Yum! To die for!
[GEO.TV] KARACHI: Investigation has been concluded into a bizarre as well as tragic incident in which a young man allegedly bumped off his close friend for eating a zinger burger the accused had ordered for his ’girlfriend’, police said on Wednesday.
As per the report, the victim was identified as 17-year-old Ali Kerio, son of Javed Kerio, a Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... District South sessions judge, while the accused shooter, Daniyal Nazeer Mir Bahar, is the son of Nazir Ahmed Mir Bahar, a retired Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP).
The findings of the investigation suggest that on February 8 Daniyal invited his girlfriend, Shazia, to his house — located in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Phase V — where his friend Ali Kerio and his brother Ahmar Kerio were also present.
As per the report, the accused had ordered two zinger burgers for himself and Shazia, but Ali purportedly consumed half of one burger, which enraged Daniyal so much that he seized his security guard's assault rifle and opened fire on Ali, who later succumbed to gunshot injuries on way to the hospital.
The investigating officer has finalised the inquiry and submitted the report to higher authorities, implicating the police officer's son in the crime. The accused Daniyal is currently in jail as the legal proceedings of the case continue.
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I expect a lot transpired before the shooting which was not rendered to news.
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Do you want fries and a Zam Zam with that?
I was expecting "eating a zinger burger" to be a euphemism for something, like "rug munching". Never mind.
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When I was in high school, I was at this house and there was disagreement btwn two gentlemen when one did too much of the other's cocaine which evolved into a ruckus then fist fight. Regardless of the circumstances, when the cops showed up, the story that made it to the local newspaper (when we still had local newspapers) was that there was an disagreement over hamburgers which escalated.
So when I hear stories like this, I think bullshit - unless zinger burger is innuendo... which would make story more believable.
[Variety] On Thursday, the court found in a 4-3 ruling that the judge in Weinstein’s trial — a landmark moment in the #MeToo movement that the 2017 allegations against him started — had shown prejudice by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. The court has now ordered a new trial.
Weinstein, the Oscar-winning producer of “Shakespeare in Love” and “Good Will Hunting,” is serving a 23-year sentence at the Mohawk Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Rome, N.Y. He will remain imprisoned as he was also convicted of rape in Los Angeles in 2022 and sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison. However, Weinstein was acquitted in the Los Angeles trial on charges involving a woman who testified in his New York case.
Weinstein spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said in a statement: “We’re cautiously excited. He still has a long road ahead of him because of the Los Angeles case. We are studying the ramifications of the appeal right now.” Weinstein’s lawyers will be holding a press conference today at 1:30 p.m. ET in Manhattan to discuss the decision.
“We reaffirm that no person accused of illegality may be judged on proof of uncharged crimes that serve only to establish the accused’s propensity for criminal behavior,” wrote Judge Jenny Rivera in the court’s majority opinion. “It is an abuse of judicial discretion to permit untested allegations of nothing more than bad behavior that destroys a defendant’s character but sheds no light on their credibility as related to the criminal charges lodged against them.”
In the New York case, Weinstein was convicted of sexually assaulting Miriam Haley, a former production assistant on “Project Runway,” at his apartment in 2006. He was also convicted of raping Jessica Mann at a hotel in 2013.
Weinstein’s attorneys, led by Arthur Aidala, appealed the conviction on numerous grounds. A lower appellate court denied the appeal in 2022, but the state’s highest court agreed to hear the case.
“Today’s decision is a major step back in holding those accountable for acts of sexual violence,” said Douglas Wigdor, an attorney who represented two pre-trial witnesses in New York. “Courts routinely admit evidence of other uncharged acts where they assist juries in understanding issues concerning the modus operandi or scheme of the defendant. The jury was instructed on the relevance of this testimony and overturning the verdict is tragic in that it will require the victims to endure yet another trial.”
Judge Madeline Singas wrote in the court’s dissenting opinion, “With today’s decision, this Court continues to thwart the steady gains survivors of sexual violence have fought for in our criminal justice system. Forgotten are the women who bear the psychological trauma of sexual violence and the scars of testifying again, and again. This erosion of precedent, born from a refusal to accept that crimes of sexual violence are far more nuanced and complex than other crimes, comes at the expense and safety of women.”
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said: “We will do everything in our power to retry this case, and remain steadfast in our commitment to survivors of sexual assault.”
At oral argument in February, Aidala maintained that Justice James Burke had stacked the deck against Weinstein by allowing three women — Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff and Lauren Young — to testify against him.
Each of the women told the jury that Weinstein had sexually assaulted them after they showed up for what they thought would be a business meeting. The so-called “Molineux” witnesses were called to show that Weinstein’s assaults had a common pattern, and that he was not confused about whether or not the victims consented.
Weinstein’s defense argued that the effect of the testimony, however, was to attack his character without shedding any light on the allegations for which he was actually charged.
“This is major prejudice,” Aidala argued in February. “It’s saying, ‘He’s a bad guy. He’s a bad guy. He’s a bad guy.’”
The defense also challenged the judge’s ruling allowing prosecutors to attack Weinstein’s credibility if he had taken the stand. Before the trial, Burke said he would allow prosecutors to raise as many as 28 separate incidents of alleged misconduct, including bullying and threats of violence. Weinstein did not testify, and the defense argued that the judge’s ruling effectively foreclosed his ability to effectively defend himself.
The issue of “prior bad acts” testimony was also raised in Bill Cosby’s successful appeal of his sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania. In that case, five women were allowed to testify to buttress the one allegation that was charged. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned that conviction on different grounds, finding that prosecutors had reneged on a promise not to prosecute Cosby.
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I still say we should have a three strikes rule for judges. If they get overruled three times they are out, no running to recover their seat in the next election.
For judges who were appointed, it's game over.
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Funny, it's almost as if somebody is trying to inflame the public and instigate an incident what with the former president on trial for something that isn't a crime.
In a significant development from Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Rajouri district, police have identified a foreign terrorist, known by the codename Abu Hamza, as being involved in the recent killing of a government employee. The dear departed, Mohammad Razaq, aged 40, was targeted in his village, Kunda Top, within the Thanamandi area. Razaq was an employee of the government's Social Welfare department. His brother, Mohammad Tahir Choudhary, serves in the Territorial Army but was unharmed during the attack. Following the incident, Razaq was laid to rest in his village on Tuesday.
The attack was carried out by two individuals linked to the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) group. They forcefully entered the compound of Choudhary's residence. Despite the grave situation, Choudhary managed to escape without any injuries. In response to this act of violence, local authorities have initiated a thorough investigation, filing a case at the Thanamandi cop shoppe. The police have gathered credible evidence pointing to Abu Hamza's involvement in this heinous act.
Efforts are underway by the police and security forces across the Rajouri-Poonch districts to apprehend this group and bring them to justice. In an attempt to gather vital information that could lead to Abu Hamza's capture, authorities have announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh. They have also released a poster depicting the terrorist, who is believed to be 32 years old and was last seen wearing a Pathani suit with a brown shawl and carrying an orange bag. Abu Hamza is known to operate in the Shadra Sharief and Der ki Gali areas and has been implicated in numerous terrorist activities.
Two soldiers injured in ongoing Bandipora encounter
Two soldiers were injured during Gunfight between terrorists and security forces at Renji woods of North Kashmir's Bandipora district on Wednesday morning. #BreakingNews#JammuAndKashmir
Gunfight broke out between terrorists and security forces in Renji Forest area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Wednesday morning.#JammuAndKashmir
[ShabelleMedia] In a significant development for Somalia’s security landscape, the Somali National Army (SNA) in collaboration with international partners conducted a successful Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... near Ruun Nirgood, located in the Middle Shabelle region.
This operation targeted key al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... ring leaders and militias, aiming to further the mission of liberating areas in east Galgaduud and central M. Shabelle.
The attack, which took place on April 24, 2024, marks a critical step in the ongoing efforts to dismantle al-Shabaab’s operational capabilities and reclaim territories under their control. This operation is part of a broader strategy to advance security and stability in Somalia, with the support of international partners.
The Middle Shabelle region has been a hotbed of al-Shabaab activity, with the holy warrior group attempting to establish a stronghold and carry out attacks against security forces and civilians.
The recent airstrike reflects the Somali government’s commitment to countering the threat posed by al-Shabaab and ensuring the safety and well-being of its citizens.
