25 Apr, 2023 09:07

Multiple drones found near Moscow – media

A large unmanned aircraft crashed near the Russian capital on Monday, reportedly not far from one of three other UAVs that have been found

Three reconnaissance drones have been found in Moscow Region, including one near the crash site of a purported kamikaze UAV discovered on Monday, TASS has reported, citing a source in Russian law enforcement.

Allthree aircraft were small quadcopterswith no identifying markings, the source said on Tuesday. Russian authorities are analyzing the UAVs to learn more about their origins and operators.

Earlier this week, a kamikaze drone crashed in the Bogorodsky district some 30km from Moscow’s eastern outskirts, according to Russian media reports. Some outlets identified the UAV as a Ukrainian-designed fixed-wing aircraft, and said it had been carrying around 17kg of C4 explosives.

One of the three newly discovered drones was found about 4km from the crash site, according to the TASS source. The SHOT news outlet claimed the device was actually discovered around 2km from the scene, but did not have a memory card. Alocal woman found the craft and hung it on a pole for police to collect, SHOT reported, sharing photos of the object.

A previous TASS report stated that a quadcopter was also found on Sunday next to an oil refinery in Kapotnya, a district in southeastern Moscow renowned for its petrol industry. The drone was identified as a Mavic-820677 andcontained a memory card, the agency said, citing a police source.

Several Russian outlets also reported that a fixed-wing drone was found on Monday in a rural part of the Pavlovo Posad district of Moscow Region, 55km east of the capital. It was reportedly a reconnaissance drone of Russian design, whichlanded intact using a parachute system.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575298-multiple-drones-moscow-media/

25 Apr, 2023 13:41

Russia urges expansion of UN Security Council

The West is “over-represented” in the United Nations’ main conflict-solving body, Moscow’s top diplomat has said

The representation of Asia, Africa and Latin America on the UN Security Council (UNSC) should be expanded so that the key international conflict-solving body can meet modern geopolitical needs, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

“True multilateralism… demands the adaptation of the UN to the objective tendencies of the forming multipolar architecture in international relations,” Lavrov said in a speech at the UN headquarters in New York City on Monday.

This means that the reform of the UNSC has to be “accelerated through the expansion of the representation of Asian, African and Latin American countries in it,” he explained.

“The current massive over-representation of the West in this crucial UN body undermines the principle of multipolarity,” Lavrov pointed out during a discussion on “effective multilateralism” that was organized by Russia as current holder of the council’s rotating presidency.

Lavrov didn’t specify if he was calling for specific nations from Asia, Africa and Latin America to become permanent members of the UNSC, or for quotas for the non-permanent representatives of those regions to be expanded.

The UN Security Council currently consists offive permanent members, each with a power of veto – China, France, Russia, the UK and the US — and ten non-permanent members, elected every two years by the UN General Assembly.

According to current rules, five African and Asian states, one Eastern European state, two Latin American states and two Western European and other states make up the non-permanent members.

With Switzerland and Malta being non-permanent members, the West currently has five seats on the council, more than any other region. Japan, which is a close ally of Washington, is also among the ten current non-permanent members.

During the same discussion, US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield also urged a reform of the UNSC, saying that “this body must evolve to meet the 21st century” in order to “better reflect today’s global realities.”

She didn’t specify what changes are needed, but commented that “our response to Russia’s flagrant violations [of the UN Charter] can’t be to abandon this institution’s founding principles.”

In his address,Lavrov again rebuked Western claims that Russia’s military operation in Ukraine was “illegal,” saying that the UN Charter calls for respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states with governments that represent all of its people.

It’s clear to any unbiased observer, the minister said, that theKiev authorities, which had come to power a result of “a bloody” coup in 2014 and which mistreated its Russian-speaking population,don’t meet this criteria.

(Russia wants all the recently added Allies to have more power in the UN. The UN is so corrupt and manipulated now I’m not sure it will ever change.)

https://www.rt.com/news/575312-lavrov-ussc-reform-africa/

25 Apr, 2023 10:30

Russia lists obstacles to moving UN from New York

Moscow would like to see the organization’s HQ relocated to Switzerland or Austria

UN member states are against the idea of moving the organization’s headquarters out of New York City mainly due to financial limitations, according to Pyotr Ilyichev, a high-ranking official at the Russian Foreign Ministry.

“[Russia] would, of course, like to relocate [the UN HQ] to some other more neutral spot, like Geneva or Vienna, but many member states don’t want to leave New York,” Ilyichev, who heads the Department of International Organizations at the ministry, said on Monday.

According to the diplomat, there are “a lot of reasons” why national governments are reluctant to leave the largest city in the US, with one of them being that “they have real estate there. It’s hard for them to sustain two [UN] missions, so they have everything situated in New York. Those are more of the financial and economic reflections.”

