up to our *** in feral creatures that look human.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2022 6:59 Comments || Top||

#4  If we went by "eye for an eye," there would be lots of bludgeoning, strangulation and knife executions.

Hard on the guards? Maybe. Dirty secret is there are some that would get off on it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2022 7:03 Comments || Top||

#5  "I see a red sash disney+ subscription I kill a man..."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 7:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Compared to the electric chair or a botched lethal injection, a firing squad is very humane.

I would rather take that as when several high caliber rounds go through the heart and center chest, the body immediately goes into shock and the person is out of it almost instantly. Death follows seconds later. Nice and quick.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/08/2022 8:04 Comments || Top||

#7  It's pretty absurd we are still having this discussion in a country where every police evidence locker in even some small towns has enough fentanyl to kill everyone at the Super Bowl.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2022 8:06 Comments || Top||

#8  But Prospero explained The Super Bowl is a ball room event.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 8:13 Comments || Top||

#9 
Putting any hideous, sadistic murderer peacefully to sleep is not punishment or justice.

Such people need a mental and physical deterrent.

Whether it be Sparky, swinging and kicking, or airing out, each make a real deterrent.

I myself believe and support a simple execution standard, called "Execution In Kind" by some.
Using the method of execution that the Murderer used to kill his/her victim(s). It is no more cruel and unusual to the Murderer what was used.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/08/2022 8:15 Comments || Top||

#10  "Only God and Jesus can judge, who are you?!"

*shows video of San Fran choir rapist saying he's coming after my kids*

"Need some ammo?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 8:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Being required to select a method of being killed is ghoulish and horrible.

Considering that events ghoulish and horrible are what lead up to this decision point, I'm not real sympathetic. Besides, "My body, my choice", right?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/08/2022 8:32 Comments || Top||

#12  My error Skid, please forgive my careless I-fonery.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/08/2022 8:40 Comments || Top||

#13  "Only God and Jesus can judge, who are you?!"

Fine. We're here to arrange the meeting.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2022 8:42 Comments || Top||

#14  "He wants to stick his cock in your boy, don't you have something more appropriate than .17?"

"Well...I have a baseball bat. Got some welding tongs."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 8:54 Comments || Top||

#15  Would you feel better, little girl, if they was thrown outta windows?
Posted by: Raj || 05/08/2022 9:11 Comments || Top||

#16  The ones that like doodling little kids? Cage with horny 300 lb gorilla....
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2022 9:29 Comments || Top||

#17  Crucifixions have historically been underrated as deterrents.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2022 9:31 Comments || Top||

#18  well, they are saying there's a huge explosion of fentanyl coming thru the southern border......
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/08/2022 9:37 Comments || Top||

#19  Stormin norman: "forgiveness is g-ds business, mine is to arrange the meeting"
Posted by: irish rage boy || 05/08/2022 10:32 Comments || Top||

#20  Thanks, I kinda wondered. I just believe traditional punishments have merit.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/08/2022 11:19 Comments || Top||

#21  The was a reason executions used to be public...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/08/2022 11:57 Comments || Top||

#22  And yet the same people routinely broadcast that America is an undignified, inhumane fascist dictatorship.

Which is it, people? America can't be beneath its dignity and yet have no dignity.
Posted by: Blackbeard Unereck7174 || 05/08/2022 12:38 Comments || Top||

#23  Convicted murderers are a protected class. Conservative Supreme Court justices are not. Any questions?
Posted by: Matt || 05/08/2022 13:20 Comments || Top||

#24  Crucifixions have historically been underrated as deterrents.

Colloquially referred to as 'nail him down', has been show to reduce second offenses.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2022 15:16 Comments || Top||

#25  'Beneath our diginity'?

Oh, puleeze!
Posted by: Bobby || 05/08/2022 18:01 Comments || Top||


Digital Gulag
[PresentDangerChina] “Digital Gulag: Vaccine Passports, “Disinformation”, and a Cashless Society” examines how Americans are at extreme risk of losing basic freedoms to centralized digital platforms controlled by state bureaucrats and corporate enablers. Freedom of movement, association, speech, bodily autonomy, thought, privacy, and private property are all threatened. We welcome you to join us for this urgent and thought-provoking program.

Hosted by: The Stop Vaccine Passports Task Force sponsored by the Committee on the Present Danger: China and Women’s Rights Without Frontiers.
Posted by: 3dc || 05/08/2022 02:26 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Surber: PR firm goes from Woke to Nope
Judd Legum's headline did not do the story justice. It said, "PR giant advising corporate clients to stay silent on abortion rights."

