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-Lurid Crime Tales-
No More Trouble
[Deadline] Atlanta rapper Trouble, aka Mariel Semonte Orr, was shot and killed early Sunday at the Lake St. James Apartment complex in Conyers, Ga.

The Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office said Orr was shot around 3:20 a.m. Sunday morning. Deputies said Trouble was lying on the ground outside the apartments when they arrived. He was taken to a local hospital where he later died.

Def Jam, Troubles record label, anounced his death on Instagram.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the children, loved ones, and fans of Trouble. A true voice for his city and an inspiration to the community he proudly represented. RIP Skoob."

Investigators say that no arrests have been made. However, they have warrants out for 33-year-old Jamichael Jones, charging him with murder. It is unclear what the relationship was between Trouble and Jones.
Some reports have indicated it was not good.
Trouble released his debut mixtape in 2011. It included the song "Bussin," which has more than 2.7 million YouTube views.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...whichhas more than 2.7 million YouTube views.

Bot's hit rather than view.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/06/2022 2:47 Comments || Top||


Avenatti Gets Four Years in Prison
[ET] Lawyer Michael Avenatti, who made headlines for his anti-Donald Trump stance, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday for cheating his former client out of $300,000 in cash from a book deal.

Avenatti was convicted of aggravated identity fraud and wire fraud in a New York federal court earlier in 2022. He could have faced two years in prison for the first charge and 20 years for the second.

During his sentencing, Avenatti acknowledged that he made a "series of mistakes" and "poor judgment" when he represented and bilked Stormy Daniels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Previously, Avenatti said he did not want to appear at the sentencing, but the judge ordered him to.

"I will forever be branded ’disgraced lawyer’ and worse," he said Thursday.
But wait - there's more!
Avenatti, meanwhile, still faces a retrial in California federal court in another case in which is being accused of stealing nearly $10 million from five clients. He’s also currently serving a 30-month prison sentence for attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike by threatening to release damaging information to the public unless he was paid.

Lest we forget:



Posted by: Bobby || 06/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  During his sentencing, Avenatti acknowledged that he made a "series of mistakes" and "poor judgment" when he represented and bilked Stormy Daniels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Not the first time she got fucked, is it?
Posted by: Raj || 06/06/2022 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  ..but in her line of work, she was the one who was paid for doing it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/06/2022 2:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Can a felon serve as president?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 6:34 Comments || Top||

#4  As for the video in the post above, it proves out my maxim: "Watch out for people who are sure they have it all figured out."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 6:39 Comments || Top||

#5 
#4 As for the video in the post above, it proves out my maxim: "Watch out for people who are sure they have it all figured out."
Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-06 06:39


...I like a variation on that - 'Cherish those who seek the truth; beware of those who claim to have found it."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 06/06/2022 6:44 Comments || Top||

#6 
And despite the yacking Heads cozying up to a proven Thief, Lair, Embezzler, and more. Will we ever hear them acknowledge their mistakes?

NO!

Because it was never about reporting the truth. It was nothing short of a high level orchestrated Seditious Conspiracy to change US leadership.

Of which we now have a mountain of evidence, proving their numerous illegal efforts to do so.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/06/2022 7:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Can a felon serve as president?

Many of them already have. The question should be: Should a felon serve as president?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/06/2022 20:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Four More Years! LOL
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 06/06/2022 22:16 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Asylum Seekers Overwhelm Shelters In Portland, Maine
[ZeroHedge] In which a small, Progressive, tourist town discovers that generosity and goodwill are no protection against the nastiness of the drug addict friends of the good people from Angola, the Congo, and Haiti who’ve been so eagerly coming to seek asylum, following the waves from Somalia, Iraq, and Syria who preceded them.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 05:35 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2  America is a big country.. we have room ..don’t bitch please. Our problem is the CIA and FBI until that two dogs are put down everything else is irrelevant.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 06/06/2022 10:40 Comments || Top||

#3  We’re Americans, as you point out, Aca Joe. There are enough of us to multi-task. It isn’t about the room, but the fact that the situation attracts bad actors.

Keeping tight control of the border to stop the bad ones there would allow us the ability to fit in the good ones more comfortably for all involved... and to be able to accommodate more of them.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/06/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Who exactly is "OUR" referring to Joe?
I'm pretty sure paying for all the costs of criminals who broke into my country won't include your wallet.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/06/2022 11:45 Comments || Top||

#5  It's like this. The left's formulation is that good people are bad and bad people are good.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 11:46 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm for more people coming here. Provided they believe in our individual rights, due process and living by the sweat of your own brow. Don't come here and push for the the same idiot policies that made your country a 3rd world shithole. And that goes for people not fleeing the blue states as well.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/06/2022 11:47 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Biden to exempt tariffs on solar panels from Southeast Asian countries for 24 months -source
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] U.S. President Joe Biden will issue a proclamation on Monday that will allow solar panels to be imported to the United States from Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam without risk of tariffs for a 24-month period, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The action comes amid concern about the impact of the U.S. Commerce Department's months-long investigation into whether imports of solar panels from the four Southeast Asian nations are circumventing tariffs on goods made in China.
We’ll assume that’s a yes, then. Goody.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 05:39 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2  He's following instructions from his China investment syndicate.

Federally funded Sales Tax holidays at Walmart, Target, and Home Depot to follow.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/06/2022 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Obviously a nod to his 'Chardonnay' voting crowd. You think the people now being hit by high energy bills could afford these, just like that 60K electric car.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/06/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Check to the Big Guy cleared.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/06/2022 8:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Wow, Solar Panels as an inflation relief policy. Nobody can be that stupid, not to see the graft behind this. YJCMTSU!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/06/2022 11:29 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ It is the exact opposite of the "give you the razor and sell you the blades" model. Not that I want to give them any ideas...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 11:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Now the Chinese can export their solar panels duty free via Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam without risk of tariffs for a 24-month period.

Thanks Brandon!

Posted by: jpal || 06/06/2022 13:44 Comments || Top||

#8  A search finds 9 U.S. companies that make solar panels. Want to bet the Asian companies undercut their price?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/06/2022 14:50 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk Completes Final Voyage from Washington to Texas Scrapyard
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 05:19 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Satellite images suggest new Chinese carrier close to launch
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 5:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Good Bye, Kitty!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/06/2022 7:34 Comments || Top||

#3  So 7 deployed and 4 in maintenance now
Posted by: Cloluck Bourbon1058 || 06/06/2022 11:06 Comments || Top||


Something that doesn't suck. Kaukonen and Casady...
[YouTube] Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady perform Good Shepherd at LA's Grammy Museum on April 24, 2016

Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I saw Jorma at a very small outdoor venue near Boston in 1991. I was impressed.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/06/2022 7:45 Comments || Top||

#2  It's almost hard to believe it's the same guy who was in Jefferson Airplane. But the electric Hot Tuna albums are some heavy rock. Check out Double Dose.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Very nice, MM.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 8:58 Comments || Top||


Britain
Britain will send long-range missile systems to boost Ukraine's fightback against Russian invasion despite Putin's threats to hit new 'targets' if the West continues to supply Kyiv with weapons
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Ben Wallace said that Britain will send an unspecified number of M270 launchers

  • They can fire rockets up to 50 miles - a longer range than any currently in use

  • Ukrainian troops will be trained in the UK to use the equipment, Wallace said

  • US announced it would supply High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems to Ukraine
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 04:44 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


#2  So Putin wants to expand the war. Yet he'll still have his defenders.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/06/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden wants to negotiate a settlement.

Along with his Depends, Biden's wearing kneepads.

He's on his knees with everyone -- begging favors from commies in Venezuela, flying to the Magic Kingdom to beg His Majesty KSM on bended knee, begging Pooty for talks with urgent appeals in the pages of the New York Slimes
Posted by: Blackjack21 || 06/06/2022 12:06 Comments || Top||

#4  I doubt Biden wants to negotiate. He could care less if Russians and Ukrainians are getting killed.

I don't see why the Pentagon or anybody else would trust the Ukrainians with Javelins or long range launchers. The US will see them again in a wrong situation.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 06/06/2022 12:54 Comments || Top||

#5  It is the psychology of the bully on display. Outwardly threatening, but inwardly weak and timid.

The view from Europe is of a small and comical man. Biden has a history of trash-talking people he thinks are small or weak politically. He told lies about an obscure truck driver and falsely accused him of driving drunk when in fact it was Biden's wife who caused her own unfortunate death on the road.

He tried to bully Menachem Begin. In the American televised spectacle called "debates," Biden talked over and tried to bully Paul Ryan and then Donald Trump.

He tried to bully the Saudi King but is now groveling before him at his court.

Biden is a small and weak man, a little kitty who gets his back up and pretends to be a ferocious tiger.
Posted by: Jean-Paul || 06/06/2022 12:57 Comments || Top||

#6  pretends to be a ferocious tiger.

Unless he's at the beach.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 14:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Aggressive people at the beach are pricks. We trip them up every way we know.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 14:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Had a friendly cluster of strangers on Miami beach.

One guy was playing his tunes loud and a couple of ladies asked him to turn it down so they could hear the waves. He came out of the water and turned it up, "so I can hear it in the water."

I walked over, picked it up and tossed it to him in the water. The crowd went wild.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 15:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Spock and the boom box guy

Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 15:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Don't get why Biden needs to negotiate -- the US isn't a party to the war.

Yeah, yeah, yeah -- I can hear the stuttering, stammering "HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT!! THEY'RE USING OUR WEAPONS!!!"

The Vietnamese used Soviet weapons. The North Koreans used Soviet and Chinese weapons. The Iraqis used Russian weapons. The Soviets bankrolled every terrorist organization who would say a few nice things about Marx.

And they maintained they were not party to ANY of those conflicts.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/06/2022 16:02 Comments || Top||

#11  Oh, it's the current mismistration's war all right...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 16:12 Comments || Top||

#12  It’d be awkward if somehow a flux compression generator was activated in “the square mile” given they now seem to have a 1 klick radius effect
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 06/06/2022 20:55 Comments || Top||

#13  HIMARS to be seen soon. Izium combat service and support sustainment nodes for the northern Donbas pincer will be immediately put under attack via the primary rail lines that run N to S from Russia to Izium and points further east around the pocket the Russian forces are attempting to close.

Unlike much of the other rail lines in northern and western Ukraine, these are Russian gauge lines thus need no transloading to western carriages.

Likewise, the Ukrainians already have a bridgehead across the river N of Kherson, and may take advantage of the stripping of forces there to retake Kherson by cutting it off from reinforcements from the Crimea across the river.

It all comes down to the competence of Ukrainian soldiers and the incompetence of Russian logistics, versus time.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 06/06/2022 22:49 Comments || Top||

#14  I walked over, picked it up and tossed it to him in the water. The crowd went wild.

