Seoul, South Korea (CNN) North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the waters off its east coast on Wednesday, Japan and South Korea have reported.

The missile was launched from Sunan, an area of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Meanwhile, Japanese Deputy Defense Minister Makoto Oniki said the missile is estimated to have flown at a maximum altitude of about 800 kilometers over a distance of about 500 kilometers before falling into the sea outside of Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone.
The launch is North Korea's first since a military parade late on April 25, at which leader Kim Jong Un vowed to ramp up his development of nuclear arms.
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Originally @ https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/03/asia/north-korea-missile-launch-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

Somewhere in a town near San Francisco, a quiet and peaceful place.

$950 law is working as planned.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/botcharov/1373

Dear friends, it's Alzheimer Today and its regular host Biden-man is reporting.

"We haven't had a lot of Delaware Senators, it's a small state. In fact, so far there has been none."

Joseph Biden had been a Senator from the state of Delaware for 36 years.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/orda_mordora/11710

Some analysis of the situation
Originally @ https://t.iss.one/nikitabsg/54

Ukraine, fake news factory
By Fabrizio Casari

🇮🇹No doubts are allowed, no data analysis is allowed, even source verification is eliminated: any legitimate doubts and any possible questions face the accusation of “collaborating with the invader”.
It is as if Putin and the Russian army were prisoners of a general madness or bullshit

Key points:
The invasion of Ukraine has had its own logic from the beginning, which is expressed by Putin himself: "We are not interested in occupying Ukraine," he said on the eve of the troops' entry into Donbass, "and we believe that we must carry out an operation that will be accepted by the people themselves, that is, to expel the Nazis from the government and the armed forces».

The massive recourse to fake news is a decisive part of the propaganda that serves both to increase the demand for international support for the corrupt regime in Kiev and to put pressure on the Europeans (who in the end will have to pay the highest price and bear the greatest burden).

The propaganda and the rampant Russophobia must be read in terms of the American strategy that sees in the continuation of the war the best possible business, from the geopolitical, tactical, economic and military point of view.
An oddity is hidden here too: Zelensky asks Europe every day to stop buying gas and commit energetic suicide to save his criminal government, while continuing to collect royalties from Moscow for the passage of Russian gas through Ukraine: annual value of 10.4 billion dollars.

❗The mother of all lies is the one that dates back to 37 days after the start of the war, when it began eight years ago and saw how Ukrainian artillery and aviation bombed the Ukrainians of Donbass, guilty of not accepting the sovereignty of the pro regime. -Kiev Nazi. Fourteen thousand deaths, which did not arouse the instrumental indignation of the Atlanticist communicators, but which weigh on the events that led to the war.
❗The second high-level falsehood is the one that defines the Zelensky government as "democratic." Zelensky came to power thanks to the money of the Ukrainian oligarch and the votes of the extreme right, Pravi Sektor and other minor formations." "...in one year he has dissolved 11 parties and closed three television stations, guilty of supporting a policy of proximity to Russia. However, symbols count for a lot and it must have been no accident that Ukraine suppressed the party of liberation from Nazi-fascism while the birth date of Nazi executioner Stephan Bandera, whose troops killed some 100,000 people, many of them Jews, has been declared a public holiday. Then we are told that Zelensky is a Jew and therefore cannot be a Nazi. But his main financier, Kolomoisky, is Jewish but she financed him and the Azov battalion, and Rockefeller was just as Jewish as Zelensky and more, but that didn't stop him from financing Hitler's rise to power. And the Ukrainian Constitution, article 16 of which establishes the obligation to “preserve the genetic heritage of the Ukrainian people”, does not help refute the accusations of Nazism. Eugenics applied to the constitutional order is called Nazism."
❗"The third great falsehood concerns its accession to NATO, which would never have been accepted. This is false: not only was Kiev's entry into the Alliance on the agenda, but even though Ukraine is not yet in NATO, NATO has been in Ukraine for eight years. It organizes and trains the Ukrainian army, sells weapons, bacteriological warfare laboratories, and supplies weapon systems for the navy, infantry, and aviation, and has complete political control over the government. Last but not least, the corrupt dealings of the Biden family."

Originally @ https://rebelion.org/ucrania-fabrica-de-fake-news/

New EU sanctions against Russia imply restrictions against persons whom the European Union considers responsible "for war crimes in Bucha," said the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

Classics of "democracy". Really, do we need all these investigations, courts and other nonsense? Some fool came up with them.

To set the culprit and immediately punish him, this is the way of "democracy".

Sounds democratic indeed.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/RadioStydoba/17551

🇯🇵🇷🇺 The "Immortal Regiment" was held in Japan.

The march was attended by employees of the Russian Embassy, as well as the ambassadors of Belarus and Kazakhstan in Tokyo.

"The march of the Immortal Regiment in Tokyo has become a vivid evidence of the unity of Russian compatriots," the Russian diplomatic department stressed.

