🇮🇹 "MAMA MIA, DISASTER!" 21 people killed, including 2 children - 40 more injured, as bus plunges off a bridge, getting tangled in power lines near Venice, Italy.

All aboard are tourists from various countries.

UPDATE: The driver may have suffered a heart attack.

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🇩🇪 WAR DRUMS sound the alarm as 30,000+ Berliners take to the streets in large-scale protests against their government and NATO sending weapons to Ukraine.

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"RUSSIANS ARE BAD, EVEN IN RUSSIA" is essentially the premise of The Guardian photo essay, using the Evenki people of Yakutia region, North-East Russia.

🗣"Somehow, the Evenki cohabit with the industrialists who exploit their lands, sacrificed on the altar of economic growth. They regret it all the more because they hoped for a better tomorrow for their children."

The Guardian projects Western colonialism onto Russians as economic merchants, plunderers and polluters. Yet indigenous populations of Russia are constitutionally protected, with a right to their language and local governance.

Which is more than what can be said for indigenous nations of the West. @IntelRepublic

"WHY IS PUTIN NOT ADVANCING?" - a question thus far into the Special Operation. He doesn't have to - right now...

00:30 🗣 "The Russians have completed 200-300 extra kilometers of rail line into Eastern Ukraine. That's for logistics. That indicates the real preparation for a massive offensive toward the West [of Ukraine] - Col. Douglas Macgregor on Russia's next potential steps in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the Ukraine doesn't know if it will have Western funding come winter, which is the worst possible position to be in.

Patience is a virtue @IntelRepublic

🗣 "The world is becoming smaller for Putin" - Chief Gynecologist Head of EU Ursula von der Liar comments Armenia's ratification of the International Clown Criminal Court Statute (ICC.)

🇦🇲🇷🇺 Russia has a military base in Armenia as it has been the key guarantor of security in the country, to date.

Officially, the ICC is needed by Armenia to help prepare legal cases against Azerbaijan - but ICC also has a warrant out for Putin's arrest. Von der Liar clearly focuses on the latter.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 THE FAILING 51ST STATE? The US actually pays for Kiev regime expenses, the salaries of 150,000 government employees and more than 500,000 teachers in Ukraine.

The economy could come crashing down, from what's left of it, as funding is expected to run out in the next MONTH - without a fresh infusion of cash from the US Congress.

Previously, Congress approved and Biden signed the US budget for 45 days, which does not include assistance to Ukraine.

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