You da man, Skidpants. Yo shit(ty pants) don't stink, fo sho'
Posted by: BrownBart Shittypants Admirer || 06/06/2022 22:51 Comments || Top||

#15  Chealing Chomotle4158

Dream dream dream
Whenever I want to
All I have to do...
Is dre-ee-ee-ee-eam..
Posted by: Big Claing9655 || 06/06/2022 22:55 Comments || Top||

#16  We’ll see soon enough who is right, Big Claing9655. Premature insultation (no, it’s not a real word, but the idea still holds) sometimes turns out to be dreadfully embarrassing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/06/2022 23:36 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Vladimir Putin 'loses his 11th general' in Ukraine war as defenders 'ambush his vehicle in Donbas'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Major-General Roman Kutuzov was chief of staff of 29th Combined Arms Army

  • Kutuzov's death is the first such high ranking army officer in more than a month

  • Russian sources say Kutuzov was killed in the area of Nikolaevka settlement
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Andrei Vlad - you've lost another general?
Posted by: Raj || 06/06/2022 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Did the intelligence that allowed Ukraine to know of the General‘s itinerary come from US Intelligence, again???

If so:

Dear Mr. Putin - PLEASE listen to the words following words of a terrible nightmare for your own good...

Posted by: Cletle Shinese1880 || 06/06/2022 0:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The question is, are these generals the ones that know what they are doing or are they potential rivals that he's allowing to be taken off the board?

Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/06/2022 2:42 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Could certainly be an element in the apparent general office downsizing campaign.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/06/2022 3:14 Comments || Top||


#6  "Victory is ours!" says former 26th in Command
Posted by: Frank G || 06/06/2022 6:17 Comments || Top||

#7  I think if you split the claims of the trolls on both sides down the middle, we may be looking at that elusive "Why can't both sides lose?" scenario.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 6:28 Comments || Top||

#8  #3 The question is, are these generals the ones that know what they are doing or are they potential rivals that he's allowing to be taken off the board?

Posted by: Silentbrick 2022-06-06 02:42


Silentbrick,

Embrace the healing power of 'and'.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 06/06/2022 6:42 Comments || Top||

#9  "Ambushed". You comprehend you need to know the territory to know where to make it happen on short notice of when. Sorts out who are the locals from those who are the 'visiting team'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/06/2022 7:40 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Who says it was the locals?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 06/06/2022 8:14 Comments || Top||

#11  In my neck of the woods, if the road is blocked, I know another way around, if it is blocked, I know of another way around. That's local.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/06/2022 8:28 Comments || Top||

#12  Why can't both sides lose?

A grinding, long war of attrition will do just that.

Also it speaks volumes of the lack of communication, training and trust that senior generals have to come down to the front lines to make sure shit gets done. That makes them easy targets.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/06/2022 8:36 Comments || Top||

#13  OpSec is even more important when you're in Indian country.

I wonder how many cell phone calls alerting the next stop in their tour to their arrival were intercepted. Or if a local just spotted them and let the right person know.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/06/2022 8:58 Comments || Top||

#14  More veterans from international countries are headed to Ukraine, especially from Australia.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 06/06/2022 9:10 Comments || Top||

#15  Oh no... the Biden Administration is begging communist Venezuela to ship oil to Europe. Also begging the House of Saud to cut production

US to Let Eni, Repsol Ship Venezuela Oil to Europe, Reuters Says

Veterans for oil?


Posted by: Jean-Paul || 06/06/2022 9:33 Comments || Top||

#16  If you don't believe him, here's JP's link:

U.S. to let Eni, Repsol ship Venezuela oil to Europe for debt -sources
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 10:21 Comments || Top||

#17  People can believe whatever makes them feel better about themselves and their governments, yet the truth remains: the West is funding Russia's war effort, and Russia has captured three times as much territory as they held on February 24.

There's no other conclusion. Russia is winning the war. The West has lost the economic war. Ukraine is being slaughtered and dismembered.

The West's policies have achieved a Yarmolenko (what the Ukrainian futbol team achieved last night in the qualifying)match Cardiff)
Posted by: Jean-Paul || 06/06/2022 10:40 Comments || Top||

#18  *futbol = soccer, en amerloquais
Posted by: Jean-Paul || 06/06/2022 10:42 Comments || Top||

#19  achieved a Yarmolenko
😄

haha, c'est rigoleux, J-P...
Where have I heard about the West's "own goal" before?
Oh right.
Sanctions on Russia are an own goal by the West
Posted by: Palmerston || 06/06/2022 11:01 Comments || Top||

#20  Soccer = Metric Football in Americanese
Posted by: Frank G || 06/06/2022 11:01 Comments || Top||

#21  Jokes aside, there's nothing more painful than realizing you've destroyed your team's chances of a World Cup berth by putting the ball into your own net.

It's certainly understandable that we in the West wish to believe that our leaders are pursuing wise policies and have our best interests at heart.

I can well understand why Americans wish to believe that President Biden is striking blows for freedom and democracy, and standing up to aggression, by begging Maduro and the Venezuelan communists to please please bail out the West.

Or that Biden is standing tall in Riyadh and begging similar favors of the Arab king whom he insulted and whose nation he vowed to make into a "pariah" just a few months ago.

Biden is wise, far-seeing and noble, Biden is doing all that can be done to protect us and make the world safe and prosperous -- yes. Biden would never put the ball into our own net.
Posted by: Jean-Paul || 06/06/2022 11:13 Comments || Top||

#22  own goal

LOL

Love the top comment on the "sanctions are an own goal" video:
The US did not impose sanctions to Russia. They simply conducted a special economic stimulus.
Posted by: Pancho Uloting7130 || 06/06/2022 11:20 Comments || Top||

#23  Americans wish to believe that President Biden is striking blows for freedom and democracy, and standing up to aggression, by begging Maduro and the Venezuelan communists to please please bail out the West.

Well if Putin is Hitler, and if Roosevelt sided with Stalin vs Hitler, then Roosevelt's biggest admirer Joe Biden should (naturally) sidle up to Maduro-Stalin the commie against Putin-Hitler.

It all makes perfect sense when you think about it. It's the Most Greatestest Generation! C'mon, man!
Posted by: Pancho Uloting7130 || 06/06/2022 11:28 Comments || Top||

#24  special economic stimulus

Ha.. 'special' in that it makes us poorer and funnels hundreds of billions to Russia ... so they can reduce Ukraine to rubble, which will require us to pay out trillions in more 'special economic stimulus'... Bloody special alright
Posted by: Palmerston || 06/06/2022 11:35 Comments || Top||

#25  "The Biden administration has been courting Venezuela since the Russian invasion of Ukraine..."

Oh my, so prim and proper! I didn't know that "courting" was the new term for being a cockholster
Posted by: Pancho Uloting7130 || 06/06/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#26  Didn't some clown here at Rantburg call Putin a "commie" the other day?

So why is Biden begging real communists in Venezuela for help against capitalist Russia?
Posted by: Palmerston || 06/06/2022 11:47 Comments || Top||

#27  Why do our visitors assume that Rantburgers like the current American president and approve of his reasoning and decisions?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/06/2022 12:42 Comments || Top||

#28  Back to Russian Generals getting plugged.
I'd like to see a bit more of their ranks thinned.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 06/06/2022 12:50 Comments || Top||

#29  The Ukrainians are down to their volunteer troops, the middle aged teachers and programmistes and 18 year-old students who signed up to defend their homes in the West but who've been sent instead into the meat grinder in the east.

Their casualty rate is over 60 percent. Horrific.

Ukraine is in its last legs. This is why Biden is so eager to negotiate.
Posted by: Jean-Paul || 06/06/2022 13:02 Comments || Top||

#30  ^ Ukraine is on its last legs
Posted by: Jean-Paul || 06/06/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||

#31  Why do our visitors assume that Rantburgers like the current American president and approve of his reasoning and decisions?

Because they idiotically believe that your vote automatically became a vote for the other side once the vote count farce ended.

They all have their noses up Putins's or Zellllllennnnnssssskkkkyyyyiiii's asses. They assume it works that way here.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||

#32  why is Biden begging real communists in Venezuela for help against capitalist Russia?

Like you have to ask??

Biden wants to turn America communist. Build Back Better is his Five Year Plan. Green New Deal is just Lysenko-isn't bullshit.

Russia's got better financial management and more freedom than Biden's America
Posted by: Pancho Uloting7130 || 06/06/2022 13:09 Comments || Top||

#33  They all have their noses up Putins's or Zellllllennnnnssssskkkkyyyyiiii's asses

... says the sad clown whose nose is up Biden's ass

Biden's throwing away your money, Murcek.
The Venezuelans are laughing at you.
Posted by: Pancho Uloting7130 || 06/06/2022 13:11 Comments || Top||

#34  What do you think we're gaining by dragging out this stupid war?

It's been pointed out - hell, Zelllliiiinnnnssssskyi's said it -- Russia's captured over 100,000 square kilometers in this war. That's the size of the Northeast Corridor!

How much more territory do you want Ukraine to lose?
Are you secretly rootin' for Putin?

Seriously: Why drag this out?
Posted by: Pancho Uloting7130 || 06/06/2022 13:16 Comments || Top||

#35  says the sad clown whose nose is up Biden's ass

Well, there's proof you don't know me at all.

Heh...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 13:21 Comments || Top||

#36  I guess we can question exactly what do you know, Pancho?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 13:22 Comments || Top||

#37  What do you think we're gaining by dragging out this stupid war?

It is very difficult to persuade Americans to stop pursuing a losing cause when it involves spending a trillion dollars or more on an overseas war for "freedom" and "democracy."

Americans persisted with their disaster in Vietnam for over a decade, their fiasco in Iraq for another decade and their debacle in Afghanistan for two decades.

The corn is green.

Trillions must be wasted before America recognizes reality and admits defeat.
Posted by: Jean-Paul || 06/06/2022 13:24 Comments || Top||

#38  So some middle-aged school teachers knocked off two Russian generals. Interesting.
Posted by: Matt || 06/06/2022 13:25 Comments || Top||

#39  we can question exactly what do you know, Pancho?

Try a better parser, troll. Or learn some English grammar
Posted by: Pancho Uloting7130 || 06/06/2022 13:28 Comments || Top||

#40  Everyone's mocking and humiliating the US now. Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba. The Democrats are attacking Biden. Everyone piles on.

The compliant America press is staring to use words like "chaotic" to describe his foreign policy and international summits. Summits that are on-again, off-again, who the fuck knows again.... He goes to Riyadh / he doesn't go to Riyadh; he says KSM's a "killer" / he begs KSM for help...

Como se dice shitshow?

Biden scrambles to avoid Americas Summit flop in Los Angeles
ELLIOT SPAGAT, JOSHUA GOODMAN and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Sun, June 5, 2022, 9:03 AM
Posted by: Pancho Uloting7130 || 06/06/2022 13:39 Comments || Top||

#41  #40 Everyone's mocking and humiliating the US now. Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba. ..words like "chaotic" to describe his foreign policy and international summits. Summits that are on-again, off-again, who the fuck knows again.... He goes to Riyadh / he doesn't go to Riyadh; he says KSM's a "killer" / he begs KSM for help

It's really extraordinary how far American foreign gn policy has fallen since the time of Nixon and Kissinger.

Any competent American president would have easily avoided war with Russia over such a trivial matter. Crimea was a non-issue, a sleeping dog -- trivial by comparison to far more difficult issues such as Taiwan or the Middke Eastern regional balance.