The PR company -- Zeno -- is not just a giant but a Woke Giant. Its clientele includes other Woke Giants such as Coke, Netflix and Starbucks.

You remember Coke, right? It is that bottled fizzy water company that exhorted its employees to "try to be less white," a corporate racism that Florida banned last month.

49 other states should follow suit.

Zeno is woke. Kevin McCauley profiled the company in March, writing:

Zeno Shoots for Higher Purpose

Zeno Group scored a 39.9% surge in 2021 revenues to $118.9M as it captured 85 major new business wins and its Top Ten clients hiked spending about 40%.

"Never more so than over the last year, when global forces required businesses to think and act differently, Zeno fully demonstrated what's known to be true — companies that embody a higher purpose are stronger and more impactful, inside and out," said CEO Barby Siegel.

Beyond growing its revenues base, Zeno wants to be measured for making a positive impact on people's lives.

"The firm used pandemic 2021 to realize more deeply who Zeno is, why it exists and the firm's desired impact," said Siegel.

The goal is to "champion the courageous to achieve something better for humankind."

6 weeks later, Zeno junked all that Marxist marketing and told CEOs to STFU about social issues.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 05/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good on Florida!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 05/08/2022 3:54 Comments || Top||

#2  DeSantis accomplished this singlehandedly. No, wait...

A majority of the state legislature backed the governor on this. Polls show that those legislators' constituents back them on this.

This is the way our representative government is supposed to work.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2022 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder if they captured that business I had invested in who suddenly can't get their manual or storyline out of editing?

I got out. I still get updates; they are hilarious in the ineptitude.

DeSantis and Florida have my utomost respect; Kansas sheriffs, National Guard, and population in general telling the governess to punch off cancelling Easter was easy to ignore. Oklahoma, love you too.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 8:49 Comments || Top||

#4  It was reported recently that Disney lost 60+ billion in capitalization value. Even woke morons noticed!

Washington Examiner - Disney has lost $50 billion in value since war with Florida began

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/08/2022 12:00 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Who can rid us of this pesky rodent ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2022 12:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Probably time to redraw mickey as a hamster.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 12:58 Comments || Top||

#7  We need to get rid of the Bono copyright law and stick with the international Berne Convention.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 05/08/2022 14:18 Comments || Top||


Why the Dobbs Leak Is Dangerous
[First Things] This week's leak of the draft majority opinion in Dobbs, the Mississippi abortion case, is unprecedented. Leaks from the Court have occurred before, but this leak is different, a potentially shattering event, both because of the leaker's probable motives and the leak’s probable effects. Most likely, the leaker set out to intimidate one or more of the justices and affect the outcome of the case. Alternatively, the leaker hoped to destroy the Court as an institution -- in the approving phrase of one progressive commentator, to "burn this place down." The long-term consequences of the leak may be severe.

Past leaks from law clerks typically have come after the Court has issued a decision. They often seem explained by desires to set the record straight for history or, perhaps, to demonstrate the leaker's own significance (which, as a former clerk, I can attest to be typically little). If they come before a decision, leaks are usually spare and vague, hints at a likely vote tally or outcome. Such leaks do little to change the day-to-day workings of the Court.

But the leak of an entire draft opinion in the middle of deliberations in a vitally important case suggests something very different, a desire either to bully or destroy the Court as an effective institution. After this episode, justices will feel less secure about the confidentiality of their deliberations and think twice about what they put in drafts. The work of the Court will inevitably suffer. That is what makes this leak so damaging, however one feels about the ultimate issue at stake.
Posted by: KBK || 05/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes, "dangerous" as well as destructive to the court and the nation. No word yet on the identity of the leaker or leakers. No one fired? So will it happen again? Is this the first of many leaks to follow ?

Unfortunately, this unhappy event is likely headed to the memory hole.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2022 5:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Did the FBI raid the home of the reporter who fronted the leak? You know just like those seeking "The Diary"? Or is that treatment only reserved those not in the Inner Party? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2022 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  In my opinion its Roberts. They've got something dirty on him.
Posted by: Dale || 05/08/2022 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ The way the dems operate, if that was true, they'd have dropped it and replaced him with a drooling leftard at the first opportunity.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2022 8:04 Comments || Top||

