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Post by Canoe » Sun Mar 27, 2022 6:39 pm

British-made Starstreak missiles are ready to be deployed in Ukraine to take down Putin's jets imminently, says Ben Wallace

* The shoulder-mounted weapon system travels at three times the speed of sound
* The Starstreak system is able to take down low-flying enemy jets, experts say
* Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the first Ukrainians can use the system

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... raine.html
This is very important! @avalaina published a list (in English and Ukrainian) of 36 public figures and activists detained by Russia in the temporarily occupied territories after 24 February. There are mayors, councilors, journalists, priests & activists.

https://twitter.com/mattia_n/status/1508192640000569344
From 🇷🇺 #Telegram Channel monitoring, #Chechen Units may have been sent to hunt down Americans who are fighting alongside Ukraine. This theory is supported by a US fighter here on Twitter who told all followers he needs to “go dark” a few days.

https://twitter.com/OSINT_Tactical/stat ... 9126381574
Zelensky, during his interview to Russian media, criticized the Russian authorities' treatment of the killed soldiers, who are either abandoned or taken home in what he described as "garbage bags."

He said he didn't understand why the soldiers' families were accepting it.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/sta ... 0639221766

[I'm seeing multiple reports that Russian authorities have warned the Russian media to not publish the interview.]
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Post by Canoe » Sun Mar 27, 2022 8:50 pm

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Sun Mar 27, 2022 6:39 pm
Zelensky, during his interview to Russian media, criticized the Russian authorities' treatment of the killed soldiers, who are either abandoned or taken home in what he described as "garbage bags."

He said he didn't understand why the soldiers' families were accepting it.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/sta ... 0639221766

[I'm seeing multiple reports that Russian authorities have warned the Russian media to not publish the interview.]
some details, video in full
President Zelensky was interviewed by Russian journalists from Meduza, Novaya Gazeta and Kommersant, Dozhd (TV Rain), and Mikhail Zygar’s YouTube channel.

Russia has banned the publication of this interview

https://twitter.com/Hromadske/status/15 ... 5438451724
You can watch the full interview in Russian here
[closed captions > auto-translate > English; misses parts...; putting the transcript through google translate likely better...?]

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

https://twitter.com/Hromadske/status/15 ... 5438451724
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Post by Canoe » Sun Mar 27, 2022 8:56 pm

Finland suspends rail service with Russia — Russia no longer has rail service with any EU member state

https://twitter.com/Hromadske/status/15 ... 0756559882
Russian Occupiers Seize and Destroy Ukrainian Literature and History Textbooks

https://twitter.com/Hromadske/status/15 ... 2429629448
Three weeks into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, most commentary has split up into two groups:
1) "Oh God, this is pure genocide!"
2) "This is war. Stop calling it genocide."

Seeing a genocide unfold in real-time is painful. But let's face the inconvenient truth /a thread

https://twitter.com/TheStanislawski/sta ... 1664128004
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When I hear people from the West calling for negotiations with Putin and peaceful resolution of his invasion of Ukraine, I feel they still don't get who we're dealing with.
Russia is fascist. Literally.
We should be aiming to destroy the regime before it's too late.
A visual thread

https://twitter.com/TheStanislawski/sta ... 6776316949
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Post by Canoe » Sun Mar 27, 2022 8:58 pm

Still not genocide?
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Russians forcefully deported around 20,000-30,000 Ukrainians from #Mariupol to Russia or occupied territories in Ukraine. In occupied Donetsk, locals reported seeing many children without parents. If they don’t have family in Donetsk, Russians allegedly take them to Taganrog

https://twitter.com/lapatina_/status/15 ... 5571121160
https://twitter.com/TheStanislawski/sta ... 3935014912
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Post by Canoe » Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:02 pm

I guess it’s too hard to keep being opposed to a dictator leveling a city of 400,000 filled with civilians?
When Russia began its military offensive in Ukraine, I expressed opposition to Moscow’s actions. Some weeks down the line,am growing extremely disillusioned with the assumed righteousness of the western response & echoes of post 9/11 rhetoric about “either you’re with us or not”

https://twitter.com/NMenonRao/status/15 ... 0093317124
https://twitter.com/TheStanislawski/sta ... 6794749955
[Saw some tweets earlier today about "large numbers" of Russians have already fled Russia to Georgia.]

As Russians flee to Georgia, there appeared posters in Tbilisi, which "offer" necessary services to the citizens of Russia. To receive the information they should scan the QR code. After scanning, instead of the services, there appears info about Russia's aggression. 1/4

https://twitter.com/EtoBuziashvili/stat ... 8148302849
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Post by Simon of the Playa » Mon Mar 28, 2022 8:26 am

In an interview with Russian independent media, he suggested Russian troops retreat to the position they held before February 24 in the contested eastern region of Donbas, "where it all began," and from there the two countries can try to solve "the complex issue of Donbas."