Posted by: Jean-Paul || 06/06/2022 13:44 Comments || Top||

#42  🤡

Biden to visit Saudi Arabia, a country he vowed to treat as a 'pariah'
4 days ago

Biden's meeting with Saudi crown prince pushed back to July
2 days ago

Pariah pilgrimage: Biden to beg Saudis for more oil in person

"We were going to in fact make them pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are," Biden said of Saudi Arabia during a Democratic debate in 2019. He added there is "very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia."

Posted by: Pancho Uloting7130 || 06/06/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||

#43  'S all good. Murcek's happy. He just got a $250 discount on his solar panels!

Thank you, Brandon!
Posted by: Dino Chaise3516 || 06/06/2022 14:01 Comments || Top||

#44  I'm loving this. These people entities have no idea...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 14:03 Comments || Top||

#45  It is very difficult to persuade Americans to stop pursuing a losing cause when it involves spending a trillion dollars or more on an overseas war for "freedom" and "democracy."

You can thank our Military-Industrial Complex for that, J-P.

"Our business is killing grifting and losing wars. And business is good."
Posted by: Billy Budd || 06/06/2022 14:19 Comments || Top||

#46  The gummint always doubles down on bad choices. The half of Americans who trust the gummint no matter what are programmed the same way.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 14:22 Comments || Top||

#47  "Seriously: Why drag this out?"

Good question. Thoughts, Murcek?
How does it benefit us to drag out the slaughter and waste more $$$$$$$?
Posted by: Billy Budd || 06/06/2022 14:34 Comments || Top||

#48  ( "us" means normal Americans outside the MIC )
Posted by: Billy Budd || 06/06/2022 14:35 Comments || Top||

#49  Why am I being asked? I have always been against it. From the get-go. Check it out. Ukraine is a chancre on the American body politic, and Russia really isn't bothering us if we don't bother them.

I'm caught in a narrative I have not ever participated in. Not that I give a damn about that either.

You can hate me. You can hate yourself.

You can't make me hate myself.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 14:37 Comments || Top||

#50  I suspect the trollbots latched onto my comments because Murcek is easier than DipShitDirtBag0919 to store and respond to.

I use my real name because I'm easy to find. Come visit anytime...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 14:42 Comments || Top||

#51  I am friend to all, enemy of none (outside the MIC)
Posted by: Billy Budd || 06/06/2022 14:43 Comments || Top||

#52  Me too. I'm very easy to get along with. The exception is people who think they can put words in my mouth or misrepresent my all-out-in-the-open positions on everything.

Don't try to use me to sell somebody else's agenda.

Just. Don't.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 14:47 Comments || Top||

#53  MIC - well, there's lots going on there. The parts building Columbia and Virginia submarines, building B-21 Raiders, Trident D5 and follow on, LRSO, Next Gen Ground Based Deterrent. I'm good with those.

Giving Ukraine shit that we need to pay to restock here at home? No. I'm not a fan of that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 14:53 Comments || Top||

#54  Note the album title.

Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 15:20 Comments || Top||

#55  Didn't some clown here at Rantburg call Putin a "commie" the other day?

He was in the KGB. He had to be a Communist Party member. I doubt his sense of the relation of the people to the state has changed a bit.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/06/2022 15:37 Comments || Top||

#56  Putin: Fallof the Soviet Union was a "Genuine Tragedy."

Trolls please note: I did not put those words in his mouth.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 15:44 Comments || Top||

#57  This is why Biden is so eager to negotiate.

Biden isn't a party to negotiations. This line, about Biden needing/wanting to negotiate is a common one from Russki trolls.

Everyone's mocking and humiliating the US now. Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba.

Newsflash: the US is not popular with state-run media in countries that have never been friendly towards the US!

(No, Mexico is not friendly with the US. Their failure to control their border and the incursions by their military demonstrate that.)

What do you think we're gaining by dragging out this stupid war?

Putin can end the war in just a few minutes. Why aren't you asking him and his mouthpieces why they're dragging it out. Why are they sending Russian generals to die? Why did they send Russian soldiers to dig into the irradiated soil around Chernobyl?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/06/2022 15:45 Comments || Top||

#58  Also note: Reportage by a source I don't have much respect for.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 15:45 Comments || Top||

#59  When Nicraugua and Venezuela start liking the US, I will start to worry...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 15:48 Comments || Top||

#60  ^Uh, new foreign dudes of all stripes: this website doesn't do fan service for Biden or the Democrats. Though veteran posters do try to be fair and objective... within the confines of generally hating both.

So, I know you've got to make your daily quotas of posts. We've all gotta earn a living. But you aren't just barking up the wrong tree. You're in the wrong forest.
Posted by: Secret Master || 06/06/2022 16:03 Comments || Top||

#61  Didn't some clown here at Rantburg call Putin a "commie" the other day?

I believe that was me, and I stand by it.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/06/2022 16:06 Comments || Top||

#62  # 60, I'll say something positive about Bidet: He's the stupidest son of a bitch that has ever been installed in the White House. His entourage is similarly deficient.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 16:11 Comments || Top||

#63  Of course the US is the main counterparty in the negotiations with Russia -- just as it was in 1973 when Nixon and Kissinger negotiated with Le Duc Tho. The Peace Accords were signed by the United States and North Vietnam.

Ukraine is simply an American client state, no different from America's client states in South Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is a truth so obvious that Biden, habitual liar that he is, must deny it at each turn with his programmed mantra ("No rain in Spain without Ukraine" or what-have-you).
Posted by: Jean-Paul || 06/06/2022 16:16 Comments || Top||

#64  Ukraine is an American client. Nobody who voted for Trump agrees with that except the GOPe Conservative Inc. grifters who work both sides of the fence equally hard.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 16:19 Comments || Top||

#65  Don't forget Pelosi and the Biden criminal family syndicate. They laundered billions through the Ukraine so I bet they think it is an American client state, even though it isn't.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/06/2022 16:22 Comments || Top||

#66  Macron does not include the Ukrainian in his discussions with Putin. The same is true for the other European leaders, also Erdogan. Le petit Ukrainien does not decide; he is informed of decisions after they're taken.
Posted by: Jean-Paul || 06/06/2022 16:29 Comments || Top||

#67  Dems and Never Trumpers will always love Ukraine because they believe they came soooo close to impeachment then.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 16:31 Comments || Top||

#68  EXCLUSIVE: Family of Bill Clinton advisor who admitted Jeffrey Epstein into White House seven times has blocked release of files detailing the death scene after he was found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast at a ranch 30 miles from his home
Posted by: Oil Derek || 06/06/2022 16:36 Comments || Top||

#69  Why the shotgun? Seems like... overkill. As it were
Posted by: Oil Derek || 06/06/2022 16:37 Comments || Top||

#70  Died like he lived. Messy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 16:42 Comments || Top||

#71  Died like he lived. Messy.

And neither by his own hand?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/06/2022 18:19 Comments || Top||

#72  What do you think we're gaining by dragging out this stupid war?

Back when the trailing daughters were playing soccer (futbol for Jean Paul and all other non-Americans), one of the girls on one of our teams whined why did they have to play the game early Saturday morning when everybody knew our team was so much better trained than everybody else. The coach’s answer was that training is what you go to the game with, but it’s what happens on the field when you’re playing against an opponent that counts.

Tl;dr. It ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings. I’m just a little Midwestern suburban housewife, with no influence over those making such decisions. So as the Germans say, my role is Abwarten und Tee trinken, a role I am eminently designed by nature and nurture to undertake.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/06/2022 21:19 Comments || Top||

#73  ^ Huh? Come again?
Does not compute
Posted by: Big Darling of the Welsh6829 || 06/06/2022 22:12 Comments || Top||

#74  Rach On... Rach 2, performed by 15 year-old Alexander Malofeev (5,000 comments)
Posted by: Russkaya Kultura Rukoprovoditi || 06/06/2022 22:37 Comments || Top||

#75  These trolls are sounding more and more desperate. As Dark Helmet said in Spaceballs "Keep firing Assholes!"

Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 06/06/2022 22:58 Comments || Top||

#76  Trolls, LOL

It's obvious to anyone with even the most basic grasp of economics that the rest is royally fucked up.

The US and Western Europe are funding Russia's war machine. US sanctions are running the US economy into the ground.

Try listening to your more intelligent, more economically–literate compatriots:

"Putin has found ample alternative markets for Russian oil and gas in Asia. In particular, both India and China are not infected with “green new deal ideology” demonizing hydrocarbon fuels. Realizing the cost-efficiency of coal, oil, and natural gas, India and China represent a large and growing export opportunity for Russian hydrocarbon fuels.

"At the same time, Putin has quietly placed the ruble back on the gold standard, positioning the ruble to rise to the top against the diminished purchasing power of the overprinted dollar and euro fiat currencies."

😂🤣

Posted by: Janet Smellen || 06/06/2022 23:12 Comments || Top||

#77  "Russia Ruble Quote Surges to 7-Year High"
61 Mothafuckas!!!
🤑 🤣
Posted by: Janet Smellen || 06/06/2022 23:16 Comments || Top||

#78  Do you 🤡s really believe that Janet Yellen, Paul Pelosi, the Biden family, Schumer McConnell Romney the Clintons and Bush family and 1,000 other insiders are NOT buying rubles and betting on Russia to win the war?

Do you really believe that they think Ukraine is going to win? Really? SERIOUSLY?

Would you like to buy this bridge in Brooklyn that I have to offer you?
Posted by: Janet Smellen || 06/06/2022 23:22 Comments || Top||

#79  Hey, Janet...

Putin's dick is that way ===>

Get working on it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/06/2022 23:25 Comments || Top||

#80  ^ Huh? Come again?

More plainly, I guess: It does no good to say “this one ought to win because...” There is no way of knowing until the game is actually played to the end — or in this case the war fought to the end — who actually wins and loses depends as much on the heart and stubbornness of the fighters as it does on the size and equipment of the armies.

Napoleon said, "Morale is to material as three is to one." Putting aside the propaganda of both sides, we have no way of knowing which side will win until after one side has conclusively won. Pushing for premature negotiation based on the claim that one outcome is assured only guarantees there will be a rematch.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/06/2022 23:25 Comments || Top||

#81  Rach On... Rach 2, performed by 15 year-old Alexander Malofeev (5,000 comments)

About three notes in, trailing daughter #1 perked up, recognizing it from our collection. I’m supposed to be doing articles for tomorrow, but you have distracted us.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/06/2022 23:33 Comments || Top||


AFU cleared half of Severodonetsk from Russians - Gaidai
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] The Ukrainian military cleared half of Severodonetsk from the Russian army. Serhiy Gaidai, the head of the military administration of the Luhansk region, announced this on the air of the telethon on Sunday, June 5.

"From the interceptions, we understand that the commander of the Russian army received two tasks - to capture Severodonetsk and the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway by June 10," Gaidai said.

He also predicted that in the next five days, the Russians will try to raze the Lugansk region to the ground.

"Evacuation from Severodonetsk is still impossible: about 15,000 people remain in the city. 98 people were rescued from Lisichansk on June 5," the official said in his speech.

According to Gaidai, the Russian Federation gave General Dvornikov until June 10 to capture Severodonetsk. At the same time, according to British intelligence, the Armed Forces of Ukraine counterattacked the invaders in Severodonetsk, probably stopping the preliminary operational breakthrough of the Russian forces.

