Sunday, April 24, 2022

WAS I NOT FAR OFF WHEN I ALWAYS SAID SO CALLED DR ANTHONY S FAUCI IS THE BIGGEST SNAKE OIL SALESMAN IN HISTORY.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

 WAS I NOT FAR OFF WHEN I ALWAYS SAID SO CALLED DR ANTHONY S FAUCI IS THE BIGGEST SNAKE OIL SALESMAN IN HISTORY.

AND NOW WE FIND OUT THERES ACTUALLY KING COBRA SNAKE VENOM IN THE KILLER SHOTS. THATS A GREAT WAY TO POISON PEOPLE. OR AS BILL GATES AND HIS DEPOPULATION CROWD SAY. TAKE YOUR SHOTS LIKE GOOD LITTLE  USELESS EATING SHEEP. CORONA (CROWN OF THE KING) VIRUS ACCUALLY MEANS-VENOM (LATIN).
 
CORONA VIRUS CONNECTED TO COBRA IN CHINA
CHINA SNAKES
SNAKE COVID
LAURA THOMPSON
DR BRYAN ARDIS

Venomtech announces new drug development collaboration with Charles River-Apr 12 2022Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc.

Venomtech is collaborating with Charles River Laboratories, International Inc. to help drug developers explore venom-derived compounds for a wide range of therapeutic targets. This newly formed collaboration will bring together Venomtech’s biology expertise and vast venom-derived peptide library, with Charles River’s drug development and screening knowhow, providing pharmaceutical manufacturers with a one-stop service to explore this unique natural resource. Millions of years of evolution have made venom-derived peptides highly specific, even for many of the hardest-to-hit drug targets. Venomtech’s Targeted-Venom Discovery Array™ (T-VDA™) libraries provide researchers with a straightforward solution to rapidly screen thousands of individual venom fragments, with each array specifically designed to maximise hits for a specific target. Through the new collaboration, Charles River will be able to use this innovative resource – closely supported by Venomtech – to accelerate its clients’ pipelines, addressing difficult therapeutic targets, uncovering new mechanisms of action and minimising off-target effects.Paul Grant, CEO at Venomtech, explained: Venomtech has been at the forefront of venom research for drug discovery for more than a decade. Through this relationship with Charles River Laboratories – a global leader for drug discovery contract research – we can now showcase our innovative technology, introducing the wider industry to the potential of venoms for the successful delivery of more leads, more quickly, for a broad range of targets.”Vad Lazari, Director of Biology at Charles River, added: “In collaboration with Venomtech, we can now offer our clients access to bespoke venom libraries, potentially accelerating their discovery pipelines using this powerful natural resource. This arrangement will enable us to draw on Venomtech’s specialist biological knowledge to quickly follow up hits and promising leads, helping our clients to overcome longstanding specificity challenges and exploit novel modes of action.”About Venomtech-Venomtech is a global leader for venom research enterprises, based out of world-class laboratories at Discovery Park in Kent, UK. We are a team of enthusiastic problem solvers, representing the next generation of innovative biotechs, committed to helping our customers worldwide make pioneering advances in drug discovery, crop protection, and cosmetics. We have the largest library of naturally sourced venom-derived compounds in the UK, from a growing collection of vertebrate and invertebrate species. Use of our platform increases the likelihood of finding unique and high-value candidates for even the most hard-to-hit drug and pesticide targets, or novel active ingredients for cosmetics applications.

Dr. Bryan Ardis releases huge allegations: The covid-19 virus, vaccines and some treatments are all derived from SNAKE VENOM-Apr 13, 2022-Opinion-By Mike Adams

This article may contain statements that reflect the opinion of the author-(Natural News) Dr. Bryan Ardis has been making waves this week with allegations that the covid-19 virus, covid “vaccines” and at least one covid treatment all originated from snake venom molecules (the King Cobra, to be specific).The first interview on this was released yesterday by Stew Peters at Red Voice Media in a documentary-style video called, “Watch the Water.” In the video, Bryan Ardis expresses concern that snake venom-related molecules (peptides or proteins) could have been dripped into the water supply (or released via other methods such as aerosolization) in order to create a covid-19 “outbreak” fear scenario that ultimately drove people into covid vaccines, lockdowns, mask mandates and other forms of mass medical hysteria.We also interviewed Dr. Ardis about this same topic. In a largely unedited interview, Dr. Ardis shared with us his extensive research linking snake venom to antibodies, vaccine production, and eerily similar side effects observed from mRNA vaccines and covid treatments. As Dr. Ardis explains in the video (below), every single side effect attributed to covid-19 is also a known effect from toxic venom exposure.VenomTech” just announced a Targeted-Venom Discovery Array for new pharmaceutical interventionsTo anybody who doesn’t yet realize that snake venom is routinely used to develop pharmaceuticals and medical interventions, check out today’s announcement from a company actually called, “VenomTech.” They are bragging about, “Targeted-Venom Discovery Array™ (T-VDA™) libraries provide researchers with a straightforward solution to rapidly screen thousands of individual venom fragments, with each array specifically designed to maximise hits for a specific target.”The CEO of VenomTech, Paul Grant, even continued:“Venomtech has been at the forefront of venom research for drug discovery for more than a decade. Through this relationship with Charles River Laboratories – a global leader for drug discovery contract research – we can now showcase our innovative technology, introducing the wider industry to the potential of venoms for the successful delivery of more leads, more quickly, for a broad range of targets.”Natural News reaches out to Gilead Sciences to request an interview-Today, Natural News reached out to Gilead Sciences, requesting an interview with their Chief Science Officer to answer these allegations and present their side of the story on this important issue. So far, no response has been received from Gilead.InfoWars has also covered this emerging story. “A quick internet search reveals plenty of mainstream media publications admitting at the onset of the Covid outbreak that it may have been derived from snakes,” reports InfoWars.com. “From Scientific American to CNN, the snake theory was promoted widely at first.”That story cites Scientific American and its 2020 article, “Snakes Could Be the Original Source of the New Coronavirus Outbreak in China.”That story cites the similarity between SARS-CoV-2 and snake genetic material, stating:Snakes—the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra—may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in China this winter.Dr. Ardis believes that cobra venom was used as the starting point for gain-of-function augmentation of SARS-CoV-2, effectively transforming the virus into a venom-like payload delivery system that poisons the body much like a snake bite.Also from the Scientific American story:The researchers used an analysis of the protein codes favored by the new coronavirus and compared it to the protein codes from coronaviruses found in different animal hosts, like birds, snakes, marmots, hedgehogs, manis, bats and humans. Surprisingly, they found that the protein codes in the 2019-nCoV are most similar to those used in snakes.As InfoWars reports:A 2021 study also connected the Chinese Krait and King Cobra to the Covid-19 spike protein, explaining, “the discovery of a superantigen-like motif in the S1 Spike protein, as well as two other neurotoxin-ike motifs that have peptide similarities to neurotoxins from Ophiophagus (cobra) and Bungarus genera.“Later during the interview, Dr. Ardis touched on the fact that hydroxychloroquine, defamed by the media, has been known to block nicotine receptors in the brainstem from being injured by cobra and viper venom.That cited study is entitled, “Toxin-like peptides in plasma, urine and faecal samples from COVID-19 patients.” It concludes: (emphasis added)-The presence of toxin-like peptides could potentially be connected to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Their presence suggests a possible association between COVID-19 disease and the release in the body of (oligo-)peptides almost identical to toxic components of venoms from animals.Is Dr. Ardis correct about the snake venom origins of covid, covid vaccines and some covid treatments? We present his evidence in the following interviews, which are packed with detailed citations from medical journals and news sources. As stated earlier, we have reached out to Gilead Sciences to request a response, but so far have received no reply.Here are parts 1 and 2 of the interview, followed by my Situation Update podcast which further analyzes what may be going on with snake venom and covid-19 (also now called “Covenom-19”):Part 1: Part 2:And here’s my Situation Update podcast that discusses mRNA transfection transhumanism and the “reptilian-human hybrid” phenomenon:Brighteon.com/dc8f6219-379f-478a-91d8-8e0beb55312e-Discover more information-packaged podcasts each day, along with special reports, interviews and emergency updates, at:https://www.brighteon.com/channels/HRreport-Also follow me on:Brighteon.social: Brighteon.social/@HealthRanger.

  How the Mark of the Beast Will Rewrite the Human Genome (part three) Corrupting the Image-May 18, 2012-Restriction Enzymes-Recombinant DNA

