Politics, Everyday, All day... morning, noon and night....II

[Simon of the Playa]

"President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency," Brooks said in a statement responding to Trump's withdrawal of his endorsement of Brooks' US Senate campaign.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mo-broo ... ion-2022-3

[Canoe]

I think the heavy losses among Russian battalion, regiment, and brigade commanders might be an even bigger issue than the losses of generals. It is really difficult to replace these losses, which sometimes includes the staff.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1506698996563296260

East of Kyiv, Ukrainians have driven Russia back some, senior [U.S.] defense official says.

At one point, they were 25 km away from city center there. Now they’re 55 km away.

https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1 ... 9342035975
[additional assessments for other cities in thread]

“France … has also just raised its level of nuclear alert: three of the four nuclear machine-launching submarines (SNLE) available to the French Navy are now at sea…Normally, of the four French SNLEs there is always at least one at sea”

https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1506732498704900096

Finland’s President @niinisto makes clear (in MTV interview) that his various discussions w Biden, Macron etc have included clarifications on (a) support for NATO membership (apparently very strong) and (b) what national processes for ratification would be.

https://twitter.com/charlyjsp/status/15 ... 2900880388

"Multiple (NATO officials) told the FT they saw growing support for extending Stoltenberg’s term, which he is due to complete at the end of September."

Well that's one way to successfully troll Lavrov, who repeatedly trashes Stoltenberg.

https://twitter.com/biannagolodryga/sta ... 2603327489

[cherry pick from]

A background briefing with a senior U.S. defense official about the war in Ukraine has just concluded. It’s Day 28 since Russia’s invasion.

On military assistance shipments:
* $350M package approved earlier this month just about all delivered.
* Larger $800M shipment set to begin very soon, with weapons prioritized, senior defense official says.
* No word when first tactical drones will be delivered.
* The $800M package will take days to deliver. "It’ll be a series of multiple flights over many days” to eastern Europe, official says.

https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1 ... 5344152581

[Russians: We're still not moving forward here. We got off the highways. We're still taking hits. We're low on fuel. Let's dig in.]

UK MOD update- "There is a realistic possibility that Ukrainian forces are now able to encircle Russian units in Bucha and Irpin."

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/stat ... 5739827209

Mayor of Irpin says Russia targeted suburbs of Kyiv with white phosphorus last night. Here’s what we saw from the centre of Kyiv. [video of]

https://twitter.com/RohitKachrooITV/sta ... 2253022213

[lure in the responders...]
Russians artillery has repeatedly used "two in a row" shelling sessions, hitting the damaged area again once emergency services - or even journalists - arrive to the location. Such incidents, if proven to be a premeditated trend, constitute war crimes.

Oksana, an amazingly brave Russian journalist, was the Ukraine reporter for our investigative partner @the_ins_ru. She was killed by her own country's army shelling civilian areas in the Podol district in Kyiv. She was killed while reporting on the damage caused by the shelling.

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/statu ... 4235694081

[the climate hook] [from March 2021]
Why Russia wants to invade Ukraine, a thread.

it's because of water. (It's always water isn't it?). This is the North Crimean Canal, dammed up since the Russian invasion of Crimea. Crimea is rapidly running out of water, and Russia needs this canal flowing again.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/stat ... 2867664899

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As Russia sends tanks and soldiers to take over Ukraine, it is also dispatching censors and regulators to strangle the Internet. @AndreiSoldatov & @irinaborogan argue this is the culmination of a decades-long trend to throttle the free and open flow of information in Russia.

https://twitter.com/cepa/status/1506619055637159936

[Canoe]

We analyzed dozens of battlefield radio transmissions between Russian forces in Ukraine during the initial invasion of Makariv, a town outside Kyiv. They reveal an army struggling with logistical problems and communication failures:
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/eur ... kariv.html

The following notorious CCTV footage shows a Russian BMP-2 vehicle rolling into view in Makariv and firing several rounds into a civilian sedan — without any apparent warning or provocation. The elderly couple inside was killed instantly.

https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1506750942569455619

In another transmission, we hear the repeated order to cover the entire residential neighbourhood with artillery after the “property” (хозяйство) has been removed — a likely codeword for Russian personnel or equipment. This could be a war crime.

https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1506748705080291328

https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1506743138454577153

[Canoe]

Renault suspends manufacturing in Russia after international backlash.