At the same time, Roman Vlasenko, the head of the Severodonetsk regional VA, said on the air of the national telethon that at the moment street fighting continues in the city. Units of Ukrainian troops, he said, began to recapture the city center.

Vlasenko also confirmed Gaidai's words that the Armed Forces of Ukraine control about 50 percent of Severodonetsk. But he said that about 10 thousand civilians now remain in this part of the city.

Russians destroyed almost fifty religious buildings in the Donetsk region
by Anastacia Pshenichnaya
[Vesti] In the Donetsk region alone, the Russians destroyed 43 religious buildings during the 3 months of the war, most of which belonged to the UOC-MP. This was announced by the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko in Telegram.

“Yesterday, as a result of the shelling of Svyatogorsk, the All Saints Skete of the Svyatogorsk Lavra burned down, but this is far from the first religious building destroyed by the Russians. cell of the Svyatogorsk Lavra, killing four monks. In total, Russians have already destroyed or damaged at least 43 religious buildings in the region - the vast majority of them belonged to the Moscow Patriarchate, " Kirilenko said.

Kirilenko is confident that these attacks are the deliberate destruction of any manifestations of Ukrainian culture.

The day before in the Donetsk region on Saturday, a large-scale fire engulfed the All Saints Skete of the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra. The UOC-MP stated that this happened "as a result of hostilities."

The clown prince of Chechnya, Kadyrov says otherwise:
Kadyrov again announced the control of Russian troops over the residential area of ​​Severodonetsk

[REGNUM] The head of Chechnya , Ramzan Kadyrov , posted another video proving that Russian military personnel have taken control of the residential zone of Severodonetsk in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR). The footage was published in the telegram channel of the head of the region.

It is noted that the video was recorded by the assistant to the head of Chechnya in the power bloc Apta Alaudinov , who “rolled through the streets” of Severodonetsk LPR, “talked to the sellers of the working store ” and emphasized that “ local residents have not seen a single Nazi over the past few days, but about whose “The offensive was not heard at all.”

"Friends, I have repeatedly stated and confirmed by video recordings the fact of taking the entire residential area of ​​the city of Severodonetsk. The Akhmat fighters in these videos moved freely along the main street and the central avenue of the city," Kadyrov wrote, noting that Ukrainian nationalists continue to hang “noodles on their ears” that Severodonetsk is under the control of the Ukrainian authorities.

Recall that on June 2, the assistant to the head of Chechnya, Apta Alaudinov, told reporters that the residential development of the city of Severodonetsk in the LPR was completely liberated from Ukrainian armed occupiers.

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Russian military continues to suffer losses - information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] The army of the Russian Federation continues to suffer significant losses during the conduct of hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 on Sunday, June 5, 2022.

In order to replenish the units, the Russian invaders continue the measures of forced mobilization in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
A nice way of saying press gangs
Besides:

in the Volyn and Polesye directions, the enemy did not take active actions. The main efforts of the units of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to focus on reconnaissance and engineering equipment of positions. When checking the combat readiness of units, special attention is paid to working out the tasks of overcoming water obstacles and the interaction of air controllers with the crews of army aviation helicopters;

in the Seversk direction, the enemy is heavily guarding sections of the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. He carried out a mortar attack on civilian infrastructure in the area of ​​the village of Gremyach, Chernihiv region;

in the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues shelling units of the Defense Forces from cannon artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, mortars and tanks. In order to support offensive actions, it is rapidly restoring the transport and railway infrastructure in the temporarily occupied territories. Continues the use of electronic warfare to create conditions that exclude the use of UAVs by units of our troops;

in the Kharkov direction, the enemy conducted an active defense, concentrating his main efforts on the maintenance of occupied lines and border areas north of the city of Kharkov.

In order to increase the stability of the defense, it conducts engineering and fortification equipment of positions and mining approaches to them. To fetter the actions of the defense forces, it conducts intensive artillery and mortar attacks on the positions of our units.

In addition, the enemy fired on civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Tsirkuny, Russian and Cherkassky Tishki, and Stary Saltov. The Russian army launched missile strikes in the area of ​​the village of Korotich;

in the Slavyansk direction, the enemy's efforts are concentrated on continuing the offensive in the direction of the settlement of Slavyansk. The enemy fired at civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Chepol, Dubrovno, Vernopolye, Dovgenkoye and Bogorodichnoye.
The invaders unsuccessfully tried to conduct offensive and assault operations in the areas of the settlements of Bogorodichnoye and Dovgenkoye;

in the Donetsk direction, the enemy launched air strikes on civilian infrastructure in the areas of the cities of Slavyansk and Lysichansk;
in the Limansky direction, with the support of artillery, the enemy resumed the offensive in the area of ​​the settlement of Svyatogorsk, suffered significant losses in manpower, weapons and equipment. Conducts assault operations in the direction of the village of Stary Karavan. The fighting continues;

in the Severodonetsk direction, the enemy fired at units of our troops and civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Toshkovka, Ustinovka from mortars, artillery and multiple launch rocket systems;

in the Bakhmut direction, enemy units fired at the areas of the settlements of Kamyshevakha, Nikolaevka, Belogorovka, Pokrovskoye and Dolomitnoye. The enemy used ground attack and army aviation near Bakhmut and Berestovoye;

the Russian army conducted assault operations in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka and Nikolaevka. The enemy suffered significant losses in manpower and equipment. The fighting continues;

the enemy did not conduct active hostilities in the Avdeevsky, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporozhye directions. Conducted shelling of civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Zaitsevo, New York, Toretsk, Krasnogorovka, Maryinka, Uspenovka, Orekhov and Kamenskoye. He carried out strikes from aircraft of operational-tactical and army aviation near Novoselovka, New York, Marinka and Kamenskoye;

in the Yuzhnobugsky direction, the invaders fired at the positions of our troops, tried to conduct a counter-battery fight. In order to clarify the position of our units and adjust the fire, they conducted aerial reconnaissance using UAVs. The enemy used artillery in the areas of the settlements of Nikolaev, Pribugskoye, Luch, Blagodatnoye, Shirokoye and Tokarevo.

Russian troops conducted assault operations in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Belaya Krinitsa in order to restore the previously lost position. After a fire defeat by the defense forces of Ukraine, they retreated to their previously occupied positions.

Due to losses the enemy transfers the weapon and military equipment to the Bakhmut direction, - the General Staff of ZSU

[Censor] The Russians transferred more than 20 weapons and military equipment to the Bakhmut area to replenish the casualties.

As Censor.NET reports , this is stated in the operative information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook as of 6:00 on June 5 regarding the Russian invasion.

Thus began the one hundred and second period of the heroic opposition of the Ukrainian nation to the Russian military invasion.

The aggressor continues to launch missile and air strikes on military and civilian infrastructure on the territory of our State, in particular in Kyiv.

In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the threat of missile and aviation strikes from the territory of Belarus is maintained. Until June 11, 2022, the timing of the combat readiness of the units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus was extended.

As part of these activities in the Brest region conducted a control and tactical exercise with units of one of the brigades of special operations forces of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. The issues of subdivisions' actions in urban conditions, as well as overcoming the water barrier have been worked out.

In the Seversky direction, the aggressor carried out artillery shelling of infrastructure facilities in the areas of the settlements of Starikove and Katerynivka, Sumy region, as well as the settlement of Kamyanska Sloboda, Chernihiv region.

To clarify the location of the positions of our troops, the enemy conducted air reconnaissance of UAVs in certain areas of Sumy and Chernihiv regions.

In the Kharkiv direction, enemy units continue to focus their efforts on maintaining their positions and preventing the further advance of our troops to the State Border. The enemy does not stop firing on the positions of our troops near the city of Kharkiv.

The Russian occupiers used phosphate munitions in the Cherkasy Tyshky settlement.

In the Slavic direction, the enemy groups completed the regrouping of troops. Certain units are advancing in the directions Dovgenke - Dolyna and Brazhkivka - Vernopillya.

In the Donetsk direction, the aggressor's units are focusing on offensive operations to surround our troops in the areas of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk and to block the main logistics routes.

In the Lyman direction, the enemy is advancing in the direction of Svyatogorsk, trying to push our troops to the right bank of the Seversky Donets River.

In the Severodonetsk direction, the occupiers, with the support of artillery, are conducting assault operations in the city of Severodonetsk, controlling the eastern part of the city. In addition, in order to capture the dominant heights, the enemy is trying to launch an offensive in the direction of Nirkove - Mykolayivka.

In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy transferred more than 20 units of weapons and military equipment to replenish the units that suffered casualties.

In the Avdievka, Kurakhiv, Novopavliv and Zaporizhzhya directions, the occupiers are firing on the front line of defense and the rear areas of our troops, in order to restrain our units and prevent their regrouping.

In the direction of the South Bug, in anticipation of the offensive of our troops, in a certain area, the enemy mined the coast of the river Ingulets.

The enemy deployed in the Nikolaev direction to two jet and two batteries of barrel artillery. He also tried to regain his lost positions in the direction of Sukhoi Stavko and Lozov. He suffered heavy losses and left.

Five carriers of Caliber naval-based cruise missiles are ready to use missile weapons in the Black Sea.

During the past 24 hrs, five enemy attacks were repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk, three tanks, four artillery systems, eleven armored combat vehicles, twenty-six vehicles were destroyed. Air defense units shot down a Ka-52 combat helicopter and two Orlan-II -10 ".

Anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force in the Eastern direction destroyed an enemy aircraft, presumably a Su-34 and an Outpost UAV in the southern direction.

Four Caliber cruise missiles were hit by the Navy's air defenses.

As a result, for the previous day, units of the Defense Forces destroyed nine enemy air targets.

In addition, fighter aircraft of the Air Force continue to patrol the airspace of our State, strike aircraft successfully provide fire support to units of our troops in the East and in other designated operational areas, "the General Staff said.

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#1 
THIS SUMMER RUSSIA WILL ANNOUNCETHAT THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER RUSSIAN SUPPLIES OF ANY KIND TO EUROPE UNTIL IT BREAKS WITH WASHINGTON.

What would follow?
Political opinions would change. Governments would be replaced with more pragmatic ones.

France Italy and Germany would either have to leave NATO or become impoverished and irrelevant. U.S. troops on European grounds would be asked to leave or be attacked and thrown out by an enraged public. Germany and Italy would prohibit the U.S. military from using its airspace. The U.S would lose its grip over the continent. The cia and pentagon teams working on the Ukrainian disasters need to be executed.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 06/06/2022 17:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I love the idea of the eurines being cleft off the American teat.

Faster, please.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 17:52 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 - How fast can you type that with one hand? Just wondering. You obviously know
Posted by: Frank G || 06/06/2022 19:31 Comments || Top||


Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: June 5th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 22:36 Zelensky instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to consider the issue of banning the use of pyrotechnics, in particular fireworks, during martial law. This is stated in the President's response to the relevant petition.

22:33 Russian mercenary of PMC Wagner Vladimir Andanov from Buryatia with the call sign Vakha was destroyed in Donbas. He fought in eastern Ukraine since 2014, participated in the battles for Debaltseve, and after 2015 went to fight in Syria, Russian media write.