Russia is “thinking” about moving the UN headquarters out of New York, where it has been located since the formation of the global body in 1951, he said. “The Austrians and the Swiss are more neutral” compared to the Americans, Ilyichev stated.

Besides its New York-based headquarters, the UN also has offices in Geneva, Vienna, and Kenyan capital Nairobi.

A Russian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had difficulties with obtaining US visas to attend UN Security Council (UNSC) meetings in New York on Monday and Tuesday. Thecountry’s journalists were denied permitsto enter the US by the American authorities altogether, without any explanation.

Lavrov argued that such behavior by the US isn’t worthy of a UN host nation. The Americans have just “chickened out,” he suggested, while promising that the move won’t be left unanswered by Moscow.

Russia, which currently holds the presidency of the UNSC,had planned some “major newsbreak events” in New York this weekand barring the pool of the country’s reporters from participating was completely unacceptable, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.

When asked about the possibility of relocating the UN headquarters to another country on Monday, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov replied that it was “an issue of additional thinking, additional analysts.”

(What is the news, US and Ukraine corruption most likely)

https://www.rt.com/news/575302-un-us-austria-switzerland/

Fox Nation Doesn't Care About Subscriber Acquisition, According to CEO

Fox News' streaming service Fox Nation is still live unlike its competitor CNN+. So, how many subscribers does it have and where can you watch Fox Nation?

Market Realist Team - Author

BY MARKET REALIST TEAM

APR. 27 2022, PUBLISHED 2:31 P.M. ET.OLD ARTICLE

SINCE 2018, THE FOX NEWS STREAMING SERVICE FOX NATION HAS BEEN PROVIDING ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR FANS OF THE CABLE NEWS CHANNEL — AND UNLIKE CNN+, IT ISN'T ONLY STILL OPERATIONAL, BUT IT'S THRIVING.

In 2022 alone, Fox Nation announced it would be expanding distribution to Roku, debuting in Africa, and signed a deal for Kevin Costner's Yellowstone: One-Fifty.

In comparison, CNN+ announced in April 2022 that it would be shutting down just one month after it launched, a decision that came after CNN's former parent company, WarnerMedia, merged with Discovery.

So, why is Fox Nation so successful and how many subscribers does it have?

Fox Nation has never released its subscription numbers.

While the streaming platform has never shared its subscription numbers, some subscriber data has been released. According to Variety, Fox Nationhad 282,300 downloads in March 2021, a 260 percent increase from the previous year.

Also, during a May 2021 Fox’s earnings call, CEO Lachlan Murdoch revealed that 40 percent since mid-February 2021.

And there's a pretty good reason the company doesn't share its numbers. "We're not interested in the subscriber acquisition," Murdoch said, according to Motley Fool. "We're purely interested in the time they spend on the platform and the amount of content they are consuming."

(Its about theInfluence over programming their minds, not about news.)

Fox Nation has continued to expand and provide viewers with multiple options for streaming their favorite Fox News content.

The platform is available on apps on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Google Chromecast, Roku, and Xbox One and can be found on pay-TV distribution deals with Comcast Xfinity and Cox Contour.

Fox Nation costs $5.99 a month and includes original programming such as The Dan Bongino Show, Tucker Carlson Originals, and Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Subscribers are also able to watch coverage of live events, such as the Conservative Political Action Committee conference and Donald Trump rallies, as well as their favorite Fox News shows.

However, Fox Nation subscribers believe CNN+'s failure is all the proof you need. "CNN+ just bit the dust," one person wrote on Twitter. "This was their feeble, pathetic attempt to compete with Fox Nation and it soon became clear to them that NOBODY was interested."

Another agreed, adding, "CNN+ is dead, but Fox Nation is still running strong. Just saying…"

https://marketrealist.com/p/how-many-subscribers-does-fox-nation-have/

Fox Nation Wants Boomers to Think It’s Gone Mainstream

Updated Mar. 27, 2023 12:34AM ET

Somewhere in between others ads, Fox Nation ran an ad during this year’s Super Bowl. It wasn’t the first time the streamer splashed out on television’s most expensive audience, and it had a different message than the last time, when a 2020 Super Bowl ad heralded a “new entertainment service from the good folks at Fox News.”

This year’s model spent twice as much time lingering on the marquee names users can now find on the service. With its emphasis on pop culture figures of a certain age, Fox Nation seems to be actively courting theKominsky Method crowd. This wasn’t always the case. When it launched in 2018, the service branded itself“Netflix for conservatives.

But is the world ready for Fox Nation to go Boomer-mainstream?And is that what’s really going on here? To get a better look at the pivot in progress, I spent a week watching as much Fox Nation 2.0 as my brain could withstand, which ended up being roughly 15 hours.