The French automobile company announced the decision on March 23, adding that it is assessing its options regarding its stake in Russia’s partially state-owned AvtoVAZ car manufacturer.

WSJ: Zelensky asked Biden not to sanction Abramovich yet to facilitate peace talks.

Zelensky asked Biden to hold off the measure, as he said that Abramovich could be an intermediary in Russia-Ukraine negotiations, the Wall Street Journal reported citing unnamed sources.

Russian invaders try to undermine Ukraine's sowing campaign.

According to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Russian forces chaotically mine the Ukrainian territory and deliberately destroy agricultural machinery.

Russian forces commit war crimes in Ukraine.

“We’ve seen numerous credible reports of indiscriminate attacks and attacks deliberately targeting civilians, as well as other atrocities,” reads the March 23 statement by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

"We should have known something is coming" – German politician warns on Putin | DW News

Vladimir Putin has created an “increasingly paranoid dictatorial structure… more and more directed to one person.” He says the West missed warning signs going back at least to 2007. And he sets out the urgency of Europe paying more for its own defense – and the US shoring up its democracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmUm9QNjDY4

[Canoe]

"President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency," Brooks said in a statement responding to Trump's withdrawal of his endorsement of Brooks' US Senate campaign.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mo-broo ... ion-2022-3

All the actions Trump is said to have asked for would be unconstitutional and illegal.

[Canoe]

#Intel from Chechnya filmed by a person in the crowd. We can see more #Chechens leaving for #Ukraine
*Mothers can be heard crying as their sons leave for Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/OSINT_Tactical/stat ... 1527440398

[there goes who I was hoping was a man-of-reason at the top by the nucular buttons...]

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has VANISHED with "heart problems" as the Kremlin's war effort in Ukraine stalls. He hasn’t been seen in public for 12 days and only old footage or pictures of him have been shown on TV.

https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/sta ... 1794147333

Yesterday his daughter posted...

Daughter of Russian defence minister and her baby girl wear Ukraine’s blue and yellow in social media video after she was hit with a wave of anger for her father's military campaign

https://twitter.com/itsmylifetlktlk/sta ... 0901569536

One of Putin’s favorite insiders has been accused of plundering Russian assets instead of focusing on his day job. Sadly for the Kremlin, he’s supposed to be running the war.

With the Russian military stagnating in its invasion of Ukraine and suffering significant losses of men and armaments, many are wondering what happened to the huge sums of money designated by the Kremlin to create a well-trained and well-equipped army. Former Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev provided one answer on Twitter: “The Kremlin spent the last 20 years trying to modernize its military. Much of that budget was stolen and spent on mega-yachts in Cyprus.”

The man responsible for the invasion, Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, who had no prior military service before he assumed his defense post in 2012, bears much of the blame for this alleged thievery and the military’s consequent failings in Ukraine.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir- ... in-ukraine

[Canoe]

Remarkable @BBCNews report: farmers in Vosnesensk ambushed forces as they approached the small community, halting their advance by blowing up the bridge, destroying all tanks vehicles w/ help from NLAW anti-tank weapons, inflicting heavy losses & full retreat

https://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls/statu ... 8441485322
https://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls/statu ... 4017827847

Is anybody sick of seeing Ukrainian farmers seize millions of dollars worth of invading Russian military equipment?

Didn't think so.

https://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls/statu ... 5720480770

Somebody is...

Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman denies that any Russian military vehicles have been captured by Ukrainian farmers.

https://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls/statu ... 6363227141

A friend sent me footage of a Russian attack helo in low light (dusk/dawn), tandem, likely a Kamov Ka-52, striking a ground target, then dispite auto-chaff&flares, getting smoked by a guided missile. I haven't got the link. Should turn up soon.
Found it (although hugely compressed, low res)
https://twitter.com/johnwt73/status/1506758061884641291
https://www.tiktok.com/@livenews3009/vi ... 7442754817

hmmm same account has a fake vid shortly before this...
might explain why the blades don't fly away to the sides
but there are the two trails of ejection seats, which this type is known to have
I believe I'm seeing some fake bursts of defined size that don't fade away properly
I believe fake

[Canoe]

Music to fill sandbags by...

This is for the ones who stood their ground...
Odessa, Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/BonJovi/status/1506407250394435588

[DVD Burner]

Canoe ....

[DVD Burner]

Check the Date and what was said to me then.



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[Simon of the Playa]

This is such a transparent reach for base votes that will score an interview on right-wing media that immediately after Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke about Critical Race Theory, Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) said "I think we should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities." Sasse’s point was borne out when a camera then apparently caught Cruz checking Twitter for his own name.


https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... ch-23-2022

[Canoe]

Some days ago, Russian TV showed the port of Berdyansk after Russians took it over and made it a 'successful' demilitarization: unloading Russian military vehicles in the background...

Updated: At 07:45 in the port of Berdyansk, during unloading, Tochka-U tactical missile hit at the Russian landing ships "Saratov", "Caesar Kunikov", "Novocherkassk". "Saratov" is completely destroyed. "Kunikov" and "Novocherkassk" were damaged and arrived at sea..

https://twitter.com/DylanMalyasov/statu ... 8775228416

Time-lapse video showing the events at the port of Berdyansk this morning. Two LSTs left the port, one of them was on fire.

https://twitter.com/COUPSURE/status/1506969662789140480

The full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g5ZVwDqLRg shows a lot more detail. Two ships are seen escaping the ship engulfed at the dock. One is pulling out with an active fire midship. The other shows varying smoke on its fore-deck. Zooms in around 2:10
* at 2:18, two or more large objects fall into the water around one & 1/4 ship lengths in front of the near ship.
* at 2:28, the engulfed ship has yet another explosion, with objects seen hurled upwards, and there follows three large objects splashing into the water off the starboard side of the near ship, which is still showing smoke on the fire-deck.
* at 2:41, something splashes into the water to port just off the bow of the near ship, with smoke from its fore-deck increasing after that.
* at 2:50 there are a number of objects splashing into the water between the engulfed ship and the near ship, with a rather substantial chunk at 2:54 splashing to starboard of the near ship. Following that, the far ship picks up steam, needing to clear the breakwater before turning to open water, with both trying to clear the area of debris bombardment from the engulfed ship.
* at 5:16, with the two ships having turned port to open water, a third ship emerges from the smoke, trying to leave. There's still debris from the engulfed ship's ongoing explosions splashing into the water, with the emerging ship well within their range.
* around 6:00, we see that the far ship isn't making much headway, and the near ship seems to be slowing in case it needs to help the third ship, with the engulfed ship still having explosions and debris hitting the water at 6:06. Shortly after that, with debris still flying, a large chunk splashes around half way out along the breakwater.
* The far ship continues along, without a full turn to port, which would have taken it out of the smoke plume of the engulfed ship. Begs the question can it turn? If so, why didn't it move to get out of the smoke?
* Through this, there's a second fire to the left behind the engulfed ship, but I can't tell if that's another ship or something on the dock, but it's sure been kicking out black smoke.
* Ten minutes into the clip, there's still explosions and flying debris.

It would be interesting to know how much of the damage incurred by those three ships is from the initial strike, vs. from the secondary explosions of the engulfed ship. Obviously a lot of metal coming down on them.

[BBadger]

The ship might be the Orsk, which was earlier recorded in a propaganda video showing it unloading a military vehicle. The video itself may have alerted the Ukrainian forces that a sitting duck was in port, a perfect target for an unguided missile.

[Canoe]

Russia’s stock market rallies in first day of trading since Ukraine war

US calls move a ‘Potemkin opening’ with only limited shares available and no foreigners allowed to sell

Just 33 of the 50 securities on the rouble-denominated Moex were trading, while the RTS index of Russian companies quoted in US dollars remained shut.