Speaking in Russian via Zoom on March 27, Zelenksy said he was ready to meet some of the Kremlin's demands in future talks between the two countries' diplomats, on condition that any change be put to a referendum and that third parties commit to ensure the safety of Ukraine.

https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-offer ... se-1692362
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Post by Canoe » Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:37 am

Russia's justice ministry has added Deutsche Welle to a list of media organisations it labels as "foreign agents". That designation means DW is required to label anything published with a disclaimer. The term carries negative Soviet-era connotations in Russia, suggestive of spying. It's not the first action taken against DW. In early February, Russia ordered the closure of our Moscow bureau and our website was blocked by Russia's state communications regulator earlier this month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwxB9mfS4SQ
Terrible. The legendary Russian investigative paper @novaya_gazeta whose editor won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, says it is suspending publication until the end of Russia's so-called 'special military operation'.

https://twitter.com/Reevellp/status/1508415919936131077
Biggest theft ever?

Monday is the final call for Russian airlines to hand back hundreds of commercial aircraft to their foreign owners. EU sanctions mean leasing companies have had to cancel their contracts to supply Russian carriers with planes. Leased planes make up the majority of the Western-built commercial jets used by Russian airlines. There are more than 500 of them, with a combined value of some 10 billion dollars. While these planes have been unable to fly outside Russia due to sanctions banning them from European airspace, many are still flying domestic routes. And lessors are losing hope of actually getting them back. Russia's transportation minister says the Kremlin will compensate owners for the aircraft, but there have reportedly been no negotiations so far, because any agreement would breach sanctions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzG-q8-zWuc
German energy minister: G7 won’t pay for Russian gas in rubles.

“All G7 ministers agreed completely that this (would be) a one-sided and clear breach of the existing contracts,” Robert Habeck said.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/sta ... 9921486854

* cut GER dependency on RU fossiles since RU started attacking Ukraine:
RU oil from 35 to 25%
RU coal from 50 to 25%
RU gas from 55 to 40%
Further reduction measures in progress.
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Post by Canoe » Mon Mar 28, 2022 12:04 pm

Bellingcat can confirm that three members of the delegation attending the peace talks between Ukraine and Russia on the night of 3 to 4 March 2022 experienced symptoms consistent with poisoning with chemical weapons. One of victims was Russian entrepreneur Roman Abramovich.

Abramovich, along with another Russian entrepreneur, had taken part in the negotiations alongside Ukraine’s MP Rustem Umerov.

https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1 ... 3013997580

https://twitter.com/lizzyramos1983/stat ... 3854601229

[One tweet said that one had to get treatment in Turkey.]
The Russian agent anti-Ukraine posting in twitter comments has really picked up...
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Mariupol authorities estimate that Russian shelling and airstrikes have already killed nearly 5,000 residents, including 210 children.

The southeastern port city has been under siege since March 1.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/sta ... 6849197068
Crime scene expert has examined the video. It's genuine & a report is being complied for @IntlCrimCourt

The Ukrainian soldiers surrendered (possibly in Mariupol) & were likely tortured before and/or after being executed SS style. Unable to give much more detail but read thread:
Extremely disturbing video of dead Ukrainian soldiers.
The scene looks odd. Were they executed/tortured and shot?

Crime scene experts may be able to provide more insight on what happened, the cause of death.
Location unknown, possibly Donbas region
WARNING ⚠️ GRUESOME FOOTAGE
https://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls/statu ... 7694476304
https://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls/statu ... 1173874688
Russian MoD has given an order to make fake videos of Ukrainian army and volunteer battalions mistreating civilians and/or POWs. This to combat the low morale among RU soldiers. RU MoD confirms morale is very low.

* Leaked document from Russia with order to film propaganda videos in order to discredit the attitude of Ukrainian forces to POWs
* Here is the translation. https://twitter.com/HillridgeOSINT/stat ... 2287161357

https://twitter.com/HillridgeOSINT/stat ... 4371534860
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Post by Canoe » Mon Mar 28, 2022 12:49 pm

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Case No. 8:22-cv-00099-DOC-DFM
ORDER RE PRIVILEGE OF DOCUMENTS DATED JANUARY 4-7, 2021

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... .260.0.pdf
DISPOSITION

Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower — it was a coup in search of a legal theory. The plan spurred violent attacks on the seat of our nation’s government, led to the deaths of several law enforcement officers, and deepened public distrust in our political process. [...]

If Dr. Eastman and President Trump’s plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power, undermining American democracy and the Constitution. If the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for those responsible, the Court fears January 6 will repeat itself.

With this limited mandate, the Court finds the following ten documents privileged: 4553; 4793; 4794; 4828; 5097; 5101; 5113; 5412; 5424; 5719.