The operation was part of a coordinated effort to eliminate key al-Shabaab leaders and disrupt their networks, thus weakening the group’s ability to carry out further attacks.
The success of this operation represents a significant victory in the ongoing battle against al-Shabaab, a group known for its affiliation with al-Qaeda and its history of violence and terror in Somalia and the wider East African region.
[Americans for Tax Reform] President Biden has formally proposed the highest top capital gains tax in over 100 years.
Here is a direct quote from the Biden 2025 budget proposal: "Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends to 44.6 percent."
Yes, you read that correctly: A Biden top capital gains and dividends tax rate of 44.6%.
Under the Biden proposal, the combined federal-state capital gains tax exceeds 50% in many states. California will face a combined federal-state rate of 59%, New Jersey 55.3%, Oregon at 54.5%, Minnesota at 54.4%, and New York state at 53.4%.
Worse, capital gains are not indexed to inflation. So Americans already get stuck paying tax on some "gains" that are not real. It is a tax on inflation, something created by Washington and then taxed by Washington. Biden’s high inflation makes this especially painful.
Many hard working couples who started a small business at age 25 who now wish to sell the business at age 65 will face the Biden proposed 44.6% top rate, plus state capital gains taxes. And much of that "gain" isn’t real due to inflation. But they’ll owe tax on it.
Capital gains taxes are often a form of double taxation. When capital gains come from stocks, stock mutual funds, or stock ETFs, the capital gains tax is a cascaded second layer of tax on top of the current federal corporate income tax of 21%. (Biden has also proposed a corporate income tax hike to 28%).
#1
How about a Congressional Capital Gains Tax for all members of congress, staffers, and their immediate family members who attain anything above the market average in a year. Anything about the average is taxed at 100%. "Do it for the children."
#3
It’s been said that Joe has been serially on the wrong side of every foreign relations call in the last 30 years. In this presidency, Joe has broadened his portfolio of stupid.
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"A little money in the market is a healthy saving habit, just don't put in more than you can afford to lose. Also, be aware that the government has a habit of changes the rules."
#6
Not content with destroying our energy independence, freedom of speech for Republicans, debt relief for college kids, inflation up the wazoo and all the other wonderful 'benefits' of Bidenomics, let's completely kill capital formation in the United States with investment tax rates well above ordinary income. And - yes, they're dumb / obtuse enough to talk about this in public.
For the past three + years I feel like I'm trapped in that alternate universe where Spock had a goatee.
How about a Constitutional fixed, Total FLAT TAX Rate, which includes all Fed, State, County, Metro and Hidden taxes.
Even village idiot must at some point understand when Governments collects more of what you're making than you to do... You are living like a "Comrade" or a Government owned Slave.
#12
^ The whole ripping-the-heart-out thing was a precursor to the IRS audit
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This won’t happen because the big money people who fund Biden won’t let it happen. It’s a feint to make it seem as though he’s looking out for the little guy. When it doesn’t happen he’ll blame MAGA Republicans. Theater.
[IsraelTimes] French anti-terrorism authorities have arrested a 16-year-old youth after he said on social media that he wanted to die a martyr at the Olympic Games in Gay Paree this summer, a spokesperson says, confirming an earlier report by BFMtv.
"He was arrested after he publicly announced on social media that he planned to create an boom belt to become a martyr," the spokesperson says, adding that an investigation is underway into whether he had genuine intentions to commit a terrorist act.
Conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine as well as a threat of Islamist terror attacks have led La Belle France, which is hosting the Olympics this summer, to raise its security alert to its highest level.
The French government has asked about 45 foreign countries to contribute several thousand extra military, police and civilian personnel to help safeguard the Gay Paree Olympics this summer, sources told Rooters last month.
#3
'Twas tough to tell which was the madder,
The Charlie Heb reader in chador,
His torch held aloft...
Or the Muslim mass wafting
Along like Le Pew! [petals, attar,
and Arabic terrorist chatter]
[IsraelTimes] Violent festivities between police and activists erupt at a Jerusalem protest calling for the release of hostages held by terror groups in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... since October 7 are seen in videos circulating on social media.
Protesters overturn garbage cans, light fires and set off fireworks and block traffic, according to police.
Hebrew media reports that police used water cannons and foul-smelling "skunk spray" in an attempt to disperse the crowds.
One video filmed on Azza Street near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home shows an officer lunge at a protester after he shouts something indistinguishable at police forces.
Police arrest at least four protesters for disorderly conduct, according to local media reports, which follows the release of a Hamas propaganda video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, held captive by the terror group since October 7.
Channel 12 News reports that one of those arrested is a close friend of Goldberg-Polin.
Are they sure that the scent was added to the water beforehand or because it was just the result of the 'cleansing'?
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There's a better riot control agent to use. It's fast acting, provides a massive deterrent effect, and reduces the likelihood of reoccurrence. It's easy to make, pretty cheap really and I'd wager the absolutely the highest effectiveness per liter over every other riot agent.
It's called napalm and it can be used in easy to use dispensers called flamethrowers.
[IsraelTimes] A Peruvian judge has ordered 18 months of preventative detention for an Iranian and two Peruvian men while they are investigated for allegedly attempting to kill two Israelis living in the South American country.
The ruling by Magistrate Miguel Quevedo was handed down Tuesday but released Wednesday. The defendants are also accused of conspiracy to commit terrorism.
The judge said the motive for the unsuccessful alleged killing plot was unclear, but police and prosecutors in Peru have said the Iranian, Majid Azizi, could be a member of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is responsible for intelligence work outside Iran.
On March 15, after Azizi’s arrest, the Israeli embassy in Lima thanked the Peruvian police and prosecutor’s office in a blurb "for having dismantled an Iranian attack that was directed against an Israeli citizen."
Prosecutors in Peru have subsequently said that images, messages and testimonies were found indicating that Azizi contacted Peruvians Walter Loja and Ángelo Trucios in March to plan the killing of Israeli Shachar Malka.
Malka, who is alive, has said on social media that he has been working as a tour guide and healer with traditional plants in Cusco, the ancient capital of the Incas, for more than five years.
The other Israeli citizen who they allegedly planned to kill was Gilad Duchovny, who opened a cafe in Cusco in 2006 with his twin brother.
According to the judge, "it has been established with a high degree of plausibility" that Azizi conspired with the Peruvians to kill the Israelis. Police found information about Malka and Duchovny in Azizi’s Lima house. One of the Peruvians arrested, Trucios, has a conviction for murder and aggravated robbery.
For the Mad Mullahs, it’s just another day in their two-generation old revolution. Another example of the totalitarian avant-garde having become the old fogey totalitarian old guard.
Lawyer for Toomaj Salehi, 33, says Revolutionary Court did not implement a Supreme Court ruling that urged removing ’flaws’ in the sentence
An Iranian court has sentenced to death a popular rapper tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud!
for more than a year and a half for supporting nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, local media reported Wednesday.
"Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court... sentenced Toomaj Salehi to death on the charge of corruption on Earth," the singer’s lawyer Amir Raisian said, quoted by the reformist Shargh newspaper.
Salehi, 33, was arrested in October 2022 after publicly backing the wave of demonstrations that erupted a month earlier, triggered by the death in jug of 22-year-old Amini, an Iranian Kurd who were tossed into the calaboose over an alleged breach of the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s strict dress rules for women.
The court "in an unprecedented move, emphasized its independence and did not implement the Supreme Court’s ruling," the lawyer said, adding that "we will certainly appeal against the sentence."
"The Supreme Court, as an appellate authority, had reviewed the case and issued a ruling to the lower court to remove the flaws in the sentence," he added.
"The fact is that the verdict of the court has clear legal conflicts," the lawyer was quoted as saying.
"The contradiction with the ruling of the Supreme Court is considered the most important and at the same time the strangest part of this ruling."
The Revolutionary Court had accused Salehi of "assistance in sedition, assembly, and collusion, propaganda against the system and calling for riots," he said.
Months of unrest following Amini’s death on September 16, 2022, saw hundreds of people killed including dozens of security personnel, and thousands more arrested.
Iranian officials labeled the protests "riots" and accused Tehran’s foreign foes of fomenting the unrest.
Nine men have been executed in protest-related cases involving killing and other violence against security forces.
#1
"Modesty" might be the Word of the Day. The BBC had a long piece this morning on the Istanbul Modest Fashion Week show in Turkey and the new "modest fashion" trend.
