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‘We Are Ready to FightL Like Never Before’ Ukraine MP Delivers Ultimatum to Moscow
EXPRESS | By Leila Paxton | 8/24/2022
UKRAINIAN MP Kira Rudik has delivered a warning to Vladimir Putin's invading forces as defending troops ready to "fight like never before" against Russia's campaign of aggression.
Kira Rudik delivered a chilling warning to Russian forces - Image: GB News/Getty Images
As Ukraine marks six months since Russian forces invaded, the country has come together to celebrate the nation’s Independence Day. In a fiery statement to mark the occasion, Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik has issued a clear warning to Moscow that Ukraine shows no signs of bowing to Russia’s brutal campaign of violence. Speaking to GB News, Ms Rudik said: “We did not think we would get to this. It is a very happy day for us because we are around, we are alive and we are ready to fight like never before.”
Boris Johnson visited Kyiv for his 3rd time to mark Ukraine's Independence Day on 24th August - © Getty Images
The Ukrainian MP spoke of how Independence Day had united the nation to condemn Moscow’s continued pursuit to bring the country under Kremlin control. Ms Rudik said: “This is the first year that we are celebrating Independence Day as a nation that is truly united and truly behind one cause. “We know what we are fighting for and we know what is at stake and we know the way that we want to win. “This is incredibly important and there is a feeling that we have never had before.”
Ms Rudik indicated how the display in Kyiv trumped Putin's pledge to hold his own military parade - YouTube video clip
Six months into the conflict, the defending forces of Ukraine have succeeded in deterring Russian military operations to capture Kyiv and continue to defend other key regions against aggression. Intelligence reports from the conflict suggest Ukraine plans to advance defensive operations to take back Russian-occupied territories that have been placed under the control of Kremlin proxy authorities.
Destroyed Russian tanks captured by Ukrainian forces have been placed on display in Kyiv - © Getty Images
Ukraine's forces have targeted Russian supply routes into the city of Kherson in an effort to force Moscow’s troops out of the region, which they have controlled since the early weeks of the war. The UK Ministry of Defence confirmed primary road bridges leading into the area had been destroyed. An intelligence report read: “Even if Russia manages to make significant repairs to the bridges, they will likely remain a key vulnerability.”
Ms Rudik indicated how the display in Kyiv trumped Putin's pledge to hold his own military parade - © Getty Images
Ms Rudik added: “Today marks 6 months of war — remember in the first month, nobody actually believed that we would stand for more than a couple of days, maybe a week. That is why it is so important to show that we are here, we are standing.”
Ukrainian families of the fallen soldiers also joined to the Independence Day Parade. - © Getty Images
“In the first week, Putin promised that he would have a military parade in our central street and today we are exhibiting destroyed Russian weapons and war machines there. Kids can play with them and people are taking pictures with them and we are showing that we defended ourselves and we are able to push back.”
Vladimir Putin had promised Ukraine would be swiftly brought under Russian control - © Getty Images
Ahead of Independence Day, Ukrainian authorities held a mock parade of destroyed Russian military vehicles through the main square of Kyiv, where the equipment remains on display for visitors to see. Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense posted footage of the wrecked vehicles to social media with a statement that read: “In February, Russian’s were planning a parade in downtown Kyiv.
“Six months into the large-scale war, the shameful display of rusty Russian metal is a reminder to all dictators of how their plans may be ruined by a free and courageous nation.” The exhibition of fractured weapons has exposed the huge scale of equipment loss Russia has suffered since the beginning of the conflict. Reports have confirmed the loss of over 5,000 pieces of military equipment, with many more expected to be unaccounted for.
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Russia's annual Victory Day parade to feature aerial "Z" formation, defense ministry says
Russia’s annual Victory Day parade to feature aerial “Z” formation, defense ministry says
Ukrainian soldiers next to a destroyed Russian tank on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on May 8. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
The Ukrainian military says that Russia is holding back some of its forces within its borders to prevent a Ukrainian counterattack that has made some headway east of Kharkiv.
In its latest operational update, the armed forces’ general staff says…
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5k Survey XV
701. What is your favorite mixed drink?
>> Sazerac, Dark and Stormy, Bloody María, and probably some others that I’m forgetting just because I haven’t had the opportunity to make or order a mixed drink in ages.
702. When answering these questions are you often pulled in different directions, as if committing to one answer eliminates the possibility for all others?
>> I feel like I only partially understand what you mean. Not well enough to answer this question.
703. Chicken Marsala, Pasta Primavera, Veal Cutlet Parmesan or Linguini with Clam Sauce?
>> No thanks.
704. If you were alone in your friend’s house/room/apartment would you look in their drawers and notebooks?
>> Probably not.
705. What would you really like to do but you don’t because you are afraid of getting caught?
>> I can’t think of anything right now.
706. Of the following, which word best describes you: responsible, spontaneous, tactful, uninhibited:
>> I guess the one most likely to describe me on a given day is “responsible”.
707. Which band would you most likely check out? - The Smiths (indi-pop 80’s-90’s), The Lords of Acid (acid/house/dance 90’s), Front 242 (80’s-90’s industrial/dance)
>> I kind of like The Smiths (I like solo Morrissey more). I’ve listened to a bit of Front 242 back in the day, and I remember Lords of Acid but I’m not interested in listening to them right now.
