[Babylon Bee] U.S.—The death toll is continuing to rise in connection with the devastating January 6th riots, as one of the attendees has died of a heart attack a year-and-a-half after he was pictured eating a corndog there.
"Over a year after this horrific attack on our holy democracy, the catastrophic death toll continues to rise," said Congressman Adam Schiff. "The death of Bob Billings of a massive heart attack after eating one of the artery-clogging corndogs sold at the Capitol Riot again reminds us of how deadly and dark this dark-deadly day was. That must be, like, a thousand dead now. Those of us still here are lucky to be alive."
Congress is investigating more charges that can be brought against Trump in connection with Billings' death, in addition to the other casualties—such as those who got in car accidents on the way home from the rally, those who died of January 6th-connected myocarditis, and those who died of heartbreak due to Biden being inaugurated.
"It may be many years before we really know the true death toll of January 6th, but you can be sure we will continue to talk about it until it no longer effectively raises campaign funds for us," said Schiff.
At publishing time, Congress announced the additional January 6th death of a protestor who claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton.
#4
At the County Museum of Art
I smelled tar, and a dinosaur fart,
And then something stronger
That lingered much longer,
A "Do you feel lucky?" dog cart.
[Babylon Bee] Some things about Donald Trump are common knowledge. For example, he's everyone's favorite President of the United States. Duh! But you may be surprised to find there are many things you still don't know!
Here are some other awe-inspiring facts about your favorite president:
He said his first word at 6 weeks of age: The word was "tremendous."
Scientists have determined his ruggedly handsome facial features and body type represent the ideal male form: Confirming what we already knew.
Mensa rejected him for being too smart: It was shattering the confidence of the other geniuses.
His Windsor knot is always geometrically perfect: As confirmed by hyper-sensitive laser measuring devices.
That's not a gut, it's just one huge ab: The largest ab, maybe ever.
He has read many, many books: All the books, really. He's really good at books.
He has already visited Mars: But no one noticed since he's the same color.
He drinks 32 cups of coffee before bed just to calm down: And 48 Diet Cokes to wake up in the morning.
God once allowed Trump to shield himself behind a rock as God's glory passed by, but Trump went ahead and stared directly at it and it didn't even hurt him: But it did leave his countenance permanently orange.
When Kim Jong-Un played his round of golf at 38 under par, Trump played with him and beat him by 12 strokes: He is the greatest golfer who ever lived.
His limo has a Taco Bell inside it: And a Pizza Hut.
Gordon Ramsey once referred to Trump's way of eating steak (well done with ketchup) as "bloody delicious, spot on.": And don't get Ramsey started on the delicious Trump Tower Taco Bowl!
Every night when he goes to bed, he says a little prayer for you: He truly cares.
A childhood accident made him unable to tell a lie: Rumors say a rock fell on the part of his head that controls lying.
The Vatican is currently discussing granting Trump sainthood as the patron saint of winning: It's about time.
His humility knows no bounds: An example to us all.
He might be your dad: Unless your Mom is Rosie O'Donnell.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] "I think that we have belatedly engaged in the serious introduction of unmanned vehicles. This is objective" (c) Deputy Prime Minister Borisov
Briefly, on the official recognition of Deputy Prime Minister Borisov on the topic that the army is not properly provided with UAVs. Despite all the sarcasm about the recognition of an obvious fact, it is worth noting that official recognition is an important step towards solving the problem.
Just as after the Olympic War, the lack of normal reconnaissance UAVs was recognized as a significant problem, which played an important role in the subsequent development of the industry and the emergence of those UAVs that worked in subsequent conflicts.
The problem, at the current stage, seems to be that the Russian Federation has a whole zoo of various models of drones - reconnaissance, strike, kamikaze, but their total number for the current tasks of the front is obviously not enough. The problem is in quantity, not quality. You can cite the combat experience of Syria, Libya, Karabakh as much as you like, but it is obvious that this direction of the military-industrial complex does not provide the army in conditions where the nature of this particular war requires not tens, but thousands of UAVs on a huge front - from small quadrocopters for an infantry platoon and loitering ammunition to full-fledged ROCK and powerful strike UAVs.
The volume of UAVs operating in Azerbaijan in Karabakh, the modern front in Ukraine will grind into porridge in a week. This also applies to the Libyan theater of operations. A completely different scope of the theater of operations and completely different volumes. Total. Not only UAVs.
Now we are operating in a situation where what the army has is added to what the civil society sends through humanitarian aid. This is obviously not enough. It's good that the state has gone from the dead-end position "Shut up shit, the authorities know better" to the adequate "yes, there is a problem, we are solving it."
