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Intel Reveals Depraved New Way Russian Commanders Punish Own Troops -REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Russian military commanders have likely resorted to punishing their troops by imprisoning them in underground pits covered with metal bars, according to a British intelligence memo published Sunday. “In recent months, Russian commanders have likely started punishing breaches in discipline by detaining the offending troops in ‘Zindans’ which are improvised cells consisting of holes in the ground covered with a metal grille,” the report says. The makeshift prisons have been used to punish Russian soldiers for alleged “violations” as minor as drinking or attempting to cancel their contracts with the military, according to the intelligence report, which cites “multiple recent reports from Russian personnel” who provided accounts of the incidents. The report notes, “draconian” shift among Russian commanders since the early days of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, when “many Russian commanders took a relatively light touch in enforcing discipline, allowing those who refused to soldier to quietly return home.” According to the British intelligence department, that all began to change in the fall of 2022, when the higher-ups of the Kremlin’s military began enforcing stricter punishment for perceived transgressions among Russian forces fighting the war in Ukraine. The drastic pivot, the agency notes, took an even harsher turn “since Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov assumed command of the operation.”

That there are still Flat Earth Societies in several countries is an indicator how self-delusion persists. Its all the fault of the goddam reptilians. Or the Illuminati.

It seems to be an integral feature of humanity that there will always be those who choose to misuse and even abuse anything intended to be good and helpful to us- be it food, sexuality, religion, education and yes, even the internet. It has allowed feeble and diseased minds to congregate and exert disproportionate influences on each other and the societies they live in. Some people in positions of power have learned to manipulate their followers to aggrandize themselves. It is the price of living in societies.

This guy's mind is so open that his brain apparently fell out.

‘Stop Deceiving the Population’: Russia’s Mercenary Boss Threatens Full-Blown Mutiny Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin is back to humiliating the Kremlin and threatening to sabotage Vladimir Putin’s war effort. “Russia is on the brink of catastrophe,” he said in an interview with a pro-war military blogger on Saturday, openly calling B.S. on the Kremlin’s repeated claims that all is going according to plan in Ukraine. “We need to stop deceiving the population and telling them that everything is fine,” he said, accusing Russia’s top military brass of deluding themselves about the war or “not giving a damn.” Prigozhin blamed his foe, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, for a lack of ammunition that he said could cost Russia the war. In the nearly hour-and-a-half long video interview—apparently filmed days earlier—he read out a letter he said he’d sent to Shoigu on Friday, in which he issued a brazen ultimatum threatening to pull his mercenaries out from Bakhmut if the defense ministry does not immediately provide the required ammunition. Apparently for added effect, he also threatened to tattle on Shoigu to Putin personally. “The bell is already ringing, we’re sounding the alarm,” he said. The group, he said, has enough rounds of ammunition left only “for days, not weeks.” When asked if perhaps the military didn’t want to provide weapons to Wagner out of a fear that the mercenary group “might storm the Kremlin” and seize power, Prigozhin conceded that the idea is “interesting” but said he wasn’t focused on staging a coup.

When you review the past draft picks by the Bombers it becomes clear that more than one or two players that make the team is little short of amazing.

You ain't seen crazy Russian crap yet. Warehouses of supposed war goods for the Russian army far away from the front lines have burned to the ground apparently because the Russian suppliers who had manufactured and stored for the military were torched because although the goods had been paid for were were nonexistent. The fires occurred right after they were requisitioned. Russian officers demand money from their soldiers or they will be sent to the heaviest fighting, sometimes with WW2 weapons and little ammunition. Families of dead Russian soldiers are given a certificate for a Lada to be delivered at some point instead of a pension. And that's only a small sample.

I suggest that greed is as much a symptom as an independent phenomenon. We humans have long been afflicted with the desire to be greater than others. Money is simply a measuring stick.

Close enuff.

Another bizarre performance by Trump. Apparently the GOP leadership has given up on trying to manage his public and social utterances as hid GOP followers worship him and nothing but nothing he says or does will shake their support. If you think this sounds like a cult following their messiah, you are correct.

Hockey, like football is a violent sport and even perfectly legal hits can injure players. The hit that took Scheifele out was such and Morrissey's wasn't much worse. NHL players are well compensated- CFL players, not so much.