#3
A rebellious rapper takes walk,
Leaves Iranian hip-hop in shock!
Frightened mullahs turn white.
"Could it be we were right?"
Cut to Flavor Flav tapping his clock.
Everyday Palestinian viciousness continues, even in the midst of a war.
[IsraelTimes] No soldiers harmed in incident near Kiryat Arba settlement; alleged assailant identified as 20-year-old woman
Israeli troops foiled an attempted stabbing attack near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, the military said Wednesday.
The Israel Defense Forces said a female Paleostinian assailant tried to stab troops of the Kfir Brigade’s Shimshon Battalion, who were stationed at an army post at a junction near the settlement.
"The troops engaged and shot up the terrorist who held a knife and charged toward the force," the military said.
The woman was killed, the army said. No troops were hurt in the incident.
The official Paleostinian news agency WAFA identified the alleged assailant as Maimouna Abdel Hamid Harahsheh, 20.
Suicide by IDF, most likely.
Troops also arrested Ahmed Dawabsha, 21, a resident of the West Bank town of Duma, near Ramallah, who is alleged to have been involved in the murder of 14-year-old Benjamin Achimeir, who was found dead on April 13, a day after setting out from an illegal West Bank outpost to herd sheep.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 3,850 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,650 affiliated with Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... . According to the Paleostinian Authority’s health ministry, more than 480 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time.
[IsraelTimes] White House welcomes independent report that rebuffed Israel’s claim staff are linked to terror; agency head calls for UNSC probe into ’blatant disregard’ for UN operations in Gaza
The White House says it will "have to see real progress" before restoring its funding to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... agency for Paleostinians, the main aid agency operating in war-torn Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... National Security Council front man John Kirby’s comments Tuesday came as a number of countries that froze aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following accusations by Israel have reinstated funding after a probe found that other claims had not been backed up by evidence.
"In terms of our funding of UNRWA, that is still suspended. We’re gonna have to see real progress here before that gets changed," Kirby said.
Israel charged earlier this year that at least 12 UNRWA staff had participated in the October 7 massacre. It also alleged that thousands more of the agency’s employees had ties to terror groups or were members themselves.
An independent review into UNRWA found some "neutrality-related issues" in a much-anticipated report released Monday, such as agency staff sharing biased posts on social media and tensions between politicized staff unions and the agency’s upper management. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the report found Israel had yet to provide evidence for incendiary allegations that staff were members of terrorist organizations.
Many donor countries have resumed funding since Israel’s accusations, including Sweden, Canada, Japan, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and La Belle France — while others, particularly the United States and Britannia — have continued to hold out.
"We welcome the results of this report and strongly support the recommendations in the report," Kirby said, noting that the US also faced legal constraints in restarting its funding.
Congress passed a bill signed into law by US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... last month that blocks US funding until March 2025.
In a separate investigation, a UN oversight body is looking into the Israeli allegations against the 12 UNRWA staff.
After the Monday report was released, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said Tuesday that the claims against the agency were "primarily motivated by the objective to strip the Paleostinians from the refugee status — and this is a reason why there are pushes today for UNRWA not to be present" in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Israel has long complained about the agency, founded in 1949 to care for Paleostinian refugees. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for UNRWA to be shut down, saying it is infested by terror elements and unjustly seeks to perpetuate a Paleostinian refugee crisis.
Lazzarini called for a Security Council investigation into the "blatant disregard" for UN operations in Gaza, adding that 180 of the agency’s staff have been killed since the war began. He said that the Israeli army has arrested, even tortured UNRWA staffers, echoing assertions published in the UNRWA’s own report from February, which claimed that detained staffers made false confessions about their ties to Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... under coercion from Israeli soldiers.
Lazzarini, who had warned the agency would be insolvent within weeks after funding was pulled months ago, also revealed that the organization had been able to partly offset the shortfall by raising $100 million from online donations.
Israel rejected the conclusions of the report released Monday, saying it was sidestepping the issue.
"This is not what a true and comprehensive investigation looks like," said the Israeli statement. "This is what a desire to avoid the problem and not call it by its name looks like."
Israel’s Foreign Ministry charged that Hamas’s penetration of UNRWA is so deep that "it is impossible to say where UNRWA ends and Hamas begins," as a review of the organization’s links to terror was released.
Numerous past reports have found that UNRWA schools and teachers continue to teach hatred of Jews and glorify terrorism, including a 2022 report by the IMPACT-SE organization that UNRWA textbooks continue to contain incitement. A 2023 report by the same organization along with the UN Watch group cited dozens of examples of social media posts by UNRWA employees that "glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism."
I think we need to make use of the economies of scale, like industrial shredders and wood chippers.
a candid examination of the real purpose of UNRWA
IMHO, the name alone gives it away. UNRWA - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Not quite as succinct as Death to Juice, but it does give you the flavor.
Pro-Palestine protests have escalated across college campuses in the United States.
At Columbia, Harvard, NYU, Yale, the University of Southern California (USC), and the University of Texas at Austin, among others, students and activists have taken to the campuses in support of… pic.twitter.com/i8wVMiCqF0
Police arrested four protesters after warning them they could face criminal charges if they did not disperse
The rally at the Austin campus was organized by the university's Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSJ) chapter
It comes as standoffs with cops kicked off at universities across the country on another day of mayhem in US
Hundreds of troopers have marched on the University of Texas at Austin before scuffling with pro-Palestine protesters as demonstrations kicked off at campuses across the country.
Police arrested at least four activists - who burst out in tears when they were handcuffed - after warning them they could face criminal charges if they did not disperse.
The rally at the Austin campus was organized by the university's Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSJ) chapter and quickly descended into anarchy.
The group said it was inspired by their 'comrades' at Yale and Columbia University, where in-person classes have been canceled due to the unrest sparked by 'encampments for Gaza.'
It comes as pro-Gaza groups took to universities across the US and clashed with police and Jewish counter-protesters, with furious demonstrators spotted at USC, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Brown and NYU.
Dozens of demonstrators participating in pro-Paleostine protests at university campuses throughout the country were arrested Wednesday evening, as schools struggle to contain growing anger over the Israel-Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war.
At least 34 arrests were made as of 9 p.m. local time at the University of Texas, Austin campus, while an unconfirmed number of arrests were made during a protest at the University of Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, in Los Angeles.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement that the arrests were made at the request for assistance by UT and at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... , stating it was to prevent unlawful assembly and in support of UT police in maintain the pace.
"These protesters belong in jail," Abbott said on X. "Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining the hate-filled, anti-Semitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled."
#5
I see a lot of young female protestors in these videos and on teevee. Can someone explain this phenomena? Is there a medical issue? Are medications driving this madness? Is there a frustration or defiance with the natural order of nature concerning motherhood, purpose, happiness ?
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The DA there won't do anything though, so unless it's state level prosecutors, expect all the arrests to be the peak of the response, with no real consequence.
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#5 I see a lot of young female protestors in these videos and on teevee. Can someone explain this phenomena? Is there a medical issue? Are medications driving this madness? Is there a frustration or defiance with the natural order of nature concerning motherhood, purpose, happiness ?
Beso,
Funny you should mention that - I've seen the same thought pop up a lot over the last week or so. One writer said that just based on what he was seeing at Columbia, the ratio was 4 or 5 women to 1 male.
And that has brought out a quote from some British fella named Orwell:
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."
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The ones willing to claim that are pushed in front of the cameras, Xy, just as at other times females or persons of colour are the public face.
I suspect many claiming to be “a Jew, but…” are like my niece: a Jewish father who died when she was in preschool, reared with no contact with the Jewish side of the family or any Jews at all where she grew up, and the only contact she had with Jews in college were the “a Jew, but” she met in her women’s studies classes and protests.
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This summer's version of the Occupy Wallstreet movement.
Remember that?
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Occupy Wallstreet
All Black Block anarcho-communist syndicalists together, M. They change organization names to match the current hot buttons— which Hamas is, just now — but the cadres, the core purpose, and the methods are unchanged. Were I the FBI, etc, I’d track personnel webs, joint office locations, funding webs. The DoD had a program they used in Iraq and Afghanistan for the purpose — was it called Paragon?
Andy Ngo would discover interesting things, I’m sure, were he to apply it to the names h’s collected since he started causing problems for Portland.