The Court ORDERS Dr. Eastman to disclose the other one hundred and one documents to the House Select Committee.
* A few weeks ago, John EASTMAN argued in a court filing that if Carter ruled in favor of the select committee, " it may be the first formal finding of Presidential criminality by a federal court in United States history."
This ruling from Judge Carter is a big deal. The judge - who reviewed documents fmr. Trump lawyer John Eastman is withholding from the Jan. 6 committee - provided summaries of the docs including this one he's ordering be turned over-->

https://twitter.com/KFaulders/status/15 ... 2818268170
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[from]
Case No. 8:22-cv-00099-DOC-DFM
ORDER RE PRIVILEGE OF DOCUMENTS DATED JANUARY 4-7, 2021

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... .260.0.pdf
Election fraud claims

Dr. Eastman claims that the 2020 presidential election was “one of the most controversial in American history.” Despite the lack of evidence of election tampering, “a significant portion of the population came to believe the election was tainted by fraud, disregard of state election law, misconduct by election officials and other factors.” In the months after the election, President Trump and Dr. Eastman helped foster those public beliefs and encouraged state legislators to question the election results. Dr. Eastman testified before and met with “state legislators to advise them of their constitutional authority . . . to direct the ‘manner’ of choosing presidential electors.”

Relying on public interviews with attendees, the Select Committee states that on January 2, 2021, President Trump and Dr. Eastman hosted a briefing urging several hundred state legislators from states won by President Biden to “decertify” electors. President Trump also made personal appeals to state officials. On January 2, he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to discuss allegations of election fraud. During the call, President Trump repeatedly claimed it was impossible for him to have lost the popular vote in Georgia, and repeatedly mentioned his “current margin [of] only 11,779” votes. He explained to Secretary Raffensperger that he did not care about specific fraud numbers as long as he won, “because what’s the difference between winning the election by two votes and winning it by half a million votes[?]” When Secretary Raffensperger pushed back against these requests, the President warned of public anger and threatened criminal consequences. The President interspersed the conversation with specific fraud claims—dead people voting, absentee ballot forgeries, trucks ferrying illegal ballots, and machines stuffed with “unvoted” ballots. Mr. Raffensperger debunked the allegations “point by point” and explained that “the data you have is wrong;” however, President Trump still told him, “I just want to find 11,780 votes.”

The next day, President Trump attempted to elevate Jeffrey Clark to Acting Attorney General, based on Mr. Clark’s statements that he would write a letter to contested states saying that the election may have been stolen and urging them to decertify electors. The White House Counsel described Mr. Clark’s proposed letter as a “murder-suicide pact” that would “damage everyone who touches it” and commented “we should have nothing to do with that letter.” President Trump eventually did not promote Mr. Clark after multiple high-ranking members of the Department of Justice threatened mass resignations that would leave the Department a “graveyard.”

In the months following the election, numerous credible sources–from the President’s inner circle to agency leadership to statisticians–informed President Trump and Dr. Eastman that there was no evidence of election fraud.
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  • One week after the election, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency declared “[t]he November 3rd election [] the most secure in American history” and found “no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.
  • ”An internal Trump Campaign memo concluded in November that fraud claims related to Dominion voting machines were baseless.
  • In early December, Attorney General Barr publicly stated there was no evidence of fraud, and on December 27, Deputy Attorney General Donoghue privately told President Trump that after “dozens of investigations, hundreds of interviews,” the Department of Justice had concluded that “the major allegations [of election fraud] are not supported by the evidence developed.”
  • Still, President Trump repeatedly urged that “the Department [of Justice] should publicly say that the election is corrupt or suspect or not reliable.”
  • By early January, more than sixty court cases alleging fraud had been dismissed for lack of evidence or lack of standing.
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[from]
Case No. 8:22-cv-00099-DOC-DFM
ORDER RE PRIVILEGE OF DOCUMENTS DATED JANUARY 4-7, 2021

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... .260.0.pdf
Plan to disrupt electoral count

In response to alleged fraud, Dr. Eastman researched and planned a strategy for President Trump to win the election. Just after Christmas, Dr. Eastman wrote a now-public two-page memo proposing that Vice President Pence refuse to count certified electoral votes from states contested by the Trump campaign: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The memo outlines the two ways in which Dr. Eastman’s plan ensures “President Trump is re-elected.” If Vice President Pence refused to count electoral votes from all seven contested states, President Trump would win 232 votes to 222. Alternatively, if Congress claimed that a candidate could not win without reaching 270 votes, Vice President Pence could send the election to the Republican-majority House of Representatives, which would then elect President Trump. The memo emphasizes that [t]he main thing here is that Pence should do this without asking for permission – either from a vote of the joint session or from the Court.”

On January 3, 2021, Dr. Eastman drafted a six-page memo expanding on his plan and analysis, which he later disclosed to the media. This memo “war gam[ed]” four potential scenarios for January 6, only some of which would lead to President Trump winning re-election. Claiming that “[t]he stakes could not be higher,” Dr. Eastman concludes his memo stating that his plan is “BOLD, Certainly. But this Election was Stolen by a strategic Democrat plan to systematically flout existing election laws for partisan advantage; we’re no longer playing by Queensbury Rules.”

