Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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A very angry house cat was pulled from the wreckage of an apartment building in Borodyanko, Ukraine. Borodyanko is a town of 35,000 huma ns north of Kyiv, that was occupied by Russian troops for 4 weeks. The Russian Army has redeployed to Russia and to Eastern Ukraine. The cat was apparently no worse for the wear and tear. She took a bath and was fed by her rescuers. No word about her owners. "Four legged survivor of Russian "denazification" of Borodyanko Ukraine....
What is the situation in Crimea today? It is a closed military zone, and during the Ukraine Russia war little information has come out. According to one source, from the native Crimean Tatar group, Russian army deserters are shot. Commanders don't report their war dead, so they can pocket the soldiers families' death benefits. The following is from Ukrainian Pravda. As you no doubt are aware, it's wartime and such reports should be read with a little skepticism. On the other...
Ukrainians have begun to post photos of Russian soldiers engaged in looting. Social media posts taken from security cameras and from other social media, such as Instagram, have been posted to twitter. One of them concerns a soldier named Kovalenko Evgeny Evgenyevich. The post alleges that he sent home packages weighing a total of 1,000 lbs to his wife. It says: "A thread about a most greedy Rashist marauder! Meet officer 🇷🇺 Kovalenko Evgeny Evgenyevich. He took out almos...
One of the more astonishing aspects of Russia's actions in Ukraine is that Russia has not been subtle or shy about proclaiming hatred for all things Ukraine. A recent piece equates Ukrainians with Nazis, and says they should no longer have national identity. The author is Timofey Sergeytsev, a well known Russian political theorist. "Yesterday, RIA Novosti published a lengthy article entitled "What Russia should do with Ukraine", which explains in detail what Russia...
A Russian soldier killed in Irpin, Ukraine replaced the Kevlar in his vest with a stolen MacBook. It didn't work out too well for him, apparently. Or for the Macbook, which still has an uncracked screen and may still work. Russian conscripts and other soldiers were told that they were fighting "Nazi's" in Ukraine. In at least one town North of Kyiv, Bucha, they shot hundreds of civilians, mostly men, as they were pulled out of the town after about 5 weeks of fighting. Russian...
10: Reports from several sources say that Russia has committed unspeakable war crimes, unprecedented in modern Europe, during its occupation of Kyiv's Northern suburbs. In a Ukrainian town called Bucha, the Russian Armed Forces methodically murdered all men between the ages of 16 and 60. This is the town seen on American news shows Friday night April 1st. A video shows a car driving through Bucha's streets showing corpses lying on the ground. It should be emphasized at...
The Russian censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, has decided to fine Wikipedia 4,000,000 rubles (about $44,000), for disseminating false information about the Russian "special operation" in Ukraine. "Roskomnadzor sent a notification to the administration of the Internet resource to immediately remove inaccurate information on the subject of the special military operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine," the agency said on Telegram. Separately, Novaya Gazeta, the last...
Sacramento police are investigating a mass shooting incident in downtown Sacramento. The shooting followed a concert by rapper Taylor the Creator, at about 2 am Sunday. Sixteen people were shot. Six are dead and 12 are injured. Video of the incident on social media shows a group of young people brawling in the street, then shots breaking out. This on the corner of 10th Street between J and K Streets. The video may be seen on Twitter at https://twitter.com/M...
Hours before California's eviction moratorium was set to expire, the State Legislature extended renter protections through the end of June. The extension only applies to tenants impacted by COVID who applied for rental assistance by Thursday, March 31. This three-month extension is intended to give the state enough time to distribute $5 billion in federal funds intended for landlords, while tenants remain in their homes. California received the funds last May. Landlords and...
11: Russian state owned website RT.COM alleges that the shootings of civilians in Bucha were staged. Bodies were brought to Bucha several days later, alleges the news source, quoting Russian defense ministry sources. Ukrainian government actors tied hands of the bodies behind their backs, then shot them in the head, so as to fake their deaths and execution by the Russian army, says the English language website. We repeat these allegations not because we think they have...
6 Ukrainian female soldiers, who were among the 86 Ukrainian soldiers released from Russian captivity on April 1 in prisoner exchange, had their hair shaved off by Russians. This according to Dmytro Lubinets, the head of the human rights committee in Ukraine's parliament, According to the Ukraine defence ministry, 4 or 5 female corpses are left on top of tires and under a blanket, in preparation for burning them to cover crimes by Russian troops. Russians shot women and...
A fire broke out at an oil depot in Belgorod, Russia, near the Ukrainian border after a daring raid by two low flying Ukrainian helicopters. Interestingly, the raid was reported by Russian news agency TASS, citing tothe governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov. Russian state owned publications "RIA Novosti" and RBC also reported on the incident. Gladkov said that two people were injured - employees of the oil depot. He said that the fire was caused by an air strike...
Seven busses packed with Russian soldiers suffering from Acute Radiation Syndrome arrived to #Belarus from the #Ukrainian #Chernobyl exclusion zone. Source: member of public council of state #Ukraine agency of exclusion zone, according to Ukrainian journalist Yaroslav Yemelianenko via Unian news agency. He resides in Belarus. Yemelyanenko on his Facebook quoting Belarus TV: "Seven medical busses with people inside arrived at 12:20 pm to Homel, Belarus, to the Center of radiolo...