This highlights both the urgency of the problem and the fact that it is being seriously addressed. When there will be a structural effect from this activity, it is difficult to say without being immersed in the structures of the military-industrial complex. At the front, of course, they judge simply - UAVs for different tasks either exist or not.
The problem can and should be solved by states by increasing production (which is already happening), deploying new assembly lines (I hope this is also happening) and building new enterprises (I hope that there will be more factories for the production of UAVs in the country as a result of this war).
Along the way, it makes sense to consider the possibility of purchasing UAVs abroad (in addition to the obvious purchases of quadrocopters from the Chinese). Including kamikaze and percussion. There is no need to be shy here, especially if the problem is already recognized.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/53558 - zinc
PS. The fact that UAVs will play an ever-increasing role in local wars has been written since the mid-10s, based on the study of the experience of wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Karabakh. The current situation only confirmed the earlier conclusion that UAVs would become an integral part of the modern battlefield in the wars of the 20s with a significant degree of influence on the course of hostilities, without being some kind of prodigy.
Now, it's just the same mandatory program as a gun, tank or rocket launcher. Who did not understand this before the war in Ukraine, now I think they could see in practice some changes in the nature of hostilities that are formed as a result of the massive use of UAVs by the warring parties for various tasks.
The fact that we have been delayed with a massive implementation is bad. For a conflict of the level of Syria, what was maybe and was enough. But for the war in Ukraine, this was not enough. Moreover, it cannot be said that they did not know about this problem and that everyone was silent about it. This created unnecessary problems for us, which we have to solve as we go along.
Obviously, this experience, both negative and positive, will affect the development of the entire industry and will obviously lead to a multiple increase in the number of UAVs in the army. Hence the moral - do not be late with the UAV. And in general, do not be late - those who lag behind in the modern carnivorous world are beaten.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
In Severodonetsk, the remnants of the Armed Forces grouping in the industrial zone of the Azot plant are actually in an operational environment, a full-fledged supply of the group after the last bridge was blown up is impossible.
2. Kharkov.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after the capture of Rubizhne, developed an offensive on Stary Saltov and started fighting in the village itself. The enemy is trying to counterattack in the direction of Rubezhnoye and Ternovoe. Fighting also continued in the area of Tsirkunov and the village of Liptsy.
3. Izyum.
Fighting in the area of Bolshaya Kamyshevakha and Kurulka. Fighting continues in the Bogorodichny area as well.
4. Slavyansk.
The RF Armed Forces are regrouping, reinforcing the shock fist near Svyatogorsk, and also probing the enemy defenses near Sidorovo. The crossing of the Seversky Donets in other areas was not carried out.
5. Zolotoye.
Fighting on the outskirts of Vrubovka, Toshkovka and Ustinovka. The road to Gorskoye has not been cut yet.
6. Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
Fighting in the Pokrovsky area, as well as in the area of the village of Rota.
7. Soledar.
Fighting continues near Belogorovka and Berestovoye. Highway Lisichansk-Artemovsk under the fire control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
8. Avdievka.
No significant changes. Fighting in the region of Krasnogorovka and New York. The Orlovka-Avdievka route has not been cut and is available for supplying the Avdievka group. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have traditionally carried out intensive terrorist shelling of Donetsk, trying to force the assault on Avdievka or to ease pressure on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in other directions.
9. Zaporozhye.
On the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka line, no changes were made. As well as further in the direction of Ugledar and Marinka.
10. Nikolaev.
Positional battles in the villages between Nikolaev and Kherson. On Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions without changes.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
The last bridge connecting Lisichansk and Severodonetsk was blown up, which means only one thing, the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries (in total about half a thousand militants) at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk was surrounded.
Now they have two options: either "evacuate" into captivity or die.
At the same time, the "bottleneck" for the enemy grouping in Lisichansk is narrowing. To date, the width of this “neck” along the Nikolaevka-Belogorovka line is less than 18 km. May as well be 1,800 kilometers
Blocked the Ukrainian garrison in the city of Zolote. After Kamyshevakhi was liberated from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as with access to Vrubovka and along the Orekhovo-Gorskoye line, the Ukrainian garrison in Zolote was finally blocked. Russian troops are stationed in the south, east and west, and the road leading from Zolote to Lisichansk (route R-66) is under full fire control from the RF Armed Forces and units of the NM LPR.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
As a note: there has been a marked increase in artillery attacks and resulting civilian casualties on western Donetsk city and in Gorlovka. These artillery strikes vary from those that went on starting in 2014, in that now the civilian casualty rate is much higher.