On January 4, President Trump and Dr. Eastman invited Vice President Pence, the Vice President’s counsel Greg Jacob, and the Vice President’s Chief of Staff Marc Short to the Oval Office to discuss Dr. Eastman’s memo. Dr. Eastman presented only two courses of action for the Vice President on January 6: to reject electors or delay the count. During that meeting, Vice President Pence consistently held that he did not possess the authority to carry out Dr. Eastman’s proposal. The Vice President’s counsel and chief of staff were then directed to meet separately with Dr. Eastman the next day to review materials in support of his plan.

Dr. Eastman opened the meeting on January 5 bluntly: “I’m here asking you to reject the electors.” Vice President’s counsel Greg Jacob and Dr. Eastman spent the majority of the meeting in a Socratic debate on the merits of the memo’s legal arguments. Over the course of their discussion, Dr. Eastman’s focus pivoted from requesting Vice President Pence reject the electors to asking him to delay the count, which he presented as more “palatable.” Ultimately, Dr. Eastman conceded that his argument was contrary to consistent historical practice, would likely be unanimously rejected by the Supreme Court, and violated the Electoral Count Act on four separate grounds.

Despite receiving pushback, President Trump and Dr. Eastman continued to urge Vice President Pence to carry out the plan. At 1:00 am on January 6, President Trump tweeted, “If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency . . . Mike can send it back!” At 8:17 a.m., the President tweeted again, “States want to correct their votes . . . All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!” Following his tweets, President Trump placed two calls to Vice President Pence directly.

After not being able to connect with the Vice President around 9:00 am, they spoke at approximately 11:20 am. Vice President Pence’s National Security Advisor, General Keith Kellogg, Jr., was present and described President Trump as berating the Vice President for “not [being] tough enough to make the call” to delay or reject electoral votes.
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Post by Canoe » Mon Mar 28, 2022 1:52 pm

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Case No. 8:22-cv-00099-DOC-DFM
ORDER RE PRIVILEGE OF DOCUMENTS DATED JANUARY 4-7, 2021

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... .260.0.pdf

Attack on the Capitol

On January 6, 2021, tens of thousands of people gathered outside the White House to protest the lawful transition of power from President Trump to President Joseph Biden. Both Dr. Eastman and President Trump gave speeches to relay the plan not just to the thousands gathered at the Ellipse but also to those watching at home. President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, introduced Dr. Eastman before he spoke as the “professor” who would “explain . . . what happened last night, how they cheated, and how it was exactly the same as what they did on November 3.” Dr. Eastman declared to the crowd:
And all we are demanding of Vice President Pence is this afternoon at 1:00 he let the legislators of the state look into this so we get to the bottom of it, and the American people know whether we have control of the direction of our government, or not. We no longer live in a self-governing republic if we can’t get the answer to this question. This is bigger than President Trump. It is a very essence of our republican form of government, and it has to be done. And anybody that is not willing to stand up to do it, does not deserve to be in the office. It is that simple.
President Trump then took the podium. He began with praise for Dr. Eastman and his plan to have Vice President Pence disrupt the count:
Thank you very much, John. . . . John is one of the most brilliant lawyers in the country, and he looked at
this and he said, “What an absolute disgrace that this can be happening to our Constitution.” . . . Because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election. All he has to do, all this is, this is from the number one, or certainly one of the top, Constitutional lawyers in our country. He has the absolute right to do it.
Before the Joint Session of Congress began, Vice President Pence publicly rejected President Trump and Dr. Eastman’s plan: “It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.”

At 1:00 pm, members of Congress began the Joint Session as required by the Twelfth Amendment and the Electoral Count Act.

Soon after, President Trump finished his speech by urging his supporters to walk with him to the Capitol:
Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down. . . . [W]e’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don’t need any of our help. We’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
After President Trump’s speech, several hundred protesters left the rally and stormed the Capitol building. As the D.C. Circuit described it:
Shortly after the speech, a large crowd of President Trump’s supporters—including some armed with weapons and wearing full tactical gear — marched to the Capitol and violently broke into the building to try and prevent Congress’s certification of the election results. The mob quickly overwhelmed law enforcement and scaled walls, smashed through barricades, and shattered windows to gain access to the interior of the Capitol. Police officers were attacked with chemical agents, beaten with flag poles and frozen water bottles, and crushed between doors and throngs of rioters.
President Trump returned to the White House after his speech. At 2:02 pm, Mark Meadows, the White House Chief of Staff, was informed about the violence unfolding at the Capitol. Mr. Meadows immediately went to relay that message to President Trump. Even as the rioters continued to break into the Capitol, President Trump tweeted at 2:24 pm: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”

During the riot, Vice President Pence, Members of Congress, and workers across the Capitol were forced to flee for safety. Seeking shelter during the attack, Vice President Pence’s counsel Greg Jacob emailed Dr. Eastman that the rioters “believed with all their hearts the theory they were sold about the powers that could legitimately be exercised at the Capitol on this day.” Mr. Jacob continued, “[a]nd thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.”

