https://www.newsweek.com/us-diplomat-found-dead-kyiv-hotelreport-1917644

US Diplomat Found Dead in Kyiv Hotel—Report

The body of the unnamed embassy attaché was found Tuesday at Kyiv’s Hilton Hotel, online newspaper Strana UA reported Wednesday, citing law enforcement sources

Ukrainian news outlet New Voice (NV), citing unnamed sources, also reported that the attaché’s body was found at the city’s Hilton Hotel on Tuesday.

U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller later confirmed the death, saying during a Wednesday press conference that the individual was a U.S. government employee “who was under chief of mission authority” at the embassy in Kyiv.

“I hate to even bring this up—but I know sometimes conspiracies theories spin out of control—that it is our understanding that he died of natural causes, and there’s no sign of foul play,” Miller said.

“Yesterday at about 11:00 a.m. the body of an attaché of the U.S. Embassy was found in a hotel room. No signs of violence were found on the body. The man arrived in Ukraine on June 15,” one source said, Strana UA reported.

“According to medical data provided by the U.S. Embassy, the man suffered from high cholesterol,” a source added, according to the report.

NV said that there were no signs of bodily injury and that the hotel room’s door was closed from the inside.

“No autopsy was performed—the body was taken by the U.S. Embassy. It is known that the man had high cholesterol levels,” NV reported.

1v1 me in Kengo (PS2)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgxxjzlg89zo

The schoolchildren being lured by rebels on TikTok

Fighters belonging to breakaway groups associated with Colombia’s largest rebel movement are posting videos on TikTok to entice young people to join them.

The BBC has investigated the growth of guerrilla “recruitment” videos, with dissident factions yet to agree to a peace deal with the Colombian government.

“One or two start the trend and it becomes fashionable in the classroom,” says Lorena (not her real name), a 30-year-old teacher in Cauca, a rural region in south-western Colombia.

She says as she enters her class, she is often met by students filming themselves on their smartphones, drawing symbols inspired by the now-demobilised Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrilla group (Farc) on the blackboard, or dancing to revolutionary tunes.

I want an ogre battle with advance wars theming

Chaos route, every time

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/europe/ukraine-prison-soldier-recruitment-intl-cmd/index.html

From prison to the trenches: Inside Ukraine’s attempt to turn inmates into soldiers

The push to recruit inmates into the military appears at first glance to parallel a campaign of prison recruitment by Russia’s mercenary company Wagner early in the war, and continued by the Ministry of Defense since last year. The lives of thousands of Russian convicts have been expended in so-called “meat grinder” assaults, particularly in the fighting for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

But Ukraine’s Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska, speaking to CNN in Kyiv, rejected the comparison.

“In Ukraine, motivation is largely based on patriotism. Our prisoners join the army voluntarily. In Russia, it was voluntary and forced. I personally saw (Russian) prisoners who were forced to join Wagner,” he said, adding that in Russia, inmates were recruited into the notoriously brutal private military company, whereas in Ukraine, they are joining the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“This is a regular state military service with all the guarantees: salary, social insurance, payments in case of injury, death, and so on. This is a completely different story in terms of motives and mechanisms.”

patriotism

Ogre battle randomizer

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-centrist-minister-gantz-quits-netanyahu-government-2024-06-09/

Israel’s centrist minister Benny Gantz quits Netanyahu government

Grim Fandango is similarly strong on the writing and vibes

Hamas could say (unintelligible)

He did the south park style racist gibberish

legally killed child is crazy

Might as well put the triple parentheses. It’s his politics that’s the problem, not his ancestry

The amnesty and investment reviews are attempts to buy off protesters, in the hope that by the time the university committees do their work, the war in Gaza will be over,

what will the conclusion of the “war in Gaza” look like? I wonder if any Israeli officials have commented

in any case the divestment decisions (almost assuredly negative, because the alternative would open up an equally ugly can of worms) can be made this summer or next,

The universities unfortunately have a fiduciary duty to support Zionism, nothing we can do sorry

while the kids are backpacking in Mongolia.