22:28 The head of the Zaporizhia OVA Oleksandr Starukh, in a report to the president, said that almost 60% of the region was occupied. According to him, the enemy has destroyed 2,701 infrastructure facilities in the region, of which almost 700 have been restored.

22:25 The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, said that the Russians were shelling residential areas of the regional center. Residents are asked to stay in shelters and not ignore the alarms.

22:21 Broadcast television is not available in Donetsk and the occupied part of the region from today. The reason is the shelling damage, which was again staged by the invaders themselves in order to accuse the Armed Forces of Ukraine of shelling "civilians," said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.

21:44 In the Donetsk region, paratroopers from the Dnipropetrovsk region destroyed an enemy KA-52 helicopter with a shot from the Igla MANPADS . Also in the evening it became known that the defense forces shot down a Russian Su-25 aircraft over Orekhovo, Zaporozhye region.

21:38 PMC Wagner, led by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, is mining gold in the mines of Sudan in order to illegally replenish Russian gold and foreign exchange reserves and mitigate the effect of Western sanctions, writes The New York Times.
Oh? How very interesting.
21:36 The United States allowed the supply of Venezuelan oil to Europe. The Italian Eni SpA and the Spanish Repsol SA received permits, writes Reuters. European companies may start supplying oil from Venezuela as early as July to replace Russian crude.

According to one of the sources of the publication, we are talking about small volumes of oil, so the impact on world prices will be modest. But Washington's green light to resume long-frozen Venezuelan oil flows to Europe could send a symbolic signal to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

21:17 Ukraine does not have enough weapons to confront Russia, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said: “Weapons have already begun to arrive, but they are not enough to give a strong rebuff to the Russian army. The West must understand that this is not a one-time assistance. Arms supplies must continue until victory "Our fighters are well prepared. But this motivation and preparation is not enough to defeat Russia without weapons."

Malyar called on Western countries to continue deliveries of weapons, especially heavy weapons and air defense systems: "We need help from the Western world, especially in weapons. And, above all, we are talking about air defense and heavy weapons."

21:11 Zelensky addressed the guests and participants of the Lithuanian National Film Award Sidabrinė gervė in Vilnius, honoring the memory of the Lithuanian film director killed by Russian soldiers while working on a documentary about Mariupol: "It is important to bring the truth. It is important to support art that is for life, not for those who want to destroy this life. Ukrainians will remember the Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravichus as a man who was just like that."

21:09 The European Commission will provide Ukraine with expert assistance for effective public investment and the necessary reforms to "build a path" to the EU, said EC President Ursula von der Leyen at the GLOBSEC 2022 security forum in Bratislava: "Ukrainians know exactly what kind of future they want. This is the future of a free and open society that belongs to a strong democratic community."

20:58 Two Ukrainian refugees died as a result of an accident on a railway in the Bavarian district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which occurred on Friday afternoon, June 3. A regional train bound for Munich derailed at Burgrain, overturning several carriages. Five people died and more than 40 were injured.

The information of the German media was confirmed by the Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnyk. The women left Ukraine because of the war and lived with German families taking in refugees. Both left a minor child.

20:52 Zelensky and Yermak visited Zaporozhye, where they talked with refugees from Mariupol. Zelensky also visited the forward positions of the Ukrainian military in the Zaporozhye region, the OP said.

20:33 In the next five days, the Russians will try to raze the Luhansk region to the ground , said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, it became known from the interceptions that the commander of the Russian army received two tasks - to capture Severodonetsk and the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway by June 10.

As for the situation on the evening of June 5, the Armed Forces of Ukraine cleared half of Severodonetsk from Russians. Evacuation from the city is not yet possible, about 15 thousand people remain in it. Today, 98 people were rescued from Lisichansk.

20:11 Severodonetsk is being defended by very professional units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the situation remains very dynamic, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said on the air of the telethon: "Indeed, it's very hot there now ... I understand that everyone is waiting for something already understandable and positive, but fighting continues. When fighting continues, some part of the city is now under the control of Russian troops, and in half an hour the situation may change radically. The situation is very dynamic."

19:59 Near the village of Vyshegrad, Buchansky district, Kyiv region, the police found the body of a civilian shot by the invaders, the National Police reported.

19:21 Russian media report that on June 5, during the fighting in the area of ​​​​the Bakhmut-Lisichansk highway (according to other sources, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe settlement of Nikolaevka), the chief of staff of the 29th combined arms army, Major General of the RF Armed Forces Roman Kutuzov, was liquidated.

18:58 Russia is directly responsible for any deficits in the international grain trade, Borrell said. According to him, Moscow, instead of stopping the aggression, is actively seeking to shift the responsibility to international sanctions. He also stressed that the EU will continue to support Ukraine, and Putin must stop his war, the territorial integrity of Ukraine must be restored - "this is in the interests of the entire international community."

18:51 It is possible to drive the Russians out of Severodonetsk, but the city does not have "huge strategic importance," head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said in an interview with Suspilny: "The military command must make a decision here, because it is possible to drive the Russians out of Severodonetsk, this task is within our power "The only thing is, what will be the next step? They will leave and destroy everything from heavy artillery with aircraft. Strategically, the city of Severodonetsk is not of great importance. In this respect, Lisichansk, located higher and more profitable, that is, the dominant heights, matters."

18:49 In the Kharkiv direction, the Russians are actively defending and shelling civilian infrastructure, and they are trying to attack in the Slavic, Liman and Bakhmut directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. The Russians resumed their offensive in the area of ​​Svyatogorsk, they are also storming the area of ​​Belaya Krinitsa - the Ukrainian defenders had to withdraw.

18:45 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer proposed creating a so-called "preparatory space" for Ukraine to reach EU standards.

18:34 Pope Francis, in his address to the pilgrims, again called for "real negotiations" on a ceasefire in Ukraine.

18:31 Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro have closed airspace for Lavrov's plane, which is due to arrive in Serbia next week on a visit. This was reported by the Serbian newspaper Vecherne Novosti , citing its source. Earlier, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the country was counting on Lavrov's visit, but the organization of his trip was facing a number of difficulties. Vucic said that he would personally deal with the logistics of the planned visit of the Russian Foreign Minister.

18:26 In Mariupol, on June 3, on Peschany beach, two people died when they hit a mine, one of the dead is a boy of eight years. Sandy is a beach that adjoins the Mariupol port and was "cleared" by the occupiers for the camera. The head of the occupation administration, Konstantin Ivashchenko, stated that the city's beaches were cleared of mines and open to the public. Despite the tragedy, the "authorities" of the city, together with propagandists, continue to invite people to the beaches, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.

17:55 Russian media report the death of a high-ranking commander of the Russian army at the front in the "LNR". His last name is not called, but State Duma deputy Dmitry Sablin has already expressed his condolences, calling the liquidated Roman.

17:37 Ukrainian soldier, brother of Mustafa Nayem, lawyer Masi Nayem is seriously wounded at the front. According to businessman Andrei Stavnitser, Nayem was wounded in the head, he is being taken to a hospital in the Dnieper, where he will be operated on.

16:56 During the morning shelling of Kiev, one of the missiles hit a military facility, Vadym Denisenko, an adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, said on the air of the telethon: "We can say that it was one object of military infrastructure, and another object of civilian infrastructure."

16:08 The General Staff specified that this morning five X-22 cruise missiles were fired at Kiev, one was destroyed by air defense units, the rest hit infrastructure facilities. The missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea.

16:05 Greece has announced a list of arms supplies that it has transferred or plans to transfer to Ukraine. According to the country's Minister of National Defense, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, it includes:

  • 122 BMP-1 with all ammunition for machine guns;

  • 15 thousand shells 73 mm;

  • 2.1 thousand 122-mm rockets;

  • 20 thousand AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifles;

  • 3.2 million rounds of 7.62 mm caliber;

  • 60 MANPADS FIM-92 Stinger;

  • 17 thousand artillery shells 155 mm;

  • 1.1 thousand anti-tank shells RPG-18.

15:53 ​​European Commissioner Thierry Breton told Europe 1 about the EU plan to phase out Russian gas: "It will include 50 billion cubic meters of LNG imports from the US or Qatar, an additional 10 billion on existing pipelines, accelerating offshore wind turbines and photovoltaic panels, providing 25 billion cubic meters".

15:40 Football competitions in Ukraine will resume in August, said Andriy Pavelko, president of the Ukrainian Football Association. He added that the decision was made jointly with Zelensky.

15:12 Statista has calculated where the military aid to Ukraine comes from. The infographic shows the countries that committed to transfer the most weapons to Ukraine from February 24 to May 10, 2022 (in billions of dollars):

14:51 It was possible to evacuate 66 people from Lisichansk, including six children, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, they were taken out "quietly, without an announcement." "We drove through the bomb shelters. They persuaded us. The military, police and the State Emergency Service were able to do the impossible again - 66 people are already safe," Gaidai wrote.

14:32 In Kiev, four rockets hit the Darnytsia Car Repair Plant , one railroad worker was injured, Alexander Kamyshin, head of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia, said. At the same time, he denied Moscow's information that tanks were being repaired at the plant, and invited the media to visit the enterprise to verify this.

13:59 The government plans to forgive loans to Ukrainians whose collateral was damaged during the war. According to the head of the financial committee Daniil Getmantsev, the bill will be submitted to the Rada next week. We are talking about writing off debt on loans to property that was destroyed during the hostilities - both real estate and cars.

13:28 The cause of yesterday's grandiose fire in the Nikolaev port was the hit of a shell in warehouses with grain meal, the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich reports with reference to the data of the State Emergency Service, specifying that the fire broke out on an area of ​​10 thousand square meters. The fire is still being extinguished.

13:14 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the enemy purposefully fired at settlements, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. According to him, as a result of the night shelling of the Zelenodolsk community, people were not injured, but two houses were destroyed, six more and the library were damaged.

13:11 Men who are trying to illegally leave Ukraine abroad have been detected since the first day of a full-scale war, but this is not a mass phenomenon, Vadym Denisenko, an adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said on the telethon.

“There are different schemes, it happens differently in different regions, but one way or another, I can’t say that this is a mass movement. That is, there are indeed isolated cases, there are groups that are engaged in this, but to say that that thousands of men go abroad is not true," Denisenko said. According to him, on average, such men pay from 5 to 15 thousand dollars for illegal border crossing.

13:06 In Kiev and the region, there is an intensification of the sabotage work of Russians , Vadym Denisenko, an adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, said on the air of the telethon: "The Russians have really stepped up their sabotage work. They are recruiting people, mainly from the occupied territories, these are Donetsk and Luhansk regions, these are people who at least they understand, and sometimes they can even speak Ukrainian, in order to later transfer them to other regions of Ukraine and carry out certain terrorist attacks here.

Denisenko added that there was a period when the DRGs calmed down somewhat, but now they have become active again, they are detained "relatively regularly." But, according to him, the results of the work of the DWG are minimal and almost come to naught.

12:59 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council reports that the Russians fired at the center of Donetsk to create a propaganda picture. The actions of propagandists are aimed at intimidating the inhabitants of the occupied territories and justifying the "special operation". At the same time, eyewitnesses from Donetsk report that the shots were fired from the Kuibyshev region and from Makiivka, which has a lot of confirmation in social networks.

