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Anton Gerashchenko, advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs, released information about the complete failure of Russia's recruitment of mercenaries for the war in Ukraine. Gerashchenko noted: "Inside. Potential mercenaries refuse to fight for Putin's interests in Ukraine. Knowing the extreme unpopularity of the "special operation", Putin decided not to do mass mobilization yet, but to start recruiting mercenaries. And not in Russia, but in Abkhazia, Transnistria, South Ossetia. That is, where there is no pity for the "meat". According to intelligence information, Transnistria was given a plan - 15,000 mercenaries at a price of 100,000 rubles per month, or...

Russian provocations in Transnistria are a direct threat to Ukraine. Moldova and European democracies must address this issue immediately. "Russia has staged a series of explosions in occupied Transnistria. Russia is apparently creating a pretext for invading Transnistria, according to a plan to seize Ukraine's Black Sea coast, announced on April 22 by Rustam Minnekayev, deputy chief of the Central Military District." Unfortunately, Transnistria has become a center of international terrorism. The Moldovan authorities are obliged to respond to Russian provocations and Russian arsenals in Transnistria, which is a direct threat to Ukraine and assistance to the aggressor during the...

Beijing has rolled out mass Covid testing for nearly 20 million residents in most of the city, as authorities race to contain a fresh Omicron outbreak that has sparked panic buying amid fears of a Shanghai-style lockdown. The Chinese capital started testing all residents of Chaoyang, a bustling district home to the business center and foreign embassies, on Monday morning, in the first of three rounds of testing to be conducted over a five-day period. Residents and office workers formed long lines at makeshift testing centers throughout the day. As of 8 p.m., nearly 3.7 million tests had been carried...

317 officers of rank Jr Lieutenant or above died in Ukraine, Russian paper says Independent journalists analysed local government announcements, newspaper reports and social media posts to arrive at the staggering figure Almost a third of the officer deaths came from senior ranks of major or above Highest-ranking casualties Russia has acknowledged are two Major Generals Russia has lost more than 300 officers fighting in Ukraine, according to new data collected by an independent Russian newspaper. In total, 317 officers of junior lieutenant rank and above have been killed in a little over two months of fighting, analysis by outlet...

Disney has been branded hypocritical for publicly condemning Florida's so-called 'Don't Say Gay' bill despite voluntarily cutting 'overtly gay affection' from its films to appease homophobic foreign governments. DailyMail.com can reveal at least four recent feature films were altered to appease the views of leadership in China, Russia and the Middle East. Lightyear, an upcoming Pixar film depicting the origin story of Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear, was under fire after studio executives chose to cut a same-sex kissing scene from the movie. The film - although focused around the character of Buzz Lightyear, who is voiced by Captain America...

https://twitter.com/marcusreports/status/1518937847201476611 https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-stingers-idINL2N2VR2OF Raytheon just said they cannot make any more stinger missiles, all of them have been given to Ukraine and no more can be made because certain parts require rare minerals that are only found in Russia.

A new study out of Europe has revealed that cases of heart inflammation that required hospitalization were much more common among vaccinated individuals compared to the unvaccinated.A team of researchers from health agencies in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway found that rates of myocarditis and pericarditis, two forms of potentially life-threatening heart inflammation, were higher in those who had received one or two doses of either mRNA-based vaccine – Pfizer’s or Moderna’s.In all, researchers studied a total of 23.1 million records on individuals aged 12 or older between December 2020 and October 2021. In addition to the increased rate overall,...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Elon Musk’s bid to purchase Twitter came up short after 138,000 board votes were found at 2 a.m., a company spokesman confirmed Tuesday. Musk had been in talks to purchase the company for $44 billion. “We really thought Musk was going to pull this one out,” said Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. “The yes votes had a strong lead when I went to bed last night, but that was before we counted all the mail-in votes that one of our employees found in locker 142 at the bus terminal.” When the final votes were tallied, the takeover bid failed...

An array of left-wing personalities took to Twitter in the wake of a potential sale of social media giant Twitter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, deeming it a victory for “white power” and “white nationalism” that will “silence” progressive voices and amplify “racists” and others on the right, including former President Donald Trump. “Elon musk buying Twitter is a dream come true for white nationalists,” wrote left-wing comedian Dean Obeidallah. “After all musk is from the former apartheid country of South Africa which the white supremacists idolize.” “Now that Elon Musk is buying Twitter, the question for all of us...