708. How can one put an end to procrastination, as a bad habit?
>> I think that would depend on why someone is procrastinating, because finding the root of the habit is the first step in figuring out what to do about it. Trying to blunt-force treat procrastination itself generally doesn’t work out well for most people (or, at best, works temporarily but at great stress to the person).
709. What feature would you want on your car that is not currently offered?
>> ---
710. What kind of poetry speaks to you?
>> The kind I can comprehend.
711. What is your favorite store that is open 24 hours?
>> I don’t have a favourite store, let alone one with that specific criterion.
712. Do you find that sleep is just so much sleepier when you are supposed to be doing something else?
>> I don’t find myself in that situation often enough to say.
713. Do you also find that the books you chose are so much more luscious when you have a stack of actual assignments that you Should be reading?
>> ---
714. If you have had the chance to compare the original 5000 Question Survey to this edited version, what is your opinion?
>> I haven’t had the chance to do that.
715. What’s the most creative answer you can think of for ‘what is black and white and red all over’?
>> I don’t have a particularly creative answer to it. I’ve always heard “a newspaper” as the answer to this riddle.
716. Why do people slow down on the highway when they pass a cop car pulling someone else over?
>> Either to rubberneck or out of sudden awareness of their own speeding.
717. Are they afraid that the cop will STOP pulling over whoever he is pulling over and pull them over instead?
>> I mean, maybe. I don’t know, I’ve never been in this situation so I can’t imagine what it’s like.
718. It’s daddy’s birthday. What do you get him?
>> ---
719. What’s your 5,000 question survey nickname? Look at the word next to the 2nd letter of your first name
A anything but
B bubalicious
C captivating
D deadly
E erotic
F funky
G greasy
H heaps of
I indie
J jelly
K kinetic
L lasher
M Mr. (or Mrs.)
N neglected
O ogre-like
P parading
Q quacking
R Rico
S stinky
T the one and only
U uber
V Velcro
W wishing for
X x-tra
Y yearning for
Z zoobalee
Now take the first letter of your last name.
A aardvarks
B baboo
C creme pie
D drag queen
E eggbert
F flex
G god
H hell
I Isabelle
J juice
K kisses
L lightning
M mannish boys
N nice
O octopi
P porcupines
Q q-bert
R rainbows
S suave
T tushy
U underwear
V valor
W weenie
X xtc
Y yohimbe
Z zipper
Put the two words together for your nickname.
>> Ogre-like drag queen.
720. You know that shaky feeling that you get when it’s all coming to a climax, and everyone involved is breaking into the good kind of cold sweat, working as individuals and at the same time as a single force of energy, and it all meshes together, and for a brief moment, you’re holding your breath and tingling all over, and after it’s done you’re on an explosive and dizzying high for the rest of the night? What does that feeling come from?
>> *withering stare*
721. How many of your teachers can you imagine drinking or doing drugs on the weekends?
>> ---
722. Do you like Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass?
>> I haven’t read either one.
723. Write a question and answer it here.
>> No.
724. Who is your favorite playwright?
>> I don’t have one.
725. What movie has come out recently that you couldn’t have less interest in?
>> I don’t know what’s come out recently. There’s been a few movies that have been released to on-demand, I think, but I don’t think I’ve seen any of them. And I certainly don’t remember what they are right now.
726. What would the worst movie ever be about?
>> ---
727. Do you like truffles?
>> I like some things with truffles in them, or truffle oil, or whatever.
Do you like Turkish delight?
>> I don’t know.
728. Can you tell the difference between a transvestite and a real woman?
>> I don’t go around trying to clock trans people. Period.
729. What’s funnier, plants or fire extinguishers?
>> What.
730. For question 720 did you write down sex?
>> I was pretty sure that’s how I was expected to answer, and I didn’t feel like playing along.
You pervert, I was thinking of musical theater.
>> Yeah, I was also pretty sure that I was expected to think of sex and it would turn out that you were describing something completely different. I’ve encountered this situation before, lol.
731. Which is better, leopard print or plaid?
>> Plaid.
732. What would you consider ordinary?
>> *shrug*
733. What is out of the ordinary?
>> *extraordinary shrug*
734. Do you ever watch COPS?
>> No.
735. Is there always room for j - e - l - l - o?
>> Sigh.
736. If you had your own TV show, what kind of show would you make it?
>> I don’t want a tv show, though.
737. Do you know how heavy things like airplanes stay in the air?
>> I don’t know how it works offhand, no. I could always look it up if I needed that information.
738. When do you act the most dramatic?
>> I’m not sure.
739. Are you one of those people who have, “see photo id,” written on the back of their credit cards?
>> No, but Sparrow is. I don’t think I did anything to my card, actually -- didn’t sign it, didn’t write anything.
740. It’s mom’s birthday. What do you get her?
>> ---
741. What celebrity has pretty much disappeared leaving you wondering 'where are they now’?
>> I haven’t wondered that about anyone.