The technology known as recombinant DNA in fact now makes it possible for a grown man or woman to be altered at the genetic level. If a non-human gene were introduced into the human genome then the person would no longer be fully human but would by definition become a hybrid. The ancient name for a creature that is composed of different kinds is known as a chimera and that is also the name given to hybrid creatures by scientists today. We considered some strange creatures in a previous chapter such as the spider goat and the green glowing pigs to name a few.Recombinant DNA is “hybrid DNA that has been created from more than one source.”[i] The basic procedure is where a DNA strand is opened up and then a gene from another organism is inserted making a new strand of DNA. Then the RNA replicates the new strand and it is passed into the entire system. “When recombinant DNA is then further altered or changed to host additional strands of DNA, the molecule formed is referred to as “chimeric” DNA molecule, with reference to the mythological chimera that consisted as a composite of several animals.”[ii] By means of recombinant DNA, Satan may be able to convince humanity to insert demonic genes, perceived as desirable, into the human genome. The genetic composition of the person, therefore, would result in that person becoming a chimera.Plasmids and Foreign DNAA-Using recombinant DNA, a fully mature man could inject himself with the selected gene or genes of another species. The process which is really just a matter of copying and pasting is explained by T. Wakayama et al., in the July 1998 issue of Nature:In the late 70s, Dr. Stan Cohen (Stanford) studying antibiotic resistance plasmids in E. coli, and Dr. Herb Boyer (UCSF) studying restriction enzymes […] realized that they could use restriction enzymes to cut both plasmid DNA as well as DNA containing a gene of interest, and combine the DNAs so that the “sticky ends” of each DNA could be joined, or “spliced”, to make a recombinant DNA (i.e. bacteria human).[iii]Therefore, we can see how a man with access to technology and to Satan’s seed could then merely inject it into his DNA; then once inserted his own RNA would copy the new strands with the foreign gene(s) and it would spread throughout his entire system. Once the process of replication was complete the man would no longer be a mere human; he would in essence be a chimera, a hybrid; he would be a chimera, a hybrid – a beast! His Image-And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain, (Revelation 13:15).Approximately three and a half years after coming to power, the Beast will require everyone to take his mark, the number of his name and to worship his image. Exactly how that will be realized is impossible to know. We can suggest however that the image that the false prophet gives breath to could be some transhuman or transgenic creature or some form of synthetic biology – the important thing to note is that it will truly have breath and will not simply be a clever trick. The technology already exists to make some version of the image. This image is what will then cause all to take the mark. His Mark-Also it [the image of the beast] causes all, […] to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666, (Revelation 13:16-18).97-Transhumanist and end-times researcher Tom Horn has written a great deal about the coming consequences of man changing himself at the source code level.[iv] Horn’s wife Nita has suggested that recombinant DNA (RDNA) may be the means by which the mark of the beast is introduced onto an unsuspecting world[v] through the rewriting of one’s DNA to so that the person is no longer fully human but is part beast (Antichrist).[vi] The suggestion appears valid in light of all that we have learned.Presumably some point after the rapture, humanity, in an effort to not be removed from the planet (like those taken) and to be able to evolve to be like the Beast (the supposed leader of the “aliens”), will allow their DNA to be rewritten thus altering their image – that image that was in God’s image (though fallen) will therefore become genetically like the Beast and of course Satan and his angels. The mark then would simply be the proof (or perhaps the means by which) one has undergone the genetic transformation. This action of taking the mark will condemn them to hell forever because they will no longer be in the Image of God. How sad it is to realize that what man will trade his soul for God was willing to give for free. Man wants to augment himself with greater powers and to go on living forever – but without God. God however, has already made a way for man to have those powers and eternal life if he will simply humble himself and ask.Conclusion-To whom would Satan be willing to give of his own genetic material? Crossing the line of mixing “different kinds” is against the natural law of God. The sons of God that did so in the days of Noah got themselves thrown into the pit / abyss / Tartarus as testified by Peter who says: “For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,” (2 Peter 2:4). The penalty for crossing that barrier is ostensibly imprisonment until the final judgment. We know that Satan will find himself thrown into the abyss right after the Great Tribulation and perhaps “fathering” his own son is the line that he is not permitted to cross. Therefore, Satan must be very selective of this person. We can presume that this person will have all of the worldly advantages possible: the best education, all the power, riches, and technology. He will worship Lucifer and will lust for the ultimate power to have greater than human capacity.  This person will indeed be the one that Jesus spoke of who gains the whole world but loses his soul (Matthew 16:26). The kingdoms of the world that Satan offered to Jesus this person will possess, (see appendix five for a socio-economic sketch of the Antichrist).  He will obtain Satan’s own genetic material and then insert it into his body using Recombinant DNA.  His body’s own RNA will then cause the Satanic strain to be replicated into various parts of his body and once completed, his genetic make-up (DNA) will be a new code – a code not strictly from Adam (even in Adam’s fallen state), but will be augmented code that has been mixed with the Satan just as God declared in Genesis 3:15.  Satan will have finally succeeded in imitating the incarnation.  This man will literally become the genetic son of Satan because he will have Satan’s seed mingled in with his own.  This conclusion fulfills Genesis 3:15 plus it is consistent with what other fallen angels did in Noah’s day.  It is consistent with Daniel 2:43 and also explains how the Little Horn rises up to where the other horns are and how he is able to cast them to the ground.  It is consistent with the technology of transhumanism in that dissimilar kinds can now be mingled and is also consistent with the research of John Mack and David Jacobs and the “aliens” want to create a hybrid race. Lastly, it squares with the expectation that “aliens […] will select a human person and endow him with superhuman powers and knowledge. This man will lead us to world government and world peace.”[vii] It is reasonable and probably that the mark of the Beast will also be an imitation of what the Lord wants to do for believers – He will restore us spiritually and genetically – we will be like him, we will be in his image, we will be conformed to his glorious body we will have God’s seed in us.  By Satan giving his genetic material to the Beast (who “replaces” Jesus) and then the Beast offering (forcing) all to take of his altered genetic material – Satan will be perfectly imitating our salvation.  Probably one reason people will desire to take of his seed is because of the powers they are promised.  We have seen both in the movies and by real life personal testimony the “aliens” appear as beings of light.  Of course, believers in Jesus will actually receive true bodies of light – but the Beast will promise glorious bodies which he will ultimately not deliver.  However, those transformed with the DNA change (Mark of the Beast) will receive traits of Satan – possibly being that they will not be able to die which we see when the locusts torment mankind for five months and thought they seek death but it will flee from them (Revelation 9:6) – this could be because they possess traits from Satan (who does not die).Some two thousand years after the true incarnation and six thousand after the fall of man in the Garden, Satan, the Serpent, will have fulfilled the prophecy that God spoke to him of the enmity between his seed and her seed.  Having his own seed mingled with a son of Adam and with today’s technology, Satan can finally try to replicate his own seed in every last person on the planet.  If he can accomplish this then perhaps his own fate can be averted; perhaps he can succeed in his war to destroy the image of God genetically contained in man.Satan’s long war to destroy the image of God will ultimately fail. Though he will successfully deceive many and even apparently be just moments away from success, the Lord will in the end intervene. More than likely victory will appear to be just on the verge of achieving – very much like how it was in the days of Noah. Every human on the planet, except Noah and his family, were corrupted morally and perhaps also genetically as well. With only eight standing in the way, Satan must have felt that victory was his – only to watch his entire devilish work gasp for air and then perish in the flood. So too will the return of the Lord most likely be. Just at the last moment, the Lord Jesus will return to save the Jewish people and all others who trusted in Him during the Great Tribulation. He will destroy the Antichrist and the False Prophet in the Lake of Fire and Satan and his angels will be bound for one thousand years in the Pit. The Lord will also judge the nations and set up His Kingdom which will last for one thousand years initially and then forever. It is during the millennium that the conditions that were lost in the Garden of Eden will be restored to the earth, to the animals and to man himself. In the end, Jesus will crush the head of the Serpent once and for all.[i] Retrieved October 25, 2010 from: http://www.answers.com/library/Biology+Q%26A-cid-67690. [ii] Recombinant DNA. (2008, April 2). New World Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 23, 2010 from http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Recombinant_DNA?oldid=682672. Berg et al. 2007. [iii] Plasmids, small extra-chromosomal circles of bacterial DNA, can be used to carry DNA into bacterial cells. Each plasmid contains about 5 genes, and doesn’t mind carrying around one  more. Once the bacteria has a copy of the foreign gene, it treats it as one of its own and replicates it every time it replicates the plasmid (this is called DNA cloning). Over the course of a day or two, billions of bacteria will be churning out the protein coded by the gene inserted. Restriction Enzymes are produced by bacteria in response to bacteriophage (viral) infection. The enzymes chop the invading DNA up into pieces by recognizing specific DNA sequences (called restriction sites) – usually palindromic. When these enzymes cut DNA, they often leave overhangs on the ends of the DNA called “sticky ends”. http://www.biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/N100H/ch15biotech.html. Berg et al. 2007.[iv] Horn’s research has served as a catalyst for some of the ideas in this book.[v] Retrieved October 25, 2010 from: http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas123.htm.[vi] Retrieved October 25, 2010 from: http://newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas160.htm.[vii] David Lewis, UFO: End Time Delusion, p. 46.

Saturday, April 23, 2022

MY MOHAWK RACEWAY PREDICTIONS 2022 RD 63 SAT APR 23,2022

    MOHAWK STANDARDBREAD HARNESS RACEWAY 2022 - RESULTS AS OF SAT APR-23, 2022 - DAY-063

MOHAWK PICKS
01-6-3-4-1
02-2-5-7-4 S-2.70, 4TH (10-1), MEX-16.00, MTRI-19.80, MSUP-49.40 - 87.90
03-7-8-6-1 W-6.70, P-2.90, S-2.90, SEX-13.20, STRI-23.55 - 137.15
04-9-4-1-0 W-3.20, MTRI-20.55, DD-10.00 - 170.90
05-9-5-7-8 4TH WBP (7.2)
06-2-1-4-0 P-8.90 - 179.80
07-6-9-7-4 W-3.20, 4TH (8-1) - 183.00
08-2-8-7-4 W-2.50, DD-4.70 - 190.20
09-8-1-6-2
10-4-7-6-10 4TH (15-1), MEX-14.30 - 204.50
11-9-10-6-3-1 4TH (5-1)
MOHAWKS TONIGHTS TOTAL $204.50 OVERALL TOTAL $19,676.80

STANS PICKS
01-6-7-1-3-5 4TH (2-1)
02-2-4-5-6-7
03-7-8-1-4-2 W-6.70, P-2.90, 4TH (23-1), SEX-13.20 - 22.80
04-9-1-4-7-6 W-3.20, P-4.10, S-4.60, 4TH (12-1), SEX-11.70, STRI-20.55, SSUP-78.60, DD-10.00 - 155.55
05-5-6-7-9-10
06-6-4-5-2-1
07-6-4-5-8-2 W-3.20, 4TH WBP (10-1) - 158.75
08-2-5-4-6-8 W-2.50, 4TH WBP (13-1), DD-4.70 - 165.95
09-6-7-8-2-4
10-4-6-7-10-5 4TH (15-1)
11-3-9-6-4-5 4TH WBP (5-1)
HI-5 MONEY BEFORE TONIGHT = $78,621.60
STANS TONIGHTS TOTAL $165.95 OVERALL TOTAL $26,158.55

ACTUAL RACE RESULTS
01-4 (7.2)-6 (2-1)-7 (8-1)-3 (2-1) (8,10-SCR)
02-5 (5.2)-2 (4.5)-7 (3-1)-4 (10-1)
03-7 (2-1)-8 (6.5)-6 (9.2)-4 (23-1)
04-9 (3.5)-1 (7.2)-4 (10-1)-7 (12-1) (5-SCR)
05-8 (7.2)-7 (3.2)-4 (24-1)-5 (4-1) (3-SCR)
06-7 (27-1)-1 (8-1)-6 (4.5)-5 (7-1) (3-SCR)
07-6 (3.5)-8 (10-1)-9 (4-1)-4 (8-1)DH-7 (11-1)DH
08-2 (1.5)-6 (13-1)-5 (48-1)-3 (33-1)
09-4 (19-1)-8 (3.5)-5 (5-1)-9 (68-1)
10-7 (2-1)-4 (1-1)-5 (6-1)-10 (15-1) (2-SCR)
11-4 (5-1)-6 (2-1)-5 (13-1)-3 (5-1)-2 (49-1)

(MOHAWK PREDICTIONS)-RECORD 2022

01-207-BIG-$18.20 (JAN 29-8TH) (8-1), 17.20 (FEB 24-1ST) (7-1), $17.10 (FEB 19-11TH) (8-1),  
02-118-BIG-$8.90 (APR 23-6TH) (8-1), $7.40 (JAN 28-3RD) (9-1), $$7.00 (FEB 24-5TH) (7-1),
03-101-BIG-$16.60 (JAN 27-2ND) (17-1), $9.60 (APR 21-9TH) (8-1), $6.60 (FEB 03-8TH) (32-1),
04-086-BIG-34-1 (FEB 21-2ND), 31-1 (APR 15-5TH), 25-1 (JAN 31-1ST), 25-1 (APR 09-7TH),  
04-216-W B P-BIG-41-1 (MAR 24-3RD), 26-1 (MAR 05-3RD), 25-1 (APR 16-3RD), 17-1 (FEB 18-10TH),
DD-1,2-10-BIG-$36.00 (FEB 24-2ND)
DD-2,3-10-BIG-$10.70 (FEB 10-3RD)
DD-3,4-04-BIG-$21.00 (FEB 10-4TH)
DD-4,5-03-BIG-$30.50 (FEB 19-5TH)
DD-5,6-06-BIG-$46.70 (MAR 17-6TH)
DD-6,7-05-BIG-$36.40 (JAN 03-7TH)
DD-7,8-12-BIG-$27.90 (JAN 29-8TH)
DD-8,9-04-BIG-$14.20 (MAR 24-9TH)
DD-9,10-07-BIG-$21.30 (FEB 10-10TH)
DD-10,11-03-BIG-$15.70 (FEB 18-11TH)
DD-11,12-00-BIG-$0.00 (JUN 00-12TH)
DD-12,13-00-BIG-$0.00 (JUN 00-13TH)
S EX-64-BIG-$44.10 (JAN 01-1ST)
M EX-60-BIG-$76.70 (MAR 25-10TH)
S TRI-12-BIG-$49.50 (JAN 01-1ST)
M TRI-63-BIG-$165.50 (APR 04-5TH)
S SUP-02-BIG-$12.30 (FEB 21-1ST)
M SUP-55-BIG-$925.10 (MAR 04-8TH)
P3 (1-3)-05-BIG-$25.40 (FEB 24-3RD)
P3 (2-4)-01-BIG-$11.40 (FEB 10-4TH)
P3 (3-5)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-5TH)
P3 (4-6)-01-BIG-$25.40 (MAR 17-6TH)
P3 (5-7)-02-BIG-$68.80 (MAR 17-7TH)
P3 (6-8)-02-BIG-$16.00 (MAR 07-8TH)
P3 (7-9)-03-BIG-$26.60 (JAN 28-9TH)
P3 (8-10)-02-BIG-$36.65 (MAR 24-10TH)
P3 (9-11)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
P3 (10-12)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
P3 (11-13)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
P4 (4-7)-01-BIG-$66.80 (MAR 17-7TH)
P4 (7-10)-01-BIG-$19.35 (JAN 13-10TH)
P5 (1-5)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-5TH)
P5 (6-10)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
10TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
10TH -P5 (HF)-M-03-BIG-$976.00 (FEB 28-10TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-11TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-M-01-BIG-$1,349.50 (APR 02-11TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-12TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-12TH)
13TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-13TH)
13TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-13TH)
5-1+ LONG-(02)-214
5-1+ LONG TOT-(13)-854-25.1%
LONGEST LONG-32-1 (FEB O3-8TH), 19-1 (JAN 08-9TH)
LONGS THIS NIGHT T3-0-19-1 (JAN 08-9TH),
4TH PLACE PICKED CORRECT-0
4TH PLACE WRONG BUT PICKED 5-1+ ONLY-0
PICK 4 PLACINGS-26-44
OA PICK 4 PLAC TOT-1,556-2,464-63.1%
TOTAL RACES-(11)-616
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-03,02-04,03-03,04-03,05-03,06-01,07-02,08-01,09-01,10-03,11-02,12-00,13-00=26-44-OATOT-1,556-2,464-63.1%