#5  "... or destroy the Court as an effective institution."
Yes, they want to destroy anything that hinders their path to total power: Electoral College, US Senate, independent Judiciary, Free Press, all are rubbish to be cast aside. Gleichschaltung!
Posted by: magpie || 05/08/2022 13:27 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
A North Georgia Gem
[Garden&Gun] Nestled in the rolling hills of North Georgia, just one hour from Atlanta, lies Barnsley Resort, a 3,000-acre former estate that marries heritage, natural beauty, and world-class outdoor activities. Originally built in the 1840s by British shipping magnate Godfrey Barnsley as a home for his Savannah-born wife, Julia, the resort was designed in a unique walking village layout where guests can choose accommodations in the fifty-five-room inn or one of the luxurious stand-alone cottages—some of which are even pet-friendly. For a perfect introduction to the resort, guests are invited to climb aboard a complimentary bicycle and cruise around the verdant grounds, or meander down the property’s trails that wind along still ponds and over wooden bridges.
While you're in the area, stop by the Savoy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2022 04:57 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Thanks Besoeker for the heads-up...
Next trip to the WNC - NOC we'll check it out.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/08/2022 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Southern hospitality is nearly impossible to beat...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2022 8:03 Comments || Top||

#3  My wife and i were driving from mass. to fl. and the difference in attitude as we entered 'dixie' was notable. I have been perpatetic but my wife a born-in-ohio yank, noticed it also. Dixie! Yea!
Posted by: irish rage boy || 05/08/2022 10:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Some beautiful countryside in that area.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 11:20 Comments || Top||

#5  As a native Washingtonian, I grew up knowing God graced the South with beauty and great people, but forgot to temper the humid weather. The first time I took my lovely bride East (native Southern Californian) to Williamsburg for our belated honeymoon, we took the Red-Eye into then National Airport, got the rental car and drove directly there (4th of July, early afternoon, 1976), she stepped out of the air conditioned car and this charming, polished, daughter of an Episcopal clergyman and granddaughter of the Bishop of Los Angeles exclaimed: "Holy Sh*t, you gotta be kidding me!"
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/08/2022 11:53 Comments || Top||

#6  I've seen sturdy men buckle in that area during a round of July golf.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 20:35 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
This Week in Books, May 8th, 2022
First, Happy Mother's Day. Chicken Cacciatore, salad, breadsticks, rice or penne, 3-bean salad, iced tea and sweeteners, pinot noir for those who do not have or have finished their work day.

This article's link is to the 15th Anniversary of the Greensburg Tornado, famous for being so horrible because W. had Kansas Guard troops in Iraq or something, and only DiCapprio and his Green Initiative could save us or something.

Saw the other day in the post covering the Andover tornado and Springtime preps, H/T Trailing Wife. And yes, it has been above average busy but not because of storms. The Andover tornado was an interesting tornado because it was so clear. Usually there is so much debris you can't see the bits of house get hurled up in the air.

For those new to Tornado Land, this is why when seeking shelter you want to get as low as possible on the most leeward-side room, preferably without windows. Being under the twister's thumb is going to ruin your day. For the rest of the people it is debris which does the damage.

In our shelter area, each of us has a backpack suited to the individual's needs, clothing medicine glasses etc, 2 or 3 MREs, water, some of my old work boots and work gloves, and group needs like that clotting bandage wrap, flashlights, whistle, and a helmet. The idea is to duck and cover with that backpack and helmet on to add just a bit more protection.

Additionally, these packs also double as a basic bug out bag. I do have an extended leave bag, but in a need to grab and go these will cover the basics. Therefore, they need to be constantly updated especially as members grow into or out of specialized clothing and/or needs, such as diapers and medicines.

What I found interesting in my last re-pack was how much has changed in 15 years.

Information.
Numbered may be the days that us sorcerers can smell the wind and have a good idea what the weather is doing. The really neat trick, though, is having real time radar in my pocket. In that spirit, Battery Banks have been added for near negligible space and weight. Don't forget a cord. If you can communicate, you can coordinate your extraction. Sure beats the old time trick of taking a pack of hot dogs to help the S&R dogs find you.

First Aid.
Compared to 15 years ago, it is dang near DYI as imaginable. Streamlined tourniquets, clotting bandage wrap and pads, those bandages with staples built into them. Incredible. Consider that you may be injured, but long on the waiting list for professional help.

Walkie-Talkies.
These have come a long way, especially in the battery department. Also there are some which can coordinate with your devices, giving you additional communication abilities, especially if cell and internet service is unavailable. As always, having things set up before the emergency is the way to go.

Is there an initial setup cost? Sure, but that can be mitigated. Instead of the Ruk Ruk 2000 backpack, hit a military surplus location. A china bag from big box works just fine, too. Space blankets are $5, water and long term food can be figured. Then just add an item to your cart every time you go shopping to spread out costs, and before you know it you have your aspirin, anti-histamine, bandages, maybe get that weather radio with the built in flashlight, noise maker, and manual recharging crank, orange vest, so forth. Get the Surviving Sudden Severe Weather sorted, and then think about branching out into evacuation scenarios where, perhaps, that Ruk Ruk 2000 may cause you to stand out when you don't want to.