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#18 The need to track is greatly mitigated by the fact the Fed is involved in coordination and funding. Yes, Andy would discover many an interesting detail. If I were him, I'd start with the 2018 collusion of Fed and State Govt/LE to prop up Antifa that was on standby to get crushed by the Proud Boys.
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Most of them have no idea why they are protesting.
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Police arrested at least four activists - who burst out in tears when they were handcuffed...
The kids are out there having a grand time LARPing, protesting Western Civilization and the Patriarchy, working on their Daddy issues.
It's all fun and games until reality punches you in the face. Waaah 'effing waaah!
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Armed Forces aviation carried out 11 strikes on the occupiers.
Units of the missile forces inflicted a defeat on the area where the personnel of the Russian invaders were concentrated.
During the course of 24 hours, Defense Forces aviation carried out strikes on 11 areas where enemy personnel were concentrated. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced this in an evening report on Wednesday, April 24.
Also, Ukrainian air defense forces and means destroyed one X-59 guided aircraft missile and three enemy reconnaissance UAVs.
During the day, 84 military clashes were recorded at the front. In total, Russian troops carried out 13 missile and 51 air strikes, and carried out 16 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
In the Kupyansky direction, soldiers repelled one attack in the area of the village of Berestovo, Kharkov region. In the Limansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 18 attacks in the areas of Serebryansky forestry, Nevsky, Lugansk region; Ternov and Torskogo, Donetsk region.
In the Bakhmut direction, 13 attacks were repulsed in the areas of Belogorovka settlements in the Lugansk region; Excavation, Ivanovskoe, Kleschievka, Donetsk region.
In the Avdeevsky direction, defenders repelled 15 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Ocheretino, Novokalinovo, Berdich and Netaylovo in the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to oust units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from their occupied lines.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Defense Forces continue to restrain the Russians in the areas of the settlements of Krasnohorivka, Georgievka, Novomikhailovka, Urozhaynoye in the Donetsk region, where the invaders tried to break through the defense 16 times.
In the Orekhovsky direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, once attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders in the Staromayorsky area of the Donetsk region. He also carried out an air strike in the Robotino area of the Zaporozhye region.
In the Kherson direction, the occupiers do not abandon their intention to oust units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from their bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper. Thus, within 24 hours, one unsuccessful attack was carried out on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the area of the village of Krynki, Kherson region.
Earlier it was reported that cyber specialists of the Security Service disable hostile surveillance systems and electronic warfare equipment.
[GatewayPundit] He quickly tried to walk back his call for violence against Trump with sarcasm: "I’m not suggesting we hit the president." Nah, he's suggesting YOU hit (or do something worse) to PDJT.
Tell me again, what is a "hit" (metaphorically)?
Red meat for the rubes, but it won't get him the new real voters he needs, assuming the Republicans can keep the election clean this time.
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It’s funny that Joe was always so nice and is only demonstrating bully characteristics in his senility. It’s almost like he has always been a mean and twisted figure, drunk on power, with his nice guy image just being a media creation.
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I used to be involved with our Trade Association's political side on the state and national level many moons ago. What I heard at the time from various DC folks in the know was that Biden was a very nasty person in private, although there were more than a few in government that were.
And Bob Dole was a pretty good speaker, and told some really hysterical stories, when the cameras weren't rolling.
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/\ It’s almost like he has always been a mean and twisted figure, drunk on power, with his nice guy image just being a media creation.
Sniffing and personal hygiene 'shower' habits support Supe's "mean and twisted" theory at #4, now aggravated by toxic senility and cerebral disengagement.
Granddad is on the back porch watching the Cubs game. We'll take him a plate....it's better that way. Donald, you can go ahead and say the blessing.
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Mean and twisted, drunk on power but now he is physically and mentally fragile. I'm pretty sure Trump could take a punch from Biden a whole lot better than Biden could take a punch from Trump. I learned early on in the fields, playgrounds and streets of my home town that it's better not to talk about other people that way. There was a saying about an alligator mouth and a canary ass.
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Waiting for a Trump judge to restrict his travel to protect Biden from a debate.
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After Trump rallied with Manhatten construction workers before going into court, the following exchange occured between a construction worker and a reporter:
After Trump left the site one construction worker was asked: 'What's it like seeing so many Republicans in Manhattan, so many Trump supporters in Manhattan. Does that surprise you?'
In response, the man tells the NewsMax reporter: 'No, not at all. It's turning now, it's Trump's turn again.'
The reporter then asks him: 'What's your message to Joe Biden?', to which the man responds: 'F**k you.'
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"Restoring civility" apparently means something other than what I had thought it meant.
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Well Uncle Joe said he was a pro wrestler in his youth, so you better watch the amount of smart coming out of your ass, Jack, or he's going to stuff it back in with his size 12s.
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"When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall orange maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Joe Biden always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Joe? And I said, Left Turn Clyde, and continued East bound and down, because we have ourselves a Convoy. Four more years pause."
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[Regnum] In 2024, it is planned to carry out three launches of the Angara rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, said Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
On April 24, Shoigu inspected the progress of construction and modernization of the cosmodrome’s infrastructure facilities, the press service of the Ministry of Defense informed.
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[REGNUM] They started talking about the restoration of Ukraine “after the war” almost from the first days of its beginning - everyone wanted to be in time for the distribution of aid, which, as expected, the allies would have to generously allocate. No one doubted their noble desire to help, because at first, state PR was able to convince everyone that victory was close and the Ukrainian army was saving Europe from the savage hordes from the east. Therefore, “recovery funds” organized by the state, big business, oligarchs and business communities appeared like mushrooms after rain.
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[REGNUM] “Ukraine must be recognized as a terrorist state”: this demand was regularly heard in Russian society. And after the terrorist attack at Crocus it began to sound even more often. Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko actually gave the answer in an interview with journalist Dmitry Kiselyov. It is impossible to recognize Ukraine as a terrorist state, Matvienko noted, since there is no such concept in international law. But the Kiev regime, according to her, is terrorist - there is no doubt about that.
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[REGNUM] On April 21, during his speech at the opening ceremony of the Hanover Industrial Fair, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed gratitude to the Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre and the government of this country for providing Germany with gas after the severance of trade relations with the Russian Federation and hoped that Oslo would remain the main supplier for Germany gas in the coming years. Germany is one of Norway's largest European partners in both political and energy matters. And this is primarily due to gas imports. The Norwegian company Equinor (then called Statoil) has had close energy cooperation with Germany since it began exporting Norwegian gas in 1977.
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[REGNUM] The other day, my 16-year-old daughter was sharing the latest news over the phone. Preparations for the OGE are underway, they gave me a role in a new school play, and appointed me as “mayor of the class.” And also - from an unknown number, an unknown citizen offered to make money from... a terrorist attack.
This matches what the Crocus City Hall attackers said happened to them, those making the offer claiming they spoke for ISIS-K.
Many of Alice's classmates have received similar offers in recent months. They received it and unanimously sent the tempter “to ban.” Clean and prosperous students of a private school, teenagers from fairly wealthy families, did not find anything interesting for themselves in such an offer. And thank God, as they say.
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[ColonelCassad] How many people do you expect to see in the cinema at 10am on a Sunday? And if we add to this the fact that the film is an uncompromising, two-hour documentary written by a war chronicler? At the premiere screening of “At the Edge of the Abyss” by Maxim Fadeev and Sergei Belous, the hall was not just “filled”. People were sitting in the aisle, on the steps. Several years of work on terabytes of material filmed on the battlefield have borne fruit - before us is the most honest war film, a living monument to fallen heroes and a real model for any documentarian for years to come. Continued on Page 49
More from this story from two days ago.
[Regnum] The Government of Ukraine has adopted a resolution according to which men of military age (from 18 to 60 years old) will not be issued foreign passports and internal passports at foreign diplomatic institutions of the country.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 22:35 The United States will continue to supply ATACMS tactical missiles to Kiev, said White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. He added that Kyiv will use ATACMS missiles within its territory.
21:57 Hungary supports the Chinese “peace plan” to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said after talks in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
21:52 The Cabinet of Ministers has banned the sending abroad of passports for men aged 18 to 60 years. According to the resolution, “receipt of a passport of a citizen of Ukraine, a passport of a citizen of Ukraine for traveling abroad by a male citizen of Ukraine aged 18 to 60 years is carried out at the territorial body/territorial division of the State Migration Service. Sending such passports to a separate unit or foreign diplomatic institution of Ukraine for organizing them no issuance will be made."