(STANS PREDICTIONS)-RECORD AT MOHAWK 2022

01-157-BIG-$43.10 (MAR 25-1ST) (20-1), $20.60 (FEB 14-3RD) (9-1), $18.20 (MAR 11-6TH) (8-1),
02-103-BIG-$28.70 (JAN 20-7TH) (31-1), $21.30 (FEB 19-12TH) (28-1), $17.80 (MAR 07-4TH) (41-1),
03-098-BIG-$18.40 (JAN 20-1ST) (55-1), $12.50 (APR 04-10TH) (37-1), $10.00 (JAN 24-1ST) (22-1),
04-086-BIG-71-1 (FEB 12-3RD), 54-1 (FEB 14-2ND), 46-1 MAR 19-10TH) , 42-1 (APR 15-7TH),    
04-224-W B P-BIG-71-1 (FEB 12-4TH), 43-1 (FEB 07-2ND), 37-1 (JAN 07-5TH), 31-1 (APR 09-8TH),
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Thousands attend Jerusalem ‘Holy Fire’ ceremony despite complaints over restrictions-Israeli officials say they don’t want a repeat of Mt. Meron disaster; Easter ceremony at Church of the Holy Sepulchre goes ahead with some 4,000 participants-By Joseph Krauss-APR 23,22Today, 4:09 pm

JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Christians celebrated the “Holy Fire” ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Saturday against a backdrop of rising tensions with Israeli authorities, which imposed new restrictions on attendance this year that it said were needed for safety.Israel says it wants to prevent another disaster after a crowd stampede at a packed Jewish holy site last year left 45 people dead. Christian leaders say there’s no need to alter a ceremony that has been held for centuries.In the dense confines of Jerusalem’s Old City, where Jews, Christians and Muslims must share their holiest sites — no matter how reluctantly — even small changes can cause prophetic angst.The city has already seen a week of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at the nearby Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam, which sites atop the Temple Mount.This year major Jewish, Christian and Muslim holidays have converged against a backdrop of renewed Israeli-Palestinian violence. Tensions have soared as tens of thousands of people flock to Jerusalem’s Old City to visit some of the holiest sites for all three faiths for the first time since the lifting of pandemic restrictions.Eastern Orthodox Christians believe that on the Saturday before Easter a miraculous flame appears inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a sprawling 12th-century basilica built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried, and resurrected.Every year the Greek patriarch enters the Holy Edicule, a chamber built on the traditional site of the tomb, and returns with a lit lantern, passing the flame from candle to candle among thousands of people, gradually illuminating the walls of the darkened basilica. The flame is later transferred to Orthodox communities in other countries on special flights.The source of the Holy Fire has been a closely guarded secret for centuries, and highbrow skeptics going back to the Middle Ages have scorned it as a carnival trick for the masses.Two years ago, the church was nearly empty because of a coronavirus lockdown, but Israel made special arrangements for the flame to be carried abroad. Hundreds attended last year, when travel restrictions were in place and the ceremony was limited to the fully vaccinated.This year, Israel says it is applying a safety law that limits crowd size based on space and the number of exits. Authorities say they want to prevent a repeat of last year’s stampede on Mount Meron in northern Israel during a religious festival attended by around 100,000 mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews.It was one of the worst disasters in the country’s history, and authorities came in for heavy criticism over alleged negligence.“There’s never a problem until there’s a problem, and this is what happened last year in Meron,” said Tania Berg-Rafaeli, the director of interreligious affairs at the Israeli Foreign Ministry.If something were to happen at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, “we would have to take responsibility for that, and we want to avoid any problem,” she said.Authorities said they would allow a total of 4,000 people to attend the Holy Fire ceremony, including 1,800 inside the church itself, which has a single large entryway with a raised step. Berg-Rafaeli said Israeli authorities have been in close contact with the churches and would revise the quota upwards next year if more doors in the basilica can be opened.“It’s totally about safety and not at all about anything else,” she said.Church leaders rejected any restrictions on principle, saying they infringe on religious freedom. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, like Al-Aqsa, is governed by a decades-old set of informal arrangements known as the status quo. As at Al-Aqsa, seemingly minor violations have ignited violence, including notorious brawls between monks of different denominations. Thousands gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem this morning, for the Holy Fire ceremony pic.twitter.com/9Pnrp8cQAd — Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) April 23, 2022-In a statement released earlier this month, the Greek Patriarchate said it was “fed up with police restrictions on freedom to worship.”“The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has decided, by the power of the Lord, that it will not compromise its right to provide spiritual services in all churches and squares,” it said. “Prayers will be held as usual.” The patriarchate says up to 11,000 people attend in normal years.Police sealed off the main entrances to the Christian Quarter with barricades. Large crowds jostled to get in, as the police waved through a trickle of local residents and some foreign tourists.The ceremony, which goes back at least 1,200 years, hasn’t always passed peacefully.In 1834, a frenzied stampede broke out in the darkened church, and the ruler of the Holy Land at the time barely escaped with his life after his guards drew swords and hacked their way through the crowd, the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore recounts in his history of Jerusalem. Some 400 pilgrims died in the melee, most from suffocation or trampling.Israel says it is committed to ensuring freedom of worship for Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and has long presented itself as an island of tolerance in the Middle East. Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem today; thousands in attendance at the Holy Fire ceremony pic.twitter.com/MoHyT27Sqd — Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) April 23, 2022-In recent years, however, tensions have risen with the local Christian community, most of whom are Palestinian Christians, a population that has steadily dwindled through decades of conflict as many have sought economic opportunities abroad.In recent years, the Greek Patriarchate has been locked in a legal battle with a Jewish nationalist group over the sale of three properties in the Old City, including two Palestinian-run hotels. The patriarchate says it has proof of corruption in the disputed 2004 sale.Israel’s Supreme Court upheld the sale in 2019, ruling in favor of Ateret Cohanim, an Israeli organization that seeks to expand the Jewish presence in mostly Palestinian neighborhoods of east Jerusalem.The group took over part of one of the hotels — a popular backpacker hostel — last month. Christian leaders denounced the move, accusing them of trying to change the religious character of Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter.The frustration could be felt outside the New Gate leading to the Christian Quarter on Saturday, as people jostled with police to get in, lifting baby strollers and small children over the barricades as some were waved through.“It’s like this every year and every year there’s a different excuse,” said Dr. Muna Mushahwar, a physician who argued with police as she tried to organize the entry of a foreign delegation.“They don’t want the Christians here. The more you push people the more frustrated they get and then they leave.”

Ukraine says Russians trying to storm Mariupol steel plant, port city’s last defense-Officials estimate 2,000 troops defending 1,000 civilians sheltering at facility’s underground tunnels; Putin had ordered military to only blockade the area-By david keyton and YESICA FISCH-APR 23,22-Today, 3:08 pm

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces attacked a steel plant in the shattered Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said, apparently seeking to eliminate the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the strategic city the Kremlin claims its military has otherwise seized.The assault was reported by an adviser to Ukraine’s presidential office as an estimated 1,000 civilians sheltered in the Azovstal plant alongside the remaining Ukrainian fighters, while Russian forces pressed their offensive elsewhere in the eastern Donbas region amid fierce Ukrainian counterattacks.The presidential adviser, Oleksiy Arestovich, said during a briefing that Russian forces had resumed airstrikes on the massive seaside plant and were trying to storm it, which would represent a reversal from an order Russian President Vladimir Putin gave two days earlier.Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Putin on Thursday that the whole of Mariupol, with the exception of Azovstal, had been “liberated” by the Russians. At the time, Putin ordered him not to send Russian troops into the plant but instead to block off the facility, an apparent attempt to starve out the Ukrainians and force them to surrender.Ukrainian officials have estimated that about 2,000 of their troops are inside the plant along with the civilians sheltering in the facility’s underground tunnels. Arestovic said the Ukrainian forces were trying to counter the new attacks. ????????I am commander of Azov regiment, Denis Prokopenko. I call to the leaders of the world. Right now, in Mariupol, at "Azovstal" steel factory hundreds of civilians are sheltering. Among them – people of all ages, women, children, families of Mariupol defenders.???????? pic.twitter.com/7IG6cEJHud — АЗОВ (@Polk_Azov) April 18, 2022-Earlier Saturday, the Azov Regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard, which has members holed up in the plant, released footage of around two dozen women and children, some of whom said they had been in the mill’s underground tunnels for two months and longed to see the sun.“We want to see peaceful skies, we want to breathe in fresh air,” one woman in the video said. “You have simply no idea what it means for us to simply eat, drink some sweetened tea. For us, it is already happiness.”The regiment’s deputy commander, Sviatoslav Palamar, told The Associated Press the video was shot Thursday, the same day Russia declared victory over the rest of Mariupol. The contents could not be independently verified.Both Ukrainian and Russian authorities have said the Azovstal plant is the last remaining defense stronghold in Mariupol, which has strategic importance to Moscow and has been under siege since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.More than 100,000 people — down from a prewar population of about 430,000 — are believed trapped in Mariupol with little food, water or heat, according to Ukrainian authorities.The footage of Azovstal showed soldiers giving sweets to children who respond with fist-bumps. One young girl says she and her relatives “haven’t seen neither the sky, nor the sun” since they left home on Feb. 27.Over 20,000 civilians have been killed in Mariupol during the nearly two-month siege. Satellite images released this week showed what appeared to be mass graves near Mariupol, and local officials accused Russia of burying thousands of civilians to conceal the slaughter taking place there.Ukrainian officials had said they were trying again Saturday to evacuate women, children and older adults from Mariupol after many previous attempts failed. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on the messaging app Telegram that the effort was to get underway at midday, but it wasn’t clear how the new assault on the plant would affect any possible evacuation.Russia has pulled a dozen crack military units from Mariupol to bolster the offensive elsewhere in the eastern Donbas region, while other troops continue to keep the remaining Ukrainian troops in the city pinned in the plant, Ukrainian officials said.In Donbas, Russian troops pressed their offensive in an attempt to fully seize Ukraine’s industrial heartland but have made little headway as fierce Ukrainian counterattacks have slowed their efforts, Ukrainian and British officials said Saturday.Ukrainian forces over the past 24 hours repelled eight Russian attacks in the two regions, destroying nine tanks, 18 armored units and 13 vehicles, a tanker and three artillery systems, Ukraine’s General Staff said.“Units of Russian occupiers are regrouping. Russian enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure,” the General Staff said on its Facebook page.Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai said Saturday that two people were killed by Russian shelling in the city of Popasna. Separately, Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Synehubov said on Telegram on Saturday that two people were killed and 19 more wounded by the Russian shelling. Synehubov said that over the past day the Russian forces fired at the region’s civilian infrastructure 56 times.“In addition to the fact that street fighting continues in the city (of Popasna) for several weeks, the Russian army constantly fires at multistory residential buildings and private houses,” Haidai wrote on the messaging app Telegram. “Just yesterday, local residents withstood five enemy artillery attacks. … Not all survived,”Britain’s Ministry of Defense said despite their increased activity “Russian forces have made no major gains in the last 24 hours as Ukrainian counter-attacks continue to hinder the efforts.”Russia still has not established air or sea control due to Ukrainian resistance, and despite Putin’s declaration of victory in Mariupol, “heavy fighting continues to take place, frustrating Russian attempts to capture the city, thus further slowing their desired progress in the Donbas,” the Ministry of Defense said.Overall, the Kremlin has thrown more than 100,000 troops and mercenaries from Syria and Libya into the fight in Ukraine and is deploying more forces in the country every day, Danilov said.“We have a difficult situation, but our army is defending our state,” he said.In western Ukraine, regional governor Maksym Kozytskyy announced a curfew for the Lviv area ahead of Orthodox Easter. Kozytskyy cited “new intelligence” and said the curfew would run from 11 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday, and then every day between these hours until further notice.“Unfortunately, the enemy doesn’t have such a concept as a major religious holiday,” Kozytskyy wrote.Mariupol has taken on outsize importance in the war. Fully capturing it would deprive the Ukrainians of a vital port and allow Russia to create a land corridor with the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014.Taking over the city also would allow Putin to throw more of his forces into the potentially climactic battle for the Donbas and its coal mines, factories and other industries.The city has been reduced largely to smoking rubble by weeks of bombardment, and Russian state TV showed the flag of the pro-Moscow Donetsk separatists raised on what it said was the city’s highest point, its TV tower. It also showed what it said was the main building at in flames.Under cover of darkness, Ukrainian forces have managed to deliver weapons to the besieged steelworks via helicopter, said Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council.The latest satellite photos from Maxar Technologies revealed what appeared to be a second mass grave site near Mariupol. The site at a cemetery in the town of Vynohradne has several newly dug parallel trenches measuring about 40 meters (131 feet) long, Maxar said in a statement.Earlier, Maxar released photos of what appeared to be rows upon rows of more than 200 freshly dug mass graves next to a cemetery in the town of Manhush, outside Mariupol. That prompted Ukrainian accusations that the Russians are trying to conceal the slaughter of civilians in the city.The Ukrainians estimated that the graves seen in the photos released Thursday could hold 9,000 bodies.The Kremlin did not respond to the satellite pictures.