742. Would you get angry if you and your girl/boyfriend saw the preview for a movie and talked about seeing it together and then they saw it with one of their friends while you were busy?
>> No. I would be disappointed and feel a bit betrayed if they had expressed interest in seeing it with me beforehand and then seemingly just... changed their mind without even telling me. Sad, but not angry. I’d definitely ask them about it afterwards, to find out what their thought process was.
743. How many people do you think will finish this whooooooole survey?
>> Might just be me and Elizabeth (Elisabeth?). I’m not even sure I finished it any of the other times I tried to take it. I might have, but it would have been a long fuckin time ago.
744. Have you ever written a message, sealed it in a bottle and thrown it into a river/lake ocean?
>> No. That’s just littering at this point.
745. If you haven’t would you want to?
>> ^
746. If you ever did what would you write?
>> ---
747. What do you wish you could always be protected from?
>> Abuse and alienation. Little too late for that, though.
748. What small thing annoys you so much it should be a crime?
>> Loudness should be a fucking crime. I don’t even care anymore.
749. Would you rather watch a video of fish in a tank, or the Yule log on TV?
>> I like the Yule log, it’s pretty.
750. Is it better to be loved or feared?
>> I wouldn’t know. I haven’t had much of either.
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Zi-O 19 and 20: lol whoops waited a long time, might as well do them at once!
~We now bring you our Quiz Saga Liveblog.~
WhiteWoz’s Storytime Void is infuriating. Both because it’s so visually cluttered with all of the times displayed, and because the MULTITUDE of ticking sounds.
I love that the boys don’t have to stay still to transform. Seeing their transformation backdrops follow them like this, as their running, it’s great!
(I’m still pretty sure that Oma Zi-O’s bizarre chair is his transformation backdrop, by the way. At least, assuming that he’s not Another Zi-O.)
Is that a GOOGLY EYE on Another Quiz’s forehead?!
Sougo’s using the gun mode an awful lot lately.
“That monster is mine.” Yeah, it sure is, buddy. It SURE IS.
Hm, don’t think I noticed last time, but “The lessons of the past can’t be clouded by lies” is what’s playing over the shot of Rider Woz in the OP. Does that apply to the lessons of the future, as well?
Hey, Kamen Rider Quiz. You’re a little overpowered, there. We’ve already got ONE reality warper affecting our actions. We don’t need two, thank you very much.
I can FEEL the ‘We are not okay with this fight’ just RADIATING off of both Sougo and Geiz as this guy’s attacking them.
Geiz is still immediately here for the Woz’s nicknames, and Sougo’s getting a kick out of ticking off ‘his’ Woz. I love it.
The Another Rider and the Original Rider both existing at the same time… I haven’t seen the rest of the episode, of course, but I’d guess it’s a combination of “someone brought Actual Quiz back in time”, “Sequence Breaking”, and “The rules of time travel aren’t nearly as set in stone as they have been led to believe.”
(Yes, I’m sticking to that particular gun, come Helheim or high water.)
Sougo has a point – BlackWoz doesn’t come along for the fights, like, ever. He didn’t last time against Another Shinobi, not really. Not on his own; he was following Sougo to try and keep him away. So YES, Sougo’s calling you out on being out of character.
HI YES have I mentioned I really like when this season does ‘parallel version splitscreen’ shots? Like, during the Gaim arc with the two Sougos, and during “Fourze and Faiz” with Sougo and Geiz in the two respective time planes. It’s GREAT.
It’s a thing that the past few seasons have done, actually – these sort of split-views of characters. Ex-Aid used it a number of times for Emu and Parad’s conversations when they were fighting each other, particularly as Mighty Brothers XX L and R, where they went back and forth showing the suits in the ‘real world’ and the civilians in a mirrory, shadowy mindscape. Then, in Another Ending, there were several times during Genm vs Lazer that Kiriya and Kuroto were juxtaposed with their Rider forms. THAT was played a lot in the second half of Build – scenes alternating between having the armor and the civilian talking in the middle of a fight. To say nothing of the Takumi/Sento swaps, where they would sometimes change which actor was present when Takumi was talking. Sometimes. I really like that ‘form meets function’ aspect – remind the viewer who is under the mask, or who’s in the pilots seat, and it’s just really cool. The synchronized alt-selves talking is just another extension of that, be it a time-displaced Sougo or a Woz from a different timeline altogether.
… um.
Actually, whatever happened to “3 days from now” Sougo?
Suuuure, these are the only two options. Riiiight. “Take Quiz’s power (and totally kill your friend)” or “No More Mutants Riders.” Yeaaaah, we’ll get RIGHT on that, thanks Woz’s.
AHAHAHA NO. Uncle Tokiwa… ‘given how long it’s been stopped’ that watch is a Tragic Keepsake for Quiz, isn’t it? I mean, he’s from the future and all, so.
“Oh! Sougo, you have a lot of friends who like clocks! This one can stay for lunch too!”
“Um, uncle, no, this one has directly tried to kill me, actually, so maybe not-”
Ohhh. Right… Assuming the ‘riders lose their memories without their powers’ is true, which the characters all still believe is, even though i’m not so sure…
Taking Quiz’s powers while he’s… um, 2040 minus 2019 is…
Taking Quiz’s powers while he’s 21 years in the past is NOT a good thing.