21:46 Kuleba said that Ukraine expects seven Patriot systems from its partners. According to the minister, one was supplied by Germany, negotiations are underway for four more, and he “saw personally” two more batteries, but has not yet announced details on them. The negotiations were difficult because “the countries that own these air defense systems are bargaining for compensation,” the foreign minister noted. At the same time, Kuleba added that he has no doubt, “given the progress we are making, that there will be Patriots.” The minister also hinted that the eighth system could come from the United States: “I think that the US Army probably has one spare.”
21:34 Ukraine and Portugal have begun work on a draft bilateral security agreement, the Presidential Office reported.
21:08 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Ukraine has been working as actively as possible with American partners in recent days in order to quickly fill the new aid package from the United States with exactly the weapons that the Ukrainian Armed Forces need: “From ATACMS and artillery, from anti-tank weapons and missiles for HIMARS to the necessary air defense and equipment." The President also said that world leaders will soon receive an invitation to the first Global Peace Summit, which will be held in Switzerland in June.
21:01 Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets confirmed that he is in Qatar for negotiations on the return of Ukrainian children. At the same time, he denied information about direct negotiations with the Russian Federation: “The return of Ukrainian children and negotiations with the Russian Federation are taking place through the mediation of Qatar and Qatari diplomats. No direct negotiations took place with the Russian delegation today.”
20:45 Pentagon Speaker Garron Garn confirmed that Ukraine has already received ATACMS missiles. He said Biden secretly approved the transfer of the missiles in February for use inside Ukraine, after which ATACMS were quietly included in a $300 million aid package announced on March 12. They were delivered to Ukraine in early April.
20:27 Shoigu’s closest ally, Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov, was detained in Russia. Officially, he is accused of corruption, but the media already has information that the associate of the head of the Russian Defense Ministry may be charged with treason. Ukrainian media write, citing sources, that the reason for Ivanov’s detention and arrest was the active measures of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. So, a month ago, the Main Intelligence Directorate carried out a successful cyber attack and gained access to a significant amount of confidential information and Ivanov’s official documents. Read more in the article Big Scandal in the Russian Federation.
20:03 The United States has secretly sent long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine in recent weeks, and Ukraine used them for the first time last week, Reuters and AP report, citing US officials. According to them, the missiles were part of a $300 million military aid package to Kyiv that Biden approved in March. They were first used on the morning of April 17 against a military airfield in Crimea.
19:28 The Ministry of Defense said that the new US aid package, worth almost $61 billion, "will be decisive in strengthening Ukraine's ability to protect its independence and sovereignty, as well as in supporting global peace."
19:09 The drone coalition chaired by Latvia has already collected almost 500 million euros, Latvian Defense Minister Andris Spruds said. According to him, Denmark and the Netherlands announced a joint purchase of drones for Ukraine for 400 million euros. Canada also allocated 70 million euros, another 3 million - Lithuania, and Latvia - at least 10 million euros. “And this is just the beginning. Active negotiations with other countries of the unmanned coalition continue,” the minister added.
18:54 Russia wants to disrupt the Peace Summit, Zelensky said during a meeting with representatives of partner states and international organizations: “We have accurate information from intelligence, specific data that Russia not only wants to disrupt the Peace Summit, but also has a specific plan, how to do this: how to reduce the participation of countries, how to act so that there is no peace even longer.”
18:48 The Pentagon announced the contents of the new aid package for Ukraine:
air defense missiles RIM-7 and AIM-9M;
Stinger MANPADS;
small arms and additional small arms ammunition, including .50 caliber anti-drone ammunition;
additional ammunition for HIMARS;
155 mm artillery shells, including high explosive shells and improved dual-use conventional ammunition;
105 mm artillery shells;
60 mm mortar shells;
Bradley infantry fighting vehicles;
MRAP;
HMMWV;
logistics vehicles;
tactical vehicles for towing and transporting equipment;
spare parts, field equipment, training ammunition, maintenance and other support equipment.
18:22 The United States will resume arms supplies to Ukraine within a few hours, Biden said. According to him, Washington will send Kyiv ammunition for air defense, artillery, missile systems and armored vehicles.
18:05 Biden said he signed a law with a package of assistance to Ukraine worth more than $60 billion.
17:44 Kuleba said that no single package of military assistance can stop Russia - this requires a united front of all of Ukraine and all its partners. According to the minister, the Russian Federation is now producing approximately ten times more weapons, so the West must increase arms production, as Ukraine did. “When I see what Russia has achieved in developing its defense industrial base during two years of war, and what the West has achieved, I think that something is wrong on the part of the West. The West must realize that the era of peace in Europe is over,” - emphasized the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
17:40 Over the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, air defense forces shot down an X-69 missile, the Vostok Air Command reported.
17:27 The UK plans to send Paveway IV precision guided bombs to Ukraine as part of a recently announced military aid package. There is no official confirmation of this information yet, but British BBC correspondent Jonathan Bill was the first to announce the transfer. Paveway IVs were first used in Afghanistan, and in February the UK Ministry of Defense said it had used the bombs in joint US strikes against Houthi rebel positions in Yemen. What is known about these shells is in the material London is arming the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
16:58 Umerov said during a meeting with a bipartisan delegation of the US House of Representatives that the Defense Forces have liberated about 50% of the territory occupied by Russia, and with the help of additional weapons, “we will be able to protect our citizens from Russian air strikes and improve the situation on the battlefield.”
16:20 Scholz said that his position on Taurus for Ukraine has not changed. According to the Chancellor, Germany will continue to supply Ukraine with multiple launch rocket systems, since this is its “task.” At the same time, the decision on Taurus remains clear.
16:11 Russia and Ukraine for the first time held face-to-face negotiations regarding children through the mediation of Qatar, said the Children's Ombudsman of the Russian Federation Maria Lvova-Belova. According to her, negotiations took place in Doha, and an agreement was reached that 29 children would move to Ukraine and 19 to Russia.
15:49 France proposed that the European Union introduce sanctions against Russian disinformation and operations to interfere in global elections. The draft document states that "destabilizing activities carried out by Russia-linked actors have increased across Europe as the Russian regime seeks to undermine democracy, stability and the rule of law through a variety of hybrid instruments."
15:08 Contact group Ramstein will work in a new way, the Ministry of Defense reported. In particular, the new format for providing assistance will mean that now allies will help not on an individual basis, but in a coalition format, in accordance with the immediate need. A Coalition Support Office has also been created to ensure sustainable and systematic management of military assistance. The coalition format appeared back in 2023, since then eight coalitions have been created.
14:56 Ukrenergo reported that on April 24 from 18:00 to 22:00 controlled restrictions on energy supply to industrial consumers will be applied. The need to limit energy supply is a consequence of Russian massive missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian power plants, the company emphasized.
14:25 The Verkhovna Rada adopted an appeal to international institutions, parliaments and governments of foreign states, international non-governmental organizations with a call to intensify international and national efforts for the release and return to Ukraine of all captives and illegally detained citizens of Ukraine, primarily Ukrainian journalists.
13:47 The Ministry of Defense announced that it is creating a unified system for helping the wounded. Key changes include modernizing tactical medicine, updating training based on evidence-based principles, and moving to a new level of education using best international practices. The unified system of medical care for the wounded will meet the standards of NATO countries. The development of the system will also be based on the combat experience of Ukrainian doctors, who have been on the front line since 2014.
12:59 The head of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, once again called on the German government to supply Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine: “The United States will now supply Ukraine with long-range ATACMS missiles. This is a sufficient reason to act now on the Taurus issue.”
In addition, before the meeting of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Berlin, a faction of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) called on the head of the British government to put pressure on his German counterpart on the issue of supplying cruise missiles to Ukraine.
12:23 The UK will send Paveway IV bombs to Ukraine, BBC correspondent Jonathan Beale reports. Paveway IV is a dual-mode 230 kg GPS/laser-guided bomb with a maximum range of over 30 km depending on release altitude, speed and flight path.
11:45 At night, SBU drones hit two Rosneft oil depots in the settlements of Yartsevo and Razdoro, Smolensk region, Ukrainian media reported, citing sources. 26 thousand cubic meters of fuel were stored at these bases. Now there is an evacuation of personnel due to large-scale fires.
