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It’s funny for WAPO to even say “singlehandedly” since millions of people have been calling out groomers for a month now.
What WAPO are proving is “LibsOfTikToc showed the proof from the leftie freaks own mouths and its very effective, and in turn that multipled the voices in unison, so the movement is getting louder.
Welcome to the Great Awakening, and WAPO is getting more eyes on it just by saying that stupid statement
https://twitter.com/sunnyright/status/1516259753495826438?s=20&t=pwyRQpHAkOQx9z2urXl1UQ
Excellent idea, expose the RINOs that consider WAPO, NYT, The Atlantic etc should be shunned
https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1516427823845715986?s=20&t=pwyRQpHAkOQx9z2urXl1UQ
Link for anyone that wants to give
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1516415791373209612?s=20&t=pwyRQpHAkOQx9z2urXl1UQ
Link to GiveSendGo
https://www.givesendgo.com/libsoftiktok
19 Apr, 2022 14:51
Pakistan makes offer to India
The country’s new PM, Shehbaz Sharif, calls for the long-standing Jammu and Kashmir dispute to be finally settled
Pakistan’s new prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has called on his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to finally settle the long-standing dispute over the Jammu and Kashmir regions, as well as other problems plaguing the relationship between Islamabad and New Delhi.
“We believe that peaceful and cooperative ties between Pakistan and India are imperative for the progress and socioeconomic uplift of our people and for the region,” Sharif pointed out in a message, seen on Sunday by Pakistani newspaper Dawn.
In order to bring ties to such a level, “meaningful engagement and peaceful resolution of all outstanding disputes, including the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir” is required, he said.
Sharif insisted that Pakistan was “committed to the maintenance of regional peace,” adding that Islamabad’s contribution to fighting terrorism was “well known and globally acknowledged.”
Over the years, Islamabad and New Delhi have traded accusations of supporting terror groups on each other’s territory, so that these could deliver harm to the neighboring state.
Pakistan and India, which are both nuclear powers, should improve regional security together and jointly work for the “progress and prosperity of our people,” the PM stated.
A week ago, Modi had congratulated Sharif on becoming the head of the Pakistani government, saying that India was interested in “peace and stability in a region free of terror, so that we can focus on our development challenges and ensure the well-being and prosperity of our people.”
Reports in Indian media suggest that the sides have been working to organize a meeting between Modi and Sharif during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan in July.
Sharif was approved as premier on April 11 after his predecessor Imran Khan lost the top job in a vote of no confidence. Khan accused his political opponents of colluding with the US in order to oust him, his supporters staging massive protests.
Kashmir has been a bone of contention between India and Pakistan for decades as both countries claim the region to be their own territory, but control only parts of it. The neighbors fought two wars over the disputed land in the 1940s and 1960s. They also narrowly averted a major conflict in early 2021, with tensions in the region remaining high.
https://www.rt.com/news/554168-kashmir-india-pakistan-sharif/
19 Apr, 2022 14:56
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US detains over 5,000 migrants from Ukraine
Border patrol detained nearly five times more Ukrainians in March compared to February
(Great Nazis coming from Ukraine at southern border)
Some 5,071 Ukrainians were detained at US borders in March, figures released by the US Customs and Border Protection on Monday show.
The spike comes amid the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, with the botched illegal entry attempts growing fivefold compared to February figures, when just over 1,100 Ukrainians were detained at the border. A vast majority of the detained Ukrainians were caught by the US border guard at the southwest border.
Over the past few years, the flow of Ukrainians detained while attempting to cross into the US each month remained constant, hovering below the 1,000 mark on average, according to official data. The influx of Ukrainians came amid an overall spike in detentions at US sea and air borders. In March, nearly 250,000 people were detained at the borders, compared to some 190,000 in February. A vast majority of the people seeking to get into the US – some 220,000 – were apprehended at the Mexico border.
Many of the detained Ukrainians were ultimately released into USterritory after being granted a humanitarian parole, the Washington Post reported. On Monday, the US administration extended temporary protected status for Ukrainians for another 18 months.