Going to end there for now; just this has taken 4 hours so if it is a bit choppy, apologies. And as always, this is an open discussion as nobody's situation is exactly the same.

BOOKS

Wilbur Smith and The Courtney Series.
Wow, talk about unapologetically masculine especially in today's puri-tyrannical humanities, or lack thereof, environment. I had so much fun I caught myself looking around the room to make sure the kids weren't reading any of it over my shoulder.

Jock of the Bushveld, Sir Percy FitzPatrick
Got to read this to see if son is ready yet. I'm not sure he is just yet, but I certainly enjoyed it.

Sailing Alone Around the World, Joshua Slocum
Real-life adventure and very enjoyable style.

Soldiers of the Sun, Meirion Harries
H/T badanov; it really did fill in some gaps concerning Japan leading into WWII. It also is flowing very nicely into:

Shattered Sword, Jonathon Parshall and Anthony Tully
Just getting started and so far I am very impressed. I hope it will fold well into:

Who Can Hold the Sea, James Hornfisher
This is about the US Navy 1945-1960. I have thoroughly enjoyed all of his other books.

Once an Eagle, Anton Myrer
It has been a while, but there was some discussion of whether Sam Damon's time had gone. I have failed to come to the defense of Sad Sam, not because I didn't think his social ladder shrew of a wife didn't take every opportunity to press him or be queen of the ball, but because I just didn't like the prose. I found it choppy and, perhaps because I was tired and at the end of the day, found myself having to re-read sections as the character changed and I could not immediately deduce whom to. There are some great parts, but overall I just got tired of her drama. There are plenty of scholarly reviews available if you are wanting something more highbrow than "got sick of her shit."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are also alerts available for emergency situations. Just check out what you may want to subscribe to so your phone doesn't blow up every time Karen loses her cat in a tree.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 8:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I slept through the tornado warning two nights ago, even though the phone was right next to me. The thunder woke me up after it passed to the northeast.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2022 8:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Got pinged a few weeks back. Knew the thing was at least 30 miles out.
(long ways away)

How I saw myself was as Bill Paxton....what everyone else saw, well that's their testimony. Tornado didn't land though.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 8:19 Comments || Top||


Britain
Guilty Secrets and the Fall of the National Health Service in the UK
[USSA News] (These are my views as a woman living in England, on how the culture and spirit of my country has changed over 50 years. Why the country does not feel protected or strong any more, how it has lost, and is losing it values and decency, and how we are daily losing our free speech.)

"But don’t be afraid of those who threaten you. For the time is coming when everything that is covered will be revealed, and all that is secret will be made known to all. What I tell you now in the darkness, shout abroad when daybreak comes. What I whisper in your ear, shout from the housetops for all to hear! — Matthew 10:26-28

I have a very guilty secret. I have been watching the Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard court case on a daily basis. It is intriguing. I have also followed it up with an analysis by body language experts to see if I agree with their observations. One of whom schools the G7 participants! I have been late for appointments and late going to bed. One could say it has been a massive’distraction’. It has certainly been exhausting.

It is a fascinating insight into how lies and abuse can be so manipulated that an innocent person can be become the villain, and vice-versa. I am now wondering how many people who having watched this have made the correlation of this drama being conducted, into the experiences that we go through in life, and have especially related it to the drama we are all going through now?

Are you a perpetrator, a victim, or a survivor in life from abuse? Or just an innocent bystander? What is the truth? They are hard questions we should all ask ourselves.

After listening to the exhaustive testimony of Johnny Depp without any interruption or cross examining, I thought how fortunate he was to have had the privilege of being able to tell his story. Some people just don’t get the opportunity. It was painful to listen to and yet insightful. Yes, so called ’fact checker’s’ were on hand, and some tried to trip him up and silence him, but on the whole free speech was allowed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2022 09:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Adventures of a Canadian sniper in Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin. Passages in bold from the original sources.

[ColonelCassad] The story of the adventures of the Canadian sniper "Vali" in Ukraine. In our country, along the way, they managed to declare him "killed in Mariupol" (where he had not been at all), and among the Ukrainians, they said that he had already opened his combat account. The reality turned out to be a little different.

Details of the adventures of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine

Canadian newspaper La Presse published (https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2022-05-06/retour-du-tireur-d-elite-wali/la-guerre-c-est-une-deception-terrible php) an interview with the sniper Vali, who returned from Ukraine, about whom Ukrainian propaganda methodically made legends. In short, "one of the best snipers in the world" fired only two shots in two months. By the windows. This war is a complete sham."