President Trump later published a video expressing support for the rioters but urging them to leave the Capitol: “We love you, you’re very special. You’ve seen what happens, you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel.” At 6:00 pm, President Trump reiterated: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”

As the attack progressed, Dr. Eastman continued to urge Vice President Pence to reconsider his decision not to delay the count. In an email to Vice President Pence’s counsel Greg Jacob at 2:25 pm on January 6, Dr. Eastman wrote: “The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so the American people can see for themselves what happened.” At 6:09 pm, Dr. Eastman “remain[ed] of the view” that “adjourn[ing] to allow the state legislatures to continue their work” was the “most prudent course.” At 11:44 pm, Dr. Eastman sent one final email to persuade Jacob to change his mind: “I implore you to consider one more relatively minor violation and adjourn for 10 days . . . .”

After the riot had subsided, the Joint Session of Congress reconvened. “It was not until 3:42 a.m. on January 7 that Congress officially certified Joseph Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.”

The rampage on January 6 “left multiple people dead, injured more than 140 people, and inflicted millions of dollars in damage to the Capitol.” As the House of Representatives later wrote, January 6, 2021 was “one of the darkest days of our democracy.
[I bet Putin was squeeling with glee when informed of the attack on the Capitol...]
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‘I make no apologies’: Biden stands by ‘Putin cannot remain in power’ remark

President says he was not calling for regime change but was expressing personal ‘moral outrage’ over Russia’s invasion

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ia-ukraine
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Special IT [using] force of 30 soldiers on quad bikes is vital part of Ukraine’s defence, but forced to crowdfund for supplies

The drone operators were drawn from an air reconnaissance unit, Aerorozvidka, which began eight years ago as a group of volunteer IT specialists and hobbyists designing their own machines and has evolved into an essential element in Ukraine’s successful David-and-Goliath resistance.

However, while Ukraine’s western backers have supplied thousands of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles and other military equipment, Aerorozvidka has been forced to resort to crowdfunding and a network of personal contacts in order to keep going, by getting hold of components such as advanced modems and thermal imaging cameras, in the face of export controls that prohibit them being sent to Ukraine.

“This one little unit in the night destroyed two or three vehicles at the head of this convoy, and after that it was stuck. They stayed there two more nights, and [destroyed] many vehicles,” Honchar said.

The Ukrainian soldiers were equipped with night vision goggles, sniper rifles, remotely detonated mines, drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras and others capable of dropping small 1.5kg bombs.

https://www.facebook.com/aerorozvidka/
https://aerorozvidka.xyz/
https://twitter.com/aerorozvidka
https://www.instagram.com/aerorozvidka/
https://www.youtube.com/c/AEROROZVIDKA/

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Just a Quote.

Haven't re-read this fully yet, so come at me at will if you find something questionable.

This was ....... HOW MANY DECADES AGO?

I was A Kid way back then.

Let me continue re-reading this.

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QUOTE:

"juanicoheal wrote:
No matter how neat and tidy electronic information may seem, in order to truly 'prove' anything requires a hard copy.

Accounting processes such as electoral polling should have as many safeguards of accuracy as possible.

If voters refuse to use the electronic version, alternatives will be necessary. - how are absentee ballots counted? Braille ballots?
Would Mail-in balots be an alternative in the mean time ?

Personally I really dont belive whatever the people do along the coventional lines will make any diffrence against the powers that be."



Me at that time: "You are right about these paperless voting machines, placed in 15 counties in Florida, but I don't see finding another way to vote or voting for Kerry, or any of the above solving this or any of the countries current problems.

Voting will not get rid of the shadow government and low I.Q. bullies that run not only this country but the world.

and if anyone thinks that a bunch of peaceful protests and writings to your representatives is going to help you, you are ignoring and underestimating just how bent 4 generations of the Bush family violently can and will be.

Hey,I know everyone means well when it comes to voting, honesty, patriotism and all but one of the ways that the world works goes like this.
Bush, Cheney, wolfowitz and the lot, along with their followers will stop at nothing to keep the front that they've won the election of next no matter what.
anyone that didn't see it coming in 2000 (which are many) will start to learn this year. I wouldn't put it passed these "Bush" people to suddenly have some kind of national emergency that causes them to claim Marshall law in order to prevent the vote from happening.

These guys are a very very sneaky, keniving, maliciously violent bunch. Mark my word they will pull a new one. Nothing cynical about it. They have been up to this for a very long time and have a very specific mission. They have every intention to show all their cards soon.

