https://t.me/polkazov/4527

Finally, the award went to the Hero! The commander of the AZOV regiment, Denys "Redis" Prokopenko, received the "Golden Star" order. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded the title Hero of Ukraine to Redis back in March, when Redis was in charge of the defense of Mariupol.

The awards ceremony took place during the meeting of Azovstal defenders with Andriy Yermak and Olena Zelenska in Turkey. Also, the heroes were able to hug their families for the first time after being released from captivity.

The entire personnel of the AZOV regiment congratulates the commander and awaits the return of friend Redis and other defenders to the ranks.

Photo: Website of the President of Ukraine.

AZOV regiment

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>US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launcher was used in the strike, which killed four civilians and injured another five

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1619155840724008960

I have not heard the 911 call. I have not heard the confession. I have not seen the break-in and I have absolutely no intention of seeing the deadly assault on my husband’s life. I won’t be making any more statements about this case.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220807123513/https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=428426755981352&set=a.303268258497203

Walton County GA Sheriff's Office

August 4

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>https://nypost.com/2020/05/02/inside-kim-jong-uns-childhood-at-a-posh-school-in-switzerland/

Inside Kim Jong Un’s childhood living under a fake name in Switzerland

Pity the fools who thought the chubby, mysterious, basketball and junk food-loving teenager who spent four years incognito at a posh Swiss school would reform North Korea when he assumed command in 2011.

Kim Jong Un, 38, turned out to be a tyrannical dictator like his father and grandfather — and he’s still mysterious. He reportedly turned up alive Friday after weeks of speculation that he was dead or comatose. But he’s keeping the world guessing — as he did as a kid studying under a fake name in a suburb of Bern, Switzerland.

Kim was shipped to Switzerland — where an older brother had already gone to study — around age 12 in 1996 during the devastating North Korean famine that killed up to 3 million people. He was left in the care of an aunt who posed as his mother and later defected to the US, where she ran a dry cleaners in Manhattan.

His classmate at the Liebefeld-Steinhölzli school in Bern in 1998, Joao Micaelo, described him as a reserved kid who could be temperamental and was obsessed with basketball, especially Michael Jordan. He also loved Jean-Claude Van Damme movies.

“He was quiet but he was also decisive,“ Micaelo said. He went by the name of “Pak Chol” and teachers were told he was the son of North Korean diplomats.

Kim was so crazy about basketball that he sometimes slept with one next to his bed, his aunt once said. He wore NBA jerseys, had a massive collection of expensive Nike shoes and wore fancy tracksuits, never jeans, as jeans were a sign of hated capitalism.

He got along with his classmates, though he struggled with the Swiss-German dialect spoken in Bern and could sometimes be “explosively competitive” on the basketball court, said another former classmate, Marco Imhof.

Kim’s teacher at the Liebefeld school, Michel Riesen, remembered Kim as a good-natured 14-year-old with a sense of humor. Riesen said he often walked to school from the unassuming home he lived in with his aunt and other family members not far from the North Korean embassy.

“If I look back I see a friendly, gentle Asian boy,” Riesen told NBC News in 2018. “A teenager from next door.” Riesen said Kim was a good student but “not extraordinary.”

And make no mistake, Riesen said. Kim’s overseas schooling gave him a good understanding of Western values — whether or not he cared.

“Democracy is part of our being here in Switzerland,” Riesen said. “So for sure he came into contact with democracy.”

Micaelo said Kim once confessed that he was the son of the leader of North Korea. The former classmate didn’t believe it until his old friend surfaced as the Great Leader, the third in a succession of a weird, personality cult-driven autocrats, in 2011.

Kim studied abroad and spent family vacations skiing in the French Alps, going to EuroDisney in Paris, and swimming on the French Riviera, but this international experience didn’t translate into political enlightenment or empathy for his countrymen at home when he took over after his father’s death. Arguably all it did was inspire Kim to build an amusement park and ski resort that usually sit empty while ordinary North Koreans struggle to find enough to eat.

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North Korean-born Jason Lee, who’s a year younger than Kim and defected to South Korea and then the U.S. in 2014, said that much is made of Kim’s seemingly random four-year Swiss sojourn — but it’s typical for someone from North Korea’s tiny inner circle of high-ranking families.

“All of us speak multiple languages and many of the kids of the elite families travel a lot and live outside the country when they can,” Lee, who now lives in Washington, DC, told The Post. “Nobody can access the Internet in the country but they can when they leave. They know the education is fake, the mythology of the Kim family is fake. But they can’t speak out against it. Their whole family would be punished. They call it the three-generation rule.”

Kim has the same problem. Even if he wanted to reform a country where many go hungry and even the homes of the political elites rarely have more than one hour of electricity a day, he couldn’t.

“He’s a master at running the country but he’s also trapped by the country and the mythology,” Jung H. Pak, a former CIA analyst and author of the new book, “Becoming Jong Un,” told The Post.

“He inherited the nukes, the repressive bureaucracy, the gulags and the fear and there’s no way to escape it. If he wants to survive he has to continue the brutality. There’s no other way for him.”