Most mercenaries return home disappointed, having never been to the front.
"I'm lucky that I'm still alive at all, we walked on the edge."

The last straw was the combat mission, in which the mercenaries acted together with Ukrainian conscripts. At the position, which was under fire from Russian tanks, two Ukrainian soldiers rose to smoke. Vali tried to stop them, but they didn't listen. A few seconds later, a shell flew at them "with jewelry accuracy". "The explosion was terrible. I suddenly lost my hearing and felt a headache. It was tough." Vali realized that the Ukrainians could no longer be helped. "It smelled of death. It's hard to describe, a terrible smell of burnt flesh, sulfur and chemicals. An inhuman smell."

After that, Vali called his wife. "He tried to explain that he had witnessed two deaths. He said: I think I've done enough already, huh? Have I done enough? Like he wanted me to tell him to go home."

For most of the mercenaries who crossed the border, the process of finding a unit to join was chaotic and agonizing. "Zelensky called everyone, but the officers on the ground were absolutely helpless. They didn't know what to do with us."

Wali himself and several other Canadians joined the Normandy Brigade, a private mercenary force commanded by a retired Canadian soldier from Quebec with the call sign "Hrulf". However, members of the brigade immediately began to show discontent, many deserted. Three mercenaries told La Presse that Hrulf promised them weapons and protective equipment, but in the end did nothing. Some of the mercenaries were 40 kilometers from the front without body armor.

"If the Russians had launched an offensive, we would all have been in danger. It was the irresponsibility of the brigade command," admits one of the mercenaries.

The desertion of mercenaries is confirmed by the commander of the "Norman Brigade" Hrulf himself. According to him, about 60 people deserted in total. Some wanted to conclude a contract on terms that would grant them combatant status and guarantee medical care at the expense of the Ukrainian authorities. Others tried to set up a scam to steal $500,000 provided by the Americans.

"Many expected everything to be easy and simple, but in war it's the other way around. It was a terrible disappointment," Vali concludes.

To find the weapon, one had to go through Kafkaesque adventures. "You need to know someone who knows someone else who will say that in this old barbershop they can give you an AK-47. All equipment must be collected piece by piece, here and there, sometimes in good condition, sometimes not."

Mercenaries also obtained food and gasoline themselves. "Even food was often given to us by civilians. The same with gasoline to fill up the car. You constantly need to decide something, to know the right people."

A few weeks later, the most trained mercenaries were selected by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine and, according to them, began to be involved in operations behind enemy lines. The rest roam around rented housing and wait until someone agrees to take them into their squad.

At the same time, most of the mercenaries decided to return home. "Many people come to Ukraine and want to fight, but they leave with their tails between their legs," says Vali.

Ultimately, Vali admits, he himself fired two shots at the windows "to scare" the enemy, and in reality was never in the enemy's range of fire. "This is a war of technology, where the brave Ukrainian soldiers suffer heavy losses under fire and miss a lot of opportunities due to lack of technical training."

Thanks for the material to the Telegram subscriber named "Tolyanchik"

Plus the material on the mercenary brigade itself.

Extravagant commander and lack of weapons: Canadian mercenary about serving in the Normandy Brigade.

Since March, the so-called unofficially operates in Ukraine. The Normandy Brigade is a group of mostly Canadian mercenaries. The unit consists of several dozen fighters and is actually part of the "International Legion of Ukraine", although legally it is in no way connected with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The "Normandy Brigade" is not subordinate to the Ukrainian forces and acts as a kind of PMC in the southeast direction.

The National Post newspaper published an interview with a Canadian mercenary ( https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/turmoil-for-norman-brigade-canadian-led-foreign-battalion-in-ukraine ) Paul, who spoke about the terrible conditions of service and suicidal behavior of the commander of the "brigade":

▪️ Paul is 27 years old, he is a veteran of the French Foreign Legion, he lived in Ottawa. In early April, he recruited several Canadians and went with them to Ukraine. In the Normandy Brigade, he became deputy commander, but soon became disillusioned with the unit.

▪️The "Brigade" is led by a former French legionnaire from Quebec, callsign "Hrulf". He is obsessed with liberating his Ukrainian wife's native village and sports a tattoo of the Black Sun, popular among local nationalists.

"This is everything our grandfathers fought against in the Second World War," said colleagues.

▪️The hero of the interview says that Khrulf is not able to provide either the supply of his unit or the coordination of actions with the Ukrainians. The "Normans" literally live in dungeons, sleep on the floors, starve and are constantly sick.

