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Reckless Drivers Pile Up on the War Maps
Note: I am wrestling with who and why so many political leaders are screwing up, aimlessly veering from side to side in ways that seem to heave us forward to larger wars, so bear with me as I work to make sense of it. Or come back again when I do. There’s a parade of national leaders recklessly swerving from lane to lane down the international highway like bad drivers checking their texts and social media. The rest of us? Uber riders moving ever closer into expanding, senseless wars.
Top Ukraine Judge Is Up All Night Shooting Russian Drones
David Phinney's Rough Cut Not necessarily the final word, just my word. I'm a longtime journalist and documentary producer presently covering Ukraine, U.S. politics and travel. Hope you find it interesting, entertaining and informative. Launched 5 months ago No thanks
Mike Johnson Perfects his Slow Roll Playing a Hamlet of Misleading Indecision
David Phinney's Rough Cut Not necessarily the final word, just my word. I'm a longtime journalist and documentary producer presently covering Ukraine, U.S. politics and travel. Hope you find it interesting, entertaining and informative. Launched 5 months ago No thanks
Mike Johnson Perfects his Slow Roll Playing a Hamlet of Misleading Indecision
The card game continues and the one person who can make things happen doesn’t care to show his true hand. Bluffing is the call of the day. Add up the days and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson appears to have been bluffing on Ukraine for the past six months. We’re now going on seven. Some play with an expressionless poker face. Johnson prefers play-action fakes -- a game of not doing what he signals he intends to do. It’s called a “slow roll” inside the Washington Beltway.
Judge Who Shoots Down Russian Drones by Night May Have to Quit Supreme Court
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Photo Courtesy of Yuryi Chumak Before the war began, it’s not somewhere you’d imagine a supreme court justice would spend much time, but Yuryi Chumak, 48, has spent more than a year on towering buildings commanding civilian volunteer defense squads stationed around Ukraine’s capital. They are tasked with fending off Vladimir Putin’s destructive flying machines .
Judge Who Shoots Down Russian Drones by Night May Have to Quit Supreme Court
KYIV—Sub-freezing weather is brutal on the rooftop of a ten-story apartment building. So are the Russian missiles and drones hurtling through the sky over Kyiv as regularly as the snow falls and the frigid wind blows. Before the war began, it’s not somewhere you’d imagine a supreme court justice would spend much time, but Yuryi Chumak, 48, has spent more than a year on towering buildings commanding civilian volunteer defense squads stationed around Ukraine’s capital.
Russian Jailers have a Gas Mask Fetish for Torturing Ukrainians
Kupiansk, Ukraine — On a haunting visit to a bombed-out jail in Kupiansk, my travel mate Sam found this gas mask with wooden disks covering the eyeholes and the words "Ozzy Osbourne" and "Metallica" scribbled on the sides. Putin’s intelligence officers used it for torturing Ukrainian civilians taken from their homes and swept off the streets within a week after the town was temporarily occupied for seven months starting in February 2022.
Upon Return to Kyiv
Kyiv, Ukraine — I had just checked into my sixth-floor hotel room in Kyiv at the top of a spindly stairway in a 19th century Beaux Arts building that had seen better days. The half-moon sky was almost cloudless as the siren went off and the boom-boom drew me to the window. A half-dozen missiles, maybe more, streaked white trails across the dark sky like runaway freight trains. Ukrainian anti-air defense jumped into action and chased Russian aggression fixed on civilian targets out of the sky.
This Ukrainian mayor made a deal with the devil — and lost
KUPIANSK, Ukraine — Missiles and artillery began pounding the city of Kharkiv in late February. Air-raid sirens filled the air and ambulances screamed through the streets. The pummeling left rows of high-rise apartment buildings beyond repair as thousands flooded the streets and plowed through traffic jams to the railroad station to escape Vladimir Putin’s furious blitzkrieg. Thanks for reading David Phinney's Rough Cut! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
Ukraine’s Secret Weapon on Capitol Hill Is an Ex-Staffer Named Steven Moore Original
Ukraine’s Secret Weapon on Capitol Hill Is an Ex-Staffer Named Steven Moore Republicans are divided over aid for Ukraine. Moore is the guy working behind the scenes to keep them on board. Steven Moore, Ukraine Freedom Project founder, poses for a portrait at an exhibition displaying destroyed Russian military equipment at Saint Michael’s Square in Kyiv, Ukraine on June 18, 2023. | Daniel Carde for POLITICO David Phinney is a longtime journalist and producer who frequently reports from Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Secret Weapon on Capitol Hill Is an Ex-Staffer Named Steven Moore
KYIV, Ukraine — An assistant holding an iPhone takes video of Steven Moore as he stands on a high-rise rooftop looking south from Kyiv. Behind him is an anti-air station designed for hunting down Russian suicide and surveillance drones launched from the Black Sea hundreds of miles away. Moore, a gray-haired man in a dark T-shirt, shorts and hiking shoes, looks into the lens as billowy clouds roll through a storybook blue sky.
This Ukrainian Mayor Made a Deal with the Devil - and Lost
Published in the Los Angeles Times. Even surrender to Putin ends in torture, corruption and bombing. By David Phinney Nov. 1, 2022 KUPIANSK, Ukraine — Missiles and artillery began pounding the city of Kharkiv in late February. Air-raid sirens filled the air and ambulances screamed through the streets.
Possibly the most hated mayor in Ukraine
Missiles and artillery began pounding the city of Kharkiv in late February. Air-raid sirens filled the air and ambulances screamed through the streets. The pummeling left rows of high-rise apartment buildings beyond repair as thousands flooded the streets and plowed through traffic jams to the railroad station to escape Vladimir Putin’s furious blitzkrieg. But about 70 miles to the southeast, in the much smaller town of Kupiansk, there was no sudden bombardment, no violent mayhem. On Feb.
Spooky Business in a Strange World
by David Phinney April 25, 2007 — The flood of emails continues pouring in about the short news story retelling Donald Vance’s three-month imprisonment at Camp Cropper in Iraq. Vance says he was acting as an FBI informant while working for an Iraqi-owned private security company. He claims he was witnessing the possible illegal sales of arms to insurgents and other nefarious doings and wanted to do something about it.
All treatment parameters affect environmental surface sanitation efficacy, but their relative importance depends on microbial target
Food Microbiology Shiyu Cai, David M. Phinney, Dennis R. Heldman, Abigail B. Snyder DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01748-20 ABSTRACT Environmental sanitation in food manufacturing plants promotes food safety and product microbial quality. However, the development of experimental models remains a challenge due to the complex nature of the commercial cleaning processes, which include spraying water and sanitizer on equipment and structural surfaces within manufacturing space.
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Marines Jail Contractors in Iraq
Late one Saturday afternoon in May, a convoy of American private security guards and technical staff in white Ford trucks and an Excursion sports utility vehicle barreled through the battle-scarred streets of Fallujah, Iraq. The convoy, including 16 armed guards and technical staff, was working for Zapata Engineering, a company hired to manage a storage depot for captured ammunition in Iraq.
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