“You will soon be forced to make some rather merciless decisions. Consider this practice.”
HEY WHITE WOZ. I’m not liking your expressions here. That’s waay more sketchy than someone who ‘supports’ their ‘savior’ has any business looking. Like, not even a creepy adoration sketchy, just. Plain creepy.
Oh no, that’s right, Another Quiz is Actual Quiz’s father. And now Mondo says that ‘he was talented, according to [his] mother.” Which means that in the proper timeline that he’s from… he never knew his father.
(Re-Ray plays quietly in the background)
Sougo has ZERO points. Poor Tsukuyomi only has three. Mondo quit it, you’re the GUEST here. Show some mercy on your poor, moronic host.
Geiz, what’re ya doing sneaking downstairs? (It could only be Geiz, because he’s wearing pants that fit.)
(gasp) GEIZ! You’re not wearing your harness! I was starting to think it was part of you!
(Congratulations! You didn’t do a violence!)
~skipping to the fight~
INSERT SONG: GEIZ TIME!
Okay, but really, when are they releasing these? And how many more are we going to get? Because so far I’m liking what I’m hearing, from this one and from Sougo’s in ep 16.
Not really sure what those sound effects are with your Ex-Aid armor today, though, Geiz.
Decade!OOO is Tajador. We want our bird.
BUT. Sougo’s movements are… eerily Eiji-like right now.
Hey, didn’t I say something about ‘when he stops being a knock-off, that’s when we need to worry?’ That would have been… right, last time was when I was watching the raw of episode 15. When Sougo was pulling off a pretty decent version of the Rabbit Tank Sparkling finisher. And then in 16, he was using Mighty Brothers XX pretty accurately, as well.
HM.
They go for the finisher, and the music stops dead when Hora freezes time. It’s disconcerting enough when that they do that with the background music. When it’s VOCALS that cut out, it’s terrifying.
Neither Geiz or Sougo are meant to take attacks from other Kamen Riders. It’s why Geiz was so poorly off after that curb-stomp Sougo gave him in the first part of “OOO and Genm.” It’s why Decade dealt so much more damage to both of them. And they just got hit with each other’s finishers.
WhiteWoz cares not for your puny ‘morals’ or ‘sense of right and wrong’ or ‘geiz’s growing realization that he’s not going to be able to go through with killing zi-o’.
WhiteWoz cares not for anyone.
Hey, Showy McSynth Pop? I don’t think it counts as winning if you hack the timeline to let yourself win.
So, Quiz’s backstory is breaking my heart. He just wants to see if his father actually loved his mother. That’s tragic. “Until she knows the truth, I don’t think my mother will be able to move on.”
About as equally tragic? Sougo’s line. “I think I understand.” said hesitantly, as he sits down, with restrained movements. Usually, when he’s Sougo (as opposed to Zi-O), the kids arms are almost constantly in some sort of motion. But he folded them and sat quietly down.
Sougo… what happened to your parents?
Geiz, baby, please tell me that the attack is at least partly a stunt? That you talked to Mondo before you guys came here?
Geiz??
(enter episode 20!)
We’re back to BlackWoz’s Storytime Vault! Hooray!
So: Sougo gets BlackWoz to help him and Mondo get out, via nifty Magic Scarf powers. Hora brings Another Quiz with her. And WhiteWoz is a total creeper calling them cowards.
The sunlight light overtaking Geiz and going into the 20 Rider Kicks logo is GREAT. Not only is it a great method for a transition, but it keeps us from seeing what Geiz is feeling – which it needs to, right now.
I’m pretty sure that was a sigh of relief from Geiz when Sougo and company left, after all.
The sequence breaking Another Riders seem to be a lot MORE painful to become than the Regular Another Riders… and those were already painful to watch. (Another Quiz’s eyes flashed red and blue briefly when he transformed, that’s nifty!)
Yup, I was right. The watch is a Tragic Keepsake. It was Mondo’s dads, and I think it broke today.
Sougo shows off his ‘Low INT, High WIS’ stats again. Did terribly at the quiz last episode, but can tell that Mondo’s not just here for his mothers sake. (Sougo, what happened to your parents?)
Geiz asks Tsukuyomi what Sougo would do. Well, he asks what “Zi-O” would do, and I eagerly await the day we get to see “Zi-O” become “Sougo” for him. Please let it happen. I’m still upset that nobody expect for Kasumi and Kazumin ever called Ryuuga by his name, this is almost as bad.
When she says that he’d try and prioritize Mondo’s feelings, he replies that “I guess we’ll have to fight. Make sure you tell him that.”
I don’t think that’s what you actually mean, Geiz. I think you’ve got a plan.
I hope you’ve got a plan. … one that you’ll be able to follow through on, because we know full well how that original plan is going.
And through these last two scenes – inside and outside of 9-to-5, the piano version of Over Quartzer is playing. It’s a thing of beauty.
Hm. “I guess we’ll have to fight”… Geiz, you were talking about you and Sougo, as opposed to you and Mondo, weren’t you? Because you went straight for Zi-O, not for Quiz. Clever boy.