Not to say that Pak thinks it’s hard for Kim to throw his 300-lb. weight around and kill and torture close friends and relatives. His defector aunt, who is believed to live in northern New Jersey, once recalled that he was “short-tempered” and lacking “tolerance” when he was a child

“I wouldn’t say he’s a sociopath,” Pak said. “But he has a high tolerance for other people’s pain. It was extremely brutal how he killed his uncle and brother. It was public, gruesome and humiliating. And make no mistake. He did that for people outside the regime but mainly for people inside the regime. He wanted to let them know in no uncertain terms who was the boss.”

Some North Korean experts say there is a strategic reason that Kim looks so plump. Because of cold, hunger and starvation often suffered by the North Korean people, an obese person signals health, wealth and power.

Children who lived through the ‘90s famine are now soldiers in the Workers Party. Their growth was so stunted by starvation that some barely grew above five feet. There have been reports that the minimum height requirement for a soldier is 4’8” or 4’9”. Kim is 5’7” and his grandfather, who founded the country in 1948 and ruled to 1994, was 5’10”, very tall for a North Korean.

“Physically Kim’s trying to look like his grandfather,” Cha said. “He was fat and smoking all the time and outwardly jovial, like Kim. He looked robust and healthy which is how they think a leader should look.”

https://nypost.com/2023/01/29/rats-battery-park-city-uses-dry-ice-to-kill-vermin/

Rats! Battery Park City uses dry ice to kill vermin

They’re icing out rats in Battery Park City.

Local maintenance crews are dumping dry ice in the pesky rodents’ burrows in the trendy Lower Manhattan neighborhood so that when it melts, it leaves behind carbon dioxide, which suffocates them.

“Here in Battery Park City, we’re no stranger to having rodents, and so we wanted to make sure that we were able to manage them while keeping everything chemical-free,” Ryan Torres, vice president of parks operations at the Battery Park City Authority, recently told The Post.

In addition to effectively killing rats, dry ice is hailed as an environmentally sound way to nix them because it doesn’t harm other wildlife and pets, which can ingest chemicals such as pesticides used to exterminate rodents.

City agencies also use dry ice as one of many techniques to fight rats, the mayor’s office said.

The Post was invited to a demonstration where BPCA maintenance workers poured the required 2 pounds of so-called “rat ice” into the holes of local rat burrows and then immediately covered the ice with soil.

The dead rats are left in the ground to compost.

BPCA maintenance crews eliminated 147 rat burrows last year and 62 so far this year using dry ice, Torres said.

“When the rat ice became available … we were able to utilize that, and we’ve been doing that for I would say the better part of a couple of years,” she said.

“We also cover the holes immediately so that there’s no way anybody or anything can get to it. So it’s a minimal risk as far as I’m concerned. It’s nice to know that we’re able to actively manage the population.”

She said staffers are required to be licensed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation for the dry-ice treatment because it is technically classified as a pesticide.

Torres said the 92-acre BPCA, which oversees 16,169 residents in 30 buildings, 10.7 million square feet of commercial office space and 36 acres of parkland, also has compactor programs that help keep residential trash off the streets, which is another way to curb the rodent population.

Mayor Eric Adams is obsessed with curbing the city’s rat population when he’s not trying to bring down crime.

Hizzoner has even grappled with rodent infestation summonses at his own residential property in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

He and his Republican rival for mayor in 2021, Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa, have traded barbs over the embarrassing situation, and Sliwa even toured Adams’ block claiming he wanted to help rid it of pests.

“Most people don’t know this about me, but I hate rats, and pretty soon, [city Sanitation] Commissioner [Jessica] Tisch, they are going to hate me,” Adams said during his 2023 State of the City address.

“Hiring our new rat czar — and it won’t be Curtis Sliwa — will be just the beginning of a new era and delivering the best in public service and public spaces,” Hizzoner said.

“The future of our city will be cleaner, greener, and healthier for all, including our wildlife and marine life. Like the dolphins who recently visited us in the Bronx River. That’s the future of our city. More dolphins, fewer rats.”

In addition to using dry ice, city agencies employ traditional snap traps, bait, “burrow harassment” and other methods to combat rats.

“While there is no one silver bullet when it comes to eliminating rats, this administration is tackling this problem from all angles — investing millions in cleanliness initiatives, reducing the time that black bags sit on our corners, rolling out the largest curbside composting program in the country to secure food scraps in bins, rather than plastic bags, and more,” a mayoral rep said.

“We are also hiring a rat czar to better coordinate all the actions and activities to fight rats.”

>>18251483

>“Finland should not make the same mistake,” the Turkish leader warned.

meanwhile

>>18251502

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Buyers_Club

>>18251527

>"man's balls explode from the vaccine" was not even on my bingo card

>>18251555

Posobiec has it all

>theblaze.com

>>18251556

>egg farm in the U.S. catches fire

https://www.wfsb.com/2023/01/28/firefighters-battle-massive-fire-egg-farm-bozrah/

100,000 chickens die in Bozrah egg farm fire: Salvation Army

Crews battled a massive 3-alarm fire at an egg farm in Bozrah.

Officials said the fire was at Hillandale Farms on Schwartz Road.

Officials say a 400′x50′ chicken coop was lost, but another 13 chicken coops were saved during the fire.

The Salvation Army Canteen One is on the scene providing Grilled Cheese and soup.

Around 100,000 chickens may have died in the fire, according to the Salvation Army.

In total, 21 fire departments responded to the fire. Firefighters were on scene for 8 hours on Saturday battling the blaze.

No injuries have been reported.

The smoke from the fire could be seen from miles away.