“After keeping its markets closed for nearly a month, Russia announced it will only allow 15% of listed shares to trade, foreigners are prohibited from selling their shares, and short selling in general has been banned. Meanwhile, Russia has made clear they are going to pour government resources into artificially propping up the shares of companies that are trading,” he said.

“This is not a real market and not a sustainable model – which only underscores Russia’s isolation from the global financial system.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... kraine-war

More sanctions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... ndividuals

[Canoe]

12 Rosgvardia officers from Krasnodar refused order to go to Ukraine and were fired, human rights lawyer Pavel Chikov says. The officers said the order was illegal as their official duties were limited to Russian territory. They are suing their station for wrongful termination.

"None of [them were} informed about a business trip to the territory of Ukraine to participate in a special military operation nor about the tasks and conditions of this operation, and as a result, did not give consent to it.”

They were initially sent to Crimea for an exercise Zaslon-2022. The officers were returned to Krasnodar, subjected to an official probe and dismissed from service.

https://twitter.com/maryilyushina/statu ... 5342590995

Kharkiv.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1506983309691310090

What the ever loving fuck?

The answer is yes and has been since 2017.

North Korea's missile tests, like the one on Thursday, intensified one of the biggest mysteries about its program: Can its missiles ​actually ​fly across an ocean and hit an intercontinental target?

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/sta ... 7656005633

[for example, from 2017, from NewYorkTimes...]

If the missile took 37 minutes to fly 578 miles, that would mean that it had a highly lofted trajectory, probably reaching an altitude of more than 1,700 miles, said David Wright, co-director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Such a missile would have a maximum range of roughly 4,160 miles, or 6,700 kilometers, on a standard trajectory, he said. North Korea said the missile flew for 39 minutes.

“That range would not be enough to reach the lower 48 states or the large islands of Hawaii, but would allow it to reach all of Alaska,” Mr. Wright wrote in a blog post.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/worl ... -icbm.html

Lviv, Ukraine (CNN) — The first warm, sunny days of spring in the southern Mykolaiv region are ushering in a grim new reality: the smell of the dead.

As the frost melts and ground thaws, the bodies of Russian soldiers strewn across the landscape are becoming a problem.

* Kim said that the Russians had retreated and left their colleagues' charred bodies behind on the battlefield. He sent CNN pictures of the abandoned corpses, adding: "There are hundreds of them, all over the region."
* images of Russian ambulance convoys appearing to arrive at field hospitals in southern Belarus, near Ukraine's border, and reported that morgues in the area were overflowing.
* The Ukrainian government has claimed that the Russian army sent mobile crematoriums to burn their own dead.
* "The problem with Russian bodies is really huge. It's thousands of them. Before the war, the weather was cold, it was okay but now we have problems ... I actually don't know what we will do in the next weeks."
* [There was one report of some Russian troops taking over a Ukrainian farm and using a huge caldron there to burn the bodies of their dead.]

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/23/euro ... index.html

[Canoe]

The ship might be the Orsk, which was earlier recorded in a propaganda video showing it unloading a military vehicle. The video itself may have alerted the Ukrainian forces that a sitting duck was in port, a perfect target for an unguided missile.

A lot of tweets were, and are, saying it was the Orsk that was engulfed. Even "Ukrainian Navy confirms they destroyed a Russian large landing ship "Orsk" of the Black Sea Fleet in Berdyansk".
But we have some like

Saratow is sunk@5m, Kunikow, Nowoczerkask rush to sea. Per rus source Kunkow 8 wounded, Nowoczerkask 3 dead 3 wounded

https://twitter.com/ml_lud/status/1506926179605004290

Or fuel tanks and armament warehouse that could have set the ship off. Earlier video did show a mini storage building on the dock by the ships with off loaded Russian military vehicles.