Wait, when did you get Build?! I get that the watches are interchangeable, but you’ve been running Ex-Aid a lot lately, too.
(Now I kind of want to know if the Cross-Z and Genm watches are compatible with the Decade adapter…)
Sougo took a BEATING with that Build finisher, didn’t he…?
Nah, not as much as he could have… it looks like Geiz was pulling his punches, so to speak.
Sougo pulls the ‘which Woz are you?’ gag, and actually gets BlackWoz to refer to himself as such. Sougo gets a kick out of that, Tsukuyomi is dully surprised, and Woz is disgusted with himself.
Heehee… neither of them are telling their respective Woz’s what their own plans are. And neither of them are actually agreeing with their respective Woz’s goals.
Pity the respective Woz’s don’t acknowledge that last fact.
Sougo asks what Geiz would do… and when Tsukuyomi tells him that Geiz asked her the same respective question about him… that seems to tell Sougo everything he needs to know.
Low INT, High WIS. Sougo, you’re a deceptively devious little twig, aren’t you?
(WhiteWoz, knocking Hora down wasn’t necessary. Because I don’t believe for a SECOND that Geiz did THAT.)
Sougo, you deceptively observant little twig.
“So… Tsukuyomi said that Geiz asked her what I would do. I know I would let them interact. So, if he’s doing what I would do, then that’d be why he attacked me up there. So now I have to hold up his end of what he would do, and go straight to getting rid of the obstacle. So, I’ll take on RiderWoz, and let Geiz lead the father-son chat.”
So… The HeiGen Forever movie IS, in fact, canon, then? Because that’s the Double Ridewatch right there. And- pft – the Gaia Memory shoulder pads are temporarily little stick figures – pftHAHAHA! And they do the pre-transformation pose before attaching – this is absurd oh my god!
Of COURSE beating Another Quiz could work with Kamen Rider Quiz!
If a Riders power can only exist at one point in time; which still sounds fake, but I’ll allow it for now; the one that comes later seems to take priority. All the previous Another Riders were made after the Proper Rider already existed. That’s why the watches that our riders use had to be picked up in the present day – that way, they came into existence after the Another Rider did.
The exception to that is Shinobi, who didn’t exist at all yet, and was rendered impossible by being his own Another Rider.
In this case, Kamen Rider Quiz technically is the later iteration. He became a Rider in the future, and he’s here via time travel. So, chronologically speaking, Another Quiz came into existence in 2019, but Kamen Rider Quiz does not exist yet. So he can be considered the ‘replacement’.
SOUGO NO DO THE FINISHER IN THE LIGHT I WANT TO SEE IT PROPE-
wait it’s a Double finisher with CYCLONE JOKER? Maybe I don’t want to see it properly, Joker’s finishers are usually borderline body-horror…
Okay no, we’re good, it’s still iffy but it’s not nearly Joker Extreme levels of iffy, so we’re fine. I am A-OK with this finisher being a bootleg.
RiderWoz is OP. Sougo’s REALLY hurting after that.
Sougo and Geiz are. Not. Meant. To. Fight. Riders.
This scene with Mondo questioning his father is absolutely heartwrenching you guys. Made even more so by the piano version of Over Quartzer picking up where it left off earlier.
And then RiderWoz just has to come in and ruin everything. And use some TOTAL overkill on those attacks – oh GOD with actual lightning bolts and everything, and I had thought Quiz’s attacks were brutal when HE was doing them?
WhiteWoz cares not for your puny human morals or ethics.
Hey. HEY. What did those two watches just DO to Geiz? The bizarre vision thing is one problem as is, the electric shock is another, but something ELSE about that just effected him. Poorly.
WhiteWoz is in some serious trouble.
Hey. HEY. ProperWoz. What is that watch you just handed to Uncle Tokiwa? Why do you have Sougo’s upgrade?
I am glaring in the directions of BOTH Woz iterations. You’re BOTH super sketchy. But at least the first Woz is a more tolerable type of sketchy. At least he doesn’t seem to delight in other peoples pain.
SO I’m having fun with this again! Just have to hold out hope that they know what they’re doing with the previous riders, and keep going!
After all...
Mondo doesn’t seem to have lost his memories, now does he?
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Zelensky Pulls Rug from Under Putin As Shocking FSB Plot Foiled Hours Before Mission
By Tara Fair | EXPRESS | 8/24/2022
VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY has pulled the rug from under Vladimir Putin as a shocking FSB plot was foiled hours before it was due to be carried out in Kyiv and other key cities.
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The Security Service of Ukraine has successfully foiled a plot by the Russian security service (FSB) to sabotage the Ukrainian independence day celebrations. Ukraine is currently celebrating 31 years of independence from the Soviet Union, and mourning six months since the Russian invasion began. Kyiv has banned mass celebrations to mark Independence Day on Wednesday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged citizens to be alert to the possibility of Russian strikes.
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The move comes “in order to ensure the safety of citizens,” and events must “provide for the possibility of sheltering participants” in the case of air raid alerts. The ban comes after President Zelensky warned that Moscow could try “something particularly nasty” in the run-up to the anniversary. The Ukrainian Security Service has now revealed the FSB planned to stage "protest actions" to undermine Independence Day in Kyiv, Zhytomyr, and Poltava.