11:36 The Verkhovna Rada increased the number of State Border Service of Ukraine by 15 thousand military personnel. Thus, the total number of the State Border Guard Service within a year from the date of termination or lifting of martial law on the territory of Ukraine will be up to 75,000 people, including up to 67,000 military personnel.
11:22 In the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours, seven people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling: five in Konstantinovka, one each in Krasnohorivka, Pokrovsky district, and in New York, Bakhmutsky district, said the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
11:18 In the Sumy region over the past 24 hours, five people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling, the National Police reported.
11:14 In the Odessa region, as a result of a morning attack, part of the equipment of the local power supply company was damaged. Some consumers in one of the districts of Odessa have been de-energized and repair work is underway, Ukrenergo reported.
11:06 At the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant, two oxygen units were stopped after a night UAV attack, reports the opposition Russian publication Astra. According to sources in the emergency services of the Lipetsk region, two drones crashed into the building of the NLMK oxygen station, the building was partially destroyed.
10:50 The southern defense forces clarified that Russia struck a storage site for disabled vehicles in Odessa. Thus, the enemy is trying to look for military infrastructure facilities in the rear. There were no casualties; Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen were not at the scene of the attack.
10:34 In the morning, the Russians launched a missile attack on Odessa, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OBA. Currently, one casualty is known. About 30 houses were damaged by the shock wave. The Ministry of Energy reports that as a result of the shelling in Odessa, overhead lines and substations were turned off, and some consumers were without electricity.
10:03 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that Shoigu’s threats regarding Russia’s intentions to intensify attacks on Ukraine indicate that Moscow may change the targets of its attacks. Analysts say Russian troops are likely to step up drone and missile strikes in the coming weeks to inflict as much damage as possible on Ukraine's infrastructure and defense industrial base before U.S. aid arrives. Experts also predict that Russian troops will intensify offensive operations at the front in the coming weeks.
09:26 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and five were injured, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. Impacts were recorded on critical infrastructure facilities, an administrative building, a gas station, and gas pipelines.
09:18 The number of victims as a result of the night strike in the Shevchenko district of Kharkov has increased to six, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Three apartment buildings, two office buildings, three non-residential buildings, and a gas main were damaged.
08:42 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of April 24:
personnel - about 461,940 (+880) people,
tanks - 7242 (+1),
armored combat vehicles - 13,928 (+12),
artillery systems - 11,808 (+43),
MLRS - 1048 (+2),
air defense systems - 771 (+2),
aircraft - 348 (+0),
helicopters - 325 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 9439 (+32),
cruise missiles - 2117 (+0),
ships/boats - 26 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 15,892 (+47),
special equipment - 1944 (+8).
08:29 Over the past 24 hours, 101 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, the enemy tried 24 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Novopavlovsk direction - in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Georgievka, Novomikhailovka, Vodyanoye and Urozhainy, Donetsk region. In the Bakhmut direction, 21 attacks were repelled in the areas of Belogorovka settlements in the Luhansk region, as well as Verkhnekamennoye, Novy, Spornoye, Ivanovskoye, Kleshcheevka in the Donetsk region. The same number of attacks were repelled in the Avdeevsky direction - in the areas of the settlements of Novokalinovo, Ocheretino, Novobakhmutovka, Berdychi, Yasnobrodovka, Netaylovo, Pervomaiskoye, Nevelskoye in the Donetsk region.
In the Liman direction, the Defense Forces repelled 19 attacks in the areas of Grekovka, Nevsky, Lugansk region and Ternov, Yampolevka, Donetsk region; on Kupyansky - five attacks in the Berestovo area of the Kharkov region; on Orekhovsky - five attacks in the districts of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region; in Kherson - three attacks in the area of the village of Krynki.
08:17 The United States, together with its allies, has created a powerful logistics network that will allow the next package of defense assistance to be sent to Ukraine within days, and work in certain areas is already underway, said Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder.
07:51 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that during the night eight UAVs were allegedly destroyed and intercepted by air defense systems: three over the territory of the Kursk region; two - over the territory of the Belgorod region; two - over the territory of the Voronezh region and one - over the territory of the Smolensk region.
06:19 In the Smolensk region, after a drone attack, a fire occurred at “fuel and energy facilities” in two districts, local authorities reported. Local residents report that an oil refinery near the villages of Razdoro and Prigorskoe is on fire. Public pages also write about a fire at a refinery in the Voronezh region.
The authorities of the Lipetsk region also reported the drone attack. Local residents write in their public pages that the Lipetsk Tractor Plant, which produces, among other things, chassis for military equipment, was attacked.
04:38 The Senate voted for a bill to help allies, which, among other things, includes $60.8 billion to Ukraine. 79 senators voted “for” the bill, with the required 50, “against” - 18. Thus, both chambers of the American Congress approved the bill. It will now go to President Joe Biden for signature, who has already promised to sign it immediately.
01:36 The Russians attacked the Shevchenkovsky district of Kharkov with two S-300 missiles, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OBA. Four apartment buildings were damaged and two people were injured. In addition, the enemy launched attacks on the central part of Zolochev, Bogodukhovsky district, previously also with two S-300 missiles. The administrative premises were damaged, but no people were injured.
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[Regnum] Russian diplomats visited the MSC Aries ship detained in Iran, where they met with a sailor from the Russian Federation Timofey Kolchanov, the press service of the Russian Embassy in Iran reported on April 24 in its Telegram channel.
“Today, diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Iran visited the MSC Aries ship detained by the Iranian military, where they met with crew member T. S. Kolchanov. The Russian sailor is healthy, the conditions of his stay are satisfactory, he is provided with everything necessary, and, etc., has the opportunity to regularly communicate with his family by phone,” the message says.
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[LB] During the day, 60 combat clashes were recorded.
by Ivanna Kapustyanska
Seven hundred and ninety days of Russia's large-scale armed aggression against our country continue. During the day, 60 combat clashes were recorded.
The situation at the front is discussed in the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
In general, the enemy launched four rocket and 60 air strikes, fired 46 rocket salvo fire systems at the positions of our troops and populated areas.
On the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly. No signs of formation of enemy offensive groups we
In the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, the enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas, conducts sabotage and intelligence activities, carries out shelling of populated areas from the territory of the Russian Federation, increases the density of mine-explosive barriers along the state border of Ukraine.
More than 20 settlements, including Klyusy and Gremyach of Chernihiv region, were subjected to enemy artillery and mortar shelling; Velika Berezka, Progress, Vilna Sloboda, Ulanov, Popivka, Stukalyvka, Pavlivka, Obody, Novomykolaivka, Myropilske, Stepok and Pokrovka of the Sumy region.
In the Kupyan direction, the enemy attacked our positions once in the area of the settlement of Berestov, Kharkiv region. He carried out an airstrike in the area of Ivanivka, Donetsk region. More than 10 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Sinkivka, Petropavlivka, Stepova Novoselivka of the Kharkiv region.
In the Lyman direction, the Defense Forces repelled ten attacks in the areas of Grekivka settlements of Luhansk region; Terny, Yampolivka, Donetsk region. The enemy carried out an airstrike in the area of Serebryansk forestry in Luhansk region. More than 10 settlements were affected by artillery and mortar shelling, among them Makiivka, Nevske of Luhansk Oblast and Terna, Yampolivka, Torske of Donetsk Oblast.
In the Bakhmut direction, our soldiers repelled 14 attacks in the areas of Belogorivka settlements, Luhansk region; Verkhnokamyanske, Novy, Spirne, Ivanovske, Klishchiivka of the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to improve the tactical position. The enemy carried out an airstrike in the area of the Northern Donetsk region. About 20 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Hryhorivka, Kalynivka, Chasiv Yar, and Stupochky of the Donetsk region.
In the Avdiiv region, our defenders repelled 14 attacks in the areas of Novokalynove, Ocheretine, Novobakhmutivka, Berdychi, Yasnobrodivka, Netaylove, and Pervomaiske settlements in the Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to dislodge our units from the occupied lines. The enemy also carried out airstrikes in the areas of Semenivka, Selidove, and Karlivka settlements of the Donetsk region. More than 15 settlements, including Ocheretine, Novobakhmutivka, and Umanske of the Donetsk region, were hit by artillery and mortar shelling.
On the Novopavlivskyi direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the areas of Georgiivka, Novomykhailivka, Vodyane and Urozhaine settlements of the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried 17 times to break through the defenses of our troops. The enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of Kostyantynivka, Krasnohorivka and Pobyeda settlements of the Donetsk region. More than 10 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire of the occupiers, among them Georgiivka, Paraskoviivka, and Vugledar of the Donetsk region.
