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(News II thru March 12 is here.)
Facing growing international condemnation, Putin sought to turn the tables, slamming Kyiv for what he called the "flagrant violation" of international humanitarian law and accusing Ukraine's army of executing dissenters and using civilians as hostages.https://t.co/s97sLRBB2D
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) March 13, 2022
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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The Russians Might Have Expected a Warm Welcome. Instead the Mayor Labeled Them ‘Occupiers.’
The 33-year-old mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fyodorov, encouraged defiance. Then he was arrested, and hasn’t been heard from since.
By Marc Santora and Neil MacFarquhar @NYTimes.com, March 12, 2022
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 12:04am
This:
Whatever kind of person he is, the city elected, appointed or somehow gave consent to that mayor (not sure how it works over there). Foreign army shows up and puts a bag over his head and kidnaps him, it's no wonder they're not getting a warm welcome.
by Orion on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 12:55am
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 12:38am
Artappraiser, Dablog favorite Oliver Stone managed to put together a Ukraine documentary before the war even ended.
I stopped watching at about the moment of the naked woman covered in flames.
There is something that the late, great Christopher Hitchens used to say, "They're not anti-war. They are pro-war for the other side." I'm pretty sure Oliver Stone fit the bill for that one when he said it and still does today.
His brother:
by Orion on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 8:00am
Gratuitous nude fire porn - what's not to like?
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 4:37pm
I for one always thought Oliver Stone was a genius at doing what he does. Which makes doing what he does ultra problematic...
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 5:45pm
Russia Plots Major Donbas Offensive in Eastern Ukraine as Putin Calls for 134,500 New Conscripts.
by Orion on Thu, 03/31/2022 - 3:24pm
Also, Putin has made numerous threats to use his mercenary group Wagner in Ukraine. After a coup in Burkina Faso, Wagner established a base there.
by Orion on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 7:52am
American journalist killed in Ukraine
Twitter World news, 2 hours ago, tweets at link
American photographer and filmmaker Brent Renaud was shot and killed in Irpin, Ukraine, on Sunday, medics and witnesses told AFP. Another journalist was injured in the same attack in the northwest suburb of Kyiv, according to multiple news outlets. Kyiv police attributed the attack to Russian forces. Russia has not yet commented on this incident. The New York Times deputy managing editor, Cliff Levy, shared a statement from the paper that specified Renaud was not on assignment for The Times at the time of his death. It is not clear what outlet the journalists were working for.
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 12:27pm
he is correspondent for The Economist
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 12:43pm
correspondent for The Guardian in Kyiv -
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 1:06pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 9:16pm
Purported shelling 10 KM from the Polish border!!! Seth Abramson is correct to point out what that means -
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 1:40pm
thread from very serious military/terrorism analyst -
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 5:47pm
This is bullshit
The 2 conscripts aren't on the front lines - they've been trained for contingency - better than running out of your apartment and grabbing a gun for the first time (plus they'll learn things even at the checkpoint, and I assume they'll be taught something more as the weeks go on). Soon all of Ukraine will be "the front lines". The one had some outdoors trading from scouts, including handling weapons - how hard is it to learn "stay spread out, use non-verbal comms..."? 3 days gives a lot of basic war survival and effectiveness skills if one's paying attention. How to slow a Russian's entry into a building, how to take off a tank tire tread with the Molotov cocktails they've been making... Yeah, it's not basic training, but Ukraine doesn't have time for that now - but many had that already. And much of the war is just receiving missile attacks, so conscripts will be helping people out if demolished buildings.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/14/2022 - 12:56am
Conscripts vs paratroopers - just enough weaponry vs PsyOps
Conscripts can fill a lot of the less dangerous roles/tasks while experienced lead the charge. Not everyone at the front needs to be Rambo-certified, just not do dumb things.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/14/2022 - 2:38am
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 8:32pm
Booms, Smoke and Fire Signal Horror of Russian Attack on Base near Polish Border (at least 35 killed, at least 134 injured)
@ NYTimes.com, March 13, 2022, 5:37 p.m. ET4 hours ago BY Valerie Hopkins and Yousur Al-Hlou
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 9:58pm
there is also a 1:22 min.video of some of attacks and aftermath by people on the base, including of a crater the size of a truck, but they have blanked out the embed code so you have to see that at the link. One narrator says in Ukrainian sarcastically "this is, so you people understand, the [expletive] center of peacekeeping"
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/13/2022 - 10:15pm
Propaganda example in Russia
Some vide clips of more Russians' response below the thread.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/14/2022 - 12:51am
Maybe i didn't want to go that way...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/14/2022 - 8:14am
Whole story is like tailor-made for Qanon, Oliver Stone and GuycalledLulu types. We'll never hear the end of it, just like black helicopters, the Rothschilds and Rockefellers and the Trilateral Commission. Just another narrative in the pantheon of the flip side of American Exceptionalism (i.e., America is all powerful and always up to no good.) Deal with it, it's part of life on this planet. Ridicule is the only defense we got.