After Moscow visit next week, UN chief to meet Zelensky in Ukraine-Antonio Guterres heading to meet Putin on Tuesday, then Ukrainian president two days later-By AFP-APR 23,22-Today, 12:20 pm

UNITED NATIONS, United States — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine next week after a stop in Moscow to confer with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war, the UN said Friday.Guterres will see Zelensky and Ukraine’s foreign minister on Thursday, two days after visiting Moscow, the United Nations said in a statement.The Kremlin confirmed Friday that Putin would meet Guterres on Tuesday.Guterres sent letters this week requesting these in-person meetings to try to regain the initiative for the UN, which has been largely marginalized from the crisis since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.In part this is because the war has divided the UN Security Council permanent members: the United States, France, Britain, China and Russia.China has refused to condemn the invasion, depicting Russia as a victim of Western efforts to weaken it.With the letters he sent on Tuesday, Guterres sought to spur dialogue to end the war.“At this time of great peril and consequence, he would like to discuss urgent steps to bring about peace in Ukraine,” spokesman Stephane Dujarric said this week.Guterres has had little contact with Zelensky since the war began, speaking with him just once by telephone, on March 26.Putin has not taken Guterres’s phone calls, or had any contact with him, since the UN chief stated that the invasion violated the UN charter.

Civilian evacuation effort set for Mariupol, say Ukraine authorities-Deputy PM says another attempt will be made to get women, children and elderly in bombarded city to safer area-By Agencies and TOI staff-APR 23,22-Today, 11:26 am

Ukraine will make a new attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, the heavily destroyed city largely controlled by Russian forces, at noon on Saturday, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.Vereshchuk said on the Telegram messaging app there will be another attempt to evacuate women, children and the elderly from the strategic port city of Mariupol, which has been besieged by Russian forces for weeks and reduced largely to smoking rubble by constant bombardment.“Today we will again try to evacuate women, children and the elderly,” Vereshchuk said on Telegram, calling for people to gather on the motorway close to the Port City shopping center in the city. “If everything happens as planned, we will start the evacuation around noon.”Many previous attempts to evacuate civilians from the city have failed.The Kremlin earlier this week declared that Mariupol has been “liberated,” with the exception of the Azovstal steel mill, the last pocket of resistance where Ukrainian troops are holed up.The governor of the eastern Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said on Telegram that an evacuation train will depart Saturday from the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which comprise Ukraine’s industrial heartland known as Donbas, will be able to take the train free of charge.It will bring them to the Western city of Chop near Ukraine’s border with Slovakia and Hungary, according to Haidai.Russia has said that establishing full control over the Donbas, a large part of which has been in the hands of Russia-backed separatists since 2014, is currently one of the main goals of its operation in Ukraine.Haidai also said Saturday that two people were killed by Russian shelling in the city of Popasna.Haidai said on the messaging app Telegram that residential buildings in the region were shelled 12 times the previous day, and Popasna “got the most” of it.“In addition to the fact that street fighting continues in the city for several weeks, the Russian army constantly fires at multi-story residential buildings and private houses. Just yesterday, local residents withstood five enemy artillery attacks… Not all survived,” Haidai wrote.He added that some houses were also destroyed in Lysychansk and Novodruzhesk.On Friday, the city council and an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol said that another mass grave has been found outside the city.The city council posted a satellite photo provided by Planet Labs showing what it said was a mass grave 45 meters (147.64 feet) by 25 meters (82.02 feet) that could hold the bodies of at least 1,000 Mariupol residents.It said the new reported mass grave is outside the village of Vynohradne, which is east of Mariupol.Earlier this week, satellite photos from Maxar Technologies revealed what appeared to be rows upon rows of more than 200 freshly dug mass graves in the town of Manhush, located to the west of Mariupol.The discovery of mass graves has led to accusations that the Russians are trying to conceal the slaughter of civilians in the city.

Despite advances, Russia makes ‘no major gains’ in past 24 hours, says UK intel-Ukrainian counter-attacks continue to hinder Russian forces’ efforts, reports British Ministry of Defence-By TOI staff and Agencies-APR 23,22-Today, 10:02 am

As Russia presses ahead with its deadly war on Ukraine, now focused on destroying and capturing the country’s eastern parts, its forces have made “no major gains” over the past 24 hours, hindered by Ukrainian counter-attacks, according to a daily intelligence report by the UK’s Ministry of Defence Saturday.“Russian air and maritime forces have not established control in either domain owing to the effectiveness of Ukraine’s air and sea defense reducing their ability to make notable progress,” the ministry said.In addition, despite Moscow’s claims of the “liberation” of the strategic port city of Mariupol, “heavy fighting continues to take place frustrating Russian attempts to capture the city thus further slowing their desired progress in the Donbas,” the report added.The Ukraine military’s general staff said Saturday that Russian forces continue their “offensive operations” in eastern Ukraine with the goal of defeating Ukrainian forces, establishing full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and securing “a land route between these territories and the occupied Crimea.”Ukrainian forces in the past 24 hours repelled eight Russian attacks in the two regions, destroying nine tanks, 18 armored units and 13 vehicles, a tanker and three artillery systems, the general staff said on its Facebook page on Saturday morning.Russian forces continue to partially block and shell Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and are active in the area of Izyum, the update said.In Mariupol, Russian troops “continue to blockade” Ukrainian units in the area of the Azovstal steelworks, the last remaining stronghold, and “launch airstrikes on the city, including with the use of long-range aircraft,” the post said, adding that an engineering unit arrived in Mariupol in order to demine the port infrastructure.The city, reduced largely to smoking rubble by weeks of Russian bombardment, Russian state TV showed the flag of the pro-Moscow Donetsk separatists raised on what it said was the city’s highest point, its TV tower.Russian forces are pummeling an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters holed up inside the sprawling Azovstal plant, the last known pocket of resistance in the strategic southern port city, the mayor’s office reported.“Every day they drop several bombs on Azovstal,” said Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol’s mayor. “Fighting, shelling, bombing do not stop.”On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in the battle for Mariupol despite the steel-mill holdouts. He ordered his forces not to storm the plant to finish off the defenders but to seal it off instead in an apparent bid to force them to surrender.The Kremlin has thrown over 100,000 troops and mercenaries from Syria and Libya into the fight in Ukraine and is deploying more forces in the country every day, said Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council.“We have a difficult situation, but our army is defending our state,” he said.Numerous cities and villages came under bombardment in the Donbas — the industrial region in the east that the Kremlin has declared the new, main theater of war — as well as in the Kharkiv region just to the west, and in the south, authorities said.Mariupol has taken on outsize importance in the war. Capturing it would deprive the Ukrainians of a vital port and complete a land corridor between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, which Putin seized from Ukraine in 2014.It would also allow Putin to throw more of his forces into the potentially climactic battle for the Donbas and its coal mines, factories and other industries, or what the Kremlin has now declared to be its main objective.Danilov reported that some 12 to 14 of Russia’s elite military units have, in fact, left Mariupol and begun moving to the east to take part in the fighting there.“It will now be difficult for our forces, because our guys in Mariupol were taking [those units] on themselves. It is their courage and feat,” he said.Danilov also said Kyiv managed to deliver weapons via helicopter at great risk under cover of night to the Mariupol steelworks, which have been bombarded for weeks.Putin said Russia gave Ukrainian forces inside the plant the option to surrender, with guarantees to keep them alive, and offered “decent treatment and medical care,” according to an account of a phone call with European Council President Charles Michel, provided by the Kremlin.“But the Kyiv regime does not allow them to take this opportunity,” Putin charged.More than 100,000 people — down from a prewar population of about 430,000 — are believed trapped in Mariupol with little food, water or heat, and over 20,000 civilians have been killed in the nearly two-month siege, according to Ukrainian authorities.Most attempts to evacuate civilians from the city have failed because of what the Ukrainians said was continued Russian shelling.Satellite photos released Friday by Maxar Technologies revealed what appeared to be a second mass grave site excavated recently near Mariupol. The site at a cemetery in the town of Vynohradne has several newly dug parallel trenches measuring about 40 meters (131 feet) long, Maxar said in a statement.A day earlier, Maxar made public satellite photos of what appeared to be rows upon rows of more than 200 freshly dug mass graves next to a cemetery in the town of Manhush, outside Mariupol. That prompted Ukrainian accusations that the Russians are trying to conceal the slaughter of civilians in the city.

1 rocket falls short of border; 2 land in open Israeli areas-Israel shutters Gaza pedestrian crossing after three more rockets fired at south-Gantz had vowed ‘harsh response’ to continued rocket fire, but military doesn’t strike Hamas sites overnight; Erez Crossing to reopen following assessment on Sunday-By Emanuel Fabian-APR 23,22-Today, 8:42 am

Israel announced the temporary closure of its sole pedestrian crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, after three rockets were fired from the Hamas-run coastal enclave at southern Israel late Friday and overnight.According to the military’s liaison to the Palestinians, the crossing will not reopen for Palestinian workers on Sunday after it had been shuttered since Thursday afternoon due to the Passover holiday.“Following the rockets that were fired toward Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip last night, it was decided that crossings into Israel for Gazan merchants and workers through the Erez Crossing will not be permitted this upcoming Sunday,” the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, known by its acronym COGAT, said in a statement.“The re-opening of the crossing will be decided in accordance with a security situational assessment,” COGAT added.The crossing — along with crossings with the West Bank — was already closed since Thursday at 5 p.m., and was to remain in effect until Saturday at an hour yet to be determined.Exceptions are made for humanitarian and other outstanding cases but require the approval of COGAT.The number of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who can work in Israel was raised to 12,000 last month, and the government said it would raise it by an additional 8,000, to a total of 20,000. Another video shows the two rocket launches at southern Israel, one which fell short. pic.twitter.com/tRyWkvRyGt — Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 22, 2022-Israel avoided responding militarily to the three rockets, despite a series of strikes this week that came in response to similar attacks.Defense Minister Benny Gantz had vowed on Thursday to provide a “harsh response” to continued rocket fire.“The defense minister noted that before the holiday [of Passover], forces and preparedness in the area were upped, and that the policy of a harsh response to all terror activities will continue,” Gantz’s office said. The defense minister had met with leaders of communities near the border with the Gaza Strip, hours after Israeli jets struck Hamas targets following an earlier rocket attack.On Friday night, one rocket landed in an open field in the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council, while the second fell short in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the military. Hours later, a third rocket was fired from the southern Gaza Strip, landing in an open area near a town close to the border.It was the fifth rocket attack on southern Israel in a week, after one fell short in Gaza on Thursday, one landed near a home in the city of Sderot on Wednesday, and another was shot down by air defenses on Monday.There was no immediate claim of responsibility by any of the Gaza-based terror groups for the rocket fire, though Monday’s attack was blamed on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in several media reports.The IDF responded to Monday’s and Wednesday’s rocket launches with air raids targeting a number of Hamas military sites in Gaza, including one used by the terror group to manufacture weapons.The army said in its early Thursday statement that it holds Hamas responsible for what takes place in the Gaza Strip, sticking to its long-held policy of targeting posts belonging to the group in response to rocket fire, regardless of whether its fighters were behind the launches or not.This week’s rocket attacks ended an almost four-month period of quiet on the Gaza border. Wednesday’s rocket fire came at the tail-end of a tension-filled day in Jerusalem, where Israeli nationalists were prevented by police from marching through the Old City’s Damascus Gate, a popular gathering point for Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Hamas had threatened to attack if the march went ahead.The last few days have seen violent clashes between Palestinian rioters and police on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, leading to the injury of dozens of Palestinians and several police officers.Hamas and other Gaza-based terror groups have repeatedly invoked the flashpoint holy site as a red line. Police actions to quell riots there last year were among the triggers of an 11-day war in Gaza last May.The Gaza Strip has been blockaded by both Israel and Egypt for 15 years in an attempt to contain the enclave’s Hamas rulers and other groups. Israel says the tight restrictions on goods and people are necessary due to efforts by Hamas, which is sworn to Israel’s destruction, to massively arm itself for attacks against the Jewish state.Critics lament the blockade’s impact on ordinary Gazans, around 50 percent of whom are unemployed, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. The sky-high poverty rates make employment in Israel a highly attractive option for those lucky enough to receive permits.