Surviving through 6 months of endless battles, now Zelensky has turned to the offensive mode with positive perspective of the Ukraine’s future. - image via EXPRESS / © Getty Images
The pseudo-protest was intended to involve "demonstrators" actively condemning the military command of Ukraine on Tuesday. The demonstration would then have been filmed and the footage pumped around Russia and Ukraine as part of the Kremlin's propaganda. The architect of the FSB plot is reportedly Kyrylo Stremousov — the Russian-appointed deputy head of the Kherson Oblast.
In an emotional speech to mark the anniversary, President Zelensky vowed his nation would "fight until the end". Speaking in his national address, he insisted his country would not be making "any concession or compromise" to Moscow. He added: "We don't care what army you have, we only care about our land. We will fight for it until the end. A new nation appeared in the world on February 24 at four in the morning. It was not born, but reborn.”
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“A nation that did not cry, scream or take fright. One that did not flee. Did not give up. And did not forget.“
“What for us is the end of the war? We used to say: peace. Now we say: victory.”
The developments come as Russian morale falters amid squalid living conditions, minimal military progress, and a shortage of munitions, vehicles and personnel.”
Funeral for the fallen soldier at the cathedral in Lviv - via YouTube video
"By April, Russia’s leaders realized this had failed, and reverted to more modest objectives in eastern and southern Ukraine. Morale is poor in many parts of its military and its army is significantly degraded. "Its diplomatic power has been diminished and its long-term economic outlook is bleak. "Six months in and Russia’s war has proven both costly and strategically harmful."
Kyiv’s Independent Square, aka. MaidanSquare, since - via YouTube video clip
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#ukraine#kyiv#independence day#zelensky#victory#russia ukraine war#russia is losing#ukraine will win#Maidan Square#slava ukraini#🇺🇦
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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Madewell Bodycon Striped Tie Detail Casual Mini Dress - S.
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A-Z part 1
My goals for weight loss and muscle gain are so that
A. If I get married, I could carry my wife over the doorstep if she wanted.
B. To feel beautiful in a wedding dress or a suit.
C. To be able to dance to my favorite choreography.
D. To march in a Pride Parade feeling comfortable in shorts and a tank top.
E. To do a cartwheel.
F. To be able to lift weights at the gym without feeling as awkward.
(To be continued! And if you like, start your own lists of reasons and tag them using #alphabetofreasons! Good luck with your goals!)
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Armenian armored vehicles with “Z”.
During 2020 #Karabakh War, #Azerbaijani Army captured hundreds #Armenian military equipment & paraded in Baku during Victory Parade.
Surprisingly most of the tanks had “Z” on it.
Looks like Russia had “Z” plans for Azerbaijan too and wanted to achieve its goal by supporting & gifting Armenia billions of dollars worth of tanks & other military equipment. Armenia lost miserably, and most of those tanks were captured & paraded in Baku.
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The Daily Sheeple Dial T for Tyranny: While America Feuds, the Police State Shifts Into High Gear
“Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business
What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing.
Played out on the national stage and eagerly broadcast to a captive audience by media sponsors, this farcical exercise in political theater can, at times, seem riveting, life-changing and suspenseful, even for those who know better.
Week after week, the script changes—Donald Trump’s Tweets, Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, Michael Cohen’s legal troubles, porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit over an alleged past affair with Trump, Michelle Wolf’s tasteless stand-up routine at the White House correspondents’ dinner, North and South Korea’s détente, the ongoing staff shakeups within the Trump administration—with each new script following on the heels of the last, never any let-up, never any relief from the constant melodrama.
The players come and go, the protagonists and antagonists trade places, and the audience members are forgiving to a fault, quick to forget past mistakes and move on to the next spectacle.
All the while, a different kind of drama is unfolding in the dark backstage, hidden from view by the heavy curtain, the elaborate stage sets, colored lights and parading actors.
Such that it is, the realm of political theater with all of its drama, vitriol and scripted theatrics is what passes for “transparent” government today, with elected officials, entrusted to act in the best interests of their constituents, routinely performing for their audiences and playing up to the cameras, while doing very little to move the country forward.
Yet behind the footlights, those who really run the show are putting into place policies which erode our freedoms and undermine our attempts at contributing to the workings of our government, leaving us none the wiser and bereft of any opportunity to voice our discontent or engage in any kind of discourse until it’s too late.
It’s the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in your midst.
Indeed, while mainstream America has been fixated on the drama-filled reality show being televised from the White House, the American Police State has moved steadily forward.
Set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches, roving VIPR raids and the like—all of which have been sanctioned by Congress, the White House and the courts—our constitutional freedoms have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded.
Our losses are mounting with every passing day.
Free speech, the right to protest, the right to challenge government wrongdoing, due process, a presumption of innocence, the right to self-defense, accountability and transparency in government, privacy, press, sovereignty, assembly, bodily integrity, representative government: all of these and more have become casualties in the government’s war on the American people.