Please don't miss understand me. I am not a democrat/republican or independent. just a realist
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Simon of the Playa wrote:
Mon Mar 28, 2022 8:26 am
In an interview with Russian independent media, he suggested Russian troops retreat to the position they held before February 24 in the contested eastern region of Donbas, "where it all began," and from there the two countries can try to solve "the complex issue of Donbas."

Speaking in Russian via Zoom on March 27, Zelenksy said he was ready to meet some of the Kremlin's demands in future talks between the two countries' diplomats, on condition that any change be put to a referendum and that third parties commit to ensure the safety of Ukraine.

https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-offer ... se-1692362
Um hmmmm Simon.


So you are saying to me, Zelensky has control over AZOV?


Let's see what "Simon says", or doesn't say, or can't say, will not say or answer.........

Or

Just simply does not know.


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From 🇷🇺 #Telegram Channel monitoring, #Chechen Units may have been sent to hunt down Americans who are fighting alongside Ukraine. This theory is supported by a US fighter here on Twitter who told all followers he needs to “go dark” a few days.
Russia compares sanctions to war as UK says Putin preparing to send 1,000 mercenaries to Ukraine

Putin spokesman accuses Nato of backing Russia into a corner as UK warns Moscow’s stalled offensive means mercenaries are expected to head to Ukraine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... to-ukraine
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That camo. Still a wee bit of a visual signature.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WlNMBNTSM80
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Speaking on Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Mezentseva said: “There is one case which was very widely discussed recently because it’s been recorded and proceeded with [by] the prosecutor’s office, and we’re not going into details, but it’s quite a scary scene when a civilian was shot dead in his house in a small town next to Kyiv.

“His wife was – I’m sorry but I have to say it – raped several times in front of her underage child.”



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* Belgium expels 21 Russian diplomats for spying and threatening security
* The Netherlands expels 17 Russian diplomats for espionage
* Russia to pay back 4th April Eurobond in Russian rubles
Оператор, який не шукає укриття, кричить "давай, давай, начинаем, снимаю", а кадирівські тіктокери, подивившись у камеру, побігли стріляти у зруйнований будинок
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The cameraman, who is not looking for shelter, shouts "come on, come on, let's start, I'm shooting", and Kadyrov's tickers, looking into the camera, ran to shoot at the destroyed house
¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / (

https://t.me/dvish_alive/11260
[A longer read, but recommended for anyone interested in air compat]

My interview with a Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot.

“It’s our land, it’s our families, it’s our cities. We are defending them. That’s the main motivation for us. And we succeed in this, because the Russians are surprised. They are fucking surprised.”
there is another emotion, unique to war, which Ukrainian fighter pilots must now also control each time they fly. It is their rage, provoked by the Russian pilots who continue to bomb and murder Ukrainian civilians.

“Sometimes you respect your opponent, but not in this case,” a 29-year-old Ukrainian air force MiG-29 pilot, who goes by the call sign “Juice,” said about his enemies. “They’re crazy. They’re not human. It’s a sin for all your life to kill people like this. It’s absolutely stupid and immoral, and I can’t imagine how they will live with this through the years … and their families, too.”

https://coffeeordie.com/ukrainian-mig-2 ... interview/
https://twitter.com/nolanwpeterson/stat ... 8862993408
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* Heineken and Carlsberg say they are leaving Russia.
In his nightly address on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that his office would create a group of experts this week to analyze the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia, which he has said do not go far enough.
Our goal is for the sanctions to work as intended, and so that there is no possibility to circumvent them,” Mr. Zelensky said in a translation of his remarks shared by his office. “This must be a goal for the whole democratic world, without exception. No exception.”
What do we definitely know about #Russian military casualties in #Ukraine? BBC in-depth research of verified military losses found some interesting tendencies

* Roughly 20% of all verified losses are officers.
* The majority of the confirmed losses are paratroopers of different ranks (from private up to colonel).
* Russian have confirmed deaths of over 10 military pilots, navigators and flight mechanics.These are unique specialists. Training of 1 fighter pilot takes 7-8 years and costs over 3 million $. So called sniper-pilots need 10-12 years to train and cost over 7mln $
* There is evidence of growing pressure on local journalists in Russia who report on the military losses – some of the earlier publications about soldiers killed in action were deleted. Sometimes it happens in a day or two, sometimes within an hour.
* All official reports underline that #Russian soldiers killed in #Ukraine are professional servicemen (ie signed a contract to serve). "signature to become a contract soldier was received illegally just before he was deployed"

https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-60821398

https://twitter.com/oivshina/status/1508478951995420675
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Russia’s deputy defense minister says Moscow has decided to “fundamentally cut back military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernigiv” in order to “increase mutual trust for future negotiations to agree and sign a peace deal with Ukraine.”
Can we say Regroup?
Rechitsa, Belarus, a large number of Russian IFVs including BMDs and BMPs. Probably about 1-2 days drive to the NW suburbs of Kyiv (if they have the fuel).
More than 70 tracked infantry fighting vehicles of the Russian Armed Forces with “V” marks were seen this morning near the railway station in Rechitsa (Gomel region). Some vehicles have Russian and Airborne forces flags.