Ukraine says Russian strike on Odesa killed 5, including three-month-old infant-Kyiv says 18 people wounded in missile attack on Black Sea port, which hit military facility and two residential buildings; Moscow continues assault on last Mariupol stronghold-By Agencies-APR 23,22-Today, 7:04 pm

A Russian strike killed at least five people, including a baby, and wounded 18 others in Ukraine’s Black Sea city of Odesa on Saturday, Kyiv said, warning the toll would likely rise.“Five Ukrainians killed and 18 wounded. And those are only the ones that we were able to find. It is likely that the death toll will be heavy,” the head of Ukraine’s presidential office Andriy Yermak said on Telegram. “A three-month-old baby was among those killed.”Earlier on Saturday, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said: “The only aim of Russian missile strikes on Odesa is terror.”Ukraine’s air force said its defense systems intercepted two Russian TU-95 missiles that it said were fired from the Caspian Sea.But it said four other missiles hit the city, including civilian infrastructure.“Unfortunately, two missiles hit a military facility and two hit residential buildings,” the air force’s southern command said on Facebook.Odesa, a largely Russian-speaking city and cultural hub, has been targeted previously by Moscow’s forces which were rebuffed by Ukraine.Meanwhile, an adviser to Ukraine’s presidential office said on Saturday that Russian forces are attacking a steel plant that is the last defense stronghold of Ukrainian forces in the strategic port city of Mariupol.Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, said during a briefing on Saturday that the Russian forces have resumed airstrikes on Azovstal and were trying to storm it.“The enemy is trying to completely suppress resistance of the defenders of Mariupol in the area of Azovstal,” Arestovich said.Arestovich’s statement came two days after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the whole of Mariupol, with the exception of Azovstal, had been “liberated” by the Russians.Putin ordered the Russian military not to storm the plant and instead to block it off in an apparent attempt to stifle the remaining pocket of resistance there.Ukrainian officials have estimated that about 2,000 of their troops are inside the plant along with about 1,000 sheltering in the facility’s underground tunnels.Arestovich says the Ukrainian fighters are still holding on despite the resumed attacks and are even trying to counter them.

Iran Revolutionary Guards general survives deadly ambush in restive region — report-Bodyguard killed near checkpoint in Sistan-Baluchistan province; attackers arrested, says Iran state TV-By TOI staff and Agencies-APR 23,22-Today, 8:33 am

An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general is said to have survived a deadly attack that killed a bodyguard, according to a report on Iranian state TV Saturday.Brigadier General Hossein Almassi, a Guards commander in the restive Sistan-Baluchistan province, was traveling in a vehicle near a checkpoint in the provincial capital Zahedan when it came under fire by gunmen, Reuters reported Saturday, citing Iranian TV.The general sustained no injuries, the report said.The bodyguard who was slain was identified as Mahmoud Absalom, the son of a senior IRGC commander in the region, according to a report by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).Authorities have arrested some suspects but did not identify them, the report added.Sistan-Baluchistan is the site of occasional clashes between Iranian forces and various militant groups. The relationship between the predominantly Sunni residents of the region and Iran’s Shiite theocracy has long been fraught.The province, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, is a base for a Sunni separatist group affiliated with al-Qaeda and known as Jeish al-Adl, or Army of Justice.Security forces have also clashed with drug traffickers in the province, located along a major smuggling route for Afghan opium and heroin.In January, IRGC forces said they killed an unidentified gunman who attacked its intelligence office in the town of Saravan in Sistan-Baluchistan, about 1,360 kilometers (850 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran.In late December, the IRGC said it killed six “armed bandits” in a shootout in the region that also left three of its members dead.The IRGC is a US-designated terrorist organization.

Surprisingly low Shanghai COVID death toll spurs questions of government cover-up-City of 25 million only reports 25 coronavirus deaths despite major outbreak in recent months; Chinese authorities use less transparent, inconsistent methods of tallying statistics-By HUIZHONG WU and Dake Kang-22 April 2022, 11:51 pm

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Lu Muying died on April 1 in a government quarantine facility in Shanghai, with her family on the phone as doctors tried to resuscitate her. She had tested positive for COVID-19 in late March and was moved there in line with government policy that all coronavirus cases be centrally isolated.But the 99-year-old, who was just two weeks shy of her 100th birthday, was not counted as a COVID-19 death in Shanghai’s official tally. In fact, the city of more than 25 million has only reported 25 coronavirus deaths despite an outbreak that has spanned nearly two months and infected hundreds of thousands of people in the world’s third-largest city.Lu’s death underscores how the true extent of the virus toll in Shanghai has been obscured by Chinese authorities. Doctors told Lu’s relatives she died because COVID-19 exacerbated her underlying heart disease and high blood pressure, yet she still was not counted.Interviews with family members of patients who have tested positive, a publicly released phone call with a government health official and an internet archive compiled by families of the dead all raise issues with how the city is counting its cases and deaths, almost certainly resulting in a marked undercount.The result is a blurred portrait of an outbreak that has sweeping ramifications for both the people of Shanghai and the rest of the world, given the city’s place as an economic, manufacturing, and shipping hub.An Associated Press examination of the death toll sheds light on how the numbers have been clouded by the way Chinese health authorities tally COVID-19 statistics, applying a much narrower, less transparent, and at times inconsistent standard than the rest of the world.In most countries, including the United States, guidelines stipulate that any death where COVID-19 is a factor or contributor is counted as a COVID-related death.But in China, health authorities count only those who died directly from COVID-19, excluding those, like Lu, whose underlying conditions were worsened by the virus, said Zhang Zuo-Feng, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.  “If the deaths could be ascribed to underlying disease, they will always report it as such and will not count it as a COVID-related death, that’s their pattern for many years,” said Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong’s medical school.That narrower criteria means China’s COVID-19 death toll will always be significantly lower than those of many other nations.Both Jin and Zhang said this has been China’s practice since the beginning of the pandemic and is not proof of a deliberate attempt to underreport the death count.However, Shanghai authorities have quietly changed other standards behind the scenes, in ways that have violated China’s own regulations and muddied the virus’ true toll.During this outbreak, Shanghai health authorities have only considered virus cases where lung scans show a patient with evidence of pneumonia as “symptomatic,” three people, including a Chinese public health official, told the AP. All other patients are considered “asymptomatic” even if they test positive and have other typical COVID-19 symptoms like sneezing, coughing or headaches.This way of classifying asymptomatic cases conflicts with China’s past national guidelines. It’s also a sharp change from January, when Wu Fan, a member of Shanghai’s epidemic prevention expert group, said that those with even the slightest symptoms, like fatigue or a sore throat, would be “strictly” classified as a symptomatic case.Further adding to the confusion, the city has overlapping systems to track whether someone has the virus. City residents primarily rely on what’s called their Health Cloud, a mobile application that allows them to see their COVID-19 test results. However, the Shanghai health authorities have a separate system to track COVID-19 test results, and they have the sole authority to confirm cases. At times, the data between the systems conflict.In practice, these shifting and inconsistent processes give China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “wiggle room” to determine COVID-related deaths, said the Chinese health official, allowing them to rule out the coronavirus as being the cause of death for people who didn’t have lung scans or positive test results logged on their apps. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive topic.In response to questions about Shanghai’s COVID-19 figures, China’s top medical authority, the National Health Commission, said in a fax that there is “no basis to suspect the accuracy of China’s epidemic data and statistics.” Shanghai’s city government did not respond to a faxed request for comment.Statements from the authorities are little comfort to the relatives of the dead. Chinese internet users, doubting the official figures, have built a virtual archive of the deaths that have occurred since Shanghai’s lockdown based on firsthand information posted online. They have recorded 170 deaths so far.Chinese media reports on the unrecorded COVID-19 deaths have been swiftly censored, and many criticisms of Shanghai’s stringent measures expunged online. Instead, state media has continued to uphold China’s zero-COVID approach as proof of the success of its political system, especially as the world’s official death toll climbs past 6.2 million.Earlier this month, doubts over the data burst into public view when a Shanghai resident uploaded a recording of a phone conversation he had with a CDC officer in which he questioned why city health authorities told his father he had tested positive for COVID-19 when data on his father’s mobile application showed up as negative.“Didn’t I tell you to not look at the Health Cloud?” said the official, Zhu Weiping, referring to the app. “The positive cases are only from us notifying people.”Others skeptical of the data include relatives of Zong Shan, an 86-year-old former Russian translator who died March 29. Despite testing positive and being moved to a government quarantine facility, online test results showed Zong supposedly was negative for COVID-19 on the day of her death.“My relative, like most of the other people in Shanghai who were notified as positive, all reported negative results” on the Health Cloud app, one of Zong’s relatives said, declining to be named for fear of retribution.Zong was taken to a government quarantine facility from the Donghai Elderly Care Hospital on March 29, and died there that night. The family was told by hospital staff she was being transferred after she tested positive for COVID-19. But they didn’t think the virus was the biggest threat to her health — rather, it was the dearth of nursing care at the quarantine facility. Zong needed to be fed liquids and couldn’t eat without assistance.She had been in stable condition before the transfer, said a relative. When the family asked for the cause of death, doctors didn’t give a clear answer.“They gave me very vague answers. One minute they said it was stroke, then they said this was also just a hypothesis,” said the relative. “But on one point, they were very clear, they said it had nothing to do with COVID. Her lungs were clear.”Lu, who was also transferred from the Donghai hospital, would have celebrated her 100th birthday on April 16; her relatives had ordered a cake and gotten permission to host a small celebration Thursday. But when she tested positive, the family made mental preparations for her death, acknowledging she had lived a long life.But the strange thing, a relative said, was the night before she died, the doctor had specifically called the family to let them know Lu was now testing negative for COVID-19. Ultimately, the doctor said she died because the virus had worsened her underlying illnesses, said the relative, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the issue.Further, the family knew of another patient from the same hospital, a neighbor, who died the day after being transferred to a quarantine facility on March 25 and also had not been counted.Jin, the Hong Kong virologist, noted the potential political benefits of Shanghai’s low official COVID-19 death toll.“They might claim this is their achievement, and this is their victory,” Jin said.