▪️The second problem of the Normandy Brigade is the total shortage of weapons. According to its veterans, only a third of Khrulf's subordinates received AK-47s and one or two magazines of cartridges. The rest were sent unarmed to the front lines to dig trenches, handing out weapons for staged photos for Facebook reports. At the same time, Khrulf accepted donations on behalf of the brigade and sold paraphernalia, but the mercenaries did not receive new weapons.

▪️“Hrulf” constantly risks his subordinates, throwing untrained mercenaries into battle, while he himself “makes himself some kind of stupid Easter commander.”

“He puts the lives of unsuspecting young Canadians in danger who just want to go and watch the fight. It's just crazy, real suicide, ”says Paul.

▪️In Canada, the Normandy Brigade is already being denied support. The founder of the FightforUkraine.ca portal, Chris Eklund, dissuades Canadians from joining the Khrulf team, calling it incompetent.

▪️After a public conflict with the commander, Paul and other mercenaries left the "Norman Brigade" and joined the "International Legion", considering it a more organized structure. Khrulf's only defender, sniper Vali, who left in March, assures that the conditions in the "brigade" are the same as in any foreign unit in Ukraine.

Posted by: badanov || 05/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A short story not a novel …
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 05/08/2022 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2022 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Seems to me like this is typical loser Russki projection.

Sooner you hateful bastards go home( this means you, too, REDACTED), sooner everyone can return to normalcy, Ukraine intergrating into NATO and the EU, Russia back to being the murderous culture it's been since day 1 of your moral vomit culture.

Please attack the message, not the messenger. It's the way we roll around here.
Posted by: Omaing Stalag1261 || 05/08/2022 15:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Seems to me like this is typical loser Russki projection.

You sound like a bigot. You a bigot?
Posted by: badanov || 05/08/2022 16:45 Comments || Top||

#5  I was under the impression that you are of French extraction, badanov, and not Russian at all, despite your fondness for the languages of the region and military stuff.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 17:29 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 I was under the impression that you are of French extraction, badanov, and not Russian at all, despite your fondness for the languages of the region and military stuff.

Family name is of French extraction for sure.

I also have been accused of being of Basque extraction (mother's maiden name Francisco)

And some American Indian.
Posted by: badanov || 05/08/2022 17:42 Comments || Top||

#7  All those DNA tests are showing that identity is a slippery thing here in America. Elsewhere, too, of course, with all those migrations and marauding armies spreading their identities across the landscape... And then on the internet, where no one, ‘tis said, can know if you’re actually a dog.

It does make insulting others more than a bit chancy, as we saw here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 18:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Please attack the message, not the messenger. It's the way we roll around here.
Posted by Omaing Stalag1261 2022-05


Another commenter gets attacked for calling out M Murcek.

Dang. He must a great piece of arse when besoeker, badanov. and Frank g (aka Fat Gut), THE VILLAGE IDIOTS, 'roll in the hay around here' with Murcek...
Posted by: Bugs McGurque4586 || 05/08/2022 18:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Dang. He must a great piece of arse when besoeker, badanov. and Frank g (aka Fat Gut), THE VILLAGE IDIOTS, 'roll in the hay around here' with Murcek...

I bet you would be a barrel of laughs at a smoker.
Posted by: badanov || 05/08/2022 18:53 Comments || Top||

#10  What’s a smoker in this context, badanov?
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 23:23 Comments || Top||


Briefly about Ukraine. 07.05.2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin

[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
The process of evacuating civilians from the territory of Azovstal has been completed. The resumption of intensive bombing of the remaining Nazis is expected, as well as a further reduction in the territory controlled by them after losing positions at the waste heaps.

2. Zaporozhye.
On the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole line, fighting continued south of Orekhov and on the outskirts of Gulyaipole. Positional battles also continued to the east of Gulyaipole to Velikaya Novoselovka.

3. Ugledar.
There is no serious progress on the Novomikhailovka-Ugledar-Velikaya Novoselovka line. Fights are mostly positional in nature.

4. Marinka.
There is no significant progress in the village. As before, the battles are going on in the area of ​​the waste heap.

5. Avdievka.
There is no progress in the industrial zone of Avdievka. To the north of Avdievka, fighting continued at Novoselka-2, Novobakhmutovka, and in the area of ​​Troitskoye in the direction of New York.

6. LPR.
A significant advance in Popasna led to the fact that the enemy withdrew most of the forces from the city. It is reported about the cleansing of the northern regions of Popasna. Perhaps in the near future the capture of Popasna will be announced, which opens the way for advancement to Artemovsk.