All the while, the American people have been treated like enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, frisked, searched, subjected to all manner of intrusions, intimidated, invaded, raided, manhandled, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, and denied due process.
None of these dangers have dissipated.
They have merely disappeared from our televised news streams.
The new boss has proven to be the same as the old boss, and the American people, the permanent underclass in America, has allowed itself to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State.
Frankly, it really doesn’t matter what you call the old/new boss—the Deep State, the Controllers, the masterminds, the shadow government, the police state, the surveillance state, the military industrial complex—so long as you understand that no matter who occupies the White House, it is a profit-driven, an unelected bureaucracy that is actually calling the shots.
In the interest of liberty and truth, here’s an A-to-Z primer to spell out the grim realities of life in the American Police State that no one is talking about anymore.
A is for the AMERICAN POLICE STATE. A police state “is characterized by bureaucracy, secrecy, perpetual wars, a nation of suspects, militarization, surveillance, widespread police presence, and a citizenry with little recourse against police actions.”
B is for our battered BILL OF RIGHTS. In the cop culture that is America today, where you can be kicked, punched, tasered, shot, intimidated, harassed, stripped, searched, brutalized, terrorized, wrongfully arrested, and even killed by a police officer, and that officer is rarely held accountable for violating your rights, the Bill of Rights doesn’t amount to much.
C is for CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE. This governmental scheme to deprive Americans of their liberties—namely, the right to property—is being carried out under the guise of civil asset forfeiture, a government practice wherein government agents (usually the police) seize private property they “suspect” may be connected to criminal activity. Then, whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, the government keeps the citizen’s property.
D is for DRONES. It is estimated that at least 30,000 drones will be airborne in American airspace by 2020, part of an $80 billion industry. Although some drones will be used for benevolent purposes, many will also be equipped with lasers, tasers and scanning devices, among other weapons—all aimed at “we the people.”
E is for ELECTRONIC CONCENTRATION CAMP. In the electronic concentration camp, as I have dubbed the surveillance state, all aspects of a person’s life are policed by government agents and all citizens are suspects, their activities monitored and regulated, their movements tracked, their communications spied upon, and their lives, liberties and pursuit of happiness dependent on the government’s say-so.
F is for FUSION CENTERS. Fusion centers, data collecting agencies spread throughout the country and aided by the National Security Agency, serve as a clearinghouse for information shared between state, local and federal agencies. These fusion centers constantly monitor our communications, everything from our internet activity and web searches to text messages, phone calls and emails. This data is then fed to government agencies, which are now interconnected: the CIA to the FBI, the FBI to local police.
G is for GRENADE LAUNCHERS and GLOBAL POLICE. The federal government has distributed more than $18 billion worth of battlefield-appropriate military weapons, vehicles and equipment such as drones, tanks, and grenade launchers to domestic police departments across the country. As a result, most small-town police forces now have enough firepower to render any citizen resistance futile. Now take those small-town police forces, train them to look and act like the military, and then enlist them to be part of the United Nations’ Strong Cities Network program, and you not only have a standing army that operates beyond the reach of the Constitution but one that is part of a global police force.
H is for HOLLOW-POINT BULLETS. The government’s efforts to militarize and weaponize its agencies and employees is reaching epic proportions, with federal agencies as varied as the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration stockpiling millions of lethal hollow-point bullets, which violate international law. Ironically, while the government continues to push for stricter gun laws for the general populace, the U.S. military’s arsenal of weapons makes the average American’s handgun look like a Tinker Toy.
I is for the INTERNET OF THINGS, in which internet-connected “things” will monitor your home, your health and your habits in order to keep your pantry stocked, your utilities regulated and your life under control and relatively worry-free. The key word here, however, is control. This “connected” industry propels us closer to a future where police agencies apprehend virtually anyone if the government “thinks” they may commit a crime, driverless cars populate the highways, and a person’s biometrics are constantly scanned and used to track their movements, target them for advertising, and keep them under perpetual surveillance.
J is for JAILING FOR PROFIT. Having outsourced their inmate population to private prisons run by private corporations, this profit-driven form of mass punishment has given rise to a $70 billion private prison industry that relies on the complicity of state governments to keep their privately run prisons full by jailing large numbers of Americans for inane crimes.
K is for KENTUCKY V. KING. In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that police officers can break into homes, without a warrant, even if it’s the wrong home as long as they think they have a reason to do so. Despite the fact that the police in question ended up pursuing the wrong suspect, invaded the wrong apartment and violated just about every tenet that stands between us and a police state, the Court sanctioned the warrantless raid, leaving Americans with little real protection in the face of all manner of abuses by law enforcement officials.
L is for LICENSE PLATE READERS, which enable law enforcement and private agencies to track the whereabouts of vehicles, and their occupants, all across the country. This data collected on tens of thousands of innocent people is also being shared between police agencies, as well as with fusion centers and private companies. This puts Big Brother in the driver’s seat.
M is for MAIN CORE. Since the 1980s, the U.S. government has acquired and maintained, without warrant or court order, a database of names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation. As Salon reports, this database, reportedly dubbed “Main Core,” is to be used by the Army and FEMA in times of national emergency or under martial law to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security. As of 2008, there were some 8 million Americans in the Main Core database.