Friday, April 22, 2022

MY MOHAWK RACEWAY PREDICTIONS 2022 RD 62 FRI APR 22,2022

    MOHAWK STANDARDBREAD HARNESS RACEWAY 2022 - RESULTS AS OF FRI APR-22, 2022 - DAY-062

MOHAWK PICKS
01-3-5-4-2 4TH WBP (5-1)
02-8-4-2-6 MTRI-99.00 - 99.00
03-9-4-6-10
04-2-7-4-3 MEX-9.80 - 108.80
05-6-4-2-5 W-7.20, 4TH (9.5) - 116.00
06-3-7-8-4 W-4.20, DD-16.80 - 137.00
07-6-5-8-10
08-1-4-2-3
09-1-4-8-6 4TH WBP (9.2)
10-8-3-2-1 W-4.40, P-3.50 , SEX-12.90 - 157.80
11-4-3-6-7-1 W-2.40, DD-5.00 - 165.20
MOHAWK TONIGHTS TOTAL $165.20 OVERALL TOTAL $19,472.30

STANS PICKS
01-3-4-5-2-7 4TH WBP (5-1)
02-8-6-5-2-4 4TH WBP (15-1)
03-8-6-10-4-3 4TH WBP (5-1)
04-2-1-4-7-3 4TH WBP (1-1)
05-4-2-6-7-8
06-3-4-7-6-2 W-4.20, S-2.80, 4TH WBP (5.2) - 7.00
07-5-1-6-8-9 W-6.00, P-10.80, S-2.70, SEX-93.20, STRI-138.00, DD-10.70 - 268.40
08-4-1-6-7-2 W-6.80, 4TH WBP (9.5), DD-18.00, P3-27.00 - 320.20
09-4-1-5-6-8 P-2.70, 4TH WBP (9.2) - 322.90
10-5-8-2-1-3
11-1-4-6-7-8 P-2.70 - 325.60
HI-5 MONEY BEFORE TONIGHT = $64,751.22
STANS TONIGHTS TOTAL $325.60 OVERALL TOTAL $25,992.60

ACTUAL RACE RESULTS
01-5 (1-1)-7 (36-1)-2 (5-1)-4 (5-1)
02-4 (3-1)-2 (15-1)-8 (3.5)-5 (5-1)
03-4 (5-1)-7 (13-1)-9 (2-1)-5 (33-1)
04-7 (1-1)-2 (4.5)-8 (44-1)-5 (22-1)
05-6 (5.2)-1 (15-1)-9 (11-1)-5 (9.5)
06-3 (1-1)-6 (5.2)-7 (9.2)-1 (17-1)
07-5 (2-1)-1 (19-1)-6 (9.5)-7 (6-1)
08-4 (2-1)-7 (9.5)-1 (2-1)-2 (8-1)
09-6 (9.2)-1 (6.5)-4 (3-1)-3 (21-1)
10-8 (6.5)-3 (5.2)-7 (10-1)-2 (8-1)
11-5 (23-1)DH-4 (3.5)DH-1 (7.2)-6 (7-1)-10 (33-1)

(MOHAWK PREDICTIONS)-RECORD 2022

01-203-BIG-$18.20 (JAN 29-8TH) (8-1), 17.20 (FEB 24-1ST) (7-1), $17.10 (FEB 19-11TH) (8-1),  
02-116-BIG-$7.40 (JAN 28-3RD) (9-1), $$7.00 (FEB 24-5TH) (7-1), $5.90 (JAN 21-5TH) (6-1),
03-099-BIG-$16.60 (JAN 27-2ND) (17-1), $9.60 (APR 21-9TH) (8-1), $6.60 (FEB 03-8TH) (32-1),
04-082-BIG-34-1 (FEB 21-2ND), 31-1 (APR 15-5TH), 25-1 (JAN 31-1ST), 25-1 (APR 09-7TH),  
04-215-W B P-BIG-41-1 (MAR 24-3RD), 26-1 (MAR 05-3RD), 25-1 (APR 16-3RD), 17-1 (FEB 18-10TH),
DD-1,2-10-BIG-$36.00 (FEB 24-2ND)
DD-2,3-10-BIG-$10.70 (FEB 10-3RD)
DD-3,4-03-BIG-$21.00 (FEB 10-4TH)
DD-4,5-03-BIG-$30.50 (FEB 19-5TH)
DD-5,6-06-BIG-$46.70 (MAR 17-6TH)
DD-6,7-05-BIG-$36.40 (JAN 03-7TH)
DD-7,8-11-BIG-$27.90 (JAN 29-8TH)
DD-8,9-04-BIG-$14.20 (MAR 24-9TH)
DD-9,10-07-BIG-$21.30 (FEB 10-10TH)
DD-10,11-03-BIG-$15.70 (FEB 18-11TH)
DD-11,12-00-BIG-$0.00 (JUN 00-12TH)
DD-12,13-00-BIG-$0.00 (JUN 00-13TH)
S EX-63-BIG-$44.10 (JAN 01-1ST)
M EX-58-BIG-$76.70 (MAR 25-10TH)
S TRI-11-BIG-$49.50 (JAN 01-1ST)
M TRI-61-BIG-$165.50 (APR 04-5TH)
S SUP-02-BIG-$12.30 (FEB 21-1ST)
M SUP-54-BIG-$925.10 (MAR 04-8TH)
P3 (1-3)-05-BIG-$25.40 (FEB 24-3RD)
P3 (2-4)-01-BIG-$11.40 (FEB 10-4TH)
P3 (3-5)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-5TH)
P3 (4-6)-01-BIG-$25.40 (MAR 17-6TH)
P3 (5-7)-02-BIG-$68.80 (MAR 17-7TH)
P3 (6-8)-02-BIG-$16.00 (MAR 07-8TH)
P3 (7-9)-03-BIG-$26.60 (JAN 28-9TH)
P3 (8-10)-02-BIG-$36.65 (MAR 24-10TH)
P3 (9-11)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
P3 (10-12)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
P3 (11-13)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
P4 (4-7)-01-BIG-$66.80 (MAR 17-7TH)
P4 (7-10)-01-BIG-$19.35 (JAN 13-10TH)
P5 (1-5)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-5TH)
P5 (6-10)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
10TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
10TH -P5 (HF)-M-03-BIG-$976.00 (FEB 28-10TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-11TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-M-01-BIG-$1,349.50 (APR 02-11TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-12TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-12TH)
13TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-13TH)
13TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-13TH)
5-1+ LONG-(02)-212
5-1+ LONG TOT-(11)-841-25.2%
LONGEST LONG-32-1 (FEB O3-8TH), 19-1 (JAN 08-9TH)
LONGS THIS NIGHT T3-0-19-1 (JAN 08-9TH),
4TH PLACE PICKED CORRECT-0
4TH PLACE WRONG BUT PICKED 5-1+ ONLY-0
PICK 4 PLACINGS-27-44
OA PICK 4 PLAC TOT-1,530-2,420-63.2%
TOTAL RACES-(11)-605
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-03,02-03,03-02,04-01,05-02,06-03,07-02,08-03,09-03,10-03,11-02,12-00,13-00=27-44-OATOT-1,530-2,420-63.2%

(STANS PREDICTIONS)-RECORD AT MOHAWK 2022

01-153-BIG-$43.10 (MAR 25-1ST) (20-1), $20.60 (FEB 14-3RD) (9-1), $18.20 (MAR 11-6TH) (8-1),
02-101-BIG-$28.70 (JAN 20-7TH) (31-1), $21.30 (FEB 19-12TH) (28-1), $17.80 (MAR 07-4TH) (41-1),
03-097-BIG-$18.40 (JAN 20-1ST) (55-1), $12.50 (APR 04-10TH) (37-1), $10.00 (JAN 24-1ST) (22-1),
04-082-BIG-71-1 (FEB 12-3RD), 54-1 (FEB 14-2ND), 46-1 MAR 19-10TH) , 42-1 (APR 15-7TH),    
04-221-W B P-BIG-71-1 (FEB 12-4TH), 43-1 (FEB 07-2ND), 37-1 (JAN 07-5TH), 31-1 (APR 09-8TH),
DD-1,2-06-BIG-$42.10 (FEB 19-2ND)
DD-2,3-04-BIG-$63.20 (FEB 14-3RD)
DD-3,4-03-BIG-$11.90 (JAN 31-4TH)
DD-4,5-03-BIG-$64.50 (MAR 18-5TH)
DD-5,6-03-BIG-$111.70 (MAR 11-6TH)
DD-6,7-04-BIG-$18.60 (APR 21-7TH)
DD-7,8-06-BIG-$26.30 (MAR 07-8TH)
DD-8,9-02-BIG-$14.40 (MAR 24-9TH)
DD-9,10-01-BIG-$11.80 (MAR 24-10TH)
DD-10,11-01-BIG-$4.80 (JAN 01-11TH)
DD-11,12-00-BIG-$0.00 (JUN 00-12TH)
DD-12,13-00-BIG-$0.00 (JUN 00-13TH)
S EX-34-BIG-$185.80 (MAR 25-1ST)
M EX-39-BIG-$223.90 (FEB 07-10TH)
S TRI-09-BIG-$138.00 (APR 22-7TH)
M TRI-37-BIG-$532.30 (JAN 20-7TH)
S SUP-03-BIG-$71.25 (APR 16-8TH)
M SUP-39-BIG-$4,176.70 (JAN 20-7TH)
P3 (1-3)-01-BIG-$09.80 (APR 21-3RD)
P3 (2-4)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-4TH)
P3 (3-5)-01-BIG-$42.20 (MAR 18-5TH)
P3 (4-6)-02-BIG-$136.15 (MAR 11-6TH)
P3 (5-7)-01-BIG-$49.75 (MAR 21-7TH)
P3 (6-8)-03-BIG-$27.00 (APR 22-8TH)
P3 (7-9)-01-BIG-$09.40 (MAR 17-9TH)
P3 (8-10)-01-BIG-$36.65 (MAR 24-10TH)
P3 (9-11)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
P3 (10-12)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
P3 (11-13)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
P4 (4-7)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-7TH)
P4 (7-10)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
P5 (1-5)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-5TH)
P5 (6-10)-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-5TH)
10TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
10TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-10TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-11TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-M-01-BIG-$99.60 (JAN 10-11TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-12TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-12TH)
13TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-13TH)
13TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$0.00 (JAN 00-13TH)
5-1+ LONG-(01)-288
5-1+ LONG TOT-(11)-841-34.2%
LONGEST LONG-67-1 (FEB 12-7TH), 55-1 (JAN 20-1ST), 35-1 (APR 07-10TH)
LONGS THIS NIGHT T3-90-1 (JAN 31,3RD), 55-1 (JAN 20-1ST), 48-1 (JAN 21-7TH), 41-1 (MAR 07-4TH),
4TH PLACE PICKED CORRECT-0
4TH PLACE WRONG BUT PICKED 5-1+ ONLY-0
PICK 4 PLACINGS-27-44
OA PICK 4 PLAC TOT-1,454-2,420-60.1%
TOTAL RACES-(11)-605
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-03,02-03,03-01,04-02,05-01-06-03,07-03,08-03,09-03,10-02,11-03,12-00,13-00=27-44-OATOT-1,454-2,420-60.1%

Thursday, April 21, 2022

THE JESUIT OATH - AS SIGNED BY POPE FRANCIS (DECEPTION ,LIES, AND CONTROL ALL CHURCHES) RUSSIA TESTS THE SATAN 2 UNSTOPABLE ROCKET.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

 THE JESUIT OATH  - AS SIGNED BY POPE FRANCIS (DECEPTION ,LIES, AND CONTROL ALL CHURCHES) RUSSIA TESTS THE SATAN 2 UNSTOPABLE ROCKET.

I now in the presence of the Almighty God, the blessed virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St. John  the Baptist . . • and my ghostly father, the superior general  of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, do by  the womb of the Virgin • . . swear that His Holiness the Pope  is Christ’s vice-regent, and is the true and only Head of the  Catholic or Universal Church ... I do now renounce and dis-own any allegiance is due to any heretical King, Prince, or State, named Protestant or Liberal, or obedience to any of their laws or magistrates, or officers. I do further declare the doc-trine of the Church of England, and Scotland, and of Calvanists, Huguenots, and others of the name of Protestant or Liberal, to be damnable, and themselves to be damned, who will not forsake the same- Ido further promise and declare that, notwithstand- ing 1 am dispensed with, to assume my religion heretical for the propagation of Mother Church’s interest, to keep secret and private all her agents, counsels, from time to time, as they in-terest me, and not divulge directly or indirectly by word, writing,or circumstances whatever. I do furthermore promise and declare that 1 will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants,  and Liberals, as I am directed to; extirpate them from the face of the earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex, or condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive those infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of the women, and crush their infants’ heads against the walls in order to annihilate their inexorable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulating cords, the steels of the poinard, or the  leaden bullets, regardless of the honour, rank, dignity, or authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed to by any agent of the Pope, or the superior of the Holy Father of  the Society of Jesus. In confirmation of which I hereby dedicate my life, my soul, and my corporeal powers; and with this dagger, which 1 now receive, I will subscribe my name written in my blood in testimony thereof; and should I prove false, or weaken in my determination may my brethren and fellow-soldiers of the militia of the Pope, cut off my hands and my feet, and my throat from ear to ear, rip my belly open, and sulphur burn therein, .and all the punishments that can be inflicted on me on earth, and my soul be tortured by demons in an eternal hell for ever. In testimony thereof I take this most holy and blessed sacrament of the Eucharist, and witness the same further with my name written with the point of this dagger, dipped in my own blood, and sealed in the face of the holy covenant- (Copied from the “Divine Calendar’, Vol. 11., edited by  Augusta Cook, and published by Dank and Sons, 1916.) Prinked by Protestant Publications, 110 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, and -obtainable at the Protestant Truth Society (Mr. A. L. Sainsbury, Secre-tary), 15a Barlow Street, Sydney.