My process in total knee replacement has been...different. After waiting semi-patiently for 30+ months, I became annoyed and had my referring GP send a letter to the surgeon to inquire where I was in the queue. Hearing nothing after a week, I contacted my MLA and he sent a letter to the minister of Health. Four days later, I had a surgery appointment- April 25th. There was, of course, a process of assessment prior to the surgery. So, on April 18th, I presented myself at the hospital for the first assessment. My medical history was reviewed first by an intake worker, then a physiotherapist, and then by an anesthesiologist. The anesthesiologist noted that I had a heart murmur which was upgraded from minor to moderate two years ago by a cardiologist and at that time, I was told it was not acute enough to warrant medical intervention, The anesthesiologist at the hospital was concerned enough to order an urgent echo-cardiogram, so I return at 7:00 AM the next morning (Wednesday April 26th) and had it done. I. in error assumed that if there was any reason for concern, I would hear about it STAT, but the phone did not ring. I returned to the hospital at 7:00 AM Tuesday the 25th and the fun began. Long story short, it was a big letdown. After the whole rigamarole of checking in and having the process explained to me and being questioned repeatedly if I was really me, the anesthesiologist put in the IV lines, and it ground down to a halt. He looked at the chart, reviewed the data with the surgeon and decided that there needed to be a consult with a cardiologist. Apparently my heart murmur is a source of concern and has to be vetted before any anesthetic, general or spinal, can be administered. There is a chance anesthetics can induce heart attacks and/or death in people with moderate murmurs. Apparently doctors get all embarrassed if a patient dies on the table and there is a lot of paperwork, so they like to cover their b-asses. So now I am back home. Saw my GP the following morning and he listened to my ticker and could not understand the delay. He made a request for an urgent consult with the cardiologist who assessed my murmur initially as progressing from slight to moderate. He is not a surgeon but a step en route to surgery if needed. Apparently valve replacement surgery is no longer the only remedy- they are also doing where a tube (balloon valvuloplasty) is inserted in the groin (sounds like fun) and pushed up into the aortic stenosis to enlarge it. More fun. There is (sort of ) good news: while I was in Pre-Op, I was given some Good Drugs which should not have been dispensed, so even though I was a bit wobbly, I was sent home, at least partially on my insistence. I sort of drifted through the rest of the day and part of the evening and MY KNEE DIDN'T BOTHER ME A BIT!!! However, I had some difficulty both remembering where the bathroom was and staggering over to it. The annoying thing was that the ECK was in the file for nearly a week, but no one bothered to review it. Had they done so, and identified a concern necessitating a delay in the surgery, someone else could have had that surgery. A waste of resources. So, now we wait.

Yesterday Putin signed a decree that allows deportation of the residents of temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories if they didn't accept Russian citizenship.Russia will now consider such Ukrainians as "foreigners".Genocide of Ukrainians continues. moscoviaukrainelatest news

Your disgust ought to be reserved for those who have created this mess. That would be Cheveldayoff and those who hired him and have kept him way past his "best before date".

At worst, what you described and is shown in the video might be battery (unwanted touching). The PC party is infested with lawyers and if there was even a shred of actionable evidence, you bet your bippy they would have called the police.

New Report Reveals Senate Republicans Hid Evidence In Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Investigation In 2018, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) omitted key information from the committee’s report that cleared Brett Kavanaugh of the sexual assault allegations against him. The Senate report claimed that Kavanaugh had been a victim of mistaken identity in the Deborah Ramirez allegation, but The Guardian found that the person who was blamed for the assault on Ramirez was a high school senior and not attending Yale at the time. Via: The Guardian: Instead, Smith said it was a fellow classmate named Jack Maxey, who was a member of Kavanaugh’s fraternity, who allegedly had a “reputation” for exposing himself, and had once done so at a party. To back his claim, Smith also attached a photograph of Maxey exposing himself in his fraternity’s 1988 yearbook picture. The allegation that Ramirez was likely mistaken was included in the Senate committee’s final report even though Maxey – who was described but not named – was not attending Yale at the time of the alleged incident. .Brett Kavanaugh is the poison fruit from a corrupted confirmation process. The FBI has since revealed that the investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh was a sham, with the Trump White House directing the FBI to forward tips about Kavanaugh’s behavior to them.

Another one bites the dust..... Putin fired Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. "Butcher From Mariupol", which destroyed the city and killed more than 300,000 civilians without giving them an evacuation corridor.

A documentary on the Qanon/GOP political movement?

Better than having to visit him in the conjugal visitations unit.

It was stupidly tasteless but unremarkable among college (and high school) students and did not seem to have been targeted at vulnerable minorities. I am willing to cut him a bit of slack on that one.