Transhumanism, boiled down to its bones, is pure eugenics. It calls itself “H+,” for more or better than human. Which, of course, is what eugenics is all about.Alarmingly, transhumanist values are being embraced at the highest strata of society, including in Big Tech, in universities, and among the Davos crowd of globalist would-be technocrats. That being so, it is worth listening in to what they are saying under the theory that forewarned is forearmed.Israeli philosophy professor Yuval Harari is one of the movement’s chief. He believes that AI/human hybrids are inevitably going to take over — and that those of...

The one question that all politicians running for US Senate should be asked is – whether they stand with President Trump or Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell has shown his true colors. They’re not pretty. ..... Snip...... In a new book McConnell’s actions on Jan 6 were uncovered. In the hours after supporters of Donald Trump laid siege to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, House Republican Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly said he was “exhilarated” that the then-president had finally tarnished his reputation. “I feel exhilarated by the fact that this fellow finally, totally discredited himself,” McConnell told Jonathan Martin,...

“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.” Gen. Butler’s observation describes the US/NATO response to the Ukraine war perfectly. The propaganda continues to portray the war in Ukraine as that of an unprovoked Goliath out to...

The bedwetters on the Left have been worried that their favorite villain, Donald Trump, will be allowed back on Twitter now that Elon Musk has control over the social media platform. Among them is Meathead, also known as Rob Reiner, who whined, “the question for all of us is: Will he allow a Criminal who used this platform to lie and spread disinformation to try to overthrow the US Government to return and continue his Criminal activity? And if he does, how do we combat it?” To which musician John Rich attempted to talk him off the ledge. “Calm down...

Biden will commute or pardon sentences of 78 non-violent people. Here are a few to know - CNNPolitics

Tamar Sternthal, Fresh NYT Hire Raja Abdulrahim Bungles Her First Assignment, CAMERA, Feb 6, 2022.As young @latimes reporter, @RajaAbdulrahim covered up for her benefactor CAIR, unindicted coconspirator in terror $ trial. Raja, who published letter denying Hamas, Hizbollah are terror orgs which murdered innocent Israeli civilians, was granted CAIR scholarship ..JNS Tweeted (Apr 25, 2022): "The Raja Abdulrahim article is not facing a confusion based on facts that are perplexing or unclear. It’s based on the blatant contradictions between the actual situation in Israel and the version that the nytimes wants its readers to believe." Stephen M. Flatow, ‘New York...

Heart inflammation requiring hospital care was more common among people who received COVID-19 vaccines than those who did not, according to a new study of tens of millions of Europeans.Rates of myocarditis or pericarditis, two types of heart inflammation, are above the levels in an unvaccinated cohort, pegged at 38 per 100,000 after receipt of a second dose of a vaccine built on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology in males aged 16 to 24—the group studies have shown are most at risk of the post-vaccination condition—researchers with health agencies in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway found.“These extra cases among men aged...

Florida's new congressional map is set to boost the Republican Party's chances of retaking the House of Representatives in November—and poses a threat to President Joe Biden's legislative agenda. The map, signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis this past Friday, alters the lines of several Democratic-held or competitive congressional districts to add more Republican voters. This leaves Republicans poised to win a larger number of Florida's congressional seats, which should help the GOP retake the House in November's midterms. The GOP's advantage will likely grow from 16-11 to 20-8, as the state gained a new seat because of its...

<p>NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Parents are demanding changes after shots rang out during a Monday night youth baseball game in North Charleston.</p><p>According to the North Charleston Police Department (NCPD), the incident happened in a parking lot near Pepperhill Park shortly before 8:45 p.m.</p>

"We printed too much money and didn't think of unintended consequences" - IMF Director Kristalina Georgieva pic.twitter.com/X7FfBCLOMC — Crypto India 🔑 (@CryptooIndia) April 22, 2022 Kristalina Georgieva, director of the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said the following during an event hosted by CNBC on Thursday: KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA, IMF: I think we are not paying sufficient attention to the law of unintended consequences. We take decisions with an objective in mind and rarely think through what may happen that is not our objective. And then we wrestle with the impact of it. Take any decision that is a...

At least four large surf lagoons are proposed for the region around Palm Springs, which is more commonly known for art festivals, mountain hikes and golf, and has no natural waves in sight. The proposals, which range from private, luxury communities to a public wave park, come as surfing soars in popularity in the United States. It became an Olympic sport last year, and industry experts forecast its continued growth as travel recovers following pandemic shutdowns and amid a rise in inland surf parks, according to San Jose-California-based Global Industry Analysts Inc. Cheyne Magnusson, a pro surfer who is revamping...