Russia tests new intercontinental ballistic missile, threatens West-Putin hails successful launch, saying Sarmat will make countries ‘think twice’ about aggressive intentions against Moscow-By AP-20 April 2022, 11:25 pm

MOSCOW — The Russian military said Wednesday it successfully performed the first test of a new intercontinental ballistic missile, a weapon President Vladimir Putin said would make the West “think twice” before harboring any aggressive intentions against Russia.The test launch of the Sarmat missile comes amid soaring tensions between Moscow and the West over the Russian military action in Ukraine and underlines the Kremlin’s emphasis on the country’s nuclear forces.Russia’s Defense Ministry said the Sarmat ICBM was launched Wednesday from the Plesetsk launch facility in northern Russia and its practice warheads have successfully reached mock targets on the Kura firing range on the far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula.It said the launch was fully successful, proving the missile’s characteristics “in all phases of its flight.”Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said that Russia had given the US an advance notice about the launch in line with the New START nuclear arms control treaty between Moscow and Washington.“Russia properly notified the United States under its New START obligations that it planned to test this ICBM,” he said. “Such testing is routine. It was not a surprise. We did not deem the test to be a threat to the United States or its allies.” Russia test-launched Sarmat ICBM from Plesetsk https://t.co/cmn2CyA1Ud pic.twitter.com/X9l0QBOrvd — Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) April 20, 2022-Speaking to senior officials, Putin hailed the Sarmat launch, claiming that the new missile has no foreign analogs and is capable of penetrating any prospective missile defense.“This really unique weapon will strengthen the combat potential of our armed forces, reliably ensure Russia’s security from external threats and make those, who in the heat of frantic aggressive rhetoric try to threaten our country, think twice,” Putin said.Amid the new Western sanctions that banned the exports of high-tech products to Russia and specifically targeted its arms industries in response to Moscow’s action in Ukraine, Putin emphasized that the Sarmat is built exclusively from domestic components“Of course, this will simplify the serial production of the system by enterprises of the military-industrial sector and accelerate its delivery to the Strategic Missile Forces,” he added.The Sarmat is a heavy missile that has been under development for several years to replace the Soviet-made Voyevoda, which was code-named Satan by the West and forms the core of Russia’s nuclear deterrent.“The Sarmat is the most powerful missile that has the highest range in the world, and it will significantly bolster the capability of the country’s strategic nuclear forces,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.The ministry said the Sarmat is capable of carrying hypersonic glide vehicles along with other types of warheads. The Russian military had previously said that the Avangard hypersonic vehicle could be fitted to the new missile.The military has said that the Avangard is capable of flying 27 times faster than the speed of sound and making sharp maneuvers on its way to target to dodge the enemy’s missile shield.It has been fitted to the existing Soviet-built intercontinental ballistic missiles instead of older type warheads, and the first unit armed with the Avangard entered duty in December 2019.Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the state Roscosmos agency that oversees the missile factory building the Sarmat, described Wednesday’s test as a “present to NATO” in a comment on his messaging app channel.Rogozin said the Sarmat is set to be commissioned by the military this fall after the completion of its trials, calling it a “superweapon.”

Hamas calls for Palestinian ‘mobilization’ ahead of Friday’s Al-Aqsa prayers-In phone call with Russian FM, terror group’s leader hails Moscow for support; Lavrov reportedly condemns Israel’s ‘excessive’ force in Jerusalem clashes-By TOI staff-APR 21,22-Today, 6:19 pm

The Hamas terror group on Thursday called on Palestinians to “mobilize” for Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in defense of the holy site and Jerusalem.In a statement, the organization hailed the steadfastness of protesters who “repelled the incursions of the occupation and its settlers with courage and pride, assuring everyone far and wide that Al-Aqsa has men who protect it and defend its purity, despite the ugliness of aggression and terrorism of the occupiers.”At the same time, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh held a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on security developments in the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem, his office said.According to the Palestinian Shehab news agency, Haniyeh expressed appreciation for Moscow’s support of Palestinian rights at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.The head of the terror group accused Israel of preventing worshipers from reaching the Jerusalem holy site, assaulting and arresting worshipers and vandalizing property.Meanwhile, Shehab reported, Lavrov said Russia has “always been on the side of the Palestinian people in their right to self-determination and their right to establish their Palestinian state.”He denounced what he called Israel’s excessive use of force against civilians in the capital.Thursday morning saw Palestinians and Israeli police engage in fresh skirmishes on the Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa.According to police, dozens of masked rioters entered the mosque and sealed the doors before starting to hurl rocks and fireworks at officers, who responded with riot dispersal means.The Red Crescent said 20 Palestinians were wounded in the clashes.Thursday was the final day that Jewish visitors were allowed to access the site ahead of a closure until the end of Ramadan on May 2, as part of a years-long policy of barring non-Muslims from the site during the final 10 days of the Muslim holy month.Video showed Jewish visitors touring the site as Thursday’s clashes raged, with smoke and the sound of blasts coming from the direction of the mosque.The Temple Mount is a frequent flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian tensions, with clashes there last year helping precipitate the 11-day military conflict between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip after the enclave’s Hamas rulers fired rockets at Jerusalem. The site is the most sacred place for Jews as the location of the biblical temples, and Al-Aqsa Mosque, which sits atop the Temple Mount, is the third-holiest site for Muslims.Jerusalem has been a tinderbox in recent weeks as Palestinians scraped with police on the flashpoint Temple Mount, the Ramadan and Passover holidays drew thousands to holy sites, Israeli security forces cracked down on terror in the West Bank, and Gaza terror groups stoked the flames.On Thursday, Haniyeh said that “we are still at the beginning of the battle” and warned Israel over the Temple Mount.“As we defeated the so-called Flag March, we will defeat the policy of invading [Al-Aqsa],” Ismail Haniyeh said, after police barred Jewish nationalists from marching through the Old City’s Damascus Gate on Wednesday.His comments came after Israel and Gaza-based terrorists clashed in the largest exchange of fire since last year’s fighting, with the military carrying out air raids in the Strip in response to rocket fire and the launch of anti-aircraft missiles.No Israelis were directly injured by the rocket fire earlier in the night, but three people were lightly wounded in falls that took place while running to bomb shelters.No Gaza group immediately took responsibility for either of the night’s launches, as had been the case after the week’s first rocket launch on Monday evening. However, several media reports citing Israeli security officials pegged Hamas-rival Palestinian Islamic Jihad as responsible for the Monday rocket fire.This week’s rocket fire ended an almost four-month period of quiet on the Gaza border.

Russia’s envoy to Israel warned Thursday that Moscow will respond if Jerusalem supplies Kyiv with defensive gear amid his country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking with Russian state television, Ambassador Anatoly Viktorov noted Defense Ministry Benny Gantz’s announcement a day earlier that Israel will provide Ukraine with helmets and flak jackets.Gantz’s office stressed the equipment will go to Ukrainian civilian rescue and medical forces, not the military.“We are carefully checking this information and will respond accordingly if it is confirmed,” Viktorov said.It was not clear from Viktorov’s remarks what such a response might entail.Gantz’s announcement Wednesday marked a policy shift for Israel, which first weighed Ukrainian requests for some defensive equipment in March. More recently, devastating images coming out of the Kyiv suburb of Bucha galvanized many countries against the Russian effort and led to a change of tone from Israeli politicians.Israel has avoided aligning too closely with either side since Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24. It is one of the few countries that maintains relatively warm relations with both Ukraine, a fellow Western democracy, and Russia.However, the rhetoric coming from Jerusalem shifted in the wake of the reports of widespread civilian killings by the Russians. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid even explicitly accused Russia of war crimes earlier this month, in the strongest comments yet by a top Israeli official against Moscow.While Jerusalem might have somewhat shifted its tone to align more with Western powers, it has so far steadfastly declined to contribute to the Ukrainian military effort. Instead, Israel has sent a 100-ton humanitarian aid package to Ukraine and built a field hospital in the west of the country.

Record 4,600 Jews said to visit Mount over Passover-Arab FMs: End Jewish prayer on Temple Mount; Lapid: Israel committed to status quo-Foreign minister meets Biden officials Yael Lempert and Hady Amr in Israel on their regional de-escalation tour, says Israel ‘dealing with extremist Islamist terror’-By Jacob Magid-APR 21,22-Today, 7:58 pm

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told a delegation of visiting US officials that Israel is committed to maintaining the status quo at the Temple Mount, as the Biden administration continued its regional tour aimed at lowering tensions in Jerusalem.“Israel is preserving and will continue to preserve the status quo on the Temple Mount, and we have no intention of changing it whatsoever,” Lapid said according to a readout from his office, which referenced the policy that allows Muslims to visit and pray at what they refer to as the Haram al-Sharif, whereas Jews can visit but are barred from praying.During a Wednesday briefing with Israeli journalists, Lapid brushed off the  widely-reported reality of recent months and years in which Jews have been allowed to quietly pray as they’re ushered through the compound by police and employees of the Jordanian Waqf. The foreign minister insisted the official policy barring Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount remains and that it is backed by the security establishment.But Israel’s Arab neighbors are not convinced. After a regional meeting on the Jerusalem tensions in Jordan, Ammans’s foreign minister told reporters that his counterparts were demanding an end to Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount. “Our demands are clear that Al-Aqsa and Haram al Sharif in all its area is a sole place of worship for Muslims,” he said.For his part, Lapid told the visiting US delegation on Thursday that “the only people who have disturbed them were extremists and Hamas supporters who took control of the mosque, desecrated it, disrupted prayer, launched fireworks, and threw Molotov cocktails and rocks.”“We are acting only in order to prevent violence and to enable prayer to continue as normal.”Jerusalem has sought to stress its commitment to the status quo in recent weeks as Palestinians and their supporters in the Arab world accuse Israel of violating it and of seeking to “divide” the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.“The State of Israel is dealing with extremist Islamist terror whose entire goal is to sow violence, fear, and chaos. We call on all leaders in the region to act and speak responsibly in order to calm the situation,” Lapid said, emphasizing the feeling in Jerusalem that countries such as Jordan have been elevating fake reports regarding Israeli conduct on the Temple Mount.The US delegation included Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Yael Lempert and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr.Israel was the second stop on Lempert and Amr’s regional tour aimed at de-escalating the situation surrounding Jerusalem. They were slated to travel to Ramallah for meeting with Palestinian officials later Thursday followed by a trip to Egypt. The US delegation was in Jordan on Wednesday and met with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi.But it was unclear whether Washington’s efforts to convince parties to tone down their rhetoric were bearing fruit, as Jordan on Thursday hosted an emergency meeting of a regional ministerial committee, which Amman used to lambast Israel for its “illegal policies and measures” in Jerusalem, according to a readout from the Royal Court.The committee condemned actions taken by Israel on the Temple Mount, calling them provocative, and said Israel must ensure that only Muslims worship at the site.“The committee warned that these attacks and violations represent a blatant provocation to the feelings of Muslims,” according to Jordan’s Petra news agency, adding that it “threatens to ignite a cycle of violence.”Addressing the ministers, Jordan’s King Abdullah stressed the importance of observing the status quo at Jerusalem holy sites. Participants expressed their support for Jordan’s custodial role in charge of administering those sites — a position Jordan has sought to leverage in recent weeks.Joining the meeting were representatives from Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority and the United Arab Emirates.Israel Police have entered the compound several times over the past week in order to quash Palestinian rioters. The most intensive clashes took place last Friday, when officers breached the flashpoint site amid fears that youth stockpiling stones in the Al-Aqsa Mosque were gearing to target Jewish worshipers at the Western Wall and stage mass clashes during evening prayers when tens of thousands of other Muslims would be present on the compound. Over 150 Palestinians were wounded and some 400 were arrested in the rioting that ensued. Footage also showed instances of police brutality during which officers beat journalists, women and children for no apparent reason.Clashes have continued on a near-daily basis since, as the week of Passover brought a record number of over 4,600 Jewish visitors to the site., according to Channel 12. Ahead of their arrival on Thursday morning, police sought to forcefully clear Muslim worshipers from the path allotted to Jewish visitors, sparking the latest round of clashes. The Red Crescent said 20 Palestinians were wounded in the fighting. Several were believed to have been injured by tear gas, but one man was hit by a rubber bullet.Thursday was the last day Jewish visitors were allowed on the Temple Mount until the end of Ramadan on May 2. The holy month coincides with the Passover holiday for the first time in roughly a decade — a confluence identified by the Biden administration months in advance as a possible recipe for renewed tensions in Jerusalem. The policy of barring Jewish visitors on the last 10 days of Ramadan has been standard for years as the end of the holy month brings an uptick of Muslim worshipers to the site.Nonetheless, Jerusalem is likely to remain on edge into the weekend as Israel plans to significantly limit the number of Christian worshipers who will be able to enter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for the Holy Fire ceremony on Saturday due to safety fears, following last year’s deadly crush that killed 45 ultra-Orthodox pilgrims celebrating the Lag B’Omer holiday in Meron last year.The Holy Fire ceremony usually brings 10,000 pilgrims into the church, and police sought to limit the number to 1,000, leading Christian leaders to petition the High Court of Justice against the move. Ultimately, the judges ordered police to allow 4,000 people inside while granting access to the general area to all worshipers, in line with traffic regulations. The Palestinian Authority warned Thursday that Israeli restrictions risked further escalation.Lapid also updated the US officials on the steps Israel has taken to allow Muslim freedom of worship on the Al-Aqsa compound, noting that hundreds of thousands of them have visited during the first two weeks of Ramadan.Lapid stressed that Israel would not accept rocket fire from Gaza and would do what was necessary to defend its citizens.Gaza terror groups have twice fired rockets at southern Israeli towns this week, ending what had been a nearly-four month period of calm.Separately on Thursday, Defense Minister Benny Gantz held a meeting with mayors of towns near the Gaza border, assuring them that IDF “forces and preparedness in the area has expanded and that the policy of a harsh response to all terror activities will continue,” according to his office.Gantz told the mayors that “Israel is prepared to take any action necessary to maintain the security of its citizens.”