At the outset of the war, I figured the Russians would first move to clear out Ukrainian forces arrayed against Donetsk in the northern and western sectors before attempting operations elsewhere; that the Ukrainians before they capitulate or withdraw, would do as much damage as they could.
If you've read any at all from the Russian perspective and even in past reports -- starting in Jan, 2015 that have been on display at Rantburg -- the three locales the artillery is coming from, Avdievka, Opytnoye, and Peski, have been very tough positions for the separatist forces to take, so much so that until this war, separatist forces had not even tried to take for the casualties they could suffer.
[ColonelCassad] Today, more than 120 Grad and Uragan MLRS rockets, as well as from 100 to 150 artillery shells of 155-mm caliber (NATO) have been fired at Donetsk.
Officially they talk about the dead and 22 wounded. The numbers are not final. Dozens of houses and buildings were damaged.
1. The shelling of Donetsk, obviously, is of a terrorist nature and has no direct military meaning. Just as the vast majority of the shelling of Donetsk since 2014 had no direct military meaning.
2. Nevertheless, the hidden meaning of the terrorist shelling of Donetsk is that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the army of the DPR reduced pressure on Artemovsk, Severodonetsk and Slavyansk, throwing part of their forces into the dubious frontal assault on the Avdeevsky fortified area, because the main striking forces are concentrated in other directions and even if we assume that the command will go along with the enemy and begin to withdraw troops from the main directions to Avdiivka, then this will take time, while not guaranteeing results in the capture of Avdiivka itself (see Marinka and Ugledar).
3. Counter-battery warfare at this stage cannot guarantee the cessation of such shelling, so they will continue. An asymmetric response to such actions, given the inability to stop this problem in a short time by military means, is the infliction of punitive strikes on important infrastructure and political centers - the Regional State Administration, power plants, the administrative quarter in Kyiv, etc. To mark the cost of continuing such terrorist practices.
4. The absence of clear (primarily for the population) response measures will lead to an objective increase in dissatisfaction with the inability of the army to clearly respond to such actions. The enemy naturally also keeps this dissatisfaction in mind when conducting terrorist attacks. And since there is no clear answer, there is no reason to stop.
5. Alternative option. Do not react - the population endures further, the military continues to methodically follow the plan of operation to defeat the Armed Forces of Ukraine, concentrating on solving priority military tasks. From a military point of view - a logical option. From the political point of view, it is costly.
[ColonelCassad] To the question of who is shelling Donetsk.
Kachur Roman Vladimirovich, a native of Sumy, colonel, commander of the 55th Separate Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. From 2014 to 2018, he commanded the artillery of the 81st Airborne Brigade, which operated in the Donetsk direction and also shelled Donetsk (Petrovsky and Kyiv districts).
The brigade is armed with foreign military equipment, including 155mm self-propelled guns "Caesar" and towed howitzers M777, which have been used to shell Donetsk in recent weeks. In recent days, it has been using, among other things, ammunition with a remote fuse in residential areas.
So this is one of the figures who directly carries out the execution of criminal orders related to the terrorist shelling of Donetsk.
Russian blogger Donetsk says 300 shell and rockets were fired in two hours: Ordinary fascism
A total of 300 rockets and shells in two hours. There are dead and wounded. The affected educational institutions and the windows of the maternity hospital carried out by the blast wave, the dead, including the child.
And Pushilin’s statement that they will do something and finally close the excess and leave people at home in order to save them. What should have been done last week, when the crisis developed. Guernica . Any Nazism sooner or later comes to Guernica with further accusations of those killed that they are themselves. So it is now - first the bombing, then the bots whispering about self-shelling.
And some of the fools with a fright believe in it. Small, but ... Although this is the business of the MGB. And stop rumors, and finally fight bot farms. It is possible in collaboration with bloggers. This is just not a problem even once, in contrast to the possibility of repeating such raids by the Nazis over and over again. I can only repeat for the hundredth circle to the oak patriots - "I did not betray, I stayed" this is the blood of children on your hands. Don't fool people's heads. Decided to die guarding the good - your right, let others evacuate.
The army is doing what it can. Maybe not all. More precisely, everything, but on the TV show and among the vigilant citizens running around the prosecutor's offices, looking for harm, and tormenting Donetsk residents yesterday at the same time as Ukrainian bots. Only the former wrote about self-shelling, the latter about alarmists.
In real life, the army is fighting hard in the North. The battles are quite successful, they write to me that the fracture there is quite real and in a step, but devouring most of the forces. What is left to suppress a couple of UGIL brigade artillery groups is not enough.
