should I stay or should I go now
that is one weird dude
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2022-05-17/ty-article/.premium/how-many-jews-fought-at-mariupols-azovstal-plant-depends-whos-counting/00000180-e9f7-dc12-a5b1-fdff7e190000
How Many Jews Fought at Mariupol's Azovstal Plant? Depends Who's Counting
An aide to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said there were about ‘40 Jewish heroes’ fighting in one of the Ukraine war's most epic battles, but others wonder if there was even one Jew at the site prior to Monday’s evacuation of the Mariupol plant
The Azovstal steel plant in the strategic port city of Mariupol quickly became a symbol for Ukraine’s ability to withstand Russia’s invasion over the past month. But as Ukraine evacuated its hundreds of troops from the site on Monday, one question lingered: How many Jews were taking part in the standoff with the Russian military.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustem_Umierov
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustem_Umierov
In September 2023 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy named Umierov to replace Oleksii Reznikov as defense minister of Ukraine.
>jogging accident
If you're fighting to the death and aren't willing to die, it's over for you.
>What was McCain doing putting his hands on the shoulders of a man that the FBI told me was a Ukrainian spy?
In the autumn of 1857, sustained runs on New York banks led to a panic atmosphere that affected the American economy for the next two years. In The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War, James L. Huston presents an exhaustive analysis of the political, social and intellectual repercussions of the Panic and shows how it exacerbated the conflict between North and South.
Libya, Syria, the Central African Republic, as well as Burkina Faso.
>90% of Online Content May Be AI-Generated
>buddies with lavender
https://twitter.com/SignorelloForNJ
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-turkey-putin-erdogan-sochi-ac41cb453a6d6c597d543873850414eb
Turkey’s president meets Russia’s Putin and aims to revive the wartime Ukraine grain export deal
https://apnews.com/article/mongolia-pope-vatican-china-f6ea91e6f2b77a3420321fff97e32821
Francis opens clinic on the first papal visit to Mongolia. He says it’s about charity not conversion
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https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-eu-examines-its-training-of-african-armies-as-another-coup-rocks-the-continent/
EU grapples with its African army training dilemma as another coup rocks the continent
European Union ministers expressed deep concern Thursday at the growing number of military coups across Africa as the bloc draws up sanctions targeting the junta in Niger which overthrew an elected government a month ago.
On Wednesday, the oil-rich nation of Gabon became the eighth Central or West African country to be hit by a military takeover in the last three years. The EU has not been training Gabon’s armed forces -– although French troops have -– but it has funded and taught troops in Mali and Niger.
The military training has focused mainly on the volatile Sahel region to combat extremism, particularly groups linked to al-Qaida. Many Europeans worry that instability in Africa will drive more people to flee, and the 27-nation bloc is already divided over how to cope with large numbers of migrant arrivals.
Some European countries have strong economic interests in Africa, notably France with its need for Niger’s uranium. The growing influence of Russia, through the Wagner mercenary group, and the economic might of China are also forcing the bloc to rethink its policies.
“It’s clear that things haven’t gone well given the proliferation of military coups and the presence of Wagner gangs in the Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said,
Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said that “we do need to evaluate our approach to Africa in the light of what has transpired.”
Talking to reporters in Toledo, Spain, where EU foreign ministers were meeting, Martin said training and supporting armies in Africa that might later turn on their governments “does present a very significant dilemma.”
Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib insisted that the bloc’s security efforts on the continent were achieving results and should continue. “It’s important to preserve these gains and to avoid any domino effects, any contamination, as we see at the moment in Gabon,” she said.
Many ministers were quick to say that Africa should be driving the response to its own challenges. In Niger, they said, it was important to back the West African bloc ECOWAS. ECOWAS Commission President Omar Alieu Touray and the foreign minister of Niger’s ousted government, Hassoumi Massaoudou, briefed the ministers.
Borrell said the EU is drawing up a list of measures to target those involved in the coup, in line with sanctions under consideration by ECOWAS. EU sanctions most often take the form of asset freezes and travel bans.
Borrell said the bloc would consider offering support for any plan that ECOWAS put on the table. “We are willing to study any proposals, consider them, be it sanctions, be it diplomatic action,” he said. However, he stressed, “No one wants a military intervention. We are giving priority to the diplomatic path.”
The junta in Niger has been exploiting grievances among the population toward former colonial ruler France and has turned to Wagner mercenaries for help.
France has 2,500 troops in Niger and Chad. Military training is central to their operation. France also has 400 troops based in Gabon whose mission is to train forces there, as well as in other countries in the region.
Niger’s junta has authorized troops from neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso to come to its defense, raising the stakes in a standoff with other West African nations that have threatened to use force to reinstate President Mohamed Bazoum.
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani warned that using force “would be a disaster.”
“To have war in Niger (means) more people leaving this country, as in Sudan,” Tajani said, noting that any “instability of Africa is a danger for illegal immigration.”