Putin claims ‘liberation’ of Mariupol, but orders troops not to storm last holdout-PMs of Spain, Denmark visit Kyiv in latest show of Western support as Biden hails Ukraine for resisting invasion: ‘They’re tougher and more proud than I thought’-By Joris FIORITI and Joshua MELVIN-APR 21,22-Today, 2:54 pm

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday claimed the “liberation” of the flattened city of Mariupol after nearly two months of fighting, but signaled he would forgo a final bloody offensive against beleaguered Ukrainian defenders there.The fate of the besieged port has become totemic as Russia battles to complete a land bridge covering territories of Ukraine already under its control, including Crimea.The West staged another show of support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with a visit to Kyiv by the Spanish and Danish prime ministers, a day after European Council leader Charles Michel came and vowed the EU would do “everything possible” to help Ukraine win the war.Zelensky said Ukraine still did not have enough weapons, despite billions in Western military aid that has forced Russia to refocus its offensive away from Kyiv and towards the east of the country.In morgues around the capital, the bodies of some 1,020 civilians are being stored after Russian troops withdrew from the region, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna told AFP.The bodies of nine civilians, some showing signs of torture, have been found in the town of Borodyanka outside Kyiv, the region’s police chief Andriy Niebytov said.“The Russian military knowingly shot civilians who did not put up any resistance,” he said, adding that one of the victims was a 15-year-old girl.Biden ‘proud’While the West remains nervous about igniting a direct conflict with nuclear-armed Russia, US President Joe Biden said he was “amazed” by Ukrainian resistance since the invasion began on February 24.“They’re tougher and more proud than I thought,” he said, adding that Western “weapons and ammunition are flowing in daily.”The Pentagon had said Ukraine was receiving fighter planes to bolster its air force — but it later said only aircraft parts had been delivered.However, the flow of hardware, including anti-tank missiles, has not prevented Russia from carving a trail of destruction across Ukraine, not least in Mariupol on the shores of the Sea of Azov in the southeast.“Mariupol has been liberated,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Putin during a televised meeting. “The remaining nationalist formations took refuge in the industrial zone of the Azovstal plant.”Shoigu said around 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers remained inside the giant steel plant, where the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance has been sheltering in a network of underground tunnels.Thousands of civilians are believed to have died in the besieged city, and up to 2,000 others are also sheltering in the plant without access to drinking water or food, according to Ukrainian authorities.Putin said the “liberation” of Mariupol was a “success” for Russian forces but ordered Shoigu to call off the planned storming of the industrial area, dismissing it as “impractical.”“There is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground through these industrial facilities. Block off this industrial area so that not even a fly can escape,” Putin said.-Bodies-pile up-The Ukrainian defenders said they were refusing to surrender but appealed for security guarantees.“We are pleading so we can collect the bodies of the dead, so the civilians can calmly walk out from Azovstal,” said Captain Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the far-right Azov Regiment.A humanitarian corridor reopened on Wednesday, with Ukrainian authorities reporting that four buses had left Mariupol carrying women, children and the elderly.Further from the frontlines, residents were still reeling weeks after Russian forces withdrew from the area around Kyiv.At a morgue in Bucha, families carefully searched body bags and examined corpses, looking for missing loved ones.Four hundred bodies have been discovered there since the Russians withdrew on March 31, local police chief Vitaly Lobas told AFP. Around a quarter of them are still unidentified.-International snubs-Meanwhile, Russia’s international isolation has deepened.At a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington, the US led a walkout of Western allies as Russian officials spoke.“The world’s democracies will not stand idly by in the face of continued Russian aggression and war crimes,” Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland tweeted.In London, organizers of the Wimbledon tennis tournament banned Russian and Belarusian players from the 2022 event in response to the invasion.World tennis authorities criticized the announcement, which particularly affects Russian men’s world number two Daniil Medvedev and Belarusian female world number four Aryna Sabalenka.But the All England Lawn Tennis Club said it was acting to “limit Russia’s global influence through the strongest means possible.”More than five million Ukrainians have now fled their country since the Russian invasion, the United Nations said, in Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.But returns have also accelerated in recent weeks, reaching over one million, according to a spokesman for Kyiv’s border force.Those returning must often take huge risks. Olena Klymenko said Ukrainian soldiers had been demining her pummeled village of Moshchun.“We found a booby trap in our garden. It seems it was disarmed. We don’t know,” said Klymenko, whose home was destroyed. “Still, we need to look for our stuff.”‘History will not forget’Many have fled into Russia. Ukraine accused the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of working “in concert” with Moscow to manage the refugees, who it says have been forcibly deported.Citing data from the UN, ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova said that about 550,000 Ukrainians, including 121,000 children, have been taken to Russia during the course of the war.“Where are they? In filtration camps? In temporary facilities?” Denisova asked. “The International Red Cross is not fulfilling its mandate.”The ICRC rejected Kyiv’s accusation of collusion with Moscow.Putin has said he launched his “military operation” to save Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine from a “genocide” carried out by a “neo-Nazi” regime.But his forces have faced allegations of war crimes — most recently from the EU’s Michel, who toured the devastated town of Borodianka on Wednesday.“History will not forget the war crimes that have been committed here,” Michel wrote on Twitter.

We found nothing’: Thousands seized by Islamic State in Iraq, Syria remain missing-Years after jihadis’ territorial defeat, journalist whose brother disappeared while reporting on Syrian civil war is working on platform to help families get info on loved ones-By Bassem Mroue-APR 21,22-Today, 1:59 pm

BEIRUT (AP) — For journalist Amer Matar, a decade-long search for his younger brother has defined him and changed the course of his life, now dedicated to researching and documenting crimes committed by the Islamic State group in Syria.His brother, Mohammed Nour Matar, vanished in Syria’s northern city of Raqqa in 2013 while reporting on an explosion that hit the headquarters of an insurgent group. His burnt camera was found at the scene of the blast, and his family soon after got word he was in an IS prison. But there has been no other sign of him since.Mohammed Nour is among thousands of people believed to have been seized by the Islamic State, the extremist group that in 2014 overran large parts of Syria and Iraq, where it set up a so-called Islamic Caliphate and brutalized the population for years.Three years after its territorial defeat, thousands are still missing and accountability for their captors remains elusive. Families of the missing feel abandoned by a world that has largely moved on, while they struggle alone to uncover the fate of their loved ones.“These violations may constitute crimes against humanity, war crimes, and even genocide in some cases,” the Washington-based Syria Justice and Accountability Center said in a report published Thursday. “These families have the right to know the truth about the fate of their loved ones.”The rights group says that between 2013 and 2017, when IS ruled much of northern and eastern Syria, the militant group detained thousands who remain missing and whose families continue to live in a state of grief and uncertainty.In its report titled “Unearthing Hope: The Search for the Missing Victims of ISIS,” SJAC said that approximately 6,000 bodies have been exhumed from dozens of mass graves dug by IS in northeast Syria, and retrieved from buildings destroyed by airstrikes of the US-led coalition during the military campaign that eventually brought down IS.This may amount to approximately half of the total number of missing people in the northeast, according to the group, although estimates of the missing vary.Mohammed Nour Matar had become a citizen journalist during Syria’s civil war, and he was often out with his camera documenting the conflict. He went missing on August 13, 2013, while covering an explosion in Raqqa that went off outside the offices of the Ahfad al-Rasoul faction, one of several insurgent groups that were rivals of IS. He was 21 at the time and was working on a documentary about Raqqa and its residents’ opposition to IS.Four months later, Raqqa became Syria’s first provincial capital to fall under the full control of IS. When the extremists declared a so-called caliphate in June 2014, the city became their de-facto capital. The group ruled Matar’s hometown of Raqqa with fear, setting up scores of detention centers in different parts of the city, brutalizing opponents and even placing heads of beheaded victims in the city’s Naim Square — Arabic for “Paradise.”In the report, SJAC documented for the first time the vast web of detention facilities that were central to IS disappearances. Different wings of the IS security apparatus systematically used this network of 152 police stations, training camps, and secret security prisons to detain kidnapped civilians and members of rival armed groups, in some cases before issuing death sentences or summarily executing them.It listed 33 detention facilities in the city of Raqqa alone.SJAC says alleged perpetrators who may hold evidence necessary to identify remains are languishing in prisons of the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces “with no fair judicial procedures in sight.” It says other former IS members live in their home countries where they returned after the group was defeated.“The permanent defeat of ISIS cannot be secured without justice for the victims of the organization’s crimes, including those who remain missing,” it said.Amer Matar, who now lives in Berlin with his parents and siblings, said they were told at one point that Mohammed Nour was being held in a jail in the city. Some former prisoners who had seen him there provided personal details that only the family knew.But as of 2014, the family lost any proof of life.Amer Matar has traveled to Syria several times over the past years to try to get information about his brother, even going to mass graves as bodies were being removed.The International Commission on Missing Persons has started collecting DNA samples from families of the missing but they are moving slowly, and Matar said his family has not given samples yet.Also a journalist, Matar began a few years ago collecting thousands of IS documents and 3D photographs of IS detention centers. He now works with activists from Syria, Iraq, Germany, France, Japan and the US to set up a virtual museum about the extremists.He said the aim is to have a platform where the families of the missing can find information about their loved ones, where they can walk virtually inside the jails, see the names of detainees, read documents and witness sites of mass graves and information about those buried there, whether in Syria or in Iraq.Asked if his family has hope, Matar said that “the most difficult question is about hope. Sometimes I lose hope because logic says there is no hope.”Asked if in his research he found evidence about Mohammed Nour, Matar said, “My mother asks me this question every month or every few weeks. My answer regrettably is, ‘We found nothing.”’

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