Just have to edit in, can't leave it out: the Kennedy assassination always can tie all this stuff together whenever the narrative web gets too complex (CIA, Mafia, etc....)
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/14/2022 - 2:22pm
Antonio Garcia Martinez obviously made it into Ukraine, he's currently in Lviv and obviously plans on reporting different angles from everyone else
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/14/2022 - 2:17pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/14/2022 - 3:36pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/14/2022 - 5:48pm
they've decided to offer all the news on Ukraine that's fit to Telegram:
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/14/2022 - 8:36pm
Fox News' State Dept. correspondent over there has been wounded and hospitalized
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/14/2022 - 8:43pm
Journalists banned from Irpin basically because, as the WWII posters warned: loose lips sink ships
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/14/2022 - 9:04pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/15/2022 - 4:17pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/15/2022 - 5:01pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/16/2022 - 12:52am
Russia keeps bombing Mariupol wily nily like it wants it back to the Ice Age -
Whether it's doing that because it thinks there's Ukrainian military there and is using imprecise weapons to do that, or it's doing it because it wants to totally level the city is the question in my mind
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/16/2022 - 3:00pm
hmmm, if true certainly intentional war crimes accusation stuff:
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/16/2022 - 5:44pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/17/2022 - 6:02am
how hate grows, up close and personal:
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/16/2022 - 3:47pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/16/2022 - 6:55pm
EXTREMELY interesting claim but I haven't seen proof yet:
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/16/2022 - 7:57pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/16/2022 - 11:40pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/16/2022 - 11:53pm
Chechen vs. Chechen possibility:
and then throw Elon Musk in the middle
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/17/2022 - 2:36am
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/17/2022 - 2:11pm
Russian model who went missing after calling Putin "a psychopath" found dead in suitcase: https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/russian-model-who-went-missing-af...
by Orion on Thu, 03/17/2022 - 5:39pm
Killed & dismembered by her ex-boyfriend
https://thesource.com/2022/03/18/missing-russian-model-who-criticized-pu...
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 03/18/2022 - 2:14pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/17/2022 - 6:10pm
Russia is destroying Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.
@ NYTimes.com, 2 hours ago, BY Allison McCann, Lazaro Gamio, Denise Lu, Pablo Robles and Dan Bilefsky
CAPTIONS & MORE PHOTOS AT LINK
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/17/2022 - 6:27pm
confirmed!
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/18/2022 - 3:41am
UH OH some missiles near Lviv now, where it was thought to be safe:
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/18/2022 - 4:45am
related, partly using U.S. DOD briefing info.:
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/18/2022 - 5:16am
and in Irpin:
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 3:07am
p.s. a huge number still buried under Mariupol theater rubble this morning!
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 3:12am
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 2:35pm
Reporter currently in Kharkiv:
Neil is from Canada, covers Russia, Ukraine & Caucasus: Armenia, Georgia, Chechnya etc for @bneintellinews. Stories @CNN,@guardian,@AJEnglish etc.
One of many on-the-ground journos recommended by Mark MacKinnon as he left Ukraine today for a break
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 2:59pm
not the only on-the-ground reporter that I've read this meme from:
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 6:00pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 7:58am
Russian soldiers took their city, then they took their homes.
As Russian forces pushed toward Kyiv, they stormed an apartment complex in a nearby suburb and held residents hostage. Some of it was caught on camera
54 minutes ago by Brenna Smith and Masha Froliak NYTimes.com WITH LOTS OF VIDEOS/PHOTOS
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 8:18am
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 9:28am
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 9:36am
no direct link
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/20/world/ukraine-russia-war
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 9:41am
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 9:58pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 10:25pm
continued - PHOTOS, LOTS
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 12:07pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 12:15pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 12:17pm
Vladimir Putin's Favorite Fascist Philosopher, https://youtu.be/bfVYiHY7lok
by Orion on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 12:14pm
Orion, you're in good company recommending that video -
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 2:31pm
By the way, it seems Putin is threatening to cut ties with the US, putting this all well beyond the Cold War.
by Orion on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 6:38pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 12:19pm
how Twitter is currently summarizing its Events news page feed on the Ukraine war
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 9:29pm
If true, WHOA!!