Earlier, US President Joe Biden pledged to take in 100,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the fighting. Some five million people left the country after Russia launched a large-scale military operation against Ukraine late in February, according to figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
https://www.rt.com/news/554163-us-ukrainian-migrants-detained/
19 Apr, 2022 14:44
Kramatorsk train station attack: The key to finding the perpetrator lies in this overlooked detail
Kiev and its Western backers immediately blamed Russia for the incident, but a proper investigation is likely to disagree
…when it comes to the missile attack on the Kramatorsk train station that occurred at 10:30am on April 8, 2022, both sides are in rare agreement – the missile used was a Tochka-U, a Soviet-era weapon known in the West by its NATO reporting name as the SS-21 Scarab, and in the former Soviet republics that use the weapon by its GRAU designation, 9K79.
The Tochka-U operates as a simple inertially-guided ballistic missile. Simply put, the operators, working from a known location, orient the launcher in the direction of their target, and then calculate the distance between the point of launch and point of impact. The solid-fuel engine of the Tochka-U burns for 28 seconds, meaning that the range of the missile isn’t determined by engine burn-time alone, but rather the angle that the missile was launched – the more vertical the missile at time of launch, the shorter its range will be.
Because the missile burns to depletion, once the engine shuts down, the missile will cease its pure ballistic trajectory, and instead assume a near-vertical posture as it heads toward its target…
The flight characteristics of the Tochka-U result in a debris pattern which has the cluster munitions impacting on the ground first, followed by the depleted booster, which hits the earth some distance behind the impact of the warhead. This creates a tell-tale signature, so to speak, of the direction from where the missile was launched, which can be crudely calculated by shooting a reverse azimuth from the point of impact of the warhead through the booster.
It is this physical reality which provides the first real clue as to who fired the Tochka-U that hit Kramatorsk. Therelationship of the booster when it came to earth, when assessed to the impact zone of the cluster munitions, provides a reverse azimuth which, even when factoring in a generous margin of error for potential drift, points to territory that was under the excusive control of the Ukrainian government, which means that there is little doubt that the missile that struck the Kramatorsk train station was fired by a launcher under the operational control of the 19th Missile Brigade, Ukraine’s only Tochka-U-equipped unit. More specifically, a forensic evaluation of the missile debris clearly shows that it was launched by the 19th Ukrainian Missile Brigade, based near Dobropolia, some 45 kilometers from Kramatorsk.
The 19th Missile Brigade is considered a strategic asset, meaning that it responds directly to the orders of the Ukrainian Ground Forces Command. In short, if the missile was, as it appears, fired by the 19th Missile Brigade, it was doing so based on orders given from high up the chain of command. The launch was no accident.
For its part, the Ukrainian government has attempted to flip the script, blaming Russia for an attack using a missile which Russia is on record as having retired from service in 2019…
…There is no question that both Russia and the US are sitting on de facto proof of where the Tochka missile was fired. The US has deployed in the region a variety of intelligence-collection platforms which would have detected the location of the missile at the time of launch, and would also have tracked the ballistic trajectory of the missile as it flew toward its target. Likewise, Russia has deployed numerous advanced surface-to-air missile defense systems, including the advanced S-400, which would have tracked the flight of the missile from launch to impact.
The fact that the US has not declassified this data to replicate a Cuban missile crisis-like moment at the UN to demonstrate to the world the scope and scale of a Russan lie strongly suggests that the Russians are not, in fact, lying.
There is, however,one piece of evidence which proves without a doubt who owned the Tochka-U missilein question that was fired on Kramatorsk, the release of which would not compromise the security interests of the providing nation. Painted onto the booster of the missile, in black, is a unique serial number assigned to the Tochka-U at the time of production (in the Cyrillic alphabet, Ш91579, or Sh91579 in the Latin alphabet.) This serial number was assigned to it at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant and represents the unique identifying mark for the missile that follows it through its military life cycle…
https://www.rt.com/russia/554138-kramatorsk-train-station-attack/
19 Apr, 2022 15:56
Strike West as it’s distracted by Ukraine, ISIS tells members
Terror group urges members to strike while the West is distracted
Terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has called on its members and supporters to wage jihad against Europe and Israel while the West is distracted by the war in Ukraine, according to an online message posted cited by the Times on Monday.
Jihadists should strike Europe and Israel while those the group considers “crusaders” are fighting each other, IS' new spokesman Omar al-Muhajir said in the message, released to coincide with Islam’s holy month of Ramadan.
