beauty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)
14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)
World War II German military formation made up predominantly of military volunteers with a Ukrainian ethnic background from the area of Galicia, later also with some Slovaks. Formed in 1943, it was largely destroyed in the battle of Brody, reformed, and saw action in Slovakia, Yugoslavia, and Austria before being renamed the first division of the Ukrainian National Army and surrendering to the Western Allies by 10 May 1945.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lvov%E2%80%93Sandomierz_offensive
You've gone RCMP? (Yeah you know me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idx3GSL2KWs
>puta style
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2022/02/14/invoking-the-emergencies-act-is-a-shocking-admission-of-failure.html
Invoking the Emergencies Act is a shocking admission of failure
‘Protests and blockades could and should already have been resolved by good intelligence, smart planning, and effective coordination among police forces.’
Many will cheer the Trudeau government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to deal with border blockades and the occupation of Ottawa. They’re fed up with the protests and that’s entirely understandable.
But we will not join the cheering. Federal emergency powers may now be necessary as a last resort, but going that route is a shocking admission of failure by governments at all levels.
This was and remains a policing issue. Right from the start, even before the truckers’ convoy rolled into Ottawa, there were laws on the books adequate to deal with this.
The situation could and should already have been resolved by good intelligence, smart planning, and effective coordination among police forces.
But in Ottawa, in particular, we’ve seen none of that over the past two and a half weeks. Instead, we’ve seen dithering and buck-passing all round. Indeed, until a couple of days ago the federal government’s position was that local authorities had “all the tools and resources they need” to deal with the occupation.
But now, all of a sudden, the federal government is taking the extraordinary measure of invoking the Emergencies Act for the first time since the law was passed in 1988. Even if those powers will be, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, time-limited, geographically targeted, and don’t involve actually bringing in the military.
So what changed? Listening to the prime minister, it wasn’t entirely clear. He said the occupation and border blockades are illegal and economically damaging; that’s true, but it was true last week and the week before as well.
Indeed, effective and coordinated police action ended the blockade of the Ambassador Bridge over the weekend — without any need for federal emergency powers. And on Monday, RCMP arrested 13 people near the border crossing in Coutts, Alta., and seized weapons, also without those powers.
The problem was not a lack of powers or resources. Once authorities decided to act, they were effective.
But in Ottawa, the failure of local leadership has been total. Ottawa police botched the situation from the get-go; the chief almost immediately admitted his force was outmatched and helpless.
By the weekend, even the federal government (through Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair) said the Ottawa police’s paralysis was “inexplicable.” And local people were taking matters in their own hands by organizing counter-protests.
So how will invoking the Emergencies Act actually change the situation on the ground? Ministers mentioned giving police powers to declare prohibited zones for protests, designating sites like border crossings as essential, allowing RCMP officers more ability to enforce municipal bylaws, and requiring some services (such as tow trucks) to put themselves at the service of authorities.
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The government also announced steps to crack down on the money behind the protests, including through crowd-funding sites like GoFundMe. Trucking companies could also find their accounts frozen and their assets (including their trucks) seized. Those measures sound useful, but it’s not clear the Emergencies Act was needed to go down that road.
Now we’ll see how quickly these new powers stop the blockades and bring the occupation in Ottawa to an end.
The City of Ottawa declared a state of emergency on Feb. 6, and Ontario did the same last week. Simply invoking emergency powers is clearly no solution on its own; it all depends how those powers are used, and how effectively police bring them to bear.
Perhaps the hope is that this dramatic move will stiffen the spine of police and finally make them enforce the law. The Trudeau government should certainly hope so, because it now truly owns this crisis.
https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/theft-of-truck-carrying-2000-guns-not-a-targeted-incident-peterborough-cops
Theft of truck carrying 2,000 guns not a targeted incident: Peterborough cops
A truck carrying more than 2,000 firearms when it was stolen early Sunday morning was not targeted for the weapons, police say.
On Monday, Det.-Staff Sgt. Mike Jackson from the Peterborough Police Service said investigators believe the incident was an “isolated crime of opportunity” and not a targeted incident.
“It is believed that the suspects entered several other commercial yards in the city before this one, and they had attempted to take different trucks and trailers before leaving with the truck and trailer unit sought in this incident,” Jackson said.
Police have confirmed there was no ammunition on the trailer at the time, Jackson said, and that the stolen firearms were “of a small calibre with the clips attached.”