A column with this equipment was seen earlier, moving from Khoiniki along the R-33 highway to the railroad for loading at ~8:00. It’s notable that there also were BTR-D and MT-LB. As of 10:30, the loading to platforms was being conducted actively.
https://twitter.com/MotolkoHelp/status/ ... 6783077380
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/stat ... 7276470277
According to unconfirmed information, about 8 employees were detained at BelVEB Bank. [Belarus?]
According to preliminary information, these are people from the bank's management.
Vasily Matsyusheuski, the Board Chairman of BelVEB, and all the bank's management are detained, @nashaniva reports. According to their information, the Department for Financial Investigations came to the Minsk office on Pobediteley avenue, 29.
https://twitter.com/MotolkoHelp/status/ ... 4358360067
[I guess since they haven't got oscars...]
"Are you a crest or a Russian?"
Police Colonel Raman Ramashin ransacked the restaurant and quarrelled with the couple: he turned to questions about the war and threatened to shoot everyone.
The irony is that she had a scandal with the well-known prosecutor Maria Semyanenko and her husband, who works as a judge.
https://twitter.com/nashaniva/status/15 ... 8976080898
Interesting twitter account https://twitter.com/MotolkoHelp
Shows a fair amount of images and videos, then posts, often with maps, where they are and where the equipment is going.

p.s.
Past day, a definite slacking in the blurring/censoring within published images. Lots of faces, dead, locations, operational equipment. Seeing copies of the same image, with and without blocking of faces. Some are still trying.
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* Ireland boots out four Russian embassy staff.
Head of the Finnish parliaments foreign affairs committee advises Finland to apply for NATO membership.

https://twitter.com/pmakela1/status/1508728567252889603
Just catching up, but Russian losses around Trostyanets look staggering. A lot of abandoned equipment too - and this close to the border. May well be the first localized collapse of a Russian front in the war. Likely reopens the main route to Sumy too.

https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/stat ... 1009784837
New @mfa_russia statement "on the ongoing cyber aggression by the 'collective West'" accusses the U.S. and its satellites for conducting a large-scale cyber operation against Russia, targeting gov't, media, critical infrastructure

https://twitter.com/shakirov2036/status ... 4885889024
Accusing “the collective West” fits well Kremlin’s Russia-under-siege narrative, but it’s counterproductive when used internationally.

It sends the message of a united and pro-active West, which can only embolden hesitating Western countries to help Ukraine more actively.
Bloodied by Western sanctions, Putin is retreating to Soviet-era economic policies

Great piece from two of the finest and best-informed observers of the Russian scene, Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov
Vladimir Putin’s strategy to stop Russian IT specialists from heading for the exit is very telling — they will be offered affordable housing and they will not have to fight in his war. All qualified staff will be able to defer conscription to the army as an inducement. Putin signed a decree including these measures on March 2, just a week after the start of the war.

It seems to have had almost no effect whatsoever — according to conservative estimates, more than 70,000 IT specialists have already left the country, with another 70,000 expected to leave next month.
[Since then, a law was proposed, to prevent IT personel from leaving Russia without permission.]

Those measures sound desperate, inadequate, and very Soviet, part of the larger Russian drive to deal with the aftermath of the sanctions by falling back on the methods of the Soviet era.

https://cepa.org/rattled-russia-re-embr ... d-economy/
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On the Ukrainian negotiators being poisoned, both the Russians and Ukrainians have denied this.
The plot thickens. Was the story true or was Abramovich, um, laundering his reputation as Putin's enabler to one of Putin's victim?
...Ihor Zhovkva - Deputy Head of President's Office - speaking to Newshour, @bbcworldservice.
He said he hadn't spoken to Abramovich or his people, but "the members of the Ukrainian delegation are fine; I was in contact with one of them, and they said the story was false."
https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1 ... 3833196547
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Canoe wrote:
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Popeye wrote:
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Ukranian Burner friend said that all news on Russian TV is prerecorded (she should know) and this is just more of Putin's BS. We can't figure out what he is getting out of this but doubt the truth.
Another magic 'they should know'...
People were wondering how her makeup, etc., was so perfect in that photo, after two days no sleep and 14 hours of interrogation.
But, given how the footage with her was aired, but cut off, with a cutaway to staff backstage, either your friend is not correct, or there was a conspiracy to make and air that as pre-recorded footage.
Now we have something that adds up!
Sure explains how her hair & makeup were so perfect after claiming two days of no sleep and 14 hours of interrogation...
I explained why Ovsyannikova was a Russian PSYOP aimed at naive Westerners. They asked me why would Russia do it? So that she is able to influence public attitude on sanctions. She is completely free,wasn’t even fired. @McFaul Why does Putin think that Western elites are idiots?
In an interview for 🇮🇹 audiences, Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who showed an anti-war placard live on TV, qualified Western sanctions as Russophobia & equated the impact of the war on Ukrainians with that of sanctions on ordinary Russians
https://twitter.com/OTregub/status/1508767290388590595
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Serbian President waving at nobody pretending there's a crowd gathered there to celebrate the new railway line is one of the best metaphors for politican-voter interactions I've seen in a long while

https://twitter.com/yugopnik/status/1508423001980686337
‘I was forcibly evacuated from Mariupol to Russia’