"strong fire at the port", "fuel tanks burn", "warehouse of missile and artillery armament burns"

https://twitter.com/Cansadao2/status/15 ... 0486694917

From dozens of tweets & 'analyses', I think the bolded below is at least correct

Now beyond any reasonable doubt that a #Russian Navy Alligator Class landing ship exploded in #Berdiansk, Ukraine

Reportedly a Ukrainian ballistic missile strike. Two Ropucha Class ships also present, observed sailing away as fire raged
https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status ... 0167026690

* Through this, there's a second fire to the left behind the engulfed ship, but I can't tell if that's another ship or something on the dock, but it's sure been kicking out black smoke.

We have this image, which shows some fuel tanks.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/stat ... 8877476866

Sat images
https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status ... 0167026690

In any event, time to call in
https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status ... 3577393159

[Canoe]

(possible links to NATO, military, Ukraine, Russia, etc.)
Posting on eplaya about keeping an eye on

Reddit posts, for people to know when to go to flightradar to see tracks of a plane flying over a house...

People posting screenshots of their watching flightradar to know when to run outside to see a plane flying over their house...

this bad boy just flew over my house, heard it I'm just super pissed it was super cloudy so I couldn't see it
https://www.reddit.com/r/flightradar24/ ... ard_it_im/

a look on the ground

‘In Makariv, 50km west of the capital, the Ukrainian authorities claimed the Russians had been “driven back”. When your correspondent tried to visit he found a different situation. Fierce fighting made it impossible to get into the town’

“In the centre of Kyiv, however, life is improving. Petrol is no longer rationed, and there is more traffic on main roads than at any time since the invasion began on February 24th. Bread is back on supermarket shelves. Trains enter and leave the city.”

https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1507052474351427585

* This story and headline are completely misleading. The Ukrainians never said the town was conflict-free, it just said the Russians had been pushed back. Surely WaPo understands how artillery works right? You don't have to be RIGHT THERE to shoot rounds that go boom.

[Canoe]

In both photos is pharmacist Nina Zhuk. The first photo was taken before February 24, 2022 at her workplace in a pharmacy in Kharkiv. The second - after the Russian bombing of the central part of the city.
Source Ministry of Health of Ukraine

https://twitter.com/avalaina/status/1507040626356932614

[And this may explain why the 'green paint' used to paint the faces of the Roma girls "suspected" of looting was said to come from the pharmacy - topical antiseptic used for skin disinfection before and after surgery?]

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday said he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had discussed the need to protect civilians during Moscow's operations in #Ukraine

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1506970185626165248

[Wonder how much this will tank Red Cross donations?]

Russian helicopters seen near Berdyansk after a Russian ship was heavily damaged and possibly sank.

https://twitter.com/Globe_conflicts/sta ... 4815609856

"The Germans did not mock people like that." CNN correspondents accompany Ukrainian military in the Mykolaiv region. Forced evacuated old man states that today's actions of russians is worse than fascism.

* "Civilians... they [Russians] killed all the civilians." ... "They don't fight troops. They fight civilians."

https://twitter.com/RF200_NOW/status/15 ... 1115689984

In the village of Stoyanka-2 outside Kyiv, a half-dozen cars line the road, riddled with holes, their bodywork mangled by bullets and an explosion.

This is what remains of a part of a 20-car civilian evacuation convoy that tried to escape Russia’s war.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/sta ... 5038171147

hmmm attached images no longer upload...

[Canoe]

Russian militarisation in children's songs. They sing about their readiness to die for #Putin if he calls them for the last battle. Sevastopol & Crimea are ours, and we'll return Alaska too. Parents, teachers and organisers who made this scary show possible are #NotJustPutin.
* "Will return Alaska to the harbour of our homeland"
https://twitter.com/NotJustPutin/status ... 4511057927

[Canoe]

Mariupol City Council calls for help as residents begin to die from starvation.

More and more people are left without any food while multiple attempts to create humanitarian corridors and to provide aid have failed as Russian troops continue to violate ceasefire agreements.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/sta ... 5933484035

[Canoe]

By tomorrow, Clarence Thomas will have been hospitalized with a “mystery illness” for ONE WEEK. I think the Supreme Court needs to provide the American people with some explanation as to what’s going on.

https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/sta ... 7058793484

AGAIN: Clarence Thomas was the ONLY SC Justice to OPPOSE releasing Jan. 6-related documents to the committee looking into the attack.