In Severodonetsk, fighting is taking place on the outskirts, and the front is also approaching Lisichansk. Over the past couple of days, Voevodovka and Svetlichnoye have been taken, the enemy has lost some of its positions on the outskirts of Severodonetsk. There are signs of preparations for the withdrawal of part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Severodonetsk to Lysichansk.

7. Kharkov.
After moving away from Stary Saltov, which was occupied by the LNR reservists, the RF Armed Forces withdrew from several villages on the outskirts of Kharkov, leaving Tsirkuny among them. The enemy continues to strain the secondary direction for the RF Armed Forces in order to force them to ease pressure on the Izyum direction and transfer forces to the Kharkov direction.

A perfectly reasonable strategy. The RF Armed Forces apparently plan to be more active here only after the completion of operations in the Donbass. Nevertheless, the situation certainly requires strengthening the front on the Kazachya Lopan-Volchansk line.

8. Izyum.
Fighting continues in the area of ​​Bolshaya Kamyshevakhi, as well as to the north of the Slavyansk-Barvenkovo ​​highway. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to stay in the Krasny Liman area, and are also strengthening Seversk. Slavyansk and Kramatorsk are being systematically attacked.

9. Nikolaev.
Positional battles of medium intensity continue + positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Nikolaev are regularly processed by MLRS and various missiles. There is no traffic on the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog directions.

10. Odessa.
The enemy continues to declare the possibility of an amphibious assault near Odessa, and also continues to arrange provocations on the border with Transnistria. In addition, Ukraine tried to arrange an amphibious assault on Serpent's Island, which ended in failure and heavy losses. However, it is clear that, with NATO support, an attempt is being made to change the balance of power in the northwestern part of the Black Sea.

More from Rozhin:
They took Popasnaya

It was painfully long, but still.

Today they took Popasnaya. The remnants of the forces of the 24th brigade left their positions in the city in the morning and retreated.

The city center is completely controlled by our troops. Cleansing is still going on in the northern and western outskirts.

In fact, the biggest success in recent days. Now new opportunities are opening up for an offensive in the direction of Artemovsk.

It is also worth noting that after the capture of Popasna, only 2 unliberated large settlements remained on the territory of the LPR - Lisichansk and Severodonetsk.

Posted by: badanov || 05/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the Russians really, really would like to
take Lisichansk and Severodonetsk. These two cities were captured by pro russian militia in May 2014 but then the militia were defeated by Ukraine military by Sept 2014.

Ukraine has a pretty robust defensive position on the outskirts of these two cities. Russian forces are only 10 km or so away.

Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/08/2022 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  American and Brit’s can wage war without skin in the game Printing their worthless fiat money does not hurt anyone; the military-industrial complex continues to make profit instead. For them, it is still a war without real cost.
The absence of skin in the game leads to a situation where nobody takes responsibility, there is no incentive for that. With a president with advanced dementia, there is not even anyone to talk to reasonably.
Thus, by acting relatively mildly and measured as Russia did so far, it will never stop the empire’s war machine from escalating. This may lead to Armageddon. Russia therefore needs to play out its strength and point to the weaknesses of the enemy.

If the U.S. England or French continues to help Ukraine inflicting damage on Russia (sinking of "Moskva", explosions in Russia), Russia should publicly threatening the U.S. carriers and sinking one of them must therefore be an option. With its hypersonic missiles, Russia can do that and the U.S. or nato does not have the means to prevent that. The consequences would be the following:

The risk of nuclear escalation is not higher, on the contrary. Europeans will whine and cry about Article 5 implementation, but beyond rhetoric, they can do nothing. The president cannot go nuclear for the loss of one carrier, because he risks the annihilation of his country. Escalating conventionally would put their entire fleet at risk.
Posted by: Frank A. || 05/08/2022 14:43 Comments || Top||

#3  You left out the photo that should accompany your comment.
Posted by: Matt || 05/08/2022 14:58 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Another nightmarish scenario - Concurrent with the ongoing NORK testing, firing an RU 16 Bulava SLBM from North Korean waters at Guam.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2022 15:01 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 - *SNORT*
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2022 15:27 Comments || Top||

#6  From the moon of Alabama org.
Another most effective short-term way to retaliate for U.S. involvement is likely to personally harm U.S. celebrities, journalist warmongers, criminals like the Kagan Nuland duo or Congress hawks like Adams and Kinzinger. These folks are cowards when it comes to their life. Put THEIR skin into the game and things will change. Russia does not have the capabilities to do such but there are people for hire who do.
The Russian president Vladimir Putin is a very mindful man. I am sure that he and his team have thought through potential counter measures and decided to activate those that will harm the U.S. in the longer term. Their plan is to convince the deep state in the U.S., especially the people who own Biden, as well as the Pentagon and the CIA, that continuing the war will, over time, be more harmful to their aims than to Russia's.
This is an interesting idea floating around, that many are contemplating Maybe Russia should want US and NATO to escalate.
In this incoming weeks if Nato (USA) get in trapped attacking Transnistria which is a huge escalation, a sinking of a carrier, or the destruction of British navy ports would be justified and most important It will should be announced that Nato expanded the war first.