The initial promise of Fox Nation—your favorite Fox News stars! possibly in a kitchen!—is still present when you scroll through the app. Ainsley’s Bible Study has stuck around, and so has The Dan Bongino Show and last night’s Tucker Carlson Tonight. Fox Nation survived and expanded its horizons. Theshift began in the summer of 2021, when Fox CFO Steve Tomsic announced at a conference his intent to test out the streamer’s capacity for “a much broader portfolio of programming.” Shortly afterward, Fox Nation licensed those Eastwood movies and debuted Duck Family Treasure and Kelsey Grammer’s Historic Battles for America. According to Lachlan Murdoch’s February 2023 earnings statement, all this broadening has paid off in “accelerated subscriber growth” and Fox Nation’s “best quarter ever for engagement.”

One of the main drivers of this growth, and the first Fox Nation show I watch, is Yellowstone One-Fifty with Kevin Costner, which came out last November. Fox Nation managed to entice the flagship show’s star to lead an unrelated but identically titled series of its own. Unlike that other show, Yellowstone One-Fifty has nothing to do with ranch-intrigue on the American frontier. Instead, it’s a150th anniversarycelebration of Yellowstone National Park; a bait-and-switch masterstroke so brazen it’s impossible to get mad about.

In his Patagonia hiking vest, the star of Bull Durham traverses Yellowstone while recounting the geological expedition that spurred congress to designate it the world’s first national park. Both aspects of the show have legit compelling moments. The only indication that this is even a Fox Nation production is the extent to whichCostner paints Big Government as the villainof the story, despite Big Government ultimately agreeing to protect the park within nine months of that geological expedition.

“Only when the ideology is briefly set aside… does this entertainment service even seem like it’s trying to entertain.Most of the other programming instead appears intended to keep viewers entrenched in a state of perpetual culture-war outrage.”

A pair of other recent Fox Nation shows each resembles a different half of Yellowstone One-Fifty. Kelsey Grammer’s Historic Battles finds the host recounting tales from America’s past. Both shows are about as relatively apolitical as Costner’s.

Judging by these shows,many Never Trumpers and even some enthusiastic Biden voters might buy what Fox Nation 2.0 is selling, especially if they enjoy the antics of the Duck Family. It’s unclear whether they’d also be into Roseanne Barr’s just-released special—a collection of unpolished, unhinged rants designed to elicit clapter. (A joke-free mention of the open-carry law in Houston gets an applause break, for instance.) The best part is Barr’s account of Fox Nation approaching her about doing this very special. “They said, ‘no racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia or antisemitism,’” she recalls, “And I said, ‘Well there goes my whole fucking act.’” If it really happened, it goes against in-house style guidelines around theconcept of free speech; where having to watch what you say in any way is meant to be an Orwellian nightmare. If it didn’t happen, well, it’s a pretty good joke.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-fox-nation-wants-boomers-to-think-its-gone-mainstream

>>18750571

Bidan announcing he is running, he is counting on he’ll get the same treatment as HRC and how could he not? The FBI and DOJ even under Trump refused any prosecution. I think they are all afraid of the Mafia around the world that protects him and the family. Joe is an idiot, but he’s a very evil and violent idiot.

If there is no military justice, there will be no justice at all. If there are honorable military left.

I don’t have much faith that when Trump is president again these agencies will even pursue prosecutions. If the prosecutions never start, it might as well be that Q never existed, and Trump wasn’t president.

>>18750602

Good, didn’t Kash comment about pizza too? I consider Kash one of the less than 10, so he has to comment on pizza?

>>18750600

So they are releasing another bioweapon inside the people from coming thru SA from all over the world. Is that the reason for huge uptick of Chinese coming across the southern border?

Kek, Bidans bots ain’t doing so hot, two mentions and one Dark Brandon trending

>>18750754

These are not in order but they are from twitter

25 Apr, 2023 16:03

Serbia warns of retaliation against Ukraine

Belgrade was ‘unpleasantly surprised’ by Kiev’s vote on Kosovo at the Council of Europe, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic says

Serbia may change its stance on Ukraine’s territorial integrityafter Kiev abstained during a vote on accepting the breakaway region of Kosovo’s request to join the Council of Europe, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said.

The Ministerial Committee of the Council of Europe held an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday to decide the fate of Kosovo’s application.The bid was supported by 33 members out of 46, with seven against, and five abstaining.

“I must say that Ukraine has surprised us unpleasantly” by being among the abstaining members, Dacic said shortly after the vote.

“This whole story is based on territorial integrity when it comes to [the conflict in] Ukraine. You know how much effort it takes for [Serbia] to vote for all the resolutions, to condemn the violation of territorial integrity of Ukraine,” he said.

The diplomat pointed out that “foreign policy is based on reciprocity. This will certainly affect our views in the future on territorial integrity of those countries,” he said, referring to Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Slovakia, Armenia as some of the nations whose votes surprised him.