12:34 Russians are massively trying to avoid direct combat clashes with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and leave the territory of Ukraine, despite the threats of criminal liability, Kadyrov’s guard detachments and increased control by special officers and border guards, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reports.

Thus, the command of the 30th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 2nd combined arms army of the Russian Federation hides mass cases of desertion and threatens soldiers with executions. One of the units of the brigade was detained while trying to cross the border near the Shiyan checkpoint (Belgorod region) and forcibly returned to the zone of active hostilities. Now the unit is discussing the possibility of surrendering to the Ukrainians.

12:27 Yermak commented on the shelling of Kiev and Macron’s call to “not humiliate” the Russian Federation: “There are proposals from some countries to“ not humiliate ”Russia. At the same time, they are shelling us: our cities, people ... They have been trying to take our territories, and for eight years how some of them are occupied. This can be stopped by strong diplomacy, economic sanctions and weapons. And the responsibility for the crimes, the genocide of Ukrainians should be as tough as possible. The responsibility of the aggressor is not humiliation, but justice."

12:25 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that high-precision missiles on the outskirts of Kiev destroyed "T-72 tanks supplied by Eastern European countries and other armored vehicles placed in the buildings of a car repair enterprise." And in Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka and Chasov Yar, “factory workshops where Ukrainian military equipment was repaired” were allegedly destroyed.

12:23 Putin said that at the time of the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, there were about 515 MLRS in the combat composition of the Ukrainian army, of which 380 were allegedly destroyed, but some were restored, taken from stocks. According to him, the US supply of missile systems to Ukraine "is connected with replenishing the losses of Ukrainian military equipment, it does not change anything in essence."

12:21 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, as a result of enemy shelling, six people were injured, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said. The shelling of the Kharkiv and Chuguev districts of the region continues, the settlements of Tsirkuny, Dergachi and the surrounding villages, Chuguev, Korobochkino and Chkalovskoye, Malinovka, Balakleya suffered. And in the Cherkasy Tishki area, phosphorus ammunition was used.

In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy is trying to fire at the positions of Ukrainian defenders and hold on to the previously captured territories, in the Izyum region, the Russians are attempting an offensive in the directions of Dovgenkoye - Dolina and Brazhkovka - Vernopolye, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding positions.

12:14 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, said that in the region, the invaders have already destroyed or damaged at least 43 religious buildings, and the vast majority of them belonged to the Moscow Patriarchate. In Svyatogorsk itself, which unites three monuments of architecture and culture, the Russians damaged the historical and architectural museum, destroyed the temple, two sketes and two cells of the Svyatogorsk Lavra, killing four monks.
Destroying their own branch of the faith? Not very Christian of them.
12:04 The operational command of Pivden specified that in the Nikolaev region two cruise missiles that were shot down by air defense flew from the direction of the Black Sea and from the territory of Russia. Air-launched missiles attacked the Black Sea coast of the Nikolaev region, ports and granaries.

11:24 On Saturday, June 4, the Russians fired at the Korotich airfield in the Kharkiv region for the third time, the Kharkiv flying club reports. V. Grizodubova. Two hangars, light sports and training aircraft were destroyed. There are no victims. Six-meter funnels were formed from the blows. There were no military planes or helicopters on the territory of the airfield, says the head of the flying club Sergey Filatov.

11:21 Russians fired at Kiev from Tu-95 planes from the Caspian Sea. Around 06:00, units of the Air Command Center discovered enemy missiles and fired at them. One missile was destroyed, the rest flew to the target.

11:15 Putin said that if Kiev receives long-range missiles, Russia will "draw conclusions" and use its weapons "on those objects that have not been hit yet."

11:13 "The Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR" announced that it had completed the "investigation" of the criminal case against the British "mercenary" Aiden Aslin, he could face the death penalty.

10:31 Russians fired at several cities of Donetsk region, including Slavyansk. According to the mayor of the city, Vadim Lyakh, the rockets flew into the non-residential sector, there were no casualties or destruction.

10:29 Podolyak commented on today's missile attacks on Kiev: "While someone asks" not to humiliate Russia, "the Kremlin resorts to new insidious attacks. Today's missile attacks on Kiev have only one goal - to kill more Ukrainians. Each such act of terrorism should receive tough response from European capitals - new sanctions, more weapons."

10:23 Head of the African Union, President of Senegal Maki Sall, will arrive in Kiev. However, he has not yet announced the date of the visit. The other day, Sall visited Moscow, where he tried to negotiate with Putin on the unblocking of Ukrainian ports and the restoration of maritime grain exports. Now he wants to meet with the leadership of Ukraine.

09:48 Today early in the morning Russians struck Ochakov of the Nikolaev area, houses are damaged, the regional military administration reported.

09:30 The enemy has lost about 20% of the territory of Severodonetsk and now controls half of the city, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai on the air of the telethon. According to him, after the Ukrainian counterattacks, eight Russians were captured.

09:24 British intelligence reports that over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces have launched counterattacks in Severodonetsk, which likely nullified the operational momentum that Russian forces had previously gained through the concentration of combat units and firepower. Russian forces deployed in the area include personnel mobilized from the "LPR" reserve. These troops are poorly equipped and trained, they lack heavy equipment compared to the regular units of the Russian Federation.

The use of such proxy infantry for city clearing operations is a Russian tactic previously used in Syria, where the Russian Federation deployed the Syrian Army's 5th Corps to attack urban areas. This approach likely indicates a desire to limit casualties among regular Russian forces, analysts say.

09:20 To get drinking water in Mariupol, now you need to sign up for a queue that lasts from two days, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. The main reason is the falling water level in natural springs. A further reduction in water supplies is predicted for natural reasons - due to the summer heat.

Andryushchenko also said that the volume of "humanitarian aid" from the occupiers has decreased, now it is issued exclusively to people of retirement age. Everything else - only through the "work". Young people are forced to sign up for "teams" and help mobile patrols, incl. in filtration measures. For refusal, they threaten with mobilization into the "DPR" army.

09:15 Today at about 5:30 a Russian cruise missile, similar to a Kalibr-type missile, flew critically low over the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant, Energoatom reported. Probably, the rocket was fired towards Kyiv. The company called it an act of nuclear terrorism and stressed that even the smallest fragment of a rocket that can get into a working power unit can cause a nuclear catastrophe and radiation leakage.

09:12 In Severodonetsk, the Russians fired at Azot, in Lisichansk - the police and post offices, one person died, two were injured, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.

09:10 Over Nikolayevshchina two enemy rockets are destroyed, the speaker of Odessa OVA Sergey Bratchuk reported, referring to command of Naval Forces of Ukraine.

09:03 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of June 5. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut direction.

  • personnel - about 31,150 (+100) people liquidated,

  • tanks - 1381 (+5),

  • armored combat vehicles - 3392 (+13),

  • artillery systems - 686 (+6),

  • MLRS - 207 (+0),

  • air defense systems - 95 (+0),

  • aircraft - 210 (+0),

  • helicopters - 175 (+0),

  • UAV operational-tactical level - 548 (+8),

  • cruise missiles - 122 (+0),

  • ships/boats - 13 (+0),

  • automotive equipment and tankers - 2360 (+23),

  • special equipment - 53 (+1).

08:53 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Krivoy Rog region again fell under enemy shelling. The artillery of the occupier hit the Zelenodolsk bulk, there is the destruction of residential buildings in two villages. Information on the victims is being clarified, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.

08:50 In the Kiev OVA reported that the air defense shot down an enemy missile over the Obukhov region.

08:35 Experts from the American Institute for the Study of War believe that Ukrainian forces successfully repel Russian attempts to encircle them in the Lugansk region, as well as Russian attacks in Severodonetsk - "due to cautious and effective local counterattacks in the city and the defense of the western bank of the Seversky Donets River."

08:24 The invaders fired at the territory in the Brovary district of the Kiev region this morning, the mayor of the city Igor Sapozhko said. There is no information about the destruction in the Brovary community, but the smell of carbon monoxide is felt in the city, residents are asked to close their windows and not go outside.

08:13 The Russians launched an air missile attack on the industrial facilities of Kramatorsk, Mayor Alexander Goncharenko said. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties, but there are serious damages at two enterprises of the city.

07:59 Russian invaders used phosphorus munitions in the area of ​​the Cherkasy Tishki settlement in the Kharkiv region. The enemy continued to launch missile and air strikes, including on Kiev and is conducting offensive operations in the Donbass, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .

In the Slavic direction, the enemy has completed the regrouping of troops, the units are advancing in the directions Dolgenka - Dolina and Brazhkovka - Vernopolye. Also, the enemy is attacking Svyatogorsk, trying to push the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the right bank of the Seversky Donets.

Near the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway near the border of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, the enemy is conducting an offensive along the Nyrkovo-Nikolaevka line - this is necessary to capture the dominant heights. And in the Davydov Brod area of ​​the Kherson region, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine recently launched a counteroffensive, Russian forces tried to recapture the villages of Lozovoe and Dry Stavok on the left bank of the Ingulets, but to no avail.

07:54 Russia launched missile strikes on the Darnitsky and Dneprovsky districts of Kyiv. Klitschko said that there were no casualties as a result of missile attacks on infrastructure facilities, one victim was hospitalized.

00:12 The Russians forcibly deported part of the population of Severodonetsk to the occupied territory, said the head of the CAA, Alexander Stryuk, on the air of the telethon. Answering a question about the number of people who remain in the city, he pointed out that before the start of the assault, there were about 13 thousand people in Severodonetsk. "Considering that constant street fighting has been going on for the third day, the population that was, it remains, with the exception of a small part that the orcs managed to forcibly remove from the city to the occupied territory," he added.

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West has long embarked on the path of severing relations with Russia -- Zakharova
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[RIA Novosti] The collective West, led by the United States, has long embarked on the path of breaking off relations with Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the air of the Italian TV channel La7.

"The collective West, led by the United States, began to dominate the EU space . From a political point of view, the European Union does not exist without the United States. And this Collective West, led by the United States, has long since moved on to breaking off relations with Russia.

At first, we were not given the opportunity to build gas pipelines to Europe. Who did it? The United States, which forbade, in particular, Germany to build a gas pipeline, saying that Europe should not receive Russian gas," Zakharova said.

According to her, another example of this problem is the visa facilitation talks that have been going on for 20 years.

“It was the EU that practically interrupted these negotiations and facilitated the visa regime for Moldova without explaining anything to us,” the representative of the foreign ministry emphasized.

Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated due to the situation in Ukraine. The European Union, the United States and some other states have imposed new sanctions on individuals, banks and companies. They also closed the sky for Russian aircraft. Restrictive measures turned into economic problems for the States themselves and their allies and rising prices for fuel and products.

According to President Vladimir Putin , the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy for unfriendly countries, and the main goal of the United States and Europe is to worsen the lives of millions of people.

"Do you have to let it linger?"
Host of the Italian channel La7 became ill after an interview with Zakharova

[REGNUM] The host of the La7 channel on Italian television, Massimo Giletti, felt unwell after completing an interview with the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. The incident occurred on June 6 during a conversation between the TV presenter and the guests of the Non è l'Arena program.