Posted by: Frank A. || 05/08/2022 15:36 Comments || Top||

#7  https://www.moonofalabama.org/.

Which post is your quote drawn from, Frank A.?
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 17:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Here is the link
Posted by: badanov || 05/08/2022 17:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Re: Vicky Nuland.
Well, why didn't they do anything years ago? That slob Nuland just hangs around like that person who doesn't know when it is time to leave a host's house/party.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/08/2022 21:53 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Biden's Thug Government
[National Review] The Democrats don’t care about politically motivated violence, American institutions, or the Constitution.

If Democrats and other Trump obsessives are really wondering why much of the country couldn’t care less about the Capitol riot, they need look no further than the Biden administration’s disgraceful response to the criminal leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion in the Dobbs abortion case, and to the intensifying threats from the radical Left that endanger the justices, their families, and the Court as an institution.

It is worse than a nonresponse. It is worse than a reckless response. The Biden administration and Democratic Party activists are complicit in the extortionate, norm-busting, burn-it-down id of the woke progressivism they extol.

It is thug government.
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Home Front: Politix
Dark Money‐Not the Grassroots‐Is Behind the Convention of States Organizations
[USSA News] Patriots are rightly concerned that Mark Meckler, lobbyist and President of the Convention of States organizations (COS), has spent tens of millions of dollars spreading misinformation and cajoling State Legislatures into passing applications asking Congress to call a convention under Article V of the U.S. Constitution. Thirty-four States are needed to pass such applications to trigger a constitutional convention, where a new Constitution would likely be proposed, along with an easier mode of ratification. So, who is behind COS?

Meckler tells state legislators that COS is a grassroots movement, funded by thousands of ordinary citizens. In fact, since December, 2017, the COS homepage boasted:

WHO’S BEHIND THIS THING?
The American people. We thought you’d never ask! The Convention of States Project is first and foremost a movement of grassroots citizens who are fed up with business as usual in D.C. We’re funded by thousands of everyday patriots who have committed their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to protecting liberty for future generations.

But Andy Schlafly, attorney and son of conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, testified at a Pennsylvania hearing on Oct. 22, 2019 against COS’s Article V convention application (@ 11:55):

Schlafly: "...[W]ho’s funding them? Where’s the money coming from? There’s a lot of money behind this. And they’re not disclosing where the money behind this push to change the Constitution is coming from. That should scare everybody in this room. Who are these people who are pushing to rewrite the Constitution? I suspect some of them are globalists, but ask them...it’s not disclosed. And I’m certainly not in favor of allowing billionaires who don’t disclose their identity...[or] their real agenda...to rewrite our Constitution. That’s not a good idea."

Meckler, at the same hearing, feigning outrage, fumed (@ 46:11):

Meckler: "...[W]ho’s funding this? Any of you at any time are welcome to visit our very fancy corporate offices in my house in Texas. In my personal home office off the kitchen, where all the billionaires apparently come visit me. It’s an outrage and a slander. And this kind of slanderous politics takes this discussion to someplace it should not go, which is frankly, it’s just slander, and innuendo. It’s gutter politics. And I don’t believe in it...
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2022 10:02 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So what do you believe these days.
Posted by: Dale || 05/08/2022 10:59 Comments || Top||

#2  VERBUM VINCET - The Latin Motto Of PSYOPS
Language : Latin
Translation in English : The word of the conqueror
Recruitment ad for SPECOPS PSYWAR
"https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ghosts-in-the-machine/"
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/08/2022 11:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Few things frighten me more than the prospect of another Constitutional Convention. For one thing, our political class has gotten a lot stupider and less statesmanlike since 1787. The president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention was George effin' Washington. Who would take his place? AOC? Maxine Waters? Barbara Lee Jordan? For another, the Constitution is built on a series of hard-fought compromises. Today any delegate who proposed a moderate solution would have demonstrators following his kids to school.
Posted by: Matt || 05/08/2022 11:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Before you panic, the Convention only acts like Congress proposing amendment. It still take 3/4 of the state to ratify. Looking at the red/blue map, I doubt if anything has a chance of passing unless it asserts states rights.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2022 18:18 Comments || Top||



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