Peterborough cops responded to a business located on Parkhill Rd. E. at about 7:30 a.m. on Feb. 13.
Police say the truck that was stolen is a 2019 Freightliner New Cascadia 126 with Ontario licence plate ‘938 2PV,’ white in colour and with the company name in red on the doors and a red ‘#97’ on the side of the hood. The trailer was a 2014 Hyundai 53-foot Dry Freight Van trailer with licence plate ‘V30 92A,’ white in colour with a silver metallic line that runs horizontally the entire length of the trailer.
According to footage obtained by police, the suspects appear to arrive in a four-door blue sedan that follows the tractor-trailer unit out of the yard.
The whereabouts of the trailer and its contents are unknown to police, who are also focused on uploading the stolen firearms onto the national database.
>Trudeau: "There is a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship…"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10515599/Hillary-IGNORES-question-Durham-claims-spied-Trump-arrives-daughter-Chelseas.html
Clinton cornered: Hillary refuses to answer questions about Durham revelation she paid to spy on the Trump campaign as she arrives at daughter Chelsea's Manhattan home ahead of the New York Democratic Convention
Hillary Clinton is the keynote speaker at Thursday's New York state Democratic Convention
DailyMail.com obtained exclusive pictures and video of the former first lady and secretary of state arriving at her daughter's New York City apartment on Tuesday
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is being accused of a conflict of interest and called on to step down after the latest Durham probe filing
On Friday Durham alleged that Hillary Clinton's campaign paid a tech firm to infiltrate Trump Tower and later White House servers to make Trump-Russia link
Sullivan, who at the time was on Clinton's team, released a statement in Oct 2016 reacting to a supposed link between Trump and a Russian bank
Republican lawmakers are raising concerns about him now having a significant role in US foreign policy amid Russia's escalating crisis with Ukraine
Sources told Fox News in November that Sullivan is the 'foreign policy adviser' in former Clinton lawyer Michael Sussman's indictment
There is no indication that Sullivan is a target of John Durham's investigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kosovo
>It's another thing entirely for household names to be in jail.
The story Veiled Rebellion, with Lynsey Addario's photographs, appeared in the December, 2010, issue of National Geographic magazine. D700, AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED, 1/1250 second, f/5.6, ISO 125, manual exposure, Matrix metering.
>The story Veiled Rebellion, with Lynsey Addario's photographs, appeared in the December, 2010, issue of National Geographic magazine.
https://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/a/ideas-and-inspiration/stop-sign-defining-a-photojournalists-role.html
Stop Sign: Defining a Photojournalist's Role
By definition the job of the photojournalist is to tell a story. But what happens when a photojournalist's actions change the story?
"I was shooting for a National Geographic story on women in Afghanistan," says Lynsey Addario, "and one major part of the story was about maternal mortality. Afghanistan had one of the highest rates of women dying in childbirth in the world at that time."
For about two weeks Lynsey covered remote areas in the province of Badakhshan. "The limited network of roads was one of the reasons women die in childbirth," she says. "When a woman goes into labor she has to get on a donkey and ride for hours to get to a medical center."
On the way back to the province capital of Fayzabad, Lynsey and her translator, Dr. Zeba, saw two women on the side of the road. "They were unaccompanied, which in Afghanistan is very rare because all women have to be accompanied by men. We stopped the car, and it turned out the woman on the right, Noor Nisa, was in labor; the other woman was her mother."
Lynsey and Dr. Zeba learned that Noor Nisa's husband's first wife had died in childbirth, and he was so determined to not lose Noor Nisa that he'd borrowed a car and was trying to get her to the hospital. But the car had broken down, and he'd gone to try to find another one. "I wanted to take them to the hospital," Lynsey says, "but they couldn't get in my car because they needed permission from her husband. So I asked Dr. Zeba to take the car and find him. There was only one road going through the province; it wouldn't be hard."
When Dr. Zeba found him and brought him back, Lynsey took the family to the hospital, where Noor Nisa delivered her baby.
At the hospital Lynsey photographed other women, including one who was giving birth, but she made no pictures of Noor Nisa. "The only reason she made it to the hospital was because I took her, and I felt I changed the story with my presence."
The photograph taken at the side of the road was all that was needed, and by Lynsey's standards, all that was proper, to tell this story.
https://twitter.com/lynseyaddario
https://www.instagram.com/lynseyaddario/
long thread
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1493641302231105545
Macron, Biden agree verification needed of Russian pullback
>Fast and Furious
"You're in trouble!"