N is for NO-KNOCK RAIDS. Owing to the militarization of the nation’s police forces, SWAT teams are now increasingly being deployed for routine police matters. In fact, more than 80,000 of these paramilitary raids are carried out every year. That translates to more than 200 SWAT team raids every day in which police crash through doors, damage private property, terrorize adults and children alike, kill family pets, assault or shoot anyone that is perceived as threatening—and all in the pursuit of someone merely suspected of a crime, usually possession of some small amount of drugs.
O is for OVERCRIMINALIZATION and OVERREGULATION. Thanks to an overabundance of 4500-plus federal crimes and 400,000 plus rules and regulations, it’s estimated that the average American actually commits three felonies a day without knowing it. As a result of this overcriminalization, we’re seeing an uptick in Americans being arrested and jailed for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room.
P is for PATHOCRACY and PRECRIME. When our own government treats us as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police, mistreated, and then jailed in profit-driven private prisons if we dare step out of line, we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic. Instead, what we are experiencing is a pathocracy: tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government, which “operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups.” Couple that with the government’s burgeoning precrime programs, which will use fusion centers, data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition, predictive policing, biometrics, and behavioral epigenetics in order to identify and deter so-called potential “extremists,” dissidents or rabble-rousers. Bear in mind that anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—is now viewed as an extremist.
Q is for QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. Qualified immunity allows officers to walk away without paying a dime for their wrongdoing. Conveniently, those deciding whether a police officer should be immune from having to personally pay for misbehavior on the job all belong to the same system, all cronies with a vested interest in protecting the police and their infamous code of silence: city and county attorneys, police commissioners, city councils and judges.
R is for ROADSIDE STRIP SEARCHES and BLOOD DRAWS. The courts have increasingly erred on the side of giving government officials—especially the police—vast discretion in carrying out strip searches, blood draws and even anal probes for a broad range of violations, no matter how minor the offense. In the past, strip searches were resorted to only in exceptional circumstances where police were confident that a serious crime was in progress. In recent years, however, strip searches have become routine operating procedures in which everyone is rendered a suspect and, as such, is subjected to treatment once reserved for only the most serious of criminals.
S is for the SURVEILLANCE STATE. On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears. A byproduct of this new age in which we live, whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior. This doesn’t even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor your purchases, web browsing, Facebook posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere.
T is for TASERS. Nonlethal weapons such as tasers, stun guns, rubber pellets and the like have been used by police as weapons of compliance more often and with less restraint—even against women and children—and in some instances, even causing death. These “nonlethal” weapons also enable police to aggress with the push of a button, making the potential for overblown confrontations over minor incidents that much more likely. A Taser Shockwave, for instance, can electrocute a crowd of people at the touch of a button.
U is for UNARMED CITIZENS SHOT BY POLICE. No longer is it unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later, often attributed to a fear for their safety. Yet the fatality rate of on-duty patrol officers is reportedly far lower than many other professions, including construction, logging, fishing, truck driving, and even trash collection.
V is for VIPR SQUADS. So-called “soft target” security inspections, carried out by roving VIPR task forces, comprised of federal air marshals, surface transportation security inspectors, transportation security officers, behavior detection officers and explosive detection canine teams, are taking place whenever and wherever the government deems appropriate, at random times and places, and without needing the justification of a particular threat.
W is for WHOLE-BODY SCANNERS. Using either x-ray radiation or radio waves, scanning devices and government mobile units are being used not only to “see” through your clothes but to spy on you within the privacy of your home. While these mobile scanners are being sold to the American public as necessary security and safety measures, we can ill afford to forget that such systems are rife with the potential for abuse, not only by government bureaucrats but by the technicians employed to operate them.
X is for X-KEYSCORE, one of the many spying programs carried out by the National Security Agency that targets every person in the United States who uses a computer or phone. This top-secret program “allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals.”
Y is for YOU-NESS. Using your face, mannerisms, social media and “you-ness” against you, you can now be tracked based on what you buy, where you go, what you do in public, and how you do what you do. Facial recognition software promises to create a society in which every individual who steps out into public is tracked and recorded as they go about their daily business. The goal is for government agents to be able to scan a crowd of people and instantaneously identify all of the individuals present. Facial recognition programs are being rolled out in states all across the country.
Z is for ZERO TOLERANCE. We have moved into a new paradigm in which young people are increasingly viewed as suspects and treated as criminals by school officials and law enforcement alike, often for engaging in little more than childish behavior. In some jurisdictions, students have also been penalized under school zero tolerance policies for such inane “crimes” as carrying cough drops, wearing black lipstick, bringing nail clippers to school, using Listerine or Scope, and carrying fold-out combs that resemble switchblades. The lesson being taught to our youngest—and most impressionable—citizens is this: in the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (politician, police officer, judge, jailer, spy, profiteer, etc.).
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the reality we must come to terms with is that in the post-9/11 America we live in today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned.
We have moved beyond the era of representative government and entered a new age.
You can call it the age of authoritarianism. Or fascism. Or oligarchy. Or the American police state.
Whatever label you want to put on it, the end result is the same: tyranny.
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