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/fo ... ol-russia/
#Kharkiv region. Corpses of #russians found near #Chuhuyiv with NO SIGNS of injuries or apparent cause of death, so not KIAs or WIAs.
looks like a other russian troops just left those guys to perish from cold weather and hunger


[Don't look like they necessarily just laid down and 'went to sleep'. Some disrupted positions.]

https://twitter.com/RF200_NOW/status/15 ... 6795250691
Russian or DNR/LNR soldier filming from inside Popasna, Lugansk oblast, Ukraine, saying there are many dead and wounded from fighting and cold. Equipment and weapon looks very dirty.

https://twitter.com/HillridgeOSINT/stat ... 8137439245
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Russia’s deputy defense minister says Moscow has decided to “fundamentally cut back military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernigiv” in order to “increase mutual trust for future negotiations to agree and sign a peace deal with Ukraine.”
Can we say Regroup?
Rechitsa, Belarus, a large number of Russian IFVs including BMDs and BMPs. Probably about 1-2 days drive to the NW suburbs of Kyiv (if they have the fuel).
More than 70 tracked infantry fighting vehicles of the Russian Armed Forces with “V” marks were seen this morning near the railway station in Rechitsa (Gomel region).
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/stat ... 7276470277
Zelenskyy: Russian forces continue assault on Kyiv | Ukraine latest | DW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3jLY35dFt8

[Other reports say ongoing shelling around Kyiv, vs. that life in Kyiv is somewhat more towards normal.]
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RBC [News] found more than 50 applications for the registration of well-known trademarks [in Russia], including Durex, Apple, Mastercard, BMW, Chanel, McDonald's. Previously, these companies partially or completely suspended their work in Russia.

Most of the applications correspond to the names of the original firms, but there are cases of rebranding or copying a unique style. For example, applications for the registration of the Nezpresso and Idea brands.

https://t.me/rbc_news/45840
Ukrainians have launched a website where English-speaking readers can "walk" the streets of Russian "Liberators' Hometowns" ➡️ liberatorhometown.com This website was created to show the hometowns of the Russian soldiers who invaded Ukraine and died.

"This is Russia. No one bombed it."

https://liberatorhometown.com/
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Post by Canoe » Tue Mar 29, 2022 2:30 pm

What's the bigger news story from the weekend?

An actor slapping another actor at a self-interested awards show OR Congress stopping universal school meals after this school year (which fed an extra 10 million kids and impacts our nation's potential)?


https://twitter.com/salaam/status/1508549150622818305
Donald Trump Jr.
What kind of privilege is it when you can assault someone on national television and then go ahead and win an Oscar rather than go to jail?
Asking for millions of supposedly privileged people.
Jason Kander
Very similar to the kind where you can attempt to violently overthrow a democratically-elected government and still be out here pretending you were born with those teeth.
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Ukraine’s other fight: Growing food for itself and the world

Planting season has arrived in Ukraine. Boot marks stamped in the frozen earth have thawed.

Ukraine and Russia account for a third of global wheat and barley exports, leaving millions across North Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia facing the potential loss of access to the affordable supplies they need for bread and noodles. The war has raised the specter of food shortages and political instability in countries reliant on Ukrainian wheat, including Indonesia, Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon.

It is unclear how many farmers will be able to plant or tend to their harvests with the war raging, forcing those like Pavlovych to the front lines. And the challenges keep growing.

Infrastructure — from ports and roads to farm equipment — is snarled and damaged, meaning critical supplies like fuel are difficult to get and routes for export almost impossible to reach. Fertilizer producers are paralyzed by nearby fighting, and a prolonged winter may disrupt spring yields.

“How can we sow under the blows of Russian artillery? How can we sow when the enemy deliberately mines the fields, destroys fuel bases?” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a recent address. “We do not know what harvest we will have and whether we’ll be able to export.”

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... ddb6aabdd8
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Robert Foster, a former Mississippi House lawmaker who lost a 2019 bid for governor, is using his social-media platform to call for the execution of political foes who support the rights of transgender people.

On Thursday night, Jackson attorney Spencer Ritchie, who served as the executive director of the Mississippi Republican Party from 2014 to 2017 and is now on the Mississippi Ethics Commission, criticized Foster’s tweet.

The fascist force is strong with this one,” Ritchie wrote, quote-tweeting Foster.

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