Serbia, which has close ties with Russia, has been resisting Western pressure to sanction Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. However, it has condemned the use of force by Moscow and insisted that the territorial integrity of the Ukrainian state should be respected.

The majority ethnic Albanian region ofKosovo unilaterally declared independencefrom Serbia back in 2008. The US and many of its allies recognized the province as a sovereign state almost immediately. However, Belgrade still considers Kosovo to be part of its territory and the region is not recognized by Russia, China and several other nations.

Pristina’s Foreign Minister Donika Gervalla-Schwarz hailed the vote as “a historic step, perhaps the most important after our independence.” The final verdict on the bid by Pristina is to be delivered by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Dacic condemned the development, warning that it may well lead to a situationwhere “a part of some other country is going to be offered to join the Council of Europe.”

https://www.rt.com/news/575316-serbia-ukraine-kosovo-europe/

Bill and HRC did this to Serbia

25 Apr, 2023 16:02

Kiev outlines plan to toughen sanctions on Moscow

Russian gas should only be transported to the EU through Ukraine, the president’s office has suggested

The office of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has proposed a new plan aimed at tightening sanctions on Moscow. It includes the restriction of all direct gas supplies from Russia to the European Union except those delivered via the Ukrainian gas transportation system.

Kiev has also recommended that the TurkStream pipeline, which delivers Russian gas to Türkiye, should be shut down.

The plan was reportedly developed by an international expert group led by the head of the presidential administration, Andrey Yermak, and formerUS ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul. (Since McFaul said it, thos won’t happen. EU doesn’t want any more connections to Ukraine.)

“End the direct supplies of Russian gas to the European Union, aside from the flows directed via the Ukrainian gas transmission system, which has ample transit capacity,” the presidential administration said.

Kiev’s plan also proposes the imposition of a ban on imports of Russian liquified natural gas to the EU.

Brussels has introduced ten packages of sanctions targeting Russia over its military operation in Ukraine. The penalties were initially aimed at weakening the Russian economy but have resulted in major disruption to global supply chains, throwing the European energy market into turmoil.

Prior to the conflict in Ukraine, Russia supplied nearly 40% of the gas consumed by EU countries, mostly through pipeline networks. While the bloc has not banned Russian pipeline gas imports, their flows dwindled significantly after Ukraine-related sanctions were imposed.

Deliveries were also affected by the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline, one of the main routes for Russian gas to Europe. Russian gas supplies currently cover about 10% of the bloc’s entire consumption, according to Brussels.

(Zelensky is trying to get transit fees, he’s a thief, and Ukraine is not part of EU, so he should fuck off!)

https://www.rt.com/business/575315-ukraine-russian-gas-transmission-sanctions/

25 Apr, 2023 14:35

US warns of new Russian offensive in Ukraine

The White House has pledged continued support for Kiev as it prepares for its much-touted battlefield push

Ukrainian forces could face more Russian attacks even as they prepare a counteroffensive of their own, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has warned.

“In the spring, when the weather improves, and it’s already starting to improve… we can expect the Russians to want to go on the offensive in some areas,” Kirby told state-run news outlet Voice of America on Friday.

“We want to make sure that the Ukrainians are able to better defend themselves against that and if they choose offensive operations of their own, that they’ve got the capabilities to conduct those,” he added.

Kiev has been promising for months to launch a counteroffensive against Russia sometime this spring, after receiving weapons and training for its troops from the US and other foreign backers.

However, the operation has thus far not materialized and may not kick off until the summer, according to recent remarks by Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal. Some Ukrainian officials, including Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, warned against treating the much-anticipated offensive as a make-or-break moment in the conflict.

Several reports in the US media have indicated that the Ukrainian push – if and when it comes – may not result in significant gains.Skeptics cited battlefield losses, including among experienced soldiers, a shortage of artillery munitions and mounting pressure by Russian troops as factors that undermine the Ukrainian position.

The frontline city of Artyomovsk, known as Bakhmut in Ukraine, became the site of some of the bloodiest fighting this year. Russian forces have been gradually advancing and are now in the process of seizing the westernmost part of the city, which remains under Kiev’s control.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has declared the city a “fortress” and refused to pull troops out, despite repeated calls by US officials to do so, according to Western media outlets, citing classified documents allegedly leaked from the Pentagon. Zelensky reportedly fears that the fall of the city would hit morale and has continued to cling to it despite heavy losses by Ukrainian troops.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian private military company Wagner Group, which played a significant part in the fight for Artyomovsk, noted this week thathe expected Kiev to start its counteroffensive as soon as the city was captured by Russia.

“Zelensky will need a great victory. And he will start the counteroffensive for the sake of it,”Prigozhin said.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575311-kirby-russian-offensive-ukraine/

Kirby is not a master of propaganda, he’s just shooting from the hip here