In the Orihiv direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, twice attacked the positions of our defenders in the Staromayorsky area of the Donetsk region. About 15 settlements, including Chervone, Shcherbaki, Novodanilivka, Pyatikhatki of the Zaporizhzhia region, were hit by artillery and mortar attacks.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy does not give up its intention to dislodge our units from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper. Thus, during the day, with the support of aviation, 1 unsuccessful attack was carried out on the positions of our troops in the area of the settlement of Krynka, Kherson region. About 20 settlements, including Odradokamyanka, Olhivka, Lviv, Tyaginka, Ivanivka, Novotyaginka, Bilozerka, Veletenske, Kizomys of the Kherson region and the city of Kherson, were hit by artillery and mortar attacks.
During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces struck 15 areas where enemy personnel were concentrated.
Units of the missile forces damaged one ground control station of the UAV, one area of concentration of weapons and military equipment, one area of concentration of personnel, one means of air defense and one other important object of the enemy.
[IsraelTimes] This means ’Iran can never carry out the destruction it intended 10 days ago,’ says president; vows to ’surge’ aid ’to the innocent people of Gaza’; $95B bill helps Ukraine, Taiwan Evidently nothing available for US border security.
United States President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... signed into law on Wednesday a $95 billion war aid measure that includes assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and that also has a provision that would force social media site TikTok to be sold or be banned in the US.
Biden underscored that the bill also includes a surge of humanitarian relief for Paleostinians in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... suffering as the Israel-Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... war continues.
The legislation will send $17 billion in wartime assistance to Israel and $9 billion in humanitarian relief to citizens of Gaza and other war-torn regions — with Biden specifying at a White House event to announce the signing on Wednesday that the package "includes $1 billion for additional humanitarian aid in Gaza."
Another $8 billion will go to counter Chinese threats in Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific. US officials said about $1 billion of the aid could be on its way shortly, with the bulk following in the coming weeks.
Addressing the aid component for Israel, Biden noted that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Sturmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Fuhrer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... launched an unprecedented direct missile and drone attack at Israel just days ago, but thanks to Israel’s defenses, "and other allies across the world, including from the region, no serious damage occurred."
"My commitment to Israel, I want to make clear again, is ironclad," he stressed. "The security of Israel is critical. I will always make sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself against Iran and gunnies it supports."
The aid for Israel in the package, he said, "can help replenish Israel’s air defense and provide other critical defense so Iran can never carry out the destruction it intended with its attack 10 days ago."
Biden also said Israel must ensure the aid for Paleostinians in the bill reaches Gaza "without delay."
He noted that the package "significantly increases humanitarian assistance we’re sending to the innocent people of Gaza, who are suffering badly. They’re suffering the consequences of this war that Hamas started. And we’ve been working intently for months to get as much aid to Gaza as possible."
He said that the bill "includes $1 billion for additional humanitarian aid in Gaza. We’re going to immediately secure that aid and surge it — surge it, including food, medical supplies, clean water. And Israel must make sure all this aid reaches the Paleostinians in Gaza without delay."
Biden noted that "everything we do is guided by the ultimate goal of bringing these hostages [held by Hamas in Gaza] home, securing a ceasefire, and setting the conditions for an enduring peace."
The war in Gaza erupted on October 7 when the Paleostinian terror group Hamas led a devastating cross-border attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Israel responded with a military campaign to destroy Hamas and free 253 hostages kidnapped during the attack. The fighting has led to a humanitarian crisis in Gaza as aid workers struggle to deliver supplies.
The signing of the war aid measure marks an end to a long, painful battle with Republicans in Congress over urgently needed assistance for Ukraine.
"We rose to the moment, we came together, and we got it done," Biden said. "Now we need to move fast, and we are."
Tucked into the measure is a provision that gives TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, nine months to sell it or face a nationwide prohibition in the United States. The president can grant a one-time extension of 90 days, bringing the timeline to sell to one year, if he certifies that there’s a path to divestiture and "significant progress" toward executing it.
The administration and a bipartisan group of politicians have called the social media site a growing national security concern.
TikTok said it will wage a legal challenge against what it called an "unconstitutional" effort by Congress.
"We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side, and we will ultimately prevail," the company said in a statement. "The fact is, we have invested billions of dollars to keep US data safe and our platform free from outside influence and manipulation. This ban would devastate seven million businesses and silence 170 million Americans."
House Speaker Mike Johnson delayed a vote on the supplemental aid package for months as members of his party’s far right wing, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Thomas Massie of Kentucky, threatened to move to oust him if he allowed a vote to send more assistance to Ukraine. Those threats persist.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested his fellow Republicans’ holding up the funding could have a lasting impact on Ukraine’s hopes of winning the war.
"Make no mistake: Delay in providing Ukraine the weapons to defend itself has strained the prospects of defeating Russian aggression," McConnell said Tuesday. "Dithering and hesitation have compounded the challenges we face."
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Translated to approximately $475 for every person in Gaza based on CIA population estimate of 2,098,389 in 2023. Somehow I doubt that the few who aren't Hamas supporters will even see a dime of it.
[IsraelTimes] Fighter jets, artillery target weapon depots, assets in Ayta ash-Shab amid incessant attacks, including missile fire on Avivim
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Wednesday claimed that the military had killed half of Hezbollah’s commanders in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , as the Israel Defense Forces carried out a large wave of strikes against dozens of sites belonging to the terror group.
"Half of the Hezbollah commanders in south Lebanon have been eliminated... and the other half hide and abandon south Lebanon to IDF operations," Gallant said, after holding an assessment at the Northern Command headquarters in Safed with the chief of the command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, and other top officers.
He said Israel’s main goal in the north was to return tens of thousands of Israelis displaced by Hezbollah’s daily attacks to their homes.
"We are dealing with a number of alternatives in order to establish this matter, and the coming period will be decisive in this regard," Gallant said.
As the defense minister toured the Northern Command, the IDF said some 40 Hezbollah targets in the town of Ayta ash-Shab were hit within just several minutes by fighter jets and artillery shelling.
The wave of strikes came hours after the terror group fired anti-tank missiles at a community in northern Israel.
The military said the targets included weapon depots and other assets belonging to Hezbollah, and charged that Ayta ash-Shab was used by the group for "terror" and that it places dozens of its sites in the area.
In a statement, the IDF said the strikes were "part of the effort to destroy the organization’s infrastructure in the border area," and not a response to any specific attack.
Ahead of the strikes, the military issued an unusual statement announcing that it had begun to attack Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon. Amid the ongoing war, the military has generally announced strikes in Lebanon only after they have been completed. The announcement indicated that the strikes were on a much larger scale than usual.
Hours before the wave of strikes, Hezbollah fired several anti-tank guided missiles at the northern community of Avivim, striking two homes and causing a fire.
The Merom HaGalil Regional Council, which has jurisdiction over Avivim, said the missiles caused no injuries.
Hezbollah claimed the attack in a statement, saying it "targeted a building in Avivim in which ’enemy soldiers’ were present."
The missile attack on Avivim came after a wave of overnight Israeli Air Force strikes against Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, following repeated attacks by the Iran-backed terror group on northern Israel.
The overnight strikes targeted a rocket launcher in the town of Tayr Harfa after it was used in an attack on the northern community of Shomera on Tuesday night, the IDF said.
The IDF said additional targets included Hezbollah infrastructure in Markaba, a building in Ayta ash-Shab and an observation post in Marwahin.
Troops also shelled areas near Chihine and Kfarchouba with artillery to "remove threats," the military added.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... amid the war there.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in eight civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 11 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 287 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon, but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 54 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier and at least 60 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.
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[VK] Let us add details about the arrest of Timur Ivanov, Shoigu’s deputy, who was sent to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center for two months.
Our source in law enforcement agencies reports that since the beginning of the SVO, Timur Ivanov has acquired a large amount of real estate on Rublyovka. He bought it in packs, at a huge discount - taking advantage of the fact that many residents of Rublyovka were urgently selling their property when leaving the country.
But even with a large discount, the amounts spent by Ivanov on Rublev real estate in no way correspond to his salary. In addition, he completed the most luxurious renovations at his “dacha,” which is a huge mansion. And this also does not fit into official income.