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 12:42am
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 2:10am
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 3:48am
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 4:02am
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 4:40am
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 5:07am
phone video
and
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 3:48pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 3:50pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 7:00pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/23/2022 - 7:12pm
and here's the intel from the Brits:
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/23/2022 - 9:12pm
Ukraine has claimed they did it but there is no independent verification of it yet (I would wonder if they didn't cause it, and it was an accident, how come there are more than a few videos & photos of the explosion itself?)
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/24/2022 - 4:57am
edit to add:
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/24/2022 - 7:58am
what I've been waiting for!!! NYTimes proves it's not all Ukrainian spin that the Russian troops are failing!!!
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/24/2022 - 9:24pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/24/2022 - 10:19pm
exclusive:
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/25/2022 - 3:43pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/25/2022 - 3:54pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/26/2022 - 3:05am
CallingArabs & Africans to preserve Russian (really Mongolian captured Muscovite) values. Seems like Putin has unleashed a World War among himself.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/26/2022 - 8:33am
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/26/2022 - 3:14am
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/26/2022 - 2:01pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/26/2022 - 3:19pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/26/2022 - 3:23pm
found retweeted by Francis Fukuyama:
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/26/2022 - 4:19pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/26/2022 - 5:52pm
This magazine, they were just trying to stay relevant
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/26/2022 - 6:24pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/28/2022 - 3:51am
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/28/2022 - 2:49pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/28/2022 - 3:41pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/28/2022 - 7:21pm
Likely fake, no blood, no sign of actual pain... Will follow up
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/28/2022 - 7:51pm
For sure fake "shooting"- no blood, no real pain, just lay there after light show. And the uniforms are wrong, shot by a Russian filmmaker...
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Mike Lowe
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I would definitely question the validity of this the 7.62mm AK round wouldve passed through ripping the flesh off the leg and the clothing off and making a huge hole in the concrete this doesnt do this at all, apart from the gun sound it doesnt look genuine..
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Rob #PBFE
@MrSugden2
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Mar 27
WRT the round hitting the concrete, I thought the same.
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Mike Lowe
@mikelowe916
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Mar 27
Having seen longer range AK 7.62 wounding, the trauma caused is enormous, the bones shattered and all the major blood vessels ruptured with immediate blood loss from the impacted area, even 5.56 Nato wounds are traumatic massively more than this. Im not convinced.
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Upon first viewing I also noticed that there seemed to be a negligible amount of blood on the ground around these shot soldiers.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/28/2022 - 8:06pm
Ukraine government investigates video alleged to show torture of Russian PoWs
Kyiv taking allegations ‘very seriously’ after unverified footage emerges of three prisoners of war apparently being shot in the legs
By Daniel Boffey in Lviv for TheGuardian.com, 28 Mar 2022 16.40 EDT
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/29/2022 - 4:41am
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/28/2022 - 8:20pm
holy shit look at the aftermath of this airstrike!
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/29/2022 - 3:54am
this thread gives great update, starting here:
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/29/2022 - 4:02am
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/29/2022 - 4:23am
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/29/2022 - 3:50pm
Reports of sexual violence involving Russian soldiers are multiplying, Ukrainian officials say.
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/29/2022 - 7:49pm
Pentagon: Russia is lying -
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 6:27pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/31/2022 - 2:13pm
Ukrainian soldiers demonstrate soft power advantage:
by Orion on Thu, 03/31/2022 - 3:29pm
meanwhile
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/31/2022 - 3:58pm
Deputy Mayor of Mariupol makes major accusation:
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/31/2022 - 5:37pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/31/2022 - 8:38pm
geez this video could just as well be one of the liberation of a little village in WWII:
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/31/2022 - 10:04pm
I don't want to act like some sort of good is coming out of war. However, I think it's really good that people in this country are seeing portrayals of people like this - to see both compassion and respect for elders as well as them as providers of lessons from the past.
by Orion on Thu, 03/31/2022 - 11:38pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/01/2022 - 2:09am
(I'm reminded when I saw Fauci say in 2020 that he hopes humans never start shaking hands again. Guess he doesn't get that wish!)
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/02/2022 - 2:08am