He said Russia was another danger. “The Russians are not behind the putsch in Niger, but they will use the situation, the instability, for a new colonization. China will do the same. But the Russians in this moment, they are very dangerous, also through Wagner.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis
Major modern diseases such as Ebola virus disease and salmonellosis are zoonoses. HIV was a zoonotic disease transmitted to humans in the early part of the 20th century, though it has now evolved into a separate human-only disease. Most strains of influenza that infect humans are human diseases, although many strains of bird flu and swine flu are zoonoses; these viruses occasionally recombine with human strains of the flu and can cause pandemics such as the 1918 Spanish flu or the 2009 swine flu.
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh. It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on men and animals throughout the land."
Again, there’s no evidence that anyone at Burning Man has contracted Ebola. But that doesn’t mean people at Burning Man aren’t struggling. Festival organizers have told attendees to conserve food and water, given the muddy situation. Burning Man takes place in the middle of nowhere, which means that everyone needs to be self-reliant in a way that can make things challenging. There’s no simply running to the local drug store for supplies or leaving to a nearby hotel when weather is bad.
>Lavender
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12476127/Burning-Man-swamped-Nevada-desert-barefoot.html
Burning Man revelers walk around swamped Nevada desert BAREFOOT with just tins of tuna to eat - as 73,000 are stranded and one person dies
The portable toilets on the festival site also aren't being cleaned or emptied because service trucks cannot reach them - creating 'foul' conditions
Campers have had their tents and structures breached due to the pouring rain, leaving many people tired, wet, and muddy
>fine dust over the whole land
The ground is made up of an alkaline dust, which normally leaves people coughing with 'playa lung'
One person watching her update wrote: 'Not the bare feet! That mud is going to give you playa foot!' While another said: 'Omg! No! Wear shoes!!! The mud is toxic!!'
Weather conditions at the Burning Man festival in the US have eased enough to allow revellers to start leaving.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1809074/Ukraine-war-live-Putin-defect-zelensky-helicopter-mi8-pilot
Ukraine war LIVE: Putin's pilots 'urged to defect' after Russian escapes in helicopter
A six-month secret operation had been underway to successfully bring the Russian helicopter pilot, as well as his family, to Ukraine.
A Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine has called on his former colleagues to follow his example.
Maksim Kuzminov, 28, landed his Mi-8 military helicopter on August 23 in Ukrainian-held Kharkiv Oblast, surrendering upon arrival.
His two fellow pilots were killed and it later transpired that Mr Kuzminov had been working with Ukrainian intelligence to provide them with vital military secrets.
Speaking during a document entitled “Downed Russian Pilots”, which was aired on Ukrainian television over the week, the young defector called on his peers to follow suit, adding that they would “not regret it all”.
“If you do what I did, this kind of thing, you will not regret it at all. You will be provided for the rest of your life with absolutely everything,” Mr Kuzminov stated.
“You will be offered work everywhere, whatever you want to do. You will just discover for yourself the world of colours.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-107854/Frys-comedy-comes-fire.html
Fry's comedy comes under fire
Plans to stage a comedy penned by actor Stephen Fry about paedophilia in a public school were condemned today.
The award-winning play, which details a homosexual affair between a teacher and his 13-year-old pupil, is to be staged at Edinburgh's Festival Fringe.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CwwkfKhIlGQ/
A sleeper car from the Polish border to Kyiv. Arriving there now…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66702893
Ukraine's defence minister Oleksii Reznikov dismissed
On Friday, the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with senior Ukrainian anti-corruption officials and urged them to continue prosecuting anti-graft cases "no matter where they lead".
>discover for yourself the world of colours
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/09/01/readout-of-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivans-meeting-with-leaders-of-ukrainian-anti-corruption-institutions/
Readout of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Meeting with Leaders of Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Institutions
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met today with a delegation comprised of the heads of Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions, including the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine Semen Kryvonos, Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Oleksandr Klymenko, and the Chief Justice of the High Anti-Corruption Court Vira Mykhailenko. They discussed the progress Ukraine has made in combatting corruption and safeguarding the autonomy of these crucial institutions. Mr. Sullivan underscored the vital importance to any democratic society of independent, impartial law enforcement and judicial institutions capable of investigating, prosecuting and adjudicating corruption cases no matter where they lead. Mr. Sullivan also reiterated steadfast U.S. support for anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine and for Ukraine’s brave defense of its democracy against Russian aggression.
>Jake Sullivan’s Meeting with Leaders of Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Institutions
>rumors
HBO has a new documentary out titled, “The Final Year” on “President Barack Obama’s foreign-policy team during its last year in office.” And, thankfully, HBO’s cameras captured Ben Rhodes at the EXACT MOMENT he finds out Hillary Clinton lost the election.
Samantha Power
>he’s acting like he got caught
Adar Aleph, a 13th lunar month, is added seven times every 19 years.