The terror group's mouthpiece told followers to arm themselves, calling for a campaign of revenge for the death of leader Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi – though he was allegedly killed earlier this year in a US raid, not by Europeans or Israelis.
The slain ISIS head, who had himself replaced founder and fellow US raid target Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been replaced by Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, said to have been selected by his predecessor to become the group's next leader. While Europe is preoccupied with the Ukrainian conflict – and by what this means for their dwindling energy supplies – Israel has largely stayed out of that war. However, it has been scaling up attacks on Palestinians, conducting frequent raids in the West Bank in the wake of two terrorist attacks by ISIS sympathizers. The surge in violence culminated in a confrontation between Israeli police and Palestinians at the al-Aqsa mosque on Friday, which left more than 150 Palestinians injured.
While the recording included talk of “liberating” Jerusalem through the formation of a caliphate – one of the group’s favorite talking points – experts cited by the Times no longer believe ISIS has the ability to conduct major operations abroad. Declared officially defeated by then-US President Donald Trump in 2019 with the killing of al-Baghdadi, the group has been relegated to a relatively small area in Syria, a country in which it once held significant territory, after years of fighting by the Syrian Arab Army, Russia, Iran, and the US.
However, an offshoot of the group, known as ISIS-K, carried out a suicide bombing at Kabul airport in Afghanistan during the US efforts to evacuate its service members and leave the country after 20 years of war. Several attacks in Europe have been attributed to ISIS sympathizers, including the brutal slaying of UK MP David Amess.
https://www.rt.com/news/554172-isis-followers-jihad-europe-israel/
16 Apr, 2022 00:51
US base in Syria attacked from inside
Planted explosives and not artillery are behind the incident at Green Village, the US military said
Last week’s explosions at a base in Syria, that reportedly injured four US soldiers, may have been the work of charges planted by one or more people in the facility's showers and ammunition depot, Washington has claimed. The incident, which was initially blamed on artillery fire, is being investigated further.
Combined Joint Task Force Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR), the group in charge of US operations in Iraq and Syria, posted a statement early Friday that what was originally classified as an “indirect attack” is now believed to have been “deliberate placement of explosive charges” by an unknown individual or individuals, targeting the shower facility and ammunition holding area.
The CJTF-OIR initially said, “two rounds of indirect fire… struck two support buildings” at Green Village on April 7, and that four US service members were “being evaluated for minor injuries and possible traumatic brain injuries.”
Originally established to coordinate the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists in Syria and Iraq, the CJTF-OIR is now in charge of several hundred US troops in eastern Syria. They are overseeing the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia, which controls areas east of the Euphrates and has so far refused reunification with the government in Damascus.
While the remaining US troops in Syria and Iraq have previously come under rocket and mortar attacks – which the Pentagon has blamed either on IS holdouts or Shia militias allegedly allied with Iran – having explosives planted on a base is a new development. The Military Times said on Friday it raised the prospects of infiltration, a lapse in base security, or perhaps even an insider attack.
https://www.rt.com/news/553968-syria-us-base-explosives-attack/
There will be 100s of stupid people that buy this…kek
19 Apr, 2022 09:48
New stage of Ukraine operation starting – Moscow
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously announced that the battle for Donbass has begun
Russia's military operation in Ukraine is entering a new phase, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told Indian media. In an interview aired on Tuesday, the chief diplomat said the goals of the offensive in Ukraine had been declared by Moscow from the start, and one of those was the liberation of the entire territory claimed by the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics as their sovereign territory.
“This endeavor will continue. Another stage of this operation is beginning,” he confirmed. “And I am sure this will be a very important moment of this entire special undertaking.”
There were reports of intensified hostilities in eastern Ukraine late on Monday. The Russian defense ministry reported on Tuesday morning that its troops had delivered artillery strikes at 1,260 Ukrainian military targets overnight, including 1,214 locations where Ukrainian troops amassed their forces.
In addition to the artillery strikes, Russian warplanes targeted 60 military sites in Ukraine, the update stated, including 53 locations with a large presence of Ukrainian troops and military hardware.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday that the nature of hostilities in his country had radically shifted.
“We can now confirm that Russian troops have begun the battle for the Donbass, which they have been preparing for a long time,” Zelensky said in a video posted on Telegram on Monday evening.