Even Mark Twain was only mis-reported dead once. James Vasquez, an American volunteering with the Ukraine Army, has now been reported dead not once but twice. "Ground Report," a blog intended as a compendium of war stories, reported on March 30th that Vasquez had died. "I got killed again☹️" Vasquez tweeted the afternoon of Thursday March 31, 2022 alongside a screenshot of the false report. Proving of course, that he was alive. Or tweeting from the afterlife. The inc...
In an intercepted radio communication between a young Russian serviceman and his parents, an unnamed conscript tells his parents that three tank guys" in his unit gang raped a 16 year old girl. It's not a boast; the mom makes a sound like they all agree this is wrong. He also says that they ate a dog yesterday. "We eat MRE's every day, but we get tired of them. We wanted meat." he explains. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is now in its 36th day. Reportedly some conscripted...
In the first act of the Russo-Ukraine War to take place across the frontier and in Russia, a munition storage facility exploded in Belgorod, Russia. Ukraine claims to be the responsible party. Belgorod is 25 miles from the Ukraine border. The ammunition depot was on the edge of town, a mere 15 miles from Ukraine. There is still no official confirmation of what caused the explosion at a Russian munitions depot near Belgorod last night. Unconfirmed reports suggest it was a...
16: Tonight's Academy Awards ceremony included a moment of silence for Ukraine. Aides for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had proposed a last-minute slot at the Academy Awards Sunday night, but the producers decided that would be too overtly political. A week ago, says the New York Times, a push for backing Ukraine during the Oscars began when Kunis, an actress of Ukrainian origin, and her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, spoke on a video call with Ukrainian...
Chris Rock has declined to press charges against Will Smith following Smith's slap at the #Oscars, according to the LAPD. "We're aware of an incident involving two individuals at the Oscars, where one individual slapped the other. The slapped individual declined to file a police report. That individual may do so if he chooses at a later date." In case you've been under a Rock, haha,Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett, Will Smith's wife. Jada has alopecia and is bald "I c...
Update: According to the Skhid (East) operational and tactical group of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, a commander and chief of Staff of the 503rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 58th Army of the Russian Ground Forces were killed on March 28. The group presented evidence in the form of epaulets, stripes, and nametags taken from the deceased servicemen which was published on their Facebook page. Ukrainian sources are claiming the commander and chief of staff of the Russian 503rd M...
Bellingcat says that three members of the delegation attending the peace talks between Ukraine and Russia on the night of 3 to 4 March 2022 experienced symptoms consistent with poisoning with chemical weapons. One of victims was Russian entrepreneur Roman Abramovich, who has been critical of Putin over Ukraine. The Wall Street Journal has also published the story. https://www.wsj.com/articles/roman-abramovich-and-ukrainian-peace-negotiators-suffer-symptoms-of-suspected-poisoni...
18: Five Israeli civilians were killed in a shooting by one shooter driving by evening crowds on a motorcycle. "The suspect was neutralized," said Israeli government sources, which generally indicates that he was also killed "Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad cheered the shooting attacks in Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan, in which at least five Israelis have been killed." tweeted Avi Meyer. "Israel latest," tweeted Raphael Gluck:-Fifth victim succumbs to...
Update 3.27 Wall it was initially reported that the Orsk had been sunk, it was in factor sistership Saratov that was hit. “At 7:45 AM, a Tochka-U SRBM was fired towards the landing ships Saratov, Tsesar Kunikov, and Novocherkassk. To avoid an explosion, Saratov sunk at a depth of 5 meters. Kunikov and Novercherkassk left port damaged. 8 killed on Kunikov and 3 killed and 3 injured.” 3.24.22: In another significant development in the Russia Ukraine war, the Ukrainian Navy cla...
Two windows and a door in a row of shops was smashed by a homeless man on Friday evening or Saturday morning. The owner of the store, Ahmad Harb, says that he may have security camera footage that will reveal the identity of the perpetrator. Harb says his windows have been smashed in the recent past, and that it cost him $1200 to replace each window. He says that his computer and some other items were stolen from his store, which sells cosmetics. He says Santa Monica police...
Imagine the Ukraine army not only pushing Russia back from recently occupied areas, but from the areas it took from Ukraine in 2014. It's a worst case scenario for Russian military planners. According to the Ukraine government, Russians in Crimea realize their military is in complete collapse, and they're trying to get out of town before the worst case possibility comes to pass. "Russia is preparing to block Russians from leaving occupied Crimea," tweeted Euromaidan Press....
In an act of sheer courage or perhaps stupidity, a man was filmed throwing a Molotov cocktail against the wall of the Kremlin in Moscow. "Kremlin" is Russian for "Fortress." Traditionally every major city had a Kremlin. Today, the Moscow Kremlin is the site of the Russian Federal Government, including the Duma or parliament, the Russian President and the Russian high court. It is easy to assume that this man was protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but that is not...