The problem is that the appearance of caving is caving. If you tacitly tell students that violating university rules will bring no sanctions, they will do it again

They are children, and you can NEVER let the children win. Gives them the wrong idea

The brute fact is that many American universities and colleges, including some of the best, have seen a surge in anti-Semitism, including protesters mobbing students wearing kippahs and shouting that Zionists—that is, people who believe that the Jews deserve a state of their own—deserve death. Many Jewish students, as a result, feel unsafe and unwelcome, and university leaders have only rarely denounced anti-Semitic outbursts without reference to other forms of bias, thereby skirting the core problem.

Administrators are diplomatically paying lip service to the real grievances of the protestors at same time as my fake intellectually dishonest grievances, and this makes me very mad! Pick a side (my side) 😡

Universities cannot claim and do not deserve some special status as arbiters of a moral foreign policy. After all, they are not, and have never been, paragons of moral virtue.

(Insert Pol pot emoji that I can’t find) Correct

Nineteen-year-olds make good soldiers, but not good generals, judges, corporate executives, or bishops, for the excellent reason that their emotions and passions, noble or ignoble, have yet to be tamed by wisdom and good judgment

Time and time again, brash 19yo soldiers go to war against the good and wise judgement of the elder peacenik generals commanding them. Who put those 19yo soldiers in charge??

Today’s students are no better or worse than their predecessors. They are, as befits their age, morally selective to a fault: Can anyone recall a demonstration against Pernod Ricard for failing to fully halt exports of Absolut Vodka to Russia until about a year ago?

This is a very serious matter

Presumably, students come to a university for an education, which implies that they need to be educated, which means that they are not, in fact, ready to make the deeper judgments on which society depend

The students attending our most prestigious schools don’t actually know anything at all, all of them, in equal measure. That diaspora student who lost half of their relatives to idf bombs? They simply are not educated enough to know that this is actually deeply good for society, like I do.

It’s simple really: the children are stupid and cannot be trusted

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68987130

Unrwa closes East Jerusalem compound after attacks

head of the UN’s largest aid agency in Gaza says he is temporarily closing its headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem after a number of attacks.

Philippe Lazzarini said “Israeli residents” twice set fire to the compound’s perimeter on Thursday evening.

There were no casualties but the fire “caused extensive damage to the outdoor areas,” he wrote on social media.

“Once again, the lives of UN staff were at a serious risk.”

Our director with the help of other staff had to put out the fire themselves as it took the Israeli fire extinguishers and police a while before they turned up," he added.

There was no immediate response from the Israeli authorities.

Mr Lazzarini also posted a video of what he said was a “crowd accompanied by armed men” who were chanting “burn down the United Nations”. This video has not been verified by the BBC.

He said it was the second time this week the compound has come under attack, and it would not be reopened until "proper security is restored

idk anything about ket but it’s referring to the 2c family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2C_(psychedelics)

He’ll no I don’t believe in free speech that’s lib nonsense

Forcing Bethesda staff to read hobsbawms Bandits

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/26/man-charged-conducting-hostile-activity-uk-benefit-russia

Briton charged with aiding Russia and planning arson against Ukraine-linked business in UK

accused of undertaking fraudulent activity, research and reconnaissance of targets, and attempting to recruit individuals to materially assist a foreign intelligence service carrying out UK-related activities, prosecutors have said.

alleged to have targeted businesses linked to Ukraine in order to benefit the Russian state, the Crown Prosecution Service said. He is accused of organising and paying for an arson attack on two units at the industrial estate in Leyton, east London, on 20 March.

alleged by prosecutors to be connected to the proscribed terrorist organisation the Wagner group. The mercenary group has played a prominent role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and has also been active in conflicts in Syria, the Central African Republic, Sudan and Libya.

Commander Dominic Murphy, the head of the Met’s counter-terrorism command, said: “This is a highly significant moment and investigation for us. Not only are the charges that have been authorised by the CPS extremely serious, but it is also the first time that we have arrested, and now charged anyone using the powers and legislation brought in under the National Security Act