Given his wife, Ginni Thomas, participated, planned, and was in regular touch with the WH about said attack, we no longer need wonder why.

https://twitter.com/EarlOfEnough/status ... 9296176134

* BREAKING: The January 6 Committee has Ginni Thomas' cellphone records.

January 6 committee has text messages between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/politics ... index.html

Ginni Thomas urged Mark Meadows to overturn the 2020 election by any means necessary—while her husband was ruling on cases attempting to overturn the election. A truly extraordinary level of corruption.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... ows-texts/

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1507105642401734665

[Canoe]

Amusing and scary, all at once...

GOP hates america
https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/sta ... 3371071496

[Canoe]

$30 million sought by White House for IRS enforcement was rejected by Republicans

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/irs-u ... 1648076777

Wow! Biden is completely taking Trump down right now in reaction to a German reporter asking. Biden says he was called to run by the torch carriers and chants in Charlottesville, comparing it to Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, and mentioning Trump condoning it. What a moment!

https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/ ... 2899671046

BREAKING: The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week fell to its lowest level in 52 years as the U.S. job market continues to show strength. Jobless claims fell by 28,000 to 187,000 for the week ending March 19. http://apne.ws/RTsgIax

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1506976797010927623

[Canoe]

In recent days, fewer Ukrainian images are being posted. And not just from largely cut-off areas like Mariupol. I believe this is self-censoring in response to the request to not post info that can be used to target Ukrainian assets, even when posted days after the fact. And what we are seeing, is often self-modified to hide locations. Like we see here:

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/15 ... 1479588870

Although from work I did in the past on photo interpretation, I'd like to see all of the background blurred, and the blurred area(s) much more thoroughly blurred. Cuts down on pieces of photos being combined to cough up what you were trying to obscure. It's surprising how easy it is to build a 3D mental map or procedural map of the area, and that 'map' can be more easily matched to another photo showing more area or to a sat image. The human mind is extremely good at that, and in remembering when/where you saw something that matched.

(I still can't upload photos. Wonder what changed...)

[Canoe]

Updated: At 07:45 in the port of Berdyansk, during unloading, Tochka-U tactical missile hit at the Russian landing ships "Saratov", "Caesar Kunikov", "Novocherkassk". "Saratov" is completely destroyed. "Kunikov" and "Novocherkassk" were damaged and arrived at sea.

Whichever ship it is that was engulfed and had multiple explosions, on one of the many videos of the event, on one of the ones showing a number of people who happened upon or came down to look, one of the people seems to be either:
* repeatedly exercising, or
* doing a happy dance.
"Exercising, officer. Exercising."

[Simon of the Playa]

"It's clearly a case where the U.S. government has been lying; it has mounted a disinformation campaign, if you will, designed to cover up what it is doing," said Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently. He did not offer specific evidence to back that claim.

The false biolab story spread quickly both in the U.S. and overseas, where Chinese state media joined in the effort to push the narrative.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/10879108 ... ia-ukraine


https://twitter.com/ObsoleteDogma/statu ... ISsQ3VelLA

[Canoe]

Russia's invasion of Ukraine ties to world hunger again...

Number of people facing extreme hunger in Sudan predicted to double

UN warns up to 18 million could be in need of aid by September as food prices soar due to conflict, poor harvests and economic crisis. The number of people who are severely hungry in Sudan could double by September as a result of poor harvests, economic crisis, internal conflict and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UN has warned.

...

Sudan is dependent on wheat imports from the Black Sea region: about 50% of its wheat came from Russia last year. Any disruption to the flow will increase prices, which have already risen by 180% to $550 a tonne since the first quarter of 2021.