Giletti was in touch with the studio in Rome from Moscow, and after completing the interview with Zakharova via Skype, he began to discuss it with the guests of the TV show. However, after a few minutes, the guests of the program and co-host Giletti noticed that he was uneasy. The co-host shouted: “Help Massimo!” After which the ad block was turned on, the incident itself was not shown on the air.

After the advertisement, co-host Giletti explained that his health suddenly worsened and the program continued without him. The Italian journalist returned to the air some time later and explained that the cause of the malaise could be a lack of sugar or unusually cool weather in Moscow. Giletti's first aid, according to him, was provided by Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov.

Earlier , REGNUM reported that the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova , spoke about the iron curtain that the EU is building around Russia and about who benefits from the break in relations between Europe and Russia.

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From the Russian Perspective: Operation on Denazification of Ukraine: operational summary June 5th (updated)
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:32 "We want to live in a free and new country on the territory of Kherson. So that we can be confident in the future"

The former commander of the 194th Battalion of the so-called Terodefense of Ukraine Dmitry Kuzmenko, together with his wife, went to the passport office of Kherson and applied for Russian citizenship.
So called coz that's what it’s called.
18:29 During the fighting near Nikolayev, the commander of the 18th battalion of the 35th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Derduga, was killed.

17:47 Ukrainians report that Mustafa Nayem's brother, lawyer Masi Nayem, was wounded in the head. This "lawyer" is known primarily for defending the Odessa scumbag Sergei Sternenko in court.

17:21 The situation in the north of the Kharkiv region as of 17.00 June 5, 2022:

The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a counterattack on the positions of the Russian Armed Forces north of Kharkov.

▪️Fighting has been going on in Tsupovka since yesterday. According to the very bold statements of local residents, the Armed Forces of Ukraine already control Tsupovka and are about to continue their attack on Kazachya Lopan. There is no actual confirmation of this, artillery strikes are being carried out on Cossack Lopan.

▪️The second direction of impact is the Great Passages. Despite the withdrawal of Ukrainian units from the vicinity of the Pitomnik, today the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to regain the initiative.

▪️On the eastern flank, fighting is going on in the Ternovaya area and at the boundary between Rubizhnoye and Stary Saltov. The Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred armored vehicles and reinforcements from the National Guard.

▪️Launchers of the Grad MLRS were deployed in Zolochiv, and active work of foreign MANPADS was noted in Chernoglazovka and Cherkasskiye Tishki.

▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to strengthen on the eastern bank of the Seversky Donets. Fortified areas are equipped in the vicinity of the Pecheneg reservoir and Khotomli. The section of the road from Khotomli to Primorsky is under the actual control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces launched strikes on the Korotych airfield in the suburbs of Kharkov, where, according to preliminary information, Ukrainian MiG-29s were deployed

16:20 CAA of Kherson region introduces a procedure for managing all facilities and property

"All property that is located on the territory of the Kherson region - real estate technological objects that are state property - is currently the state property of the Kherson region. A property fund has been created, the responsibility of which is to register and register all such objects. Absolutely everyone - both former state and private owners" said the head of the military-civilian administration of the region Vladimir Saldo.

14:35 Father Nikolai -the only one who stayed here from all the ministers of the church. People still live in the basement of the Holy Ascension Cathedral in Izyum.

14:15 In Lisichansk, the headquarters of the VFU was destroyed.

13:05 The RF Armed Forces destroyed T-72 tanks supplied by Eastern European countries with a missile attack on the outskirts of Kyiv.

This is reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

▪️Russian aviation shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 during an air battle in the Slavyansk region

▪️High-precision missiles destroyed the factory workshops in Kramatorsk, where military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was being repaired.

▪️As a result of other missile strikes, the following were destroyed:

- Two launchers of the Osa-AKM air defense system in the Cherkasskoye and Orekhovo regions.

- Two MLRS combat vehicles in the Korotych area.

- Three depots of rocket and artillery weapons in the Slavyansk region.

- US counter-battery radar AN/TPQ-50 in the Seversk region.

▪️Russian air defense shot down:

- An-26 military transport aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, carrying weapons.

- 10 unmanned aerial vehicles. Including in the Berezovka area - "Bayraktar TB2"

- Two tactical missiles "Tochka-U" in the Novogeorgievka area.

11:52 Kyiv. Arrival at the Darnytsky Car Repair Plant.

11:30 Putin: "If Kyiv receives long-range missiles, Russia will draw conclusions and use its means of destruction on those objects that have not yet been struck."

11:24 The fuss over additional deliveries of weapons to Kyiv has only one goal - "to drag out the armed conflict as far as possible" - Putin.

11:10 Power heavy flamethrower systems in the Nikolaev-Kherson direction. TOSs proved themselves well during the special operation, and even Arestovich published videos of the use of systems on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian propaganda has been telling for many years that heavy flamethrower systems "Solntsepyok" are working against the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

11:05 The result of yesterday's missile attack on the port in Nikolaev. Depot of fuel and lubricants and ammunition was destroyed.

10:25 Personnel combat work of crews of 203mm Pion self-propelled artillery mounts. Artillerymen destroyed equipped firing positions and observation posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine located in the forest. Artillery was guided by drones. After firing, the battery moved to spare positions to exclude the possibility of an enemy retaliatory strike. Crews of the 203mm self-propelled guns "Pion" conducted live firing with high-explosive fragmentation shells at a distance of up to 30 kilometers.

10:20 The main results of the SVO in Ukraine for June 4, 2022:

The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the training center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sumy region. In the Donbass, the allied forces are systematically developing success.

➖There are battles for Bogorodichne, the Valley and the surrounding forests.
➖In Svyatogorsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to cling to urban development.
➖Foreign mercenaries were transferred to Severodonetsk. As a result of the counterattack, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to oust the RF Armed Forces from the western outskirts of Sirotino and from the village of Lesnaya Dacha.
➖The People's Militia of the LPR continues its offensive against Mirnaya Dolina.
➖Intense shelling of Donetsk continues: at least five people were killed as a result of the artillery attack.

In the Zaporozhye region, the RF Armed Forces attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​Poltavka and Zeleny Guy. Numerous strikes were inflicted on targets in Nikolaev. A Ukrainian military transport plane was shot down near Odessa.

10:11 Biden as analyst: Ukraine may have to give territory to Russia as part of a negotiated settlement. Source: New York Post.

09:50 Russian Ministry of Defense published personnel combat work of crews of 203mm Pion self-propelled artillery mounts during a special military operation.

09:45 El Pais reported that the Spanish authorities are ready to send tanks and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine.

08:53 In the morning, Kyiv was covered by a missile attack. Apparently, they decided to show this bloody clown that no one will allow them to shoot at Donetsk with impunity. The purposes are exclusively military. We, unlike these bastards, do not fight with civilians.

08:23 In Vasilyevka, the liberated part of the Zaporozhye region, the monument to the Red Guards was returned to its former appearance.

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#1  Russia will win the war in the Ukraine, take the south and east to likely create a new country and leave the rest of the cadaver for Poland, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania and others to feast on.
After that, the USA will loose Europe
Germany Italy France will integrate with the Eurasia block
The inflation in the us will become a devaluation of the USA currency. NATO IS DEAD.
…that’s the reason that France was uninvited and booted out of the AUKUS preparation, and participation….
Posted by: Aca Joe || 06/06/2022 16:49 Comments || Top||

#2  I'd be fine with America having only America to worry about. Alas, it's too much to ask...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 16:56 Comments || Top||

#3  ^1 Interesting. "Germany Italy France will integrate with the Eurasia block", I don't see that however. I see Asia, Russia, India and Arab world plus Africa becoming a block. Then possibly as I see current efforts played out Latin America. The neglected step child of America.
Posted by: Dale || 06/06/2022 18:00 Comments || Top||

#4  that’s the reason that France was uninvited and booted out of the AUKUS preparation, and participation…

Back off the bootleg Vodka, Comrade.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/06/2022 19:29 Comments || Top||


Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: June 5th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:35 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of five civilians as a result of shelling by the AFU on the previously liberated territory of the Republic:

n.p. Vladimirovka (temporarily attached to the administration of the Starobeshevsky district):
- male, born in 1969.

n.p. Stepnoye (temporarily attached to the administration of the city of Donetsk):
- a man born in 1980.

n.p. Nikolskoye (temporarily attached to the administration of the Starobeshevsky district):
- male, born in 1974.

n.p. Severodonetsk (LPR):
- men born in 1981 and 1987.

21:33 VFU attacked Yelenovka. As a result of the shelling, 500 household subscribers were de-energized.

21:13 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result ofshellingVFU Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:

- st. Infantry, 4 - residential building;
- st. Infantry, 4a - radio and television transmitting center, a direct hit on the roof of the building, equipment was damaged, the station was de-energized.

As a result of shelling by the VFU n.p. Elenovka more than 500 subscribers are deprived of power supply.

20:21 As a result of the shelling of the Kievsky district of Donetsk, a multi-apartment residential building down Artem Street 290 received significant damage, a fire broke out. The trade pavilions of the market were also under fire, two civilians were injured.

20:05 Donetsk was left without broadcasting due to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the radio and television center reported.

19:30 In just half an hour, Ukrainian artillery released about 50 shells of 152mm and 12 mm in the direction of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk

Residential areas and civilian infrastructure are under fire. The population fixes smoke on the street. Infantry.

18:42 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 20 shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

18:21 According to updated information, as a result of the shelling of Privokzalnaya Square in the Kievsky district, there are victims:

- woman born in 1972 - shrapnel wound of the chest, hospitalized in hospital No. 17;
- a girl born in 2001 - shrapnel wound of the shin, hospitalized in hospital No. 19.

17:11 AFU attacked the Donetsk railway station. The main blow fell on the market on the station square to the left of the station building from the side of the temple.

In 2014, the bodies of Donetsk residents killed by Ukrainian shells lay on these very streets, then few people understood how long the horror of the war would drag on.

16:15 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the death of a civilian and the injury of another as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka:

- a man born in 1952 died.
- a man born in 1976 was wounded.

As a result of the shelling of the VFU, damage was recorded at the following addresses:

n.p. Gorlovka:

- st. Malahitovaya, 1, 11, 13, 18 - residential buildings;
- Rozhdestvenskaya St., 4, 4/3, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13 - residential buildings, two cars were also damaged;
- st. Malyshko, 13 - residential building;
- st. Barakha, 3 - residential building;
- st. Mekhanizatorov, 1 - residential building;
- st. Entuziastov, 26, 28, 30 - residential buildings;
- st. Korikova, 1 - residential building;
- st. Paustovsky, 4, 16 - residential buildings.

n.p. Golmovsky:

- Ave. School, 2, 4, 10 - residential buildings;
- st. Soviet Army, 11 - the building of the recreation center "Golmovsky".

n.p. Panteleymonovka:

- Mayakovsky st., 67 - residential building.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

15:51 The Russian army can occupy the entire Donbass within the next 4-5 weeks. This is reported by Der Spiegel, citing German foreign intelligence data.

