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Lebanon’s army has scrapped meat from all meals it offers to soldiers on duty as food prices skyrocket
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Page 1: WoT Operations
Good morning	4 17:07 JohnQC [11130]
Italian police seize a record 1 billion euros worth of amphetamine pills 'made by ISIS' hidden in container ship	6 20:45 DooDahMan [11139]
ISIS militants launch fresh riots at Hasaka prison	4 15:48 jpal [11128]
Turkish army bolsters positions in Kurdistan Region	0 [11134]
District Police Chief Killed In Uruzgan	0 [11131]
'17 Taliban Killed' in Parwan Attack: Official	0 [11126]
9 Victims of Sangin Incident Members of Same Family	0 [11131]
Taliban militants suffer heavy casualties in Jawzjan province	0 [11133]
Syrian Army, Russian military amassing forces in #Raqqa	0 [11126]
Egypt MoI announces killing 2 militants, likely #ISIS, in Galabana North #Sinai	0 [11132]
Fleet of Turkish T129 helicopter's flying over Misurata	0 [11127]
Israeli jet activity over the Mediterranean Sea near the northern Gaza Strip	0 [11128]
At least 20 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip towards the Mediterranean Sea	2 03:34 g(r)omgoru [11129]
Knoxville police regain access to computer system following ransomware attack	3 16:00 jpal [11131]
University of California SF pays ransomware hackers $1.14 million to salvage research	12 14:36 Skidmark [11132]
Lebanon’s army has scrapped meat from all meals it offers to soldiers on duty as food prices skyrocket	11 20:52 bbrewer126 [11135]
Thousands of Turkish lawyers protested outside Istanbul’s main courthouse against a government plan to reform bar associations	2 10:27 AlanC [11129]
Libyan Government Considers Cancelling Turkish Contracts	0 [11132]
LNA artillery targets positions of the GNA / Turkish militia near Bouirat Lahsoun, west of Sirte	0 [11133]
BLM threatens to burn down Barbecue joint	9 13:59 M. Murcek [11131]
Provo, Utah, Black Lives Matter rioters surround a car in the street before one of them pulls a gun and fires twice at the driver	4 23:38 gorb [11134]
USN Poseidon does ISR off Syria coast	1 07:44 b [11128]
Page 2: WoT Background
Germany disbands elite special forces unit over right-wing extremist concerns	7 19:13 Skidmark [11132]
'24 Civilians Killed or Wounded Everyday': NSC	1 10:03 g(r)omgoru [11128]
Pak: International community must take immediate cognizance of India’s use of state-terrorism to destabilize neighboring countries	9 19:10 Frank G [11128]
Pompeo met via video conference yesterday with Taliban Deputy & chief negotiator Mullah Baradar to discuss implementation of the U.S.-Taliban Agreement	1 19:14 Skidmark [11136]
‘You’re next’: Armed St. Louis couple speaks out about what really happened and it doesn’t fit left’s narrative one bit	11 14:41 swksvolFF [11127]
Tunisia’s Prime Minister Fakhfakh faces opposition party demands to resign over an alleged conflict of interest	1 12:09 Cesare [11128]
~~Thirteen~~ Nineteen people were killed and several were injured in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of Tehran	6 18:37 swksvolFF [11125]
Erdogan passes decree ordering closure of private Istanbul Sehir University linked to former prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu	1 19:16 Skidmark [11129]
OPEC and Russia will likely ease record oil production cuts from August as global oil demand recovers	0 [11126]
Protesters in Sudan are back on the streets during the “million-man march”	0 [11125]
Central Bank of Turkey: Libya ( GNA ) will support our country's economy with more than 20 billion dollars	3 18:43 Rob Crawford [11128]
Popular DC deli apologizes for ‘co-opting Black culture’	8 18:50 Rob Crawford [11129]
McDonald’s Changes Social Media Profile Name to ‘Amplifying Black Voices’	16 18:31 swksvolFF [11133]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Carry Permit Demand Skyrockets in Illinois	3 22:40 SteveS [11135]
Coronavirus Jumps the Border, Overwhelming Hospitals in California	1 19:19 Skidmark [11131]
June private payrolls rose 2.37 million and there was a big positive revision for May, ADP says	5 19:20 Skidmark [11130]
Israeli technology that can 'sniff out' COVID-19 infections begins trials	3 19:21 Skidmark [11129]
Munich Prosecutors Raid Wirecard Offices As Probe Into $2BN Accounting Fraud Heats Up	1 13:56 Skidmark [11131]
Did Beijing just grant itself sweeping extraterritoriality to...everyone on the planet?	12 19:22 Skidmark [11134]
Coronaplague Roundup	5 19:23 Skidmark [11131]
S. Korea To Acquire Advanced Drones, Anti-Drone Guns Through Rapid Acquisition Process	0 [11129]
Gold futures rise above $1,800 an ounce for the first time since 2011	8 19:20 Procopius2k [11129]
AirFrance aims to present a plan to trade unions to cut just over 6,500 jobs over the next two years	0 [11126]
Australia's PM Scott Morrison is to announce a substantial increase in defense spending	0 [11133]
Global Hydroxychloroquine Study To Resume After Positive Trial Results	11 18:35 49 Pan [11133]
Despite Trump’s Calls to Decouple, U.S. Companies Ship More From China Faster	20 19:17 Procopius2k [11131]
Page 4: Opinion
US will fight, but Iran arms embargo is on death row - analysis	1 14:02 Chris [11125]
IRS Whistleblower Explains Why No One in the FBI or the DOJ Spoke up for General Flynn	1 19:28 Skidmark [11133]
On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare	1 14:34 Warthog [11126]
Russiagate's Last Gasp	11 09:39 magpie [11130]
Why Hezbollah went after the US Ambassador to Lebanon	0 [11128]
Page 6: Politix
Conservative Lauren Boebert Unseats Five-Term Republican Scott Tipton	3 19:29 Skidmark [11133]
Nobody is all bad!	2 10:01 Vernal Hatrick [11126]
Part Three On The Roger Stone Trial ‐ Where Prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky Explains That He Didn't Understand His Job	0 [11129]
War is peace?	3 14:56 ed in texas [11130]
Seattle's moonbat mayor brings up possibility of expulsion of socialist councilwoman for ‘political theatre'	11 20:01 g(r)omgoru PB [11138]
Hackers hijack more than 1,200 Roblox accounts and flood the popular children's video game with messages supporting Donald Trump's 2020 campaign	2 03:04 Marilyn Tojo7566 [11129]
Lightfoot Accuses Trump of Targeting Cities With Female Mayors	17 19:09 Frank G [11133]
Susan Rice 'humbled and honored' by rumors Biden considering her for VP	7 19:32 Skidmark [11135]
Ryan Lizza to McEnany: Does Trump believe 'it was a good thing that the South lost the Civil War?'	6 19:16 Besoeker [11129]
Joe Biden rips Trump over coronavirus, calls reporter ‘lying dog face’	4 20:01 European Conservative [11133]
Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench	6 15:17 Thaith Elmeresing6163 [11129]
DOJ official Bruce Ohr meets with Senate Judiciary Committee behind closed doors	7 20:01 DooDahMan [11137]
DNC: Celebrating July 4th Equals White Supremacy	6 18:40 JohnQC [11127]

    
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6	Sublime Porte
5	Antifa/BLM
5	Taliban
3	Islamic State
2	Hamas
2	Commies
2	Govt of Iran
2	Hezbollah
1	Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
1	Arab Spring
1	Govt of Pakistan
1	Govt of Sudan
1	Govt of Syria
1	Muslim Brotherhood

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Wed 2020-06-24
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