“The ripple effects created by the bullets and bombs landing in Ukraine will be felt far and wide, including here in Sudan, as families are set to suffer even further with basic meals becoming a luxury for millions,” said Rowe.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... -to-double

[Canoe]

#Satellite imagery from today, March 25, of Ukrainian port city #Berdyansk, revealing a Russian Alligator-class landing ship that’s burned & partially submerged. Fire/smoke is nearby & close to fuel storage tanks. News reports state the ship was hit March 24, by Ukrainian forces.

https://twitter.com/Maxar/status/1507398872074756135

Ukrainian forces may have more main battle tanks and they had at the start of Russian invasion, because they've been remarkably successful at acquiring Russian vehicles (with the help of a few farmers) - Western officials

Western officials confirm a 7th Russian general was killed and that a brigade commander was killed by his own troops "as a consequence of the scale of losses that had been taken by his brigade".

Around 20 Russian BTGs are "no longer combat effective" officials estimate - out of 115-120 who were in the original invasion force. So Russia has lost "a sixth, maybe a fifth" of its effective troops

More on the Russian commander officials believe was killed by his own troops. The belief is he was "run over". Was the commander of 37th motor rifle brigade. [unclear at this time: run over vs. killed][does this mean the Russians are short on grenades?]

https://twitter.com/dansabbagh/status/1 ... 4232896513

[For that really hard ground]
Ukrainian farmers captured a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft cannon.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1507407537481650181

Never ask a woman: her age
Never ask a man: his salary
Never ask a Ukrainian farmer: where he got his anti-aircraft system

https://twitter.com/HieroIkke/status/15 ... 3098936325

“Hours after President Putin put his nuclear forces on a “special” state of alert, several Russian submarines capable of carrying 16 ballistic missiles each sailed into the North Atlantic…They returned towards Russia shortly afterwards and normal levels of activity resumed.”

https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1507357063978102822

* Because they all started taking on water?

“Russian soldiers with loudhailers were said to be driving around parts of the city [Mariupol] falsely claiming that the city of Odesa has fallen and that other havens for refugees were now rejecting fleeing people.”

https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1507268439177674758

J.K. Rowling
Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics. #IStandWithUkraine

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1 ... 2834666511

Russian footage of aircraft are being released with the tail numbers blurred out. They got tired of releasing footage of one of theirs, only to have people point out that it had been shot down days or weeks ago.

[Canoe]

When I wrote last week about a faction in the "anti-imperialist" left that recycles Kremlin propaganda and whitewashes atrocities [see linked thread], I knew some people would get angry. What I wasn’t expecting was flat denial that it even exists. Thread/

For years I've been arguing with a faction within the "anti-imperialist" left, that is neither anti-imperialist nor distinguishable in its foreign policy positions from the far right. It is pro-Putin. It recycles Kremlin propaganda and whitewashes atrocities. Thread/
In the approach to Putin's invasion, this faction has blamed everyone but him. Its excuses for his imperialism happen to be identical to the Kremlin's
https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/statu ... 8322258948

https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/statu ... 9400880133

Wanted by the FBI, yet currently ’active’ in London’ libel courts …!

Yevgeny Prigozhin is the man behind Wagner Group whose mercenaries are reported to be on a kill mission to assassinate Zelensky. And now suing @EliotHiggins, founder of @bellingcat, through London courts

https://twitter.com/OmniaMutationes/sta ... 3983993865

News from Russia. Evgeny Prigozhin's company has prepared a bill restricting the travel of IT specialists abroad.

Departure will be possible only with the issuance of a special permit by the FSB. Welcome to the serfdom.
#StandWithUkraine
https://twitter.com/avalaina/status/1507354764476133388

Ukraine reports 300 died in Russian strike on [Mariupol] theater

https://twitter.com/RF200_NOW/status/15 ... 9874003976

'List of Shame': Yale rates 400 companies on their activies in Russia | DW News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sJc8IK5Dsk

[March 22nd Russian convoy on way to Ukraine. Comments say ancient military vehicles. Also commercial vans & trucks with "Z" on side.]

https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status ... 0505027589

[Canoe]

Remember when Clarence Thomas lied on his sister for Republican's approval, claiming she was a welfare queen when she had, in fact, worked to put him through school?

https://twitter.com/surlybassey/status/ ... 9297776670

Sounds like Clarence Thomas needs to model himself after Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.