"The German foreign intelligence agency believes that Ukrainian resistance may even be broken in the next four to five weeks. In a number of secret briefings in recent days, BND analysts have noted that the Russians are capable of conquering small areas of territory every day. The BND (German Federal Intelligence Service) considers it possible that Russian troops can finally take the entire Donbass under their control by August 2022," the Der Spiegel publication says.

15:32 Information about the victims in Donetsk over the past day:

Voroshilovsky district:

- 18 wounded (including 2 children).

Kuibyshevsky district:

- 2 wounded.

Petrovsky district:

- 3 dead.
- 2 wounded.

15:29 VFU attacked the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka, a man was wounded. As a result of the shelling on the street. Krushelnitsky was wounded by a civilian.

Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter.

15:02 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk: 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.

13:45 As of June 5, 2022, on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, a group of troops of the DPR and LPR, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, liberated and established full control over 227 settlements, including Ilyichevka in the Krasnolimansky district. There are battles for Svyatogorsk.

13:25 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka: 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

13:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 11:45 — n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

12:13 On June 4, 1,422 people applied to healthcare facilities in Mariupol, Volnovakha, Volodarsky, Mangush, settlements of Novoazovsky, Starobeshevsky and Telmanovsky districts.

11:50 Shelling from the AFU was recorded in the following directions:

n.p. Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired;

n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Balka: fired four mines with a caliber of 82mm;

n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Dolomite: fired six mines in 82mm caliber;

n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 15 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.

11:37 Izvestia's military commander Rodion Severyanov showed how Gorlovka scouts use a copter to determine the positions of Ukrainian nationalists in the Avdievka direction. On the personnel it can be seen that the drone first recorded the location of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis, after which their positions were destroyed with the help of an artillery strike.

11:19 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.

10:27 VFU is again shelling the village of Golmovsky. The village is partially de-energized. The building of the boiler house No. 69 was damaged. Personnel in the shelter. Residents of the village get off the streets!

10:13 Donetsk Petrovsky district, as a result of a strike from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, residential buildings are on fire. The shelling continues.

10:02 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of 06/05/2022. During the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:

➖36 personnel;
➖Six armored personnel carriers;
➖Six vehicles.
➖Eight servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made the right decision, laid down their arms, thereby saving their lives.

The enemy continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, shelling the civilian infrastructure of the front-line settlements of the LPR, which do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military facilities.

Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired THIRTY mines from 120mm mortars at the village of Kremennaya.

In order to suppress the enemy’s fire activity on civilians of the Republic, the positions of the VFU, from which the fire was fired, were promptly detected and destroyed by the on-duty firepower of the NM LPR units.

The people's militia of the LPR seeks to save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and calls to lay down their arms, so the artillery units of the defense department continue to cover the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with propaganda leaflets.

The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, continue to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of the liberated territories, as well as the evacuation of civilians from the combat zone.

So yesterday, the volunteers of the Russian Humanitarian Mission, together with units of the defense department, delivered all the necessary medicines to the medical institutions of Pervomaisk, as well as a medical vehicle to provide ambulance to the needy residents of the city and nearby cities.

09:35 Russian military brought humanitarian aid to the residents of the liberated Krasny Liman in the DPR.

09:30 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 15 shells of 122mm caliber were fired;

n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: fired five shells with a caliber of 122mm.

08:51 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Georgievka - Donetsk (village Chelyuskintsev): 15 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

08:06 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kievsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired .

n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: seven 122mm rounds were fired.

n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Mikhailovka: nine shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

Posted by: badanov || 06/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


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China fighter jet intercepts Australian plane - Canberra
[BBC] Australia has accused the pilot of a Chinese fighter jet of carrying out a dangerous manoeuvre near one of its aircraft over the South China Sea.

It says the Chinese aircraft released flares and cut in front of the Australian surveillance plane.

The Chinese jet then released "chaff" - an anti-radar device which includes small pieces of aluminium which entered the Australian plane's engine.

Beijing claims most of the region as its own territory.

The Royal Australian Air Force P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft was intercepted on 26 May by a Chinese J-16 fighter aircraft, during what was a routine maritime surveillance activity, Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese said.

"The intercept resulted in a dangerous manoeuvre which did pose a safety threat to the P-8 aircraft and its crew," he said.

Defence Minister Richard Marles said the Chinese jet flew very close in front of the RAAF aircraft and released a "bundle of chaff" containing the small pieces of aluminium that were ingested into the Australian aircraft's engine.

"Quite obviously this is very dangerous," Mr Marles told ABC television.

In a statement, Australia's defence ministry said it had "for decades undertaken maritime surveillance activities in the region" and "does so in accordance with international law, exercising the right to freedom of navigation and overflight in international waters and airspace".

Beijing has not commented on the incident. China has been building up military infrastructure there in recent years.

But the US, neighbouring countries and others, including Australia, dispute its claim.

In February, Australia accused a Chinese navy ship of shining a military grade laser towards one of its warplanes over the Arafura Sea off northern Australia.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies



Economy
Surprising Things You Can Buy With Food Stamps
[GoBankingRates] Formerly known as food stamps, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the most important anti-hunger initiative in America. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), SNAP provided food security to about 41.5 million people in 2021, with an average benefit of $218.14 per person.
That’s per month, not per year.
Recipients use Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards to receive funds and make purchases, and they can use those cards to buy a whole lot more than just standard groceries. Here’s a look at some of the more unusual things that SNAP will pay for.

Find: SNAP Benefits Available in Your State in 2022
SNAP Schedule 2022: April Payments
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/06/2022 06:42 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My groceries run about $300/month, including beer and toiletries, and I don’t scrimp anymore either.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/06/2022 9:34 Comments || Top||

#2  That’s per month, not per year.

and is not counted in their income by the census bureau.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/06/2022 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  and is not counted in their income by the census bureau.

Mp public aid is counted. It would erase poverty rate statistics.
Posted by: Angstrom || 06/06/2022 10:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Of course one can just sell the EBT cards for cash and buy anything.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 10:16 Comments || Top||

#5  That’s absolutely what is done. I don’t know the exchange rate, but EBT is sold at a discounted rate. $50 cash for $100 worth of food stamps for example. At a place I once worked it was party time every month. They would wheel and deal over who would pay the most cash. “I’ll give you 10 for 20. I’ll give you 12 for 20.” Things like that. Look up Bone Thugs n Harmony some ng First of the Month. I think it was Chris Rock who talked about it being a Welfare Carol.
Posted by: Lowspark || 06/06/2022 11:46 Comments || Top||

#6  imo: no one in thew U.S. should go hungry but ... when i was a lad (80 yrs ago) tramps would come to our door and my mom would give them food. the govt handed out food not plastic. lets revert to that!
Posted by: irish rage boy || 06/06/2022 16:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Your mom was practicing charity. The Left uses the public treasury to practice their charity.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/06/2022 19:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Are we having fun yet??!

Food prices soar, with NO END IN SIGHT
Posted by: Sugar Sanwitch || 06/06/2022 22:45 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
CDC director spoke with several union leaders before tightening masking guidance, internal calendar reveals
[FoxNews] Rochelle Walensky, other CDC officials kept in close contact with teachers unions throughout coronavirus pandemic
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 04:25 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


#2  I can't find anywhere that unions are entitled to co-sovereignty with an elected government of the people. Either work for the people or find a new employer.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/06/2022 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember the song "look for the union label" from years past. Now consider it a theme song in a lot of the inner city criminal trials when they discover the woeful ignorance of the defendants.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/06/2022 11:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember the song "look for the union label"

Awwwww. Algore said his nanny used to sing that to him in his crib. Turns out it wasn't even produced until Al was in college.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/06/2022 11:56 Comments || Top||


Elon Musk asks why 'leaking' DOJ won't spill Epstein client list: 'Doesn't that seem odd?'
[FoxBusiness] Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, said the DOJ, which grew notoriety for leaking under former President Donald Trump, was remarkably silent about the deceased convicted pedophile.

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He should increase his security staff.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 06/06/2022 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Only thing more remarkable than DOJ not leaking the list is that no one in the media cares. Doesn’t that seem odd?

"Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." Benito Mussolini

It's a tsunami of Freudian Projection of them calling anyone else Fascist.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/06/2022 2:44 Comments || Top||

#3 
  • Epstein unexplained wealth and earlier slap on the wrist legal action in Florida.
  • IRS shows little to no interest in Epstein unexplained wealth.
  • British Royal family member involved in tawdry sex ostracized by Royal family.
  • Bill and Melinda are no longer Bill and Melinda.
  • Bill Clinton is Lolita Express frequent flier.
  • Daughter of former Mossad agent heavily involved in recruitments is mysteriously extradited from country with no extradition treaty with US to US for trial.
  • Underage females involved appear to suddenly lose interest in legal action and financial recovery.
  • ME visitors to Little St. James Island remain unnamed.
  • Communications conducted on overseas Epstein Island facility apparently done via hand signals.
  • Status of Epstein facilities in US and St. James Island remains unknown.
  • DOJ shows little or no interest in case.
  • House and Senate committees on intelligence show little or no interest in case.
  • Elon Musk asking DOJ question he already has the answer to.
  • Entire event now somewhere in the media memory hole.

    Are there any additional questions regarding bilateral intelligence community 'dual-purpose' honey traps ?

  • Posted by: Besoeker || 06/06/2022 2:46 Comments || Top||

    #4  Elon Musk feud with Bill Gates boils over to Twitter
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 4:14 Comments || Top||

    #5  Odd? Not when you realize the DOJ is the weaponized tool of the establishment deep state. It makes perfect sense then.
    Posted by: DarthVader || 06/06/2022 8:37 Comments || Top||

    #6  Biden's G-men go rogue
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/06/2022 8:44 Comments || Top||

    #7  An alternate title (#6) could be "Rogue G-Men Go Free"
    Posted by: Bobby || 06/06/2022 9:44 Comments || Top||

    #8  In a Republic everyone is (mostly) equal under the law...Not now
    Posted by: magpie || 06/06/2022 15:52 Comments || Top||

    #9  I watch sailing videos that frequent that area. Lots of comments about more and fatter sharks then expected in the region of that island.
    Posted by: 3dc || 06/06/2022 18:36 Comments || Top||

    #10  Epstein unexplained wealth and earlier slap on the wrist legal action in Florida.
    IRS shows little to no interest in Epstein unexplained wealth.
    British Royal family member involved in tawdry sex ostracized by Royal family.
    Bill and Melinda are no longer Bill and Melinda.
    Bill Clinton is L0lita Express frequent flier.
    Daughter of former Mossad agent heavily involved in recruitments is mysteriously extradited from country with no extradition treaty with US to US for trial.
    Underage females involved appear to suddenly lose interest in legal action and financial recovery.
    ME visitors to Little St. James Island remain unnamed.
    Communications conducted on overseas Epstein Island facility apparently done via hand signals.
    Status of Epstein facilities in US and St. James Island remains unknown.
    DOJ shows little or no interest in case.
    House and Senate committees on intelligence show little or no interest in case.
    Elon Musk asking DOJ question he already has the answer to.
    Entire event now somewhere in the media memory hole.

    Clinton WH fixer and Epstein flyer dies of "su!c!d3" involving a hanging AND a shotgun blast. Right.
    Posted by: Bonnie and Trotsky || 06/06/2022 22:26 Comments || Top||



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