#Russia #Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦: Recent photo of "Kastus Kalinouski Battalion" combatants from #Belarus 🇧🇾 (part of #Ukrainian TDF).

Combatants appear to be armed with 'Dynamit Nobel Defence' RGW-90 HH 'MATADOR' recoilless gun —which was bought by Ukraine at the end of the March.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1517956643321008130

#Russia #Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦: New photo of the members of "Kastus Kalinouski Battalion" (formed by fighters from #Belarus 🇧🇾 under #Ukrainian TDF).

AK-74 rifles (some modified), FN SCAR-L rifles (from #Belgium 🇧🇪), SVD and AirTronic PSRL-1 RPG (from #USA 🇺🇲) with PG-7VL rocket seen.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1520052093062680576

🇺🇸 Lyndhurst NJ - Robert C. Condit, (51) fires a flamethrower at a SWAT team during a standoff that lasted 21 hours. May 4th, 2022.

Reportedly he refused a order by an judge to surrender his firearms, Condit forced a standoff with ATF and Swat team members before peacefully standing down.

🇺🇸 Russian-language channel @usaperiodical

"Yes, there will be serious protest actions. It's not yet clear if they'll repeat the devastating Black Lives Matter protests, but the potential is there.

A number of American non-profit, advocacy and feminist organizations (Planned Parenthood, UltraViolet, Women's March and MoveOn) have formed a coalition that plans to organize major protests across the United States on May 14th.

The key cities where it is planned to gather the most people have been selected:

▪️New York;
▪️Chicago;
▪️Washington;
▪️Los Angeles.

Coalition leaders assume that in the above settlements the number of demonstrators will number hundreds of thousands of people.

The authorities are afraid and preparing: on May 4, a 2.5-meter fence was installed around the building of the Supreme Court in Washington."

On the topic of the upcoming American protests: 
Will there be violence? It depends which political faction is mobilized. Racial tensions heavily stoked the flames for years. It almost requires the BLM for a protest to become a riot in the first place these days. However, this may be a new era spurred by the need to rally supporters behind a cause that the liberal populace hasn't lost faith with yet. In my opinion, the BLM is an old tool that served their purpose. They have become too controversial and will either be discarded or be "put on the ice" for a few years, as this was the case before. 

Could this current coalition of feminist groups become violent? Possibly. For starters, this is the perfect time of year to build up momentum for far-reaching protests. In April of 2021 there was an attempt to rekindle the riots of 2020, which had occurred primarily in late may, early June. Those protests focused on students about to leave school for summer break, before mostly finishing once the school year was back in session. To be honest, these abortion protests are not as racially charged as the releasing of police body cam videos that fed into race riots. Most violence will be committed by whichever way they decide to deploy Antifa into the streets. 

We may also see more daylight brawls instead of nighttime looting with the presumed demographic switchup. In any case we'll see whether or not this new protest season will hold lingering political atmosphere consequences comparable to the Occupy Wall Street outcome. The name of the game for this round is civil religion, so there will be far more involvement from populations with high civic engagement, i.e., white liberal voters. Basically, secular-progressive law worshippers and you-know-who.

#commentary @CIG_telegram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion

🇮🇱The Jerusalem Post: At least three people were killed and four others injured in a terrorist attack in the Israeli city of Elad near Petah Tikva towards the end of Independence Day

🇷🇺🇺🇦Far-right Ukrainian Misanthropic Division fighters

🇨🇳SCMP: PLA Navy steps up real-life combat drills in East China Sea near Taiwan
- Sailors always ready for battle, Eastern Theatre Command says in online post highlighting actual combat practice
- Drills follow series of air and sea exercises in response to US lawmakers’ visit to Taiwan in April

🚨 Gustavo Petro affirms that he will resume relations with Nicolás Maduro

🇨🇴🗳📃 — On Next May 22, 2022, Colombian citizens will decide the future of their nation on the Presidential elections that will take place on the country on such day.

Per last polls, published by America Elects:
— Gustavo Petro (PH, the Democratic Socialist candidate and former Guerrilla leader) appea on first place, with 44% (-1) of voting intentions
— Federico Gutiérrez Zuluaga (EpC, the "moderate" conservative and former Mayor of Medelin) appears on first place with 27% (+18) of voting intetions
— Claudia López Hernández, (From the Green Party and the Current Mayor of Bogotá & well-know for being the "1st LGBT politician of Colombia to reach such place"), appears on third place, with 13%
— Fajardo (CCR, Technocratic candidate & former Governor of Antioquia) appears on 4th place, with 7% (-8)

🇨🇫💰🖥 — 🇫🇷 France24 (April 27, 2022): Central African Republic adopts bitcoin as legal currency
— "The Central African Republic has adopted bitcoin as legal tender, the president's office said Wednesday, becoming the second country in the world to do so after El Salvador.

Lawmakers unanimously adopted a bill that made bitcoin legal tender alongside the CFA franc and legalised the use of cryptocurrencies.

President Faustin Archange Touadera signed the measure into law, his chief of staff Obed Namsio said in a statement.
The CAR "is the first country in Africa to adopt bitcoin as legal tender", Namsio said.
"This move places the Central African Republic on the map of the world's boldest and most visionary countries," he declared."

https://archive.is/AoiT4

🇨🇫💰🖥 — 🇺🇸💰 Bloomberg (May 4, 2022): Bitcoin Adoption by Central African Republic a Concern, IMF Says
— "The Central African Republic’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender presents a series of challenges for the country and the region, the International Monetary Fund said.

The government announced last week that the nation, one of the world’s poorest, would become the second to adopt the cryptocurrency after El Salvador. The decision drew criticism from opposition parties and was made without consulting the regional central bank, which manages a common currency used by six countries including the Central African Republic."

https://archive.is/0IuwA

🟩⬜️⬛️⚰️ — On May 7, 2022, the Official Medias of Anti-IEA/Anti-Taliban "National Resistance Front" (NRF) reported that one of its commanders, the Commander Mahfouz Nabard, one of the former officers of the 901st National Security Unit of Afghan National Army (ANA, the former Afghan Army) and a guerrilla of the National Resistance Front, passed away (KIA) during clashes with IEA/Taliban Forces on May 6, 2022 as part of the Panjshir war.