(I wonder if Ukrainians call Zelensky “Lord Voldemort” kek)
https://www.rt.com/russia/554142-new-stage-ukraine-operation/
19 Apr, 2022 14:39
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EU to pay for most of Ukraine’s reconstruction – media
Brussels says hundreds of billions of euros are needed for the job
(Oh goodie, more money laundering for Ukraine and world leaders)
The European Union is planning to provide most of the funds needed for Ukraine’s reconstruction, Bloomberg reported citing sources in the European Commission.
According to the publication, the commission is working on a scheme which would support Ukraine on a long-term basis as the bloc expects to be responsible for providing the lion’s share of the funds for the country’s reconstruction. To do that, the EU plans to set up a solidarity trust fund. It will reportedly be based on the post-Covid-19 recovery fund for EU member states and help finance investments and reforms in Ukraine, the sources said.
The EC has not unveiled the exact amount of money they plan for the fund to raise, as Russia’s military operation in Ukraine is still ongoing. However, sources say the figure would amount to hundreds of billions of euros over the next several decades. The commission now plans to assess Ukraine’s financial needs, jointly with the World Bank. According to Kiev’s estimations, the destruction on Ukraine’s territory already amounts to $1 trillion.
The idea will reportedly be discussed more closely during the upcoming International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings in Washington and European Commission sessions in Brussels. According to unnamed EU officials, one of the key questions up for debate will be ways to ensure that the enormous amount of money the EU is planning to pay does not end up in the wrong hands.
Most of the aid money is to be spent on rebuilding Ukrainian infrastructure and supporting public services. According to Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelensky, his government needs up to $7 billion each month merely to cover salaries and social expenditures. WTFF
The commission is also mulling ways to support Ukrainian companies – Kiev says around one-third of firms have stopped their activities amid the crisis, while some 45% were forced to cut production.
Some EU nations suggested using the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to replenish the reconstruction fund, but no official announcements of such a step have been made so far. Since the start of Moscow’s military operation on February 24, the EU has approved €600 million ($647 million) in soft loans to Ukraine, while it is also reportedly speeding the approval of an additional €600 million by this summer, an EU official said.
Meanwhile, the IMF also approved $1.4 billion in emergency financing for Ukraine last month, after canceling $2.2 billion of Kiev’s previous $5 billion loan, as Ukraine could no longer meet the conditions needed to receive the rest of the money.
This is literally insane!
(They are out and out stealing Russia’s money. Gloves will come off if they do this)
https://www.rt.com/business/554158-eu-ukraine-reconstruction-fund/
19 Apr, 2022 10:02
Top official explains why Russia hasn't run out of precision missiles in Ukraine
The country’s defense industry carried out extensive modernization for years, says the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the process
Russia going after fake news, don’t worry we’ve got the missiles we need. Kek
Contrary to Western expectations, Russia hasn’t run out of precision munitions during the now almost two-month-long conflict in Ukraine. RT spoke to Yury Borisov, Russian deputy prime minister in charge of defense procurement, about the state of the nation’s defense industry and the impact of Western sanctions.
RT: Mr. Borisov, the West has imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia, measures that the Kremlin has dubbed an overt economic war. Can you tell us how state defense procurements are functioning under this pressure?
Yury Borisov: We don’t see any serious threats that could undermine our work on the planned tasks in state defense procurement. Perhaps this is a result of our Western partners keeping us on our toes since 2014. We have had plenty of time to adapt to the continuous sanctions they have been introducing against Russia. We now have import substitution policies in place, and we have accumulated a necessary reserve stock of critically important materials and components. Therefore, Russia’s current state defense procurement program is under no threat.
I would say that today’s situation in defense procurement is even better compared to the previous years. We already have contracts for 88% of our annual commitments. In previous years, we would not normally get to this figure before the end of May. And the cash execution of the state budget looks really good.
This has to do primarily with the fact that given the current situation around the sanctions against Russia’s financial institutions, which necessitated an increase in the key rate, we are trying to use the budgetary resources appropriated for the defense procurement program as much as we can.