Timur Ivanov is accused of receiving a large bribe, but there is a suspicion that this is just the tip of the iceberg. He was responsible for organizing property management for the cantonment of troops, housing and medical support for the Armed Forces, and also oversaw the purchase of goods and services under the state defense order and to meet the needs of the RF Armed Forces.
In general, while grannies are knitting socks for soldiers at the front, Shoigu’s deputy has been buying up real estate in Rublyovka for two years.
Two years. But something seems to be changing in the country. The clan war is gaining momentum. Dunno what Gospozha Vasilyeva means by clan wars.
️Interestingly, people lived absolutely without hiding, but even emphasizing their elitism and inviolability. He did not hide any accounts or property. The people have only one question:
If everyone above Ivanov was happy with everything, then what suddenly stopped?
There was information in the media yesterday that the dude has been in development since 2018. It can be assumed that everyone else who considers themselves an elite is also under surveillance.
By the way, I came up with a PR move for Shoigu. It is necessary to report from the TV that it was he who suspected a dishonest subordinate of embezzlement and the creation of an organized crime group, fulfilled his civic duty and asked the special services to take care of this hornet's nest. Checkmate, people of Russia.
Returning to a serious course, you understand that, through the fault of the Ivanovs and co., Russia entered the North Military District in a state of logistical fucked up. Which was pulled out and is still being pulled out at the expense of volunteers, the people of the country.
Because the people sympathize with the fighters and wish a speedy Victory for Russia, and the embezzlers want a thicker cutlet and a bigger house on the Ruble, or better yet in Nice. They don't care about the soldiers or about Victory. In their personal struggle with financial flows, they, in their opinion, have already defeated everyone.
Fortunately, many security officials have a different opinion. Work, brothers.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Ministry denounces UN chief as ’standing shoulder to shoulder with rapists and murderers,’ asserts Antonio Guterres would not have condemned crimes of Nazi Germany either
Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
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The Russian ministry of defense website at the moment is down, so aslummin' we will go today.
[NewsFront] 21:00 In several villages of the Kursk region, power supply was disrupted after attacks by drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces - Starovoit Continued on Page 49
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[NewsFront] 21:20 Online appeared another video from the liberated village of Ocheretino near Donetsk 21:10 The Ukrainian government has prohibited Ukrainian citizens of military age from obtaining foreign passports outside the country
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[Regnum] The United States, with its decisions, puts an end to the fate of Ukraine, using it as a battering ram against Russia. This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov.
Commenting on the law on providing military assistance to Ukraine signed by US President Joe Biden, Antonov said that Washington made a choice in favor of war and sided with evil, supporting fascism.
Iran reduced its military presence in Syria following Israeli attacks against some of its military leaders, AFP reports.
Iranian forces evacuated the southern region of Syria and retreated from their positions in the rural areas of Damascus, Daraa and Quneitra in the south of… pic.twitter.com/6lHP8IoLLJ
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has reduced its military footprint in Syria after a succession of strikes blamed on Israel, a source close to Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah and a war monitor said Wednesday.
Iran has provided military support to Syrian government forces through more than a decade of civil war, but a series of strikes targeting its commanders in recent months has prompted a reshaping of its presence, the sources said.
"Iran withdrew its forces from southern Syria," including both Quneitra and Daraa provinces, which abut the Israeli-held Golan Heights, the source close to Hezbollah said.
But it still maintains a presence in other parts of the country, the source added.
Recent months have seen a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria, widely blamed on Israel, culminating in an April 1 strike that leveled what Iran said was a consulate in Damascus and killed seven Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals.
That strike prompted Iran to launch a first-ever direct missile and drone attack against Israel on April 13-14 that sent regional tensions spiraling. Israel allegedly responded with a missile strike on an Iranian air defense unit inside Iran.
But Iran had already begun drawing down its forces after a January 20 strike that killed five Revolutionary Guards in Damascus, including their Syria intelligence chief and his deputy, the source close to Hezbollah said.
A Britannia-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Iranian forces had withdrawn from Damascus and southern Syria.
Iran-backed Lebanese and Iraqi fighters had taken their place, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Iran has said repeatedly that it has no combat troops in Syria, only officers to provide military advice and training. But the Observatory, which is of unclear funding, says as many as 3,000 Iranian military personnel are present in Syria, supported by tens of thousands of Iranian-trained fighters from countries including Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , Iraq and Afghanistan.
Abdel Rahman said that many of Iran’s advisers had left Syria in recent months, especially after a strike in March killed a Revolutionary Guard and two others — although some remained in Aleppo province in the north and Deir Ezzor province in the east.
People who have recently traveled to Damascus told AFP Iran’s presence had become less visible in the Syrian capital, with several Iranian army offices in its Old City now closed. The Iranian flags and portraits of Iran’s leaders that hung in parts of Damascus have mostly disappeared, they added.
Now, the Iranian presence was visible only in Sayyida Zeinab, an important Shiite pilgrimage destination in the city’s southern outskirts, they said.
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IDF is ready to start the operation in Rafah immediately - and is now waiting for the approval of the political level, Israeli defence sources reveal to Reuters.
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[Regnum] The US decision to withdraw its troops from Niger was a strategic victory for Russia. The British newspaper The Financial Times wrote about this on April 24.
“The departure of the US military was another strategic victory for Moscow in the Sahel,” the article says.
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Shitholery aside, which is more useful: the US State Department funding LGBTQWERTY initiatives or the Russians sending Wagners to help tamp down the hard boys?
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[Regnum] Unknown persons attacked a ship off the coast of Djibouti in the Gulf of Aden, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported.
“UKMTO has been notified of an incident 72 nautical miles southeast of the port of Djibouti,” the center reported on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Houthis, IRGC, pirates? It would be nice to have a small hint…
It is noted that the circumstances of the incident are being investigated by the authorities. The department advised vessels to exercise caution and report any suspicious activity to the UKMTO.
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[Regnum] The terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow was carefully planned, it was carried out by an international network of accomplices, the head of Rosfinmonitoring Yuri Chikhanchin said on April 24 at an international forum dedicated to current issues of combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
“We are faced with a carefully planned, prepared terrorist attack that was carried out using an international network of collaborators,” he said.
”Pay attention to MEEEEEE!!!” shrieked the 84-year old former important person, stamping her tiny feet while no one noticed or cared.
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign.
“We recognize Israel's right to protect itself. We reject the policy and the practice of Netanyahu — terrible. What could be worse than what he has done in response?
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Netanyahu has pretty low approval ratings in Israel and will likely not run again.
But Pelosi should be denouncing Sinwar.
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Pelosi is irrelevant. She is just a senile flunky, hanging around like a washed up pitcher kept on the staff as a long reliever until her spot on the 40 person roster is required.
I am sure she continues to cheat at stocks acquiring money that she will never have a chance to spend. Saddest would be if she starts coordinating with the squad like Madonna singing a collaboration with somebody that is not headed to the glue factory.
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Netanyahu’s ratings are improving from the low point immediately following the 10/7 invasion. But more importantly, most Israelis don’t want to hold the election until after the war is won, so Bibi has time to continue improving.
Whether he still wants the headache of herding Israel’s cats afterward is a different question.
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She's just pissed that the Left is losing one of its most cherished shibboleths.
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My theory, unproven, is that Democrats like Pelosi, Obama and Biden do not hate Israel. They coddle Iran and its little cat paws like Hamas and Hezbollah because they hate Netanyahu. He is not a globalist or a communist and so they want him gone, just like they'll do just about anything to get rid of Trump. If it means that Israelis die as a result of terrorist activities, that's just a cost of doing business.
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^ I concur Abu. Any friend of Trump is liberal Kryptonite.
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My theory, unproven, is that Democrats like Pelosi, Obama and Biden do not hate Israel.
Nonsense. They hate everyone who doesn't bend over and spreads for them - unless it's Muslims/Chinese/UN: for whom they bend over & spread.
As to Bibi. It's the American populist convention: There are no bad People - only bad leaders (e.g. evil megolomaniac Putin invading Ukraine). So, it's not evil Juden - it's evil Bibi in public speeches.
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[Americans for Tax Reform] President Biden has formally proposed the highest top capital gains tax in over 100 years.
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...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
[GatewayPundit] He quickly tried to walk back his call for violence against Trump with sarcasm: "I’m not suggesting we hit the president."
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