This is reality. Bad and ugly. You can swear at me, the army, the authorities, but it won't make it any easier. It is better to prepare the basement, take the children out if possible, and not leave the house unless absolutely necessary. There will be no other. The main thing is to survive. The rest later. When will it end.
And there is nothing more to cheer. People themselves understand everything. And about the South, and about the negotiation expectations and other things. Nevertheless, Nazism does not cancel the fact that here is constructive on the track. And the Nazis beat the cities. And they will continue. No choice. That's all.
[IsraelTimes] In ToI interview, Ursula Von der Leyen indicates Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... sees Jerusalem as a valuable ally on defense, energy, food security; says Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... deal ready but ’political decisions needed’
#5
"Small results can be achieved with great forces.”
- Joe Tzu, The Art of Losing War
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#6
"Who wishes to grift must first count the jack.”
-The Art of Losing War
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"The wise warrior avoids the press conference."
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#8
"There are laws which must not be followed, oligarchs which must not be attacked, graft which must not be touched, Crimea which must not be prosecuted, commands of the Constitution which must not be obeyed.”
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[American Thinker] Like the fictional Ethan Hunt, the Agency (FBI and DOJ) has disavowed any knowledge or connection with Ray Epps. For some time, a picture of Epps appeared on an FBI website soliciting information about those who entered the Capitol on January 6th. That picture went up in a puff of smoke and, now, the FBI refuses to answer questions about him.
Nancy Pelosi and her minions are crafting their own narrative that they want to be accepted as truth. She does not want her version annoyed by questions of deplorables. That heavy-handed behavior tends to raise red flags in the minds of truth seekers. Why can’t we see all the footage covering the January 6th event in the Capitol? Why is the renowned FBI sitting on what they know about Rancher Ray?
What a mysterious guy! He lives in Arizona but makes himself famous, herding Trumpers to the Capitol. As he was exhorting action, several people loudly suggested that Ray Epps is a FED. I know I am expressing a quaint notion from America’s past, but don’t the people in the FBI and DOJ work for us, aka "We the People"?
I don’t care about Waldo, but I want to know what brought Ray Epps to Washington from Arizona and who was paying him to stir things up.
[Townhall] Unless you’re visiting a medical facility still taken in by the mask-cult or you live in a big city or some obscure California county run by hypochondriac Democrat whack-jobs, you’re probably generally living your life without being forced to wear a useless, bacteria-laden piece of t-shirt material over your face. However, if your overlords have gone out of their way to clarify that mask mandates have only been lifted because Covid rates have gone down or even that recent iterations of the virus have become less deadly, they are purposefully missing the overall picture and slyly holding on to the pretext that will invite the insanity back at any point - that masks "work" to stop or curb the spread of highly contagious respiratory viruses.
A University of Louisville study released in May 2022 found that mask mandates and greater compliance resulting from them "did not predict lower growth rates when community spread was low (minima) or high (maxima)." The study, which used CDC data across several seasons, found that mask usage and mandates "are not associated with lower SARS-CoV-2 spread among US states."
Remember that CDC study purporting to show that school masking was effective? Did you wonder what the results would have been if someone had conducted a higher quality study over a greater sample size and period of time? Ambarish Chandra of University of Toronto and Dr. Tracy Hoeg of University of California, Davis did exactly that with this Lancet study titled, "Revisiting Pediatric COVID-19 Cases in Counties With and Without School Mask Requirements—United States, July 1—October 20 2021." Their results: "... no significant relationship between mask mandates and case rates." Color me shocked.
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We should be glad - for now - that the gummint is not mandating face tattoos...
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My most common Maskaholic rebuttals have been.
Why do you think wearing a NON-Medical Mask will protect you from a deadly Medical situation?
Or
OH! N-95/KN-95, so 5% of the air is still infecting you?
So many Real Experts have been flamed / blackballed too many times, over the last 18 months. Simply for pointing out, cloth is nothing but a dust rag and virus collector.
Or pointing out that the paper 3 ply masks filtering ability fall seriously short of the c-19 Virus size. Hence, why DR. Fake started up with double masking.
The Media owes a lot of people serious apologies for questioning their professional and ethical standings for presenting REAL FACTS.
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.
...The word 
Remember that CDC study purporting to show that school masking was effective? Did you wonder what the results would have been if someone had conducted a higher quality study over a greater sample size and period of time? Ambarish Chandra of University of Toronto and Dr. Tracy Hoeg of University of California, Davis did exactly that with this Lancet study titled, "Revisiting Pediatric COVID-19 Cases in Counties With and Without School Mask Requirements—United States, July 1—October 20 2021." Their results: "... no significant relationship between mask mandates and case rates." Color me shocked.