Japanese artist Shinohara and the dance ensemble "Rossiyanka" performed at the event.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/sputnik/2942

🇮🇪Words of encouragement from Ireland ♥️

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/orda_mordora/11726

The nuclear war is so near that the Kremlin sends warning signals to the West by getting the Mr. Putin's doomsday plane in the sky. From this plane the President can rule Russia if the situation reaches the point of no return.

Such is the British Daily Mail's nonsence. The "evidence" is a video shot in Moscow capturing "Il-80" plane that is rehearsing a low-altitude span. The pilots will demonstrate their skills during the upcoming Victory Day parade.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/rasstrelny/13079

"It is better under bombs than in this evacuation when you are not considered a person, where you are a Russian-speaking creature for everyone there".

A couple from Kharkov returned home after visiting a Lviv refugee camp. In the video, they emotionally share how they were treated by residents of western Ukraine because they speak Russian.

At the same time, the residents of western Ukraine were not even concerned that they were their fellow citizens who came to them.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/relocationru/678

🇺🇸CDC spied on tens of millions under pretext of Covid-19 compliance – media
Disclosed documents show the agency tracked Americans using an easily de-anonymized data broker

Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too.

Read the Full Article Here:
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders

⚡Russia has repeatedly denounced the continuous flow of weapons into Ukraine from the West, saying that it adds fuel to the fire and derails the negotiation process.🇷🇺

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that any NATO vehicle coming to Ukraine with weapons or equipment for Ukrainian forces will be considered a legitimate target for destruction.

"The United States and its NATO allies continue to pump weapons into Ukraine. I can confirm that any transport from the North Atlantic alliance that arrives in the country with weapons or materiel for the Ukrainian armed forces will be considered by us as a legitimate target for destruction," Shoigu said on Wednesday.

Originally @ https://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12419869@egNews

American film director Oliver Stone spoke on his Twitter page about the possible plans of the collective West to use tactical nuclear weapons in the Donbass. Stone considers such a scenario realistic, given the statements made from the White House.

– In recent weeks, I have watched with dismay as Victoria Nuland reappeared out of nowhere, warning the Russians and us, the target audience, of the hellish consequences if Russia uses nuclear weapons of any kind. These theses were immediately picked up by other officials and TV presenters to solidify this idea: The Russians are going to use nuclear weapons, writes Stone.

The director wonders why this idea is thrown around over and over again. And he himself advances a possible version of what is happening:

– What if the US is preparing the ground for a small nuclear explosion in Donbass, which will kill thousands of Ukrainians? In this case, all the countries of the world in command, like Pavlov’s dogs, will blame Russia. Even that half of the world’s states have not yet joined the Western camp, – said Oliver Stone.

He also added that the ultimate US goal is to install “another Yeltsin” as Russia’s president, who will open all doors to US economic and ideological influence. The second and even more important task is to isolate China from Russia so that no one can encroach on US power.

Oliver Stone is a three-time Oscar winner for writing Midnight Express and directing Platoon and Born on the 4th of July. Recently, he has been making documentaries and, in particular, has released the films Interview with Putin and Fighting for Ukraine.

Originally @ https://eprimefeed.com/latest-news/oliver-stone-the-us-can-detonate-nuclear-weapons-in-donbass-to-blame-russia/77491/

Lula Talks to TIME About Ukraine, Bolsonaro, and Brazil's Fragile Democracy
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"I don’t know the President of Ukraine. But his behavior is a bit weird. It seems like he’s part of the spectacle. He is on television morning, noon, and night. He is in the U.K. parliament, the German parliament, the French parliament, the Italian parliament, as if he were waging a political campaign. He should be at the negotiating table."

"He did want war. If he didn’t want war, he would have negotiated a little more. That’s it. I criticized Putin when I was in Mexico City [in March], saying that it was a mistake to invade. But I don’t think anyone is trying to help create peace. People are stimulating hate against Putin. That won’t solve things! We need to reach an agreement. But people are encouraging [the war]. You are encouraging this guy [Zelensky], and then he thinks he is the cherry on your cake. We should be having a serious conversation: “OK, you were a nice comedian. But let us not make war for you to show up on TV.”

Read the full article here:
https://time.com/6173232/lula-da-silva-transcript/

Nijmegen war cemetery vandalized on Remembrance Day
🇳🇱 Netherlands

Swastikas and Ukrainian flags were spray painted onto graves and monuments at the Jonkerbos War Cemetery in Nijmegen overnight. The cemetery is closed on Wednesday. The police are investigating and looking for witnesses.

The war cemetery contains the graves of 1,642 soldiers who died on Dutch soil during World War II. The graveyard on Burgemeester Daleslaan is British territory because the vast majority of the graves are of British soldiers. But soldiers from Canada, Australia, and other allied countries are also buried there.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/smotri_media/13802

Read more: https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/04/nijmegen-war-cemetery-vandalized-remembrance-day

A double-dealer

Not a Nazi, just a far rightist. Also not a fighter, merely a cook, a plumber and an engineer.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/svodki_opolcheniya/18164

Citizens of #Mariupol are queueing up to get orange-black ribbons of St. George as a hallmark of World War II victory celebrations.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/Russian_Monitor/812