The customers of state defense procurement and acquisition – mainly Russia’s defense Ministry, but also other government agencies – actively employ the 100% prepaid model for procurement of basic electronic components, basic materials and component parts. This provides hedging of risks related to nonperformance and helps build up a reserve stock. We are absolutely certain that by the end of this year, the mean annual share of completed contracts will reach 97-98%. This has become our standard already. However, all outstanding obligations to the key customers are usually cleared in the first quarter of the following year.
RT: Import substitution must now be among the top priorities, and more urgent than ever before, especially when it comes to the defense industry. Just an example, from my own experience, I was recently near Kiev, and the military vehicles that were taking us, the reporters, on assignments were Typhoons. They are impressive vehicles, but…
Yury Borisov: There are several variants. Which one were you using, was it a four-by-four armored vehicle?
RT: No, it was a six-by-six.
Yury Borisov: So it was a KAMAZ Typhoon vehicle, I see. (KamAZ-63968 Typhoon-K – RT).
RT: Yes, absolutely, it was a KAMAZ Typhoon vehicle, right. But, for instance, it has Michelin tires. The transmission gearbox is imported too, and lots of other parts, so that the mechanics say they don’t even know how it’s going to be now regarding spare parts. And, as far as I know, Typhoons are not the only example of a really great Russian vehicle that people are now having questions about in terms of maintenance. Do you have an answer to these questions?
Yury Borisov: Of course, I do. We had a number of meetings with major manufacturers regarding both Russia’s state defense procurement program and the automotive industry on the whole.
It surely is a very challenging situation for our automotive industry now that some key components are no longer available.
If we consider the entire range of the vehicles we produce, from trucks to buses, including passenger buses, we will see that the extent of locally manufactured content is very different. The share of foreign-made components can be very different. This industry is undergoing a considerable change today, just like Russia’s entire economy and all other industries. Changes are being introduced into the supply chains; we’re bringing in new suppliers. Of course, it means that production will slow down, obviously. We are open about this….
https://www.rt.com/russia/554134-borisov-interview-defense-industry/
19 Apr, 2022 09:21
Google Maps responds to claims that it unblurred Russian military bases
The company has rebutted reports on social media claiming it revealed Russia’s strategic facilities
Google has denied making any changes to how it shows Russia’s strategic military facilities on its Maps service. The statement came on Tuesday in response to reports claiming that Google Maps had unblurred Russia’s military airfields and navy warships.
On Monday, an unverified Ukrainian Twitter account linked to the country’s armed forces posted a handful of satellite images, with the caption reading “Google Maps has opened access to Russia’s military and strategic facilities.” The account in question has been cited several times by the official account of the country’s Defense Ministry.
The post features four images, two of which appear to show military airfields with several stationary fighter jets, while the other two depict what looks like navy warships. The tweet claimed that “now everyone can see a variety of Russian launchers, intercontinental ballistic missile silos, command posts and secret ranges with a resolution of about 0.5 meters per pixel.”
The post had been retweeted nearly 2,500 times and cited by several media outlets by Tuesday morning. One of the reports caught the attention of Google Maps. The service’s account on Twitter informed media outlet NEXTA, which is banned in Belarus, that “we haven’t made any blurring changes to our satellite imagery in Russia.”
The Verge outlet directly reached out to Google for comment on Monday. In an email, the tech giant’s spokesperson, Genevieve Park, confirmed that the company had not “made any blurring changes to our satellite imagery in Russia.” According to The Verge, at least one of the images featured in the original tweet is indeed accessible on Google Maps, depicting what the outlet described as an “active Russian military site.” On top of that, the journalists say they were able to locate a few other military facilities in Russia with the help of Google Maps.
The article concluded that these sites were visible before Russia launched its military campaign against Ukraine in late February. The Verge noted that a number of similar installations in other countries, including in the US, can be freely viewed on Google Maps as well. The article did mention, however, that images were heavily pixelated in some cases, such as in the case of the French Air Force’s air base 705 on the outskirts of Tours.
Since late February, Google has taken a number of steps in response to the Kremlin’s military campaign, halting ad sales in Russia and blocking Google Pay. YouTube has also blocked a number of channels belonging to Russian state-funded media, including RT.
The Russian government has threatened the tech giant with hefty fines in response, demanding that Google restore access to the banned media outlets’ channels.
https://www.rt.com/news/554132-google-comments-russia-military-sites-maps/